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Kossyso:Soludo is a fraud. He just recently appointed his relation from Isuofia as Commissioner of Finance. God knows how much they will steal from that office. |
Sirchibuzo:The ICC should be run by ANSIPPA and their budget tied to the revenue generated from it. They should also move their offices there. The ICC needs to do better for events. They need to engage an event management consultant and target 30-50 events a year and develop a lawn next to it for weddings, society bashes, conferences. |
Bestmanfornow:What experience does GSS have in building country club, football field and volleyball court? |
Armon:Many problematic things in Anambra cities is poor planning or management. SAND Gutters will always be silted up if connecting roads are made up of dirt. In Cotonou what they do is that they tar the entrances of all connecting roads up to 3 meters to reduce sand buildup on the main road. PLASTIC The greatest generators of trash dumped in gutters are informal traders. How is it that you go inside somewhere like Main Market or Eke Awka and you don't see rubbish everywhere but then you step out to the perimeter and entrance and rubbish all over the place? Lawlessness breeds lawlessness. All those illegal hawkers dump waste on the ground and in the gutters and get away with it by pleading poverty. But poor villages are not full of filth. ANSG needs to use a hard hand on hawkers. How is it that the cities were a lot cleaner under the Obi administration but filthy ever since? Restaurants dump their oily waste into the gutter and get away with it. |
Nelsolala:Where did you get the site plan from? |
TundeBricklayer:The ICC Should plant trees at that back fence to block that industry. They should also plant ornamental palm trees and flowers in front of it's front fence to make it look nice when you approach the facility. That huge roof should be tapped for solar. You could easily put 50kw of panels there to generate 150-200kwh of solar energy daily for lighting, audio visual, office use and basic cooling. |
TundeBricklayer:I was in Awka for the AnambraInvest Summit. If you read what I wrote, I said that the state government doesn't need to build a 100 room hotel next to the ICC when lots of hotels are popping up within 5 minutes of it. They should concentrate on marketing Awka and the ICC for high value events. It's a wonderful facility but it's underutilized. I said that the huge space of around 5,000 sqm next to it should be divided into two. Convert about 2,000sqm space on the left of the building into a lawn with flowers for outdoor events. People could hold weddings, birthday parties there. ANSIPPA should move into the ICC, compete the landscaping including flowers in front and trees and get their thinking caps on events to hold there.
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hammerFC:I agree but not now. Awka ICC is still being established and has yet to have the kind of convention traffic of Kigali or Eko. Awka can use what it has. There are already at least 20 hotels within 5 minutes of the ICC with a total of 2,000 rooms. There are four more hotels coming up from the look of things. One behind Parktonian, another near Zara Stores, another near Udoka entrance, another along Secretariat road. That stretch from Kwara junction to the ICC has Maxbe, Bon, Golphin, De Santos, Geogold, Cihcotel, Waldorf Blu, Parktonian, Finotel, Beautiful Gate, Hilton, La Luna, Cosmila, Double Bliss, Peackastel, King David, Olde English, Stamford Hotel. The target should be high value national conferences and events of 1,000 to 3,000 attendees. If it can get 30 of these conferences a year that's 30-90,000 participants. If half of these are out of state visitors and assuming they spend $500 in food and lodging that's easily a 15-45 million dollar injection into the town and important revenue for maintaining the facility. For the really large events like the NBA Conference these are few and far between and will require serious logistical coordination between the state government and private hotels because 10,000 attendees takes at least 200 hotel capacity. ANSIPPA should relocate their offices to the ICC and take part of the space that was marked for banking hall or the large open spaces at the side. The ICC should be part and parcel of investment promotion in Anambra and their staff should have the capability to manage that facility and organize events as part of their brief. Being there will also allow ANSIPPA to cross market government and private sector initiatives like industrial layouts, real estate investment opportunities, etc. |
hammerFC:It's not needed. From my hotel near Unizik Junction to the Conference Center took just 5 minutes. There are a lot of nice hotels in Awka along that expressway. If anything, they could take 2 plots of that parking space next to the ICC and create a nice LAWN with flowers for outdoor events like weddings or parties - like Finotel does with it's own. Then it could be complimentary to the ICC. |
osita76:You don't need to demolish Awka. They should move all government facilities out of the old Town. Relocate Prisons to Mgbaukwu or Urum or Achalla, relocate Asudeb, Awka South Lga and the magistrate court to the government district. Also relocate Eke Awka to Agu Awka and design it as a modern replacement with security station, truck loading entrance, parking, water, central power, conveniences and sell it on PPP to investors. Turn old Eke Awka space into a City Hall or school. That will make the old town mainly residential and rescue Zik Avenue from filth. Large commercial projects including Eke Awka, a Central Bus Station also on PPP finance, Ikenga Mall can all be located at Agu-Awka to present a modern organized face to Awka. Then build overhead bridges at Udoka connecting to Ngozika and at Ifite Rd connecting to Amudo to connect old and new parts of Awka. And build a road behind the new governors lodge linking to Ifite. |
Abufo:Malls are not going anywhere. They are modern marketplaces. What has happened in America is online shopping has cut into the novelty of physical shopping. But online shopping lacks the fundamental social experience, the human thirst to physically explore, discover, interact. For Anambra we need to realize that a major strength we have is our markets and trading acumen. There is nothing you cannot find to buy in Anambra. There are lots of specialized markets in and around Onitsha. Those markets are the cornerstone of the Anambra economy bringing in millions of shoppers from around Nigeria but the state government only remembers them at tax time. The state needs to go back to the drawing board on its policy on markets. They need to be cleaned up, fixed up with services and made presentable and attractive beyond a place to buy goods. They need to be planned and have zoning for proper parking, truck loading bays, warehouses, waste disposal, water, toilet, security conveniences. Their shops need to be put online and drive trustworthy e-commerce. Basically bring them into the 21st century. The state talked PPP and diaspora bonds. To me, markets are the low hanging fruit with assured returns. Markets generate money every day. Anambra markets brought to standard can compete with Lagos because Lagos itself is a distribution point. 70% of goods bought in Lagos markets are trucked elsewhere. The issue for Anambra is how to compete. Lagos has two major advantages over everywhere else. One is volume and the second is proximity to it's sea port. Onitsha or any other place that wants to compete with Lagos has to compete on all the cost factors of Lagos. Lagos has higher land costs, is a lot harder for trucks to move in and out, and for a visitor is expensive to visit and lodge. The fact that the cost of shipping a container from China to Lagos is cheaper than trucking it out of the port should be instructive to ANSG. If you want Onitsha markets to explode as an alternative to Lagos, you have to make its markets EASY AND CHEAP to access. Number one is to ensure efficient trucking with massive development of trailer parks. Second is to ensure lots of low cost warehousing. Third is to tap into nearby underutilized ports like Warri and explore linking it by rail with Onitsha. Fourth is to utilize barges to take containers from Onitsha river port. Fifth is to heavily cut out all the nuisance that adds cost to trading from agberos on the streets to police custom road check points to street hawkers. Ensure roads are free of encumbrances to make those markets as accessible as possible, make them great to shop in. Put trust systems in place to boost e commerce so shoppers from around the country don't have to physically come to Onitsha or Nnewi to order. You organize marketing teams to promote Anambra markets around the country and region and online. The only tax system you implement is VAT. The markets do well you make lots of money. |
Bestmanfornow:I was at Anambra Investment Summit yesterday and these were my impressions: The GOOD 1) Excellent Conference Center facility with massive interior space and good lighting and audio visual. 2) It was well attended by Anambra business luminaries and politicians. 3) Security was tight. 4) Panelists and MC Ebuka was top notch 5) Government used the opportunity to promote their various ministries and initiatives. AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT 1) ANSIPPA outside of inviting the right people missed out on critical event organization. There were no printed program of events, lunch servers were few resulting in long queues. Parking was haphazard in a soggy uncompleted parking area. 2) An investment summit does not need attendance of APGA groups, police officers wives and all kinds of Solution groups who were not there for participation. RECOMMENDATIONS 1) The Conference facility was well designed but the very large parking lot is uncompleted. It's best to cement and tar half of it and grass the remainder as a park. 2) They need to charge a conference attendee fee of at least N5,000 even if it's to cover the cost of Food, refreshments and security. 3) The main hall was too big for an investment summit. Those that seriously came for the event were less than 300. The main hall could have been divided into two with one area for display booths and the inner part for the speakers. 4) The Conference Center should be run by experienced event organizers. As a start ANSIPPA needs to partner with EKO Convention Center in Lagos for training, mentorship and cross marketing. There are events held in Lagos that can be replicated on a smaller scale for focus on the South East region. There are also events that can be rotated into Anambra for example Nigerian Bar Association, Nigerian Pharmaceutical Association. 5) As the Conference Center gets busier it should have buses that can operate on schedule to take visitors staying at key hotels to and from the Conference Center for a fee. Parktonian, De Santos, La Luna, Finotel, Golphin, Geogold, Maxbe, Hilton, Bon Hotel, Geneva all lie around the expressway. Buses could operate on three schedules. 7-8am, 12:00-1pm and 3-4pm. Buses could also be used to ferry common government staff attendants from the secretariat to the Conference Center on a schedule and for a fee. 6) ANSIPPA invited the Chinese Ambassador, the World Bank Country Chief, AfriExim bank, MD of Fidelity, Head of Tiger Foods. Those friendships should be used to launch innovative new events. For example there could be a Building Materials conference that can attract Chinese companies to Anambra to market their wares to traders in Onitsha. There could be a Nigerian Sustainable Development Summit to bring in UN, World Bank, DFID and development agencies to the state for a talkshop. There could be a Food Processing Conference to attract vendors of preservation, storage, products, and machinery. For banking there could be a Fintech Conference to draw in the banking sector and startups like Flutterwave, Moniepoint, etc. ANSIPPA should brainstorm with these partners for ideas for staging future events to promote the state and utilize the Center. |
Bestmanfornow:To manufacture is hard and a strategy should come from an advisory team not the governor or small scale importers. Any manufacturing strategy needs the Chinese government as partners. The Ethiopians went to the Chinese and had them build industrial zones. The Lekki Free Trade Zone was built by the Chinese Singaporeans. Anambra needs a two pronged approach. Build on existing advantages and find lucrative new markets. EXISTING ADVANTAGES - Building materials manufacturing like doors, keys, ceramics, lighting fixtures, plumbing materials, steel structures - Textiles and garments - Auto parts - Food processing NEW MARKETS - Electronics for industrial and home automated systems - Solar Systems - Electric Vehicle Assembly for motorcycles and buses |
Nelsolala:The state government needs to adopt two ways of funding transport infrastructure. For state roads federal allocation for city roads property and business tax. It's ridiculous that you will see a 300 metre road in Awka or Onitsha with 40 buildings using a dirt road . A road of that length can be constructed for around 40m or roughly 1m per building. The way roads are financed in the rest of the world is through bonds. You collect property tax over 10-30 years. You spread that bond over 10-30 years. It becomes 200k a year. In Onitsha with lots of multi-tenant buildings it's very easy to pay off that 200k. A 6 unit building that's 33k a year. Places with high net worth individuals are supposed to have good roads based on property tax. But you go to Udoka, Ngozika, broken down or non-existent roads. |
ANSMEDIA:I am glad they followed my earlier suggestion and included recreational sports fields. But seems they forgot about basketball court and park. I hope they will arrange an area where food vendor carts can be located and of course waste bins. It's a start for livability for people to have a place for recreational activity. Not youth sleeping on phone or going to play betnaija. The rise in crime and anti social behavior is directly related to lack of physical activity amongst the youth. |
Any solar installers in Anambra? Please post your contact. Thanks. |
hammerT:Do you see people selling gates along the road or mounting wheelbarrow colonies on the road like Nigeria? Cotonou is clean, their villages are clean. Nigeria is filthy dump. |
Landmine1:Send me email message. |
Anambra1stPikin:Are Niger cat in charge of the pavement design? I know they did a solid job with Club Rd, the road behind Juhel and old INEC Rd. |
ChimaAdeoye:If you want livability in Anambra there are two areas you tackle other than just access roads. One is markets and two is transport. If you can't organize markets you have no business calling yourself government. There is a difference between a village market with a few stalls to the montrosities of Nigerian markets where primitive organization does not scale. How can you have thousands of stalls where thousands of people congregate yet no water supply, no drainage, no toilet facilities, no waste bins, little to no parking, no proper electric system. Are you not concerned about health and spread of water or food borne disease? About congestion, fire hazard, destruction of roads from heavy traffic, filth in gutters? Are you as a government not concerned about the attraction of markets to criminals? How many markets have proper security patrols? You see the same thing with transport where every body is a transporter. Untrained drivers, cultists, Indian hemp smokers, criminals take join. Oyibo does not allow everybody to drive commercial vehicles because it's people that you put at risk. Anambra needs to get a hold of the transport sector. There are too many Keke, shuttle buses operating. You don't limit them or force rigorous licensing requirements on them. You don't even know who drives them. They clog all the junctions and constitute a nuisance waiting for passengers because you can't organize simple public buses with routes, stops and scheduling. Finally, until I see a concerted effort by ansg to rid the state of the nuisance of barrow people sitting in front of markets destroying the business of stalls inside, then they are not serious. Monkey dey work baboon dey chop. Should not be allowed at all. Build markets elsewhere or go rent shops like everyone else. |
Anambra1stPikin:Walkway is obstructing the water from the road draining into the gutter and will lessen it's lifespan. The road contractor should have been involved in the pavement design. This is the problem with itk Anambrarians. Follow the process rather than running with half baked knowhow. Nigercat should have been awarded all roads in Awka and Onitsha. Far better than that scam called IDC. |
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Valto:I would have bought from you but I like transparent dealers so have gone with Felicity lifepo4. Keep hiding your prices and calling what you do business. |
Valto:Whats with Nigerian sellers? Put the price out there. You are not selling tomato FGS. |
ebufa:You are comparing the African-American civil rights movement to the nonsense of IPOB? You are not serious. The civil rights leaders did not "sit-at-home". They marched on Washington. They did not tell African-Americans not to go to work. Nor did they create an armed wing to take on the KKK that attacked African-Americans attending mixed race schools or living in mixed-race suburbs. Again, if IPOB want to stupidly sit at home every other month let them do so. Just don't force everyone else to join in their madness. The igbos should not blindly follow people that have no plan other than to pauperize them and create the seeds of Boko Haram in their homeland. Ever since IPOB created its so-called ESN, criminals have seized the opportunity to go on a violent killing and kidnapping spree wearing "biafra" uniforms. The Biafra of criminals by criminals. The main criminal Simon Ekpa parades himself as "Prime Minister of the Biafran government in Exile". Who appointed him? |
hammerFC:Nnewi created its own vigilante, Onitsha and Awka has its own security systems. Did they ask you to come and defend them? Ipob/Simon Ekpa should stop salivating over control of Anambras wealth and go and save the people of Abia, Imo and Ebonyi from Fulani herdsmen. |
hammerFC:Go and tell your Abakaliki leader in Finland and all your jobless touts that Igbo Enwere Eze. Who the hell are you to give directive. |
hammerFC:If the jobless touts of ipob want to sit at home for NNAMDI KANU then go ahead. All we are saying is just don't force everybody else to participate in your joblessness and poverty. |
ebufa:How will sitting at home change anything? You have no answer. So keep sitting at home and growing poorer while SE governors continue packing FAAC money. See how stupid your ipob leaders are. You don't even make sense anymore but follow like sheep to instruction. |
If you want to protest you go on a march. If ipob marched for nnamdi kanu every Monday that will make sense not sitting at home and grow poorer while the rest of Nigeria continues doing business and making money. The fact that they are forcing people to follow their stupidity ridicules the igbo as people of low IQ. Sheep like not exercising thinking faculty. Nobody should entertain their nonsense in the name of fighting for Biafra. I am glad ifeanyi ubah warned Simon ekpa. He should take steps to get the Finnish government to prosecute him for incitement of violence. |
Power is ALLOCATED BY TCN according to following formula so revenue means nothing other than the ability of DISCOs to recover money for electricity billed: Ikeja - 15% Ibadan - 13% Eko - 11% Abuja - 11% Enugu - 9% Benin - 9% Kano - 8% Kaduna - 8% Port Harcourt - 6.5% Jos - 5.5% Yola - 3.5% For those casting tribal aspersions, SEVEN of these DISCOs are technically bankrupt: Abuja, Ibadan, Benin, Jos Kano, Kaduna and Yola. |

