₦airaland Forum

Odenigbo Aroli: Funny guy,it's sucks to be a loser; Best in waec, revolution is health sector,revolution in agriculture, improvement in sports.

WHO,World bank and all the international agencies hailed of as the best administrator in Nigeria. So,who are you or did Obi bribe them?

jude2011: @spyder880
Is nkanu east not part of enugu?? Nkerefi road is a nightmare, mbubrubu', ihuokpara all their roads are bad yet my guv is busy ppainting enugu. Nomeh has good roads right??. Stopp defending him.

Odenigbo Aroli: I'm not talking about a student here,I'm talking about a complete overhaul of the school system which will benefit every child.
Secondly, how can you come out of nowhere and tell people like us that Park lane is the best run hospital in the east...Ol'boy, nawaoo.
Yea,sports like national sports festival and inter-house. I mean sports at the grassroots level.
Rural development like opening all remote villages for easy access and wealth creation.

Odenigbo Aroli: I only replied in context to your post; why is Enugu lagging behind in Education,rural development, agricultural revolution, sports and even in health? Or do you people think UNTH should serve every Enugite in any part of Enugu where they are location?

spyder880: Enugu state is ranking among the best in educational achievement nation wide. One area that has attracted public attention in Enugu is the tourism. Swear if you never come shop for polo park mall

Odenigbo Aroli: With all the education awareness present in Enugu due to the many higher institutions scattered all over Enugu,Enugu is still lagging behind in education. Tell me one area that Enugu state has attracted public attention in? None,yet with all the beautiful people will go to Cross River and so many other places before Enugu. Lets be honest,Chime is a quiet,timid and a sneaky failure!

Odenigbo Aroli: Seriously, by Nigeria standard Enugu is beautiful but for me I care more about how the poor are rehabilitated and spread of wealth and growth of the middle class.

I know our Awka is still not in the class of Enugu city but we are coming very aggressive and strong and I don't look up to Enugu. We will give Nigerians something to mull about in the coming years. We want every part of Anambra to be developed to its full potential; We will shock Nigerians with Awka.

Nwa Anambra: I don't want to go down this way with you......... if you don't keep your cool and reel out real analysis without the intent to insult, then I might just give it to you just the way you love it. peace!

Nwa Anambra: If we want to define a city by Western standards, Then only Ikeja, Lagos island down to Ajah and calabar, and Abuja has reached that status.

Nwa Anambra: first of all, the topic of the thread is misleading. As much as I like Sullivan, I must give an objective analysis of his government. He embarked on needless beautification of the urban Centre, almost neglecting other parts of the state. As it stands now the only factory operating at optimum level in Emene is Inosson plastics. He failed to open up new frontiers. A first visitor to Enugu will be bewildered by the gory picture that will greet him upon leaving the state capital. Presently, Enugu State remains the only state in the East with only one City. Enugu state capital has been a nice place since the discovery of coal and therefore there's nothing new Sullivan will add that has been seen in the capital.

otil1: @Passion, pls don't get me wrong. I live right here in Emene and I feel it real.

I guess your close to them. Pls it's not yet late. Can you pls direct their attn here. We seem 4gotten.

B4 I come out to those palatial cleaned up roads, my bumpers are all unhooked or torn.

Pls help, even if it's all we achieved by this lovely interchange.

Abeg na. Rgds always

MOBJECTIVE: no matter how much i look at this, i think it's damn ugly.
I love the symbolism, but the proportion and medium are both off putting.

either it's all un-real and graphically designed, or it's all real and simply photographed. plus the bird is quite small.

otil1: The road that gave value to their family land in thinkers corner

Bros, kindly go to Emene and start from Nigersteel, cross rail. That where pll stay. Anything b4 airport is for them, not for for us.

spyder880: What about Emene old road, I can drive to Emene now. The airport road is for show and old road through thinkers corner is also for swow.

otil1: [s]Chime's performance after 8years is at best controversial. From the foregoing many say he has many say he hasn't.

Me I say, if he is an urban freak, fine. What about Emene? Ngwo? And 9th mile? These are all part of Enugu.

Oji, an old peri-urban that existed b4 he was born got nothing -zilch. Nsuka the University town nko, nothing nothing, not to mention Agbani, another University town created solely by his predecessor.

In summary, nothing new. Just embellishment of existing Enugu. No new road, nothing new.

Did his predecessor not create Nza link road to new haven? The tunnel? Started 9th mile byepass? I challenge the defenders here to show me any new devt.

Resurfacing existing road networks created in the colonial days won't earn my pass mark. Sorry. All na wash! And those light brains here are showing how much the have been brain washed[/s]

fuckluv: The next Gov. Will focus on education. So you're from Ugwogo-Nike? That place backward no be small.

chymystique: Shey that the road to your own villa... Wah of the roads in those villages along Nsukka road(Udi LGA).. Egede, amaozara linking towards Affa.. Infact all doz villages along Nsukka rd is nothin to write home..no lite, no water, no road.. They ve nothing. Evn Fr. Mbaka said it.. He shldnt b performing on one side and expect me to praise him

chymystique: Performing Indeed!.. He only performed well in Enugu Capital and around his hometown.. And he did most this due to his 2015 senatorial ambition.. He has a lot to do esp in d rural areas.. IMO, Enugu state is back to its meSs

Chamack: He has tried, I like him as a performing governor but not for representation in the senate cos its requires one to be outspoken and not media shy. can he square up senators like Abdul Ningi, Smart Adeyemi,Ita Enang these are high ranking Senators whom their impact is felt in the house. Chime is media shy that it, he is Gil Nnaji in the making.( O Yes member)

Chamack: Because he is media shy and this is person angling to represent Enugu West in the senate. A media shy person can't do well in the senate.

wirinet: Dear Brother
Why don't the proposed areas that will constitute Adaba State turn these Viabilities into realities before they start making their demand to be made a state. There is no state in Nigeria without Agricultural, Educational and economic viability. The Main Problem is converting these vaibilities into realities instead of being liabilities.

As long as states recieve the sweet milk of free oil money from Abuja, they would always be dependent of the free money for survival. Weaning states from oil money would be as difficult and painful as weaning a baby from its mothers milk.

Nigeria's coperate existence is dependent on oil money. In fact everything in Nigeria is all about how to share the Niger Delta oil. From Rotational Presidency, to demand for states to all cries of marginalization. All is a ploy to get more oil money from Abuja.

nyerem: I heard by one of my collegue dat bomb was found in fmc umuahia abt 2wks ago.since dat day av not slept with both eyes close.

wirinet: You are the one that is controlled by emotions rather than reason, even your moniker confirms it. Political and geocultural homegenity is not the main criteria for a viable state in the modern era, if so then the US would be the most unviable nation in the world. Economic viabily is the most important criteria for a successful state in a globalized world.

Can you tell me what make Adaba State Viable. All the present south east states would crumble the minute they stop receiving oil stipends from Abuja. What is the vaibility of the present Enugu State? How much is Enugu able to generate presently? Can it pay salaries of ordinary teachers? not to talk of the whole civil service.

All these shouts of "we demand more states" is only a way to get more oil money from Abuja to be shared by politicians and their cronies. The minute oil money stops flowing from the Niger Delta, the cry then would then be to merge the states into regions. I am sure by then Nigerian state would not be able to cater for more than 10 states.

millionaireman: Adada brothers/sisters, be your brothers' keepers, be real for once. Will it not pain you, sound absurd, if not completely outrageous, to still mass up 48 local govt areas with more than ten million people in today's Imo and Anambra states, just to divide Enugu state of 17 local govt areas with less than 3 million population in order to create an Adada state of 7 local government areas with less than 2 million population? Why still rely on that hotel room illegal meeting in 2006 or so by some disgruntled southeat legislators for Adada? By the way, the meeting was immediately condemned by Ohaneze Ndigbo as illegal. @chino, you have only a vote during any referendum, if any, for ANIM STATE. But note: Political leaders from Anambra south senatorial district, including former Anambra state governor, Mbadinuju and other prominent politicians from Anambra south joined in signing the demand for a new state carved from Anambra South and Imo West senatorial zones way back in 2005, and still pursue the demand till today. So chill out. Anambra south has suffered serious development setbacks since then, including Anambra legislators hurriedly relocating main campus of Anambra state University from Uli in Anambra south senatorial zone. Imo west senatorial zone has been suffering from similar denial of infrastructures all these years. Finally, the 12 lgas in Imo West senatorial zone are large, populated and viable enough to merit the propsed sixth state.

millionaireman: For the sake of justice and equity, this is the second time in less than ten years that Nigerians sat and decided that a sixth state should be created in the southeast areaaa, first and foremost. This time, people from the southeast need to face reality in the choice of the location for a sixth state in the southeast, instead of manifesting greed in the choice of the location. Present southeast area is former East Central State which was first divided into Anambra and Imo state in 1976. Anambra state was further divided into Enugu and Anambra states at the same time Imo state was divided into Abia and Imo states. Ebonyi state which is the fifth and last state in the southeast was derived from Abia and Enugu states in 1996. Thus, considering the foregoing, as well as considering the factors of VIABILITY, POPULATION, CULTURAL AFFINITY AND EQUITY, the next state to be created in the southeast area has to be carved from Imo West and Anambra South senatoril zones, (ANIM STATE) or from the 12 local government areas of Imo West senatorial zone (NJABA STATE). This group was the first to make request for new state before the NATIONAL POLITICAL REFORMS CONFERENCE during the OBJ administration. Southeasterners can no longer create a situation whereby the baby is thrown away together with the bath tub, as was done after the last political reforms conference.

A group of South African investors have indicated interest to plough $200 million in the agriculture sector in Edo, Enugu and Benue states.

The investors have therefore sort the acquisition of 5,000 hectares of farmland which at the end would provide over 2,500 direct and indirect jobs for Nigerians especially the people of the three states.

This was disclosed when the board members of Nigerian Institute for Oil-palm Research (NIFOR) led by its chairman, Senator Lee Maeba, visited Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State at Government House, Benin City.

Diaspora
The bid by the Government of Enugu State to install its candidate to lead the highly influential EnuguUSA, an umbrella body of Enugu indigenes living in the United States of America, USA, failed at the weekend as delegates elected the first woman President of the body, Dr. Ifesinachi Ugwuonye.A strong delegation of the Government to the convention, which held in Houston, Texas led by the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry and former Adviser to Governor Sullivan Chime on Diaspora Matters, Dr. Jude Akubuilo dressed in T-Shirts and faze caps that bore Governor Chime’s picture and had “Sullivan for Senate” boldly written on them featured prominently at the convention.
Other members of the delegation were the Commissioner for Works, Engr. Goddy Maduaeke; Special Adviser on Diaspora Matters and Special Projects, Prof. Ike Mbah; and the Managing Director, Enugu State Housing Development Corporation, Mr. Ikeje Asogwa,Their presence was however not enough to muster the requisite votes for their candidate, Mr. Leo Ugwu from Udi LGA as Dr. Ifesinachi Ugwuonye, a lawyer and indigene of Obeleagu Ndiuno in Ezeagu LGA cruised to a landslide victory.Given the influence of the EnuguUSA in Enugu politics, Governor Chime’s strategists, it was gathered, were determined to install a candidate the government was “comfortable with” as a prelude to swaying Diaspora support for the Governor’s preferred successor and his quest for Enugu West Senatorial seat.It could be recalled that many key members of the Governor’s cabinet, including the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry and former Adviser on Diaspora Matters, Dr. Jude Akubuilo were drawn from the EnuguUSA organisation.Sources close to the Enugu Government House and the convention said the EnuguUSA election might have cost the State Government more than USD92,000.However, it was gathered that the efforts to defeat Dr. Ifesinachi Ugwuonye, described by government sources as “rigid and difficult to deal with” were thwarted by the Greater Awgu indigenes and delegates who voted en masse against the Governor’s candidate.
The incumbent Senator representing Enugu West Senatorial District, Chief Ike Ekweremadu, hails from Aninri, which is part of the Greater Awgu political block in the Enugu West Senatorial District.Although Dr. Ugwuonye and Mr. Ugwu hail from the same Udi/Ezeagu political block, delegates were said to have routed for Dr. Ugwuonye to prove a point and ensure the independence of the umbrella organisation of Enugu citizens resident in the USA.Meanwhile, a member of the Enugu State Government delegation to the convention who spoke on the condition of anonymity said it was not true that the Government sponsored any of the candidates as they were only in Houston to “promote Governor Sullivan Chime’s bid for the Senate”.
But this might have backfired as competent sources insisted that it was one of the major grouses of the delegates against the Sullivan Chime Administration.A delegate who gave a detailed account of election queried: “How could people sit down in Government House Enugu and decide who is going to lead EnuguUSA? How could people be so petty to wear senatorial campaign T-shirts and faze to come and disorganize our events in a foreign land? Wasn’t that too petty and desperate?”With the election, EnuguUSA has become the first major Igbo diaspora organisation to elect a woman as its President.Other candidates elected into key offices include Hon. Kristy Obimah, Vice President; Hon. Chukwuma Ojukwu, Secretary; Hon. John Agbo, Chairman of Board of Trustees; and Hon. Ijeoma Nweze, Secretary, Board of trustees.]