₦airaland Forum

DiamondsAreFore:
Obi is 100% right.

Nigeria has almost 800 km of coastline, but only one viable deep draft port for our exports and imports.

For a nation of 230 million, this is simply not enough. Smaller countries like the Netherlands which has only about half of Nigeria’s coastal space, has an extensive and well developed port system with several ports that can easily accommodate large draft marine vessels.

Meanwhile Nigeria laments about port congestion every day, but does absolutely NOTHING to resolve the issue.

The ambitious $1 trillion GDP which APC claims that it wants to achieve, will never become a possibility if Nigeria’s port infrastructure is not fully developed to take advantage of our ample coastal space.

IGBOPROMISE1:
We have the highest collection of daft and naive fellas in that south-south/Niger-delta! They’ve been so manipulated, cheated and oppressed by the hegemony controlling Nigeria, even to the point of enabling their oppressors to cheat them and milk their resources to develop other regions! Poverty has been so weaponised in their region that they now see the pathetic 13% derivation and pipeline security contracts adequate recompense for all the exploitation of hydrocarbons in their region and for the attendant oyel pollution that follows! They’ve been conditioned to become lazy and have a sense of entitlement for handouts and largesse dispensed by the same overlords exploiting their resources! They’ve also been conditioned to think their Igbo neighbours are their problem!

pharmagba:
Obi true colour as an ethnic jingoist confirmed.

Jonjam269:
The serial party hopper is busy grandstanding and pushing the false narrative that his region’s underdevelopment is caused by Lagos State’s progress. That’s pure deceit. The truth is, his region is backward because of poor planning, lack of strategy, and zero economic blueprint — the same failures he contributed to as a former Anambra State governor for eight wasted years.

Many nations developed without a seaport, yet he keeps misleading his followers with empty excuses. The Southeast doesn’t even have the natural sea access needed for a seaport. This is nothing but another cheap attempt to divert attention from his miserable record in office and to keep deceiving the gullible, as always.

biaframaster200:
Additionally, the federal government has allocated a specific sum of money to each and every viable ports in the country. ...

Many development projects are underway in Calabar Port, Onne, and Warri; Peter Obi shouldn't have been so narrow-minded in his submission. He is simply lazy and should have done his research before coming on social media to criticize without reason.

valentineuwakwe:
I wonder why this systematic attack on the east just to build all ports in Lagos....imagine badagry n Ogun state will soon have seaports, yet those in other regions are neglected cos they are closer to the south east.
I wish I had taken an offer years ago to join the military, na me for even start the Revolution n would have been more worst than the late General Sani Abacha!

AqualinaXYZ:
Will that Aso Rock white powder inhaler listen?




He wants everything to be in Lagos yet they complain of Lagos congestion




Any day a working seaport comes to south south that’s the end of Lagos revenue

pharmagba:
Obi true colour as an ethnic jingoist confirmed.

lightwind:
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He now operates in a more different moniker after casting himself finish with that his previous moniker.
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DiamondsAreFore:
Obi is 100% right.

Nigeria has almost 800 km of coastline, but only one viable deep draft port for our exports and imports.

For a nation of 230 million, this is simply not enough. Smaller countries like the Netherlands which has only about half of Nigeria’s coastal space, has an extensive and well developed port system with several ports that can easily accommodate large draft marine vessels.

Meanwhile Nigeria laments about port congestion every day, but does absolutely NOTHING to resolve the issue.

The ambitious $1 trillion GDP which APC claims that it wants to achieve, will never become a possibility if Nigeria’s port infrastructure is not fully developed to take advantage of our ample coastal space.

BlackViper:
Peter Obi calls for port diversification beyond Lagos amid $1 billion Apapa and TinCan upgrade



https://nairametrics.com/2025/10/27/peter-obi-calls-for-port-diversification-beyond-lagos-amid-1-billion-apapa-and-tincan-upgrade/

aylipple:
I often get perplexed by this man's penchant for playing to the gallery and when his errors are pointed out, he just moves on like he didn't just commit a blunder.

The $1bn committed for Ports infrastructure upgrades/modernization doesn't just cover Apapa & Tin Can ports only, it includes others such as Calabar, Warri & Port Harcourt.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/2025/10/09/npa-sets-48-month-deadline-for-1bn-apapa-calabar-port-harcourt-ports-reconstruction/

A simple search would've prevented this blunder but "basket mouth" just has to leak.

BlackViper:
Peter Obi calls for port diversification beyond Lagos amid $1 billion Apapa and TinCan upgrade



https://nairametrics.com/2025/10/27/peter-obi-calls-for-port-diversification-beyond-lagos-amid-1-billion-apapa-and-tincan-upgrade/

owobokiri:
How much was mapped out for the other seaports
What percentage goes to lagos amd what percentage goes to Warri or Calabar?

You lump the whole project sum together and start talking about how the whole sum is for all ports? Why not delineate the sums for all the different projects at source?

Same thing Fashola did at the works ministry? Where he will quote so much budgeted funds for his ministry and then appropriate in bulk after passage.., then use the sum solely for his preferred projects., while the rest of the country rusts

aylipple:
The man I quoted falsely claimed only Lagos ports was to gulp the entire $1bn sum and that is what I responded to: he told a lie!

As to what each port gets, if you expect the aforementioned ports to share the sum equally then you're no different from the man who lied that only two ports will share the amount.

However, for sake of discuss, do you expect that Apapa & Tin Can that generate the bulk (at least 80%) of revenue from Nigerian Ports to share the allotted sum equally with the others? And please, don't come with the argument often made by ignorant folks that the other ports were deliberately made redundant to the advantage of Lagos ports and let's even agree without conceding that were the case, how's that Lagos' fault?

owobokiri:
What are you even saying?
We are talking about a sum mapped out to improve infastructures around different ports in the country, and you are telling me that more should go to Lagos ports because the ports there bring in more revenue!?

I thought that the enhancement of infastructures around the ports are being done to improve the abilities of those ports to bring in more revenue? So why concentrate on lagos ports that have the biggest investments ab initio!? Why not build up ports in the South South so they can reach their full potentias like Apapa and Tin Can?

If you are going to improve the abilities of the South South ports to bring in more revenue, you obviously have to make more infastructural investments there. Why the desperation to invest more in different Lagos ports that are basically over contested!?
This was how funds for "reconstruction" were directed at the Lagos area post civil war, when on paper the funds were supposed to be used to reconstruct the war ravaged eastern Nigeria..

It is tribalism, nothing but...

owobokiri:
What are you even saying?
We are talking about a sum mapped out to improve infastructures around different ports in the country, and you are telling me that more should go to Lagos ports because the ports there bring in more revenue!?

owobokiri:
I thought that the enhancement of infastructures around the ports are being done to improve the abilities of those ports to bring in more revenue? So why concentrate on lagos ports that have the biggest investments ab initio!? Why not build up ports in the South South so they can reach their full potentias like Apapa and Tin Can?

owobokiri:
If you are going to improve the abilities of the South South ports to bring in more revenue, you obviously have to make more infastructural investments there. Why the desperation to invest more in different Lagos ports that are basically over contested!?

owobokiri:
This was how funds for "reconstruction" were directed at the Lagos area post civil war, when on paper the funds were supposed to be used to reconstruct the war ravaged eastern Nigeria..

owobokiri:
it is tribalism, nothing but...

Chaolin:
Peter Obi have spoken well and he's right

But the south south who have these corridors don't know the importance of an effective seaport in their domain only to see igbos as there problem
They have representative in govt whom are not fighting for that golden opportunity and their youth don't know anything about...

I pity them on these one Nigerian they choose