CodeTemplar:
Stop talking trash. Foreigners only do what we force them to. they don't force us to be corrupt.

Does your quote implies what you comprehend from my statement? Thanks for your understanding that my statement is trash.

Blue3k2:
If the information is correct Nigeria got a bad deal. The whole railline is supposed to go from Lagos-kano-Maradi which is another billion. Lol those Ghanaians must be smooth opperators.

I love you point but people should not forget that loads of compensation have to be paid for demolished houses according to their current worth and our terrain will surely not be same talking about bridges and terminals. But truth be told, we are a very outrageous spenders all for kickbacks

God bless you and yet some will still be lead away from the truth.

aremuforlife:


21 NOVEMBER 2018
Daily Trust (Abuja)
Nigeria: $1.5bn Lagos-Ibadan Fast Rail - Cabinet Gets Cost Overrun Request From Amaechi
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By Abdullateef Aliyu
Lagos — As construction work on the 156km Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail progresses, Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi is expected to present a request to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for cost overrun, Daily Trust can report.

The project was awarded at the cost of $1.5bn to China Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC) but there are indications that government would overshoot the budget following variations not included in the original contract details.

Sources told Daily Trust at the weekend that the variations were being finalized by the technical team and various committees to be presented to the minister for onward presentation to President Muhammadu Buhari.



Daily Trust had reported in December last year, when the project had barely progressed, that a cost overrun was inevitable going by submissions of stakeholders in the project.

Apart from the cost of relocating some facilities, especially the Nigerian Army 81 Ordinance Corps in Yaba which is estimated at over N5 billion, there is also the relocation of oil and gas pipelines within the Lagos axis.

Also, the commitment of government to connect the rail line to the country's premier port in Apapa comes at a huge cost going by recent presentations made to the minister by the contractor and technical consultant.

Also, the Apapa Port rail sidings initially estimated at 2.4km in the project are now to extend to 6.4km for seamless connection of the standard gauge to all port terminals.

All these items are being fine-tuned for presentation to the FEC after going through the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) for requisite clearance, a source said yesterday.

The request may get to the president latest by the end of December, it was learnt.

Amaechi last week led the Project Steering Committee and the CCECC officials to Apapa Port to assess the level of work to be carried out there.

After the inspection visit which had the Managing Director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Engr. Fidet Okhiria and his counterpart in the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, in attendance, it was discovered that some warehouses owned by terminal operators would be partly demolished to ease the rail connectivity.

The terminals to be mostly affected are the APMT and Eni Consortium terminals.

"Most of these things were not envisaged in the original project but this is not strange in a project of this magnitude and the government is determined to execute things that would stand the test of time," the source, who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press, said.



Amaechi had in reaction to the cost overrun said, "What is best is what we will do. We will go back to Mr President for us to get approval so as to get something that will outlast us."

Also speaking, the NPA MD explained that there are areas government would take over from terminal operators "for overriding public interest."

However, she assured that necessary compensation would be paid to operators whose structures would go completely or partially.

Usman reiterated that the necessary rehabilitation would be carried out at the key sides where ships usually berthed to increase their weight and capacity to accommodate the standard gauge rail.

She said, "All these aspects need to be computed and the number to be presented to the Hon. Minister and in turn he would make the necessary request for approval to the Federal Government."

Read the original article on Daily Trust.

tactius:
Looking at this article.... It says that crcc is building the railway for 2 billion

And that Sinochem, another company, will be providing 3 billion for railway construction projects.

So the total cost is 5 bn for 560km of railway lines.

Someone misinterpreted a newsreport

Modified

I am afraid I am going to have to say that the article the OP published is a classic example of FAKE NEWS.

Here is another article from a Ghana source.



So the $2.2 BILLION is for the Eastern Railway Line , which covers only Accra to Kumasi....which is apprently 136km 340 km

And the contractor is different.

Again, someone is lying,

MODIFIED: MORE INFORMATION


SAUCE

Salute to u my brother . I love people who do their own researches before opening mouth to tlk!

Naija youths should wise up pls nd stop beleiving everything u read till u do some research , na so dem go dey fool us.


And also to add to the mix the project we r tlking about here was almost approved by Gej administration but for some reason money was not there , so after ameachi came in he renegotiated the figures of that contract saving us a whole lot of money (i can't remember the exact figures).