With the dredging of the River Niger and use of northern airports for airlifting of goods, the revenue otherwise accruable to the ports could be ours. In the medium term bringing producers and consumers closer fosters a potentially huge domestic market. In the long run, terminating the rail lines closer to Cameroon creates another access by the North to the high seas, if we can cultivate good neighbourliness with that country. There are no such specialized airports in Nigeria. Using one of such airports as a regional maintenance service center.
None currently exists.
Setting up facilities at the airports for processing or packaging agricultural export. The exports could come from idle agricultural and irrigation facilities in the North. This possibility exists. Room for improvement is therefore obvious. An international credit facility for on lending to peasant farmers organized in co-operatives through banks should also be processed, as a purely organized private sector affair.