₦airaland Forum

Sincere 9gerian: My vote and support for GEJ was for the following reasons :
1) completion of dredging of river niger. Current status: COMPLETED
2) completion of Onitsha port. Current status: COMPLETED
3) reforms and privatisation of PHCN. Current status: ongoing, almost completed
4) completion of Onitsha- Owerri road. Current status: COMPLETED
5) modernization and internationalization of Enugu airport, ditto southeast airports. Current status: remodelling work ongoing and plan to construct international terminal for Enugu airport concluded.
6) completion of Enugu- Onitsha express way. Current status, bridge head to upper iweka section EXPANDED and COMPLETED, while work is ongoing at other failed sections.
7) reconstruction of Enugu-Ph expressway. Current status: still several bad portions but remedial work ongoing now, while we await plans for full reconstruction
restoration of the eastern rail line, ditto rail transport across the country. Current status: ongoing
9) construction of 2nd Niger bridge. Current status: actual ground braking and work expected to commence March next yr.
10) consolidation of democracy in Nig thru free and fair elections. Current status: delivered. In conclusion my vote and support for Jonathan has yielded tremendous benefits for me and my people. I have NEVER been disappointed for one minute and I hope that before 2015, many more benefits would accrue to me and my people, courtesy of GEJ. Fresh Air!

Where's the bacon...where's the proof? Last time ENugu Airport was still sh.ity. And Owere-Onitcha road, how many lanes, whats the street lighting like, or is it the usual narrow tar with amateurish green and white ZEBRA blocks everywhere?

So if GEJ says he doesnt want to run in 2015, "NIGERIANS ARE GOING TO FORCE HIM"

Really? Ah...local man...chei

Some one says 9ja is cursed country.

Perhaps, especially when we neva consider why we dey answer Nigeria in first place.

Someone wrote that if Na Naija President abi Pastor, he go say "God told me I will win"

That made my day

y2kaustin: when will you people ever STOP complaining,analysis,crying,etc ...if it pains you people,you know what to do,engage them violently,squarely,iron for iron,sword for sword,fire for fire,blood for blood..thats the only way you will get a solution.before you attain a breakthrough,something have to be BROKEN!!!..your destiny is in your hands.if you guys are aggrieved,ACT!! and STOP!! complaining .

ypzilanti: One day, the revolution will start. They should go and read history. It usually comes as a shock, and no one knows what the trigger will be.

What I know for certain is that the present system is not sustainable and will implode sooner than later. Cost of living is going up, incomes are not increasing, and an army of educated (or half educated, which is even worse) youth is being added into the unemployment market every quarter.

Wise people will know for certain that despite the factors that make it hard for Nigerians to unite and fight (e.g. Tribalism), the reality of our predicament will soon implode this system.

What is the solution? To remove these bloodsucking PDP government in the next election. The opposition parties are made up of crooks too, but a semblance of change may pacify and energize government and the people. If we do not do this, one day the revolution will start, and then the military will march in to 'restore order' and then it will be de ja vu, all over again. The same cycle that leads to nowhere.

You guys are up to something, in fact something good. This "revolution" is long over due, but guess what...

"My Pastor", Owambe, Trad Marriage with Aseobi, importing from America, tying bedsheet and calling yourself Alhaji, Aristo babes, Arsenal and Man U, going to Germany for med checkup, posting pictures of yourself on Facebook after you "on the gen",

these all seem more appealing to the rather NIGG.A. like country that continues to bear a NIGG.A name given by one Oyibo Lepa that checked out a century ago.

Yes, those who rig election and those who overthrow governments as well Mr. "General"

Its only because Naija folks wan party everyday and go to see coconut pastor. If not, all these OLD politicians who always talk rubbish would have since been kicked into the Atlantic Ocean

The day the people take Theo Orji and Orji Kalu to the guillotine to chop their ugly local heads, then the poster too must pay the price for this rubbish thread.

Idiot

INNO18: Enugu is realy Alaigbo's Abuja. I wish our brothers who invest their money in foreign lands like Lagos and Abj, would have a rethink and know that there's no safer investment than that @ home or somewhere close to home. Enugu is realy our pride in the East. From an Anambrarian.

Really? Enugu is Igbo Abuja?

If so then you folks have a long way to go. Glad you didnt say Dubai or Miami lol.

All these pictures of roads with the childish Zebra blocks (who does that folks, dayum)and some buildings here and there just prove that we wish we were a great city/country. The truth is Enugu is not even on the country's top 5 best places, and currently cannot boast of any single world class facility.

SO if this thread is to lure Igbo people to do what you would think a so-called great nation would do (leave the hateful North and develop your goddamm region idiots), then that is good, but to call it the "Pride" of the East means the rest of the East is a disaster

All the SE cities are nothing but crap, so Ndigbo with all the noise are on the same footing as the crap in the SW, Minority areas, and North.

thekoko007: most of the local coaches we have in the country today are bunch of idiots that has no idea of how a player can be manage irrespective of his attitude,osaze, is far better than all the so strikers keshi is relying on for now, so if the big boss can bring him back to the team along side femi martins and taye taiwo..am 100% sure that it will be a big plus for the team, instead of him keeping unnecessary malices with the guys.

Really? Femi Martins and Taye Taiwo? You people never will change. THe same below-average politiicans each administration, and the same semi average soccer players each match.

Well, I'll take Keshi and the "local" players over the money grabbing Vogts and Lagerbear anyday

ABi...

See how stupid they look, and they wonder why they are hardly chosen to head any major organization in the world, why they are denied visa in their millions, why SHell Oil does whatever they want on their land, why their politicians steal without anyone doing shyt about it, and why light is something that is common of small countries like Belgium and UAE, yet problematic in their NIG.GEr areas.


Shame

What are Obi's plans? React and react like leaders in this country.

^^^Abi

Im glad all Nigerians and indeed the world sees how Igbotic and IDIOTIC you guys are.

When people are building and maintaning International AIrports to bring in the REAL bucks and empowerment, you guys are of course, 2nd class citizens, and rightly so.


How have cargo airports transformed states, particularly those that are cut off from the outside world?

Those goods that are to fly into this local area are coming from where? And were cleared where?

Its not about sentiment and supporting patch patch ideas. Thought Ikemba was from your side, including ZIk and Orizu? Those guys did not settle for mediocre plans, but wanted to take their people boldly to NUMBER 1 as they naturally are.

See Western Airport with less population and Naija Cargo airport in IGBOLAND

FOOOOOOLS

Yep, the truth is the SOuth East is nothing more than a local region in the sense of it being Villagistic.

No world class Int'l airport
No world class Cargo airport (for all those fools wanting to build cargo awpts everywhere)
No world class highways, bridges, roads, railways, seaports, nor bus system
No world class stadium, university, or mall
No world class city, clubs, libraries, churches, recreation centers, parks

Nothing but heavy pride price, Red caps to wear with feather, buying and selling, buying property in Abuja and Lagos and cry when Boko Haram takes what is theres...

Meanwhile Abia State alone has a yearly budget of US $800 Million, Imo $700 Million, Enugu, Ebonyi, the rest the same.

They are a disgrace compared to even the arm stickened Biafran Regime that operated an International Airport and stood against hell fire for 3 years.

Dayum

CHEEEEEEEEEI!!!

See those people wey celebrate independence

They neva say, "See background of this road o"

Wish I can post those pics in Time Magazine, but hey, the world already knows that the average Naija Citizen is a dumb Ni.gga.

Why cant we copy more serious things from the WEST, such as good roads and governance, instead of Idol.

We think we are among those that call themselves a country and deceive ourselves into mimicking rubbish to feel part of the world.

Fools

Well Sia1 has been sacked, and frankly, he was given an opportunity to work magic and failed.

WIsh he could have been given the job during the last world cup as oppossed to paying LAGERbear, who knew nothing about Nigeria, millions of dollars to show we had an Oyibo coach.

Now its Keshi, and very soon he too will be sacked.

WHy?

Because we dont have the players and dont have the fundamental structure in Nigeria to succeed. Corruption has overrun the nation perhaps for good.

These old men sef with their old useless stories. Na wa

Who cares if he ceded Bakassi or not?

Can we talk about how wives of state assembly men go to England on public fund in Nigeria TODAY?

Or how Dana AIr and others operated terrible planes and can have their license upheld in Nigeria TODAY?

Or why we use 45 year olds and smuggle them in our womens U20 and U17 teams TODAY?

I feel sorry for those Aba women that stood up against the British in 1929. At least their place was better than the filth called ABia state today.

Can someone please kidnapp and beat this stupid man called Orji, and THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR INSTALLING HIM.

Please, Orji must go, along with all the PDP fools in the Senate and House that re-rigged themselves for another wasted 4 years

onomeasike: I dont understand why this country being humiliated and ridiculed on this Hajj issue.Is it that the pilgrims were not aware of the requirement and this condition that mandates a female pilgrim to come with a male relative was introduced without appropriately informing the pilgrims before they left the shores of Nigeria or these people just want to 'settle' their way at all cost to circumvent that clause as some nigerians are wont to do?If it is the former,then saudi arabia govt should be sued appropriately and made to apologize to these pilgrims but if these pilgrims knew ahead but chose to still go ahead on the hajj,they should all be prosecuted for using securing their pilgrim travel papers on false declaration that they are accompanied by their male relatives and they should be seriously punished for the great embarrassment they have caused the nation.The hajj officials that allowed these pilgrims should not be spared,I dont see any sense asking a high-ranking speaker of house of reps going to Saudi for this issue,in fact,it is a sign of unseriousness and shows how idle the office of the speaker is.The civil service bureaucracy alone is sufficient to find and establish what went wrong and make recommendations to the govt.Why further humiliate this nation?the vice president abandoned state duties the whole of yesterday to meet with saudi ambassador to discuss this kind of issue that the foreign affairs minister can handle better like the minister did with the south african yellow fever card diplomatic palava.Methinks,it is absolutely unnecessary for Tambuwal to go to saudi,he should stay around to co-ordinate the capital project inspection the house plan to start next week!!

What is all this grammer about. No one respects you guys, because your country is messed up. Stop trying to tag along with the Arabs who's country is superior to yours.

If they like the women can have proper papers, can have their husbands, regardless, you are their monkeys

So what are you guys going to do about it? Always reacting to this and that, where as the truth had always been there from the beginning.

Is Nigeria even a country, or a jungle? Look at how its structured? 36 useless states that were drawn by evil illitrates, and today you see its the turn of Edo central or ABia south or EKiti west zones for positions lol.

Dana air crashed and recently the Minister had lifted their band just like that!

Today we proudly call ourselves Nigerians and have Naira, but the average Naija doesnt even know where the heck those names come from (but will know the point spread in the English Premier League)

Speaking of soccer our u20 and u17 women teams are filled with grandmothers, yet when it comes to senior World Cup, they run like they don chop eba finish.
So yes, the British can come back and rule. Even the US or the Chinese can come and rule the country because it aint getting better. EVerything is messed up.

Even Church is corrupt. Only in Naija can pastors own airlines, and the people quote bible more than those who wrote, framed, and brought it to them in the first place.

Just crazy,

That Nigerians can no longer leave the country,

not for medical checkup
not to go to Dubai or China
not to go to London or Arabia
not to go born pikin in US for blue pale
not to go to Ghana
not to go and buy things they cant produce in their own country and later front as if they are a big boy or big gal
not to rely on outsiders to do what they ought to do for themselves

Yes o, Nigerians think they are on the same level as England, Saudi Arabia, and Canada, always trying to visit those countries and give birth there. However, Nugerians are not, and the world will continue to deal with una until we are serious about our government and culture.

See how ENGLAND did to Ibori what Nigerians couldnt do for themselves.

Shame

As long as you are taking Theo Orji with you

Look at those blue bedsheets. See how silly they look. Im sure the Saudi officials are like WTF!!!


Go back to your stinking country with no light

Thank you Saudi Arabia!!!! Thanks for showing Nigerians that they are meaningless, especially those wearing bedsheets in Sokoto.

Your country has good roads, constant light, where everyone speaks the same language, united under one culture, and where leaders want the best for their people.

Please continue to send the SHAMELESS Nigg.ers back to their messed up country that they cant use their silly brains to want to develop.

Nigeria for you. ALways reacting when something bad happens.

Every year these so called pilgrims are jailed, stampeded, kicked out of Arabia, etc., and yet, these Nig.ger, I mean Nigerian (Wannabe) muslims cant wait to enter a country where there's light, roads, organization, and relative stabiity.

Funny enough, the A-rabs and their region are too good for the black idiots, henceforth the disregard for them.

Instead of thinking about how to develop Zamfara and Bauchi, off they go.


Fools

chino24: ^

Why do you drink Panadol for another man's headache? At least Anambra is far and above your rural state where nothing works. Get it straight into your ear, we are not using your airport na by force? We are building our world class International Cargo airport and not those motor parks you ediots call airports.

Maybe you have comprehension problem, the MD of Orient said that Anambra state has only 3% share in the project. This is a clear statement that the company will take of the 97% of the cost of the project and also run it in line with international best practices. The Anambra/Orient International Cargo Airport will be the only viable airport in Nigeria after Abuja and Lagos.

Let me school you once again:


"Yes, there will be an airport. I spoke about Orient Petroleum Resources PLC being a holding company. The holding company has four subsidiaries. One subsidiary is the refining of petro-chemical component which is going to operate the refinery; the second is the one that is about producing oil and gas; that is called the exploration and production subsidiary. Then we have a subsidiary which is gas and power which is supplying gas to Nkalagu cement, to breweries at 9th Mile, and possibly to this SABmiller Brewery in Onitsha. The final one is the infrastructure and services which will look after the airport and other infrastructure like housing and so on which will support the operations of the other three subsidiaries.

So the vision was that Orient will be a vertically integrated company. It derives its own raw materials, sells its products; provides its services. The airport was supposed to provide an outlet for aviation kerosene which is one of the products of the refinery. So planes will land there and load with aviation kerosene. That's the aviation fuel (ATK). So there will be a pipeline that takes aviation kero there; the aircraft will load and we can be selling aviation kero to Kano International Airport, to Lagos, even to Ghana and other places right from that point. So the airport itself is to provide an outlet for aviation kero and also it will provide a quick source of spares. Let's say you need something in the refinery, you fly it in. So we do have licence from the federal government to set up an international cargo airport to fly in materials there. This airport is located in about 1,200 hectares of land in Ifite Umuleri. It's already surveyed and work will start very soon now that we have income from the oil production.

SO HOW SOON DO YOU RECKON THE AIRPORT WILL BE READY?

The airport will be constructed in phases just like the refinery. The first phase will be the runway and the cargo shed. Those ones could be done in 18 months and then the next phase will be the second runway so that it will be like Abuja which is getting the second runway. Lagos already has two runways. So we're looking far ahead. These runways are of international standard; the ICAO standard (International Civil Aviation Authority).

They're long enough to take a Boeing 747 cargo. The biggest jumbo jet can land in the airport; that's why it's so long; 1,300 hectares and the runway is about 4 kilometres. It's longer than Enugu and Asaba airports. It's again futuristic to make sure that in 20 years to come it will still be serving us."


DOES THE STATE HAVE ANY SHARE IN THE PROFITS?
The state government has three percent share.

So your point is what? Building cargo airports everywhere in a third world country? I guess Anambra people can decide to fly into the country through Boko Haram areas or Lagos, and then decide to take Dana Air to the East, or take the road, including encountering go-slow on the Niger Bridge that looks like its about to pop.

You want to know why Andy Uba is going to contest and probably win in 2014?

Because you guys are not serious.

chino24: Don't even bother yourself with all the fools. They will always want Anambra to partner them and develop them, but how many of them have come to partner and develop anything that concerns Anambra. If any state must build an airport it must be able know the viability of such project; the likes of Delta, Enugu and imo will not build an airport with Anambra in mind to patronize them. They must be able to patronize their own airport.

Orient Petroleum and Anambra is developing from the scratch a world class International Cargo Airport to cater for its major cities of Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi and other sub-cities of the state and even service adjoining towns of Kogi and Nsukka areas. Its going to be a hub airport that will bolster economic activities and with oil and gas companies springing up in the state.

Good a thing they have already surveyed the land and am sure that construction is ongoing to meet the timeline for completion.

CHei, local people with local minds.

Those MAJOR cities you refer to are nothing more than glorified villages, with nothing but trash, cholera, and armed robbery.

This is Nigeria, which cant even manage anything, or will be looking for FG to take over a project.

How big is Anambra state that was created by rogue military men? These very poor, inconcieved, divide and rule, and unviable states are using their meager resources to do useless projects, or white elephant projects, all in the name of development.

I thought the FG was upgrading (for the last 10 years) the airport in Enugu for the REGION? I also thought Imo "Cargo" airport was to serve una abi?

You guys need to have a regional economic strategy, and not this inter-tribal local my own my own.

Dayum.

cjrane: I hope Anambra people have out grown the stage of electing charlatans and criminals to rule them. Andy Ubah is a first class crook,a certificate forger and an occultist who has no place amongst civilized men.

Thank You.

How did this man get into the Senate? Even Ngige?

What have they done since.

They are lucky I cant deal with them the way they deserve