NIGERIA: VICE PRESIDENT BRIGADIER SHEHU MUSA YAR'ADUA OPENS NEW EXPRESSWAY LINKING LAGOS TO IBADAN.

Friday, August 18th 1978.

Footage of Brigadier Shehu Musa Yar'Adua, the Chief of Staff Supreme Headquarters, opening the expressway that linked Lagos, then the federal capital city of Nigeria with Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State.

Reuters Text:

Work on the highway began four years ago. It was hoped to be finished a year ago, but because of the scale of the undertaking, the contracts were extended. It replaces roads which carried the heaviest traffic in the country. Brigadier Shehu Musa Yar'Adua praised the project.

The Brigadier then formally opened the new highway, the first rural expressway in the country.

The road cost a total of 170 million naira (nearly 266 million dollars). And to recover at least part of that cost, and to pay for its upkeep, road users will have to pay a toll. Even at the opening ceremony, Brigadier Shehu Yar'Adua led the way in paying for the service the new expressway offers."

Transcript of Brigadier Yar'Adua's remarks:

"The expressway which we are about to open is one of the finest of its type by any standard. Your convenience, comfort and safety have all been incorporated in the highest standard of its design and construction. It does seem however that the better the road, the greater the death toll. The reported deaths on highways rose from 4,537 in 1973 to 8,000 in 1977, giving us a daily average of about 22 deaths. We all know that these are caused by excessive speeding, lack of proper maintenance of vehicles, drunkenness and a complete disregard for highway rules and regulations. I hereby appeal to all road users, and in particular, motorists, to obey highway rules and regulations, to have more respect for their lives and show care and consideration for others. This country has paid very substantially for your comfort and safety on this expressway so please do not make it a one-way ticket to death."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_LfloE6BWc

Source: Reuters News Archive.
https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/238165

42 years later we are still struggling to complete it

Meanwhile Obasanjo, Jonathan and Buhari have opened the same road again. Incoming president in 2023 will most likely open it again.

Biko I deserve to have a good laugh over this matter.

J111333:
Meanwhile Obasanjo, Jonathan and Buhari have opened the same road again. Incoming president in 2023 will most likely open it again.

Biko I deserve to have a good laugh over this matter.

They have been eating from this road since 1978.

Lagos-Ibadan expressway presently and the construction that never ends

NGpatriot are Igbos responsible as well for the 42 year construction?

RuudVanNisteroy:
42 years later we are still struggling to complete it

No thanks to PDP

This one is mentally deprived because of Lagos, the obsession will send you to Lucifer with Eze gburugburu

RuudVanNisteroy:
42 years later we are still struggling to complete it

Oga, when was the last time you pass Lagos - ibadan expressway??

What they are doing over there is rehabilitation.
And shagamu - Ibadan interchange

When 504 was babe, Those men at the V.I.P filled with swag. Shinning eye glasses.

Sammy07:


Oga, when was the last time you pass Lagos - ibadan expressway??

What they are doing over there is rehabilitation.
And shagamu - Ibadan interchange

Which kind of rehabiliatation?Obj,GEJ,Yardua and Buhari have been rehabilatating this road and the next President in 2023 will continue the 'rehabilitation' of a road that is only 127.6-kilometre-long.

Give the South Africans,Namibians,Rwandans or Botswana and they will complete it within a year.

If the project took 4 years then, the present government may not be doing badly with the current rehabilitation considering 2 things..
1. The Nigerian economy was in much better shape with the foreign exchange rate of the Naira to the Pound Sterling being at par.
2. It was a project undertaken on virgin land as compared to the continuous diversion of traffic and its attendant challenges.

He sure resembles his brother yar'adua ..that's the only thing I could see

RuudVanNisteroy:

Which kind of rehabiliatation?Obj,GEJ,Yardua and Buhari has been rehabilatating this road and the next President in 2023 will continue the 'rehabilitation' of a road that is only 127.6-kilometre-long.

Yes, cos the road isn't standard.
Normally it ought to use 100 years.

Reason for the Rehabilitation.
If you know the number of trucks that pass there everyday self.
Large trucks on sub standard road.

Sammy07:


Yes, cos the road isn't standard.
Normally it ought to use 100 years.

Reason for the Rehabilitation.
If you know the number of trucks that pass there everyday self.
Large trucks on sub standard road.

Is this peculiar to Nigeria?You don't see the South Africans,Namibians,Rwandans or Botswana the giants of Africa make those excuses.

Looking at Shehu Yaradua here, one would not know that the man was amongst the biggest mass-murderers and coup plotter Nigeria ever produced. He was literally Murtala Mohammed's right hand man and when Mohammed was assassinated, Yar'adua was double promoted to become a Brigadier and Chief of General Staff. He spent the rest of his years in power amassing wealth and became one of the richest men in the North when he retired. He was CEO of Hamza Holdings. But Karma has a way of coming back to bite all evil men. He died crying of pain in Abakiliki Prisons.

Damn. Rest on my friend.
At the age he commissioned the project as a vice President is the age the useless youths of nowadays use in discussing sex positions, big ass big breast, drugs, Yahoo, alcohol, Lee min hoo, watching TV series, Relationship talk, fixing yeye nails and eye umbrella, bets and sort. How would my mate betroth power to you when you're useless and doesn't know what you want? That's why my mate keep riding you like horse! If you don't take the future into your hands now, your posterity will curse you. 2023 is around the corner, don't form a THIRD FORCE, Dont use your head. Continue to sell your birth right...
My friend here, Seun. Had he indulge himself in those useless acts, will he have time to think outside box in creating nairaland? Keep blaming Government, DON'T USE YOUR HEAD

What am I supposed to do with this news

RuudVanNisteroy:

Is this peculiar to Nigeria?You don't see the South Africans,Namibians,Rwandans or Botswana the giants of Africa make those excuses.

Hmm, Okay I understand you.

And one Katsina failure in the name of Sinzu is using the same road as ATM

We should just go back to military rules biko. We are not ready for Democracy.

The military really put some infrastructures in place until these audio politicians

Seems the road na tunnel wey no get end as Dem no dey construct am finish