globemoney01: Calm down. Let the airport begin local flights first before we start discussing international.
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.
ANSMEDIA: Five northern states, two south-western states, two south-south states, and one south-eastern state collected a total of N373.84bn of the N836.51bn Value Added Tax allocation available for states in 14 months.
This is according to the latest FAAC allocation data available from the National Bureau of Statistics for the months of January 2020 through to February 2021.
In the period under review, the thirty-six states of the federation and the Federal Government shared N1.09tn as VAT revenue from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee.
The top 10 states were: Lagos (N153.94bn), Kano (N32.48bn), Oyo (N29.85bn), Rivers (N28.43bn), Kaduna (N24.75bn), Katsina (N22.72bn), Delta (N20.91bn), Bauchi (N20.49bn), Anambra (N20.14bn), and Jigawa (N20.13bn).
Lagos got the largest share of VAT revenue in the period under review (N153.94bn), while Nasarawa got the least allocation of N15.36bn.
Based on the regions, the South-West region received the highest VAT allocation (N256.21bn), followed by the North-West (N154.41bn), South-South (N119.88bn), North-East (107.43bn), North-Central (N106.58bn). The South-East received the least from the VAT allocations (N91.99bn).
The bottom 10 states were Nasarawa (N15.36bn), Bayelsa (N15.79bn), Taraba (N16.23bn), Gombe (N16.33bn), Kwara (N16.35bn), Ekiti (N16.46bn), Yobe (N16.90bn), Abia (N17.03bn), Ebonyi (N17.04bn), and Cross River (N17.17bn).
According to Investopedia, VAT is a consumption tax that is levied on a product repeatedly at every point of sale at which value has been added. In Nigeria, VAT is collected by the Federal Inland Revenue Service and shared by the Federal Government.
According to data from the NBS, VAT has a non-import VAT local, non-import VAT for foreign, and Nigerian Customs Service Import VAT components.
In 2020, N1.53tn was generated as VAT in the nation. Non-import VAT local accounted for N763bn, non-import VAT for foreign accounted for N420.43bn, and NCS-Import VAT accounted for N347.72.
Locally derived tax accounts for about 50 per cent of total VAT, while imported goods and foreign goods or services not imported account for the other half. Local VAT is imposed on goods and services consumed within each state of the federation.
Based on the country’s revenue sharing formula, the Federal Government gets 15 per cent of VAT, while states share 50 per cent, and local governments share 35 per cent based on the sharing formula. In the period under review, the Federal Government got N251.55bn from VAT.
In an August 10 ruling, the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, declared that it was the Rivers State Government, and not the Federal Inland Revenue Services, that should collect VAT and Personal Income Tax in the state.
In 2020, the total internally generated revenue of the 36 states in Nigeria was N1.21tn.
A former Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, had said 55 per cent of total local VAT was generated in Lagos.
Based on this indication, in 2020, Lagos may have contributed N419.65bn. in the same year, however, it received N130.97bn.
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, said recently that Rivers State generated N15bn VAT revenue in June this year, but got only N4.7bn. He added that Kano generated N2.8bn in the same month and got the same N2.8bn back.
Wike also said that Lagos generated N46.4bn but received N9.3bn.
The Director-General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dr Chinyere Almona, on Sunday said the current sharing formula for the states and LGAs should be adjusted using the factors of equality 20 per cent, population 30 per cent, and derivation 50 per cent.
This is against the present system of equality 50 per cent, population 30 per cent, and derivation 20 per cent.
According to her, this arrangement should be agreeable to the concerned parties and can drive innovation on revenue generation in all the states towards increasing their internally generated revenue.
She added that it would also make the states more sensitive to the needs of businesses in their respective jurisdictions.
Almona said, “The first concern of the chamber is the confusion that businesses face as to who is in charge of VAT collection. This is not healthy for the business community and planning.
“We, however, hail the swift intervention of the Court of Appeal to reduce the uncertainties surrounding these controversies.
“Businesses should not be subjected to unnecessary hurdles and made to pay the same tax twice from different agencies.
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“The Federal Government should urgently establish an understanding with states on what is best for the nation and businesses.”
According to the Head of Economics Department, Pan-Atlantic University Lagos, Dr Lekan Aworinde, if state governments start to collect VAT, there would be some positive as well as negative outcomes.
He said, “On the positive side, states can boost their internally generated revenue, meaning that states that realise huge amounts of money from VAT will be able to generate more revenue to themselves.
“However, on the flip side, we do not know whether states will have the structure to be able to collect this tax. What I mean is that tax collection involves a lot of structures such as the policies and the tax planning; also, do these states have the manpower to collect these taxes. If they don’t, the process might not be that smooth and effective.
“Aside all of this, if the administration of VAT falls to the state, how sure are we that they will be able to remit what is due to the local governments.
“In many cases, even with the old systems when federation account allocations come in, state governments do not remit the share of local governments as expected.”
He added that there was the possibility of multiple taxations, especially on imports.
Aworinde added, “There is also the possibility of multiple taxation which can be caused when both the federal and state government charge VAT for certain items like imports. Multiple taxation will have a ripple effect on the economy.
“It will hamper ease of doing business in the country, erode investor’s confidence in the country and further decrease foreign investments, largely because investors don’t want to come into a country with too many taxes.
“With investments on the decrease, unemployment will spike, which will also pull more people below the poverty line.
“As income remains constant while cost of goods and services keep increasing, heightened poverty or a rapid increase in the poverty rate in the country is inevitable.”
Meanwhile, the Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader, PwC, Taiwo Oyedele, has said challenging any ambiguity or treatment the states consider inconsistent with the constitution in court, is a healthy development for the system.
Oyedele said this in an interview with one of our correspondents, in response to the states’ attorneys’ general’s prayer to the supreme court to determine whether or not the states have the sole authority to administer and collect stamp duties on all transactions involving individuals and persons within their respective states.
The PUNCH had reported that the Attorney-General of the 36 states of the federation had dragged the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, before the Supreme Court over the failure of the Federal Government to remit the funds generated from stamp duties into states’ accounts.
Oyedele said, “There is generally no ambiguity regarding the collection of stamp duties. States are entitled to collect stamp duty on any dutiable instruments between individuals. Where a corporate entity is involved, the Federal Government is empowered to collect the stamp duty.
“While each state gets to keep the stamp duty collected by them, any stamp duty collected by the Federal Government is to be shared to states at 100 per cent less cost of collection based on derivation.”
In another development, an economist and private sector advocate, Dr Muda Yusuf, has advised the National Assembly and the Federal Ministry of Finance to halt the proposed excise duties on a segment of the manufacturing sector.
Yusuf said this in a statement on Sunday in response to the announcement by the Nigerian Customs Service during the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework assessment in the National Assembly to reintroduce excise duties on the production of soft drinks in the country.
Yusuf described the move as ill-timed, inappropriate and detrimental to the growth of the manufacturing sector, saying that it negated the economic recovery and job creation objectives of the federal government
He said, “Many upcoming small businesses in the beverage sector would be hard hit by this proposal. The millions of micro enterprises in the soft drinks’ distribution chain will be adversely impacted by the imposition of the excise tax.”
Did Lagos and Rivers tell you that they didn't know they collected higher than Jigawa and Kano? The issue is WHY would the lion share of tax collected in one state be given to other states? ... and leaving the state whose citizens paid the taxes with only 20% of what they collected from them?
That is the issue and not who collected what. Some states are not even contributing a penny in taxes to the federation account!
RobbStark: Pls tell me which tribe developed Bonny, Opobo, kalabaris, Okrika, nembe, Bayelsa state, pls tell me
Another deluded Ijaw land grabber. So Bonny, Kalabari etc are Ijaw land ? Did the Ijaw fishermen in the creeks somehow manage to annex the Ibani tribe of Bonny Kingdom and impose an Ijaw as the King in Bonny Kingdom too?
You have answered my question. Ijaw is too lazy to develop their own towns and cities and depend on making ridiculous claims to other peoples homelands and towns.
Apart from Yenogoa developed by virtue of being a capital city of an oil-producing state, not even one town can be pointed to in Ijaw land where the Ijaws were known to have developed a town. The way Ibibio people developed Oron, Eket, Uyo, Ikot ekpene etc. Or the way the Tiv tribe has notable towns like Doma, Akondonyou, Markurdi, Aliade etc. It all goes to prove that the complaint of the other indigenous tribes in the region that Ijaw were originally fishermen migrants from Sierra Leone who invaded their creeks and set up fishing settlements. Else, there is no way Ijaw had lived in those creeks for a thousand years and don't even have a single traditional town or city. Until 1996 when Bayelsa state was created.
Robbstark,. Please come and explain what these Ijaws of Opobo are saying.
Pay close attention to what the lady mentioned in exactly 2 mins into the video
In Delta state, this is the problem we face. Ijaws claiming Warri, Sapele, Abraka, and Ughelli! When I saw their recent publication claiming Omoku and Oyigbo as Ijaw land, I was not surprised.
What is sooooooooo shocking to me is WHY Ijaws cannot develop a city of their own within Ijaw land? All they do is to go outside Ijaw land and suddenly try to claim other people's towns and cities as "Ijaw" land? It has never ceased to amaze me that even tribes Ijaw claim to be bigger than such as Tiv or Idoma, or Ibibio or Efik etc all built major cities within their own land without trying to claim other people's towns and cities as their own. The Ijaw strategy of suddenly claiming other people's towns & cities still amazes me. I wonder what they are really thinking.
Liebermantic: Opobo and Bonny will never go along with Ijaw if Nigeria divides along Ethnic lines.. Opobo and Bonny kings and People were originally Igbo..The fake History of Origin started by Prof Alagoa of Nembe around 1972...The old documented History of Opobo and Bonny showed they are Igbo.. Ijaws should just go with Bayelsa State alone..No Ijaw in Rivers State
I am still perplexed at the effrontery of Ijaws to be claiming other tribes into their dead on arrival Ijaw republic. Right now they claim from Ondo state to Sapele, Ughelli, Warri and Abraka. Even Omoku, Elele, Oyigbo and Ahoada are today being claimed by the crazy expansionist Ijaws! Soon, they will join Abuja in their claim of "Ijaw land"
The sad thing about Ijaws is that instead of concentrating on their own Ijaw republic in Ijaw land, they are fixated on the forced annexation of other people into their fisherman enclave!
Allen102: Who and you be thief? I don't really care where you are from or not,it is not of my business. My point is, Wakirike is an ijaw clan and will always be.
Even Omoku, Elele and Ahoada are today being claimed by the crazy expansionist Ijaws!
The sad thing about Ijaws is that instead of concentrating on their own Ijaw republic in Ijaw land, they are fixated on the forced annexation of other people into their fisherman enclave!
Vintagepipes: THE FAIR HISTORY ABOUT ORIGIN OF KALABARI PEOPLE (AWOME) ................ WHO ARE THE KALABARI'S... WHY SHOULD KALABARI PEOPLE BE ADDRESSED AND IDENTIFIED AS KALABARI'S AND SHOULDN'T BE SUBJECTED TO ANY OTHER ETHNICITY/TRIBE BUT AS KALABARI TRIBES AND KALABARI ETHNIC GROUPS ALONE? Kalabari World - From left direction across the present day Bayelsa State and right direction to the present day Calabar City was null and void until arrival of the allochthonous and autochthonous" “(about Seven (7) beings descended to the ancient Ke Land (present Ke Community in Kalabari Nation, located at the present day Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State, South South, Eastern Niger Delta, Nigeria)......................... Beings Exist in Ke BC (uncommon era)) and they did not ascend from the old Agadagba-Bou, as some historians frames up their stories. And purported stories that says Ke began at 500-800 AD are all lies, because no kind of archaeological samples can prove the case of Ke begining on earth, because her origins were not just migrants as others ....... The truth is that no living human can tell where the descendants of Ke came from because no one recorded such as a fact from the likes of Keni-Ala(Keni Opu Ala), Keni-Opusuo, Opu-Ogbu, Ombiyi, Opu-Jaja, Ogbokiya, and Opupiri (Opusiri), that was assumed seven founding ancestors descendants from sky. Centuries ago, it was from Ke that the Adumu Spiritual Initiation Society/Cult/Lodge commonly referred to as the water people or the mask spirit people (Owu-ame/Owu amapu) derived from. Inwhich all other neighboring lands or tribes in Niger Delta adopted as culture (tradition)......................... Around 1932 about sixty one (61) successors had ruled Ke Lands as Amayanabo starting from Omonie (Omoniye), narrated by Ke Historian Madam Kala-Dokku and published by Talbot 1932..... To cut short story, Ke can not be people that came from Ijo, or Ejo which are variations of Ujo or Ojo (i.e Ancestors of Kala-Okun, Ujo-Gbaran(Gbaran) - Gbaramatu, Arogbo, Tuomo, Kabo, etc), and Ke can not be addressed as people that came from the Niger-Congo Tribes, Kumoni-Oru, Otu-Ife (Ile-Ife)/Benin/Ijaw(Ejo or Ijo or Ujo alias Idekoseroake, etc,) even though some migrants came to join the Ke People from other parts of Ancient Africa e.i the Seven(7) ancient wards of Kalabari, Ilelema, Angulama, Kula, Bille, Tombia, Oproama, Ogoloma, Bonny, etc, BC-AD.. The fair fact is that Ke should instead be seen as a landlord to all Kalabari's, Ibani, Obgolo's(Andoni), Okirikan's, Nkoro & Opopo, including the Rivers State Igbo's, Nembe, Ogbia, Epie, Etc..................... If anyone sincerely wants to narrate or tell the myth of the origin or root of Kalabari People Ke should be considered as one of the geneuin origin of Kalabari's that is still locatable ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Because even when the first Seven(7) wards that formed Kalabari migrated to the Elem-Kalabari Ke has been in existence for more than ten(10) centuries and most of the Kalabari Clans were made up of Ke Offsprings just as it is to other Kingdoms like Kalaibiama in present day Bonny, Ekeni in Bayelsa State, Abame in Okirika, Okpoma in Nembe, etc, so therefore it is too wrong, bad and baseless to frame the entire Kalabari People as people that rooted (came from) Ijaw/Ijo/Ujo/Ejo or Ojo for any reason, because that is a fatal lie by some desperate or egotistical persons whom tries to paint all the Riverine Tribes or Fishermen tribes to a root.. Also, most persons confuses the term Oru (Horu or Oru's) as Ethnic Group, while some complicates Oru(Horu) as the source of Kumoni-Oru which some baseless historians stated as who settled the Niger Delta with the most ancient inhabitants known as the Oru (TOBU OTU) who gave birth to the Ijos; meanwhile the curious name “ORU” was applied by the early British explorers to Brass from the Nun enteranc to Taylor Creek, Dr Baikie said of them 1854. Just as some small minded historians classifies Ijaw as Ethnicity in Nigeria due to very few adopted, anglisized or corrupted similarities in some tribes even when the said similarities does not match or conclude beyond common imaginations............. Now, Same goes to individual clans/towns/communities that formed the previous and the present Kalabari World..................................... The overall and first capital(headquarter) of the Ancient Kalabari Nation was a virgin island which originally began the popularly known Kalabari race on planet earth. The name Torusirama-piri or Kalabari-kiri was given to the island after the first founders had settled there for centuries........ Along the way others joined to make up the first Seven (7) - first fourteen (14) Ward's at this very island that latter became the Torusrama-piri (Kalabari Polo, Kalabari Kiri or Kalabari-Ama).......... The first Seven(7) Wards were.. (1). Amabin-Ame, (2). Kuro-Ame, (3). Ende-Ame, (4). Igodo-Ame, (5). Akiala-Ame, (6). Ituru-Ame, (7) Buko-Ame. -Lila-Ame..... These names given to the Seven (7) founding wards are classification to identify each group. The reality is that, these groups all migrated from different parts of the Ancient Africa World, such as Binin Areas, Ile-fe, Ke, Akwa Akpa(Calabar), Igbo, Cameron, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Niger-Congo, Serialeon, Tribes that speaks the Niger-Congo Language such as Ijoid(Atlantic), and Defaka(Afakani) an endangered language. And Kalabari Lands is not just about the First Seven (7) Wards that settled at the New Calabar River because the likes of Ke, Ilelema, Angulama, Kula, Bille, Abise, Soku, Tombia, Obonoma, Idama, Oguruawo-Bakana, Krakrama, Ifoko, Bukuma, Udekeama(Dekema), Oproama, Sangama, Abalama, Ido, Tema, Sema, Obu-Ama(Harry's Town) and others joined to makeup the independent Kalabari Nation counting from the King Amakiri(Amachree) era as the Great King of All Kings. The language of the present Ibani, Okirika and some parts of Nembe was adopted from the Kalabari Language just as the Kalabari Language became the basics of the Berbice, a Dutch Creole Spoken in Eastern Guyana. Kalabari Language words have been proposed for some modern technical terms. And so what is now being paraded as the linguistics of the said Ijaw Ethnic Group is a Kalabari Language and never an Ijaw language. The Kalabari Language is a tongue of many forms from the ancient days, which undergone unidentifiable mix-ups, due to the need of establishing a unique world known a Kalabari Nation... The Kalabari Traditional attires, Songs, and dance steps, etc, has been adopted by too many tribes of Nigeria especially the Niger Deltans, and as of today it is very hard to claim Kalabari Tradition as a cultural practice which is originally native to the Kalabari Tribes, but only God and man knows that it was very few tribes in Nigeria that had traditional attire( exampling tradition) before Nigeria was amalgamated, and almost all the tribes in Nigeria did not interact directly with the whiteman (Portuguese especially) to get reach of beautiful dress codes such as original beads(Corals-Kilali,Ikuta,Illa,Stords), Cloths(Dawn, Wokor, Daminimbana, Frokor, Etibor, India-Bite, Lokor, Amasiri, Epe, Injiri, etc, ), walking sticks(Royal Staffs), Swords, etc. Most of the credits forged as or transfered to the said Ijaw were originally Kalabari's affairs. The present areas known as Kalabari is not Ijaw Land but Kalabari Lands, and only liars frames up Our world as Ijaw Lands or Ijaw Sub Groups in Eastern Niger Delta, meanwhile Kalabari is Independent Nation for Centuries now. Finally, none should mislead anyone by saying the term Kalabari was a name of a ancestor so therefore Kalabari's came from one place called Ijaw/Ijo/Ejo/Ujo/Ojo when there is no place on Earth agreed as the genuine Ijaw Kingdom or origin on earth, apart from some myth to some villages or ancestors who they now classified as persons or villages that originated from another ancestor named Ijo/Ejo or Ujo/Ojo who was a child to Adumu some says Oduduwa is the Adumu. This is brief but genuine history of who Kalabari's are. To stretching and analyze this history it can go as far as fifteen (15) times longer than this, but this is a brief yet better guidance to who we truly are. By Kalabari Indigenous Movement, Kalabari Agitators
Of course, Ijaw in my state have serious grandiose delusions of installing an Olu of Warri and taking over Warri from Itsekiris. Even claiming other Delta cities such as Ughelli and Sapele as Ijaw land!
Sergio101: Watch your mouth Fulani puppet. The era of divide and rule has gone
Fulani does not even know that an average Asaba man is more Igbo than any Igbo clan in the southeast geographical space. Even in my own family!
I am glad that Fulanis and Buhari have helped us to see the light. My own family members have shocked me recently with their actions and pronouncements.
vasel15: I told you slow people that this fight for freedom is against Nigeria and some world powers, now look at the Nigerian Algerian pipeline, they want to send our gas to Europe from Warri, do you think these countries will want Nigeria to break up. Just look at the screenshot
The "Our Oyel" gang will run away from this thread!
Is it not clear that the "Oyel & Gas" belongs to Fulani and how they will sell it and pocket the money? While the Niger Delta remains in misery, penury, and severe poverty?
Boudiccao: This man has started his Igbo this, igbo that. You already declared yourself an enemy of Igbos, to hell with you.
He only spoke the truth.
There are 2 laws in Nigeria for Fulanis and the rest! Everyone knows it. The good thing is that other respectable countries are also quietly taking note.
That Bala Mohammed is one of the chief architects of importation of Fulanis from Central Africa and try to forcefully resettle them in the middle belt and southern forests and villages.
Everyone knows there is ample massive land in the northern states of Katsina, Bauchi, Sokoto, Kebbi, Kano, Zamfara etc. Why don't you resettle these Fulanis in these northern uninhabited areas? Instead of trying to provoke another civil war by trying to forcefully resettle them in already inhabited southern and middle belt villages?
Anyhow, your plan has failed. The only thing now is that every Nigerian should arm themselves and get ready for a civil war with Fulanis and their Nigeria army compatriots.
Bonavi: When u listen to northern leaders not their political leaders, they dont seem to be overly scared of Igbos exiting Nigeria. I ve listened and read their commentaries, for them its a thing of pride to point out they are not going to die or beg the igbos to stay. The south south are indifferent, they seem to be waiting for the Igbos to liberate them. The Yorubas on the other hand seem to be much frightened on Igbos exit. The question why they are most frightened is what I could not specifically grab. Is it that it would be heard for them to separate from the north even if Igbo succeed in that quest or the belief that Igbos are the main reason the Fulanis have not overrun the entire country?
Another weak attempt by Fulani to start e-war with Yoruba.
It is very clear that the Fulani are the people determined to hold everyone in this evil union so that they can use their resources, talents and land for the development of an imagined Fulani caliphate.
The good thing is that other tribes hitherto "conquered by Fulani in the north, are also demanding reinstatement of their original states and their freedom. Eventually, Foolanis will return to Futajalon and see that they ended up fooling nobody with their deceits, corruption and crusades of conquest.
UmuEri: For the records, the Airport is called Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport Umueri.
It is a State project done with state money and not Obiano's personal fund.
All appropriations/allocation for the project passed through the State House of Assembly including the Name of the Airport.
Suggesting that the Airport should be named after Obiano is foolishness (and a day dream).
If other Governor's who built Airports in their respective states didn't name the Airport after their names, why must Anambra own be named after the governor?
Or is Obiano the first governor to build Airport?
Well for the records, i did not say that Obiano should name the airport after himself. Yes, there are many Governors that built airports which was named after them to honor them by subsequent administrations.
1. Imo airport Owerri was renamed Sam Mbakwe International Cargo airport after dee Sam Mbakwe who built it wit donations from Imo people.
2, Katsina airport was renamed Umaru Yar'Adua airport to honor the memory of Umaru Yar'Adua who built it as Katsina governor.
3. Uyo airport was renamed Obong Victor Attah International airport to honor Gov. Victor Attah who built it.
I guarantee you that if Uduaghan dies today (God forbid), my state's Asaba airport will be renamed Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan airport to honor the man who built it.
MrStan11: If Anambra doesn't need an Airport, then Abuja does not need one. Kaduna or kano Airports should have served them. And besides, it is mostly used by Politicians. Please if you don't like Anambra Airport, You can go to Asaba,Enugu,IMO or even Bayelsa or Rivers and enter their own. How somebody in his right state of mind will look a state with Onitsha, Awka, Nnewi, Ekwulobia and Ihiala axis and say Airport is a nonsense project. My prayer is let there be massive investment in the airport. So that flight ticket will be cheapest like 10 to 20k. All these our transport companies like GUO, young shall grow etc should look beyong hiace bus and think like Innoson who started with okada spare parts importation. Partner and upgrade to flight services. We want flight ticket to be around 10k. We don't want Nigeria sentiment that aeroplane is for the well to do alone in our Anambra Airport.
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Their twisted logic immediately come up when it is about an infrastructural project in Igboland. They made the same argument that Imo airport won't be viable because Enugu was there. Then they made the same argument that Asaba won't be viable because there were nearby Imo and Enugu. In all their crooked analysis, both Imo and Asaba are some of the most viable airports in Nigeria.
We already know their bitterness against Igbos. This is why Nigeria MUST restructure or breakup so that one part of the country will stop frustrating development in another part of the country. From the looks of it, we are going to have a second civil war before some people understand that it is unsustainable to try to hold a whole section of the country down for ever. Let their paid crook mktinsight keep writing with different monikers and praying for evil, it is coming to a head soon.
Even if this did not happen, If Igbo civilians are killed by Fulani army, ESN should exert equivalent toll on their people.
There is a reason why they will never bomb Maiduguri to prevent death of their people, but will find it easy to bomb a populated city like Orlu without caring about the lives of Igbo civilians. Paying them back with the lives of their own people is the only way to help them understand.
AsomughaChuks02: I don't care what haters say about the airport in Umueri via Aguleri. Hate can only poison the bearer no one else. The airport has taken off and its completion and eventual use to the glory of God and Anambra state is on course. My only appeal is that it should be named after the builder, Chief Willie Obiano Akpokuedike Ndi Igbo. I trust the incoming governor Chukwuma Soludo to give him that honour for breaking the jinx.
The airport will ultimately be named after Chief Willie Obiano. Whether the next government do it or not. It cannot be disputed that he could have easily stolen the money like Orji Uzor Kalu, Rochas or even Hope Uzodinma, and nothing will happen.
Investing on important projects to uplift the state shows his love for the progress of his state.
BTW, please don't mind those sore losers coming here to spill their frustration that another state is getting an airport. I know what my people saw when we were lobbying for Asaba airport and others were going out of their way to block it! Today, they all use Asaba airport and shamelessly forgot how they tried to block the project. Some of these people here are just dark bitter souls. The types that poison their best friend just because their best friend gained admission to a university or achieved a little success.
Besides, Nigeria is such a populous country that more airports with more airlines will help air travel to develop and become very cheap for more people to participate. They just have a very primitive mindset that Nigeria's population and economy will not grow anymore therefore, any airport using 5 people will continue with those 5 people for ever. They even forgot that until very recently only very few Nigerians had ever flown in an airplane.
There is a reason Nigerians go to Germany or India for medical tourism. Most of the equipment needed are not available here in Nigerian teaching hospitals.
One would think the first things to install at Umuchukwu are the advanced medical equipment like CT Scan, Radiotherpy machines to treat cancers, advanced machines for heart surgeries and other highly specialized medical equipment's not found in typical Nigerian teaching hospitals.
Then they will go into partnership with teaching hospitals to send confirmed patients who have need for these High-end medical equipment to Umuchukwu for further tests and treatment.
Creating a hospital that does the same thing as every community health center in Nigeria treating malaria and typhoid fever and expecting it to curb medical tourism in Nigeria is mere wishful thinking.
With ESN and automatic weapons in abundance, it will be foolish to hope on using Police and army to bulldoze people. They will now shoot back and continue shooting until you regret trying to rape them as you did in the past. That for sure you can be certain about.
asha80: what is it that china gives them that isnt available back home? Do you have light 247? Can your representatives ensure gas facilities are built in onitsha?( though they being built in egbema and aba at the moment?) ..if you can't guarantee that then no use wondering why they site their manufacturing outfits in China
Truth is that African industrialists in China do want to build at home but the Nigerian state is viciously toxic to anyone building factories here. It is best they build in China for now. To help local subsidiaries, they can leave the final assemblage to be made by a factory in Nigeria to help create jobs here.
Asking people who braved the worst conditions to exit Nigeria and managed to re-establish something for themselves in China, to return to this even more hellish hell-hole called Nigeria without regional self-governance is totally silly and unreasonable request.
If they return and lose all their money to multiple taxation, rampant bribery of customs, not to mention poor infrastructure, would you give them new loans to return to China and re-establish themselves? It is like telling a graduate who was jobless in Nigeria for 15 years and emigrated to USA and became a celebrated talent in an industry, to return to Nigeria and become jobless again because the government would not hire him because of his state of origin?
Does it make any sense to return to Nigeria when the conditions and governance structure that drove them out of Nigeria is firmly intact and even worse today than 20 years ago?
ChimaAdeoye: Those saying the terminal building is small, don't know what they are saying. This airport's terminal building is already bigger than the Banjul International airport terminal. If the place is efficient, in processing arrivals and departures, it will never be crowded. One huge mistake i hope they will also avoid is placing the car park too close to the terminal building like at the Enugu Intl. airport.
I hate many Nigerian airports because as soon as you exit the terminal building, you are already on the airport VIP route, so close to the public car park with mad drivers blaring horns and harassing the new arrivals with their cars. It always makes Nigeria look like the land of mad people to a new visitor Nigeria from sane countries.
I noticed Asaba airport was an exception to this rule of car parks placed so close to the terminal building. In Asaba, they placed their car park a little distance from the terminal and blocked the VIP car route so that taxis are forced to park in the car park at all times, not along the VIP airport route as in many Nigerian airports.
Again, I really enjoyed a trip to Banjul, Gambia. This airport terminal was small but decent and efficient. Most importantly, one great ambiance in Banjul is that once you exit their terminal building, you walk about 75 meters of well manicured flower walkway before you get to the VIP car route. Then walk about 100 meters to the car park! Nairobi airport also has a similar distance to the public car park. This distance of the terminal building from the public car park makes the terminal calm with a unique tranquility even when there is maddening blaring of horns and chaos of a typical African airport car park. I hope that this is considered in how close the car park is placed to the terminal building at Anambra International airport.
I agree that car parks shouldn't be too close to the terminal building. Apart from noise reduction, there is a safety part in which if a car suddenly caught fire in the car park, it does not burn down the entire terminal building with it.
Moreover, leaving enough space behind the existing terminal makes it easier to expand the terminal building in the future as the airport becomes busier without having to create a new car park to achieve terminal building expansion.
I can only imagine how much land along this access road costs now!
Please Government should ensure the land is reserved for 5 star hotels, shopping malls, amusement parks and other tourist entertainment that will help boost other facilities around the airport.
There should be NO market or eyesore type of building along that brand new road.
ChimaAdeoye: Gov. Wille Obiano is truly a magician!!! How did he get the money for such world class project? Obiano is finally bequeathing Anambra with one the best airports in West Africa!
Everything from the access roads, Main Airport gate, runway, taxiway, car parks, fire stations, Emergency medical clinics, 2 level terminal building, Water supply station, mini power station was well thought out!!! With more space for future expansion and development!
The official airport January 2021 Status Update video released by the state government! O'lboy, this is indeed a massive project. Everything is done at the best international standard!!!
Anambra finally has a true international airport to facilitate trade and commerce without depending on the whims and caprices of others! I am hoping the begin planting trees, flowers and grass now around areas that no further construction is needed. Also they need beautiful trees and flowers along the main airport road all the way to the parking lots to give it the best ambiance possible!
This is truly a spectacular expose! Now i know why Obiano was hiding the project! He wanted this precise shock and awe at the magnitude of this project when it's unveiled! The guy has left his prints in the sands of time! Even in the next 100 years, It is no longer ever going to be a question if Obiano was one of the greatest Anambra governors or not. He has totally proved himself! Imagine doing this in a recession!
I agree they should begin trees and flowers planting now. Infact they should create a landscaping team to start from the junction of the airport road by the Awka- Onitsha expressway all the way to inside the airport. Also, spaces around the taxiways, apron and runway should be grassed now. Even before marking of the places with paints begin.
If i were Buhari, i will rebuild the Awka - Enugu expressway as my contribution to this project. In the future, some people may even confuse it that it was Buhari that built the entire airport and built the expressway!
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