omicron:
Nice to see these pics. For 3 years, going through that route daily, from UNTH old site to Ituku was crazy! The road was worse than hell. Yet, see how clean the road is now, constructed to class without even a single noise from the governor or his aides. Sullivan is really a man for the people.

omicron:
Nice to see these pics. For 3 years, going through that route daily, from UNTH old site to Ituku was crazy! The road was worse than hell. Yet, see how clean the road is now, constructed to class without even a single noise from the governor or his aides. Sullivan is really a man for the people.

Ikengawo:
That pedestrian bridge is a nightmare and disappointment. It needs hand rails, nobody should feel like thet are risking life and limb just to talk from point a to B

Kcinho:

It seems you are a SuperLion.

IGBOSON1:
I'm hating that project the more i look at it! After holding much promise at the onset, the finished product looks like it was done half-heartedly, with no regard for safety and ambience! Why can't they green-up the area with trees, shrubs and grass to make it look welcoming?

cjrane:


[size=15pt]Come to think of it, it may not cost up to N200,000 naira to pay horticulturists to plant aesthetic flowers and trees along the median of Chime avenue to reproduce the likeness in the picture.If our amiable governor is listening as some of you have alluded, please make Chime avenue median look like the median in the picture!

This will truly be a spectacular feat for Enugu to have a major road like Chime avenue resemble an "oyibo" man's road. Gov. Chime please give this to us as your parting gift to crown your legendary transformation of the coal city.
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Abagworo:

I think the soil type of Enugu has more to do with the low aesthetics of the bridge or maybe the sweepers aren't regular. Use of concrete is usually preferred around busy business districts because traders in Nigeria have little value for greenery. This picture of such concrete median in Owerri does not look red or sandy because of the soil type.
The feasible solution is to keep painting the roads on regular basis.
That picture is from Lagos and not "Obodo Oyibo". A lot of factors is involved in maintaining lawns including most importantly the public attitude. It is working in New Owerri because most inhabitants are enlightened with less traders and unread people who see flowers and aesthetics as waste of money. In Enugu Independence Layout is the area it can work or maybe Trans-Ekulu as seen in the picture attached after the post.

cjrane:

Abagworo,
You have started again spamming this thread with pictures from Owerri and insinuating it is a better place than Enugu. When Chino and other people start bad mouthing Oweeri, you will pretend as if you didn't know what you did. We have already seen those pictures in Imo thread, no need spamming Enugu thread with them just to cause trouble and start e-war with someone here.

cjrane:


Abagworo,
You have started again spamming this thread with pictures from Owerri and insinuating it is a better place than Enugu. When Chino and other people start bad mouthing Oweeri, you will pretend as if you didn't know what you did. We have already seen those pictures in Imo thread, no need spamming Enugu thread with them just to cause trouble and start e-war with someone here.

By the way, there is NOTHING like "red soil". The quantity of Zinc oxide in the soil determines its color from dirty brown to orange color. I was in a city called Savannah Georgia in the USA and you need to see the soil is "redder" sic than Enugu. Yet, they planted their grass & flowers making the city very beautiful.

What you don't get because you always stay in Nigeria is that you are not supposed to see raw soil anywhere. It should always be covered by grass whether it is white sand, red or purple sand, it should be covered by a layer of green carpet grass.


Everyone knows the picture was from Lagos. It is written right in the picture itself.The "Obodo Oyibo" expression is a figure of speech.

Enugu is different from Owerri in many many many respects that I wouldn't waste time indulging in.
Suffice to say that such a Median can be made out of Chime avenue if it can work anywhere in Lagos of all places.They fenced off the garden portion and left gaps where people could cross the street. The picture you posted about new owerri median is not better than the present look of Chime avenue median now.
Enugu is a city filled with educated individuals and premier institutions much beyond any other city in SE Nigeria.

Abagworo:



Its either you are deliberately trying to act the usual Igbo cowardice or you deliberately chose to ignore my points and create issues where there is none. The last Photo on that my post is from Enugu and its also green like the ones of Owerri and Lagos. Chime Avenue is a general area where all sorts of people live. They will not resist the urge to cross the road through the green grass thereby killing them. Its like Wetheral road in Owerri. Independence Layout on the other hand is inhabited by more enlightened people that have value for aesthetics. Using Owerri as an example is no crime just like using Lagos.

cjrane:


My point is that you should stop your inferiority complex.

Enugu and Owerri are great Igbo cities, unique in their own ways and we know which is better in each respect.
You have been denounced as an Ikwerre boy by the great Imo people. Why aren't you talking about PH instead of Owerri?
You derive sadistic joy when Igbos are deceived by your antics and begin to pummel each other.

The attempt to compare Igbo cities have usually resulted in disastrous flared emotions and e-wars to derail the thread. You have been part and parcel of that unfortunate event in the past and should not repeat the same useless tricks here again to derail this thread.

cjrane:


My point is that you should stop your inferiority complex.

Enugu and Owerri are great Igbo cities, unique in their own ways and we know which is better in each respect.
You have been denounced as an Ikwerre boy by the great Imo people. Why aren't you talking about PH instead of Owerri?
You derive sadistic joy when Igbos are deceived by your antics and begin to pummel each other.

The attempt to compare Igbo cities have usually resulted in disastrous flared emotions and e-wars to derail the thread. You have been part and parcel of that unfortunate event in the past and should not repeat the same useless tricks here again to derail this thread.

abagoro:



I do not see anything wrong with what I wrote and I did not compare. I only made remarks based on obvious observation. You guys should stop being hypocrites and come out the closet. My contribution remains unedited and it is left for the free mind to go through it and point out my sin.

cjrane:


We have already been through that mess too many times and we know where such insidiously silly posts usually land us. Even my responding to you has a potential of drawing fire from people like B2Mario, Ikengawo, Faun etc. The same way we have asked Chino to respect himself and post relevant pictures in relevant state threads, you should not come here insinuating that Owerri is better than Enugu, even if it were true.

I love Owerri very much,but i also know your antics very well. It is all about probing for someone to dispute your assertion and all hell will break loose here again.

abagoro:



I do not see anything wrong with what I wrote and I did not compare. I only made remarks based on obvious observation. You guys should stop being hypocrites and come out the closet. My contribution remains unedited and it is left for the free mind to go through it and point out my sin.

Abagworo:


[s]I think the soil type of Enugu has more to do with the low aesthetics of the bridge or maybe the sweepers aren't regular. Use of concrete is usually preferred around busy business districts because traders in Nigeria have little value for greenery. This picture of such concrete median in Owerri does not look red or sandy because of the soil type.

A lot of factors is involved in maintaining lawns including most importantly the public attitude. It is working in New Owerri because most inhabitants are enlightened with less traders and unread people who see flowers and aesthetics as waste of money. In Enugu Independence Layout is the area it can work or maybe Trans-Ekulu as seen in the picture attached after the post.[/s]

cjrane:


You can change monikers and respond to yourself, that is your own headache.

This post and all the pictures accompanying the post conveyed your clear insinuations that Owerri was more beautiful because it had better soil than Enugu and her inhabitants were more enlightened not to see aesthetics as a waste of money unlike most inhabitants of Enugu except Independence layout or maybe Trans-Ekulu.

abagoro:


I understand you do not really know that "New Owerri" is just an area in Owerri like Trans-Ekulu. I guess that is why you misunderstood my post.

cjrane:


If you as a non Igbo know new Owerri, why would i not? I don't need to post any pictures or satellite imagery of Owerri here to buttress my point. Just contribute positively in Enugu thread without stoking controversial issues to start an e-war

abagoro:


Calling me non-Igbo is absurd. I will always contribute to any Igbo thread no matter what people like you and Chino say or do. I know Igbo more than 99% of Nairalanders and even real life Igbos and the interest of Igbo remains my priority.

cjrane:


[size=16pt]Onye mara ihe ga ese okwu, ya emekwana ya![/size]

If you are truly Igbo, you should have dropped the foul habit of always trying to provoke e-war amongst our people. How many times have you seen a Yoruba posting that Akure is better than Osun in an Osun thread? Even if it were true.

spyder880:
From the summit, we can see the 140 bedded hospital in UNTH old site in Enugu in the second picture.

BanditC:


Wait wait wait oh?? Na Akwata be dis?

That scary, almost-spiraling road with a very steep hill climb?

Wow, I can barely recognize this place anymore.

I remember countless stories of trailers losing control while ascending or descending that death trap and crushing people all the time.

Someone please tell me this is Akwata or maybe I'm wrong. Not so sure anymore.

BanditC:


Wait wait wait oh?? Na Akwata be dis?

That scary, almost-spiraling road with a very steep hill climb?

Wow, I can barely recognize this place anymore.

I remember countless stories of trailers losing control while ascending or descending that death trap and crushing people all the time.

Someone please tell me this is Akwata or maybe I'm wrong. Not so sure anymore.