waternogetemeny:
That port is the game changer in the east. Watch how industry, trade and commerce will just go off the chain in that region

sCun:

unu use boko haram distract am na.

ba7man:
Oil company workers keep getting kidnapped, extorted and their installations bombed in the S.S region.

Surely they can't want to stay in such an environment.

PPAngel:

Marina port now Marina Resort was the first port established in what is now known as Nigeria.

Since the British moved the capital to Benin in fear of German Cameroon in the East and to take part in more trade with the French in the west, Marina port slowly lost it's place.

With the advent of independence, the Yorubas had been successful to maintain their port monopoly with Lagos by entering trade with the north.

The SS and SE region still exported large quantities of Cash crops but with the advent of electricity, the lucrative palm oil trade which used to light up oil lamps in England saw a drastic reduction in port activities. Besides, the southeast coastline was dotted with smaller ports which were meant mainly to export cash crops like Timber, Cocoa, Rubber and palm kernel.

Below is an Old of pic of palm oil barrels up along the Calabar port destined for export aboard ships

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
Brain dead mofo, what stopped jonathan, the clueless drunkard from building you a seaport after spending six wasteful years in office?

What of apabio? Why didnt he build the Ibaka seaport instead of that meaningless stadium

PPAngel:


No. The move began in 1975 when the military government ordered all oil companies to move their corporate headquarters to Lagos.

Abacha then ordered their prescence in Abuja.

The history of militancy in the SS is just of recent dating from the early 2000's and one of many mitigating issues that led to aggigations was the moving of these corporate headquarters out of the oil producing regions.

sCun:
This is why Jonathan is a very foolish man, or perhaps he was distracted for long by Boko haram.

However, if Yorubas think they can continue to work against the economic progress of other regions by making sure only the Lagos ports work, they should be ready to continue contending for the ownership of Lagos with others and also suffer the effects of overpopulation and the strain on Lagos inftastructures.
You can't have your cake and still eat it.

TRIBALSTOOGE:

huptin:


What about the ports at warri, onne, Calabar and Port Harcourt? Those ones are not game changers it is Ibaka that will be the game changer? Even the dry port at Onitsha has been comatose since 1982 when it was first commisoned by shagari, GEJ recommisined it in 2012 and it still remains comatose.

superstar1:


Why can't you guys take responsibility for your action and inactions. You elect stup1d and dumb leaders and you are still blaming it on yorubas .

GEJ was president for good 6years and Akpabio was governor for 8years. Why could they not complete it? Donald Duke set out to start and complete Tinapa and he did without the Almighty Yoruba stopping him. Was Akpabio sincere with the project?

Why has others not gang up and stop Fashola initiative of Lekki Deep Seaport, which is progressing smoothly? Who is the current head of NPA? Bamanga Tukur, a PDP chieftain.

Stealer Oduah constructed a water logged airport and you were all celebrating her for stealing your money and giving you a sub-standard airport. You were busy shouting "She is our daughter". You will still blame the Almighty Yorubas for that.

Indeed, Yorubas must be next to God.

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
Your Mama go fall from Okada and she go die

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
So Boko Haram stopped jonathan from building the Ibaka seaport but Boko Haram couldnt stop him from allocating 1bn for his feeding allownce in addition to his 11 presidential jets?

You b.stards are brain dead

kettykings:
My suggestions would have been for the easterner to import their goods via the douala deep sea transshipment port in Cameroon and use trawlers to bring the goods to Aba via the opobo river,until such a time that the niger deltans the are awake to their responsibilities
Mean while the port is less than the distance to Lagos port.

SirShymexx:


I think you lot just enjoy playing victim with everything - you cry too much like inbred irritants. I guess that's why ya men wear wrappers as traditional clothes like effeminate mongrels.

PPAngel:


It is one thing to have the infrastructure up and running and it is another thing to have the required designation for the port.

Just like Airports, categorization determines the capacity of the port.

Enugu Airport was just recently categorized as an international airport which will see that international carriers operate in and out of the port.

If the same FG refuses to categorize the sea ports in the SE coastline for importation but rather maintains them as mere oil tanker jetties and export ports then little can be achieved economically for the SE ports of Warri, Calabar, Port Harcourt and even the yet to be constructed Ibaka port.

This is where the opposition lies and there is every indication that the SW selfishly opposes this, while the north is afraid of any major developmental stride in the SS and SE without them because as things stand with the GDP from these regions a sea port is bound to further enrich these state.

There is also the conspiracy of the French concessioned owners of Tin Can Container port who currently enjoy a monopoly in the business. Opening up another port to the east will surely reduce traffic to their port.

superstar1:


God bless you.

They enjoy whining and crying over their stup1dity, pointing accusing fingers at other for their own stup1d actions.

GEJ is from SS, he did not even give an inch of attention to the project. He was busy eating with 1bn and buying presidential jets.

Akwa Ibom collects the highest allocation in the country, through 13% derivation.

NDDC is like a regional government.

Min of Niger Delta is a whole ministry dedicated to the region alone.

sCun:
This is why Jonathan is a very foolish man, or perhaps he was distracted for long by Boko haram.

However, if Yorubas think they can continue to work against the economic progress of other regions by making sure only the Lagos ports work, they should be ready to continue contending for the ownership of Lagos with others and also suffer the effects of overpopulation and the strain on Lagos inftastructures.
You can't have your cake and still eat it.

superstar1:


Why do people like reasoning like this?

What were you looking at for 6years under GEJ or GEJ is from Mali?

What is the business of SW with Port? I cannot remember any notable yoruba in GEJ's government, why could GEJ still not achieve it.

Onne port is functional, why are the people crying wolf all of a sudden not using the same port which is closer to SE and SS.

When we were telling you GEJ did nothing inn6yeats, you were all arguing and calling it a gang-up against the Mandela of Otuoke. Can you see now that he was just drinking tea and buying jets?

macjive01:


This Ibaka seaport has the potential to single-handedly cripple lagos , and turn it into a Detroit of Ghost town and filth.

macjive01:


This Ibaka seaport has the potential to single-handedly cripple lagos , and turn it into a Detroit of Ghost town and filth.

PPAngel:


Jonathan secured a $7bn sea port project with Hyundai Heavy for Bayelsa.

Waiting for your Buhari to cancel it.

huptin:


What about the ports at warri, onne, Calabar and Port Harcourt? Those ones are not game changers it is Ibaka that will be the game changer? Even the dry port at Onitsha has been comatose since 1982 when it was first commisoned by shagari, GEJ recommisined it in 2012 and it still remains comatose.

Nnemuka:
Same way they frustrated Stella Odua immediately she made Enugu and International airpot. Anything coming to the SE/SS region is usually abandoned or frustrated by the Hausa's and Yoruba's.

superstar1:

Why can't you guys take responsibility for your action and inactions. You elect stup1d and dumb leaders and you are still blaming it on yorubas .

GEJ was president for good 6years and Akpabio was governor for 8years. Why could they not complete it? Donald Duke set out to start and complete Tinapa and he did without the Almighty Yoruba stopping him. Was Akpabio sincere with the project?

Why has others not gang up and stop Fashola initiative of Lekki Deep Seaport, which is progressing smoothly? Who is the current head of NPA? Bamanga Tukur, a PDP chieftain.

Stealer Oduah constructed a water logged airport and you were all celebrating her for stealing your money and giving you a sub-standard airport. You were busy shouting "She is our daughter". You will still blame the Almighty Yorubas for that.

Indeed, Yorubas must be next to God.

Nnemuka:
Same way they frustrated Stella Odua immediately she made Enugu and International airpot. Anything coming to the SE/SS region is usually abandoned or frustrated by the Hausa's and Yoruba's.

Sloan:
If PDP, Jonathan, Amkpabio, Peter Obi and the many Ibos in the center did not or refused to built the port for 6 years or 16 yeas when PDP was in power, it has nothing to do with the SW or Yorubas. Every objective mind knows that but the OP is ibo and wants to start another war in which his ibos will be hammered as usual.

Blame your Ijaw / Ibo president who took Nigeria back into debt while not building this port but spending billions of dollars bribing everyone for a se on term and campaigning that stealing is not corruption!

PPAngel:


Jonathan secured a $7bn sea port project with Hyundai Heavy for Bayelsa.

Waiting for your Buhari to cancel it.

Hyundai Heavy says not building Nigerian shipyard

September 16, 2011

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. is denying a statement from Nigeria's presidential office that it plans to build a multibillion dollar shipyard in the country.

Hyundai Heavy spokesman Kim Moon-ju said Friday that the company has no such plan.

A statement late Thursday from President Goodluck Jonathan's office said the shipyard would be built in Brass in Bayelsa state, his home region.

Kim said that Hyundai Heavy President Lee Jai-seong made no such comment during a trip to the country. Kim said the company is building a small pipe-manufacturing factory in Bayelsa.

Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, faces crushing unemployment and poverty. The government has promised other projects in the past that failed to materialize.

superstar1:



That is commendable.

Don't you think of he had gotten the same fund into Ibaka, it would have been completed by now, rather than starting a totally new project that might end up like Ibaka and you guys will be blaminf yorubas again.

Admit to the fact that, you do not task your leaders enough. Period.