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Politics › Re: Tinubu Must Go!! Tinubu Must Go!! Angry Nigerians Protest Over Economic Hardship by OreMI22: 2:26pm On Feb 23, 2024*

slimfit1:
Go where exactly for who to come in ? Whatever we didn't do during Buhari we are not going to do it now. The rust didn't start from Tinubu's time.

EXACTLY! Don't mind these deceivers!

The same people already calling for anti-Tinubu protests just after 8 months in office that he has been trying to clear the mess made by Buhari, were the same ones that kept criminally silent while Buhari wrecked the economy through reckless printing of naira, borrowing massively, and squandering the loans while condoning massive oil theft.

Not even Peter Obi would have been able to reverse the economic disaster perpetrated by Buhari without causing some pain. If Tinubu were a Fulani man, the same people calling for protests and military interventions would have been silent the way they remained silent under their own son Buhari.

Politics › Re: Why Yoruba Should Not Partake In Anti Tinubu Protests by OreMI22(op): 12:50am On Feb 23, 2024*

Bookhub:
you knew buhari was destroying the economy but kept quiet all these years abi?
why didnt you caution him.

Exactly!

While Tinubu may not be without faults, and I may not personally admire his methods, it's grossly unjust for those who remained silent as Buhari wreaked havoc on the Nigerian economy for 8 years to suddenly become vocal critics just because Tinubu isn't one of their own.

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Politics › Re: Nigeria’s GDP Grows By 3.46% In Q4, Falls To 2.74% For 2023- NBS by OreMI22: 12:44am On Feb 23, 2024*

Let's face the truth: the economic challenges facing Tinubu during his 8 months in office stem from the economic mismanagement perpetrated by Buhari and his Ministers. In 8 years, Buhari oversaw the printing of N30 trillion Naira, depleted our foreign reserves from 52 billion dollars, and allowed the looting of the NNPC, all while claiming to be the "Petroleum Minister." Ministers like Hadi Sirika and Abubakar Malami looted billions from the state treasury. Shockingly, none of the Hausa/Fulani leaders and clerics, who now criticize Tinubu, raised concerns about Buhari's economic mismanagement!

Today, these same northern leaders, who remained silent during Buhari's tenure, are quick to call for protests or military intervention against Tinubu, who has been in office for less than a year!

Any Yoruba person who falls for this deception and participates in protests to destabilize Tinubu's government fails to honor the legacy of Oduduwa. Northern leaders should show Tinubu the same patience they showed their northern brother, Buhari

Politics › Re: VIDEO: See How Igbo Youth Again Storm Market, Beg Tinubu To Serve More 12YERS by OreMI22: 12:42am On Feb 23, 2024*

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Politics › Re: Tinubu And CBN Governor Want To Crash The Nigerian Economy On Purpose by OreMI22: 12:41am On Feb 23, 2024*

Politics › Why Yoruba Should Not Partake In Anti Tinubu Protests by OreMI22(op): 12:33am On Feb 23, 2024

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Politics › Re: Tinubu To State Govs: "Support Local Farmers To Boost Food Production" by OreMI22: 10:25pm On Feb 15, 2024

festacman:
Still SHALL and WILL statements 9 months post inauguration. Still talking about setting up committees? There is need to wake up. Time is running out.

Create action plan to bring more lands under cultivation in safer parts of the country while the fight against bandits continues
Create action plan to exploit the marine resources of Niger Delta. Create action plan to generate more employment opportunities. Roll out incentive packages to encourage existing enterprises and engender start-ups. Create action plan to boost non-oil exports. Why has Dele Alake gone quiet all of a sudden with sold minerals exploration?

There is no other short cut. No f**king short cut

The worst part is that they keep pretending that they are unaware that the chasing of farmers away from their farms by Fulani herdsmen is the central problem causing scarcity of farm produce and consequently the high cost of the little food stuff available.

Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 1:47pm On Jan 30, 2024*

ChimaAdeoye:
You people are never tired of conspiracy theories and conjectures.

APGA isn’t holding Soludo back. Soludo is trying his best to prioritize the resources for the maximum impact. He understands that doing just one road using a multinational construction company does not even make a dent on the massive problem of poor roads all over the state.

For people saying Soludo isn’t building an airport or a showpiece infrastructure like Obiano. As much as airports are important developmental infrastructure, You should understand that what got our cities into looking like piggeries was decades of neglect to do inter LGA roads rather than urban renewal.

Peter Obi understood that education was the bedrock of development and pursued that priority. He also did some work in health. Obiano focused on giving Anambra the advantage of accessibility by air and creation of infrastructure such as hotels, conference centers or malls to help Anambra host big ticket events successfully.

Like Dr. Alex Otti who understood the importance of livable cities, especially a thriving Aba city to the overall development of Abia state. Soludo is right to focus on urban renewal and finally making Anambra cities some of the best habitable cities in the country. If Soludo succeeds in bringing law and order and transforming Onitsha, Awka, Nnewi, Ekwulobia and Aguleri into thriving urban centers, his achievements would be the most impactful in driving economic development of the state and making it a key investment destination in Nigeria. I remember when Rotimi Amaechi was demolishing shanties and dualizing key roads in Port Harcourt. People also criticized his work because they didn’t understand the importance and the link between having a decent city to attracting investors.

Unfortunately for Soludo he is doing the heavy lifting of repositioning Anambra cities at a time of near economic collapse. In his reluctance to raise taxes or massively borrow, he will have to continue finding ingenious ways by focusing on a batch of high priority roads and then stretching the available resources to complete them before taking on another batch of roads. Clearly Soludo has a plan and he is trying to judiciously use available resources without resorting to massive borrowing.

Bros, you hit the nail on its head! The big issue is that there is no money! Most of those criticizing Soludo for why he has not built heaven and earth DO NOT and WILL NOT pay any tax! That was precisely the reason the previous governors neglected these cities to rot. Since the average trader passionately hates to pay any tax for the development of the society. Thus, previous governors preferred to use thugs and part-time criminals to extract taxes. Which 99% of such taxes end up in the pockets of the criminals themselves. So it was great that Soludo first stopped using thugs to collect taxes and then digitized the payments through POS directly into the government coffers. I hope that the modernization of the Anambra state tax payment system continues to be improved so that the government can be supported by the few business organizations that view their payment of taxes as a serious civic obligation.

Many armchair critics whose only job is to pontificate online about the skyscrapers or flyovers they need here and there, and how they want all the gutters in the state to be underground or covered always crack me up. Just look at sections of Onitsha - Owerri road where the company CCC built covered gutters! The gutters are now filled with sand and refuse, however unfortunately they cannot be easily desilted because they were permanently covered with concrete! Again, we all like to blindly import anything we see abroad, but nobody asks if our people are as developed as people in such societies that do not dump refuse in their gutters. The reason why some ideas imported from abroad will fail in Nigeria is that we are not at their level of development yet and our people need proper orientation about how to take care of their environment.

Many of those trying to distract Soludo through online smear campaigns also smeared Obiano for building what they called an "unviable poultry farm" as an airport. They posted the images of Atlanta or Heathrow airports as what they "expected" Obiano who was ruling a non-oil producing Anambra state to build! Today such people are now pretending to be praising Obiano for his foresight in building a modern airport, flyovers, and hotels! Wonders shall never end!!!

Now their current antic is to dismiss Soludo's solid efforts to rebuild the collapsed and neglected cities of Anambra. Anyone who goes to Fegge, Okpoko, Awka, and many others will appreciate that Soludo is trying his best to upgrade some of the worst slum settlements in the state while managing the meager resources. It is NOT easy for a state like Anambra to build all these roads at once while also building hospitals e.g. in Okpoko while paying workers' salaries etc. The only way to achieve them is through expanding the tax base and an increase in taxes. Yet, Soludo keeps excluding the poor and vulnerable from taxes! So he should be applauded for taking the bull by the horns to attempt to upgrade our inner cities and make them liveable places again. Some of these armchair critics NEVER consider that there isn't enough money to award a single road in Awka or Onitsha to an international construction company while there are just too many other roads all over the state that are in appalling conditions.

Finally, Soludo should also continue to sanitize our cities through the removal of shanties used in irregular street trading all over our cities. Also to find new locations for small neighborhood markets where private investors can be engaged to build approved plazas or open market stalls for the street traders to be relocated. I see a new Anambra being born. it isn't easy, but you can now clearly see the man's developmental strategy.

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Business › Re: Dangote Refinery To Import Crude Oil From The United States by OreMI22: 8:52pm On Jan 29, 2024

Solofresh2:
Hahaa

It's nothing but another smokescreen used to launder billions of our dollars into overseas banks. God will judge these wicked politicians colluding with shady businessmen.

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Politics › Re: Dangote Refunery Now Buying Crude Oil From The US by OreMI22: 8:46pm On Jan 29, 2024

Akinomoakin021:
Nigeria’s giant new oil refinery Dangote, the largest in Africa, is set to import crude from the US in the coming months, a sign of just how competitive American barrels have become in the global market.

Trafigura Group sold 2 million barrels of WTI Midland to Dangote refinery for end-February delivery, said traders with knowledge of the matter. This is the first time that the giant refinery has purchased non-Nigerian crude, traders said.

Booming US oil supply over the past decade or so has transformed the global market, reaching as far afield as Asia. Nigeria’s economy is dependent on petroleum exports, meaning the deliveries from across the Atlantic are telling.

The new 650,000 barrel-a-day oil refinery, owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest person, started operations earlier this month. It is targeting an initial processing rate of 350,000 barrels a day before ramping up toward its full capacity.

The refinery is sourcing domestic crude under a supply deal with the trading arm of the state company Nigerian National Petroleum Co. The first cargo that arrived at the plant last month was Nigeria’s Agbami crude, sold by a trading unit of Shell Plc. This was followed by more Nigerian barrels including the nation’s Amenam, Bonny Light and CJ Blend streams.

abhosts:
The CBN gave tens of billions of dollars to dangote at cheap official rate with the expectation that it would save the country foreign exchange in return. If Dangote wanted to import crude at global prices to for his refinery, he should have built the refinery with funds from oversees investors and not with cheap CBN dollars.

It's nothing but another smokescreen used to launder billions of our dollars into overseas banks. God will judge these wicked politicians colluding with shady businessmen.

Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 3:39pm On Dec 15, 2023

ChimaAdeoye:
Nwokem, good to see you are back to the thread again. I was wondering why you and a few others suddenly left this thread this year. Biko make una dey come share una opinion about omalich state anyi!
Everyone dey contribute hin own quota. From who dedicated his entire YouTube channel for the good of the state, and to project the state in good light. To the many others who share many valuable ideas based on their experiences from different areas, they have been and worked. Daalu nu rinne!

Gradually we are moving forward as a people and I have no doubts that Ndigbo as a people will reach the promised land.
Good to see you're back bro!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irGQZ6YXsKI

Nwanne, okwa hustling o! I didn't run at all! You sabi how work dey tie person for here nah grin

Will be you coming home this xmas? DM me make we jam somewhere if you will return this year.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 2:27pm On Dec 14, 2023

abuzz33:
In an era of declining revenue it would be foolhardy to build another hotel and one that will render the huge investment in Agulu Lake wasted.

Agulu Lake should be maintained however the government should provide free buses to bus guests between that place and ICC and other parts of Awka. It is less than 15 minutes from the core of Awka. After all the distance of hotels in Lekki to VI is almost the same.

My concern is why the police continue to block one lane of Zik Avenue near Amawbia roundabout rendering that axis a traffic mess while Soludo does nothing? They should build a new Police HQ in the Executive Business District to complement the governors lodge, state and federal secretariat and free up Zik Ave.

The other hard decision he should take is to relocate Eke Awka. The size of trailers that enter that market on narrow roads says that it is incapable of handling the type of activity happening there. The market has become a wholesale warehouse rather than just a retail place. There are too many shops squeezed into a tiny space.

The one-size-fits-all copy-and-paste approach to everything is what makes some analyses faulty. You or someone with a similar name argued something similar that Anambra airport would not be viable since it was so close to Asaba. In fact suggested that since Abakaliki airport was more than 100KM from Enugu airport, it was a more viable airport. The problem with such an analysis is that you based them on just one line of thinking "distance between them" and not the even more important factor which is the population and economic activities in the area to support even 3 airports. There is a very popular saying that has held for ages "If you build it, they will come!"

Agulu Lake Hotel was not a waste. If you like to provide free Keke to every location for the guests, it does not take away that it is located a little far away from any major city center. It is a resort and serves a certain niche for people to just go there and relax. That is why the effort should be around creating unique fun activities around the hotel such as boating, water parks, etc, to create its eco-system and drive tourism to the hotel and location. Not thinking about unsustainable ways to waste money hiring free buses or the guests to attend nightclubs in Awka and back to compensate for not being located in Awka.

Now all the hotels you see springing up in Asaba are largely due to Onitsha having so many economic activities but very very few hotels. Therefore, hotel investors rightly reasoned that building in Asaba would still put whoever needs to have a transaction in Onitsha within a reasonable distance. The hotels in Awka will not just grow the Awka economy, but will also tap into this good hotels deficit in Onitsha that is currently solely enjoyed by Asaba at the moment. Someone mentioned that Awka needs 3 five-star hotels and he is right! The truth is that there are many hotels in Awka but not so standard. They are mainly nosy nightclubs at night and are mainly used as brothels for hookup girls. I know this first-hand because is visit Awka regularly and stay in many hotels in the city. Apart from the BON hotel and about 2 or 3 more, we don't have any decent places to stay with a family in Awka. Many Awka hotels with big buildings are filthy, with roaches in the rooms, dirty-over used towels, and not even basic wifi! I am glad that Parktonian and Geo Gold are gradually improving their standards and even now offer basic services such as wifi for their guests. If you have never been to other cities even within Nigeria such as even Owerri hotels, you will not understand this deficiency because most people in our locale view a hotel as some type of eatery or nightclub. Not a place for high-quality lodging to attract decent tourists to the city.

I am glad that Soludo has a mindset that is different from the typical local governors. Who only think about how to compete with the next local enterprise. Soludo seems fixated on the future and how to establish what will make Awka attractive to global tourists and not something that is just a little better than existing local hotels based on "Awka" standards. That is truly something I have not seen in many Nigerian governors who compete among themselves in mediocrity. I see Soludo's vision as the equivalence of the vision of Obasanjo in 1976 when he declared that Nigeria would build a brand new Federal Capital Territory in Abuja that would be a modern city comparable to similar capital cities in Europe and America. The good thing was that he meant it. Otherwise, all Abuja roads would have been designed like Lagos roads of single carriage roads at the time, and houses would be allowed so close to the roads just like in Lagos. Of course, Soludo does not have the funds to achieve all he says. But Like Rwandan President Paul Kagame who knew in 1995 that Rwanda didn't have the money to build a modern capital city in Kigali. But it could achieve greatness eventually if it begins ensuring that every new road has walkways and trees planted in the road median etc. Every major hotel built by the government was designed to attain the best global standards. Even when people criticized him at that time for aiming "too high". Today we have seen the new Kigali city emerge even though Rwanda had no oil or any tangible resources to fund its emergence quickly. But just ensuring that every new project was done in the best global standard would eventually get you there. I have written a long response. But it takes such long responses to make the very fine point that it takes a visionary leader with a modern mindset and not just the available resources as the most critical ingredient in developing a society into a world-class society. From America to Japan to China to Singapore to Malaysia to Rwanda to Dubai etc, it took just one visionary at a point in their history to decide that they had to leapfrog into a modern society regardless of their income at the time. They had the idea and gradually followed their plan until it happened. That is what I am hoping that Soludo will be for Anambra and Southeast Nigeria.

In summary, we have to think higher than our current environmental situation if we hope to become better and achieve a greater future that we will no longer be called "Third World" or something less than the best. We have to aim to be in the league of the best. We can do it. So let's support those leaders who dare to dream big even when the resources seem not to be immediately available.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 1:29pm On Dec 14, 2023

Ogene001:
How about completing the Onitsha hotel started by Obi?

The problem with the Onitsha Hotel was that it was sold to a company to complete and operate. The company built it to the 5th floor and suddenly went bankrupt. It's a shady story that makes you think "WHO" was the real buyer, and "WHY" hasn't the state taken any action against the buyer for failing to complete the project as expected? But legally, the hotel does not belong to the state government at this point. But the state has the power to retrieve it back.

However due to the strategic importance of the location of the Onitsha Hotel and the potential use of the abandoned structure as a hideout for criminals, it is in the best public interest to revoke the C-of-O of that property and either resell it to a capable investor with clear terms to complete the structure within one year or simply taken over by the state, completed and concessioned to a credible hotel chain for management.

These are some actions that a fearless Governor like Soludo could pursue against whoever was the powerful individual who bought the Onitsha Hotel. To ensure the overall public safety by denying criminals the use of the structure as a hideout and for the overall wellbeing of the state.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 11:11pm On Dec 13, 2023

I heard that Soludo also wants to build a 10-storey 5-star hotel in the capital city.

I wish he would use the structure to complement the Awka International Conference Center (ICC) by building the hotel within the area reserved for a 5-star hotel inside the ICC. Although Agulu Lake Resort is a very standard hotel, because it's far from most things, it attracts only those who specifically want to go and sleep in Agulu. A 5-star hotel in the middle of town means that people could easily lodge there and still enjoy the benefits of going to Solution Fun City or Ibiza nightclub at night and still get back to their hotel room without risking their lives by driving far from the city at night. This is the huge disadvantage of why people only go to Agulu Lake to stay there and not really to commute to Awka at night from there.

Such a big 5-star hotel inside the ICC center will give life to the ICC and the venue will quickly become the best events center in the southeast. Globally, major hotels are situated very close to International Conference Centers to make them attractive to host international conferences where people don't have to worry about transportation to get to the conference venue. There is accommodation of more than 200+ rooms and a world-class international convention center really within walking distance from where people could lodge.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 11:02pm On Dec 13, 2023

Abufo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2kWqnWlxtk&t=2s

I have observed Soludo for a while and I am glad that he lived up to our expectations as THE SOLUTION!

If he can complete all the roads he is doing in Onitsha, Awka, Nnewi, and Ekwulobia, then we can right call him Prof SOLUTION aka The ROADMASTER!

Soludo will transform Anambra cities and make them habitable if he completes all those urban roads with sidewalks, street lights, and well-designed drainages. No governor before him will come close to his achievements because he tackled the hardest task of developing Anambra which every other governor since 1976 artfully dodged. He stopped the sluming of Anambra in the name of "development" where people build on gutters, block the end of a street and build a house there, and many other lawless things that no governor dared to confront the perpetrators and correct the decay of our cities. After all, no former Anambra governor dared to demolish buildings and do some politically "unpopular" but right things to return to the master plan of Anambra's cities.

I am personally shocked that he dares to even dualize Iweka Road, Isu Anaocha Road, and more. Imagine how Anambra cities will look upon completion of these key city roads with walkways and all! Soludo is truly a ROADMASTER in the making!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqgrYDFP2FQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-iqWA6Qgxs

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 4:56pm On Oct 02, 2023*

Nelsolala:
Covered drainage is the standard practice. It shouldn't even be subject to discuss. But then there are also some elements of truth in the fact that we need further reorientation for our people.

Go to some parts of Uyo, you can literally seat inside their open drains to eat. Even my home town, i always admire how clean the open drains are because of regular cleaning by the age grades. So free flowing drain is not about if it is open or covered. If we must cover our drains, which is the ideal, efforts must be made to cover all other adjoining drains, else OYO is your case.

A clear case is Ziks avenue Awka. The drains were covered by RCC. But it is giving serious challenges. Before this years rains, ANSG embarked on desilting along that route. But just one rain, come and see wahala. Currently around Eke Awka, water flows almost on road surface cos the drains are full. And unfortunately the people who have shops along the road cannot do anything as it is difficult to move the coverings. Meanwhile traders along Arthur Eze desilt there's almost every sanitation day.

So while we admire and hope for the standard drainage under side walks, such factors should be taken into consideration. Maybe installation of iron grills before any closed drains and also along any open drains, so those that trash their bin in the drains can be easily identified. We need uncommon solutions for our problems.

Covered drains are indeed the standard and desirable drainage system for modern cities. However, it does take some skill, technology, and infrastructure to operate them and keep them functional. I'm afraid that we don't quite have the infrastructure or technology to ensure they remain functional all over the state.

If you watch the recent New York City flood of about 2 days ago, you will realize that if they did not have the capacity to go underground and continuously keep their drains open, it would have been a total disaster. However, the city officials came out in full force to ensure immediate removal of debris from the underground drainage channels which reduced the duration of the flood and damage caused by the flood. The most important technology of underground drainage is being able to continuously send equipment into the drains to keep them open. In Nigeria where our LGAs cannot even clear open drains on the surface, I truly fear that our LGA staff can maintain underground drainage systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpJzOuYSpKo&t=284s

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 4:38pm On Oct 02, 2023*

Fantastic news!!!

CHINUA ACHEBE INTERNATIONAL Airport, Umueri !

Thank you Soludo for honoring this legend of our time, one of the greatest and undisputably the best known Igboman globally. This shows that we are indeed a society that appreciates hard work and honors our achievers, not just the politicians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH3Kk7KDvx0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9zK-pByaFA

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 5:02pm On Sep 05, 2023*

I really enjoyed this Soludo media interaction. Hopefully, Thursday's Anambra investment forum will be a huge success. Massive infrastructural development without massive private sector engagement in a country like Nigeria that has almost no resources left for development is mere daydreaming. I am happy that Soludo understands that the role of government isn't quite to solve every infrastructural problem, but to provide the enabling environment and security for the private sector to easily come in to assist the government.

To really make Anambra liveable, we have to go back to the basics and develop the right mindset for our people. Soludo is actually struggling in an atmosphere of severe shortage of resources. However, merely increasing taxes on the people isn't the solution. You have to expand the tax base by creating new areas and investments in society so that the government can earn revenue from the new areas. I am glad that Soludo is looking at making a systematic change starting with changing the mindset of impunity among our people and making sure that government derives revenue from levies/fines imposed on those anti-social personalities who cannot follow societal rules. I am glad that roads will be marked and an enforcement team will impound and fine anyone caught flaunting traffic laws in Anambra. I wish a similar strategy was also deployed for those dumping refuse into gutters or caught littering the road. It is all about helping our people to develop the right attitude required to live in a decent society through enforcing the laws against the anti-social elements who have no regard for societal rules. Thus have made our society an unliveable nasty place for our people.

While we keep pushing for more decent roads and infrastructural interventions in Anambra cities, I am thoroughly glad that Soludo also has plans to address the rampant antisocial behaviors that have taken deep root in our society and made us appear as a backward, uncivilized people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWRPPrfX-4k

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Politics › Re: Why Didn't CSU Send Congratulatory Message To Tinubu As Alumni? by OreMI22: 12:58pm On Aug 29, 2023

PoliticalUpdate:
To have a president of a nation emerge from your school as an alumni should be ranked as one of the greatest accomplishment, if not the greatest of any institution. Till date no school have come out to congratulate @Bola Tinubu alumni of Chicago State University.

Did they miss the wind of the news?

Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 9:02pm On Aug 20, 2023

SpaceTour:
Please stop this long essays here. How is asaba or Abakaliki better than Awka or Onitsha, you guys that are not even from Anambra always come here to spew nonsense about our beautiful cities. Anambra cities may not have arrived yet, but no city in southern Nigeria is better than any Anambra city. This nonsense by you people must stop. Soludo is doing good job already in overall urban renewal and now Ekwulobia will soon join the league and fourth Anambra city .

You will NOT draw me into your silly d*ck measuring debate. Google is your friend since you have never visited the southeast cities.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 8:50pm On Aug 20, 2023

YourMrBoo:
Nonsense talks

You cannot compare delta state igr to that of Anambra state.

That's an unfair comparison and an unfair judgement on Anambra state and her governors.

Asaba and Awka may have been made capital same day but you cannot say both have seen equal amount of funds as igr

Soludo should rather give his best and not try his best. We will never entrench or entertain mediocrity on this thread.

ARGUE WITH YOUR ANCESTORS!

Nobody is confused by your silly attempt to confuse Anambra previous governors' lack of desire to plan and develop Awka with the paucity of funds due to low IGR. I acknowledged the same when I applauded Soludo for attempting to plan the decent development of the state in spite of the lack of funds available to him. Ngige, Peter Obi, and Obiano were the only Anambra governors that attempted to develop Awka as a decent city. But their efforts did not go far enough in addressing the issues of the rampant building of stores on top of drainage gutters in all the major streets and the general lawless development of slums around the state. Although Peter Obi to his credit completed the aerial mapping of the state for proper/planned development to occur.

There are many many states in Nigeria that developed their capital city by merely having state governors that were DEVOTED to create a liveable city. Is Ebonyi state also richer than Anambra? Yet, can you compare the road network in Abakaliki to the road network in Any Anambra city? I know when they were using concrete to do their roads here and people like you laughed at them for not using Julius Berger. Today they have achieved the same aims of a very good road network in Abakaliki with their local contractors and concrete roads while you that laughed at them for not hiring Julius Berger to build their road is still driving on dirt unpaved roads!

Yes, what we are saying is that despite a lack of funds, a committed state governor will find ways of stopping people from building on the roads or dumping refuse in the middle of the roads. They will find ways of managing the resources to do the projects with local contractors if they cannot afford to hire Julius Berger as the oil-producing states do. I also applauded Dr. Alex Otti for his effort to right the wrongs in Aba. Without complaining that he does not have enough money to make Aba look like Port Harcourt or Rivers State! He simply got onto the task of rebuilding Aba with the resources at his disposal and using the best contractors he could afford for the job. Any state governor blaming IGR as the reason he didn't do anything at all like the "oil-producing states" should ARGUE WITH HIS ANCESTORS!

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 6:26pm On Aug 20, 2023

ozuru:
This road seriously need government attention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLR6blI-YBo

Another great thing about Soludo's government is that they are not unreachable like the previous governments that deliberately make themselves unreachable and invisible.

I am glad that even the Anambra Commissioner of Works answers complaints made by citizens on state infrastructure and communicates what the government is doing to fundamentally solve the problem.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 5:36pm On Aug 20, 2023*

Bestmanfornow:
This is Regina road to INEC you can see the drainage channels, they're now at Regina junction, workers on site from what I was told there will be roundabout at the main junction

Soludo is really trying his best despite the paucity of funds. I pity the guy because he is trying to bring civility and orderliness to make Anambra a liveable place against the hitherto culture of impunity where the previous Anambra governors allowed its cities to develop like village concrete jungles.

Just take a look at Awka which became a state capital with Asaba on the same day, and compare them! The difference is that the governors in Delta paid attention to the proper development of the city with good access roads, while the governors in Awka allowed it to "organically" develop without any interference or concern about paying any attention to the provision of space for access roads and social amenities. In the same way, Onitsha was allowed to "organically" develop from the 1990s and beyond without properly mapping out access roads, parking spaces, and other social amenities. Making it the most "developed" city in Nigeria by way of modern residential flats, but the least habitable!

Thus, Soludo is solving this fundamental problem of the TOTAL PLANLESSNESS of Anambra cities since the 1990s and beyond from its ROOT! Soludo should be praised for his guts to take the tough decisions needed to rebuild Anambra cities and to demolish houses that encroached on the key major roads. It is NOT EASY.

To show that Soludo understands the problem, he proposed the building of a brand-new modern capital city in Awka North area where there is still ample virgin land and people have not built like mad people on the roads itself. Let us give Soludo some time to implement his vision. I believe he would finally achieve a liveable Anambra state for us. If he continues with the difficult but necessary determination to do things the right way.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 3:42pm On Aug 17, 2023*

pandax:
I am an Apostle of good governance irrespective of party affiliations, and I believe Soludo is from the same school of thought. I have always given my vote to APGA in Anambra State, except during presidential elections. Obi had his well-known limitations no doubt, but we voted for Soludo to right the wrongs of Obi et al, unfortunately, he is not living up to expectations in spite of the good wills he has from Anambrarians

If Anambra cannot afford Julius Berger for certain economic Roads, especially within the Onitsha and Nnewi axis of the State, Please let him engage CCECC, Arab Contractors, RCC, or even Craneburgh (This company is new in Nigeria from South Africa and not so expensive to engage like JB, but they will deliver quality infrastructures and they are currently doing wonders in Aba)

I know that Soludo is a BIG Ideas/Pictures individual, and I am expecting him to think big in his projects, especially Road Construction. I expected him to dualize the following roads in Anambra and even build some green field roads to open up the state:
1. Starting from Amawbia Roundabout (Houses to be demolished) - section of Onitsha Road @ Amawbia- Amawabia R/A - Nise-Agulu-Nanka-Ekwulobia(flyover here as he planned)- Uga
2. Ekwulobia-Isuofia-Awka Etiti-Nnobi(Flyover here)-Umuoji-Nkpor
3. Nnewi(demolitions) - Nnobi- Nnokwa- Agulu
4. Nnewi(demolitions)- Ojoto-Oba- Owerri/Onitsha Expressway(Flyover here)
5. Dualize Atani Road to Atani Town
6. Alex Ekwueme Boulevard Road extension to Ifite Awka
7. UNIZIK tempsite Road - Isuaniocha- Mgbakwu
8. Extend Esther Obiakor Road northwards through Ifite Awka to join Roads 6 & 7 above
9. Dualize 33 Road
10. Dualize Upper iweka to Main Market
11. Dualize Ogidi -Awka Road- Main Market
12. Greenfield Road from Awka Road - 33 Road, Onitsha OR Inosi Onira R/A - 33 Road
13. Dualize Niger Street, Onitsha
14. A green field road perpendicular to Awka/Onitsha expressway at Airport Junction with a clover-leaf flyover around Umunya-cutting Awka/Onitsha old road perpendicularly around Ogidi/Ogbunike/Abagaga to join Owerri Interchange of 2NB (Toll this road on completion or give it to a contractor to build)

N:B
1. You can toll some of these roads, we will pay to use decent infrastructure. The state is choking, then you can start your other wonderful projects like AAU Automotive City with Innoson as the anchor company, Ikenga - Mixed City with EMZOR as the anchor company, Solution Innovation District @ Awka, Solution Fun City @Awka, Agulu lake theme Park, Export Emporium, AND I am proposing that you have Solution PARK (SPARK City) around Ekwusigo or Oba for Light manufacturing. Also, mandate your environment ministry to plant and maintain at least 2m trees on Anambra Roads.

2. Anambra is the smallest state in Nigeria in terms of landmass, after Lagos. The total distance of all the aforementioned roads should not be more than 300km and cannot cost the state more than 150B if we use Craneburgh for all the roads @N500m per KM.

I love all the roads listed for dualization. Those dualization projects are a must to realize a liveable Anambra. Like you, I would also like all Anambra roads to be awarded to capable foreign construction companies such as Julius Berger and RCC. I would also want all major roads in our cities to be dual carriageways and well decorated with flowers and trees. I would also like a new Awka capital territory built with skyscrapers in its central business district.

But, let us WAKE UP to the reality of awarding roads to foreign construction companies such as Julius Berger, RCC, or CCECC! Whether we agree or not, Anambra DOES NOT have the resources to do all these things! So all the talk about Julius Berger, Arab Contractors, etc will end in the same "UNFULFILLED EMPTY DREAMS" of the past unless we change our mindset of seeking the most expensive methods instead of adopting the affordable and successful method that has been seen to work in transforming roads infrastructure in several equally cash-strapped states.

We have a template that we have seen so far that is effective. MASSIVE RECONSTRUCTION USING DIRECT LABOR & CONCRETE ROADS!!! Gov. Alex Otti is currently using this template to effectively rebuild Aba roads within the lean resources available. The good thing is that we have the local technology to build concrete roads, and it does not require the use of heavy construction equipment! If the money used in rebuilding 20 Aba roads was given to Julius Berger to construct a mere 300 meters of road in Aba, it still means the majority of the city has terrible roads except 300 meters on one street! That is why we must re-orient our minds away from the wasteful habit of always awarding to foreign contractors to do very short distances when we could actually reconstruct the entire city using direct labor and concrete roads. Which incidentally will last longer than the so-called Julius Berger roads!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwGNq5ywYYg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALOiix3Iti4

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Politics › Re: Update On Developments in Ebonyi state (photos) by OreMI22: 12:44pm On Aug 15, 2023

Cjrane2:
First Flight Lands in Ebonyi International Airport on Thursday, April 27, 2023!!!

Wow!!! Big congratulations to Ebonyi State for this massive achievement! Thank you Governor Dave Umahi for your tenacity and great perseverance to see this project completed in record time!

Now the work of developing new tourist attractions such as Ndibe Beach, nice hotels, fantastic restaurants, and world-class clubs to drive the entertainment industry to boost tourism and the state's economy must be pursued vigorously. That is a way of making this airport one of the busiest in the country. Congratulations once more to Ebonyians on this achievement. Ebonyi to the world!

The new Ebonyi Governor seems to be a slacker!

Why is he not making plans to ensure the Abakaliki airport begins to function? Even if it's just a few flights in a week? States with even fewer populations and cities with fewer economic activities got their airports functioning by creating very good incentives for airlines to operate profitably from their airports. He should travel to Yenagoa and take some lessons from Bayelsa Governor on how he managed to keep the Yenagoa airport operational despite the odds.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 12:06am On Mar 13, 2023*

Cjrane2:
Nwokem, without diminishing Umahi's excellent projects,, Obiano performed way better than Umahi.

Apart from Obiano's physical infrastructural projects, he heavily invested in human resources improvement and poverty alleviation projects to reduce poverty in Anambra.

Conversely Umahi used money which could have been wisely invested in education, agriculture and Healthcare to build too many flyovers at irrelevant junctions. This is not to say his countless multicolored flyovers are a bad thing. But if you consider that he ruled the state with the worst poverty in Southern Nigeria and one of the least human development index in Nigeria, his multicolored flyovers where there were no traffic becomes a tragic misuse of public wealth. While we have praised Umahi for doing many concrete roads to ease accessibility to rural parts of Ebonyi state. I believe the money he spent on too many flyovers where there were no traffic gridlock as a tragic waste of precious state resources.

Unike Wike that also built multiple flyovers because he ruled a state with serious traffic problems and relatively more wealthy citizens. Umahi had no such problems. Yet he acted like he had some inferiority complex that flyovers were a symbol of development and to prove Ebonyi was developed he had to have more flyovers. Thus he went on a flyover building spree while other areas of human development suffered.. Umahi's only useful projects are the concrete roads, Abakaliki mall and airport. Even at that it is questionable if those projects will be viable due to the crushing poverty rate in his state. That is why I praise Umahi and bash him sometimes for doing nothing on the poverty alleviation front.Overall I rate Umahi as a great transformative governor, but he could easily have been the greatest Igbo governor since 1999 and done better on all fronts not just on physical infrastructure, and thus be rated as a well rounded governor.

Well that is one way of looking at it. A coin always has two sides.

As a child, my Dad bought a colored TV so that we would stop going to our neighbors house to watch TV and thinking we were inferior to them. Although my mother protested spending the scarce resources on colored TV instead of buying us better clothes, food and school uniforms, I can tell you that the unquantifiable impact on our psychology that we were not inferior to our neighbors made us all exel in school and later in life.

Umahi knows Ebonyi people had been psychologically attacked by their neighbors. His multiple flyover projects that you consider wasteful may be a way to psychologically inspire pride of Ebonyians and encourage his people to disregard the toga of being poor to exel. I still think he is great for doing what was hitherto considered impossible. The same way Obiano achieved projects hitherto considered impossible for Anambra to achieve.. Let the next governor now concentrate on building businesses, agricultural transformation and housing estates. Umahi did his best in just 8 years to make Ebonyi have ones of the best infrastructure in the entire country.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 7:09pm On Mar 12, 2023*

ebufa:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHWmfRX7dKs

Talking of re-developing the Awka Town market......may we borrow a leaf from the Kejetia central market in Kumasi..........a modern spin on the Onitsha main market built in the 1960s........Truth be told decades of retrogressive military and fulani rule has stagnated regional initiatives in real development. Nigeria and especially Ndigbo have lost the plot absolutely.........projects are ill conceived and even in the rare cases projects are well conceived they are shabbily executed! we need to up our game ....and fast too!

The ONLY Governors in the Southeast with the boldness and vision to build this type of ultra-modern market are Obiano and Umahi. The rest are small-time village champions that talk way too much and deliver next to nothing to match their plentiful empty words.

The problem with the Southeast today is that we have watered down the standards so badly. For instance, in the 1950s & 1960s, even as regional premiers, you would see Zik or Michael Okpara invite world-class architects to build standard universities or other infrastructure because they really wanted to compete with the very best globally. Today's southeast leaders have no such visions to do anything outstanding EXCEPT Obiano and Umahi that tried to build facilities that rose above the normal mediocre shoddy village standard of Southeast governors' projects.

Since Anambra's comparative advantage is in the area of Trade & Commerce if we could have a new Anambra international market located somewhere between Awka to Onitsha Expressway, which would be massive, extremely well-planned, better and more modern than Onitsha main market built in the 1960s, and ensure it has ample parking spaces for both traders and visitors to the market. Such a facility can quadruple the GDP of Anambra while creating new job opportunities and wealth for millions of people. But of course, we no longer have Governors who dream such big dreams anymore and have the true commitment and capacity to pursue their dream to fruition. That is why Umahi and Obiano would continue to be landmark periods in Southeast history when Governors that dared to have big dreams and pursue them to logical fruition led their people into a new era that was better than what they met.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNhTS4tXeL8&t=585s

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by OreMI22: 10:46pm On Mar 07, 2023

investnow2013:
Let us promote Onitsha as our answer to lagos!

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

Exactly! If only ndi Igbo will agree to think home and stop their super-craze over Lagos.

However, the biggest thing we must do is not just to promote the city. We should participate in processes to ensure good governance emerges. Which will guarantee the provision of basic urban infrastructure such as roads and proper sanitation to make the city habitable and attractive to investors. That is how to help the city grow when we ensure that only responsible people are in government to ensure basic urban infrastructure are provided and improved upon.

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Politics › Re: Update On Developments in Ebonyi state (photos) by OreMI22: 6:09pm On Mar 05, 2023

Cjrane2:
With May 29th being only about two months away,, this airport is under a high risk of becoming an abandoned project unless the runway is marked and made verifiably operational one month!

Umahi needs to concentrate all the effort in getting the runway ready for test flight now.

Airport terminals in London and globally are gradually improved endlessly as the airport operates on a completed runway. Therefore unless the runway is completed immediately and test flight conducted successfully on it to prove that the airport is operational, this airport will be a tragic abandoned project in the next regime after May 29th.

Yes, bro. It is very urgent to complete the runway now to get the airport operational for at least day flight operations. Just like the Ogun state Governor rightly concentrated on getting the runway of the Ogun Cargo airport completed and operational before bothering about the terminal building. Which can be completed even in 20 years as the airport continues to operate.

Without a functional runway, an airport is merely a nice mall building with ample parking space for cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LfSMSAwzXg

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Politics › Re: How Can We Stop Them From Rigging Us Out by OreMI22: 7:37pm On Mar 03, 2023*

It is impossible to stop rigging now in Nigeria since the ruling party will simply use INEC to announce their own pre-written result.

In the past, there were no electronic collations, so the riggers concentrated on stuffing ballot boxes with thugs. We thought going electronic will stop rigging by political parties. What we failed to recognize was that even INEC was also a political party that needed to be stopped from rigging.

Right now, the ONLY hope is to take pictures of the result sheet at your polling unit and send it to your party's hotline. So that when INEC turns off its server to frustrate the uploading of results from the polling units and announce their own pre-written results while Nigerian voters are struggling to upload the result sheets, you can have the original result declared at your polling unit that can be presented in court.

That is if the Nigerian judiciary will stand up and help prevent the impending military coup when all democratic procedures fail. May God save Nigeria from these wicked politicians!

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Politics › Re: Nigerian Presidential Election 2023 (Live Updates And Monitoring) by OreMI22: 11:15pm On Feb 25, 2023

hmmmm, no results are being published by INEC!!!

They won't let you create an account to see the results!!!

There is fire on the mountain o! The manipulation has started again!

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