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Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Nobody: 6:49pm On Nov 29, 2015
Sometimes I wonder how we reason in this country, how can Lagos have a monopoly of imports in this big country? Imagine all the fuel tankers queing up at Apapa when we have other ports in the country.

Lagos is so congested and overpopulated but you cannot blame Nigerians for rushing into Lagos every day because Lagos is where everything happens.

Why can't the government make policies and conscious efforts to divert up to 40% of imports to Port Harcourt and Warri? Imagine how this move would greatly impact positively the economies of these states.

Open up other places and wacth millions of Nigerians willingly relocate from Lagos.

What a country! As big as we are yet all of us must go and queue up in Lagos. What do we call this? Is it wickedness or madness??

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Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Nobody: 6:51pm On Nov 29, 2015
Ibedun and other Lagos is congested preachers.
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by EZEIGBO1OFIMO: 6:53pm On Nov 29, 2015
Things like this happen when, idiots are elected into office by their fellow idiots.

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Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by emmysoftyou: 6:59pm On Nov 29, 2015
lagos is congested and the worst thing is that lagos is too small to accomodate nigerians.
Our government lack visions on what to do..?
They dont care, they re chilling good at abuja estates...

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Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Idrismusty97(m): 7:03pm On Nov 29, 2015
Plan is actually on the way for all these, It is a welcomed idea. The only hindrance to this would be the Biafra agitation.

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Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by badnature: 7:23pm On Nov 29, 2015
@idrismusty why should a decision of that magnitude be politically motivated? WHY must it be A P C state?
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Nobody: 7:28pm On Nov 29, 2015
Our leaders know what to do but their selfish interest won't allow them...



#prayforNigeria

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Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Nobody: 7:37pm On Nov 29, 2015
Idrismusty97:
Plan is actually on the way for all these, It is a welcomed idea. The only hindrance to this would be the Biafra agitation.

What proof do you have that there are plans to make seaports in the eastern axis work?

Rivers & Akwa Ibom are in Niger Delta or do the winners of the war hate Niger Deltans too?
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by LadyExcellency: 7:41pm On Nov 29, 2015
Idrismusty97:
IPOB would do just the opposite. If such project would be implemented it would be in region were the agitation is nonexistent or fairly minimal(Warri or cross river) or a region in the Niger Delta that has an APC government.

You don't know anything about Nigeria then.

Detesting IPOB doesn't takeaway the pressure they are mounting on the Federal Government.


For your information, IPOB is a plus to the region. Investors look out to places were protests are always without bloodshed, no destruction of public infrastructures nor harasment of investors and IPOB has proved to be far more civilised than every other group that have had a protest of that magnitude in Nigeria.

Is it occupy Nigeria where ladies were raped?
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by trapQ: 8:08pm On Nov 29, 2015
that's why NIGERIA isn't moving forward. Lagos is so overpopulated that you can hardly move around freely in some areas without bumping into people.

how can a country of about 200m people depend on one seaport and one airport. What sort of madness is that??

Our leaders are all bastards and there's no exception. The SS has been marginalised and exploited for too long. We need true federalism.
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by trapQ: 8:12pm On Nov 29, 2015
who told you this crap?? NO single investor looks out to operate in "protest prone" regions. A layman should know this. Protests affects returns adversely and hinder work progress. Do you know much those protests cost the traders??
LadyExcellency:


You don't know anything about Nigeria then.

Detesting IPOB doesn't takeaway the pressure they are mounting on the Federal Government.


For your information, IPOB is a plus to the region. Investors look out to places were protests are always without bloodshed, no destruction of public infrastructures nor harasment of investors and IPOB has proved to be far more civilised than every other group that have had a protest of that magnitude in Nigeria.

Is it occupy Nigeria where ladies were raped?

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Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Idrismusty97(m): 8:21pm On Nov 29, 2015
SUPERBOMBER:


What proof do you have that there are plans to make seaports in the eastern axis work?

Rivers & Akwa Ibom are in Niger Delta or do the winners of the war hate Niger Deltans too?
Well PMB was in Cross river state last month for the kickoff of the 280Km superhighway and the Bakassi deep seaport, All the seaports in the South-South were built by the so called "Winners of the war". Atiku got Onne seaport to work also. The South-South has always been the most preferred choice.
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Nobody: 8:51pm On Nov 29, 2015
Idrismusty97:
Well PMB was in Cross river state last month for the kickoff of the 280Km superhighway and the Bakassi deep seaport, All the seaports in the South-South were built by the so called "Winners of the war". Atiku got Onne seaport to work also. The South-South has always been the most preferred choice.

Well, it does not end in building seaports but ensuring that those seaports are adequately utilised to improve the ecenomy of the Niger Delta people. There are ports in Port Harcourt and Warri but they are neglected.

Government should deliberately create policies that would divert like up to 40% or more of imports from Lagos to those states.

That aside, let us hope the proposed deep seaport does not end up like the proposed deep seaport at Ibaka in Akwa Ibom state which has remained on paper for eternity now.

Tonyebarcanista, Truckpusher, HopeAthand, Goodboiyy.
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by ayokellany: 8:53pm On Nov 29, 2015
OP tell your people to learn n consolidate on diplomacy not aggression Or agitation. As a Yoruba I see no reason why Lagos should be the only gateway to Nigeria when Rivers as the same potential but you should remember the European came into Nigeria through Calabar.

What led to the building of a port in Lagos ahead of those region with the same potential as Lagos ? What effort beside noise making, senseless n undiplomatic agitation have indigenes of those localities put in place to encourage or facilitate the building of a port by investors or the FG ?

Lagos is building its second port without a dime from the FG, how did he do it ? Was it by agitation the SW got the right to proceed with the project ?

It took babangida less than 7 years to built Abuja out of a forest with the resources that his father does not own a kobo from. How many years would it take Jonathan to build a seaport In Rivers state after close to 6 years with majority of the resources required to undertake the project coming from his backyard even his land ?

OP how do you as human with a functional medulla justify asking buhari for a seaport in Rivers when you could not ask that from Jonathan or Obasanjo ?

In any case the former River governor is now the minister of transportation he should liase with minister of works n maybe Lagos with little or no assistance from the FG to attract private investors to build a seaport in Rivers. The advantage of such investment is enormous as the locals owns the port, it generate revenue and they get to keep a beta percentage of its profit/revenue unlike when it's built by the FG.

Buhari will not build Rivers a seaport with the dwindling resource when you consider how much crude oil is being sold now.

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Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Bigprozzie: 8:55pm On Nov 29, 2015
@ OP

Eurobomber, you dont need to open a thread on every issue

You copied this from an existing thread, you should make your contribution on that thread instead of opening a thread on everything that appeals to you
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Nobody: 8:57pm On Nov 29, 2015
trapQ:
that's why NIGERIA isn't moving forward. Lagos is so overpopulated that you can hardly move around freely in some areas without bumping into people.

how can a country of about 200m people depend on one seaport and one airport. What sort of madness is that??

Our leaders are all bastards and there's no exception. The SS has been marginalised and exploited for too long. We need true federalism.

I would love to know what practical steps the ND people are taking to get true fedralism and for how long they are willing to wait for other Nigerians to hand over true fedralism to them because this marginalisation is much.

The ancestral lands of the ND is being ravaged for exploration of oyel & gas and the funds are used to massively develope other areas of the country. Just to make seaports in the ND work is too hard for the Nigerian FG..
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Nobody: 8:59pm On Nov 29, 2015
Bigprozzie:
@ OP

Eurobomber, you dont need to open a thread on every issue

You copied this from an existing thread, you should make your contribution on that thread instead of opening a thread on everything that appeals to you


Lmao. Your observation is true; It is deliberate.

I am deliberately opening all these threads, lol.
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by HopeAtHand: 9:14pm On Nov 29, 2015
SUPERBOMBER:


Well, it does not end in building seaports but ensuring that those seaports are adequately utilised to improve the ecenomy of the Niger Delta people. There are ports in Port Harcourt and Warri but they are neglected.

Government should deliberately create policies that would divert like up to 40% or more of imports from Lagos to those states.

That aside, let us hope the proposed deep seaport does not end up like the proposed deep seaport at Ibaka in Akwa Ibom state which has remained on paper for eternity now.

Tonyebarcanista, Truckpusher, HopeAthand, Goodboiyy.


Nigeria is quite an unusual country..ordinarily the seaports evrywhere should function as they will genrrate revenue and create employment but why seaports outside Lagos dont function is both criminal and sinister.
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by ayokellany: 9:20pm On Nov 29, 2015
badnature:
@idrismusty why should a decision of that magnitude be politically motivated? WHY must it be A P C state?
The question should be why did PDP not build the seaport in about 16 years when all the ND states were PDP states ? Waiting on your answer.

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Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by laudate: 9:49pm On Nov 29, 2015
SUPERBOMBER:
Well, it does not end in building seaports but ensuring that those seaports are adequately utilised to improve the ecenomy of the Niger Delta people. There are ports in Port Harcourt and Warri but they are neglected.

Government should deliberately create policies that would divert like up to 40% or more of imports from Lagos to those states.

That aside, let us hope the proposed deep seaport does not end up like the proposed deep seaport at Ibaka in Akwa Ibom state which has remained on paper for eternity now.

Tonyebarcanista, Truckpusher, HopeAthand, Goodboiyy.

Guy, try to know the details of an ongoing practice, by conducting your research, before casting aspersions on anyone. You cannot discharge petroleum products without adequate infrastructure like storage terminals and loading/discharging facilities in an area.

Oil discharge facilities in Warri and Port-harcourt ports were rendered inoperative from the days of the militants and the high spate of kidnapping, in the delta. Owners of private fuel depots also reduced their operations to minimal levels, due to undue harassment and incessant theft by such militant groups. undecided

Today, Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) or diesel is a fully deregulated product. Nothing stops anyone with a DPR certified storage depot, from importing the product and storing it in tank farms located in Port-harcourt or Rivers State. But how many folks are doing so?? The militant groups that steal crude in the creeks and refine them in local metal barges, have destroyed the diesel business. Get to the outskirts of Port-harcourt. You will find the off-spec, crudely-refined diesel available for sale at 95 -97 naira from these boys.

Masters Energy owned by Sampson Ogah built one of the biggest tank farms in Port-harcourt. It has the capacity to store 30,000 metric tonnes of diesel, 60,000 metric tonnes of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) or petrol, 20,000 metric tonnes of Dual Purpose Kerosene (DPK), etc. Why isn't he importing these products and storing them there?? The militants in the Niger-delta area made life difficult for his business operations in addition to creating situations that led to theft of petroleum products from their tanks at the jetty in that area. So would you blame him for not storing petroleum products there?

Sea Petroleum and Gas (SPG) has a large tank farm located at Koko in Delta State. Why has the owner of SPG been unable to store petroleum products in their tank farm? Rainoil has a jetty and multi-product Tank Farm in Oghara, Delta State which is owned by Gabriel Ogbechie. It is capable of storing 50 million litres of petroleum products. Have you asked him why he is not storing and selling PMS, diesel and kerosene from there??

There are 23 storage depots in the country. In Lagos alone, over 18 private fuel depots and tank farms are located in the APAPA area. Almost half of them are owned by Igbo businessmen and oil traders. Why didn't they site those tank farms in the South-south or the South East in order to reduce the gridlock and congestion in Lagos? The CEO of Integrated Oil & Gas Depot is Emmanuel Iheanacho the former Internal Affairs Minister; the owner of Eurafric Oil is Tony Onoh; the owner of Ibeto Petrochemicals and fuels is another Igbo man. The late owner and founder of Ascon Oil Terminal was George Enenmoh from Asaba, but the depot is being run by his family now. Chika Okafo of Chicason Group owns A-Z Petroleum which also has a large petroleum products terminal in Apapa. The list goes on....

Now, if Lagos has such a huge concentration of private tank farms, more than any other coastal state, where do you think most of the fuel coming into the country will be off-loaded? And that is why the largest concentration of road tankers are found in the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway axis leading to the area where these private depots, are located.

Atlas Cove is the major offloading point in Lagos waters through which petroleum products are discharged into NNPC's depot at Ejigbo in Lagos and Mosimi in Ogun State. From these depots the fuel is meant to be pumped through the pipelines to depots in other parts of the country. undecided

Every other month, you hear of pipelines being vandalised or damaged, who is responsible? Do you think anyone would be stupid enough to pump fuel through any existing pipeline today, when he knows the pipeline is in imminent danger of being vandalised and he could lose millions of naira worth of petroleum products, if this happens? shocked

The Calabar port was meant to be an alternative loading & discharge port for storage of petroleum products but unfortunately, the draft at that port is too shallow and the waters have not been dredged for ages, so any large ship coming there would run aground.

Please let me just stop here. Anytime I think of the infrastructure challenges in the oil and gas industry which have been worsened by the activities of vandals and militants, it makes me sad.... cry
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by WIZGUY69(m): 9:51pm On Nov 29, 2015
FG has abandoned other Seaports because of the indigenes hostile nature. cool
Learn to be accommodating, and you will eat the good of the land. wink
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Nobody: 10:21pm On Nov 29, 2015
SUPERBOMBER:


Well, it does not end in building seaports but ensuring that those seaports are adequately utilised to improve the ecenomy of the Niger Delta people. There are ports in Port Harcourt and Warri but they are neglected.

Government should deliberately create policies that would divert like up to 40% or more of imports from Lagos to those states.

That aside, let us hope the proposed deep seaport does not end up like the proposed deep seaport at Ibaka in Akwa Ibom state which has remained on paper for eternity now.

Tonyebarcanista, Truckpusher, HopeAthand, Goodboiyy.

Nigeria has a date with the truth...
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by laudate: 10:28pm On Nov 29, 2015
Army seizes eight boats, 2.3m litres of stolen diesel | 28 Sep 2015 | : Country: Nigeria

TROOPS of Operation Pulo Shield (OPS) of the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt have seized 2.3 million litres of allegedly stolen diesel worth N3.45 million from an illegal bunker site in Rivers State.

The petroleum product was siphoned from the pipelines belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC).

Maj.-Gen. Alani Okunlola, the Commander of the operation, formerly known as the Joint Task Force, disclosed this to newsmen on yesterday at Tamunotonye Ama in Ogu-Bolo Local Council of Rivers State.

Okunlola said that two suspected oil thieves were arrested at the bunker site, while several equipment used by the operators of the illegal bunkering were seized during the raid.

“On Sept. 23, troops of Sector 2 of OPS of 2 Brigade Army Port Harcourt stormed Tamunotonye-Ama community and discovered a very large bunkering site which operates illegally.”

“Troops during the raid discovered and seized eight large metal barges laden with stolen Automated Gas Oil (AGO), commonly referred to as diesel, while another 23 empty barges were also seized.”

“Two of the eight metal barges have estimated capacity of seven tanker trucks each,” he said.

The OPS commander told newsmen that other items found at the site were 44 large plastic tanks, 22 illegal pumping dumps, 18 pumping machines, three speedboats, two outboard engines and a lengthy hose.

Okunlola said that investigation into the activities of the operators of the illegal bunker had begun.

He said that the investigation should reveal how they were able to operate in the area without being spotted.

The OPS commander said that under his command, the operation had increased the frequency of raids in a bid to end oil theft and illegal bunkering in the Niger Delta region.

The site is located near the Onne Sea Port and the Onne Oil and Gas Free Zone where several multinational oil and gas companies are operating.

Link: http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/09/army-seizes-eight-boats-2-3m-litres-of-stolen-diesel/
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by trapQ: 11:11am On Nov 30, 2015
the whole of the ND needs to start agitating for true federalism. Our representatives at the senate have to speak up. I like Patrick obiahagbon for this. He says his mind without patronising anyone.

We should speak with one voice and stop this evil of revenue sharing. This makes other states lazy. Rivers State deserves a fully functional seaport and airport too.

Also, we the NDs should start looking for other means of sustainance apart from oil that will attract foreign investors. The governors can single handedly built power plants that will provide constant electricity. This way, foreign investors will be more interested in the SS.
SUPERBOMBER:


I would love to know what practical steps the ND people are taking to get true fedralism and for how long they are willing to wait for other Nigerians to hand over true fedralism to them because this marginalisation is much.

The ancestral lands of the ND is being ravaged for exploration of oyel & gas and the funds are used to massively develope other areas of the country. Just to make seaports in the ND work is too hard for the Nigerian FG..
Re: Decongesting Lagos, Allow Rivers Seaport by Nobody: 11:18am On Nov 30, 2015
Where is Tonyebarcanista & Truckpusher??

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