₦airaland Forum

Eboofa:
Talking of plans , what happened to Soludo's plan to build industrial and business parks in Anambra....We heard of the automobile industrial park in Ogboji? Is that the best qe can do really?

I am a firm believer that Anambra 's strongest " unique selling point" is in logistics ( transport and warehousing) of commercial, pharma,medical,electrical, building materials and beverages etc.............Soludo and his crew should find out how logistics hubs are developed in other climes......and how to attract more businesses to such central hubs......Anambra has always been a distribution hub for parts of Southsouth,north central and of course southeastern states!
A well conceived and constructed hub will attract even more businesses and IGR for the state!

Eboofa:
The koko is what works best for residents of our beloved state? If underground drainage works well for The United states and Rwanda ( even Cotonou) Why will it not work for us here in Anambra! So I respectfully disagree with you! This is the very reason I feel our educational system tend to be dysfunctional! Why do we have Universities all over the place...churning out engineers that cannot engineer solutions to the myriad of problems facing us as a people! Granted, that underground drainage is not needed everywhere and in all situations..........I feel its unprogressive to always pick the easiest path available when we have all it takes to design underground drainage that will save us road space , constant desilting and clearing and reduce mosquito infestation!

We are tired of our cities looking so ramshackle and shabby! Government appointees and civil servants should earn their pay and for once burn the midnight oil and come out with a town planning document that defines what exactly constitutes the design parameters of state roads, rural roads , town roads etc! As a matter of fact what exactly is the town planning Philosophy of Anambra state?

We all know what Abuja looks like? Uyo has a particular ambience......even Enugu of late is begining to find its feet! What exactly do we want for Anambra state! Soludo has done well but a lot of harmonization pf plans needs to be done!

This is Gaborone, Botswana!



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IgboProgress:
The ground is probably too hard for the grasses to grow or the grasses aren't getting the right kind foods...
And the right grasses suitable for the environment should also be considered.


By the way, the color of the soil does suggest it needs more orginic manure to make it dark and rich in nutrients..
They can just get the dark soil from somewhere else or apply the manure directly and transplant new grasses to cover all the exposed ground.

Not that difficult to create nutrients-rich soil. They could do it on large scale probably with tractors or small/medium scale by gathering the red soil together with different organic materials like soft plants, animal wastes, etc, and allow them to decompose and become dark, then spread the soil back. This is part of the reason oyibo grasses tend to look lush green and well spread out. They feed their grasses well. I hope people can go into this business and recieve patronage from governments, estates, companies, etc

Eboofa:
The ANSG media guys will chop your tail, o! I complained about the lack of tree planting in the government house the last time, and I was assured it would be done. It was scantily done, and the grass seeding was never carried out in a detailed manner, but they will learn with time and criticism! Shey na dem go live there? staring at patchy and red mud lawns everywhere! Who doesn't like better thing?


Even the much hyped Enugu ICC that hosted an IT summit almost suffocated the guests 2 days ago.........the cooling system failed spectacularly! The proper design and competent construction of mega projects is still a problem for our states. Too many pot-bellied politicians with emergency companies will not allow these governors to do the right thing!

IGBOPROMISE1:
Showcasing The Acropolis, Okija.

I'm really impressed with what the OBIJACKSON grp put up here. The resort exudes class, serenity and pays attention to detail as we've come to expect from anything Ernest Azudialu puts his hands to. The resort includes a golf course, serviced apartments with soft comfy beds, tennis courts, two events centres, a security post, and much more.

If there's anything i would have added, it would be more trees especially along the roads. But i guess since the resort new, the trees are still in their infancy and so we should give them time to grow....that's if they've been planted in the first place.

I don't think the resort has been given enough publicity. Its presence in Okija would compliment the states airport, provide much needed employment for the youth, and help boolster the states economy. So the state gov't should help promote it as well.

Clip courtesy DUBEM BOBEMEKZ: https://www.youtube.com/@ODOGWUBOBEMEKZ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvgTq1G7n3c?si=ooHFOs84FKkR6dHW

dollarnaira:
You Opinion but all false.
How is lead acid cheap bro?
How is lithium double the price of lead acids?

Hope you are aware that users of LITHIUM were once lead acids users?

You don't charge lithium at 3C.

Presently, 1 so called 220ah tubular is about 320k which is roughly 100ah(DOD) while a 142ah lifepo4 ba3 is 240k. If you follow some talks here you will think solar energy is impossible to obtain.

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ValtechEnergy:
can this your wonderful tubular last for atleast 12yrs?
what is the price difference vs similar lithium ?
can it chest 100A charging current and be filled in 2hrs?
can it go few months without u carrying a jerry can of holy water to top up?
can u monitor performance via any app?
can set or edit discharge or charge settings ?

tubular is outdated in 2025 bro. no whine yourself

omotoda:
Two tubular of 220ah * 24v will give you 5280 watts but the caveat is you are only safe discharging 50% which is just 2.5kw same as LFP which can be discharged to zero, has higher charge acceptance,less bulky and greater number of cycles.Let's not go back
please. We have been through this calculations/ analysis before.The best you can get from a well maintained tubular us 1500 cycles and that's provided you do about 50% DOD.How about the mess they create? Let's move on to Canaan. We left Egypt a long time ago

omotoda:
How are they affordable? GSR 240ah is 290k,Luminous is around 300-320k?

What is the price of Lithium? I am beginning to believe some people just drop comments to set us back.If you can afford 2 tubular batteries ,then you can afford Lithium! Period!!!

HeavenlyBang:
There is absolutely, zero, positively no reason to be buying tubular batteries in 2025.

Alueheal:
Please who can recommend a good 2.5 KVA Inverter 24v and a good tubular battery brand..
I don't have money for lithium battery please take note. Thanks

Eboofa:
sometimes it takes a "mad person " to deal with ndiOnitsha.........Soludo is too demure for some of us o! Using iron for work like this is a no no for me! They should have used precast concrete fencing..........

Eboofa:

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The Anambra State commissioner should be promoted to the "Black and White paint Minister"........Soludo should be careful of some of his appointees .......especially the political types! This upper Iweka renovation is a complete washout! A train wreck in my view

Kelmma:
Guys Please I need assistance

I have 12 x 600W Jinko Solar panels and 5kva hybrid inverter and 15kwh cwort battery

I want to know if I will need an external charge controller to improve the PV power supply. The PV input is currently very low. I hardly generate anything more than 1.5KW

Rivers State’s business landscape is facing a staggering financial blow fol­lowing the Nigerian Bar Association’s (NBA) decision to relocate its 2025 An­nual General Conference (AGC) from Port Harcourt to Enugu.

The switch, prompted by the po­litical instability rocking the state, is estimated to cost the economy a jaw-dropping N2.6 billion.

The NBA cited the “absence of democratic governance” and the im­position of a state of emergency as reasons for the move.

Initially, Port Harcourt had been se­lected to host the six-day conference, which was expected to draw over 16,000 lawyers from across the country, an event that would have been a major economic boost for the state.

Now, hotel owners, transporters, restaurant operators, market trad­ers, and nightlife businesses are left licking their wounds. According to analysts, hotel bookings alone could have fetched N1.4 billion. Food vendors stood to rake in N576 million, nightlife activities were projected at N300 mil­lion, transportation at N62 million, and market vendors were looking at about N200 million. And that’s excluding the multiplier effect on other service pro­viders.

This economic setback follows Pres­ident Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s March 18, 2025, declaration of a state of emergen­cy in Rivers State, which led to the sus­pension of Governor Siminalayi Fuba­ra, his deputy Prof. Ngozi Odu, and all State Assembly members. Vice Admi­ral Ibok Ete Ekwe Ibas was appointed as the state’s sole administrator.

The NBA didn’t mince words, con­demning the appointment of a sole ad­ministrator to run the state—a move it said undermines the rule of law and tramples on democratic institutions. In an emergency meeting, the NBA’s National Executive Council main­tained that the president’s actions vi­olated Sections 305, 11, and 188 of the 1999 Constitution and that hosting the AGC in Port Harcourt under such conditions would amount to endorsing constitutional violations.

“Port Harcourt is no longer a jus­tifiable venue for the 2025 AGC,” the NBA said in a statement. “To hold our flagship event there would be a tacit ap­proval of unconstitutional governance and a breach of our core values.”

The association instead chose Enugu, a city it believes still operates within the bounds of constitutional democracy, as the new host for the conference, assuring its members of a successful and impactful event.

Abufo:
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



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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.

Obi1kenobi:
This chest-beating is not a serious argument and has nothing to do with anything I've posted. Until we see what is budgeted for this pie-in-the sky, white elephant and HOW it will be funded, there's not much to say. It doesn't seem like a serious project.
There's nothing special about the airport project and most states in Nigeria have an airport. Even Ebonyi built one after us to much fanfare, despite having very little air traffic (making it a glorified car park), and Abia have embarked on theirs and will become the last SE state to have an airport. The legacy of Anambra airport remains to be seen and is among the airports FAAN classes as "unsustainable" due to very little traffic:
https://nairametrics.com/2023/05/10/most-state-owned-airports-are-not-commercially-viable-but-necessary-md-faan/

But a metro rail system is a far more ambitious, complex project than an airport. Many major cities in the US have no metro rail. If you're going to build one, you must be able to fund it without crippling yourself with debt, you must be able to run it sustainably and profitably (or it will rot), and it should have significant economic impact. As far as I'm concerned, if a major driving force of your local economy isn't white collar jobs (like Lagos, Abuja and PH, who can't even run sustainably run or complete their rail systems), investing in metro/light rail is a dumb waste of taxpayer money and state revenue.

EasternActivist:
Anambra state governor's name is soludo and not solution.

Besides any other governor in future can decide to change the name if he wish to or it's a problem.

Soludo found the need for that infrastructure, he engineered and followed it through so he deserves to have whatever name he wants on it, for posterity.

Let's criticise constructively this one no follow

IgboProgress:
There are many ways to fund "capital intensive" projects like railway without overcharging the passengers or struggling to pay back loans.

The state government could help lease the surrounding lands along the railway lines (up to a quarter of it) to railway investors at very low rate or free of charge. The investors could build or/& rent out the lands for real-estate, agric, hotels, recreation centers and other profitable ventures. These can help in paying back the loan.
By the way, the leased lands, if well developed could serve as tourist attractions to passengers who may even pay higher to view or visit them

No need to over focus on Lagos or Abuja when the East can be way better in a short time. You could start considering those places when igboland have been well developed. Development should be from inside-out rather than outside first. Charity begins at home

Abufo:
I still believe that if we are talking of intrastate mass transit, a well-planned BRT transit corridor will serve Anambra better than an expensive mass transit rail, with expensive tracks, signaling, locos, and coaches, and electrified tracks if we go full electric mode. I will only support rail if it is a southeast regional network!

The blue line in Lagos is just okay, but the red line from Iddo to Agbada is a near-shipwreck. A BRT corridor can be served by multiple Bus companies...using mass transit buses running on CNG or they can buy Electric buses from BYD! We have a knack of throwing money at problems when simpler and more elegant solutions are readily available...my 2 cents sha!

Stolen:
The railway is revolutionery, they are trying to oppress us with it, but if Soludo pulls itt of f, Enugu will folllow, then Ebonyi, Imo, Abia.

Whenever Federal government decides, let them add to it.


Bus in Anambra is private business for poor indigenes, Soludo want to leave that for them for now.

Jcoleworld911:
Prof Charles Soludo is just two years and eight months in office, most times you appear like “all knowing” but truthfully you know nothing, sorry

If you don’t have a better paying job, switch to business, you waste a lot of time of nairaland and I know it isn’t paying

Have a good day

Jcoleworld911:
Hope you have seen the current updates of Anambra government house/lodge??

You guys and bitterness eh, nawa oo

Abufo:
criticism is good na......iron sharpeneth iron! the biggest problem is that there has not been 24-hour public power in Nigeria for about 50 years~ strangely in Indiana where I leave in the US street lights are an exception ............even within most estates or subdivisions you only see street lights at junctions or roundabouts .............same on the streets ......even on highways within the city limits! they only light up strategic junctions and interchanges! Anyway, the lights from businesses and parking lots make up for the lack of adequate street lighting! we should go for what works for us and that we can maintain and sustain!

ANSMEDIA:
Solar street light have been installed Billiy Nwokoye boulevard Awka. The reinstallation is happening almost everywhere in Anambra. This is sustainable considering the high cost of diesel for powering street lights.

Abufo:
It is good that the government is patnering with the private sector on this project! The Market Square brand has almost overtaken the ShopRite brand in the mass retail sector, they own the Kilimanjaro and Sundry Foods brands too! Can Soludo also deploy the same strategy to finish the Nnewi mall? I am not sure what is even holding the Nnewi mall but Soludo should knock heads together and finish that mall..............the completion of that mall will generate more jobs for the youth in that axis!