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obowunmi:


Is she the only woman that can do the job ?! There's a serious problem with Nigeria's leadership pipeline. All these recycled old heads. Dame shame!

Your task is to find a better woman who can do the job. So start by naming the women better than her for the job. Thank you.

seanet02:
We are trying our best and people should understand this. Why are some kidnappers trying to use paracetamol for another man's headache.

Your best is grossly inadequate.

Rhino.5dm:
Am in PH right now! sorry to disappoint you. Do you want to meet me? I shall be at genesis delux cinema this night, so do we have date? Then i can tell you right to your face! I dare you to accept my invitation and i buy you a drink. Take this apportunity to expose the 'lying' Rhino.

Look i owned a house here in PH because i frequent here for my business. You can only fool people that uses google earth or google map but not me. I know this fertile land for long and i run things here. If you stomach the courage to utter this in PH you will be lynched. Mark my words!

You are the only one who lives or lived in PH and own houses? lol. Some of us lived there all our lives.

afam4eva:
I've always wondered why Ikwerre Etch accept their Igboness more than other Ikwerre people.

They seem to have more kinship across the boarder with Abia and Imo. Also, Obigbo (Oyigbo) is 100% Igbo
Oyigbo means e resemble Igbo (something the feds coined from the real name Obigbo) (Igbo heart or an Igbo enclave)

One dam project in the East while there are 100 dams built by the feds in the North. But again, like Oliver Twist, I join the others in saying thank you GEJ, and asking for more, still.

Ikwerre is not the only Igboid people in Rivers State
Ogba Egbema Ndoni and even Opobo are
Some Ikweres and most of Etche accept their igboness though.

alj_harem:
i am not igwe-1

go read chi, (igbo), alj harem(northerner), step1(yoruba) post u ideeiot

From Chidexy to Chi

You be real 419

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Add Igwe-1 to your e-names, dude. You no dey carry last at all at all.

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You and I are actually saying the same thing, using different approaches. The world is large enough a receptacle to accommodate all shades of perspectives. Thank you

Gbawe:
The point is that every State/region has challenges . I claim you don't have a point because you don't understand that I was not implying that the SW doe not have security challenges.  I am merely saying that the SE has challenges that is not the fault of anyone else even if some will unfairly want to blame the Yorubas for everything wrong in your lives!! Read what Calculia writes below . It is a direct example of what I am talking about . I.e it is the usual and tiresome Yorubas are "evil' and Igbos are "virtuous" nonsense any sensible adult can discountenance.  It is Yoruba folks who are always at fault. It is their actions that is always wrong, aggressive, malicious . It is the "medieval war-like" yorubas who are always to be found "devouring progressive elements" who can never do any wrong. Self-deceit may be amusing in children but it is not very funny in adults.

Well I am not Calculia. I blame the Yoruba only for things I can blame them. This airport one is one of such.
If you go through all the numerous threads on Biafra and all that, you hardly find me participating. I have no time for old story. Am looking ahead and plugging holes.

Gbawe:
That is not the point.

And if that is not the point, why do you raise it? My friend, we have learned a lot. Okay??

Gbawe:
That is not the point. Your contention , always, that Yoruba folks are trying to bring you down is what I find comical. You would , IMO, ordinarily contribute intelligently , like Eziachi for example, if you are not too sentimentally disposed towards seeing everything through ethnic lenses . To suggest a Yoruba conspiracy is ongoing against Enugu Airport is simply amazing !!!! Eziachi makes very good points and it is thinking like his that will go towards developing Nigeria. The clamour for Enugu Airport should , above anything ,  be about development and ease of travel that aids business and/or personal travel of goods and passengers. Ethnic sentiment should never constitute a preponderance of evidence in favour of situating an Airport.

Stop spinning, bro. The Yorubas are the ones opposing the airport in Enugu. I have posted two published articles to buttress my point. Read those articles especially the one by Shadare and justapose it to Eziachi's comments that you also said you liked

Other than for mischief, why would anyone find an international airport for a region of Nigeria whose people travel the most a bad idea?

Without the internet and the new age order that has allowed some countering, the naija press, hitherto dominated by the SW was running Igbos aground. You do not have to believe me. But every Igbo knows that.

kalokalo:
An airport is an economic venture. You don't establish economic enterprises on ethnic, religious, tribal or political grounds. That is why an airport set up to placate a particular ethnic WILL FAIL just like ALL other government ventures set up on political grounds instead of rational economics.

Only 4 airports are viable in Nigeria. All others are white elephants

The Re-opening of Enugu Airport

Thisday Editorial

Monday, December 27, 2010

Hundreds of thousands of air passengers who use the Akanu Ibiam airport, Enugu, have every reason to be happy at the re-opening of the facility a few days ago. The airport, now upgraded to an international status, had been shut down for more than ten months so that refurbishing work could take place.

While the airport was in disuse Enugu-bound passengers had to endure the routing of their flights through the much smaller Sam Mbakwe airport in Owerri. They would then drive another three hours to Enugu through a federal highway that is in shambles. For most part the journey by road to or from Owerri was like running a gauntlet between armed robbers and kidnappers. Many paid dearly while the closure of the Enugu airport lasted. However, as the saying goes, all is well that ends well.


The reopening of the airport following the expansion of the runway is a welcome development. The Akanu Ibiam airport is one of the oldest in the country. Years of neglect had, however, left the facility in a less-than-befitting state. Not only were the run ways not long enough for international flights, even the departure and arrival lounges had become utterly seedy, lacking some of the basic facilities that standard airports are known for all over the world. News of the upgrading of the airport was understandably therefore well received by most people who use the facility regularly.


As an international airport, the Akanu Ibiam facility is expected to be equipped with modern facilities to enable travelers flying out of the country to take off from Enugu without having to go to Lagos, Abuja or even the Port Harcourt international airport. That it took so long to upgrade the airport is one of those ironies of the Nigerian state. A survey of foreign trips made by Nigerians over the past decade, for instance, indicates that a good deal of it involves people from the Southeast who would have loved to take off straight from Enugu. Yet they had to fly first into some other city before they could catch an overseas flight. Such circumnavigation! Now that the airport has been upgraded to an international status it must live up to the billing in terms of the amount of facilities available there.

Expanding the runways is not enough. Attention also needs to be paid to other operational facilities that conduce to safety. One that cannot wait is the completion of work on the facilities that would enable airplanes take off and land in the night. We hear that right now that cannot happen because the installation of the necessary facilities is yet to be completed.

The airport's terminal building also needs expansion and more modern restrooms. The existing ones are hardly befitting of an international airport. The hope of the users of the Akanu Ibiam international airport is that the airport will match the best anywhere.

For most of them, the upgrading of the airport is prayer answered. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) must not disappoint them. All that needs to be done to make the airport truly international should be provided. Already some of the foreign carriers are reported to have expressed their preference to originate and terminate their flights in Nigeria from Enugu because of the high volume of their passengers that come from that region. That will be good for not only the prospective passengers but also for FAAN. Let nothing therefore stand in the way of the airport. By and large, we expect the federal government to also upgrade more Nigerian airports to international status.

kalokalo:
An airport is an economic venture. You don't establish economic enterprises on ethnic, religious, tribal or political grounds.  That is why an airport set up to placate a particular ethnic WILL FAIL just like ALL other government ventures set up on political grounds instead of rational economics.

Only 4 airports are viable in Nigeria. All others are white elephants

Enugu airport will trump most of those your viable airports when completed. It is number 5 now even as a local airport. Most of the international flyers are Igbos and will prefer to fly via Enugu

Your so-called 4 viable airports are the international ones
Lagos, Abuja, Kano and PH, not so?

Gbawe:
Yes OOO. While we agree on that , can we also sign it into law that the Yorubas are responsible for the security challenges facing the SE States? If fact , why don't we go the whole hog and blame the Yoruba for everything done/not done in the SE? Sounds very fair and logical to me.

SW also faces security challenges. I do not see anything happening in the SE that does not happen in the SW? Are there not kidnappings in the SW? What about the high death numbers from motor park tout activities. Does it happen in the SE? What about the general insecurity in Lagos occassioned by area boys? Look yourself in the mirror, my friend.

You should be more interested to know why Yorubas are opposing an international airport for the SE

Eziachi:
I think its a vey good idea, if they can hand it over to Lagos or at least to the govts of SW region as a collective responsibility. I understood you point, especially when Imo (Not Imo govt) built the Imo Airport without help. In fact I made a personal donation of 46 thousand naira to the Imo airport project then in the 80s during its fundraising ceremony in my Biafran Orlu Division Council, when Alison Madueke was the governor of Imo state.

So I will be glad if they are to hand over Enugu to the South East to manage it, give Port Harcourt to the socalled SS, Kano to the North and let the Abuja municipal govt be responsible for Abuja airport and then hopefully see some competition among them and the same way I feel and believe as the best and only way to solve Nigeria power/energy problems. Let everyone generate their own power and export some to make money if they have excess.

They can hand over all the international airports to the zones only after they have made Enugu a fully international airport. Before then, it is cheating on the SE that we have to use our money to internationalize it.

It is instructive to Igbos that all those opposing/working against the internationalization of Enugu airports have been Yorubas. We are taking note.

ekt_bear:
Lekki Airport is in works, so have no fear on that front.
This, again? Must I educate you on everything? Did you not learn your lesson from the Goldman Sachs/World Bank incident? Kindly do your own investigation. I am not here to feed you.

Another thrash talk. You mean the post where you demonstrated your lack of comprehension? I dey laugh oh! The day you teach me anything, that would be my last here.

Calculia:
No, someone like u is missing the point. The big idea here is to develop the southeast to the point that we do not go to order region but they come to us. Wat exactly is in Lagos for go sack that we can have in the southeast twice over.

I want all the yorubas in the southwest to have Lagos and all the igbos and south south, south east leave lagos for the east and let us see wat the place will be like in a number of years.

Lagos is wat it is today because of us and wen we leave with out resources and entrepreneur skills it will fall. Buildings do get old and outdated if that is wat u are worried about. Roads do get bad. Ndiigbo should leave lagos and lets do business in the south east and build it pain stakeingly from scratch.

Thank you. Nuff said.

ekt_bear:
Hehe.

Used collective money to "build and maintain it", then the funds that airport generated used to subsidize airports elsewhere.

Somehow I suspect that your assistance is not at all desired or wanted, especially since this seems to financially have benefited the federation far more than Lagos.

Free food indeed.

Well, your wish is what it is: a mere wish. Lagos airport is our collective heritage, like Abuja, Kano, PH and soon Enugu. No SW state will be given that airport. Build yours like other states have done. Thank you.

BTW, Lagos airport money is used to fund which airport?

ekt_bear:
Truth be told, I wish the FG would just hand over MMIA to Lagos State. Perhaps if that occurred, then there would be less need to build this new airport in Lekki. Just refurbish MMIA and make it world class, then the state can enjoy the revenues from it.

This is one of those cases where the less FG involvement, the better.

Hand over to Lagos (SW) after using our collective money to build and maintain it? You guys sure like free food.
Let Oyo, Lagos, Osun, Ekiti, and the rest of your SW states buld their own airports like Imo did more than 20 years ago and like Delta, Akwa Ibom etc are doing today.

In the interim, all regions should have a fed-funded international airport

Enugu airport-even as decrepit as it is now- is the fifth most viable airport in Nigeria and somebody is talking thrash?
Make it international and see if any Igbo cares about Lagos airport. Make it international and see if it will not compete with Lagos for flights in a matter of few years

Most of those who patronize Lagos airport out of Nigeria on daily basis are from where? SE.

ekt_bear:
I tend to agree with Eziachi and co on this. I don't even see why the FG is the one who determines who gets airports and who doesn't. You'd figure market forces would be who determines that. If the SE zone can afford to have 20 airports and all are profitable, then let them have it. In contrast, if the SW zone can only afford to maintain one airport in Lagos, that let it be content with that.

Right now we have a situation in which there are many airports, but only a few are profitable (Lagos, Kano, Abuja and PH, iirc). All the rest lose money, yet are subsidized by the strong airports and the FG.

BTW, you can get international flights directly into PH (or at least you used to be able to, I dunno what the situation looks like now. . . ) So no real reason to fly into Lagos or Abuja first, unless it is just cheaper.

Is the SW the one maintaining Lagos airports? Is Lagos airport a state airport? It is such cocky idiocy that needs to be checked. Imo state built an ariport single-handedly without Fed help. How many airports are in SW built by a SW state?

Fake story

4 Play:
I presume you are going to force international airlines at gunpoint to fly to Enugu.

You need a lot of catching up to do. Train don leave you behind since. Ndo.

LuluOsas sound like an edo person whose family is having a land feud with Ogiewonyi family back home. lol
But what did the SSS vet in her before she was cleared?

hugooh42:
If she is married to an Edo man that makes her an Edo woman.Why is now now representing Anambra state?But wait a minute.This Madueke woman who is from Bayelsa but married to an Enugu man,which state is she representing?If Bayelsa then Goodluck Jonathan is laying a bad precept for the country,putting asunder what God has joined together.He should remember in Marriage ,1+1=1

She is representing Bayelsa. I believe, too, that her husband from Enugu would prefer that she represents Bayelsa than not representing anyone (not a minister) at all. Actually, it should not matter if Igbo women married outside represents us as long as they are qualified. However, this Oduah woman does not have a niche to show in the aviation sector. But I would love that she proves me wrong with performance.

4 Play:
Converting Enugu Airport to an international airport is a waste of money. There are too many prestige projects in Nigeria and we seem to have a peculiar thing for airports. We will see how many international flights Enugu gets.

To answer you directly. Many of those who fly in and out of Nigeria are Igbos, than Yoruba and the North

Read this:

Some Foreign Carriers Plan To Originate & Terminate Their Flights At Enugu
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-575467.0.html

Another slowpoke spinning the wheel against Enugu airport

In whose interest is Enugu airport upgrade?
Friday, 01 October 2010 00:00 By [b]Wole Shadare [/b]Business Services - Business Travels


THE news last week that the Federal Government has approved the upgrade of the Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu to international status came as a shock. The decision was shocking, in the sense that the government has taken a rather dangerous path without understanding what it takes to do so.

An elated Minister of Aviation, Fidelia Akuabata Njeze, had underscored the significance of the airport to the Southeast region that has witnessed remarkable economic growth in recent years.

She highlighted the fact that “a large proportion of businesses in the region are of international dimension. With this upgrade, international travellers will be saved the added cost of going to Lagos or Port Harcourt to travel. Additionally, the safety of lives and property will be better guaranteed as less time will be spent on the roads.”

More worrisome is the fact that the Ministry of Aviation is celebrating it as an achievement without concrete steps to really match this with adequate infrastructure that will make the airport a pride that deserves the new status that is being tied it around. Or is it a case of politics where every state must have an airport, not based on commercial considerations but for the simple fact that we just need an airport?

Very soon, Oyo and Osun, Delta, Imo states will pressurise the government to upgrade the airports to international status just because they have a Minister of Aviation who is from that area. What manner of sector are we running in Nigeria? What type of policy formulators do we have? Do they really advice the government well?

Upgrading the airport to international status is a welcome development only if the several billions of naira that would be earmarked for the job would be judiciously used, but happenings in the sector clearly shows skepticism that it would be money gone down the drain.

The four major international airports are in bad shape. Not a few are of the opinion that efforts should be geared towards refurbishing them rather than embark on white elephant project.

What has the ministry done to refurbish decrepit facilities at virtually all the airports? The facilities are in shambles and seem to have defied all known solutions. What about the country’s flagship airport, the Murtala Muhammed Airport? The decay stares passengers in the face.

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is in a pitiable situation, not because the management is not trying its best, but because of huge interference from government officials, including the National Assembly, coupled with generational decay that has stunted its growth.

While FAAN is owed over N15 billion by some of its concessionaires, the ministry looks the other way or at best tells the agencies that the debtors are friends of people in government. How can such an agency grow to provide world-class service? It is impossible.

The recent disclosure that the government plans to release N90 billion to upgrade the four major airports of Lagos, Abuja, Port-Harcourt and Kano is heart warming, but we hope the fund will be channelled to the right place and not for electioneering campaign as it is being alleged in some quarters.

Again, Nigeria may indirectly be opening up its territories for foreign airlines, particularly those from the United States, which could force them to rely on the Open Skies agreement between her and U.S. to operate to the airport, thereby endangering the operations of the local airlines.

It could even make British carriers to activate the multiple designation pacts to operate to the airport without reciprocity from Nigerian airlines. Whose interest is the country protecting? Obviously, this is not in Nigeria ’s interest.

We are already witnessing one of the biggest rushes by foreign airlines to operate to Nigeria without the government equipping her own airlines to compete with these mega airlines. All Nigerian airlines put together cannot match airlines like Delta, Emirates, British Airways, even United Airlines.

To worsen the situation, United has concluded arrangement to commence direct flights to Lagos from Washington DC on December 6, 2010, in addition to Delta that has already established itself as one of the biggest airlines in the world.

It is very obvious that the government is not getting its priorities right, not with people who parade themselves as advisers to government.

An example of why only a SE person as the aviation minister will achieve the internationalization of Enugu airport
Read what Omotoba was attempting to do to that airport here

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-363230.0.html

Odunnu:
2day she's coming on board, 2mro she is not interested.
Where's that useless SR now?consistently serving us with fake info

lol. You need to educate urself on the role of SR (SW mouthpiece) in things regarding ndigbo. SR and its likes are created to obfuscate anything Igbo

Aganga going, going, gone??