₦airaland Forum

kingbasil:
You mean eze gworo

You mean Tinubu or Osibanjo has Gworo too?

If na some tribe,they will deny the boy his prize for his name.

Just imagine the owner of iRoko isn't Njoku and is Babajide, you can be sure an Njoku will never win his 1 million naira.

Dats why God is blessing the Njokus to help heal the scorge of tribalism in Nigeria.

spyder880:
The government of Sullivan Chime did a great work on urban roads, sidewalks and drainage here. Only that the gutters are all open.......

At least he tried to put in the gutters and roads. The next man should cover them and plant trees along the roads

OBJ, It is always easier to sing your own praise and claim what you couldn't do in office.

Was Obasanjo not the same President that used the PTDF funds to bribe law makers for his failed 3rd term bid? Why didn't Ribadu or anyone probe the source of the bags of money some Senators brought out to reject? Why didn't Obasanjo probe how $16 billion dollars he self confessed to have spent on NIPP that were never built? Why didn't he find out who cornered that whopping sum and punish the person? It is always easier for corrupt people to lie blatantly as if we all are ediots.

[size=18pt]This Alaafin guy probably just saw "Coming to America" for the first time.....and he is determined to enact it in his lifestyle.[/size]

BuddahMonk:
Something like this beside River Niger towards GRA Side is not a bad idea, it will be not just a very beautiful site to behold but also a tourist haven

Buddah,
As usual you come up with excellent ideas.
Anambra does have a huge sand beach on River Niger, but that Anam bridge over Anambra river at Nsugbe or a more suitable site must be built soon. It is also the same area slated for Anam ultra modern city. One hopes the Anam ultra modern city project takes off soon with private sector heavy participation as the Eko Atlantic. Also that bridge to link Onitsha to the new city is built ASAP.

IGBOSON2:
^^^This is basic bread and butter stuff that one doesn't need to remind the authorities of.....that's if they know their job and are doing it properly!

First impressions to a city count and i don't see why we have to beg before that stretch of road is brought up to standard!

Once you land in Fort Myers Florida, you drive on this road leaving the airport.Just as most of the road into the city is lined with palm trees and immaculately clean. Gives you an impression immediately that the city is a tropical paradise. Having lived there, i can tell you many many poor people live there. But for the first time visitor, you'll always love the place.

spyder880:
I think I can do something about this, I have a classmate who runs a bureau de change inside Enugu.

Excellent! Thank you very much Spyder!
Please tell them we need help to change into naira right there at the airport.You will want to use naira for some urgent things, including tipping guys helping you, unfortunately you don't have even one naira and you can't give out $100 dollars! Also, selling small handset and SIM card so that we can buy and start communicating with relatives once you land at Enugu airport is a good idea. My brother and my younger sister from UK and USA just arrived Enugu via Ethiopian airlines yesterday. To my amazement, they claimed they could not change money at the airport. So they had a lot of difficulties chattering a taxi to take them to their destination. I was shocked that since 2 years of International airport in Enugu, no place to change dollars and Euro around the airport!

Same plane APC criticized GEJ for using.
Now it is suddenly ok for President of Nigeria to fly his own plane instead of taking a commercial plane?
Okay, i dey see una every day o!

centje:
This Abakaliki/Airport road was poorly finished. It's a strategic road, the finishing should have been better than this.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2488491_20150530141041_jpeg6345f400887f456487831de87a375989

I agree. The first impression one gets of Enugu and indeed Nigeria once you land at the airport is partly on this road.
This road need to be properly marked, and gutters on both sides to help preserve it in a good condition for a long time.

it should also be swept regularly to keep it clean

My People, Why are there no money changers near Enugu airport?

A lot of folks that came home via Enugu complained that unlike Lagos where you could change some dollars or Euro cash close to the airport, in Enugu, such facilities did not exist. I think someone should look into that, even if it is getting a branch of one of the commercial banks to set up a tiny bureau de change close by.

liberty300:
bro, tree planting on major roads is ebonyi's strong hold. They're really tackling the dust problem head on. I was really happy with how far the city has gone

Yes, i know that. You know i actually lived and did my secondary school in Abakaliki.
So these pictures are a powerful emotional reunion for me.

Please don't get discouraged about the vultures that will come here to derail the thread. Those that won't post images of their state but, will come to bad mouth other peoples.
Let us build this thread slow and steadily like the Imo,Enugu and Anambra thread.

We shall get Spyder to furnish his Ebonyi trips pictures here.

Well done Sir!

liberty300:
Ok, truth be told; I hate it when people say ebonyi is poor. So last time I was at Ai (abakaliki) I decided to take pictures

Welldone for opening this thread.
Please lets us all come here and post Ebonyi issues and pictures. It will also help us track Umahi's administration.

liberty300:
Pls don't get mad if I repeat pictures, it might be a mistake

Those road medians must be cemented or trees planted. They shouldn't just leave then open and unsightly.

The dust issue should be tackled by aggressively planting trees and grasses.

The roads median should be covered with concrete and a small area opened to plant tree as in the picture.

ZeroTolerance:
Let me go back to the issue of Languages. I am in Enugu now, there is this Igbo guy that supplies the abokii who operates a kiosk close to where I stay with goods. The Igbo guy probably lived in the north for some time and knows how to speak Hausa, he is always communicating with the abokii in Hausa language, all the time I've seen them both. Now the question is, if he lived in Kano or wherever and they made him to learn Hausa rather than him making them to learn Igbo, why not make the abokii learn Igbo instead of speaking Hausa with him in your own land? The implication of this is like with more people like him, Zonacom and Nnewis1stgay, we will soon be communicating with Hausa language in Igbo land.

This is actually the disturbing mindset! Our people are forced to learn hausa to survive in the northern part of Nigeria, then those in their villages in Igboland are also forced to learn hausa to trade in their homeland!
Someone truly has an arrogant attitude of being superior and it is "others" that need to learn his language and not vice versa. Just as the British looked down on our languages. Our people have subtly tolerated that behavior to continue

bebene:
hardly will a day pass without seeing a thread about biafra, is this an indication that igbo dream is about to become reality, what nigeria got to lose when biafra is taken out of it?
i know some will say oil, yes its our major source of revenue but it has weakened and blinded us for years from appreciating other various natural resources.
i love nigeria and want it to remain united, but this biafra of a thing is getting too much.

The time is getting closer. All that is needed now is a major spark to get people to act.

Their commander in chief is finally in Aso rock.
Nigerians will soon feel the wrath of Boko haram

The sad thing is that Nigeria is full of people worse than Mugabe, but Nigerian thug journalists dare not attack them like this because they know what their security will do to their camera etc.

Mugabe has been accused of many thing EXCEPT CORRUPTION. Not many Nigerian politicians can boast of such pedigree.

CJ,
i will definitely read those works.
I also had a wonderful encounter with Frederick Forsyth's best seller. The making of an African Legend, the Biafra story.
An eye witness account most importantly by a NON-Nigerian . Everything in the preamble to the war were eerily similar to what we are experiencing today.

Eddy28:
Buhari To Earn N14 Million As Annual Salary, Allowances


http://gallerianews.com/buhari-to-earn-n14-million-as-annual-salary-allowances/

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Unless President Mohammed Buhari implements the agreements of Nigerians at the CONFAB, there will be crisis in Nigeria.

Buhari has said he will dump the CONFAB agreements into the dustbin.

As for me and my own corner of Nigeria, CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel until the agreement is implemented.[/size]

pabloaimar:
The PRESIDENT's first action was to deploy the military command centre to Borno state to curb the insurgency crippling our country, this was in his inauguration day... Something that the ex-president NEVER did in his 6 years in office. Haters will be put to shame by this administration. "i belong to everybody and i belong to nobody"

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Unless President Mohammed Buhari implements the agreements of Nigerians at the CONFAB, there will be crisis in Nigeria.

Buhari has said he will dump the CONFAB agreements into the dustbin.

As for me and my own corner of Nigeria, CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel until the agreement is implemented.[/size]

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Unless President Mohammed Buhari implements the agreements of Nigerians at the CONFAB, there will be crisis in Nigeria.

Buhari has said he will dump the CONFAB agreements into the dustbin.

As for me and my own corner of Nigeria, CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel until the agreement is implemented.[/size]

[size=28pt]TRIBALISM REMOVED GEJ
TRIBALISM WILL RUIN NIGERIA[/size]

afuye:
President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, forwarded the report of the National Conference, Confab, to the Senate for consideration and necessary legislative actions.

Jonathan in the letter transmitting the report of National Conference reminded the Senate that while setting up the Confab committee, part of the terms of reference to the committee was to discuss any issue about Nigeria with particular emphasis on finding lasting solution the unity of the country.

He also said that the committee was barred from discussing any issue that would lead to the disintegration of the country.
The committee was further mandated to recognise the need to move the country forward and also suggest the constitutional arrangement considered the best for Nigeria.
Details later.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/breakingnews-jonathan-submits-confab-report-to-senate/

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Unless President Mohammed Buhari implements the agreements of Nigerians at the CONFAB, there will be crisis in Nigeria.

Buhari has said he will dump the CONFAB agreements into the dustbin.

As for me and my own corner of Nigeria, CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel until the agreement is implemented.[/size]

Why are haters dodging this thread?
Come and write petition to Forbes oo!
Yeye shameless pipul!

[quote author=.][size=18pt]Jonathan approves establishment of Enugu Free Trade Zone[/size]
By NAN on May 26, 2015
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President Goodluck Jonathan
The Enugu State Government says it has received approval from the Federal Government to establish a Free Trade Zone (FTZ) in Enugu to serve the South East.

The Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Dr Jude Akubuilo, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Tuesday that President Goodluck Jonathan gave the approval in April.

He said that the FTZ, to be located at the Ninth mile corner in Enugu metropolis, would have 402 hectares of land and another 16.8 hectares at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport.

The commissioner said that Gov. Sullivan Chime worked hard to secure the approval.

“We are waiting for the licence backing the approval and we are optimistic that it will come before the end of May.

“If you bring in goods and it is cleared and taken to the zone, an enhancement will be done to those goods, you will almost get them tax free.


“The industrial activities in the state will be astronomical because everybody who owns a factory in Nnewi, Onitsha, Orba, Nsukka, Ebonyi, Aba will be clamouring to have their factories in the zone.

“ Jobs will be created, improved infrastructures, enhanced road network, enhanced rail activities will be enjoyed in the state,’’ Akubuilo said.

He appealed to the incoming APC-led administration to support the development of the trade zone to enhance the nation’s economy and lives of people in the area.

NAN reports that the FTZ scheme was evolved to strategically improve investment climate in Nigeria, by stimulating export oriented business activities through the strengthening of strategic national economic policies.

It is to streamline administrative approval processes and provide a one-stop-shop service for businesses.

The target is to also create an enabling environment for the growth and development of export-oriented goods in the non-oil sector of the economy.
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/05/jonathan-approves-establishment-of-enugu-free-trade-zone/[/quote]This is very great news to those who know how free trade zones ( FTZ) works to attract foreign direct investment especially in the garment making and food packaging factories. Many locals will also be gainfully employed while garment can be made for export right here in Nigeria. In many countries including China, the FTZs has been the cornerstone of their industrialization.

One hopes the Enugu state government will work closely with the FG to develop and secure the site very close to the Enugu - Port Harcourt railway line and attract foreign and local factories to be built in the zone.