9jii.:
Lekki deepsea port News raised this issue.

invest-now2013:
Chino11 The dredged River Niger Water-Ways To Onitsha is not deep enough to accommodate Big Ocean Liners!.This is The Reason Our Governor Must Be very clever here economically by offering to Help FG to raise The total Amount needed to see that Onitsha Port is SEAPORT & Not a Riverport!.Where is The Fast Economic THINKING GOVERNOR OF ANAMBRA-STATE?

invest-now2013:
River Niger can also be dregded to the deep of Ocean going Vessels to Onitsha!. This can be done by Anambra & Delta-states in partnership with the FG! or ANAMBRA-STATE on it's own with permition from the FG.The cost should be in the region of 20 to 30billion Naira & can be recouped in a very short Time!.

ilugunboy:


dredged on paper...

If at all it is......it's getting silted already due to lack of usage.

blackdream: On friday last week, I went to Abeokuta,and I said to myself;if this is the capital of Ogun state please don't wake me up. Only one branch of Ecobank is located there.

ilugunboy:

Then you should stop playing politics of hatred for Yorubas and Hausas...

You are only harming your interest with the type of name calling and abuses you directs endlessly to the two political blocs.

As much as he wish.....GEJ cannot decreed such facilities for you unless it goes through National Assembly processes.

chino11: The importers want to receive their foreign goods direct in Onitsha.

The Anambra Shippers Association has called on the Federal Government to officially gazette the Onitsha River Port as an international cargo destination.

Emmanuel Akpaka, president of the association, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Onitsha, that this would make the port viable.

Mr. Akpaka noted that the initiative would also expand the frontiers of Onitsha that was located on the River Niger basin, as an international business hub.

“We want the port to be gazetted, in order for it to become a destination for cargo from anywhere in the world, whether China, Japan, Malaysia, America, or Britain.”

“So that our business brothers and sisters could ship their cargoes and goods direct from the foreign ports into Onitsha port.”

“And this can be done through a system of trans-loading tens of containers or some thousands of volumes of goods into badges to Onitsha direct and the importer receives his or her consignments in Onitsha.”

Akpaka commended the federal government for completing the port in time, as well as installing state-of-the-art facilities in it.

“We believe that all international businessmen and women have a stake in the positive wellbeing of the Onitsha port and we would also take it as our own,’’ he added.

http://premiumtimesng.com/regional/150794-importers-urge-fg-make-onitsha-port-cargo-destination.html

sandijey:

Let fg dredge river niger, let the government do everything they ask! So they can just leave! Since they made lagos what it is! I Keep asking wiv all the igbos inthe south east, why is the east not like dubai? Ifu say fg has spent money on lagos, is it fg that also created an enabling environment for business? Hold your leaders accountable for every insult you get. You say u import goods, is it only the igbos that are buying your goods? If the yorubas were so lazy, where do they get the money to buy ur goods? Someone said lagos will crumble! Lagos can never ever crumble. That's why am praying you guys get what u want and let everybody rest!

Eziachi:
Yes all electricity network in the East was done by the communities and not the federal or state govt.
80% of all road network in the East were created and handed over the tiers of government
They build over 4000 secondary and primary school and handed over to the governments since 1970.
Sam Mbakwe airport was built by community effort, not federal or even the state govt .

chino11:


No! You getting it wrong. The River Niger Channels can only accommodate barges due to the bridges crossing the Niger. The same Barges can equally take same quantity as ocean liners but in flat forms. So it was dredged for the purpose of small ships and barges.

basilo101:
Leave lagos say wetin hapn? Na 2 create regional branches in d east. Start importing d original nw, dnt wait 4 igbos 2 leave, if u r nt ready 2 compete u will be dominated

blackdream: On friday last week, I went to Abeokuta,and I said to myself;if this is the capital of Ogun state please don't wake me up. Only one branch of Ecobank is located there.

solomon111: Are you not the same girl that was preaching about holiness and how you want a God fearing husband in the religious section the other day?
So you are an empty-headed tribalist masquerading as a 'believer'.
You remember when i said that you were not different from those useless girls that invade the churches.
Thank you for proving me right.

ilugunboy:

Which part of Abeokuta did you go to?

invest-now2013:
Chino11 The Onitsha Port can be moved to somewhere before The New & The old bridge. We do need a Proper SEAPORT at THE GREAT CITY OF ONITSHA!

invest-now2013:
Chino11 The Onitsha Port can be moved to somewhere before The New & The old bridge. We do need a Proper SEAPORT at THE GREAT CITY OF ONITSHA!

sandijey:

Dominated indeed! I hope you guys no that the situation of the economy has turned graduates into business men! Every graduate wants to be on their own now! if u don't up ur game, businesses ordinarily done by illiterates will be taken over by graduates only this time everything will be mordernised! Just seeing graduates into farming and making cool cash, selling food and doing home delivery, or importing and exporting litttle things from kolanut, cocoa, palm oil, crayfish! Etc! Its a matter of time before vulcanisers, mechanics, and the likes would be mordernised not to talk of spare parts! please the country has changed a great deal!

solomon111: Are you not the same girl that was preaching about holiness and how you want a God fearing husband in the religious section the other day?
So you are an empty-headed tribalist masquerading as a 'believer'.
You remember when i said that you were not different from those useless girls that invade the churches.
Thank you for proving me right.

Flyboy Zee:
This is good. It will shut up all those eediots thinking that Lagos is Bigger than Nigeria/FG. If O'sha becomes an entry Port for goods, Lagos would loose half of its importance. O ye Lagosians, begin to conjure, lobby and try as much as you can that O'sha Port does not get that status, or else...

blackdream: I asked people (locals) if really there's any other place more developed than this and they said no, It seems like the Land Lords don't want to sell their lands,

logica: Interesting take...but I don't see the tribalism in her post. She called the bluff of some people who think Lagos needs them...how is that tribalism? When Igbos left during the Civil War, did Lagos crumble in the late 60s? Aha.

logica: Interesting take...but I don't see the tribalism in her post. She called the bluff of some people who think Lagos needs them...how is that tribalism? When Igbos left during the Civil War, did Lagos crumble in the late 60s? Aha.

logica: Interesting take...but I don't see the tribalism in her post. She called the bluff of some people who think Lagos needs them...how is that tribalism? When Igbos left during the Civil War, did Lagos crumble in the late 60s? Aha.

berem: Good innovation. But must the people of the southeast depend on FG for that? Nothing have been heard of the second niger bridge. What's the possibility that Jonathan will fulfill this dream of a seaport?

asha 80: guy big ocean liners cannot pass under those bridges simple.it does not matter where you locate it.

ilugunboy:

Because Ngige understand the politics of the NASS better than you!

Ask me why the River Niger will never be dredge...

solomon111: You don't see the tribalism in her post?
Okay,what is the meaning of "I pray the FG gives them what they want so they can leave"?
What is the meaning of that in one Nigeria?
Does she think the federal allocation to the SW comes from the SW?
If everybody should start leaving,then i expect Lagos and even the entire SW to pay back to the niger-delta,the huge oil-money spent there.

chino11:


I don't know why some of are so dumb..

Its Lagos Yorobarland? The last we checked Lagos was and it still FG enclave as it was developed by FG. Igbos are not in the Yorobarland but Lagos.

Below is a true certified picture of Yorobar, and the last we checked Igbos does not live in this type of house (red mud house/rusted zinc). This is a state capital in one of yorobar states.