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0bjpmb:I see your point. But let’s stop comparing with other states. Nigeria is a messed up country where nothing works. Therefore we should learn to do the right things and not copy the rot elsewhere in Nigeria. That is why Anambra is the light of this nation that is pitch darkness . I will post a few street from Jamaica or Barbados that have less resources than most Nigerian states. But because they insist on proper waste disposal and fight against street trading and general lawlessness , those small countries now look like heaven compared to Nigeria. Meanwhile Jamaica and Barbados which had the worst types of street trading and littering of the streets just like Nigeria, started cleaning up their country, planting trees and flowers along their roads and removing illegal makeshift structures and shanties used for street trading. Today, these countries look decent while Nigeria that used to look decent in the past, has continued to get worse over the years with the multiplication of street trading shanties all over our cities, mountains of trash called refuse dump sites on our streets and debris littered streets and drainage gutters as standard practice. |
Cjrane2:Street trading and poor attitude to environmental sanitation is indeed a problem in Anambra. Video was probably shot on Sunday so you see how the street traders lined up their makeshift shops on top of the gutters! They don’t even know that nobody should be on top of gutters to sell anything! Imagine that this road was completed just about 3 weeks ago! It already has trash and sand all over it! Wow! |
Update on the dualization of Iweka road ~ By Anambra1stSonTV Anambra1stSonTV, I am glad that from 2:30 you addressed the issue of folks calling for Julius Berger to do our internal city roads and the over-flogged clamor on open drainages. I always see comments about open drainage in Anambra videos and I often ask myself if these people had not noticed that there is trash and sand everywhere. How can closed drainage systems work in such an environment? How long would a drainage gutter sealed with concrete serve in such an environment? Not to mention the mindset of our people at this stage of development where they drink sachet water and litter the street with plastic bags and drop all sorts of trash on the street. Some of the newly constructed roads such as Niger Street, Club Road, or UNIZIK Temp site road are already covered in sand and litter! Not to mention the gutters that have already been filled up with trash washed into the gutters from the littered streets just a few months after Soludo opened up all the drainage channels in the state! All I can say is that even a beggar would want to use a private jet to travel from Awka to Asaba. Even if a commercial bus would get him to the same destination at a much cheaper rate. Of course, we would like Julius Berger to tar all our streets and cover all gutters with concrete pavement like in London or New York. The difference nobody talks about is that nobody in London or New York would dump their trash into the drainage channels. You can NEVER find any untarred street or road in London or New York. Therefore, there isn't so much sand build-up on their roads because the entire city and country roads are tarred. Most importantly; WHERE IS THE MONEY?? I'm glad you eloquently addressed that even many oil-producing states with fewer urban centers than Anambra are not even able to afford those eldorado requests. So where do our people think Anambra will find the money to engage Julius Berger for Awka, Nnewi, Ekwulobia, and Onitsha urban renewal?? We should try to be realistic in our requests and thank any leader who judiciously utilized the little resources available to make our cities decent and habitable. It's not a mark of intelligence to always blindly criticize and request things that you know that there isn't enough money for even basic infrastructure found in decent Nigerian cities, talk more doing standards found in America or Europe. Let us have the money to tar all our city roads and provide drainage channels first. Then we can begin to improve them to American or European standards after we have achieved decent tarred roads everywhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sepoRmn4tAE |
HeatSeeker:This regime has carried on with Buhari's wasteful policy of merely printing more naira notes , depleting the national foreign exchange reserves and borrowing massively ! Then they try to deflect the blame for the crashing naira on the poor roadside aboki forex dealer! As if any aboki has the power to determine the dollar, Euro or British pound exchange rate! Exactly the distraction that Buhari and Emiefele used in claiming that one aboki website was responsible for the depreciating naira exchange rate! While they very well knew they had printed and pumped in extra #27 TRILLION paper naira into the economy with nothing to back the extra printed naira notes! Not to mention the frenzy of racking up foreign debts as if it was going out of fashion and bringing our foreign reserves to almost zero from more than $55 billion dollars where they met it! |
The outburst of that lance corporal and disrespect for civilian authority is the tip of the iceberg on the rot in the Nigerian military. Nigerian soldiers are a bunch of illiterate and unruly touts. Otherwise, they would know that a "soldier" is expected to "ALWAYS be law-abiding", patriotic and to defend his country's democratic tenets to ensure the progress and survival of his country. That is how soldiers in sane societies earn the gratitude of their people and not through violation of the rights of their citizens. Look at Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso! However, in Nigeria which has cancer, even the Nigerian "soldiers" are behaving abnormally, and refusing to obey any national laws or lawful authorities. |
YourNextLevel:See as dem mention DANGOTE first to distract from their real target. Who didn't know that some organizations are above EFCC and whatever clown that runs it? Nigerians should stop entertaining these crooks by posting these planted stories with attention-seeking headlines, and acting like they fell for it that the puppet EFCC chairman has the balls to confront a Nigerian Oga-on-top like DANGOTE. |
MrProlific95:Oga, Abeg, exercise some patience. You know that there is no money left anywhere. So FG is still printing more naira notes to pay Federal Government civil servants salaries and other emergency naira payments by the FG. Just wait for the 2024 hyperinflation and naira devaluation. We will still come here to pretend we didn't know what caused the hyperinflation and devaluation of naira after pressuring them to pay salaries knowing there isn't any money in the treasury. They have no option but to massively print more naira and pay workers, and then deal with the economic consequences later ![]() |
OreMI22:Nwokem, good to see you are back to the thread again. I was wondering why you and a few others suddenly left this thread this year. Biko make una dey come share una opinion about omalich state anyi! Everyone dey contribute hin own quota. From who dedicated his entire YouTube channel for the good of the state, and to project the state in good light. To the many others who share many valuable ideas based on their experiences from different areas, they have been and worked. Daalu nu rinne! Gradually we are moving forward as a people and I have no doubts that Ndigbo as a people will reach the promised land. Good to see you're back bro! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irGQZ6YXsKI |
Chikeluba25:Truth be told, concrete roads reinforced with 6mm to 8 mm rods are the most durable roads globally. Especially in environments with high rainfall. Those living in southern US states will attest that even their streets are made from reinforced concrete and they last more than 50 years with almost zero maintenance. Of course, reinforced concrete roads are way more expensive than laterite or stone-based roads. But they will last longer. That is why you will always find that the laterite or stone-based roads leading to a Nigerian bridge will totally break down but the tar on the bridge itself is in perfect state! It is because the tar on the bridge is sitting on a concrete base of the bridge. If the damage of crack on the concrete roads you showed had happened on laterite or stone-based roads, that spot would have since been a huge pothole covered in red mud. The issue with the Ebonyi Airport runway is that they built the concrete base of the runway without adding a very high height of asphalt to make it smooth. Actually, all major American airport runways have concrete bases, but they also spend to lay a generous layer of asphalt over the concrete so that it is not a very rough runway like the Ebonyi airport. Finally, concrete roads are built in square blocks or slabs that allow for "expansion and contraction". This is simple physics (Linear expansivity). Thus, concrete roads are not built continuously like laterite roads without giving little breaks so that they can expand on very hot days and contract on cooler days. If little room is not given for expansion and contraction, the concrete will crack when it expands and slide against itself, then contracts on cooler days. As an Engineer, the Minister should know this principle of physics. It is the reason why any bridge must have small gaps on the surface to allow for safe expansion and contraction, otherwise, the bridge would collapse on a very hot day when the materials expand.
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IDENNAA: ![]() No need for drastic measures or collective punishment of everyone from certain areas that will divide Ndigbo. There are many of them who settled in Anambra, and don't have any evil intentions towards the state or its indigenes. In fact I know one that says he is from Nnewi, but I know his state. At the same time, there are some who either recently immigrated from other states or in very rare instances were actually born in Anambra, yet they have serious evil hatred for the state and its people. We already know that the one in Finland is on the payroll of our enemies to destroy Igboland with a heavy focus on destroying Anambra first. As they say, rats will only eat the food of a sleeping man. So with the awakening of our people, it will become increasingly difficult for them to target only Anambra to destroy it. I know for a fact that many of our people are already seeing through their plot. I even heard Onowu Igbo's broadcast on Facebook where he tongue-lashed some of those miscreants threatening fire and brimstone on Anambra residents and indigenes. Onowu Igbo is from Okija and previously did not agree that these guys were on a mission to destroy Anambra in particular. So the awareness and sense of responsibility are gradually coming to our people to see through their agenda. |
Sistergal80:THANK GOD someone is paying attention and noting their antics! Just wait until when Anambra is to have an election and they will all crawl out from their states into Anambra to try and intimidate our people and cause mayhem. Now, you will never hear any of them yell "No eleshion !" or do "UGM" work! You will not hear that one in Finland making broadcasts and asking their men to go and stop the election. It clearly shows you who their evil agenda is targeted on, and who they are truly working for! While shouting "Biafra or Death" to deceive the gullible ones. |
What I will say may sound harsh, but that is the bitter truth. Actually, Tinubu is better than Buhari. Yes, I know Tinubu has baggage and electoral fraud issues, but he is a better administrator and manager of public resources than Buhari. However, Nigerian people will NEVER unite against politicians because they prefer suffering and tribalism more than their own well-being and the well-being of their children. That is why Buhari and his ministers did what they did and nobody raised a finger in protest. Tinubu will also do his own. Therefore, the looting of Nigeria must continue and the people must continue to suffer harder times, and even die in their droves because that is the consequence of loving tribalism more than the national interest. It is so sad but it's the truth. |
Soludo is gradually transforming Anambra. It is happening slowly BUT SURELY! This is the first time I have seen an Anambra governor who demystified road expansion/dualization and indeed dualizing several roads simultaneously as we speak. May God help Soludo to continue on this path of rebuilding the state and bring all his road projects to a logical conclusion soon. With the pedestrian sidewalk system he has introduced into internal city road construction, we are definitely in a new era of developing into an organized and decent society. Video courtesy of Anambra 1st Son TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L87XkXOfC1M |
palpablegist:Our Sin-Actors should be renamed Looter Vandross and jailed for squandermania as it was done in the past ![]() Except that nobody cares about Nigeria anymore! ![]() Even the men of the armed forces who used to be patriotic now understand that dying for Nigeria is totally useless. ![]() |
abuzz33:Yes, we are saying the same thing. If the traders in these commercial cities are convinced that their taxes are used to fix their roads, hospitals or schools, and they are not stolen or diverted to other towns as it was done in the previous regimes. The traders should reciprocate the good gesture by supporting government through paying taxes. If these hitherto forgotten and abandoned commercial cities are now being massively rehabilitated and rebuilt, government deserves to be supported in continuing this new developmental strategy that now includes our commercial cities. Not just developing only the state capital while the commercial cities contribute the IGR for it. |
abuzz33:You made a good point about having a tax ID system that also qualifies residents for some social benefits such as free or subsidized ante-natal or other medical services. This is an excellent proposition in a country where proper identification of individuals exists and the people honestly want to pay their taxes to support the overall good of the society. That atmosphere is still very much lacking in our society. The issue of properly identifying people and preventing people from using other people's tax ID numbers to obtain services remains a huge challenge. Perhaps with the NIN or BVN numbers, individuals can be properly identified. However, I still see a lot of room to use other people's NIN or BVN to access services by those who are not paying taxes. There is still a huge mistrust of government and its institutions, especially in the hitherto neglected commercial cities that were never state capitals. Thus, people in commercial cities resist paying taxes no matter how little. Can you believe that Enugu City (not Enugu STATE) generates more IGR than Aba or Onitsha commercial cities? Meanwhile, Enugu city has just about 20 to 30 percent of the volume of commercial activities in Onitsha or Aba. The biggest challenge in Anambra and Abia states is that an average trader absolutely hates to pay even one kobo in taxes to the government. This attitude perhaps started in the past when successive governments neglected the commercial urban centers of Aba and Onitsha. Thus, the traders also resolved never to pay any taxes to the government. However in the current dispensation, we have seen these two states begin to pay massive attention to their commercial cities, thus it is time for traders to reciprocate the gesture and begin to pay their fair share of taxes. Soludo will be one of the greatest Anambra governors if he succeeds in the current effort to rebuild the hitherto forgotten major roads, especially in the commercial cities of Onitsha and Nnewi. This will revitalize the commercial cities and make Anambra an indeed liveable homeland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKYg30RX0Zc |
ANSMEDIA:Hopefully, the anti-touting efforts and other strategies to streamline IGR collection will yield fruit and block the massive leakages in the system. Anambra with the volume of commercial activities in just its key urban centers of Onitsha, Nnewi, Awka, and Ekwulobia should be performing somewhere ranked between Delta and Oyo. I am glad that efforts made to block obvious leakages of IGR through the removal of touts in IGR collection and increased use of POS payment systems have shown progress. But a lot still needs to be done in this area to capture at least 75% of government revenue. |
Anambra1stSon2:Truth be told, Gov. Soludo is doing his best to transform Anambra cities from near slums into some of the best liveable cities in Nigeria. Yes, he does not have too much money to do everything that needs to be done or to use Julius Berger to do it, but you can clearly see his vision in re-designing and re-making Anambra key cities into well-deserved modern urban centers. My only prayer for Gov. Soludo is to stay the course and continue close supervision to ensure that the contractors meet the stated goals. He will be the greatest Anambra Governor if he manages to achieve liveable urban centers in Anambra cities that had hitherto been known to be very very poorly planned and suffocatingly congested with illegal street markets everywhere. Especially along the few tarred roads within those cities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oir3kexdJ88 |
Chikeluba25:We are saying the same thing and I totally agree that if Air Peace or other airlines are determined to do it, then it will materialize. In fact Anambra airport would be the best choice for it because it has the second longest runway in Nigeria and not as choked up as Lagos airport that has no space for aircraft being fixed to be parked for many weeks or months. Only a Nigerian airline can build a hanger in any airport of its choice. I just didn’t want us to keep hoping or hyping Boeing or Airbus would do it. The probability of that happening is almost zero. Not to mention that even Nigeria’s Federal Government would immediately block them and propose the MRO be built in Lagos or Abuja airports. By the way, it does not mean that an Air Peace MRO would be constructed by Air Peace staff. Air Peace would volunteer to fund the project for the aircraft manufacturer to bring in their own maintenance equipment to maintain their aircraft in that place. It does not mean it would maintain only Air Peace planes. All the airlines using that make of aircraft in West Africa would also benefit if an MRO is built in West Africa |
Chikeluba25:When our prominent people collect and celebrate these useless certificates from irrelevant Nigerian institutions I just wonder if they are truly awake to what is happening around them. Let's face it, these people should seriously be seeking partnerships with some African countries where they would fly and could be a flag carrier for them. In fact, they could float alternative airlines registered in those African countries, and then utilize their international airports as hubs for traveling into key European and North American international routes via that country's capital city. Leaving all their operations within Nigeria and banking on being allowed to grow in Nigeria is a strategic error that they would regret in the future. Many West and Central African countries like Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Guinea Conakry are a few that would gladly partner to have a flag carrier. Even Dangote with all his connections within Nigeria's Federal Government understood that he had to build cement factories in other African countries as a strategic growth initiative and not solely depend on its Nigerian operation as its only strategy. I personally don't believe that Boeing or Airbus will set up in a Sub-Saharan African country (Except South Africa). Talk more about leaving the national airports of those countries and setting up in their regional airports. Foreign investors are not that stupid to invest billions of dollars in immovable assets in a country like Nigeria with a very weak Judiciary and other infrastructure such as electricity etc. Only hangers built by a Nigerian airline in any airport of their choice can happen in Nigeria. |
Bestmanfornow: You are wasting your time replying to a certified lunatic who is too bitter to see anything good in Anambra. He does not even know that only the beginning letter of a sentence should be capitalized. That is how backward some of them really are. Looks like you were not here during the construction of the Anambra airport when he spared no effort to show us pictures of London and Atlanta airports as what Anambra must build before he would applaud the state for building its airport . Meanwhile, he very well knew that even FG in Abuja does not have the funds for such massively extensive airport projects such as in London or Atlanta talk more about Anambra which would not be receiving as many passengers as Abuja or Lagos airports! Biko, learn to ignore lunatics and just respond to comments from reasonable folks. Although he started almost one year after we expected him to start the massive interventions on roads. Soludo is doing very well to also ensuring he has a sidewalk on all his major roads. I concede that due to so many road projects going on simultaneously, it appears to have red mud everywhere due to cars driving on laterite all over. But, you can also see that if he maintains his tempo and completes all those roads in the next 6 months, Anambra will wear a great look. Again, I love that Soludo leaves the gutters open and instead uses concrete to build the pedestrian sidewalks. Let's face it, we still have a serious refuse disposal problem. Our people still don't believe that littering the streets with trash thrown out of moving vehicles or dumped on the streets at night by residents of the area contributes to making our environment dirty and primitive. In countries where gutters are covered, they have a very efficient refuse collection system and it is an offense to drop trash on any street from moving vehicles or dump your household trash along the roads at night. However, in Nigeria, people still think it's normal to do these things. So covering the gutters with concrete without first educating the society on the tenets of proper refuse disposal and creating an efficient refuse evacuation system will simply clog up the covered underground drains in less than one month. This would bring us to square one where every drain is blocked and needs to be desilted to solve the flooding problem. The worst part of that situation would be that you will have to get construction equipment to first break all the covered drains before accessing the gutters underneath them. Which makes the process even more tedious and too expensive for any government to desilt the drainages.
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Soludo is really trying his best to bring decency to Anambra. I know some people cannot see through his plans yet because most of his projects are still ongoing. But by the time all the roads he is working on, dualizing and expanding in Onitsha, Awka, Nnewi and Ekwulobia are completed, Anambra will wear a powerful decent look. My prayer is that Soludo should stay the course and supervise the contractors closely to ensure they deliver high-quality standard projects. Then he would have carved his name in the gold with his achievements. I don't want to praise him yet and will keep my fingers crossed until I see the outcome of all his efforts. Perhaps by his 2nd anniversary in office, he should be able to report concrete and tangible achievements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9uLXlb-2k8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60uSGXMAYqE&t=1549s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfbRYsputtw&t=213s |
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Feintline:The relevant truth is that those colonial wig wearers at the Supreme Court will still receive bank alerts and refuse to uphold Nigeria's constitution. The only good thing is that the truth has finally come to light. May God bless Gani Fawehinmi wherever he is for bringing this information first into the public domain |
Can someone verify if people are now allowed to build residential houses along the airport way? I thought the Anambra state government wanted to preserve the space along the Anambra International Airport road as a business district for airport logistics, hotels, etc. Has that plan already been scrapped now that land prospectors are allowed to build housing estates right along the airport road? Even the sand already on the road shows that it will soon end up like many such streets in our cities that will be clogged with keke and local market traffic. https://www.facebook.com/pineleafestate/videos/1796401120777160 |
Bestmanfornow:Is the Solution Fun City the same project as the Solution Fun Park? If not, where will the Solution Fun City be located? It appears the Solution Leisure Park has been designated to be built inside the Obiano Awka city stadium. Is this right? At 6:08 in the video below, the Solution Fun City and the Solution Leisure Park were described as the same project located inside the Awka City stadium. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEGqfdKAIIU&t=1775s |
Bestmanfornow:Glad to see the city of Nnewi included in road reconstruction in Anambra. Kudos to Gov. Soludo for carrying Nnewi along with his administration! |
Armon:You accurately diagnosed the entire problem with Anambra state in this post! MEDIOCRITY AND LACK OF FORESIGHT in always building tiny single-lane roads everywhere! It is not rocket science for anyone to understand that huge trailers would be used in bringing the bonded containers. So why build tiny roads that huge trailers can barely fit in? This tiny road disease of Anambra must stop. I hope the Solution Fun City will not be another housing layout with tiny single lanes everywhere! |
TundeBricklayer:Excellent development!! I pray Soludo would also touch key cities in Anambra ESPECIALLY in Nnewi and Onitsha, so that his efforts to develop the entire state do not appear one-sided. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIMH2ZDT4sQ |
Pussycokie45: ![]() Naija na cruise ![]() |
plaindealer:Oga, everything isn't about hate or love. Try and be objective for once and stop trying to behave as though you truly believe Shettima's utterances. Which you know is a face-saving gimmick. You are the one shamefully trying to deceive yourself with Shettima's lies that Nigeria was rejected because it did not apply ![]() Everybody knows that Nigeria had expressed interest in joining BRICS to boost its economy and minimize the adverse effect of dollars, IMF, and World Bank chokehold on its economic development. In the months before this last BRICS summit, Nigeria's admission into BRICS was almost guaranteed. However, Nigeria's exclusion in the BRICS expansion is based on new considerations. Partly to underscore that the true giant of Africa is indeed South Africa and partly the unforeseen consequence of Nigeria's delayed ratification of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement which shocked many in the world! It was obvious that Nigeria was acting in the interest of the EU in trying to block AfCFTA from seeing the light of day. This behavior has shocked several African countries that expected Nigeria to play a leadership role in unifying African economies. Thus, Nigeria would have been quietly advised not to formally apply for BRICS membership because none of the current BRICS members would support its application. In the same way, when the time for giving Africa a UN Security Council seat, many African countries will reject Nigeria and choose Egypt or South Africa as the African country to represent the continent because of Nigeria's more recent behavior as a mole of the Western countries. The Western countries actually want Nigeria and perhaps France to join BRICS. So that they can wreck BRICS from the inside. But it is a mere dream to expect BRICS will accept these Trojan horse nations into its fold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgDG1X8KWCA |
Nigeria has been a great tool for Western countries to undermine Africa and the developing world. Nigeria almost singlehandedly sabotaged the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. It took many African countries rallying to counter Nigeria's plot to kill the continental agreement due to EU pressure to kill AFCTA. Nigeria today is well known as a Western MOLE among many decent countries in the global south. Nigeria has been specifically targeted by Western countries to do their dirty jobs in Africa. Unfortunately, due to the shady characters assisted by the Western countries to rule Nigeria, we just can't do anything about being used by Western countries for dirty jobs against African progress. BRICS made the right decision to exclude Nigeria. It would have been a veritable tool for the Western countries to kill BRICS. |
