1toRtoiSe1:
Wailers can only wail.

Business people will always be business people. You can't tell them where and how to do their business. If they find lagos viable for their corporate affairs, who are you illiterate elders and youths to say otherwise?

Wail on.

agabusta:


Where does it rightly belong?? The most active port in Nigeria are the Lagos ports.

Any sensible business person who wants to build a yard where ships will be serviced and repaired will automatically consider Lagos before any other place. It is a strategic business decision and not mundane ethnic sentimentalism.

Investors consider many things before siting their projects in an area of choice. The govt can only advise them to consider relocating it. They can't force them. And if they do, it will affect foreign investor inflows into the country.

DaGC:
Its funny though that many of the oil agencies are headquartered outside the Niger Delta. We even have a refinery in Kaduna. If the NLNG has been a private ish, I won't complain. But a government agency taking its shipyard away from its base of operations is weird to me.

Udmaster:
Thank God, the South South people are waking up to the cunny lifestyle of the Tribal marked Ewedu eaters.

agabusta:


You are right. But the decision is still that of the investors to make. They are the ones putting their money on the line, about 1.5billion dollars.

And they would have done an extensive risk assessment before making their decision on a location.

With such a magnitude of investment, the govt cannot by fiat dictate a location where they MUST site their project. It will be counter productive.

Govt can only advise.

Symphony007:
bonny gas transport(BGT) the LNG subsidiary responsible for this shipyard has been operating from bonny all this while along with other ships from shell oil terminal and other companies. Bonny island is not a spring chicken in the shipping buisness, it's facilities can rival and beat anything lagos has to offer. An island that has been shipping bonny light crude since the 70's. As I said defending this indefensible is grasping for straws.

chukwudi44:


lol pity indeed!!! The old dulla.rd knows Nigeria would be broke should he dare confront Tompolo.Face it man,these ND youths has Nigerian economy in their hands.Mess with them at your own risk.BTW I didn't threaten war,Asari did.Your questions should be directed to him

Chiaka:
Forget the Investor Bullshit talk! its some Nigerians pushing them to do otherwise.

IzonOwei:
when the oil dries up the rest of nigeria would have to reciprocate the love once showed by the niger deltan by letting us share with them in the proceeds of their mineral/other resources...

so after this long while of bleeding the niger delta dry you think we wont come around to enjoy with the other regions?

agabusta:


You people and your unnecessary conspiracy theories. Why not tell us the people instead of all these whinings.

You better free yourself of imaginary enemies.

It is also the people that armtwisted Dangote into changing his mind in building his refinery from Ondo state to Badagry, Lagos abi.

Or have u seen Ondo peeps shouting fire and brimstone against Dangote?

agabusta:
To many illiterates on this forum. NLNG has consistently informed the public that the project is not theirs but that of the private sector but dem no go hear.

Samsung and Hyundai heavy industries are the main proponents of the project.

tonychristopher:
Bunch of ingrates, what ids wrong with these Niger Deltans especially these creek dudes in Bayelsa, Patani Delta South...for heaven sake one stupid Ijaw man that was our former president did not even do anything meanigful to his people, he wanted to build ship yard or port at Delta but Urhobo, Ijaw and Iteshekiri were dragging who owns the land#



why are these Niger Deltans too petty with ogogoro mentality....is it proximity to water is making them reason like fishes


aplogogy to anioma, efik,Anan and oron the rest Niger delta from itshekiri to ijaw then nembe are just clueless and stupid


with all the trillions dumped there what do they have to show for it


I think they should do the lagoon thing for us ...directed by Oba Akiolu

ePUNK:
i'm from the Niger Delta and seriously when our people stop threatening investors with "shut-down" this or that then maybe we might start attracting serious minded people down here. Do you ever here of such youth restiveness in Lagos? Lagos is always business friendly and as far as i'm concerned Lagos can successfully seceded from this union called Nigeria.

NLNG is even too big - look @ Port Harcourt for instance we do not have malls like shoprite and prestigious hotels like 4points. Even I fully understands the risk anyone will take when setting up a business here - especially when one of the criteria is imposition of labour by host communities regardless of whether they are skilled or not.

NLNG is free to set-up where-ever they choose.

SIMPLE

agabusta:


So u want the business owners to limit the attention of their business to only the oil and gas sector in the Niger Delta abi. What will happen in the future if shipping crude and gas is no longer a viable business.

You guys should stop all this sentimentalism. These people are thorough business people who wants to invest in the billion dollar range. They have done their studies well and concluded the project will be more viable in Lagos. It will be highly counter productive to try and arm twist them.

Are u forgetting that it is only South Africa that has such a big ship yard in Africa. Which means the whole West Africa shipping lanes may resort to using this yard for their repairs and servicing.

Shipping business is not all about oil and gas. Shipping business has been thriving before oil came and will continue to thrive even after oil.

Lagos has been the most viable business hub decades before crude oil came and sorry, it will continue like that.

Kingspin:
That is Lagos for you always taken whatever that should not belong to them and tomorrow they will claim state with highest IGR and employement. In the same vain that Kano and Kaduna warehousing imported goods when the real businessman/importers are men from the South check the distance/routes and our map. Reaping where you did not sow Nigeria biggest problem economical. Infact, if those plunder tribes can they would have naturely relocated all oil wells to Lagos and Kaduna. This is unhealthy capital flight to our national development. And which year will the thieves and the owners be at peace?

1toRtoiSe1:
Wailers can only wail.

Business people will always be business people. You can't tell them where and how to do their business. If they find lagos viable for their corporate affairs, who are you illiterate elders and youths to say otherwise?

Wail on.

omoelesa:
Most commentator on this thread would problaly be the biafrans, wailing and cursing.They will probaly cry more than the bereaved.

Symphony007:
For a company like NLNG which has maintain a very good relationship with their host communities unlike others like shell, this was a stupid decision. Which I can only attribute to Babs omotowa attempt to steer vital NLNG buisness back to his region after ibeneche's outright and sudden relocation to the south.

ePUNK:
i'm from the Niger Delta and seriously when our people stop threatening investors with "shut-down" this or that then maybe we might start attracting serious minded people down here. Do you ever here of such youth restiveness in Lagos? Lagos is always business friendly and as far as i'm concerned Lagos can successfully seceded from this union called Nigeria.

NLNG is even too big - look @ Port Harcourt for instance we do not have malls like shoprite and prestigious hotels like 4points. Even I fully understands the risk anyone will take when setting up a business here - especially when one of the criteria is imposition of labour by host communities regardless of whether they are skilled or not.

NLNG is free to set-up where-ever they choose.

SIMPLE