billante: Every state in nigeria needs an airport! I hav always been saying this...those calling it a misplaced piority should shut up.

Airport if planned well with business around it is a major economic driver....you either choose tourism, aircraft maintenance, agriculture, oil nd gas, commerce etc in planning and building an airport....there is nothing like a dormant airport.

Far less economic and populous Countries have more airports than nigeria...

For example Anambra airport is planned on being an aviation fuel hub airport connected directly to d aguleri refinery...even with d nearby asaba airport it will still be a viable airport! Cause it will be known to hav regular and cheap aviation fuel and it will make it a busy airport.

That's how to to plan and build airports.

Ibrahim mr fish: Yankari game reserve is in Buachi,and people 4m other countries are going there all d time,so an airport is a very good idia.

Ibrahim mr fish: Yankari game reserve is in Buachi,and people 4m other countries are going there all d time,so an airport is a very good idia.

babyosisi:

International airport in Bauchi
For who and who?
The one in Kano has been reduced to Hajj airport
A state that had 4 students clear 5 credits in WAEC thinks an international airport is their immediate concern?

Symphony007: What does bauchi need an airport for? What economic importance will an airport serve the state? Is it of any strategic importance economically that needs a direct airport? This money can be put into better use like water for villages, subsidies for farmers and even roads both urban and feeder, schools and many more!! This airport craze is getting ridiculous!!

Prof Corruption: It's a misplaced priority.

Prof Corruption:

It's beyond what you have itemized above. Airport is good but pointless if there is no "economic base" to match the investment. There is airport in Akure which is more or less useless or becomes useful in case of emergency landing for flights in trouble. How many people are using the airport in Ibadan? and the one in Benin? The airport in Asaba is targeted at Onitsha and Aba which are the epicentres of economic activity in SE.

Now, there are airports in Kano, Jos, Kaduna, Maiduguri and Yola which are the capital cities around Bauchi. You won't fly to Bauchi and then drive to Kano because there is an ultramodern airport in Bauchi. As long as safety is not an issue, you ll fly straight to those surrounding cities. So how many people are in Bauchi itself that can afford flying apart from corrupt politicians? What's driving people to the area-oil business, factories/industries, markets? Nothing!

The governor should spend that money on agriculture. Let him work on Tomatoes. Yes, Tomatoes. Cultivate a large farm (mechanized preferably), invest in storage facilities and then build a factory to make paste. That ll be more of help in areas of job creation, developing local economy than an airport.

babyosisi:

International airport in Bauchi
For who and who?
The one in Kano has been reduced to Hajj airport
A state that had 4 students clear 5 credits in WAEC thinks an international airport is their immediate concern?

The Bauchi State governor, Malam Isa Yuguda, has laid the foundation stone of the N7.9billion Bauch International Airport.
The official ceremony was performed weekend barely a month to the deadline of completion of the project which is currently witnessing finishing touches, preparatory to its commissioning in March.
Speaking during the foundation laying ceremony , Yuguda explained that the concept of the International Airport dates back to the 80’s along with Akure and Warri amongst others.
“The strategic location of Bauchi State as a gateway to the North-east sub-region and also being a home to the West African premier Game Reserve, the Yankari Game Reserve, makes the construction of an international airport imperative,” Yuguda stated.

Prof Corruption:

So how many people are in Bauchi itself that can afford flying apart from corrupt politicians? What's driving people to the area-oil business, factories/industries, markets? Nothing!

Eko Ile: Not everything is misplaced priority, in fact this is a very smart priority for so many reasons.


1. Creates jobs from construction to final operations

2, Boost the local economy by circulating a good chunk of that money in and around the local economy.

3. Deliver an up to date and modern infrastructure to serve the region

4. Divert traffic and commerce from the old and outdated airports in the surrounding states.

5. Creation of support economies and jobs like flight catering, ticketing agencies, cab service and so on.


Why fly into old airports with outdated facilities when a new airport with modern airport facilities and landing systems is available just a few miles away?


If marketed properly, this is the new regional airport with more than enough strength to take away business and commercial activities away from the
other airports ion the area.


It's a shrewd move and it makes no sense to pull back on development and potential economic gains just because of other entities and considerations.

KokoBeware:

Guy am sure your just arguing for the sake of it.... An international airport is the very least of thier worries.. how many local operators will fly into bauchi and at what frequency?? not to talk of international carriers
who ever adviced the governor should be shot..

A-ZeD:
Misplaced priority. For those saying it will spur the local economy bla bla bla, you guys have no idea of business. The busiest local airport in Nigeria is the MMA 2 built by Babalakin and since that airport was built in 2007, it has not made a profit once. Financially, MMA 2 is struggling to survive.
So if you think the airport in bauchi is a good idea then please stay away from business.

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And am saying that the aviation industry remains elitist and unaffordable by tie vast majority of people. Airports are not exactly bursting at the seams to warrant a scattering at least not at the scale we love to build them. But check our expressways crying for investment. Chuck ablock with trucks and commuters, crashing cars, tumbling tankers. You simply cannot say your top dollar goes to tourism infrastructure when you lose billions locally to other pressing needs. Dangote, MTN scream day in day out about what government should be investing in. They don't listen. Now they put money in what quite frankly no one cares about.

Eko Ile:

Must everything be labeled elitist? Are the construction jobs created by this airport elitist jobs? Are the workers and maintenance crews servicing the airport and the planes elitist? Are the goods and services flowing in and out of the airport for elitists? Are the general commerce and taxes generated by this airport going to the elits ?

Please look beyond your limited understanding of commerce and development.

Reference:

Ten years down the line that airport will have an annual maintenance budget that will suck resources from other sectors because FAAN will say we cannot keep taking over white elephants. Then let us talk.

Eko Ile:

Must everything be labeled elitist? Are the construction jobs created by this airport elitist jobs? Are the workers and maintenance crews servicing the airport and the planes elitist? Are the goods and services flowing in and out of the airport for elitists? Are the general commerce and taxes generated by this airport going to the elits ?

Please look beyond your limited understanding of commerce and development.

Eko Ile:

Must everything be labeled elitist? Are the construction jobs created by this airport elitist jobs? Are the workers and maintenance crews servicing the airport and the planes elitist? Are the goods and services flowing in and out of the airport for elitists? Are the general commerce and taxes generated by this airport going to the elits ?

Please look beyond your limited understanding of commerce and development.

eldoradoxx: 7.9 billion can get more than 10000 persons directly employed if invested wisely than in a white elephant project of an airport! Atleast I don't knw of any airport in Nigeria that has up to 2000 staff earning their income from it. At our level of development we don't need every state to have an airport when there is one within 50 to 70 kilometers distance. Look as Nasarawa state for instance, the governor that I used to think was wise has taken up airport building as one of his projects in his first term. Lafia the capital is largely undeveloped with very high level of poverty. A man who has not built up to 50kilometers of road in close to 2yrs has a project of such magnitude to do in a very poor state, doesn't it show misplaced priority? If Akwa ibom, Delta and Bayelsa states are building airports, its understandable, non of these states generates or earns nothing less than 400 billion a year! That is more than 5 times the budget of say Nasarawa with mere a little above 70billion, which if well spent can build roads, schoolsn hospitals and gradually stimulate economic activites in the state.

Eko Ile:

All your doom and gloom opinion is really pointless. They reasoned back in the 80s that this Airport is in their future based on their needs as articulated by the governor and not on your internet opinion and second guessing.

The airport is not even ready yet, but you've labeled it a white elephant. You are walking faster than your brain .