Blue Magic: Nigerians always celebrating mediocrity. Did he do it out of his pocket. He did it with the country's money, people's money, your money. He is supposed to do it. Its not his responsibility to provide roads, power, water, affordable accomodation, security, infrastructure etc. ITS HIS DUTY. NIGERIANS NEED TO GET IT RIGHT!!!!!!!!!! FOOLS

~Bluetooth:


They are spending billions renovating buildings when there over 10 million children out of school,several youths without employment or stable source of livelihood,extreme poverty,insecurity everywhere caused by societal dysfunction which metmorphosed into kidnapping,armed robbery among others.

Nigeria problems isn't about renovating airport but rehabilitating the larger masses who are the real owner of government but left out to participate in the workings of government.

This is nothing but a waste of fund and misplaced priority !

mantote: Did Jonathan use his personal money from fish sales.Do you know how many airports some country have.Its it not our country money?Abeg make. Hear word you 40 laptop boyz

Emmadani: "OUR MONEY",which 1 b "our money".Na d money 4rm sales of cowmeat?Abeg no make me laugh.

scipher: Ewwwww

babyosisi:

I practically spent most of my long vacations in Kano and kaduna and Jos so I know the area well
The population means nothing
How many can get on a plane?
There are about 2 million almajiris in Kano alone
Go around Kano you see them sprawled under every mango tree around a Mallam and by evening they are at every major road junction with bowls in hand
So who exactly is hopping on these planes
The number is negligible
Do you know airfrance and some other airline used to fly from the USA to Kano sometime ago
Go and find out why they stopped
The answer is not Boko haram btw
You are talking about a state whose priority in 2013 is organizing mass weddings for widows and jobless men
Abeg
Why won't they fly their folks abroad?
No be dem dey get the lion share of our oil wealth.

Rossikk: Kano Airport Before Goodluck Jonathan








Kano Airport After Goodluck Jonathan








GEJ is working.

Evestar200: Please,,there is no airport WARRI,,the airport is in OSUBI in OKPE kingdom,,,and is called OSUBI airport,,,b4 the itsekiri and ijaw come and take OSUBI and add it to warri,,cuz they are fond of fighting over lands

Osubi Airstrip ( IATA: QRW ), also known as Warri Airport, is located at Osubi, a town near Warri in Delta State , Nigeria (about 10 minutes drive by car from the city of Warri).

The federal government first drew up plans to build an airport here in the late 1970s to easy transport into Warri city by air because of its status as an oil city but languished the Plan for over two decades in a mixture of neglect and corruption. [/b]Meanwhile, people coming in and out of Warri continued to use an old airstrip, in a congested part of the city.

[b]...whenever a plane took off or landed, the authorities had to close off an adjacent road to traffic so that a passing car would not be clipped.

Finding it harder and harder to conduct business with the old airstrip, Shell finally decided to build one on its own. The airport as commissioned and open for commercial use on 1 April 1999 with Shell (SPDC) landing a modern Dornier 328 and aero contractors 50-feet Dash aircraft at the Osubi airport. Since the airstrip opened for Public use; it is reckoned to be one of the busiest aviation facilities in Nigeria and it is being operated in partnership with other oil companies.

The maintenance and facilities are among the best in the country and traffic flow is one of the highest. In fact, in the first six months of the opening of Osubi Airstrip, more than 100,000 passengers passed through just as it handled 3,500 aircraft movements!

nOble^gEnt:
[color=#000000][/color]After the criticism why don't you suggest possible avenues through which these things could be done to serve the masses purposefully!

Acidosis:

Have you ever been to Kano?

Are you aware Kano is the second largest state in terms of commercial activity within Nigeria and the second most populous state in the country ? (check wiki)

Do you know Kano & Lagos are competing in terms of population?

Are you aware people troop in to that city like pure water for trade, business and investment?

Are you aware we have a standard football pitch in Kano state where footballers all over the world troop in until recently (crisis and all) ?

Are you aware Kano state governor is sending his people in hundreds on a daily basis for scholarships right from that Kano airport to any country you can think of in the world?

Do you know foreign investments and investors are all over the city?

Hope you know people who troop in to Kano just to order cars are more than those going to Lagos and Cotonou put together? Everything in Kano is relatively cheap!

Hope you know Kano state is the "Centre of Commerce"

Are you aware there are over 70 Hotels in the city- Kano? (not state).

I don tire for my west, south people o...

My dear, don't limit yourself to nairaland cos if you do, you'll not know anything aside Fashola, and maybe Amaechi and ACN..

Even if you can't travel to places, spread your horizon!!

Pataki: An airport re-decorated to appease the north? How exceedingly foooolish can this president get to be??


I was at MMA earlier this year, and that airport is an INTERNATIONAL DISGRACE!!!

Bosuntop: unemployment,bad roads,insecurity,power problems e.t.c nah airport you dey renovate.thank you oga gej.

Pataki: An airport re-decorated to appease the north? How exceedingly foooolish can this president get to be??
!!

CHESSBOARD:

Ediota, how can the project commence during OBJ's regime when your thiefing Yoruba brothers , Ajibolade Babalola and Femi kayode that were Aviation ministers were stealing all the money encouraged by OBJ....at the same time crashing planes.

Acidosis:

My bad! I always regard warri environs like Effurun, Ubeji etc.. as Warri. But I taught airport road is in Warri¿

Anyway, I read something interesting about that airport. My God! Corruption has been in this country even before most of us were born.


www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warri_Airport

In other words, Shell own Osubi Airport! Interesting.

Acidosis:

Have you ever been to Kano?

Are you aware Kano is the second largest state in terms of commercial activity within Nigeria and the second most populous state in the country ? (check wiki)

Do you know Kano & Lagos are competing in terms of population?

Are you aware people troop in to that city like pure water for trade, business and investment?

Are you aware we have a standard football pitch in Kano state where footballers all over the world troop in until recently (crisis and all) ?

Are you aware Kano state governor is sending his people in hundreds on a daily basis for scholarships right from that Kano airport to any country you can think of in the world?

Do you know foreign investments and investors are all over the city?

Hope you know people who troop in to Kano just to order cars are more than those going to Lagos and Cotonou put together? Everything in Kano is relatively cheap!

Hope you know Kano state is the "Centre of Commerce"

Are you aware there are over 70 Hotels in the city- Kano? (not state).

I don tire for my west, south people o...

My dear, don't limit yourself to nairaland cos if you do, you'll not know anything aside Fashola, and maybe Amaechi and ACN..

Even if you can't travel to places, spread your horizon!!

AnanseK:

You are wrong , the airports (including Kano) are being decorated for the Aviation Minister and her superiors to siphon money from the treasury. Creating employment is too boring and does't produce kick back.

~Bluetooth:


They are spending billions renovating buildings when there over 10 million children out of school,several youths without employment or stable source of livelihood,extreme poverty,insecurity everywhere caused by societal dysfunction which metmorphosed into kidnapping,armed robbery among others.

Nigeria problems isn't about renovating airport but rehabilitating the larger masses who are the real owner of government but left out to participate in the workings of government.

This is nothing but a waste of fund and misplaced priority !

~Bluetooth:
"Fashola" should be a subject to be study in Nigerian universities !

https://www.nairaland.com/1344968/construction-seaport-airport-begins-lekki/2#16592884

dabrake: as in, original big-time 'ewwwww'. what the Bleep is that? An airport? more like a mosque.

Pataki: An airport re-decorated to appease the north? How exceedingly foooolish can this president get to be??


I was at MMA earlier this year, and that airport is an INTERNATIONAL DISGRACE!!!

Acidosis:

You may need to visit the city of Asaba.

babyosisi: And how many aircrafts are using it outside of hajj period
What a waste

loswhite: airport road is where the former airstrip was located but it was closed after Osubi was completed.