₦airaland Forum

SmartPolician:
It's not a misplaced priority. MMA is the major entry point into Nigeria and deserves a decent look. The problem here is that these looters have massively inflated the project cost for their selfish interests.

if its not a misplaced priority One is clear .... it is an over overbloated appropriation 712 billion to renovate what exactly
The problem is never about "Renovating" the bone of contention is the overbloated appropriation and misallocation that follow this project ... they are about to loot extremely again thats the issue

The country is broke according to the govt yet we keep seeing extravagant spending from the govt .... thats the misplaced priority

Apel147:
Some of you just want to make unnecessary noise, have you asked yourself how much that airport has generated to the country over the years?

So it should be left for decay? What exactly is your logic?

don't u read what he wrote. Buhari also upgraded it during his time. Why wasting tax payers money when they are hungry.

Exousiang01:
Everything is not politics and by now these people with low EQ playing opposition should know that.

How can you say upgrading the busiest airport in Nigeria is a misplaced priority?

There are better ways to say you hate Nigeria

Will the ADC swear that they don't know that the international airport is different from the two locals there?
The MM1, MM2 and International, if Buharis built a new terminal at the international wing how does that help the two locals wings?
Unfortunately their gullible followers who knows nothing will jump on this.

Maybe they shouldnt have use the word " misplaced" .... but you will agree with our health and academic institution are more dilapitated than the Airport of concern
the standard of the airport has no effect on patronage .. if dem like let dem put gold from entrance to run way ... that is not what brings investor, naa person wey get reason to fly go fly by way
No tourist flies into a country cos of airport beauty ... but imagine a standard renovations of our hospitals and public university ... please undermine the boost on patronage and quality of service rendered

What was the upgrade like? Was it this comprehensive? Did it include construction of new roads and a flyover bridge? Did include bringing down the entire roofing system and all that the minister explained

princeade86:
don't u read what he wrote. Buhari also upgraded it during his time. Why wasting tax payers money when they are hungry.

Ofunaofu:
https://punchng.com/n712bn-lagos-airport-upgrade-misplaced-priority-adc/

So just like Peter Obi, the whole ADC gang are full of people with low ideas. Instead of asking for the design of the airport they are mentioning public university upgrades. Universities are now getting more funding through nelfund loan, yes not enough but for an economy to even grow you need a proper airport to enhance businesses. I'm tired of these dumb and useless opposition. They think like Obi too much. No big bold ideas at all just stupid talks.

Claiming not all Nigerians have business at the airport is very stupid and insane, is it all Nigerians that also studied in public universities..??

Ikaeniyan0:
ADC is just as confuse as the fraud from Agulu. The MMA is in a bad condition

They (apc) and other wicked beings positioned as rulers of this land are robbing Nigerians like real robbers. Here you are, not understanding that agulu that you keep mentioning is not the problem but your failure to see your real enemy.

The same airport buhari spent huge amount on, is now being rebudget for another round of looting. They couldn't spend 700billion on education nation wide, but on one airport.

This is exactly why these recycled old politicians should be shut out of government forever.

1: we now know why the airport was not maintained during their period and why there was no infrastructure during their reign. we also know going by what they are saying they won’t invest in infrastructure.

2: how many times do you want approval. The parliament has already approved the renewed hope infrastructure fund. The airport is coming out of the renewed hope infrastructure fund.

I know he is happy he has a new job anfter being ignored by Saraki and Abdulrahman but let ignorance not kill Mr Bolaji Abdulahi.

SmartPolician:
It's not a misplaced priority. MMA is the major entry point into Nigeria and deserves a decent look. The problem here is that these looters have massively inflated the project cost for their selfish interests.

I agree with ADC on this. The new terminal 2 is sufficient and under utilised. Several times I have flown from there, how many planes to you see on ground, either about to board or deboard passengers? In most cases, the gates are empty. Though that sometimes is because the larger places have to still use the old E and D wings of T1. But all that should be done is whatever is necessary to get the Terminal 2 gates to accept wide body planes and we will be fine for now.

Which one is better.....Nigeria's busiest Airport rebuild at $400 million and railway from Kano to Niger Republic at $2 billion?

Olori bu ni awon people yi.

Is this not better than stealing the money and taking it to Dubai.

Na Sango go strike una patapata

Kukutente23:
It's a misplaced priority
MSF just told us that there are 400k children suffering from malnutrition in Nigeria. Some have died overnight as we type
Yet our problem is how beautiful or not our entry to hell-hole looks like
Neither the Minister for Humanitarian, Health or Women Affairs have come out to say anything about that shocking report nor have the FG approved any sum to save those 400k children's lives
Meanwhile that report was given by an international NGO not any govt parastatal!!

Stop this rubbish. Are these children not from States? Does these states not have governors? What are these governors doing? That's the question we should be asking.

Enice:
Stop this rubbish. Are these children not from States? Does these states not have governors?

You need to be properly guided
You guys quickly run to the states when the govt is called out
The MSF that released the report is not sponsored by state govs of other countries but federal govts of those countries. If their citizens and govts think like you, those kids will be long dead.
Food security is a primary responsibility of the FG. It is an integral part of national security.
The constitution does not make any distinction when it says the security and welfare of people shall be the primary duty of GOVERNMENT
Stop making excuses for failed leaders

Apel147:
What was the upgrade like? Was it this comprehensive? Did it include construction of new roads and a flyover bridge? Did include bringing down the entire roofing system and all that the minister explained

so they don't know this before they wasted tax payers money or what?

Image123:
Judas, the poor now dey finish. No government in the world drops every other thing to take care of the poor. The two can be done together. When is there ever going to be a right time for anything in your eyes? How much revenue does mmia generate? Do you think at all or just made up to oppose everything?

Herod. The poor deserve to be taken as a priority as responsible govts do all over the world. Even the MSF that's taking care of these poor kids in your doormat are sponsored by govts from other parts of the world.
I'm sure you're among the crowd crying about starvation in Gaza every other day. When are you going to tell Hamas to reconstruct Gaza airport since things can be done together or this your homily only works for Nigeria your fatherland where it is OK for kids to starve to death in our homes as long as we look good to outsiders?
Have a soul
Have some shame!!

Kukutente23:
You need to be properly guided
You guys quickly run to the states when the govt is called out
The MSF that released the report is not sponsored by state govs of other countries but federal govts of those countries. If their citizens and govts think like you, those kids will be long dead.
Food security is a primary responsibility of the FG. It is an integral part of national security.
The constitution does not make any distinction when it says the security and welfare of people shall be the primary duty of GOVERNMENT
Stop making excuses for failed leaders

Like I said earlier, stop this rubbish. Any international report will refer to Nigeria as a country. That doesn't mean it's the FG that's responsible. What is the state governor doing? Primary health care, primary and secondary education, Child care are all state responsibility.

Kukutente23:
So according to you, Keyamo is upgrading the local wing of the airport abi?

The pictures you have been seeing are from the local wing.
You obviously have never been to the airport.
Una go dey jump night bus still dey put mouth for airport matter.
The same way ADC claims that Buhari renovation the International wing as it local travelers use international wing.
They know people like you exist that is why they throw out things like this.

I remember when someone posted the devastating condition of the airport, someone made a comment that that they should make a case out of it because the government will use it as an opportunity to syphon money.....I knw this will eventually...more than half a trillion to rehabilitate an existing airport...how much they won use build another one sef 😂😆

Exousiang01:
The pictures you have been seeing are from the local wing.
You obviously have never been to the airport.
Una go dey jump night bus still dey put mouth for airport matter.
The same way ADC claims that Buhari renovation the International wing as it local travelers use international wing.
They know people like you exist that is why they throw out things like this.

Lol
See Keyamo's words below
You just played yourself in a bid to form sabi
Oga wey dey sleep airport
See how you exposed your ignorance

All these one na obidient critical wailins😁 we know that your hypocrisy wouldn't be asking these if he was president!

No wonder he said coastal road was not necessary! Like principal like urchins😁

Good morning fellow Nigeria!

princeade86:
so they don't know this before they wasted tax payers money or what?

Eraddray:
I remember when someone posted the devastating condition of the airport, someone made a comment that that they should make a case out of it because the government will use it as an opportunity to syphon money.....I knw this will eventually...more than half a trillion to rehabilitate an existing airport...how much they won use build another one sef 😂😆

Bear in mind, this is almost akin to a complete rebuild of the old terminal and it includes a rather signifciant road scope as well!

Mind you, some new airports run into $billions. Google and YouTube is your friend. Its just a matter of size, scope and scale!

Kukutente23:
Lol
See Keyamo's words below
You just played yourself in a bid to form sabi
Oga wey dey sleep airport
See how you exposed your ignorance

All these children.
Buhari built a new wing. At the international airport.
The old wing was not renovated.
Just stick to your night bus

This Bolaji Abdulahi is an ignorant. Hadi Sirika, the past minister of aviation is one of ADC member, why can he ask him how much he spent in repeating the airport that has turned to eyesore today. The same man that repainted airplane and from Ethiopia and named it Nigeria Air. I wonder which Nigeria they want to rescue.

Is the Lagos Airport not generating enough revenue to maintain itself?

Exousiang01:
All these children.
Buhari built a new wing. At the international airport.
The old wing was not renovated.
Just stick to your night bus

I guess I'm in the same night bus with Keyamo

Ignorance is bliss especially when worn as a shining armour

What we need to know from ADC
Will they bring back subsidy
Will they cancel floating of the Naira
Will they cancel coastal road
Will they cancel student loans
Will they enforce the antigrazing laws enacted by different states
Will they support RUGA
Will they bring in state police
What is their position on water resources law
What is their position on resource control
Do they believe the North and south should have the same number of states
Should governors control Local government area funds


They keep talking about personalities

Let them tell Nigerians the answers to these questions

theredaddy:
Maybe they shouldnt have use the word " misplaced" .... but you will agree with our health and academic institution are more dilapitated than the Airport of concern
the standard of the airport has no effect on patronage .. if dem like let dem put gold from entrance to run way ... that is not what brings investor, naa person wey get reason to fly go fly by way
No tourist flies into a country cos of airport beauty ... but imagine a standard renovations of our hospitals and public university ... please undermine the boost on patronage and quality of service rendered

Health and education are important but they can and are and
have been funded to some degree by money from that airport over the years

What is lacking is missing is transparency

The airport needs to be managed in a sustainable way over the years there has been little information about the revenue but when it is time to invest there is noise

We don't hear the same thing if it is LNG or oil investment
Are those oil investments more profitable than this airport

Is NNPC more profitable or the refineries
AS A BUSINESSES THAT AIRPORT CAN BE AT PAR WITH DANGOTE REFINERY In terms of value and revenue
That is the appropriate comparison not health and education

because this is just another business like a refinery power plant sea port or oil field

It is clear you do not grasp the issues

It is not about beauty. AT ALL

It is about standards and functionality I.e. fitness for purpose
There are international inspection standards especially for security in the 21st century

The airport is not just the terminal
More important are the runways and taxi infrastructure what is the current capacity in terms of runway and air traffic control

How many aircraft can fly in and out every hour for example at Heathrow it is 1.33 aircraft every minute
that is down to specific traffic control infrastructure not beauty of the terminal as well as the runway and taxi infrastructure

Kukutente23:
Herod. The poor deserve to be taken as a priority as responsible govts do all over the world. Even the MSF that's taking care of these poor kids in your doormat are sponsored by govts from other parts of the world.
I'm sure you're among the crowd crying about starvation in Gaza every other day. When are you going to tell Hamas to reconstruct Gaza airport since things can be done together or this your homily only works for Nigeria your fatherland where it is OK for kids to starve to death in our homes as long as we look good to outsiders?
Have a soul
Have some shame!!

Like i clearly said but you refuse to READ. The two can be done together. Don't be allergic to good news.
Answer simple questions.
(a) When is there ever going to be a right time for anything in your eyes?
(b)How much revenue does mmia generate?
(c) Do you think at all or just made up to oppose everything?

The Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development Fund is for INFRASTRUCTURE. There are ministries and bodies for catering for poor people, malnutrition and building hospitals.Ministry for humanitarian affairs budgeted ₦130 billion as a general intervention fund across poverty and humanitarian programs, for just this year alone. The Ministry of Health’s 2024 approved capital budget was ₦233.66 billion, but only ₦26.55 billion (15%) was ever released, due to cash flow constraints and policy procedures.
The RHIDF aims to avoid such logjam that has bedevilled the country for DECADES. MMIA was built in 1979, it wasn't built to accomodate what it takes today. Planned for about 200,000 annual passengers, today it handles millions, far beyond original design and severely outdated if you've been there before. In this current plan, there will be a Complete structural overhaul of Terminal 1, expansion of Terminal 2, including a new apron, aircraft parking, access bridges and new ring roads, including enhanced security infrastructure. You have a fundamental right not to use it when it is completed.

According to data, total revenue generation for 2024:
Murtala Muhammed International Airport (Lagos)
→ Generated ₦256.067 billion (67% of total)

Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (Abuja)
→ Generated ₦81.220 billion (21.3%)

Mallam Aminu Kano Int’l Airport (Kano)
→ Generated ₦20.241 billion (5.3%)

Port Harcourt International Airport
→ Generated ₦10.764 billion (2.8%)

Kukutente23:
It's a misplaced priority
MSF just told us that there are 400k children suffering from malnutrition in Nigeria. Some have died overnight as we type
Yet our problem is how beautiful or not our entry to hell-hole looks like
Neither the Minister for Humanitarian, Health or Women Affairs have come out to say anything about that shocking report nor have the FG approved any sum to save those 400k children's lives
Meanwhile that report was given by an international NGO not any govt parastatal!!

Where is the evidence

It is a misplaced priority. It is not a misplaced priority

Kukutente23:
It's a misplaced priority
MSF just told us that there are 400k children suffering from malnutrition in Nigeria. Some have died overnight as we type
Yet our problem is how beautiful or not our entry to hell-hole looks like
Neither the Minister for Humanitarian, Health or Women Affairs have come out to say anything about that shocking report nor have the FG approved any sum to save those 400k children's lives
Meanwhile that report was given by an international NGO not any govt parastatal!!

It is a misplaced priority. It is not a misplaced priority

Kukutente23:
It's a misplaced priority
MSF just told us that there are 400k children suffering from malnutrition in Nigeria. Some have died overnight as we type
Yet our problem is how beautiful or not our entry to hell-hole looks like
Neither the Minister for Humanitarian, Health or Women Affairs have come out to say anything about that shocking report nor have the FG approved any sum to save those 400k children's lives
Meanwhile that report was given by an international NGO not any govt parastatal!!

Where are the 400k children?

Is it the government that birthed them
They will die sadly if their parents cannot feed them. And we will move on
That is a consequence of overpopulation


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COMPAQ:
I agree with ADC on this. The new terminal 2 is sufficient and under utilised. Several times I have flown from there, how many planes to you see on ground, either about to board or deboard passengers? In most cases, the gates are empty. Though that sometimes is because the larger places have to still use the old E and D wings of T1. But all that should be done is whatever is necessary to get the Terminal 2 gates to accept wide body planes and we will be fine for now.

Airport is not about terminal alone it is the runways and taxi space for aircraft that determine its capacity e.g every 45 seconds an aircraft takes off at Heathrow that is 1300 a day

That is not how Heathrow started they grew into it
It needs infrastructure that passengers do not see at the terminals

Anyone talking about terminal has little understanding

That airport has a lot of land and an original masterplan

That new Buhari terminal should not be at that location and it violates the original masterplan

The land at that airport is huge and they now need to grow into that land with more runways taxi routes and modern air traffic control infrastructure.
Ideally that airport should have its own power source and there should be more than one access road

What I see happening is that if they do not concession the Lekki Airport will become the main airport in Lagos state especially for those on the Island and other states close to the coastal road

Image123:
Like i clearly said but you refuse to READ. The two can be done together. Don't be allergic to good news.
Answer simple questions.
(a) When is there ever going to be a right time for anything in your eyes?
(b)How much revenue does mmia generate?
(c) Do you think at all or just made up to oppose everything?

What you have here is a conjecture. The two CAN be done together is different from the two ARE being tackled together
All over the world, human emergencies especially involving children usually take the top of the pyramid except of course in black hearts of black Africans who think looking good to visitors has same importance as saving dying kidds. Like I said, same hypocrites are on the internet day and night wailing about Gaza.

The right time to do anything is when it ought to be done.
You mean generating revenue is more important than saving the lives of 400k kids? This is alarming
I am a thinking rational, human who realises that human life is sacred, more sacred than buildings and ports. Are you?