It is indeed the Lord's day and we must first thank God almighty for his mercy. Indeed, "many are the afflictions of the Righteous, but the Lord delivereth him from them all".
Executive Of Niger Delta Youth Association Anambra Chapter Inaugurated In Awka
A University lecturer, Prof. Anthony Okoye, from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, says the quest to develop the Nigerian economy from crude oil proceeds has not achieved the desired results due to several challenges plaguing the oil sector.
Prof. Okoye disclosed this at the inauguration of the executive members of the Niger Delta Youth Association, Anambra state chapter held in Awka.
According to Prof. Okoye who is a Professor of environmental management and pollution control, since the discovery of crude oil in Nigeria, the country is still hindered by financial and economic challenges due to the mismanagement of crude oil proceeds accruing to the country.
The University don maintained that the wheel of development of any society lies on the shoulder of how productive and creative the youthful populations are, and made it clear that when youths organize themselves properly, they can insist on periodic environmental auditing to ensure that investors have serious commitment to ecologically sound and sustainable development of the host communities.
The National Vice President, Niger Delta Youth Association of Nigeria Worldwide, Comrade Ibiso Harry said that Anambra state was included in the association because of the oil producing status granted to the state by the federal government and commended Governor Willie Obiano for achieving the feat.
Earlier, the Anambra state chairman, National Youth Council of Nigeria, Comrade Samuel Egwuatu urged the youths to always engage in civil and intellectual discussions in the pursuit of their rights, rather than war.
The Anambra state chairman, Niger Delta Youth Association, Comrade Alex Ossaka assured that they will ensure that the interests of the oil producing Communities in the State are protected at all times
I am so proud of what Obiano has done in this airport! The man insists on QUALITY which makes him stand out from any average Southeast governor or even Nigerian governors.
Part of my pain with Nigerian projects were the stubborn desire to make every project in the 3rd world standard! Even while other countries in Asia and around the world modernize, we were all stuck in the 1930s - 1940s standard of airports, road design, public buildings, train coaches, railroads, etc.
It is very refreshing to see a governor that takes the pain to do things right. The insistence on installing the runway center lights to guarantee easy identification and safe landing at night as is obtainable abroad makes Obiano a true hero!
I am glad, they have decided to open the airport for public use this month. As they do the little finishing touches.
Congratulations to Anambra state! Congratulations to Southeast Nigeria! Congratulations to Nigeria for a brand new TRULY INTERNATIONAL-STANDARD airport in the country.
Anambra has done well with the international airport that can serve the international travels of the Igbos.
Why do you post videos pirated from already existing original videos here?
I wasted my data thinking this was an original video where the person had different angles and new things to add. Only to realize that it was one of those lazy YouTubers who specialized in posting other people's video content instead of working hard to create their own original content. They only add a new thumbnail to make you think it's a different video from the original.
ANSMEDIA: Glass cladding are being mounted at the largest and most beautiful international conference centre east of the Niger, also the escalators are in place. God continue to bless Anambra
They are truly set out to deliver a worldclass facility.
Rocksvibes234: I don't think so because According to Obiano and Allen Onyema they said the Anambra Airport has been lisenced and approved for both International and local cargo and passenger airport, and it's the only airport in Nigeria that received the fastest approval.
gordonbarrett: My brother we are shooting at the same post. What we desire is an international airport, to match our status as the most traveled people in Nigeria. What Obiano has done is nothing but legendary. He deserves the big portrait at the airport. All that we seek to see at the airport will happen at the fullest of time.
There is more than enough space in the arrival section of the airport to build a customs & Immigration booth. In the picture, I don't know if those are toilets. But customs and Immigration booths can be built along the wall so that when international passengers collect their luggage from the carousel, they will clear customs and immigration and be out of the airport.
Fesotech: No... This the old fire truck. It was refurbished just to use it and commission the airport first while waiting for the new super trucks from Germany
ChimaAdeoye: Final finishing touches in preparation for the opening of the airport for public use later this month. The installation of passenger chairs in the departure hall is complete.
The two luggage carousels are being finalized and beautification of the arrival & departure halls with artwork on the walls are also being completed.
The seats are fitted with charging pots for phones and gadgets. Obiano don't want to cut corners on this project. Everything is international best practices.
The only reason i stopped contributing financially to IPOB in USA is their quick desire to punish fellow oppressed Igbos by burning or destroying their businesses at the slightest excuse while ignoring and running away from the real Fulani oppressors.
Its unforgivable when IPOB destroy any Igbo person's livelihood for any reason whatsoever. The suffering they cause these poor families does not even bother them. How do you happily destroy the business of a widow with 6 kids frying akara for a living? Who will feed those kids or how do they pay school fees? The total lack of empathy on these vulnerable people is shocking. If you are a child in such poor families and your hunger and deprivation is worsened by other youths how would you view justice in such society? God and karma will punish my own family if my own money contributes in funding anyone contributing to the misery of the poor families struggling to find their daily bread.
These are the same people that you are supposed to be protecting and defending instead of destroying. The only reason I financially supported them is to defend the rights of these poor oppressed people. To see that IPOB's sole strategy now is to harrass and punish these poor people instead of going after their oppressors made it morally impossible for me to continue contributing to them.
OreMI22: The former COAS Gen Burutai joined Obiano in the weekly inspection of the airport project today.
The state government plans to commission the airport for public use this month. After they get some fire trucks currently being fixed to be functional.
The new fire trucks ordered from Germany will arrive later in the year or early next year.
One hopes they will get the fire trucks required in the interim to get the airport operational to commercial flights before the end of the month. While the new ones expected from Germany can arrive later in the year. This airport needs to become operational right now under Obiano, else it could suffer the same fate as the Enugu Internatioanl conference center which was 90% completed under Gov. Chimaroke, but Gov. Chime and Ugwuanyi decided to abandon the project all the same. The best way to ensure a legacy is to see to it that it became operational under the governor that built it. Else subsequent people could be funny the way they abandon projects by their predecessors and start their own brand new projects while other nearly completed projects are allowed to be over grown by weed.
Every time Engr. Ifejiofor talks about creating a wall to separate the two avio-bridges so that one is used for arrivals only and one is used for departures only to block off arriving and departing passengers from coming in contact, i wonder why? To begin with, before you get on an airplane you must clear security. Just like before you are allowed to sit in the departure lounge, you must clear security. Therefore, anyone coming down from an airplane or anyone sitting in the departure lounge/hall of an airport has already been searched and cleared security. Thus, in airports worldwide, those coming down from an airplane and those sitting in the departure lounge are in the "SAFE" or secured area of the airport. Meaning people in an area where only those who have cleared security searches are allowed.
The second point that makes the idea of dedicating one avio bridge strictly for arrival and another strictly for departure is that an airplane coming in from Lagos to Umueri is deemed an arriving airplane. Once its Lagos passengers disembark and the passengers flying from Umueri to Lagos begin to board the same plane, it automatically becomes a departing plane! This can sometimes occur within a space of 30 minutes! Therefore, if you dedicate one avio-bridge for arrival and another strictly for departure, you will have to push out an arriving plane from the "arrival avio-bridge" to a "departure avio-bridge" every few minutes for the departing passengers to board. This is an unnecessary chaotic process. Which is NEVER done in any airport in the world. Even airports with hundreds of push-back trucks (Like those in the picture below) are not able to implement such a chaotic process of moving around airplanes on the tarmac from an arrival avio-bridge to a departure avio-bridge every few minutes! Talk more an airport in Nigeria without adequate number of push-back trucks to move airplanes around the tarmac (Apron) every few minutes!
I hope the wall the Commissioner is building to separate arriving and departing passengers at least has a DOOR that will allow departing passengers to board the plane once it has totally disembarked all arriving passengers. I don't know where the strange advice of building a wall came from, but it is definitely not an international best practice and it is totally destined to fail at Anambra International airport because it will entail the moving of arrival planes to the departure avio-bridge every few minutes which will be chaotic and A LOT of accidents will occur during the unnecessary movement of planes from one avio-bridge to the next.
Looks like they bought another off-the-shelf truck from the manufacturer to use in commissioning of the airport. While they await the custom-built 3 trucks for Anambra International airport. Which is a Zeigler Z6
Furious1: This VAT thing will uncover so many lies; who's really generating what, that's when you realize Anambra is actually generating more than the Bureau of statistics is publishing. A lot of people are going to be exposed and they're not going to allow it. Anambra state government is not going to pick a fight with the FG at this time, Give it a few years, there's a lot at stake at the moment; the FG for instance needs to complete what they've started in the state and then much later (when many other southern states must have joined) then Anambra will follow. Na so e suppose be, nobody go use strong head spoil the good things wey de happen for the state
ChimaAdeoye: This airport is totally of international standard in quality and specifications. Even the chairs are the same types of quality chairs with multiple charging spots seen at US international airports!
I hope someone gets around to cleaning and polishing the floor. Little things like that make even the marble-tiled floors look bad.
Hopefully commercial flights would resume this September
ANSMEDIA: 2020 ASVI: Lagos, 5 Other States Generate More IGR than 30 States Combined… Bayelsa, Katsina Generate Poor Revenue
2020 Annual States Viability Index ASVI: FCT, 36 States Generate N1.3tr IGR Against N4.18trn from Federation Account Allocation
… Again, Lagos Generates More IGR than 22 States Combined …. RICH/Economic Viable States: Lagos, Rivers, Ogun, Oyo, Anambra States … INSOLVENT/Poor IGR States: Bayelsa, Katsina, Jigawa, Yobe, Benue States
The Economic Confidential has released its fifth Annual States Viability Index ( ASVI) which shows that eight (cool States are insolvent as their Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) in 2020 were far below 10% of their receipts from the Federation Account Allocations (FAA) in the same year.
The index carefully and painstakingly computed proved that without the monthly disbursement from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), many states remain unviable, and cannot survive without the federally collected revenue, mostly from the oil sector.
The IGR are generated by states through Pay-As-You-Earn Tax (PAYE), Direct Assessment, Road Taxes and revenues from Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA)s.
The IGR of the 36 states of the federation totalled N1.3 trillion in 2020 was the same figure in 2019. The report by the Economic Confidential, an intelligence magazine further indicates that the IGR of Lagos State of N418bn is higher than that of 22 other States put together whose Internally Generated Revenues are extremely low, and poor compared to their allocations from the Federation Account.
Meanwhile, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja which is not a state, but the nation’s capital generated N92bn IGR against N30bn from the Federation Account in the same period.
Lagos remained steadfast in its number one position in IGR among the states with a total revenue generation of N418bn compared to FAA of N299bn which translate to 139% in the twelve months of 2020. It is followed by Rivers State which generated IGR of N117bn compared to its FAA of N198bn representing 58%; Ogun with N50bn compared to FAA of N88bn representing 57%; Kaduna State with N50bn compared to FAA of N124 bn representing 40%; Oyo with IGR of N38bn compared to FAA of N127bn representing 29.7% and Anambra generated N28bn compared to FAA of N94bn representing 29.6%; The total internally generated revenues of the six most viable states in 2020 at N695bn as computed by the Economic Confidential was more than the entire IGR collected by the remaining 30 states put together which was less than N600bn.
Others with impressive IGR include Edo with IGR of N27bn compared to FAA of N99bn representing 27%; Enugu with IGR of N23bn compared to FAA of N87bn representing 27%; Ondo with IGR of N24bn compared to FAA of N97bn representing 25.6% while Kwara State earned N19bn IGR against FAA of N77bn representing 25.5%.
The ten states with impressive IGR generated N796bn in total, while the remaining 26 states excluding FCT merely generated a total of N418bn in 2020.
The report provides an amazing discovery. While some states have improved their IGR compared to previous years, others performed poorly. In 2020 eight states generated less than 10% IGR compared to seven states in 2019. Borno State narrowly escaped as it generated N11.57bn IGR compared to FAA of N115bn representing 10% more in 2020 which was more than 3% over its 7% last year.
The eight states that may not survive without the Federation Account due to their extremely poor internal revenue generation of less than 10% compared to their federal allocations are Bayelsa, the home state of former President Goodluck Jonathan which generated the poorest and lowest IGR compared to its federal allocation in 2020. It realized a meagre N12bn compared to a total of N152bn from the Federation Account Allocation (FAA) in 2020 representing 8%. It is followed by Jigawa with IGR of N8.6bn compared to FAA of N107bn representing 8.1%; Katsina, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari generated N11.3bn compared to FAA of N130bn representing 8.8% and Adamawa with IGR of N8.3bn compared to N91bn of FAA representing 9.1%.
Others include Yobe, the home state of Senate President Ahmed with IGR of N7.7bn compared to N84bn of FAA representing 9.2; Niger with IGR of N10.5bn compared to N109bn of FAA representing 9.6%, Taraba with IGR of N8.1bn compared to N82bn of FAA representing 9.8% and Benue with IGR of N10.46bn compared to N106bn of FAA representing 9.8% within the period under review.
The poor states with lower IGR may not stay afloat outside the monthly allocations from the Federation Account due to lack of initiatives for revenue generation drive coupled with arm-chair governance. Some of the states cannot attract investors due to socio-political and economic crises including insurgency, kidnapping, armed banditry, and herdsmen-farmers clashes.
The Economic Confidential ASVI further showed that only four states in the entire Northern region have IGR above 20% in comparison to their respective allocations from the Federation Account. They are Kaduna, Kwara, Zamfara and Plateau States in that order.
Meanwhile, ten states in the South recorded over 20% IGR in 2020. They are Lagos, Rivers, Ogun, Oyo, Anambra, Edo, Enugu, Ondo, Delta and Osun States. Bayelsa is the only state in the South with the poorest Internally Generated Revenue of less than 10% compared to its FAA in 2020.
The other poorest IGR states are Jigawa and Katsina in North-West; Benue and Niger in the North-Central and Adamawa, Taraba and Yobe in the North-East.
Meanwhile, the IGR of the respective states can improve through aggressive diversification of the economy to productive sectors rather than relying on the monthly Federation Account revenues that largely come from the oil sector.
Anambra to benefit from scholarship scheme for oil host communities in Nigeria.
By Njideka Okoye (ABS News).
Anambra state is to benefit from the two hundred slots scholarship scheme to host communities of oil and gas hubs across the federation.
The National Chairman Host Community of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, HOSCON, Dr. Mike Emoh disclosed this while addressing members of host communities of oil and gas and their traditional rulers in Awka.
Dr. Emoh stated that his visit was to congratulate and celebrate with Governor Willie Obiano and the people of Anambra state that after all huddles and challenges, Anambra was pronounced oil Producing state which he said will enhance development in Anambra state.
Dr. Emoh who listed some of the benefits to oil Producing states which Anambra is one of them to include, thirteen percent derivation, Presidential Amnesty Programme, European Union two hundred billion naira agricultural programme among others.
ANSMEDIA: INEC releases final list for Anambra gubernatorial election 2021. Prof Chukwuma Soludo has been listed as the authentic candidate of APGA. Anambra wins.
This is victory for Anambra people. Great state of Anambra
Politics / Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by AmericanQuarter: 3:30pm On Nov 21, 2021