₦airaland Forum

dBard:
Why am I not surprised
A President that cannot see beyond tribal/ethnic lines will always end up making decisions that'll end up dividing rather than bringing 2gda.

It's really disappointing n embarrassing that our President will allow himself easily b threatened, cajoled, tossed around like this.
He is the President of Nigeria, NOT an Ijaw man.

sharrap! when amaechi accused him of this same thing,wet in you talk? oil wells were given to bayelsa. wetin you talk? no vex me this morning o! otherwise I go enter motor begin come st Johns now now to slap some sense into you.

braindamage:
Metallica - Nothing else matters

o boy una wey be hard rock fans,how una dey manage?

the eagles-hotel california (on repeat)
the strokes - first impressions of earth

rattlesnake:

Comot for road. no be you I dey find.

for those in PH, interstellar is showing at Genesis. not sure of silverbird though.

OP please help me find
1. rattlesnake(ahanna) 1,2&3
2.violated1&2

mesoade:
There is nothing nigerians will not complain about . . When ball was played at moses esuene stadium,they said,"is that the best stadium in 9ja" . Now,a new one is built and you're saying another thing . .
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If the money was used for another thing,they will say,"he ought to have built a stadium with the money"
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i cant believe the point of the article was totally lost on you. did you even read it?

beautiful piece! akpabio definitely didnt think this through in the rush to build the stadium. this is a typical "i am working" project that is grandiose but if looked at critically,is empty!
our leaders conveniently forget(some dont even have a clue) about the essence of governance which is THE PEOPLE and giving them what they NEED.

what can 39billion naira do in healthcare or education a whole lot!
the average akwaibom man needs to be able to get cheap or free healthcare when he falls ill.
he needs to be able to access free education for his kids in quality government schools.
he needs to be able to get from point A to point B rapidly, and in comfort as he ekes out a living.

drshrewd:
Ameachi is simply the best in virtually all aspect of governance. even on infrastructure he constructed the widest state roads. road such as Ada geoge, Rumula, etc can compete with any federalroad. he is a phenominom in Agriculture. apart from the sungai farm the banana plantation farm I saw in tai lga is mouth watering. it is fully mechanised and covers several hectas of land. Rivers will sure miss Amaechi.

God bless you!! i wish you could say this a little louder. amaechi touched EVERY AREA OF GOVERNANCE. i dont believe it up till now i swear.
yes our leaders can do more and infact we shouldnt get carried away by these basic things but in a country filled to the brim with corruption,people like amaechi should be singled out.

osemu8:
don't say what u don't no,those buildings are real,66 health centres,model primary schools they are still visible n working

leave am make im dey fool imself!!

ive told them to mention where they stay in PH and ill point them in the direction of the closest model school AND health center.

arresa:
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Now you are getting boring with the same rubbish and football pitch.. Football pitch doesn't get used everyday or even every week, mit sist there unused till the next match to what jobs are you talking about? What about hospital that people go to everyday for good health? What about schools for school kids?

Are you and akpabio allergic to building schools, hospitals, clinics and common sense infrastructure that people need?

come to my area at eliogbolo,rumuokoro. akwaibom girls are everywhere opening hair saloons because they are guaranteed to have some level of appreciable power supply courtesy amaechis power plants .
the same thing applies to their guys who are all over my area doing their drycleaning business and making money

this ish should have hit frontpage like yesterday. wey the mods dey?

ITbomb:
Wait o
Was this really a live recording?
Both audio and video

Classic

meeennnn...the thing trip me o!!!! nice... that, there is the difference. these people are willing to go to extra lenghts to make a quality product.

nairaarea:
Na wa oh

jonathan is something else i swear. this newspaper headline gets me cracking anytime i see it......lol

Eziachi:
In this day and age pictures can tell loads of lies. My take on this, is the fact that Nigeria public officials treat public funds as some lottery they just won. Have you witnessed how most people that win lottery spend the money? I have seen one that bought 5 of the same model of a car in one go.
I know that some of you have opinion controlled by party affiliations, big man followership, hoping that following them will make them become big too.
Ask yourself this questions with a clear head and honestly supply the answer to yourself.
As an Akwa Ibom tax payer:
1. How does Akpabio nest benefit my family and grandparents in the village?
2. If Akwa Ibom citizens are to share $450m , how much will one person, average family get?
3. If Akwa Ibom people are given an option of a nest for Neymar and well equipped specialist hospitals in all the local government areas with a modern supporting land and air helicopter ambulance system, which one do you think they will choose?
4. Do you think drinking dirty water from 17th century method through borehole merit spending millions on a nest? How many people in Akwa Ibom can turn a tap now a get water running out? How many had treckked to a river this morning to fetch untreated water for consumption?
5. How much do you think stadiums like the Arsenal Emirates stadium cost and how much they target to make annually to cover the cost and make it economic viable?
6.How much does Akwa Ibom planned to make annually from the nest in order to recover the cost of the nest in the next 30 years before it looks out of date like most infrastructures?
7.If this millions of dollars is your personal money or family inheritance and your family hired and paid Akpabio good salary to look after the money for you and your family and he decided to use the whole cash to build the nest and spend another millions to gather African corrupt rulers to celebrate your money. Will you join the party or will sack and sue him for squandering your family inheritance?

The problem of most Nigerians is this mentality of not reasoning that public money that their politicians spend is actually their money and should get them mad whenever it's embezzled, squandered or wasted.

There is nothing wrong with building a stadium but it's a matter of priorities. In economic terms it is called the scale of preference. Where will a sane person put Akpabio nest on that scale of preference for Akwa Ibom citizens?
Ebola outbreak has shown how public money should be prioritized watching what has hit Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
In the modern world, Akpabio job will be to attract private investors to build the nest but which sensible investors will plug in $450m in Akwa Ibom in sports facilities and hopes to get his money back?
Akwa Ibom need good rural roads for farmers, interest free loan for farmers and fishing industries, quality utilities that works, modern schools at all levels, modern hospitals per every 10 miles, employees paid every 20th day of the month and not a stadium that add absolutely nothing to the life of ordinary citizens, except the inflated ego of the king.

as usual pa eziachi, you are spot on! its always a delight reading from you. how's your health? God bless you!

...this obi's picture^^ always cracks me up.

24in7:
highman

o boy who be the chick?? see blazing!!!

...to celebrate 100years of a dead country

vedaxcool:
Aljazeera reported jonathans declaration like this:
Jonathan declares for president 24hrs after a suicide bomber killed 50 people
I remember when el rufai lost his son, ebele's supporters were wondering how he was able to post on facebook a day after, yet they are not questioning how a supposed leader of a country smiles cheerfully a day after 50 children conservatively speaking were murdered under the most odious circumstance?
Nigerians need to look into the mirror and ask where our morals have gone!

its a pity my brother.barely 24 hours after little kids were killed,our president is on TV declaring his intention to run another 4 years while crooks like peter odili(a man,no sane leader should touch with a 20 feet pole) cheer him on.

nigeria is a country on the brink. leaders who dont give a damn and followers who are dumb.
i am ashamed that a great deal of my people in the south east are too myopic to realize our support for this man will take us no where.
what does he want to do in 4 years,he couldnt do in the past 4 years?
4 years have gone and i cant point to anything my people in the south east have benefitted.
4 years have gone and no single motorable federal road in that region.
4 years have gone and weve not seen the 2nd niger bridge
4 years have gone and no tangible federal govt project in the south east
4 years have gone and crime/insecurity/corruption are at their peak since independence. fact!

close to 50 kids were blown to smithereens yet this drunk man is more interested in 2015.
may the good lord visit his wrath on this man and his cronies who are directly overseeing the collapse of this nation.

dracula untold
the judge

DVanguard:
60 billion, built a complete games village; over 500 houses with basic amenities like, water, electricity, standard roads etc. The game complex comprise of at least 30 other sports with training centres and the main bowls for viewing. Table tennis court, lawn tennis, hockey, football, cycling, handball, basket ball, indoor basket ball and out door court, volley ball etc. The kind of sport you can think of except from sea, polo and car race you will find there
. You should question the cost of Akwa Ibom if Abuja could build a complete city (town) with standard sporting facilities and road network linking this places. The Abuja Coja sport facilities is massive and gigantic. never compare them.

interesting!! didnt know the abuja stadium had all those things you mentioned....but even at at that ,60billion in 2003, was it not rather too much?

Unemadu:
No indoor sports complex?

not sure. the truth is that pictures of the inside of this complex are scarce.

kel4soft:
OP, I don't know the reason for this thread. Now Akpabio constructed a world class Football Stadium which I myself I am happy for. I watched the opening ceremony from start to finish and did savour every moment of that event though bar the crappy match.

On the other hand, the 2 last pictures you posted is not Port Harcourt new stadium but Sharks Football Stadium that was renovated in Township,.Port Harcourt.

Amaechi didn't built Football Stadium only but games village where you have
2 World class Swimming pools.
2 Indoors basket ball courts
2 Hockey pitch
Hostels for Athletes
and a 40k football pitch at a lesser cost of what Akpabio spent in building that stadium.

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kelly...you sure of wetin you type? look the pictures again jo!

oh please!!! nobody is arguing about quality here. the akwaibom stadium is of far better quality than the AA stadium. fact! But what we are saying is that the AA sports complex has more value for rivers people than akwaibom stadium has for akwaibom people.

if you want to know what the akwa stadium will look like in future,look at the national stadiums in abuja and lagos.

the AA stadium is a complex where young budding rivers athletes will be groomed for upcoming tournaments like the national sports festival,common wealth games and the olympics WHILE AT THE SAME TIME, attracting the needed development to greater PH.

the AA stadium is obviously more functional.

save the pictures from your links unto your PC and then upload them from there to nairaland

ujoinme:
you can switch your user name from Agbaworo to Abagoro to phantom or what ever you like but i know what you are about. you cant live down the fact that gov. Akpabio Achievement has dealt a big blow to the APC narrative. thats why several threads have been created to discredit his achievment and there is a bevy of online action to undermine his achievment including the silly write up you posted on this thread.
Am suprised your principal Okorocha did not make your list , maybe an oversight. lol

Well i can assure you that Akpabio has not started commissioning yet, The two internationally branded hotels Hilton garden inn uyo and Four points by Sheraton is opening its doors january 15, 2015. 428 bed The 20th anniversarry specialist hospital complete with nursing and allied health school will be comissioned by Dec this year and many more are comming. APC ain't seen anything yet.

@bolded..... are hotels people oriented projects? or is akpabio seeing a future where prostitution becomes a money spinner for the state?

ujoinme:
you can switch your user name from Agbaworo to Abagoro to phantom or what ever you like but i know what you are about. you cant live down the fact that gov. Akpabio Achievement has dealt a big blow to the APC narrative. thats why several threads have been created to discredit his achievment and there is a bevy of online action to undermine his achievment including the silly write up you posted on this thread.
Am suprised your principal Okorocha did not make your list , maybe an oversight. lol

Well i can assure you that Akpabio has not started commissioning yet, The two internationally branded hotels Hilton garden inn uyo and Four points by Sheraton is opening its doors january 15, 2015. 428 bed The 20th anniversarry specialist hospital complete with nursing and allied health school will be comissioned by Dec this year and many more are comming. APC ain't seen anything yet.

when a 'supposedly' intelligent individual like you begins to go down the line of the bolded like the dregs of nairaland,then you have nothing more to offer.

are we surprised? yet some i.diotic and impressionable little guys and girls do all sorts of questionable things just to "keep up".
all the while missing the very valuable lesson. many of these celebrities actually have no real value,so they sell you "the hype" or "the lifestyle"

the youths of today cant see beyond the smokescreen....

abagoro:
I am as usual writing the bitter truth. Those people will never produce a Governor in Rivers State where their acceptability level is 30%. Especially "Oyigbo".

but the governorhip ticket of the APC was zoned to rivers south east of which oyigbo is a part.
besides if odili from ndoni could become governor,what stops someone else from oyigbo?

note the bolded!!


17th National Sports Festival: The Story of Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium Complex

When Rivers State won the rights to host the 17th edition of the National Sports Festival, NSF in 2009, it nursed the dream to stage the biennial fiesta in a one stadium complex, where all the events would hold within the same environment.

According to authorities then, it would serve to give the fiesta the compactness of the Olympics, enhance the integration of the Nigerian youths and take the spirit of the game and athletes to a very good level.

Also, the dream of a one venue sports festival with ultra modem world class facilities tallied with the vision of Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, for a new Port Harcourt City replete with first class infrastructure.

Furthermore, the need for a befitting sports facility that will provide the opportunity for sporting activities and recreation for the new Port Harcourt City, known as the Greater Port Harcourt City combined to influence the choice of the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium complex between the Igwurita, Aluu, Omagwa axis of the Greater Port Harcourt City.

[b]A virgin land in Igwuruta was the choice for the Garden City Sports Complex. The facility is positioned on a 42-hectre piece of land within Rivers State’s new mega city, Greater Port Harcourt.

The sports arena comprises a 25 thousand seating capacity Stadium which is going to be the second largest fully covered main bowl in Nigeria when completed. Being constructed by Deux Nig Ltd, the stadium was proposed to be used for the opening ceremony but will not be used because project is still under construction.

The five thousand seating capacity natural grass football arena with eight synthetic track lanes, that will boost most of the field events such as the track and field sports was also built by Deux .

Deux handled the construction of the entire playing surfaces project such as the lawn tennis (2), volley ball (2), basket ball (2), hand ball (2), hockey (2), squash (4) indoor sports hall and a 50, 25, and 10 metre shooting range all built according to international regulations and standard has an average seating capacity of 800 on each court.

The arena has four Olympic size pools, two 50 by 25 metres swimming pools and two 15 by 25 metrres diving pools built according to international Olympic standard. The pools are built by Veltrop Nig Ltd and Vast Int.

Explaining the working of the pools, VAST International Nig. Manager, Mr Obiora Okoya, said there are three components of the pool; the Swimming Pool, the Balance Standard and the Technical Room.

The 10 lane swimming pool described as one of the best in Africa, contains the water were athletes can compete. The pool is surrounded by gutters with pipe connections underground into the Balance Standard.

A view of the underground Balance Stand is in the technical room, the Balance Stand, absorbs water from the pool to avoid overflow of pool water irrespective of the number of people in the pool at the same time. Through the underground pipes in the gutters surrounding the pool, pool water is transferred into the balance standard to maintain the stability of the pool water.

The Technical Room is the heart of the pool. Automatically aided by the pipes and tanks, the plant has the capability to automatically transfer water either from overflow or normal filtration process in Balance Tank to the Fibre Glass Filtration Tanks in the technical room.

Inside the filtration tanks, there are three compartments of filters. The smallest filter is at the top with a medium one and larger one at the bottom. Once water from balance tank gets into the filtration tank, the sand inside the tank holds back the dirt at each compartment before moving the water to another compartment of tanks and valves back to the pool clean and sparkling.

The process repeats itself over once electricity is supplied. The facility also has the capacity to ensure chemical treatment by automatically giving right dosage of chlorine, ph balance + and ph-.

The swimming pool site gallery seating about 1200 people also has compartments for team rooms, referee changing rooms and clinic.

The Garden City Sports Complex also boost of a mini standard clinic to provide immediate medical services for athletes and officials. Administration block, Stadium Manager Quarters, security maintenance quarters and four public toilets around the centre comprised of eight toilets.
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The facility is built by COSPEC who only came on board in March 2011 because of the inability of previous contractor to deliver the project before the start of the festival.

The road construction around the centre is being handled by CICO Deux Nig Ltd handling major projects on the site is directed by Dr Walter Olatunde a Medical Doctor turned Engineer who brings in the softness of medical practice to the turf surface of engineering under the burning sun as most of the other contractors testified of Deux understanding and good relationship.

Deux have carried out major works in different part of the Nation before taking on the Garden City Sports Complex project.

Despite their experiences and proof of professional competence, the terrain proved challenging for Deux like all other contractors also complained of the terrain of consistent rain. According to Dr Walter, the consistent rain, flood and marshy ground slowed the project.

Deux has the highest number of employees including permanent and casual staff at a range of about three thousand persons. Expressing excitement to be a part of the Garden City Games 2011 and the light and opportunity the project has brought to the Igwuruta community and its surrounding.

VAST Intrn. Nig and VEL TROP Nig Ltd built the pools, each company on one swimming pool and diving pool on the same spec. VAST International Nig CENT ARC “Design Associate is the Consulting firm to Rivers State Government. The site Engineer is Engr. Isa Mohammed. The full work began in 2009 because of previous movement from two other sites allocated to the project.

The rainy terrain was emphasized as a major constraint to work progress. However, in about one year of work progress, the consultant affirmed the State Government, Ministry of Sports and the contractors, were up and doing to put in their best to deliver the project before the beginning of the National Sports Festival.

Engr. Isa said Rivers people especially people of Igwuruta and surrounding communities have acquired much skills through the project, stating that many workers who did not have a good knowledge of the their peculiar skills have not only improved on the job but have upgraded their skills to international standard working level because all the projects are of international standard while others have learnt project management and administration.

The Garden City Sports Complex completion empowered about five thousand permanent and casual workers.

Apparently, the choice of the name of the Complex was an effort to celebrate and recognize one of the illustrious sons of the state, Chief Adokiye Amiesimaka, MON, JP, a football administrator, an ex-international, who excelled in the national team, the Green Eagles in the 1970s and 80s.

By the name, it is expected that youths of the state and beyond, seeing Amiesikaka as a role model will be motivated to use the facility to develop and exploit their talent.

Having identified the site, it was handed over to the contractors, Deux Project, for the realization of the impressive facilities that are billed to host most of the 17th NSF events.

According to the Project Director of Deux Projects, Dr. Walter Olatunde, the site which was identified and chosen because it aligned with the master plan of the Greater Port Harcourt City was handed over to the company in April, 2010.

However, the site was not ready for work until June same year when Deux Project mobilised to site.

It has been a project that tasked the technical ability and ingenuity of the contractors as they tried to over come the challenges posed by the terrain.

“The terrain has been very very challenging”, said Dr Olatunde. “The condition of the soil was very difficult to deal with. It was a virgin land, fertile for planting and not solid or ideal for heavy construction work. Water and soil mixed to make the place muddy and difficult for us”, he explained of the major challenges they faced trying to deliver the stadium complex on time.

Also, the weather condition in the state, especially, the rains were a natural phenomenon that the contractors found difficult to deal with.

But special construction skills, suited to the weather and terrain of the area made it possible for them to make progress within the time.

“Though it has been very challenging; we have coped very well to make progress as you can see”. Said the Project Director.

“We employed special skills and machinery to cope with and over come the challenges, that is why you are seeing the impressive results barely one year after”.

“We are expecting that all the facilities will be ready this weekend before Rivers State hosts the nation. We have worked day and night to endure the completion of the projects.

“We have the capacity to ensure that the facilities for the games are ready. The facilities are world class and we want to showcase the site”.

“All the facilities are ready except the mainbowl which cannot be ready for the festival, the work to be done there is beyond the time line for the festival, said the Director.

Consequently, athletes are assured of the use of world class swimming pools, basketball courts, handball courts, tennis courts, volleyball courts, hockey pitch, tracks for athletics and terraces for spectators.

Indeed, the Adokiye Amiesimaka stadium complex is a statement in infrastructure development which will certainly bring fresh developmental angles to the state.


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