Happy weekend brethren, as we continue to dream of a better Anambra.......let us strive to learn from global best practices in town planning and public utilities, it is not rocket or nuclear science....what we need are dedicated and educated minds to man various offices in government and civil service of our dear state! I am not sure, but I sense that many of our civil servants are not too exposed or enlightened on these matters!
Kindly watch Kigali, Rwanda in 2025......nothing fantastic here, but what things do you notice? and what can we adopt in Anambra? Pleasant viewing
Obi1kenobi: Do you have any stats for this claim? As far as I'm aware, only Air Peace and United Nigeria run flights to Anambra airport - usually one flight per day and not even everyday - while other airlines like Dana and Ibom Air also run to Enugu and Owerri. The last time the very lousy FAAN published figures for air passenger traffic for 2023, Enugu, Owerri and Asaba airports all had greater air traffic than Anambra airport. Most times I buy tickets for my mom, she still prefers going through Asaba given it's much closer to Onitsha and also closer to our hometown. From all available data, Owerri has consistently been the busiest SE airport. The Anambra airport was marketed as a "cargo airport" to justify building it - which any serious person knew was nonsense cos air freight is very expensive and not a viable means of transporting most goods. What is the tonnage of cargo that is going through the airport? They also lied it would be funded through a PPP initiative and ended up wholly funded by the state coffers. The only reason we built it was for chestbeating purpose ("anyiwa nwekwa airport nke anyi").
But at least, building an airport is not THAT expensive (even Ebonyi managed to build one that nobody uses) and any state in Nigeria can afford it. Saddling yourself with debt to build a metro rail line is pretty mad stuff.
The truth is that we do not know how much Obiano "wasted" in his desire to complete the airport in Aguleri, but we know Obiano has always been a guy man....I never saw him as a man burning with any substantial zeal to do things right, be it as it may, we are now saddled with the airport, and we have to make the best use of its existence! The passenger traffic is ok and even encouraging, the management of the airport is maintaining the facilities there....... Soludo should continue to invest in improving the airport, it will all be good at the end of the day.
I am from Nnewi South...Asaba airport is arguably nearer to me than Awka, but what does it matter ......Awka and Asaba are all Igbo cities! I do not believe we have too many airports o. Here in Indiana, USA, we have over 140 passenger airports, airfields, and executive airports, aviation club airfields all over the state!
Gucciboy: I completely agree that railway is Capital intensive so soludo should channel our resources for better use to avoid repeat of substandard projects like ekwuluobia flyover which can't allow passage of two vehicles.
That's big disgrace to Anambra Government
What are you blabbing about, bros! Ekwulobia is not a huge place, that flyover will serve its intended purpose........there are dozens of bridges like that all over Lagos.........the 2 old flyovers along Alhaji Masha in Surulere at Shitta and Ogunlana junction are all the same size.....and they carry thousands of cars every day! Those bridges have been there since I was in primary school in the 70s and 80s............ Soludo is not Christ, but he is an accomplished economist, and I believe he has something between his ears...........na wa o! substandard cos it is not a dualized fly over....your assessment is rather harsh!
People are using herdsmen/bandits from North to be perpetrating evil in Southern part of the country
And to those who might want to insist that it's still bandits/herdsmen, how can illiterate them in their few number be disturbing how many people in the southern part of Nigeria
What precisely is the uselessness of being educated always claimed by the Southerners
whilst you mumus are dreaming of turning ndigbo into slaves ......a malicious cancerous growth is growing up your rectal regions.......keep slumbering O! Ndigbo that you want to drive away from yorubaland, are you going to drive them away from cotonou, Accra, Lome,banjul, Dakar, Juba in south Sudan, Cameroon and Gabon where you have millions of Ndigbo......stop trying to bring down a people as strong, if not stronger than you..........go and drive fulanis from your forests oga!
Lamasta: Why is the headline saying Gov Soludo is building awka shopping mall then
Go and ask bestman..........The Awka Mall is definitely a PPP concession to sundry foods! The Ekwulobia is being developed by the Anambra State government to kick start the economy of semi-urban Ekwulobia....... Incidentally, the state government also built a motor park and hundreds of open stalls in the same Ekwulobia!
As at 2015 when these incompetent baboons were yet to take power, external debt was just $10bn!!
Today, even with unprecedented taxation of Nigerians comparable only with the colonial days that led to revolts in Aba and Abeokuta, external debts have ballooned to $43bn!!
If you add the $3.3bn taken through NNPCL from Afreximbank to be paid back with our oil production, the external debt is actually $46.33bn!!
APC is a disaster that shouldn't befall any country
Oga...your debt is 54 billion dollars......with punitive interest
Nukilia: Those who patronize them are crying now. They should demonstrate a fraction of their power so that the citizens can be convinced that they have powers
I feel sorry for " father of the men's" .......he confessed that Angels and demons were dragging his soul and that he had no senior Pastor to mentor him ........that is why he became a Pastor on Sunday and "father of Okeite men's at night"...Lol !.
Abufo: You need a crash course on grammar........your English is atrocious! Meanwhile, I have never heard of boko or bokku na faso! Market square is far more capitalized than the 12 dollars for a dozen stores ...wey yoruba dey full for una towns and villages!
She gave up a ram's nose to take up a Possum's nose....but her swine attitude is still firmly in place.......her hapless husband should go and celebrate!
Cherrybae: I can't saw NEXT SUPERMARKET. I can't also saw HMEDIX.
At lest HMEDIX has much branches in Abuja. LAGOS. KANO, KADUNA.
I was even thought that Peter Obi NEXT will be saw in the list.
Obi is not a good management that's why NEXT is not saw in the list.
Obi needs to go for a clash curse on how to management a big stores.
You need a crash course on grammar........your English is atrocious! Meanwhile, I have never heard of boko or bokku na faso! Market square is far more capitalized than the 12 dollars for a dozen stores ...wey yoruba they full for una towns and villages!
Aboki and Agbado are like Buhari and Tinubu.....evil twins.......%% years after the civil war ended aboki and agbado rulership has driven nigeria over the cliff! From Rubbing shoulders with South Korea and Malaysia....we are now testing power with Niger and chad...tufiakwa
TheBillyonaire: But it is Americans paying the tariff. The Chaos Master doing what the world needs now for smooth transfer of Power to the Dragon. When the Dragon rises, the Eagle surrenders, not without chaos.
The o\tarrifs other nations charge America ....is it not their citizens that bear the payment! Business na business!
neolboy: Thank God say she got pregnant before tying the knot
She had already tied the knot...are you lot Africans at all........The day your bride price is paid is the day you got married! Your so called church or white wedding na formality!
helinues: This discussion about some herdsmen attacking in some southern regions most especially the farmers. For years, I have tried my possible best to ignore that discussion because it doesn't make any sense to me.
The southerners claimed to be educated and they are dealing with some illiterate killers who are masquerading as herdsmen . They came all away from North to be disturbing southern farmers and all we can do is to be protesting?
How many killer herdsmen are disturbing how many people?
What precisely is the usefulness of Educated southerners in this case?
Go and ask Nnamdi kanu.....you people hounded into detention!!! Kill him ....another 100 hundred will replace him! The black African is slow of wits.....!You kill the person protecting you and now that you are powerless...you are busy asking questions!
AustineE1: Law makers from the south east should not in anyway support that bill except it goes along with the bill for additional one state for the south east,in other to measure up with other geopolitical zones in the country.
which southeast senate and rep members...those ones are there for the highest bidders! Apart from 1 or 2 of them....the rest are near useless to igbo causes!
Ejikas: Tinubunomics : The CBN Projections: The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) expects the country's economy to grow by 4.17% in 2025, up from 3.36% in 2024.
Tax and spend..........! where are the savings? where are the investment on critical infrastructural projects especially power! powerii poweriii
PRUDENTJ2: For many years, people living in Eha-Amufu, a community in Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State, have been facing serious attacks. These attacks are from people suspected to be herdsmen. The problem has now become worse, and many families have lost their homes, farms, and even schools.
At least 44 farm settlements, known as 'Ndiagu,' have been taken over. The people who used to live there have run away because they are afraid. Some of the affected places are Abor Ishala, Mgbuji, Agu-Amede, Eha-Agu, and Umuhu. READ MORE....
where is that loud mouth wawa governor Patrick( break sit at home) Mba.............No Show of course! The fulani circus stooge is missing in action! wetin concern me.......I am off to my gym to exercise my body...let the dead bury the dead! I am retired from the biafra struggle......ndi break the sit at home can go push out the marauders....ndi ala !
being: Oga nigeria is a poor country (per population) and upon our poor cash flow, politicians still steal a lot.
That is why I laugh when people parrot that Lagos is a megcity nonsense.........Even in West Africa....Nigeria is trailing in per capita income....and its really beginning to show. Check out the famished and emaciated looks of Nigeria in 2025 as opposed to what nigerians looked like even in the 1990s....i watched an old video clip of Lagos in 1993....I was shocked to my marrows....see how robust nigerians looked! The administration of buhari and tinubu have been a disaster for nigerians!
Ofodirinwa: any project a governor attaches his name to has had a 100% failure rate after than administration. Why would the next person bolster something that has the name of another governor?
That practice has to be illegalized on the federal level because our governors are too animalistic to think about the future or care for something that promotes another rival
To be honest, Solution is not Soludo sha! I like the audacity of Soludo these last few months but he has to enact a law for the execution of convicted armed robbers and Kidnappers........be they fulani herdsmen or rogue ESN operatives or rogue vigilante members or dibias! The kidnappers are not relenting.
On Projects, I give kudos to Soludo on the proposed Rail line project, The retreat should also propose the construction of a moder bus terminus in Onitsha and Nnewi as well as Awka!
When will these disasters in Power desist from this overflogged propaganda? The mantra should be, "Nobody is greater than the people of Nigeria!" Nigerians are humans before they became Nigerians. Treat Nigerians like Human beings with rights, and Nigeria as a country is SAFE and SECURE!
The misfit in Aso rock does not know why USA continues to be the strongest nation in the globe........it is because every American is equal in the eyes of the law...............Tinubu will sit like a suegbe in Aso rock while one section of the country decimates other sections 0f the country and he does absolutely nothing cos of electoral politics...........is that one a leader?
Stolen: MY BROTHER, THE ONE THING I HATE ABOUT US AS IGBO MEN IS THE STUPIDITY.
RATHER THAN BEING SO ENVIOUS OF HIM, WHY NOT DRAW HIM CLOSER TO THE CORRIDORS OF POWER AND LET SOLUDO SHOW HIM THE ROPES, EXACTLY HOW OBIANO SHOWED SOLUDO THE ROPES.
IF LEFT FOR PETER OBI, THIS SOLUDO U ARE LOOKING AT TODAY WILL NEVER BE GOVERNOR, WE FOLLOWED THE WHOLE DRAMA HERE LIVE AS IT PLAYED OUT.
SO, FAR IN MY LIFE I HAVE NOT BUILT A SKYSCRAPPER AND BY THE LOOKS OF IT, DR MADUKA BUILDING IS STIL THE TALLEST IN THE WHOLE SE REGION, WE MUST RESPECT HIM FOR ACHIEVING SUCH FEAT.
WHO GOD HAS BLESSED, NO AMOUNT OF JEALOUSY CAN CURSE.
ANYWAY THIS WAS EXACTLY HOW SOME OF U WERE SOUNDING BCK IN THE DAY WEN I WAS CAMPAIGNING FOR SOLUDO.
IS HE NOT GOVERNOR TODAY?
Are you the one who advised Dr Maduka to build a vacant 100-floor skyscraper in the middle of nowhere? You and Dr Maduka better no near Anambra Government House o ! That he is a renowned Physician in America does not mean he knows what to do as governor...........As for calling people stupid.....I will not get on your case for now...........! I will rather celebrate soludo who has rediscovered himself ...........next year will be grand!
guysbewise: When the useless IPOB mods are setting their own people on fire as jungle justice in the SE why will the north value the south and not see the south as a jungle.
It is views like yours that have turned the south to a toilet bowl for the north, who does not know that the security forces and their agents provocateurs were responsible for more than 85% of the killings in the southeast! Anybody can sew ESN uniform and Biafra flags and enter bush and commit all manner of crimes, but your hatred of Ndigbo will not allow you to think........Before I forget, you are a bl@@dy f@@L too ! in case you do not know by now!
MadPolitician: The Problem with people like you is that you start off badly by assuming that there is something called the South. Such does not exist. Tinubu and his boys only cobble that lexicon whenever it is convenient for their wayward political pursuits. There is nothing like southern Nigeria post independence. At most what we have are the North, the West and the East. If there are more devaluation, then we have the Midwest and the middle belt. These are the groups that you can talk of as rigid political zones whether officially recognised or not. If two of these groups align to fight for a cause, the center will definitely feel the pressure.
The south west has made it clear many times that they are with the North. Infact in recent times, they have shown more allegiance to the far North than to any of their neighbours immediate. This is not a coincidence. Akintola was doing the same thing even on the night he was packed off to hell. Politically, the Southwest has decided to align with the North. We should respect this. In matters like this, you should see Tinubus actions based on this reality. He is a willing stooge of the north. The rest of the south should therefor align and confront these mass mauderers as a unit without waiting for the southwest.
who are the rest na? is it the Ijaws or binis that will unite with the Igbos? in fact the Binis sef dey try but see Ijaws..........You can never know where they stand on any issue.....Oyel is what they worship and they always feel Ndigbo are coming for their Oil god.........That nation is going to tear up itself sooner than later! If the world does not intervene soon...........Africa may soon have the worst civil war it has ever known start in Nigeria! All the elements and factors support this view.................let us pray for ourselves!
OredoPikin2: The aftermath of the recent killing that happened in Uromi although I totally condemn it, has shown that NIGERIA is designed to favour the North. There has been reported killings by fulanis in Ondo, Ebonyi etc recently, no northern politician came out to condemn it, even the president Tinubu who is from the South never spoke about it. Then one happened in Uromi and Tinubu suddenly find his voice. Where was Tinubu When 2 kings were murdered by fulanis herdsmen in Ekiti? Northerns are attacking Peter Obi because he said the root of the problem should be addressed. I think it's time to divide this country We can't continue pretending and worshiping the North because we want their votes. If the entire South is United, the North won't be bullying us because of votes.
They are bullying you because you are united with the North in your perpetual hatred of Ndigbo.........so what has Nnamdi Kanu been saying since 2015,,,,, that has led to his detention for nearly 5 years since 2015! Nigerians are not a serious people, sha!
SadiqBabaSani: Nothing shud happen to those guys Mr Governor, it's an unfortunate incident but don't sacrifice your people on the altar of politics use wisdom your excellency.
He is APCnow! Sense is bound to be far from him! The demonic party is stoking a war that will shock the whole world! This is how the useless Fulani herdsmen triggered Igbos to form ESN, and the end of the day, the senseless APC party detained Nnamdi Kanu......the world is watching and waiting on the so-called president Tinubu to act!
when will you dim black African nations understand that the world bank and IMF are institutions established to impoverish African economies and entrap hapless African nations deep in debt!