kettykings:

Onne port will be far better, problems of Lagos port congestion are far too many like no Parking spaces for the trucks that carry cargoes to destination, so they park on the road.
There is a railroad from Aba to port Harcourt that will enhance easy evacuation of cargoes to Aba. All rivers government needs to do is to ensure the railroad is up and running

jimyjames:
Good news for we Igbo's gradually the ball is rolling back to our court

Amotekun777:


What court, abeg?

jimyjames:


Eastern courtyard

Amotekun777:


Rubbish!

Saintly01:

Onitsha is another example of a city that is groaning under the weight of decay and government neglect.

lexy2014:


How is this an Igbo issue?

otuekong1:

most Igbo's thrives well outside igboland

deliveryboy:
[s]Port Harcourt is not safe for business, multiple taxation from different agencies, communities levies would be slammed on business every kilometers one moves, cultism and hoodlums have infested the state, these people hate investors with passion.[/s]

jimyjames:


What is wrong with you amotekun vigilante guys , noting last forever Lagos is gradually loosing it

Amotekun777:


Yet, you run commot your village run come Lagos.

NGpatriot:



Lekki Deep Seaport will decongest Apapa port, but it's going to be decongestant by another port in Lagos, not by any other port outside Lagos.

Lagos state saw this coming hence initiating another deep seaport to take care of that problem and also to service LFTZ and products from the massive Dangote refinery and fertilizer complex.

Btw, why won't shippers and ancillary services shift to the deepest, the largest deep seaport with the best and modern facilities in West Africa?

This is strictly business, not emotions and sentiments.


Lagos is not sleeping on duty.

NGpatriot:
Lagos Free Trade Zone, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos.

NGpatriot:
The usual chest beaters are are always happy and welcoming the wrong things.

This company is not going anywhere and on top of that, Lekki Deep Seaport, the best and the largest in West Africa is only 2 years away.


Lagos is still and shall remain the main Port of call in Nigeria and West Africa .

Even Badagry deep seaport is in the horizon.

Beat chest small small o..

Dedetwo:


Ports in Nigeria are never the charge of governor of a state. Federal government of Nigeria has always being in charge of Nigerian ports. Neither Obasanjo nor Diete-Spiff was in charge of the port in Igweocha.

Racoon:
Decongest the Lagos ports by dredging the others across the nation(Calabar, Onitsha, Warri), all the successive govts have consistently refused to do so because of economic, parochial & regional considerations

redsun:
Lagos is still very much a slum. When i see Lagos on tv in this part world and sometimes, unfortunately with normal people, i do tend to wish the ground will open up and swallow me that I come from a world like that where common sense is not applicable in everyday life. The whole place looks like a piggery and people just go about there businesses like it is normal.

Yesterday there was a documentary on BBC 2 about the unsustainable increase of the world population and Lagos is one of the examples they use to show what happens when people breed without common sense

jimyjames:


My friend I don't live in Lagos, and the reasons Igbo's move to Lagos to do business that much is the lack of functional sea ports in the east but all that is about the change now that ship companies are relocating to the east

Cherez:

Not entirely an Igbo thing.
If you knew what it takes to land a car from abroad and then get driver to drive it down to the eat at almost N60k, you will understand the joy here.
Bros, one can spend as much as N350k on just freight of a 20ft container from Lagos to the east and if there's an accident, the owner loses everything just like that.
If you knew how many eastern traders became poor out of road accident loses, you'll appreciate a river port at Osha or even a seaport at Onne.
Not just for Igbos, but other parts of the country

Amotekun777:


Yet, you run commot your village run come Lagos.

jimyjames:
Good news for we Igbo's gradually the ball is rolling back to our court

Reeefe:


how?? bonny is in rivers state

NGpatriot:



Lekki Deep Seaport will decongest Apapa port, but it's going to be decongestant by another port in Lagos, not by any other port outside Lagos.

Lagos state saw this coming hence initiating another deep seaport to take care of that problem and also to service LFTZ and products from the massive Dangote refinery and fertilizer complex.

Btw, why won't shippers and ancillary services shift to the deepest, the largest deep seaport with the best and modern facilities in West Africa?

This is strictly business, not emotions and sentiments.


Lagos is not sleeping on duty.

Marine54:
Tropical afanjo.. Enemy of progress.......

Alfaab:


Be happy with them.Lagos is not the only port in Nigeria.Love your neighbour as yourself.

kettykings:
I now realize why the md's wife might have been murdered some few weeks ago but does it have any correlation with the decision to port to onne port Harcourt .

Cargo freight from Europe to Lagos ports is higher than from Europe to the Eastern ports, but despite that, Lagos became the official port under the policy of cargo destination since Obasanjo government. The pressure on Lagos ports also led to the explosion and failure of support infrastructure. The limit of unfair policy regime and unfair market control is what we are experiencing now.”

So unfair business policy of Obasanjo government is the reason why igbos have been flooding lagos, people will come online and still blame igbos for flooding Lagos when all the while it was Obasanjo that used unfair business policy to cause it

helinues:


GEJ should have reversed the policy if we are to go by this report

NGpatriot:


Love your neighbor and be happy for Lagos too.