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CCECC interpreting gov.udoms vision for good road network in akwa ibom.

Nice complex

Etinan to eket highway.

Etinan to Eket highway four lanes linking the central Akwa ibom town to the oil city of Eket.

Sweest 4 lanes highway 90% complete opening 1st Quarter of 2019.

Udom is working.

Eket - ibeno highway. Best highway in the country 31km long 4 lanes leading from eket to the atlantic ocean.

New state Secreteriat building with road network in a hither to abandoned area of the state complete with street light and sidewalks.
Udom is working.

Anchor insurance, state owned insurance company hqtrs building Uyo.

UDOM Completes Hqtrs building of Akwa savings and loans.

Headquaters building of Anchor insurance Uyo.

Gov. Udom Talks less and Does a lot.
You feel this governor through his actions not so much words like some Nigerian Leaders who talk a million and do tens.

plaetton:
My friend, pls stop all this BS about SMEs.
And this discussion is not about Gov. Udom, whom I actually admire.
So pls stop the campaigning.

This is about leadership in Nigeria and how they handle priorities and legacies.
The airline venture is an ill wind that would no good for the state.

Now imagine if the huge sums could be invested in modernizing Akwa Iboms cottage palm oil sector or the Fisheries sector. Akwa Ibom can solidly make more money from Fisheries and Palm oil than it currently gets from crude oil royalties.
A 5yr investment in these 2 sectors, palm oil and fisheries, can create millions of jobs, exponentially expand the state's economy permanently, without the corruption and debt that is inevitable with the airline venture.

Ibom Air is apt, it was needed yesterday. Am glad udom has finally brought it to fruition.
This will drive akwa ibom economy. The MRO will see the light, after so many years.
Even if the start with only changing airplane tires and washing the plane its a start. They will build on it.

Ibom Air will employ pilots, cabin crew, station agents in every airport the fly to and managment staff in Uyo thats lots of jobs that the unemployed youth need.

Am glad you admire Gov. Udom!

Akwa ibom oil processing is seeing the light under udom. The st gabriel refinery in Mkpat enin is geared to refine coconut, oilpalm and palm kernel oil, and also process coconut flesh and palm kernel into cakes for industrial use and as feeds for animals.many people do not know that coconut and kernel cakes are the primary base for the production of feeds for fishes, poultry, pigs etc. All of which Akwa ibom is getting ready to tap.

Not to talk of the industries we can tie to the refinery, like cosmetics - Soaps, lotions etc

When the refinery begins production next year there will be a. Chain reaction as every farmer, owner of palm plantations, villages with palm plantations and even the several wild palms in our swamps will all be heading there because there is an immediate buyer. Demand will drive supply.

Can you imagine an Akwa ibom that every one knows there is a ready market for their unprocessed/ raw palm fruit, kernel and coconut. All they will need is to transport it to the refinery and get paid on the spot.

Akwa ibom is great under udom.

plaetton:
You're talking like a politician promoting yourself for the next election.
Governments should not be in the business of starting or running commercial, for-profit enterprises.
The governments, especially state governments, should focus exclusively in efficiently providing social services and infrastructure for economic development.,, duties for which they can and have hardly managed well.

When the government provides the infrastructure and condusive environment, the profit oriented entrepreneurs would appear like bees to honey or vultures to a feast.

Also, aside from their current face value, what are the long term economic viability of these government funded enterprises?
What good is investing billions in this and that project if down the road a few years from now, they all become the usual failed government enterprises whose corpses are littered all over the country?

Through these SME our people are learning practical skills that will last them a life time and will make them the industrialist of the future. Classrooms will not give them such education.

FYI do you know that currently we gave young men and women graduates that are into commercial farming of vegetables in the state? Lots of them producing tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, watermelons, bananas, plantains etc in commercial quantities?
Next step will be processing of this items thats the kind of education we need in AKS and Nigeria.
Enough of these classroom theory that does not put food on the table anymore.

Go to Akwa ibom state University today and you will see how Gov. UDOM IS TYING his industrial policy to education in the state.
AKSU currently has
Commercial feed mill, processing feeds for cattle, pigs and poultry.
It has palm oil processing mill
All ran by the university with students labour enabling them to gain practical skills.
There is a tv and radio studio in campus for communications students .
There is equally a commercial greenhouse where the vegetable revolution and year-round productuon is being incubated.

na2016:
Just like you are entitled to your own opinion oo. These are still assumptions made by you.

I provide facts and links for verifications.
You are the one assuming.

All the industries i listed are well documented and some were opened by the president represent by his deputy Osibanjo.
Udom is the real deal, he is working seriuosly for Akwa ibom.

na2016:
Really unfortunate that you had to post a link from nairaland as your reference. We dont need more mushroom factories in Akwa Ibom. We dont also need Udom to spend more 4 years. We have seen his almost 4 years performance and that should be enough for him to return to Lagos.

Thats your opinion you are entilied to it, i and alot more people think differently.

These are companies that are on ground in just one industrial corridor in the state.


So far udom has created 15 industries in the state and more are being added as we speak.
That evidience of investor confidence in Akwa Ibom in a time like this where NACIMMA says 800 companies has shut down in Nigeria. But udom is adding industries daily, is the lord not good?

plaetton:
With all due respect , you don't seem to get it.

India, South Korea, Japan, China, and pretty much all the south east Asian countries have taught us in the last 40yrs that the only way to economically equalize is to invest as much as possible in functional education. We don't have to reinvent the wheel. Just keep investing I'm education.
And I'm not talking about certificate education such we have had since the Buhari era of 1983, but modern functional education.
When government start making expensive grandiose white elephant investments, it's a sign that they have too much resources at their disposal and lack a futuristic vision.
Our leaders in Nigeria are short term thinkers. They only think of whatever can elevate their status in the next election cycle, not about future lagacies that would have multiplier effects for the people.

On the contrary you are the one that does not get it, Am telling you that education is not only from the classroom, the kind of education we need is practical ones which SME provide thats what china and the asian tigers utilized. Thats and education geared towards problem solving and product creations. Thats what Gov. Udom is doing.
Today we have more that 5 cassava processing factories in the state which provides the women and young jobs and has lead to the crash of garri and fufu prices in the state.
To day they are processing odourless fufu from those factories and are currently researching on how to convert same fufu to pharmaceutical grade starch.
And industrial starch from cassava as additive/fortification into wheat flour. Thats also part education my friend.
Paddy rice is being processed in AKS
Pencil is being produced in AKS.
Toothpick is being produced in AKS.
Syringe is being produced in AKS.
Electric meters is being manufactured/ assembled in AKS
Very soon coconut, palm oil and kernel oil going to be processed in commercial qtys in AKS through the St Gabriel refinery currently in advanced stage of completionEtc etc.

Thats education that is solving problems, creating jobs, providing tangible products and adding value for our economy.

na2016:
That is the reason he has been lying to you guys about factories and you people keep singing his praise.

I dont deal in political propaganda but in facts. Akwa ibom is currently witnessing a renaissance.
Google
https://www.nairaland.com/4931692/onna-industrial-corridor-budding-new

What you are seeing is just one industrial corridor.

15 industries in 3.5 yrs is no mean feat. Show me any state governor that can boast of half that number of industries in such a short period of time?
If udom has 8yrs which by Gods grace he will there will be like 50 industries in the state or more at the rate he is going

plaetton:
No sir.
The money should be invested in giving the youths of Akwa Ibom the best modern education that money can buy, insteading of slaving as houseboys and hiusegirls.

Education is the great equalizer.
Education, both professional and vocational is the best investment any leader or government can make for his people.

This idiotic investment in buying planes for a state owned airline WILL FAIL with 100% certainty. The question is whether it would fail in 2yrs or 5yrs, and how much debt it would eventually saddle Akwa Ibom with .
But fail it surely will.

You think education is only about going to school to get a certificate?
Education is also about building and running successful enterprises its called bussiness and entrepreneurial education, you dont get that in school, its hands on.

FYI akwa ibom youths are not lacking in education. What they need is jobs and an oppurtunity to improve their service providing capacity which this airline will afford them.

na2016:
Atouke, AKTC is not managed by govt current n i hope u know? I hope u know AKTC is managed by Nsik motors?
How many akwa ibomites have the technical skills required for just maintainance of aircraft? What tourist r u even talking of when u r not building key infrastructures again in the state?

Does Udom Emmanuel look like a bussiness novice to you?
Udom is an investment banker of international repute you can fault him on other things but definitely not on how to create a sustainable bussiness.
The testimony is in what he has done already, the industries in the state so far are all privately run or with govt. As equity pathners none is 100% govt. This airline will definitely not be different.
A banker like udom does not put money in any bussiness without clearly seeing the possibility of making profit and recouping his investment.

On technical capability to run an airline or maintenance Akwa ibom state has the capacity more than anystate in the country. When former gov. Victor Attah embarked on the Ibom Airport project it was to be a overhaul and maintenance depot, which came with management training for staff, they were trained abroad. Those potential can easily be revamped and dont forget that an akwa ibom man owned and Operated the defunct ADC alines, there is capacity there that just needs to be dusted up.
Added to that is that the state owns and operates its own Airport. This is a win win.

plaetton:
Visionless leaders.
A white elephant investment dead on arrival.

I 'm betting money that in maximum of 5yrs, this stuupid investment will incur huge debts for Akwa Ibom.

Running a successful and profitable airline is difficult enough for professional profit oriented companies, talkless of a corrupt state government in the most corrupt nation in the world.

So in your view the money used to establish the airline should be looted?
FYI 90% Nigerian state governors own private jets those that dont outrightly own a private jet have a charter service on call.
That my friend is already a drain for all the state. So this is a welcome development.

na2016:
I am not talking about the choice of aircraft. My major concern is a state government going something that will not benefit any common man in akwa ibom. You couldnt manage AKTC and now u r talking of managing an airline. Is that not foolishness?

AkTC is well managed, stop hasty generalization.
AKTC has been around since late 80 early 90s when i was a kid and still running till today.

An airline will benefit the common man a lot. It will create jobs and will bring tourist and investors to the state, who will inturn add vale to our economy.

Gerrard59:
Nsuto revenue?!

Akwa Ibom doesn't need an airline. What she needs is to create industrial estates in each senatorial district, tax waivers for industrialists and 24/7 electricity. Profit margins in the aviation industry are slim and very few airlines churn out profits year-in-year-out.

However, if he's bent on doing this, then he should let the British or Singaporeans manage it.

You are misguided. How will those industral estate survive without a fast link to the state?

When will Nigerians learn to manage thier own businesses everything cannot be foreign owned. African/nigerians must learn to be efficient managers.

Akwa ibom state generates 191 MW of electricity via Ibom power plant. A major IPP in the state. And there is ongoing expansion to 600MW. Qua ibo power plant project with 500MW capacity is also on going in the state.
FYI
Akwa ibom is already home to a budding industrial hub. It is current leader in foreign direct investment in the country second only to lagos state.
Google https://www.nairaland.com/4931692/onna-industrial-corridor-budding-new

Udom is working seriously.

na2016:
You really dont sound as if you know what you are saying. What is the minimum distance required for a flight? PH you or calabar isn't a viable route for any airline.

The goal for a start should be to service the southern zone. With the 3 aircraft, lagos to uyo and Abuja to Uyo and Uyo to lagos and uyo to abuja.

In between these routes will be stop over or connecting flights in any of the airports in Asaba, owerri, port harcourt, calabar and benin when necessary.
There will be enough bussiness to keep this airline running and profitable if it is well managed.

Lagos to Uyo can add a stopover in PH, Uyo to Abuja can add a stopover in calabar.
That provides a PH to Calabar passenger a connection. Untill the demand grows enough for a dedicated route.

They can repeat those stopovers in all the southern routes for easier onnection where neccessary.

CRJ 900 their choice of aircraft is Apt for this types of short connections. Its modern aircraft and very fuel efficient and can carry 78 to 90 passengers depending on seating configuration.

Update on the construction. Dec 27, 2018.
Roofing of technical area of the refinery completed.

Flour mill

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One of the poineer large commercial farm in Onna industrial corridor.

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Electric meter manufacturing/ Assembly plant

Kings flour mill

Jubilee syringe

Onna Industrial Corridor is a budding new industrial hub in the Oil rich State of Akwa Ibom.
Mr Udom Emmanuel the governor of the state came on the saddle 3.5years ago with the promise to turn the once civil service state that depended only on revenue of oil receipts into a productive economy, that is capable goods and creating jobs for its teaming youth.
Looking back the governor has kept his words, and this corridor is a testimony to this.
The corridor presently plays host to 4 functional ventures and many more are under construction.
In just 3.5yrs a state that had no functional manufacturing concern besides crude oil production has witnessed the birth of 15 functional manufacturing ventures with many more at several of construction.
Onna industrial corridor has excellent network of good roads/ bridges, is less than 4km from the Ikot abasi jetty that service the aluminium smelter company and is 3km from the 191MW ibom power plant and less than 20km from Port harcourt, Nigerias Second most economical viable city outside Lagos.
These conditions makes the onna industrial corridor very attractive for investors who are pouring in there by the day.
In the corridor are :
a) Electricity meter assembly/manfacturing plant.
b) Jubilee syringe manufacturing plant.
C) Kings Flour Mill
D) Ibom Integrated Farms ltd.
E) Plywood factory.

Kings flour����