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investnow2013:
ABAKILIKI STREET STILL EXISTS IN AWKA.

The Chairman of Awka South Local Government Area, Mr Leo Nwuba has confirmed that contrary to the recent uproar in the media over the renaming of Abakaliki Street in Awka, the Awka Capital City had long designated another street to be named Abakaliki Street within the Capital City.

The new Abakaliki Street runs from Club Road, across Queen Suites to Enugu-Onitsha Expressway at the Parktonia Hotel end of the road. The street has clear signs identifying it as Abakaliki Street on both ends.

Mr Nwuba expressed surprise that there was no attempt to balance the story of the renaming of the street with the announcement that another street had been also renamed as Abakaliki Street.

Explaining that the renaming of the former Abakaliki Street as ‘Club Road’ was part of the on-going efforts to interpret the Awka City Master Plan, the Council Chairman revealed that the plan was being tweaked to fit things into their proper places.

Mr Nwuba expressed shock that anyone could have read a malicious meaning into the renaming of the street and quickly dismissed the speculation that it was an attempt to discriminate against anyone as false.

Throwing more light on the development, Mr James Eze, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Anambra regretted that the renaming of the street had been given a wrong interpretation by some people.

"Governor Obiano is the last man to put down a fellow human being let alone his own Igbo brothers. It is totally inconceivable that anyone could assume that the renaming of Abakaliki Street was done with an intention to spite anyone. The question to ask is, to what purpose, really?” queried Mr Eze.

According to him, "Governor Obiano has always been clear about what he wants to do about the new Awka Capital City. The former Abakaliki Street and the surrounding area have been designated as the entertainment hub of the city. That is where you have the largest concentration of entertainment hangouts. It is also a part of the city that never sleeps. We have a 24 hours life there. Government has provided adequate security, streetlights, road markings and everything that would encourage a 24 hours life in that axis. That district is gradually evolving into what might be called the Las Vegas of Nigeria especially on Friday nights,” Eze further explained.

He revealed that when there was an effort to rename the old Abakaliki Street as ‘Willie Obiano Avenue', the Governor had quickly turned it down because he wanted the streets within that entertainment circuit to bear names that reflect the offerings of the area.

"He is meticulous about what should be where. That is why he has mapped out an area that would be known as the Central Business District within the capital. Other areas are also being carved out and properly designated. So, there is really no such thing as an attempt to discriminate against anyone in Governor Obiano’s plan.

To underscore Governor Obiano's openness to all, Mr Eze explained that recently, the Governor announced that he had set aside the sum of N765m for commercial motorcyclists in the state to enable them replace their motorcycles with shuttle buses following the policy to restrict them from operating in Awka and Onitsha respectively.

"The beneficiaries of this loan are indigenes of the five states in the South East, Delta and Kogi State who are mostly involved in the motorcycle transport business in Anambra State. This kind of initiative cannot come from a governor who has any intention to discriminate against people,” Eze further explained.

He wondered why anyone would associate Governor Obiano with discrimination of any type, pointing out that "Governor Obiano has always maintained the posture of a modern Nigerian leader who treats every citizen with equal respect and dignity.”

From the Office of the Chief Press Secretary, Government House, Awka

wagesofsin:
The reason is simple, to continue their Islamisation agenda using Cow rearing as a reason. Ever wondered why they insist on roaming instead of having ranches up north where there is more Land mass.But I know God never Sleeps.

Everybody who has looked at Nigeria's map know that the states with largest land mass to accommodate any type or size of ranch are the north West states NW.

I noticed the terror kingpin in Abuja cleverly removed Katsina, Kano, Sokoto, Kebbi etc from his grazing fields. If the NW states own and benefit from these cattle business the most, why not build the ranches there and let other states go there to get the goods and distribute nationwide?

Why go to places where there is already severe land scarcity and try to annex the little land left for farming and try to build cow reserve areas there?

spyder880:
Enugu street sweepers getting to work this early morning around Nowas junction of Trans Ekulu. Many hundreds of workers are now employed by Enugu state government to sweep streets and clean out gutters. P

PaChukwudi44:
The Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom has denied the report that he had agreed to cede a portion of land to the Nigerian government for ranching.

Ortom said he did not at any point during his speech at the media and communications briefing on the National Livestock Transformation Plan which took place in Abuja yesterday state that he would cede any land to the federal government.

Terver Akase, Ortom’s Chief Press Secretary in statement on Wednesday said there was nowhere in the speech that Governor Ortom said Benue would give land for grazing reserves, the proposed FG ranches, cattle colonies or any of the related patterns of animal husbandry contrary to the provisions of the state’s Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law.

He maintained that the state had no landmass for cattle routes and open grazing as the available land mass is used for crop cultivation to maintain the food basket status.

He reiterated that laws were made out of desperation to stop the killings, adding that the killings started since 2011.

Commenting on the ECOWAS treaty, the Governor said, “The ECOWAS protocol has not been observed by any of the ECOWAS countries and basic documents and checks are not done on the herdsmen.

The land is no longer there. What existed in the 60s when cattle rearers come around with sticks not guns was that we related very well. There was no problem; there was no fighting.

http://dailypost.ng/2018/06/20/never-promised-give-benue-land-ranching-ortom/

Wiseandtrue:

Infact you took the words from my mouth

I was wondering when that lazy Yussuf will tell us with which money he got the bike

Buhari needs to also explain why the fuel pump price is N145 and we are still paying HEAVY FUEL SUBSIDY where is that money going to

Tinubu self owns almost everything in Lagos when is he going to explain and apologize

The hypocrisy in this government ehn hmmmmmm is stinking seriously

Kokolet11:
ok sir let us wait till nigeria die out but let us also stop crying like babies over what nigeria govt is doing to igbos.

kettykings:
Truth be told , you cannot stampede the realisation of biafra like NK and ipob were trying to , Nigerian is dying a slow death, Nigeria is a terminally ill country , so why not allow the country to pass on peacefully , why be the catalyst to the demise of Niigeria, knowing fully well other parts of the country will abandon their brutal fate in the hands of herdsmen and boko haram to fight igbos if igbos declare biafra. my advice would have been to scale down on the street shows , then prepare or start preparing for the inveitable over run of the country by the herdsmen and their boko counter parts , induce the divestment of igbos from crisis likely prone areas and from abandoned property mentally induced regions , establish R and D centres that would wean igbos from their chronic addiction to cow meat.

It seems our generation quickly forgot the lesson of the last war where there was crisis in the middle belt (TIV crisis) and western region only for Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna to drag igbos into that mess with igbos still paying the wages for that misadventure till date while the west and middle belt reaped where they did not sow.

Kokolet11:
NK was never the only one making decisions for ipbo,mind you the leadership of ipbo is not base in nigeria incase you dont know.when NK had meeting with south east govs and ohaneze,after the meeting he told them that he will meet with the leadership of ipob before any decisions can be reach and when he went down to ipob leaders,them turn down the damand of south east leaders.yes ipbo was build around NK because people knows that he will never betray them.opc you talked about please who is the leader of opc?opc before is no more the opc you know before.

Kokolet11:
oga if ipbo strategist were poor please can you come up with good one.NK and ipbo was the best thing that happen to igbos after war.oga i can still remember that you were agaisnt their method please oga can you come up with the right method and right group?you and some igbos here are not different from useless south east govs and ohaneze.

Kokolet11:
oga we are our own problem,last year ipbo was everywhere shaking nigeria,northern govs were coming to east for peace talks and way forward but since ipbo die down where are those northern govs?even one of the useless gov from north open his mouth infront of abia state gov seeing that ipbo is more threat than boko haram that has killed thousands of people,you and some other igbos here were saying that ipbo method were bad since ipbo has die down i am still waiting for a group of igbos that we come up with right method since ipbo method is bad.mark today igbos we see the full buhair from middle of 2019.

Ogbuefi2020:
Lol. Enugu airport was never in the same class with the four major airports. Ibadan and kaduna were regional capitals too and theirs are still local. Economic viability is the only strong point we may have, but at the moment kano international traffic is almost enugu and PH combined. So we keep growing the traffic till we beat any of the big Four. We are happy that it has maintained steady commercial flights unlike many other international airport that only record international flights during hajj

Daboomb:
P-L-E-A-SE ...DONT BE TEMPTED! DONT USE GRAVEL!! DONT DO IT!!!
HOLD-ON AND SAVE MORE.
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE WORRIED, EACH TIME YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID.
THIS IS A TWO STOREY, NOT A BUNGALOW!
ITS BETTER TO SPEND EXTRA AND HAVE PEACE OF MIND, THAN TO BE SORRY!
IT IS VERY EAASY FOR DECKS TO COLLAPSE, BECAUSE OF THE WEIGHT THEY HAVE TO SUPPORT!
REMEMBER, LIFE HAS NO DUPLICATE.
LET THOSE THAT HAVE EARS.........HEAR.
MAY GOD GIVE YOU WISDOM.


NB: I was 'shouting' intentionally (All Caps), because l want youto hear me.
Something in me is ringing an alarm bell right now and over time, my hunch rarely goes wrong!
PLEASE, l take God beg you.

Daboomb:
P-L-E-A-SE ...DONT BE TEMPTED! DONT USE GRAVEL!! DONT DO IT!!!
HOLD-ON AND SAVE MORE.
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE WORRIED, EACH TIME YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID.
THIS IS A TWO STOREY, NOT A BUNGALOW!
ITS BETTER TO SPEND EXTRA AND HAVE PEACE OF MIND, THAN TO BE SORRY!
IT IS VERY EAASY FOR DECKS TO COLLAPSE, BECAUSE OF THE WEIGHT THEY HAVE TO SUPPORT!
REMEMBER, LIFE HAS NO DUPLICATE.
LET THOSE THAT HAVE EARS.........HEAR.
MAY GOD GIVE YOU WISDOM.


NB: I was 'shouting' intentionally (All Caps), because l want youto hear me.
Something in me is ringing an alarm bell right now and over time, my hunch rarely goes wrong!
PLEASE, l take God beg you.

sonofspada:
Looking good scam

mktinsight:
Onitsha was relatively well planned until it became an unregulated market town where anybody and everybody could do anything.

So if you want Onitsha to change you need far better organized business to locate there and not traders selling goods under staircases or in shacks. For that to.happen you need government enforcing order and not encouraging the primitive capitalism of a street and wheelbarrow economy.

That's the difference between an India and a China and is why the Chinese economy is 8 times the size of India. The Chinese think big and do not settle for cities where people can live anyhow like India. Their streets do not let cattle to sleep on them or tricycles to roam because they can't plan a proper transport system.

That is also why the Europeans are far more creative and innovative than the rest of the world. Just visit any European town, their shopping streets are orderly and attractive and is not an everyone affair. So you see people engaged in craft not retailing. Look at the cafés, restaurants, shops that they have. Those structures are infused with the skills of architects, interior designers, artists, equipment manufacturers, suppliers not loads of hastily built shacks with no toilet or plumbing at the side of the road announcing "food is ready".

The ANSG needs to get serious with our cities. They are not extensions of villages. People need to operate at a higher level of organization and productivity. Onitsha needs is to attract industry, upgrade it's wholesale markets and clean up the CBD so supporting services can come in.

Specifically the state needs to build more industrial areas in Onitsha equipped with power, roads and water. The city should have 1,000 factories. Its wholesale markets need to be incorporated to attract capital to upgrade with better design, conveniences, infrastructure for modern wholesale retail not ugly unpainted, unroofed blocks of concrete called shops. Then the government needs to enforce building laws, sanitation fees and fines, upgrade commercial streets with pavements, parking laws, better transport systems.

Onitsha is supposed to be a premier city in Nigeria not a theater of primitivity.

Yyeske:
Bros, hope these guys gave you permission to upload their pictures online or just delete na na

investnow2013:
NGWA NEZIENU ANYA....

My Good Readers,

Gov Willie Obiano through the current Commissioner for Transport, Rail & Water, Hon. Uchenna Okafor (WIPER) has demonstrated a committed sincere approach towards sanitizing our society especially in Urban Areas. The ongoing Operation Stop Street Trading just like normal government policies, has attracted criticisms from all corners. The Commissioner personally has assured Anambrarians whose goods are affected to bear with the State Government. With time we shall understand better and why the primary interest of this government is to save lives.

NOW JUST IMAGINE THIS....

Yesterday at Aroma Junction this happened. A bike man who was driving from Ifite Awka got to the bridge and without looking properly, continued his journey as if he was heading to the MACDONS. Unknowingly to him, a trailer was coming and then, in the effort to save the life of the Okada rider, it happened.

NOW:

My concern wasn't what happened to the Okada driver. What everyone around were shouting and exclaiming were, had it been all those other Okada, Banana, Mango, Water Melon, Roasted Corn etc Sellers were there, only God knows how many that could have lost their lives just yesterday.

AGAIN,

In the bid to help this society, His Excellency Gov. Willie Obiano has barricaded the Federal Highway from the Aroma up to Kwata Bridge and yet, our people had continued to permeate those barricades for one reasons or the other.

Just few weeks ago, at the same dangerous Unizik junction, a Trailer loaded with Soft Drinks hit and shattered the barricades at exactly that same spot that people use legs to cross over and kept asking myself had it been.

Over more than two other cases of such had happened at the Kwata axis just before the flyover.

Let us ThankGod for yesterday and always bear in mind that our Governor will do all its takes to safeguard the lives he is sworn to protect.

STOPSTREETTRADINGNOW.

Photo Credit: Hon Obioma Mbanefo

Stnomso:
it doesn't matter. having at least one standard stadium in Anambra state is not a bad idea. take note. Anambra is one of the richest and list indebted state in Nigeria. so I believe they can handle it. The state is not as poor as you think

Purehuman:
Please study this rail masterplan well. After studying it, please try and see if it favours the economic masterplan of igboland and how it helps when we become an industrialized people in the nearest future.