₦airaland Forum

nwanlecha:
K. Is that by any means your website?

Oh, I think it's just a collection of pictures from other sites on that website.

Aigbofa:
Okay, the canal will be on Azumiri river, I got that. We are talking of ocean liners here, is this Azumiri big enough to supply the the needed volume of water for this canal all year round?
Are you assured of total cooperation from the SS?

The affected communities are coastal ones who have already seen plans for dredging the river as has been posted above. The area around the Imo, again, is sparsely if at all populated until you get to Abia state. The idea of a canal was a earlier suggestion for smaller boats, maybe barges. If a larger canal is needed, there are several rivers, including the upper Imo, the Aba River, and Cross River at Arochukwu that can feed it.

Aigbofa:
Is this Azumiri big enough to supply the canal big enough for ocean going vessels?
What about the SS region? Have you asked for their opinion about dredging the part of the river on their territory?

This idea is not new, the river isn't just to the benefit of Igboland.

Imo River dredging: Russal to pay $120 million

ABUJA -Russal Aluminium Company Limited, the core investor in Aluminium Smelter Company, ASLCON, Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, must refund $120 million to the Federal Government coffers with all interests and charges accruable, three years after it reneged on a contract to dredge the Imo River.

This is part of the decision of the House of Representatives and the Bureau of Public Enterprise, BPE, have agreed by the two bodies during a hearing by the House Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, headed by Hon. Brimoh Abass, in Abuja recently..
The 40-km wide Imo River could be a very vital inland water way that could stimulate trade and commerce within its catchments basin, but only when dredged to hold large barges.

The amount is part of the $250 million controversial Share Purchase Agreement, SPA by the company and the BPE in which $120 would be used to dredge the Imo River in 2006.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/12/imo-river-dredging-russal-to-pay-120-million/

Aigbofa:
What happens when the northerners decide to put a bigger dam on the river Niger? Are you going to supply this canal with borehole water?
This same scenario is playing out between Ethiopia and Egypt.

Which canal? The River Niger doesn't feed the Imo River.

This is the only thing the citizens of two poor backward third world shitholes have power to do.

tsdarkside:
hmmm.......they put a blockade on you,and watched your women and children die of hunger....the u.n was already active then....if you think this international white-murderers give a shiit about you,then you dont understand nothing....

stop playing "we are the world"...you are black,concentrate only on black people,fvck the rest of the world.....

What are you talking about?

rhymaster:
Well, this thread is an admission of what we've always said that Ibos are landlocked! Imagine the Yorubas or SS contemplating the need for a river to accommodate large ships when they are already by the coast, with major coastlines. Ibos cannot survive or be viable without Nigeria and many of its tribes. It's only a pity they cannot see that the people they are abusing are their only lifelines. Ibos should stop trying to take the lands of others in Nigeria, just be proud of your land and be humble and we will manage to keep you eating small, small food in Nigeria.

So you really don't know who the indigenous people are right? You're just talking out of your behind right? What you just wrote doesn't make sense in real life because south eastern Nigeria outdoes the rest of Nigeria in all indices apart from formal GDP. All the warnings about dams and blockages are just far fetched scenarios you know will not happen. Instead of pulling your 'thing' thinking about the worst for another region, why don't you open a thread about building some ports or barriers against that rapidly decreasing coastline that the rest of Nigeria supposedly has but is doing nothing with. Try feeding yourselves maybe. And you're a fucking idiot if you can't tell me which of the three major ports in the 'south south' is accessed without going through rivers, deal?

scholes0:
Which areas? All areas North of Nzam (Anambra state) up to Lokoja, and All areas from Ndoni occupied territory in Rivers state Southwards?

The majority of those areas plus the whole of Bayelsa up to okene and the rest of the Niger's watershed.

scholes0:
Sure it will. Do you know that at their point of confluence near Lokoja the Benue infact exceeds its much longer Niger tributary in volume? When do you think this happened? Well, it happened after the building of the Kainji and Shiroro dams (on the Niger and Kaduna rivers respectively) which held back so much water and created artificial lakes through which the Niger loses huge quantities via direct evaporation from these lakes surface areas. Same thing happened to the Nile's downstream sector in Egypt, after the building of the Aswan High dam and the creation of lake Nasser. One more dam on the Nger, and a new one on the Benue, and the river downstream (Onitsha, and all outlets in the Niger delta will shrink drastically)

Yes, it might become an international issue- but that will be a whole new case of legalities, the reason why Egypt and Sudan have any say on the use of the Nile is because of a supposed treaty signed between British administered Anglo-Egyptian-Sudan, and the their countries upstream, which prohibits the damming of the nile upstream, and allocates the majority of the river's volume to Egyptian use.
There is no such treaty on the Niger, Infract both the long arms of the Niger and Benue including some mileage after its confluence will be in Nigerian territory up to Idah/Agenebode and Southern Ibaji.

It wont happen. The majorly affected area would still supposedly be in Nigeria, anyway.

musicwriter:
Digital keyboard?. If that's what you mean, that's not what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for a physical keyboard.

Okay, well I've not seen an Igbo/Nigerian keyboard. Maybe Jumia or somewhere online?

scholes0:
lol, They can.
You would hear of a new Hydro project on the Niger near Pategi or Baro, and a Grand new Water Reservoir on the Benue near Katsina Ala or Makurdi.
E don finish b that.

igbobuofu[dot]com If it doesn't effect water downstream, then it's not a problem. If it does, then it's an international problem like in the case of the Nile and the countries affected will have to approve or else it's tantamount to provocation. I don't know if you people pay attention to African news talk less.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/mar/23/egypt-signs-grand-renaissance-dam-nile-deal-ethiopia-sudan

musicwriter:
@ezeagu.

I'm looking for Igbo keyboard. Where did you buy the one you're using?. Any idea where I can buy one?

You don't need to but an Igbo keyboard, you need to change the input of your keyboard, meaning the language of the keyboard.

With me.

Bear.

[size=18pt]AIIA, Enugu[/size]

This is a latest rendering of the AIIA (Akanu Ibiam International Airport) at Enugu, I don't know the source, or what the reality of this project will be, but let's wait and see.

https://s16.postimg.org/7bl65soyt/2989082_enuguairport011_jpegb9604767a49ba6ebc157.jpg

Ilekeh:
But signapore is not erosive.

Yeah, that's why it's a good case study.

On the Enugu thread, I suggested that rammed earth could be an alternative to cement, as well as using recycled materials for house building. Rammed earth is eco-friendly and it is built from something that can be easily found and refined, it would also help to camouflage the harmattan dust that often stains painted houses, so there's an earthy tone to neighbourhoods, towns, cities, skylines.

https://olneerammedearth.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/rammed-earth-builders-01.jpg

[size=18pt]Secondary Roads[/size]

This is what I mean by secondary roads on the map, these are main roads that link to main highways and carriageways. What better than the autobahn?

https://s28.postimg.org/x4rx4wmrx/wohnwagen_autobahn.jpg

[size=18pt]Concrete Roads[/size]

There have also been suggestions on this site, especially on the large Enugu thread, that eastern Nigeria/Alaigbo should use concrete roads.

https://s4.postimg.org/nl3ezgk2l/I_355_at_the_Illinois_Prairie_Path.jpg

[size=18pt]Canal Network[/size]

Alaigbo obviously has a lot of industry, a good alternate way to link these industries, although kind of old, are canals, this is just alternate transport to, again, free up traffic on road. These can be small narrow water ways going through cities, like Seoul pictured, or larger water ways for transport between larger water bodies.

https://s13.postimg.org/y7af5v5tj/wonderful_city_canal_in_seoul_south_korea_hd_wal.jpg

[size=18pt]National Park Around the Lower Niger[/size]

https://s9.postimg.org/dpplst80v/Niger_River_Forest.png

This area around the Niger should a protected national park, if it isn't already. There are probably all kinds of animals and endangered species lurking in there and probably some kind of tourist amusement tour and wildlife sanctuary can be set up there, maybe around Kwale, but for connectivity Asaba may be better or Atani. There should be a protection from encroachment from cities like Onitsha, etc.

[size=18pt]Niger Tunnel[/size]

Alternately, for shorter spans of the Niger, if need be, there could be tunnels like London's Blackwall tunnel underneath the Thames. This could give alternate routes to bridges and ultimately free up traffic.

https://taxi-news.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/A102_New_Blackwall_Tunnel_-_Coppermine_-_21694.jpg

[size=18pt]Second (or Multiple) Niger Bridge(s)[/size]

https://s3.postimg.org/lcowxasc3/akashi_kaikyo_bridge_view_from_bottom.jpg

There should be multiple bridge across the Niger, not just one more. I propose another Niger bridge after the renovation and addition to the one in Onitsha-Asaba, to be between Aboh and Ndoni, a solid suspension bridge which allows for passage of large ships like the Akashi Kaikyo bridge in Tokyo, although it wouldn't need to be as long. This will provide another route over the Niger leading to less congestion, spreading of capital through motorists, and reduction of accidents and concentration of pollution.

https://s24.postimg.org/alo16off9/Ndoni_Aboh.png

Ignore the fast food joint (lol).

Abagworo: Ahulam n'ibu ezi nwafo kama gupu ndi mbamiri na ndi ette n'izu obula ichoro maka o di nma nd'Igbo. Ha dum kporo anyi asi karia ndi ugwu na ndi odida anyanwu.

Abagworo, a nulam ihe kwuru, O di nma.

There was a move to dredge the Imo, I don't know how far that went.

[size=18pt]Imo River dredging: Russal to pay $120 million[/size]

By Luka Binniyat

ABUJA -Russal Aluminium Company Limited, the core investor in Aluminium Smelter Company, ASLCON, Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, must refund $120 million to the Federal Government coffers with all interests and charges accruable, three years after it reneged on a contract to dredge the Imo River.

This is part of the decision of the House of Representatives and the Bureau of Public Enterprise, BPE, have agreed by the two bodies during a hearing by the House Committee on Privatisation and Commercialisation, headed by Hon. Brimoh Abass, in Abuja recently..
The 40-km wide Imo River could be a very vital inland water way that could stimulate trade and commerce within its catchments basin, but only when dredged to hold large barges.

The amount is part of the $250 million controversial Share Purchase Agreement, SPA by the company and the BPE in which $120 would be used to dredge the Imo River in 2006.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/12/imo-river-dredging-russal-to-pay-120-million/

It's a shame it didn't go through it seems, but a number of ports can be established from the mouth of the river to the furthest place.

[img]http://kgs.uky.edu/kgsweb/download/misc/landuse/DAVIESS/daviessissues_files/image021.jpg[/img]

I've posted these stats several time, but if these indices can be bettered that would be good.

https://s9.postimg.org/8l8252wem/Igbo_health.jpg

The kind of ideas I was talking about include propose railways and what cities they would ideally run through, for example, I would suggest a east west train maybe linking to a wider West African corridor from Accra, that would run through Kwale and Owerri to Aba and then down to Calabar to run off to Cameroon, etc. This would be high speed rail, and the models don't have to be top of the range, just good enough to do their job.

[img]http://www.media.wireservice.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/zefiro-electric1.jpg[/img]

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[size=18pt]Imo River River / Sea Port @ Ohambele[/size]

https://s24.postimg.org/d74mr6fbp/TIANJINGREENCBD1small3000.jpg

Following from the discussion about the possibilities of the Imo River handling large freight ships, I've used Ohambele as a town which could become a major port on the Imo River around 30 nautical miles from the coast at Ibeno.

I'll suggest case study cities from around the world who have similar characteristics as certain cities in eastern Nigeria.

[size=18pt]Case Study 1: Onitsha | Singapore[/size]

https://inmygroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/singapore-and-merlion.jpg

Similarities: Heavy population density with limited space for growth. Some access to water or waterside, heavy commercial centre and (for Ontisha) potential business centre). Independent economy, as in, their economies aren't as tied to other places like some other cities are. Cities grew from villages/fishing communities.

Lessons to be learnt: Population control. Pollution control, including waste management. Transportation and logistics (including manoeuvring international airports and highways). Managing diversity (maybe not so much for Onitsha). Utilising the water not just as an international/national port, but for transportation within the city limits a bit further beyond. Space management and building space saving housing (Onitsha has high rises but they can be upgraded and later on in development skyscrapers can be introduced for financial services, business, and so).

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[size=18pt]Case Study 2: Asaba | Frankfurt[/size]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v-LEUgjTHe0/maxresdefault.jpg

Similarities: A more 'relaxed' commercial centre that's part of a heavy industrial metropolitan area that is Asaba-Onitsha-Nnewi-Awka. Frankfurt is in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region. Asaba can be a potential airport centre like Frankfurts airpot, one of the busiest airports in Europe. Asaba is also a centre of business, and can become more of a financial district than Onitsha I suppose.

Lessons to be learnt: Transportation, including airport expansion and handling excess air and road traffic from international destinations and the local region around. As with all the case studies, Asaba can learn from urban planning and also using the Niger River to its advantage, perhaps ferry's and well built civilian water carriers can be used as an alternative to road travel across the river. A possible Niger tunnel could be built in the more distant future.

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[size=18pt]Case Study 3: Owere | Berlin[/size]

[img]http://students.marshall.usc.edu/undergrad/files/2014/09/berlin.jpg[/img]

Similarities: Owere is a cultural centre, and a area for traditional entertainment and arts and other kind of entertainment. It's the centre of the area around. Like Berlin, Owere does not have a coast and is the main urban centre for the areas around.

Lessons to be learnt: General infrastructure. Handling tourism and leisure and capitalising on culture and the arts. Strengthening a unique image and become a destination for cerebral kinds. Education can also be emphasised. Keeping the skyline low and designing and maintaining suburban areas.

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[size=18pt]Case Study 4: Aba | Munich[/size]

https://i.imgur.com/oVEID3F.jpg

Similarities: Munich has the strongest economy of any German city, Aba arguably has the strongest economy of any city in eastern Nigeria, it's only rival for that title would be Onitsha. Many manufacturing industries in the cities. Their populations are large relative to the surrounding areas. Potential to capitalise on local culture.

Lessons to be learnt: Securing investment. Transportation and connectivity, how to keep the roads maintained and links to high speed rail, airports and the like. Dealing with large diverse populations, and heavy amount of visitors. Waste management and management of other amenities.

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[size=18pt]Case Study 5: Igwu Ocha | Miami Beach[/size]

https://www.winterhavenhotelsobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Beach-miami1.jpg

Similarities: War climate with access to sea side and expandable beach. Laid back climate and population. Holiday, resorty feel to the atmosphere. Clear air and water, lots of vegetation and wildlife around. Away from major industries and pollution and not too urbanised.

Lessons to be learnt: Tourism and resorts, inviting international hotels and resorts to set up. Transportation to allow people to access the city easily. Expanding nightlife. Links to other parts for tourism potential, Igwu Ocha airpot can be the entry point for southern Alaigbo.

Self explanatory.

https://s16.postimg.org/vchhtna78/Alaigbo.jpg

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