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guonno: I think say na only igbo them dey kill? Who knows how many bullet them put inside the guy fresh skin....

wieldrub: THE UNPRECEDENTED TRANSFORMATION OF ENUGU AS THE FASTEST DEVELOPING CITY IN AFRICA

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bestviewer: This is a close view of it here

bestviewer: Okay check this out, this is Ahiara-Mbise road in state that borrowed over 70billion.

bestviewer: See what Obi is doing @ DMGS

geeez: I've been to Enugu severally and I must admit some of the roads are good

But it's not a particularly big city and the good roads are limited to the GRAs and layouts

But is it that the author didn't realise that the roads were dualized when he drove by in the afternoons?

Enugu is a low density city and there isn't as much pressure on the roads as you will get in a sparsely populated area by Lagos, Ibadan or Onitsha standards

I like the architecture of the Polo Park Mall too but every time I visit, I rarely see people even on Saturdays and patronage isn't fantastic.

Enugu is unlike the typical SE cities and doesn't have so much pressure on its infrastructure which makes it easy to manage

In all, I have to give it to Chime. He's tried

Abagworo: The Nigerian Governors killed the LGA system and made the Chairmen useless. No Governor is free from that.

geeez: Investing in education is laudable

Especially at such a time as this

Thumbs up Obi

Edwike: You analysis of Ethiopian airlines is very very unfortunate. I have never used the airlines, but I do not have to concur with what you said.
First, Enugu route is a brand new route and Nigerian government does not lobby airlines to ply any route. Why didn't they (big airlines) come first. Knowing fully well that it will take some extra-work for any airline to break even with all the initial associated business risks as this is an unfamiliar territory. Ethiopian took the bold step and they are gradually making the route attractive and viable
Second, be reminded that the popular airlines you are thinking are secretly bribing and lobbying to stop AIIA. Concentrating everything in Lagos and Abuja makes there business more assured and very viable at the detriment of south-easterners. It is for thesame reason that ARIK basically is the only local airline that is on constant scheduled flight to Enugu making local airfare so expensive that middle income Nigerians rarely fly. They (local airlines) shared(kind of unwritten/unholy alliance) airports in Nigeria among themselves thus driving away competition.
Finally my dear let us all support Ethiopian airlines by all means to succeed because those western/middle-east airlines you are thinking will not come to Enugu at-least for now. They all prefer the status quo ie Lagos and Abuja as the only viable international airports in Nigeria because there business is better and assured. Enugu airport surely will eventually develop to the point when they will come, and I plead that we Africans patronize our own. Pay them(Ethiopian) back for making AIIA a dream come true.

manny4life: At times, people like you need to shut up if you have nothing worthy to say. You had to bring Anambra into your rant, even if it's allowed in Anambra, is Anambra the only state out of 36 states allowing it? What you seek will backfire on you...Mpama.

INNO18: if you cant adapt

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liberty300: Ever since the upgrading of enugu airport to international standard,there has been a series of demolitions of stalls along major ways in enugu. Today have seen d demolition of stalls around the mall and several places. The government of enugu state has also removed bustops along some major roads in an attempt to curb traffic jam. To add insult to injury, the state government has announced a total ban on Keke napep from enugu and claiming to replace it with a better,attractive version of d tricycle (which no one has seen). My thought was that the airport was a blessing to eastern region but it has brought the death of so many small business owners. Please, someone should let Sullivan know that he's hurting his people

Jarus: To me, Fashola is the best public officer Nigeria has produced since return to civil rule in 1999

Others that posted (post) decent performance (by our low standard in Nigeria), by my reckoning:

1, Umaru Yar'adua (reversal of VAT, refinery sale, price hike, asset declaration etc)
2, Barth Nnaji (decent effort in power reforms)
3, Sule Lamido (good capital projects efforts, even if a bad politician)
4, [s]Rotimi Ameachi (Decent capital projects efforts in his state)[/s]
5, Godswill Akpaebo ( Even if I don't like his politics, I admit he tried for his state. I've been to his state; best raod network of all the about Nigerian states I have visited)
6,[s] Nasir el-Rufai (Not his biggest fan either, but I salute his efforts in FCT)[/s]
7, Nuhu Ribadu (You can argue he was selective, but you can't argue his victims were innocent. Plus he returned $15m Ibori bribe)
8, Lamido Sanusi (I commend his work in CBN)
9, Charles Soludo (His attention to ethics may be questionable, but you can't fault his achievement in terms of strenghtening our financial system)
10. Attahiru Bafarawa (I served in Sokoto state,and msut confess he did well for hsi people in terms of capital projects. Good roads everywhere)
11, Rauf Aregbesola (You can fault his politics - can be loud-mouthed, intervening in what doesn't concern him - but you can hardly deny his commitment to the uplift of his people. I was in Osun in August and the whole state looked like one big construction yard, road projects everywhere, despite meagre resources)
12, [s]Ifeuko Omoigui (Decent and silent reform in FIRS; enlarged revenue base for Nigeria) [/s]
13, Donald Duke: Decent performance, mature leader


These are the guys I can give pass mark (50%) of all the public officers (elected or appointed) since 1999. There are others I have herad or read about (e.g Kayode Fayemi, Rochas Okorocha, Peter Obi), but I'm not convinced yet.


Strictly my opinion as a watcher of events in the country.