AKWA IBOM’S NEW SMART AIRPORT TERMINAL BUILDING, MRO NEARS COMPLETION

Governor Udom Emmanuel is changing the outlook and capacity of the Victor Attah International Airport from a mere aircraft landing bay to a world class airport that can handle International flights operations, cargo services and repairs/maintenance of all manners of aircraft.

This is in line with Mr Emmanuel’s promise to transform Akwa Ibom into one of the best aviation hubs of Africa.

The nearly completed terminal building is currently undergoing installation of mechanical and electrical components and looks set to meet the vision of the State Chief Executive. It comes with:

��A digital self check-in by a robot, (pre-planned before Covid-19) and a clinic.

��Five bridges, seven elevators, and four escalators which are pressure sensitive and only move when a passenger is detected.

��Special roofing that can last up to 200 years without changing its colour.

��Very high security architecture with access through fingerprint, digital pass or card pass.

��Four methods of fire prevention: fire extinguishers, fire water sprinkler system, fire detectors, FM 200 ie automated fire suppression system.

The terminal which is designed to accommodate one million passengers per year, occupies a total area of about 30,000 square meters.

Also nearly completed is the 1st ever Maintenance, Repairs and Overhaul facility of the airport which is estimated to be 91% completed.

The airport also comes with a second runway and new aprons for all categories of aircrafts.

To handle the impending influx of massive traffic to the airport, Mr Udom Emmanuel is expanding the dual carriage Uyo - Airport Road, into an Eight-Lane Highway.

With Aviation Development as one of the fundamentals of his Eight Points Agenda, #MrUdomEmmanuel is silently exhibiting character and competence in fulfilling his campaign promises to the state.

#CompletionAgenda
#UdomLegacy
#AkwaIbomisWorking
#UdomEmmanuelisBest

Source SSA Media to the Governor- Finbarr

Note the airport road has also been expanded
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Airport road expanded to 4 lanes each

This state has all it takes to be the next schenzhen or Dubai of Africa, currently it has the work force , the land , a little capital, coastal waters , proximity to market in Aba ,port harcourt and Onitsha and proximity to large hectares of agricultural land in Benue and cross River.

All it needs is to host a power city were agricultural and industrial will collide and products will be shipped out to neighbor state and to the world via a seaport

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In the south, the state govts build their airports with their resources and then hand them over to the FG, but in the north, the FG build the airports in the northern states

Okay

Akwa Ibom State is doing so much without noise.

May God bless Governor Udom Emmanuel!

PS: As Nigerians, we owe it to appreciate governors who are doing well because they are a constant reminder that Nigeria can still produce sane and public-spirited politicians.

Good one. God bless southern Nigeria.

plusfield:
In the south, the state govts build their airports with their resources and then hand them over to the FG, but in the north, the FG build the airports in the northern states

You’re right but Akwa Ibom own is state owned airport

kettykin:
This state has all it takes to be the next schenzhen or Dubai of Africa, currently it has the work force , the land , a little capital, coastal waters , proximity to market in Aba ,port harcourt and Onitsha and proximity to large hectares of agricultural land in Benue and cross River.

All it needs is to host a power city were agricultural and industrial will collide and products will be shipped out to neighbor state and to the world via a seaport

Because of an uncompleted airport? Mediocrity!

EndsarsReloaded:


Because of an uncompleted airport? Mediocrity!

Yes because of an incompleted airport which will be completed soon

kettykin:


Yes because of an incompleted airport which will be completed soon

Cool

Beautiful

Sysdatek:

Source SSA Media to the Governor- Finbarr

Note the airport road has also been expanded

Another validation of Lord Luggard’s assessment of us blacks, in the absence of any employment of teachers to have every Akwa Ibom child in free schools?

sage:
http://www.leadershipnigeria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28:the-vague-future-of-nigeria&catid=28:friday-column&Itemid=56


Lord Lugard, the former governor-general of Nigeria, in 1926, wrote his unfiltered thought about Nigerians. From his book, The Dual Mandates, come these excerpts: "In character and temperament, the typical African of this race-type is a happy, thriftless, excitable person, lacking in self-control, discipline, and foresight. Naturally courageous, and naturally courteous and polite, full of personal vanity, with little sense of veracity, fond of music and loving weapons as an oriental loves jewellery. His thoughts are concentrated on the events and feelings of the moment, and he suffers little from the apprehension for the future or grief for the past. His mind is far nearer to the animal world than that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animals' placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the state he has reached.

"Through the ages, the African appears to have evolved no organised religious creed, and though some tribes appear to believe in a deity, the religious sense seldom rises above pantheistic animalism and seems more often to take the form of a vague dread of the supernatural. He lacks the power of organisation, and is conspicuously deficient in the management and control alike of men or business. He loves the display of power, but fails to realize its responsibility - he will work hard with a less incentive than most races. He has the courage of the fighting animal, an instinct rather than a moral virtue. In brief, the virtues and defects of his race -type are those of attractive children, whose confidence when it is won is given ungrudgingly as to an older and wiser superior and without envy. Perhaps, the two traits which have impressed me as those most characteristic of the African native are his lack of apprehension and his lack of ability to visualize the future"


Guys lets discuss the thoughts of Lord Lugard. he had  a supremacist view obviously. But is he right in the way he describes Nigerians and Africans in general? How many of the issues that he raises are valid?

Letz get some responses

Misplaced priorities

Good for Akwa Ibom

plusfield:
In the south, the state govts build their airports with their resources and then hand them over to the FG, but in the north, the FG build the airports in the northern states

and hand them over to the fg

Snart

Oil wells stole from cross river been put to use.

SmartPolician:
Akwa Ibom State is doing so much without noise.

May God bless Governor Udom Emmanuel!

PS: As Nigerians, we owe it to appreciate governors who are doing well because they are a constant reminder that Nigeria can still produce sane and public-spirited politicians.

How many people does he employ each year to do all the responsibilities of the state and local governments?
Do you know? Should that even matter to you

More like a shopping mall.

Ok

kettykin:
This state has all it takes to be the next schenzhen or Dubai of Africa, currently it has the work force , the land , a little capital, coastal waters , proximity to market in Aba ,port harcourt and Onitsha and proximity to large hectares of agricultural land in Benue and cross River.

All it needs is to host a power city were agricultural and industrial will collide and products will be shipped out to neighbor state and to the world via a seaport

which land does Akwa Ibom have?

Fine work..
Please o,ppl that scream igr up n down..how may airports have they built in their region in the past 7years?