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ba7man: Pls ignore this dude i just quoted. He's probably mad that the Hotel Franchise ignored his region and decided on Osun State with all its "poverty".

Just type in "Best Western Hotels Ratings" on your Google search and read up yourself.

Best Western Hotels have a 3-4 star Rating on the international scale.

you mean osun stars?

best western in all their operations worldwide do not even have one star cos they operate a bed and breakfast motel. but when it comes to nigeria it suddenly has 4 stars. who is deceiving who?

anyways will reserve my comments till it gets built if it will be built.

ALl GEJ needs is 25% from all the SW states and 80% from ondo state.that will do it. if he does better its still a win.

OAM4J pls move this to front page its happening in SW therefore it deserves to be in the front page plsssssss.

Best western operates motels worldwide a motel is more or less a bed and breakfast type thing. is this the only chain that rauf could find? why is osun rascal spending 2.5bn to build a bed and breakfast type place? and some clowns are celebrating this?



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Best western operates motels worldwide a motel is more or less a bed and breakfast type thing. is this the only chain that rauf could find? why is fauf spending 2.5bn to build a bed and breakfast type place? and some clowns are celebrating this?

i nominate sincere9gerian as a moderator, He/ she is the most objective contributor to this section under him the APC and other opposing view point will be given a fair chance. at least his bias will not be as obvious as OAM4J who is currently moderating.

If you saw the enron IPP barge sailing away from lagos click like!

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Trust the thief of lagos thefnubu to be involved with power company that perpetuated the biggest corporate fraud in the history of USA. Enron was a fraud and so is this 270mw power plant with or without a name change.

just like the lagos sunborn yacht hotel,this lagos enron/AES 270mw power plant on a barge also sailed away!

safepassage2015: no governor has performed like akpabio in Africa. He was voted best governor for 3 YRS in a row. This writeup is characteristic of yoruba ethnic jongoists and apc goons

did you read the writeup?

uyo under the able leadership of Gov. Akpabio the promise keeper.

All this talk about megawatts is making Nigerians mega mad.

Is this for real? is okorocha really going to interfere with the election of another state? has he finished solving the issues affecting his state?I wonder how he will feel in a few years if anambra gov./ others interfere with imo election.

This article is on point. love it

glory2glory: Hate him or like him, Amaechi is the man of the moment. Posterity will judge him as one of the best governor, not just in Rivers but Nigeria as a whole.
Op sorry , Amaechi is not your typical politician who loses all sense of reasoning and does anything all in the name of being loyal.
Amaechi is not perfect, but he's much better than most Pdp governors.

I just posted the piece i did not write it. but i do agree with the author. dont you? where exactly do you find fault with the article?

Amaechi should read this piece and take caution as the author of this article has dissected the issues surrounding the rivers crisis objectively.

His names are Godswill Obot Akpabio. He is the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, South-South Nigeria. To many of his admirers, he is the golden governor, who has turned a once sedentary state into a wonderland of a sort. The land of beauty. The land of pride. The city that works for the people, and other Nigerians.

But, to his adversaries, the Akwa Ibom helmsman is the sweet-talking, 'loud-mouthed' governor, who never gets tired of advertising his achievements and dramatic turn-around of his state.

However, there is always a point of convergence among the Akpabio lovers and haters: The man has performed well, even when he is lampooned for making a song and dance of his works. The response, from his defenders, equally is: Let our governors and leaders at all levels perform and 'make all the noises in the newspapers and television.' Let them sing their praises to high heavens, as long as we can see and feel their achievements in concrete terms. As long as we can see the landscape being transformed; lives being bettered and things moving in positive and progressive direction.

Indeed, for many Nigerians, what ultimately matters is: Performance, performance, performance. No less. So, let's have good roads everywhere and let the Minister of Works stand in the sun, basking in euphoria and adulation. Let the health sector work; let's have adequate security of lives and property; let's have abundant food supply; let's have efficient and effective electricity and let whoever has wrought the magic bask in all the blaze of glory. How does that disturb anyone's sleep?

That's why Nigerians would continue to celebrate men like him (Akpabio), men like Mr.Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, for his turn-around of Lagos; Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole of Edo State, for his achievements. Gov. Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo of Gombe State, has also done well. There are a few others who make democracy meaningful in this clime, leaders who give us hope that all hope is not lost. That we may yet emerge the super country we could have since been, if only our leaders had stayed focussed, faithful and loyal to us the electorate, the people, they purportedly swore to serve.

For me, leadership is ultimately about loyalty. Loyalty to your promises and pledges while running for office. Loyalty to the people, who gave you mandate. Loyalty to your country, which gave you the privilege to occupy the high office. Without loyalty, no leader can truly be called great.

It, therefore, follows that bad rulers are disloyal leaders. Bad rulers are loyal only to themselves, families and cronies. We have had a surfeit of them in the nation's history. You can name them, can't you? Disloyal leaders. Leaders for whom their words were not their bonds. Leaders who took us back, rather than march us forward. We still have them everywhere, from the centre, down to the grassroots!

Conversely, good leaders, in serving their people so well, demonstrate uncommon loyalty. Loyalty to God and loyalty to God's people. So, we can in the same vein, safely conclude that Akpabio, Fashola, Oshiomhole, Dankwambo, are loyal leaders because they are working for the people. On another level, they are also loyal to their leaders. Fashola, for example, is a loyal associate of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. Come rain or shine, Fashola has stuck with Tinubu. In the case of Akpabio, it is an open secret that he is the loyal and faithful associate of President Goodluck Jonathan. He has stuck with the president, defending his administration and trumpeting his re-election bid. And in the process, throwing almost all his goodwill and reputation in the fray.

In fact, many of his admirers have expressed anger and disappointment at what they call his 'unfathomable' support for President Jonathan. Why would any man do that, especially for a president who is facing the toughest battle of his political life? Why would a governor of Akpabio's standing risk everything to support a president buffeted from all corners by the opposition? Why risk all for one man, especially in a country where people often don't reward one good turn?

Dele Momodu, perhaps, encapsulated the feelings of Akpabio admirers, when in his recent column in THISDAY,he beseeched the governor to dump his support for the president because he was losing much of his goodwill by so doing. He asked him to learn from what happened to people like Dr. Peter Odili and others whose loyalty were repaid with malice by former president Olusegun Obasanjo.

But Akpabio, despite all entreaties, has remained resolute in his support for Jonathan and his 2015 ambition. And he is 'reaping the costly price' of loyalty to a president, who has broken not a few hearts with the difference in expectations and performance of his administration. Verbal missiles are being hurled at him.

http://odili.net/news/source/2013/sep/23/500.html

The Senator Chris Ngige Campaign Organization was inaugurated in Awka yesterday with the leader of the campaign committee and Governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, saying he would soon relocate to Anambra State for effective campaign activities.

Speaking during the inauguration, Okorocha said the November 16 contest would be between Ngige and Abuja, informing the people that Ngige will be the only governor that would use the resources of the state to develop the state without interference of political godfathers.

He said his decision to go headlong into the campaign is that he would be very glad if Ngige is governor of Anambra and he as Imo State governor.

He said: "I want to relocate to this place so that we will tell them the stuff we are made of. The battle will be forward ever, backward never. My coming here will be for me to know where there is any problem.


"Ngige is a proper Igbo man who cannot be tossed around by anybody if he is in government. He has the interest of the people at heart and that is what makes a good politician."

Okorocha asked all the people he described as ward commanders in the 326 wards in the state to come and meet him in Owerri where it will be made it known to them that the battle ahead will not be easy..

"It is going to be push me I push you and the important thing is that the ward commanders should be steadfast in monitoring the votes.”


http://odili.net/news/source/2013/sep/25/316.html

The past few months have been dominated by news of the Rivers State Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi's political misery. The fairy-tale story of Amaechi's rise to power has been blemished by his frosty relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan and his alienation from the People's Democratic Party (PDP).


No week passes by without journalists furnishing us with news updates on Amaechi's quarrels with the Presidency, his bitter complaints about the excesses of Mrs Patience Jonathan and her interference in the politics of Rivers State, his endless dispute with the state Commissioner of Police Joseph Mbu, his angry exchanges with his squabbling partner Nyesom Wike (Minister of State for Education and now Supervising Minister of Education), his feud with the PPD hierarchy at state and national levels, and his decision to join the group of disaffected PDP governors in the north to form a rival political party.


Last week, Amaechi regaled journalists with the chief cause of his grouse with Jonathan. Speaking at a Rotary Youth Leadership Award ceremony at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) in Port Harcourt on Thursday, 19 September 2013, Amaechi said he was strongly opposed to Jonathan's second term ambition because the president has abandoned the South-South which, ironically, is Jonathan's region of origin. Amaechi said that despite the call by Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for all South-South states to support Jonathan's re-election bid, he would not do so because of the lack of federal presence in the state.


Amaechi's claim that Jonathan has abandoned the South-South and therefore does not deserve the support of the people of the region in the 2015 federal election is logically unsound. Jonathan is not president of the South-South. He is president of Nigeria. He is not the president of one ethnic group. Jonathan was elected to serve the people of Nigeria, not to cater to the narrow interests of people in one region of the country. The Presidency is not a piece of land to be acquired by Jonathan and his kinsmen in the South-South. If Jonathan chooses to contest the 2015 presidential election, he must do so on the basis of his achievements during his first term, not on the basis of his region of origin.


A day after he expressed opposition to Jonathan's re-election aspiration, Amaechi took on Aviation Minister Stella Oduah whom he accused of deliberately abandoning work on the Port Harcourt International Airport. He said the Aviation Minister had been unconcerned about advancing work to modernise the airport because of his (Amaechi's) row with Jonathan. Amaechi also accused the Aviation Minister of seizing two aircraft belonging to Rivers State. He said: "We paid for two surveillance helicopters that would fly around Rivers State (and detect crime) including oil theft and report real time to police, air force, army and the government house. She (Oduah) refused the helicopters from coming. They are there in America and the government of America has been wondering why we don't want to take our plane and the President (Jonathan) is aware."


Amaechi is like a man under siege. He is fighting just about everybody in the Federal Government. Most recently he called for the removal of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance because, he said, the Federal Government has failed to pay to Rivers State the statutory allocations that are due to the state. He said: "We asked that the Minister of Finance should resign if she is not able to manage the economy and she replied that the economy dey kampe. As of now, we are yet to receive the complete money for July… Our entitlement as Rivers State Government in July was N19 billion. They have paid us only N14 billion."


Amaechi and the Presidency are locked in a deadly and foolish politics of retribution that will continue to deprive Rivers State citizens of their entitlements to federal resources. What would it benefit Amaechi if he continues to prolong his conflict with Federal officials and get nothing in return for the people of his state? In the endless row between Amaechi and the Federal Government, Rivers State is undeniably the loser. Logically, this should not be the case. After all, Amaechi is just one man.


The Presidency must not visit on the people of Rivers State its anger against Amaechi. Regardless of what Amaechi says about Jonathan and his government, Rivers State deserves to receive its full statutory allocations and on time. Vengeance is not the hallmark of great leaders and statesmen. Amaechi should also realise that in the current federal system, the states are at the mercy of the Federal Government in terms of resource allocation and delivery of services. Without playing second fiddle to the all-powerful Federal Government, a clever governor should know when and how best to relate with Federal authorities in order to attract federal attention and resources.


The more complaints Amaechi makes about Jonathan and the PDP leadership in his state and in Abuja, the more he positions himself as a seriously troubled man. He cultivates the image of a cry baby. Why is it that, of all the 36 governors, Amaechi's voice is the most strident and the most melodramatic? Why is Amaechi the most consistent fault-finder? Why does he present himself as a whinger, indeed as the grumpiest of all the governors? The more energy he burns up in picking quarrels with his enemies in Aso Rock, the less time he will devote to governing his state. The people of Rivers State have no interest in the personal grudges that Amaechi and Jonathan hold against each other. Everyone's paramount concern is the ability of the government to deliver services to the people, and to provide for their basic needs. Everything else is secondary.


There is something inconsistent and incoherent in Amaechi's narrative about his problems with Aso Rock. In the early days of his conflict with Jonathan, Amaechi argued persuasively that Jonathan had been angry with him following widespread rumours that he (Amaechi) had agreed to serve as vice-presidential running mate to Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State in the 2015 federal election. Although he denied the allegation, Amaechi also said in a rather trenchant tone that he was entitled to contest any political position in Nigeria, whether Jonathan liked it or not. That's true. It was also his own way of rubbing his thumb into Jonathan's eyes. However, in another open forum, Amaechi denied quite brusquely that he had a problem with Jonathan. In fact, he said the so-called rift between him and Jonathan was invented by journalists.


Amaechi's controversial position as the leader of a faction of the Nigerian Governors' Forum has driven him to a blind spot in which he perceives himself as a superstar. And that is where his powers are overstated. A star of any genre should not be at war with himself, his party leaders and his people. Amaechi believes he is a victim of the sinister politics of the Presidency and the PDP in Abuja. That may well be the case but it should not compel him to see apparitions where none exists.


Amaechi's never-ending gripes against the Federal Government are intended to serve two purposes. The first is to portray himself as a harmless state governor who has been subjected to unjust, oppressive and destabilising plot of the Presidency. The second intention is to portray the dreadful law and order situation in his state as the handiwork of Federal officials who want to make the state ungovernable. Against this background, if Amaechi stumbles in his front yard, he will blame it directly on Jonathan and the Presidency. If Amaechi experiences a terrible incubus in his dreams, he will attribute it to his archenemy Joseph Mbu, the state Police Commissioner. If Amaechi's official car does not kick-start normally in the morning, he will blame it on the conspiracy of the rebel members of the Nigerian Governors' Forum who are opposed to his leadership.


What does Amaechi really want? Does he want to succeed Jonathan as president? Does he want to be deified and garlanded with roses as the best man to govern Rivers State? Does he want to operate as the unopposed chairperson of the Nigerian Governors' Forum? Does Amaechi want to be respected as the political kingmaker in Rivers State? Should Amaechi's quarrels with Jonathan undermine his obligation to provide for the basic needs of the people?


The more you listen to Amaechi's stories, the more you feel for him. Yet it is difficult to understand Amaechi's reasons for his animosity toward Jonathan, his disregard for his party's leadership and the party rules, and his reasons for pitching tent with a group of northern PDP governors such as Babangida Aliyu of Niger State, Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State, Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State, and Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State to form a new PDP. Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State is also a member of this group.


Has Amaechi's strategy worked? Has his tactic to portray himself as the victim in the uneven contest between him and Jonathan helped to attract sympathy to him? The answer you get will depend on the political affiliations of the people you speak with.


The more Amaechi complains in public, the more he mocks himself as a perpetual petitioner. Complaining frequently to a tired audience will not validate Amaechi's behaviour in the court of public opinion.
http://odili.net/news/source/2013/sep/25/502.html

idundu bridge has fallen down! Prior to intervention by his excellency the gov. of cross river state lyle imoke.

i bet if this was the present picture of the bridge some of you on this thread would have been very happy? but sorry a new bridge has been constructed to replace the broken one.

some of us nigerians are fixated on bad news, we should change our ways. celebrate good things and dont denigrate it, so we will see good things in our lives.

For some of you who are criticizing the bridge attached is a picture of the fallen bridge prior to new construction you can open a new thread called idundu bridge has fallen down or whatever fits your deranged fancy and feed your craving for bad news and self delusion.

For those who dont have short attention span and hence can read more than 2 sentences the importance of this bridge to cross river and nay nigeria is embeded on the information below sorry if you cant read more than a few sentences then you would not know why idundu bridge is important and why it should be celebrated:


A submerged low-bed trailer that caused
the collapse of Idundu Bridge linking
Nigeria and Cameroun in Akpabuyo Local
Government Area of Cross River State
Saturday. The bridge links Nigeria and
Cameroun.
"THE 42-year-old Idundu bridge on Oban-Ekan road in Cross River State linking Otu-end of the Republic of Cameroun has collapsed, crippling economic activities in the area.
The collapsed bridge has also affected work at the ongoing construction site of the multimillion dollar Orascom/Unicem cement factory at Mfemosin, Akamkpa Local Government Area of the state, as well as cut off Obasanjo Farms at Ekong Anaku in the same local government area from the other part of the state.
The bridge, with a capacity for 20 tonne weight, collapsed at the weekend when a trailer low bed conveying an earth moving vehicle to the Oracom project site plunged into the Idundu River and crushing in the process, a tipper truck that was loading sand under the bridge at the time.
Though no life was lost, the impact of the accident prompted the state governor, Mr. Donald Duke, to visit the scene where he mandated the commissioner for works, Mr. Julius Okpotu, to assess the level of damage and work out temporary alternative for the people in the area.
Okpotu, who addressed the community in Akansoko, condoled with them for the accident and promised to provide a boat to ferry the people as a temporary measure to the problem.
The commissioner commended the villagers for their calm and understanding in the wake of the accident and sued for cooperation as well as support while the state government would liaise with the Federal Government and Orascom Company to rebuild the bridge.
He implored them not to blame the company for the accident since it was not deliberate. Okpotu added that the Orascom/Unicem cement plant when completed, would create jobs for the community and the state.
Also speaking, the Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Dominic Aqua Edem, thanked Duke for taking urgent steps to address the problem and appealed for calm from the community.
In his remark, the project manager of Orascom, Mr. Brain Sears, said the company was deeply grieved by the incident and promised to collaborate with the relevant authorities in building the bridge while promising to provide a boat to convey the people across the river at no cost as a temporary measure.
A community spokesman, Mr. Edem Ekong, commended the state government for the prompt concern over the incident and appealed to government to ensure the planned provision of water and electricity promptly, alongside the building of the collapsed bridge.

@anylove 100 which country are you from?

more

Now this is a good project completed by gov. imoke He used one of the best construction company in nigeria CCECC to construct the bridge which connotes quality.

[quote author=t-something]Hello Bro! Getting pictures from that site isn't as easy as other sites due to the heavy security at the airport. Visitors are forbidden from coming into the site let alone take pictures, except they have permit from the client (Ministry of Special Duties ). However each time I go to the airport I feel work is going on because the cranes which are sighted from afar are busy working .[/quote]are you sure?

The Nigerian Presidency has been compelled to deny reports circulating in social media that President Goodluck Jonathan travelled to New York for the UN General Assembly with a 600-man delegation all at the expense of government.
Spokesperson of the president, Reuben Abati has issued a statement categorically denying the report and describing it as false.
A New York based online news portal, Saharareporters.com, had broken the news of President Jonathan’s alleged massive delegation for the annual UN event. The story then circulated rapidly on social media with various people commenting on it. But Mr Abati in a statement said there is no truth in the report and that the president travelled with less than a 30-man delegation to the event.
“While we trust that discerning members of the public who are already very familiar with Sahara Reporters’ usual fare of mischief, outright falsehood and erroneous speculation will rightly dismiss this latest claim as a fresh manifestation of the online medium’s ill-will towards President Jonathan and his administration, we wish to affirm for the benefit of the unwary that there is absolutely no truth in the allegation that the President took a 600-man delegation to New York.
“There is also no substance to the rehashed charge of profligacy which Sahara reporters annually makes against the President when he leads Nigeria’s delegation to the UN General Assembly.
“The truth is that less than 30 persons arrived in New York with the President this morning as members of his entourage. Other than them, the only other persons who are in New York for the UN General Assembly with the President’s knowledge and approval are relevant ministers and few essential aides.” the President’s spokesman said.
He went on to add that the President’s official delegation ”is definitely not out of proportion with Nigeria’s size, role and relevance in Africa and the global community.”
He also argued that a number of Nigerians are private visits to New York at the moment. “These persons are here for their own purposes and neither President Jonathan nor his administration has any responsibility for the presence of these persons in New York.
“We will not be surprised if it is such persons who include Nigerian businessmen who are here for an African Business Roundtable event, members of non-governmental organizations and tourists that Sahara Reporters has been counting, for the sole purpose of mischief-making, as “members of the Nigerian delegation”.

http://tv360nigeria.com/presidency-denies-jonathan-in-new-york-with-600-man-delegation/

omonnakoda: Well hot air huffing and puffing does not a seaport build. Akpabio should educate his people and reduce their level of superstition reorient them to stop doing hausboi. I can see a few hausboy and haus gials here tonite

Anyone who knows his letters should read the above grammar and point out who needs education. Uman ikot.
you can't even make two correct sentences.

@ omonakanda you should stick to discussing issues that affects the bush you came from an leave Akwa ibom issues for people with requisite IQ to delibrate.