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Education › Re: Jane-Frances Gabriel: Anambra Student Wins 2026 National Head Girl Competition by FOXDOSSIER: 2:38am On Oct 25
Anambra always leading the entire Igbo race in all areas of good development.
Politics › Re: If Presidency Is Zoned To South East, It shouldn't be Anambra - Umahi by FOXDOSSIER: 3:30pm On Oct 23
Abakaleke dwarff. Who stopped you from picking presidential form to vie for presidency? Anambra shall continue to lead the Igbo race. God made it so.
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 3:21pm On Oct 23
Ongoing work at the Awka 2.0 to
Aerotropolis 24km six lanes dual carriageways

Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 3:36pm On Oct 10
Awka 2.0 to Aerotropolis City dualisation has commenced.

The dualisation project spanning 24.03 kilometers with two bridges, will commence from Coca-Cola Road, Awka, to Aerotropolis City.

Anambra shall cintinue to lead as the most developed Igbo state

Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 9:08pm On Sep 27
Federal government has signed the Free Trade Zone for Anambra Aerotropolis international airport. Anambra shall cintunue to lead as the most developed Igbo state

Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 9:05pm On Sep 27
What has Enugu state that their dwarff governor joined APC had got from Tinubu? What about Imo state that has always been in APC?
Anambra is not an APC state but it has benefited from the federal government more than all the states in south east. Anambra shall continue to lead as the most developed Igbo state

abuzz33:
Oremii22

There is a gas pipeline at 95% completion by NNPC. Its called the Akk pipeline. It is supplied by the Obiafu-Obrikom-Oben pipeline which crosses the river Niger 123km south of Onitsha. It will deliver 2 billion standard cubic feet of gas to Edo and Northern states.

Already,NNPC is completing a 350MW power plant in Abuja to supply that city to expand to over 1000MW.

Anambra is busy dancing to President Tinubu and cant even get a railway line or gas pipeline to the OB3 pipeline that would be a game changer.

Anambra is there using its measly budget while other states are enjoying federal might.
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 9:03pm On Sep 27
Everyone of you got opinion on Anambra state. Why can’t you guys keep these advise for your state. Why is everyone of you interested in Anambra but your states? Why? Go and advise other Igbo states. Anambra is already doing great as the most developed Igbo state.

OreMI22:
Anambra Must Stop Mapping Industrial Layouts and Start Building an Industrial Economy

There is a painful irony in Anambra State's economic story. The state is famous for producing entrepreneurs, manufacturers, traders, engineers and businessmen who have built successful enterprises across Nigeria and around the world. Yet the state itself has struggled to convert its own natural resources into the industrial infrastructure capable of supporting those entrepreneurs at home.

Nowhere is this contradiction more obvious than in the unfinished story of the Orient Petroleum refinery. This is not a project that existed only on a campaign poster. Orient Petroleum received Federal Government approval to establish a private refinery in 2002 and approval to construct a 55,000-barrel-per-day refinery in 2004. It subsequently obtained an Environmental Impact Assessment certificate and undertook substantial preparatory work, including land acquisition, engineering studies, geological and geotechnical investigations, water wells and civil works.

Yet more than two decades later, Anambra still does not have the industrial-scale refinery that was supposed to become the foundation of a wider petroleum and petrochemical economy. What happened in 2012 should also be put in its proper historical context. When President Goodluck Jonathan commissioned Orient's facilities in August 2012, the milestone was primarily the commencement of crude-oil production from the Anambra Basin. Contemporary reports made clear that the 55,000-bpd refinery itself was still being developed and financed.

In other words, Anambra became an oil-producing state without completing the downstream industrial ecosystem that should have followed. That missed opportunity deserves another look. The refinery should not be treated as yesterday's abandoned project. The circumstances surrounding Orient have changed, and any revival must therefore be commercially and technically reassessed.

But the underlying opportunity has not disappeared. NUPRC's concession records show Orient Petroleum Refinery Ltd as holder of OML 155, an approximately 1,195-square-kilometre onshore concession in the Anambra Basin with a lease extending to January 2041. That means Anambra still has an upstream petroleum asset around which a serious industrial strategy can potentially be built.

The question should therefore no longer be: "Why did the old refinery project fail to reach completion?"

The more useful question is: "How can the refinery opportunity be restructured so that it finally becomes commercially viable and operational?"

That question deserves an answer based on engineering, finance, petroleum economics and transparent project governance—not another political ceremony. Start smaller if necessary—but start. There is no reason to insist that Anambra must immediately construct the entire 55,000-bpd refinery originally envisioned two decades ago. A phased strategy may be more realistic.


A modular refinery could begin at a commercially justified capacity and expand as crude production, markets and financing develop. The important principle is that Phase I must be designed as part of a larger industrial system rather than as another isolated project.

The refinery should be integrated with:

crude gathering and storage;
petroleum-product storage;
LPG production;
gas processing;
CNG infrastructure;
petrochemical production;
pipelines;
transportation infrastructure;
industrial electricity;
and downstream manufacturing.

That is how a refinery becomes an economic engine rather than simply another government landmark. And this is where Anambra's gas becomes critical. The refinery alone will not industrialise Anambra. Electricity will.

A modern industrial economy requires dependable, competitively priced power. Factories cannot operate efficiently when they are forced to rely on individual diesel generators. Manufacturers cannot compete globally when energy costs consume a disproportionate share of their production costs. Anambra therefore needs to think beyond a refinery and toward a gas-to-power industrial system.

The state has already identified gas-fired independent power generation as an investment opportunity, while current private-sector information on the Anambra Basin describes significant gas potential and identifies gas-fired power generation as part of the broader regional opportunity.

The logic is straightforward:

Produce gas → process gas → generate electricity → distribute reliable power → attract factories → create jobs → expand the tax base.

That is industrialisation.

The Anam industrial area should become the laboratory for this strategy. Instead of repeatedly drawing industrial layouts on maps, Anambra could concentrate resources on creating one genuinely functioning industrial zone around the Anam/riverine industrial corridor.

The model should be simple:

Gas + Power + Roads + Water + Industrial Land + Security + Logistics + Finance = Industrial Production.

Give manufacturers reliable electricity.

Give them serviced industrial plots.

Give them roads and logistics.

Give them access to gas.

Give them water and waste-management infrastructure.

Then invite companies to manufacture.

The difference between an industrial estate and an industrial economy is whether factories actually operate there. A thousand plots without electricity are not industrialisation. A beautifully rendered masterplan without factories is not industrialisation. A new industrial layout announced every four years is not industrialisation.

Industrialisation is productive capacity. Anambra has repeatedly confused announcements with development. This is perhaps the most dangerous part of the state's development cycle. A governor arrives. A new industrial layout is announced. Land is acquired or mapped. A masterplan is unveiled. A few roads are constructed. The project becomes a political talking point. Then the administration changes. The momentum disappears. The next administration announces another flagship project.

Meanwhile, the original industrial land remains underutilised. This creates a hidden economic cost. Every abandoned industrial initiative represents not merely money spent without sufficient return, but also years of lost opportunity. While Anambra is debating another masterplan, entrepreneurs are taking their factories elsewhere. While officials are commissioning another conceptual project, manufacturers are paying enormous amounts to generate their own electricity.

While another mixed-use industrial city is being announced, the state's own oil and gas resources remain insufficiently integrated into a productive industrial chain. The cost is therefore not just financial. It is the opportunity cost of industrialisation that never happened. Anambra needs an industrial policy that survives governors. The solution is not to ask the next governor to make another promise. The solution is to make the industrial strategy bigger than any individual administration. The state needs a legally and financially protected long-term industrial programme with measurable milestones.

For example:

Year 1: confirm petroleum and gas reserves, refinery economics, regulatory status and project feasibility.

Year 2: secure investors, financing, feedstock agreements and power-generation arrangements.

Year 3: commence construction of the refinery, gas-processing facilities and industrial-power infrastructure.

Years 4–5: commission the first refinery and power-generation phases and begin attracting anchor manufacturers.

Years 5–10: expand refining capacity, petrochemicals, LPG/CNG, manufacturing and export-oriented industries.

Every stage should have publicly measurable deliverables. No more projects that exist primarily in speeches. Orient should either be revived, restructured or replaced—but the opportunity must not die. The state also needs to confront a difficult reality.

If Orient Petroleum can demonstrate the technical capacity, financial strength and regulatory standing to complete the project, then the refinery opportunity should be revived and professionally restructured. If additional capital is required, strategic investors should be brought in. If the project needs a new corporate structure, create one. If the original refinery approvals need revalidation under the current regulatory framework, pursue that process.

NMDPRA's current licensing architecture includes mechanisms for refinery-plant renewal and refinery/hydrocarbon-processing regulation, while the former DPR had previously allowed expired refinery projects to seek revalidation. And if an independent assessment ultimately concludes that Orient cannot execute the project, the petroleum and downstream opportunity should not be allowed to remain permanently dormant. The objective should be a functioning refinery and industrial-energy complex, not preservation of a corporate structure for its own sake.

The real prize is bigger than petrol. Anambra should not measure the success of this project merely by how many litres of petrol it produces. The real prize is the industrial ecosystem around it. A refinery can create demand for engineering. Gas processing can create petrochemical feedstock. A gas-fired power plant can supply factories. Factories can create skilled employment. LPG can support households and businesses.

CNG can support transport and industrial users. Petrochemicals can feed plastics, chemicals, packaging, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. The resulting industrial ecosystem can create thousands of direct and indirect jobs and broaden the state's economic base. That is the difference between extracting resources and using resources to industrialise. Anambra cannot afford another twenty years of waiting. The Orient refinery story has already consumed more than two decades. That is long enough.

The state should now demand a transparent technical and financial assessment of the project, publish its current regulatory status, determine the condition and value of existing assets, establish the available crude and gas feedstock, and determine exactly what capital is required to complete a commercially viable refinery and associated gas-to-power infrastructure.

Then the state should act. Not another ceremony. Not another masterplan. Not another industrial layout.Not another promise that factories are "coming soon." A refinery. A gas-processing system. A dependable power plant. A serviced industrial zone. Factories. Jobs. Exports.

That is the sequence Anambra needs. Anambra has already demonstrated that its people can build businesses.The state now needs to demonstrate that it can build the infrastructure that allows those businesses to manufacture at scale.The wealth beneath Anambra should not remain merely something discussed at conferences. Oil should become refined products. Gas should become electricity. Electricity should become factories. Factories should become jobs. Jobs should become household income. And productive industry should become a broader, more resilient state economy.

The greatest danger is no longer that Anambra lacks resources. The greater danger is that it will continue announcing industrialisation while the resources, land, capital and human opportunity required for industrialisation quietly pass it by. The Orient refinery should therefore be treated not as an old political promise, but as a test of whether Anambra can finally convert its petroleum and gas resources into a durable industrial economy. Anambra does not need another industrial layout on paper. It needs an industrial system that works.
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 4:16pm On Sep 04
Let Imo state do whatever they want to do, it doesn’t change the fact that Anambra is by far more developed, more economically viable than Imo state.

Infact the richest Imo indigenes are based in Anambra where they have their investments, including Orange drugs, Tummy-Tummy, Tigerfoods, etc. Why are they not investing them in Imo state? Why are Imo indigenes see Anambra as their greener pastures? There’s an estimated two million Imo indigenes based in Anambra. This is to tell you that Anambra is not a mate to any Igbo state.

This is not to remove the fact that Anambra has the largest gas reserves in the east and also has huge oil(hydrocarbons) in large commercial quantities. We don’t need you people’s advise nor validation, keep it for your state, because we know that we are the most developed and greatest in Igboland by the Grace of God Almighty.

Cjrane2:
I saw this on Soludo's X page. I think it'll be great to use Anambra's significant gas resources to drive industrialization. Imo state is already doing that at ANOH Gas Processing Plant located in the Ohaji/Egbema.

The ANOH Energy Hub / ANOH CNG Park.
Politics › Re: These Are The 12 States That Generated Less Than 10% Of Their Revenue In Q1 2026 by FOXDOSSIER: 2:47pm On Aug 29
Cybaghost:
Since Enugu state increased taxes and became the second highest igr generating state, second only to Lagos, the NBS and media has suddenly refused to publish igr figures for 2025
Forget the media propaganda of Mbah. What’s in Enugu for anyone to tax? Enugu is full of poverty. Ask yourself why the VAT from Enugu state is the least in the southeast
Politics › Re: These Are The 12 States That Generated Less Than 10% Of Their Revenue In Q1 2026 by FOXDOSSIER: 2:45pm On Aug 29
Imo is a failed state
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 2:26pm On Aug 29
Jcoleworld911:
Night flight/activities has commence at Chinue Achebe international airport Anambra state
This is big. Let’s not forget that Anambra is the only southeast state that has night landing facilities. Igbo amaka.

Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 2:24pm On Aug 29
You dey mind that mumu. His business is to keep crying here while Anambra is leading the Igbo race in overall development out there.

Jcoleworld911:
If you don’t know what to type, you better keep quiet, what’s Bua foods revenue a year??
Nnewi trade volume alone dwarfs both Bua and Nigeria breweries combined not to talk about almighty Onitsha.

Nnewi alone produce more than 50,000 millionaires yearly with trade volume running into billions of dollars, the problem is that traders/businessmen don’t like paying taxes together with high corruption in government

All the industries/hotels etc scattered around Anambra state are all owned by Anambra businessmen/traders operating in Anambra state

Please don’t be unfortunate next time, don’t ever talk down on our traders/businessmen, there’s a reason Anambra is the third most developed state in Nigeria after Lagos and Abuja
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 10:17pm On Aug 28
This is Ekwulobia, the fourth largest city in Anambra state. Anambra has continued to maintain the lead as the most developed Igbo state to the Glory of God.

Travel › Re: Nigeria Is Safe Except The North, But Enugu Has No 911 Or Ambulance” — American by FOXDOSSIER: 10:14pm On Aug 28
Everywhere is not under developed. Talk about your own state.

NGArmyTerrorist:
Na this praise praise thing dey make una they loses concentration. Do you know what being developed is. I am from igboland but everywhere is underdeveloped for now. Let the leaders sit up, they travel to Europe and other countries and they see how those places are, they can replicate that in their land too. It's not a rocket science. Though Igbo states ain't slum but they're underdeveloped.
Travel › Re: Nigeria Is Safe Except The North, But Enugu Has No 911 Or Ambulance” — American by FOXDOSSIER: 5:55pm On Aug 28
AdolfHitlerxXx:
You think it's a joke when people from Enugu and Anambra do testimony when they arrive Lagos?
Anambra has water and it is the most developed Igbo state unlike Enugu state
Travel › Re: Nigeria Is Safe Except The North, But Enugu Has No 911 Or Ambulance” — American by FOXDOSSIER: 5:50pm On Aug 28
Enugu is a failed state that thrives only on media propaganda. Most of Enugu is slum, poverty, lacks water, etc
Culture › Re: Opobo King, Douglas MacPepple Jaja Visits Obi Of Onitsha, Igwe Achebe by FOXDOSSIER: 5:44pm On Aug 28
Obi of Onitsha is the greatest and most influential Igbo stool
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 10:51pm On Aug 26
FOXDOSSIER:
Shanahan university Onitsha is nearing completion as the first Catholic Cardinal out of Nigeria and Anambra born Cardinal Francis Arinze storm from Rome to inspect the project.

Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 10:50pm On Aug 26
Shanahan university Onitsha is nearing completion as the first Catholic Cardinal out of Nigeria and Anambra born Cardinal Francis Arinze storm from Rome to inspect the project.

Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 4:33pm On Aug 24
You said it all. Good job !

Eboofa:
Bros.........anytime you post ....it becomes apparent that you do not know Anambra intimately! Our Anambra is an abode of '' strong men'' and ''strongholds'' ! I do not always like Soludo's politics, but he is the only governor that has dared to take on some of these strongholds! How is it that we have the so-called almighty Onitsha main market and Nnewi........yet Anambra cannot generate substantial revenue from the markets................. That is why I approve the demolitions going on in Onitsha and Nnewi.............. Soludo is stepping on big toes, bros!


The Chinese are desperate to expand and maintain their markets............ The Chinese manufacturers are already in Lagos, Ogun State, and Delta State ,,,,,,,,,, opening manufacturing and massive distribution channels.........Importation is going the way of the dinosaurs! We have to open up other economic sectors.........manufacturing and logistics are areas we need to pursue! The agro-allied sector is another...........let us not condemn his plans too soon! I see nothing fundamentally wrong with the aerotropolis plan.............we cannot be stuck at the main market trading only...whilst the world changes around us!
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 4:32pm On Aug 24
Now you are comparing the volume of Onitsha main market with BUA. Now tell us if those states where BUA and NB located better than Anambra? Aside Lagos.

You are calling the huge economic output of Onitsha main market as one-man business , even though it was and still the economic renaissance of the eastern Nigeria immediately after the Nigeria-Igbo crisis of 1966. Till date, it’s the main market that places Igboland on the map.

For instance, Enugu state has a NB branch, but the economy of Anambra is ten times bigger than that of Enugu state. What does that tell you? This is just because of the large industrial economy of Onitsha and Nnewi, then the hospitality sector in Awka.

Let’s not even add the fact that Anambra equally has a multi national International Breweries(ABINBEV) in Onitsha, among others in that same Harbour layout.

Anambra economy is multimodal: industrial, commercial, hospitality, entertainment, oil & gas, etc. now the new era of economy is upcoming, the mix industrial city and Aerotropolis.

Today, Anambra is top five biggest economy in Nigeria. No other southeast state made that list. I understand that the whole essence of all these tirades here is to make it look like Anambra is not the economic leader of the region and also your jealousy that Anambra is getting a second airport.

Take this to the bank, Anambra Aerotroplis is a done deal and there’s nothing you can do about it than to accept the reality of our time.

abuzz33:
You use a very outmoded view on your analysis of Anambra. Let me tell you something. Anambra market volume is nothing close to what just Bua Foods does in revenue per year across its facilities. It’s nothing compared to what Nigerian Breweries makes across its four factories.
There is no wealth without production or scale. The small one man business mentality of the likes you see in Onitsha is going the way of the dinosaurs.
Retail is why America is borrowing left and right while China is accumulating capital. It was inevitable that Chinese business people and Lebanese would monitor Nigerian traders sending goods back, identify areas of advantage and come into Nigeria to produce them.
Smart governments are partnering with the Chinese. The Ethiopians, Tanzanian, Kenyans. Our ITK who cannot even run functioning cities somehow believe that they can build an aerotropolis. Only ignorant people will believe them.
I want you to take a look at a country that dont over estimate themselves. Look at the infrastructure very well.
Tanzanian are not doing vulcanizer on side of road or iron kwandem or racing around like mad people in keke. They are doing BRT, electric trains and started the first huge bus terminals in Africa.
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 12:31am On Aug 17
Mktinsight stop embarrassing yourself. Your own economics is always on this thread. I have warned to to stop fuuuuling yourself on this thread. People that have something to offer are not wandering on nairaland like you do, such people are in the board rooms advising governments, corporations, brands, etc, but you cornered yourself to this thread and keep deceiving yourself. You don’t know anything, that’s why your highest engagement is on this thread where you have decided to retire because you have nothing else going on.

abuzz33:
I am not professor anything. I have common sense and . You are a 15 year resident of Indianapolis. Do you understand priorities? Do you understand the term putting the cart before the horse?
There are loads of experienced Nigerians in the aviation sector who would give this our Professor sound advice. Deborah Flint thats in charge of Toronto Pearson is part Nigerian.
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 8:13pm On Aug 16
Haha You have totally placed the fuuuuul where he belongs. His intentions is for Anambra to remain in Stone Age with no modern infrastructures like airport, industrial city, ICC, etc, but to his utter disgrace, Anambra is getting all those things to his embarrassment. He is always posing as if he knows everything , whereas he knows nothing. Imagine a local champion on nairalabd, always trying to advise a professor of economics. Anambra shall continue to lead as the most developed Igbo state.

Abufo:
You are Professor Onyeagwanam on this issue! Are you saying you are better than Soludo in strategic planning ...and you know more of Indianapolis than myself...a 15 year resident of Indiana state..Oga you do not know it all! In fact your views can be quite pedestrian and unrealistic at times!
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 8:09pm On Aug 16
Thank you for schooling the fuuuul. He is not from Anambra. He has been on this thread right from Obiano time with his other moniker(Mktinsight). He was against the first airport, when the airport was completed, he disgracefully changed to this account to his shame. Now he is back with his new account to attack Soludo over the new ongoing Aerotropolis. He is just jealous of Anambra, everyone knows who he is. My happiness is that you have seen through his evillll intention towards Anambra.

Abufo:
As far as this your post is concerned you are just being obscure and shifting arguments! Its not about how big an economy is..........its about strategic planning and expected outcomes!

Go and dig out Soludo's manifesto and the long term plans........the Anambra mixed use project is prominent in the paper! Your criticism is misplaced and definitely in bad faith

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER:
This is why it is clear to know you’re not from Anambra. You want Enugu airport to serve Awka, why not Awka serve Enugu? Anambra economy is thrice bigger than that of Enugu state, so we shall be controlling the state in aviation sector. And also why not Onitsha serve Delta?

My happiness is that your rants are just here. We have got the first airport and now going on the next one while you are here corner on nairaland lol.

Awka ICC five star hotel will start soon. You can never stop our advancement in Anambra. Anambra shall continue to lead as the most developed Igbo state.

Anambra international Aerotropolis is already under construction. You cannot do anything about it than to sit here and cry.

abuzz33:
Again I am starting to question people's intelligence on this matter. I was at the Anambra airport last month to experience its one or two flights a day. I have been to tons of airports worldwide and to me the big terminal building was unnecessary grandeur because its traffic resembles some of the ones I've been in tiny countries or cities where the terminal is a small hall.

That airport which costs the state government billions in upkeep a year was not needed when asaba served Onitsha quite nicely and Enugu served Awka. That money could have been channeled to far more important things.

Building a second airport is sheer stupidity. Call it aerotropolis or whatever fancy term but its total nonsense just like the five story ICC hotel when you cant even cut grass in front of the ICC or organize more than 5 events there that are not political about sharing rice.

Feel free to insult me but at the end na ourself we disgrace with this stupidity. From a whole "professor". Its incredible.
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 1:49pm On Aug 16
You are correct about what Soludo is doing in overall transformation of Anambra. Take note that Onitsha and Nnewi are not congested, the lands for the projects are already there, it is just to clear it which the government has already started from Nnewi and will soon arrive in Onitsha.

Once again, I thank you for the video of Enugu bus terminal you showed here. Let them continue with the media propaganda, it will never develop their state.

Eboofa:
I submit you are totally wrong! Where are you going to build a large modern bus terminal like the one in Enugu in a congested town like Onitsha or even nnewi! I await an honest answer from you! I lived in Nnewi and worked in Onitsha in the heady days of the GSM base station build-out........... I know these areas rather well ! I know the seemingly arrogant and headstrong posture of the average Igbo trader based in these towns!

I feel for Soludo honestly........Now I know why he reserved his heavy hammer till his second term! To make omelette you need to break eggs! If you are current with the news, you should know there has been a heavy reign of demolitions in Onitsha .......in fact, the demolition in Nnewi is even more widespread!

We need to restore Nnewi's setback for the much-requested walkways. A dumpsite is currently being cleared for a modern bus terminal in Nnewi... let us cut Soludo some slack, bikonu!

Our people make governance a bit difficult sometimes!
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 1:45pm On Aug 16
I am very certain that you won’t give this same feedback if this was in Anambra.

I have said it here that the driving motive of most of you people here is envy and bitterness towards Anambra, nothing more.

Look at the trash you typed just to justify a failure. If it was Soludo that acquired an aircraft that crashed landed, you people would still be on it by now. If it was Soludo that built smart schools that collapsed, you people would still be on it by now.

Soludo is the southeast best and prioritized his projects, that’s why he’s been dualising major roads in Anambra to ease movement once he introduce bus transits and bus terminals.

Meanwhile look at the Enugu bus terminal. You people will defend taya.

abuzz33:
You are comparing apples with Oranges.

What I see in that video is common sense sabotaged by poor management. But the essence is this. Enugu understood that the bus transport system moves hundreds of thousands of people a day and decided to organize and modernize it.

Now show me a single large central bus terminal Anambra has built. We havent even started. Our solution is primitive parks for keke and aerotropolis. God who did this to us?

Enugu has a nice bus terminal run badly but contrast with the one run by Governor Otti of Abia. That man does three things right. He knows how to prioritize, how to build and who to appoint to operate it. This is the difference in approach between a lecturer like Soludo, a primitive businessman like Mbah and a corporate CEO.

Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 1:28pm On Aug 16
Thank you for bringing this here. You will never see those envious ediots here to explain this video, but they keep hyping the dwarff failure in Enugu

Eboofa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLJ9RkqtBLc
I am beginning to doubt this Patrick Mba miracle in Enugu........Soludo has been more frugal, and it seems that Anambra State has a far more developed maintenance culture......abeg, Soludo is trying too!

5 years down the line, Chinua Achebe Airport and even the Ekwulobia Park and Market are still in remarkably good condition! Anambra rocks!
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 7:46pm On Aug 09
Your own is always out of point. Don’t worry I will get your food ready soon, I mean the airport pictures so that you can criticize haha


abuzz33:
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What's the value of a hotel next to a Conference Center that doesnt host up to 5 large events a year?

The Anambra government should focus on priorities and not projects for show. The focus should be public BUS transport, education and power.

TRANSPORT

This government should be ashamed people are still squeezing into keke in the name of transport.

Buy EV large buses and run routes at least in Awka and inter state such as Ekwulobia- Amawbia to Onitsha, Awka - Nnewi - Onitsha and Awka to Onitsha.

EDUCATION

Half of the population of the state are under 18. Its not just about hiring teachers but providing the RIGHT education. Anambra schools need recreational sports facilities and vocational skills training.

POWER

I have said that we go nowhere with expanding power. It needs a comprehensive intervention to quadruple the amount of electricity generated.
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER:
Suddenly you have believed a random fellow wandering around nairaland than hearing from the government.

The hypocrisy of you guys here is becoming too much and one thing I must take upon myself is to see that one person is used here as an example.

You are now comparing Soludo that has even outperformed the hype called Mbah to Ugwuanyi. This was the same Ugwuanyi that I never saw anyone of you talk about despite his incompetence and failure in office. Now switch Ugwuanyi as an Anambra governor, all of will have a different narrative. Hypocrites.

Soludo has delivered and keep on delivering on great ptojects that no other governor has been able to achieve. If it was another SE governor that built brand new three arm zone, Emeka Anyaoku boulevard, major road dualisation across the state, fun city,Ekwuluobia transformation, not to ven talk of ongoing university of medicine, aerotropolis, industrial city, pharmaceutical new site in Oba, etc, you people would have been hyping the person all over the place.

Infact the amount of dual carriageways already done by Soludo has placed Anambra as the southeast state with the most dual carriageways.

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OreMI22:
Wow! Wow!! Wow!!!

I sincerely hope this information is incorrect. How could another major project, with the potential to firmly position Anambra on the international tourism map, be shelved in favour of a less consequential audio airport project?

Despite the criticisms levelled against former Governor Willie Obiano, one must acknowledge that he completed several projects outside his hometown that he did not initiate, including the Agulu Hotel and the Onitsha Mall. He also completed several landmark projects started by his administration, including the Awka flyovers, the stadium, the International Convention Centre (ICC), and the airport. Although his administration was widely criticised for its poor interventions in the road sector, it nevertheless succeeded in installing streetlights along major roads across Anambra State.[/b]

The principle is simple: to whom much is given, much is expected. I sincerely hope Governor Soludo will rise to the occasion. With the significant improvement in FAAC allocations and the additional 13 percent derivation revenue from oil, it should be possible for his administration to pursue the airport project while simultaneously completing other critical legacy projects, as his counterparts in Enugu and Abia have done.

[b]At the moment, however, Anambra risks resembling the kind of administration associated with Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi's tenure, one that appeared reluctant to complete major projects inherited from its predecessor while leaving relatively few distinctive legacy projects of its own, apart from road expansion and related infrastructure.

Governor Soludo has an opportunity to avoid that trajectory. His administration should, strive to balance the pursuit of new flagship projects with the completion and consolidation of strategically important projects already underway. That would not only ensure continuity in governance but also strengthen Anambra's position as a competitive destination for investment, tourism, and international business.[b]
Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by FOXDOSSIER: 7:27pm On Aug 09
Awka ICC hotel is still there and major contractor will soon be announced as the piling has been completed. The second Anambra airport doesn’t stop other major projects including the transformation of main market, ICC hotel, etc. His body language? Did he tell you that? It is high time I start sharing some of these unsubstantiated comments to the appropriate authorities within the government so that the person will be brought to come explain.

maiunguwar:
The Anambra ICC and many other capital intensive projects will be sacrificed for the second airport. The total Anambra budget for the fiscal year is around #750B. The body language of the prof.governor is pointing towards the second airport as his priority project,he doesn't have much time and the resources for other projects.

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