₦airaland Forum

manugbo: SOMETHING IS COMING UP SOON AND U AND T.A ORJI CANNOT, NEVER STOP IT

THE ABA NGWA PEOPLE ARE SAYING 'ENOUGH TO MANY YEARS OF SLAVERY"

JUST WATCH AND SEE

kutchs: Just shut it okay? You are one of the reason why Nigeria is messed up, pple like u think and want the govt to do all forgetting u have a role to play in the country. @OP tanks bro for this insightful info.

sonya4all: Well all the blame shouldnt be on the government.... Like the writer said the aba residents can be blamed partly as well as govt who collects 1200 asepa fee..With little or nothing to show for the services such money was collected...Also im somehow surprised that the op..Said he recently visited aba...And its amazing how he knows almost all the spots at aba and their names respectively.... Could it be he is an independ journalist or part of the people gov t.A orji hired to praise him in niraland.... I could be wrong....Prove it.

mens dept: WHat is all the long grammer for?

Yes, the North has, after the war, redesigned the nation to favor them politically.

But guess what

SInce 1999 that OBASANJO was appointed, through Yar Adua, and now GEJ, what has the SE/SS/SW done with their millions in allocations?

Nothing.

Ibori ruled Delta 8 years, and the state is in ruins. Now he's in jail in UK (Not Naija)
Alamyseiba ruled Bayelsa for 6+ years, and fled UK as a woman and is in jail
Nnamani ruled Enugu for 8 years, yet no Int'l Airport, no world class structures, and now he's hiding in the US
Udenwa and the local rif raf Ohakim ruled Imo for 12 years, and today that state is the same as 1999
Lets forget about the Mbadijunu and the rigger Ngige (who the local Anambra fools still root for)and the current Obi who cannot even build their 2nd Nig.gger Bridge after how many years
We know Attah of Akwa IBom [/b]is a rogue, Kalu of [b]Abia a rogue along with Theo Orji, Gbenga Daniel of Ogun numero uno in bad governance, and the rest applies to Ebonyi, Ekiti, Ondo, Edo, etc.

Shame

jason123: And I repeat with confidence, WE ARE NOT JOINING BIAFRA!!! Go hang!

naptu2: Why can't, for example, the government of Zamfara State, invest in gold mining? This would bring in revenue, stop illegal mining and halt the deaths of its citizens from lead poisoning.

Why can't the northern governors set up grazing areas and ranches with proper irrigation systems, meat and milk processing factories, agricultural extension officers and conduct research into animal husbandry? This would provide tax revenue, employment and solve the problem of nomadic cattle rearers.

Even Singapore, with very little natural resources, is a first world nation because they invested in their human resources.

Are these states really poor, or are they that way because of lack of effort (governors waiting for awuf money from Abuja)?

ezeagu: Everyone in the world agrees Dubai is a soulless city built with and on slaves from Asia and East Africa. Don't look to Dubai when there are so many better less gaudy options. All the glitters....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh-vlQwrmU

erico2k2: your statement is struggling to gain meaning in my brain,xplain what you mean there.

erico2k2: When people from them areas wake up one morning fetch water from their well and discovered it has gone oily then you too will get first hand experience?

veraponpo: My person, Awo would never roast in fire because he was fair to this country but pple like Ojukwu,Ironsi,Ezeogwu,etc will burn. Why? They killed 'all' nothern leaders and Yoruba leaders ONLY to put igbo leaders in power when our independence was just 6yrs. Always like to cheat other pple. Awo changed the currency because biafria had a different currency but they buggled CBN branched in the East and Calabar to fight Nigeria, Awo being,not just an collosus but also a sage changed the currency to make the stollen one useless. So, after the war,since Nigeria had already won,Chief Awo then helped all the people of Biafra to start a new life with 20 pounds, to avoid the arguement of i saved so so amount in the bank that had already been burned during the war.

erico2k2: YOU GUYS WILL NEVER LEARN,THE DISCOVERY OF OIL IN YOUR TOWN IS NOT A THING OF JOY,ITS LICENCE FOR WAR, DESTRUCTION AND FUEL FOR GREED.

manny4life: Is that the pics of the "multi billion company"?

It better had been bigger and better that what's in that pic.



The Dubai dreams takes years of financial discipline/investment and less corrupt environment to come through. On that note, not only one person or groups of persons can achieve the Dubai dream, but EVERYONE. Anambra may be at it, but still far from the reality of Dubai dream.

It is this kind of vision that drove the rulers of Dubai to turn a semi desert to attract the best of talents and capital from all over the world, and today Dubai is everybody’s dream destination. A similar strategy was deployed by Taiwan, harnessing its strategic location and endowments. When they started, their initial plans were dismissed as ‘unrealistic’.

Soludo envisions Anambra, with its peculiar small landmass, as one “Free Trade Zone.” Some of his programmes range from the Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu airport, metropolitan urban renewal programmes to turn the ‘ONA axis’ (Onitsha, Nnewi, Awka axis) into commercial and industrial hubs; revolution to turn the more than 40,000 four-storey buildings in Onitsha which are now dead assets into viable, collaterable assets that can be used to secure substantial bank loans for business; the commercial agriculture strategy to work with Malaysians and Israelis to turn Omambala and Orumba zones into agricultural and agro-industrial parks to feed Nigeria, the plan for a brand new modern city, industrial parks, plans for community development, erosion control, education and health, as well as security. It is long and indeed ambitious.

I am particularly excited by Soludo’s brand new city idea by which he proposes to extend the current capital city (the Greater Awka into Awka North) or the Greater Onitsha into Nsugbe/Otuocha axis. The proposed six kilometre boulevard adorned with many shopping malls including the Anambra Shopping World which he believes would be Africa’s largest shopping mall with international brands, world class recreational parks, hotels, cinema, restaurants and the likes, would be a dream come through. The world’s most beautiful Avenue is Champs Elysees in Paris and no one goes to Paris without visiting Champs Elysees, which is only 1.9 kilometres long. The Anambra Boulevard promises to be Africa’s ‘must visit’ location, and will be a signature project in the new city. A well planned new city with modern facilities, together with the new airport, and industrial/commercial and agricultural parks will kick-start a dynamic domestic economy to which most of us would proudly want to relocate.

I am also excited about Soludo’s five million hybrid palm seedlings programme to re-engineer the palm revolution and compete with Malaysia and Indonesia as world’s largest palm producers. I understand that 50 - 100 hybrid palms can lift a poor household out of poverty, and this would mean 50,000 households. Imagine the agro-processing industries that would emerge, the revenue to government, and prosperity to all. Malaysia took its palm seedlings from Anambra in early 1960s and created prosperity with them.

The innovative Community Government is a study in comprehensive grassroots development framework that will involve the people in addressing their peculiar local needs. I can go on and on.

Soludo has insisted that Anambra cannot be developed with Federation Account allocation but by private capital. There must be very few people with Soludo’s national and international networks and personal capacity to mobilize private capital to transform Anambra.

He has done it before. When Soludo dreamt of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) to do what the African Union could not accomplish in over 25 years, many thought it was a joke but he did it and AFC is now Africa’s number one infrastructure bank. He dreamt of consolidating the banking system and most people said it was ‘impossible.’ Soludo set out to put Nigerian banks on the global map, and announced that he wanted Nigerian banks in the top 100 banks in the world within 10 years. Most people thought this was ‘idealistic.’ In three years, he put two Nigerian banks in the top 300 banks and 12 others within the top 1000 banks. What Soludo brings is his ever restless and cerebral capacity to think big and exceptional execution capacity.

To me, ADT is a clear roadmap to prosperity. It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who once said that, “Once a mind has been stretched by a new idea, it never returns to its original shape.” Soludo has stretched the minds of Ndi Anambra with a new idea. Now, we cannot wait again. Happy birthday to you, my brother!

Joe Anatune is a brand strategist .