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Akwa ibom is growing at an alarming rate. i hope the next governor will focus on completion of the seaport an industralization. @ ujoinme you are doing a great job please keep it up. |
Akwa ibom state is doing very well, besides Abuja there is no state that comes close to AKS in terms of good road network. I hope the next governor will do better. |
we hear nothing about imoke because he has done nothing for cross river state in eight years. he is the worst governor in NIGERIA Whose ineptitude is covered by the foundation that Donal Duke and other thinking governors of the state left in CRS. Imoke is an egoist and a pocket lawyer who lost the 76 oil wells belonging to his state, because he refused to listen to the elders and settle for a political solution with Akwa Ibom. He sued Akwa Ibom State Government to the supreme court and lost those wells to Akwa Ibom throwing the state into penury. That is all his administration will be remembered for. I hope the next governor of CRS will not be too proud like Imoke and listen to wise counsel of the elders of the state. I am not a fan on imoke and the people of CRS will not eat civility! |
ujoinme: concrete work complete on 12 floors of the Four Points By Sheraton Ikot Ekpenefantastic Akwa Ibom is doing great. |
WOW! the stadium is splendid with Ample parking. looking very western. Nigeria is really going places. |
ujoinme: German National Team? thats a long shot bro. Which country is cape verde? I dont want the super Eagles playing the black stars, The Super Eagles may lose and that will not be a good history/begining for the stadium!The super eagles should play the Fiji National team or any country we can beat 7-0 for the opening game. |
basilo101: Sm parts of abia are closer to d sea dan portharcourt. I dnt understand y only SE is called landlocked while dey r closest 2 d sea afta SW and SSyour state has to have a boundry with the sea for it not to be classified as land locked! there are only 8 states that are not land locked in Nigeria ie Lagos, ogun, ondo,delta,bayelsa,rivers,Akwa ibom and cross river. You can sail from the delta in rivers and bayelsa through the river niger all the way to kebbi state that dosent exclude kebbi from being a land locked state. As long as Abia state does not share a boundary with the sea, it is a land locked state, it can build a port or jetty via its extensive river connection that empties into the sea like the ones built in onitsha or barro that will not exclude it from being a land locked state. |
Willgates: Sponsored propaganda...that shithole isnt a stadium!Stop please . The Uyo Stadium can and will never replace the UJ Esuene stadium in Calabar as long as they keep maintaining it as they have done from 1976 when it was built till date . you can take that to the bank. they said the same thing about Uyo airport when it was being built people screamed that it will cripple the calabar airport, But today we all know the truth both airports are thriving.In fact when calabar airport was closed down for renovation every one in calabar were happy because they had a nearby airport at uyo that the easily utilized. The idea that A neighboring state developing infrastructure will cripple anothers infrastructure is a plain lie formulated by badbelle politicians to stop the nation from growing or use it as an excuse for not performing. Its a scaremongering tactic designed to frustrate development and it is not backed by facts. The Calabar, Uyo and the New Portharcourt stadia will rather complement one another, due to their proximity, they can cohost tourneys and also share best practices which will drive sports development in the area because of their excellent facilities. Evidence and data proves time and time again that Good infrastructures bring growth not regression contrary to what some mischievous Naija people who lack confidence or knowledge of data might want you to believe. My dream is that there will come a time in Nigeria that infrastructures such as airports, good sporting complex, seaport, universities etc will be projects that LGA and cities councils will be funding/building and not state government as it it in the developed climes. |
LilPeezy: Calabar stadium na scrab!!!!!Dunno why dy love hosting games dere.....waf town"warri" city stadium is 10tyms berra dan dis scrab dy call stadium..I challenge you to show pictures of the warri stadium! and please learn to spell. |
BabaTony: hmm i honestly wish there are better structures coming up at least to take away this shame, i have not been there before but with what we have here, its really bad.don't believe what you hear always, you know there is a lot of politics of succession of the present gov. going on, politicians will say and sponsor people to say anything to rubbish the governor. A lot is going on in the school. there are several buildings big ones at various levels of construction and the school is also presently embarking on its medical school/teaching hospital development at the main campus. The Structures on grounds is adequate for now but the state is expanding the facilities at the university to meet future growth of the university. |
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mrking3: bros please edit your Grammar! Stop subjecting yourself to public ridicle!! Between, most Federal Government colleges! I mean (secondary) are way better than this school. The only storey building there is the one built by ETF! and the OP is happy celebrating mediocrity? What is digital about this thief called Akpabio? For crying out loud! You guys deserve much more than whatever Akpabio is doing right now! Akwa Ibom gets the lion share in the National cake! So I see no reason he can't afford to give that state a face lift!!! Nawaooo ignorant is just bliss!you must be blind or you cant see, is it storeybuildings that makes a school great? if thats the yardstick look again at the polytechnic it has well over 7 storey buildings and more are being built as we speak but in you blindness you saw only one. am sure you did not see how neat the school looks with good internal road networks. Am sure the polytechnic in your village state if there is one is nothing to write home about. N/B before you correct someones English learn how to spell ridicule. |
BabaTony: Akpabio really fall hand here big time, how come the 1-2 story buildings are all TETFUND structures? Not even one respectable building from the state government, am i the only one noticing it? This is one project i am very ashamed off.have you visited the campus before? you should. most of those big and inspiring structures you are expecting are at various stages of construction within the two campuses. They were not the priority because they take time to build, If you visit the school you will see various storey buildings whose construction are ongoing and when complete will change the look of the campus. The structures on ground are adequate for the current number of students to carryout their academic activities unencumbered and secure accreditation so they can graduate students next year. |
Contd....The facility is one that would host all indoor games. It would have basketball, volleyball, handball, five aside FifPro footsal, and badminton and also attached to it are two glass back international standard squash courts as well. Of course added to it are other facilities and amenities as different gyms for boxing, weightlifting, wrestling and so on. So it is a well fitted indoor sports hall that we are having. Ugbe said a proper maintenance culture over time has been one of the main reasons it has continued to remain relevant in the scheme of things as far as sporting activities are concerned. His words: “The stadium is one of the oldest in the country. It falls in the generation of the National Stadium in Lagos, Ogbe Stadium in Benin, Ahmadu Bello Stadium in Kaduna, Liberty Stadium in Ibadan, but today because of the way we have maintained it, it stands out among all those other stadiums. Because we have a good maintenance culture, we have constantly attracted events here. The national teams have made it their home and we are very proud of our maintenance culture. Don’t think that it is now that we would throw that away.” Manager of the Stadium, Mr Omara Coco-Bassey believes that Calabar being the home of football as the game was first played in the country in a secondary school, Hope Waddell Training Institution, just a stone throw away, it was only natural that the National Team always get their best results there. “You know this is where football was first played in Nigeria. In a secondary school which is nearby, Hope Waddell. So, Calabar has always been a home of football. So, it is not a surprising thing that you see even the national team, they prefer coming to Calabar Stadium to play their matches. Besides you know this is a tourist state and the people are very warm. Again you see that it is a smaller stadium, so you realise that any time any match is being played, the stadium is filled to capacity. “It has been favourable for the national team. The people too are very receptive and very willing to support. The major thing is that since they started playing here, it has been very favourable and one thing I realise with the Calabar people is that they are very patient. Like you know if they play in Lagos and after some minutes if they don’t score, they would start booing them, but rather here they would be saying, “All we are saying is give us more goals”. They are patient with the players. They understand. It makes you feel comfortable when the people have confidence in you that come rain come shine, you are going to deliver so it makes the players even more relaxed. So it gives them the confidence that when they come here, they will win and since they have not been failed before,” the stadium manager said. On measures to keep the facility in top condition especially as they host the sports festival, he said, “It has always been our culture to keep the stadium in good shape all round. In 2009 apart from the national stadium, this was the only stadium that had a natural turf to play. Other stadia because of poor maintenance, Jack Warner said they should go on astro-turf. So it is not a new thing for us. We would make sure the facilities are kept in place and it has always been our culture. There is no way the thing would go down. “The grass has just been replanted. After 2009 we regrassed the pitch. Now because we are hosting the National Sports Festival, we are regrassing again. The tartan track you are seeing is just two months old. Everything is new. We are getting set and you know what matters most is the playing turf. As you can see people are still working on the turf and we would make sure it is up to standard and what the national team would not have any complain to play on. As the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between Nigeria and Rwanda kicks off in Calabar on September 6 it is hoped the magic which has lasted for so long would continue to ensure victory for the Super Eagles. http://thenationonlineng.net/new/calabar-stadium-eagles-slaughter-slab/
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It is not a smelly, blood stained building where animals are butchered, but has come to be known as the Slaughterhouse. The serene atmosphere of the Udoakaha Jacob Esuene Sports Stadium located in the heart of Cross River State’s capital, Calabar, has been so christened by football lovers and supporters of the Nigerian national team, the Super Eagles, which has not lost a single game there in the past few years. The grounds of the facility, simply referred to as the UJ Esuene Stadium, has in recent times served as the venue where the national team consistently beat their opponents, hence it has been termed, “The slaughterhouse of the Super Eagles.” Built in 1976, the multi-purpose stadium has served as the home ground of the Calabar Rovers Football Club. After its commissioning in the same year, the first match was played there was between Calabar Rovers and Bendel Insurance. A couple of weeks later, the stadium hosted an international encounter between Enugu Rangers and Tonnerre Yaoundé – a game that featured the likes of Roger Milla, Christian Chukwu and Emmanuel Okalla Later upgraded to include an ultra-modern electronic video-matrix scoreboard, with powerful floodlights, the stadium has a capacity of about 12,000. Since then the sporting arena has continued to attract various national and international sporting activities among which are the FIFA Under-21 World Cup in 1999 and the FIFA Under-17 in 2009. At the moment preparations are in top gear for the sporting facility to host the 19th edition of the National Sports Festival in November this year. So what is the magic of the Calabar Stadium? The Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development, Mr Patrick Ugbe, says the thing special about it is the people. “The magic is the people of this state and this city. You see, when you have an ambience of peace and security, you have an environment that is welcoming, when you have that kind of environment, you know all you can do is to excel because you are relaxed. You are not stressed. You are not bothered about other extraneous things that can distract your focus. So you are focussed on the task you have and you just excel. That is what Calabar does. “That is why the national team has always excelled here. And because again when the national team is playing, you have over 10, 000 people in the stadium that are there to support them, not to criticise them or heckle them or boo them, but there to cheer them. It encourages them and gives them that boost. So the fans in Calabar act as the 12th player that encourages the team to always excel,” Ugbe said. On how it got its peculiar nomenclature he said: “The people gave it that name. We didn’t give it the slaughter house of the Super Eagles. It came from the people themselves after seeing that, for several years, now, the team has not lost a match in this place and very significant that even outside the country, teams that come to Calabar to play the eagles now come with fear. They now see Calabar as the slaughter house. Nigeria never loses a match here, so they come to play with fear which again also helps psychologically to ensure victory for the team. With the hosting of the sports festival almost upon them, Ugbe expressed confidence that the stadium, whose facilities are being upgraded as well as new ones added would be ready to give the country the best festival ever. According to him: “We are sure it would be ready. The facilities that are being added apart from the main bowl and the tartan track that has been renovated and relayed with a brand new class one track, are the swimming pool that is being renovated to a ten lane Mitre Technology Pool. Also there is the basketball courts that are being redone and then for me among others. For me, the icing on the cake would be the multi-purpose ultra-modern indoor sports hall that is being constructed there. It is one design that has never been seen in this country. When it is completed, it is one that we would all be proud of as a people and as a state. http://thenationonlineng.net/new/calabar-stadium-eagles-slaughter-slab/
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Atouke: You are about paying for the sin of supporting progressive borrowers, they just put a N 8,580 debt on you and each member of your house hold and every child that will be born into your family. it will take generations to pay off those debt.lol op you too much o. but seriously this is way too much debt. |
These is serious debt that is being piled up by silly governors. |
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Lord have mercy how many years will it take those five states to repay $1.4Billion. this usless APC governors are killing their states |
nice pictures op. I found this youtube video on about the university, watch listen to the vice chancellor @ 6:05 talk about the developmental plans for the school and you will be impressed. The school is a young university just three years if they continue to develope it at the pace its going in the next ten yrs it will be a school to beat in the country. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK141cxPljk |
Aerial view of Akwa ibom state polytechnic ikot osurua picture credit Akwa Ibom state ministry of information.
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Discontent and mutual mistrust is brewing among adherents of Islamic faith in Akwa Ibom over allegation by some stakeholders that Muslims in Northern Nigeria and abroad have usurped their religious rights. The core of the controversy, as was exclusively reported recently by this paper stems from assumption by a group of Islamic faithful under the aegis of Akwa Ibom Muslims Community that they are being deprived from carrying out their religious obligations by Governor Godswill Akpabio’s aide de camp, ADC, Baba Shehudeen, whom they accused of conniving with others to marginalize Muslims residents in the state to the advantage of “foreign elements and imposters.” Addressing newsmen over the weekend, Mohammed Al Bashir, who spoke on behalf of other aggrieved Muslims in the state, said that the Akwa Ibom Muslims Community under which platform they ventilate their grievances is pursuing the interests of all Muslims resident in the state and that the group is without any bias to one’s state of origin or nationality. The group had recently sent a six-page letter to Akpabio asking the state government not to recognize one Alhaji Baba Jaro as the Chairman of the state’s Muslim Pilgrim Welfare Board and that one “Adamu Muhammed should be made to stop parading himself as the Chief Imam of Uyo Mosque.” They claimed in the letter that Jaro “knows nothing about Islam” and that he was brought in by the former governor of the state, Victor Attah, without the knowledge of the Muslim community, a trend they stated has prompted Christians to make mockery of the Muslims in the state. Making reference to the current security situation in the country, the stakeholders also called on the governor to constitute a new Muslim Pilgrim Welfare Board in liaison with “true representatives of the Muslim Ummah” in the state, advancing that that could help in checking “the influx of shady characters into the state in the name of Islam.” They further mentioned that those to constitute the board need to be approved by the Etsu of Nupe, Yahaya Abubakar, whom they admit in the letter as “the overseeing Emir for Akwa Ibom State Muslims.” Though they acknowledged in the letter that the present government in the state has been of “tremendous assistance both financially and materially” in giving a sense of belonging to Muslims in the state, they complained that the fortune of the faithful in the state is taking a turn for the worst. Shehudeen, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, who is said to be an indigene of Bauchi State, is, among other things, accused of using his office to elongate the purported tenure of Jaro-led Muslim Pilgrim Welfare Board, which they said his three-year tenure that started in 2007 had since elapsed. The group further accused the governor’s ADC of selling 80 per cent of slots of those who go on pilgrimage on the state’s slot to foreigners and Muslims from Northern Nigeria. “The situation is so bad that last year (2011), for example, only about five Muslims from Akwa Ibom State were given slots out of the over 50 seats sponsored by the state government,” the stakeholders protested in the letter. The letter, a copy of which was made available to Daily Independent, was endorsed by representatives of five Islamic fora in the state Federation of Muslim Women Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN), Hausa Muslim Youth Council (HMYC), Jama’atu Nasril Islam, (JNI) Board of Trustees of the Uyo Central Mosque and the state chapter of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA). http://dailyindependentnig.com/2012/08/trouble-brews-among-akwa-ibom-muslims/ |
3dankey: I have commented just once on this thread and will like to air my views again. Listen my IGBO BROTHERS, the only way we can attain this kind of height's that we all wish for,Is to have a FUNCTIONAL SEAPORT on our own. Jonathan gave us an international airport good, but we need a seaport. Only peter obi was even serious about it when he was in office and I still blame him for not persuading jonathan enough to complete the dredging of the river niger (don't know if I am correct) that would have made onitsha seaport a reality. We don't need a river port please.There is a seaport in onne rivers state that is close to igbo land and portharcout is linked by rail to Aba, Enugu all the way to maidugri. the rail is being rehabilitated at the moment, I think the part from PH to enugu is completed. By the way the deep sea port At Ibaka Akwa Ibom, is what everyone from the former eastern region and all other parts of Nigeria farther away from lagos should support. because it will change the economy of the eastern part of Nigeria. Besides its strategic importance, it will serve as a transshipment point because of its Natural draught and access to the Open ocean which will allow the largest ships in the world to berth without any need for constant port maintenance ie dredging which has been the bane of most ports in Nigeria. the trans shipment points will now make all other ports in Nigeria which are accessible by smaller ships/barges functional. onitisha, calabar, warri, onne, and even the proposed port in Abia state will all become viable in cluding all the surrounding african countries around that flank as they will simply get their goods from ibaka and transport it with smaller ships/barges to the respective ports. A deep seaport is what Nigeria needs. |
Mrdifferent: smart boyWOW clap for your Underdeveloped brain for your ability to use it! |
ujoinme: There are a bunch of lazy people who do not know how to read commenting on this thread. The news article says that "“The state government said it has attained 85 per@Ujoinme thanks for putting things in perspective. people are not even reading the just want to spew rubbish on nairaland. As usual you brought truth to bear. |
ujoinme: Nice update on the sheraton hotel its good to see that work is progressing on the projectYeah its like Akpabio is on fire to complete all his projects. the ibom tropicana and the 20th anniversary hospital construction sites are very busy at the moment. |
Fellonigerians: since we are celebrating common road construction, we are classifying our country as underdeveloped!!!ignorance is indeed expenssive. there is nothing like Underdevelopment category for countries. Its either developed or developing countries. Read widely and develop yourself to avoid future embarrassment so that your term "Undredevelopment " will not point fingers at your person cheers. |
Nice new images this stadium is really beautiful. Its not yet complete yet its beauty is outstanding. the quality of the construction speaks for it self. |
Fellonigerians: Only in UNDERdeveloped countries do people celebrate road constructions... What we need to be celebrating are industries, innovation in technologies, excellence by citizens, life changing policies, etc...So Is Nigeria a "Developed" world? Nigeria is classified as a developing country in case you forgot. |
Eyop: [b]The real point is that the PDP is too deeply in support of this crook because of the money he has spread all over the place. The corruption is too much and the people are suffering. That Kleptocrat called Akpabio is the worst looter in the history of government in this country.eyop is an unrepentant rumour monger peddling lies. you think APC can lie their way into Akwa Ibom government? house never! Nigerians will keep celebrating Governor Akpabio to you and your principals consternation. |
Akpabio is building haters are hating. |
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Every newborn child That is born in the five SW states has a debt of N8,480 hanging on their necks the day they are born for no fault of their own, other than the fact that APC governors has mismanaged their economy and pilled these debts on their behalf.
Aerial view of Akwa ibom state polytechnic ikot osurua picture credit Akwa Ibom state ministry of information.
A product of Akpabio's free and compulsory education.