₦airaland Forum

wtfcoded:
Good news for the igbos
Afonjas how market?

Port is located at Akwa Ibom, I hope you don't jinx it with tribalism like you did to Jonathan''s re-election.

Alariiwo:
I'll ignore you henceforth.

Most of you are not just reasonable.
Bye!

Most are dumb as rocks. It is our duty as civilized people to make sure they don't harm themselves by forming a country. It is our duty to humanity.

AleksAndria:
Her smile is much more pronounced in the fourth pix, whose statue is that? I also cannot find her left hand.

What are you trying to suggest? Her left hand is resting on the statue''s bum bum.

jomonic:
My post might be annoying but it's the truth

OK.

phantom:
i pray so too BUT my brother go and check who and who owns the factories springing up in lagos and ogun? Investigate! You will most likely realize that most of companies are owned by igbo men asides the foreign run ones.
Just move round lagos and ogun and check who owns those companies.
Guy, the igbos are the major importers in nigeria followed most probably by the delta/edo guys

Look, there's no denying some igbo have some factories in Lagos but it is a fallacy to say most are owned by Igbo. It is certainly not so, there are many big multinational companies in Lagos. I really don't want to argue this with you because this is just another tale told by igbo to make themselves happy.
Let us wait patiently until the Akwa ibom port is completed then you will not have Yoruba to be blamed any longer.

jomonic:
You are very correct. In Nigeria it is survival of the fittest just like you will find in an animal kingdom. Kanu called Nigeria a zoo and it brought anger to many even though speaking metaphorically that description is a perfect fit. My opinion is that culturally Yoruba and Hausa / Fulani tend to be averse to fair competition. This is just my opinion. The Igbo used to be prominent in Nigeria affairs and that period was best in Nigeria. So if the table turned Nigeria will be better. The stench we are witnessing today is nothing but the backwardness associated with the cultural values of the people in charge.

See contradiction. If Yoruba and Hausa are aversed to fair competition, do ibos compete fairly?
Are fake goods fair competition?
Some people steal cars, break them down to be sold as parts is that fair competition?
Fake drugs, is that fair competition? I put it to you that igbo actually thrive on unfair and dubious way of doing business.

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.

I pray this port is completed on time so your hypothesis can be put to test. Most importers are not igbo. The biggest importers are the big companies centered around Lagos and Ogun. Most are multinationals.

Purehuman:
What you don't understand is that, it's not about having a seaport but it's about how many people needs it.

If Akwaibom gets this seaport right, the five states in the east will naturally dump the Lago seaport and more companies will likely relocate because of the number of customers they will be feeding per time when compared to Lagos.

Let me remind you that the Lekki FTZ is located right by the port and there are companies already operating there even right now. Some of them are exporters and many more are still on the way.
The giant Dangote refinery and fertilizer plant are nearby as well. I don't think you need to worry whether or not the Lekki port will be patronized.
Who are these companies that will relocate? If the idea is that companies will relocate from Lagos and Ogun axis I'm afraid your port is not being well thought out.

ELKHALIFAISIS:
Have you ever asked yourself why out of a country of over 150 million people, boasting of 36 states and a federal capital territory, why all the fully functional ports are located only along the axis of the South West?

Why have the Port Harcourt, Onne, Onitsha inland port, Warri, and Calabar ports never come into full operation and functionality?

This has been their mischievous game plan of the Yorubas since the end of the civil war in order to maintain Lagos ports as the singular functional port destination.

They know that the successful functionality of ports in other viable regions regions would be a game changer for the South-South and South Eastern regions. You'd watch how industry, trade and commerce would exponentially rise in theses regions and displace Lagos of its economic monopoly.

Yorubas think they can continue to work
against the economic progress of other regions by making sure only the Lagos ports work, they should be ready to continue contending for the ownership of Lagos with others and also suffer the effects of over population and the strain on Lagos infrastructures. You can't have you cake and eat.

First of all, sea ports are not built just anywhere, it has to be physically and geographically suitable. Lagos is a natural harbour and the Portuguese found it as such even long before the British came.
In essence, the Lagos port was in existence before Nigeria was created. How many of the 36 states you mentioned are even coastal states?
There are countries several times the size of Nigeria with no more than 4 container ports, with other points connected by rail.
If you like you can build a port on every river bank you can find because you want to compete but they still have to be profitable. Otherwise, you will end up with giant abandoned ports.

ELKHALIFAISIS:
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

I guess all the industries around Lagos and Ogun who are the real importers and exporters will also close down because of this port which is still on the drawing board?

prince3009:
What a childish response. Wouldn't want to trade words with an unrepentant tribal bigot like you. The strength of the likes of you exists only on social media and the internet. What ever rocks your boat.

Truth hurts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uATI1F928FY

prince3009:
Tolani Ajayi who butchered his father and put the remains in a suitcase is Ibo right?

For every Tolani Ajayi there are 100 Edwin Ojinnaka.

Limiting the tenure of presidents and governors to two terms of eight years? What was it before?

CROWNWEALTH019:
Useless wedding

Jealousy? Lol

futurism:
it hurts me so much to see how these guys tarnish the image of my people on nairaland. I have been begging Seun to start giving long ban to such filth

I agree with you.

futurism:
I was enjoying the thread jeje until this I read this crap. This is why I tag most of you "Nairaland igbos" you so full of yourself and everything unlike my people. Who dash you super man to save the world? Who? Go sleep.

This is the type of mindset other Nigerians have to contend with. Watch as they start to claim they own 95% of this port. That it was their idea and money that built it.

shallysgirl:
Those who cry for a United Nigeria are not from the southeast but the pigs who live in the northern and southwestern pig sty


Ntoor, we must live and die here together.

Like those who were begging the northerners when the northerners gave them an ultimatum to quit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUJVzMGbpt4


Benben, chew on that.

benben1000:
Afonjas looking at Akwa Ibom with bad eye...saying in their minds: you want to finish us abi? First, you are building towers/skycrappers to relocate oil companies from Lagos to Akwa Ibom by force, and now, you are building the largest seaport in Nigeria to corner all shipping from Lagos ports to Akwa Ibom. Watch as Afonja media will start focusing negatively on Ibibio very soon like they do to Igbos and Ijaws whom they see as their biggest threat in the East.

Yeah right. You must always drag Yoruba to your pettiness. Lekki sea port is already being constructed.

ezegenigbonine:
Its like you are not from Nigeria idiot. If IBO's kills there relative more, what of book haram, what of Shiite, what of baddoo boys. I can see u have no sense.

Olodo. Do you also need a definition of "relative"? I'm saying ibos are killing their relatives and you are asking about Boko haram! Are boko haram killing their own relatives?

NSK4U:
useless trash from brainless head

Just do it. Do a search on ibos killing their relatives. I'm not saying they eat them o. Perhaps they do, I can't say.

Cooly100:
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..

Can you provide the link to the official UNICEF report you are citing here? The ThisDay report is not credible at all even if you slap the Unicef label all over it.

loveth360:
you know is not our culture,you also know those that dont play with human skull.

But it was in your culture to eat your victims? Barbecue them nicely and feast on them?

loveth360:
Why are the things we use to hear that happen in west now happening in our east.


Is time to ban yellowbar from marry our ladies,

A simpe Google search should convince you otherwise.
More ibos kill their relatives than any other tribe in Nigeria.

Jokerman:
As a yoruba muslim that I am, I don't care what you think.... All I know is Buhari till 2039..

If you were Yoruba you would simply identify yourself as Yoruba. You may wish to be Yoruba though. Who no like better thing.

Jokerman:
Dele Momodu stop lying.... Buhari has changed the airports to world class standards...

Before Buhari there was Jonathan and Stella Odua and their sleight of hand tricks. Airports with runways more suitable for boats and crumbling roofs.
Let us embrace honestly, that alone will solve most of our problems.