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ChimaAdeoye:
Unless Obiano somehow finds how to fund that airport project and simply scale it down to a level of perhaps Port Harcourt Intl airport, i see another abandoned white elephant project as soon as he leaves office. It is just another Oba airport project loading, and another potential massive gully erosion site after they have cleared the vegetation and abandoned the project for lack of funds.

Some of us concerned about this airport project is because we know it might be way too big for Anambra State government to fund without significant borrowing , which will then ruin the economy of the state.

VicThory:
Nicely said.
Let just have faith in God that our governor will deliver cos there is an urgent need for a good airport in our homestate.

horsepower101:
Ok. Personally I think the airport won’t see the light of the day. It will be abandoned. He only has 2 more years remaining. Considering that he initiated this project back in 2014. Unless Obiano can do miracles. I hope he proves me wrong. I want to be wrong.

Also he must make sure that whoever takes over whether APGA or not must continue with the project. That’s a tough knowing how Nigerian politics is.

horsepower101:
That money is too small. Is there a development master plan for this project. A big project like that should have one. This is the 21st century. Any website to get updates?

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VicThory:
Please any news on our airport? Seems no one is talking about it again.

NGpatriot:
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See how dumb and cueless you people are?

Comedian...What's my business with whatever charity they do in their okija village?

1. Lagos state is a member of the SW states and forum so they pay their membership and development fees and dues with tax collected from businesses in Lagos state, including the ones you are bragging with in this thread.

2. Lagos is not only a member of the SW forum, they are also a member of the Odua group so taxes generated from your ibo businesses in Lagos state fund general activities across the SW.

3. Whatever they do in your village after paying us in the SW is their business, bottom line, we take our cut and develop Lagos and the SW with their money.

4. That building and thousands like it all over Lagos state are right there in the SW not in any SE state or village and after securing your biafra, they shall remain in the SW and keep generating IGR for the SW regardless of the owner or whatever charity they dash you in okija..

lol @ rice mill...who dash monkey backyard and mushroom rice mill when we are talking about largest investments in Nigeria, even Dangote's largest single refinery in the world, largest petrochemical plant, largest fraternizer plant, largest gas plant, $15 billion investment and this village comedian is talking about rice mill in his okija village? The same rice mill that even poorer states like Kebbi and others are building left and right. ...

NGpatriot:
While your kind sit on NL and obsessed over tribes, Lagos state government and many other governments in Nigeria and all over the world stage investment and economic summits to attract jobs and investments and they care less if the investors are Americans, Yoruba, Indians, Lebanese, Hausa, Norwegian or Ibo, it's all about investments, jobs, progress and development.

The owners of the buildings like many others in Lagos state and the SW are investors in Lagos state and the SW, not investors in your village, they create jobs in Lagos state and the SW, not in your village and they pay taxes in Lagos state and the SW.

The people in Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, Oyo and Ogun state benefit more from the so-called ibo businesses in Lagos state and the SW than the people in Abia and the rest of the SE.

To the people of Lagos state and the SW, they are nothing but investors like many others in Lagos state and the SW, but of course, you are free to keep obsessing over tribes when in fact, it makes zero difference and contributes nothing to any ibo state or the SE in general.

Bottom line, if you really want to get tribal, first ask yourself what your tribe is benefiting from what you are beating chest with and why Osun state and the SW, in general, are benefiting from the taxes paid by these companies and not a single ibo state.

It's ok to get tribal, but of what sense and relevance if at the end of the day, the people you are denigrating are benefiting from these investments, but you are not.

The question you should be asking yourself is why they are in Lagos state and the SW, but never in any ibo state or the SE? This should be your main concern if you really want to beat chest and obsess over tribe.

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BeautifulMind2:
Imagine if it was Igbo name, this thread would be in 4th page by now, when the OP asked no black man in the board of directors, read the mod response, imagine if it was Igbo family and no Yoruba on the board imagine what would have been their response, same people justify when they force Yoruba leader in Igbo dominated markets, see how they are silent here the Eko Atlantic city funding 100% by same Chagoury Group, their first cutting edge building was acquired by Igbo man Afren Tower 1, it now been use by Slavic Petroleum as head office, Salvic is owned by ABC Orjiakor, chairman Seplat plc, he was the first occupant in the ATC.

Kapilta:
eko atlantic isn't same as eko hotel though.

Kapilta:
Chagoury isn't the owner of Eko atlantic though even though it's their project. Lagos state govt have a huge stake in it couple with other indigenious estate companies. Stop being foolish.

AmericanQuarter:

I was privileged to be among the team that visited a potential site for a history making legacy project of Chief Willie Obiano's administration.

With the Anambra State Ministry of Health Team on the drivers seat, I visited with high ranking officials of the ministry of lands and ANSIPPA. Destination was industrial land Ozubulu. I learnt that the administration is planning to establish a pharmaceutical industrial park like it was done on Killanto Ethiopia.
A park that is home to various fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies.
Such a project will not only deliver create multiple jobs in ANAMBRA STATE but will also leave a solid footprint on Google map when it comes to notable industrial clusters in the world. I learnt that the Nigerian Association of industrial Pharmacists and United States Pharmacopoeia are potential partners in this project. Remember that most of the big names in pharma manufacturing call Anambra home.

The park will have modern facilities to support a cluster of this nature and also access to it's own power supply.
The spin offs from a project of this size will be numerous. I will keep you posted as this project develops.

God bless Gov Willie Obiano for his visionary leadership.
God bless Dr Vincent Ogochukwu Okpala for his Innovative ideas. God bless APGA for stability of association and God bless Anambra State, my beloved state.
We are making Progress.

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AmericanQuarter:
NNPC, Anambra Basin And The Search For Oil


For four decades, many Nigerians have been waiting for the news given the determination, energy and expense put into the search. The exciting news finally came on Friday, October 11, 2019 that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has struck hydrocarbon deposits in the Kolmani River Well on the Upper Benue Trough, Gongola Basin.

With proven crude oil reserves of over thirty-seven million barrels, about six thousand billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves and daily production capacity of two point five million barrels per day, Nigeria has never hidden her desire to increase the nation’s reserve base.

In fact, President Muhammadu Buhari restated this position on February 3, 2019 when he flagged off in Bauchi, the current exploration effort that has now resulted into a sweet find. He said that exploration in the frontier basins was a national imperative and a core policy thrust that must be sustained. The nation’s hydrocarbon basins are Niger Delta, Chad, Anambra, Gongola (Benue Trough), Benin, Sokoto and Bida.

Over the years, the country had concentrated in the Niger Delta basins for her oil exploration while leaving the other basins largely untapped. Even though experts have advised that the news be taken with cautious optimism until the volume of the find is determined. But it is gratifying enough to note that there is oil in the Upper Benue Trough, given the efforts put in the search. It is also hoped that the discovery would balance resource locations in the country and help to douse agitations in the Niger Delta.

NNPC’s focus should now shift to Anambra basin, which already has witnessed oil and gas discoveries but requires the same level of investment and energy. The first serious search for oil in Anambra basin started in 2004 when Orient Petroleum Resources was granted oil prospecting license and authority to construct a private petroleum refinery. In spite of the daunting challenges, which include the vicious politics of ownership between Anambra, Kogi and Enugu States, finance and choking economic environment, the company has trudged on.

It has executed extensive data acquisition, covering six hundred and forty square kilometers in the oil blocks, known to contain at least five hydrocarbon bearing fields. It is currently drilling two new wells and has increased its production from 3,000 to 10,000 barrels. According to Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), a state can only join the league of oil producing states when its production company produces at 120,000 barrels and graduates from oil prospecting to oil mining lease.

The prospect of Anambra attaining this status was enhanced recently when Sterling Exploration and Energy Production Company (SEEPCo), started an exploratory drilling activities in Ogwu Ikpele in Ogbaru local government area. Part of the oil blocks lies in Ogwu Ikpele and the rest in Rivers State.

In 2018, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) revalidated the drilling permit granted to SEEPCo to “drill Enyie-2 as first appraisal well in Ogwu Ikpele. The company was making progress and had reached a critical stage until May 8, 2019 when the member representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency at the eighth House of Representatives, raised an alarm that an illegal oil exploration was going on in his constituency.

Through a motion, then law maker urged his colleagues to pass a resolution ordering a halt to the activities of Sterling Oil, insisting that the “oil exploration by the company was illegal. The House, consequently, passed a resolution to stop the drilling activities at Ogwu Ikpele and mandated its committees on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) and Environment to visit the community and report back. Unfortunately, the tenure of the 8th National Assembly ended on June 9, 2019. Apparently acting on the resolution of the House, on June 18, 2019 stopped Sterling’s operations.

The Honourable member might have led the House to act ignorantly. First, the drilling was not illegal as Sterling Oil is a registered operator with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and has a valid operating mining lease. The misunderstanding was quickly resolved through the intervention of Governor Willie Obiano and SEEPco has since resumed full operations.

[b]Anambra State has been working assiduously to attract the needed investment that will increase the volume of exploration. Some of the concrete actions taken by the state include the construction of Aguleri Otu road leading to the wells and engagement with the National Boundary Commission for an amicable settlement of the dispute with Kogi and Enugu States. With the expected shift of NNPC’s gaze to frontier basins, it is most likely that the economic status of the state is set for a drastic change.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sunnewsonline.com/nnpc-anambra-basin-and-the-search-for-oil/amp/

IGBOSON1:
In those ‘before and after’ pics, are they just going to leave the earth scooped out of the gutter by the roadside like that? This seems to be the norm!

We wouldn’t be having this problem of blocked gutters if they were cleared unfailingly at least once a week!