seunmsg:
Peter Obi and his disgruntled obidient elements can stick to the old route 🤣🤣🤣

rhanoden:
Most people speaking out in support of such waste at a time when the Country is grappling with it highest debt and living crisis are poorly informed.

If you don't understand economics properly, opportunity cost, environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis, then there is no point deceiving the public on a subject you don't know. Ben Bruce should be asked to keep quiet and listen to the experts.

Slytiger:
I haven't seen any well meaning SouthSouth person that will be against the project. It's a chance to open up their region to massive development.

But disgruntled element would rather have a beer factory in each state instead.

rhanoden:
Most people speaking out in support of such waste at a time when the Country is grappling with it highest debt and living crisis are poorly informed.

If you don't understand economics properly, opportunity cost, environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis, then there is no point deceiving the public on a subject you don't know. Ben Bruce should be asked to keep quiet and listen to the experts.

rhanoden:
Most people speaking out in support of such waste at a time when the Country is grappling with it highest debt and living crisis are poorly informed.

If you don't understand economics properly, opportunity cost, environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis, then there is no point deceiving the public on a subject you don't know. Ben Bruce should be asked to keep quiet and listen to the experts.

Shattuck:
so in your thinking you think it is okay to spend over a billion dollars on a coastal highway in a time like this? Those of us from the south south who see the bigger picture are definitely against this. Another thing of note is the likely corruption going on imagine spending over 4 billion naira per km when the world bank benchmark building a km of road is 220 million.

Slytiger:
I haven't seen any well meaning SouthSouth person that will be against the project. It's a chance to open up their region to massive development.

But disgruntled element would rather have a beer factory in each state instead.

Slytiger:

That person is a fool. Calabar phase is starting in July.


So calabar Akwa Ibom Bayelsa are no where. Jealousy kill you there.

emkz:
Recently, a media house popular among the GenZs has been doing what was done hush hush in media circles in the past, i.e., when journalists are PR consultants to some wealthy but shady businessmen, companies, and politicians. Some of them are used to plant stories in the media or used to kill stories that may potentially embarass their paymasters.

Some of the journalists who write lengthy columns in their newspapers sometime sell those columns to the highest bidder, where they write to promote the paymaster or demonize the paymaster's enemies sometimes.

If you see someone writing castigating someone, be rest assured that the writer may have been paid heavily for that hatchet job.

Senior journalists know what I am talking about and won't deny this. Some senior journalists opened companies to get PR contracts from shady businessmen.

It is a multi-million naira business.

If you open any newspaper and you see a company getting some favourable press, the company paid for it.

Trust me, if not for the advent of online journalism with Fisayo Soyombo's Foundation for Investigative Journalism and Sahara Reporters, Yahaya Bello's case would not have made it to the press. Nor IBD Dende.

Another trick is that when you see a media house consistently attack someone, they want the person to come and settle.

Above is the business model of one of the controversial TV stations in Nigeria. But they now carry out their media assassination in full glare of all of us.

They repeat a lie consistently until it becomes gospel truth to buffoons. What sort of journalism is that?

If they didn't receive PR consulting contracts, why was one television station consistent in attacking the candidate of the APC while giving positive press to the candidates of PDP and LP? It was so bad that the media proprietor of the said media house launched a direct attack on the candidate of the APC.

That had never happened in the history of Nigerian politics.

Now, why is the same media house discrediting the coastal road project? Did Landmark retain them for PR? Remember that this same media house never interviewed anyone or gave rigorous coverage to the Emefiele trial as they did the cases they had an interest towards protecting.

What I explained above was drawn from a petition written by a dismissed editor of PUNCH newspapers against a former director of the newspaper some ten years ago, and from my own observation of the media business. It was common in the print media; it is now being brought to the fore in the broadcast media by the same controversial television station.

It is shameful.

Ladies and gentlemen, while it is sensible to seek information and entertainment from the media, never forget that it is a business and the highest bidder receives the best press coverage.

They are not after your interest.

Charly68:
God bless you sir for supporting the vision that will reshape the economy of nigeria within the next decades. The obedients are sad with the popularity the present Govt is garnering as a result of laudable policies. . They really dont understand that politics is about progress of a nation

EyeCumInPiece:
Misplaced priority.

Thïefnubu is a fallen demon on a 3-fold mission to Steal, to Kill and to Destroy.
At the rate the Microphone-licking druggie is going, ₦100 will soon become worthless.

rhanoden:
Most people speaking out in support of such waste at a time when the Country is grappling with it highest debt and living crisis are poorly informed.

If you don't understand economics properly, opportunity cost, environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis, then there is no point deceiving the public on a subject you don't know. Ben Bruce should be asked to keep quiet and listen to the experts.

Alliswell248:


Stale....
No wonder someone called them, unlettered and uncultured

Lagos to Calabar is a goal ..

Keep wailing

rhanoden:
Most people speaking out in support of such waste at a time when the Country is grappling with it highest debt and living crisis are poorly informed.

If you don't understand economics properly, opportunity cost, environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis, then there is no point deceiving the public on a subject you don't know. Ben Bruce should be asked to keep quiet and listen to the experts.

casualobserver:


Most of you are ignorant illiterates. Dave Umahi has stated many times that all federal govt roads are being repaired. The problem is we do t have the money to repair all the roads quickly so work is slow. He stated categorically there are just under 3000 awarded road contract and there is none where work is not on going.

Now a private company comes with a proposal to build a new transformational road with their own money. The road will cost $15b, the government will put down $1b, they will finance the rest and recoup their money from tolls. Mind you the entire budget for Nigeria is just under $30b. Should the govt say no?

Is the $15b for Lagos Calabar govt money? No!

Is they don’t build the Lagos Calabar road will the $15b go towards existing roads? No!

Are they repairing existing roads? Yes
But at a slow pace because we have no money!

If they don’t construct Lagos Calabar will it make repairs on existing roads faster? No!

Know the facts before you comment.
Existing roads are being repaired but govt has no money so it is slow.
The money for Lagos Calabar is not govt money and if you cancel the project the money will not go to existing g roads because it is not govt money.

rhanoden:
Most people speaking out in support of such waste at a time when the Country is grappling with it highest debt and living crisis are poorly informed.

If you don't understand economics properly, opportunity cost, environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis, then there is no point deceiving the public on a subject you don't know. Ben Bruce should be asked to keep quiet and listen to the experts.

Ejireh2:
The point is that we have more important things to spend a billions of dollars on that is not a coastal highway

eazzzy1:
The people opposing the project are doing what they have to do. They aren’t call opposition for nothing. They should know however that the current president isn’t a gentleman, he will do what he wants to do.

It’s political for some people, if Nigeria becomes better, if people get some semblance of hope, how will they campaign in 2027? Nigeria is getting better but let’s remove the man who is making it better?

The president and his team will take the praise or fall for this government performance, they have the liberty to decide what is priority and what isn’t. If you want to be a decider, win an election.

naptu2:
Ben Murray-BruceTalks About the Lagos-Calabar Highway.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIA01B-8vqU?si=PunEAxf0y1Q6nR10

rhanoden:
Most people speaking out in support of such waste at a time when the Country is grappling with it highest debt and living crisis are poorly informed.

If you don't understand economics properly, opportunity cost, environmental impact, cost-benefit analysis, then there is no point deceiving the public on a subject you don't know. Ben Bruce should be asked to keep quiet and listen to the experts.

Shattuck:
tbh while the highway is development, but any right thinking and honest individual would see truth in what the opposition is saying, that highway cost over a billion dollars, can anyone honestly say spending over billion dollar on an highway at this moment is the best decision, when there are alternate routes, companies are leaving, economy is slowing, poverty is rising, inflation etc, another I noticed is the likely corruption going on one km of that road would cost over 4billion yet the world bank benchmark for a km of road is 220 million naira.

TheBillyonaire:
Apart from the Discovery of Crude Oil, the Coastal Highway, is THE ONLY Project that I know will accelerate development in Nigeria since the creation of Nigeria

Slytiger:

That person is a fool. Calabar phase is starting in July.


So calabar Akwa Ibom Bayelsa are no where. Jealousy kill you there.