Onitsha mall now.
Agulu lake (Golden Tulip) now

Obiano could have abandoned these projects as other Nigerian governors do. Or even start his own malls.
If Obiano completes the Nnewi and Awka malls tomorrow, he deserves the credit and not who flagged them off without money or even a great plan to build them.

For instance, Look at the silly design of Nnewi mall to have a car park on the roof without seriously considering the serious financial implication of such design would make the mall un-affordable to build by a state government. If they were smart at all, they would have make the car park on the ground floor and use the top floor for the mall and it would have been a great plan without building such pillars used for bridges in order to carry a suspended parking lot. Only Julius Berger can build that type of structure in Nigeria and it will not tragically collapse because they have the technical ability. Those indigenous companies used by Peter Obi cannot dare such projects or it will collapse and kill people inside the mall.

Yyeske:
Stop equating what you see around Upper Iweka and Iweka road as being same all over Onitsha. Have you seen the new plazas springing up around Main market and other places?
Which money is rushing into Enugu that is not rushing into 3-3 Onitsha, Obosi, Ogidi, Oba, Nsugbe, and Ozubulu as we speak except you are trying to be mischievous.
What do you say about Ogui, Asata, Coal camp, Iva valley etc all in Enugu since you claimed Sullivan cleaned up the place?

Read carefully. I equated cleaning up a place to development. Iweka Road is a key commercial road in Onitsha just like Okpara Avenue in Enugu. When Chime cleaned it up, put pavements, traffic lights the new buildings that sprung up were classy. Similarly just look at the refurbished expressway Obiano expanded in Awka you see banks, hotels, decent buildings springing up there.

My thing is that ANSG needs to do the same rescue plan for Iweka Road, Zik Avenue which clearly are high traffic commercial roads because of the markets. If they can do a surgical operation on the market spaces and make it more attractive then it will change the look of those places.

For example if you take some of the Asian or European street shopping districts the main road leading to them are kept no parking zones for vehicles. They have bus parks and car parks at least 1 km away. Those high streets have pedestrian pavements.Then when you get to the market it's off roads are paved and kept completely vehicle free for pedestrians, Stalls are neatly organized and clean, they put in signs, street lights, conveniences and security.

neezar:
meanwhile who have seen that green life pharmaceuticals owned by our very ebere nwosu....I went to illupeju during the easter period, mhen I was amazed, he should at least open a branch in the east

Emzor pharm tried, she built Chike Okoli entrepreneurship school in Unizik Awka also opened Emzor pharm shop in Awka, same with Nero pharm he built stadium also opened football academy in Nanka,, [b]Juhel pharmaceutical also did great he started in Enugu, few years after, he built massive industry In Awka, built school of pharmacy for Unizik in Agulu, built cooking gas refilling plant in Awka.

Onitsha Shoprite Idles Away
By Dipo Olowookere on August 19, 2016
onitsha shoprite

It was set up to compete with other shopping malls in Awka and Nnewi. But the shopping mall in Onitsha, housing Shoprite is not being patronised. Reason? The people have so many markets that offer cheaper prices as Okegwo Kenechukwu in Onitsha, reports,

In fairness to the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, there was no doubt that he had the desire to make Anambra State a megacity to reckon with in Nigeria and beyond.

To some people, he was the Messiah who turned the fortune of the state around but to some, Obi came on a business voyage with an overriding interest to explore and exploit all avenues of untapped mineral and material resources of the state.

Among the enterprise of the former governor that are visible are the Sab Milla Breweries, makers of Hero beer, the non-functioning Orient Petroleum Resources and the Shopping Mall complexes sited in the three business zones of Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi. Although, the Orient Petroleum Resources in Umuoba Anam in Anambra West and Ayamelum Area is yet to commence production, over 85 per cent of the people of South East hailed the venture because it launched the state into the membership of oil producing states in Nigeria but since the completion and commissioning of the shopping mall in Onitsha on April 14 , 2016, by the present Governor of the state, Chief Willie Obiano, the Shoprite, which people thought would dwarf others in the South East zone has remained deserted, contrary to the expectation of the people.

This, according to inhabitants of the commercial city was because it was a misplaced economic venture.

Investigation has also shown that while the ones in Awka and Nnewi are at different stages of activities, that of Onitsha has remained deserted and a ghost of itself Onitsha Shopping Mall, according to them was located at the former Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) Station office in Onitsha, inside the heart land of the commercial city to draw the expected customers that would patronize it to stand the test of time from within and around the city.

Investigation revealed that so many reasons have been adduced for the poor patronage of the business, while some believed that the location of the mall was ab initio, a subject of controversy between the people of Onitsha and Anambra State government on one side and the ABS on the other. Some alleged that the Onitsha people leased the land to the then Anambra State when one Chief Boniface Offorkaja was the General Manager of the Anambra Broadcasting Corporation in the early 1980s and as such, was a subject of controversy.

Meanwhile, a random opinion conducted by our correspondent showed that most people in the commercial city have little or no time to go to the mall for shopping which according to them was luxury for the wealthy people and not the lower income earners and business men. “Oga, that thing no go work for Onitsha oh.

Who get time to go there to buy tomatoes or yam when you can pick it in Ose Okwuodu market at a cheaper price? They are just wasting their time. For me, I will not even go there unless I am going for site seeing” “Well, I think the idea of citing a shopping mall in the city is a wise one and a step in right direction”, said another trader “but my fear was that it may not survive competition.

You see Onitsha is a commercial city and everywhere in and around the town, you find open one market or the other. There is nothing you can find in that place that you cannot find along the street of Onitsha, even at a cheaper rate,” said a trader in the city.

“Another one is the level of literacy in the commercial city” a commercial motorcyclist said. “Most of the people here are traders that deal with one good or the other. They have all varieties of the commodity around them.

“There are no universities or other higher institutions either from where the students can come to make shopping like that one in Enugu State and the level of government institutions in Onitsha is quite low. I doubt if it will survive.” However the general opinion about the Shoprite is that the apathy already shown by the people and the investment made by the owners of the Shoprite could have been channelled into other ventures.

Source: https://newtelegraphonline.com/onitsha-shoprite-idles-away/

mktinsight:
Onitsha Shoprite Idles Away
By Dipo Olowookere on August 19, 2016
onitsha shoprite

It was set up to compete with other shopping malls in Awka and Nnewi. But the shopping mall in Onitsha, housing Shoprite is not being patronised. Reason? The people have so many markets that offer cheaper prices as Okegwo Kenechukwu in Onitsha, reports,

In fairness to the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, there was no doubt that he had the desire to make Anambra State a megacity to reckon with in Nigeria and beyond.

To some people, he was the Messiah who turned the fortune of the state around but to some, Obi came on a business voyage with an overriding interest to explore and exploit all avenues of untapped mineral and material resources of the state.

Among the enterprise of the former governor that are visible are the Sab Milla Breweries, makers of Hero beer, the non-functioning Orient Petroleum Resources and the Shopping Mall complexes sited in the three business zones of Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi. Although, the Orient Petroleum Resources in Umuoba Anam in Anambra West and Ayamelum Area is yet to commence production, over 85 per cent of the people of South East hailed the venture because it launched the state into the membership of oil producing states in Nigeria but since the completion and commissioning of the shopping mall in Onitsha on April 14 , 2016, by the present Governor of the state, Chief Willie Obiano, the Shoprite, which people thought would dwarf others in the South East zone has remained deserted, contrary to the expectation of the people.

This, according to inhabitants of the commercial city was because it was a misplaced economic venture.

Investigation has also shown that while the ones in Awka and Nnewi are at different stages of activities, that of Onitsha has remained deserted and a ghost of itself Onitsha Shopping Mall, according to them was located at the former Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) Station office in Onitsha, inside the heart land of the commercial city to draw the expected customers that would patronize it to stand the test of time from within and around the city.

Investigation revealed that so many reasons have been adduced for the poor patronage of the business, while some believed that the location of the mall was ab initio, a subject of controversy between the people of Onitsha and Anambra State government on one side and the ABS on the other. Some alleged that the Onitsha people leased the land to the then Anambra State when one Chief Boniface Offorkaja was the General Manager of the Anambra Broadcasting Corporation in the early 1980s and as such, was a subject of controversy.

Meanwhile, a random opinion conducted by our correspondent showed that most people in the commercial city have little or no time to go to the mall for shopping which according to them was luxury for the wealthy people and not the lower income earners and business men. “Oga, that thing no go work for Onitsha oh.

Who get time to go there to buy tomatoes or yam when you can pick it in Ose Okwuodu market at a cheaper price? They are just wasting their time. For me, I will not even go there unless I am going for site seeing” “Well, I think the idea of citing a shopping mall in the city is a wise one and a step in right direction”, said another trader “but my fear was that it may not survive competition.

You see Onitsha is a commercial city and everywhere in and around the town, you find open one market or the other. There is nothing you can find in that place that you cannot find along the street of Onitsha, even at a cheaper rate,” said a trader in the city.

“Another one is the level of literacy in the commercial city” a commercial motorcyclist said. “Most of the people here are traders that deal with one good or the other. They have all varieties of the commodity around them.

“There are no universities or other higher institutions either from where the students can come to make shopping like that one in Enugu State and the level of government institutions in Onitsha is quite low. I doubt if it will survive.” However the general opinion about the Shoprite is that the apathy already shown by the people and the investment made by the owners of the Shoprite could have been channelled into other ventures.

Source: https://newtelegraphonline.com/onitsha-shoprite-idles-away/

2016 report, same year the mall opened, was reported by a Yoruba dude.

mktinsight:
Onitsha Shoprite Idles Away
By Dipo Olowookere on August 19, 2016
onitsha shoprite

It was set up to compete with other shopping malls in Awka and Nnewi. But the shopping mall in Onitsha, housing Shoprite is not being patronised. Reason? The people have so many markets that offer cheaper prices as Okegwo Kenechukwu in Onitsha, reports,

In fairness to the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, there was no doubt that he had the desire to make Anambra State a megacity to reckon with in Nigeria and beyond.

To some people, he was the Messiah who turned the fortune of the state around but to some, Obi came on a business voyage with an overriding interest to explore and exploit all avenues of untapped mineral and material resources of the state.

Among the enterprise of the former governor that are visible are the Sab Milla Breweries, makers of Hero beer, the non-functioning Orient Petroleum Resources and the Shopping Mall complexes sited in the three business zones of Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi. Although, the Orient Petroleum Resources in Umuoba Anam in Anambra West and Ayamelum Area is yet to commence production, over 85 per cent of the people of South East hailed the venture because it launched the state into the membership of oil producing states in Nigeria but since the completion and commissioning of the shopping mall in Onitsha on April 14 , 2016, by the present Governor of the state, Chief Willie Obiano, the Shoprite, which people thought would dwarf others in the South East zone has remained deserted, contrary to the expectation of the people.

This, according to inhabitants of the commercial city was because it was a misplaced economic venture.

Investigation has also shown that while the ones in Awka and Nnewi are at different stages of activities, that of Onitsha has remained deserted and a ghost of itself Onitsha Shopping Mall, according to them was located at the former Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) Station office in Onitsha, inside the heart land of the commercial city to draw the expected customers that would patronize it to stand the test of time from within and around the city.

Investigation revealed that so many reasons have been adduced for the poor patronage of the business, while some believed that the location of the mall was ab initio, a subject of controversy between the people of Onitsha and Anambra State government on one side and the ABS on the other. Some alleged that the Onitsha people leased the land to the then Anambra State when one Chief Boniface Offorkaja was the General Manager of the Anambra Broadcasting Corporation in the early 1980s and as such, was a subject of controversy.

Meanwhile, a random opinion conducted by our correspondent showed that most people in the commercial city have little or no time to go to the mall for shopping which according to them was luxury for the wealthy people and not the lower income earners and business men. “Oga, that thing no go work for Onitsha oh.

Who get time to go there to buy tomatoes or yam when you can pick it in Ose Okwuodu market at a cheaper price? They are just wasting their time. For me, I will not even go there unless I am going for site seeing” “Well, I think the idea of citing a shopping mall in the city is a wise one and a step in right direction”, said another trader “but my fear was that it may not survive competition.

You see Onitsha is a commercial city and everywhere in and around the town, you find open one market or the other. There is nothing you can find in that place that you cannot find along the street of Onitsha, even at a cheaper rate,” said a trader in the city.

“Another one is the level of literacy in the commercial city” a commercial motorcyclist said. “Most of the people here are traders that deal with one good or the other. They have all varieties of the commodity around them.

“There are no universities or other higher institutions either from where the students can come to make shopping like that one in Enugu State and the level of government institutions in Onitsha is quite low. I doubt if it will survive.” However the general opinion about the Shoprite is that the apathy already shown by the people and the investment made by the owners of the Shoprite could have been channelled into other ventures.

Source: https://newtelegraphonline.com/onitsha-shoprite-idles-away/

He is very right about Onitsha Mall but that is assuming you are targeting Onitsha residents as shoppers. What if you target those coming INTO Onitsha to shop at its many markets? Onitsha Mall from that standpoint would then have an edge over many of the informal malls because it is organized and has conveniences. Supposing they target large WHOLESALE retailers particularly in the following areas:

- Building Materials
- Textiles
- Electrical Parts
- Auto Spares
- Pharmaceutical wholesale

...and complement them by putting in those large open space areas a banking hall and a food court.

Then you would hive off some of the customers going to Ogidi Building materials, those going to New Parts, those going to Obosi and those going to Main Market.

mktinsight:


He is very right about Onitsha Mall t.

Oboy I don't know how you see or feel about Onitsha, What is wrong with us? You just posted a useless report written by a Yoruba man three months after the mall opened in Onitsha, Onitsha mall is doing great, ACDA the developer is not complaining, Shoprite also not complaining, many stores has opened in Onitsha mall, not every Onitsha residents shop in those markets you listed, many of our elites, visitors and rich around Onitsha and neighbouring towns prefer Onitsha mall, mind you we have many expatriates in Onitsha, Nnewi and what have you, Black & white when they came initially they rented one space now they've doubled their space many residents prefer where they will get quality services.PEP just open few months ago there, I hope you know construction of Next mall will commence soon in Onitsha, they acquired land around Zik's house by Borrowmeo round about.

Pics Black&White beauty, PEP and Novo lounge in Onitsha mall

The College of Nursing St. Charles Borromeo Specialist Hospital, Onitsha Anambra state

The College of Nursing St. Charles Borromeo Specialist Hospital, Onitsha ANAMBRA STATE

STAFF RESIDENCE

DOCTORS RESIDENCE @ BORROMEO HOSPITAL ONITSHA ANAMBRA STATE

INTENSIVE CARE UNIT OF BORROMEO HOSPITAL ONITSHA ANAMBRA STATE

LAB @ BORROMEO HOSPITAL ONITSHA

BORROMEO HOSPITAL ONITSHA ANAMBRA STATE

REGINA PACIS MODEL SEC.SCHOOL ONITSHA

(1)PHARMACY & DIAGNOSTIC CENTRE(2) SOME STAFF @ HOLY ROSARY SPECIALIST HOSPITAL WATERSIDE ONITSHA ANAMBRA STATE.

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2016 report, same year the mall opened, was reported by a Yoruba dude.

The most foolish thing the promoters of Onitsha Mall will do is to think people will just go there and start shopping, why don't they market the place.

Onitsha Mall don't advertise on TV, no radio advert, no print or online advert and they expected people to go and shop in a death place.

When Joedon Shopping Mall was still reigning they advertise all the time on Minaj and people were patronizing them.
Information is the key, Onitsha Mall is too isolated, they don't even advertise on Facebook like Game and Palms Shopping Malls do, they just lock up thinking people will know them.
They should invest in marketing communications abegiiiii

OreMI22:


Of course Onitsha is twice more populated than Enugu, Awka and Abakaliki combined. Enugu is more spread out because it has good dual carriage roads leading to the outskirts of town for a very long time. Onitsha only had the Enugu-Onitsha express way and that is why development was on that axis. The Onitsha -Owerri road was just dualized less than 10 years ago and it has helped a lot. People moved to Asaba because Onitsha became impossible to expand due to lack of major dual carriage roads away from the city.


The 33 (Trans-Nkisi) road to Umuleri needs to be dualized too ASAP. Obiano promised that during his re-election campaign. We have to see if that promise is kept. It will help decongest Onitsha and make living in the northern axis of the city a feasible option for the state. Dualization of the 33 (Trans-Nkisi) road from Onitsha to Umuleri or Aguleri will be the single greatest contribution of Obiano to the development of Anambra state.

the governor made it clear that he dualize major roads in Onitsha, Awka and Nnewi. The roads his mentioned in Onitsha metropolis are 33 Nsugbe Otuocha road, Atani road Idemmili Odekpe axis, Oguta road and Awka road etc

HOLY ROSARY SPECIALIST HOSPITAL WATERSIDE ONITSHA ANAMBRA STATE

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ANAMBRA ASSEMBLY MOVES TO ENACT LAW TO PROHIBIT HAWKING OF DRUGS

By Henrietta Madichie

Awka, May 4, 2018 (MOI) Anambra State House of Assembly on May 3 passed a motion making it an offence to hawk drug on streets or markets in the state.

Leading the debate, member representing Awka South1 Constituency, Nnamdi Okafor said the bill sought to stop such hawking since the drugs might not have been tested nor the source and content known.

Okafor said that any drug advertisement should obtain advert permit and license from National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC).

``Get an outlet or location if you must practice where the manufacturer can be traced. In case of adverse effects, the manufacturer can be easily traced,” he said.

The member representing Anambra East, Obinna Emeneka maintained that some of these drugs could be sub-standard as they did not pass through accelerated testing to forecast how they could work on the body.

More so, Mr Emenaka emphasised that these hawkers expose these drugs to the sun, causing degradation of the drugs, thus, harming the body especially the liver and kidney.

At the end of the debate, the Speaker of the House Rita Mmaduagwu called for voice vote and then, the bill was referred to two committees to report back in two weeks.

The two committees were House committee on Health and House committee on Judiciary; for professionalism, legal issues and objectivity for a positive and sound input before final passage into law. (MOI)
FN/FI/TON

investnow2013:
INTENSIVE CARE UNIT OF BORROMEO HOSPITAL ONITSHA ANAMBRA STATE

Now compare the church-run Borromeo Hospital or Holy Rosary Specialist Hospital to the poorly maintained Anambra State Teaching Hospital or any of the government run General Hospitals.

This is why I advocate for government to involve church administrators in the running of all critical public infrastructure - education, healthcare, transport, waste management, works, markets, urban planning. You would probably not see the incompetence, corruption that is the hallmark of public service.

mktinsight:


Now compare the church-run Borromeo Hospital or Holy Rosary Specialist Hospital to the poorly maintained Anambra State Teaching Hospital or any of the government run General Hospitals.

This is why I advocate for government to involve church administrators in the running of all critical public infrastructure - education, healthcare, transport, waste management, works, markets, urban planning. You would probably not see the incompetence, corruption that is the hallmark of public service.

Holy Rosary hospital was reconstructed under Peter Obi, Anambra State government is partnering missions in education and health sector, most of their projects across the state was funded by state government.

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Holy Rosary hospital was reconstructed under Peter Obi, Anambra State government is partnering missions in education and health sector, most of their projects across the state was funded by state government.

Obi gave mission hospitals 3 billion naira, 30m, 120m 36m and 50m at different occasions during his tenure, he also distributioned ambulances to missions hospitals, funded many projects such as College of Nursing St. Charles Borromeo Specialist Hospital, Onitsha, nursing school Nkpor, Iyi Enugu hospital Ogidi, Heart center Adazi, Holy Rosary Onitsha and many others

We are trying but the economy doesn't have a road map. Different development everywhere but the destination is lacking.

More so, environment in Anambra state is poorly maintained. Government needs to do more in that area. Anambra is the richest state in the east but the government always fall behind the enterprising nature of the igbos. With billions of naira every month, Anambra state hasn't caught up with its citizens in development. It's a pity that the people are faster than the government in critical planning and thinking.

The government do not need high igr to succeed but he just needs good management skills. Manage your numerous big boys to build a bigger economy.

Advertise multibillion naira projects with economic advantage and make these big boys invest in them. This alone will catapult Anambra to the level of the biggest cities in the world.

We don't need Indians, Chinese and others to create a big economy in the east. The heart of the economy should be in the hands of the people. Give the oil magnates an alternative business that makes as much profit as oil and other people too.

We can build a state of our choice if only we decide to build it.

Purehuman:
We are trying but the economy doesn't have a road map. Different development everywhere but the destination is lacking.

More so, environment in Anambra state is poorly maintained. Government needs to do more in that area. Anambra is the richest state in the east but the government always fall behind the enterprising nature of the igbos. With billions of naira every month, Anambra state hasn't caught up with its citizens in development. It's a pity that the people are faster than the government in critical planning and thinking.

The government do not need high igr to succeed but he just needs good management skills. Manage your numerous big boys to build a bigger economy.

Advertise multibillion naira projects with economic advantage and make these big boys invest in them. This alone will catapult Anambra to the level of the biggest cities in the world.

We don't need Indians, Chinese and others to create a big economy in the east. The heart of the economy should be in the hands of the people. Give the oil magnates an alternative business that makes as much profit as oil and other people too.

We can build a state of our choice if only we decide to build it.

gbam!

We can map out a place in Onitsha where most of Anambra owned companies that are headquarted outside the state can site their headquarters with some tax incentives up to 10 to 20years!

NENI TOWN DURING THE ANAOCHA DAY CELEBRATIONS LAST WEEKEND

Oando products and filling station JUST OPENED in Adazi-Nnukwu IN ANAOCHA LGA OF ANAMBRA STATE