tshtsh:
I read some posts about how the airport is a run down and comparing it with $2bn airports globally. I went on youtube and watched the drone video of the project. My position is that anambra airport can compete with abuja airport when completed. I had the same feeling when I landed in abu dhabi in 2012 with the airport looking like a construction site with cranes and bulldozers all over the place. A look at abu dhabi airport today is mindblowing. With the layout of the anambra airport, if continuous investment is done over the next 4 - 8 years that project will be a thing to be proud of. Hopefully the govt that will take over from Obiano will not abandon the project and I also believe anambra investors will take advantage of opportunities to invest there. Its a state government airport and will not be subject to the bureaucracy of FAAN and its unions. I also believe air peace can tap into the market that airport will offer.My fear is that enugu airport will lose its relevance in the region but since the fed govt have refused to invest in it the way it ought to anambra can serve as the gateway airport to the south east.

NEWSREPORT:
This was the very rare moment the air peace pilot announced to the passengers that they are now in the air space of Anambra international airport



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zRZy0DxcP8

cjrane:


Soon Anambra will be welcoming this category of Cargo airplanes!

Congratulations to Obiano for giving this great facility to Anambra, and indeed the rest of the region and Nigeria at large.

If Nigeria were indeed a united country, even people outside the region will be commending Obiano and giving him titles for a job well done to open up Nigeria for more international trade and commerce.

But, in Nigeria, all the black man specializes in is how to frustrate and pull each other down. I am so happy for Anambra state's achievement because I don't subscribe nor reason like a typical black man. A seriously flawed mindset of black people that has kept us down and against each other's progress worldwide.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3uf2ylcUb4&t=175s

ANSMEDIA:


Air Peace is truly a son of the soil

ChimaAdeoye:
Apart from completing the remaining works at the Anambra International Passenger / Cargo airport, massive landscaping with trees, grass, and flowers is what must be followed up now. Hopefully, they have a landscaping team (Contractor) that does the landscaping work as a contract to ensure that it is properly done. This is also the best time for landscaping as we slowly enter the rainy season.

However, one final appeal I have seen among many Anambra indigenes and diasporans is for the MOU to develop the Anambra airport city (aerotropolis) to be signed now before Obiano leaves office. Whether we like it or not, the airport city will develop now that the airport has become a reality. The question now is whether it will be a re-creation of another Ochanja type development with unorganized, filthy markets and truck parks everywhere, or if we will manage to create something decent as a true airport city that will become a reference of development for the entire southeast. The difference between these two types of development is early intervention by the government to properly guide how the desired airport city should develop.

Most of us like how the development of Abuja was regulated to produce a decent, well-planned city. Abuja is better than Lagos because it was planned and the development regulated according to the master plan. I have come to trust Willie Obiano as a man committed to the quality and development of a place based on the master plan, not the chaotic market trader development we have in Nigeria. This is actually a rare attribute among many Africans especially Southeast governors!

My fear is that a new Anambra governor might have their typical funny and weird fixation of either building a mobile phone assembly plant as their only development, while totally neglecting government core functions of ensuring core developmental areas as the Anambra airport city has properly regulated development. That is why we are pleading to Obiano to sign the MOU for the development of Anambra International Airport City before leaving office. That is the only way to ensure that development within the airport city eventually follows the plan to meet our collective aspiration for a truly modern aerotropolis in Anambra state.

A well-planned and carefully designed residential and commercial development district similar to the video below will be desirable for the Anambra International Airport city (Aerotropolis). it will also help grow tourism and attraction of high-end quality investment into the state for such a district to exist close to the international airport.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EObw_t_27e0

film3four:
This was the very moment the test flights from Air Peace flew out of the sky and landed at the runway of Anambra international airport




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr1N6hpTlMM

AmericanQuarter:
Second commercial aircraft lands in Anambra international airport

PROUDIGBO:


Nah...looks more like the temporary office for the construction coys. They will need a place for meetings, staff mess room, etc.

ANSMEDIA:



The speed with which they are pushing on the overall project is just amazing. I wish this is how projects are done all over Nigeria. Good job

cjrane:


Actually, the greatest painful shock among haters of Anambra in particular and Igboland, in general, is the God's speed this project was achieved. They hoped that in the usual Nigerian way of slowing a project down in order to call for contract re-appraisal and review to steal money, the project would not be completed.

They were wrong! Obiano was interested in writing his name in platinum in the history of Anambra state than stealing a few million that will finish before the 3rd year after he left office.

I am so glad that Obiano mobilized his men and his resources to not just do a very high-quality project, but complete it in record time even if it meant no avenue for kickbacks through contract reviews.

That evil night owl that visits this forum every midnight is still in absolute shock since Friday the 30th of April, and has still been unable to fly at night for witch meetings since then.

You are very right. Obiano shocked everyone, oppositions are in disarray, haters are confused, they don't know what else to say. LOL @ the evil night owl. Some others are now saying that it is a Chinese property

Obiano delivered a masterpiece quality beautiful project in this Anambra international airport. God continue to bless him and all of Anambra

ANSMEDIA:



You are very right. Obiano shocked everyone, opposition are in disarray, haters are confused, they don't know what else to say. Some others are now saying that it is a Chinese property

Obiano delivered a masterpiece quality project in this Anambra international airport. God bless him and all if Anambra

cjrane:


The most hilarious i have heard is that some Mammy wota gave Obiano $2 billion dollars for Anambra to enjoy, and Obiano is giving Anambra people this airport for the whopping $2 billion dollars that mammy wota dashed Anambra people to guild airport!

I love Anambra politics because it has the most bizarre set of characters in it.

BossJamal:
Even that bald head pilot run down d airport o

ANSMEDIA:



You are very right. Obiano shocked everyone, oppositions are in disarray, haters are confused, they don't know what else to say. LOL @ the evil night owl. Some others are now saying that it is a Chinese property

Obiano delivered a masterpiece quality beautiful project in this Anambra international airport. God continue to bless him and all of Anambra

cjrane:


The most hilarious i have heard is that some Mammy wota dwelling in River Niger gave Obiano $2 billion dollars for Anambra to enjoy, and Obiano is giving Anambra people this airport for the whopping $2 billion dollars that mammy wota dashed Anambra people to guild airport!

I love Anambra politics because it has the most bizarre set of characters in it.
My question is why didn't that mammy wota give the same amount to Mbadinuju, Ngige, Peter Obi et al. to build the airport all these years?

I totally detest people that can never acknowledge good deeds despite their political leaning.

globemoney01:

These are PDP idiots, Obiano has just made the next election a walk over for APGA so their wailing is expected. The funny thing is many people didnt know the magnitude of the project till the 30th test running, the excitement across the state and beyond was something else, ndi Anambra have never been this proud and excited, from whatsapp status to everywhere. The PDP losers scored an own goal on this one because it was as if their veil of deceit against Obiano all these while was lifted on people, if you go through their posts you'll see many attacks from people against them, unlike before.

Despite the PDP madness it was interesting to see people like Oseloka Obaze and Chris Azubogu throw their support on the airport.

abnot:

I don’t know the pilot’s perspective but the project is ongoing and not complete. Once the runway, apron and other safety critical systems are in place an airport can be put into use while work continues on other areas. Work can continue for the next 5 years as such projects are a continuum. It’s wrong to tag it a mediocre project. A few months ago it was a bare land and now it has metamorphosed into something. In a few months time it will also be different

afube:


incredibly, he accomplished it at a very reasonable 6billion naira, which is about 13 million US dollars..........that commissioner of works got some talent! That's a guy to look out for!

globemoney01:

These are PDP idiots, Obiano has just made the next election a walk over for APGA so their wailing is expected. The funny thing is many people didnt know the magnitude of the project till the 30th test running, the excitement across the state and beyond was something else, ndi Anambra have never been this proud and excited, from whatsapp status to everywhere. The PDP losers scored an own goal on this one because it was as if their veil of deceit against Obiano all these while was lifted on people, if you go through their posts you'll see many attacks from people against them, unlike before.

Despite the PDP madness it was interesting to see people like Oseloka Obaze and Chris Azubogu throw their support on the airport.

iaamxavier:



Hello everyone, I heard anambra airport has been reduced to a local airport by FG even before the completion and testing of the runway

How true is this??

ANSMEDIA:



The narrative of $2d got me laughing so much, that I asked one poster on Facebook to calculate Anambra's budget since 1999, that it is yet to reach $2d. He digressed and said that some Chinese businessmen gave Obiano $2d, and I asked him to show me a link where I can read about the $2d donation, he disappeared since noon, till now he hasn't responded. Some people are just hilarious

chiefobdk:


Please stop the hype.. If Obiano could do this project what stopped him from doing similar projects depending on need across the state...

I am from Nnewi but i cant beat my chest and proudly mention any Obiano project in Nnewi town...

Obiano did well in this airport but overall i am disappointed....

Why be say na dis airport everyone keep taking about.. 6 billion naira project should be normal for a state as developed as Anambra is

ChimaAdeoye:
Apart from completing the remaining works at the Anambra International Passenger / Cargo airport, massive landscaping with trees, grass, and flowers is what must be followed up now. Hopefully, they have a landscaping team (Contractor) that does the landscaping work as a contract to ensure that it is properly done. This is also the best time for landscaping as we slowly enter the rainy season.

However, one final appeal I have seen among many Anambra indigenes and diasporans is for the MOU to develop the Anambra airport city (aerotropolis) to be signed now before Obiano leaves office. Whether we like it or not, the airport city will develop now that the airport has become a reality. The question now is whether it will be a re-creation of another Ochanja type development with unorganized, filthy markets and truck parks everywhere, or if we will manage to create something decent as a true airport city that will become a reference of development for the entire southeast. The difference between these two types of development is early intervention by the government to properly guide how the desired airport city should develop.

Most of us like how the development of Abuja was regulated to produce a decent, well-planned city. Abuja is better than Lagos because it was planned and the development regulated according to the master plan. I have come to trust Willie Obiano as a man committed to the quality and development of a place based on the master plan, not the chaotic market trader development we have in Nigeria. This is actually a rare attribute among many Africans especially Southeast governors!

My fear is that a new Anambra governor might have their typical funny and weird fixation of either building a mobile phone assembly plant as their only development, while totally neglecting government core functions of ensuring core developmental areas as the Anambra airport city has properly regulated development. That is why we are pleading to Obiano to sign the MOU for the development of Anambra International Airport City before leaving office. That is the only way to ensure that development within the airport city eventually follows the plan to meet our collective aspiration for a truly modern aerotropolis in Anambra state.

A well-planned and carefully designed residential and commercial development district similar to the video below will be desirable for the Anambra International Airport city (Aerotropolis). it will also help grow tourism and attraction of high-end quality investment into the state for such a district to exist close to the international airport.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EObw_t_27e0