If indeed you have, i dont think you would have made that comment. Not saying their airport is great but Nnamdi Azikiwe will look like that in a few years time so dont throw stones.

shotster50:

If indeed you have, i dont think you would have made that comment. Not saying their airport is great but Nnamdi Azikiwe will look like that in a few years time so dont throw stones.

Because it is Ghana; I can't say what I feel about the airport? Who is throwing stones? If I said Nnamdi Azikiwe looked just as bad then I am entitled to it. Same way someone would argue that LHR terminal 5 looks better than the rest of the other terminals.

Have you actually been in that airport?

White elephant project

[size=14pt]We are talking of internal generated revenue from the States, has either Delta State or more business inclined Anambra State ever thought of building the second or even 3rd bridge over the Niger. They should build it and put a toll on it. They would re-coup their money in no time. Why State goverment's wait for the FG I don't understand. [/size]

illusion2:

can anyone tell me the economic activity that will sustain /pay for this airport ?

This people are completely visionless.

I'd rather he spent that money to buy MMA off the FG & reap the coninuos & guaranteed profits.

Every state wants to build their own airport,when common sense should tell them the business activity /security feasibility should come first.

Who's going to fly into a war zone full of kidnappers & trigger happy policemen ?

When BBC did a piece on lagos tittled "welcome to lagos", people like this were up in arms against the article, insisting that it was not a true representation of lagos, and that BBC was trying to scare investors from lagos, 
This same people will turn around and say "Who's going to fly into a war zone full of kidnappers & trigger happy policemen?" in reference to the entire niger delta.


This guy would prefer that the money would be used to buy MMA and develop it instead of an airport in Asaba,
Please don't get me wrong, I am not argueing in favour or against the airport in Asaba, I am only interested in the alternative you suggested that, Delta state govt should buy MMA in Lagos!!!!

DaLover:

When BBC did a piece on lagos tittled "welcome to lagos", people like this were up in arms against the article, insisting that it was not a true representation of lagos, and that BBC was trying to scare investors from lagos,
This same people will turn around and say "Who's going to fly into a war zone full of kidnappers & trigger happy policemen?" in reference to the entire niger delta.


This guy would prefer that the money would be used to buy MMA and develop it instead of an airport in Asaba,
Please don't get me wrong, I am not argueing in favour or against the airport in Asaba, I am only interested in the alternative you suggested that, Delta state govt should buy MMA in Lagos!!!!

@DaLover,my opinion has nothing to do with the good people of the Niger Delta,who are being held hostage like all Nigerians by their hapless leaders.(By the way,I have no problems with the BBC documentary)

Also my example of buying MMA should not remove from the point. Uduaghan can invest in Heathrow,JFK for all I know. . .the point being-these people never think these projects through. . . everything has to do with awarding contracts ultimately.

A state/country that has no emergency number(e.g 199,911) responsive fire servive or constant power will invest in a multi-dimensional facility like an airport (note NOT airstrip).

So my point is good leadership is beyond all these bridges to nowhere,but a wholistic plan/blueprint.

shotster50:

illusion,

Your assumptions are waaaaaaaay off target. Asaba is nowhere near war zone you talk about. The airport actually makes sense if they can deliver on it. Do you know that Asaba is right next to Onitsha, which has one of the biggest Markets in Nigeria, Presently traders have no option than to import goods to Lagos and then convey them through the Benin Ore trap to the east.

This will be an absolute life saver for them if it goes through.

You should stop with these arm chair criticisms, it only makes you sound more and more ignorant.

We heard more than this with TINAPA,we have airports in Port harcourt,Warri,Owerri,Enugu,probably not as close but within manageable distance from Onitsha. . .what impact have these had on IMPORTERS. . . don't be deceived my friend. . .its all about the contracts !!!

illusion2:

We heard more than this with TINAPA,we have airports in Port harcourt,Warri,Owerri,Enugu,probably not as close but within manageable distance from Onitsha. .  .what impact have these had on IMPORTERS. . . don't be deceived my friend. . .its all about the contracts !!!

Actually, if there's an airport amongst Port harcourt, Warri, Owerri, Enugu and Asaba airports that has a chance of doing extremely well, its Asaba airport. That, I know for sure. You've got to understand that Nnewi and Onitsha (which are top business commercial towns in the country) are within close proximity to Asaba airport than either of the other airports aforementioned above. With the Onitsha riverport and the Asaba airport now scheduled to be launched this month (I hope), the only obstacle to a total outright boom of the economy of the East is the construction of a second Niger bridge.

How much have they spent so far? No inflated costs please!

Photo update

Maintenance is key if this project is to be lauded.

very slow!!

Dis Guy:

very slow!!

You can say that again !

Why all these senseless criticisms on a laudable project even if i am not a supporter of Uduaghan, your so called notherners are building airports in their economic backward states from the oil money coming from delta sate, SO WHY NOT ONE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT In ASABA.

1 Gombe has an airport----how viable is the economy of this arid state

2 sokoto has an airport

3 katsina has one

4 adamawa has one

5 Niger has one.

do not be suprised that Kebbi,Yobe,Zamfara are all building "international airport" in their arid states from the oil money coming from delta,rivers,bayelsa,akwa-ibom,cross rivers and edo state, PERIOD

@Arnold1

I've seen those pictures. They're outdated cos they were taken sometime in mid last year. I dream of flying directly from Heathrow or Gatwick to that airport or via any other Nigerian city. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

any recent pics of this airport?i heard dat the airport has being opened?

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Hasn't been opened yet. Might do so around December or before that, we hope.

A port that functional will generate a lot of money. Going by how the port is being used now, you can only assume that the airport will take time to get real traffic.

All this airport business crap doesn't make any viable business sense. No business man will pay a premium just to move their goods by air, a seaport makes perfect sense better than airport.

manny4life:

All this airport business crap doesn't make any viable business sense. No business man will pay a premium just to move their goods by air, a seaport makes perfect sense better than airport.

The seaport is pretty much complete,so I hear.All that is left now is to get it up and running.

I don't know what's hindering the launch of this airport other than a confused development. I hear the governor now sings that it takes an average of 7 years to build an airport.

Surely there must've been a technical confusion somewhere otherwise, an airport its magnitude should have been opened by now.

Arnold1:

Photo update

I don't mean to be a party pooper but damn that is one fu8cking ugly airport.The architect should be stripped naked and horse whipped.

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That was my exact sentiments. The design is totally rubbish. For the amount of money they've spent on it (not including the ones embezzled on its behalf), a much better design should have been implemented but corruption no gree them see road.

this airport looks like ware house

dem people said

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That was my exact sentiments. The design is totally rubbish. For the amount of money they've spent on it (not including the ones embezzled on its behalf), a much better design should have been implemented but corruption no gree them see road.

Oh shut your trap. If you think the design is ''rubbish'', don't use the airport. Go by road. Miserable cow. Maybe your father was there when corruption prevented them from building JFK airport for you in Asaba. Ewu.

Rossikk:

dem people said

Oh shut your trap. If you think the design is ''rubbish'', don't use the airport. Go by road. Miserable cow. Maybe your father was there when corruption prevented them from building JFK airport for you in Asaba. Ewu.

Nwanne, i kwesiro idi na-akpo m udili ihe na-akpo maka na m si na airport design bu rubbish. Ihe m dere bu my opinion. Agaghi m akpo gi ajo aha maka na i bu nwanne m and, achoghi m ka ndi-iro ndigbo, fu anyi bu umunne ndigbo ebe anyi na-anu ogu.

Ifu post obula m ndere, oburu na i like-ki-ro the post, ejina mkpari were saaa m okwu.

Kpachara anya gi ma, fi isa na-anya!.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu.

dem_people:

Nwanne, i kwesiro idi na-akpo m udili ihe na-akpo maka na m si na airport design bu rubbish. Ihe m dere bu my opinion. Agaghi m akpo gi ajo aha maka na i bu nwanne m and, achoghi m ka ndi-iro ndigbo, fu anyi bu umunne ndigbo ebe anyi na-anu ogu.

Ifu post obula m ndere, oburu na i like-ki-ro the post, ejina mkpari were saaa m okwu.

Kpachara anya gi ma, fi isa na-anya!.

Ka Chineke mezie okwu.

post it again without using any English word

Dis Guy:


post it again without using any English word 

To be honest, I'm pretty annoyed at him. Keduzi ihe nwanne ga-eji were na anusa nwanne ya ogu na nairaland maka ihe m dere? Ihe m deburu ede, obughi eziokwu? Is the design of the airport reflective of the amount invested in it? Simply NO!

And upon everything, o kparia Nna m ochie? Kedu ihe o ga-eji were kparia Nna m?

Rossikk:

dem people said

Oh shut your trap. If you think the design is ''rubbish'', don't use the airport. Go by road. Miserable cow. Maybe your father was there when corruption prevented them from building JFK airport for you in Asaba. Ewu.

why

asaba airport opens today, anyone has recent pictures, i am excited, even with all the bad publication, hopefully the seaport will follow

Soon ABA made will be selling all over Africa/Asia then you people will be shock again as usual and hold your head in shame and say had i know is always at last, at list we  will help and prove to western- world that you lot in nigeria are not full breaded monkeys that kill and burn each other to death in northern nigeria at list you can manufacture a single component