Today, Anambra State under Governor Willie Obiano signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that would ensure the immediate commencement of work on the proposed Umueri International Cargo Airport with a view to having the airport ready for use in three years.

The agreement was between the Government of Anambra State, China Aviation, Orient Petroleum Resources Ltd and Elite International Investment Holdings Ltd.

Following the successful agreement signing ceremony, Governor Obiano will flag off construction work on the site designated for the airport tomorrow in Umueri.
Quick Facts about the Umueri International Cargo Airport -

1. The project is actually an Airport City Model which will be developed as an integrated city comprising of an Airport with two standard runways, a shopping Mall, Industrial and Business parks and an Airport Motel
2. The Airport will be located on 1500 hectares of land with enough headroom for expansion.
3. The Airport will be constructed under the Build-Operate-Manage-and-Transfer (BOMT) model.
4. 3% of the profit made from the Airport will be reserved for the host (Umueri) community
4. When completed the airport will create 1200 direct jobs.
5. The airport is estimated to cost something in the region of $2bn.

Source - http://www.viviangist.net/the-anambra-airport-mou-signing-pictures

ride on ....Igbo

Oya Anambra people make una begin go home una place don better,

My lovely state forward ever backward never

Our new country will be wonderful.

Long live Igboland!

Welcomed development. thumb up for Willie .

Nice... Obiano is working, Anambra is working.

Great, I hope they sincere and serious in the execution of the project and not another political project just to hoodwink the electorate into voting for them in the upcoming elections. Only time will tell!

Yes

preparing for second tenure

Igbos

Why is it that every state wants to have an airport when most of the existing airports are not functioning. Asaba and Enugu airports are close-by, why not invest in a rail system for mass transit in Anambra then the airport can come later, but this is better than donating Hiluxes to the Army which already has huge annual defense budget by Gov Ganduje

nothingmega122:
Igbo Igbo Igbo Igbo Igbo

When will you outgrow idiocy?

Asaba airport, sorry

Igbo Igbo Igbo Igbo Igbo

These igbos have it in them ...

Misplaced priority when you have an airport located in Enugu. All this is building of airport by all this governors are jut means to stealing the state fund from the people!!!

Great job

"3% of the profit made in the Airport will be reserved for host (Umueri) community" ---I am going home now

But where is lalasticlala sef? Can I get nairaland from Umueri? Any special requirement to log in and comment from this location?
Do we have any special antenna to login?

** Mynd44 please epp with answers

Peter Obi wanted this development in Oba....useless government

Osetigo

On my way now to the groundbreaking event holding now at Umueri, Anambra East.

Nice one, this is how huge investments are done, make sure that everyone contributes to the payment inform of joint partnership, as such the fund will easily be sourced for and it will be easier for government to finance.

ANAMBRA ADIGO NMA

Aguleri Knwenu !!!!

Am proud of my state

Anambra adigo nma

I rep onitsha

Seaport is what we need more but all the same it is a welcome development.

While I will commend whoever is responsible for trying, I like to be realistic.
Come on, aren't we all tired of seeing photo ops of MOU's that never get off the ground?
I am typically an optimist, hardly ever a skeptic. But I know this is just political showmanship.

First, no reasonable private entity would spend $2 billion to build an airport facility in Onitsha which is sandwiched by 3 airports all less than 100km away with combined passenger numbers of less than 200,000 yearly.
Asaba Airport= 18km. Owerri Airport: 78km. Enugu Airport= About 100km. It wouldn't make economic sense in the next 15 years.

This splintering into states is one of the biggest problems we are having as Nigerians. I'd rather Ndigbo champion as a collective, on a regional basis, real projects that would transform the entire South East region into one massive economic behemoth.

A high speed 350km/hr rail line from Enugu-Awka-Onitsha-Nnewi-Owerri-Aba-Port Harourt-Onne is barely 300 km and would make 10 times more sense than building another airport with shopping mall and hotels for $2 Billion.
At $10 million per KM, Spain built the Madrid-Albacete high speed line. China can do it for less. That means with $3billion you can build an Enugu - Onne high speed rail line of 350km/hr.

Build numerous industry specific industrial clusters with 24hr independent power plants along the rail pathway. Focus on the potential to move manufactured goods from these clusters to the Onne port for onward transport to the rest of Africa. And you will see the speedy transformation of the south east into Africa's greatest economic hubs.

Imagine being able to move from Enugu to PH in 1 hour? Enugu to Onitsha in 20 mins? Onitsha to Aba in 30 mins? Imagine.

And the money is easy to come by. The Ndigbo private sector would raise this money in a second. Just 20 Ndigbo business men putting up 10 billion Naira and this project is already half funded. Another 100 putting up 2 Billion and the project is already completed! The rest can come from loans. And the south East changes for ever!!

Once again I repeat, Anambra doesn't need another airport not in the next 15 years. A collective regional plan that would seek to transform the entire region is better off.

Welcome development. Na to go buy land around that area be the koko now

igbo amaka

nonsense !!!!! i say nonsense again !!!!

when would all these MOU's yield result, for how long are we going to keep applauding MOU's instead of the actual work... we are quick to post pictures of MOU signing but can't post a single pishure of the actual project plan or the implementation of these so called MOU.

Obiano better know what you are doing..

when you see a guy man tryna guy anoda guy man...u go know.

I am not a wailer, am from nnewi anambra state.