₦airaland Forum

Moroccoguy:
The Airport will serve as alternative to the ever congested Muritala Muhammad Airport. All I can say for now.

mrvitalis:
Name one good APC has done since they took over power

How would u feel If u knew from June last year that naira was going to 1500 ?

Tell how u would feel if u knew that the subsidy removal was a scam ans we would end up paying higher for fuel while paying more subsidies than we have ever paid in our history

Tell me how u feel when u know millions of Jobs would be lost

And when you talk idiots claim you only see negative

Krankhead:
Continue your lamentation while.qe that are smart are taking opportunities. You don't have job, rather weeping on the internet.

sulaak:
Why does Ibadan, a city of 4 million, have an airport traffic of less than 100000 per annum?

Ibadan now has a modern expressway and SGR railway that connect the town to Lagos state and a modern SGR railway under construction that will connect Ibadan to Illorin, Abuja and Kano. The upgrade is to the Airport and will be the responsibility of Oyo state.

I understand your concerns about the wastefulness of APC, spending billions on the Lagos-Calabar coastal road when the Markudi, Mambilla and Dasin Hausa Dam are a priority project for irrigation, electricity, and to prevent floods in the case of the Adamawa Dasin Hausa Dam

Connoisseur:
You were doing quite well until this statement.
You should have conceded this point😂😂
The second Niger bridge is not a useless waste of scarce resources.
APC scored a point there

sulaak:
The question is not whether Oyo State can afford the upgrade but whether it will benefit from it. The majority of railways around the world operate at a loss and are subsidised by the government for the services they support.

A state like Oyo can benefit from Lagos's congestion and overpopulation if it invests more in logistics, electricity, transportation, security, and hospitality.

The Lagos Redline has not been completed. Redline will only be viable if it connects the Agege/ Ikeja axis to Lagos Island. Nobody will pay for a railway that ends in Oyingbo, and the Redline has to be subsidised to relieve congestion on Lagos roads and improve economic activities and employment. Don't read the nonsense from the IMF/World Bank playbook; subsidies are necessary to support economic development.

DUNDEEmoderatos:
I hope mrvitalis is reading this?

DUNDEEmoderatos:
I was thinking that you were making sense until I read this. Did you just called second Niger Bridge a waste of resources. You really don't know what development is all about.

Kobojunkie:
So, for 42 years after the downgrade, the airport could not at least prove there was meaning to its existence? And now, the current governor wants to, using mago-mago, make you all believe this comatose airport will magically become better than the other 20-something other elephant airport projects of its kind that litter Nigeria today? 😐😐😐😐😐

wirinet:
You fail to address Mrvitalis concerns of the number of passengers that is expected to us the proposed international airport.
How many passengers use even the lagos international airport yearly? How many Nigerians travel out and how many Nigerians come into Nigerians through the airports? Airports should not be a pride contest but a commercial venture. Airports are very expensive to build (particularly in this part of the world) and maintain. All our airports presently are poorly maintained, with no power, poor baggage handling, bad runways and faulty and archaic air traffic equipment, and you want to add more.
Are any of our airports operating at a profit, aside the Lagos Local airport? How do you intend to repay the loan that will be uses to build the airport?

mrvitalis:
What's development all about? Second niger bridge was built with borrowed money, contribute nothing to GDP, contribute nothing to revenue... How does it make sense ? Tell me

350 billion used on that bridge could have been given to industries in Anambra 5 billion each as interest free loan by now that would create over 50,000 jobs, generate more tax, and get the month back to do it again

By 10 years the tax can build the dam bridge without affecting our economic books negatively...

Do u guys know how nations create wealth at all

mrvitalis:
Your GDP per capita is less than 1k dollars and u are building airport

Who swear for Africans

Who won use the airport?

What would u say to a man that wants to build 5 star hotel in a village

Afonja007:
International airport in Ibadan? Where are they going to?is waste of niger delta's monet

DUNDEEmoderatos:
Guy go rest! You are even contradicting yourself. I have lived in so many countries, here in the US the first thing they do if a new place is to be developed is infrastructure especially roads and bridges before the main construction will start which might be factories.
If someone builds 5 star hotel in the village or factory and there are good road networks and other infrastructures people will go there and that will even help decongest the city. People don't go to 5 star hotel in the village because it is in the village but because most times there are no good connecting roads or the village needs additional road
That is the scenario with a place like Onitsha, additional bridge to decongest traffic and then every other things can follow.

DUNDEEmoderatos:
Keep running your mouth as if you are the only one that understands economics! How do you develop or create all those things without good infrastructure?
Somebody built a factory in a place with bad roads, how do you get to that factory to work?
Do you know the hours of manpower lost due to traffic delays on that single bridge? Do you know that loss of manpower means loss of business and other things? How can someone coming from Lagos to Onitsha to transact business stay in traffic jam between Asaba and Onitsha for hours? Do you know what that means economically and psychologically? How do you create jobs without good infrastructure?

bmaster2000:
I have traveled to almost one third of Africa countries and I passed through their international airports . these situation you mentioned about our international airport is not Peculiar to nigerian international airport alone ...all these doesn't stop coming up with proxy international airport to cater for the people living in region who have to pay homogeneous amount of money to come to Lagos state before they could travel ....
I have also traveled to many developed countries ....and despite the fact that some of these countries doesn't have larger land mass as Nigeria does ...but you could see some of the international closer to the people ...this.might not be a succor. to you but it is to people who will save some hard earn money and also reduce the burden of travel all the way to Lagos state before travel outside of the country

bmaster2000:
I have traveled to almost one third of Africa countries and I passed through their international airports . these situation you mentioned about our international airport is not Peculiar to nigerian international airport alone ...all these doesn't stop coming up with proxy international airport to cater for the people living in region who have to pay homogeneous amount of money to come to Lagos state before they could travel ....
I have also traveled to many developed countries ....and despite the fact that some of these countries doesn't have larger land mass as Nigeria does ...but you could see some of the international closer to the people ...this.might not be a succor. to you but it is to people who will save some hard earn money and also reduce the burden of travel all the way to Lagos state before travel outside of the country

BeeBeeOoh:
https://punchng.com/just-in-tinubu-has-approved-upgrade-of-ibadan-airport-makinde/

mrvitalis:
Akwa Ibom has good road but her people swim bad road and water to go to aba to buy goods

There is no industry that would tell u bad road is their top 5 problems

mrvitalis:
Because USA already has rich population the first thing is to make your people rich

And most new town in America are built to service an industry so industry is built first

mrvitalis:
How many people use Ibadan airport per year

DUNDEEmoderatos:
Bro I love your arguments but I am so disappointed with your last paragraph..
Go and read about factors that are needed to locate industries. Google is your friend.

Godwin4444:
the most annoying thing about people like u is that U don’t know the place

I doubt if u know anything about d area but u just want to criticize, I can bet u haven’t been to the airport before but u will b 1 million miles away n still b talking crap about what u don’t know

budaatum:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/25/nigeria-keeps-building-airports-but-where-are-the-passengers

mrvitalis:
Roads are important.. If we have unlimited money good n fine but we don't

If the company stand they can do the road themselves

DUNDEEmoderatos:
Ok sir I don hear we won't argue forever. But the question is how will the company stand when the roads are bad?
Hope you have a great day.

Lanruze:
Let the president step down this request ASAP.

There is no tangible Justification for the Ibadan Airport for International Flight Upgrade.

I once lived in Alakia, Ibadan and the number of passengers and also human traffic in the Airport doesn't justify an International Status upgrade.

The MMIA will suffice whilst the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is a a super highway sufficient to move people across the geo-political zone.

Godwin4444:
y do all these igbos believe everyone is stealing Niger delta oil?

It’s annoying when I hear people say someone is using Niger delta oil to develop a place

Before oil was discovered we had cocoa house, liberty stadium different monuments even when your fathers were still roaming around stark naked

The most annoying this is that a south south person will never say this rubbish it is the igbos that the south south are even tired of that will say it

Afonja007:
yes igbos are naked just like Indians today did any of your father great grand father invented anything to human kind? Oga upgrading Ibadan airport or so called coastal road is the money coming from cocoa or amala? You have cocoa like south east don't have palm oil

Paraman:
Good news

Godwin4444:
so south west too doesn’t have oil?