₦airaland Forum

gwafaeziokwu:
You be my father? And I am straight abeg.

I have already answered you but you want to stylishly dogde your own identity.

What is your state of origin?

BeLookingIDIOT:
You didn't also see where imo state had the highest unemployment abi
The SW unemployment rate is lowest

gwafaeziokwu:
You have your answer oga. Now tell me your own state.

gwafaeziokwu:
I am Igbo first. Then by the rubbish partitioning done by clueless Gowon, you can also call me Onye Anambra.

Now tell me your state. I will break your head if you mention Lagos as usual.

MelesZenawi:
Mr go and read...

Awo freedom Education is dangerous.

gwafaeziokwu:
Go and ask the NBS guy that wrote the report.

Anambra do not have FDI, but they have the highest rate of unemployment in Nigeria.
This has thus made nonsense of your postulations in the other thread.

We do not desperately need your Chinese and Lebanese to grow our economy. We are the investors!

gwafaeziokwu:


They need to change the education curriculum of these owambe people


Sentence 1: The state with the lowest rate is Anambra in the South East.

Sentence 2: The state with the lowest rate in South East is Anambra.

Sentence one is saying that the state with the lowest rate is located in the south East.

Sentence is saying that among South East states, Anambra is the lowest.

Who actually had f9 in English, you or NBS that released the statement.

MelesZenawi:
You guys really knows how to pathetically disgrace yourself on altar of sophiscation.



with over 5 different news papers, you are here still dancing unclad in market place.



I always have my reasons been against over bloated awolowos' free education because it is dangerous..

PROUDIGBO:
You have comprehension challenges!

If the report had stated, ‘....the state in the south-east with the lowest rate....’, then your position would be true!

As it’s reported, they were highlighting the zone/region in Nigeria where Anambra is located!

gwafaeziokwu:

You are a complete iti boribo. Mr. FDI

A comparison was been made between unemployment rate across states in Nigeria. You saw Imo(SE), followed by Akwa Ibom(SS), then Rivers State(SS).

Then you saw a comparison that have Zamfara, and Anambra and all your brain could decipher is that Anambra is the lowest only in the south East.

BlowYourMind:
This your lie is follow come ooo, there was no place where Anambra was mentioned in your source

The State with the lowest rate was Anambra in the South-East with 13.1%.

MelesZenawi:
back to school or go and read all those ethos carefully

helinues:
They like to argue blindly..

They are too proud to accept their mistakes

MelesZenawi:
Sorry..

Dooh

The State with the lowest rate was Anambra in the South-East with 13.1%.

MelesZenawi:
Pele...sorry.

Back to school.

Sophistication..Lol

helinues:
What was your argument about? Is Anambra state not the least in SE?

MelesZenawi:
Very weak argument, Sorry..Pele

Go to bourdilllion, Omoluabis are waiting there to collect 500 hundred for their daily food.

https://punchng.com/breaking-nigerias-unemployment-rate-rises-to-27-1-says-nbs/

https://dailypost.ng/2020/08/14/imo-records-highest-rate-of-unemployment-as-nbs-releases-statistics/

https://www.channelstv.com/2020/08/14/nigerias-unemployment-rate-rises-to-27-1-in-q2-2020-nbs/



meanwhile Go back to school and this time around read your books.

MelesZenawi:
You need to go back to school or else provide us with your state statistics...


The news clearly states that anambra has lowest percentage of 17 and 13.1.


Lol...Sorry..pele

The State with the lowest rate was Anambra in the South-East with 13.1%.

MelesZenawi:
Overall stats in Benin republic.


You guys suppose to dey shame sometimes.

They are talking about states...you are here fighting overall stats.


Omoluabis sef

The State with the lowest rate was Anambra in the South-East with 13.1%.

The State with the lowest rate was Anambra in the South-East with 13.1%.

heykims:
....simply because it wasn't overpopulated not that the leaders then had more sophisticated brain.

Chidoka argued: “How can the the federal government borrow $400million from China and put $100million to build four terminals with a repayment of $12.5 million every quarter. And Anambra State government alone invited the Chinese to build an airport for $2.2billion. How much did Lagos International Airport cost us? What we should do is to build a small airport and grow it organically. An Airport is a runway, not a terminal building or cargo shed.”

Four months after missing its completion target of April 11, 2020, OKECHUKWU OBETA asks whether Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State can deliver on the state’s $2billion Airport City Project at Ivite Umueri, Anambra-East local government area before he leaves office in March 2022?


Of the 36 states of the federation, Anambra is rated as being the lead In the league of states without a functioning airport or airstrip.

It is against this backdrop that many stakeholders and prominent natives of the state are eager to see if Governor Obiano can make the project a parting gift to the state at the expiration of his second term in office.

The completion and handover date slated for the project is now four months behind schedule. When Obiano flagged off the construction of the airport on April 11, 2017, he had announced that it would be completed in 36 months.

By that calculation, Obiano had hoped that by April 11, 2020, he would be handing over a new airport city comparable to those in advanced countries to the people of the state.

A boisterous Obiano had expressed this optimism on that historic day as he had said: “What we are flagging off today is an Airport City Project with a model that will accommodate an airport with two runways, an aviation fuel dump, an airport hotel, an industrial business park, an international convention centre, as well as, a facility for aircraft maintenance.

The Umueri airport city project is conceived to join some of the most advanced airports in the world with a capacity to land any of the most sophisticated aircraft known to man today.”

A massive land was allocated to accommodate all the specified facilities. Governor Obiano also stated this much in his speech that “it (airport city project) sits on 1,500 hectares of land with enough elbowroom for expansion from Ivite Umueri to the neighbouring communities such as Nando, Umunya, Otuocha, Aguleri, Nteje, Nsugbe and beyond.

The project is estimated to cost over $2billion. It is a partnership between the government of Anambra State, Orient Resources Limited and Elite International Investments Limited (Snoking Enterprises Limited). Under the contractual agreement, Elite International Investments Limited will provide all the funds needed for the project under the Build- Operate-Manage-and-Transfer arrangement.

However, under the same SPV arrangement, the Anambra Airport City Infrastructure Limited allocated 75 per cent equity stake to Elite International Investments Limited, 20 per cent to Orient Petroleum Resources Limited and five per cent to the of Anambra State government. The host communities are entitled to three per cent of the profit from the project in perpetuity as a part of the standard corporate responsibility. Indeed, the economic benefits of the Umueri Airport Project are enormous.”

Certainly, what is agitating the minds of not only a few stakeholders about the project is not just its failed completion over four months after the set date, more intriguing, however, is that the government seems to have declared the airport site a “no-go-area” to everybody including newsmen.

The state government officials are also being economical in responding to inquiries about the project.

The commissioner for Works, Mr. Marcel Ifejiofor and his Information and Public Enlightenment counterpart, Mr. C. Don Adinuba, even alluded to this seeming placement of embargo on giving information to the public about the project by the state government when this reporter on Thursday, August 5, 2020, contacted them on their mobile phones separately and requested for an update on the project.

Ifejiofor said: ‘Don’t go there (airport city project site). There is no update now. At the appropriate time, we will let you know. There is no more comment from me for now.”

Also, Adinuba simply stated: “Construction work is moving at a terrific speed, morning and night, seven days in a week without a single bank loan. What we plan to do is to surprise the world. I won’t make comment beyond this.”

About a month ago, four journalists in the state, including David-Chyddy Eleke of Thisday, Titus Eleweke of Daily Trust and Chimezie Anaso of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) returned with tales of woes when they attempted to go to the airport city project site to inspect the progress of work there.

They said that on arrival at the precincts of the project site, they placed a call to the mobile telephone of Ifejiofor to alert him that they were there to do an inspection of construction work on the project to enable them report same.

They said that immediately the commissioner received the call he had expressed worry over their safety at the place and warned them to leave there immediately.

They stated that the commissioner even confirmed to them that he was at the project site at the time, but warned them to leave the place without further delay for their safety, adding that even though he was at the site, he would not permit them to enter the premises.

They claimed that Ifejiofor furiously asked them “who told you to come here? Nobody is allowed to come to this place o. I’m even inside the project site now, but, I can’t permit you to come in. Just leave that place now in the interest of your lives. Come to my office in Awka when I come back.”

Eleke and co narrated that they later went to see the commissioner in his office in Awka, as he directed. But rather than give them an update on the project as they hoped, Mr. Ifejiofor tongue-lashed them for attempting to go to the site to do a report.

“Never you go there again, otherwise, whatever happens to you there you are on your own”, they alleged. The journalists stated that thereafter Ifejiofor ordered them to leave his office; that he would not tell them anything about the project until the “appropriate time”.

Governor Obiano had kicked off the construction of the Airport City Project in the build-up to his re-election campaigns in 2017.

And shortly after the exercise, a lot of controversy dogged the project, especially from members of the opposition parties. The criticisms included that the Chinese company to which the project was awarded, Sinoking Investments Enterprises Limited was a fake firm, and, that the sum of about $2.2 billion for which the contract was awarded was not only bogus, but was intended by the governor to siphon the state funds.

For instance, a former aviation minister, Chief Osita Chidoka had described the project as a white elephant one and that the cost was unrealistic. He argued that the state did not need such a big airport as according to him, the federal government spent $500million to build four terminals.

Chidoka argued: “How can the the federal government borrow $400million from China and put $100million to build four terminals with a repayment of $12.5 million every quarter. And Anambra State government alone invited the Chinese to build an airport for $2.2billion. How much did Lagos International Airport cost us? What we should do is to build a small airport and grow it organically. An Airport is a runway, not a terminal building or cargo shed.”

Chidoka who was also a former corps marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission further argued that what the state required was to put in place basic facilities that would grow forces of market in aviation business.

He said: “The basic infrastructure we (Anambra State) have to put in place is the runway and landing gear.nThe whole passenger flow in Nigeria’s airport is between five and six million passengers annually. What will be the share of Anambra from that traffic? “Heathrow Airport grew from terminal one to terminal two, and, now terminal five.

There is no traffic study for the proposed (Anambra Airport City Project); no passengers’ data too. They said it will be a cargo airport and fuel dump. Where is the fuel and refining capacity for the Jet A1 here? Let us come down from this high horse. There is no five-star hotel in the whole of the South East zone because the economy has not supported it. Why then telling us then that you want to build a five-star hotel in Umueri Airport?” Chidoka asked.

He was then a governorship candidate of the United Progressives Party (UPP) in during the 2017 gubernatorial election in the state.

There was even claims then that because the federal government did not approve the project, when it impounded a drone brought into the site by the contractor.

Notwithstanding the few dissenting voices against the airport project, some experts,

however, described it as a lofty one. For instance, Mr. Joshua Nkemdichie, an engineer described the project as a clear demonstration of rare foresightedness on the part of Governor Obiano administration.

He said: “This is what it means to have foresight. What Governor Obiano is about to do for his state is such that Anambra will be a reference point for anyone who travels by air in Nigeria.

Before take-off from any airport in Nigeria, planes that are taking off in airports where there is shortage of aviation fuel can just fly down to Anambra airport and refuel. If they notice any fault in the planes, they can also fly down to Anambra and have their aircraft checked before they continue their journey.

What Obiano will do with this project is to put Anambra in the map as far as the aviation industry is concerned.”

Sounding like the proverbial Igbo lizard that fell from the Iroko tree, and, after looking right and left to see if anybody would commend his feat, and, didn’t see, nodded his head in commendation of himself of having achieved a great feat, Governor Obiano had on the day he flagged off the airport city project for construction beat his chest and said that his administration had done well for the state so far. Obiano recounted “Three years into my first term in office, I stand before you today to answer the call of history.

In Christian numerology, the number 3 is the number of perfect manifestation. So, three years into my administration, the Lord God Almighty has given us a new vision and a new song! Umu nnem, our elders say that na Ugo gbuzuo,ochakee! Anambra State has finally hit the bend in the river, and, our famous can-do spirit has now taken over.

“From now on, we have nothing more to fear! Nothing! Not even ourselves…The historic ceremony we have gathered to perform here today is very important step in expanding the frontiers of excellence in Anambra state! Indeed, it is important to note that my Team and I have got a few things right in the past three years”, Obiano said further apparently also referring to the Airport City Project he was then about to flag off its construction.

Obiano expressed optimism that the Airport City Project was properly designed to improve the economy of the state.

He said: “As you are aware, my administration is intensely focused on building projects that have economic values. …This Airport City project follows the same trajectory. That is why we have established a strong synergy between Orient Petroleum Resources Plc and the Airport project with a view to operating an Aviation Fuel Segment that will attract both local and foreign airlines to refuel their aircraft in Umueri”.

Though, the Airport City Project site has been declared out of bound to members of the public, sources close to the site say that construction work is really going on at a very high speed day and night.

They say that Obiano was not leaving any stone unturned to ensure that the project was realised before his exit as governor of the state, even, if it meant sinking every available fund of the state into the project. Most observers were of the view that Governor Obiano perhaps wants to hand over the as his administration’s parting gift to the people of the state at the twilight of his administration.

Hunter2009:
Calm Down, Infrastructure in Lagos is a Me.

“Years of political wrangling, massive corruption underinvestment and poor maintenance of existing transport infrastructure has seen Lagos lag behind other major global cities in the utilisation of efficient public transportation system such as urban rail system and modern high capacity buses. If the state is continually run in this manner, it might never attain the lofty new Lagos it craves, ” Ohanyere said.

The Chairman, South East Governors Forum and Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi, has declared that no amount of blackmail from detractors would make South East leaders support any engagement likely to lead to another Civil War.

Umahi made the declaration on Thursday during the inauguration of the Ebonyi State Community Policing Committee and the State Community Policing Advisory Committee in Abakaliki, the state capital.

The Governor was obviously reacting to recent bashing of the leaders from the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra.

The IPOB leadership had allegedly taunted the Igbo political leaders for being lackadaisical in handling security issues affecting the zone, maintaining that the leaders had failed the people.

Umahi, in his address at the event, noted that the South East Governors and other well meaning leaders cannot be pushed under any circumstance to engage in senseless battle, which would endanger the life and general well-being of the Igbo people.

He maintained that rather than sponsor any engagement likely to result to another war, the leaders would channel the available resources towards bettering the lots of the people economically and otherwise, which, according to him, was the essence of leadership.

Umahi’ said: “Some people posted their regional security outfit, where they did a very beautiful outfit and wore.

“And somebody from South East posted to us that this is where leadership is working, that there are no leaders in South East.

“Let me assure our people that there is no amount of blackmail or social media war against the leadership of South East that will ginger us to go to senseless war.

“Some of those who fought the Civil War are still alive.

“And when they talk, they talk differently.

“We have no reason to engage differently.

“So, it is for the South East to come together and use the little resources that have and do charity begins at home.”

The Governor commended the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, for accepting the community policing initiative, which, he noted, was an already existing customary means of crime control in the zone.

He described the initiative as the civilians affair, adding that the incorporation of security agencies in the committee was for them to play supervisory roles.

According to him, the Advisory Committee was to be Co-chaired by the State Chairman of the Traditional rulers Council, Eze Charles Mkpuma, and the State Commissioner of Police, Phillip Maku, while that of the Community Policing Committee was to be chaired by the Council Chairman in all the Council areas.