dubra:
Instead opening up other seaports in other regions they refused insist of Lagos port to service the whole nation, una never see anything yet, very soon the blockage will get to boudillon raod, ndi Ara

manjaro:
Just yesterday, we were asked to pay 900k to move a 40ft container from Tin Can port to Warehouse bust stop!

izzou:


Corruption is the major reason why those trucks are there

When they have been extorted by endless unions and task forces, Police, Army and the rest, how do you expect such a driver to go and park somewhere else?

Those trucks are not leaving in the next five years. Corruption has come to stay in port activities

Ezmans:
remember sanwo-olu 60 days promise on apapa

Ezmans:
each container pays 100,000 naira plus illegal fees on that road

Ishilove:

These days it is crazy and it is affecting business. Imagine truckers charging 650k for a 20ft truck to Ikeja becaus of the congestion

afube:


no mind them ! the congestion brouhaha is essentially directed at southern businesses but our one nigerianists are totally oblivious of this. The supporter of APC norths are intent on the almajirization of southern youth.....make una dey there they watch bbnaija

thesicilian:
They should say why they're really going on strike, it's not because of the Access roads that they've been using like that for ages.

Ishilove:

My dear brother, I was discussing it with someone today. There is so much corruption in the sector, the biggest gainers being the custom officers themselves. We cannot move forward in this country until we change our mindset as a people. Business owners are the worst hit because when we transfer some of these added expenses to the customers, they start complaint and shove off to find other alternatives.

achymmania:
if I see 650k I go rush am. Now it's between 900 to 1 million to the nearest warehouse.

manjaro:
Just yesterday, we were asked to pay 900k to move a 40ft container from Tin Can port to Warehouse bust stop!

Ishilove:

I heard this but I thought the agent was exaggerating. My God, what kind of country are we living in?? You think it can't get worse than it already is and then they raise the bar on ludicrousness.

GAZZUZZ:
They are clamouring for the wrong things. Lagos is not the only state with functional ports. Decentralize the ports , open up all the ports in the south south and south east. bad governance is the issue. nothing will change until govt is changed .

bigfish3k:
Open eastern sea ports to decongest Lagos they say. NO.

Let them continue to develop only Lagos and later be complaining of congestion and traffic.
How can only one port be serving 200 million population when there are other alternatives in the east. Where else in the world does this happen?

Just because you don't want development for the igbo region and you don't want them to leave Lagos.

afube:


no mind them ! the congestion brouhaha is essentially directed at southern businesses but our one nigerianists are totally oblivious of this. The supporter of APC norths are intent on the almajirization of southern youth.....make una dey there they watch bbnaija

Bishop4real:



Which "eastern port" is not working? Is it government that chose port of destination for importers? Tribal bigot.

govomotors:


Well said.

Warri have a standard port
Sapele have a standard port taken over by the Navy
Rivers have standard port
Likewise Calabar

Government should remove politic and utilize all the ports. If 30% shipment is destined to Lagos, 30% to Rivers, 20% to Warri and 20% to Calabar congestion and delay experience in clearing goods at Lagos port will be the things of the past.

I continue to wonder why truck container from Lagos to Anambra when there is port in Rivers, Delta and Calabar which are far closer.

NoToPile:
I went to mile 2 on Thursday, evenon the badagry expressway from trade fair down to mile 2 is full with trucks going to apapa. The bus got stuck at first gate . Even orile and Iganmu side inward mile 2 whole service lane blocked. Then the Construction company blocked the fast lanes in both sides at mile 2 to renovate the portion this one now added to the injury.

It has never been this bad.
Its so annoying when things can be made easier but we choose to make things difficult for the citizens. Black man with wickedness and senselessness na 5 & 6

I couldn't even pass costain or orile back from Iddo side, passed ajegunle via marine bridge came out through suru alaba, entered korope to mile 2 , it didn't even get to the mile 2 barracks at all before it turned resume trekking again to join bus turning from the bridge after mazamaza.

The trekking no be here.

NoToPile:
I went to mile 2 on Thursday, evenon the badagry expressway from trade fair down to mile 2 is full with trucks going to apapa. The bus got stuck at first gate . Even orile and Iganmu side inward mile 2 whole service lane blocked. Then the Construction company blocked the fast lanes in both sides at mile 2 to renovate the portion this one now added to the injury.

It has never been this bad.

I couldn't even pass costain or orile back from Iddo side, passed ajegunle via marine bridge came out through suru alaba, entered korope to mile 2 , it didn't even get to the mile 2 barracks at all before it turned resume trekking again to join bus turning from the bridge after mazamaza.

The trekking no be here.

traihit:



We really need to also curb this victim and paranoid mentality. It's always about southern business, eastern business, western business. I think this is one of the reason we can't gather as a people and fight our common enemy: the politicians. If the lag happening at Tin can is aimed at southern businesses, do you think there's no way people from the north will suffer from it? Are southerners the only one using the Tin can road?

If the road is well maintained and law and order enforced while Tin can road remains the major route for container transportation, don't you think the road would still operate without a lag? Is there a part of Nigeria that's exclusively like Dubai? Why then should we be focusing on ethnic or regional aspects of our problem while this same factor is what has brought our development to a standstill since over 60 years ago?

bigfish3k:

Its so annoying when things can be made easier but we choose to make things difficult for the citizens. Black man with wickedness and senselessness na 5&6

GAZZUZZ:
They are clamouring for the wrong things. Lagos is not the only state with functional ports. Decentralize the ports , open up all the ports in the south south and south east. bad governance is the issue. nothing will change until govt is changed .