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Why should Ghana base their national development on Nigeria? That is the height of idiocy!

[size=20pt]Because recognizing him would mean giving credit to President GEJ for appointing competent men, which is an abomination to THE APC[/size]

Why dem no recognize my town Okitipupa?
Yeye microsoft!

Islam is finally taking a foothold in Igboland.
i don't know if this is a bad or good thing. If they continue to live in peace, it is a welcome development. But if they imitate Boko Haram ideology, then they should be fiercely resisted.

BanditC:
Wait wait wait oh?? Na Akwata be dis?

That scary, almost-spiraling road with a very steep hill climb?

Wow, I can barely recognize this place anymore.

I remember countless stories of trailers losing control while ascending or descending that death trap and crushing people all the time.

Someone please tell me this is Akwata or maybe I'm wrong. Not so sure anymore.

Bros na so we see am o!
I remember back in the days coming from coal camp to buy Dens cook near UNTH. Even the buses then had a very hard time on that road.

Sullivan is a miracle worker

Schematics:
UPDATE: Onitsha Shoprite Mall

Thank you Schematics for the great pictures!

For some reasons, the Onitsha and Nnewi malls are dear to my heart because i know their multiplier effect in bringing tourists and investors to these cities. These Onitsha business men have partners abroad who are eager to visit Nigeria and invest. Many of them end their visit in Lagos because there are no world class hotels or places where they could shop and relax in Onitsha. Since the issue of security have been tackled by Willie Obiano's government, the opening up of world class relaxation centers and malls will be very useful in projecting these cities as open for business to the world.

In addition to shopping, people go to malls for relaxation and fun. One hopes this mall has a food Court for restaurants and at least one Cinema built in as in the Polo park mall where movie goers can watch the latest Hollywood and Nollywood movies on big screen. Perhaps someone will find some space around the Mall to erect a Ferris wheel and a small children amusement area for families to relax.

I am ecstatic that the mall has finally reached roofing stage. I hope they maintain the current speed and do an outstanding quality job.

abagoro:
Calling me non-Igbo is absurd. I will always contribute to any Igbo thread no matter what people like you and Chino say or do. I know Igbo more than 99% of Nairalanders and even real life Igbos and the interest of Igbo remains my priority.

[size=16pt]Onye mara ihe ga ese okwu, ya emekwana ya![/size]

If you are truly Igbo, you should have dropped the foul habit of always trying to provoke e-war amongst our people. How many times have you seen a Yoruba posting that Akure is better than Osun in an Osun thread? Even if it were true.

abagoro:
I understand you do not really know that "New Owerri" is just an area in Owerri like Trans-Ekulu. I guess that is why you misunderstood my post.

If you as a non Igbo know new Owerri, why would i not? I don't need to post any pictures or satellite imagery of Owerri here to buttress my point. Just contribute positively in Enugu thread without stoking controversial issues to start an e-war.

I thank all of you that i see viewing this with restraint and have not jumped on one side to derail the thread. I will also stop posting all these useless responses.

Abagworo:
[s]I think the soil type of Enugu has more to do with the low aesthetics of the bridge or maybe the sweepers aren't regular. Use of concrete is usually preferred around busy business districts because traders in Nigeria have little value for greenery. This picture of such concrete median in Owerri does not look red or sandy because of the soil type.

A lot of factors is involved in maintaining lawns including most importantly the public attitude. It is working in New Owerri because most inhabitants are enlightened with less traders and unread people who see flowers and aesthetics as waste of money. In Enugu Independence Layout is the area it can work or maybe Trans-Ekulu as seen in the picture attached after the post.[/s]

You can change monikers and respond to yourself, that is your own headache.

This post and all the pictures accompanying the post conveyed your clear insinuations that Owerri was better than Enugu because it had better soil and her inhabitants were more enlightened not to see aesthetics as a waste of money unlike most inhabitants of Enugu except Independence layout or maybe Trans-Ekulu.

abagoro:
I do not see anything wrong with what I wrote and I did not compare. I only made remarks based on obvious observation. You guys should stop being hypocrites and come out the closet. My contribution remains unedited and it is left for the free mind to go through it and point out my sin.

We have already been through that mess too many times and we know where such insidiously silly posts usually land us. Even my responding to you has a potential of drawing fire from people like B2Mario, Ikengawo, Faun etc. The same way we have asked Chino to respect himself and post relevant pictures in relevant state threads, you should not come here insinuating that Owerri is better than Enugu, even if it were true.

I love Owerri very much,but i also know your antics very well. It is all about probing for someone to dispute your assertion and all hell will break loose here again.That is why such innocently appearing but poisonous post should be denounced at once where they are spotted.

Abagworo:
Its either you are deliberately trying to act the usual Igbo cowardice or you deliberately chose to ignore my points and create issues where there is none. The last Photo on that my post is from Enugu and its also green like the ones of Owerri and Lagos. Chime Avenue is a general area where all sorts of people live. They will not resist the urge to cross the road through the green grass thereby killing them. Its like Wetheral road in Owerri. Independence Layout on the other hand is inhabited by more enlightened people that have value for aesthetics. Using Owerri as an example is no crime just like using Lagos.

My point is that you should stop your inferiority complex.

Enugu and Owerri are great Igbo cities, unique in their own ways and we know which is better in each respect.
You have been denounced as an Ikwerre boy by the great Imo people. Why aren't you talking about PH instead of Owerri?
You derive sadistic joy when Igbos are deceived by your antics and begin to pummel each other.

The attempt to compare Igbo cities have usually resulted in disastrous flared emotions and e-wars to derail the thread. You have been part and parcel of that unfortunate event in the past and should not repeat the same useless tricks here again to derail this thread.

Abagworo:
I think the soil type of Enugu has more to do with the low aesthetics of the bridge or maybe the sweepers aren't regular. Use of concrete is usually preferred around busy business districts because traders in Nigeria have little value for greenery. This picture of such concrete median in Owerri does not look red or sandy because of the soil type.
The feasible solution is to keep painting the roads on regular basis.
That picture is from Lagos and not "Obodo Oyibo". A lot of factors is involved in maintaining lawns including most importantly the public attitude. It is working in New Owerri because most inhabitants are enlightened with less traders and unread people who see flowers and aesthetics as waste of money. In Enugu Independence Layout is the area it can work or maybe Trans-Ekulu as seen in the picture attached after the post.

Abagworo,
You have started again spamming this thread with pictures from Owerri and insinuating it is a better place than Enugu. When Chino and other people start bad mouthing Oweeri, you will pretend as if you didn't know what you did. We have already seen those pictures in Imo thread, no need spamming Enugu thread with them just to cause trouble and start e-war with someone here.

By the way, there is NOTHING like "red soil". The quantity of Zinc oxide in the soil determines its color from dirty brown to orange color. I was in a city called Savannah Georgia in the USA and you need to see the soil is "redder" sic than Enugu. Yet, they planted their grass & flowers making the city very beautiful.

What you don't get because you always stay in Nigeria is that you are not supposed to see raw soil anywhere. It should always be covered by grass whether it is white sand, red or purple soil, it should be covered by a layer of green carpet grass.


Everyone knows the picture was from Lagos, taken by the "ministry of the environment". It is written right in the picture itself.
The "Obodo Oyibo" expression is a figure of speech.

Enugu is different from Owerri in many many many respects that I wouldn't waste time indulging in here.
Suffice to say that such a Median can be made out of Chime avenue if it can work anywhere in Lagos of all places.It only takes a govt. willing to beautify the place. They fenced off the garden portion with railings and left gaps where people could cross the street. The picture you posted about new owerri median is not better than the present look of Chime avenue median now, neither is it better than how Upper Iweka flyover now look.
Enugu is a city filled with educated individuals and prestigious educational institutions much beyond any other place in SE Nigeria.

[size=15pt]All these idle threats that Buhari continues to issue.
If you like stay only in Katsina and Yobe to campaign thinking only them can make you win.

If GMB repeats the same mistakes of the last time, you will still lose. You can as usual go and sponsor Boko Haram to kill innocent Christians and southerners for a while and they will be ultimately routed out by the military.History will merely repeat itself because GMB failed to learn from it.

Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting a different result.[/size]

WOW! 21 SENSIBLE PAGES! God bless umu omambala for their wisdom finally!

OreMI22:
I hope Obiano will continue to plug the leakages in remitting government revenue to get Anambra where it should be in IGR.

It is scandalous that Ebonyi state tax collectors generated N 1 billion naira monthly in IGR while Anambra tax collectors submitted receipts worth only N500 million naira in IGR monthly!

God bless Willie Obiano!!

Willie is truly working ooooo!!!

OreMI22:
Oga Spyder,
No updates and pictures this weekend?

I wish i could meet Sullivan Chime to thank him for his uncommon transformation of Enugu, in spite of having about the most tiny state budget in Nigeria. It speaks a lot of his great managerial acumen and determination to re-position his state for the future. Today, tourists, quality investors now consider Enugu because it is clean, orderly, modern and not associated with the chaos & high crime rate of a typical Nigerian city.

I would also beg Gov. Chime to hire two or three people as landscapers and give them pictures in this thread, a pickup van to carry their tools and charge them with planting flowers and trees along all Enugu roads including along the newly dualized Abakaliki road, Naira triangle and airport road flyover.

Chime Avenue with a wide median should look like the median in the picture below.
The centenary rails should be used to fence off sections of it, so that designated gaps in the median are left for pedestrians to cross over the road without walking over the entire flowers if they were not fenced off.

Just getting the Chime avenue median beautified to look like the picture below, is the equivalent effect of 20 tall high-rise buildings along that avenue! Yet, it is cheaper and environmentally sound in the task of transforming the ambiance of Enugu.
Roads with wide medians present rare opportunities for a city to make a statement about it's beauty to those driving along such roads.

[size=15pt]Come to think of it, it may not cost up to N200,000 naira to pay horticulturists to plant aesthetic flowers and trees along the median of Chime avenue to reproduce the likeness in the picture.If our amiable governor is listening as some of you have alluded, please make Chime avenue median look like the median in the picture!

This will truly be a spectacular feat for Enugu to have a major road like Chime avenue resemble an "oyibo" man's road. Gov. Chime please give this to us as your parting gift to crown your legendary transformation of the coal city.
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investnow2013:
park Road near Awka rd.

Isn't park road the location of the Onitsha Mall and resort hotel?
Or they are building another hotel along that road?

BuddahMonk:
Apart from the Onitsha Hotels and Onvention Center is there another hotel going on in Onitsha now, i mean a mega project apart from the one Obi started?

Where is the new hotel located in Onitsha?

APC e-warriors always live on the internet and vote 20,000 times just to skew the results. So APC will always win in Nairaland and other obscure internet fora.
But the people that will actually cast the vote in the grassroot are neglected for the PDP to mobilize.
Anyway, INEC should do his utmost to ensure the peoples votes are counted and no room is allowed for rigging.
Then we shall know who the people want and not who the e-warriors want.

@ Chima, very important point! .........Don't forget Landscaping!!!

One hopes that they won't spend all this money building the structures and will not do proper landscaping.
It will be a major mistake if they fail to do landscaping around these hotels and malls as well as the roads leading to them.

Nigerians generally only consider flowers to be part of the beauty of a rich man's compound.Which makes us typically not worry about looking at red soil instead flower gardens in the middle of well grassed open spaces.

I once told a friend that Obudu Cattle ranch was such serene, charming and alluring place in spite of being mere bungalow chalets because the greenery of the breath taking landscaping of the environment.

kasiem:
for some time being apc as a party has been telling us that since the inception of this current democracy that pdp has woefully collapsed this country with their leaders and there is need for us to save the country from the pdp leaders but those same apc leaders are the ones going by the side to call back people like obj, atiku, sylva etc to come and redeem our country. so, could apc people please tell us who they are really saving us from when they are still going to the same people that ruled the country to this level for redemption? or does it mean by pdp they are talking of gej alone?

Bros,
The same people who have ruined Nigeria while the were in the PDP have now run to APC because they have lost influence in PDP. From Obasanjo to Atiku,Hell rufai, Kwankwaso and their ilk. Today, they suddenly want us to believe the problem with Nigeria is political party not these corrupt politicians running around and jostling for power though any party in order to loot Nigeria. Tomorrow,I will hear Amaechi paying lip service to anti-corruption when he has already looted his state to the extent that Rivers is broke today.

Buhari is the only one amongst the crooks in APC who can be said to have led a corruption free regime with Idiagbon.Buhari is perhaps the only one in APC that means it when he says he will tackle corruption in Nigeria if elected.
But Buhari's problem is the fiery support for use of violence and insurgency as a political tactic.

BuddahMonk:
[size=13pt]Investment!
Investment!
Investment!
Investment!
Investment!
Investment!

Obiakpor is at work walahi[/size]

Hiaa, una don come again.
Which one be Obiakpor?

adeitoro:
Igbokwe Joe, mr pro-APC because Igbos are not supporting your lord and master Tinubu who even pay you to write this nonsense, that is why you are angry.

If your APC can guarantee Igbos of a concensus Igbo Presidential Candidiate come 2015 election, they will definately be more Pro - APCheat than you, believe me.

But the problem is the like of Tinubu (your master), Buhari, will not allow that to happen, that is why they choosed the lesser devil PDP.

#ukochukwunathesamepeople.

[size=15pt]Buahahahah... lol...
The funny thing with this so called Joe igbokwe APC write up is that it born in the usual yoruba delusion that only them can "advise" Igbo on what is good for them.

When Yoruba had decided to become slaves to the north,it is a "shophisticated decision", but when Igbo lend their support to a fellow marginalized southern minority group to feel a sense of belonging in governing Nigeria, it is a silly decision in their evil minds.

Wicked people.[/size]

EroZA:
The whole content of your essay is about MTN,there are over 100 south African companies doing business in your country...if Nigerians are capable of creating companies that can match those,what are you guys waiting for? Do you think if your country was great would import even tap water from SA?I understand where you coming from, keep on deceiving yourself but the truth is on the ground,SA is your master..

Some peculiarities in Nigeria's setup has made it impossible for Nigerian government or private citizens to run big companies without the allegation of nepotism and regional favoritism.Which is sometimes substantiated by usually frivolous. Even Dangote cement and other products gets that allegation amongst Nigerians but they're widely accepted overseas. That is why South African companies are popular amongst Nigerians because they invest purely based on what makes business sense and hire the locals in whatever state they operate.

Having said that, it is foolhardy of you to think that because SA companies are popular, there are no Nigerian alternatives. MTN,DSTV,Skye bank etc all have Nigerian equivalents. We do want the South African companies here in order to foster competition which leads to better services. However, if SA becomes an obviously hostile country towards Nigeria, Nigerians will agitate for our government to make their lives complicated here. Just as SA had always made sure Nigerian companies couldn't operate within their shores.

EroZA:
stop playing the blame game and clean your house.............US is your ally

No doubt about that when it needs someone to do the dirty jobs such as, Nigerians to volunteer for Ebola work in Liberia, or need African votes for the bombing of Ghadaffi or to contribute troops against Al-Shabab in Somalia.

xtayle:
If the strong islamisation allegation from certain quarters is to be properly disabused, the APC should field a christian presidential candidate in 2015.

Nigerians want a change and only APC has the potential to make it happen. GEJ is corruption personified and no one seem to trust Atiku with d destiny of Nigeria. Buhari who has what it takes to steer the ship of d nation in the right economic direction, with an all time clean integrity bill of health, is being taunted with allegation of possible islamisation agenda.

The way out is for APC to feature a christian presidential candidate in 2015 and let buhari support his candidature.

Save your breath, your request is like asking the NAZI party to field a black man as their Furher.
Who do you think the party was set up to oppress?

kel4soft:
Why not counter my claims, you are just one of the rabble rouster than only jump on thread that is anti-Amaechi. What are the excuses here? Please go and look for what is troubling you and leave Governor Amaechi alone.
When you say Delta and Kaduna than Amaechi then I give up on you. Meanwhile try and come back with a better statement

Just tell Amaechi that he will not go scot free after looting Rivers state. We shall see to it that corrupt criminals have their day in court.

kel4soft:
[s]You are also saying crap instead of countering my argurement you have resulted in opening up another topic of discussion.

Does budget means the availability of funds. Lagos State can only meet up because of the her internal generated revenue that is thrice more than Rivers State. Rivers State 12billion it currently receives also have 13% derivation that is why it receives more FAAC than Lagos.

You mentioned Lagos Light rail and I gave you a link where Lagos borrowed $1billion to finance the project while Rivers State is funding from her budget and you have ignored that. I also mentioned the debts Lagos have $1billion naira debt while Rivers is $45million naira and you have ignore that instead to keep comparing apples to oranges.

Those links you provided on the State budget, why not use same measure to find out how much the FAAC actually releases to the states. Most Lagos State projects are funded through external loans and that is why they are almost $1billion in debt.

If you are honest let me have your take on this:
EFFC should arrest Wike first since he is not under immunity then I can start taken your claim of not PDP and APC seriously.

Can I see any where you quoted that EFFC should investigate the embarrassment in South Africa before you start your non partisan when actually you are.


On Akpabio achievements, I am not going to join issues with you to talk about Akpabio vs Amaechi. You are just a trouble maker that is looking for talk. Every State have their different peculariaties and if you feel Amaechi has done nothing then fine and I am sure that is your own cup of tea cos I don't think every Rivers man feels the same way. If you think Amaechi didnt built roads, schools (model primary and secondary), fund scholarships both local and abroad up till this moment, built hospitals (120 primary and 4 secondary secondary completed with a tertiary one on going), built stadiums (Olympic size and mini ones), built agricultural plants, Songhai farms, fish farms and more), built power plants and 28 state sub stations and still pays the highest salary in Nigeria. Then you are deluding yourself.
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Shameless bunch of excuses again!

Without talking about Lagos or Akwa Ibom which are the only states with Rivers that have an annual budget of more than N450 billion naira. Why have even poorer states as Delta,Kano, Ogun,Ondo or Kaduna achieved much more than Amaechi in spite of have double or triple more funds?

You Amaechi thugs will not save him from answering for his mindless looting on the day of reckoning. I shall bring up this thread again to remind you that Amaechi must go to jail for his robbery of Rivers people and looting of the state treasury.

OdenigboAroli:
Oneeast,keep your cool and ignore that foo,just like I ignored the ddick taking drag-queen earlier.
Please,I beg you. IGNORE HIM!

Wow! I love this statement!
Now you see why i say in some threads,the best way to handle an eediot is to ignore them no matter what they say?
It takes two hands to make a handshake. He can only derail your thread when you feed into his crap thinking that you are a tough guy.

Chino, I hope you see the wisdom in Odenigbo's advise and heed it.

kel4soft:
[s]Rivers State budget is 485bn not 490bn with the state expected to get 241.243bn from the Federation
Account; N92.420bn from internal sources;
N33.5bn from the sales of assets; N100bn from
proposed loans; N6.983bn from the World Bank
and N0.660bn
www.punchng.com/news/rivers-lawmakers-pass-2014-budget-in-govt-house/

As of July this year, the state has gotten just 89bn from Federation according from NOI publication. Compare the figure to 241.243bn the state was expecting and the allocation keeps going down. Offcourse the state can't achieve 100% IGR of 92.42billion annually. Only the state rec current expenditure is N237.950bn for the 2014 budget. The 100billion bond propose to compliment the budget so far only 50billion was approved by the HOA.

If the State has realised less than N237.950bn of recurrent expenditures from both FAA, IGR and bonds and loans. Tell me how it will meet up its capital projects of a different figure of N247.573bn?

Comparing Lagos to Rivers is like comparing Apples to oranges. Lagos hits more than 200bn annually on IGR while Rivers struggle with 70billion. The wage bill of Rivers State is 9.2billion monthly since apart from PH, the residence are civil servants.

Lagos State is financing her light rail with $1bn world bank loan while Rivers monorail is from the state budget. www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-how-we-spent-n160bn-world-bank-loan-on-light-rail-project/188736/
Lagos State debts though they can service it is 10 times bigger than what Rivers have.

Rivers State spent 800million naira annually on the free secondary school that the Indians manage of 1000 students of Rivers indigenes and non indigenes on scholarship at Nne Kuru Model Sec Sch at Eleme. Even the FG cant dare that.

The state service over 2000 overseas scholars smonthly stipends all from sane budget

Even the PDP in the state can't buy into this your ignorance.

EFFC should arrest Wike first since he is not under immunity then I can start taken your claim of not PDP and APC seriously.

Can I see any where you quoted that EFFC should investigate the embarrassment in South Africa before you start your non partisan when actually you are.

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[size=15pt][b]CRAP!
Stop lying to us as if we can't find this information for ourselves.
Rivers state 2013 budget was 485 billion with a N5.9 billion naira appropriation. Making it N490.5 Billion. So the man you quoted was correct!
http://ireports-ng.com/2014/01/08/apc-pdp-in-war-of-words-over-n485-billion-rivers-budget/
http://www.ictprocurement.com/news/security/budget-2013-round-up-by-states.html

Rivers state 2014 budget is N485.5 Billion: http://www.punchng.com/news/rivers-lawmakers-pass-2014-budget-in-govt-house/

It makes sense to compare Rivers state with Lagos state because their budget is about the same. Most of the money in Lagos budget is IGR while the money in Rivers budget is from 13% derivation. Irrespespective of how both states derive their money,they will spend about the same amount. Therefore we must compare what Fashola was able to achieve with N480 Billion naira ($ 3billion dollars) to what Amaechi was able to accomplish with N485 Billion naira (Above $3 Billion dollars)

If you like, continue to delude yourself that Amaechi will be let go by playing this as APC vs. PDP matter. Is Amaechi the only APC governor? Go and see what Sule Lamido,Kwankwaso and Fashola are doing in their state. Are they not APC governors?
Amaechi must answer for the mindless corruption and robbery of our people.

I don't even want to mention the wonders Akpabio have done for Akwa Ibom because you will claim he did it because he had N2 billion naira extra above Amaechi's budget.
So See for yourself what Fashola has accomplished for Lagos people with about the same amount of money Amaechi plays with!
https://www.nairaland.com/1894158/lagos-state-pride-south-west [/b][/size]

tabletman1:
9inches pls I need more pictures from Nkpor.


Good pictures so far, Nkpor is not doing bad, at least your pix can relate with my previous comments on total neglect of onitsha and environs.

Onitsha side streets must be repaired and it cannot be done by awarding contracts to construction companies but through Direct labour working through the state's ministry of works.

Anambra actually acquired a lot of road construction equipment during the Peter Obi's regime.Direct labour system should be used to dig gutters in the streets where they are needed, grade the streets and apply tar over the graded streets. To achieve this system of fully using direct labour, What is needed is a strong leader who knows how to engage the LGAs and mobilize people for the greater good.

Dr. Sam Egwu of Ebonyi state was able to use direct labour agencies to effective repair and tar all Abakaliki side streets. I am sure a dedicated Anambra leader who is able to choose an equally dedicated man to man the direct labor agency can produce the same or even better result in Anambra state.

BlackTechnology:
Nice pictures

Can you guys now declare Republic of Arewanistan

[size=15pt]...and use whose money to sustain it?
Northern states are truly the most infrastructurally developed part of Nigeria. Years of military misrule and favoritism towards the north saw to that infrastructure imbalance in the country.
The idea is all about cheating the Niger Delta of their resources and using it to develop the north. [/size]