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spyder880:
I was once invited there around 2013 to come see the place and give it some publicity, but never had the time. I will dig up the numbers again and make some inquiries on how you can participate, I am also looking to get some building contracts there for interested people.

Nwannem Spyder, Chukwu gozie gi!!!!
Business gi ga n'aga n'iru n'aha Jesus!
Amen!!!

I have been looking for how to contact them for sometime now. Even emails sent to their website for contact info was not answered, so i decided that i will visit the site physically and make inquiries.

IGBOSON1:
These people are not serious! Almost 5 years since the idea was first mooted, and we're yet to see a single home being built!

I think Spyder can ask some of his new clients to buy some plots there for him to construct their new homes! At least that may help kick-start things and get the ball rolling!

I'm not impressed with all this time wasting!

I think the Centenary city promoters have not done a good job publicizing how to own a home there. Part of my proposed visit to Enugu is specifically to find the organizers and inquire how to participate.

I have been itching to buy a home in this centenary city, but i don't even know where to obtain the forms, which banks to pay into, what each building type cost and so on. I am sure many people are the same way because my younger sister in USA, had severally asked me to find out how to own a home in the centenary city so that she and her husband can invest. People outside Enugu just have no clue on how to participate.

Myluv1:
First thing first bro, get the basics right before beautification especially when we are not Akwa Ibom that receives more allocation than the whole of south east states combined. Any project can undergo upgrades in the future when there is enough fund for that.

Bros,
How many billions of naira does it cost to plant flowers and grass? If you spent N3 billion naira to construct a road, would it be a waste to spend N100 thousand naira to plant trees and flowers to beautify your N3 billion naira project? Akwa Ibom, Lagos, Enugu or Jigawa always incorporating landscaping into every project is because those leaders value aesthetics and has nothing to do with affordability. Landscaping is so cheap in Nigeria that i paid just N15,000 naira for some people to come plant flowers and make an outdoor garden in the backyard of a home i just completed, so that i can host my friends there in the evenings. Nigeria is so blessed that if you cut a branch of flower and stick it into the soil, it will grow into another plant after 2-3 rainfalls!

Refusing to plant flowers because you believe that planting flowers cost an enormous amount of money is EXACTLY the mindset i am talking about with our people. When our people build houses in Abuja, they know the value of flowers around their home, but in the SE, the same people will tell you that flowers will attract snakes!!!
I know people who have built one room bungalow in their village and beautified their entire compound with flowers and trees that it feels like being in an exotic resort once you step into their compound, while some that built duplexes, and multi-storey buildings with no landscaping at all with red mud and poodles of water around the entire compound, and their houses feel like an uncompleted prison yard each time you are there. It's just a question of appreciating aesthetics/ one's taste and not how much money one has.

Notice that the road median in the picture below already has grass and palm trees planted. Yet, this road is still under construction in a housing estate in Enugu. Now, how many billions did it cost to have the palm and flowers already planted before the road is even completed? Did it quadruple the cost of constructing that road?
On completion, these plants will make this road and the environment so beautiful. That is the mindset we should have. It doesn't cost anything extra to do things properly. There is no need to wait for the future when there is "adequate funds" in order to simply plant flowers and beautify your state.

Now go and post the same pictures of upper Iweka to tell me that i don't know what I am saying. Accepting constructive criticism is a virtue.
Note: I am not criticizing Anambra, I am only pointing out the shortcomings that should be corrected to make the state better.

FKO81:
When I was traveling yestarday I noticed that the state government was reconstructing Zik's round-about and also beautifying the road.

Hopefully they will make it a spectacular roundabout and road like below.

Sometimes one wonders why Nigerians should plead for a great finishing and not just another shoddy project.
However, based on the history when it concerns Anambra and some states where planting flowers on public road is considered an abomination, even pleading for basic decent standards and proper landscaping as in the picture below, which is increasingly being taken for granted in other parts of black Africa, is considered asking for too much .

spyder880:
I think I will look in on the centenary city anytime this weekend if time will permit me. I agree with you, I am also scoring Chime a 75%

Oga Spyder,
Please do. I am seriously considering investing in the centenary city to own a home there. But i really don't know if the project is seriously being pursued with vigor.

Boko Haram wants to increase the percent to "100 % of Northerners to be illiterate "

... And APC is applauding them simply because Jonathan is president. Okay oo!

IGBOSON1:
Do we have to beg the state of local gov'ts responsible before they do something about these pricks that deface those bus-stops? They should lie in wait for one of the fuc'kers, catch him in the act, and then give him the beating of his life......instant justice!!! How can we have a decent city with this kind of selfish anti-social behaviour going on!?

Bros, you and I have exactly the same thought on this. But, I was just having a rethink, you should simply hold the dude whose picture is in the poster responsible. Let him figure out which of his boys commited the vandalism of government property. Waiting to catch them red handed commiting the crime may be a fruitless waste of manpower.

The boys should immediately report for duty in one of the Boko Haram camps and sack Yola and Maiduguri!
Buhari unless Naijaria musti quench! Walahi!

Bishop42:
No but It wont be a bad idea if they start making stuff like that. . Infact selling the kekes in 9ja can turn anyone into a billionaire in 2years

Exactly.

Any company that can use this opportunity of phasing out Okada for keke and produce high quality and durable Keke will definitely prosper quickly.

I don't think keke is an eyesore, they still constitute a major public transport means in relatively advanced countries of the Far East such as Malaysia, Thailand or India. We just need to make our own keke comfortable and durable for our road conditions.

levelszik:
What anambra needs for a start is an effective means of capturing all loop holes that results to missing funds. Anambra igr is still a far cry from what it's suppose to be. I hope obiano doesn't drop his guard on the long run like all politicians do.

You are absolutely right. The state must figure out how to collect taxes without the money ending up in touts bank accounts.
If they can figure out how to make people pay their little taxes and making sure the money enters the state bank account, they will have IGR reaching N8-9 Billion naira per month.

Creating an Anambra revenue authority as a stand alone agency from the ministry of finance would help clarify who should collect these owed taxes. For now, only civil servants and big time business establishments pay taxes in Anambra.

dpwinx:
I wonder with awe the mannerism by which the youth of Nigeria fly the flag of our good for nothing leaders. You come to Nairaland and metarmorphosed into a warrior while ur 'boss' enjoy the sweat of ur generation..... I think Nigerians are nt getting it right with the way we glorify these leaders..... Apc is d best Pdp is d best... I wonder how a sane man in this twenty first century will vote based on party affiliation without any consideration for the individuals..... Youth think.... Itz neva 2 late....... We are the leaders of 2moro.... The boat is about to capsize, it takes U and I to make a better nation nt the opportunist politician

I am glad more people are realizing that fact. Next year no matter who becomes President, the result will be unacceptable to the other side and violence must follow.
Those that played with the confab report like Tambuwal helped put the seal in Nigeria's coffin.

Kasyn:
me?,yoruba? Bia nwoke a kpachere enya gu there!

Chima, Kasyn is not Yoruba. It is the other guy jass- whatever and this vonsbottel that are the oily pipul. Perhaps the same oily person running around in different monikers.

Biko nu, ignore them and report their derailing posts to the mods. to clean up the thread.

jazzydee:
You Are intellectually dishonest on page 282 of this thread you posted images of streets lined with palms and street light that a quick google image search reveals its origin from Kigali Rwanda and the water fountain round About is in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Who are you trying to decieve by passing those images as if these places are in enugu?

On the issue of the red dust menace in Enugu an your lies about how it has improved, All the pictures of enugu on this thread is the evidence so i dont need to belabor the issue, as one scrolls down this thread they see the menace of red dust in enugu live in all the true images of enugu.
Wake up and smell the coffee, and stop decieving yourself. Truth is sacrosanct.

I will only respond to someone that cannot read for the sake of setting the record straight for other forum members that may not check out your lies.
The pictures posted originally by a forum member 'oremi' was copied and reposted by me to buttress his point that Enugu median and roundabouts should have trees and fountains like the pictures he posted. More like me reposting the Intl. conference centers pictures originally posted by Spyder. At no point did I suggest that the Oremi's pictures were from Enugu or that they were mine. You will similarly accuse me of posting pictures of "red soil" in America and Brazil in this page to say they from Enugu.

Page is re-posted here for anyone willing to verify the facts: https://www.nairaland.com/979128/enugu-pride-east/282

Go away with your jealousy and hatred, you have been exposed for what you are. An ignorant jealous brat. Go and gnash your teeth, Enugu will forever be greater than your weird state and people. Now go find a better silly issue to disguise your hatred, your "red soil " smokescreen has failed.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
You are really taking it personal. If you ask me, Enugu and abakiliki are the same soil type.
The legendary story is actually that while going to abakiliki, you take two clothes, so that you can change while coming back that same day, but since the nigger turned it the other way round, no qualms.
Let's not waste saliva on these kind of things abeg

I like responding to you because i think you always speak from your heart without malicious hidden agenda of hatred the others have for SE and hiding under the guise of "red sand" to express their hatred and jealousy.

I did visit a city called Savannah in Georgia,USA last year. My younger sister living there made the exact statement that "if this beautiful city didn't have grass and trees all over, it would have been another Abakaliki" Yet the city is so so beautiful, you have to see it for yourself! Needless to say Atlanta itself have "red soil" too

I remember in the early 1990s, going to AI (Abakaliki to buy yams and rice, if you took okada to the rice mills, you were covered in brown dust because none of the streets were tarred then. Go to Abakaliki now, and tell me if you will have a speck of dust, All the streets have been tarred!!!

Nnewi and Uyo also had problems with dust in the 1990s as was with Abuja!
All these Nigerian cities have vastly improved since then! Now, for someone to strangely cling to that image and continue posting as if red soil were some type of disaster or ebola!
Abagworo even posted somewhere that "Red soil" isn't something to be toyed with" As if it were some poisonous nuclear waste associated with the color of the soil in SE Nigeria! That is the primary reason i posted the pictures of leading cities in the world with "Red" soil. There is nothing wrong with the soil color so long as you grass open spaces as they do in America and other advanced countries with "Red soil"

Big deal?
I am more educated than Tambuwal and contribute more in taxes to Nigeria than Tambuwal, yet i drive myself to work everyday!
Tambuwal driving? Big deal indeed!

"Red" Soil color in construction sites in the cities of Natal,Salvador and Brasilia all in Brazil!

Perhaps Nigeria cleaner or better than anywhere in Brazil because they have "Red soil" in Brazil ?
Perhaps Ogbomoso with "white soil" is better and cleaner than Brazil
Speaking and arguing blindly around an irrelevant point out of ignorance is indeed blissful.

"Red" soil in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA.

I don't want to post more useless pictures in this thread.
Please can those who have never been outside their village sit down?
Please,Tell me that Abuja (Which also has "Red soil" ) is better than any of these American states with red soil color!

"Red" Soil around Mall and road construction area in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
Last Picture "Red" soil around a newly completed LSU building in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Kasyn:
sir,i'm sure in your village every farmland is paved! I don't in anyway hate you,man! I'm just upset with that post of yours....where are you from?

"Red" Soil around a power plant under construction and a new housing (subdivision) estate in Augusta, Georgia, USA.

Ecomog soldiers are perhaps the best guarantee to fight Boko haram. Nigerian army have been so infiltrated by Boko haram moles that it is useless trying to use it against Boko haram

jazzydee:
Learn to tell the truth and be realistic, Stop being emotional about constructive criticism,if you have ever visited any of those states you mention in the USA, Is there any of them that the streets,buildings, side walks are dirty due to red dust as Enugu?
Stop excusing ineptitude, tree planting, grasses, landscaping and proper paving of useable spaces is needed in enugu to prevent the eyesore that is evident in all the pictures of enugu in this thread. that is not so hard to accomplish its common sense.

I usually ignore trolls like u that would rather speak than keep quiet on what they didn't know. But I will post some pictures of Savannah Georgia so you will see the soil color

Oga Spyder, thank you for that rebuttal on red soil. Bishop thank you too for posting that picture if USA 'red soil".

The whole South East USA including places as Georgia, North Carolina , South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana , Alabama and Tennessee all have 'red clay soil' exactly like in Enugu and other places in Africa. But go and see those places and tell me anywhere in Africa that is more beautiful or less dusty. We are just spoilt children whining over nothing. What if God gave us a desert?

Unemadu, thank you for that post.i believe we can begin by using COAL for power generation and making rods for houses and bridge construction. Whatever happened to Niger steel? We need to start using our coal in productive ventures again than listen to Nigeria's lies that coal is not useful. While America, China and South Africa depend on COAL for a large percent of their electric power generation ! If coal were in Kano or Kaduna, it would be a resource developed as oil, because it is in the SE, Nigeria neglects it and imports bad coal from other countries to run Ajaokuta steel factory !

Firefire:
APC is becoming a burden to Nigeria and Nigerians with their wicked expression and politicking.

What shall it profit APC with its terrific propaganda on the shedding of the blood of innocent Nigerians (children and women inclusive)?

APC should know that power belongs to only the Almighty God; and He gives it to whom He wish at any point in time.

Nigerians have known Liar Mohamed to be a professional propagandist, big mouthed and lousy.

Let APC know this clearly… falsification, propaganda and painting the current government black would NOT derived any central power to them come 2015.

Nigerians behold your enemies… APC

What is really funny is how they think they can destroy Nigeria just to get power and simply be able to repair it with a magic wand. As if there are no consequences for what they are doing to this country.

Ogbonaikenna:
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Is this truly Lagos?

akereconfi:
B-O-M-B-S-H-E-L-L!!! The North Must Stop Bombing Nigeria & Blaming Jonathan. - Prof Wole Soyinka.

''If the United states citizens decide to be bombing the USA everyday and ready to die, there is nothing Obama can do about it.

The only thing he can do is to urge citizens to report bad people. If citizens refuse to report evil people then there is nothing anyone can do.

Here in the USA in Chicago to be precise more than 10 people are killed everyday and that's the same thing. I am only worried that this is Abuja.

“There are people in power in certain parts of the country, leaders, who quite genuinely and authoritatively hate and cannot tolerate any religion outside their own,”

“When you combine that with the ambitions of a number of people who believe they are divinely endowed to rule the country and who… believe that their religion is above whatever else binds the entire nation together, and somehow the power appears to slip from their hands, then they resort to the most extreme measures.

“Youths who have been indoctrinated right from infancy can be used, and who have been used, again and again to create mayhem in the country”

“Those who have created this faceless army have lost control.”

http://firstclassnewsline..co.uk/2014/06/b-o-m-b-s-h-e-l-l-north-must-stop.html?spref=fb

Why I adore Prof Wole Soyinka is that he tells it as it is.

No sugar coating or fear of anyone when he wants to speak the truth.

Let those bombing Nigeria hoping that it will cow anyone continue. The worst case scenario is that the country will divide. If they hope that bombing will somehow make others to surrender power, they need to stop taking too much fura and wake up.

This is what happens when the thrown of Emir of Kano is ascended at the mercy of a common state governor.

So Sanusi is an "Emir of Kano" but still a boy-boy to Kwankwaso?

IGBOSON1:
It's holding up well, all things considered! I'd have loved to see a plan of the floor layout, or see what the inside looks like!

But must the cash-strapped state gov't do everything?......Why can't some wealthy individual buy the unfinished structure and land from the state gov't at a discounted price, complete it, and then hire it out for functions like weddings or seminars? It would even make more sense if the place was bought buy a hotel and made its convention center!

I believe we have too many useless millionaires in Igboland......all mouth and little action! All they're good for is to come home once in a while -from Lagos, Abuja or abroad- and throw money about while being hailed 'Chairman'!!

I believe the state government has not advertised or indicated their interest to sell the center. The area also already has a hotel as part of the entire complex, so if a hotel group buys it, they truly can build their hotel and conference center in the same venue as you noted.

I don't think the Igbo millionaires are useless, it's just our usual copycat nature in Igboland. Everyone wants to copy and do exactly the same type of business! Which is largely importation and trading. You have whole towns doing only motorcycle parts business, why can't someone just build as biscuit or powdered milk making plant for a change! Which makes it very easy to impoverish them by targeting and stopping the importation of items they deal in.
Just like Obasanjo attempted, lets see what APC will do if they win.

Oga,
Spyder, i will be coming to your blog o!

By the way, i decided to post the picture to help enrich our thread.

I hope the in coming administration will complete and put this powerful edifice to use. Imagine all the opportunities of conference tourism, seminars, AGM etc which could have held in Enugu if this edifice were completed! I love Sullivan for his effort to transform Enugu state, but i think he took his disdain for Chimaroke a little too far. You should support good ideas for your state, even if it were originated by your political foe.

I cannot imagine Obiano abandoning the Onitsha & Agulu hotels because Obi who had left his party started it. Such attitude amount to a disservice to the people of the state that voted you into power and whom you had sworn to serve.

Well decorated Roundabouts along with medians with flowers and trees offer a great ways to showcase a city than merely having traffic lights at intersections.

spyder880:
The efforts to complete the Enugu state secretariat complexes is ongoing this morning.

Great that Sullivan is determined to make this building functional before he leaves office or it would end up exactly like the abandoned International conference center if he hopes on someone else to finish it.

Oremi, thank you for the median in your pictures. It buttresses the point that planting flowers and trees truly is part of development not just build the roads alone.The talk about modernizing and beautifying Enugu is a very welcome one that warms my heart. Imagine if the first picture of Enugu had been adorned with trees as in the second picture. It would have been a spectacular sight!
I think we should have one or two water fountain roundabouts in Enugu. Since Enugu roundabout already have great sculptural works of art, The smaller sprinklers at the periphery of the roundabouts make more sense for Enugu roundabouts than the big pump at the middle of the roundabouts showed in the picture. It's one of those things that give a great feel to a city. The sculptures in our roundabouts should be made more breath taking with water fountains around the base of the art work. Better still, more roundabouts should be constructed and fitted with a water fountain.
What do you guys think?

At least, the USA is smart enough to stop buying Nigerians oil now, so I don't see how Nigeria's collapse would adversely affect the US.

I hope more countries discover oil and stop buying Nigerians crude. The less oil Nigeria sells, the more peace it would have and vice-versa. Perhaps without oil, those forcing the unity of the irreconcilable peoples trapped in the enclave called Nigeria will quit their greed and allow the country to break up for good.

Bring it on Junaid and co. I suppose gun and hammer cannot kill abokii right?
Why wasting time until 2015? Lets start the showdown rightaway.