If it is general consensus that all easterners (I doubt it) want tear down all the good work of Zik, then it is your prerogative, but please leave Awolowo out of it.

SapeleGuy:

James Ibori started the Asaba Airport Project, Uduaghan is continuing. The airport is strategically positioned to benefit Warri, Sapele, Benin and Asaba. Onitsha can use it if they want, seriously why are you not lobbying your state governments for projects like this?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-291259.0.html

My state already has an international airport - I'm merely supporting the need for another international airport in that part of the country - so lay off!

@poster
If you are not gay - why are you so concerned. I think you are a closet gay and trying the waters to see if you can come out in the open

Sky Blue:

Good argument though I feel it becomes a tad irrelevant when you consider the leaps in telecommunication.

The sad truth, is that this president more than likely may lack the skills and drive to effectively rule this country - I think the sickness albeit valid, is just a smoke screen to mask his inhability. If this is not the case then there are other ulterior motive for his frequent trips to Saudi Arabia - is it posible that he's working very hard to turn Nigeria into an Islamic state - which would spell doom? I am also very concerned about his passiveness in governing this nation.

bawomolo:

he is regularly absent from his post while on medical trips. FDR went to Florida (coral springs i believe) during his rehabilitation and had messengers from Washington.

as for the bolded, that's another argument

I agree with totally - I saw some documentary on FDR - this guy worked harder than most presidents with no ailment at all.

Afam:

There is need for a sea port (thank God they are already dredging the River Niger) and an International airport even in Enugu.

Some are talking about economic viability but have conveniently forgotten that the people from the Eastern region travel the most whether for business or for pleasure and the minimum of 7 hrs journey with the attendant armed robberies along the expressway coupled with the poor state of the roads simply don't make sense for someone who may have just come from the US to get to his home in Enugu.

Movement of both goods and personnel will be a lot easier, cheaper and even safer if the distances that must be covered on the road are shorter rather than longer.

seconded! If nothing else the population of the East supports it - unless the plan to have an international airport in Asaba/Onitsha materializes.

As most international traders are from the East, the dredging of the Niger will definitely be the best thing to happen to Nigerian commerce in general.

By George Onah
Port Harcourt— The ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has become an embarrassment to the nation’s image and an indication of the little attention the country availed and viewed its youths and future generation, Catholic Priest, Monsignor Pius Kii, has said.

Kii, who is the assistant parish priest of Christ the King Catholic Church, Diobu, Port Harcourt, said in his sermon Sunday, that it was regrettable that a nation which prides itself as the giant of Africa was at the lower rung of the academic ladder amongst African nations and the developing world.

Drawing attention to the practice where Nigerians now send their children to acquire secondary and university education in nearby Republic of Ghana, the clergy man said “the time may soon come when we will be sending our children to nursery and primary schools in Ghana”.

He recalled that “there was a time in our nation, in the 1970s and 80s, when Ghanaians trooped to Nigeria in search of a better standard of living and it got to the stage where the government of that time asked them to live Nigeria.

More -- @ http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/09/28/ASUU-strike-embarrassment-to-nigeria-cleric/


When will this president start to be presidential? If he's not capable of running this country he should handover to the VP, after all that's why we have a VP.

Sky Blue:

What does Yar Adua do when he is not on overseas trip for treatment and what does you response have to do with the post I was replying to about Americans not praying for FDR to die??

I think @bawomolo was responding to @AjaraEwuro post[Franklin D. Roosevelt ruled America from a wheelchair for over ten years - americans coped with him instead of praying him to die.] 

@poster - or is it venom?

Leave the founding fathers of our democracy out of your vile contemptuous tribalism - let their souls rest in perfect peace - they did alot for this country, they should be revered not denegrated with your depraved and convoluted ideology.

Don't you have any bounds?

THE YAR’ADUA’S 7-POINT AGENDA

POWER AND ENERGY – Worse off
FOOD SECURITY – Worse off
WEALTH CREATION – Worse off
TRANSPORT SECTOR – Worse off
LAND REFORMS – Worse off
SECURITY – Temporary amnesty in place and boko haram qwelled
EDUCATION – Worse off

So essentially nothing has been done by this president.

nex:

@mccloud224, $poone


Before President Moumar Ghadafi spoke, the USA delegate got up and left the arena. Do you know that was a planned diplomatic insult.

The bastard is a ruthless dictator and a terrorist, he should be insulted at any given opportunity

nex:

@mccloud224, $poone

Let our president go to Saudi Arabia and launch a university. After all, Obama went to Saudi Arabia to bow to the King. All these are symbolic towards the real objectives of such visits. Oil control was actually why the president went to Saudi Arabia, university opening, a gesture.

I was not awere that OPEC has been desolved - if my memory serves me well, some of the OPEC member state rulers were present at the UN. Why is it that we can't get a straight answer from the presidency? If he's too sick to rule the country , he should handover to the VP - unless maybe the VP is just a pawn to qwell agitation in the ND.

Yes! into 250 countries - this way every ethnic group will have her own country.

So 250 or nothing else - we leave it as one.

Ban SONY products and forego billions(-N-) in oil revenue from Japan, yes? - I think not! The Yar'Adua government need every bit of this revenue for much needed development in the North and ofcourse to line their pockets

nex:

I don't know what you people want from this man. Did you vote? Then shut up!

For starters, we'd like him to start ruling the country and fullfill the electorates' mandate, or at least his own mandate to the people of Nigeria - maybe just one of his seven point agenda.

Nigerians would not be troubled by his numerous trips to Saudi Arabia, if he's actually showing some progress in dealing with the huge issues Nigeria(n)s face.

@poster,

- But not as sick as our president at 58.

@poster,
You may just have to wait until hell freezes over.

nex:

@mccloud224
If not for anything but the Freisian landscape, I'd like to see fields of windmills stretching to touch the skyline along Benin-Ore expressway, but the truth is that there is no country that generates most of its electricity from wind or solar energy. Nuclear is the power for the world now. Cheap, dependable, abundant and we have the raw materials.
Resources are scarce and time is short, so this is not really the time for perambulating over issues of our future just to rub shoulders with the big boys.

Saudi does help keep crude price up.

Though I agree with you that we need nuclear power, your bolded statement is just not accurate - all the countries of the world have a mix of hydro, coal and nuclear (France highest at 76%); and some wind (highest being ~20% for Denmark), and solar. I am inclined to think that we need coal in the east, more petroleum turbines in the ND, Wind along the wind corridor up North, and then solar in a smaller scale, subsidized for individual homes or businesses. Nuclear should be considered as the country become more industrialized. Let's not forget Chinobyl and three mile island

@NEX

What about Iran - they were at the UN?

Your argument does not hold water at all - this president is either too sick, not comfortable around other leaders, or has some ulterior motive for avoiding other world leaders that matter, and more importantly his own country. more and more, I am leaning towards the later.

german007:

@mccloud224

Within your experience and autology, Do you think its appropriate and ethical for you to be critical of other people's beliefs , ideologies and views?
Regards

What's "autology" ?

german007:

@$po0ne

Sir, What is strange about my question?, lol

mccloud224's take on the Yar’Adua’s presidency, or the lack thereof, is plausible – Nigerian political elites have many guises for looting our treasury; this may just be another one. And your rebuttal to his comments was totally unrelated, utterly strange at best. He didn’t know why, and I didn’t either – and your next explanation was worse. Maybe you want to take jab at it again?

german007:

@mccloud224
Within your experience and autology, Do you think its appropriate and ethical for you to be critical of other people's beliefs , ideologies and views?

Regards

Strange

Even the tyrant dictator, Kim Jong-il has handed over the day-to-day N.Korean governance to his son due to his cancer --- (NLers don’t go nuts on me, just trying to draw some analogy - albeit, a very bad one)

KnowAll:


Dont our President see it as embarssing being welcomed into Saudi Arabia by Governors of the different Regions, 1stly he was welcomed by the Governor of the Mecca region now by another Governor, the Royal Family in Saudi Arabia has not giving him an audience yet, all we heard he is staying in one of King Fahds boys quartes albeit opulent boys quarters this is getting embarassing for an oil rich nation's President staying in King Fahds boy's quarter.

OMG! It is disheartening

german007:

@KUFRE4BIZ

Bros I hail for this your grammar oh. nah die

Cut the brother some slack Practice makes perfect - lots of practice,

AjaraEwuro:

@Poster


So, dont you fall sick? Is he not human?

Now, when he travels, it is news, when he comes, it is news, when he doesnt go anywhere, it is news- what are you on about randy poster?

I do get sick with cold or maleria - maybe once a year. And I am not the president of a nation of ~150m people - a nation with lots of challenges that need immediate attention.

He's baaack!

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-328739.0.html

Seriously, how long will the National legislative body allow this to continue - the President is simply not healthy enough to rule this country.

Nigerian president returns after Saudi visit
(AFP) – 21 hours ago

ABUJA — Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has returned to Abuja after a visit to Saudi Arabia, his office said on Saturday.

"The president is back. He returned to the country last night," a senior presidential aide told AFP.

Yar'Adua, 58, travelled to Saudi Arabia last week, following a medical check-up there last month.

According to an official statement released from his office the latest visit, the third in about a year, was at "the invitation of King Abdullah", .

He had made an 11-day trip in August for medical checks and the lesser pilgrimage to Islam's holy sites.

He also went to Saudi Arabia in August last year for what officials said was a religious pilgrimage.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5igDpc5TuzbHQwNj1_dBIyCndq6fw

He still looks seek - Maybe his VP needs to take over before he collapse. His health and the nation are suffering - are these boneheads in the national assembly asleep?

Oshiom Ole was a thug then (NLC era), and his still a thug - the only difference now, is that he's a thug with access to the state treasury, and megaphone for more hot air. I don't know of any thug that's interested in education - so the good people of Edo state should not be too surprised - thugs hate schools.

You can take the thug out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the thug - thugs will always be thugs.

If the good people of Kano want him as Governor of their state, then so be it. After all Abacha’s tyranny and destruction of innocent lives was only perpetrated on the Southerners – Most Northerners simply stood aside and watched. So I am not surprised they don’t see anything wrong with this tyrant’s son contesting a gubernatorial election in Kano.

Not to worry, this is as far as he’ll go – he will not dare seek a national position, elected or appointed.

You can call Nigerians a lot of names, but they are definitely not forgetful - take IBB for instance, he has tried all he can to get back into National polity to no avail.

and also "Confessions Of An Economic HitMan" by John Perkins

If you are interested in sofisticated corruption perpetrated by other countries - what some Nigerians engage in is child's play.

@Gbawe,

If you have the time read "The Appeal" by John Grisham - you'll get a feel for real corruption in US polity and big business.

Some people can't think outside of the box - especially if that box is biafra.