₦airaland Forum

casualobserver:
What we need are more ports away from Lagos that can handle roro, container vessels and general merchandise.. Warri port is all of these! Is it until a port is on the sea before it can handle containers and roro? Is the point of a port not a point to facilitate imports and exports of goods?

there are certain limitations of an inland port and part of it is a limitation on the size of ships it can berth and ease of access. What this means is that most global import vessels will choose the lagos seaport.

occfx:
When they say they are not igbos, I believe them because they behave like bakwomi. If not for igbos preventing the invasion for Fulani herdsmen to the south by now, there condition will be like kogi state and middle belt. They are not wise.


I can imagine if oil finishes and they are left with nothing, they will hate themselves. Somebody like asari will just lean.

every tribe has its own issues, the thing with you Igbos is arrogance. Even God said he hates pride, you guys will always be lesser until you repent of your pride and foolishness.

Basic123:
Why are you easterners choose to be stupid and Ignorant to push your stupid VICTIM MENTALITY!

THE NEW LEKKI DEEP SEA PORT IS OWNED BY THE LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT AND TOLERAM NOT FG.

You people will continue to be backwards until you realize YORUBAS and FULANIS are not really your problem but your GOVERNORS AND POLITICAL ELITES.
Bayelsa with just 8LG not up to 11LG in Ibadan city alone receives the highest allocation in the country yet remain very underdeveloped even after their son was the president for 6yrs,are the yorubas and fulani are responsible for that too

WHAT PAINS ME IS THAT SOME MUMU FROM THAT REGION WILL READ YOUR MISCHIEVOUS FALSE CLAIMS AND CHOOSE TO REINFORCE THEIR VICTIM MENTALITY WITH IT.

I do not exonerate the government at any level. They are all thieves, however this thread is for the federal government and their role in imporverishing the people.

Appletek:
Look at this shameless liar @ the Bolded.

Jonathan who is the biggest federal figure from Niger Delta is not indigenous to the Niger Delta, abi?
You lack knowledge of what you are talking about. You are just regurgitating the nonsense your parents fed you with.

Each Niger Delta State should build a seaport. Lagos did it, why can't they?

I don't have time to respond to foolishness. If you respond to this my current message without doing any research first, I will ignore you subsequently. The currect chief executives/director General of the downstream middle stream and upstream sectors including the agency in charge of monitoring oil pollution in the Niger delta are all non Niger deltan.

YouAreNobody:
@ the bolded, they're the most foolish people in this country. My uncle has an oil servicing company in port harcort and, back then when I used to follow him to field work, I cry for those people. Their lands and waters are rendered useless due to spills and the oil companies settle a few top members of the community, and employ their other people on manual labor, security or cleaning jobs, and these people just go with that.
Absolutely disgusting

they are mostly ignorant that is why they government and oil companies are taking advantage of them

agabusta:
Now they want to build super highway to the place to encourage inhabitation and investment along the corridor and you are still complaining. 🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤦🏽‍♂️

my message was directed at the parasites who called the project unnecessary.

SlayQueenSlayer:
Blame their leaders. It is hard to get a good bargain for your people without good leadership. So far, only the South West region seems to be getting a good bargain for its people. Leaders from other regions are more interested in retrogressive and frivolous outcomes. Buhari had 8 years and all he did was filled the government with Northern Muslim who became more interested in stealing than any other things that could be of lasting benefit to the region.

I agree with you.

Fearyourcreator:
So oil just fly comot from ground cus I no understand... No be one money them take do the whole process before oil comot ni ... And still them dey collect most ... So Wetin them want again?

na still our oil money dem dey take drill more oil wells. Bayelsa alone don contribute 1 trillion dollars since oil exploration start with nothing to show for it. The owners are still poor.

casualobserver:
They are doing that. Warri port is being expanded and upgraded.

warri port is an inland port. What we need are coastal seaports. I don't need to explain why.

occfx:
This coastal road is to make it easy to syphon the oil and make them Lagos dependent.

I just pity my Niger delta brothers, when this oil finish eventually our children will curse us. We literally gained nothing as a people from our own wealth.

Ijaya123:
What are the Niger Delta political leaders doing with their monthly federal allocations, 13% derivation funding, budgetary allocations for Ministry of Niger Delta, monitary allocation to NDDC?

And is this not a functioning seaport?

The state governors are also part of the problem. However this thread is not about that. We need more functional ports in the niger delta. The onne port is an inland port with all its limitations.

Housing:
You don't know you are saying most especially with the bolded statement. Nigeria export its crude oil through Onne Port. Please give another excuse

we are not interested in the exports. That has no influence on the cost of living for the people living around the port. It is the importation of goods through a port that can affect the cost of living, especially if it is an efficient port.

Housing:
Stop saying what you don't who told you One port is and inland port? If the you don't know all Nigeria's crude export are through Onne Port up till tomorrow

any port without direct access to the ocean/sea is an inland port. Onne seaport in an inland port.

Floky215:
How can they do anything there when they are happy with guarding pipelines, collecting deve money from anyone they can find and shouting god of egbesu up and down killing and betraying themselves to outsiders...!!

Until they have a common front nothing meaningful would be done there...!!

I agree

Appletek:
You don't know anything about the Niger Delta, you just want to open mouth.
Rivers Port, Onne Port, Delta Port, Calabar Port. Those are the Seaorts in the Niger Delta.

Jonathan was President for 6 years and his own community didn't even have drinking water. No be juju be that?

What are the State Governments in Delta and Bayelsa doing? Those two are notoriously stunted in development.

Each Niger delta state with access to the ocean should have a seaport. The onne seaport in an inland port and has been strategically crippled to encourage importers to use the lagos port instead. Yes, the state governments and NDDC have not done enough but that is not my focus now. I am more interested in the role the FG is playing now. One of the problems with the Niger delta is that the federal government appointees who make decisions over the Niger delta region are not indigenous to the niger delta. E.g the down stream, middle stream and upstream oil sectors are being headed by northerners hence no implementation of policies that help the people. Only the government all all level benefit

Lifestone:
What's wrong with the Onne seaport. You refused to use it. You spoke about poor schools, healthcare etc, what's the essence of the 13% derivation that's paid to your Governors? What happened to NDDC, that has become a pot for corruption.
Aside, this road is for the Oil producing State, What's wrong with this?

The onne port is an inland port with all its limitations. Check the map of ports in west Africa, you will notice how the frequency of ports stops at Lagos. The NDDC and state government do not have the capacity to carry out some kind of projects due to the difference in cost and allocation. In addition it is the responsibility of the FG to build interstate roads and seaports. The Niger delta states have benefitted less than 1% of the wealth they have given the nation. Their underdevelopment may be a strategy to keep the place uninhabited due to pollution by the oil companies. The issue of destroying the natural environment is another issue. They have found oil in the north but they are not pumping the oil out, you know why? Because they know how it can damage their environment. So much is given by the Oil producing companies and little is given back. The oil producing communities are just foolish.

abimbola74:
The south south leaders are to be blamed . Have the masses ever made anyone accountable for the 13% derivatives they receive ? Even the oil company consider people from the local communities while employing so abeg try explain to us how they’ve been abandoned. Gej had 6years opportunity to transform the place , he couldn’t even transform his village . Let’s sort the problem we have within first before requesting for anything cos it will still end in the hands of those gluttons

state governments cannot fund such projects due to the cost in relation to their allocation. In addition it is the role of FG to build seaports and roads linking states. GEJ is the closest Nigeria has had to a non tribalistic president. The Niger deltan's deserve and need more.

Fearyourcreator:
The rest for die for them na... The allocation is for what ?

The rest are benefitting their own wealth. Its like a group of 6 children five eats their own then they all start to also eat the food of the 6th child.

FG should also build functional seaports in the Niger delta. With all the wealth the oil producing communities have contributed to the nation there is still very little the government has given back to them. No good schools, no drinking water, roads or good sources of income.

vanunu:
Do you know the east west road, why can't government complete it after about 40 years?

This is a totally different road project, its like saying why has the government not completed any other project anywhere else in Nigeria. its totally unrelated.

Tflex01:
Funny enough all the guys that are supporting Atiku to frustrate the project are SS/SE Obidients, including Obi himself. If this project was another Kano to Niger Republic again we won't hear anything from the Northerners.

our people are not politically conscious. the kano maradi rail network costs about 4.6 billion naira per kilometer, the abuja-kano road reconstruction about 2.2billion per kilometer, nobody complained that it was too expensive, now its the turn of the south south and they are saying its too much. Niger delta people are very very foolish.

hammer567:
Even a dunce knows this but Tinubu want to use federal government to build road and railway across the islands in Lagos.

Which Calabar is he heading, do u know how many bridges it will take to cross the massive bodies of water across Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Cross Rivers?

Dey play!

There is nothing wrong with building that road, the coastline of the Niger Delta region does not have any road connecting it to the hinterland even though they are the ones generating the funds to build roads elsewhere. this road should be encouraged not critisized. we should only focus on ensuring they complete it by putting pressure on them starting the construction from both ends. fucking greedy and selfish nigerians.

Niger deltans are foolish if not these are the kinds of projects they should be fighting for.

Connected1:
The Army didn't kill or kidnap any youths, they came to make peace and they got killed, who they came with mattered less, they were called by people who respected them enough to call them, Okuama youth didn't think highly of them, hence the intimidation on our Nation's security defence forces by ambushing and killing them.

Half the community is burnt down already, I am sure this what your people want.

Una don buy market.

you seem excited, have you given thought to what would happen to the 80 Yr old woman or 3 month old baby in that town? If you think burning that town in response is a good response then you must have lost a bit of your humanity.

OyinO:
The Okuama community that carried out the dastardly act is an Urhobo and not an Ijaw community.

The very word okuama is Ijaw. It means Oku-town.

donbenie:
Why bring the East into it?
Imo, Anambra and Abia have oil wells,so why do you feel justified to bring the East into it?

The use of geographic locations was just to emphasise my point not to trigger tribal sentiments.

Truvelisback:
Bayelsa a oil producing State? Is this true or is there a mixed up somewhere? I blame the useless and self-centered thieves as governors we have been having in the past to the present, who have refused to develop the State.

the oil which is the only resource the people can boast of is being shared by everyone. You should be thanking the state for selflessness.

SoNature:
How can Akwa Ibom and Delta States be paying N127.8bn and N110.3bn in salaries respectively? What value do those workers bring to the table to warrant earning sums that their states cannot generate? These two states are the highest on the list.

BTW, two-third of Nigerian states cannot pay salaries without federal intervention, yet politicians are talking about state police. First things first. Before state police, restructure Nigeria to allow states or regions control their resources and then pay taxes to the centre. If not, the level of corruption in today's police will be a child's play.

let the south south states be. The whole money being shared across the country belong to them. If the crude oil in the south was found in the east or north I'm sure they won't share.

The Irony of this country is that this does not happen in the north. This is not how civilians are treated in the North. Even policing is different here.

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Resetinc:
Haaa😂
The best doctors give the least medicine , others are just doing medical business 😂😂

imagine a doctor rejected my lab result just because I didn’t do the lab at the laboratory he referred me to .. which I later found out belongs to his wife…
doctors are just the same as lawyers, the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too…

if your doctor say you have 6 weeks to live, just tell him the money you’re expecting to pay his bills will arrive in a couple of months… he will check you again and give you 6 months to live..😂😂😂

What you post online may seem like a joke but know that there are people who are at cross roads and seeing posts like this will discourage them from seeking medical care on time. Know that their blood will be on your head.

Dshocker:
You don't want to sound tribalist, but you are sounding tribalist.

The other crimes being committed by the Yorubas are what?

I am not yoruba and I have not compared igbo to any tribe. You guys need to come out and start condemning your tribesmen openly, it's bringing shame to the nation. This drug pushing thing is beginning to look like part of the culture.

I don't want to sound tribalistic but more than 90% of the people spoiling Nigeria's name abroad is Igbo and they never ever condemn it. Its normal to them but the wrongs other do is sin. This is hypocrisy.