tosh_acer:

apart from political and ethinically motivated reasons, no one has given any sensible reason why it is wrong to build this road apart from people who think it should be spent on food because we are a bunch of hungry people.

ikeyman00:

^^^^ slowpoke stay away plz

mbulela:

tosh, why should that road be built?
how does it better the lot of nigerians?
with the myriad of problems facing this administration, how does a 10 lane road costing over 1 billion dollars (not naira, not Zim dollars o!) on a 4 lane road that is good benefit the country?
the reason why does other roads are being mentioned is not because they are in the south, it is because they are in worse shape and the vehicular traffic on them is immense.
one more reason the bulk of commercial activities in this country entails travel on those roads.
most SME businesses entail journeys on those roads.
those are the bedrock of any nations's socio economic development.

Foolish tribalist

and do you have a proof that this money to be spent on building this road has been taken from budget meant for other areas of the economy, or are you just talking out of talking sake, just like most people here do?

This is my say to the leaders of Nigeria. They need to improve the economy in almost every state in order to improve the standard of living for all. You can't spend all those money on ten lanes when abuja states' population is barely 1 million. Texas state has a population of 25 million, the highest number of lanes they have is about 6. They need to build Lagos, its the Newyork of Nigeria. We need to have about 10 solid states out of our 37 here there will be improvements. Build our own cars, make our products and sell, increase the tariff on all foreign goods so high so majority of people will buy our goods, create jobs by building more airports, roads, ports, 2 million strong military, welcome businesses by making it less expensive with incentives and friendly to do business, invest in energy, nepa 24/7 365 days, increase minimum wage to N80k, let our workforce be trained to meet the life of the 21st century: 80% nigerians and 20% other than nigeria, quality teachers, more government jobs for alot of things in every states to build Nigeria. With this we will attract tourist raising more money. Most importantly Nigerians need to be hard working, less pompous and improve their image around the world in all areas other than fraudsters some other countries think they are. With all this we will be competitive and look more like the giant of Africa with GDP over 1 trillion

to those that drive on enugu-benin-ore-lagos route

how many dead bodies or burnt vehicles u come across due to bad roads, dual carriage turn into single lane creating chaos etc

maybe the most commerical high way in nigeria

and the morons in abuja are so stupid cuz their stupid family are yet to die on those route

when waton insist that some of yall got monkey brain cell in the head, u think thats a joke!! shaking my head and spit on my screen

desgiezd:

I fail to see the purpose for this road construction at this point in time. The four lanes existing at the moment is seriously under-utilised. The road does not get busy as Lagos roads and by the time the expansion to 10 lanes is completed, I'm sure the road would be virtually empty at all times. I was in Abuja early April and a construction firm was fixing failed portions of the road and passers by hardly felt the effect of the repairs being carried out because there was no traffic build up at all.

This is clearly a misplaced priority. If the money must be spent on roads connecting Abuja, why not on Kano - Kaduna - Abuja road which is already bad?  

mbulela:

tosh, you seem to have a history around here.
i will not fall for your bait.
you seem to enjoy insulting people instead of exchanging ideas or expounding your opinions.
i refrain from such.
when people who are interested in exchanging ideas return on this thread, i will do likewise.
until then,good night.

KnowAll:

What I sense with this road is an un-healthy rivalry between the FG and Lagos State Goverment.

1. Fashola commences the 10 Lane lagos to badary road last week, this week FG and FCT embarks in the 10 Lane Abuja airport road. Yarardua is aware fashola is embarking on a lot of laudable projects in lagos.

phantom:

@tosher, Are you a nigerian?Its either you're not,mentally deranged,a clown,just plain stupid or all four together, But i'll wager on the fifth option.

Kobojunkie:

10 Billion Naira for Lagos Badagry 10 lane project compared to approximately 250 billion Naira for the Abuja contract? Something is definitely not right here.

Moves:

I think you are on point= 10 Lane is costing Lagos N10 billion whilst abuja 10 lanes= $1.7 Billion and some one here is wondering what the furore is about, Lets not even compare the economic activities that is going to be enabled by the construction of lagos badagry --and further connecting with the neighbouring benin Republic

The carnage in the nation's roads continued again on Sunday as another accident resulted in the deaths of 18 passengers on Benin-Ore Road.

The accident occurred a few days after the death of over 50 people in an auto accident involving a luxury bus and a tanker at the Benin-Auchi Road.

Our correspondent gathered that an 18-seater Toyota Hiace vehicle in which the deceased passengers were travelling plunged into the Ovia River just after the Okada junction.

According to an eyewitness account, efforts made by motorists and others to rescue the trapped passengers were unsuccessful as they lacked the capacity to drag the submerged bus out of the river.

The Good Samaritans were said to have watched helplessly as the passengers were drowned inside the bus.

The source added that nobody, including the driver, was able to escape from the vehicle at the time of filing this report.

The Benin Zonal Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr. Zakari Nda, confirmed the accident, saying that his men were already on a rescue mission.

He did not, however, confirm the casualty figure of the accident, saying he had not been briefed by his commander on ground.

Investigation revealed that the driver of the ill-fated vehicle was heading for Benin from the Ore when it plunged into the river.

The accident is coming shortly after about 66 people died in two separate auto accidents on the Benin-Auchi Road last week.

While 16 market women lost their lives in the first accident which occurred on the Benin-Auchi Road on their way to Onitsha, over 50 people were killed in the second accident involving a tanker and a luxury bus loaded with passengers from Sokoto to Onitsha on Friday.

Nda, who confirmed both accidents, said that while it was difficult to give the exact number of those killed in the latter accident, 43 burnt corpses were given mass burial in Benin on Friday evening.

Meanwhile, about 10 people were feared killed in South in Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State over a lingering chieftaincy dispute in the community.

Our correspondent gathered that several other people were injured in the resumed hostilities between two cousins - Messrs Kelvin Danesi and Obebe Umoru - over Aidonogie of South Ibie chieftaincy tussle.

According to an eyewitness account, several houses and properties worth millions of naira were destroyed during the clash between the supporters of the two principal actors in the crisis.

It was learnt that crisis had been on for over 10 years and had once been put under control through the intervention of eminent groups like the Ibie Peace Forum based in Lagos in 2007.

The source said the resumed violence, which commenced in the evening of Saturday, continued Sunday and had not abated at the time of filing the report.

Our correspondent could not also ascertain what actually led to the recent crisis, but a source disclosed that the group loyal to Umoru was angry about the plans being made to mark the 10th year anniversary of Danesi, who is recognised by the state government.

Speaking in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Sunday, the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations in the Edo State Police Command, Mr. Clement Adoda, said that the situation had been brought under control.

He said that the command had drafted riot policemen and the men of the Police Area Command in Auchi to the community