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Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by Blue3k(m): 11:37am On Apr 24, 2017 |
By Henry Umoru Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/04/senate-reps-kick-start-second-runway-abuja-airport/ |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by Blue3k(m): 12:01pm On Apr 24, 2017 |
Please guys think about how crazy this is. Abuja is the 2nd busiest airport in the country. It's the capital airport and used frequently by our president and only has one runway. They been dragging feet since 1995 on this issue. No wonder flights are getting delayed. Where do you land when it gets this busy. How exactly did Yar’Adua administration get to N63 billion naira figure. Project inflation is too crazy. I'm surprised they could be politicians meet in the middle or something. N15 billion and 24 months let them get on it ASAP. This 2017 budget needs to pass. |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by kunlexy1759(m): 12:18pm On Apr 24, 2017 |
Now the NASS is getting some senses. Something that has been long over due... |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by sarrki(m): 12:20pm On Apr 24, 2017 |
No padding again So pass the budget |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by XerXers: 12:25pm On Apr 24, 2017 |
Blue3k: |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by Blue3k(m): 12:33pm On Apr 24, 2017 |
XerXers: Good catch |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by EVarn(m): 12:34pm On Apr 24, 2017 |
Nice development,this is the kind of budgets we want to see.I hope the budget gets 100% implementation. |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by obailala(m): 12:47pm On Apr 24, 2017 |
Blue3k: ”To prevent the type of closure that happened to Abuja Airport recently, which led to loss of huge revenues by the government as well as airlines, the National Assembly has decided to end such haemorrhage and prepare ahead for the future....." ABUJA AIRPORT DOES NOT NEED A NEW RUNWAY! Rather it needs proper maintenance as is dine in reasonable countries of the world. To prevent kind of closure that happened recently at the Abuja airport, we need to imbibe a maintenance culture for once in our lives, not a new extravagant runway in an airport with relatively negligible traffic. Heathrow airport for instance has probably 1000 times more traffic than Nnamdi Azikiwe airport, but heathrow has just 2 runways. With proper air traffic management and good maintenance, 1 runway is more than sufficient for the Abuja airport and that N15billion could be used to fix other international airports in the country dying for attention. Enugu airport still has crater sized potholes, the PH airport still has no buildings. 2 Likes |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by omohayek: 8:54pm On Apr 24, 2017 |
obailala:You're right. Gatwick International is far, far busier than any Nigerian airport, yet it operates as a single-runway airport. The real problem with both the Abuja and Lagos airports is abysmal management, which in both cases would easily be solved by simply selling the airports off to international consortia with express running such facilities. Both Heathrow and Gatwick are privately-owned, so what justification can there be for the Nigerian government to retain ownership of Lagos and Abuja airports? |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by Blue3k(m): 9:10pm On Apr 24, 2017 |
obailala: Agreed on the maintenance culture. That could be done by simply listening to managers who are supposed to be telling president or senate committee on these developments. The might end up running both of the runways into ground. Using the cash on Enugu or Portharcourt would be nice. Portharcourt is tragedy. I just wonder what happened to contract. The started and forgot about it. I personally see nothing wrong havin multiple runways. DFW has multiple but it is much busier. Management core issue. omohayek: Wow at this rate Nigeria will put everything in free market hands. They already do this with some of the Ports. They simply don't take these assets seriously. If you guys ever drive into Uyo airport you pay fee to enter. I notice thiers only 1 lane entering and 3 people in both. They hand us our change no receipt. This how they manage airport in my place. |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by obailala(m): 11:40pm On Apr 24, 2017 |
omohayek:Absolutely no justification bro... The Nigerian government has absolutely no business running anything itself. 1 Like |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by blackpanda: 12:53am On Apr 25, 2017 |
omohayek: Security reasons National pride Constitution, ...need I go on? |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by omohayek: 7:23am On Apr 25, 2017 |
blackpanda:1. I fail to see how our airports could possibly be less secure than they are now, with their staff more concerned with shaking down arrivals for bribes than performing any supposed "security" function. Private operators would waste no time in firing such parasites, and in replacing them with people who actually want to do their jobs. Does any Nigerian airport even come close to the security of the many privately run European ones? 2. As they say, pride goeth before a fall. I would rather have a little less pride and properly functioning, attractive airports, which are places one looks forward to going instead of dreading. The private ownership of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted doesn't seem to have affected British national pride for the worse, especially seeing as Gatwick is actually run by a consortium headed by a Nigerian (Adebayo Ogunlesi). If anything, the state of our airports is a source of shame, not pride: the very first sight so many foreigners get of Nigeria is of chaos, incompetence and rampant corruption, with airport security staff openly asking "Oga, wetin you bring us?" 3. I don't see anything in the constitution that would obstruct selling off the airports, especially seeing as some of the seaports are already in semi-private management. If you know of such legislation, feel free to point it out. |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by agabusta: 7:41am On Apr 25, 2017 |
The senate is supposed to send proposal for the construction to the Ministry of Aviation and Works. It is these ministries that will then award the contract and send the cost to NASS. They are always dabbling into areas beyond their mandate. If the people at the helms don't know their onions, they can even say they want to be the ones to award the contract as they are the ones that put it in the budget. What they should have done is to advice the ministries concerned to send the proposal to the NASS, and they add it to the budget. |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by NOETHNICITY(m): 8:51am On Apr 25, 2017 |
obailala:thought I saw in the news they ve been concessioned. |
Re: Senate, Reps Kick Start Second Runway At Abuja Airport by obailala(m): 10:04am On Apr 25, 2017 |
NOETHNICITY:I think that was only a 'plan' |
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