You demolished businesses that pay billions in taxes for a road that you could have rerouted and you tell them to make sacrifices for Nigeria? And you are looking for foreign investors everywhere, make it make sense!
The federal government plans to construct the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway at a cost of N4 billion per kilometer - Dave Umahi
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, clarified that the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway will be constructed by the government for N4bn per kilometer, not the N8bn per km as claimed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
This means that the entire project will be finished with a cost of N2.8 trillion.
He said, “People are just building castles without knowledge and they don’t know figures, I will run the figures for you. We are going to compare the cross-section of the one the former vice president mentioned that was renegotiated for $11.1bn for 700 km. So you have to now ask what was there to be constructed. And what was there to be constructed is the only available design from NDDC. They had designed the entire 700 km but we are not following exactly that pattern or right of way. We have a different modification. The original design had two carriageways on each side of the road with four lanes.
“And in the middle, they did not provide for the train track. It’s just going to be a water-collecting basin. But the coastal road we are constructing has a total of 10 lanes, you know, not only that it has a total of 10 lanes, it also have what we called shoulders. And the total shoulders can be put at about 23 metres. So when you put the total concrete pavement we are doing, it’s about 59 metres. When you put the total flexible pavement that he quoted it’s about 23 metres.
“And so when you run the figures, you now find out that under his calculation, it is giving you about over N19bn per kilometre. Now if you divide it by the 23 kilometres that they are doing, it is about 2.225 times a standard superhighway carriageway, which is N11.55bn. Whereas what we are doing, if you divide it, you get N5.167bn, So when you now divide using our 1.067, you get about N4bn/km. If you go back to what he has quoted, you will get over N8bn. So using concrete, which should be more expensive because of the kind of terrain we have, and using flexible pavement, which shouldn’t stand the coastal route, you will find out that our cost is N4bn instead of the N8bn claimed by the former vice president.
Your chances of getting appointed by the APC is significantly higher if you’ve embarrassed the party in the past than if you are loyal to the Party’s ideology.
There’s no common sense rationale behind how arguably the biggest party in Africa appointed an individual who rejected them in CAPITAL LETTERS.
Many months ago i predicted floating the Naira will be a disaster I was correct the Naira already almost hit 2000 before they started defending infact it was 1930-40 in some areas before they started selling forex to BDC in late February. I said subsidy gone has consequences and I was correct In less than 3 months the president himself said he will hold price of petrol. When I hear people blindly supporting policies I laugh because some of us see the end from the beginning. We don’t shout we study trends and make informed decisions.
Congratulations to Bassirou Diomaye Faye the 5th president of Senegal 🇸🇳
Mr President elect is 44years of age.
The age bracket between him and our top political candidates:
Peter obi - 19
Kwankwaso- 23
Tinubu - 27
Atiku - 33
@renoomokri When faced with deteriorating old schools, how can new ones be built amidst this chaos? An intelligent approach is rehabilitating the existing structures and investing in the old ones,thereby restoring functionality and the quality of education. That’s an intelligent leader.