ChimaAdeoye:


The problem with the mentality of a typical Nigerian above of killing or be killed is due to many years of living under Fulani engineered feudal system. A system that does not believe in coexistence. It's either you die and I live, or I die and you'll live. It never even crosses their mind that there is steady population growth in Asaba, in Nnewi, In Ihiala, Awka, Aguleri etc! This new population will need quick access to air services in airports that are not chaotically jam-packed and inefficient like the current Lagos airport. Nigeria is projected to reach about 450 million by 2050, which is less than 29 years away! That will be one and half times greater than the present US population.

The US even at 300 million people, you cannot compare even their least busy international airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Lagos or Abuja airports. This airport is still busier than Lagos or Abuja! Not to mention that it has 3 active runways. Between West Palm Beach - Fort Lauderdale -Miami, there are more than 5 international airports and each of these has more than 3 runways to cope. I have said all these so that you guys can understand that the tiny international airports we have in Nigeria are in fact insufficient to support economic growth in a country of more than 200 million people. Talk more when our population hits 450 million people.

Now apart from huge airports like New York's JFK, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston international airports, a typical American international hub has between 4 -8 active runways. Nigeria can never build such types of airports. Nor do we have the landmass or technology to run them.

In our clime, the best approach is to build one or two-runway international airports and manage them by the flights that go to each. One day, the fake Nigerian federal structure used to stifle economic development in Nigeria will fall apart and people will develop their own region based on need. You simply don't have the land for that type of massive airport facility seen abroad. So we have to build small manageable international airports at Asaba, Umueri, Enugu, etc, and manage the flights that go to each location. Of course, some will be busier than others depending on how large they are able to take many flights and planes at the same time.

Besides, the way our people see land, if you say the total landmass of Anambra state should be used for just one airport with 5 runways, everybody will scream. Even one runway was difficult to find enough land to make sure it was comfortably up to 3.7 KM runway and 1KM RESA at both ends!

That is why there will eventually be another international airport in Orlu in the future and another one at Elele or Isiokpo. That is the only way we can eventually meet the aviation needs of an economy serving even 80 million people living in a tight high-density area where land is a very scarce resource. A model of having multiple medium international airports is the only way it can be done to meet the aviation needs of our people. Those huge aviation hubs we see abroad like in the pictures below, require such vast amounts of land and very high technology to operate that we simply lack both.

Oga,

Thank you very much for illustrating this point so clearly. This is what I have tried so hard to explain to people who think that if only 100 people used flights to Enugu airport in 1980, only 100 people will continue to use flights in the whole region in 2021, 2050, or even forever! Even if we use ourselves as examples, in the year 2000 many of us had never entered an airplane before. Today, many of us have been using airplanes for routine travels between Lagos - Abuja or Lagos to Asaba. In the year 2000, my village didn't have a tarred road and not a single house was owned by a foreigner. Today, the entire place is built up like Lagos with 95% of the houses owned by foreigners! It is called growth and economic development which these people find so hard to realize that it exists. Asaba airport did not cause the closure of Owerri and Enugu airport as they emphatically said would happen then.

Again, those saying the country needs only one MEGA airport without an adequate high-speed train, bridges, and generally fantastic road network to make transportation to that airport efficient and safe from great distances, only say so from jaundiced ethnic consideration.

Moreso, it takes a significant investment in infrastructure to build those types of massive MEGA airports seen abroad. Many of them have their own internal light rail system to take passengers from one terminal to another. They have enough apron (tarmac) that spreads out for miles upon miles for planes to park! In Nigeria, building a tarmac of 200M by 200M is a mega feat! In short, the cost of such mega airports seen abroad is beyond the reach of 3rd world countries like Nigeria. Even rich 3rd world countries like South Africa cannot afford it, not to mention the poor 3rd world countries like Nigeria. The technology and electricity to run such mini-city airports are also non-existent in Nigeria.



By the way, let us appreciate this guy's documentary on Obiano's legacy projects.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEIz03gIMnE

Ebenezer Group of Companies Commissions Animal Feed Production Factory At Nnewi, 1000 Plot Farming Estate For Cultivation of Maize At Ezira.

By David Okpokwasili (ABS News)

Ebenezer Group of Companies has commissioned its animal feed production production factory under its subsidiary, Benza Agro-Allied Company Limited.

The factory will kick off with the production of poultry feeds and feed for fishes.

Also commissioned by proxy at the event was a one-thousand plots of Land for its Benza Farmers Estate, Ezira, Orumba South Local Government Area.

Cutting the tape to officially commission the factory, the Anambra State Commissioner for Agriculture, Chief Nnamdi Onukwuba restated the commitment of the State Government to support investors in the agricultural sector and to make policies that will create favorable business environment for the investments to thrive.

The Agriculture Commissioner while commending the company for heeding the "Akụ Luo Ụnọ" call of the present administration and for her business model which creates the opportunity for with little funds to invest as shareholders, called in youths to look the way of agriculture which is a guaranteed way for job creation.

Earlier, the Managing Director and Chief Executive officer of Ebenezer Group of Companies, Reverend Dr David Onochie said he is motivated because there is need to solve the food insufficiency currently facing the country and believing that Anambra has the capacity to feed itself and Nigeria as well.

Also present at the event include the President of Coscharis Group of Companies, Dr Cosmas Maduka, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Mrs Stephanie Kelly-Uzor, the Foreign partners of Benza Agro-Allied Company Limited, Terratiga Limited represented by their Managing Director, Lagos, Dr Hans Crombach and the Traditional Ruler of Ezira, Igwe Samuel Uche.