Nice2023:



How u abuse people's father online is annoying despites the fact that I don't support Tinubu I can never call him a thief just like that.

The way u guys abuse elders online shows u guys are from damaged homes,disrespectful,hate oneself and have no respects for ur parents at all.

If u do,u will never disparage others easily.

Lastly,grow up and stop shaming ur parents online.

helinues:
I bet Kanu did not also learn a thing from the history

Who arrested Ijele? Is Ijele arrest about politics?

Btw, the below thread dispute what you wrote above. We tried but we can't be crying more than the bereaved

https://www.nairaland.com/8038194/freeijele-ijele-arrested

mrsimzu:


Yes, I was asked specific ‘on the job’ type questions and how long I have been working in the industry. I was also allowed some time to talk about my experiences and why I want to leave my current job who are also a major competition. It really felt like an interview to be honest. Call lasted for 26minutes.

Segedinho:

Gbam.


Baba dey eat mango dey hope say d mango go fall from him hand even when he hold am tight...


Men are scum true true.
..

Silentgroper:
That I can attest to .. she go just dey Cho Cho Cho with little or no workings .

Aunty say she help funded some nairaland school fees, till today no proof ..
She was beating her chest saying she would drop 50k if I ever drop pictures of food in the food section .. I did, she change mouth..

She's just all talk and no do ..

. sometimes I wonder if she really who she claims to be ..

Anyways, wetin concern me.

EXCLUSIVE: N53Billion Ebonyi Airport In One Of Nigeria's Poorest States Lies Idle Over A Year After Lavish Inauguration

Speaking recently during his first anniversary in office, Governor Nwifuru announced that his administration had spent N17.3 billion on remedial work on the airport runway.

June 19, 2024, marks the 390th day since the Chuba Okadigbo International Airport in Abakaliki was opened by former President Muhammadu Buhari on May 26, 2023.

Notably, the airport had a soft launch on April 26, 2023, when former Governor David Umahi oversaw the landing of two inaugural Air Peace flights on the airport's runway, ahead of its official inauguration.

The inauguration ceremony was a grand affair, marked by festive splendor and grandeur. In attendance were high-ranking officials from both federal and state governments, as well as esteemed dignitaries from across the nation, all gathered to witness the momentous occasion.

However, despite the fanfare and the billions of naira spent on the airport, it has yet to take off.

During the inauguration, former Ebonyi governor and current Minister of Works Umahi promised that the project would bring prosperity and boost the state's economy. However, nearly a year and a month later, the airport has yet to generate any revenue for the state government, which urgently needs funds to implement its development plans.

To make matters worse, shortly after the inauguration, reports emerged that the airport's runway had developed defects, leading to a boycott by airlines, which have largely avoided landing at the airport.

Besides the runway issues, the airport, which was operating without a functional radar system despite the massive investment of N36 billion in its construction, was eventually closed down for renovations.

This was a surprising turn of events, given the significant funds borrowed to build the airport.

According to the new governor of Ebonyi State, Francis Nwifuru, the Federal Ministry of Aviation has suggested overlaying the concrete runway with asphalt to address the defects, following the state government's unsuccessful attempts to rectify the issues through engineering solutions.

The ministry's recommendation comes after the concrete runway, built using cutting-edge technology, developed problems that couldn't be resolved by the state's efforts.

Although the airport has not seen any commercial air traffic, except for a single, specially arranged flight by the current governor, Nwifuru, the administration has invested an additional N17.3 billion in the airport, bringing the total expenditure to N53 billion. This significant investment has yet to yield any tangible returns, as the airport remains idle.



“A governor called me and we discussed at length on the approval of N13.75 billion for the airport that is deemed to have been completed and handed over,” the governor once said.



“The question that the governor asked me is the question every reasonable Ebonyi man is asking. The truth is that the mindset of those that started the airport is germane; but did we get it right? In the area of runway, we didn’t get it right because the runway is jumping and it is destroying aircraft tyres. Initially, we thought the problem was caused by the expansion joints.



“That’s what we believed initially and we said, okay, let us close all the expansion joints and know why it is jumping but it is still jumping and it has spoiled a lot of aircraft and that is why many airlines have refused to land there.



“And for us to get it right, we approached the Federal Ministry of Aviation and asked them what we can do. They told us that we need to do certification, put thyroids and start laying asphalt. I said wow, we are into trouble. When you look at the amount that was sunk into that airport, it is not something you get up and say you want to abandon.”



The governor acknowledged that the state government has invested a substantial amount of money in the airport, and despite the defects in its construction, it cannot afford to write off the project and abandon it.



Nwifuru said, “The former administration sunk N42 billion into that edifice. It is one of the best, biggest and largest airports in the country. I said how to make a mark is doing something very difficult or challenging.



“We have been confronted with a lot of challenge on this matter and we must do something and get it right because our people’s money has been spent on the project and we must get the project right by putting what is right and what everybody wants.



“This is why we engaged so many contractors including CCECC, Julius Berger and so others to give us their quotations.



“Some gave N14 billion, some gave N15 billion, some gave N11 billion and N10 billion depending on what they do. But we looked at their schedules and the needs of the Ministry of Aviation. We didn’t just venture into the rehabilitation of the airport just to spend money but to make use of the value of our money that has been spent on that project.”

Speaking recently during his first anniversary in office, Governor Nwifuru announced that his administration had spent N17.3 billion on remedial work on the airport runway.

According to him, “the remedial work at the Chuba Okadigbo International Airport runway has been completed”.

“N17.3 billion was spent, while major repairs in the terminal building and control tower have commenced in earnest and in advanced stage. To this end, flight operations will commence fully at the airport,” the governor said.

The staggering sum of N53 billion in borrowed funds was expended on the airport, despite the prevalent poverty and scarcity of basic amenities in Ebonyi State.

Many communities in the state, such as Obeagu and Nkalaha, which share borders with Enugu State, lack access roads, leaving them vulnerable to frequent attacks by armed herdsmen. The deplorable state of the roads has resulted in the loss of numerous lives, both from the communities and elsewhere, highlighting the stark contrast between the airport's lavish funding and the pressing needs of the local population.

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Ebonyi State ranks among the top 10 poorest states in Nigeria, with a staggering poverty rate of 79.76%, indicating that nearly 80% of the state's population lives below the poverty line.

Also, according to the Debt Management Office's sub-national debt report as of December 2022, Ebonyi State's outstanding debt stood at N76.5 billion in local currency and $58.57 million in foreign debt, highlighting the state's significant debt burden.
The distance between Ebonyi airport and Enugu airport is merely a 10-minute flight, yet the former governor and current administration opted to invest a staggering N53 billion in an airport that lacks commercial viability for airlines and fails to generate economic benefits for Ebonyi State and its citizens, raising questions about the wisdom of this extravagant expenditure.

A former Commissioner for Information in the state, Chief Abia Onyike, called for Umahi’s probe for embarking on many projects without due process and approval by relevant authorities.

The former Commissioner slammed the airport project as a 'highly inflated' contract and demanded the resignation of Umahi as Minister of Works, revealing that Umahi had publicly boasted of spending N36 billion on the airport during its inauguration, a claim that has now come under scrutiny.

"But later on, we gathered rightly from the present administration that he actually spent the sum of N43 billion and not N36 billion that he claimed.

"Now when you compared the N43 billion Umahi spent on the airport with the N6 billion that was spent by the former governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, and that Anambra airport is functional right now as we speak.

“They have set aside the sum of N4 billion to do some refurbishment maybe the current administration will do it and you remember that the airport is functional and it was named after Chinua Achebe. But unfortunately, that of Ebonyi where Umahi spent N43 billion, that airport is not functional. Why? Because the tarmac of the airport failed and it has to require a reconstruction for it to start working.

"We gathered that the new administration in Ebonyi State is going to spent an upward of about N17.7 billion or so. What we were told initially was N13 billion. So now Umahi should resign as a Minister of Works because he has so many questions bordering on financial a impropriety in Ebonyi State," the former commissioner said.

According to Onyike, Umahi has been actively seeking a court order to prevent the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from investigating his administration, suggesting that he may be trying to avoid accountability for his actions while in office.

"He has so many petitions against him with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and he has been indulging. He ran a very-very corrupt administration in Ebonyi State.

“He is not worthy of any office either at the state level or at the federal level because for being such a very corrupt public official,” he said.

He called on the federal government to constitute a “judicial panel of inquiry and also an administrative panel of inquiry to unravel the mystery behind the way and manner Umahi ran a callous and a lawless administration in Ebonyi State”.

"Schools in Ebonyi State under his administration were regarded as poultry farms because there were no facilities for people in primary and secondary schools and he never interested in the health sector, he never invested in area of supplying drinking water even though N3 billion was being taken by him every year yet no public water supply was available to Ebonyi citizens. What kind of criminal administration is that," he lamented.

Also speaking, former spokesman for the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Barr. Uche Achi-Okpaga expressed support for the current administration to do everything possible to put the airport to full use, arguing that if not, the billions of naira the former administration borrowed and sunk there would be a waste.

Achi-Okpaga said, "That international airport is super structure that cannot just be abandoned like that. It was inherited from the former administration and the best the present governor could do is to do all his best to put that airport in shape otherwise all the resources that have been put in there will lie waste.

“And if you don't put that airport to use it will begin to dilapidate. People will begin to vandalize it - that means the resources of Ebonyi is being flushed into the river.

"So I like what the governor is doing because some other person could have abandoned it looking at the humongous amount that is going in.

“Any person could have abandoned it but he thought it wise to make sure that he completes the airport so that it will be put to use, and when it is put to use of course there is no way that revenue will not be trickling in.

“And it will also aid air transport, it will also put the state in the international map - a lot of advantages will come in from that airport.

"I want to identify with the governor in trying to make sure that the airport is put into full use because the airport was already there when he came in. It is not functioning so what do you do? It is not a makeshift thing that you will say let's dismantle it.

“It has come to stay, the structures are there so the best thing you can do is to put it to use."

We Can't Allow Investment Go To Waste - Commissioner

In response to inquiries from SaharaReporters, the State Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Jude Okpor, clarified that the airport has not been abandoned, assuring that the current administration is committed to ensuring that the significant investment in the airport does not go to waste.

He explained that the only problem with the airport was the runway, adding that the airport had been inaugurated and flight operations had commenced "but it got to a point - the runway was built on concrete technology, a lot of politicking started going on to the extent that the state government was blackmailed, to the extent that some airline operators started complaining that each time they come to the airport because of the concrete surface, their tyre and the hydraulic system - their suspensions always have problem”.

He continued, "It got to the point that even the regulatory agencies, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NACA) and the rest of them had to step in and the government had no option but to start making an arrangement of laying asphalt on the runway.

“So, the bidding process and award of contract was initially at the level of over N13 billion. ...And as I talk with you that asphalting is concluded. That airport runway is one of the longest single runways in the country today because it is 35 kilometres long and 75 metres wide, which means two aircraft like two private jets can land on that airport runway at the same time comfortably.

“You can now know why it took government almost a year to put asphalt and change the runway from concrete technology to the globally accepted asphalt.”

"The airport is not abandoned. The current administration cannot abandon the huge resources that had been committed in that airport because of that little setback. The airport is in top gear and we expected that soon the president will come to commission the runway and reopen the airport for commercial activities,” the commissioner added.

On why the project gulped an additional N17.7 billion at the end of the day, the commissioner blamed it on the economic situation resulting from the naira devaluation.

"There was contract variation which was done at the middle of the contract as a result of foreign exchange. Most of the materials, especially the bitumen were imported," he said.

iamoyindamola:

Ramdeuter, you can make me your pastor going forward
Don't worry I collect tite in USD

Just this morning, davido dragged Sophie to court over child custody
We never even finish talk it's already happening

OboOlora:
Damage control, he was never exactly wanted in SA in the first place.

Werey, dakudaji President

Jennyclay:
You nonsense men are the reason we have single mothers. You can’t be part of the problem and condemn the consequences

As long as you're a fornicator on this thread, you have no right to talk down on single mothers.

The only people allowed to throw the first stone are those who don't fornicate because the women became single mothers through fornication.

Some were even raped by you foolish men

papyjaypaul:
^^^ The person you quoted just helped me reply you. I no be motivational speaker but me go tell you, NO GIF UP!

This thing wey you de pass thru, na like recession. E go come but e go comot one day. I talk am because people don talk pass this one and some of them don pack bag and Gbam, the place begin de sweet. See the map wey I put, I wan make you look am well. U de for Naija, maybe for Lagos, you leave am go Abuja or PH go find wetin u go chop. Now, where you de Canada, think am like Lagos, some people waka go Island go find chops, some people carry Island sense go Agege make money. Na only Nigeria you de for that map, you never waka reach Kenya but Canada bad. Na so Nigeria be sef. The moral Time and places.

Take advantage of the opportunities on that land. Whether na for book or na for skills, go out there, collect ela but no send anybody. No follow only Naija people talk, follow everyone wey get sth good to give you. Na so life be, the ones wey de enjoy for Naija keep quiet because dem know say people de vex but dem still de. Na so e be for Canada. my only advice na say make you no sell your body and soul just to get d mulla. Na so that place be, dem design am make you de find mulla till you die. na u go shine eye know when your body need rest, when your soul de good and wetin good for you. No carry debt enter neck before you begin de smoke ganja and craze. All the best bro! I believe in you. E go better for you. Start to de change wetin you de listen to, de read, de hear. Comot weed from your garden

Onyechimereze:

D are you comparing Owerri to Onitsha? Even as Owerri is self built by Imolites is there any part of Onitsha that can compare to Owerri? Why are the rich men in Onitsha living in Asaba? Why don’t they live in Onitsha? Owerri is one of the best cities in southeast and Nigeria as a whole. As a matter of fact Owerri and Aba are the most well planned cities in Nigeria. Pls go and read up in statisense. We are not talking about he mansion an illiterate ego mbute built in the middle of drainage like we have in most of Anambra. We are talking of a place With all the amenities for a good and organized life. Can you compare an Owerri born to an Onitsha born? Owerri wey get airport since mgbe gboo….My guy, no talk that thing again in public. This is so funny

Jamiuokolla:


talk truth - where were you typing from all those times

TrebleChamp:
Thanks Ibime and GloriousGbola for the wise advice, i didn't even realise i spilled that much. May village people no go reason person....

Mom007:


Lol. You know me well, but not as well as you think you do. I don't waste good advice on people I know will not take it. You are notorious for not taking well meaning advice so I won't waste my breath. I only commented because truth be had, I was disappointed with your shopping choices. A whole 'smart madam' like you... but then again, you are probably just lots of talk and very little stuff. Do with this comment whatever you will.

Omoejigbahe:


Stop displaying stupidity with so much confidence. These are not Nigerians.

lyfeNamikase

you can not compare this with slave trade, you absolutely don't have any idea of what you're talking about if you compare this with slave trade or slavery. That "Vessel" was worse than being in ISWAP hostage situation. It was a death sentence where you're treated way worse than a pig for slaughter, you get raped, tutored and thrown into the ocean at a whim.
The ultimate goal in this desert journey to Europe is to get Asylum. Do you have any idea what it means to get Asylum in Europe? You're aromatically elevated in comfort higher than a civil servant in nigeria, higher than the middle class in current Nigeria.

Please don't talk ignorantly
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Fryx:


I’m not 26 years old. Younger than that.

Sir, I believe is a title as taught by my Civic teacher in primary school. It was a title conferred on Tafawa Balewa by the then British government.


The lady in question is just someone that location brought us together. We had a business dealings and I collected her number.

We talk casually from time to time and can sometimes engage in naughty discussions.

But suddenly, she starts adding sir to every sentences.

Yes sir.

Ok sir.

Thank you sir.

How was your night sir.

Hope you are good sir….

Very annoying.

It’s ok if we are in a professional setting. But in a casual setting? Very annoying.

Jennyclay:
You nonsense men are the reason we have single mothers. You can’t be part of the problem and condemn the consequences

As long as you're a fornicator on this thread, you have no right to talk down on single mothers.

The only people allowed to throw the first stone are those who don't fornicate because the women became single mothers through fornication.

Some were even raped by you foolish men

Righthussle:
Rest madam, Nigerians are hungry. Na who don chop dey talk about Hollywood and Nollywood.

Mombebe:










The Highlander SUV Davido bought for Imade for her transportation needs is valued and worth more than any contribution my unfortunate and miserable fore-fathers, my dementia father and plus entire lineage has ever contributed in this lifetime put together.
A zero and sub-human like can't even cater for a girlfriend's needs not to talk of babymama.
Look at this stupid lunatic that calls himself my mother,that can't even engage a thread intelligently is here cursing Davido out as if he/she is related to Sophia or the momodus.
These stupid E-rats will just engage in any post that has to do with OBO just to say bad and hurtful things about the young man whose shoelaces my prostitute mother can't even untie.
Werey ni baba ati iya mi!!!

Talent1234:
If I understand you clearly, No mails received but a phone call conversation. Was the call about the application and the way foward or ...?

JagabanB:

There are well over 200m people in Nigeria, all the professions you listed above don't total up to 40m people, there are over 60m jobless people in Nigeria who do nothing other than coming online to post the price of foodstuffs.
People like that should farm, Fulani herdsmen are not everywhere, stop using that Iàme excuse at every single opportunity.
I was in Benue State last year or two years ago, farmers sell 5 cobs of mature maize for #200.
This same cob is what those roasting by the roadside sell for #100 and above, farmers were selling it for that price because it was maize season and everyone has it and in order not to allow your own to spoil, you sell.
That's what abundance does.
If you commit your energy into farming rather than making noise online, you are solving the problem.
Americans during the great depression didn't gather and çry everyday about prices of goods, they farmed, they started businesses and today they are prosperous.
It is same with the Chinese when they faced hunger, but Nigerians claiming to be sophisticated, the only thing they know is post online and think they are smart.

finallybusy:
One guy I met said the journey is not as hard as people feel. You’re given twenty litres of water for four days. You move during the night and rest during the day. Your only fear comes in the form of raiders who patrol the desert, looking for migrants to imprison. If you can avoid them, your dinghy waits at the end of the ordeal. Do not drown or get thrown overboard by evil white men.

NwekereNdokl:
Miserable lowlife you must learn some lessons here by the time we are done .

Owerri is a glorified village that’s why most imo indigenes prefer to live in Onitsha and Enugu. Have you ever since anyone from any SE state living in Owerri? None. Go and develop your state and stop trying to attach to others through your Orlu state. We have rejected you guys.

Igbos built Onitsha? Why not same igbos come and build Owerri? Why can’t you ediots build Owerri too to attract people?

IGR figures are in the public domain, use your google. Imo state is the least in Nigeria. You people have nothing to show in imo state that’s why ediots and illiterates are looking for another state to create.

Nobody compared Lagos to Onitsha, he just made an analogy. Onitsha is the Lagos of Igboland. Go and develop your backward imo state. That’s the point he was making . Bunch illiterates and miscreants .

DeepSight:


You don craze finish!



But wetin I dey talk sef, pesin fit blow from dia oh!

LOVEALAIGBO:


Dude, i confronted your bigoted hateful ass yesterday and you ran off! Just to tell us your ethnicity, and you went off on a tangent yapping about Ore and heaven knows what else! Hating on Ndigbo since the day you were born has not made your useless country the better for it....if anything, the economy and mental state of your people have deteriorated even futher in the past one year since you supported your emilokan to god grab it....snatch it....and crawl away with it ( i say crawl as the wicked old man can barely stand never mind run with it)! You're the perfect example of crabs-in-a-barrel syndrome!

Ndigbo, murdered in their thousands, decided to fight a war to see the back of you and go their own way, yet you were so scared of staying on your own even to the point of seeking foreign help to wage a war to keep us as 'compatriots'....this is even as you saw Nigeria as a mere geographical expression and not a true nation! That's the true defintion of hypocrisy and shamelessness!

I really don't know why you jobless and bigoted dolts are making a issue all day over negotiation or no negotiation! In the past Mazi Kanu was prepared to sit donw and talk with you diseased schmucks, but your misplaced sense of superiority and disdain for a people you see as 'slaves' made you prefer the option of spilling the blood of thousands in state-sanctioned murders and false-flag operations!

Attached is a YouTube clip showing Mazi Kanu discussing with the then governors of the south-east in a bid to seek a middle-ground for all!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHsFAWii5CY?si=1QeqqOjPhHygE6sF

flokii:


Look at yourself in the mirror before commenting on national issues as this..

We are complaining of herders killing farmers and preventing people from going to their farms.. but you lots are there praising and defending IP0Bs and UGM for enforcing sit-at-home, attacking and killing people going about their legitimate hustle in the South East.
What mouth do you have to talk here?.. take several seats with your hypocrisy.

Starzo:


Ode!....why you run?

You don see who smart pass you.... useless scammer

eazzzy1:
What would you be telling your parents for? To help you decide if you are making the right decision or to alert them of the probability of never having kids?

It’s your decision to make, not your parents. However, if you think you aren’t doing the right thing and you need someone to talk you out of it, then talking to people who have your best interest at heart is a good idea.

BossGerald:


So because I be Igbo, I can't talk about the country?? Your mentality is too low

This thread is about Niger republic, you can wait when someone drops a thread about SW then you comment.

YOU'RE NOT NEEDED HERE