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RareDiamond: Please make sensible and constructive criticism. Why are the international conference centers in Abuja, Lagos, PH, Enugu, Onitsha built where it could be easily accessed ? Where the Imo International Conference Center is built is not a high density area.

Below are pictures of Imo Conference Center

Did you listen to the peoples' assembly topic on hot FM this morning?

It talked about the complete shut down of Owerri town due to the use of that centre.

Such centres are better sited at the outskirts of the town.

The road network in Enugu and its general layout accommodates for its location.

The Imo ICC is poorly sited.

cooltone: I smell hate and nothing else. Rochas shaming PDP since 2011.

Do not get me wrong the centre is not bad.
However, the location is a disaster. The warehouse roundabout is the wrongest place to site such a project.
It would have been better in new Owerri axis. Considering the lack of alternative routes in the city.

Owerri is going to be on a traffic lockdown for about a week.
Thanks to poor planning by the builders.

I still maintain that insurgency thrives where there is sympathy from the locals. It may now spread from there.

kevoh: Wat da fuq ? There's nothing wrong and terrible with those names. It is ours. It is purely Nigerian. It is our identity and the world should learn to call it that way.

I am sure you are the type who prefers to hear bean-cake to Akara because Akara is not english. Who told you ''cheese'' is not an ugly name?

Thank you so much.

Some people can be outrightly silly.

Rochas failed woefully in the siting of the international convention center.

Because he always wants undue attention to his projects which are often sub par,he ended blocking the major thoroughfare in Owerri and exposing the poor road network of the town.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/owerri-stands-still-nba/

Traffic virtually ground to a halt Monday in Owerri, Imo State capital at the commencement of the 54th Annual General Conference, AGC, of Nigerian Bar Association, NBA.
Citizens woke up and found out that government had ordered the closure of all major roads leading to the International Conference Centre venue of the conference.
Scores of security personnel drawn from the various agencies had a hectic time controlling traffic in the municipality, as vehicles crawled for hours to get out of the city.
Some citizens, who spoke to our correspondent, expressed shock that government closed some major roads without previously preparing the minds of the people.
“Welcoming members of the NBA is not a sin, but sentencing commuters to untold hardship is not a blessing”, Mazi Ikenna Nze said.

At the conference venue, health officials and security personnel were busy frisking and checking all persons for the dreaded Ebola virus and lethal weapons.
Speaking Imo State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Chukwuma-Machukwu Umeh, SAN, said that insecurity, militancy, insurgency and kidnapping have become daily nightmares to Nigerians.
“We have a duty to critically study the ugly situations and make concrete suggestions to the governments”, the Attorney General said.
Some of the dignitaries that graced the event includes Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Governor Rochas Okorocha, Speaker and Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambowal and Chief Emeka Ihedioha respectively, state chief judges and a host of lawyers.

I will for another source.

Sahara reporters

This story sounds a lot more believable.

Why would a soldier give up superior salary, superior welfare package, superior retirement packages to defect to a less attractive Cameroon?

I no longer believe all I read in the press our journalism is in an atrocious state.
With a complete absence of investigation, they are only interested in making money.

Now APC will start cooking up another story.

This one has gone sour.

Restless witches.

eejo: fake news Nigeria army held the jihadist from this morning till 3pm this afternoon when the air force came and bombed the jihadist the town is under Nigeria control source bbc fucos on africa at 6pm broadcast today

When I saw Sahara reporters, I just lost interest.

Punch is beginning to quote a characterless spoof of a news site.

Free free free

Always wanting it free.

Cameroun
Please wake me up when you have a better story.

CircleOfWilis: Zmap is useless without a good and a functioning health team that will render adequate supportive care to Ebola patients.
Liberia is deficient in above

What were they thinking?

RIP

Exactly

Is this for real?

Shocking indeed.

OBJ

Should learn to bridle his foul tongue.


After shamelessly seeking a third tenure to perpetuate himself in power he still has the guts to give lessons.

Was he not the one that sat by and watched the adoption of sharia law as constitutional in some states in a secular country thereby fertilising the grounds for insurgency?

Rubbish

Why does our national assembly building look like a mosque

This man is good at making shallow loose comments.

OP
What Abia state needs is to flush out Orji and all his cohorts that has been choking the state, so that Abia can breathe again.

WHAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!
Is he using?

Eko adigo mma!!!!

Is this the BRT APC is shouting about.
This bus is just waiting to catch fire.

Fashola will dump these liabilities along with the debt he has accumulated for the next governor.

APC bunch of jokers.

deeobserver209: Exactly. Considering the rate of interest and the fluctuations in monetary policy of the country, coupled with inconsistencies in policy implementation, getting loans for the sake of infrastructure is a bad idea especially when dealing with long term loan facilities.

I am so glad you are seeing beyond the immediate here.

biafrandream: Please can you vouch that those Imo contractors were fully paid, or was it a case of asking someone to sign that he received 1 million naira while you actually paid him 1 thousand naira. That's where the issue lies. Okorocha said that one of the contractors ran away with 3 billion naira and refused to do the job, but if you investigate the allegation properly, you will be shocked at your discovery. Our people are not as bad as we portray them, only if we can set the same standard as the white/asian people.

Asides that I think some of them actually underquoted their bills to secure the contracts.

Apart from a few established ones, local contractors tend to have this feeling that they are getting a slice of the state cake.
And most of them are fronts for politicians.

As far as certain road construction projects go, getting the job done professionally is the lesser sacrifice.

dalu: history taking has nothing to do with lab tests sir !
sequence
1. history taking
2. examination of the patient
3. differential diagnosis
4.labs(if needed)
5. treatment

Yes that is what I was trying to tell him

biafrandream: To my mind, what the next governor should concentrate on is keeping Enugu clean, creation of jobs through establishment of cottage industries and massive investment in agriculture and education. Also I don't like the idea of giving the contract of building roads to Arab contrators because it engenders capital flight. Even the Enugu lifestyle and golf city is being handled by a foreign firm. If the contracts were awarded to local contractors, we would have killed 2 birds with a stone, developing our land and creating of indigenous millionaires. I think that's an area Sullivan has not done well. Our local engineers should be used in doing those jobs even if the government decides to make use of direct labour. This was one area Chimaroke did a good job. I think that poverty multiplied under Sullivan because all juicy jobs were given to foreigners.

IMO state did it and paid dearly, they are still paying for it with very substandard road projects.

You need a very robust and sincere ministry and governor to chase local contractors around, it is the unfortunate truth.

Arab contractors can be "nationalised" like JB, into Arab contractors Nigeria with Nigerians having a stake.


The life style and golf city is a PPP and the foreigners are also investing their money.

rhymz: What a very misleading claim. Very misleading. [b]The so-called medical history is mostly results from lab tests the doctor use in evaluating the patient. [/b]There is no such thing as a medical history without proper lab tests and results from such. So please slow your roll, everyone is equally as important don't try to make it look like a doctor is the alpha and omega in the treatment of patients, they won't even work without confirmations from lab test results. You obviously do not know what you are talking about or are exaggerating the importance of a doc.

Really?

You veered way off from reality.
Are you really a healthworker

OP looks like you just installed CNN newly.

WW3 indeed

I am very happy because this should help to reduce Book Haram activities.

That is if they are sincere with the closure

Sloothe: The thing is I hope to restore this thread but as my personal confession, it is quite difficult keeping up with it particularly when one seldomly visits the city. It has been a bit of relief but certainly, the many pictures cannot be for my tab view alone. That will be a waste. I will upload all the pictures again in my much freer period. I can assure MizzD and ThinkOyo will put up hers too. I implore others to please reconsider and join.

Way to go.

It was actually a nice thread.

collynzo2: This shows the difference between the bouncebackability of Igbos and the docile nature of Yorubas.
The ''Enugu pride of the east'' thread is going on like nothing happened despite the loss of several pages of data, just as we bounced back after the civil war.
Igbo kwenu!

loool!
This is funny no offense.