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El rufai should find them jobs.
Afterall they are beggars because our government does not care for the less priviledged

[size=15pt]The Daura dulllard is an old crook.
He simply fooled Nigerians and took advantage of everyone's desire for a change. Promising to deliver change, while i reality he was going to dine with the same former crooks responsible for all the ill in Nigeria that ran to his new party.
Nigerians have been duped.[/size]

IGBOSON1:
^^^This is why i reckon Princess Stella is miles better than Osita Chidoka! Instead of him to have used the time he was minister to properly reposition AIIA for growth as an international airport, he was busy blowing grammar and carrying 'one Nigeria' for head like persin wey dey hawk groundnut!

I've noticed most of our political elite from the South East and South South tend to act this way while others use any opportunity they have to grab and locate everything to their region and favour kinsfolk over others! GEJ is another example of the type of elite we produce.....to scared and wanting to act all fair and shi't!

Goodluck to any brother who thinks that under a Buhari presidency AIIA will get the necessary assistance and all it needs to be established and progress as a new international airport!

The Osita Chidoka guy or whatever he calls himself is a useless efulefu.
I never had any faith in him. he was totally confused and wanted to dedicate his time on how to chop without ruffling the feathers of yourbas in aviation ministry , than improving anything at all.

Precisely why i applaud Anambra North people for voting a proven fighter as Stella Oduah to represent them in the Senate.

waternopassgari:
The free trade zone will need some kind of dry land port like has been approved for Kaduna. It should be built with accesss to rail line for railway container transport.

Correct!
I'm not sure, but i believe an Inland container port was approved for Enugu & Aba during Obasanjo 2nd term days when the hassle to upgrade Enugu airport for Intl. access was still ongoing.. In any case, if the state government seriously work towards establishing a functional FTZ, it will be easier to lobby the FG to cite an inland container port with a functional FTZ facility than arguing for a container port, when no effort whatsoever is made to develop the FTZ that had been approved.

I thought someone would raise this issue over the years but none so far. I know it will become an issue sooner than later under Buhari Presidency as people look for the slightest safety concern to deny other regions an Intl. airport. Anyhow, its good to keep our facilities safe and sound.
So, with the Enugu International expected to grow in time. I was just wondering if it is time to relocate these innocent folks living at the tip of the runway for their own safety? Besides, NCAA might cite this as a reason for deeming the airport unsafe, they way they did to Asaba airport, if that village or slum continue to grow with attendant cooking smoke etc coming out from the location which might obscure pilot's visibility just at the point of touch down on runway 26. The state govt. should act proactively and relocate the folks so close to the foot of the runway before NCAA drops the hammer and disrupts operations at the airport for weeks or months over something the govt. could so easily quietly take care of.

ifeanyi199555:
My brother I have never posted anything on skyscraper before o! I get your point sha!
But once I saw the pics I immediately knew it wasn't Enugu! Although I am from Anambra, I fee up in 042 and I'm a true Enugu boy!

if it wasn't you posting those pictures on skyscraper, i'm sorry.
Ujoinme typically posts the same pictures of Uyo both in NL and skyscrapers because they are his pictures.This dude just roams the internet (especially this thread) just picking pictures and posting in Enugu thread on skyscrapers and he is really an embarrassment.Even someone from London will know better with some of the American pictures he simply copies and posts, not even recognizing what an Enugu picture could look like, while at the same time swearing to all that he actually lives in Enugu and owned the pictures.

ifeanyi199555:
Please stop posting pictures that have nothing to do with Enugu city! Please

I am sure you immediately wanted to copy the picture and post on skyscrapers as usual, but realized at the last minute. Goshhh! Thank God you read for once and saw it was an illustration.
Learn to post ONLY your own pictures on skyscrapers. You should stop posting pictures from here onto Skyscrapers claiming the credits that you took those pictures, unless you have Spyder's permission and you know Enugu very well to know the locations where they were taken and you have read the post to know if it were an example of something. Some of you have really embarrassed yourselves by copying blindly without even reading the posting that accompanied the pictures you are copying.You posted a picture someone used here as an example in 2013 and recently the completed roof of Enugu International conference center on skyscraper, not even realizing someone had used it as an illustration because you don't have time to read posts before copying.Thank God you took it down because someone raised the issue. We are here to put forward ideas and sometimes illustrate our ideas by posting a picture in London, USA or Dubai where it was done. We occasionally have debates about open gutters and we post pictures from elsewhere to illustrate how covering the gutter could transform our environment for the better.

You need to go back this thread and see that this isn't a praise singing thread for Enugu, but to explore better ways while showcasing the achievements so far.This is a thread to principally discuss Enugu's development, strategies that can be adopted, where those strategies worked etc, unlike skyscrapers where you are measuring d.ck with Ghanians and South Africans about which country is more beautiful, to no real political substance about how to improve anything. We know government people view this thread, at least during Chime's administration. That is why we are not concerned about singing praises here as if everything is now perfect and government people need not do better.Even though we know Enugu is already better than most places in Nigeria with a fraction of the money available in those states, we are not comparing with those failed states of Nigeria. Enugu focuses on comparing with other world class African and world cities and we are here to support that quest with practicable ideas in consideration of the meagre resources. We are exploring ideas about how to improve our state,southeast nigeria, free trade zones, airport,economy, fruitful political alignments etc.
See the original link here, everyone but you knows i'm reiterating someone else's previous example. https://www.nairaland.com/979128/enugu-pride-east/395

knowledgeable:
I think the time has truly come for a multi faceted SE zonal civilian JTF, supported by SE governors to deal with the expectant threat to the Zone leading up to 2019 and beyond. This styled civilian JTF will incorporate, think tanks in various fields, cheap Chinese civilian drones, diasporan organizations and their finances, a focused Media styled and specifically designed for this project. More and more ideas are welcome. SE zones and her people both inside and outside the zone will be hammered mercilessly in every aspect of their being from invisible forces within the national govt. and outside of it." If we don't prepare, expect fire brigade approach and confusion".

Your ideas about a sort of civilian JTF is good, but i completely disagree with you and reject such path completely. My fears are that those that who will operate it will not think of the great ideas you have now. They will be after using their membership of the militia to extort money from the innocent masses. Imagine common "Ndi-nche" community vigilante night watch. They will molest women in the same community they are supposed to protect simply because the girl was returning late from somewhere.

Imagine some of our criminals have enough firepower to match boko haram, but Kogi militias will attack their villages and they will run instead of fight back. But the next day, they will be robbing members of their village with the same guns. So, i totally disagree with militias, they worsen the problem with their lack of knowledge about the big picture.

FowlYansh:
This is my take.

[size=15pt]Thats actually not a bad combination. But they must begin now to sensitize Nigerians and their base. Too many things are left for granted in Nigeria until the last minute.[/size]

naptu2:
On March 17 the royal couple visited Maiduguri where they met the Shehu of Borno, were treated to a Durbar, visited a leprosy hospital and a village just outside the city.

Wonder if any international figure will ever visit maiduguri again. All lost in the quest to make Nigeria ungovernable if our man isn't in power

[size=22pt]BREAK UP THE BABOON REPUBLIK CALLED NIGERIA NOW![/size]

neurologist:
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I feel your decision of "no comment" because one cannot really tell if their intention is to work for the country or APC.

Hopefully, it is an avenue to address the biting housing deficit across the country as opposed to using Federal funds to build houses for a few party cronies and party members in a few selected geopolitical zones of the country.

Every Nigerian knows exactly what i'm saying.

Emekamex:
No pictorial evidence

peterovanski:
Hmm okay oooo kudos to the nigerian army.but one tin I don't understand is why are this bastards unfinishable,unkillable,unseeable?

Before, this thread would have been full. Nigerians don't swallow the lies any more.

ChimaAdeoye:
The FTZ area will be about a 15 sq. km in size. That will be a fantastic new Enugu city!
It already has an International airport and a railway line to the ONNE port for export/Import. Two vital requirements for a FTZ to succeed.

It will be a stunning new opportunity to replicate Abuja style planning in Enugu!

If we can build a road like in the picture below to link Enugu-Abakaliki road at Emene, to the Enugu-Nsukka road at 9th mile. We would have opened a whole new city for development in our lifetime.

spyder880:
l shouttd about this, the whole of IMT campus and ESUT old sites has been allocated and buildings completed on them. What is really happening?

The effort to distort the Enugu city master plan should be resisted vigorously as the plan to distort Abuja master plan was thwarted.

i have said it that the state government must not only demolish those illegal structures, but open more high brow housing areas such as Independence layout phase 2 and the Emene area for new housing by building access roads and electricity poles. It is not enough to stop people from building in illegal places, if you do not provide new legal estates for them to build.

Gov. Ugwuanyi should build access road to open up the linking of Abakaliki road at Emene to the Nsukka road at ninth mile corner called the Enugu Free trade zone(FTZ) road. If that access road link is built, that will open up a massive new area for property developers to build new estates in that area. they can plan that whole area like this layout posted earlier. That will open a huge area for developers.

centje:
If eventually, its a mall I think they would come with a different concept and items, since polo mall has dominated the market. The info I got was that it's park 'n' shop. Which ever, let them build fast and mop some of these unemployed youth.

Enugu State House of Assembly has condemned the indiscriminate allocation of land within Independence Layout and the concession of Water Corporation to a private firm.

The lawmakers made the condemnation in the resolution adopted at the Assembly’s plenary in Enugu on Tuesday.

The lawmakers condemned the allocation of the land beside the Assembly to a firm, Park ‘n’ Shop, stressing that no shopping centre was located within the three arms zone anywhere in Nigeria.

“This House resolves to condemn the allocation of parts of Enugu International Conference Centre and the old Eastern Nigeria Industrial Layout, Zik Ave., Uwani, Enugu, to private residents.

“That this House advise the allotees of such land to suspend development of the plots as it is against the public interest of Enugu State people.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/04/enugu-lawmakers-flay-allocation-land-within-independence-layout/

Without sentiments, a shopping center opposite the fence of the state house of assembly is a very very poor judgement from those that thought up such nonsense idea. Just like awarding the land for the prestigious Intl. Conference center as plots to private persons is sacrilegious. Enugu is one of the few planned cities in Nigeria and every effort must be made to make it remain that way like Abuja.

I hope the state assembly back their words with action and reclaim these lands. These people can always find land along Enugu-Abakaliki road at Emene or Independence layout phase II. Building shops inside the three arms zone is just a silly proposition.

omicron:
Very mischievous Order.

All those properties should be returned to the state government as they were stolen from the state and not the federal government.

Enugu state AG should file a suit asap.


This country sef

It's indeed a very abnormal order to ask that resources allegedly stolen from Enugu state should be forfeited to the federal government instead of the state it was stolen from? Nigeria is filled with thieves. Imagine someone recovering ill gotten wealth is also at the same time trying to steal the forfeiture from the rightful owners? That is why i don't trust our so called anti-corruption war.

The Enugu attorney general should immediately file for the forfeiture to be given to Enugu state government that the resources were stolen from and not the federal government.

cjrane:
They have not added an inch taxiway to where they abandoned the taxiway since 2013 August 23rd commissioning for international flights. The taxiway has not even linked the new(intl.) and old terminal buildings talk more of reaching one end of the runway. All other international airport including Kaduna airport has taxiway to both ends of the runway which is typically 3.25km long. With Lagos being 4km long while Kano and Abuja are 3.5 km long. Only Enugu runway is 3km long.The length of runway at 3km, isn't really bad as it can still take many large plane
I have monitored the development of Akanu Ibiam Intl. from multiple sources on the ground and online.

As for Buhari's commitment to completing the project, only time will tell. I can only say that I was glad with spyder's recent pictures showing work was still ongoing on the new terminal building.

What is of the biggest concern is that we seem to have relaxed for only Ethiopian to service the airport. Lufthansa flies 3 times/week from Malabo Intl. airport to Frankfurt, Enugu state govt. can lobby Lufthansa to make the route Malabo-Enugu-Frankfurt, which I'm sure they'd be glad to add Enugu to that route to make it more lucrative for the airline. Which will also give the needed vital link from Enugu to Europe and USA.
Also, Air France can fly Libreville-Enugu-Paris or Brussels airline can fly Douala-Enugu-Brussels 2 or 3 times a week. Many Intl. airlines already fly Kano-Ndjamena-Istanbul and other similar combinations of Kano with other small Intl airports in north Africa into Europe. We must work hard to collaborate Enugu International airport with some smaller African countries International airports around us that have airlines going to Europe and USA but have low passengers volume.That will be a win-win situation for all parties. It must not be a direct flight between Enugu-Frankfurt or somewhere in Europe as many tend to think it should.

Hopefully, we'll work with large european airlines unprofitably plying small central or west african capitals to do a combination flights with Enugu to improve their profit margin, the way Kano combines with Ndjamena airport.
Combining Enugu with Douala, Cameroon or libreville, Gabon is the fastest way to attract these European carriers to Enugu right now and establish the link into Europe from Enugu.

Spyder is that the location of the airport hotel and new mall on the map?

spyder880:
Lolllll
You are very close to the truth, they never threatened me but I started to think their last most was as a punishment for my blog links. I will continue to update my blog posts, when readership started to dwindle to less than 100 on some days, I started delaying posts. I will work more on it. Thanks.

I think you should consider re-naming the blog so that when one googles , Enugu,Nigeria, Igbo etc, the blog will be amongst the search result. i came to nairaland after i googled the naira exchange rate sometime in 2012. Then the site was one of the results and i found a lot of Igbo bashing which at the time made me astonished. Now, i have joined in the tribal bashing for fun.

mufutau55:
Is my man Okala (GoalKeeper) still alive? And Christian Chukwu (Captain). Those are the days of my favorite Enugu Rangers.
With our usual victory song: Ikenga Go Marry You.

Come see how my people hating me for a Yoruba man supporting Rangers instead of Ibadan Shooting Stars. I like Mathematical Odegbami though.

Hajji M.

At a point, i also supported 3sc, especially when Abiola wanted to own it.
I noticed that Nigeria was not so tribalistic in the past as it is now. I think after the civil war, Nigerians learned the dangers of tribalism and taking each other's tolerance for granted. I believe sometime from Abacha's regime to the present time, tribalism has assumed a central role in nigeria. it will probably lead to nigeria's demise unless a great leader is able to make some structural changes to defeat the role of tribalism in Nigeria. Unfortunately, all the leaders we have at present believe they have benefited from tribalism and will definitely not do anything to kill what has benefited them politically.

centje:
I heard sometime ago that it's another mall. Though, Its location casts some doubt on this info.

Spyder, it seems you struck a bargain with Nairaland Admin, to keep this thread in politics section while you stop traffic to your website, or was it a threat? Since the return of this thread to politics section, you have not directed us to your web.



www.nairaland.com/attachments/2617761_20150711081127_jpeg5eae3ff1b3800c56fe777f9ee39154f8

Judging from Obodo oyibo style, it looks like a mall. I think it will do good even in Independence Layout as long as Keke napep people will agree to drop people there. Most Malls in Obodo oyibo are also in their own secluded piece of land away from the city center and people take public transport or drive to the place to for shopping.Typically, what is available in this mall and the price will determine if they grow in leaps and bounds or not.

If they for instance they sell frozen meat at competitive prices in a large frozen meat section, they will pull a certain type of customers who want to buy meat, fresh fruits, vegetables and few household goods. But if they hope to anchor another shoprite and copy polo park mall verbatim, they have failed already.

i bookmarked Spyder's blog and visit it almost on daily basis to see what's going on.

spyder880:
This is the new construction for the airport hotel, today.

Hopefully, they'll build something world class and not just another tasteless hotel for the sake of it.With a basic square shape ,tiny parking lot,tiny swimming pool if any and a basic 7 feet by 8 feet hotel rooms, with no central restaurant nor conference hall.

I read somewhere that only one Nigeria university made the top 10 list in Africa (not the world), while Kenya had 3 universities on that list and SA had 5 universities on the list! It was particularly disheartening knowing that Nigeria in the last 10 years had established more than 20 new universities! All built in the same pattern and standard of the 1960s universities of small bungalow classroom blocks and no attempt to equip them with 21st century gadgets and libraries. it just makes you wonder when our people will really develop and start building first-world type infrastructure.
I would wish our people now begin to strive for world class standard now. In the days of 1960s-1980s, we were merely concerned with basic infrastructure since most of the facilities were being built for the first time ever. Now we should be concerned with attaining world standard in every new infrastructure since we already have hotels etc. I expect this structure to be a modern hotel that can compete with the likes in Nairobi, Durban or Botswana. Hopefully, the hotel developer will meet our modest expectation

Oyenuga:
[size=18pt]Another Yoruba pastor arrested with drugs at Enugu Intl. airport[/size]
Jul 7, 2015Ben Ezeamalu


A pastor with the Gospel Faith International Mission, Lagos, has been arrested by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, for smuggling 1.978 kilogrammes of heroin concealed in a false bottom of his luggage.
Daniel Akintola, 43, was caught at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, on an inward flight from Entebbe, Uganda.
In a statement Wednesday, the NDLEA said Mr. Akintola, who claimed to be returning from a Pastors’ Conference in Uganda, wanted to abandon his luggage at the arrival hall for fear of arrest.
“He wanted to abandon the luggage but we detected his intention,” said Nsikak-Abasi Udoh, NDLEA Commander at Enugu airport.
Mr. Akintola’s arrest came few weeks after the NDLEA arrested a Lagos-based pastor at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, for smuggling narcotics to South Africa.
“I am a pastor with Gospel Faith Mission International, Olayemi Assembly, Ipaja, Lagos,” Mr. Akintola told investigators according to the NDLEA.
“I attended a minister’s conference in Uganda. This bag where heroin was found is my bag but I am a pastor and not a drug trafficker,” said the pastor, who hails from Oyo State.
But the NDLEA said Mr. Akintola could not produce any evidence that he attended a minister’s conference in Uganda.
“Besides, he also did not give any reason for leaving Entebbe, Uganda en-route Addis Ababa to Enugu,” the agency said.
Another suspect, Tochukwu Onwuegbusi, was arrested at the airport by the anti-narcotics agency for concealing 51.5kg of ephedrine inside his luggage en-route Maputo, Mozambique.
According to the agency, the suspect said he was asked to take the bag of ephedrine to Mozambique for a fee of $2,500.
“I am a business man but after Customs seized my goods I became stranded,” Mr. Onwuegbusi told investigators.
“They paid my return ticket and promised that the person that will receive the bag in Maputo will give me $2,500. I would have invested the money in import business,” said the suspect who hails Anambra State.
Ahmadu Giade, NDLEA Chairman, said that there would be no hiding place for drug traffickers.
“Drug traffickers have no place to hide. Unless they quit their criminal act, the law will take its course,” Mr. Giade said.
“Let me appeal to members of the public to report drug dealers to the nearest NDLEA office.”
It will be recalled that the resident pastor of the Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim at Agodo-Egbe, Ikotun, Lagos, was recently arrested over unlawful exportation of 174kg of narcotics to South Africa.
The suspect, Michael Raji, was arrested following the interception of the drug at the cargo section of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport during pre-shipment examination.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/182582-another-pastor-arrested-with-drugs-at-enugu-airport.html

Please why are yorubas rushing to use Enugu airport for drugs smuggling?
Yorubas are up to another evil plot.

likila:
Buhari has disgrace Nigeria Army.

[size=14pt]Exactly!!!

Let the dulllard keep believing in the old military tactics of banza charge to show valor.
What Nigerian military need is what Jonathan did. Provide an attack helicopter force that goes in ahead of the army to destroy all the Boko Haram heavy weapons and vehicles.Then the soldiers can charge and over run the dazed Boko haram force.

The dulllard keeps thinking the attack helicopter crew flown by experienced SA ex-pilots is useless against Boko Haram, so he disbanded it. The reversals of fortune has been acute and immediate since he disbanded the South African pilots helicopter crew, proving the helicopter crew was a vital component of victories against Boko haram. Buhari will know this when Boko Haram push our troops into Abuja.

Anyway, it is obvious Buhari wants Boko Haram to defeat our army to make his case for an amnesty program easy. So let them keep wasting the lives of innocent soldiers by not giving them aircover in battle, in order to play the amnesty politics that Boko Haram deserves "Amnesty" because they cannot be defeated by our army[/size]

ceo247frolic:
Chadian military recently uncovered a Boko Haram Arms Depot where among the items found were condoms, and Libido Enhancing Tablets. Oh yeah? See more photos after the cut...

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cc lalasticlala

http://www..net/2015/07/photos-condoms-and-sex-enhancing-drugs.html

It is an insult for Boko haram members to shout Allahu akbar!!!

dream on op.

Buhari isn't going to touch one single corrupt friend of his.All of them are what the British call "Sacred cows". The money they made from corruption by stealing from government is theirs for the keeps for ever as long as their benefactor Buhari is president.
But other Nigerians should not expect such immunity.

so sad

That is what the plan has always been.
Bring terrorists as prisoners, then they are mysteriously allowed to escape to go and wreak havoc with bombing public places in the SE

[size=15pt]When it comes to BIAFRA, the Yorubas and Hausa/Fulanis are the WORST hypocrites.

They bitterly hate the Igbos and indeed the southern minorities and would want them to leave Lagos etc and go stay in their own country!

But in contradiction to their true feelings, they don't want Biafra because they want to perpetuate their right to collect the lion share of the oil resources sourced from the same peoples land, using the bogus criteria they foisted on the country called Nigeria.

Without oil in Igboland and Southern minorities part of Nigeria, Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani would have long seceded from Nigeria. FACT!

I know just like me, many of our people are not 100% convinced Biafra is the answer, while many others already are.

Therefore, we should agitate for a UN sponsored referendum on the Biafra issue .
Northern Ireland fought the British for 30 years for the independence of Northern Ireland, but the referendum proved that majority of the people wanted to stay in the UK. Likewise, the South Sudan's referendum proved majority of South Sudanese wanted to be in their own country.

Therefore, a United Nations sponsored referendum should be the demand to see if majority of our people support independence or to stay in Nigeria.[/size]