asha80: one can only believe chino when he actually posts pics not all these 'i passed there and i saw massive construction','i will get you thepics' stories

Handsomegod: @CJ looolzzz@limpopo! @Spyder! Remember ur promise o! Kindly find time out of ur busy schedule and create the Anambra thread so we can launch it officially with Chino's expected pics of projectws in our Omambala cities. Enugu thread is a moving train and the trendiest topic on NL! Time to divest the brainstorming and mutual jabs. @Chino,endeavour to get close and clear pics so we can better disect the quality of work done on them.Interestingly,the PR team of 2 south eastern states(names withheld) are ardent followers of this thread since men started discussing ingrated and inclusive regional development plans for alaigbo. By d way,there was a certain enignmatic dude known as" smartalk" who created a series titled "preparing the east for post-nigeria future" and he captured all we have been discussing here even to the point of philosophical foundations of the future igbo land.d dude was so on point and I wish he will jump in as well.

oneeast: What are you talking about? This report was in July precisely 18th. Go through the report, that was when he extracted from the contractors to complete the project within 10months and this is September.

cjrane:

Which bridge is this?

On Abakaliki road towards the airport?

spyder880:

Sure.

oneeast: Don't worry, I will create the thread myself and furnish it with pictures once I resume my annual leave. Spyder should continue with his own task here!

oneeast: Don't worry, I will create the thread myself and furnish it with pictures once I resume my annual leave. Spyder should continue with his own task here!

spyder880: It's a beautiful city.

cjrane:
Wow! Sweet!
Allah! Person wey insult Sullivan Chime deserves hell fire in Jesus name!
The projects are all done to international standard. Even the grassing of that slope to prevent erosion and road failure!
I hope he plants pine trees too on that slope. Their roots help to keep the soil tight from erosion.

oneeast:

Governor Willie Obiano was and received by equally enthusiastic residents and traders at Nnewi as he stormed the Shoprite Centre located at the former Nkwo-Nnewi Triangle where he appreciated the pioneering business wizardly of the indigenes of the area led by the late Sir Louis Philip Odumegwu-Ojukwu, whom he recalled was so successful in business that when the Queen of England visited Nigeria many decades ago, he offered the Federal government his personal Rolls Royce Car to chauffer her.

The Governor told the contracting firm, traders, residents and natives that he came on an inspection visit to assess the ongoing work, noting that “what we are constructing here is unprecedented. We don’t have this type of Mall anywhere. The car park is on top of the Mall, It is a befitting edifice to support the business acumen of Nnewi people”

Innovator90:

Wow! If the highlighted is indeed true, then Anambra is making headway. I have not seen a lot of structures with top-floor parking garage in Nigeria. Someone from Anambra and local need to get us pictures and monthly updates on these on-going malls...this is why we need Anambra thread. These malls and resorts will boast Anambra economy and attract people to invest more along those lines. Gov. must stay resolute in giving Onitsha, Nnewi and Akwa some serious face lifts. Especially Onitsha with those Europe-looking tall buildings, all it needs is a modern street roads and neatness. I came across a thread few months ago of a GRA in Onitsha; I couldn't believe eyes...lots of beautiful, expensive, well planned modern houses. Can't find this thread anymore. I'm impressed!

Bro I'm from Nnewi, the last time I was there (August) I went there to take pics,but the entire structure was shielded with Zinc! I wonder what they are hiding I hope it would be open in time for Christmas tho

Ikengawo:

New York has 0 federal presence, and Washington DC is 100% federal presence. You can't compare NY to DC.
The difference is with Nigeria the government was in Lagos because that's where the economy was, afterwards they went to Abuja but you can't say that Abuja's superior federal and government presence has made it more economically viable than Lagos.

cjrane:

I think making an overly simplistic direct comparison of America's Federal Government to Nigeria's Federal Government without considering the realities of Nigeria will make you miss the point.

In USA, the federal government resources are from royalties,taxes and specific federal investments. The states are free to use whatever resource they have within their states to fund their budgets. If Rivers state or Akwaibom were part of the USA, they should and will be more developed than anywhere else in Nigeria.

In Nigeria, the Federal government collects 100% of the states' resources and only recently it began to give back only 13% for mineral wealth mined to the states that own the wealth. The taxes are collected centrally and only a minute fraction is disbursed to the state. Key infrastructure projects in any state such a refinery, power plants, trunk-A road bridges or flyovers etc must have exclusive permission from the central government to happen, and the permission can be withdrawn anytime by the FG before any state can do it. In the light of the realities of Nigeria's unitary system of government, of course any state that hosts the FG will have the benefit of encumbering funds derived from other areas for it's development.Add this to the fact that Nigeria is a highly tribalistic place where the capital will of course be sited in the preferred areas of the country and whoever controls the FG will use the opportunity of the flawed system to develop his area at the expense of the other places in the country.

Abuja is a shining example of this unjust system. A thick bush was converted into a shining city within a space of 15 years, yet places like Warri, PH Oron, Eket until recently had remained isolated sorry places without good roads,electricity nor pipe borne water for decades.

Kcinho: Meanwhile our IGR keeps increasing. Enugu Na adi mma.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-rivers-enugu-generated-the-most-igr-in-2013/189296/?utm_content=bufferb8975&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Kcinho: Meanwhile our IGR keeps increasing. Enugu Na adi mma.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-rivers-enugu-generated-the-most-igr-in-2013/189296/?utm_content=bufferb8975&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

centje:


The post below, by cjrane, highlighted a point i made initially. When we say federal presence, it's not whether the federal capital is physically sited in a place. Nigeria saw the mistake we made in planning of lagos as capital and didn't want to repeat the same in Abuja. How often do you hear that a factory, refinery etc been sited in Abuja...the design is to make Abuja cool, and to have an administrative feel. Again US has a different system from ours. In our own system, too much power is concentrated in the centre.

The point i was trying to let you see is this. Take a closer look at Chime's projects. You did see a government trying to create a better environment to attract investments. Imagine if such a person has more power and fund at his disposal. He made a good decision, With the presence of international airport, Enugu needed to be revived for the potential investors to take the state serious. For instance, I can still remember how refuse dumps filled streets in enugu, but now you hardly see such.

Investors don't put their money where they are not assured of securities and other facilities necessary for smooth running of business. And it's the job of government to provide such, and watch investors come in.

henrychubayo: If we can get Bishop42 to draw a speed train line that will connect all the eastern states and South south, we will start pushing to investors. Any other powerful architecture can also help to do the drawing including powerful and beautified stations, we will start pushing to investors right away. First to all the igbo groups and unions in diaspora, we can get someone to tender it to the eastern governors in there meeting, and individually, we will send it to investors home and abroad. If governors set persoonal and selfishness aside, I know that the south african investors in Enugu now will not let the opportunity pass by. Please do not disclose to newspaper and others igbo haters cause when the investors comes to the minister of Federal govt, they may be cornered to another East in the north or South west. It has happened before, it will happpen again if care is not taken.

centje: i think it's time we go beyond mere posting here. We can get all these ideas organised and integrated, and see how we can sell them to politicians and leaders of igbo nation, and to the old eastern region.

centje: i think it's time we go beyond mere posting here. We can get all these ideas organised and integrated, and see how we can sell them to politicians and leaders of igbo nation, and to the old eastern region.

centje: i think it's time we go beyond mere posting here. We can get all these ideas organised and integrated, and see how we can sell them to politicians and leaders of igbo nation, and to the old eastern region.

Kcinho: Meanwhile our IGR keeps increasing. Enugu Na adi mma.
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-rivers-enugu-generated-the-most-igr-in-2013/189296/?utm_content=bufferb8975&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

centje:


The post below, by cjrane, highlighted a point i made initially. When we say federal presence, it's not whether the federal capital is physically sited in a place. Nigeria saw the mistake we made in planning of lagos as capital and didn't want to repeat the same in Abuja. How often do you hear that a factory, refinery etc been sited in Abuja...the design is to make Abuja cool, and to have an administrative feel. Again US has a different system from ours. In our own system, too much power is concentrated in the centre.

The point i was trying to let you see is this. Take a closer look at Chime's projects. You did see a government trying to create a better environment to attract investments. Imagine if such a person has more power and fund at his disposal. He made a good decision, With the presence of international airport, Enugu needed to be revived for the potential investors to take the state serious. For instance, I can still remember how refuse dumps filled streets in enugu, but now you hardly see such.

Investors don't put their money where they are not assured of securities and other facilities necessary for smooth running of business. And it's the job of government to provide such, and watch investors come in.

Ozonna:

Gbam!!!

There's this Kengali (hope I got the spelling right) guy who also has wonderful ideas about SE development. In my spare time I'll search for his posts

christejames: Even in my school the wind of transformation is also blowing across. Here is sociology/anthropology department by the right (do u notice the workers around keeping the surrounding and buildings clean?), faculty of social science building by the left (housing four departments), faculty of education at the extreme end with pol. Science in the middle. We are not yet there but we would surely get there #repingUNN, and kudos to Bartho!

ChimaAdeoye:

Keeping the surrounding clean is a great thing to do. But most importantly planting trees, grass and flowers to transform the entire environment into a true campus feel is a begging issue in our higher institutions. We must teach young people that a conducive environment is just as important as the building itself. The best place to impact that awareness is in the universities...... and you can only do so by planting trees and flowers so that they see the difference between the campus environment to their hometown.