Southeast and by extension, Igboland has access to the Sea, Rivers, Water Ways  to Atlantic Ocean but some ignorant Nigerians cannot learn the geography and history that is evident and factual on ground in southeast and Nigeria. They love to be ignorant despite facts in their land. What a people with Nigerians and Africans mentality of denial of facts as long as it massages their ego and wishful thinking.

Lets use a simple arithmetic to teach the ignorants in these forums that Igboland is not land locked. Fact one, IkwerreLand/Porharcourt and Porthhacourt seaport was dredged 40 to 50  Miles to sea from the Bonny River to Atlantic Ocean. Onne SeaPort in Ogoni land was dredged 50 to 60 Miles to Sea from Bonny River for Larger ships to Atlantic Ocean. Calabar Seaport is dredged 45 nautical miles to Atlantic Ocean. Akwa Ibom Ibaka deep seaport is about 30 nautical miles to Atlantic Ocean without dredging and the best seaport location in depth and width in Eastern Nigeria. Then open your dummy eyes and ears again.

PROPOSED 2 (TWO) SEA PORTS IN OBEAKU- NDOKI AND  AZUMIRI SEAPORTS  IN ABIA STATE.

Obuaku Ndoki Port in Abia State is only 25 nautical miles to the Atlantic Ocean from the confluence of Imo River and Azumiri (blue River) in Abia State, which is a large and deep body water of high flowing and rich rivers. Azumiri  Blue River in Abia State is also 25-30 nautical miles to Atlantic Ocean for a big Seaport and big ships. Many Igbo towns and villages  in Imo State, Abia State, Anambra State and Anioma are within  30 minutes to one hour drive to the Sea Atlantic Ocean. That is not land lock you dummies.


7 (SEVEN) SEA PORTS AND POTENTIAL SEAPOPORT UNDERWAY IN EASTERN PARTS OF NIGERIA.

(1)PORTHARCOURT SEAPORT - IN RIVERS STATE ALONG BONNY RIVER IS 45 NAUTICAL MILES TO ATLANTIC OCEAN
(2) ONNE SEAPORT - IN RIVERS STATE ALONG BONNY RIVER IS 50 NAUTICAL MILES TO  ATLANTIC  OCEAN
(3) CALABAR SEAPORT- IN CROSS RIVERS STATE IS 45 NAUTICAL MILES TO ATLANTIC OCEAN
(4) IBAKA SEAPORT-IN AKWA IBOM STATE IS  30 NAUTICAL MILES TO ATLANTIC OCEAN
(5)OBEAKU-NDOKI SEAPORT- IN ABIA STATE IS 25 NAUTICAL MILES TO OCEAN (PROPOSED UNDER PLANNING)
(6) AZUMIRI IN ABIA STATE CONFLUENCE BLUE RIVER IS 30 NAUTICAL MILES TO ATLANTIC OCEAN (PROPOSED AND PLANNING UNDERWAY)
(7) ONITSHA INLAND RIVER PORT IN ANAMBRA STATE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.


Ever since the Abia State Government announced their intention to bring a Sea Port to the state, there have been many questions raised. I reached out to a source at the Government House, Umuahia to obtain clarity. I was told that the proposed location for the seaport is in Obuaku, Ukwa West, LGA. Right in Obuaku, there is a confluence point where the Imo River and the Blue River meet. The Obuaku confluence passes through Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State. In Rivers state for instance,  (along Bonny River) we have Portharcourt Seaport and  we have the Sea Port located in Onne, Eleme L.G.A. Onne,This is Nigeria’s busiest sea port and ranks as the largest sea port in west Africa. Did you know that while Rivers State (Porharcourt Sea Port) sits 40 nautical miles away from the Atlantic Ocean and Onne Port in River State along Bonny River sits 50 Nautical Miles away from the Atlantic Ocean. Obuaku  Blue River and Azumiri Rivers is only 25 nautical miles to the Atlantic Ocean? To some, this talk about a sea port in Abia state may sound unrealistic but, it is not far fetched. Even if it does not get realized by the T. A administration, this legacy project will come to fruition in no distant time.


Igboland is not landlocked according to United Nation treaty, International law OF THE Sea and African Union laws. Igboland has many Rivers, Canals, Waterways, Lake and bays in Imo State, Anambra state, Anioma, Asaba and Abia States which flows into the Atlantic Oceans and the Sea and many a distance of 30 minutes drive.
FACTS ON GROUND
Development of a Sea-Port at Obuaku-Ndoki:  many Nigerians, even including many enlightened sons and daughters of Nd’igbo, had, out of geographical ignorance, borne the impression that the South-East of Nigeria is land-locked. But being a visionary leader, the truth is now being made manifest that the Blue River/Imo River confluence at Obuaku-Ndoki is only twenty-five nautical miles to the Atlantic Ocean. We are thankful that your administration is working committedly to establishing a sea-port at the confluence town of Obuaku.
AN ADDRESS PRESENTED BY THE PEOPLE OF ABIA-SOUTH SENATORIAL ZONE ON THE OCCASION OF A GRAND CIVIC RECEPTION FOR HIS EXCELLENCY, GOVERNOR T. A. ORJI (OCHENDO GLOBAL) AT ABIA STATE POLYTECHNIC, ABA ON 1ST FEBRUARY, 2014.
 AS SCRIPTED BY CHIEF (SIR) DON UBANI; KSC, JP (OKWUBUNKA OF ASA)

 Chief (Sir) Don Ubani; ksc, JP 11/06/2013
"further inward by thinking of laying a bigger foundation of economy for not only Abia State but the whole of the South-East geo-political zone by formally conceptualizing the establishment of a sea-port at Obeaku-Ndoki, in Ukwa-East Local Government Area.
 Embarking on a road map that will ginger his successor to see to the realization of a sea-port in Abia State, would correct the erroneous impression widely held by uninformed Nigerians that the South-East zone of Nigeria is land-locked. This is very far from the truth.The Imo River, which originates from Umuaku in Isuochi of Umunneochi Local Government Area meandered its way up to Obeaku-Ndoki, from where it emptied itself into the Atlantic Ocean. It is very strategic to mention that the distance between Obeaku-Ndoki and the Atlantic Ocean, which commences not far from Igwenga in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area of Akwa-Ibom State, is only twenty-five nautical miles.For the avoidance of doubt, any zone that enjoys a proximity of even thirty nautical miles to a maritime endowment such as the Atlantic Ocean, should not in any way categorize itself as being land-locked. For the benefit of those who do not know, Port-Harcourt wharf is about forty nautical miles to the Atlantic Ocean. It was dredged and scooped during the Premiership of Dr. M.I. Okpara during the defunct Eastern Region for ships to berth therein. If Port-Harcourt wharf could be made accessible to ships despite its fourty-nautical-mile distance to the Atlantic Ocean, it justifiably stands to reason that Obeaku-Ndoki Wharf, which is only twenty-five nautical miles to the Atlantic Ocean, could be more readily and profitably accessed by ships. Since Nigeria parades a galaxy of consultants in marine engineering, obtaining professional advice in this regards may not be far from reach."
 Chief (Sir) Don Ubani; ksc, JP(Okwubunka of Asa) Umuiku-Isi-Asa Ukwa-West L.G.A. P.M.B 7048 Aba

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FACTS ON GROUND BY Vincent Erondu 
'Without Ikwerre the hinterland Igbos have many access to the sea. Port Harcourt came to prominence as from 1913 because of the development of the sea port and the Eastern Railway line. During the oil Rivers trade and the slave trade era Port Harcourt was not a factor in those trades. The trade route was through Azumini River through Ohambele via Opobo to Bonny (Ubani). At Bonny commodities were loaded and shipped overseas. Another route in fact the ealier route was through Cross River Aro chukwu to Calabar. Aboh, Onitsha and Ugwuta were also important sea routes to Atlantic ocean. Ikwerre is not wanted by the Igbo for any specific thing or need. The issue is matter of historical distortion and revisionism.

 Talking about Port Harcourt, Igweocha is a common name for Port Harcourt, this name is a descripton of how the horrizon seems to be touching the ocean from a plain sea shore view. Its ancient name was odinaobu. We also have Igwenga. These names are spelt in various ways depending on the dialect of the writer.

Vincent Erondu   

You can get more information about Southeast's access to the Sea by asking google.com or via this link

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/okonkwonetworks/Rxb42OACns0

The children of falling demon will soon come to display their stupidity.

Tell them.

Abeg show them map

Lol

I comment my reserve

As an afonja i dont like dis.

But like seriously, why should people keep misinforming Nigerians? I thank God that all those old lies are now being identified one after the other. The decades of spell of lies and brainwash is now clearing from the eyes and brains of some people and tribes with great speed.
I must confess, I just have this feeling that had it been that the people that divided Igboland by cutting off their brothers and sisters and putting them into another zone....If they knew about this part that leads to the Ocean, they would have still crossed Imo River into Ukwa West and added Ukwa West into Rivers State to join Obigbo as South-south.... And they will then tell us that Ukwa West people are not Igbos and that Igbo is "Highly" Landlocked....

But God works in mysterious ways that no human being can understand. There is an Igbo song/idiom which goes thus, "Ima nke a, Ima nke ozo?" Meaning "You know this one, but do you know the other one?" That goes to the people that did that divide and rule.

OP AND DZ UR QUESTI0NS #MEANWHILE DIS SEAS0N 4-0 FALL ON ANYBODY #UTD!

Lmao

Again, to even make it more wonderful, this two rivers Obuaku and Azumiri (blue river) are 25 and 30 nautical miles respectively to the sea. Which is far closer to the sea than all the other seaports which were also dredged in the east (the region now called south-south) to the sea.
So my people, who is fooling who?

No lies from Afonja media moves me. My focus is on the target and the target is Biafra.

Please also read and note that this particular access point is different from the project in Onitsha... this one is in Osemoto/Oseokwa i.e IMO-ABAMBRA state. And it is just 18 nautical miles to the Atlantic ocean even far closer than those of Obuaku (25 nautical miles to the sea), Azumini (30 nautical miles to the sea), Onne port, Warri, Port Harcourt, etc.

http://regulusnews.com/2017/06/02/dr-ikedi-ohakim-south-east-is-not-landlocked/

https://www.nairaland.com/3837099/dr-ikedi-ohakim-south-east

Please, let it be known from today that South East is not landlocked. It is only our economy that is locked. One quick way of unlocking the economy of South East is through marine business.

Contrary to the impression that the South East is landlocked, the truth is that it has one of the potentially deepest seaports in the country at Osemoto/Oseokwa in Imo and Anambra States.

A seaport was designated there in 1959, but the project was abandoned and the admiralty member erased for obvious political reasons. African Development Bank (ADB) feasibility report on this is unambiguous.

Oseokwa (Ihiala LGA, Anambra State) and Osemoto (Oguta LGA, Imo State) are the deepest natural harbor in the country (over 20m deep) and offer real naval and marine transportation platforms if developed. Besides, it lies only 18 nautical miles to the Atlantic Ocean and a strategic hub for the oil industry and inland dry-docks to promote trade.

This potential seaport has the capacity of handling over 35 per cent of marine business in Nigeria. As a matter of fact, it was the attraction to these potentials that made my administration in Imo state to site the Oguta Wonder Lake and Resort Centre in the area to encourage the federal government and foreign investors. If Ndigbo pursue and complete the seaport, it will also open up over 3,000 square kilometers of the most fertile agricultural land that has one of the highest alluvial deposits which has been in existence for well over a million years.

My pursuit of this revolutionary project attracted both national and international panic and may have cost me second tenure as governor (see “Demoracy By Military Tank” by Ethelbert Okere).

This deep seaport will create over two million jobs, directly and indirectly, in marine business, oil and gas, power, education, housing, agro-food industry, entertainment, tourism, etc. With that type of setting, Igbo youths will have no need to crisscross the country in search of jobs and in the process endangering their young lives.

Excerpts of his lecture delivered at the First International Chinua Achebe Conference held at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu State, on Tuesday 23 May, 2017.

Make I park here with my shakabula.

What has Nigeria achieved as a country with her many seaports? What a country needs to prosper is not seaports but good leadership, fairness, wisdom and accountability. With wisdom you can create another Avenue for importation and exportation.

why cant our governors develope this port?

let us share this in our various pages on Facebook,whatsap,twiter etc.Let us publicise it so that it can get attention and possible our leaders may do so some thing to activate it.

SlayerForever:
No lies from Afonja media moves me. My focus is on the target and the target is Biafra.

pls share it in all your biafra groups.lets publicise it .

Cool

That means Niger Republic is not landlocked because international treaty and UN will mandate Nigeria to allow seafaring from Niger to the Atlantic Ocean.

As for Port Hacourt and other coastal states, try to get your abandoned properties first after 50 years. Then you will know your likelihood of success if you are to lay any claim to any path way after the Niger bridge.

As far as international law is concerned the applicable rule in Nigeria subject only to war as in Sudan or Consent of the parent nation state is Uti possidetis.
Uti possidestis is a principle used to define postcolonial oundaries
in Latin America, Asia, and Africa is a doctrine under which newly
independent states inherit the preindependence administrative
boundaries set by the former colonial power.The doctrine posits
that title to the colonial territory devolves to the local authorities
and prevails over any competing claim based on occupation.Thus,
uti possidetis is predicated on a rejection of self-determination. SEE TERRITORIAL DISPUTES AT THE
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
BRIAN TAYLOR SUMNER for more enlightenment.

That means Niger Republic is not landlocked because international treaty and UN will mandate Nigeria to allow seafaring from Niger to the Atlantic Ocean.

As for Port Hacourt and other coastal states, try to get your abandoned properties first after 50 years. Then you will know your likelihood of success if you are to lay any claim to any path way after the Niger bridge.

As far as international is concerned the applicable rule in Nigeria subject only to war as in Sudan or Consent of the parent nation state is Uti possidetis.
Uti possidestis is a principle used to define postcolonial oundaries
in Latin America, Asia, and Africa is a doctrine under which newly
independent states inherit the preindependence administrative
boundaries set by the former colonial power.The doctrine posits
that title to the colonial territory devolves to the local authorities
and prevails over any competing claim based on occupation.Thus,
uti possidetis is predicated on a rejection of self-determination. SEE TERRITORIAL DISPUTES AT THE
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
BRIAN TAYLOR SUMNER for more enlightenment.

Hollysaint:
why cant our governors develope this port?

Because such an expensive project only makes sense if Igbo land is an independent country

Which Governor will commit billions to a project that has alternatives such as Lagos port and Portharcourt wharf?

Igbo land isnt landlocked, only ignorant people think it is.

People just look at 5 Igbo states without coastline and jump to the conclusion that Igbos are landlocked.

What these people dont know is that Igbo land is much larger than the 5 states ascribed to them even if some argue that Ikwerres are not Igbos (Governor Chibuike Amaechi recently said in an interview that nobody should deny him his Igbo heritage)

Another thing people dont see when the look at the Nigerian map are the Rivers and water ways.

It may surprise a lot of people to know that Anambra, Imo, Abia and Ebonyi all have access to the Ocean

Indiaindia:
I TINK IT'S TOO MUCH FOR THIS IBOS IT'S HI TIME TO WIPE THEM OFF THE NATION JUST AS SODOM/GOMORA WERE WIPED OFF

Mynda44, this is clear violation of rule 2. Wishing harm on an entire nation. Do the needful.

Op even Niger republic has access to the sea

Didn't know about this fact until naw


Tnx op for bringing this to limelight I appreciate

After biafra war federal government tried to push most igbo land to south south and thereby land lockIng south east but they failed by making a huge mistake,
Abia state still has access to sea

Hollysaint:
pls share it in all your biafra groups.lets publicise it .

No P

Afonjas will be looking at this thread with bad eye....they don't like seeing anything good happening to Igbos.

OP...don't forget Warri seaport.