The Airport looks nice. I wont pay 300 million dollars for it though, I think they overpaid [/b]somebody.

babapupa:

The Airport looks nice. I wont pay 300 million dollars for it though, I think they overpaid somebody.

Oboma1:


I think I will agree with paddy_lo. Airport projects are very expensive. The total cost of building a run of that standard, is breath-taking. I will never exempt corruption in the course of it, but I will say, it is pretty expensive. A typical example is the Lagos local run-way. Though it was ridiculed with inflated cost, but the cost of resurfacing it was just too much, that the government had to participate. Corruption assisted it, by making the project run for almost two years. Till date, the runway, does not have light for night flights. That is what corruption and embezzlement can cause, and no one is saving anything about it, until something happens, then we will remember to ask questions. Why is the lighting delayed? What if there is a problem on the international wing runway, what happens to the whole airport.

Back to Akwa-Ibom airport. The building is not even the main terminus. The real terminus is very close to the temporary one, which is under construction. That building is going to be used for the VIPs. If you look at the number of seats there, you will know, it is indeed not for the kind of airport they are projecting it to be. The main terminus is a very big house that is really going to be astonishing, if the real plan is not tempered with.

PapaBrowne:

I heard this airport cost somewhere in the region of 300+ million USD. Doesn't seem worth the cost to me.
Delta state is building one in ASABA  that is pretty good and it is costing just 40 million USD.

Nice airports though. Now there will be 8 Airports in the Niger Delta. Funnily majority of them are viable.

Oboma1:

The wing of the aircraft.

Otobroto:

Are you sure there will be 8 airports in Niger Delta?

PapaBrowne:

Yep!!

Delta State has Warri and would be completing Asaba in the first quarter of next year.
Akwa Ibom now has one.
Benin has one.
Port Harcourt has 2. The international Airport and the Nigeria Airforce Airport(It was used during the temporary close down of the main airport in 2006/07).
Cross River has the Calabar Airport and the Bebi AIRSTRIP(Not exactly a a big airport but it has regular scheduled flights).

Interesting thing is that Port Harcourt, Warri, Calabar and Benin airports are amongst the most viable in the country. They are actually amongst the top 7 airports in the country. Lagos, Abuja and Kano are the remaining 3.