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More pic on the airport terminal interior are needed

RingRoadMafia:
H

Pls come and arrest nairaland

Jengem:



Avengers abeg small small o

Please no give bubu hear attack

You know he likes to travel the world,

so David Cameron must not laugh him o

Thank God for peace

Can we think outside the box and try innovative untried methods to bring lasting peace to our beloved country

789nin:
[s][/s]

It is finished

Ikonso road you mean

It's unimaginable to believe that the most security guarded places in Africa can be robbed empty without a single arrest

helinues:

Oduduwa

iwaeda:
SLOWLY but steadily, Nigeria is sliding into war. Shortly after bandits slaughtered three of the kidnapped 23 undergraduates of Greenfield University, Kaduna, Wole Soyinka, a Nobel laureate, captured the moment explicitly in a statement entitled, ‘Endless Martyrdom of Youth.’ He said, “This nation is at war, yet we continue to pretend that these are mere birth-pangs of a glorious entity.” Seriously, Nigeria is on the brink of catastrophe because of the bloody violence that has ensnared it on the watch of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

Soyinka’s perspective on the current “cowardly savagery” coincides with other notable voices, all calling on Buhari to seek help, review the impotent security system or return Nigeria to true federalism. But there is a sense of doom with Buhari in charge. The President has not shown the willpower to steer Nigeria out of violence.

State failure is playing out extensively. Before the ink dried on Soyinka’s warning, the bandits, who demanded a ransom of N800 million, had killed two more of the Greenfield students. Their audacious threat to massacre the remaining 17 students in their custody is foreboding.

Plainly, Buhari has lost control of non-state actors; Nigeria is at war in many theatres. The human and economic costs of this anarchy are simply unsustainable. In the North-East, Islamic terrorists have regained the upper hand over the military. Boko Haram, which has killed more than 100,000 persons and displaced millions, is better armed than the military. Insurgents are recapturing territories, with Geidam, Yobe State, and southern Borno State their latest prizes.

Hitherto relatively safe, bandits have seized control of the North-West. Mass abduction at schools and random killings are their signature atrocities. Apart from the deadly mission to Greenfield, bandits abducted scores of students at the Forestry College in Kaduna. In the Sahel region, writes Larisa Brown, The Times (London) Defence Editor, jihadist insurgent groups are also becoming “blurred” with bandits who steal cattle and money from local people, making it extremely difficult to distinguish who is working for whom.

The Kaduna State Government said 393 persons lost their lives in the first three months of 2021; 926 were kidnapped. Despite the presence of the military in internal security operations in 34 states, 741 Nigerians were killed and over 1,000 kidnapped in the first 96 days in office of the new Service Chiefs. That excludes the deaths and destruction of property from communal strife. This is nothing but a descent into war. In Israel, where 44 people died in the annual Lag B’Omer religious festival stampede last weekend, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promptly visited the site and declared a national day of mourning.

The North-Central is bleeding blood again. Eleven soldiers were butchered early in April in Benue State. Between late April and early May, bandits and Fulani herdsmen slaughtered 70 people in an IDP camp in Makurdi. Before this died down, 19 others were massacred on Monday in the Gwer LGA of the state. The bloody frenzy has spread to Nasarawa, Plateau, Taraba and Kogi states. Its more deadly version occurs in Niger State, where Boko Haram has hoisted its flag in 50 villages in two LGAs. Various international reports categorise Nigeria among the world’s three most terrorised countries.



The South-East is at the point of anarchy. Police, soldiers, and government institutions have been attacked since March. Attacks on the Imo State Police Command HQs, the prisons, military checkpoints, and police stations in Abia, Ebonyi and Enugu states depict the weakness of the Nigerian state in arresting the slide into internecine war. In Anambra State, there is hardly a day that goes by without loss of lives from cult-related clashes, especially in Awka. The Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, lost his country home in Oru to invaders. Offices of the Independent National Electoral Commission are under serial attacks in the South-South and South-East. Lives are being wasted in Rivers State. Beyond empty rhetoric, the security agencies rush to blame the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra as the mastermind.

Insecurity is ravaging Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo, and Osun in the South-West. A duo was abducted in Ofada, Ogun State, last weekend. A group of ranch owners was abducted in Ibarapa, Oyo State, where Fulani herders are rampaging freely. ‘Freedom fighters’ and self-determination groups are emerging from the chaos. The United States Embassy has just issued an advisory, warning American citizens to be careful of traffic robbers in Lagos. Kidnappers are moving to the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and the adjoining areas without any serious pushback from security agencies. With an uncontrolled influx of commercial motorcycle riders, it is a matter of time before criminals seize control of the megapolis.

All over, the threat level is higher than what triggered the Civil War in 1967. Several factors are to blame, some of them self-inflicted. The Buhari regime is mistrusted by the other regional groupings because of its divisive, clannish appointments into the security apparatus. The police are short-handed, their plight aggravated by the deployment of a third of the force in illegal VIP duties. Any President serious about security will clamp down on this anomaly and initiate a decentralised police system. The military is poorly armed, under-motivated and lacks inspiring leadership in a time of war. Unnecessarily obdurate, the Buhari regime endangers the corporate existence of Nigeria by rejecting the agitations for a just restructuring of the political system.

Today, the country faces a break or save dilemma. As society breaks down, the breakup of the state is a foreboding reality. It will be dangerous to allow Nigeria to slide into a war it can ill afford. The readiness of the state governors to maintain law and order without fear or favour will help stanch the slide to chaos. As an immediate step to counter this trend, the President should declare a state of emergency on security, initiate security reforms and take necessary measures towards running an inclusive government. Eventually, fashioning a constitution that truly reflects the plurality of Nigerian society remains the only viable option to prevent the country from falling apart.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/nigeria-is-sleepwalking-into-war/

We are already at a state of war

rawtouch:


will not say anything

Welcome to the good life

The next governor Soludo should double development
By the Anambra super high ways
Light rail project

AsomughaChuks05:
Governor Willie Obiano has written his name in gold. The quality of individuals who are visiting the airport to witness this evolving legacy of Akpokuedike Aguleri is testament to its importance. Anambra people are so proud of our governor for this wonderful mega project.

Obiano current development is a game changer in the upcoming elections

Selfdetn:
No human right.

Chai

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How Anambra airport’ll boost state’s economy
7th May 2021

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By Chinelo Obogo

For decades, the prospect of having an international airport in Anambra state continued to elude its citizens despite their huge commercial enterprises  cities like Onitsha, Awka and Nnewi, noted for automobile and other industrial manufactures.

The first attempt by the state government was geared towards building an airport at Oba but that plan didn’t work out as expected. However, after many years, three communities, namely Nteje in Oyi Local Government, Umueri and Nsugbe in Anambra East Local Government eventually gave portions of their land to the state government for an international airport which which would include access roads. The location of the airport itself is in Umeri and Daily Sun gathered that the State Government compensated the communities affected by the development and promised to ensure that  they would also get more job slots when recruitment commences.  After about 1500 acres of land was secured for the construction of the airport, Governor Willie Obiano then approved the investment of N5 billion for the development of a new four-lane road to the airport.

On April 30, 2021, the state government carried out a test run of the airport facilities, a standard practice in aviation and Daily Sun was there to witness the occasion. Three aircraft, a Boeing 737 and an Embraer 145 in the fleet of Air Peace and a smaller plane belonging to Sir Ernest Obiejesi landed at the airport  which already boasts of all the basics of an airfield; a completed 3.7km runway, an apron, a control tower and an almost completed terminal building.

It will take a motorist about 15 to 20 minutes to get to Onitsha city from the airport through Umunya Community, around the same time it takes to get to the commercial city from Asaba airport if the traffic gridlock which usually occurs on the Niger Bridge is taken into consideration. It would also take a motorist about 25 minutes or less to get to Awka, the state capital.

The airport has a jet fuel dump, space for the establishment of an aircraft maintenance facility, airport hotel and international convention center. 

Though the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said the airport is still undergoing the necessary tests before approval, the state government said it had already got a license from the Federal Government for an international airport which will start with local operations, a regional operation with international flights coming up later.

The Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, who flew in two of the airline’s aircraft for the test running, said the runway can land a Boeing 777 and an Airbus 380 which are the biggest planes applauded the quality of the work done.  

 “This is the fastest airport to be approved by the Federal Government for a test flight and it is a testament of the quality of job done here. This runway can land a Boeing 777 and an Airbus 380 which are the biggest planes. This is the first time an airport in Nigeria will be doing a test run with a Boeing 737. Test runs are usually done with smaller planes which is why we decided to bring a small plane and a big one to show the quality of job the government has done.

“This airport is not going to serve only Anambra people, it would serve the entire South East and the country at large. I said four months ago that President Muhammadu Buhari will approve this airport as an international and cargo airport. One thing that is certain is that the airport will generate millions of jobs for our people. Forget where the airport is sited; we have nothing against it because there is plenty of land which helped to ensure that a 3.7 kilometer runway is built,” Onyema said.

How airport’ll impact commercial activities

Opinions are divided on whether an international airport is necessary for the state considering that it is surrounded by two local airports in Asaba and Owerri and one international/local airport in Enugu. A businessman and engineer, Mr. Ndubuisi Ojiakor, who owns shops at Warri, Delta State, told Daily Sun that anytime international operations eventually commence, entrepreneurs like him who import goods from Asia would save a lot of money and time if they can fly their goods straight into the state, rather than having to go through the rigours of travelling to Lagos and paying demurrage.

“The new airport is a welcome development because it will save entrepreneurs like us the stress of travelling to Lagos and paying high demurrage on goods, since it is closer to the direct consumers. Anytime the FG officially allows for international operations, most businessmen like us will rather bring in our goods from abroad straight to Anambra, take them to our villages and carry them to our shops bit by bit without paying outrageous bills to agents in Lagos all in the name of using the facilities beyond the expected time/overtime.

“If more international cargo flights can come through Asia, especially China, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand and most African countries too, inflation of  price goods and services will be a thing of the past. Transportation, haulage of goods and logistics over longer distances are some factors that leads to increase in the prices of goods and services.

“Instead of spending about seven to eight hours to Lagos from Warri and about 45 minutes’ drive to Murtala Muhammed Airport from Ojota, I will spend only three hours to Onitsha and from Onitsha to Umueri is just about 20 minutes’ drive without traffic. Instead of spending about N10, 000 for hotel accommodation in Lagos for a night, I would rather go to my village in Ojoto which is about 20 minutes’ drive from Umueri and sleep comfortably without paying a dime. These are some of the advantages in having an international airport in the state,” Ojiakor said.

A member of the House of Representatives from the state, Chuma Nzeribe, said one of the challenges the government would have is making the airport accessible to passenger and cargo traffic from different parts of the country. He suggested that ways this can be achieved would be through the proposed Anambra super highway, which if implemented will make it easy for those coming from 9th Mile, Enugu and Kogi states.

“One of the challenges the state government would have is making the airport accessible to passenger and cargo traffic from different parts of the country. One of the ways this can be achieved is if the proposed Anambra super highway which if carried out will make it easy for those coming from 9th Mile, Enugu and Kogi states. If the Otuocha-Ibaji-Ajaokuta federal road which is under construction is completed, it would also increase patronage to the airport,” Nzeribe said.

Completion of different aspects of the airport

The Commissioner for Works, Mr. Marcel Ifejiofor, told aviation reporters that work done in the airport has reached 90 percent completion. He said: “The runway, apron and the taxi way are 100 percent completed. The terminal is 90 percent completed. The good thing about what we are doing here is that all the equipment have been paid for. The lights, the aero bridges, the security, the Instrument Landing Systems and the VOR have all been paid for. By the next two months, everything should have been completed and we would commission the airport. For landscaping, the contract has been awarded and it is not a show stopper. Our budget is on a yearly basis.

“The governor of Anambra State had created a community. An airport is a community both socially and economically. The vision is unprecedented and he has taken Anambra state to another level both economically and socially. At the construction stage, we employed about 2,500 workers and we have the suppliers. In a day, our suppliers bring in about 72 trucks, 30 tons of chippings. People are supplying these things and the equipment we are using here are many. Diesel, cement and sand are supplied. The food vendors are also benefiting. The employment opportunities are unprecedented. When the terminal is completed, it won’t take anything less than 100 workers. Employment opportunities cuts across aviation security, fire control workers, shops etc.

“The license we have from Ministry of Aviation is for Anambra International Cargo airport. Our runway is 3.7km, the apron is 300 by 200meters and it can take eight Boeing 727s. The critical aircraft for this place is Boeing 727. We have a strip of 140 meters on the other side of the runway. We have three access roads; one that is under contract and is being worked on, another one comes from Onitsha road but we have the major entrance that leads to the express.

“Our projected passenger traffic is 1,200 daily passengers because the terminal is designed for 400 passengers at a time. In other countries, there are airports in every city. The easiest and safest means of transportation is by air. So, it doesn’t matter if there are airports in neighboring states.

“As we speak we are doing a tank farm with a capacity if two million, one hundred liters of aviation fuel and it is a  private sector arrangement which  is 80 percent completed. We have a control tower in Nigeria and it is done on concrete.  The staircase is fireproof. We call it the safe heaven. Once there is fire in that building and we enter the staircase and close it, the fire would not get in. It also has a self-fire-fighting equipment. Every room and office has a sprinkler. Beside it, we have a fire house which takes 12,500 liters each and they are three. So the category if fire we have here is category 9, which is the biggest. The runway can take A380, it can take airbus.

“The contract to train the technical personnel has been awarded to East wing. This includes general training, aviation safety and security. The governor visits this site at least once a week and we have been here for one year and three months and no contractor is owed here. Once contractors submit their certificates, he pays. He has not borrowed any money to construct this airport. Already, airlines and other service providers are showing interest to come to this airport. So many people want to do hangar here. Air Peace has indicated interest to set up a Maintenance Repair Overhaul (MRO) and an aviation school is coming here to set up a training school. Before December 2021, commercial schedule operations would have commenced at this airport.”

State government says no money was borrowed for airport

Obiano while speaking at the event, said it is difficult to create a new economic corridor without a functional international airport that will serve as a direct bridge between the state and the world. Though he didn’t say how much has been spent on the airport so far, he revealed that the state didn’t borrow money for the project.

“The Anambra International Airport is the most audacious legacy of my administration and perhaps the most revolutionary too. Experts tell me that our airport has set a record in the aviation industry as the fastest and most modern airport to be built in recent times. This airport took 15 months to build. Construction work began in January 2020 and here we are; 15 months after, witnessing the first flight into the airport.

“The most interesting thing about this airport, for me, is that the Anambra State Government did not borrow a kobo to build it.  Our dream for our own airport began almost 30 years ago when the Government of Anambra State acquired 530 hectares of land in Oba, Idemili South Local Government Area with the intention of building a domestic airport. The idea came up again in 2006 when Orient Petroleum dreamt of building an airport here in Umueri.

“Seven years ago, we announced that our vision was to make the state the first choice investment destination and hub of industralisation and commercial activities. We also declared that our Mission was to create a socially stable, business friendly environment that will attract both indigenes and foreigners to wealth creating opportunities in the state.

It is difficult to create a new economic corridor without a functional international airport that will serve as a direct bridge between us and the world. With this facility, we have made the journey easier for any investor who wants to prospect Anambra State for business,” Obiano said.

It's so amazing

DubaiLandLord:
Mtchewwwwwwwwww

It's a free world oh

Pls keep posting new pic of our dear Virgin airport it makes my blood boil

Grgton:
you can take a visit to owerri, at least you will be riding on wide roads!! Cheers

On a serious note
I believe aviation business. Is what the Anambra state Government should consider cos just building an airport was not our goal


The goal is to take over and become the aviation hub of Africa

ejanla077:

Thank God for anambra

chiefobdk:
If i am not from Nnewi let me not succeed in life.. But if I'm from Nnewi you will never succeed or gain anything in life...

30k pen for hire.... At over 40...


I get ur bitterness... Why u cant get Obi off ur dirty mind.

Anambra is the Singapore



It's going to be a first world city state

ambac2bust:
Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, the wife of the controversial director of Radio Biafra, has declared that her husband will not relent in his agitation for the Independence of Biafra states if eventually released.
Kanu’s wife who spoke on what prompted the idea as championed by her husband in an interview with the IBTimes UK, believes her husband who has been in the custody of the DSS after his arrest on October 25 is a prisoner of conscience.
Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and other pro-Biafran groups call for the independence of territories that formed the Biafran Republic, in 1967 and re-annexed to Nigeria in 1970.
Kanu, who is the leader of the movement, was arrested on charges of criminal conspiracy, intimidation and belonging to an unlawful society. Biafra leader pleaded not guilty.
Uchechi Okwu-Kanu says: “It is the British who laid the foundation of Nigeria… And these people [ethnicities and tribes of Nigeria] are of different culture, different religion, different belief, different understanding of life.
“So we all are different in several ways, in every way. So, we are not actually meant to be together. You must have heard about the Biafran war. My mom was born then, a few years before the war. We sort of defended ourselves. We defended ourselves for over a long period of time,” she added.
Kanu’s wife continued that Biafrans are now suffering, despite supplying resources to other parts of Nigeria.
“We don’t have better schools, we don’t have better roads, we don’t have anything, not even jobs.
“So that is why what they are doing is to leave. So, I would say referendum is not a bad idea, it is not a bad option, but the people need to understand why we want Biafra.
“And that’s what Nnamdi Kanu is doing, sanitising his people, creating awareness. And you can see that a lot of people have woken up from their slumber. Most people who are sleeping have come to realise that this is really what it should be. I mean, if he is released and then he stops, it means he’s been defeated or he doesn’t know what he wanted in the first place.
“But if you know the reason why you are asking for something: you are asking for bread because you are hungry, and then you are thrown into jail. Then you released from the jail, but still didn’t receive your bread, you are still hungry. So he would continue, he will, yes,” Kanu’s wife concluded.
http://www.nigeriapoliticsonline.com/51633/

Winner man og

iwaeda:
THEY SHOULD LET US BREATHE — Femi Adesina



https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=313484596805768&id=100044326904709

It's so true

We keep getting up
Today is my birthday

Though, the presidential aide didn’t mention the senator’s name, he claimed some ‘disgruntled, caterwauling religious and political leaders’ are working towards a vote of no confidence on President Muhammadu Buhari.

Adesina said, “There is one funny fellow at the National Assembly, who is always using foul words against the leadership of the country. The more uncouth the words from him, the happier he seems to be. He has, to a large extent, poisoned the minds of people in his region of the country against the government. Evil words inexorably germinate, and bear bitter seeds.

“It was ironic to see the fellow this week talk of massive insecurity in the land, poor state of the economy, and alleged stifling of voices of dissent. This was a character who stood surety for an insurrectionist who then jumped bail. The government has not put the man in the slammers, where he rightly belongs, and he has the temerity to talk of stifling of voices of dissent in the land. Good grief!

“He talked of utilizing all constitutional means to do the needful against the government of the day. Well, every butterfly fancies itself a bird, and the fact that the mangrove tree lives inside the river does not make it a crocodile. Talk is cheap, and dreams cost nothing. The intention of that fellow, and his co-travellers is not really about now. What they are playing is the politics of power grab in 2023, thinking they should muddy the waters before then, as much as possible. When the lobster walks on mud, it stirs it up for everybody. The welfare and well-being of the country and its peoples do not matter.

“The disgruntled, caterwauling religious and political leaders are working towards a vote of no confidence in the President. After that, what next? The DSS (Department of State Services) has indicated support for a united, indivisible Nigeria, stressing that government can only be changed through the electoral process. The military has equally done same, saying it is committed to the present Administration and democratic institutions in the land. Good.”

Abaribe had recently asked Buhari to resign over the spate of insecurity in the country.

He also stood surety for Nnamdi Kanu before the IPOB fled the country.

mktinsight:
Desmond or D for Devil I can see that I am giving you sleepless night. Stop using the word "world class". Bushman like you. What do you know about world class bushman. Have you simple passport?

It's an Anambra thing

We love you

Viva development



Which is called Scorecardism

Abia1stboy:
Abia state is a shithole, we hope for the better

Where is the now abandoned Abia airport project

ForestHill:
BOOM

Na BOOOM BOOOM

AmadiAba:
VIDEO: "BUHARI IS MAD, HE'S COMPLETELY MAD, HE CAN'T JAIL ME, I NNAMDI KANU SAY NO TO SECRET TRIAL"

IPOB SAYS NO TO SECRET TRIAL …… Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of indigenous people of Biafra reacted swiftly yesterday in court over Binta’s ruling to allow masquerades testify against him and initiation of secret trial against him.

Kanu without fear blasted President Muhammadu Buhari for assuming control of the judiciary. Nnamdi Kanu said thus “Buhari is mad, he’s completely mad, he can’t jail me, he is not intelligent enough to jail me, I Nnamdi Kanu say no to secret trial” ………


Read more at http://www.igberetvnews.com/303031#jgheCP2dhKZFsVwA.99


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh288WlI4Fg

Source: http://www.igberetvnews.com/303031

Hero or not this man is brave enough

Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan to contest 2023

It's a developing story

That His Excellency is going to run again for President

Sources

leicestercamper:
Anambra international airport is sandwiched by the two beautiful cities of Onitsha and Awka.

Pics: beautiful city of Onitsha

His Excellency Dr Good luck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan will commission this project to the world