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OoniOfIfe:













Fani Kayode please go nd sit down one place nd shut up. No body made u Igbo spokesman.

It's quite strange that Fani kayode that was bashing Igbo before has turned out to be on d side of Igbos just because his party is no more in power nd also cos he got married to an Igbo lady.

I have not 4gotten how he used to insult Igbos before to the point of boosting how he slept with Bianca Ojukwu before Ojukwu married her, just to portray Ojukwu as an as hole that married his left over girl.
Kayode even supported the eviction of Igbos in Lagos in 2011.

What did he do for the Igbos when he was aviation minister?

Kayode please no body invites u on Hausa/Fulani nd Igbo matter.
Focus on how to resuscitate ur dead political carrier.

So what if he once said something negative about Ndigbo? Even Saul was once against the Christians! Whatever FFK said is in the past and we bear no grudge....even best friends can exchange a few words every now and again!

On Bianca Ojukwu....he said he once dated her and she begged to differ! How is that your problem?

jimyjames:
After going in and out of marriage with 3 Yoruba women , he finally got colonized by our beautiful daughter that gave him beautiful Igbo looking kids


FFK is no longer an afonja man forget he is Igbo now

Your comment sounds daft!

The arrogance of that Funtua man was breathtaking!

DonFreshmoney:


It should better remain trapped for now. Because Buhari will channel the money to the north and even employ northerners to oversee the basin...

Its potential would have been tapped if Peter OBI was the Vice president

The bolded, among many other reasons is exactly why some would rather take a bullet in the head than allow a Atiku/Obi presidency!

donbachi:
What he said is the truth....no woman impregnates herself...she must need a man.

Fact of the matter is you Igbo haters will come up with any excuse in the book to ensure a Igbo does not become president! All these 'excuses' and 'reasons' you're giving is just playing to the gallery!

The way you all agreed to make a Yoruba president in 1999 is the way you're all expected to make a Igbo president in 2023! The fact you may hate Igbos is besides the point! If you feel you cannot stomach a Igbo as president then queue up behind the Biafra/IPOB movement for secession!

The reasons the man gave that Igbos should 'belong' and 'can Igbos bring the numbers and support' is just a red herring....looking for excuses! Did the Yoruba have 'the numbers' before it was decided a Yoruba should be president in 1999? One can see how devious, dangerous and two-faced these northern Oligarchs and power-brokers are: a Yourba man won a election fair-and-square....you couldn't stomach the fact, and felt you are more powerful and know more than the electorate that voted him into power, you then went ahead to not only annull the election, but throw the poor man in jail for good measure, all culminating in his murder....when you discovered your diabolical actions could sound the death knell to your gravy-train that is 'one Nigeria' you grudgingly agreed among yourselves that a Yoruba has to be the next president to douse tension and anger....of course you had already identified which Yoruba would be president regardless of who the Yoruba themselves wanted, and went ahead to work from answer to question leading to Obasanjo being annointed president in 1999!

The only way these people will come together and grudgingly agree a Igbo will be president in 2023 is if their hand is forced to do so like happened in 1999! Any Igbo naive enough that to think they will listen to their argument of 'fairness' and 'interest of justice'....such a Igbo doesn't know the level of hate and mistrust that confronts them!

Personally, i hope their greed gets the better of them and they gang-up against the Igbo again and deny them the presidency in 2023.....that's if Nigeria survives that long! This will show these naive Igbo that we have no business being part of the criminal enterprise that is 'one Nigeria'!

Perfecttouchade:
How safe will these funds be

Lets just say it will be no less safe than your present Nigerian commonwealth!

kettykings:
igbos in diaspora should not invest in this please, this is a government that hates igbos

Not just Igbos....any southerner that invests in this rubbish is very daft! Invest and watch them take a large chunk of your investment to Daura and Maradi in Niger republic!

Every region/ethnicity should have their own diaspora trust fund! Otherwise they may discover their invested funds is shared the way present Nigeria commonwealth is shared....where some who contribute little greedily grab the most due to their control of the centre!

Daniel058:
Umahi is one of the Smartest politician in Nigeria . He works with anybody he likes to use not Minding which party he/she belongs to . .

Rubbish! He's sly, two-faced and sneakily ambitious!

SLAP44:
My auntie who is above 75 years just told me she and the entire Ukwuani people are Igbos and must remain Igbos forever.

I don't like to argue about long proven facts.

God will bless your Auntie with a very long life and excellent health!

Lowest temperature recorded thus far is 7 degrees, and i’m left wondering what all the fuss is about!

monthx:
He keeps banning my account and preventing our conversation and other things, like disrupting the thread with multiple moniker.


Prior to colonialism, we were segmental, that is Ukwuani, Ikwere, Idemili, Orlu, Abiriba, Ohafia etc.

Post-colonial we became Igbo.

See the bolded below.

I’d like to refer all those Igbo deniers from present day Delta and Rivers states to take a cursory look at precolonial maps of IGBOLAND as the colonialists understood it to be! Just google it and get back to me on your findings!

tck2000:
Biafra is gone for good!

Biafra is ‘gone for good’ yet you’re proscribing, murdering and having sleepless nights over their matter? Keep on lying to yourself!

Ishilove:
Thank you Afam. I do not hate the Igbos, i just don't identify as one. All my relatives and every Ukwuani person I know do not identify as one and will vehemently oppose being foisted with them. One's identity is like a blanket, a covering and if someone attempts to take away that covering it will be met with strong resistance.

Notwithstanding what you may have been told about your ethnic identity while growing up, could you answer these two questions: 1) what do you think makes one Igbo, and 2) what’s your traditional name and what does it mean in english?

ckenneths:
I can't understand why there is no provisions for a drainage in this project....

This doesn't look like the usual good quality roads Enugu is known for! Just looking at it, one can tell it wouldn't last long!

Even from a laymans point of view, when you see a well constructed road you will know!

More on Awka Millenium City.

Courtesy Frank Ojukwu.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AylzT67tc

NGpatriot:
You did not make any point, it's even sorry and pathetic that making points to you means coming up with lazy and shameful excuses to justify incompetence, deflection of duty, lack of dedication and unpatriotic attitude.

Airports are supposed to be strong, vibration and wind-resistant, nota flimsy cage they fell apart after a brief rain ..

I don't even know what your pointless pictures got to do with the fact that that useless woman saddled us with worthless and death trap airports all across Nigeria.

Blah....blah...blah!

Dude, go screw yourself!

Report from 2014.

Murtala Muhammed International Now Best Emerging Airport In Africa


by Yetunde Daniel
Big StoryNewsApril 17, 2014


The Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos, has been recognized as the 2014 Best Emerging Airport in the African region.

The award was given to the airport at the fourth Annual Emerging Airports Conference and Exhibition in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The spokesperson for the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Yakubu Dati disclosed this in a statement released recently. He said the Managing Director of FAAN, Mr. Saleh Dunoma, received the award on behalf of the Lagos airport.

The statement said organizers of the conference cited the revolutionary turn-around of the airports in Nigeria as amongst the reasons for the award, they also commended the Aerotropolis and the fresh/perishable cargo projects as clear indicators of an emerging giant.

The spokesman said the award ceremony also featured conferences and an exhibition, which attracted over 15 airport directors, Civil Aviation Authorities, CAAs and airport companies from emerging markets in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Apart from receiving the award, the FAAN managing director also presented a paper at the conference where he showcased the investment potential and business opportunities in the Nigerian aviation industry.

Some of those who attended the event include Tanzania Airports Company, Mozambique Airports, Kilimanjaro Airports Company (as delegate), Ghana Airports Company, Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, Bahrain Airports Company, GMR Airports and GVK Airports from India.


https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=720826&page=23

NGpatriot:
The way you people spew rubbish and make lame excuses for useless and incompetent people is very nauseating, disturbing and disheartening.

I'm 100% sure you and your kind won't come up with the same silly, mischievous and disingenuous excuses for PMB and Amaechi, in fact, you won't stop shouting Nigeria is finished, you won't even remember the contractor or bricklayer or make any kind of meaningless excuse.

Look here, the contractors did not hire themselves, they did not supervise themselves and they did not pay themselves, she hired, she paid them and on top of that, the buck stopped with her, she did the same half-ass job all over Nigeria.

Who approved the flimsy designs and dog cage? The contractors?

So, you mean we put a useless figurehead in office with no clue or any kind of competence to do her job by making sure that Nigerians not only get quality infrastructures but also that they are safe and secure.

Who commissioned the dog cage?

Reading your nonsense dey make me sick sef.

Dude, i've made my point.....with pics and news reports to corroborate my claims! I gave a brilliant answer to your devilish accusations on the damaged Yola airport terminal! If you can't live with yourself then go take a running dive off 3rd mainland bridge...that if you're in Lagos!

Kaduna airport renovation....2013.

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=720826&page=22

Report from 2014.

$500m airport terminal buildings ready by Dec 2014


If everything goes as planned, Chinese Engineering and Construction Company is expected to complete construction work on the four new international airport terminals it is bankrolling in Nigeria by the end of December 2014.
Nigeria had secured a $500 million loan from the Chinese Exim Bank for the construction of the four new international airport terminals cited in Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt and Kano.
Construction work on the projects was ceded to the Chinese Engineering and Construction Company (CECC) and the job so far has advanced by about 40 per cent.
Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, who toured the cites recently expressed delight at the pace of the work by the contractors but insisted that more Nigerian employees be hired to create job and aid skills and technology transfer to indigenous workers.
“The process has been accelerated because we started on a very rough note,” Oduah told journalists in Port Harcourt.

“People should try to be appreciative of what this government has done in the aviation industry. We have been able to showcase that aviation is pivotal to the economic growth of Nigeria. By December all the construction would have been completed,” Oduah added.
The Federal Government, through the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), is to hold a 20 per cent equity in the airport city projects, which would be cited in Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port Harcourt. The remaining 80 per cent stake is to be held by private sector investors.
Oduah said the various projects going on in the industry became necessary so that the country can take full advantage of its potentials in the aviation sector, create jobs as well as increase revenue generation to the government.
“But what I think is more important is the new jobs they are adding while the construction is ongoing and the spiral effect this will have on the local communities. In fact, so many projects are ongoing in Port Harcourt – the dry cargo terminal, the perishable goods terminal, the VIP and general aviation terminals and the international terminals.
“So I am usually baffled when someone says nothing is happening in Port Harcourt because a whole lot is happening in Port Harcourt. You cannot say nothing is happening in Port Harcourt because we are going to create about 30,000 jobs while constructing these infrastructure alone,” she added.
According to her, the government would be generating an estimated N100 billion annually from the projects, while 10 million jobs would be created for Nigerian youths in the first two years of the projects coming on stream.


https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=720826&page=21

More from Kano airport done during the tenure of Senator Oduah as minister.

These pics are of the then newly refurbished Aminu Kano int'l airport, done during the tenure of Senator Oduah as minister.

There was another smaller terminal (3rd pic) built next to the bigger/older one.


https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1424046

NGpatriot:
Pictures From Yola International Airport, Months After Multi Million Naira Renovation

The poorly built dog cage that wind blew off in Yola nko? Who was responsible for that? Was it not the useless, crooked, corrupt, unpatriotic and incompetent woman.?

I just don't know why you people make silly accuses on behalf of useless and incompetent people.

You really are devious! You select part of a bigger story that would help in your bid to cast Senator Oduahs' tenure as aviation minister as being ineffective and corrupt! You want people to fall for the blatant stinking lie you're trying to sell that the aviation ministry was comatose and nothing was happening until the 'dynamic duo' of Buhari and Sirika appeared on the scene!

During the renovation of the terminals, the then minister chose to use local contractors for the job to save on foreign exchange, empower local contractors, and keep payment for jobs done within the Nigerian economy! Makes sense! Looking at the pic of the damaged Yola airport terminal building (i remember it was damaged during a massive gale storm) it's obvious, Nigeria being what it is, that one of the contractors cut corners...of course in active connivance with quality assurance engineers in the aviation ministry! Senator Stella is certainly no civil engineer, and i'm almost certain she didn't inspect each rod and roofing sheet as it was brought to site, so one can understand her laymans assessment of the job done! Even from the pics i will upload, you can see from the one of Yola airport that the job looked ok on face value! I'm sure had she still been around during that storm and subsequent damage, she would have ordered the contractor back to site! Ditto, the runway at AIIA, Enugu!

Pic is of the then newly refurbished Yola terminal building. All pics are of works done during the tenure of Senator Oduah as minister of aviation.

Cheato64:
Pls don't let the last pics decisive you, this airport was like that since Stella oduah. So it's not Buhari

Works on the new terminal building at AIIA continued even after GEJ caved into demands to sack her (of course he thought that act would endear him to the south-west and core-north for the 2015 elections)! Works stopped in 2015 after Buhari became president!

The runway is another thing they like to point to and ask why it wasn’t done or why it was done shoddily during the GEJ years! I suppose they expected now Senator Oduah to force her way back into office to ensure quality adherence on the job! You arm-twist GEJ to sack her and then turn around and accuse her of not overseeing a quality job on the runway! If anyone should be blamed for the shoddy work it should be the overseeing officials in the aviation ministry, the minister that stepped in after her (Chidoka), and ultimately, the president (GEJ) whose table was the last stop for buck-passing!

DonFreshmoney:
See who youths of Nigeria a hailing ad their mentor and role model..someone who is smelling, smoky and scammer.

I spit on all idiotic marlians out there.

Bros, take it easy abeg!

ckenneths:
More

Just serene and beautiful! It’s this type of vast open topography that’s good for going hiking....and is part of what attracts tourists!

All that’s needed to kickstart eco-tourism is peace, security and a welcoming/friendly population. This we have in abundance!

Coldie:
Sitting of hotels without any source of attraction is not feasible on the long run. As time goes on people will get bored of just coming to drink, party and hookup.

I heard that the FG project for abadaba lake was to put fishes into the water. Why don't they hold a fishing fest or competition boats everywhere, whosoever catches the biggest fish wins.

This would attract contestants from the Niger delta to as far as the north.

But its building of hotels and holding fruitless summit that's our problem.

As someone rightly pointed out earlier regarding the 5-star hotels Rochas had planned for Orlu and Okigwe...would have made more economic sense if this was built besides the Oguta lake. The fishing festivals and other water-sports you suggested would help make the project even more viable.

If i were the governor i’d also provide a light-rail link from Owerri airport to the lake. This would be the master-stroke that would seal the project as a guaranteed all-year-round money-spinner!

asha80:
I wonder when they started building this one to the extent they even put 'selling'?

Probably they’re selling the plots!