izzou:
I am proudly Igbo. I stay in Badagry and i am really grateful for all these projects about to happen here. I just pray it comes to completion.


God bless Nigeria

Signature: Am in love with K E M I O L U N L O Y O

We know all the Efuluefu.... what is proud about your Igbo. RUBBISH

GreatSE:


Where will you get the fund to finance the project.....NDA know what is happening in Nigeria and all South South and SE are behind them..... Yorubas have been conniving with the North to deprive SS and SE everything with the help of few saboteurs like Amaechi now we know, this will make Niger Deltans more angrier.

Investors are spending their money on Lagos State not Niger Delta allocations.

Keep bombing, kidnapping, piracy in your region and see the amount of investors you'll attract.

9ja4show:


shey its not the federal account that they will deduct the money from abi

It will favours nigeria not just lagos

Wat abt the warri seaport, the coco seaport, the sapele seaport that has been abandon. If govt renovate these seaports I have just mentioned will it not help Nigerians too, must everything be in Lagos.

Weselion:

Shey Igbos know what they are doing? Instead of fighting for development, they are fighting for Biafra.

What have any igbo minister done for his or her state? They go there and forget their people. This are the same people that want to manage a country...

Biko wake me up when una get things right.... #ProudlyIgbo

How do one fight for development..... By sabotaging other regions, the only resean an Hausa/Fulani man will develop another man's land is because they know One day they will Collect it.....Yoruba Land is a conquered HAUSA /Fulani Land, when the time comes they will come for it...... Buhari have said it.

Reminez:

Ogbeni , go sell ugu joor

Una dey suffer the children of Jews too much. E no good o!

GreatSE:


Where will you get the fund to finance the project.....NDA know what is happening in Nigeria and all South South and SE are behind them..... Yorubas have been conniving with the North to deprive SS and SE everything with the help of few saboteurs like Amaechi now we know, this will make Niger Deltans more angrier.

Yorubas also connived with the North to deprive the SS and SE during the five year reign of GEJ right? Why didn't this kind of developmental project surface in the SS/SE during GEJ's time rather than enriching a few militant warlords? I guess the Yorubas and the north held his balls and stopped him from doing that. And this is the same man y'all were ready to lay your life down for him to continue being in power.

9ja4show:


shey its not the federal account that they will deduct the money from abi

It will favours nigeria not just lagos

Wat abt the warri seaport, the coco seaport, the sapele seaport that has been abandon, what abt epz. If govt renovate these seaports I have just mentioned will it not help Nigerians too, must everything be in Lagos.

What about approving new deep seaport for some of the coastal states like Delta, Rivers,Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom,Calabar) so that traders cost of clearance and transportation from lagos to the south-east south-south and surrounding states can be reduced and those states can have more internally generated revenue like Lagos?

Or better still the FG should approve the refurbishment of all the abandoned seaports or the key ones. I sure the loots that have been recovered can foot the bill for at least one.

Traders are crying about the high cost of customs clearance leaving them no choice but to increase the price of their wares. Honestly it makes no economic sense that a country as big as Nigeria have all their active seaports located in one small state, for God sake these are the things that these so called elected Rep members and senators should be discussing in their respective meetings rather than just looking to line their own pockets and padding budgets.

Rotimi Amaechi as the transport minister and who should be representing the interests of the Mid-West, south east and south-south and their surrounding states seems to be blind to the importance of diversifying the seaports in Nigeria. No problem sha, when he finishes with APC he will return to his people who will then question him what he has achieved in terms of multi-million dollar infrastructure. He bashed and rebashed Jonathan continuously over his lack of development , now that he is in the main hot seat of developing infrastructure what is he doing!!!!

Sheggy13:

Yorubas also connived with the North to deprive the SS and SE during the five year reign of GEJ right? Why didn't this kind of developmental project surface in the SS/SE during GEJ's time rather than enriching a few militant warlords? I guess the Yorubas and the north held his balls and stopped him from doing that. And this is the same man y'all were ready to lay your life down for him to continue being in power.

When he was spending 1/3 of the budget fighting Boko Haram from the North while SW were busy on their side shouting marginalization and sabotaging his government...and you think he will correct all anomalies created for 50 yrs in 5 yrs........

Miranda11:
[b]What about approving a deep seaport for some of the coastal states like Delta, Rivers,Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom,Calabar) [/b]so that traders cost of clearance and transportation from lagos to the south-east south-south and surrounding states can be reduced and those states can have more internally generated revenue like Lagos?

This is the reason more ppl from SS and SE will always support the activities of NDA......

GreatSE:


When he was spending 1/3 of the budget fighting Boko Haram from the North while SW were busy on their side shouting marginalization and sabotaging his government...and you think he will correct all anomalies created for 50 yrs in 5 yrs........

he didn't spend 1/3 of the budget fight anybody. He and his band of thieves in PDP squandered if not all they allocated to fight BH.

GreatSE:


When he was spending 1/3 of the budget fighting Boko Haram from the North while SW were busy on their side shouting marginalization and sabotaging his government...and you think he will correct all anomalies created for 50 yrs in 5 yrs........

Spending 1/3 of the budget to fight Boko haram or looting the money instead?

What do you think Dasukigate was all about?

How was the southwest shouting marginalization and sabotaging GEJ's administration?....... please explain with examples.

If people don't keep a good eye on you guys, you'll present lies as the truth.

MrTruth4real:

Wat abt the warri seaport, the coco seaport, the sapele seaport that has been abandon. If govt renovate these seaports I have just mentioned will it not help Nigerians too, must everything be in Lagos.

my brother everything must not be in Lag.
this is what is responsible for injustice, millitancy and depravity.

this is why they are calling for secession. they are not adequately accommodated.

moreso, federal presence over there is very minimal and even atrophying as seen in the ports you mentioned. this is crazy mehn.
this is economic warfare!

its just like empowering one region and impoverishing another.

FxDuke:


my brother everything must not be in Lag.
this is what is responsible for injustice, millitancy and depravity.

this is why they are calling for secession. they are not adequately accommodated.

moreso, federal presence over there is very minimal and even atrophying as seen in the ports you mentioned. this is crazy mehn.
this is economic warfare!

its just like empowering one region and impoverishing another.

you are right to an extent except for the fact that this particular project is a public/,private partnership which will be 100% funded by investors .and at the moment no sane investor will want to invest his funds in a region where it's youth destroys multi-billion facilities in the name of marginalisation and agitation....

Politics is a game of interests. It is obvious to any SE/SS individual that this govt is not for them. It is no longer a matter of sophistication or patriotism. It is now a game of survival.
So what do you then? It is time to leverage on the wealth of the SS, Build Strategic alliances especially in the middle-belt, Pay some parts and leaders of the core north with oil blocs if necessary ,and vote in a govt that is loyal to SS/SE and would do our bidding.
That is the politics buhari has introduced. The politics of the winner takes all. And given how poor he actually is, beating him would not be too difficult. We just need to be smart.

I've been waiting for these projects for a long time. They are way behind schedule, but I'm confident that they will be completed this time. I forgot to mention that the Energy City will also have a power plant.

[size=14pt]APM wants to build a mega-port in Nigeria[/size]


22/11/2012

APM Terminals, a subsidiary of AP Moller Maersk, has unveiled a mega-project deepwater port on the free zone of Badagry, Nigeria. A construction project from scratch to be one of the largest in Africa. 7 km of quays area of 1000 hectares port handling facilities for containers, bulk liquid and solid, the ferry and heavy loads, a capacity for offshore vessels and river terminal. An adjacent host a thermal plant, a refinery, storage warehouses and distribution area containers.

The first phase of the project will begin in 2016. APM Terminals is already present in Africa and has nine terminals in West Africa. In Nigeria, the Group operates the terminal Lagos Apapa and Onne it. Apapa terminal is currently the largest of the West Africa with nearly 720,000 TEUs (Twenty Feet Equivalent, standard size container) treated in 2012. Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, saw its container imports soar. Analysts predict that port capacity will be exceeded in 2017. Annual traffic of the country is expected to reach 10 million TEUs in the next thirty years.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1565040

[size=14pt]Multi-billion naira Lagos Energy City master-plan unveiled[/size]

By Emeka Ugwuanyi, Energy Correspondent

26-02-2008

The master-plan of the $1.5 billion (N180 billion) Lagos Energy City, which would be built at Badagry and expected to be completed by end of 2011, has been unveiled.

The unveiling of the master plan was performed by the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola at the weekend at the Civic Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos.

The unveiling of the master-plan marked the commencement of construction work on the energy city, which is expected to be a one-stop energy solution community and a benchmark for such projects in Africa.

The Energy City would be a fully integrated business centre solution for the oil and gas industry and would carter for the needs of all players in the industry’s value chain, providing world class facilities such as a convention centre, hotels, luxury villas, schools, mega malls, and medical facilities, among others.

The consortium behind the project said it has raised $105 million and would raise another $190 million by end of next month.

The unveiling ceremony was well attended by all stakeholders in the project including the communities of Badagry, an indication that the project has the support of the host communities.

Fashola noted that the project was of immense excitement and high expectation to the government adding that Lagos is rated the third largest growing city in the world by 2015. He recalled that the project was initiated after he launched the public/private partnership last year.

Besides the several benefits of the project, Fashola said it would help his desire in checking the coastlines of Lagos. He said in the last two months, he has been visiting the coastlines of Lagos exploring ways to protect them especially from sand miners, among others.

Besides having prolonged meetings with the communities, Fashola said the Lagos State Government set up a special committee headed by the Deputy Governor to explore avenues for smooth take off of the project assuring that the committee did a good job and the interest of the communities were factored into the project.

"On completion, the project will be the biggest energy city in Africa, energy hub and tourism centre like Houston, Singapore and Qatar and will enhance investment in Nigeria being the first in the region," he said.

Chairman, board of Supra Energy and Power City Limited, the firm in charge of the Lagos Energy city project, Mrs. Amina Oyagbola, was optimistic that the project would be of immense economic gain to the country.

Mr. Sathirut Tandanand, head of Siam Design Consortium, the lead master plan designer of the Lagos Energy City, presented the master-plan design to the Board of Directors of Supra Energy and Power City Limited, the concessionaires of the Lagos Energy City project, and to the Lagos state government last month before the formal launch at the weekend. He said they would incorporate some traditional building designs and cultural arts and patterns into the project design.

Siam Design Consortium comprises five leading architectural and engineering companies from Thailand - Dhevanand Company Limited, Siam Oriental Development Company Limited, Ongsa Architects Company Limited, RAFA Design Office Company Limited and EEC Engineering Network Company Limited.

The consortium designed the Suvarnahbhumi Airport (landscape) in Bangkok, Dubai Metro Project, the Asian Games Village in Doha, Qatar, and the Millennium Hilton in Bangkok, Thailand, among others and would create the master plan and architectural design of the energy city project.

The award-winning Singaporean Design consortium, Whiz Associate Pte., Limited, would carry out the design of Zone 1. Members of the design consortium include Whiz Concepts; Formwerkz Architects; Zarch; Salad Dressing; TEP Consultants Pte Limited and Lighting Planners Associates Inc. The Singapore consortium also plans to design the cabanas and the luxury condominium side of the project.

The two design consortiums will coordinate with local architects to provide local content for the project.

The Lagos Energy City is a 670 hectare development project divided into two zones with zone 1 serving as convention and tourism zone and zone 2, the energy city zone.

The master plan design includes the designs for both Zones 1 and 2. Zone 1 is the convention and tourist area that aims to re-develop the coast of Badagry into a regional destination in the convention and tourist market while Zone 2., the Energy City Zone, will strengthen Nigeria’s position as a global energy player, allowing it to join the ranks of other global energy hubs such as Houston, Qatar, Singapore and Calgary.

In addition, Zone 2 will include world class designs of houses, apartments, and town houses that will all be designed to make efficient use of the natural environment.

The master-plan includes a 130 megawatts power station that would supply uninterrupted power to the energy city and negotiation has commenced power companies for the construction of the 130 megawatts power plant.

Alhaji Lai Mohammed, a director, said that there would be no communal upheavals.

The construction of phase 1 of the project comprising of infrastructure: roads and other amenities would start in March this year and expected to be completed in November after which the second phase would commence.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/archive2/tblnews_Detail.php?id=45863

CSTR12:
Politics is a game of interests. It is obvious to any SE/SS individual that this govt is not for them. It is no longer of sophistication or patriotism. It is now a game of survival.
So what do you then? It is time to leverage on the wealth of the SS, Build Strategic alliances especially in the middle-belt, Pay some parts and leaders of the core north with oil blocs if necessary ,and vote in a govt that is loyal to SS/SE and would do our bidding.
That is the politics buhari has introduced. The politics of the winner takes all. And given how poor he actually is, beating him would not be too difficult. We just need to be smart.

Aren't You the ones celebrating anything bad that happens, fighting Buhari's govt, celebrating bombings and Millitants killing in the southwest etc................... and you now expect love?

You give hate so you'll attract hate.


It's a basic law of life.

danie09:
you are right to an extent except for the fact that this particular project is a public/,private partnership which will be 100% funded by investors .and at the moment no sane investor will want to invest his funds in a region where it's youth destroys multi-billion facilities in the name of marginalisation and agitation....

This is your excuse? But companies are building multi-billion dollars oil extraction units there as we speak. I wonder why they have not left.
Btw, i hope you know akwaibom is one of the safest places in the country, much safer than Lagos actually.

Shukuakukobambi:
hehehehehehe

While SW is racking up projects after projects, some OSU are quibbling over appointments. Ask them what they did with all the appointments the ogogoro master poured into their enclave from the unceasing sucking of his balls, they start speaking Indonesian language. They couldn't even mould one block for 2nd Niger bridge from it

I laugh in success

Some of una just too like trouble. Hain!

Anyway, it is time to strategize. It is stupidity to be patriotic to a govt that is against your progress.
It is time for the niger-delta begin to leverage on its oil wealth in deciding who becomes president just like it is done in america.

GreatSE:


When he was spending 1/3 of the budget fighting Boko Haram from the North while SW were busy on their side shouting marginalization and sabotaging his government...and you think he will correct all anomalies created for 50 yrs in 5 yrs........

How can you sabotage a government you overwhelmingly voted into power in 2011 ahead of this same Buhari and Ribadu (they voted ACN at the state governors level but voted for GEJ (PDP) and even protested on his behalf when Turai Yar'Adua and the northern oligarchy were not ready to relinquish power to GEJ after Yar'Adua's death. What did they get in return? He rather focused on the north that didn't support him and the SS/SE in terms of appointments and call their leaders thugs and sophisticated rascals after all the support. I don't think you except any sane people to continue supporting such a person that showed such open disdain for them and started running helter sharing money to pastors and a few greedy politicians in the region, few days to the election.

CSTR12:
This is your excuse? But companies are building multi-billion dollars oil extraction units there as we speak. I wonder why they have not left.
Btw, i hope you know akwaibom is one of the safest places in the country, much safer than Lagos actually.

it's not an excuse it's a plain and simple reasoning . You don't attract investors by deliberately destroying existing facilities in your region in the name of agitation .
When they blow up these investment they are clearly telling the federal government and potential investors they don't need such facilities .

Seaport or No seaport... Its still the SEerners that will develope that area..

AM PROUD OF MY EASTERN DEVELOPERS.

WE MADE EKO WHAT IT IS. Ga jukwaa ajuju.

Seaport or No seaport... Its still the SEerners that will develope that area..

AM PROUD OF MY EASTERN DEVELOPERS.

WE MADE EKO WHAT IT IS. Ga jukwaa ajuju.

ba7man:
Aren't You the ones celebrating anything bad that happens, fighting Buhari's govt, celebrating bombings and Millitants killing in the southwest etc................... and you now expect love?

You give hate so you'll attract hate.


It's a basic law of life.

Really? So the reason why a progressive govt that wants to succeed would ignore better investment opportunities in other parts of the country because the people there don't like him.
Very good. Nigeria's subsequents presidents would not always be supported by everybody. But this politics of winner takes all would never be forgotten.
I am sure it is just beginning. I am hopeful though that the niger-delta would begin to leverage on its strength and decide and remove presidents.

gabng:


I am from the south south and you are not far from the truth.

Must you mention where you come from before making a comment? Tribalism has eaten so deep into your system

Beadex1:
Good news anyways ......ibaka seaport in Akwa ibom Is still in De drawing board..... EPZ has been grounded but billion of Naira has just been assigned To The already congested zone.........ONE NIGERIA HOLLA!!!!!!!

I knew this was coming; I knew someone would blame it on marginalisation instead of poor, visionless state leadership.

danie09:
it's not an excuse it's a plain and simple reasoning . You don't attract investors by deliberately destroying existing facilities in your region in the name of agitation .
When they blow up these investment they are clearly telling the federal government and potential investors they don't need such facilities .

But there are barely any agitations or destruction of facilities in akwaibom and even the SE. If agitations is why your FG is not bringing investments to the region, then leave their oil wells for them like they wanted and let them use it for the development of their land when they get a better president.
You can't keep exploring their oil and tell us the region is unsafe for other investments. That is injustice and it is unsustainable. Go and extract your oil in the so-called safe places and leave the niger-delta alone.

Miranda11:
What about approving new deep seaport for some of the coastal states like Delta, Rivers,Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom,Calabar) so that traders cost of clearance and transportation from lagos to the south-east south-south and surrounding states can be reduced and those states can have more internally generated revenue like Lagos?

Or better still the FG should approve the refurbishment of all the abandoned seaports or the key ones. I sure the loots that have been recovered can foot the bill for at least one.

Traders are crying about the high cost of customs clearance leaving them no choice but to increase the price of their wares. Honestly it makes no economic sense that a country as big as Nigeria have all their active seaports located in one small state, for God sake these are the things that these so called elected Rep members and senators should be discussing in their respective meetings rather than just looking to line their own pockets and padding budgets.

Until the people in those areas stop supporting criminality no reasonable and responsible investors will come with their capital to invest in your area.


You can't be destroying the properties of the few investors in your area and expect another investor to consider your area for his investment. How many of your own sons and daughters into importation business is making use of the existing seaports in your area ? What are the reasons why they are running away from the seaports ? The answer is simply because of the destructive activities of your militants and pirates who will rather chase away and frustrate any investor or business on sight .




Gone are the days when government commit their resources on unviable businesses now the government is supporting viable and sustainable investment .


Your fighters should fashion a more reasonable way of agitating for development instead destroying any good things on sight. Most of you are labelling your representatives in the current administration as saboteurs and refused to recognized and make the best use of their current position in government all because your SON who fails to even attract any reasonable development despite been in good governmental positions for good 16years and rose as high as the President for five years plus lost an election.


Until your people start making use of your brains and keep emotions aside the development you crave for will never come.


cc: greatse , samcolee , dani09 , Beadex1

samcolee:
And the will tell the ND keep calm your dev is coming. Sha na only lagos get sea

If they give u contract for ND be ready u r going to b kidnapped

amagunnerfan:
Who in their right mind will want to develop the ND when you merely wake up on the wrong side of the bed and start blowing things up.

You are your own enemy not the country. Call your youths to order, stop drinking ogoro early in the morning and things will take shape.

I am immune to abuses but bring if on if you may.

You're immumed to abuse but you're the first to abuse people

CSTR12:
But there are barely any agitations or destruction of facilities in akwaibom and even the SE. If agitations is why your FG is not bringing investments to the region, then leave their oil wells for them like they wanted and let them use it for the development of their land when they get a better president.
You can't keep exploring their oil and tell us the region is unsafe for other investments. That is injustice and it is unsustainable. Go and extract your oil in the so-called safe places and leave the niger-delta alone.

ipob,massob and all others that end with OB are still on their blind request for secession cos they are marginalised by a government less than 2years in office .
We all thought the senseless destruction of oil facilities ended with the amnesty programme that gave free salaries to thousands of repentant militants and also sent thousands of them overseas for training at various institutions until recently they decided to regroup and continue their senseless bombings.
Obvious there are investment potentials in the south /south and south east geopolitical zones but like I said earlier there's no magic of any government in power can do to drive investors to those region if the inhabitants don't provide a peaceful atmosphere .