₦airaland Forum

spyder880:
By the sides of this wonderfully constructed road leading to Opi-Nsukka. .....

Oga Spyder, It looks like the area has been surveyed and the plots mapped out judging from this satellite image.

Nigerian army must also change their doctrine of sending infantry men into battle without airsupport.

We should buy more attack helicopters to hunt Boko Haram. Anything less to fight guerrilla forces is simply using the wrong tool to do the job.

It is obvious that the only weapon Nigeria has that has been hurting Boko Haram are the attack helicopters. We should therefore get more of them to take the battle to Boko Haram.

All those useless armoured vehicles cannot do anything against an insurgent group like Boko Haram using guerilla tactics.
Nigeria needs more[size=16pt] ATTACK HELICOPTERS and trained pilots to roam deep in the countryside and pick up any Boko Haram column caught unawares![/size]

toshmann:
Terrorist have been pushed out of Mubi and everyone is talking about GEJ/Hunters/Army/etc, no one is talking about Mubi people who have been freed. . . for now.

Nigerians shame on all of una, you prolly don't deserve better. If you like elect APC/Buhari or reelect PDP/GEJ, an de same story of failed govts una go de see, BC, The only source of good govt is/are. . . . . . . . . good followership from good people

[size=13pt]Why did Nigerian army allow the terrorists to escape from Mubi?

Even the dumbest general in the world knows Mubi was a strategic error for Boko Haram and should have destroyed their entire force via a pincer movement, while alerting Cameroon to seal their own border!

I suspect Nigerian army either lacks brilliant generals or are truly sympathetic to Boko Haram[/size]

ujoinme1:
bad belle go kill APC!

Bros,
you can obviously see these are APC paid e-rats on NL. I think you should ignore them.

It is obvious they are jealous. Some of their governors built International universities in Niger Republic instead of Kano, but they don't see it as a waste of our resources. But when anything good is built down south and it's outside Lagos, their running stomach will start.

In Oshiomole's voice, just tell them to go and die! Please ignore them and use your effort to build up the Uyo thread.

Abagworo:
I believe you know little about the politics down here and the hereditary prejudice. The truth is that we have options but not through here.

These issues are not that serious.Believe me, there is also prejudice even amongst Igbos, but the overall good and quest for freedom supersedes all that. The reason the squabbles have been promoted for a long time to seem intractable was because some people wanted it to continue so that they will continue to benefit from the squabbles.

Imagine that Igbo is today the bedrock support of an Ijaw man as President?? After all the abandoned property saga etc?? Who would have thought that such an alliance would ever be possible? But human beings often bury their personal misgivings and work together for the overall good. That is what has happened and will continue to happen.

Even if North Central wants their own country and wants access to the sea via the River Niger to Lokoja or Makurdi, we shall work with them to get it. I believe when every region govern themselves and use their resources to develop their country, the entire place will be very prosperous and peaceful.

Myluv1:
I expected that. That work has to move fast, it's one of the sites that will make Ogbunike, Ogidi, Umudioka and environs to bubble especially during the yuletides.


It is actually called Kissa. That bridge is like the border between Umudioka and Umunya, so it is true it does connect two different LGs or Senatorial zones. Same road also connects the Enugu-Onitsha expressway to the old road.

Obi worked.... Willie is Working!

Abeg,
Where is this "Kissa" bridge located?

IGBOSON1:
'Stiff resistance' by way of seeking a judicial pronouncement on the matter at the ICJ, i have no problem with; but if any fool thinks they can bully the Igbo nation just out of spite, badbelle and jealousy.....this will be met with even 'stiffer resistance'!

Lets not go there at all. We don't need to prove anything to anyone and will never get to that stage with our brothers. Our military forces in our new country shall be efficient and ruthless, but only to defend our northern border from Boko Haram invasion.Some major tribes in nigeria such as Hausa and Yoruba have vested interest that you shouldn't talk with your southern brother and resolve a family feud, so that they can continue to manipulate both of you to their advantage.

Like i said, even the abandoned property saga was engineered by outsiders to create disaffection between Igbo and Southern minorities. Their triumph card over the years is that it worked!

We have to change the way we behave towards ourselves so that we are not easy tools in the hands of our enemies.Just as the British and the French quickly sorted out their trivial rivalries in order to overcome the German aggression in WW2. When the time comes, we shall settle all these little issues. Even if the agreement involves a token fee for "right of passage". It is a small price to pay than for us to all be stuck together as slaves inside Nigeria.

Oment5:
If we get our own country then forget about seaport because this selfish ijaw people will never allow you to dredge their territory. Only then you will make use of transshipment and pay tax to them .

Ijaw and Ikwere have behaved badly in the past because when Igbo were down, they were desperate not to be associated with Igbo. Igbo could payback now with dumping GEJ, but Igbo is a wiser group. You cannot cut your nose to spite your face. In any case, the enemies of Igbo and Southsouth peoples are the same. It is in their interest to promote Igbo vs. minorities bickering so that they can manipulate the squabble to their advantage. I thank God the southern minorities have begun to wise up to the plot to pitch them against their Igbo neighbors so that they can run to northerners or Yoruba in order to fight Igbo.
These people have seized such opportunity to exploit and emasculate the south south so much. Only recently have the southern minorities land started earning some development from their oil wealth. It always used to be the north and Lagos that were developed with the oil wealth,while the southern minorities were lied to that they were being "protected" from their Igbo neighbors as their wealth was being stolen.

When Nigeria finally collapse, we shall have an amicable agreement to use those rivers for our ships. Even the southern minorities know it is in their interest to exist peacefully with their Igbo brothers or both our peoples shall continue to suffer as slaves under the wicked machinations of the Hausa/Fulani and the Yoruba manipulators

Is this what you call terrible?
You funny o!

arresa:
Nigeria Makes Guinness World Records, With the Biggest Jersey on Earth


https://connectnigeria.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/jersey.jpg

http://connectnigeria.com/articles/2013/02/25/nigeria-makes-guinness-world-records-with-the-biggest-jersey-on-earth/


We enter Guinness World Records sef....

See the type of waste they use to enter world record. This could have made thousands of shirts for homeless children.

BTW, what happened to entering world record via building the biggest stadium or most beautiful city? Soon una go wan enter world record with the biggest toilet roll.
Naija people sef!

spyder880:
North Carolina, USA.
Na lie, Enugu North

spyder880:
Its a beautiful city. ....

Thanks Spyder for the picture treat

One thing that baffles me is how private home make their flowers grow luxuriantly, but the ones planted by government does not?

rocgirl:
The National Democratic Coalition has condemned the actions of the five Peoples Democratic Party governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress, saying their action was overheating the polity. The coalition called on Nigerians to “sanction these men by disgracing them at the poll by handing them the red card of defeat.” NADECO said, “It is on this note that we renew the call on Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers State), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) and Magatakarda Wamakko (Sokoto) to do the needful by returning the mandate they stole from
the electorate.” The National President of NADECO, Philip Agbese, while speaking with journalists in Abuja, said the defected governors had placed themselves, not just above the extant laws of their own states, but also above the constitution and the pronouncements of law courts. Agbese said the coalition was against the governors for allegedly destabilising the polity. He said, “These men embarked on the illegality on securing mandates from one political party and delivering the same party to another political party without recourse to the majority of the electorates in their states who braved the odds and the elements to vote them into power.”


Source:http://www.punchng.com/news/nadeco-tells-amaechi-kwankwaso-to-return-stolen-mandate/

No be me talk am o!
NADECO talk am! Na dem fight for this democracy una dey enjoy now!

Mo gbe oo!

Una wan make some pipul die hia?
Why una dey show dis kain thing?

It should be Getty images reject Nigerian stadium!
Then una go see our pipul happy!

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thomasthomas:
Probably no stadium has ever been commissioned with so much fanfare, and at such obviously stupendous cost, as the Akwa Ibom International Stadium, recently declared open by President Goodluck Jonathan in Uyo, the state capital. And possibly, none might ever be.

With three sitting, and at least one former, African Presidents (Nigeria, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire) in attendance, along with the National Chairman and other top officials of the People's Democratic Party, state governors, ministers, the cream of Nollywood, active and retired footballers, including Pele himself, international media personalities and sundry social (and political) climbers, Governor Godswill Akpabio clearly OUTDID himself with the sheer extravagance of the event. It seemed as if the man was hosting the opening ceremony of the finals of the World Cupitself! Or the Olympics.

The stadium and its noisy commissioning are part of the Akpabio style of governance; one he has consciously deployed from his first day in office: overpriced, showy projects that can be promoted in the noisiest possible manner as evidence of transformation to the gullible but which adds little or nothing to the lives of ordinary Akwa Ibom people. Does anyone remember the first-in-Africa underground pipe jacket drainage system or the last time Uyo failed to flood with just few minutes of rainfall? Besides the president said it at the commissioning of the stadium that there is no flood again in Uyo. A laughable and a clueless talk from the president. How about the e-library, the most expensive cyber cafe in the world which, as this is written has not worked as advertised for even one day. A trip to the place on week days shows there is no light and the reading areas are always dark and hot.

Why would a government that has so far failed in seven years of trying to complete a hospital project, expend so much of its time, energy and people's scarce resources, on a one day stadium commissioning event costing N3.5bn of tax payers money. In Uyo the state capital, there is no general hospital worth the name and the said hospital project is not for the people of Uyo but to serve the purpose of the so-called 'medical tourism'.

Why should it take seven years to build the specialist hospital in Itam, Akpabio's very own first major project? Why is it that so far, its advertised cost of 37 billion Naira, the Tropicana entertainment complex is yet to be completed. Will it ever be completed? Why is the government subsidizing the cinema part of the complex; paying Silverbird to run the place at less than the going commercial rate that it charges in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja? Can any sane man defend the fact that in a poor yet very rich place like Akwa Ibom, the achievement of the basic MDGs is still a dream, yet the state government is subsidizing cinema entrance tickets.

Back to the stadium, comparatively, The bird's nest in China has a capacity for 91, 000 spectators and boasts of 140 5 star executive suites. But more importantly, it costs the Chinese government and taxpayers the total sum of 423 million USD or equivalent of 70 billion Naira to build the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing.

In Akwa Ibom State, the 'transformational' government of Godswill Akpabio unabashedly used about 480 million USD or approximately 80 million Naira of the commonwealth of Akwa Ibom people to construct a less-than 40, 000 capacity stadium . The Akwa Ibom stadium does not have many of the hi-tech quality facilities that the Chinese Bird's Nest Stadium has and there isn't a single executive suite!

Godswill Akpabio can fool some of the people, including President Jonathan some, or even most, of the time but he cannot fool all of us, forever. Someday, somehow, the truth will be out!

Credit: Efe-Ndutum

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[size=14pt]Bad Belle dey run stomach!

$12.5 billion that Babangida stole could give Nigeria 37 of this stadium.
$16 billion dollars Obasanjo stole could have given the whole West Africa 40 of this stadium
$7 billion dollars Abacha stole could have given Nigeria 17 of this stadium.

Akpabio chose to use the money to develop his state rather than steal it as you would prefer.[/size]

moneybag100:
This man just dey approve money anyhow....money wey we no c any impact.

But the money doesn't even belong to Abuja! Yet Abuja got N50 billion while the owners of the money got N43 billion?
You can see Naija cheating in action!

[size=17pt]One of the busiest seaports in the world is a River port called the Philadelphia Regional port.

The Philadelphia River port is 100 kilometers inland on the Delaware River.

The Obuaku River port in Abia State is only 40 kilometers inland on the Imo River.

So if people really want this port built, it will be very viable.
See satellite locations below.[/size]

Truth be told, GEJ is steadily transforming Nigeria.

The same politicians that stole and created all these problems in Nigeria have today run to APC to give them another opportunity to comeback and loot again. Why can't APC get fresh blood and discard all these former coup plotters, Hell rufai and Atiku with his stinking corruption profile?

[size=19pt]Abeg GEJ deserves a 2nd term!!! [/size]

Away with the Janjaweeed thieves and terrorists.

Without Oil, I would ask for the country to break up. I would even fight for it to break up!

Oga Jonah,
Watch this developing cloud carefully o! These are key governors we are talking about here, not some northern APC state controlled by a PDP governor.

To be fore warned is to be fore armed. I don talk my own o!

Abagworo:
You are an Isu man from Uga and have nothing in common with Anioma. Oguta is more Anioma than all parts of Igboland but it is unheard of us denying Igbo in public fora despite our mixed heritage. So my brothers are Asaba and Aniocha/Oshimili while Ndokwa and Ika should continue with self denial.

Since you have the luxury of choosing,
Are iKWERRES YOUR BROTHERS?

VAQAXY:
I have come to one conclusion- you have a good heart!

Bros,
Forget about my heart being good, faulty or dysfunctional.

My hope for you and others fond of quoting "Dubai" for any Anambra project is that you also come to the conclusion that you are actually mocking the effort being made to put in these hotels and flyovers by calling them "Dubai". The only thing in Nigeria that MAY come even close by a thousand miles of being referred to as "Dubai" in Nigeria is the EKO Atlantic city (If it is built exactly to specification).

I hope you see why my recommendations have been to focus on copying and replicating the best practices already successfully achieved in other parts of Africa such as Abuja, Gaborone, Kampala, Mombasa,Kenya or Kigali. I have again intentionally omitted South African cities as Cape Town,Tswane, Jo'Burg, Kimberly,or Durban.... and there is a very good reason for that....... TO BE REALISTIC BASED ON AVAILABLE FUNDS.

IGBOSON1:
^^^Bros, you're flogging a dead horse! I've long accepted that Nigeria doesn't do aesthetics and landscaping! A few states make a half-hearted attempt at it, but you can tell it's just a token and shoddy attempt! The only place you'll see an effort made is in Abuja and some highbrow areas in some state capitals (like Independence Layout in Enugu)! Thouly gh Akwa Ibom and Cross River states are trying small!

You are absolutely correct. It is so very disheartening. We like pretending like we want to copy "Dubai" while we haven't even reached Botswana or Abuja standard talk less of South Africa. The worst thing is that when you raise such issues about aesthetics, you are deemed "elitist" or defeatist that is why you can't see we are developing "Dubai" and you are discouraging us
Let me just state at this juncture that there is no one more interested in developing the SE than me. I just know we simply cannot afford to implement Dubai nor Qatar or Saudi standards. But we can do better than many other African countries currently out performing us. Even when their projects cost a fraction of what we quote as the cost of these projects.

I intentionally don't compare any South African facility to Nigeria's because of the normal excuses that SA is developed and blah, blah, blah, but I know if "poorer" African countries such as Uganda, Burundi or Rwanda can do it, there is absolutely no excuse why we cannot.

[size=18pt]For those always claiming they are building "Dubai" standard hotels in Awka and Onitsha, these are hotels in Dubai you are purportedly copying. Tell me how what you are building in Agulu or Onitsha resembles any of these.

Why can't we be real to ourselves for once?
You'd rather deceive yourselves quoting "Dubai" all the time, than face reality and aim for Abuja or Botswana standard which is more realistic.[/size]

VAQAXY:
It has pools at the two facilities in Agulu and Onitsha. Particularly Agulu Resort, it has its pool at the back overlooking the famous Agulu lake. See below the updates on the pool and landscaping already ongoing.

The Agulu hotel has provision for a rather small pool but none for the Onitsha hotel.

Actually, my point is why can't we simply provide a swimming pool as part of the requirement for any hotel that is above 3 stars? In poorer African countries, their hotels and the environment around the hotels puts Nigerian hotels in the same category of being referred to as a motel. We apparently don't build our hotels expecting holiday makers and tourists to stay, it's strictly about building a restaurant for the dishes and rooms for sleeping in the suites that is required for a hotel, in our mindset.

See a Ugandan 3 star hotel in the second picture below. Notice that in spite of being a cheap hotel with "poor" physical structure, they still have an olympic sized swimming pool and a childrens' pool in the pool area behind the hotel. The entire pool area is adorned with a lot of palm trees to make it very relaxing for guests. Many Nigerian "5 star" hotels will struggle to match such pool area. We simply don't believe building swimming pools are essential components of modern hotels.

More two star hotels in neighbouring African countries with good landscaping and pool areas

cjrane:
Oga,
Spyder, i will be coming to your blog o!

By the way, i decided to post the picture to help enrich our thread.

I hope the in coming administration will complete and put this powerful edifice to use. Imagine all the opportunities of conference tourism, seminars, AGM etc which could have held in Enugu if this edifice were completed! I love Sullivan for his effort to transform Enugu state, but i think he took his disdain for Chimaroke a little too far. You should support good ideas for your state, even if it were originated by your political foe.

I cannot imagine Obiano abandoning the Onitsha & Agulu hotels because Obi who had left his party started it. Such attitude amount to a disservice to the people of the state that voted you into power and whom you had sworn to serve.

@ bolded, I agree completely. The lack of continuity in completing this awesome building is heart breaking. Again, I have notice with heartbreak that on the average, every Nigerian project is totally focussed on just the physical structure. No attention is paid to the environment. Nigeria is actually a very beautiful country, but it looks chaotic due to our typical attitude for not caring about how the environment looks. As long as the building is beautiful

Below, is a road leading into a new hotel and an intl. conference center looking like an oval egg building to the left in a 'poor' African country. Notice how serene landscaping transformed the whole place that it looks as if it were in a developed country! Something seriously lacking in Nigeria. Compare that mentality to the environment and landscaping in the first picture to the mentality around our own almost completed International Conference center in the second picture.
Believe me, these little things such as a culture of landscaping and paying attention to detail matter a lot in how beautiful or conducive for living a country will be.

FKO81:
Onitsha hotel and Convention center under construction.

Looking at the Onitsha Hotel building, at this stage of completion and they have not started landscaping speak volumes of the experience of the folks doing this.

I have also noticed that neither the Agulu nor the Onitsha hotels have any swimming pools being built now, which makes one wonder what type of 4 star hotel they are building and what makes it a resort? One hopes that swimming pools are part of these hotels and located behind the structure.

Similar hotels in other smaller African countries don't just have the landscaping done while construction have reached advanced stage, even their hotels rated as 3 star hotels are completely fitted with swimming pools as in the first picture below. In the second picture, the road and landscaping is already completed for the hotel and convention center still under construction! As Nigerians, we must learn to imbibe a culture of building standard structures with good landscaping in cities like Onitsha. Not just building standard hotels with proper landscaping only when it is in Lagos or Abuja.

Malawian:
LEMME GO AND CHECK THE IMO THREAD

The guy is a Yoruba youth corper. He is not even from IMO. See how he spells Igbo names and cannot respond to anything in Igbo unless you add English to it.

The best way to respond to him is the Osogbo or Ibadan thread.

Shebi we had a ceasefire with the animals?

That is why America has the age long wisdom of not negotiating with terrorists.

cjrane:
[size=15pt]Come to think of it, it may not cost up to N200,000 naira to pay horticulturists to plant aesthetic flowers and trees along the median of Chime avenue to reproduce the likeness in the picture.If our amiable governor is listening as some of you have alluded, please make Chime avenue median look like the median in the picture!

This will truly be a spectacular feat for Enugu to have a major road like Chime avenue resemble an "oyibo" man's road. Gov. Chime please give this to us as your parting gift to crown your legendary transformation of the coal city.
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Here are some nice roads median which could be used as a template to transform the Chime Avenue median and others in Enugu.
One great thing is that there are gaps in the median for pedestrians to cross the street without stepping in the median as in the 2nd picture.
I wish someone close to the governor will see this and push to begin the transformation before the action governor Chime finally leave the Lion building next year.

Cultivating a culture of planting aesthetic palm trees along Enugu major roads and even inside the Polo Park mall parking lot will greatly transform the feel of the Enugu city. South East Nigeria is one region where the people don't care about creating a conducive environment with aesthetic flowers, even though the our weather supports luxuriant plants growth. Instead, our weather now supports wild bush growing everywhere in all our open spaces, roundabouts and road median.
We need men who have the urge to build the right physical structures and roads, but most importantly value the need for landscaping to change the feel of our environment.