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globemoney01:
I guess this puts an end the question about the second niger bridge linking Enugu osha expressway

ANSMEDIA:
PHOTO SPEAK: As Soludo TV stream live the APGA and Soludo Support Groups victory rally train from AGULERI JUNCTION to the country home of the Anambra State Governor and National Leader of APGA, His Excellency; Chief Dr Willie Obiano at Amaeze Aguleri.

ChimaAdeoye:
Without diminishing the importance of Onitsha, Anambra needs to concentrate on building one truly modern futuristic city. I am glad that Obiano wants to imbibe the Dubai model to develop Awka capital city into a truly modern metropolis. I guess having lived in Houston, Obiano understands the need not to grow more slums in the name of development in Anambra state. Now, we need more quality rather than quantity. The way he doesn't want all sorts of shanties on the new airport access way. Just to say the road is a "built-up" area. We need world-class structures there and not any shanty mixture of cement and zinc.

The point here isn't that I'm unaware that Jalingo conurbation has expanded to meet Jimeta and now they are one city. The point is to conserve the scarce land resources to build a well-planned truly modern capital city in Anambra state. That meets the standard of any modern city in the world. If Okpoko expands to occupy the entire landmass of Anambra, it is not development in my definition. It is slumming of the entire Anambra. Which is the point i am making here. It is all about carefully placing modern layouts such as the Awka Millenium city, Anambra airport city etc in very strategic locations within the capital territory to help develop a truly modern capital city that will be a reference city in Africa and the world.

ChimaAdeoye:
Well, we are saying the same thing. The way to go is to develop brand new areas like the Awka Millenium city and similar two or more modern satellite cities within the fringes of the Awka capital territory. Not hyper-focusing on what to demolish in the present old Awka town.

Building a new modern capital city is like building a modern university campus. You may live in the temporary site of the university while developing a modern permanent site. You don't waste money that should be used in building a modern permanent site in demolishing and building new structures in the temporary site.

ChimaAdeoye:
The focus and fixation on the old Awka around Eke Awka should end for good.

They should focus on turning the NEW Awka CAPITAL TERRITORY (Landmass from Ngozika estate to all the areas behind the secretariate and UNIZIK permanent site) into a truly modern city. The fixation of going into people's ancestral villages around Eke Awka and surrounding villages to knock down buildings built in the 1950s when Awka was just a village does not make any sense at all.

If Michael Okpara had not built the new Enugu in New Haven, Independence Layout considered to be "bush" at the time he planned them, but instead focussed on knocking down ancestral village homes in Asata, Ogui, and Abakpa Nike, then Enugu would still be looking like a glorified village around Asata and Abakpa Nike.

The next Anambra governor must think of developing a new Awka Capital Territory within the 10 square miles designated as the capital territory and stop this fixation on knocking down old buildings in the old Awka villages as the only spot known as Awka capital territory. Eventually, the old Awka we see today will just be a neighborhood like Abakpa Nike or Ogui in the new Awka Capital Territory. Exactly in the same manner that the Abuja capital territory left those traditional Bwari,Kuje, Gwagwalada, and Nyanya villages to go develop a new modern capital territory in Garki. Which is today known as the modern Abuja city while the other villages are now districts in the Abuja capital territory.

The Court of Appeal, Awka Division, Anambra State, last Monday struck out an application challenging the judgement of the state High Court recognising Professor Chukwuma Soludo as the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

The high court in Awka presided by Justice Charles Okaa had two weeks ago ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to enlist Soludo’s name as APGA governorship candidate.

The party governorship candidate from another faction, Chief Edozie Njoku, along with one Okoro Benedict had approached the appellate court to challenge the order.

The plaintiffs had sought from the appellate court presided by Justice Nwosu-Iheme three reliefs against the judgement of Justice Okaa which affirmed Soludo as the authentic candidate of APGA in the state governorship election.

They had sought the following reliefs to wit: order of the appellate court staying execution of Justice Okaa’s court judgement; order of the appellate court to set aside court rules and grant the appellants (Njoku and Okoro) permission to compile and transmit judgement of Justice Okaa to the Court of Appeal, and to make an order granting their application an accelerated hearing.

But Justice Nwosu-Iheme in her ruling in the consolidated motions last Monday, dismissed the applications as incompetent, and awarded the sum of N200,000 and, N250,000 respectively against the applicants who listed Hon Wilson Onyekwelu, APGA, and others as respondents.

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Watch and see what he can do, his challenges etc


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stasius:
Awka is actually beautiful oooh. What it needs is good roads within streets and estates with proper basic amenities!

investnow2013:
Anambra Continues To Excel In Education As 10 Year-Old Ifunanya Nwanegbo Becomes Best Young Mathematician In Nigeria

By Ikenna Aniagboso

Anambra State continues to record excellent results in education as 10 year-old Ifunanya Nwanegbo, a pupil of Mabel Divine International School, Nnewi, Anambra State, has become the best young mathematician in Nigeria by winning a prestigious national mathematics competition.

Miss Nwanegbo defeated no fewer than 200,000 pupils from schools across the federation to win the 18th national mathematics competition with a total score of 98.132%. The competition was organized by the Nigerian Tulip International College, Abuja.

Miss Ifunanya and Anambra State received N400,000 for winning the first prize and a full scholarship, while her school received a photocopier machine.

In a video which has now gone viral online, little Ifunanya displayed rare confidence when she said that she had minor difficulties in solving just a few questions in the competition. Those minor issues took a fractional 1.8% from what would have been a perfect 100% score for Anambra's Nigeria's young mathematics champion.

The State Commissioner for Basic Education, Prof Kate Omenugha, said that she expected nothing less from Anambra pupils participating in any national and international educational competition, noting that the young pupil's brilliance and confidence reflected the standard and quality of education in Anambra State and the values which the State government under Gov Willie Obiano has imbibed in the children.

Prof Omenugha lauded Ifunanya's coach and teacher, Mr Emmanuel Egwuchukwu, for his dedication and commitment.

"This is the spirit that has kept education in Anambra State on the part of excellence and has made our teachers and pupils winners in several national and international competitions", she enthused .

Ifunanya's mother, Mrs Nwanegbo, expressed gratitude to God for giving her daughter the knowledge and confidence to compete most effectively in the competition which described as one "for true champions".

The Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment in the state, Mr C Don Adinuba, congratulated the Governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano on numerous awards which the state has won in Nigeria and abroad as a result of his administration's policies and huge investments in education.

He expressed great delight over Ifunanya's stellar performance, saying it is "consistent with the performance of schoolchildren from the state in national and international competitions like the 2018 Technovation which pupils of Regina Pacis Model Girls School, Onitsha, won in Silicon Valley, United States, on August 9, 2018; the 2019 International Festival of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics held in Tunisia from February 21 to 27, 2019, where St John's Secondary School, Alor, won the Bronze, the 2021 Global Internet Competition which Queen of the Rosary secondary School, Onitsha, clinched the Gold Medal, in addition to the 2019 World Teachers Day in Abuja organized on October 9 by the Federal Ministry of Education, The Presidency and the Nigeria Union of Teachers with the state winning four of the available 24 prizes whereas most states didn't get any and the few which received did not get more than one each, to say nothing about the fact that the state went home with two of the four vehicles donated by President Muhammadu Buhari.

"This is not to overlook the fact that Loretto Special Science School at Adazi Nnukwu won the first position in the 2016 assessment of schools by the Federal Ministry of Education in the senior secondary schools category while Queen of the Rosary College, Onitsha, won the first prize in the junior secondary schools category and Clement Okondo of the Abagana Central School took the first position in the primary school category.

"There are many other examples we can cite about Anambra's excellence in education like Grundtvig International School winning the Private School of the Year award from the Nigeria Union of Teachers in 2020, but time wouldn't permit.

"Ifunanya, our emerging Chike Obi, has made us proud. She and pupils like her will continue to perform brilliantly under the excellent policies of the Willie Obiano-led administration in Anambra State, even as the administration nears its end.

Anambra and Nigeria's mathematics champion, Miss Ifunanya Nwanegbo, won a cash prize of N400,000.00, a full scholarship by the Nigerian Tulip International College and a brand new photocopier for her school.