₦airaland Forum

NwaAmaikpe:
Such a shame.
Nothing is based on merit anymore.

ivandragon:
the VP is either being economical with the truth or lacks perspective...


most of the so called 'full' ministers from the South are just figure heads who have little or no say in the actual affairs of the nation. a look at the key agencies/parastatals under those portfolios will reveal that they are dominated by southerners (except in very few cases).


the key areas that is the life blood of Nigeria are firmly populated by pmb's cronies... it is only by doing a sectoral analysis that one can grasp the true picture of pmb's nepotism & lopsided appointments.


for instance, a glimpse of the security sector will reveal that out of the 12 KEY positions, the north holds 10. the south have chf. of defence staff & chf. of naval staff... two positions that are fairly redundant in the big picture.



look again at the major financial/economic/revenue generating appointments... of 14 key positions, the north controls 10 including the cash cows of petroleum, customs & NPA. south has 4 with the major one being FIRS... the others, Min. of finance, CBN are less effective if the others do not remit money.


same goes for virtually all ministries headed by southerners...


for instance,

Anambra, $3.77m, Similarly, Enugu attracted a total investment of $644,890; Kogi, $500,000; Kano, $483,970; Bauchi, $425,000; Rivers, $384,817; and Kaduna, $89,975.


http://punchng.com/13-states-attract-n1-9tn-investments-in-three-months/

Cooly100:
Thief! Where is the N8 billion Tinubu spent on this project...?

The All Progressives Congress, Lagos State Chapter, has said the Lagos State Government has quit the Sunborn Yacht Hotel. The party said it was a bad business and the government had abandoned the deal.

The controversial yacht, valued at about N8bn, is an inshore boat hotel.

You just de run your mouth like bad tap...

2012 Annual Reports and Accounts - Diamond Bank

Apr 17, 2012 - Sun born yacht hotel.

The non current asset disclosed as held for sale is a mobile hotel "the sun born yacht" purchased in February 2008 by the Group's former subsidiary, Diamond Capital Limited. Assets of Diamond Capital were transferred to the Bank in 2011 on sale


www.diamondbank.com/download/2012-ANNUAL-REPORT-ACCOUNTS.pdf

NaijaMutant:
I didn't bother to read the article, from the heading I knew he was lying

Fellow Nigerian Christians,

Please pray for Osinbajo

Let's pray for God's deliverance and restoration upon Osinbajo

futurism:
have u been to Uyo?

remedick:
as much as I enjoy most of your comments but you are taking it too far when you know stealing is going on at large in Lagos.

what have you done about that? how do you even justify the Lekki Toll gate fees and subsequent hike in said fees? is that not daylight robbery? What are they even using the money for?

Atouke:
Go and solve the stealing by your political leaders and leave Akwa ibom matter for Akwa ibom people, its non of your business what our gov. or leaders steal or didint steal.
Go and recover the website, lagos city Airport, and lagos metro rail way project loot from Fashola before we address Akpabio. you guys only see speck in other people eyes and fail to see the log in your own eyes. vamoose!

sacluxisback:
Anambra state is up to date in payment of salaries

Anambra workers demand full implementation


In Anambra State, immediate past government of Peter Obi, instead of implementing the N18.000 minimum wage, just added N10,000 and just recently, the incumbent governor merely effected a15 percent increment to the workers’ salaries which still fell short of the N18.000 minimum wage.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/minimum-wage-governors-discriminate-against-lg-workers-teachers/

Atouke:
You mean the way fashola your god pocketed the money for the imaginary lagos city Airport? By the way what about the N600bn lagos metro railway money he stole, is the railproject complete?

Atouke:
Eko ile or whatever you choose to call yourself now, stop recycling the trash you've been circulating about this project, they are all lies and you know it. but the truth is that it didnt stop the progress of the port then and it will not stop it now.
you can keep hating but the port is comming just stay tuned .

EternalTruths:
God bless Akwa Ibom the gateway to the Rising Sun.


Which ethnic group is Gov Udom from.?

Atouke:
Blame buhari for the auto company that didint materialize, when the investor came in 2015 $ exchange rate was $1:N195 thats what the projections was based on soon after breaking groundfor the project $1 exchange rate climed to N500 within a few months, and buhari flip floped on economic policies causing massive flight of foreign capital and investment to Nigeria.

I ask you if you were the investor would you have invested your money in such climate?

the Akwa ibom state govt. is working hard to bring back investors despite the dulling of the APC Federal govt.
Gov. Udom has so far attracted the Jubilee syringe factory,
The electricty meter manufacturing company,
The kings flour company,
The HJ coconut oil refinery,
St Gabriel coconut plantation,
Toothpick and pencil factory,
The reactivation of the peacock paint industry etc
can you point to any Nigerian Gov. Who has done better in this regards?

0monnak0da:
How market 2018?

BankeSmalls:
Liar!

Nigerian govt. budgets N1 billion for Akwa Ibom seaport



Mar 3, 2017 - The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, says that Federal Government has made provision of N1 billion in the 2017 budget for the development of Ibaka deep seaport in Akwa Ibom. Mr. Osinbajo said this in Uyo on Thursday while addressing a Townhall meeting of the government and people of the state.


https://www.premiumtimesng.com/.../225123-nigerian-govt-budgets-n1-billion-akwa

Why Ibaka deep seaport project was stalled



Daily Sun investigation reveals that the only formal visible commitment so far recorded in the last nine years is the perimeter survey plan of the area designated for the project.

Chief Sunday Edubio, said that former President Goodluck Jonathan missed a golden opportunity of constructing and running the port.
According to Edubio, the funds were there then because Akwa Ibom as a state was earning the highest from the 13 per cent derivation revenue in addition to more money coming from the Excess Crude Account (ECA) which would have been deployed into such critical economic infrastructure.

According to Edubio, if government is considering direct private sector involvement in greenfield port construction, the idea has become less attractive as the Cross River State Government is showing more interest in constructing its proposed Bakassi Deep Sea Port.

“No investor will invest his money in the Ibaka Deep Seaport project in Akwa Ibom now that our neighbouring state of Cross River is gearing up to have the Bakassi Deep Seaport. The coastline distance between the two ports will be close and will cause stiff competition in an area where we are not sure to attract commensurate cargo for investors to recoup their investments.


“You will agree with me that Cross River State has demonstrated more commitment in diversifying its economy even before it lost most of its oil wells to Akwa Ibom State. Check out what is ongoing at the Calabar Free Trade Zone and the established structures in Tinapa, you will see practical commitment. Here we sound too boastful doing little.


Edubio cited further examples with the $1.6 billion Badagry Deep Seaport where the Lagos State Government has demonstrated the will to begin construction work before the end of 2016 and blamed his home state for merely talking big.

Akwa Ibom got a huge sum of money from the Federal Government as its allocation for the month of July 2016.
The July collection is the first time in a very long when the state has got such amount. Other months had come with lower figures following restiveness in the oil–producing regions of the country and the falling price of crude oil at the international market.

http://sunnewsonline.com/why-ibaka-deep-seaport-project-was-stalled/

Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo announced this during the 30th-anniversary celebration of Akwa Ibom state.

Describing Akwa Ibom as a state with a tradition of progressive activism, patriotism and development with strategic importance to the Federal government, Osinbajo said that provision has been made in the 2017 budget to support the project through the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) to support Akwa Ibom state in the development of Ibaka Deep Sea Port.


https://www.channelstv.com/2017/09/25/fg-declares-support-for-akwa-ibom-seaport-project/

Kizxee:
I don't know how it is so hard for NLers to stop commenting on something they have no idea about.
Akpabio could not continue the project because it was not granted a pass for it to proceed. It does not mean it would have not been completed since. Ipobs believe that the afonja have played a role in the delay of its pass.
Get your facts right please

While commending President Goodluck Jonathan for his initiative towards the project, Akpabio cautioned that there could be a revolution if the issue of youth unemployment is not seriously tackled. He added: “One of the greatest problems we would have in this country would be an implosion if we don’t take the right economic steps because of the millions of graduates who are churned out yearly. A time would come when there would be an internal revolution if we don’t take the right steps now. Part of what we should do is what we are doing now.” Responding on behalf of the Federal Government, the Managing Director of NPA, Alhaji Omar Suleiman, who described Chief Akpabio as “Infrastructure Governor” said the Federal Government was glad to partner with Akwa Ibom State government in Ibaka. He noted that the natural advantage of Ibaka and the excellent road network in Akwa Ibom State would provide the needed impetus for the project.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/we%E2%80%99re-committed-to-ibaka-seaport-project-akpabio/

Kizxee:
I don't know how it is so hard for NLers to stop commenting on something they have no idea about.
Akpabio could not continue the project because it was not granted a pass for it to proceed. It does not mean it would have not been completed since. Ipobs believe that the afonja have played a role in the delay of its pass.
Get your facts right please

Despite the yearly allocation of several billions of naira for the construction of a proposed greenfield deep seaport at Ibaka in Akwa Ibom State by both the State Government and the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) since 2011, the project has remained elusive, with no evidence of a port being built at the proposed site.


The water at Ibaka is said to have a natural draft of 11 metres, without dredging, making it a huge potential for possible deep seaport construction.

Akwa Ibom State has continued to budget for the port, which Governor Godswill Akpabio said would create employment for 100,000 Nigerians.

The NPA had also told LEADERSHIP in Uyo at the PCC meeting that the deep seaport would be completed in 2015.

When LEADERSHIP visited the proposed site of the deep seaport at Ibaka, there was nothing to show that a seaport was being planned at coastal community.

A lonely dilapidated narrow road, better described as a colonial road leads to Ibaka, from Oron. As early as 2011, the Akwa Ibom State Governor told a Nigeria Ports Consultative Council (PCC) meeting in Uyo that his government had concluded plans to dualise the road.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201312160580.html

Nonaira3:
You asking them the wrong area. The question would be about porto novo. Why is it porto novo, a yoruba owned city with the same environmental similarity with Lagos not like Lagos?

Whenever Yorubas try to tell that super story about how they developed Lagos alone and how Lagos FCT status played no factor in Lagos makes me laugh. They completely forget they literally have a sibling right next to them with literally the same environmental similarities as Lagos yet it's one of the most backwards capital I've ever been in my life. The question now begs if they developed the area that is now known as lagos prior to the existence of Nigeria so why did they ignore the area now known as porto novo? Abi was there something special about the area now named Lagos that the area now known as port novo didn't have? I sure as hell didn't see. Any environmental difference when i was there. Now if they say no, there's nothing special. Now the question goes, the yorubas in porto novo not yorubas or wetin? Likewise weren't they among them prior to existence nigeria and benin?
So why hasn't the yorubas in porto novo replicated another lagos?
Hell even if we focus in Nigeria only, why is it there's no other sw state/city that is in the form of lagos? Abi the so called "yoruba intention" meant only for lagos abi?

They make me laugh with that delusional super story cause reality alone defuses that story easily.

Originalsly:
Really?.....like where?

E[b]LKHALIFAISIS:[/b]
because the one in Lagos will be useless if this one get head... who go dey happy when his source of income won close... west can't do without east patronage, give them standard airport/seaport and watch as lagoon crumble

Originalsly:


Why do we still believe Free Trade Zone is a good development?...when in fact it is an exploitation of cheap labour , often an environmental danger and robs the country of revenue....the reason why FTZ are never in developed countries. The companies pretty much have "diplomatic immunity' in that they are not bound by local laws in the FTZ...they make their own rules...pay workers what they want to...usually impose fines for every little thing to reduce the little they pay. ..dump whatever toxic waste destroying the environment and when all is done...pack up and move on to the next location. But this...we call development...foreign investment.
@ topic...Deepwater port...excellent...location...great. But how would goods be transported to and from the port? There is no talk of constructing a suitable road network. Sooo short sighted.

As an exporter, your company should also consider the customs privileges of U.S. foreign trade zones (FTZs). These zones are domestic U.S. sites that are considered outside U.S. Customs territory and are available for activities that might otherwise be carried on overseas for customs reasons. For export operations, the zones provide accelerated export status for purposes of excise tax rebates. There is no issue of drawback because duties are not collected when the goods are in the FTZ. For import and reexport activities, no customs duties, federal excise taxes, or state or local ad valorem taxes are charged on foreign goods moved into FTZs unless and until the goods or products made from them are moved into U.S. Customs territory. Thus, FTZs can be profitable for operations involving foreign dutiable materials and components being assembled or produced here for reexport. Also, no quota restrictions ordinarily apply to export activity.



https://enforcement.trade.gov/ftzpage/letters/ftzlist-map.html

phantom:
i mentioned it another thread that a major seaport in ibaka( deeper than apapa even without dredging) will finish lagos in a couple of years.
The truth is most importers are igbos. If this port comes to fruition, the south east/ south south will be the main nexus whether you yorubas like it or not.
You dont like to hear the truth but its actually the igbos that are keeping lagos afloat. About 70% of our imports are headed to the SE/SS. Once they build this port, a lot of importers will not bother using apapa or tincan.
A major seaport NEAR igboland will change this country for good. mark my words! If only we were truly "a nation" with love for each other, a major seaport in the SS/SE wil industrialize this country faster than you think.
Do you know how much an aba based shoemaker will save if he's imports are just 1 or 2 hours drive away from his factory. More companies will spring up. innoson will import his parts through ibaka because his factories are in enugu.
The advantages to the SE/SS is enormous.

deomellIo:
Ogbeni na spambot hook my other account.