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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by tessytessy(f): 5:52pm On Jun 25, 2019
Your e-mail please.
ainas247:
pay the project promoter for the money they have spent.
finish the lekki port first.

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Cotton(m): 5:53pm On Jun 25, 2019
Guyman02:
They moved that project from Bonny in Rivers State to Lagos because of greed from that tribe.
Let them choke on Apapa, Tincan and even Badagry GREEDlock cheesy

Bonny has been settled with NLNG
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Guestlander: 5:53pm On Jun 25, 2019
junkiesneverdie:

There's nothing wrong with doing it that's also an option

An option for people who are completely off their rockers.
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Blue3k(m): 5:54pm On Jun 25, 2019
food4tot:
People are saying they should build the port in Niger Delta but safety is going to be a great concern.

In my opinion, any private company who wants to build a port can do so, as long as consent has been given by the Nigerian government.

Thats a lazy excuse. How does government spend millions of dollars without planning to protect maritime domain? Nigeria has a big issue with piracy abd sea robbery that can be solved by increasing naval budget. Omproving equipment and strategy is key. Ibom seaport for instance is suppose to have naval base near by to protect the it.

Buhari could literally double it he got rid of corrupt security votes.

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Nobody: 5:54pm On Jun 25, 2019
trapQ:
So will you then dredge all the way from Rivers or Delta State to anambra?
There is nothing wrong with dredging rivers delta or to anambra that is another means of improving on the nation's infrastructure and that will also create another means of transportation for the Nigerian citizens that's how is been done in other countries
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by AyakaDunukofia: 5:54pm On Jun 25, 2019
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HOW IGBOLAND IS LANDLOCKED INDEED


By Dr. Ikedi Ohakim

“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 land-locked, 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 dreadlocks 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 tenor 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”.

Exercpts from H/E: Dr. Ikedi Ohakim being a keynote address at the first Chinua Achebe International Conference at UNN on
23/05/2017.
Posted 24th July 2017 by Unknown

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Nobody: 5:55pm On Jun 25, 2019
Guestlander:


An option for people who are completely off their rockers.
for us as a nation to practice true federalism we should learn as a nation to think out-of-the-box
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Guestlander: 6:01pm On Jun 25, 2019
junkiesneverdie:

for us as a nation to practice true federalism we should learn as a nation to think out-of-the-box

True federalism does not include building a sea port where there's no sea. One of the advantages of federalism is the fact that the federating units can share resources.

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Blue3k(m): 6:04pm On Jun 25, 2019
mapet:


The both within proximity narrative does not seem a strong enough argument to me. Badagry port is of strategic importance to both local and regional corridor. It is supposed to be integrated into the Lagos - Benin-Togo-Ghana-Abijan super road-rail-ports network project to facilitate high volume commerce across these countries. If you are canceling because of quality of Port Master project, then by all means review the damn thing. A comparative analysis with other port considerations should ideally tell which one takes priority.

Then have the cost and time of arbitration been factored? Sometimes it is better to agree to modify the TOR, quality & other stuffs than arbitration....

It's odd to me as well considering it already made this far despite the bureaucracy. Assuming the port is getting rail like Buhari directed it can still serve its purpose in another state. I'll just have a wait an see attitude since I haven't read master plan. Im still looking for the link to it.

If this arbitration goes like the other nigeria loses and pays up. Those promoters and business men going to be livid if they bought land in preparation for project thst may not be in state.

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by TSRC: 7:58pm On Jun 25, 2019
food4tot:
People are saying they should build the port in Niger Delta but safety is going to be a great concern.

In my opinion, any private company who wants to build a port can do so, as long as consent has been given by the Nigerian government.
Why do we have the NAVY? They get billions of dollars in allocation and should enforce saftety in those waters as a matter of economic necessity.

Your argument is as ridiculous as when they said kaduna indigenes abandon the roads and use the rails due to insecurity.

How feasible is that in the long run if everybody abandons the road, just like it would be seriously detrimental to our economic prospects if all our export business is concentrated in tiny lagos.

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by mapet: 8:26pm On Jun 25, 2019
TSRC:

The sea port in lagos can do whatever business in that corridor.
Repair the apapa road, remove inefficiencies and it would be enough.

There are better places to spend that money.

Well, that there are "better places" needs to be proven by a holistic value-analysis. I know there's a quest to spread ports development across the country. Such must be balanced by dynamics & variables. We don't want to have the likes of "Kaduna Refinery" & Ajaokuta SRM on our hands.

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by mapet: 8:33pm On Jun 25, 2019
Blue3k:


It's odd to me as well considering it already made this far despite the bureaucracy. Assuming the port is getting rail like Buhari directed it can still serve its purpose in another state. I'll just have a wait an see attitude since I haven't read master plan. Im still looking for the link to it.

If this arbitration goes like the other nigeria loses and pays up. Those promoters and business men going to be livid if they bought land in preparation for project thst may not be in state.

1. We have a pattern of loosing at arbitration; seems to our lawyers do not cover our asses during the contracting stages. In the power sector, the EMT realized it was a loss cause going to courts......

2. I feel Badagry port should even take more priority over Lekki considering it's strategic location and accessibility all-ways.

3. Like Bismarck Rewane argued we need to consciously allow forces of free-markets to grow. The forces over time will stimulate quantum-leap development. I believe if we can get border ports built, the volumes and overflows will in turn stimulate the development inland/regional ports

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by asha80(m): 8:40pm On Jun 25, 2019
chrisxxx:
I was NPA PH today things tend to be happening there now.
things like what

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by ainas247: 9:15pm On Jun 25, 2019
tessytessy:
Your e-mail please.

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by 2eggs1goal: 9:18pm On Jun 25, 2019
They should move some of this port to other state nau... is not a most everything must be in Lagos
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by TSRC: 9:24pm On Jun 25, 2019
mapet:


Well, that there are "better places" needs to be proven by a holistic value-analysis. I know there's a quest to spread ports development across the country. Such must be balanced by dynamics & variables. We don't want to have the likes of "Kaduna Refinery" & Ajaokuta SRM on our hands.
Holiatic value?
How about the fact that Nigeria is concentrating its economy in the tiniest state that cannot expand beyond a certain point?

How about the fact that other access to the atlantic is being under utiilized?

What is wrong with spreading devt? Is that not the function of govt and nationhood?
You think it is prudent concentrating devt in lagos?

Because ports drives devt. Amy region that wants industries must have a port, and it is criminal even, to have the natural opportunity and not utilize it.

Lagos is at its equilibrium. Any other major FG investment is just detrimental.

Any serious govt must begin to look elsewhere to create an economic center for the good of everybody.
And the south south fits the bill. Access to the sea and abundant energy sources.
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by TSRC: 9:28pm On Jun 25, 2019
2eggs1goal:
They should move some of this port to other state nau... is not a most everything must be in Lagos
Imagine.
Lagos is so used up that they want to reclaim land from the sea when potentially more viable states are lying fallow.
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by 2eggs1goal: 9:32pm On Jun 25, 2019
TSRC:

Imagine.
Lagos is so used up that they want to reclaim land from the sea when potentially more viable states are lying fallow.
Seriously man, Lagos is max out..
Visionary leader are really lacking in 9ja...
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Emanodimo(m): 9:56pm On Jun 25, 2019
junkiesneverdie:
Can we as Nigerians be rational for once!!! Great move by the Federal government I hope they cancel it permanently how can you have 3 seaports in one state when there are other States like Cross River, Delta, Anambra and Rivers State that needs more improvements on their ports we are complaining of a papa gridlock and here we are trying to build new seaports in the same Lagos that is too congested how about moving to other parts of Nigeria must everything be centred in Lagos.. this is the injustice people are crying and talking about...

Well, if it's NPA project, it doesn't makes sense having 3 deep seaport in Lagos, that will further increase conjestion.
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by legitnow: 9:57pm On Jun 25, 2019
Blue3k:


If they're cancelling this over its proximity to lekki they can build another deep seaport in Ondo. That governor has been asking for this project forever. Hopefully they get better deal after renegotiating contract. Where is the port master plan?



She sounds confused aren't same project under different names?


AND YORUBA ARE NOT GREEDY.

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by legitnow: 9:58pm On Jun 25, 2019
NIGERDELTA FROM WHERE THE MONEY IS COMING, DONT DESERVE DEEP SEAPORT, DESPITE THEIR OCEAN FRONT.
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Blue3k(m): 10:08pm On Jun 25, 2019
legitnow:



AND YORUBA ARE NOT GREEDY.

Lol you're crying why? You already know Ibom seaport is in works. That's 2 deep sea ports so far the rest are being planned out. The current ones dont matter long term just concession them to who ever.
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Emanodimo(m): 10:08pm On Jun 25, 2019
Providing seaport must be strategic.

One is needed in Niger Delta to serve them & SE.
One is needed in Ondo to serve the Hinterland to Kogi & Kwara up North.
Apapa will remain to serve Lagos and the SW.

Seaport can't be built in the North but border post will be needed to guide against criminals..

Uhmm....the North deserve airport built by FGN.
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Nnahokwudiri: 10:17pm On Jun 25, 2019
I might be wrong but Intels were suppose to run a BOT(BUILD, OPERATE AND TRANSFER) on that sea port project at Badagry. Atiku owns intels .
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Orthello: 10:28pm On Jun 25, 2019
Guestlander:


Where in Anambra do you want to construct a deep sea port?
Not everything can be sited anywhere.
What do you mean by "deep sea port" sir?
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Orthello: 10:30pm On Jun 25, 2019
Guestlander:


True federalism does not include building a sea port where there's no sea. One of the advantages of federalism is the fact that the federating units can share resources.
What's the difference between a sea port and a river port sir?
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by omohayek: 10:37pm On Jun 25, 2019
Emanodimo:


Well, if it's NPA project, it doesn't makes sense having 3 deep seaport in Lagos, that will further increase conjestion.
The whole point of the contract is that it's not the NPA (or any other organ of the Nigerian government) putting its own money on the line. If private investors decide that the best place for them to put their money is into yet another port in Lagos, anyone who disagrees is free to go raise the funds to create their own alternative somewhere else, and then let the market sort out who got it right.

Currently the Apapa port only handles 1 million containers a year, less than 1/10th what Antwerp manages in the same time frame, less than 1/20th what Hong Kong handles, and less than 1/33rd of what Singapore's single port deals with, so all this chatter about Lagos being "overcongested" and whatnot is mere idle speculation, founded upon nothing more than the decades of under-investment and mismanagement the Apapa ports have suffered under FG control. The real rationale behind investors wanting to create alternatives nearby is because that would give them the freedom to run things efficiently and for-profit, which will never happen as long as Nigerian governments refuse to cede meaningful control over the existing facilities. Otherwise, there is no reason why the Apapa ports alone couldn't be brought to handle all of Nigeria's non-oil imports and exports with just a moderate amount of investment - Nigeria's current total foreign trade is nowhere close to the level of Hong Kong or Singapore in terms of sheer bulk, let alone commercial value.

This widespread assumption that ports are supposed to be allocated by government is as absurd as the reasoning which brought about the location of a refinery in Kaduna, far away from the natural location any private investor would have chosen. This is not the sort of thing to be squandering precious government funds on, even as clean water, basic healthcare, primary education and so many other vital things are being neglected. A sane government should be carefully cultivating foreign investors who know how to run ports and have deep pockets to invest in Nigeria, not willfully indulging in contractual disputes that make Nigeria seem an even more unattractive option than it already does thanks to rampant corruption.

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Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by litaninja(m): 11:02pm On Jun 25, 2019
Next Levu!
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by Banmeallday: 11:06pm On Jun 25, 2019
Nigger Area is just confused
Re: NPA Cancels $2.6bn Badagry Deep Seaport Contract by deomelo: 11:20pm On Jun 25, 2019
Blue3k:


If they're cancelling this over its proximity to lekki they can build another deep seaport in Ondo. That governor has been asking for this project forever. Hopefully they get better deal after renegotiating contract. Where is the port master plan?



She sounds confused aren't same project under different names?

She sounds very very confused and her rational for counseling the project sounds very very films and anti investments and development.

This is a very very bad decision and they will lose in any court of law.

The private company and the promoter of the project is APM Terminals aka Maersk, one of the largest if not the largest port developers and operators in the world so saying affiliating this company with any inferior or substandard preliminary port work sounds very fishy.

This company build and operate the best port facilities in the world.

It is obvious that the NPA is carrying water bottle on behalf of other people and entities at the expense of genuine investments and the interest of Nigeria

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