Fg Approves Construction Of Anambra Airport

its better for every state in Nigeria to have their own airport,period,so as to stop the envy of other peoples development.after all if true federalism is practiced every state will own airport to increase their internal revenue.

People,

Actually this airport project has been in the pipeline even before the commencement of the ASABA and Uyo ones. The delay for approval by the FGN again reminds one of the determination of the FGN to strangulate anything Igbo. Otherwise the airport may have probably been completed by now. That said, it is ok to have as many airports as possible. Orient petroleum is exploiting the huge oil and gas reserves in Anambra and this is a completely Nigerian company that would need the airort for its activities. And yes, there is also an airport in Imo which was built by the
Old Imo people with no input from the fed govt.

Read the article below


After a long wait by Anambra State, the Federal Ministry of Aviation has finally given approval for the establishment of an airport which is to be located around the operational area of Orient Petroleum in the state.

The state’s Commissioner for Information and Culture, Majah Umeh, who broke the news in Awka on Tuesday evening, said the airport is to be located at Ifite Umueri in Anambra East Local Council Area.

Umeh, who briefed the press on the outcome of the state’s Executive Council (exco) meeting, said what now is left for the state, is the acquisition of land to enable work begin immediately on the project.

Though the airport which when completed will serve as a cargo airport is to be established in conjunction with Orient Petroleum, Umeh said the state government is committed to fulfilling due process and all the requirements of the Ministry of Aviation for the establishment of airport.

His words: “We have gone through all tests and they have given approval for the construction of an airport that will be sited at Ifite-Umueri in Anambra East Local Government and Anambra State people are happy about it.”

He also said the state is celebrating the feat achieved by its contingent to the national schools’ sports competition held in Abeokuta, where the state came 7th with 78 medals, consisting 14 gold medals, 16 silver medals and 48 bronze medals.

He said the success is as result of the state investment in sport

I cannot wait to see the airport. Maybe it will look like Akure Ibom airport, like house. Building an airport in any place in Nigeria is OK as long as the airport look standard not those small airports without terminals. Is just that our leaders are not learning that is the problem. Standard airports with terminals plus two to three runways and with lights everywhere. But what happen to existing and dieing airports in Nigeria that planes bearly go there before talking about building another ones?  But lets see how it will look like and many plane that will go there.

I agree that they need an airport in Anambra state, at least when we come home, no need to go through Enugu and then come through Nnewi, besides Nnewi people, most industrious people in Anambra state need a cargo airport to move thier goods faster from local/overseeas. I just hope the airport is standard.

If this airport works(when i see work going),it means dat anambra state is now effective n ready to be the next dubai.anambra which has d greatest business in africa suppose 2 hav atleast 5 airport n 2 seaport because of its activities n needs 24 hours uninterrupted transaction. What we(anambra) need is government attention n intervention to enable us,anambrians maintain our globa icon[color=][/color][color=][/color][color=][/color]

Now I know there some educated fools around. I dont blame this faggot!

so hard to satisfy Nigerians
build airport, they refer to existing ones and whine.
don't build, the Government is not thinking about the future  

Not only Anambra, but an airport is needed in every state to open up the hinterlands to rapid development.
I'm sick of naysayers already complaining about maintenance of a structure even before its built.

Yeah other transportation means like railways are yet to be exploited to a full potential.
Roads are still bad. But is it a crime to think of the future?
If Nigerians had this naysaying mentality 40 years ago, would any airport have been built till date  

It's all in the head.

You are mad in the head, and sick in the hand.

Is it now that he is about to fight for re-election that Mr. Obi wants to build an airport? 9ja politicians na wah!

Do what? What you want Nairaland to do?

Who is exhibiting the height of madness?

Thank you, say it out loud. I would imagine that more than 60% of the aiport operations would be based on commercial cargo, and they don't need to patronize Asaba airport. 

Building of airports is always a welcome development. However, the above statement struck a chord in me.

Saying that the roads are bad is an understatement. Its a nightmare traveling from Lagos to Onitsha (or vice versa) these days.

The volume of goods that traverse the Onitsha-Lagos axis is mind boggling , and U can build all the airports you want, the bulk of those goods will still be transported via land. Nowadays, a truck filled with goods from lagos takes about 2 to 3 days to get to Onitsha and thats if u are lucky.

Its ok to think about building an airport, but I hope that they are also sparing a thought for the conditions of the road which in my own opinion should be more of a priority now. Unless if all this hoopla about building an airport is a political ruse for the up coming elections

True though but hey why would I want to wait a for days and then you not certain about the goods arrival rather than pay a few extra money and get my goods delivered to my destination same day, fast and easy less hassle. Well I agree with you  though they still need to fix the roads.

This is a welcome development in the SE,I don't know why some of us are cynical about it.My only fear is that the FG may want to compromise on quality.I just hope it's not going to be an exercise in futility.People arguing that Delta State realy shouldn't have embarked on the building of thier airport have a very valid point,projects like this should be tied to the economic importance of doing such.It realy doesn't make sense,there's hardly any economic activities in Delta state,it does'nt have anything that can bring the influx of people or trigger some serious economic activities,that airport to me is some white elephant project,I don't mean any pun but that's the obvious truth.I am not from Anambra state but I think that if any state in the SE deserves an international cargo  airport it's Anambra,Anambra and Abia states constitute the economic nerve centre of the SE,most of us here will think otherwise if we have actually been to these two states to see why we argue that Anambra deserves this project than any other state besides Lagos and Abuja( being the capital).However,we must be weary of this new crazy fad to build airport without serious consideration and strategy,I just hope one won't wake up one morning to hear that Abia state is considering building an airport when obviously the distance btw Imo state and Abia state is just  like the distance btw surulere and Ikorodun LGA.Both FG and SG should concentrate thier development effort on better roads, sea ports and other infrastructure of strategic importance.

Fine, what a nice contribution, but I must add, Sokoto International airport used to be very viable in the 80's. Nigeria Airways used to connect Niamey from there, one three flights weekly. This is far from the normal local flights. Even Calabar, used to connect Malabo, during the era of Nigeria Airways. So, whatever airport that was termed International then, used to fly International indeed. Today, due to decay in infrastructure, non of them will have the liver to even answer International. So, Nigerians mentality is intact. You cross check your information before putting them across. Nigerians are not fools, please.