kmariko: Governor Ugwuanyi should turn the Orba specialist hospital into a full fledged School of Health Sciences... Not as an appendage to ESUT...
It's evolution will be a gradual process in order to contain costs. He does not have to pay for all the infrastructural development now..., just get it approved and functional as subsequent administrations will improve on it.
Exactly the wasteful mindset that makes Nigeria to be full of uncompleted projects. I would have ignored this comment, but it's typical of what has helped make Nigeria such a huge mess. Biko nu, what is wrong with how our people reason?
You want a teaching hospital in Nsukka that isn't an annex of ESUT. Its not an annex of UNTH. You do not have any university in mind that the hospital will use to train doctors, but you miraculously think that other Governors will develop it for you?
Sometimes, I wonder if people just type things to help deceive the government into wasteful escapades. Nigerians are so wasteful of their resources. That is why despite our oil, other countries still manage to live better standard of living than Nigeria.
Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force, NDPSF, and one of the arrowheads in the struggle to redress perceived injustice in the Niger Delta has thrown his support on Nnamdi Kanu, saying he is not a Nigerian but a Biafran.
He said an Nkwere man naturally knows that he is an Igbo man and that the name Biafra was given by an Ijaw man, likewise the Biafran anthem. He also said that Lagos will not be what it is now if the Ijaw oil cut off.
I am Igbo and I trust Asari Dokubo more than the mentally unstable JUDAS called Nnamdi Kanu!
Nnamdi Kanu is a double agent and already took huge bribes from Burutai to be released in 2018, to help APC win Igbo states. Those still following and falling for the deceit of Nnamdi Kanu will end up in their grave, and Nnamdi Kanu will be unscratched because he is working with Fulanis as their anti-Biafra agent!
Biafra will never come if people follow what Nnamdi Kanu is telling them. He is only relaying instructions from his masters to the IPOBs. Then he will end it with " Buhari is a big goat, Burutai is a ram and other stupid statements" just to fool people into thinking that he is indeed sincere about Biafra.
NNAMDI KANU IS A SHAMELESS TRAITOR AND I HOPE PEOPLE SEE THRU HIS PRETENSES BEFORE HE GETS US KILLED FOR NOTHING!.
Ideke9000: Gburugburu should try and do a nice finishing especially when it comes to landscaping..
If we took landscaping seriously especially in Igboland where we have adequate rainfall for flowers, trees, and grass to blossom, our projects would be resembling American projects.
Unfortunately, very few of us know that landscaping could sometimes be more important than the concrete structure itself, in determining the beauty of the edifice. I pray we change the culture of not landscaping and leaving things bare, as if we are a wartorn country where nobody should waste time on beautification with trees and flowers.
Based on our weather and adequate rainfall, there is truly no reason why we cannot replicate the type of tropical environment below.
My advise to young Nigerians is: 1. Do your Bachelors in Nigerian University 2. Do your Masters or Doctorate in a European or American University.
Doing your Master and Doctorate in Nigerian universities amount to a total waste of money. Nobody in the world will recognize it. Even in the credible African countries with good universities such as South Africa, Egypt or Kenya
Digitron: ENUGU STATE SECRETARIAT ANNEX NSUKKA......When Completed will house all the State government workers whose offices are scattered around Nsukka town
I love what Gov Ugwuanyi is doing. This will help elevate Nsukka to a true alternate city in Enugu state. Every state deserves at least 2 liveable decent cities.
However, What the governor needs to do now is to open up a GRA Nsukka with solid dual carriage access roads. So that private developers can begin to develop the neighborhood. That way, you can have an area where people can build decent houses and live in Nsukka. Instead of always needing to live in Enugu if you want a nice area.
One thing Onitsha managed to do in the old Anambra state was to also have a great GRA which enabled great transporters and businessmen the ability to live in a decent neighborhood while running their companies and businesses in Onitsha. it also helped Onitsha to attract and keep big time business men.
AfricaUnited: So who sold ''me''? Funny that you see me as ''the other person''. You are talking to a confirmed Nigerian? Okay
I said so because i know Nigerians that have died in America in the hands of African Americans. Truth is that not all African Americans are bad. They deserve to be given citizenship by African countries if they apply and are not criminals. But, their arguement of "deserving" citizenship because they were "sold" by Africans is ludicrous! It's even more insane that they see no crime committed by white people who actually enslaved and murdered them.
Ask me, how many African were slave raiders compared to the entire population of Africa? Perhaps less than 1%. Yet, they make it sound like the entire 100% of Africans sat down and decided to sell the people amongst them known as "African Americans" The whole arguement is totally insane. However, after their experience and the fact that many of them actually do prefer to come and live in Africa, we must accept them as our brothers and sister. Thus, we should waive the usual requirements for citizenship. Not just for African Americans, but all Africans in the diaspora. Which must include Haiti, Guayana, saint Lucia,Brazilians, Colombians and others. NOT JUST African Americans!
AfricaUnited: Ghana is already doing that. Nigeria should follow suit. It does not mean they will come and leave here permanently. But having a second passport will be good for them, just in case. Ghana is already showing remorse.
Please don't use the word "remorse" I am African and i never sold you! Should i also feel remorse for Zambia and Zimbabwe that were colonized by the British, when i didn't paticipate in it? who has felt "remorse for the way and manner Africans have been treated -- including by African Americans?
Not to mention how many Africans have been shot by African Americans because you were told that Africans sold you.
Anyhow, i support assisting those who want to return to Africa. it is morally just not to treat them as aliens the way other countries treat foreign nationals.
On a second thought, No need for apologies because i didn't sell them. Apologies will more than complicate things as Africans in the USA have often cited malicious treatment by African Americans who insist that they were sold by all Africans. Who will take the responsibility of maltreating those poor African migrants?
BUT, grant African Americans citizenship to any African country of their choice so they can come home if they wish.
obowo69: Nigeria has taken billions of dollars in international loans under this current administration yet there is no tangible project from those loans coming to the south east.
But Igbo sweat and blood including natural resources will be used to to repay those loan.
If you are Igbo, Know this fact;
The loans that Nigeria is taking now with dwindling oil price and steadily reducing oil demand will take at least 3 generations to pay it back. The Federal and state government due to low oil revenues will have no choice but to start heavily taxing businesses including manufacturers and importers. They must do this to fill the oil money gap.
I wonder who will carry most of those burden since they are into business a lot.
With the amount of loans that Nigeria is taking now, If you are Igbo, know that it will take at least 3 generations to pay it off. Both interest and principal.
This means that you the Igbo man or woman, your children, your grandchildren and possibly your great grand children will contribute with their hard work, their blood and sweat to pay back those loans through taxation.
They will be paying back a loan that never benefited their land.
Ndiigbo, we have to seriously reconsider our future in this Nigeria. This is unsustainable.
cc: Pazienza,
I think the time to keep talking and complaining about this while expecting God to do the intervention we should do is over. This is the time to think carefully and mitigate the evil plan to snuff life out of Ndigbo in Nigeria.
proeast: Enough of this nonsense of showing the same picture of AIIA Enugu when they are still supposedly working on it.
We didn't see anybody showing pictures of Aminu Kano airport until we suddenly saw it waiting for commission!
You fix one bulb at Akanu Ibiam Airport, you rush online to showcase it and thank Buhari yet it is taking forever for the bigot to complete it.
The worst part of their silly game of repeating the SAME OLD PICTURES is that they NO LONGER talk about runway extension to 3.5KM.
Meanwhile, their strongest argument to shut down the airport was to elongate the runway from the 3KM length to 3.5KM to accommodate the biggest aircraft used in international travel. After N10 billion naira and almost 1 year of closure, the current runway was only resurfaced and not elongated by even one inch!
The fraud against Igbos is the reason why Nigeria has continued to deteriorate and decay as a country. If it was ever a country.
AmericanQuarter: Covid-19 Response: Julius Berger Plc Donates Medical Equipment To Anambra State Government
By Joseph Egbeocha (ABS NEWS)
Julius Berger Plc has donated four hundred pieces of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to Anambra State Government to help it’s fight against the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Presenting the items, the Project Director for Second Niger Bridge, Mr. Friedrich Josef Wieser, said the gesture was in response to the call by the Anambra State Government for assistance in fighting the spread of the virus in the state, noting that Governor Willie Obiano has shown seriousness in the fight against the pandemic.
Describing the Second Niger Bridge as a priority project for Anambra, Delta and the entire country, Mr. Wieser said the bridge and many other ongoing projects in the State will continue to receive needed attention as normalcy returns in the nation.
Receiving the items, the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Solo Chukwulobelu said the State Government will judiciously utilize all donations in containing the spread of the virus and improving health facilities in the state, thanking the company for quality jobs and interventions being done on State roads.
The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Vincent Okpala, who described the donation as thoughtful, said the PPEs will be of great help, especially now that community search for COVID-19 is being vigorously pursued.
Public Relations Officer of the company, Mr. Ferdinand Ugbomah, and other staff of Julius Berger were present during the donation.
Unnecessary hyperbole with this post!
"Medical Equipment' refers to: 1. Respirators 2. Surgical equipment 3. Autoclave machines 4. incubators etc.
Instead, I saw: Gloves, and plastic gowns (Personal Protective equipment)
Please re-title the heading and say Julius Berger donates Gloves, Face masks, and personal protective equipment to Anambra!
shadeyinka: You own children will pay out of this debt without knowing what they are paying for!
Kwantinu!
One wonders why they can't cut out luxuries of government? Instead of piling unsustainable debt on Nigeria.
They say our GDP enables us to borrow more debt but didn't tell us that our income is so small that we pay 4 naira of every 10 naira earned by Nigeria in servicing debt!
Same debts that were brought to zero during Obasanjo regime! Buhari is an evil curse on Nigeria.
gariepinus: Anambra state Government in the person of Governor Willie Obiano should please dualize roads in Anambra state....it will bring city expansion... easy traffic... And make the state to wear a new look...Obiano dualize 3-3 to Aguleri...Oba-Nnewi- Okija Road....Nnewi to Ekwuluobia road..link the two towns with dual lane....we are sick and tired of all this single lanes....let's plan for better development in the nearest future...Anambra is rapidly growing in population... People are building houses illegally near by the roads without given space of 10metre away from the road, do to lack of urban/rural master plan which was supposed to be provided by Anambra state Government.... Is high time our Government begin to dualize our major roads now or else it will be very difficult to do in the nearest future, because a lot of structures occupied space for roads network.... Anambra state is full of beautiful house's...we need roads realization, expansion and more planting of flower trees in order to bring out the beauty's of all this edifice scattered all over the State...or else our lovely state will turn to concrete war zone with single lanes scattered all over the town's.... Nnewi need roads dualization and good Master plan..same thing goes to all the urban towns in Anambra... For instance, look at the way oba is rapidly growing in population without Government intervention to creat dual lane and mater plan for the builders to follow....the individuals began to build wrongly everywhere without urban city plan,let alone providing space for standard roads and other infrastructures..... this is very bad and exactly the way all the upcoming towns in our lovely State is growing unplanned without provision for dual lane...this same mistake occurred in Onitsha... God pls give us a Governor that will dualize roads and creat working master plan in our urban towns.... A man who will first alter a good plan by providing access for dual lanes and others infrastructures in all the metropolitan towns in our major cities before the individual developer's storms the town...plz someone should send this write up to Obiano...
I think it's too late to begin knocking down houses in heavily built-up areas to dualize roads. The cost will be so prohibitive that it will build 3 brand new cities with that money. Not to mention the plethora of lawsuits and the pains to the people for the irresponsibility of previous governments in approving those buildings. What Anambra needs now is not to repeat the same mistake elsewhere. Sadly, the same jungle design of Onitsha is being repeated everywhere as the standard for development. Go to Nnewi, Ekwulobia, or Ihiala and you will understand this tragedy unfolding again.
Like the Americans and most of the developed countries, we must develop our mindset of building NEW MODERN CITIES around the present major cities. Against the mindset of knocking down the old parts of town, while allowing the same type of concrete jungle to develop in new areas currently being developed. The place to act is the new area and simply tar the roads in the old parts of town. Let Anambra set out new areas around Awka & Onitsha (i.e; almost VIRGIN LAND with a few numbers of buildings) and PLAN IT as totally modern cities!
The idea of simply pointing to a forest and buying land recklessly and building all sorts of building in a haphazard manner is simply tragic. I watched a recent video of Abakaliki and saw that they had properly laid out roads into a vast area near Centenary city. Then mapped out sections that will have residential areas, a section for their international stadium, a section for their airport, a section for light industries, etc. When they finish, even if they have only bungalows there (Which I doubt), it will be better than anything in any southern state. Simply because IT WAS WELL PLANNED!
Let us think about building a standard city and map out large chunks that are well planned and let it develop slowly. Knowing that when it's done, the outcome will be a standard modern city that we can be proud of.
Easternsun2020: According to National Bureau of Statistics, the states with the poorest people are:
- Ebonyi = 79% poverty status
- Enugu = 57% poverty status
- Abia = 30% poverty status
- Imo = 28% poverty status
Ideally, this data should reflect on the list of the poor and vulnerable registered by the FG to receive cash transfers periodically. Logic would have had it that the south east should have the highest number of registered poor eligible for cash transfer but the reverse is the case. In fact, Zamfara state alone has over 1.3 million, Katsina has over 800,000 while the whole of southeast comprising of the 5 ' states with the poorest people' has 383,316.
Is this an irony or a willful contradiction? Are the FG and NBS lying? Who is lying; the NBS or the FG?
Please, statisticians and policy makers on nairaland should weigh in on this analysis.
When it comes to giving palliative due to poverty, of course you know they will skip the Southeasterners. But if they had to tax or get some benefits from the poverty story, you know they will put the southeasterners first. That is Nigeria for you.
Umueme: Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state has assured the people of Aba and the entire State that his administration will do an excellent job in the total reconstruction Ngwa, Uratta, Port Harcourt, Ohanku and Obohia roads.
Speaking for the very first time on the impending reconstruction works on the roads on a live radio programme on Magic FM Aba, the Governor made it clear that all preparations have been concluded to commence a total rebuilding of the aforementioned roads.
According to the Governor, the apparent delay in starting work on those roads was because his administration wanted to get a permanent solution to the problems on those roads, which led the State Government to seek collaboration with the international development partners.
The Governor recalled the challenge of the Ndiegoro Water Disaster of the 1980s which lingers till date and assured that this project is designed to handle that problem.
Governor Ikpeazu stated that his administration successfully engaged the World Bank, paid the required Counterpart Funds which led to the release of a whopping amount of 27.4 Billion Naira for the project.
Joined in the program by the Commissioner for Environment, Dr. Solomon Ogunji and the Project COORDINATOR for NEWMAP in Abia State, Engr. Izuchukwu Onwughara, the Governor assured that funds for the project have been fully secured and the project will commence in a fortnight.
He appealed to residents of these areas to provide maximum cooperation to the contractors as the government will not tolerate any acts that will sabotage the projects which are guaranteed to permanently and significantly change the infrastructural landscape of Aba for the better.
Governor Ikpeazu expressed delight that this project will significantly reflate the Abia economy because 40% of the contract sum will be spent on local procurement of materials. He also assured that hundreds of local construction workers will be engaged in the project.
In his contribution, the Commissioner for Environment, Dr Solomon Ogunji stated that the project will affect several buildings in the area and the payment of compensation for all legitimate property owners had long commenced and is ongoing, assuring that all genuine property owners whose properties will be affected by the project will be duly compensated as that was factored into the contract negotiations.
He, however, made it clear that people who own illegal structures there will get no compensation. He also said that an alternative route will be prepared by the contractors to enable people to move around and ensure that people do not interfere with the work.
Also speaking, the Project Coordinator of NEWMAP, the project consultants, Engr Izuchukwu Onwughara assured that the project will be done with strict adherence to World Bank standards.
He explained that project will involve the construction of an underground tunnel from Uratta Road through Port Harcourt Road to link Ngwa Road, assuring that the challenge of bad roads and flooding around those areas will be comprehensively tackled. He gave an assurance that he work will be delivered in exactly two and a half year.
Okay, when we see it, then we will know that it's not another audio project to merely deceive people.
By the way, consider using concrete roads. Aba has a waterlogged terrain that cause asphalt to easily go bad. If you do a concrete road with gutters on both sides, it will be 30 years before the road will go bad. Thus, will give enough time before reconstruction is needed again.
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Silly revisionists!
Papa Ajasco and all these silly secondary school concerts had movie directors, were shot as Nollywood movies in 35mm films, transferred to VCD and DVD and sold as movies abi?abi? You guys just love lies and trying to revise facts.
I'm sure if the first secondary school in Nigeria were in the Southeast, you guys will also list your Sunday School lessons and try to claim it was the same as secondary schools.
Iliyasdass: The immediate-past managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, is dead. He was 60.The current GMD of the corporation, Mele Kyari, confirmed the death on his verified Twitter handle, saying he died last night.
Biko, there are two markets in Oba that have been abandoned for a long time now. The international market on Owerri expressway and this market in the picture along the Nnewi road. Sometimes, I wonder if Oba town is cursed. Their first opportunity to have an international airport was started. Then twice they were selected for international markets and both times, those markets were abandoned midway.
Considering the billions used to buy land and construct these markets, its a travesty and shameful culture of waste to allow these markets to remain empty, while so many youths are looking for market shops. Can someone inform the state government to move in a group of artisans into this market? Like the shoe artisans were moved to Nkwelle, this completed market can host wholesale artisans of a certain trade instead of being empty several years after it's completion. OR it can be given to the Oba community as their market.
adeyemik: Nigeria is currently using 4 naira out of every 10 naira earned to service her internal and external debts. The country's current debt profile stands at $85.4 billion or NGN33.7 trillion naira. According to the Debt Management Office (DMO), Nigeria’s debt profile stood at approximately N12.12 trillion as at June 2015, while the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says, the country’s foreign debt stood at $11.41 billion dollars, while its domestic debts was N14.02 trillion respectively, amounting to N17.5 trillion.
The quantum leap in the country debt profile in the last five (5) years is staggering and of great concern. Nigeria moved from a near debt free nation engineered by Obasanjo/Ngozi, to be a debt filled nation in 2020. How can a country be using over 40% of her earnings to service debt? There is not economic logic in borrowing to consume; borrowing should be for the purpose of expanding the economy, providing revenue yielding infrastructure, thereby making Nigeria the manufacturing hub for Africa, and first choice for foreign direct investments.
The level of our borrow to consume must be curtailed, else we become a pariah state to direct foreign investors. It is important for our leaders to know that the country's loss, is another country's gain.
The Holy bible says ' A good man leaves an inheritance [of moral stability and goodness] to his children’s children. (Proverbs 13:22 AMP)'. What inheritance are we leaving for our children and the ones yet unborn? We need not plant the seed of debt for generation yet unborn to harvest poverty and it will be a great disservice to mortgage the future of generations yet unborn today.
At the rate Hajia Zainab is going with this mindless borrowing, Nigeria will be needing N10 naira of every N10 naira earned to service debts.
The sad part is that they can avoid borrowing if they cut out the luxuries, unnecessary travel expenses and size of government. But they won't. Instead, they will borrow and mortgage the future of Nigeria just to sustain their lavish lifestyle.
Zainab simply wants to make the country insolvent by deliberately borrowing irresponsibly until when Buhari leaves office. Then the scale of the damage done to our future will be clear to everyone supporting these debts now.
Only God can save Nigeria now from the hands of pure evil.