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Anambra state government has signed a $320 million business agreement with a private consortium, for an International market to be sited at Ogbunike in Oyi Local Government Area of the State.Signing the memorandum at the governor’s lodge at Amawbia, Governor Willie Obiano said the project was in its first phase and would create over 600 jobs and would provide viable outlet for distributing and marketing goods mass produced by the industrial hub in the state.The governor also shored up the occasion with a gallant entry to sign the $320 million dollar agreement with the consortium for the establishment of a modern market of international status.in his speech, the Chairman of Anambra State Promotion and Protection Investment Agency, under whose auspices the project was attracted said the market would have a shopping mall, industrial park, educational and medical facilities and entertainment center.The leader of the team, Mr Obiora Anyaralu and another senior member of the consortium, Dr. Adedeji Ameh, said the second phase of the project would incorporate the establishment of a housing estate.He further said that the project would assist the governor in achieving his vision towards elevating the state to an enviable height in commerce.Addressing the august team, the Governor stated that a similar market would be established in Umunze, Orumba South Local Government Area, explaining that the main market with its challenge of old age necessitated the undertaking of the present project.He assured the gathering of direct job creation to the tune of 600 when the project must have been completed. He put the percentage benefit of the project to the state at five per cent while the local government of domicile gets 25 per cent.Signatures by all parties involved were appended, thus sealing the deal and expectations are now high that in 42 months, an international trade center must have been built in Ogbunike in Oyi Local Government Area of the state as the state heads for a digital e-commerce stage in trade and business activities.

funkybully:
Pedestrian bridge construction

This is old picture they are through with the bridge

BuddahMonk:
I was in Osha today and I took many picss, sorry for not being able to post over the time its because of numerous engagements and rickety cyber cafes here.

I got great pics now pls excercise patience

That's the spirit nwanne, may God continue to bless us, Ala Igbo must be better. Thanks for your efforts!

Yeske2:
Ohaneze Ndigbo that endorsed GEJ for 2011 elections had decided endorsing nobody for 2015, this ought to had made the clueless one reason for himself but i guess that's a luxury to him.

99% of Igbo votes will go to GEJ we don't care what other tribes think, GEJ will get our full support we are ready for 2015 election, you have the right to vote for who ever you like. GEJ will win nothing will happen. Bookmark this page

InyinyaAgbaOku:
Impressive!!!

That's the right word, so happy our people are seriously investing @ home.

Yeske2:
On going beautification of Borromeo roundabout, so slow. These guys should hasten this job na

I doubt if they will finish the project before xmas

Tummy Tummy Industrial complex Nnewi

More form cutix wire and cable complex Nnewi

Minister of Power commissioning newly expanded Cutix wire and cable industry at Nnewi. Nnewi host large numbers of industries more than Onitsha and still expanding.

Yeske2:
DMGS roundabout this afternoon

Lovely! Thanks bro for sticking to your promise.

Schematics:
Some private investors in world class health facilities in Anambra. This particular one is at Ihiala.

Oboy nestoil built first class hospital in Okija I have seen and believe, not just that he empowered Okija youths, brought development and now building 1500mw power plant in Okija

Similar speech he made when he flaged- up second niger bridge in Onitsha.

investnow2013:
The picture above is Ugwuagba Obosi & Those on The Hill is Obosi Town!. All these places where Thick forest 6 to 8 years ago!.

Anambra is fast developing I hope our government will meetup with basic amenties?

Innoson rolls out 500 made in Nigeria cars today

 0BY OUR REPORTER ON NOVEMBER 29, 2014COVER■ Automobile firm vows to crash car pricesFROM CHIDI NNADI, ENUGUThe Innoson Vehicle Manufactur­ing Company Limited will today make history as the first indig­enous car manufacturer in the country with the official unveiling of 500 made in Nigeria cars built at its Nnewi, Anambra State, plant.In this exclusive interview with CHIDI NNADI, the Chairman of Innoson Group, Dr Innocent Chukwuma, he looked at his journey into auto manufacturing, which he said began with his trading in motorcycle spare parts.Chief Chukwuma assured that his cars, which conform to international standards, would lower car prices in the country like he did when he started to manufacture mo­torcyles some years back. He also prom­ised to use his auto company to boost the Nigerian economy as well as generate em­ployment. Excerpts:What is your journey into auto manufacturing like?I started assembling business with mo­torcycle spare parts and later moved to motorcycle assembling. Later I moved again from motorcycle manufacturing to auto manufacturing. I passed through these stages before I started to manufacture ve­hicles in 2010, but the factory was built in 2007 at Nnewi. We are also into tyre manu­facture with our factory in Enugu. We did not start all these lines of production in one day; we take them one after another. For example, we are manufacturing some of the vehicle components here while we only import the ones we cannot produce here.What are the first brand of vehi­cles you manufactured?We started manufacturing buses, but later added Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs), pick-up vans, trucks and now cars, which we will commission today. We started to manufacture buses first because of its high demand in the country. But I knew from the beginning that we will produce all brands of vehicles and that we have achieved now.What is the market acceptance of your vehicles?Our vehicles are well accepted in the market, the dealers, the end users and Nige­rians are happy with our range of vehicles. We are amazed by the demand and level of patronage of our vehicles by Nigerians. In­dividuals, corporate organisations, institu­tions, governments and other Nigerians are demanding our vehicles. Those who have used them attest that they are rugged, the type that can withstand the Nigerian roads which are usually rough. We are only pray­ing that we would have enough vehicles to meet up the demands.What are the sources of your raw materials for the vehicles?We source our raw materials locally here while we import those we cannot readily get here. But we generate over 50 per cent of our vehicle components locally here.How affordable are your cars?We want to make sure that our cars are very affordable. We have done this before when we started motorcycles manufactur­ing and we are going to do it again with our cars. I can assure you that our cars will be highly affordable without compromising international standards on cars manufac­ture. We have cars of N1 million plus, N2 million plus and N3 million; we also have three models of cars under this price range.What are your marketing strategy and niche in the market?Innoson is a very strong brand in Nige­ria and even beyond the country. All our products are of high quality, we don’t com­promise on the quality of our products and we are known for this. So, Nigerians will definitely like our cars because they are of good quality and built specifically to with­stand the Nigerian roads. Nigerians have good taste and appreciate quality products, so they will definitely love our cars, I am 100 per cent sure of it.What is the standard used by IVM in the manufacture of its cars?Auto manufacturing follows interna­tional standard, that is the same thing across the globe. So, we are adhering strictly to this international standard. Be­sides, the Standard Organisation of Nigera (SON) is supervising what we are doing, they come to our factory and they are hap­py with what we are doing. Our cars like the buses we started first to manufacture are of international standard and we are not going back on this.You said you also manufacture tyres?Yes, we also went into tyre manufac­turing because we discovered that Nigeria has the best quality of rubber, the Nigerian rubber is so good, so I want to utilize it as raw material to develop the tyre industry in Nigeria. Also, you know that tyre is a very important component of vehicles; so since we manufacture vehicles here at Nnewi, it only follows that we must also manufac­ture tyres, which we believe will help to further lower the prices of our vehicles. We want to make sure that the local content of our vehicles is high as this will affect their prices for the betterment of the end users who are largely Nigerians.How are you going to sell these cars, do you have showrooms?We have designed to build state-of-the-art showrooms in the six geo-political zones of the country, including Abuja and Lagos. These showrooms will be supply­ing spare parts, sales of the vehicles and at the same time have a section for workshop which if your vehicles develop faults, you go and fix them there. You can see from the sketch drawing here that it is a master­piece. The concept is that we will control the one at the headquarters in Abuja and Lagos while the dealers will control those in the zones for good synergy between the dealers and managers at the headquarters. Already, we have started to construct the showrooms in Abuja and Lagos.What is the workforce at your auto plant like, are you using expa­triate staff?The major parts of the job will be done by Nigerian workers. We have a policy to encourage indigenous workforce except in cases where we cannot get the technical support needed in the plant locally. But we will first of all create jobs for Nigerians.How many cars are you rolling out today?We are rolling out 500 units. Already, some of the cars have been bought. We discovered that some people, as soon as they heard we have started producing cars, placed orders. This is because the cars are fantastic. You know our people used to say that good market sells itself. The demand already is quite impressive and when we launch today, we know the demand will skyrocket.There was a time the Federal Government demanded buses from your company but the quantity was not met, why?There is no way you can place order for large quantity of vehicles today and you have that number supplied to you imme­diately. But whatever quantity you want, if you place the order on time on the date of delivery, we will meet your demand. There is no quantity that is too much for us to produce. What we need is to increase our manpower to meet up the demand, but we must be given adequate notice.We understand that some state governments are using your ve­hicles, what is the feedback from these states about the performance of your products?Yes, a good number of states in Nigeria are already using the various types of our vehicle; buses, SUVs, trucks and now cars and they have found them very efficient and durable; they are very happy to use our brands. Our trucks are doing well in the states that are using them. Remember that we manufacture these trucks on speci­fication and order; Abia, Enugu, Delta, Cross River and Benue states are so far the states we have manufactured trucks for, es­sentially for their waste disposal projects. And these states are quite happy when they compare the trucks they were using before and the IVM trucks.What are your challenges?Right now, we don’t have much chal­lenges; sourcing of the raw materials is not too difficult, the raw materials are read­ily available. In fact, we now have more than 50 per cent local content. Already, we manufacture plastics which are com­ponents of some parts of vehicles and we manufacture them here. So, this is one of the reasons our vehicles are cheaper than others in the market.In the next 10 years, where do you think IVM will be?For now IVM is the first indigenous car manufacturer in Nigeria and so long as Ni­gerians are demanding our cars, in the next 10 years, our cars will help to grow the economy. We are sustaining what we are doing by the financial support of the Bank of Industry and the Automotive Council.What is your promise to Nigerians?One thing is sure; IVM cars will never disappoint Nigerians. We are here not only to promote the economy, but also to cre­ate employment for Nigerians. If we have more demands of our vehicles we will stand firm to increase our workforce thus reducing unemployment level in the coun­try. I, therefore, enjoin Nigerians to take advantage of this new dawn, the IVM ve­hicles are their own and are here to serve them for the better.

Energito:
My brother i'm sorry,i promise i won't reply chino or attack your thread again.

Thanks bro, my regards to your family also wish you best of luck today!

Energito:
i dont work for anybody but people work for me.i come online anytime i like without fear of being sack.i have many picture of awka.

Those attacking my thread hope you guys don pray this morning? I also want to wish you guys this morning what ever you wish this thread. One love!

Ilovenigeria:
Cheiiii

Awka etiti ndi ogwu ego

Obodo unu mara mma.

You no well

InyinyaAgbaOku:
are you from nnewi

Awka Etiti

Schematics:
I think that of Ogbunike is the investor(West Africa Intercontinental Trade Centre) they are pumping in over $300 million in that project for the first phase.

Bro that area is developing fast expacially Ogbunike/Ogidi axis, that of Ogidi building materials, plastics etc mkt, that area was thick forest before, My mum is from Ikenga Ogidi they call that area Ndaagu, although it was Mbadinuchu and Ngige that started the transformation of that area, they connected Enugu/Onitsha express road to Old Awka road, they also installed power substation and kick start the market, now that area is fast expanding both the market and residential buildings.

OkijaAmaka:
Obiano an co must be very stupid if the airport should go on and be sited at Otuocha,Awka should be the prefered location.

Am watching his clannish disposition, Anambra North have highjacked everything in the state, they are getting most of the appointments and all capital projects are finding their ways there.

I saw people marking Atani Rd, i dnt know whether he's dualizing it or not because that road needed to be dualized, its an industrial road with densely populated neighbourhoods and towns.

A construction job is going on at Orlu Rd Ihiala now, the EEDC people are very hardworking here installing and mounting transformers, i saw a fire service outpost here in Ihiala along the busy Orlu Rd.

Obiano should come to Nnewi abeg, Nnewi is more economically viable than the Otuochas and Aguleris he is moving everything.

There is one big mkt being constructed at Ogbunike now, the International Mkt at Oba is mouthwatering, i didnt get their pics but i just passed there now.

I have pics but am yet to hit the cafe, the last time i did the server dissapointed me, so i might likely recharge my modem and upload from my system....biko mek una bear me.

I saw the one @ Ogbunike I thought it was housing estate.

oneeast:
I just saw this thread trending now. Asaba is a complete slum..there is no room for comparison..

Despite the huge oil allocation, this is where you are..

https://www.nairaland.com/2013339/photos-slumming-asaba#28311803

I don't know the kind of human being you are, why are you always displaying silly attitude all the time? So you can ignore inciting comments the guy quoted me not you.

To be frank the commissioner of environment need to be changed, he or she is not doing his work well.

OkijaAmaka:
[size=28pt]Didnt run out pics but the server here is phuckinnggggggggggggg damn slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

i have more pics than National Geographic

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Nice one Nwanemandu, I knew what I went through to upload my, and for you to take pictures in Anambra the best day is Sunday when the cities are calm, thanks for your efforts, I'm in process of relocating my business from Lagos to Awka the state capital by January 2015. from then I will have time to upload more pictures.

tabletman1:
Do you go to the airport or refinery site?

Refinery site.

[quote author=Myluv1 post=28287044][/quote]Security men are all over the place they won't allow strengers or even their works to take picture of the facilities

n keeping with his promise to revive moribund
establishments and transform workers’
fortunes in Anambra State, the state
governor, Chief Willie Obiano, has graciously
lifted the burden off the shoulders of the
staff of the State Water Corporation and 108
former Anambra Sanitation and Environment
Protection Agency (ANSEPA) members of
staff by clearing outstanding arrears of
salaries and allowances owed the two gov­
ernment parastatals by previous
administrations to the tune of N1,
863,197,452.76 (approximately N1.92 billion).
Of this grand total, N1, 502,997,239.76 was
paid to the staff of the state Water
Corporation, who were owed arrears of salaries
and allowances from 2000, when Dr. Chinwoke
Mbadinuju was governor, to the immediate past
administration.
On the other hand, N360, 140,213 being the
balance of N711, 229,000 outstanding salaries
and allowances of about 100 staff of former
ANSEPA, now called Anambra State Waste
Management Authority (ASWAMA), was settled
by Governor Obiano, being the amount due
while the matter was in court.
The former ANSEPA staff were sacked by the
past administration but are presently seeking
reinstatement for unlawful dismissal.
Judgment is yet to be given on the matter.
This pay-off is part of the grand plan of the
Obiano administration to heal old wounds and
seal every possible crack that could stand in
the way of his efforts to move Anambra State
forward.
While giving a directive for the liquidation of
the arrears of salaries and allowances,
Governor Obiano also set up a committee to
ensure that the payment was made to real
staff and not ghost workers.
It was gathered that the arrears of salaries
and allowances from May 2000 to September
2005 stood at not less than N411, 006,221.11
between the intervening periods of governors
Chinwoke Mbadinuju and Chris Ngige while the
arrears of salaries and allowances hovered
around 435, 471, 803.87 from 2006 to 2008
when MEDAL Consultants were engaged to X-
ray the situation after, which the wage bill
skyrocketed to billions of naira.
Though the last administration had in 2007,
released about N200 million as part payment
for the outstanding debts it inherited and
incurred, the Amalgamated Union of Public
Corporations, Civil Service, Technical and Rec­
reational Service Employees (AUPCCSTRSE)
through a suit No. NICN/ABJ/120/2013
instituted on behalf of its affiliated workers,
dragged the immediate past administration to
the Industrial Arbitration Court over the huge
indebtedness running into billions.
The union won the case and the past state
government filed an appeal but lost it, compel­
ling the court to issue a Garnishee Order and
the judgment was documented in the Federal
Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette.
Following the victory of the union, the law
abiding incumbent governor of the state, Chief
Obiano did not waste time to liquidate the
arrears of N1, 502,997,239.76 for Water
Corporation staff and N360, 140,213 for
ANSEPA staff, bringing the total fund re­
leased to N1, 863,197,452.76 (approximately
N1.92 billion.)
Anambra State Water Corporation came into
being by virtue of Edict 3 of 1999 while the
Federal Government of Nigeria Official
Gazette No. 55 of November 24, 1977 Volume
64 declared it as a public service.follow on twitter @anambrastate_ng

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