₦airaland Forum

PROUDIGBO:
I would have preferred a coordinated approach to development for the entire south-east, but this isn't possible given present day political and structural realities! If i had my way, we'd return back to the Eastern Region, with a central gov't coordinating things from Enugu, while the present state delineations can still be kept, but with the states having some kind of federal autonomy to run their own affairs.

With such a situation, any state that wants a airport can still build one, but in this case the central gov't in Enugu will link the entire region by rail and extend it to at least two seaports. A seaport could built at Obuaku (all we need do is widen and dredge the waterway leading up to the Atlantic); we could partner with Opobo to build one there (this will need a super rail-bridge to link Opobo with the mainland); another option is to link with ports in Akwa-Ibom or Calabar.

These ideas can only materialise with a centralised gov't for the entire south-eastern region. We saw this kind of rapid, well thought out and coordinated approach to development in the Eastern Region when all parts were touched in the regions development plan: from Nkalagu to Enugu to Owerri to Aba to Port Harcourt to Calabar....every part of the region was included and had a sense of belonging.

THE SE GOVS SHOULD MEET WITH THEIR COUNTER PART IN RIVERS STATE AND FINANCE THE DEEP SEAPORT IN BONNY AS MAJOR STAKE HOLDERS.


MAKE IT A WORLD CLASS DEEP SEAPORT AND THE LARGEST IN NIGERIA, IF NOT AFRICA.



WE ONLY NEED TO BUILD ONE.

MXrep:
We already have a center operating from enugu (SE gov's forum) but it must remain weak and states should be allowed to develop at their pace. Example, umahi championed the course for enugu airport repair in his capacity as gov forum chairman but also pursuing his own state airport project

THE STATES ARE HERE TO STAY.


WEN NDIIGBO GET THE PRESIDENCY WE SHOULD ENSURE THAT WE CREATE MORE STATES ACROSS NIGERIA AND THE SE.


IT CREATES HEALTHY COMPETTITION.

PROUDIGBO:
I would have preferred a coordinated approach to development for the entire south-east, but this isn't possible given present day political and structural realities! If i had my way, we'd return back to the Eastern Region, with a central gov't coordinating things from Enugu, while the present state delineations can still be kept, but with the states having some kind of federal autonomy to run their own affairs.

With such a situation, any state that wants a airport can still build one, but in this case the central gov't in Enugu will link the entire region by rail and extend it to at least two seaports. A seaport could built at Obuaku (all we need do is widen and dredge the waterway leading up to the Atlantic); we could partner with Opobo to build one there (this will need a super rail-bridge to link Opobo with the mainland); another option is to link with ports in Akwa-Ibom or Calabar.

These ideas can only materialise with a centralised gov't for the entire south-eastern region. We saw this kind of rapid, well thought out and coordinated approach to development in the Eastern Region when all parts were touched in the regions development plan: from Nkalagu to Enugu to Owerri to Aba to Port Harcourt to Calabar....every part of the region was included and had a sense of belonging.

Y ARE MY PEOPLE RUNNING FROM RIVERS STATE.

WHO ARE WE LEAVING IT FOR?


WEN NDIIGBO ARE READY TO HOST A DEEP SEAPORT, WE HEAD TO BONNY ISLAND AND BUILD THE GREATEST DEEP SEAPORT NOT ONLY IN THE EASTERN REGION BUT AFRICA.



LET US FORGET ALL THIS TALK OF OBUAKU.


THAT MONEY WILL BETTER SPENT DEVELOPING A MASSIVE PORT COMPLEX IN ONITSHA.

Besides the extra two lanes on both sides can serve as pull over spot.


Let us try and do things once and for all, so we can move to something else.

ANSMEDIA:
6 or 8 is ok. Most Nigerian airports have just 4lanes access with exception of Abuja and Lagos that have 10 .

Yes this airport is bigger and better than Abuja and Lagos, so y not 10 lanes.


We build by factoring future transport requirement in mind.


Anambra is a cosmopolitan city, people abroad might not want to arrive Lagos or Abuja but come straight home to conduct their business.


Wat happens wen it gets really busy?

ANSMEDIA:
8-lanes Anambra international airport road under construction. The road is about 10km stretch to the airport. From the information available they have done earthworks and granite up to 8km, remaining 2km to reach the airport site. As at the time of getting the pictures, massive work that involves about 5 major contractors were at the airport precinct working to beat the commissioning date.

Y not 10 lanes?



Wat does it take to add 2 more?

DEJI TALKS TOO MUCH.


NO BE LIKE SO DEM DEY TAKE TALK FOR HUSBAND AND WIFE MATTER.



U CAN DEBUNK WITHOUT CALLING THE MOTHER OF HIS CHILDREN NAMES.




AT THE END, NA U GO CARRY ALL THE BLAME AS HOME BREAKER.

HOW U KNOW APC IS A USELESS PARTY.


THEY NEVER ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING.



THIS IS 2020 ND THEY ARE STILL BLAMING GEJ.

HOW U KNOW APC IS A USELESS PARTY.


THEY NEVER ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING.



THIS IS 2020 ND THEY ARE STILL BLAMING GEJ.

WISE WORDS FROM KIDD, I TOO THOUGHT THAT STATEMENT FROM YOUR FATHER ON ERICA WAS TOO CHEAP.


ERICA CLEARLY MEANS SO MUCH MORE TO YOU, KIDD WAYA.

E BE LIKE SAY, UNA DON DEY MAD ABI!


SE IS NOT MIDDLEBELT THAT U JUST SETTLE IN THEIR FOREST AND START CLAIMING INDIGENE.


WE WILL SMOKE U OUT NO DOUBT.

NA LIE, HIM BREAK AM...


HIM EYE CLEAR, COME DEY REGRET.


DAMAGE CONTROL

Badonasty:
The issue is Nengi no ready for all this love talk...girl wey cute like that do you know how many times she dey hear all those kind talk?...you don’t need to toast girls like this...na to find way Bleep them or chill make she fall for you herself

THIS IS AN ACUTE CASE OF OVER PRICED MARKET.

OZO DON INFLATE PRICE BY HAVING A FCUUK TO GIVE.



FOR NENGI EYE, HIM DON TURN MUGU!

I NEVER KNEW BAYELSA GIRLS WERE THIS TOUGH, I SWEAR, I HAD A THING WITH ONE AND SHE DID NOT GIVE ALL THIS WAHALA.


SHE HAPPENS TO BE FROM NEMBE TOO.


MY COUSIN IS EVEN MARRIED TO ONE.


NA WA OOoo

[quote author=investnow2013 post=93821442][/quote]I STILL NEED SOLUDO MANIFESTO.

I NEED TO BE ON BOARD WITH THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION.


MY WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS NEED TO BE HARVESTED.


EVEN IF IT IS CONSULTANCY THEY OFFER ME OR ADVISER.

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mktinsight:
Our Airport is Newer and Bigger Than Yours Though a White Elephant
August 16, 2020 4:36 am
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Minister of State, Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika

THE PUBLIC SPHERE
With Chido Nwakanma

The Akanu Ibiam Airport in Enugu was in the news again this week for the wrong reasons. Indications are that the 30 August 2020 date scheduled for its reopening may not materialise given the situation on the ground. It got worse Wednesday 12 August 2020 as Citizen John Emejulu, an architect and developer, vandalised the fence of the airport to establish his claim to part of the land forcefully.

One error soon built on the first. Aviation Minister Hadi Sarika visited the site of the destruction of 2kms of fencing and declared a fatwa on Emejulu. He stated: “This will certainly be the end of this kind of recklessness. We will not forgive him. The Chief of Staff will direct all that is involved in this kind of arrangement, the Inspector-General of Police and the Director-General of the DSS (Department of State Services) to do the needful and bring him to book.

“I am incredibly sad. It is very wrong, and we must seize the opportunity and deal with him summarily to serve as a deterrent to others. We are not in the Banana Republic. We are in a federal republic governed by laws. Certainly, this is not acceptable, and we are capable of rising in defence of national assets.”

The Enugu State Government then turned it into a farce on Friday morning. Officials of the ENSG descended on and destroyed the home of Mr Emejulu with all his properties in it. It reminded of the destruction of Odin in Bayelsa State by soldiers that then-President Olusegun Obasanjo sent to avenge the killing of two soldiers.

Emejulu acted with impunity even as he had a court judgement in his favour. He did not seek peaceful means of getting value for the judgement. But what about the state government? Should petulance and vindictiveness be part of state policy and reaction to the misdeed of a citizen?
Minister Sirika is optimistic that the Federal Government and its contractors will finish the repair works and redevelopment of the Enugu Airport. It will be a surprise most pleasing to citizens who use the airport. Significantly, it will be a political positive for the PMB administration as the matter of the redevelopment of the Akanu Ibiam Airport has assumed an intense political dimension. It has taken one year to fix the Akanu Ibiam airport. Groups in the South East compare the development with similar airport closures at Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja and the Kaduna Airport, and they feel short-changed. Both Abuja and Kaduna Airports took shorter duration to fix. The fifth international gateway in Nigeria should reopen in September, so the businesses and citizens can recoup their losses.
Airports are topical in the states of the South East. Three states have embarked on airport projects with varying degrees of project implementation. These are Abia, Anambra and Ebonyi. The governors of the states speak with confidence about the desirability even imperative of the airports.

The project execution model for the Abia State airport is a hermaphrodite otherwise clothed in the garb of a Public-Private Partnership. Government has forcefully acquired lands in Ngwaland and Ikwuano and Olokoro, Umuahia. Governor Theodore Orji commenced the project. Current governor Okezie Ikpeazu swears by the project and has appointed an Abia Airport Project Team with Chief Philip Orjiako as chairman. In March 2020, Ikpeazu said he looked towards breaking grounds in April so he could realise the project before his administration expires.
Orji, his predecessor, made similar audio proclamations before he left. Okezie is a governor that has failed to complete a simple flyover in Aba over four years or to cleanse the rot in the state’s most central city waxing on the more elaborate and expensive project of building an airport.

Project execution is the robust suite of Ebonyi State governor Engineer David Umahi. He has demonstrated competence in delivering infrastructure in the state, some needful and others futuristic, such as the International Market in Abakaliki that is mostly empty.
Abakiliki is 75km from Enugu, just a drive of an hour and twenty minutes. It is a whistle-stop from the Akanu Ibiam Airport. Enugu Airport is one of the under-utilised airports run by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria. Ego more than economic viability must be the principal driver of the construction of this airport.

Governor Willie Obiano is similarly committed to the building of an airport in Anambra State. Or so he has claimed for three years since he unveiled the project in April 2017. Like Abia, construction of the Umueri International Cargo Airport is under a PPP arrangement. Anambra Airport City Infrastructures Limited oversees the project and has allocated 75 per cent equity to Elite International Investments, 20 per cent to Orient Petroleum Resources Limited and five per cent to Anambra State Government. The initial claim was that Chinese firm Sinoking International would build the airport at no cost to the state government. It was audio.

Anambra budgeted N6b for the airport in 2020 while work commenced in late 2019. Note that Asaba Airport is 31.7km from the proposed Umueri Airport while Owerri is 92km away and Enugu is 103km away by road.

Records of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) shows that most airports in Nigeria are loss-makers. The People’s Airport in Owerri is one of the loss-makers. Built on a strong wave of populism and anger at marginalisation, the zeal of the people has not manifested in patronage at the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport. It generated a revenue of N1.25b over the three-years 2017-2019 but spent N2.50b., losing N1.42b. Margaret Ekpo International Airport Calabar incurred a deficit of N1.94b.

Akanu Ibiam Airport consistently ranks fifth in the country in passenger traffic. It stood at 342 000 in 2018. It is grossly underutilised as is the one at Owerri.

Are these airports necessary or justified? The South East does not need more airports. Not at least for another ten years until there is an increase in traffic and better use of the two airports in the region. Passenger traffic is a function of the level of economic activities. Here is an area that the records show attracts the least FDI because of the failings of government now expending resources wrongly.

There are competing priorities. They include the absence of world-class facilities for healthcare, education, and even potable water in the cities of the South East. There is no pipe-borne water in Enugu or Onitsha, for instance. As the world races steadily online, one would expect a programme to ensure that the states of the South East embrace digital in all its ramifications including equipping the youths of the region, making schools digital compliant and running governments on a digital platform.

White elephant refers “to an extravagant, impractical gift” that becomes a burden. The phrase is said to come from the historical practice of the King of Siam (now Thailand) giving rare albino elephants to courtiers who had displeased him so that the animals’ upkeep costs might ruin them,” the dictionary says.
The South East does not need the white elephant of airport projects. The governors should find other signature projects for their egos.

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THE WORST SOUGHT OF LOSER, IS THE ONE THAT DONT KNOW WEN TO STOP CRYING.


THE ONE THAT DONT KNOW WEN A GOAL HAS BEEN SCORED.



IF U THINK ERI AIRPORT WILL BE THE ONLY AIRPORT IN ANAMBRA, THEN U MUST BE MAD.


U ARE CRYING OVER ERI AIRPORT, WE ARE MAKING PLANS TO BUILD MORE, ELSE WHERE IN ANAMBRA.



YES, THERE WILL BE OTHER MEGA AIRPORT CITIES AND COMPLEX IN ANAMBRA.



ERI IS JUST THE FIRST, WE HAVE PLANS TO BUILD MORE.



AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION ERI WILL BE OVER UTILISED.



ALL THOSE ONITSHA TRADERS WILL BE GOING THROUGH ERI, NO LONGER LAGOS.



PEOPLE LIVING IN AWKA AND SURROUNDING STATES WILL BE GOING THROUGH ERI AIRPORT.


NNEWI BUSSINESS PEOPLE WILL GO THROUGH ERI.



WE NEED MORE AIRPORT TO REDUCE THE CONGESTION.



SO WE WILL BE BUILDING MORE AIRPORTS.


ANAMBRA IS DENSELY POPULATED, AND WITH FUNCTIONAL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, THE POPULATION WILL INCREASE, AS FOREIGNERS ARRIVE, FROM EUROPE, CHINA, AMERICA, ASIA, LATIN AMERICA, CANADA AND AUSTRALIA.

BigBashiru:
any idiot can wake up one day and call himself a pastor... see as the "pastor" dey say f**k you up and dan....

Dat is y i no dey agree enter any kind church again.


I cannot let any idiot touch my head .

sofiscatedmoron:
Why do Americans always paint their interiors whites both walls and doors

THE ROOM LOOKS BIGGER AND SPACIOUS.

IF WE START REPORTING THE EVIL GHANIANS DO, NIGERIANS WILL LOOK LIKE ANGELS.




NO JOKE, I AM SERIOUS.

MAKE UNA SEE WAT THIS ONE DID TO HIS WIFE IN ENUGU.




GHANA PEOPLE AND WICKEDNESS, DEY LIKE BREAD AND BUTTER.



https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2020/7/ghanaian-man-pours-hot-water-on-his-breastfeeding-wifes-breast-in-enugu-photos.html

Ghanian scum bag.


They are very evil.



Unless u dont know dem.

YOUR WIFE YANSH HAVE TAKE THE PLACE OF GOD DURING PRAYERS.



SEE Y I DONT GO TO CHURCH ANYMORE.


CORO IS NOT THE ONLY PROBLEM BUT BLACK PREACHERS.

..

AND Y IS HE STILL ALIVE?



WAT WAS HE LEFT ALIVE FOR?



LAZY YOUTHS!



HE SHOUDL THANK HIS STARS NO IPOB WAS ON SITE.

post=93735376:
Ibadan is the only city in Oyo state other areas are jungle, Ibadan is 92% covered by slums -Un habitat

GBAM!



WEN PEOPLE ARE TRAVELING AND THEY REACH ONITSHA, THEY THINK IT IS LAGOS.



U HEAR THEM SAYING, WE PASSED A PLACE THAT LOOKS LIKE LAGOS.

I HAVE LONG TOLD OUR YORUBA BROTHERS THAT THE REAL CAPITAL CITY OF NIGERIA IS ONITSHA.


LAGOS AND ABUJA IS ARTIFICIAL CREATION MADE POSSIBLE BY NIGERDELTA OIL AND GAS.


ONITSHA IS A NATURAL COMMERCIAL CITY THAT HAS BEEN IN EXISTENCE EVEN BEFORE THE BRITISH ARRIVED.


IT IS THE CENTER FOR TRADE AND COMMERCE IN NIGERIA, NATURALLY.



GO TO ONITSHA, U WILL FIND FULANI, HAUSA, YORUBA AND ALL THE TRIBES IN NIGERIA.

EVERY STATE IN NIGERIA SHOULD BUILD ONE REFINERY.


THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO END OUR STATUS AS THE BOTTOM OF AFRICA.



A VERY SMALL BOTTOM OF AFRICA, WE ARE.



NASS SHOULD PASS IT INTO LAW.

SORRY GUYS, I POSTED ON A WRONG THREAD.

It is no longer Igbo carrying goods to sell, it is China taking over the economy.

Nothing lazy people will not say or blame.

oluwaahmed:
When we clamor for nigeria to disintegrate, this is why. How can a govt not protect the lives of its citizens both home and abroad? How can a country exist and other countries are not afraid to harm their citizens. You can't try this with Russians or Americans or even south Africans or Chinese. Country like Russia will retaliate straight up by attacking your country. America and Arabs will sponsor proxy wars that will destabilise your country forever. Nigger-area should be in that league.

Truer words have never spoken