₦airaland Forum

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaU5FVeroJY&t=620s




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



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T4X1NEi4Lw&t=739s

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!

Henix:
But without been told, you ought to know that the project is still under construction, and that there is no way such big project would have been planned and executed without inclusion of tree planting. Allow them to finish and commission it before you start doing the criticism.

Meanwhile, I'm not a fan of Soludo but he has been a prudent resource manager who is yet to subject Anambra State to reckless borrowing as others do. I'm yet to see any other candidate for next governorship election that can do better than him

0bjpmb:
The problem with you miserable frustrated night owl is that you are a merchant of darkness. A merchant of evil and miserable bastard that always parades himself as all knowing.

Leave this place and get lost, we don’t need your evil demonic energy. You have never been on the positive side. All your ideas are counterproductive and are all advise of an evil man that want to entrap people. Take your ideas back, we don’t need them.

If you know so much, you wouldn’t be here. All the knowledge you claim to have is only ends on nairaland. People with the actual ideas are in boardrooms where real issues are being discussed. No one knows who you are, you have no other life than camping on this thread like a vampire day and night.

Mktinsight go and get a life, there is no single positive mindset about you. You condemn almost everything about Anambra, including the airport, ICC, etc. now you have turned on the new security outfit. Go and find something to do with your miserable life. Anambra is doing well and under good leadership.

Chikeluba25:
thanks for the information, we need constructive criticism for better growth in Anambra But I expected u to report the abducted Dr.'s release the following day... Since the abductors could not withstand the heat. Ur failure to report the following development makes it look as if u are celebrating sad news from this end.

While we commend Anambra State security structure, we challenge them to do more. The gospel truth is that the entire southeast and Nigeria at large is not safe. But we are not taking any excuse because Anambra have to standout as first class state.

0bjpmb:
Mktinsight the night owl, go and look for job. There is insecurity everywhere in Nigeria. Stop coming here with your politically veiled posts as if there’s any state that’s safer than the other in Nigeria. A whole bus full of passengers was kidnapped last week in Enugu, till now nothing has been heard, if it was in Anambra, you ediots would still be here to post nonsense. No one in Enugu thread is even talking about it.

Abufo:
Our youth have lost their fear of government.........a government with clean hands will not fear the reintroduction of the firing squad variety of death punishment........... Most elected officials are scared of bringing back the firing squad cos they know the mayhem they commit in govt is well worthy of a "quick visit " to the stakes and barrels................... Demolishing of kidnappers houses will not deter these people.........Bring back the firing squad abeg....I do not care who is involved...Rogue ESN, cultists, corrupt SARs cops, Fulani herdsmen....or evil dibias.....if you are caught for kidnapping, tried, and convicted..........you will get a date with a team of bad marksmen.......they will use your body to perfect their shooting! enough is enough....oginidi !!

0bjpmb:
Mktinsight the miserable old night owl, is this person in the picture Chuks GSS? Now it is clear that 90% ediots that comment here are not from Anambra and don’t know anything about Anambra.

nedu666:
For them everything is politics. How can a gov sit down and allow kidnapping and insecurity overshadow whatever good work he is doing. No difference between people who makes excuses and deny soludo failure and tinubu supporters who justify mass suffering of Nigerians. Its all about politics to them

Jcoleworld911:
And his closest associate Chuks haven’t said anything about this news, it’s a lie oga

Those are all fake news, ndi opposition can say/do anything just to discredit prof Charles Soludo

Some of them will frame their kidnapping like “onye Eze Jesus” and co

There’s nothing opposition cannot do

Jcoleworld911:
Provide your source, we are above this level

In the other news you share here, it mentions that Chuks Gss of Dubai estate was kidnapped but it turn out to be fake, stop peddling fake news