₦airaland Forum

OMANBALA1:
Peter Obi tried to draw traffic there but it's strategically in the wrong place. The only airport that will be viable in the East is Porthacourt and Umuleri.

You are right but, if the Owerri airport attains full international recognition, I trust more Igbos to make use of it than the airport in Port Harcourt. The Sam Mbakwe airport Owerri is even more viable than the AIIA airport and once it fully becomes a recognized International cargo airport, more airlines will begin to fly into Owerri unlike what we have in Enugu. Owerri airport is currently the busiest airport in the east and if not that Enugu is the eastern capital, I would have advocated for Ndigbo to focus more on the Owerri airport which is clearly more viable than the AIIA airport. An airport in Anambra is also not bad and is clearly more viable than the AIIA airport in all ramifications knowing fully well that Anambra is the commercial capital of the east and only second to Lagos in Nigeria.

Every state are now developing their aviation sector. Even Ebonyi is building an international airport that will eventually serve Enugu and Ebonyi states in future. There's nothing like capital of SE, every state now have their capitals and governments.

nnamdijonathan:
You are right but, if the Owerri airport attains full international recognition, I trust more Igbos to make use of it than the airport in Port Harcourt. The Sam Mbakwe airport Owerri is even more viable than the AIIA airport and once it fully becomes a recognized International cargo airport, more airlines will begin to fly into Owerri unlike what we have in Enugu. Owerri airport is currently the busiest airport in the east and if not that Enugu is the eastern capital, I would have advocated for Ndigbo to focus more on the Owerri airport which is clearly more viable than the AIIA airport. An airport in Anambra is also not bad and is clearly more viable than the AIIA airport in all ramifications knowing fully well that Anambra is the commercial capital of the east and only second to Lagos in Nigeria.

LLobiorah:
Julius Malema and Omanbala; I really understand the fact that you cherish and adore your homefront, i:e being 'anambra-centric', is not a bad idea, after all charity begins at home. However, AIIA has come to stay at enugu; we Igbos generally are tired of the seeming hatred and pushovers brought in by federal government and Amaechi to use ph airport. And it would be idiocy and nonsensical, if you continue with this divisiveness of 'anambra first, before igbo', in this pan igbo forum.
That mentality should bring out its ugly brow in Nigeria only, not in southeast. Unu Anugo!!

Honestly I strongly oppose the use of the Port Harcourt airport by Ndigbo. The problem facing AIIA is the main reason why Ndigbo should try to own most of their important infrastructure currently been handled by the FG by any means possible, from airport to river port etc and all the money generated from them should be for our states only.

onuebonyi:
Every state are now developing their aviation sector. Even Ebonyi is building an international airport that will eventually serve Enugu and Ebonyi states in future. There's nothing like capital of SE, every state now have their capitals and governments.

Oga they haven't started anything, Nah just mere proposal. No dy talk this anyhow Nah!

nnamdijonathan:
Honestly I strongly oppose the use of the Port Harcourt airport by Ndigbo. The problem facing AIIA is the main reason why Ndigbo should try to own most of their important infrastructure currently been handled by the FG by any means possible, from airport to river port etc and all the money generated from them should be for our states only.

Exactly! Igbos holding the goose that lays the golden eggs, will surely be of a greater benefit to igbos. It's indeed a lofty idea.

Umahi has acquired the site and clearing is ongoing. Once rain subside full construction will commence

LLobiorah:
Oga they haven't started anything, Nah just mere proposal. No dy talk this anyhow Nah!

onuebonyi:
Every state are now developing their aviation sector. Even Ebonyi is building an international airport that will eventually serve Enugu and Ebonyi states in future. There's nothing like capital of SE, every state now have their capitals and governments.

I pray this proposed Ebonyi Airport does not end up like the Calabar, Asaba and Ibadan airports with very low viability and passenger turnouts. Even with the strong businesses in Ibadan and the tourism potentials of calabar, their airports hardly get passengers monthly which is why I'm having the feeling that the Ebonyi airport may be dead on arrival.

nnamdijonathan:
Honestly I strongly oppose the use of the Port Harcourt airport by Ndigbo. The problem facing AIIA is the main reason why Ndigbo should try to own most of their important infrastructure currently been handled by the FG by any means possible, from airport to river port etc and all the money generated from them should be for our states only.

So true!!

Ebonyi international airport will serve Enugu, Ebonyi, Benue and parts of northern Cross River. It will serve as Agricultural Free Trade Zone. It will be so busy.

Asaba airport is equally very busy because it is close to Onitsha and Nnewi. Okowa just finished the upgrade. Because of its nearness to Anambra travellers will be using it pending when Umuleri International Airport is completed.

nnamdijonathan:
I pray this proposed Ebonyi Airport does not end up like the Calabar, Asaba and Ibadan airports with very low viability and passenger turnouts. Even with the strong businesses in Ibadan and the tourism potentials of calabar, their airports hardly get passengers monthly which is why I'm having the feeling that the Ebonyi airport may be dead on arrival.

onuebonyi:
Umahi has acquired the site and clearing is ongoing. Once rain subside full construction will commence

very terrible plan. Umahi may be making a big mistake here, the same mistake Aragbeshola made in Osun.

It is not a mistake but a futuristic and strategic investment

nnamdijonathan:
very terrible plan. Umahi may be making a big mistake here, the same mistake Aragbeshola made in Osun.

onuebonyi:
It is not a mistake but a futuristic and strategic investment

Concerning this Ebonyi airport; it would really be a disaster if when completed it doesn't perform to maximum. Chai!! What a waste of money e go be. But on the other hand, if utilized to full maximum, the multiplier effects will be massive.

The bottom line is, we pray and hope for the best.

onuebonyi:
Ebonyi international airport will serve Enugu, Ebonyi, Benue and parts of northern Cross River. It will serve as Agricultural Free Trade Zone. It will be so busy.

Benue is also planing the construction of its own airport, by the way, how many people fly in and out of Benue, Cross river and Ebonyi through other airports?
The 2 Airports ( Enugu and Owerri ) we have in SE now are enough to keep us going, any other airport project is a waste of available funds. Our major concern now should be attracting local and foreign airlines to our available airports. By now our governors should be planing on strengthening our unity by doing the unthinkable like coming together to launch an "Eastern Airline" with at least 5 airplanes, coming together to demand for the taking over of the Onitsha river port to be managed by the 5 SE states and other regional projects. A similar meeting was held last year where the 5 governors of the SE agreed to build one industrial cluster in each state, build a rail line that will connect the 5 states and build a regional power plant in Aba to serve the SE but, only God knows whether they are going to work towards it or not.

Stop yapping rubbish. Every state should have their own airport. You build what you think is good for your state, this is no longer a regional government. All states are now independent, even Umahi said that he will never support regional govt because it breeds marginalisation and I totally agree with him. I support the Ebonyi International airport to serve Enugu and Ebonyi state.

nnamdijonathan:
Benue is also planing the construction of its own airport, by the way, how many people fly in and out of Benue, Cross river and Ebonyi through other airports?
The 2 Airports ( Enugu and Owerri ) we have in SE now are enough to keep us going, any other airport project is a waste of available funds. Our major concern now should be attracting local and foreign airlines to our available airports. By now our governors should be planing on strengthening our unity by doing the unthinkable like coming together to launch an "Eastern Airline" with at least 5 airplanes, coming together to demand for the taking over of the Onitsha river port to be managed by the 5 SE states and other regional projects. A similar meeting was held last year where the 5 governors of the SE agreed to build one industrial cluster in each state, build a rail line that will connect the 5 states and build a regional power plant in Aba to serve the SE but, only God knows whether they are going to work towards it or not.

@ezeagu, one of the observation I've made about SE Igbo's is that they are so self-appraising they fail to notice the obvious reality.

So Port Harcourt's Intl Airport built in the 1980's was built solely to service Igbo's travelling oversea for business. What happened to Rivers indigenes, Niger Delta Indigenes and the huge expatriate community in Rivers state.

Sorry to disappoint you but PH Airport doesn't have flights to Malaysia, Indonesia and China.

It is not a waste, it is as futuristic and strategic as the flyovers built in the state. I support Umahi on this, he should build the airport to serve Enugu and Ebonyi states.

LLobiorah:
Concerning this Ebonyi airport; it would really be a disaster if when completed it doesn't perform to maximum. Chai!! What a waste of money e go be. But on the other hand, if utilized to full maximum, the multiplier effects will be massive.

The bottom line is, we pray and hope for the best.

HopeAtHand:
@ezeagu, one of the observation I've made about SE Igbo's is that they are so self-appraising they fail to notice the obvious reality.

So Port Harcourt's Intl Airport built in the 1980's was built solely to service Igbo's travelling oversea for business. What happened to Rivers indigenes, Niger Delta Indigenes and the huge expatriate community in Rivers state.

Sorry to disappoint you but PH Airport doesn't have flights to Malaysia, Indonesia and China.

How many rivers indigenes travel overseas? They are busy in swamps and creeks bunkering or drinking Kaikai


Where is TonyChristopher seff .....you are Ikwere and this is an Igbo thread

Can't you get your confused life out of here ....ezi ihuruho

onuebonyi:
Stop yapping rubbish. Every state should have their own airport. You build what you think is good for your state, this is no longer a regional government. All states are now independent, even Umahi said that he will never support regional govt because it breeds marginalisation and I totally agree with him. I support the Ebonyi International airport to serve Enugu and Ebonyi state.

In USA even counties have airport. .if a stats is up to 4million should have an Airport

onuebonyi:
It is not a waste, it is as futuristic and strategic as the flyovers built in the state. I support Umahi on this, he should build the airport to serve Enugu andis, ebonyi states.

Of course is not a bad idea to think strategic and futuristic, coz it will go a long way in attracting investors and providing jobs for the teeming populace. However, the problem lies on the maintenance culture of Nigerians, which you and I know is abysmally low.
A cursory look into AIIA, Sam Mbakwe and other host of airports that abound within the Ss/Se zone, You wouldn't argue much that maintenance culture is lacking. My point is, it wouldn't be tomfoolery if igbos focus more on developing the existing airports and give it a unique international standard, than building airports here and there. If we can maintain and upgrade the present ones, maybe in the near future, other airports in other locations can spring up.

That is what Ebonyi planned to do, to build a truly worldclass airport that will serve Enugu and Ebonyi states. Since we are all Igbos, there is nothing wrong siting our best airport in Ebonyi to serve at least Enugu and Ebonyi states.

LLobiorah:
Of course is not a bad idea to think strategic and futuristic, coz it will go a long way in attracting investors and providing jobs for the teeming populace. However, the problem lies on the maintenance culture of Nigerians, which you and I know is abysmally low.
A cursory look into AIIA, Sam Mbakwe and other host of airports that abound within the Ss/Se zone, You wouldn't argue much that maintenance culture is lacking. My point is, it wouldn't be tomfoolery if igbos focus more on developing the existing airports and give it a unique international standard, than building airports here and there. If we can maintain and upgrade the present ones, maybe in the near future, other airports in other locations can spring up.

iLoveAnambra:
Just imagine u have Awka state and Onitsha state...

Onitsha people or Awka will be Calling each other first class or second class..

what is Enugu and what is Anambra..

no river divide Anambra and Imo..

is only a useless fowl will insult his or her fellow Igbo because he is from Another Igbo state...

i am from Ogidi but i dont boast with Chinua Achebe name..

in my school nobody know my state
i represent the whole Igboland..
a core Igbo boy..

my ijaw and Ogoni folks call me Ndi Igbo

God will always bless Pro Igbo and Lovers of Igboland..

Nwa- muziri amuzi k'ibu nwannem. Daalu

onuebonyi:
Every state are now developing their aviation sector. Even Ebonyi is building an international airport that will eventually serve Enugu and Ebonyi states in future. There's nothing like capital of SE, every state now have their capitals and governments.

You are right. And by the time the Anambra international airport comes on board too, Enugu airport will not be able to survive it.

IkpuMmadu:
In USA even counties have airport. .if a stats is up to 4million should have an Airport

Having airports is not a bad idea, the only problem is when the airport is not viable enough to generate money for its maintainance and staff welfare. We are talking about the SE of Nigeria here not USA and its counties. Onuebonyi is more concerned about diverting air traffic away from AIIA to any other airport possible which will definitely fail.

NonsoWow:
You are right. And by the time the Anambra international airport comes on board too, Enugu airport will not be able to survive it.

why are you always praying for the downfall of AIIA?

Stop talking nonsense. How can you say that I am more concerned about diverting traffic at Enugu state airport? Was there traffic there before? If you say that I am trying to divert traffic from PH international airport it will be very understandable because there is an existing air traffic there.

Like as I said before, every state should have their own airport, there is nothing different between motor park, jetty, seaport and airport, they are all modes of transportation. I support Ebonyi to develop an International airport that will in time serve as an air hub for Enugu and Ebonyi states and also parts of Benue and Cross River states.

nnamdijonathan:
Having airports is not a bad idea, the only problem is when the airport is not viable enough to generate money for its maintainance and staff welfare. We are talking about the SE of Nigeria here not USA and its counties. Onuebonyi is more concerned about diverting air traffic away from AIIA to any other airport possible which will definitely fail.

IkpuMmadu:
How many rivers indigenes travel overseas? They are busy in swamps and creeks bunkering or drinking Kaikai


Where is TonyChristopher seff .....you are Ikwere and this is an Igbo thread

Can't you get your confused life out of here ....ezi ihuruho

How many of them even leave Rivers state for other parts of Nigeria let alone for abroad?

OMANBALA1:
Ndi Igbo are too emotional and sentimental...effects of war. An international airport should be in tbe commercial center of South East, Anambra. Enugu is a retirement and civil servants state.

AIIA will stand and thrive, nothing you or any one says will change that.
SE deserves as much international airport as possible, so the presence of AIIA will not stop another in Anambra.
What's more important is that no Igbo person abandone our airports for those in Ijaw-Ikwerre land.
Netherlands is smaller than Igboland and has less population, yet have five international airports.

The plan is to divert all our people patronizing Abuja, Lagos and PH airports in their journey in and out-of Igboland to Igbo airports.

If we don't divert our traffic to Igboland first and foremost, then it doesn't matter how much airports we build.

Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra, Imo will all have airport.
The main aim is to make sure no Igbo man uses Airport outside SE when coming to Igboland from abroad.
This also mean that PH international airport can only serve Ijaw and Bini people and not Ndiigbo, as we are too big a people to be wagged by a minority group like Ijaw-Ikwerres.
So those impostors here can cry all the want, but it changes nothing. Igbo traffic must be diverted away from Ph to international airports in Alaigbo. Once we do this, the traffic in AIIA will be too much that the proposed airports in Anambra, Ebonyi and other parts of Igboland will suddenly become a necessity.

So, first thing first. Ph international airport must be made to serve SS people for whom it was built for.
Ndiigbo already have one International airport in Enugu, and several other ones are in the pipeline.

IkpuMmadu:
How many rivers indigenes travel overseas? They are busy in swamps and creeks bunkering or drinking Kaikai


Where is TonyChristopher seff .....you are Ikwere and this is an Igbo thread

Can't you get your confused life out of here ....ezi ihuruho

I wouldn't engage in fits of insults with you. You can air your opinion clearly without resorting to invectives.

Port Harcourt and every city everywhere in the world usually build airports as a medium of transportation especially people traversing long distances.

Oil was found in Oloibiri in Bayelsa(formerly in Rivers) and Port Harcourt quickly established as an oil city brimming with expatriates. Most of them landed at Lagos Airport and made way by road to PH while some came by ship.

LLobiorah:
Oga they haven't started anything, Nah just mere proposal. No dy talk this anyhow Nah!

The person you are replying is not even Igbo.
Check his post history. He hates Ebonyi people like he hates other Igbos.
He is only chanting Ebonyi airport Up and down here, because he thinks he is playing a divide and conquer tactics. If only he knows how transparent his games are, he would stop trying and give up already.

HopeAtHand:
I wouldn't engage in fits of insults with you. You can air your opinion clearly without resorting to invectives.

Port Harcourt and every city everywhere in the world usually build airports as a medium of transportation especially people traversing long distances.

Oil was found in Oloibiri in Bayelsa(formerly in Rivers) and Port Harcourt quickly established as an oil city brimming with expatriates. Most of them landed at Lagos Airport and made way by road to PH while some came by ship.

But this stupid ikwerre man what are you doing here...this is an Igbo thread....run along or craw back to your swamps

Shut up! Port Harcourt was established be sure of coal in Enugu ..the Europeans want to use the city to export coal and not your oil ...shut up...the shell camp Owerri was even the major office of oil majors before PH

Ikwerre boy go to school ...mba you won't ..drinking ogogoro up and down
.you are not Igbo ...please leave here