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Na Godwin!

Beremx:
Why are most bridges in the SE always poorly constructed? Does it have to do with the soil or bad contractors?

The bridges are not badly constructed as you may wish.

The problem of the south east is that our land is prone to erosion, yet our people intensely hate trees, flowers and grass in spite of receiving about the highest rainfall compared to any other region.Plants are the only natural obstacle to erosion.
When this attitude of erasing trees or any type of plant from the environment is added to high population density, indiscriminate dumping of refuse in gutters, you have a situation where massive floods flow over the roads and simply carry away the soil. Since nobody cares about saving the environment, the process continue after every rainfall until a huge erosion gully develops.

Can we open up a new area along the road to Abakaliki for low income estates? Something resembling the Federal housing estate, Abakpa, where people can actually invest.
Part of the strategy for affordable homes is building where the land is cheap. Land used to me cheap in Emene, but not any more.We need a new area to help in the quest of giving low income workers the hope of owning their own house.

Ab0ki don hammer!

Nigeria has really paid them.

Make una stay there an be arguing pointlessly while Hausa is milking your cow and exploiting your land to develop their own.

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NewNigeriaMind:
In 2014, the Nigeria government made a dubious claim that Nigeria economy has overtaken that of South Africa.

Like I said then, I am of the opinion that the reason Nigeria government keep getting away with obvious lies is because most Nigerians are not well travelled.

For clerity I have been to major cities in EUROPE but it never bothered me this much that Nigeria is so backward because I believe they have a head start.

Well, I am currently in south Africa and in Johannesburg. This country is 100times ahead of Nigeria in all indices of development.

A comparism of where normal citizens live with the best places the richest Nigerians live in Lagos for instance shows a South African earning a stipend living in Joburg has a better life quality than his Nigerian counterpart with millions.

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I just had to re-quote you.
Your post is apt and truthful.
Nigerian government as usual are dishing out fake data in Africa.
Unfortunately, the joke is on nigeria

alfred5:
To all the she-male in house,

For the first time in the history of Nigeria......

Ebonyi State now generate revenue more than Anambra State.


It. Shows that 1) One Governor is working and he's not doing documentaries and billboards about it.

While the other is/wwas busy deceiving his people.


Willie Obiano have no vision.

This is when Peter Obi was governor when we could only generate N500 million/ month.

Anyhow, silence is the best answer to a ...F...

NewNigeriaMind:
This is what a BRT bus stop look like in Joburg, these bus stop are AC tight.

[size=15pt]I had always known the biggest lie in Nigeria is that our economy is bigger than South Africa.

Perhaps South Africa decided not to expose our lie with data because they didn't want their business interests in nigeria to suffer. But that lie is so evident nonetheless.[/size]

Kagame:
@OreMi22

Thank you for your incisive posts -very enlightening.Though I get disappointed when I see you involved in tribal bashing.That aside, your suggestions on this thread and the Anambra thread are always spot on!

Thank you Bro.

I had told my story of NL in the Anambra thread when it was newly started. So I won't repeat it here. Suffice to say if yorubas and Hausas bashing Igbos were illiterate ediots, i would never join issues with those caliber of people.
To the contrary, if you see the calibre of yorubas plotting against Igbos and doing all the calumny & bashing all over the the internet, some are medical doctors, have PhDs and are University professors! It will be crass stupidity if Igbos like me who aren't even have as educated or half their age, ignore such yorubas in the name of being civil. That is what has irked me so much to join NL and voice my own disapproval.

I think it is a grave mistake on our part as Igbos to always erroneously think we are Nigerians first before being Igbo.
Every other group in nigeria think differently and our inability to comprehend this fact does not in any way spare us from its consequence.

Picture 1 = Enugu neighborhood houses of cement and using local plastic tiles for roofing
Picture 2 = American neighborhood houses of wood and using shingles for roofing

Both neighborhoods have decent homes in spite of using very different building materials. We have won the fight about using local paints for our houses than the imported paints. That has helped create a few paint factories that have survived over the years.

In this particular American neighborhood, perhaps due to their soil type or due to having a concrete slab making factory close to them, they decided to use concrete slabs for the streets and sidewalks. Likewise, we should also have our streets made with concrete roads or with interlocking stones built locally using our local contractors. Then we would have finally started moving in the right direction in our construction industry. This issue is of the highest national importance, as it will help create massive amount of good paying jobs locally, while reducing capital flight which has killed the Nigerian economy that is so addicted to using foreign construction companies for even the simplest street level jobs.

ezeagu:
[size=18pt]Rammed Earth and Recyclable Materials[/size]

I've already suggested rammed earth which more advanced countries are slowly moving to. Also wood and recycled materials like plastics would not only be cheap but would visually break up the depressing cement look of buildings in Nigeria. For example when you look at a house in Nigeria it's just a box of cements

My biggest concern is really using the cheapest locally adapted technology which uses 100% of materials in our environment to make good homes.

In the USA, wood is the preferred material because they have vast land with lots and lots of trees which they convert every year to building materials and immediately plant more.

In the SE Nigeria, we have lots of limestone and rocks,albeit under-utilized. however the technology presently used in building our homes which is Cement and rocks is indeed the best based on our natural endowments.The fact we are able to build houses is because the technology is easily available and the materials easily accessible. If we had to depend on foreign contractors to build houses, we would be having the same problems we have in the road making sector. So to make the technology to build good homes easily available to laborers is indeed a good strategy. we must achieve that too in our road making capability. We should begin looking inwards where we can contract out road making to a small company of 3-5 people, just as we contract building homes to small local companies.

I am really concerned about our insistence on Asphalt for road/ street making in Nigeria. Our soil type has proven that this method is indeed not appropriate for making long lasting roads in our environment. This poor strategy of using asphalt has perpetually forced us to keep repairing the same roads we built since independence without adding more. Our entire annual state budgets every year goes into rehabilitation and repair of earlier built roads. We rarely have built new roads which is a really damning fact to how we have wasted our resources over the years as a nation.

We must consider the use of concrete to make roads and the use of interlocking stones. I heard there is a machine easily available in South Africa and China that is able to pave great lengths of roads with interlocking bricks in very little time and this has been proven to last very very many decades before they ever go bad.

We must import some of these interlocking roads making machines and also popularize the machines that make the bricks used for these roads. Our state ministries of works can master the use of these and then we can award them intra city road building contracts. These will create jobs within our ministries while building our capacity to build our own roads. All these billions of naira wasted in getting one or two foreign construction firms to build us fake asphalt roads which will break down within 6 months to 1 year will then be saved from leaving the country. While we continuously improve our own internal capacity to build these durable roads while creating jobs internally for our own engineers and school leavers.

America the richest country in the world or even South Africa does not use foreign construction companies to do their roads,even when they can afford it and those German companies as Julius berger will probably do a better job than their own local American companies.
Why must we keep bleeding away our resources to foreign construction companies, instead of developing our own capacity?

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[size=18pt]For a Yoruba man who has been posting those pictures of cities in Western nigeria to be posting these pictures here, it appears you guys are finally growing some sense about what has been going on in nigeria!

Halleluja! may Allah be praised!
The scales have finally fallen off our brothers eyes![/size]

HappyJoe:
Obiano keeps repeating the same things. We've heard about the N1.3 billion IGR since last year and anyone who engages the Awka Branch of the Nigerian Society of Architects (not a reputable Town Planning/Architectural firm like Akpabio did in Akwa Ibom is not serious; he's merely playing for media).

I am getting a bit tired of this media circus. If you are serious about town planning in Awka, you will start executing, not merely erecting "Willie is Working" signboards all over the place.

Not much is happening in the Greenwood estates area in terms of massive private homes being completed. But you could clearly see people have already bought land and are building.
Perhaps, most importantly, you can see it is a virgin area with lots of room for expansion.

The new Awka capital city will actually be north of the present Awka town. But, i don't think the state government has any plans for that area of town right now. Perhaps after the 3 Obiano flyovers make that side of town easily accessible, people will have interest there.

Tex42:
With all these investments and development hitting the soil of Anambra state, our government(ministries) are yet to see the need for proper plan of the state's Road network(especially Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi...). Most of the roads in Anambra States needs dualization , I don't know what the state ministry of works(highways) is doing? it's high time they scrapped this one - Lane, one - way road model they adopt for our roads.

Some of our roads need dual Carriage, and some even triple Carriage with side walks. The ministry has to improve on their quality control and adherence to specifications. You will agree with me that some of our roads are just "scratch and paint" (that's what I call it), no proper compaction(doubt if the contractors achieve 70%compaction),low quality asphalt, no/narrow side drains, no road lighting, road signs, road markings...

We need to start proper planing of our roads network now, because the time is near when traffic demand will prompt expansion of these roads,which has its cost implications (demolition and compensations) and the inconvenience it will cause residents. Our ministry of works has to come up with a better road model to compliment the human and economic growth sweeping across the state.

God bless the Light of the nation!

You are right.



All we need is to [size=13pt]P-L-A-N[/size] Awka. Even if we build bungalow as in the city below, just the proper modern planning will make the city habitable. beautiful building built in a planless ibadan pattern will still make an otherwise beautiful place ugly and uninhabitable.



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It is the little things like simply planning a city, that makes the biggest difference.



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It is a shame this genocide was ignored by the international community.
All effort should be made to punish the perpetrators of the heinous crime

cjrane:
[size=18pt]Meanwhile his wife Aisha was indicted by the FBI in a multi- million dollars scandal with congress man Jefferson of Louisiana.

If you know that a girl of that age could never have made millions if dollars as an ordinary citizen, you would realize she got such huge sums of money to bribe an American congress man from her husband, the then former Head of State Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari[/size]

Gbam!
Buhari is a thief claiming Holy pretender.

So this is how federal roads in the SE look ?

lacosanostra:
Am saying that Nsukka people being clanish has nothing to do with their underdevelopment, they just think every good thing in Enugu shoul first come to them since they have the largest population, I think we should not take this further, we are all Igbos

As you know, i am not an nsukka person, so you must know iam giving you an unbiased opinion in this matter.
Developing Nsukka to become a top notch city in Enugu state should also be of utmost priority to the state.

The problem with most of us is that being in Nigeria where every effort is made to site everything in ONLY Abuja or Lagos, as if those were the beginning and end of Nigeria, we carry on the same regrettable mindset of siting everything ONLY in the state capital. Except in Delta state where they view Warri as the state capital.

Strategizing and developing Nsukka into a great green city should not take away the attention from Enugu city development. Just requires more government involvement in adequately planning the new Nsukka city, attracting industrialists to set up in the identified industrial layout of Nsukka is good for Enugu state.

Let us imbibe the American way of developing every city equally based on our resources. Someone living in Nsukka or Nnewi or Okigwe should have the same standard and quality of life as someone living in Enugu, Owerri or Onitsha. The horrible "one city mentality" must die in Igboland development.

Making all cities in Igboland habitable is the way to progress, not "one city state" phenomenon we inherited from the warped Nigerian mentality.

[size=18pt]Yorubas are really such disgusting creatures.[/size]

....and they bring such bad name to the word "Nigerian"

CuckoldMaster:
Yorubas cloned the fake twitter account and have deleted to avoid being traced.

We have seen Yoruba's clone accounts here on nairaland. Never underestimate how far they can go to please the Awusa Fulani.

Their aim is to shift blame for. The Awusa Fulani to Biafra.

Yorubas should continue playing with fire.
I hope they wont run away when it starts burning them up

[size=18pt]The so called Sadiq Hono is the same exact person popularly known as Muhammadu Buhari


.....and he will strike again because he is protected by the same police looking for him.[/size]

willow0802:
More.....

bro, these are very old pic nah,

There are 2009-2010 pics of Enugu

Enugu is even more sexy now

sunnyb0b0:
Or ice to the Eskimos.

Investnow2013 is saying things of the highest national importance to Igbo survival.
I doff my hat for the guy for being very deep in thinking.
I have seen people here suggesting the best way to develop igboland is to build empty skyscrapers, build two airports in owerri, two in Enugu and two in Umuahia, but investnow2013 understands that you cannot be truly independent if you must depend on your adversary to feed you in order to survive.
It is much deeper than most people even bother to see nor realize. But our adversaries in Nigeria very much know that fact, and hate Igbos that think deeply like Investnow2013.

investnow2013:
Investors in Cattle Farming in Anambra State will be smiling to the Bank because of massive population which in turn causes higher demand of meat in the State!.Areas of investments in & arround Onitsha are Nkwelle Ezunaka,Obosi Hills, Oba, Umunya, Nteje, Ogidi,Nkpor.For Nnewi are Umudim, Okija,Oraifite & Ozubulu which I am exploring to set up mine!.

You are right on point with the cattle farming thing.
I don't know why it is so hard for true investors to embrace this goldmine.

The same thing happened when people were preaching for poultry farming and nobody wanted to listen. A few did and made a fortune, now everyone is rushing into it.

i hope someone finally builds a modern cattle ranch in those sites you mentioned and is able to supply meat,cheese and milk to the entire zone.

I am begging our people to imbibe the culture of using interlocking stones for the streets. There is no need waiting for the useless LGAs to tar the streets. landlords should organize themselves and use interlocking stones to make their streets motorable. What sense does it make to have these types of marvelous buildings on such hideous streets?

kettykin:
This is a very good step in the right direction, but how can 30000 eggs in a week, even in a day feed a local government not to talk of a huge eastern population and economy.

Igbos should start selling some of their real Estates in Lagos and Abuja and start investment in agriculture in the east.

[size=18pt]Gbam![/size]

O'l boy, see the technocrat that will save Nigerea.

alcatraz002:
I posted a thread yesterday lamenting the plight of the igbos and how they continue shooting themselves in the foot by hating Yorubas but I was insulted and lampooned by igbos on this board.

Now less than 24 hours since I posted that thread, Uche Secondus a self acclaimed IGBO man has said that the PDP Presidential ticket has been zoned to the North. The PDP has presently constituted is an IGBO/BIAFRAN party and the structures of the party is currently being controlled by IGBOS. My question goes thus: is there no Credible IGBO man in the whole of Nigeria that can be presented to vie for PRESIDENT? I want my Igbo brothers to answer this question. AM I BEING VINDICATED OR NOT?

When we preach to the igbos to change their ways and build bridges, insults will rain like missiles from fighter jets in Syria. Igbos only know how to exhibit extreme hubris and chestbeat. An EDO man has better chances of being Nigerian President than an IGBO man. Sincerely I feel sorry for IGBOS. All igbos reading this knows it would be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for an Igbo man to as much as near the Vice President seat of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

I know I will be insulted and maligned by igbos who will comment on this thread but we will keep preaching for attitudinal change by the igbos.

This PDP zoning is a clear message for the igbos.Let the insults begin!!!

[size=15pt]Yoruba dogs of war are always scared of any progressive idea.
Don't cry for igbos, worry about your yoruba people. Igbo proverb says when a sacrifice is performed and you don't see the vultures, then something terrible happened in the land of the dead.

Yorubas have turned themselves into vultures. Simply there to scavenge crumbs and plot how Igbo will be disadvantaged in the equation. Time will come when you will realize you have wasted all your time trying to disadvantage Igbo, rather than solve yoruba problems.[/size]

[size=15pt]Nigeria is a fraudulent enterprise.
It only exists because the more powerful ones have been cheating the owners of the resources and have managed to confuse the owners of the resources not to see the abnormal sharing of their resources as blatant cheating, but as the fraudulent word
"One Nigeria"[/size]

may Nigeria burn to ashes if it does not stop injustices against people and groups.

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The op is yoruba and is already terrified that PDP is finally growing some iota of sense.

The only reasonable path to power is for PDP to zone the Presidency to the northeast and the VP to SouthEast.

I am Igbo and i know the frustration with Igbo presidency brouhaha. the selected VP will be someone young and savvy enough to be moulded into a presidential material.

I know paid fools like Joe Igbokwe type of "Igbo" will attack this progressive idea, just to make sure the dulllard remain in power if PDP doesn't get this winning formula right.[/size]

[size=18pt]Is it when Buhari and Junaid have openly declared Igbos are not Nigerians?

I would rather build Kenya that will treat me as their citizen than Nigeria that is using every instrument of state to oppress and perpetuate injustices on Igbo.

Even violating constitutional guarantees of fairness. just to oppress ndigbo.
Time is truly running out for Buhari and the path he has decided to take Nigeria just to punish those he thinks didn't vote for him.

What tragic pettiness![/size]