₦airaland Forum

Tequilah:
Switzerland's case is different o. It has 3 ports on the banks of the Rhine river which connects it directly to the sea. Its own river is bigger than all the rivers in our own side of Nigeria.

HAHAHA... CHECK MALAWI IS LANDLOCKED, BUT THEN, SHE HAS UP TO TWO OR THREE SEA PORT.

MaziOmenuko:
There's no need for long grammer:

Federal Ocean Terminal (FOC), Onne.

Federal Lighter Terminal (FLT), Onne.

Let's hear the name of the port in port Harcourt and its address.

Port Harcourt Wharf, Wharf Road (off Azikiwe Road), Diobu, Port Harcourt. If you want, I can even give you a satellite image.

ezeaguisforever:
Are kidding yourself? And you're here arguing about how Igboland is landlocked, a country which has the Urashi, Imo, New Kalabar, and Cross River, not even talking about the Niger and you're now making a case for one of the most well known land locked countries in the world because of the Rhine?

Please tell us what is the width and depth of each of the rivers you mentioned here (i.e Orashi, Imo, etc), and then compare it with the depth/draft and width of the Rhine. You will see that they are not in the same category. Thank you and God bless.

ezeaguisforever:
Are kidding yourself? And you're here arguing about how Igboland is landlocked, a country which has the Urashi, Imo, New Kalabar, and Cross River, not even talking about the Niger and you're now making a case for one of the most well known land locked countries in the world because of the Rhine?

Cross river is not part of Biafra. Your Biafra is limited to SE and Anioma part of Delta

Tell me how a ship coming from outside would get to Biafra without passing through parts of Nigerian land

ezeaguisforever:
Not to mention some of these countries use navigable rivers to alleviate their 'lockedness'.

I GUESS THESE GUYS WRITING ALL THESE HAVE POOR EDUCATION.

kernel504:
THESE COUNTRIES ARE LANDLOCKED. WHY ARE YORUBAS CONCERNED ABOUT US?

Swaziland
Switzerland
Hungary
Armenia
Austria

None of these countries is completely bounded by an unfriendly single nation hence they use their ports.

MaziOmenuko:
That some branches of the sea passed thru igboland doesn't mean Igbo land isn't landlocked. Those minor inflowing waters can't sustain a ship to sail in; at most a boat but not a ship. Shallow waters are good for fishing and sand-quarring, that's the only economic activity it can support.

Hope you did geography at school.

Don't you know what dredging means?

sleekdot:
Cross river is not part of Biafra. Your Biafra is limited to SE and Anioma part of Delta

Tell me how a ship coming from outside would get to Biafra without passing through parts of Nigerian land

They will get to Port Harcourt or or any ports on Igbo lands on the Cross River, on either side, Imo, Niger, or Urashi by going through water surrounded by mangrove or more water.

ezeaguisforever:
1. Land
2. Cross River and Abi local government,
3. Land
4. Rivers, estuaries and mangroves that lead into the Atlantic.

Wow, so those Rivers and Estuaries will move containers via ships to shore right?

Have u ever heard of the word HINTERLAND?
Thats the right word to be used.

sleekdot:
any of the coastal states. ARe you being thick deliberately.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3163309_igboland_pngfb16603cda4901152cfcdb014d7eebaa

The blue is the ocean, the lines drawn for Biafra is not touching the ocean at any point

Why you dey lie like this... Apart from the island.. Water passed through those island and touched Igbo land at specific places even looking at that map.

Mynd44:
Sure, I believe you

Ok

unite4real:
Wow, so those Rivers and Estuaries will move containers via ships to shore right?

Have u ever heard of the word HINTERLAND?
Thats the right word to be used.

You still haven't figured out why there are no coastal ports in Nigeria, have you? If you have then please relay the information.

unite4real:
Wow, so those Rivers and Estuaries will move containers via ships to shore right?

Have u ever heard of the word HINTERLAND?
Thats the right word to be used.

Maybe they do not know the difference between an estuary, a river bank and a sea port.

AfricanFinest:
Don't you know what dredging means?

Do you know what dredging mean?

Mynd44:
None of these countries is completely bounded by an unfriendly single nation hence they use their ports.

DO YOU THINK RIVER NIGER IS SOLELY NIGERIA?

I WISH I CAN UPLOAD THE RIVER MAP FROM AFIKPO TO AFONO TO CALABAR INTO GULF OF GUINEA

Agbaletu:
This is the funniest post i have read today.
Going by the map above, I think you wanted to say "they are stupid" they should have occupied the whole land and not stopped at the point the map clearly shown.

You misunderstood me.
What am trying to say is that...
Our ancestors are not that foolish to settle in a place when there is no feel of water sea...
Looking at map... You will see as water from the sea passed through the island and touch the Igbo land at some places...
And the water can also be dredged at some places where bigger ships might need to pass..

Pls my ancestors are not stupid... You chop craze for suggesting that they are stupid??

Tequilah:
Please tell us what is the width and depth of each of the rivers you mentioned here (i.e Orashi, Imo, etc), and then compare it with the depth/draft and width of the Rhine. You will see that they are not in the same category. Thank you and God bless.

You mean the depth of the Imo or New Kalabar which already have wharfs sited on them and take ships to a great extent and only need a bit of dredging? Or the Niger? I don't know. I'll leave that to your investigations. Because at the end of the day you know this your questioning is irrelevant and bringing up the Rhine collapsed your entire argument.

The bloody Rhine that's hundreds of miles between the North Sea and Switzerland and that actually starts in Switzerland vs the Imo and New Kalabar that are on mangroves and 20 miles from the coast and the ports of Igboland, not including coastal areas that are actually Igbo-speaking/have Igbo heritage like Opobo?

You should now laugh at yourself.

AfricanFinest:
Don't you know what dredging means?

Are you asking the person who argued that there is no port in Port Harcourt?

some people will die (of high bp not bullet) because of this Biafra issue.
i am sorry

Mynd44:
Do you know what dredging mean?

Mod stop patronizing me this it...
I know what am saying here...

Dredging is an excavation activity usually carried out underwater, in shallow seas or freshwater areas with the purpose of gathering up bottom sediments and disposing of them at a different location. This technique is often used to keep waterways navigable.

Another definition that shows is not restricted to sea. Rivers and lakes can be dredged too also for easy navigation.

Dredging is the removal of sediments and debris from the bottom of lakes, rivers, harbors, and other water bodies.

Mynd44:
None of these countries is completely bounded by an unfriendly single nation hence they use their ports.

And when ports are built on the Urashi, Cross River, Imo, etc, etc. How will this be relevant?

kernel504:
DO YOU THINK RIVER NIGER IS SOLELY NIGERIA?

Of. Course not. Which is why we have to continually negotiate with the countries up river so they dont dam it but that does not relate to this discourse.

ezeaguisforever:
nwanlecha bia le ndi agho. Ochi!

Hehehehe! Kele wụ nke ndị oyibo kpọga desperation. Ị ma na ị pịaala ha gwogwo.

ezeaguisforever:
Are you asking the person who argued that there is no port in Port Harcourt?

Mehn, I just dey reason the matter...
At a point I was like.... Do I know what I am saying again?
These people's plan to confuse me no go work oo.

AfricanFinest:
You misunderstood me.
What am trying to say is that...
Our ancestors are not that foolish to settle in a place when there is no feel of water sea...
Looking at map... You will see as water from the sea passed through the island and touch the Igbo land at some places...
And the water can also be dredged at some places where bigger ships might need to pass..

Pls my ancestors are not stupid... You chop craze for suggesting that they are stupid??

These ships will have to pass through Nigerian territory. You will need permission to do that and if they don't give it, sorry.

ezeaguisforever:
You mean the depth of the Imo or New Kalabar which already have wharfs sited on them and take ships to a great extent and only need a bit of dredging? Or the Niger? I don't know. I'll leave that to your investigations. Because at the end of the day you know this your questioning is irrelevant and bringing up the Rhine collapsed your entire argument.

The bloody Rhine that's hundreds of miles between the North Sea and Switzerland and that actually starts in Switzerland vs the Imo and New Kalabar that are on mangroves and 20 miles from the coast and the ports of Igboland, not including coastal areas that are actually Igbo-speaking/have Igbo heritage like Opobo?

You should now laugh at yourself.

HOW COME YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAME PEOPLE YOU WANT OUT OF YOUR LAND?

No more replies from me. Y'all are about to go tribal

ezeaguisforever:
You still haven't figured out why there are no coastal ports in Nigeria, have you? If you have then please relay the information.

you can only talk of a coastal port when the coast is part of your region. For example, Niger republic has Nigeria on its south. Now Nigeria has shorlines and this does not mean that Niger can now claim that they can create coastal port from that. Once you are in the hinterland, you dont talk about the sea port.

find picture of Coastal ports attached. The igboland can only dream of this. It can never happen

Mynd44:
These ships will have to pass through Nigerian territory. You will need permission to do that and if they don't give it, sorry.

You honestly believe 20 miles of mangrove and wide rivers will be blocked by Nigeria and supported by the international community?

unite4real:
you can only talk of a coastal port when the coast is part of your region. For example, Niger republic has Nigeria on its south. Now Nigeria has shorlines and this does not mean that Niger can now claim that they can create coastal port from that. Once you are in the hinterland, you dont talk about the sea port.

find picture of Coastal ports attached. The igboland can only dream of this. It can never happen

You still didn't explain why there are no ports today on the Nigerian coastline. I want you to tell us why Nigeria with its amazing coastline doesn't actually use the so called coastline and how Igboland has failed because they are not joining Nigeria on the coast.

Mynd44:
These ships will have to pass through Nigerian territory. You will need permission to do that and if they don't give it, sorry.

Well am talking of Igbo nation here...
The fact here is that Igbo are not landlocked...
Getting permission from government of Nigeria is another issue as presently they are Nigerians.

Lemme clear you now...
Presently igboland is in Nigeria they can use those routes to access the sea no biggie BC is there country.
And If Biafra is restored those places will no more be Nigerian territory but Biafra territory and Igbo land can still get access to the sea BC is there country...
So either ways Igbo land can get access to the sea to which is the main point of argument

In conclusion you will agree with me that finally Igbo land is not landlocked.

kernel504:
HOW COME YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAME PEOPLE YOU WANT OUT OF YOUR LAND?

What are you talking about?