₦airaland Forum

Innovator90:
Great point. I see that on the horizon. Gov. Obiano is very well connected to Anambra surgeons in Diaspora. This people are very keen to give back to the community but definitely waiting for a conducive environment...security is number one! That Obiano has achieved.

I admire intensely Anambra highway system on the earth map...seemed to have been modeled like US highway system; massive, long stretch, leads and cuts into major cities.

Yes,
We need transfer of knowledge and expertise.
Since this is a teaching hospital, we need to liaise with our experts abroad doing these complex surgical operations to take annual leave and come home to teach our doctors the procedure here. Many surgeries done abroad are by Nigeria experts. If somehow, government can support these people to come home, even for a few months in a year to teach our doctors here at home how these are performed, we are talking of something revolutionary here. It will soon be bye-bye to going to India for surgeries. COOUTH, Amaku will be the new India or USA for advanced surgeries in Nigeria and Africa!!!

OdenigboAroli:
My brother,nothing do us naa..Its just the criminals who has been running our affairs has succeeded in twisting our self-belief. I DC is a good company,though small. But if well motivated and encouraged by awarding them more contracts that will build their confidence and they can even give JB a run for their money. Remember. IDC has alot of Anambra investors in the coy. Its out own,so lets grow it and create more wealth and jobs.

Completely agree!

The biggest cause of capital flight in Nigeria is the use of foreign construction companies.In America or Germany, they can ONLY use a US based construction company in order to make sure the wealth remains inside the USA. The foreign construction companies build the road take all the money out of Nigeria and transfer to Egypt (Arab contractors) or Germany for JB. If Egypt can build a world class construction company like Arab contractors which work in many African countries bringing foreign exchange home to Egypt, we can do exactly the same and grow a world class construction company.

I am glad Peter Obi supported this home grown company just as he supported Innoson. Even when many folks like me, who didn't understand what he was doing then, were calling him names!

FKO81:
Guy waiting I do you? You mean I'm not from Anambra? Let me believe it was error

nna,
he is not referring to you. Read the posts, go to Enugu, Imo and Abia thread you will see who he has in mind.

OdenigboAroli:
Just few months ago people were calling on Obiano to drop IDC,claiming they do shabby work.
But I have faith in our local engineers and believe if well supported and encouraged they will do wonders. I believe in my state and I believe the sky is our stepping stone.
Nya fioba!

Nna,
i remember then! I almost fell for that argument too because i thought they may not have experience or equipment to do what they are now doing.
Chai Peter and Obiano were right!!! IDC is a capable company. They are our own Julius Berger in the making!!!

Schematics:
More and more precast beams are being lifted..

Chineke muo!

The only place I ever saw such alacrity and speed in building a bridge was here in America during the reconstruction of damaged bridges from Hurricane Katrina!!! This type of speed have never been achieved anywhere in Nigeria.

IDC and Obiano.... Unu nwe akaa! Thumbs Up!!!!

Schematics:
Update: Awka flyovers/tunnels..

Wow!
I can't believe my eyes! They have already reached this stage? In that case they can complete the first flyover in a few months!
Wow, Obiano means biz!!

Schematics:
I think that is more or less a burrow pit around that area. One can even see it when you are onto of the Oba by-pass flyover..

Bro, Just incase you want to teach me Igbo language, I am from Oraifite.The site cannot be seen from Oba bypass flyover. It is about 7-10 kilometers towards Owerri from the Oba bypass. It is on the left after new Nnewi road junction, after the Danish school(Grundiv institute) going towards Owerri.
I have seen that site since i was born way before Mbadinuju sent bulldozers there in 2001 to claim he was building a market bigger than main market, Onitsha. Oba people have been complaining about this wasteful abandonment creating an erosion on the roads that were initially mapped out for the market, because the place is on a hill top. BTW, the market was designed to occupy both sides of Onisha -Owerri road at that site. That is what started erosion on the opposite side after they cleared vegetation and abandoned the project.

I am only using satellite to show people what is happening in my land. It doesn't mean i have not seen the area live and seen the erosion myself.

Mbadinuju should go to jail for this environmental degradation.

He claimed he was building an International market at Oba and quickly abandoned it after spending a purported N10 billion on the project.Money he probably stole too.
Today Mabdinuju's decision to abandon the project has resulted in major erosion sites developing in the area quietly.

Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu
College of Medicine and Teaching Hospital.

Hopefully, this will be a leading citadel of learning and advanced healthcare surgeries can be performed here like similar counterpart major hospitals in the USA.

customized13:
Good face and oremi, its not a news that abia is the best planned state in southeast, bad leadership is just the problem.

Abia state is the ONLY SE state that shares boundaries with ALL the SE states (Anambra,IMO,Enugu,Ebonyi) and also shares boundaries with SS states including River, Akwa Ibom and Cross River State!


This uncommon centrality shows how central the development of this key state will energize the entire SE and SS zone.We must all enthrone good visionary leadership in Abia state. Our lives depend on it!

Enyimba stadium

Alaoji IPP

ABSU, UTURU

Igbere marching on!

Umuahia is really developing fast!!!

FKO81:
1. Citi Hub restaurant about to open in Awka
2. Emma nnemka street Awka
3. I noticed they are installing traffic light in Awka

It is obvious that Obiano wants to bring Awka to the level of a developed state capital.
He will be the first Anambra Governor that developed the capital city instead of their home towns, which they develop rather than the state capital city.

Schematics:
Guys on display at Marble Arch..Hero!

This Christmas shall be great for all Anambra and all Igbo people in Jesus Name!
-Amen.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivQrBYifk7k



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5bgGDg6qq4

You forgot to add that he knows how to seduce and violate peoples wives.

spyder880:
Abakpa junction, on the road to Emene Enugu.

We needs a roundabout at Abakpa junction just like the Ogui road roundabout. There is no need to maintain yellow fever police in run down traffic shades at Abakpa junction to control traffic 24 hours if we can have a good roundabout there.When the traffic police leaves his post for a minute to eat lunch,the drivers have no clue of what to do and traffic jam accumulates fast.

A roundabout at that point connecting two major roads is vital to maintaining a smooth flow of traffic, not to talk about the great beauty such roundabout will bring to the area as you enter the city.

DonaldGenes:
I've actually redacted this story to fit in our war against BH- something to_Learn

Now, when the British captured senior German officers during WW2, they didn't put them in a prison camp. Instead they took them to a beautiful country mansion, and plied them with magnificent meals and drink, and allowed them to listen to German radio and read newspapers to keep up to date on the war. Each had his own room and a batman, and were treated like senior officers in the British Army.
Of course, the officers had much to talk about to each other, but unknown to them, the Brits had wired the entire mansion and had a team of intelligence officers working in the basement.....Are you with me?

The intelligence they got was far more effective than pulling finger nails. They learnt a huge amount about the relationships between senior commanders and with Hitler. They also learnt a lot about German military strategy and tactics ... From the top.
Now that's intelligence.

In essence, this is something our Military men out there fighting Boko haram needs to learn from.

There is a difference between a fanatical terrorist and a professional soldier.

A soldier fighting is merely doing his job and may not even like the President or Hitler in your example. A fanatic is a morbid mindset. He wants everyone to die and thus why the commit suicide bombing etc.

A fanatic will never give you useful info in order to stop the war. Unlike a soldier that may decide to cooperate and allow you win so that the war will come to an end.

CIA has a reason for keeping fanatics captured in battlefields away from the real soldiers.Treating Boko haram terrorists as if they were captured British or German soldiers is a complete waste of time. Terrorists don't care to obey the rules of war or Geneva convention.

B2mario:
my dear the problem is from my camera, Umuahia roads are not dusty.

More

Chai, Umuahia is a lovely city ooo!

But your camera sha...
The thing worry me ooo!

spyder880:
My brother, the way she keeps swinging from tree to tree and dancing around points, I find it difficult to pinpoint what her real issues are. I was prepared to debate the issues with her, despite the fact that she was obviously copying her points from textbooks, theory is always very sweet, after all some people just want to sell their textbooks, but the reality is different. I am still waiting for cogent points on how he thinks Enugu state can get better. Personality attacks cannot help us in any way, especially when we have not proven we could have done better than the person we are trying to ridicule.

Exactly

[size=16pt]I may not like Mugabe, but on this issue, he spoke the bitter truth![/size]

You forgot to add 7th mainland bridge.

Anyhow, Picshures or Adonbilivit!

B2mario:
Give them good advice cos they are still learning.

why are igbos jealous of themselves?

spyder880:
Carter street, Ogui Enugu.

Like the picture above, I believe spyder shows both the good and bad parts of town. Its just that there are more good places today in Enugu than the bad places. A fact that may break some people's heart. Nevertheless, that's the fact!

OneNaira6:
Yet he made very little noise while doing so. Unlike the one that threw parties because he brought in a street lamp or the one that threw a party because he built the tallest drum. Real working leaders do not make noises, they let their work speak for them.

Congratulations chime

I am waiting on the Janjaweeed supporters to come and spew their jealousy and poison like the true snakes that they are.

Meanwhile,
Congratulations to Chime and Enugu people for achieving this feat.

Myluv1:
Agreed, many toes will be stepped on to get the development plan right, but it is a necessary evil. No one is guaranteeing it will go down smoothly, I doubt if it has ever been peacefully done anywhere. El Rufai pulled things down to get Abuja to its present status. Rivers state governor did same as well. So, I don't see why an error should not be rectified to get the city in good shape. Problems have always been with people not possessing necessary legal documents of their lands and properties so as to get compensated. Also not forgetting money-miss-roads that put up illegal structures, they will find it hard to be compensated and then resort to fighting dirty... but that shouldn't faze the govt. as long as it's determined.

I have no qualms in dualizing all the roads in old Awka and demolishing any structure within the right of way and dully paying compensation for the structures demolished.The question is at what cost? Where will the money come from?

Remember Awka, Nnewi and so on were people's hometown. People built in their ancestral land long before East central state talk more of Anambra state came into existence. So saying you will demolish structures without government approval and not paying enough compensation for the structure and the land is like going near a tanker full of fuel with a burning wood and saying you didn't know the flame will be so big.

El- rufai pulled down structures which were illegally erected outside the Abuja masterplan and he didn't have to pay any compensation because they were illegal and built after Abuja had become a federal capital. The analogy is different here. A better analogy will be the trouble that Governor Ibikunle Amosun went through to dualise a 3 KM road. People took him to court claiming their houses was worth N50 million even without cost of land, while N5 million was paid as compensation. About 200 houses were affected in that exercise and even at a conservative cost of N5 million naira for each demolished house and the land, it was easily a bill of N1 billion naira spent on compensation alone before talking about the actual construction cost for the road project.

The cost of paying adequate compensation for such a massive undertaking as rebuilding the old Awka will be beyond what a state like Anambra can afford.Instead of investing N1-3 billion per street project on compensation in old Awka, it can be used to build a 1,000 housing units Wuse II Abuja type housing estates in the new Awka city. Even Amaechi dualizing trans-Amadi and Old Aba road was a huge struggle in spite of all the wealth of Rivers state.In this case, he had no choice because there was no where else to build Port Harcourt, in Awka land behind UNIZIK and behind the state secretariat on the opposite side of the express is begging to be developed.

There is a bush town which became a state capital the same day as Awka in 1991. The wise planners of that state simply went to the land opposite the old town and started developing an Abuja -like modern city! Today, it is one of the amazing new cities in Nigeria because they were wise to invest all their money into construction of high quality projects than to be bugged down paying compensation for medieval structures in the old city.Only the transformation of Uyo is comparable to this city's transformation from what it used to be.
I will not mention the name of the city because our people in our self-styled ignorance believe we are wiser than everyone else.The video is just for you to see the physical developments (Roads,Housing estates, public buildings) not for the cultural or political things.I will want you to judge how far this city has come and see if there is anything we can learn from what they did.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obzoxo7xaeA&list=PLxHO6fvKZLbQ1G2eALrW0pA5KPc1ym3BN&index=2


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73UNzyAHU4Y

[size=20pt]Junaid, you can make empty threats as you wish.
Your blood will flow first if we decide to act. That is a promise.[/size]

dlox147:
Saturday, 29 November 2014
PRESS RELEASE: Students' Union Leaders Appreciate Jonathan, Condemn 'Political Tools'

PRESS RELEASE

Revolutionary greetings to all and sundry in the South West Zone, Osun state, Ife community and the generality of Great Ife Students on a successful host of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR for a special meeting with the Council of Obas in South West.

The leadership of the Students’ Union is appreciative of the listening character of the President as well as the efforts of individuals who facilitated the meeting with the President. It is imperative at this point to relay the product of the discussion with the President. The Speaker of the SRC addressed the President and submitted the protest letter which he personally received and gave assurances that the major issue in the letter – increment in fees is going to be addressed holistically in no long time as there are other schools that are affected. He committed himself to address welfare issues that affect OAU specifically.

Although some self-centered and politically-sponsored individuals attempted to unleash their demonic resolutions to deter and dissuade the union leaders from making pressing demands that will enhance the welfare of Great Ife students on campus, to make necessary demands for the reversal of fees and the reinstatement of some of our suspended students from the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. On his way out, the president stepped out to the cheers of the students, receiving a lot of applause from the entirety of Great Ife students and commuters having heard that he had committed himself on the increment.
Meanwhile, just as the Union President conveyed to His Excellency, we again implore the president to stick to his promise, as a man of honour and integrity, as Great Ife students are in great anticipation and expectance. The cheers you received today at the time you were leaving were premised on the fact that we believed you will address the increment immediately. Mr President, the reversal of increased fees should also be extended to all Federal Universities and pump funds into education in the interest of the country.

However, we condemn the attitude of some individuals who portrayed themselves as elements of frustration and cheap political tools. Through this medium, we warn them to stay away from OAU campus as they are not unknown to the leadership of the union. We maintain our ground as Intellectual Fighters for Emancipation and not as uncoordinated confusionists and anarchists.

The leadership of the Union is very much undistracted in the maximization of this opportunity to solve the myriad of problems confronting Great IFE students. We also remain committed to the execution of our proposed projects and the completion of ongoing ones – Angola and Mozambique hall water projects, Great IFE app, Union website, and buses for campus shuttle, union hostel, among others.


La Lucha Sigue…
SGNED:
BAMIDELE OLUDARE J. IBIKUNLE ISAAC M.
P.R.O President
at 11:41 am

[size=18pt]APC a party of pathetic liars and murderous Janjaweeeds![/size]

spyder880:
The brand new road from Enugu to Abakaliki, smooth as silk.

I am glad that the Abakaliki -Enugu express way had been rehabilitated to reduce accidents and make traffic flow easily.
However, Obasanjo actually promised to dualize Enugu-Abakaliki road during one of his visits to Enugu when Chimaroke was governor. Even GEJ also reaffirmed that promise to dualize the Enugu-Abakaliki road. Infact, Abakaliki is the only state capital that does not have any dual carriage road leading to it.

I wonder why Martin Elechi has not followed up on such promise, instead he is spending his time blocking investments into Ebonyi and playing acidic politics.