mrvitalis:

That infrastructure is why our economy is crumbling

U use money u don't have to build infrastructure that can't pay for itself that's stupidity

Anyone building infrastructure in Nigeria now knows nothing about economics

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/080816/can-infrastructure-spending-really-stimulate-economy.asp

when done properly, infrastructure projects actually can stimulate the economy.

but that is when they are executed with the intention of stimulating the economy. this is simply about stimulating makindes net worth.

mrvitalis:
Any airport that has less than 100,000 passengers yearly is what we want to waste money on now

Seems Nigerians and APC lead leadership don't know how bad our finances are

Sometimes I blame those giving us loans

It will relieve the pressure on Lagos Airport. Ibadan has a modern rail and road network connecting Ibadan to Lagos. Makinde should now replicate the Lagos Red line in Ibadan.

MrEverest:


Lol, another ignorant comment. How will Ibadan serve as alternative to Lagos when it’s several hours away? So, someone will land in Ibadan then take the dangerous Lagos-Ibadan expressway back to Lagos? Which sane living in Lagos will go to Ibadan to board flights instead of using the one in Lagos? If Ibadan has the local economy to sustain flight operations, then why has the local airport remained unviable since?

It is foolishness to think that just renaming an airport to international will automatically make it viable. Sokoto and Maiduguiri are also international airports 😂😂😂

Tinubu is the most foolish person to rule Nigeria in history. Even Buhari wasn’t this foolish 😆😆

Ode! So it's only Lagosians that use MMIA?

sulaak:


It will relieve the pressure on Lagos Airport. Ibadan has a modern rail and road network connecting Ibadan to Lagos. Makinde should now replicate the Lagos Red line in Ibadan.

U mean Lagos red line that is operating at a massive loss?

Abuja hasn't reduced pressure on Lagos, port Harcourt hasn't, Enugu hasn't but Ibadan would?

Can Oyo afford this upgrade or would they borrow money ?

GloriousGbola:


https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/080816/can-infrastructure-spending-really-stimulate-economy.asp

when done properly, infrastructure projects actually can stimulate the economy.

but that is when they are executed with the intention of stimulating the economy. this is simply about stimulating makindes net worth.

You must have an industry that can be stimulated

Abia and Akwa Ibom are perfect examples

Abia before now had zero infrastructure people abuse the road and shit but u still have to go to aba ro transact

Akwa Ibom has the best infrastructure but depends on Aba for most goods and services

How you guys see reality yet don't understand it is beyond me

BeeBeeOoh:


https://punchng.com/just-in-tinubu-has-approved-upgrade-of-ibadan-airport-makinde/

What is the crazy things about Airports from Governors?

Are they doing it for their own interest, so they can avoid using road networks where Bandits easily operate on?

sulaak:
■ It will relieve the pressure on Lagos Airport.
■ Ibadan has a modern rail and road network connecting Ibadan to Lagos. Makinde should now replicate the Lagos Red line in Ibadan.

Ibadan airport is at least 42 years old. How many people from Lagos and the rest of the south west have connected flights from Ibadan rather than Lagos in all of those 4 decades?!

2. Modern rail network?

budaatum:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/25/nigeria-keeps-building-airports-but-where-are-the-passengers

It is a pity that you don't know the difference between upgrades and building a new one.

Nice update,

Remain ogun state international Airport in wasimi very soon.

DUNDEEmoderatos:
It is a pity that you don't know the difference between upgrades and building a new one.

Ibadan airport is at least 42 years old. How many people from Lagos and the rest of the south west have connected flights from Ibadan rather than Lagos in all of those 4 decades?!

Cmanforall:
■ What is the crazy things about Airports from Governors? Are they doing it for their own interest, so they can avoid using road networks where Bandits easily operate on?

Big projects which which to deeply line their pockets with naw... you no know Nigeria again? Dem no get running water, electricity or even good school system but dem must get airport by fire or by force!

This particular airport is 42 years old at least and has in all that time remained on life-support. Now we have yet another governor claiming if you add more money to the thing, e go magically germinate million millions. And see as people dey eat up the nonsense story already. Who do Nigerians this kain thing abeg!

mrvitalis:

A very useless waste of scarce resources we don't have

I was thinking that you were making sense until I read this. Did you just called second Niger Bridge a waste of resources. You really don't know what development is all about.

happney65:


Exactly. That is what the seyi Makinde administration is gunning for and this airport upgrade approval is the icing on the cake.

In his first term,He did the road that led to the airport by dualising it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2023/03/wike-joins-makinde-to-commission-ibadan-airport-road/amp/

Constructed a 500,000 Aviation fuel Tank Farm at the Airport. Before now,planes cannot refuel there. Now they do and more airlines are now plying the Ibadan route. Airpeace and others

His plan is to expand the runway after the FG has given the approval. With the runway expansion and the building of a new terminal, it becomes fully an international airport and will take the stress off the Lagos airport

When the runway in Lagos is full,planes are diverted to Ghana. That won't be again. They will be diverted to Ibadan and contribute to the Economy of the State

I hope mrvitalis is reading this?

Kobojunkie:
Ibadan airport is at least 42 years old. How many people from Lagos and the rest of the south west have connected flights from Ibadan rather than Lagos in all of those 4 decades?!

Because some hating souls downgraded it immediately they got into power from December 31 1983 as part of an agenda to destroy the south west economically, all noises to make them see reasons didn't work out. But that vision of growth has refused to die. So, do you also do hate business?

mrvitalis:

U mean Lagos red line that is operating at a massive loss?

Abuja hasn't reduced pressure on Lagos, port Harcourt hasn't, Enugu hasn't but Ibadan would?

Can Oyo afford this upgrade or would they borrow money ?

The question is not whether Oyo State can afford the upgrade but whether it will benefit from it. The majority of railways around the world operate at a loss and are subsidised by the government for the services they support.

A state like Oyo can benefit from Lagos's congestion and overpopulation if it invests more in logistics, electricity, transportation, security, and hospitality.

The Lagos Redline has not been completed. Redline will only be viable if it connects the Agege/ Ikeja axis to Lagos Island. Nobody will pay for a railway that ends in Oyingbo, and the Redline has to be subsidised to relieve congestion on Lagos roads and improve economic activities and employment. Don't read the nonsense from the IMF/World Bank playbook; subsidies are necessary to support economic development.

Kobojunkie:
Ibadan airport is at least 42 years old. How many people from Lagos and the rest of the south west have connected flights from Ibadan rather than Lagos in all of those 4 decades?!

Wheather it is 100 years or 500 years a new airport is not being built. Period that is my point. As for your question keep reading the comments, someone had already given a good explanation.

mrvitalis:

A very useless waste of scarce resources we don't have

You were doing quite well until this statement.
You should have conceded this point😂😂
The second Niger bridge is not a useless waste of scarce resources.
APC scored a point there

happney65:
■ Exactly. That is what the seyi Makinde administration is gunning for and this airport upgrade approval is the icing on the cake. In his first term,He did the road that led to the airport by dualising it. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2023/03/wike-joins-makinde-to-commission-ibadan-airport-road/amp/
Constructed a 500,000 Aviation fuel Tank Farm at the Airport. Before now,planes cannot refuel there. Now they do and more airlines are now plying the Ibadan route. Airpeace and others His plan is to expand the runway after the FG has given the approval. With the runway expansion and the building of a new terminal, it becomes fully an international airport and will take the stress off the Lagos airport
When the runway in Lagos is full,planes are diverted to Ghana. That won't be again. They will be diverted to Ibadan and contribute to the Economy of the State

The last major diversion of planes from Lagos to Ghana happened in 2020, and it was not due to runways being full as you claim but due to bad weather. Ibadan is barely 80 miles from Ibadan meaning weather issues are bound to be similar across both airports.

Additionally, MMIA recently embarked on its expansion projects, so exactly how much traffic does the governor expect would come on average from MMIA to boost the viability of Ibadan Airport which has, for approximately 42 years, existed on life-support?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/14/africa/lagos-flight-diverted-to-ghana/index.html

This is a welcome development. Great move and long overdue. Kudos to Seyi Makinde. You deserve to be a senate president directly after your tenor for this.
Osun governor should have made this move.
The international passenger traffic in Lagos shows thousands of people travel from Ile fe, Ilesa, Ekiti, Ede, Oshogbo, Akure, Ibadan, Ogbomoso to Lagos to connect flights abroad

Clearly it’s a viable airport that will reduce congestion in Lagos especially on the LOS-LHR and about to be introduced LOS-JFK route. It will end up being the third busiest airport for international passengers within a year

MrEverest:


Lol, another ignorant comment. How will Ibadan serve as alternative to Lagos when it’s several hours away? So, someone will land in Ibadan then take the dangerous Lagos-Ibadan expressway back to Lagos? Which sane living in Lagos will go to Ibadan to board flights instead of using the one in Lagos? If Ibadan has the local economy to sustain flight operations, then why has the local airport remained unviable since?

It is foolishness to think that just renaming an airport to international will automatically make it viable. Sokoto and Maiduguiri are also international airports 😂😂😂

Tinubu is the most foolish person to rule Nigeria in history. Even Buhari wasn’t this foolish 😆😆

English is your problem, I understand and I won't take it on you.

As an alternative means those living in Ibadan, Ondo, Akure and Ogun State do not need to travel down to Lagos to board an international flight ...

Don't bother to quote me dude, I know you are bittered.

I don't preach hatred, I preach love

seunayantokun:
▶Because some hating souls downgraded it immediately they got into power from December 31 1983 as part of an agenda to destroy the south west economically, all noises to make them see reasons didn't work out. But that vision of growth has refused to die. So, do you also do hate business?

So, for 42 years after the downgrade, the airport could not at least prove there was meaning to its existence? And now, the current governor wants to, using mago-mago, make you all believe this comatose airport will magically become better than the other 20-something other elephant airport projects of its kind that litter Nigeria today? 😐😐😐😐😐

DUNDEEmoderatos:
■ Wheather it is 100 years or 500 years a new airport is not being built. Period that is my point. As for your question keep reading the comments, someone had already given a good explanation.

Ah! I see! Waste can only occur if say na new airport. Politrick-tians no fit use existing airports line their pockets, abi?

sulaak:
■ It will relieve the pressure on Lagos Airport.
■ Ibadan has a modern rail and road network connecting Ibadan to Lagos. Makinde should now replicate the Lagos Red line in Ibadan.

Kobojunkie:
Ibadan airport is at least 42 years old. How many people from Lagos and the rest of the south west have connected flights from Ibadan rather than Lagos in all of those 4 decades?!

2. Modern rail network?

The recently completed Lagos to Ibadan railway is a modern SGR that will be extended to Kano. If Ibadan has an international Airport, it will serve as a conduit in the wilder SW for international travel, considering that the state now has better transport links.

Why would you want to fly from a domestic airport to Ibadan domestic airport to connect to Lagos? It makes more sense to fly internationally from London to Ibdan and then take a train to Lagos.

I grew up in Lagos but studied in UI; it took me less than 2 hours to get to Ibadan, and the majority of the time was wasted getting a bus from Suru-Lere to Oshodi (this wast the 1980s)

Nigeria's problem is a lack of imagination; Nigeria is very poor today because the leaders and people are structured to survive and exploit their environment. However, if the country were developing, modern facilities would be required. t

budaatum:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/25/nigeria-keeps-building-airports-but-where-are-the-passengers

It is necessary to build the airports. This opens up these communities to new businesses

Kobojunkie:
Big projects which which to deeply line their pockets with naw... you no know Nigeria again? Dem no get running water, electricity or even good school system but dem must get airport by fire or by force!

This particular airport is 42 years old at least and has in all that time remained on life-support. Now we have yet another governor claiming if you add more money to the thing, e go magically germinate million millions. And see as people dey eat up the nonsense story already. Who do Nigerians this kain thing abeg!

Sad

Kobojunkie:
Ah! I see! Waste can only occur if say na new airport. Politrick-tians no fit use existing airports line their pockets, abi?

What are we saying what narrative is this one bringing?

DUNDEEmoderatos:

It is a pity that you don't know the difference between upgrades and building a new one.

Its a pity you like to assume what I know or don't know.

That's great

mrvitalis:
Any airport that has less than 100,000 passengers yearly is what we want to waste money on now

Seems Nigerians and APC lead leadership don't know how bad our finances are

Sometimes I blame those giving us loans

Why does Ibadan, a city of 4 million, have an airport traffic of less than 100000 per annum?

Ibadan now has a modern expressway and SGR railway that connect the town to Lagos state and a modern SGR railway under construction that will connect Ibadan to Illorin, Abuja and Kano. The upgrade is to the Airport and will be the responsibility of Oyo state.

I understand your concerns about the wastefulness of APC, spending billions on the Lagos-Calabar coastal road when the Markudi, Mambilla and Dasin Hausa Dam are a priority project for irrigation, electricity, and to prevent floods in the case of the Adamawa Dasin Hausa Dam

3,649,000
Ibadan is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 3,649,000 as of 2021, and over 6 million people within its metropolitan area. It is the country's largest city by geographical area.

Some of the benefits of playing smart politics. Obaseki can't get anything from federal government for Edo.

budaatum:


Its a pity you like to assume what I know or don't know.

Smh....

mrvitalis:
Any airport that has less than 100,000 passengers yearly is what we want to waste money on now

Seems Nigerians and APC lead leadership don't know how bad our finances are

Sometimes I blame those giving us loans

It's visionless leadership. Just vibes and emilokan.