thelastPope:

Are you saying Oshiomole is a foool and fellow fraudster for commissioning and praising the work? Simple question.

sheyie2007: This is not an airport this time next year you'll see gala kiosk in front of it.

ba7man: My friend just saw this thread and said....."This is one of the best looking local Airports he's seen in Nigeria, that the others look like Bungalows". We Nigerians have been in the dark for too long so any glimmer of candle-light is celebrated. Those that criticize this projects do so because they have been exposed to better environments. Those that support it do so because they're experiencing a change for once in a long time. Figure out where you stand.

adaobi123: its quite nice you know......have they finished with enugu yet ?

CFCfan:

Enugu's own is still under construction. I guess it will be completed by the last quarter of this year or early next year.

Rossikk:

Sorry but that is absolute rubbish. Those that support it do so not because they haven't seen Heathrow or JFK, but because they are sensible enough to understand that when a govt undertakes to remodel 15 airports, you should not expect each of the hitherto decrepit airports to suddenly start to look like Rome and Dubai Airport. They know that the budget for building Rome and Dubai airports is on a different scale to what was budgeted for these airport renovations. Lastly, they understand that the Benin airport is not yet fully completed, and is yet to undergo the landscaping and final finishing & equipping of the interior. They also realize that we cannot really make out the quality and scale of the renovation merely by viewing two pictures of the complex online.

manny4life:

Ok prove it, also prove that Nigeria's 2011 budget expense was $31billion? As of 2011, our total budget was way under $25billion, 2012 hovered around $26billion, 2013 was $32billion, so where did Nigeria's expense reach $31billion?

chucky234: Thats what I said and I have prove.

chucky234: In 2011 Italy expenditure were peg at US$27.34bn while Nigeria's expenditure for same year was US$31.9bn,why can't they give us something of equal standard or something close to what is obtainable in Italy.
You budgeted N700m for the renovation of a structure as important as a nation's international airport then end up spending N200m importing some fake chinko materials from China while stashing away the balance of N500m into the foreign bank accounts,people like who accept whatever our leaders gives us after they lavish billions and trillions are the reason why this country will never move forward.
Why can't we hold them accountable and stop praising them for every substandard infrastructure they put in place,imagine Fashola installed streetlights on a single road (Ikorodu) out of the more than a thousand roads and people suddenly clamouring for him to be the next president. What happen to the many poor people with pitiable living condition in areas like Ajegunle,Badia,Ijora,Mushin,Okokomaiko,Ajangbadi,Iba,Egbeda,Ipaja,Oshodi,Bariga,Ketu,Onireke,Agric,Orile,Amukoko,Olodi,Wilmer or was Fashola elected to govern only Ikoyi,Victoria Island,Surulere,Ikeja and Anthony?

IGBO-SON:
For the kind of traffic Benin airport sees, it is kinda small......unless of course it stretches way back. It's the next busiest airport after Lagos, Abuja, Warri and Enugu.

For heavens sakes, does someone have pics of inside the terminal?- toilets, gates, shops, etc; i'm tired of seeing only the entrance hall and a parking lot in need of some major landscaping work.

chucky234: Prove
www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-74202.html
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www.mobile.saharareporters.com/article/jonathan-and-31bn-question-nasir-ahmad-el-rufai
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www.dailyindependentnig.com/2013/01/nigerias-oil-exports-future-uncertain-report/
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www.publicservice.co.uk/article.asp?publication=European%20Science%20and%20Technology&id=469&content_name=Research%20-%20National%20Perspectives%20-%20Italy&article=15730

Sincere 9gerian: Those looking for N100billion edifice should look elsewhere. Each of the 11 Airports are being re-modelled at an average cost of N700million, mostly by direct labour. There's no N100billion to spend on Airports.

The most important thing is to ensure our Airports attain the minimum international standard

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Meanwhile, more pictures of the Benin Airport

thelastPope:

Look, get this into your skull! Ytou are not speaking the truth! You are playing politics! And no one is deceived by your con post! The airport has been remodelled and it is very very ok for the level of traffic. What were you expecting to see? A large shopping mall? If the governor, Adams Oshiomole, an opposition governor who was just 2 weeks ago speaking against PDP can acknowledge that the job is great, then you are inconsequential and your partisan rant is meaningless! Did you read that radars and control tower and more were installed?

Some of you don't know when to do politics and when to shut up! If you think condeming eveything GEJ does will get APC the 2015 victory, then you know nothing! Edo state people are very glad about the airports new look and no amount of NL rant will change that!

james_ibor:

If I call you ODE or ITIBOLIBO now, the mod will ban me. The Italian budget for 2012 was; $1.014 trillion dollars. I no blame you sha, that's what poverty can do to someone's brain.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2056.html

CFCfan:

Enugu's own is still under construction. I guess it will be completed by the last quarter of this year or early next year.

IGBO-SON:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06T-GZBKegU

At 12.30 you'll see where the minister told him to keep to his end of march promise (05.56), so the man should hurry the fuc/k up!

Rossikk:

The airport is not yet completed for goodness sake. Use your damned brain, fool!