₦airaland Forum

papoudaupolos:
Western port needs to be decongested

True

I wish this is not another white elephant project.

This will be really nice as it will help with the stress of moving containers from Lagos to Nnewi, Onitsha and Aba, considering the bad roads and Customs and Police check points.

Uyo to Aba is just few kilometers.

By Okon Bassey in Uyo

Following the level of Federal Government interest, more than 100 companies across the globe have reportedly indicated interest for the development of the Ibom Deep Sea port in Ibaka, Mbo local government area of Akwa Ibom State.

Speaking during an interview in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Housing and Special Duties, Mr. Akan Okon stressed that despite the interest so far shown in the project the bidding was still open till March 16, 2018.

He attributed the level of success recorded in the project to the commitment of the State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel whom he said brought to bear his experience in private sector in project execution of that magnitude.

Soon on coming on board, he said the Governor set up a committee made up of experience and seasoned people in the maritime industry to pilot the realisation of the Ibom Deep Sea port.

According to him, for the first time since the conception of the project about five years ago the committee had been able to push to a critical level seen as a major milestone to achieve the project.

Already, Mr. Okon said the Ministerial Steering Committee met in Abuja and approved procedures for procurement which led to publication of qualification for interested port builder.

“I am happy to tell you that the bidding is still open and the response is encouraging.

“We have over 100 companies all over the world showing interest and it is expected more are coming. The closure is extended to March 16, 2018.

“After that the evaluation committee is going to meet to evaluate and come up with a preferred institution that will build the port”, he stated.

The Commissioner whose Ministry oversee the project linked the high interest being shown on the project to the location and draft of the port.

“Without dredging, the port is about 17-18 metres deep, so it can take any large ship than cannot go near any other port in the country. The width is about 600 metres which is the size of six football fields.

“That is why you see in some of the ports in the country when vessels come they cannot berth rather use other smaller vessels to go and remove goods. It will not be so at the Ibom deep Sea Port.

“The issue of congestion is not there because the length is about 600,000 metres. It is a modern port and a port for the future.

“I am certain that by the time the evaluation is completed and the preferred developer chosen, the actual construction work will commence. 75 percent of the paper work prior to commencement of construction has been completed”, the Commissioner stressed.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/03/03/more-than-100-companies-bid-for-ibom-deep-sea-port-project/

wizzakosh:
Why are aki n pawpaw suffering from stunted growth

If only you went to school and understood how statistics are taken to arrive at scientific conclusions, you want be displaying your ignorance in public..

Alariiwo:
It's disturbing really!

And to think these folks still pass on the Yoruba hate to their kids beats me.

A war Ojukwu started despite warnings from pa Awo and co. based on logistics. It's that same ojukwu they hold in high regard over others.

Who introduced starvation as an instrument of war?

Why is that insrument not used in Syria today?

Who said all is fair in war?

I tell you, Gowon has more honor in the east than Awo?

Igbos were everywhere before the war. They were the VC of UI, Unilag and rector of Yaba tech. Awo wanted to remove Igbos so his tribe could occupy the positions. This he has accomplished today. But he is not God, as despite the change in position in the civil service, Igbos have done well despite the set back. Today, only Lagos, a city developed by all Nigeria is better than cities in SE.

wakaman:
Yanmiris are still living in 1967, due to malnutrition and kwashiorkor their brains have not been able to develop the much needed neurones for mental development. peculiarly, the condition is hereditary as it affects the yanmiri youth till present date.

abookina..the report below has debunked your falacious spewing garabage..

According to her, statistics showed that 37 per cent of children representing over six million are malnourished.
She disclosed that the 17.2 million figure represents 43.6 per cent of an estimated 40 million Nigerian children under the age of five years, adding that 19.4 per cent children in the South-west are stunted resulting from malnourishment.
“This is worse than the South-east and South-south but better than the North. And we must do more as agenda setters to keep this issue on national discourse and help reverse the ugly trend,” she said.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/02/27/17-2m-nigerian-children-suffer-from-stunted-growth-unicef-says/

"...We made a disproportionate contribution to the maintenance of the unity of Nigeria at war. We made a sacrifice of over half a million men to keep Nigeria one; we cannot be made to look like cowards. When you want to fight your wars, where do they get soldiers? They come here (Benue). We contributed more than one million men to fight the Nigerian Civil War. We had three quarters of the casualties. What has Nigeria rewarded my people with?...Governor Ortom
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These people should stop talking and repeat what they did with the Biafrans, their fellow Christians...Is it when they are clinical wiped out that they will react? Abeg make we hear word!!

wizzakosh:
So you are even above northwest. I thought there is no open defacation in southeast now.Seriously i am surprised there is percentage of open defacation in south east cos the way you people sing about you using gold plated toilet in your region. , So i refused to believe there is open defacation in the south east even more than northwest you tagged as backward region. Let add that of south east to southwest. They lied, southeast do not do open defacation

The focus now is SW and SE...NW has less prevalence due to their arid nature...but in the southern region with more vegetation, SW lead in open defeaction...Deal with it...

wizzakosh:
Wait o, you mean the report by that igbo man hehehe. When it comes to stunted growth, aki and pawpaw come to mind.

making a joke out of real situation, says much about you.

What about this one....


Regarding open defecation, the highest proportion (8.8%) was found in the North Central zone,
followed by the South West (6.5%) and then North East (4.3%) zones. By contrast, a lower percentage
was recorded in the South East (3.8%) and the lowest in the North West (3.6%). The likely reason for
higher prevalence of open defection in the North Central and South West zones is that their forest
vegetation provides more room for the practice, unlike the grassland vegetation in the North West
where the practice is the least used. Although, South East zone has more dense vegetation but has
lower prevalence of open defecation than the North East, suggesting an influence of other factors
such as education and wealth.


Article
Access to Sanitation Facilities among
Nigerian Households: Determinants and
Sustainability Implications
Ismaila Rimi Abubakar
College of Architecture and Planning, University of Dammam, P.O. Box 2397, Dammam 31451, Saudi Arabia;
irabubakar@uod.edu.sa; Tel.: +966-536-755-650
Academic Editor: Marc A. Rosen
Received: 20 February 2017; Accepted: 31 March 2017; Published: 5 April 2017

Lovren:
So many legitimate grievances in this country, if all starts attacking their fathers, what do you think will happen?
Besides, instead of you to hold the greedy cabals amongst you to account, you busy picking fight with your elders..

Not that it's my business anyway, if Una like, make Una kill Una sef.. Pisssst

Now you have shifted the goal post to meaning just the greedy cabal...

Mister you don't know your eft from your right...

Other regions have no legitmate grievenace like the SE...tell me legitimate grievances of the north and the Western region...

You are basically using this ploy to deceive gullible people.

Adefemiaderoju1:
Fool that's who you are

E pain you well well..

Are you able to interprete quotes from links..

Abeg, go insult UNICEF...

Lovren:
Please tell us how the attack on your elders/fathers will somehow bring about infrastructural development in the SE..
Please explain..

Haven't you seen where some of you one Nigeria advocates ask the youth to challenge their leaders for the no federal sructure in the region?

Now they have challenged the leaders and you are complaining.

They challenge the FG, you complained, they challenged their elders, you complain.

Now tell how you think they could attract federal prresence...and why you think they had to do anything before the hateful FG can invest in their region, as they have been doing in the north and SW for the past 50 years.

maxtamazin:
So resource control will solve all your problems? Have you ask your leaders/governors what they are doing with thier own share of the resources. THINK. Our common enemy is greed and corruption. Period

Why are you northerners so poor in education?

What has state governors got to do with buiding federal roads, rails system, industries, handled by the hateful federal government?

Is it the governors that award contract for Lagos-Ibadan rail system and Abuja-kaduna rail system worth $5 billion?

You guys really need more education..

Government should be seen to be good to all its citizens, not choosing to develop the north and SW leaving the SE and parts of SS because of civil war that ended 50 years ago.

If there is genuine, equal and fair distribution of federal infrastructure...these things will not happen.

I have said a lot about this dysfunctional big for nothing country...

How did small progressive countries like Ghana, Maritius, Sychelles, Rwanda and Botswana do it...?

Some of these countries don't even have oil but you hardly see queues...

Right now I am tired...

Adefemiaderoju1:
Brown roof.. lol You must be a clown, no wonder your shithole region cant survive without moving to south west. Anofia

SW despite the FG investments can't even feed its population...

According to her, statistics showed that 37 per cent of children representing over six million are malnourished.
She disclosed that the 17.2 million figure represents 43.6 per cent of an estimated 40 million Nigerian children under the age of five years, adding that 19.4 per cent children in the South-west are stunted resulting from malnourishment.
“This is worse than the South-east and South-south but better than the North. And we must do more as agenda setters to keep this issue on national discourse and help reverse the ugly trend,” she said.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/02/27/17-2m-nigerian-children-suffer-from-stunted-growth-unicef-says/

Lovren:
Children of hate...

The FG is the god father of hate.

Can you explain why the FG is concentrating development in the north and SW leaving out the SE...?

You don't even know your left from your right.