shymmex:

Afraid? Why should I be afraid?

My parents are from Epe, which makes me a LAGOSIAN - so why should I be afraid? I'm a Pan-Nigerianist - and you need to drop your pipe dream of having three airports in SE. The money needs to spent on more important things right now, not meaningless structures.

All the airports in Nigeria look like advanced bus garage, we don't need new ones. We need houses for the poor; good health care; good roads; jobs etc.

Onlytruth:
You better believe that no private investor would put his kobo in a "white elephant project".

Onlytruth:
You can actually map international class business locations in Nigeria with international airports. Some of you need to go back to school.

Aigbofa:

You should contest what you consider a lie, rather than making up your own lies or copy inaccurate information from the internet. You knew you were wrong, yet you held on regardless! ibo pepo!

Ikology: I think in all honesty we should start pushing our leaders very hard for them to wake up to their responsibilities, our governors and representatives in the National assembly, have refused to put the interest of the region first before any other interest. Yes we were merely given only one International Airport in Enugu, Yet upgrading of the said Airport is still being toyed with. The immediate past minister of aviation is from Enugu state( Mrs Fidelia Njeze), while the current minister Stella Oduah is from Anambra state, and we also have Senator Hope Uzodinma ( rep. Imo east)as senate committee chairman on aviation. Our people are manning key positions yet nothing to show for it. I think we are missing the Ikaba boys! *smh*

debosky:

Isn't that why no private investor has built an airport in the SE?


Sokoto has an international airport - kindly mention the 'international class' businesses in that location.

Some of you need to stop making bland generalisations and assumptions on the ability of international airports to attract knock on international development.

Abagworo: For those who do not know, I want to make it clear that Sam Mbakwe Airport, Owerri was not built by Government but by the communal effort of Imo and Abia people. My Father and Grandfather contributed a lot to that Airport.

Onlytruth:

You would be suprised that a lot of Nigerians don't know the bolded information. That airport is a model of what can be achieved when people are determined to get what they want. It is actually the spirit behind this proposal here. I have studied Nigeria long enough to realize that certain things can never happen unless unconventional strategies are executed. I want Ndigbo to grow a 21st century economy in the SE of Nigeria. If we do that, we will occupy our rightful position in the scheme of things in Nigeria. We can never occupy that position if we keep aiming low and migrating out of our zones. Lagos is the most dense part of Nigeria, yet people are still migrating there. If we anchor an economic boom in SE, it would be the engine to drag the entire Eastern region along. The future will not be decided by oil prices. It will be decided by production and exports.

ekt_bear: Abagworo. You have stated this several times before. Where on earth did you get 20% of the population of Cameroon being Igbo?

In order words, that they are one of the largest ethnic groups in Cameroon.

It is not consistent with known data.

PEOPLE
Cameroon's estimated 250 ethnic groups form five large regional-cultural groups: western highlanders (or grassfielders), including the Bamileke, Bamoun, and many smaller entities in the northwest (est. 38% of population); coastal tropical forest peoples, including the Bassa, Douala, and many smaller entities in the Southwest (12%); southern tropical forest peoples, including the Ewondo, Bulu, and Fang (all Beti subgroups), Maka and Pygmies (officially called Bakas) (18%); predominantly Islamic peoples of the northern semi-arid regions (the Sahel) and central highlands, including the Fulani, also known as Peuhl in French (14%); and the "Kirdi", non-Islamic or recently Islamic peoples of the northern desert and central highlands (18%).

The people concentrated in the Southwest and Northwest regions--around Buea and Bamenda--use standard English and "pidgin," as well as their local languages. In the three northern regions--Adamawa, North, and Far North--French and Fulfulde, the language of the Fulani, are widely spoken. Elsewhere, French is the principal language, although pidgin and some local languages such as Ewondo, the dialect of a Beti clan from the Yaounde area, also are widely spoken. Although Yaounde is Cameroon's capital, Douala is the largest city, main seaport, and main industrial and commercial center.

Abagworo:

After Lagos, it is the Southeast. I think the density issue has to do with small land mass. Lagos is the smallest State in Nigeria while Southeast is the smallest zone. As per migrating out, that we must do because our land is too small to contain all of us. Imagine Cameroun alone having 4million Igbos.

Onlytruth:

You defeated your point by stating that people are migrating out of SE zone because of small land mass, which BTW I know is FALSE, and then you throw in this your absurd claim that Igbo make up 20% of Cameroun.
Dude use google to view the SE and see. Our zone is still very sparsely settled and developed. Even Anambra state is very undeveloped!

You missed the point I raised about Lagos. With the undisputed highest density of Lagos, I am yet to see a Lagosian migrating out of the state because of "small land mass". Infact people are still migrating TOWARDS Lagos.
People are leaving the SE because THERE ARE NO ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES THERE TO SUPPORT THEIR DREAMS. The chief reason for that is lack of international gateway.

ekt_bear:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/26431.htm

If what you say is true, then one of the largest ethnic groups in the country somehow seems to have been missed by some fairly prominent players.

Also seems pretty inconsistent with my interactions with both the French and English speaking Cameroonians I know in real life..

War in the Central African Republic has driven more than twenty thousand refugees to Cameroon's Adamawa and East provinces since 2002. Nigerians, especially Igbo, make up the largest group of foreign nationals.

Abagworo:

Some 3,000 boundary pillars are being planted along
the Cameroon-Nigeria border - it is hoped they will
prevent further disputes between the neighbours
which nearly went to war over the oil-rich Bakassi
Peninsular. The conflict was the peak of their mutual
suspicion and several lives have been lost in border
skirmishes over the years.
Cameroon has long viewed her giant neighbour as an
imperialist-in-the-making, especially given Nigerians'
ballooning population. They began arriving Cameroon
in the early colonial days as fishermen, traders and
administrators. Their population is now estimated at
more than 4m out of a population of 19.5m.


www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11429067



www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Cameroon

Abagworo:

Some 3,000 boundary pillars are being planted along
the Cameroon-Nigeria border - it is hoped they will
prevent further disputes between the neighbours
which nearly went to war over the oil-rich Bakassi
Peninsular. The conflict was the peak of their mutual
suspicion and several lives have been lost in border
skirmishes over the years.
Cameroon has long viewed her giant neighbour as an
imperialist-in-the-making, especially given Nigerians'
ballooning population. They began arriving Cameroon
in the early colonial days as fishermen, traders and
administrators. Their population is now estimated at
more than 4m out of a population of 19.5m.


www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11429067



www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Cameroon

ekt_bear:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/26431.htm

If what you say is true, then one of the largest ethnic groups in the country somehow seems to have been missed by some fairly prominent players.

Also seems pretty inconsistent with my interactions with both the French and English speaking Cameroonians I know in real life..

alj harem:

you are funny you know ?

You really really need to visit Kaduna, Benin city, Abeokuta,Ibadan, Maiduguri and Port harcourt. Lagosian (indigenes) do migrate to other places and settle there.

It has nothing to do with 3 airports

ekt_bear:

Estimated by who?

In what year was this estimate done? How did you ascertain that 100% of this estimate is Igbo?

Why the inconsistency with other estimates? How come nobody else (including the US department of state) has noticed this?

I am a bit surprised that this single sentence alone is what made you come to this conclusion. Like I said, if what you say is true, then they are the largest ethnic group in Cameroon....

Onlytruth:

Well, let us agree to disagree then.
The influence of an international airport at Onitsha alone would create MASSIVE economic BOOM in Anambra,IMO and Delta states. Just like Lagos airport created a boom reaching Abeokuta and Ibadan; and Kano international airport created a boom reaching Kaduna. Port Harcourt would have done the same for Imo and Abia if not for the Nigerian civil war politics and the abandoned property saga.
So, we need our International airports.

Abagworo:

I didn't say 100 percent. Camerounians said they(the Nigerians) are mostly Igbo. Why don't you believe it?

http://www.adpit.net/en/demography.html

alj harem:

Onlytruth, yes an International airport would make the boom to happen. What is even better is an effective transport system and local industries. Watch how people would migrate to that area.

People would go to an area where

1. Security

2. Very good transport system

3. Jobs

All that was what Lagos provided during the 19th century but as you can see now, Lagos is trying to build another international airport and a very good transport system because the FG owned is just a waste.

Transport system is more important than international airport

ekt_bear: Hell.

Wouldn't you all know yourselves when these Igbos travel back to Nigeria to find wives, for the holidays, etc?

Granted, not all of this purported 4 million are likely to have kept strong roots. But surely some would have, no?

How come we never hear/see signs of mass visits during the holidays from Cameroon to the SE or SS?