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| Re: They Are Finally Renovating Our Airports!! by ektbear: 3:18am On Apr 04, 2012 |
he is just your typical dishonest person |
| Re: They Are Finally Renovating Our Airports!! by phyl123: 6:57am On Apr 04, 2012 |
I am a regular user of both the Benin and MM airports. The toilets at the airport stink, you have to be careful with your baggage at the international airport as it is infested with cockroaches. I always have to spray the outside of my bags with insecticides to avoid bringing them home. This is a big embarassment to such a great country and it doesnt take so much funds to sort out these problems. |
| Re: They Are Finally Renovating Our Airports!! by jason2010(m): 7:10am On Apr 04, 2012 |
Remodeling or patch patch, which ever one they are doing, I just hope that those folks that wash thier yansh with rubber kettles need to quit, That is just some repugnant 5hit |
| Re: They Are Finally Renovating Our Airports!! by Demdem(m): 10:07am On Apr 04, 2012 |
Kilode?!: Papa claims he uses the airport occasionally just like anyone of us while he claims he works there. Will pitch my tent with him. |
| Re: They Are Finally Renovating Our Airports!! by Kolababa: 10:47am On Apr 04, 2012 |
The functional part of the airport is the airside. What our government does is to do a cosmetic renovation of the outside where passenger will see and clap for them but airside is terrible because they know you cannot see unless you work in the airport. What the Murtala Munammed International Airport needs ia expansion in terms of creating terminals. Other airports in other countries have terminals 1, 2, 3 or more but where is terminal 2 for MMIA talkless of terminal 3 or more. And this airport is getting busy every year as more airlines are coming into Lagos. But corruption will not allow. In a country where what is budgetted for just runway extension in Abuja is the same amount Ghana used to build a whole airport. So if Nigeria wants to build a airport, that means the whole of our budget will go in for it. |
| Re: They Are Finally Renovating Our Airports!! by miky(m): 3:51am On Apr 13, 2012 |
Kolababa: The functional part of the airport is the airside. What our government does is to do a cosmetic renovation of the outside where passenger will see and clap for them but airside is terrible because they know you cannot see unless you work in the airport. What the Murtala Munammed International Airport needs ia expansion in terms of creating terminals. Other airports in other countries have terminals 1, 2, 3 or more but where is terminal 2 for MMIA talkless of terminal 3 or more. And this airport is getting busy every year as more airlines are coming into Lagos. But corruption will not allow. In a country where what is budgetted for just runway extension in Abuja is the same amount Ghana used to build a whole airport. So if Nigeria wants to build a airport, that means the whole of our budget will go in for it. what are u talking about men, isn't it Lagos building one for 7** million.. how much in your opinion those the average airport cost? not land strips mind you!! |
| Re: They Are Finally Renovating Our Airports!! by PROUDIGBO(m): 10:33am On Apr 13, 2012 |
Kolababa: The functional part of the airport is the airside. What our government does is to do a cosmetic renovation of the outside where passenger will see and clap for them but airside is terrible because they know you cannot see unless you work in the airport. What the Murtala Munammed International Airport needs ia expansion in terms of creating terminals. Other airports in other countries have terminals 1, 2, 3 or more but where is terminal 2 for MMIA talkless of terminal 3 or more. And this airport is getting busy every year as more airlines are coming into Lagos. But corruption will not allow. In a country where what is budgetted for just runway extension in Abuja is the same amount Ghana used to build a whole airport. So if Nigeria wants to build a airport, that means the whole of our budget will go in for it. ^^^I agree with a lot of what you say. I almost choked on my cornflakes the first time i heard the mind-boggling amount budgeted for Abuja Int'l runway extension  . I've always thought amounts quoted for jobs in Nigeria are a bit ridiculous, but the people that are supposed to complain and raise the alarm are in the pockets of the contractors and gov't officials, so it's business as usual i suppose. Imagine the amount we've been told has so far been spent on Asaba Airport (about 40 Billion Naira  ), and this doesn't include the 7 Billion just budgeted for blowing up hills around the Airport so bigger planes can land (i kid you not ). Any casual observer will think we're swimming in dough and can afford to waste money like it's going out of fashion. Didn't they carry out feasibility studies b/4 deciding where to locate the Airport, and the kind of Aircraft they want it to handle  ?Murtala Airport actually has two terminals, but as far as i'm concerned Terminal 2 looks like a glorified prayer centre: so uninspiring, substandard, basic and boring. It was constructed by a Nigerian contractor, and only goes to show indigenous contractors really need to step up their game. If you're told how much was spent on that building, your eyes will water. I've always maintained that serious money should be budgeted for Murtala Airport (at least, since it's the countrys flagship Airport), so a befitting Terminal can be constructed there, and not all this patch-patch work we're presently doing. |
| Re: They Are Finally Renovating Our Airports!! by Gbawe: 11:00am On Apr 13, 2012 |
ekt_bear: he is just your typical dishonest person Indeed. Imaging saying 'Bendelites' run Nigeria just because of a churlish desire to totally disenfranchise the Yorubas and fraudulently diminish their vast actual influence? I actually feel revulsion when I read from this chap these days whereas I credited him with decency previously. The crap from him below, has to be the most dishonest piece of revisionism and outright falsification I have ever read in my life. of course I replied him on the next page of the thread. He is not only dishonest but shameless and self-deceiving in outlook. https://www.nairaland.com/849594/why-do-we-rate-ibo I don't know where you got that idea. Without question, Ibos and Bendelites have always ( Gbawe's reply to the deluded fool called Papabrowne: https://www.nairaland.com/849594/why-do-we-rate-ibo/1 What an incredibly ignorant statement. I can only conclude you are "Bendelite" and that is why you speak like this. Even if a case can be made for Igbos having significant influence in the control of the economy of Nigeria, where on earth do you get off arrogating same to "Bendelites"? |
| Re: They Are Finally Renovating Our Airports!! by PapaBrowne(m): 12:32am On Apr 17, 2012 |
Gbawe: In as much as I would have loved to engage you intensely on this, I really and sincerely do not have the time. Using words like "deluded fool" wouldn't draw me in. Time is so much of the essence, gat too much work to do. But I would be nice and use a spare five minutes and respond for the sake of posterity!! First, Why the repugnance at the suggestion that Bendelites and Igbos are the smartest Nigerians? Why does that make you cringe? Given the fact that such a claim is naturally open for back and forth assessment, it is questionable that your disposition would be one of extreme bitterness. You do no justice to yourself. You leave readers and viewers with the perception that you are either an tribalist, an ethnicist, a racist or some kind of bigot. Gbawe my friend, don't do this to yourself, ok? Now to your derailed point: I stand by my speech that Bendelites and Easterners have proven themselves without question to be some of the smartest Nigerians. Using your own very misinformed list of bank CEOs,lets take the top five banks in Nigeria and see who found or owns them. 1) Zenith Bank( Bendelite) 2) First Bank (South Westerner heads by appointment) 3) UBA (Bendelite) 4) GT Bank ( South Westerner) 5) Access Bank(Bendelite) Of the Five top Nigerian banks today three were either founded or currently owned by bendelites. For the south west its just one- GT. Other banks founded OR headed by Bendelites include Oceanic bank, Bank PHB, Afribank. For a people with a population of less than 5% of the country controlling almost 30% of the finance industry,that is outstanding. Top 5 banks, 3 Bendelites and you still don't think the smartest Nigerians live or originate from there? Ok lets talk Media. Guardian Newspapers(Bendelite) Ibru Thisday Newspapers (Bendelite) Obiagbena Vanguard Newspapers(Bendelite) Amuka Channels TV (Bendelite) Momoh AIT (Bendelite) Dokpesi I can go on ........... Or should we talk about sports? Or University enrollment? Or business contributions? Or Economic indices like per capita GDP and HDI?? Or Telecoms: MTN - South Africans Glo- South West- Adenuga Zain- Indians Etisalat- Hakeem Bello Osagie- Bendelite!! Or back to topic: AIRPORTS. Delta and Edo which make up the old Bendel have three very functional airports amongst themselves. Benin, Warri and Asaba. Warri and Benin airports are the 4th and 5th busiest airport in the country by passenger volume and aircraft frequency. The new Asaba Airport without question is currently the best Airport in the country. Now the interesting part is that just the Benin Airport alone commands more passenger traffic and flight frequencies than all the airports in the 5 South West states put together!! You can add Kwara and Kogi state if you like and the result remains the same!! Airport traffic is a good measure for economic sophistication as well as quantum of middle class . How cities as large as Ibadan, Abeokuta, Ogbomosho, Akure and so on survive without a functional airport is mysterious. It is either their economies are largely rural or citizens are at the bottom of the rung depending solely on their proximity to Lagos(a melting pot of different nationalities)as their route to utopia!! And about Airlines........ the best two airlines in the country are owned by Bendelites...hehe!! Arik Air- Ikhide Aruremi Johnson Aero- Ibru And that was just Bendel..........If I now add the South East which I added in my earlier post.....hmmm Mr Gbawe!! |
| Re: They Are Finally Renovating Our Airports!! by doctorfox: 2:24pm On Apr 18, 2012 |
Away from the above digression and back to the airports. How much was allocated for the renovation on the airport? Would be tracking all these developments including who is responsible for them, so we can bring them to book. Send feedbacks here www.iwatchlive.org, emails to info[at]iwatchlive.org |
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