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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by FSBoperator: 3:28pm On Jun 30, 2023
Cooly100:


Just read you post now...

Take a deep breath or get some fresh air you are now totally losing it..grabbing all you can see...like a drunk seeing double..

I am done with you...utterly poor fellow who need love...

Go and get a girlfriend....


Chased another Okoro away.

Begone and never come back.


Land Thief.

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Cooly100: 3:34pm On Jun 30, 2023
FSBoperator:



Chase another Okoro away.

Begone and never come back.


Land Thief.

Little man...

This is land in SE and people are begged to buy...you can buy any property here if you have the money...

So which land are you talking about?

Igbos have never dragged land with any one...

I hope you are alright...though?

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by FSBoperator: 3:36pm On Jun 30, 2023
Cooly100:


Little man...

This is land in SE and people are begged to buy...you can buy any property here if you have the money...

So which land are you talking about?

Igbos have never dragged land with any one...

I hope you are alright...though?



Who wan buy land for Clifford Orji land ?

I get land already and not looking at another man's land

Besides that land is also too expensive like your retired but not tired olosho women you pay through your nose to marry.

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Cooly100: 3:41pm On Jun 30, 2023
FSBoperator:



Who wan buy land for Clifford Orji land ?


I get land already and not looking at another man's land

Besides that land is also too expensive like your retired but not tired olosho women you pay through your nose to marry.


Does this make you a serious human being...?

There are many cheap land you can get for between 500K - 1 million

I know multidimensional poverty is your biggest problem..even as you live inside your ocean cheesy

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Akungitit: 3:43pm On Jun 30, 2023
How can you build a seaport when you have no sea?
😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by FSBoperator: 3:45pm On Jun 30, 2023
Cooly100:


Does this make you a serious human being...?

There are many cheap land you can get for between 500K - 1 million

I know multidimensional poverty is your biggest problem..even as you live inside your ocean cheesy


Why will I buy land in okoroville of all places ?

What will I be doing in Okoro town ?

See all that laterite red mud in that pic you posted, that's gully erosion in the making.

What will make me buy or own property in the yeast?

Pls tell me what I am missing when 80% of your people have fled it for better saner climes

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by FSBoperator: 3:45pm On Jun 30, 2023
Akungitit:
How can you build a seaport when you have no sea?
😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣


That's Okoro logic we are trying to understand since morning.

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by tungamaje: 3:53pm On Jun 30, 2023
Typing:
South EAST is landlocked. They have no access to the Sea. How will Ships access that Region?
Are you no more happy they want to leave Lagos for Yorubas? Support them nau

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by proeast(m): 4:04pm On Jun 30, 2023
FSBoperator:



Who wan buy land for Clifford Orji land ?

I get land already and not looking at another man's land

Besides that land is also too expensive like your retired but not tired olosho women you pay through your nose to marry.


Is it our fault that you're poor? Land is always expensive in high value areas. That's why lands in Lagos, Abuja, SE and SS are expensive while lands in SW and North are dirt cheap.

That's also the reason most of you keep talking nonsense about Igbos not selling land to outsiders. Anybody who can afford it will easily buy lands in SE. But if you need dirt cheap lands then go to the North or SW outside Lagos region.

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by FSBoperator: 4:06pm On Jun 30, 2023
proeast:


Is it our fault that you're poor? Land is always expensive in high value areas. That's why lands in Lagos, Abuja, SE and SS are expensive while lands in SW and North are dirt cheap.

That's also the reason most of you keep talking nonsense about Igbos not selling land to outsiders. Anybody who can afford it will easily buy lands in SE. But if you need dirt cheap lands then go to the North or SW outside Lagos region.

Lol

Nah so Una go boast say Una pay big bride price for one used olosho .


Not everyone is like you with a covetous spirit.

And what in God's name go carry me go cannibal zone?

I dey mad nii?

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by proeast(m): 4:09pm On Jun 30, 2023
Akungitit:
How can you build a seaport when you have no sea?
😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂🤣

Ignorance shouldn't be celebrated. All you need is a big river that is connected to a sea. There are several of such Rivers in Igboland that are close to Atlantic ocean.

Most ports that were built in Nigeria weren't built on the shore, they were built inland. Including the ones in Lagos, Rivers, and Delta etc.

Go back to secondary school, kiddo.

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by proeast(m): 4:12pm On Jun 30, 2023
FSBoperator:


Lol

Nah so Una go boast say Una pay big bride price for one used olosho .


Not everyone is like you with a covetous spirit.

And what in God's name go carry me go cannibal zone?

I dey mad nii?


You keep yapping about olosho, it seems you're surrounded by them.

Talking about ritual and other disgusting fetish, it is far more prevalent in SW than anywhere else in Nigeria.

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by proeast(m): 4:50pm On Jun 30, 2023
paramakina202:


So Anambra state is now closer to the ocean than Abia state?
Is like saying one location in Kogi state is 15 mile to the ocean while a location in Anambra is 40 miles to the ocean how did it happen.
Btw SE can build River Ports not Sea ports because we do not have ocean shore in SE.

First picture below is the aerial picture of Onne ports, Rivers State. The other two are from Lagos.

Can you now see they're all inland and Atlantic ocean is no where to be found, until ships navigate several miles? If you can't call these ones river ports, then why call the ones in SE river ports since there is no difference?

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Arapmoi22: 4:55pm On Jun 30, 2023
LOVEALAIGBO:


There are two points there where ocean-going ships can access Obuaku and Afikpo. Can’t speak for the other places mentioned as possible sites for seaports in the south-east/Alaigbo.

The one of Afikpo will pass through Cross-River territory, and assuming they’re a country of their own, bilateral agreements favourable to both sides can be signed….or if it makes better economic sense, and our neighbours are ok with it, a independent Alaigbo can invest and co-own ports in either Calabar or Ibaka! I wouldn’t advise a independent Alaigbo to have anything to do with Port Harcourt, for a number of reasons!

The Obuaku option is a much better one as far as my knowledge goes….even better than the one currently planned for Oguta, and it’s a testament to how inactive and visionless the immediate past Abia gov’t was that the project didn’t get off the ground! In the event of Nigerias’ disintegration, the body of water leading to Obuaku would become a international waterway…with ships heading to Obuaku seaport passing our Opobo cousins on the left and the Republic of Akwa-Ibom/Akwa-Cross on the right.

Assuming, without conceding, that a independent Alaigbo/Biafra is landlocked, as many Igbo haters wish and get wet dreams about, we still have a number of good options at our disposal.


Sorry I had to give my 30 minutes to get this done.

1. I located Afikpo (as marked out with a layer of shade).
2. To the East of Afikpo is Cross River (demarcates Ebonyi from C/Rivers state.
3. The Cross River is about 600metres wide at the point marked across with yellow line.
4. Cross River have several narrow and silty sections through its 170km to the Nearest Open Sea at the south-eastern side of Oron.
5. At the Cross section across the Cross River (the widest point) marked with yellow line, the elevation at the River Bed is about 6m, and the Highest point at the River Bank is 11m.
6. Assuming the River is always filled to the highest point of Elev. of 11m, the Water depth would have been max. 3-5m.
7. If you have to dredge Cross River to depth of 8-15m to make it Navigable for smaller ships, what will be the environmental impact on the shoreline of the river?
8. Dredging means the water level goes down to fill the new base of the river. This implies more erosional impact from the tributaries and and runoffs from towns and villages.
9. The new erosion brings with it more Silt to fill the river again (it is a cycle).
10. Continuous dredging means continuous erosion.
11. The South East has the most erodible soil in Nigeria (Sandy/Silt mostly).
12. The longest section of Cross River is shared by Cross River state and Akwa Ibom State. Ebonyi and South East has only 20 kms of the river from Afikpo before it loses exclusive right to Cross River State and then Akwa Ibom downstream.

In all, there are more considerations to be detailed, particularly EIA before we can talk of River Port.
Don't mention SEA PORT again, that is senseless. A bigger River Niger did not have Sea port because it doesn't exist.

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Gajagojo: 4:56pm On Jun 30, 2023
mrvitalis:

Creek n river what's the difference


Landlocked people won't understand
I said ocean creek
Ocean creek That is clear English
That means it contains sea water/ocean water. I.e. salt water and is an inward channel of the sea

Rivers are of fresh water not salt water. They drain into the sea

Even the fish they contain are different
Fish that can survive the sea may not survive in rivers and vice versa

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Akungitit: 5:07pm On Jun 30, 2023
proeast:


Ignorance shouldn't be celebrated. All you need is a big river that is connected to a sea. There are several of such Rivers in Igboland that are close to Atlantic ocean.

Most ports that were built in Nigeria weren't built on the shore, they were built inland. Including the ones in Lagos, Rivers, and Delta etc.

Go back to secondary school, kiddo.

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Akungitit: 5:15pm On Jun 30, 2023
IPOBLAND is a landlocked DOT NATION, it is impossible to build a seaport in a landlocked NATION. The real reason the Biafrans were defeated in the civil war is because the Nigerian army cut off food and arms supply by shutting down seaports in Nigeria which surrounds IPOBLAND. The only reason Biafra can not and will never have it's own country today is because it has no route to the sea and that's one of the reasons they're so obsessed with including the South South in Biafra. Go back to primary school kid.

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Chiefpriestt: 5:47pm On Jun 30, 2023
Typing:
South EAST is landlocked. They have no access to the Sea. How will Ships access that Region?
You're just an Illiterate
Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Odibembem: 6:04pm On Jun 30, 2023
proeast:
Over the years, there has been arguments and politicization on the need to build viable seaports in the SE. However, it has become an urgent need now. With the removal of fuel subsidy, any region that is capable of landing fuel directly will become more viable than others. Fuel is cheapest in Lagos and most expensive in NE because of this factor. Also, Lagos needs to breath instead of the current suffocation there. Once there is a viable competition to Lagos, tension in that city will reduce. NC and NE will also benefit because it will make fuel and other imports cheaper in those regions.

Abia, Imo and Anambra States all have the potentials to build deep seaports that can berth large vessels comfortably! [/b]Before anyone decides to argue blindly, here are the facts on ground about ports in Nigeria and their positions:

[b]1. Ibaka, Akwa Ibom state; 30 miles to Atlantic.
2. Lagos State; 50 miles to Atlantic.
3. P.H, Rivers State; 50 miles to Atlantic.
4. Onne, Rivers State; 60 miles to Atlantic.

Now compare all these ports to those in SE:
1. Osemoto, Imo State; 18 miles to Atlantic.
2. Oseakwa, Anambra state; 18 miles to Atlantic.
3. Obuaku, Abia State; 25 miles to Atlantic.


The most intriguing part is that the designated ports in Osemoto/Oseakwa axis offer the deepest natural ports as well as the closest to Atlantic, thereby making them potentially the most viable and easiest to maintain in Nigeria!

Any state in the SE that first builds a viable port will automatically become the richest in the region, but also one of the richest states in Nigeria.


How can Anambra, Abia and Imo be closer to the Atlantic Ocean than Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom whose continental shelf rest directly with d Atlantic. Why do u guys just ridicule yourselves anyhow? Does Anambra, Abia and Imo have continental shelves? Haba Nnamdi!!!!

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Typing: 6:24pm On Jun 30, 2023
Chiefpriestt:
You're just an Illiterate

cool

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Typing: 6:36pm On Jun 30, 2023
tungamaje:

Are you no more happy they want to leave Lagos for Yorubas? Support them nau

We no hold them. Make them they go their 3 and half indegeneous States. Which are Abia, Ebonyi, Imo and half of Enugu States.

Anambra and half of Enugu States are IGALA ancestral Land and the North will never allow them go with an inch of Igala land grin

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by gidgiddy: 6:39pm On Jun 30, 2023
I dont know what some people are arguing about. Do you need to have a shoreline to have access to the sea? No you dont. London is no where near the sea but London handles large vessels through the River Thames that runs through London to the sea

The Suez canal below is just a canal, not even big as a River. Yet the Suez canal handles the largest ships in the world

So it is really funny when people still think that you must have coastline before you can have access to sea

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Odibembem: 6:39pm On Jun 30, 2023
proeast:


We don't mind who collects the tariff at the ports, but SE urgently need to have functional seaports that will compliment/rival Lagos. That's the only way to reduce tension in Lagos before they start killing themselves out of envy and bitterness.

Igbos are aggressive capitalists, while the ronu bigots are docile socialists. They will always lag behind and then start hating on the progressive ones.

Ndigbos do not have access to the sea so they cannot have a seaport. The best is to rely on the Eastern ports of Calabar, Ibak, Onne and Warri, at least they are closer to u. Stop wishing for what nature has not naturally given u, make use of the next best thing. No FG would waste any billions in $$ to dreg an lake or river port. South East govs and biz men should collaborate to build a rail line from Onne or Calabar thru Aba and Owerri all d way to Onitsha or Enugu, after all rail is now on d concurrent list

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Odibembem: 6:44pm On Jun 30, 2023
gidgiddy:
I dont know what some people are arguing about. Do you need to have a shoreline to have access to the sea? No you dont. London is no where near the sea but London handles large vessels through the River Thames that runs through London to the sea

The Suez canal below is just a canal, not even big as a River. Yet the Suez canal handles the largest ships in the world

So it is really funny when people still think that you must have coastline before you can have access to sea

The main port is at Dover not London

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Rayzoom: 7:32pm On Jun 30, 2023
FSBoperator:


Go back and read my post slowly.

You think as an independent Biafran state you can dictate to Nigeria who enters and leaves through their territory ?

Even if it is a one mile river route to the sea it will be subject to full Nigerian sovereignty .

Go school Una no gree.
You're full of hate that's why you can't read and understand his write up. Who is talking about Biafra here?
Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by proeast(m): 7:38pm On Jun 30, 2023
Odibembem:


Ndigbos do not have access to the sea so they cannot have a seaport. The best is to rely on the Eastern ports of Calabar, Ibak, Onne and Warri, at least they are closer to u. Stop wishing for what nature has not naturally given u, make use of the next best thing. No FG would waste any billions in $$ to dreg an lake or river port. South East govs and biz men should collaborate to build a rail line from Onne or Calabar thru Aba and Owerri all d way to Onitsha or Enugu, after all rail is now on d concurrent list

Which state are you from?

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by AwkaFinest: 7:39pm On Jun 30, 2023
OP you mean both PH, Imo, and Anambra are closer to the sea than Onne?

Imo and Anambra are closer to the sea than PH?



My people, make we dey lie small small.

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Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by proeast(m): 7:44pm On Jun 30, 2023
Odibembem:


How can Anambra, Abia and Imo be closer to the Atlantic Ocean than Lagos, Rivers and Akwa Ibom whose continental shelf rest directly with d Atlantic. Why do u guys just ridicule yourselves anyhow? Does Anambra, Abia and Imo have continental shelves? Haba Nnamdi!!!!

Pick up a map of Lagos and study it, you will see that its port was built on a lagoon that is inland, ships will have to make a detour before arriving Atlantic ocean, that's why it's long despite being on a lower latitude than the SE states I mentioned.

Again, take a look at the map of Abia state, you will find Obuaku at its most southern point, which lies much lower than where Rivers ports were built. Rivers ports weren't built on the shore but inland.

You're the one making a fool of yourself out of ignorance.
Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by proeast(m): 8:02pm On Jun 30, 2023
TheGreatIYANU:



I don't understand what you mean by Lagos state is 50 miles to the Atlantic?!

Lagos is literally situated ON the Atlantic.

Care to elucidate?

There is a huge bar of land that almost blocked the entire lagoon from Atlantic ocean. Ships have to make a detour around it before getting into Atlantic ocean, that's why.

Remember that Lagos ports were built inland of that large expanse of land blocking the lagoon from the ocean.

Take a look at map of Lagos you will see what I'm telling you.
Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by proeast(m): 8:05pm On Jun 30, 2023
AwkaFinest:
OP you mean both PH, Imo, and Anambra are closer to the sea than Onne?

Imo and Anambra are closer to the sea than PH?



My people, make we dey lie small small.

Study the two maps below critically. You will see that Obuaku is at the southern tip of Abia state, at the boundary between Abia, Akwa Ibom and Rivers.

The Imo river that flows from it is what forms the boundary between these states. This section is closer than both Onne and P.H port to Atlantic ocean.

Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by paramakina202: 8:08pm On Jun 30, 2023
proeast:


First picture below is the aerial picture of Onne ports, Rivers State. The other two are from Lagos.

Can you now see they're all inland and Atlantic ocean is no where to be found, until ships navigate several miles? If you can't call these ones river ports, then why call the ones in SE river ports since there is no difference?

The one at Onitsha is sea port or river port?
Let us focus on geographical locations of the river/sea ports and discuss reality and facts and forget geopolitical interpretations,
Onne is technically a river port.
Re: Why SE Must Build A Seaport Now by Odingo1: 8:12pm On Jun 30, 2023
ysth:
I am from the south east bro, but this thing about building a deep sea port should be put into proper context. A deep-sea port is sited on the continental shelf bounding an ocean or sea, but in this case no south east state is bounded or has an ocean or sea shoreline. What we can best build are river and dry ports. That is more feasible and less confusing. No magic will happen to make a south eastern state to have a deepsea port.
Yoruba man, tomorrow now you will be shouting on top of your voice that Igbos must leave Lagos where you can’t support SE to have the facilities that Lagos state have courtesy of Niger Delta oil money rather you claim to be from SE to discredit any good thing meant for SE.

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