macjive01:
all these ports are shallow ports.

Onne is NOT a shallow port!

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.

Provide concrete proof (and not hearsay, propaganda or conjecture) to show that the South-West opposes the categorisation of ports in the South-East for importation.

Chief Kema Chikwe was Minister of Transport under OBJ, Chief Ojo Maduekwe (May 6, 1945 – June 29, 2016) was also appointed Minister of Transport in 2001, while Chief Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi is now Minister of Transport under PMB. If your allegations are true, how come your people who headed the Ministry of Transport all through the ages have failed to do something about it??

superstar1:
We are almost in 2017, the Almighty Yorubas are still killing their jonzing dream of Ibaka Seaport.

The Yorubas must be gods.

You Yoruba people I don talk am before say, una 'juju too strong! You chaps need to bottle and sell it. You would make tons of money. Just think about it!