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MysteryShopper:
Somewhere in Awka. Awka is the fastest and best developing city in the eastern Nigeria. The only place in the entire eastern region where you can find well paved roads and covered drains is in Awka. Cool

MysteryShopper:
Onitsha hoods. Some areas in Onitsha can be mistaken for Lekki

MysteryShopper:
Onitsha hoods. Some areas in Onitsha can be mistaken for Lekki

somalianprince:
Fact

IGBOSON1:
Saw the response to my question yesterday about the narrowness of the body of water adjoining Nkisi GRA. Can now see the land on the other side is part of the island in the middle of the Niger.

Anyone know which state owns it? It looks massive and could be used as a nature reserve or park where families can go to chill. I don’t think building up the area with more real estate is a good idea though.

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Anambra Airport interior

ChimaAdeoye:

The problem with the mentality of a typical Nigerian above of killing or be killed is due to many years of living under Fulani engineered feudal system. A system that does not believe in coexistence. It's either you die and I live, or I die and you'll live. It never even crosses their mind that there is steady population growth in Asaba, in Nnewi, In Ihiala, Awka, Aguleri etc! This new population will need quick access to air services in airports that are not chaotically jam-packed and inefficient like the current Lagos airport. Nigeria is projected to reach about 450 million by 2050, which is less than 29 years away! That will be one and half times greater than the present US population.

The US even at 300 million people, you cannot compare even their least busy international airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Lagos or Abuja airports. This airport is still busier than Lagos or Abuja! Not to mention that it has 3 active runways. Between West Palm Beach - Fort Lauderdale -Miami, there are more than 5 international airports and each of these has more than 3 runways to cope. I have said all these so that you guys can understand that the tiny international airports we have in Nigeria are in fact insufficient to support economic growth in a country of more than 200 million people. Talk more when our population hits 450 million people.

Now apart from huge airports like New York's JFK, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston international airports, a typical American international hub has between 4 -8 active runways. Nigeria can never build such types of airports. Nor do we have the landmass or technology to run them.

In our clime, the best approach is to build one or two-runway international airports and manage them by the flights that go to each. One day, the fake Nigerian federal structure used to stifle economic development in Nigeria will fall apart and people will develop their own region based on need. You simply don't have the land for that type of massive airport facility seen abroad. So we have to build small manageable international airports at Asaba, Umueri, Enugu, etc, and manage the flights that go to each location. Of course, some will be busier than others depending on how large they are able to take many flights and planes at the same time.

Besides, the way our people see land, if you say the total landmass of Anambra state should be used for just one airport with 5 runways, everybody will scream. Even one runway was difficult to find enough land to make sure it was comfortably up to 3.7 KM runway and 1KM RESA at both ends!

That is why there will eventually be another international airport in Orlu in the future and another one at Elele or Isiokpo. That is the only way we can eventually meet the aviation needs of an economy serving even 80 million people living in a tight high-density area where land is a very scarce resource. A model of having multiple medium international airports is the only way it can be done to meet the aviation needs of our people. Those huge aviation hubs we see abroad like in the pictures below, require such vast amounts of land and very high technology to operate that we simply lack both.