HappyJoe:

That Onitsha port is a scam - what we need is dredging Warri port, it is a few hours drive from Onitsha.

Let me explain this to you, even if you dredge the Niger at Onitsha, it will only accommodate shallow draft vessels which will first have to load at either Warri or Port Harcourt (you can't have ocean going vessels at Onitsha, just river barges).

Anyway, to cut a long story short - the Hausa & Yoruba cabal don't want a functioning port in the Niger Delta - you can see how they killed Tinapa. And Jonathan is too docile to do anything about that.

ChinoElects: ^^^And who gives a fvck about what your ND thinks about?
Onitsha Port has come to stay. I saw further expansion work going on there last month. I am sure is one of the recommendations of the concessionaires. It will shock you soon when it rolls out for operations.

HappyJoe:

Nothing is happening there. If that "port" starts operation in 10 years time, collect a million dollars from me.

HappyJoe:

Nothing is happening there. If that "port" starts operation in 10 years time, collect a million dollars from me.

HappyJoe:

That Onitsha port is a scam - what we need is dredging Warri port, it is a few hours drive from Onitsha.

Let me explain this to you, even if you dredge the Niger at Onitsha, it will only accommodate shallow draft vessels which will first have to load at either Warri or Port Harcourt (you can't have ocean going vessels at Onitsha, just river barges).

Anyway, to cut a long story short - the Hausa & Yoruba cabal don't want a functioning port in the Niger Delta - you can see how they killed Tinapa. And Jonathan is too docile to do anything about that.

WHITE Chiefs Football Club of Enugu have emerged champions (Boys Category) of the South Eastern Zone of the Airtel Rising Stars Season4 football championship concluded at the weekend at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu Campus.
In the female category, White PrincessesFC also of Enugu piped Red Heroines2-0 in a scintillating final to cart home a giant trophy and medals for their efforts.
The final, which was attended by big wigs in Enugu sports, saw the White Chiefs in a devastating mood as they silenced the Red Monarchs with two unreplied goals to win the title.
Players from both the winning and the losing teams were selected to form the teams that will represent the zone in the national finals slated for Lagos later this month.
The capacity crowd at the UNEC Stadium that watched the exciting championship finals includedthe Enugu State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Chijioke Agu who was ably representedby a deputy director in the ministry, Emma Nnaji, Chidi Ofo Okenwa and chairman of Enugu State Grassroots Football Managers Association, Christian Oduma, among others.
Former Nigeria international, Ann Chiejinne, who mentored the kids said, "I am satisfied with the outcome, believing that we have donethe right thing in both the boys and girls categories. The thing is that they must continue to train ahead of the national final."
On his part, Alex Iroapali, the zonal coordinator said, "Everything went well as we finished on schedule. If the right thing is donein the final, I see these teams doing well at the national final. I believe the best will represent the zone in Lagos."
Meanwhile, Nwachukwu Silas of the Red Monarchs was declared as the Most Valuable Player (male), while Ezinne Nwokochawas adjudged the MVP in the female category.
The Highest goal scorer(Golden boot) award in the male and female categories went to Okwodu Emeka and Mary Anjor respectively.
The best goalkeeper award went to Doris Okorie in the female category, while UgochukwuAgbai won it in the male category.

Evergreen123: I think that Abagworos article is correct, I heard that kind of thing before.
They had allowed the FG to pollute their lands in the process of oil exploration but they are rejecting a wonderful project/breakthrough for the eastern region .
But I don't want to believe the ijaws hold the yam and the knife in this port this port issue.
The FG can have her way if she wants to, all I see is lack of will

Abagworo: . Its not as easy as you think. Large scale dredging of the Niger will have a multiplier effect on the riverine area including the direct tributaries going shallow and some sub-tributaries drying up. A lot of compensations need to be paid as livelihood is the most important aspect when it comes to issue of compensation. The Onitsha port can be opened for smaller vessels with small scale dredging of Niger for easy passage or for marine passenger transport.

Evergreen123:
How did the royal Niger company use the port for palm oil exportation again?

HappyJoe:

That was before containerization & in those days we did a lot more of exports than imports - not like today.

HappyJoe:

Nothing is happening there. If that "port" starts operation in 10 years time, collect a million dollars from me.

Evergreen123:
Are we not still exporting goods from the east of the Niger?
My point is that there has been no tangible reason for the delay in dredging n port activities

Unemadu: Suez and panama canals. Why not Onitsha river port?

Unemadu: Suez and panama canals. Why not Onitsha river port?

HappyJoe:

Take out a map, compare the geography of Suez & Panama with Onitsha - no point for argument.

HappyJoe:

What are we "exporting"? Onitsha can never be a "sea port", it is a river port & river ports can only accommodate river barges, not ocean going vessels. What this means is that you will still have a trans-shipment point for ocean going vessels at either Warri or Port Harcourt.

Presently, Warri & PH aren't dredged to the depth to accommodate the really large ocean-going vessels from places like China, so it makes economic sense for say, Maersk to berth at Lagos with really large vessels than to either use smaller vessels for Warri & PH - then Onitsha or risk its larger vessels running aground in the Niger Delta.

Lagos is kept as Nigeria's only serious deep sea port to satisfy a cabal, but even at that, West Africa's only true deep sea port is at San Antonio in Cote d'Ivoire - really large vessels offload there to smaller vessels going to Lagos.

Serious business people will tell you the Onitsha port is a scam used to buy Igbo votes. Onitsha will only be useful as an internal logistics hub - i.e. moving bulk goods like cement & steel from Onitsha to say, Baro or Makurdi - & then the North. It isn't economically feasible as an export port.

What Igbos should fight for is a deep sea port at either Calabar, Ibaka, PH or Warri - and a solid railway connections to Onitsha. That was what Donald Duke tried to accomplish with Tinapa, but the Yoruba/Lagos cabal killed that idea by refusing to dredge the Calabar channel.

So let's understand the true state of things.

ChinoElects: What is really eating you up this jobless clown? Onitsha Port has come to stay will you now kill yourself? Do you know that FG pumped over 5billion to set Onitsha Port up? Are you now saying that FG threw in their 5billion as a scam? Get a life dude and stop arguing over what you do not know!
Onitsha Port has come to stay and there is no rubbish you write on the internet that can stop it. Your ranting only ends on nairaland as a jobless daft!

HappyJoe:

I'm not interested in juvenile insults - especially from people who don't know they are talking about. If the "Onitsha port" wasn't a scam, we would have seen it in operation, long ago.

And mind you, "dredging" is not a one-off event, it has to happen regularly or the channel/river is silted over again.

No point arguing with you, when your "port" starts operation, tell me.

Abagworo: To save this Enugu thread all the discussions about Onitsha port should be done here. Thank you all. https://www.nairaland.com/782281/first-cargo-ships-berth-onitsha

HappyJoe:

Take out a map, compare the geography of Suez & Panama with Onitsha - no point for argument.

Unemadu:
panama is man made. suez is narrower than the river Niger.