₦airaland Forum

ZZ22:
Why are you trying so hard to bring Nnamdi Kanu in to this? He seems your nightmare

What's the difference between the two of someone can believe such nonsense because if pictures then that shows how they easily believe the other because of some Getty images.


What is more disgracing seeing some Igbos even saying it is true..

Highly Insulting.

Obasanjo is from Ogun state , a Yoruba man and not anywhere near onitsha Anambra state.

jimyjames:
Obasanjo is an Igbo man we have proofs

Seriously you guys on nairaland should stop disgracing Igbo race with rubbish claims.

Post like this suppose to be countered head on from the first page and set records straight that Obasanjo is a Yoruba man because all these are fallouts of political friends.

But what do we have, pictures flying everywhere and you see Igbos saying it is true......same way Kanu manufactured Images and called it Jubril and all of you believed.


Everything is not argument but some is outright disgrace to Igbos.


What on Earth will someone or Igbos be dragging Obasanjo, a full fledged Yoruba.


Nonsense.

Obasanjo is a Yoruba man..QED..


NK has really done a bad job on most people brain that comprehension is now zero.


What are all these igbo guys here dragging fir Christ sake....


Be who penned down this, Obasanjo is a Yoruba man.


It is very shameful and disgracing that you will see an Igbo man here dragging Obasanjo is not Yoruba but Igbo.... Nonsense.


Highly disgracing and Insulting to Ndigbo.

Habakus:
Why is comprehension so difficult for you guys?
Why are you now referring to Igbos?
Was it an Igbo man that wrote the article?
When did I claim that I owned Nigeria in the 60s?
I just don't want to call you a drunk this early morning.

What are you dragging now? Is it that Obasanjo is an Igbo man?

Are you guys really okay? Even if na someone from Bantu or borusa write....lie na lie...

Obasanjo is a Yoruba man..QED..

NK has really done a bad job on most people brain that comprehension is now zero.

What are all these igbo guys here dragging for Christ sake

mktinsight:
[s]Actually, ignorance is not an excuse. I am not the first to point out the wastage of resources when it comes to "airports". There are lots of articles by aviation experts if you bother to READ:

http://www.woleshadare.net/white-elephant-airports/

"New Telegraph reported recently that by the time airports in states like Bayelsa, Ekiti, Abia, Osun and Ogun are completed; some states would have invested over N150 billion on aerodromes that may not significantly improve their economies. Some of the airports that have been inaugurated are currently unviable as they witness little traffic."

https://punchng.com/mad-rush-for-state-airports/

"Of the 25 airports managed by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, experts say only the two in Lagos and Abuja are viable."

https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/283258/airport-project-fancy-misplaced-priority.html

"The same is playing out in Nigeria when some state governors are obsessed with the idea of their states owning their own airport. States like Osun, Ekiti, Gombe, Ogun, Zamfara, Nassarawa, Anambra, Abia and Bayelsa have gone bonkers in their bid to build their own airports without the thought that such a project is worse than a white elephant project."

https://thenationonlineng.net/dangerous-crave-for-unviable-airports/

"“They should set up industries before embarking on building airports, which to us all, are to serve the opulent lifestyles of few elite. State governors must first address the poor state of the roads, dilapidated hospitals, schools, lack of water, sanitation, unpaid salaries still bedeviling these states. Regional approach to infrastructural deficits should be initiated. States should not go to capital market or issue bonds to build airports.”[/s]

And my answer to your research is simple Anambra has the population and all it takes to Carter for her airport.

Lagos has the population plus business activities.
Anambra has the population plus business activities.

The only reason you crying more than the bereaved is because the airport will affect the fortune of other airports and probably your state own.

Don't bother about the traffic, let Obiano complete the airport first then the traffic will decide for itself whether it will stay or die off which me and you already knows the answer.

Your research is myopic based on few states not what they have on ground.

I don't know why anambra airport is generating so much heat why not allow Obiano to finish and let's see how viable it will be.



Your point is Invalid and defeated.

mktinsight:
More immaturity from a child. You need to learn to RESPECT other people's difference of opinion. You need to learn how to ARGUE based on objective opinion not PERSONAL ATTACKS. You need to GROW UP.

Your objectivity should be for yourself alone and not a must. Your public opinion is needed in Nigeria factor not a state factor you doesn't belong.

Did Anambra state made you their consultant?

The answer as well is No.


They say charity begins at home and not in another man's land. Your house is on fire and you busy looking for another man's house to quench his fire.

Who does that?


Before a warrior goes onto battle, he must make sure his house is in order before heading out.

Your objective Opinion should start from your base before advising others on what to do. That's how reasonable men behave.

mktinsight:
Something is seriously wrong with you. Every criticism of the state government means being "anti-Anambra". You always are looking for who to abuse. You need to learn maturity and how to communicate with people since you clearly behave like a child who grew up without manners. GROW UP.

Why not?

Because instantly I grew up without manners for giving you back the truth raw.

You have spent so much time salivating on this single topic and you should give it up because the state government is now determined to make it a reality.

The destiny of anambra state is not tied to anybody but each state was created simply for development.

You only come here to give us sermon on the mount. It is not needed because it can easily be likened to paid agents bearing the time and energy you have spent on this single topic with no positive result.

GIVE IT UP, the destiny if any state is not tied to another unless they decide to come and agree.

Only in SE will you continue to hear such nonsense. You won't see that in other regions.

Yeye mentality.

Ctorch:
FROM ONITSHA WITH ECCLESIASTICAL BLESSINGS
By FEMI ADESINA

The dying days of 2019 saw my passage to the East, Onitsha, in Anambra State, precisely.
Was I looking for the wise men from the East, who had brought gifts to the baby Jesus born few days earlier? Date was December 30, and I had set forth at dawn, headed for the commercial city, to partake in the dedication of a Catholic Church, St Francis of Assisi Parish, Inland Town, built, furnished and donated by my friend, Sir Francis Okechukwu Anyakwo.
The Air Peace flight I boarded from Lagos to Asaba was filled to the brim. The airport in Enugu is under reconstruction, till Easter, and passengers naturally gravitated to the nearest gateway: Asaba.
I was fortunate to be onboard with the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, Agbogidi. I paid him royal courtesies, and he asked what was taking me to Onitsha. After I told him, he said he would be at the event, too.
The Obi is a happy man, very happy. And the greatest cause of joy is the Second Niger Bridge, being built by the Muhammadu Buhari government (or regime, if you like. Lol) after many decades of playing politics with the project by previous governments.
As we alighted at that beautiful airport built by former Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan in Asaba, Delta State capital, the Agbogidi told me to look at my right when traveling across the River Niger, and I would see the emerging second bridge, in all its splendor.
The maiden bridge was built in 1965, and has been crying for a sibling for years. It turned to a tool for political advantage, as President after President promised to build the bridge, got the votes of the people, and showed a clean pair of heels thereafter. Goodbye basket, I’ve carried all my apples, they simply said. What Napoleon could not do, however, President Buhari is now doing, despite getting negligible number of votes from the area in the two elections he has won.
But that is not the main purpose of this write up. Rather, it is to talk about the homecoming of a backslidden Catholic boy, now a full Pentecostal. Yes, I was born and nurtured a Catholic, in the finest traditions of that church. Begin the Greater Doxology in Latin, and I will complete it for you.
Gloria in Excelsis Deo,
et in terra pax hominibus,
bona voluntatis
Laudamus te,
bendicimus te,
adoramus te,
glorificamus te,
gratias agimus tibi propter magnam....
I loved and still love the Catholic Church, so I was quite glad to break my holiday, fly to Onitsha, to be part of a sanctuary dedication.
On the River Niger, I looked right as instructed by the Obi of Onitsha, and saw it with infinite pleasure, the Second Niger Bridge, rising up in all its glory and effulgence , promising comfort and succor for people of the East, and all those traveling through that region. Again, I say: President Buhari has done what Napoleon couldn’t do, and the bridge will be completed before he exits office in 2023. Hallelujah somebody!
St Francis of Assisi Parish, Inland Town, Onitsha. I beheld it also with infinite pleasure. A work done through the hands of a simple, unassuming, godly man, Sir Francis Anyakwo. Impressive structure. A monument to the glory of God. Built and being donated wholesale to the Catholic Church. On hand to receive and dedicate the edifice was His Grace, Most Rev Dr Valerian Maduka Okeke, who said Anyakwo was the first Onitsha indigene to build a Catholic Church, and hand it over.
Onitsha, new, peaceful Onitsha, where has all the wildness gone? This was not the city I used to know. Onitsha, with its rough and tumble boisterousness, has suddenly transformed into a calm and sedate city. Clean. Non-threatening. Is it because it’s Christmas season? Well, may Onitsha remain so welcoming and accommodating. And may the Agbogidi reign for a long, long time. Amen.
The dedication. Do you recall when Solomon consecrated a temple to God in the Holy Bible? It was the same spectacle. Music, prayers, bible reading, blessing and sprinkling of water,responsorial psalm, litany of the saints, prayer of dedication, anointing of the altar and walls of the church, incensation of the altar and the church, lighting of the altar and the church.
Heavens came down, and glory filled my soul. And the souls of all the faithful, who filled the church to the brim.
In the homily, His Grace Most Rev Dr Okeke, spoke on gratitude, saying it is a feeling of gratefulness or indebtedness. And what I particularly took home was his declaration that “gratitude not expressed is not real. Until you express your gratitude either to God or man for a good done to you, then that gratitude is not real.”
God has done Sir Francis Anyakwo good, giving him a good family, good health, success in business, and all the other good things of life. He has expressed his gratitude through the building of St Francis of Assisi Parish, and donating it wholesale.
The Obi not only arrived early, he stayed all through the dedication ceremony, and paid tribute to Anyakwo, the illustrious son of Onitsha. It conveyed the gratitude of an entire city.
There was great rejoicing in Onitsha, and I sure was glad to have been part of it. The reception lasted from late afternoon into the wee hours of next day.
I left Onitsha, thankful to God for his mercies to the Anyakwos, to Nigeria, our country, and to the Eastern region, which finally has the Second Niger Bridge under construction. Who says President Muhammadu Buhari is not making a difference? And the half has never yet been told. Greater things will our country still see.

.Adesina is Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari

@bolded simply states the reason Anambra needs an airport. No matter how these sadists put it, one will only agree that the needed traffic is there already.

mktinsight:
[s]Sometimes I don't understand the herd mentality of people. People should learn to THINK for themselves instead of copying. An Airport is a hub of transportation. Nothing more, nothing less. It makes money from fees and taxes from flights. An airport is profitable the more valuable the flights that depart/arrive at its PORT. Most of Nigeria's airports are white elephants because they are built at huge cost and generate very little revenue.

Lets us an example - Asaba:

Asaba International Airport
Cost: 32 billion.
Passenger Traffic: 200,000 / year.
Average Revenue per year (est.): 600m
Operating Profit (est.) per year: < 130m

The State government has concessioned Asaba airport to private investors in exchange for 100m per year. The investors are not assuming the huge amount of debt sunk into the airport. Instead all they have to do is cover operational costs. But for Delta State government getting 100m per year it will take around 320 years to recover the 32b it sunk into that airport. That is the very definition of white elephant.

The only airports in Nigeria that are making serious money are the international airports with TRAFFIC. Lagos Murtala International Airport for example makes at least 15,000 per passenger and 3m international passengers go through it. Its revenue is easily over 45billion naira.

However, Enugu International does just 40,000 international passengers and 300,000 domestic passengers so its revenue is proably somewhere around 1.5 billion naira.

So given the low volume of flights throughout the South-East (Owerri, Enugu, Asaba), and the small distances between cities, the South-East State Governments really should be working together to promote ONE airport as a regional international aviation hub. Enugu ideally makes a lot of sense because of the existing infrastructure and federal investment. It was symbolic that all 5 state governors turned up when Goodluck pronounced that airport international.

Anambra State Government and others should focus on building proper large organized Bus and Truck terminals in cities for inter-state buses in major cities like Onitsha, Nnewi and Awka. This will yield a lot of revenue since most people move by road. For example, assume that around 3m people travel between Anambra and Lagos per year. If you build large bus terminals with bus ticketing offices and places to board buses and charge 7.5% VAT then a typical Lagos ticket of N4,000 will be taxed 300 yielding 1b in VAT on the Lagos-Anambra route. You concession parking, food stands, shops and bus terminals can compete with Air Ports in revenue.

The same goes for trucks and trailers and individal-owned buses. The State government loses a lot of revenue to street agents by allowing buses, trucks and trailers to park along the sides of expressways rather than in official parks. In organized countries, trailer parks not only yield parking revenue but conveniences. [/s]

Everybody is against but you still can't take your busy body out of this thread.

E mere gi ya eme.

It is now obvious you are one of those paid agents that always carry anti-anambra advice but this particular one is too late because progress has already been made.

Why concerned so much here?

Why not use this energy and advice your state government on how to improve industrialization.

Crying more than the bereaved.


Oga, Anambra is a state not one kind of Eastern region or province . Anambra is an Independent state created on her own to pursue development as desired.

There is no law stipulating all these nonsense you writing above. All the other states should seriously focus on their states and forget all these nonsense of we have this in our state so others should wait. It can serve us.

It is only in this zone that you keep hearing such nonsense. An independent unit struggling to control another Independent unit.

Recently Minister of Aviation said the reason Bayelsa airport hasn't started operation is because by of perimeter fencing or something like that which they seemed necessary and the state government acknowledged.

Every state should develop at her own pace and how they deem fit.

The destiny of states are not tied to each other. No state has her destiny tied to another

Habakus:
Oga,leave NK out of this. This particular issue of Obj's paternity has been a thing of controversy for several years now.
In fact,check the people who posted this topic; they're Yorubas

Nonsense controversy.

Obasanjo remains a Yoruba man.

ZombieTERROR:
They should have their own country Up north and practice Sharia law with Boko Haram...

They are working seriously on that to make that side fully sharia

catoluy:
Every Igbo leader knows that Obasanjo is an Igbo man. His colleagues in the military knew this. He doesn't look like a Yoruba at all as a young man; too much muscles, apka obi(chest) and face cheekbones...these are unique Igbo men features! Yorubas don't look like that! That's why he surrounded himself with mostly Igbos like Jonathan. If you think Jonathan had more Igbos around him, check Obasanjo's cabinet. Obasanjo doesn't even trust Yorubas around him because he knows they are not his own!

Obasanjo is a yoruba man. That's how NK easily Brain wash you people

Montracine:
Tingereereeti as lyrics Choirs of heaven.

Lol
Quite funny.
Wike has fully shown rivers is a Christian state.

Another fabrications to tarnish the Image of the retired General.

Lol
All these choristers sounding like animals. Na that fowl sound sweet pass

Not possible

Kapeter:
you don't have to believe me. The truth is the truth. Onyeoma is a failure as a foreign affairs minister and Nidcom is doing a better job than his office.

Story.

Watching

Frodd should not try and marry that girl.

Has character is zero coupled with her small stout nature.

Blackking98:
Change your username to kwame or asamoa or something obviously Ghanaian. I just noticed on every international thread you're always attacking Nigeria with your Igbo username which is confusing the thunder that wants to strike u. Please change your username so we Nigerians can roast u better

Lol.

Win12345:
Hmmmm, why is this man always attacking Anglican politicians, From Chimaroke to Goodluck and now Ihedioha, the same man that endorse and dine with Orji-Uzor Kalu. Baba take am easy, we are children of God, everyone should strive to hear God in 2020, no man is God's spokesman.

You got it right.

You just spoke my mind.

GreetMe:
Nothing like the side of the truth guy.

Even if Ghana is wrong, you always support them and you always refer to Ghana as ur country in your texts

I have not supported Ghana when they are wrong because I hit back at them if they are.

Nigerian always like to paint themselves good outside when the inside is dying.


Such must stop.

GreetMe:
I thought you were Ghanaian? I normally see you on every GHvsNG thread forming Ghanaian

So because I stand on the side of truth, I am now a Ghanaian?

APC
Lol
Their matter.

femolii:
You are from osu then

Whatever na you know....back to you
Nigeria don't have military.

ProWalker:
Good reply
That useless olosho Ibo woman too dey over reach herself

Lauretta is not an Igbo woman.
She said so herself. Be guided.

Who is Obama pls.
Trump has what it takes to lead a nation.

I don't see anything wrong with that..

Hizzy:
The building was abandoned since 2008

Imagine

AkeNathan:
Better advice your yeye state people to avoid coming to Ebonyi threads to mention derogatory terms about her people because I have compiled lists of international drug crimes perpetraded by Ndi Anambra, along side kidnapping, ritual and child trafficking crime reports emanating from that state to spam such threads with, once they start their nonsense.

Respect yourselves and we will.

Building constructed by a single person is what you want to equate to what Ebonyi Government is building for you guys...Ifele ana eme kwa gi?



Release the list and stop with holding it.

You can threaten others but not Omambala...nwoke na ibie ra bu na on u.

We have seen it all and so drop your list.

Men akarigo mmaja.