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Handsomegod:Excellent post Bro! It couldn't have been better said. The problem with our cities isn't exactly lack of ideas, it is a determined reluctance of our leaders to bequeath decent cities in these states. On tarring inner cities, the state government can coordinate with property owners and landlords to work out a formula for financial contribution to do those street with direct labor. If the State Governments set aside a fraction of their Capital Budgets to do inner street gutters and paved roads via direct labor, these streets will all be paved within 4 years. I know Ebonyi state funded direct labor government agencies for Abakaliki inner streets for about 3 years and it helped transform the city. If Ebonyi state, which is the poorest SE state could do it, then why can't the others? Anambra has OCHA brigade, Enugu has City Beautification agency or something like that, Abia has another group that collect taxes for them. The question is: i, WHY CAN'T THESE AGENCIES PULL DOWN EVERY ILLEGAL STRUCTURE OR ILLEGAL SIGN BOARDS IN THE CITIES / STATE? ii, WHY CAN'T THESE YOUNG PEOPLE BE MOBILIZED TO PLANT TREES AND FLOWERS ALONG ALL MAJOR ROADS IN THE CITIES WHERE THEY OPERATE? iii, WHY CAN'T THESE GROUPS BE TRAINED AND EMPOWERED WITH BASIC ROAD CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AND FUNDED EVERY YEAR IN THE STATE BUDGET TO CONSTRUCT GUTTERS AND INNER STREETS IN ALL THE CITIES? The only reason they are not doing the above is that the various state governor DO NOT CARE ABOUT A DECENT ENVIRONMENT IN THEIR CITIES. I must quickly add that some Governors have done better than others in removing illegal structures, sweeping streets and planting flowers & trees. Honestly, Some of our cities look like piggeries. It's not as though the governors are unaware of these issues, but they have decided not to emphasize them to their various Commissioners. Thus these Commissioners just sit in big air-conditioned offices and do next to nothing to transform the environment in the cities inside the state. If the Governors daily queried their Commissioners "Why aren't trees and flowers planted along major roads and roundabouts? Why aren't proposals made to banks to beautify specific flyovers / open parks and the banks or organization can exclusively place their signboards in that area and will not be taxed for 15 - 20 years if they maintained those areas. I personally have inside knowledge that Sullivan Chime constantly harassed his commissioners about refuse dumps etc and they got into the habit of clearing them. Individuals who violate environmental codes by erecting illegal sign boards or buildings are penalized by immediately pulling those structures down and sending the bill for the demolition exercise to the responsible individual or company to pay to the state or have some of their assets impounded. Other African countries have perfected the art of using their own internal government direct labor agencies to plant trees and flowers and do city roads and inner streets. We must stop awarding contracts for streets and use direct labor of government agencies to do the job. We can get independent private agencies to audit and report to the government on status and quality of the jobs executed. We truly cannot afford to do inner streets with big contracts. It must be direct labor through State ministry of works. We have to begin to impress on our governors that we deserve decent cities like they see abroad. The culture of treating us as pigs by forcing us to live in pig-like environments called cities should stop for good.
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ckenneths:This is a great legacy of Gburugburu! Streets of Enugu gradually getting cleaner and adorned with trees and flowers. Looking at the recent pictures of IPOB sit at home strike, one could notice that only Enugu streets looked decent! Even streets in Port-Harcourt also looked like a dungeon
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ckenneths:This is a great legacy of Gburugburu! Looking at the recent pictures of IPOB sit at home strike, one could notice that only Enugu streets looked decent! Even streets in Port-Harcourt also looked like a dungeon
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wakeupgian:Nobody needs to even double cross. Nigerians will sue and let INEC explain how my cell phone will harm the elections in anyway.Except ofcourse INEC that is bent on changing the numbers at the polling stations to rig the elections |
Nigeria is gradually being killed by Buhari regime. All the labors of many many years to improve our economy and stay away from debts have been destroyed by Buhari in less than 3 years! |
horsepower101:Exactly! Private investors can develop the place and control / rent designated stalls as areas where businesses can establish small shops for restaurant of selling of other souvenirs etc. Visitors and residents of Onitsha can go to the park for relaxation and buy from the sores there. |
Gov. Ugwuanyi should do us a huge favor and beautify Enugu flyovers. Even if it's just planting palm trees and other types of aesthetic trees and flowers. its better than leaving it bare. Those people now doing city sweeping should go around these flyovers and begin to plant trees. We are begging not mandating...
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I am impressed with the modern refuse collection bins. Modern waste disposal bin should be enforced for every house especially in Awada, Nkpor and high density areas. This will help improve the management of refuse in the cities.
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ckenneths:Oga Spyder, i thank you immensely especially for the wisdom to start a pan-Igbo thread like this. In this thread, activities all over Igboland can be easily seen. Most importantly, our thin god Governors can easily see why regional cooperation between SE states to set up regional infrastructure is the way to go. Individual states may not have the capacity to do what is required alone. |
Handsomegod:GBAM! I wonder what happened to MINAJ?? Yes, Nollywood has been a great ambassador. However, their penchant to act unnecessary voodoo has complicated their message especially in other parts of the world where they cannot discern what is real or mere acting. Nonetheless, Nollywood has done a good job for Nigeria and Igbo culture. They truly need to improve the quality of the movies and the quality of acting |
PrecisionFx:Such brazen attempt to silence the citizens from exposing the money sharing taking place in their polling stations and taking pictures of the announced results show that INEC is determined to rig the elections for Buhari. The INEC chairman should resign for peaceful conduct of the 2019 elections. He is bent on bringing mayhem to Nigeria in the guise of organizing a sham election. |
DanielOc:This is a very important point that you have made. Also properly tagging pictures "Pictures of Ebonyi", "Pictures of Anambra", Pictures of Imo", Pictures of Abia, "Pictures of Enugu", Pictures of Asaba", Pictures of Awka, etc will help make them searchable on the internet. |
horsepower101:Please my people forgive me a bit for digressing into my favorite discussion this Sunday so that we don't forget them. Please contribute ideas how to make homes generate their own sustainable electricity with sunlight without using generators. I personally believe this is the key technology that will unlock the productive potential of both the SE and the entire Nigeria. If we can begin to see many more buildings in the SE have those roof Top Solar Panels like the picture below, it will gladden me a lot! My two favorite topics i will like your ideas are: 1. Improving access to Roof Top Solar Panels in the SE 2. Engage the SE Governors to plan how to source a loan for the regional high-speed rail network to complement the Federal Government's Port-harcourt to Maiduguri line. We truly have NO CHOICE than to build them the regional railway system ourselves through bringing states together to cooperate, because FG will NEVER build such for us. Infact, they will look for ways to frustrate it instead of supporting it so that other states can come together and copy the process in developing Nigeria. Therefore the plan should be for a 5 years development plan for Regional railway. The steps are. 1. The SE Governors and SS Governors should secure permission from FG to build the regional railway and float a company "Eastern Corridor Railways Corporation (ECRC)" 2. Every benefiting state will invest 1% of their budget as Equity into the company to take care on initial takeoff This is later converted to shares in the company for the respective states. 3. Get Foreign companies to bid as foreign Technical partners to do the actual construction on a PPP arrangement and 100 Year BOT (Build-Operate_Transfer) These three steps will ensure the project is actualized and it will greatly facilitate economic activities in both zones. Imagine travelling from Calabar to Onitsha or Port Harcourt on an air-conditioned train and get there in 2-3 hours? Or bringing your goods from Afikpo to Port-Harcourt. Then do your business and return to Calabar or Afikpo without Police harassment and bad roads? If the total railway track is less than 1,000KM dual carriage railway, Then the total cost should be less than $1 billion dollars which can be financed partly by World Bank, China Exim bank and other international financiers when the bidding process is transparent. A 5-Year phase of $200 million dollars per year is also reasonable time-frame
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ckenneths:Oga Spyder, Daalu maka olu oma gi o! Many thanks for those Asaba pics! I really love this shot over the Stephen Keshi stadium! I truly need to visit the city soon and secure my own piece of land maka ndi uta! On the Onitsha roundabout, The other things needed at the new DMGS roundabout are colorful mix of flowers with yellow, red and other colors well manicured around the sculpture. I really thank Willie Obiano for taking environmental ambiance of Onitsha and other Anambra cities very seriously by beautifying the state.
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Afam4eva:Believe me even so called "Igbo newspapers" don't care Remember Champion Newspapers? What about Sun? Igbo newspaper may or may not make any difference at all. We to continue appealing to Igbos everywhere to remember their own area in their investments. Part of the "Blessings" of Buhari's tribalism and oppression of Igbo is that these people are able to more clearly understand the need to remember their own areas. Igbo must understand the sacredness of Aku luo uno Amazed by the vast Igbo investments in Lagos and Abuja and the near absence of their wealth in their own region, even Fashola and Obasanjo have pleaded with Igbos to remember their areas and their state a little bit. What we need is to encourage Igbo entrepreneurs to consider their home state or other states in the SE for some of their projects. In time, people will emulate them and the Igbo curse of always investing in all sorts of places and abandoning their own land will have been broken. |
Bede2u:The area is not an Island, it's attached to Anambra state as part of Onono. The one that is an island is a small patch of land in the middle of the river Niger. |
Afam4eva:I believe that in time, these concepts will begin to take root as multinational businesses begin to consider being based in the SE rather than Lagos. The Akanu Ibiam International airport will be a big part of that change. That is why the enemies of Ndigbo are hell bent on closing the airport using all sorts of lies and excuses to do "repairs" which they will NEVER do, so that the airport remains shut indefinitely. |
Afam4eva:Exactly, that is what i'm talking about. Using the concept of business parks to develop new standard areas around the city. |
Afam4eva:Obviously building central business districts in our already built up cities will no longer be feasible. The concept of building BUSINESS PARKS used in many American cities should be adopted in Nigeria. Ex-Gov. Peter Obi half-heartedly started this important concept in Onitsha, but ended up not building truly imposing buildings in the areas and everything ended up being shoddy. They should learn to engage billionaire entrepreneurs to adopt building a structure in there NOT government alone. Business parks areas around the city designated for building commercial office buildings. The government and business entrepreneurs are encouraged to build 3 storey office like buildings in the area within 2 -3 years. Flowers and trees are planted in the area to make them truly modern and conducive for businesses to rent office rooms in the area. Something like how Ebonyi state built a new areas for it's secretarial complex. The only difference here is that effort is made to make the buildings spectacular and stand out. If 5 or 6 imposing buildings of just 3 storey height are built in each business park, it will change the landscape of any city where they are located.
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ANSMEDIA:Great! Putting gutters and tarring these inner streets in Onitsha will help to stop flooding and improve standard of life |
Nigerians should heavily resist the attempt by INEC to rig the elections. Why should anyone even consider asking people not to come to polling stations with their phones? The electoral act says results MUST be displayed at every polling unit for all to see. So what is INEC afraid of in displaying the result and allowing people to take pictures of who won in their polling unit? Nigerians will massively resist this attempt by INEC to rig the elections. Tomorrow their next step will be to ask Nigerians to come to polling stations blindfolded. Shameless riggers! |
Nigerians should MASSIVELY disregard INEC. Go to your polling stations with your cell phones. As soons as the result sheets are signed and pasted, TAKE PICTURES and post to your party members. If INEC isn't bent on rigging the elections, WHY WOULD YOU TRY TO PREVENT PEOPLE FROM TAKING PICTURES OF PUBLICLY DISPLAYED RESULTS? |
ckenneths:Oga Spyder, Biko why do people still refer to this road as Bisalla road? After the civil war, Bisalla and other military officers just named whatever they liked in Igboland after themselves. Luckily, this road reverted to it's original name Independence Avenue after Bisalla was executed for coup plotting. So, why are we still calling that road Bisalla road? Biko learn to call it Independence Avenue that Chief Michael Okpara who mapped out the road named it -Independence Avenue to commemorate Nigeria' independence. |
hammer6F:Building the glass house is great. But it does not guarantee a solid experienced technocrat leader. Soludo has the experience and financial imagination of how to invest Anambra's money to build a self sustaining society. Skyscrapers are good to have, but most importantly, we need to have Anambra where good paying jobs are available, the economy is growing and the government knows how to grow it's IGR to devlop the state. |
hammer6F:If it goes to a free and fair primaries, Soludo will still win. My fear is that he might not have the big cash to buy votes and Dr Maduka may out do him there. Apart from Umuchukwu, most of Oumba and Aguata will vote massively for Soludo over the almost unknow Dr Maduka. Either way, Soludo needs to fear nobody. He will likely succeed Obiano no matter the dynamics that play out. |
Ogbuefi2020:@bolded, i'm so disappointed with you. So you are still fixed in believing that Chino is Igbo let alone from Anambra? Even if he is Anambra, do you think everybody in his village acts like him or agree with him? Let alone people in his town, let alone every Anambra person? Na real wah for some of you people. Your fickle mind is waay too small to live in the modern Igboland that is unfolding and will not have those borders of Anambra, Imo or Ebonyi. Soon Nigeria will have NO choice but to restructure and we will eventually drop all the silly artificial state borders created by military regimes. We shall have one highly developed SE region + Anioma. We shall have one governor, one parliament, One deputy President to represent us in Abuja, One IG of Police, etc. Once Nigeria restructures, the federating units will naturally revert to 6 regions with minor boundary adjustments to allow people belong to the region they prefer. |
I knew that as soon as Buhari came back from China, he would quickly think of another country to visit instead of work to stabilize our failing economy. From New York, he will plan another trip to Mauritius and then plan another trip to Zimbabwe and the story of the absent President goes on and on.. ![]() Nigeria sai Bubu! ![]() |
ckenneths:Just imagine if we continued the tradition of planting trees around homes, public building and along the road. Nigeria will by now be Obodo Oyibo! |
OEPHIUS:Glad to see Enugu state government finally waking up to its responsibilities. Before now, we have watched in amazement as hawks plotted all sorts of gimmicks to shut down the airport and divert all its passengers to Lagos, Abuja and Kano.Yet, Owerri and Port Harcourt airports are the closest for diversion of any Enugu flight. It is clear that AIIA, Enugu will NEVER be developed by the current Federal Government. They have a policy to kill any potentially successful project in the part of the country they call 5%. The success of AIIA, Enugu despite the neglect of the FG has annoyed them immensely and they have been cooking up all sorts of tales to shut it down or at least disrupt normal service at the airport. |
Everyone is learning Buhari style of claiming they are too poor to buy forms. Meanwhile their children ride motorcycles worth N52 million naira and their girlfriends wear wristwatches worth $50,000 dollars. Yet some zombies will believe them! |
papalsbuIl:Looks like the guy is waiting for Oshiomole to dash him the forms ![]() |
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