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centje: then you really need to re-check the landscape of that area. at the entrance to mall...the gate on the left facing celebrities...there are two spaces (on both sides of the entrance) that can contain the two structures just as it is in picture I posted.
there are still parts of unassembled crane in the space. if you're in enugu then try and take a closer look at the plan of that mall...I always wondered why so much parking lots...the parking space is meant to serve both the mall and the hotel.

italo: Dry!



You failed to answer the questions I asked you.

Where is 1 Cor 3:15 talking about? Heaven or hell?

Where is it that sins are forgiven in the world to come as Jesus implied?

Chino72: Why will Obi impress you when u don't even know what the real dividend of democracy is. U think the cosmetic shabby job that is being done by your gov chime is the real thing. The other day a r@ped and eroded mind like u was celebrating mulitbillion naira enugu state secretariat which is nothing but a waste resources and cluelessness. Is that what you enugu state people needs at this time when there is not job in the state, zero investment in education and health. Chime is a big time failure because he did not achieve anything outside repaving and repainting an existing roads only in the state capital. From my own analysis of your posts u are filled with complex, frustration and bitterness. Your likes think that good governance begins and ends with painting of roads. What a shame!

Sagamite: You are a person!

So it is the entrenched, corrupt and profligate individuals and entities that made her pay 4 times the amount a car is worth?

So it is the entrenched, corrupt and profligate individuals and entities that bought a car that was not needed?

So it is the entrenched, corrupt and profligate individuals and entities that lied that the purchase never existed?

So it is the entrenched, corrupt and profligate individuals and entities that were using the car?

So it is the entrenched, corrupt and profligate individuals and entities' subordinates that lied on their superior's behalf to taxpayers?



You are a person!

If your opinion is moronic, shove it back up your arsse where it came from.

Product of a failed education system.

Desric: So Obi just woke up to his visions now that his time is almost up? He's got all these pretty visions all these while and he didn't care to implement them or is he trying to pile up pressure for the incoming Governor? All na Naija politics anyway.

Sagamite: You are a person!

What problem has been solved?

sammy329: and some people will argue that enugu is not the crime capital of nigeria

centje: this is lovely

Funpeter: What about knocking him down is that another form of saying hi?

An annual art festival and competition held in Enugu concluded on a promising note, eliciting the prognoses of better future outings. Okechukwu Uwaezuoke reports

Instinctively, the viewer’s eyes scanned the oil on canvas painting for Alice and the Mad Hatter. But he was wrong: this was not about the Mad Hatter’s party in Lewis Carol’s classic, Alice in Wonderland. A bespectacled Fedora hat-sporting white dog sits at the head of a roundtable, around which cluster all kinds of animals. The animals include domestic animals, rodents as well as insects and birds. The headgears of the some of the animals evoke the major Nigerian ethnic groups. “Fragments of Unity”, the artist, Henry Osareti Eghosa, titled this work. Could he be alluding to Nigeria?

He must be. Some cryptic message obviously lurks beneath this work. The viewer only paused long enough to capture this painting with his phone’s camera and moved on to other works on display at the exhibition space in Enugu’s Nike Lake Hotel. But little did he know that this would later that day be proclaimed the winning work in the Life in My City Art Festival (called LIMCAF) competition.
The judges – comprising of Professor Chike C. Aniakor (Chairman), Nsikak Essien, Bisi Silva, Professor Sani Muazu, Professor Ohioma Pogoson, Quiterie de Roquefeuil and Dr. Ozioma Onuzulike – had deemed it the best out of the 25 outstanding works sifted from a total of 123 entries based on the theme: “Out of the Frame, Out of the Box”. It had won the overall prize worth N500, 000.
Among the winners announced during the awards ceremony that October 12 evening at the Nike Lake Hotel were those in the Best Sculpture/Installation/Ceramics (Toyeeb Ajayi), Best Photography/Multimedia (Kemi Akinnibosun) and Best Textile/Graphics (Monsuru Alase) categories. Each of these winners got cash prizes of N250, 000 each. Other prizes were the Justice Anthony Aniagolu Prize for Originality (won by Erasmus Onyishi) worth N100, ooo and the Vin Martins Iloh Prize for Best Enugu Entry (won by Izuchukwu Moneme) and Art is Everywhere Prize for Best Waste-to-Art (won by Candidus Onyishi) both worth N50, 000. Because the overall winner emerged from the Best Painting/Multimedia/Drawing category the N250, 000 prize meant was understandably not awarded. It had become superfluous.

Arriving at a shortlist of 25 works out of the many entries and selecting the eventual winners was expectedly a daunting task. The judging panel, chaired by Professor Aniakor, had fulfilled this assignment in three stages. “In the first stage, each of the seven judges had the liberty to critically study all the works on display and select up to 25 pieces based primarily on the originality of thought, creative handling of materials/media and conceptual engagement with the theme, ‘Out of the Box’.”

After comparing notes from each of its members’ shortlists, the jury identified “27 most re-occurring pieces” in the lot. They further pruned down the list to 25 after returning to the exhibition hall and subjecting the works to a long critical discussion.

Each of the jury members would propose four of his or her best works from out of the 25 in the second stage. It is from these that 10 works would emerge as possible prize winners. In the final stage, after a heated critique session on all the 10 works, the jury settled for the winners.

On its seventh edition, this art festival and competition held annually in Enugu had made a recent foray into the Lagos art scene, where it organised an exhibition supported by the Alliance Française Network in Nigeria, Diamond Bank and Access Bank at the National Museum of Unity Onikan, Lagos. This Lagos exhibition also enjoyed the support of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments.

Similar exhibitions either simultaneously or had already taken place in cities like Ibadan, Kaduna, Abuja, Jos, Calabar Owerri, Port Harcourt, Auchi, Uyo and Enugu as the collection centres of the zones in the country. The exhibitions held at the second stage at the level of the zone of a three-stage process leading to the final stage. This final stage was the just-concluded grand finale exhibition to be held in Enugu on Saturday October 12.

The annual festival and competition had first begun as an experiment of sorts. This was in 2006, when the founder and Chief Executive of the very prominent outdoor advertising agency, Rocana Nigeia Limited, Robert Oji, sought sustainable ways to challenge and encourage the hordes of art students in the tertiary institutions in and around Enugu. These students had very few exhibition possibilities in their increasingly philistinic environ. A few lucky ones had occasional opportunities to hold exhibitions at the Alliance Française centre along Neni Street in Enugu.

With a two-man team comprising of Esona Onuoha and Onyinye Igbo (one man and one woman really), both staff members of Rocana, he had started the project. He had charged the duo to develop a proposal, which could eventually attract support from other sources for a youth art competition aimed at stimulating creativity in the visual arts.

Egged on by the initial support of Alliance Française Enugu then headed by Dr. Gerard Chouin and two enthusiastic members of the local branch of the Pan African Circle of Artists in Enugu, Ayo Adewunmi and Krydz Ikwuemesi, the idea began to grow phenomenally.
It has since grown to include an international photo contest the Photo Africa competition and exhibition for young photographers less than 35 years of age, who live and work in Africa. The winner of the competition, which first held last year, is Oluwafemi Falodun.
Meanwhile, the theme for the next year’s edition of the competition, chosen after a breakfast-time brain-storming session at the Nike Lake Hotel, is “The Future I See”.

Delafruita: perhaps the lord God is not as effective as bulletproof BMWs else she wont have used her position to spend taxpayers money on protection from perceived enemies

odua man: According to our eastern brothers,osundefender is a crappy news website whose reporting should be taken with a pinch of salt,,cant believe the same hypocrites suddenly believed this particular story since it's against their perceived enemy.

Molestation and Attempted Molestation
With 10 per cent incident of molestation or attempted molestation, the South South region is the molestation capital of the country followed by the North East (6 per cent) and the South West and North West (4 per cent each). The South East is the region with the lowest propensity for molestation with just 1 per cent.

donphilopus: Osundefender reported the fact now, but when they bring any news against GEJ that's when you will say Osundefender is a Liar , and belongs to Tinubu

omenka: 1. In the history of NCAA, has the life of any of their visitors been made attempt on to necessitate the purchase of armored vehicles

2. The evidence of the bank statement of coscharis motors regarding this transaction as provided by Saharareporters (which coscharis hasn't denied) indicates that the purchase of the vehicles was through any means but "Lease Financing". Can she clarify that??

3. Was the purchase of the said "specialized security vehicles" approved in the ministry's budget as passed by the national assembly

4. Who were the other auto dealerships available at the bidding?? Was the quotation of coscharis the most competitive?

5. We believe the other parastatals under the ministry receive foreign visitors from time to time as well?? Following your logic, they would be needing similar vehicles for their guests wouldn't they, madam minister





This one is simply indefensible madam.
Throw in the towel honorable and safe whatever is left of your dignity. We know you arnt going to jail. This is Nigeria!!

Chanchit: Dnt worry, she has many ways of saying "hI" like using the car to splash dirty water on u from head to toe.

bigass: why do have the purchasing and procurement depts? to find the true value/cost of goods before they are bought, to regulate against overinflated costs

ogb5: The probe of the procurement should still be done. Not as a witch hunt to catch her but to learn from it.

Since only one vendor responded to the tender request for Security vehicles, they should have re-advertised the tender request to allow for better response. the tender procedure need to changed so that in cases of single tenders then the process should be expanded.

If after expanding the tender process and they still get single response then they can invoke the single tender process that call for greater scrutiny and bargaining to get the best deal.

v)Between June 20 and 25, 2013, invoices were received from various accredited motor vehicle dealers during which only Coscharis Motors Limited quoted for BMW Security Vehicles.

ogb5: If what she says is true and due process was followed in procurement of the vehicles, then can she sue Sahara reporters for libel? She can even add Nairaland to the suit.