Teddeebear:
Bleep off my mention, i don't want to say what i should not say, my experiences with yorubas are terrible, from neighborhood to workplace, etc even in church, the same pride and silly ego ……

Teddeebear:
thanks for saying the truth, yorubas are the ones blocking the success. At least we know how Yoruba killed TINAPA. at least we have seen how Fashola has earmarked N88billion for SW and 2billion for SE

hahaha, tomorrow someone will shout "one Nigeria"

whiteboyswag:
I don't think so ppl still do business here in SS n SE. Sometime ago I heard it's more expensive to clear a car in onne(rivers) port compared to lagos but why should it be like that is it not govt fee why should it vary.

jaymichael:
You asked a question, you were given answers (according to the poster's POV) you said you don't think so. Since you have the answers to the questions yourself, why ask in the first place.

obailala:
So in essense you are saying the Yorubas are bullying Igbos?... Tufia gi!. That is very rubbish reasoning. The only people people hindering the success are the useless unpatriotic set of Igbo leaders who only sleep, wake, wine, dine and collect chieftaincy titles for achieving nothing when they return from Abuja. Today we have people like TA Orji representing Igbos in Abuja and you are here telling me Yorubas are out problem?... All man for himself, while other leaders of other ethnic nationalities are hustling for their people, what are Igbo leaders doing?

Teddeebear:
Bleep off my mention, i don't want to say what i should not say, my experiences with yorubas are terrible, from neighborhood to workplace, etc even in church, the same pride and silly ego ……

OreMI22:
There is a concerted effort by Hausa and to an extent Yoruba to frustrate any project outside their zone

Teddeebear:
liar,
liar …


the answer is simple, Yoruba agenda politics

whiteboyswag:
Pls house let's have a matured and sensitive discussion, pls I'm here to learn no base.
In the past years we have seen lagos grow and still growing into a mega city where every local government area have benefited heavily and even neighbouring States benefiting from its overflow because of major activities happening in the state one of which is the tincan port apapa which generates more than 60 percent of internal revenue for the state.
My question is with all the traffic gridlock in the state why is it that most goods(cars mostly) still come in only though lagos.

OreMI22:
There is a concerted effort by Hausa and to an extent Yoruba to frustrate any project outside their zone

santori:



point of correction. the revenues collected from the port goes to the federal purse and it's shared among all the federating states

EastanPower:


Is that why SE gets 29b and SW gets more than twice that amount of 88b

kayfra:


When you've participated in international trade, you will understand the concept of insurance. For any shipper to agree to ship goods out to those ports, they have to pass the cost of increased insurance premiums to the people that want to ship goods to that region. Increased insurance means increased shipping fees and also the dangers in the water means more chances of a force majeure.

Nobody wants to play emotional politics with their containers, not my igbo business oriented friends. They'll rather use Lagos for obvious reasons coz it's a lot more cheaper landing cost. If you and I both sell product X, I ship to Lagos and you ship to Onne and we both sell in the SE markets. I'll out compete you every damned day, 365 days of the year.

For crude shipments, the cost of high insurance is already factored in and we also don't have any other feasible port to ship oil other than those ones. This increases our cost of crude and it's one of the reasons we can't sell crude as competitive as Angola. Those sea pirates and miscreants have jacked up our costs!

obailala:
Bro, everything in life mustn't be seen as a competition. This is just the first out of 4 budgets to come, we still have the 2017, 2018 and 2019 budgets. The budget for the SW dwarfs every other region because of the priority given to the Lagos-Ibadan road. Priority was given to that road for 3 main reasons, it's the busiest road in Nigeria (in terms of vehicular traffic), it's the most economically viable road in Nigeria (given that it leads into and out of the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria) and its construction is already ongoing and at an advanced stage; the idea is to complete already progressing contracts instead of littering the nation with incomplete projects.

Once again, this is just the first out of 4 budgets to come, we still have the 2017, 2018 and 2019 budgets.

santori:


even for the 6 years Jonathan sidelined yorubas could not abate the trend? tribalism nor go kill you

Collynzo888:


You are a disgrace to your family, a grown man blaming others for his own problem. Face your gala hawking since your brain is filled with dust.

Teddeebear:
shut up, that is what you are being told, but You have no prove.


a Yoruba was supposed to be the speaker house of rep, tinubu and his crew fought it, and you are claiming sidelined …

what do you even know about Nigeria or politics

santori:



point of correction. the revenues collected from the port goes to the federal purse and it's shared among all the federating states

Goke7:


thanks jare, I almost fainted when i read that revenue from Tin can Island goes the Lagos state Govt.

ceaz4r:


How come this 'insecurity' didn't stop petroleum activities in that same region the way it 'affected' port activites?

How come other businesses, especially individual businesses, still trive there in the Niger Delta?
Please enlighten us.

PaulJohn1:
Good question @ op.

Also been wondering how a nation with potentials and population as huge as Nigeria have only one functional port for import and export (except crude oil)
Very unreasonable. Imagine if Lagos port is attacked or something goes wrong, then the whole country that is not self sufficient in almost all sectors get static.

If the government (states & Fed) is serious, piracy and other factors raised by earlier posters are things that can be well handled. The FG feel relaxed about piracy in other ports because one is functional (lagos). A progressive government won't think this way. But will stive to make all ports functional at whatever cost. The benefits are just unlimited: Employment, Development, De-congestion.
In a functional Nigeria, minimum of 4 of the nation's 8 coastal states should have a port and at least an inland port.
Lagos, Ogun/Ondo, Delta/Bayelsa, Rivers, AI/CR should have a port.

kayfra:


Wrong assumption.

Onne and the other ports in that area are responsible for most of our crude oil exports. The price for insecurity is just added to the cost of producing and distributing crude. It's the main reason why our crude has an artificial $10 a barrel in cost or so for insecurity and instability.

Buhari's response is deploying the navy and army to that area to secure it but a lot of people will call it militarization etc etc. Just a bunch of ignorant people.

IGBOPRINCE:
don't mind them they speak like they know much. If there is insecurity in onne ports, what is wrong in bringing escorts or what s wrong if the govt deploys soldiers/navy or police to protect the place. Someone here quick to replied insecurity,militancy and so on.
If such vices is chasing businessmen then they should think of dredging river niger in anambra state and making it an alternative option since onne port is not conducive and protective.

IGBOPRINCE:
don't mind them they speak like they know much. If there is insecurity in onne ports, what is wrong in bringing escorts or what s wrong if the govt deploys soldiers/navy or police to protect the place. Someone here quick to replied insecurity,militancy and so on.
If such vices is chasing businessmen then they should think of dredging river niger in anambra state and making it an alternative option since onne port is not conducive and protective.

IGBOPRINCE:
don't mind them they speak like they know much. If there is insecurity in onne ports, what is wrong in bringing escorts or what s wrong if the govt deploys soldiers/navy or police to protect the place. Someone here quick to replied insecurity,militancy and so on.
If such vices is chasing businessmen then they should think of dredging river niger in anambra state and making it an alternative option since onne port is not conducive and protective.

obailala:
Are you aware that life is all about competition? Every business man or trader wants all the customers to come into his shop. So while the Yorubas are scheming for imports to come in through their ports/shops, what have SE and SS leaders been doing for decades? What did even Jonathan do about this in his 5 years?

Bro before you blame the other man for hustling hard to fend for himself and his children, ask youself what your own fathers/leaders have been doing to meet your needs when they get to Abuja.

Meanwhile you want customers to branch into your store yet you eulogise pirates and some common criminals who smoke weed and operate infront of your shop; and then when the customers are scared away, you blame the owner of the other shops of using juju. Wake up man! It's all common sense.

payosehtor:
River Niger to onitsha!? that's running away from smoke to fire. Biafra? nigerians doesn't trust that east oh! the otherside is ''our oil'' millitancy

Teddeebear:
i don't need to be told another Yoruba bigot


tell your liar Mohammed to stop blaming Gej, else he is also a disgrace to tinubu