A-ZeD:
Its funny how people think building an airport or stadium translates to development. Anambra does not need an airport nor a stadium. Nigeria is under developed because people do business with emotions and not their brains.
Several points i'd like to state here
1) A good intra city transportation network will develop Anambra state and any other state in Nigeria than an airport would.
2) No airport is Nigeria would survive without government funding which adds to our very large recurrent expenditure.
3) Locally, MMA2 is the busiest airport and it has not recorded a profit yet. Remember it is private owned so there's no government bureaucracy. That's the reason why Bi-courtney is in court against the opening of the general aviation terminal.
4)Recent report in the US shows 45% percent of Airport revenue is generated from non aeronautical services. In Nigeria, you can scale down that to less than 10%.

In a nutshell, i'd rather land in Asaba and drive 30 minutes to do business in a well planned and constructed city than land in Anambra and do business in a city with terrible infrastructure.


http://www.ibtimes.com/how-do-airports-generate-money-new-study-shows-nearly-half-comes-non-aeronautical-sources-1474992

A-ZeD:
Oh and for the record, the money spent in building Asaba, Jigawa, Gombe and all those useless airports and stadium would have built world class hospitals/ infrastructures which would have greatly benefited the various states more than this airport will ever do.

PS: Nobody moves to city because of an airport but people move because of access to quality health care, education, security et al.

re@lchange:

you are assuming that Asaba is an international airport, not a local one
because i would take an international airport anyday over any infrastructure
you need international access to bring world class development to any city

re@lchange:


it is a lie to say that nobody moves to a city because of an airport -[size=16pt]an international airport yes they do![/size]

A-ZeD:

yeah the only people that move are those that work in the airport.

re@lchange:
when ojukwu was sick, the fact that enugu international airport was close by helped his quick evacuation to treatment overseas
most international business people would want such quick in and out access
the SE has lagged other regions in international investment mainly because of that

re@lchange:


no, you don't understand, probably because you have never moved anywhere in the world
if you have, the first question you ask yourself before going there is "how fast can i get out of there?"
most investors ask that question before going to any country
any region that has international airport access, has faster access to foreign investors
and even foreign ideas that transform cities and countries

rafindo: Gowon it will never be good for u.if east regional integration is feasible then asaba airport should be part of the greater onitsha metropolitan area.

A-ZeD:

If the Airport money was used to build a good hospital would there have been any need to fly Ojukwu for treatment? Now Ojukwu is one person. Think of the millions of people who cannot afford to be flown out?


Asaba is 30 minutes in a car, it would be 10 with high speed rail.

Wall street is 32 minutes from JFK airport same time from Asaba to Onitsha. You want to tell me why a state should spend scarce resources on something it doesn't really need?

redsquare: Yeah, don't know why Peter Obi relocated the site of the airport from Oba to another location.

bestviewer: Nri-priest, nwanne kedu ije..?

As for the airport, if there is anything Anambra needs most now, its the airport. I am happy and appreciate the progress already recorded in that regard.

The full execution of the airport project should dominate Obiano's first 6months. The good news is that Obi has got the FG approval and secured the site at Otuocha.

Pharaoh9: where d site dey now?