In this thread I will highlight Major and Minor projects that will power the development and modernization of Igboland.

The goal of this thread is to keep track of various developmental initiatives in the planning stages, ongoing or completed.

The progress of each project will be updated on this thread as more information about them comes out.

It is imperative that Ndiigbo both at home and in the diaspora are aware of these developmental projects so that they can key into them.

Knowledge is power.

Chukwu gozie Ndiigbo

Enyimba Economic City

THE CITY
Enyimba Economic City (EEC) is a 9464 Hectares of Work, Live, Learn and Play City designed to have economics of agglomeration, environmentally conscious, efficient and sustainable centre of South-South/South-East of Nigeria. It is an investment destination created to leverage on the opportunities Nigeria offers to bring about job creation and regional development through industrialization. It is a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) under the Made In Nigeria for Export (MINE) programme of Federal Government of Nigeria. It will have a Free Trade Zone Status.

https://eecdgroup.com/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESc5-DWzfDk

Interview of the chairman of the project on December 1, 2020.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtvVDQRr_IM

Awka Millenium City

The developer envisions a new residential layout whose development will boost economic activity while increasing the stock of housing in the state capital territory. AMC will be underpinned by quality infrastructure that will guarantee seamless provision of requisite amenities needed to sustain a good quality lifestyle.
AMC will comprise of a commercial avenue cascaded to include developments such as worship centres, recreational establishments, offices, malls, restaurants etc. ushering in the concept of work, recreation & retailing as a one stop destination within Awka City.
https://www.awkamillenniumcity.com/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4pJPyaRwCQ

Soul City Obosi

The $3.4 billion Soul City project sitting on 50 hectares of land in Obosi, Anambra State, is expected to generate over 50, 000 direct and indirect jobs, the President of Soul City project, Nnamdi St. Michael Nwokoye has said.
He gave this hint at the weekend when he led a delegation to the corporate headquarters of Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation newspaper titles.
According to him, the project is aimed at bringing African-American brothers back home to also invest and integrate with Nigerians and other Africans alike.
“The city would be a podium for business. Business is the primary objective of this project. There would be an amusement park, for recreational activities, industrial layout for industrialists and MSMEs. We intend building hotels, hospitals, big time schools, mini zoo, and residential areas that can accommodate workers and others that intend to live in the city,” Nwokoye noted.
Pressed further, he said the edifice when completed would be a world class tourist attraction that would host over one million visitors every year. “We mapped out a place for industries, we have a place for hospitality industry, and we have a place for residential. It will attract every aspect of business into the country. On completion, it would be generating over 50,000 direct and indirect jobs.”
He said the over 50 hectares of land which the city would be built on in the next few years, would be further expanded in the future with more land acquired.
He further explained that the American partners are notable black people living in US, stressing that a Memorandum of Understanding and the modalities of the investment are being fine-tuned.
“We have offered 30 percent of the total worth of the investment to them. This is so because the state government would be given some stakes. We are providing the land, while the Americans, the state government, and other Nigerian investors would be providing the required finances and other technical logistics. Garry Luster, A former Mayor in US for 20 years, businessman, an estate developer and an entrepreneur is one of the investors, though, they are coming as a group into this partnership,” he hinted.

https://nipc.gov.ng/2018/09/30/3-4bn-soul-city-project-to-generate-over-50000-jobs-in-three-years/

Enugu Lifestyle and Golf City

Sitting magnificently on large hectares of rolling green savannah is one of the most luxurious estates in the world. With the Udi hills as a picturesque backdrop and the presence of natural therapeutic aqua-features that are further tweaked to heighten pleasure, Enugu Lifestyle & Golf City – the premier lifestyle city in Sub-Saharan Africa, is designed to blow every mind.

Covering about 1,097 hectares, the city is characterized by the breathtaking vintage layout and a rare find blend of functionality that impeccably connects living with sustainable grandeur. Designed around the style and comfort offered by the most advanced European cities whilst retaining broad African influences, the Enugu Lifestyle & Golf City will be the best place in Nigeria to live, work, learn, play and shop. The structures and infrastructures are constructed with cutting edge and cost-effective technology that accentuates finesse and sustainability.

https://www.enugulifestyleandgolfcity.com/

Luxury Place Estate, Nkwere
Anambra State Government, in partnership with Rotech Energy Services Ltd , a member of the First Rotech Group of Companies , presents to you luxury place estate , phase 1 Nkwere gra . A state of the art, first of its kind luxury estate with the world class facilities. The estate will have CCTV camera installations in all the street roads , police station , Hotel , Fire station , green area for relation , Shopping mall , Good road Networks with well-designed drainage systems tastefully finished interiors for maximum comfort to subscribers .
[url]
https://www.rotechonline.com/?page_id=851[/url]

HELIU Residencies

New city at New Independence layout with modern lifestyle amenities, including Malls,Hotels, Hospital, Parks, 24/7 electricity and water

https://heliuresidences.com/

Lion Business Park

The Lion Business Park (LBP) is a bold commercial initiative promoted by Lion Business Park Ltd and the Enugu State Government of Nigeria. LBP seeks to leverage on the current global and Africa economic outlook to provide a veritable commercial and infrastructural platform where goods and services can be produced in Nigeria and sold across West Africa.

http://lionbusinesspark.com/about_us.html

Smart City, Enugu

Enugu Smart City Estate, Enugu is a development that combines ICT Technology, Cost Flexibility, Contemporary Designs, Smart Automatons and Quality Assurance to deliver state of the art homes to clients and investors. A combination of these unit concepts makes the estate smart and assures good return to every investor. Situated in the Lion Business Park Free Trade Zone, 9th Mile Corner, Enugu, every investor is assured of great return on investments

https://www.smartgreencities.com/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux-vnB95CP4

Enpower Free Trade Zone

The Enugu Industrial Park and Free-Trade Zone (Enpower- FTZ), located in Enugu, Nigeria, is West Africa´s latest in- land technology, industrial and business hub.
Enpower-FTZ provides investors with world-class infrastruc-ture, supported with value-added services and Federal government-mandated incentives within two free-trade zone areas located at the Ninth-mile industrial zone and the Akanu Ibiam International Airport respectively.

http://www.enpowerfreezone.com/about/


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY-7KTf0FD8

Garden of Eden City by Chelsea farms


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXFq1G8U6M

2nd Niger Bridge

The Second Niger Bridge is a key national infrastructure, with immense socio-economic benefits for the contiguous states and indeed the entire nation.

Upon completion, the bridge will ease traffic flow, improve road safety, and create greater opportunities for local residents by advancing the commercial viability of the immediate area and regenerating economic life.

The scope of works include the construction of 1.6 km long bridge, 10.3 km Highway, Owerri interchange and a toll station.


https://www.second-river-niger-bridge.com/

City Gate gas plant, Aba

Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) has commenced City Gate Gas Plant, a project to ensure safe transmission of gas to power booming businesses in Aba, Abia state’s commerce hub.

Aba City Gate Plant is a facility of 10 million standard cubit feet of gas per day (mmscfd) allowing to 30mmscfd equivalent with 40 megawatts (MW) gas-to-power electricity generation capacity, further expandable to 120MW.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/10/shell-primes-gas-plant-to-power-booming-aba-businesses/

SEPLAT/NNPC ANOH Gas project

https://seplatpetroleum.com/newsroom/seplatnnpc-anoh-multi-billion-naira-gas-project-set-to-transform-nigeria-s-energy-landscape/

ANOH gas plant facility sited at Asaa, Ohaji/Egbema in Imo state. ANOH Gas Processing Company ("AGPC" is building the $700m ANOH gas plant. AGPC is an incorporated joint venture owned 50:50 by Seplat Petroleum Development Company and the Nigerian Gas Company.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaW928KcfpE

Century Power Plant, Okija

Century Power Generation is currently developing a 1500MW gas-fired power plant in Okija, Anambra State. The project is being developed in 3 phases; the first phase is a 495MW open cycle plant,

http://century-power.com/about-cpg.html

Anambra International Airport

This magnificent project is still in its first phase. Future plans is to build an industrial, residential and trade clusters around it.

Waltersmith Industral Park, Imo state

The Waltersmith Petroleum and refinery Company, has started the process to build an industrial park in the oil community of Ohaji/Egbema Local Government Area of Imo state.

The Chief Executive Officer of Waltersmith Refinery and Petrochemical Company, Mr Chikezie Nwosu, revealed this in Owerri, at the closing ceremony of Waltersmith Technical Skills Acquisition Programme, 2021 for 47 graduates of Ohaji/Egbema in Imo.

He said the industrial park when completed will attract world-class companies as well boost economic activities in the state.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/07/waltersmith-to-build-industrial-park-in-imo/

South East Gas Masterplan by SEREDEC

This proposed ring gas network will supply gas to all major industrial clusters in the south east thereby enabling manufacturing.

https://southeast.ng/

My brother, the bottom line is that we don't want to be seen or addressed as Nigerians, we have rejected Nigeria , Nigeria is curse

Amichi Industrial City and Bonded Terminal

This is an ongoing project by senator Ifeanyi Uba and his group Anambra progressives.

https://www.sunnewsonline.com/anambra-industrial-city-to-generate-25000-jobs/

“We are making efforts to build 500 factories under the industrial city, with 500 dormitories, consisting of 50 workers per dormitory. Actually, we are looking at 25,000 employments in the city. We are also considering constructing or erecting a bonded terminal, which, at the end of the day, will absorb close to 5,000 workers, among other facilities"

Okay, good one. Expect a bombshell in this thread. I'm waiting for them haters

Orient Garden City, Owerri

In no distant time, Imo State will boast of the best, exclusive and the most expensive estate ‘Orient Garden City’ in the South-east part of the country, if not Nigeria.

Orient Garden City will be among the few neighbourhoods in Nigeria that can rival other beautiful neighbourhoods of the world.

The unique estate, which would have a nine-hole golf course within the scheme as well as other recreations, was established to bridge the gap on the need for quality housing scheme within the state.

Orient Garden City was also birthed out of need to provide luxury and secured neighbourhood with world class infrastructures in Owerri to encourage investors to live, work and play within an established scheme in Owerri, which already has huge industrialisation potentials, as the city seats right in the middle of South-east
[url]
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2020/01/31/orient-garden-city-the-birth-of-new-luxury-community-in-owerri/[/url]

Good

Anambra Ultra modern International Market (AUMIM)

Welcome to Anambra Ultra Modern International Market (AUMIM) Powered by Keystone Bank and Managed by Anambra State Investment Promotion & Protection Agency (ANSIPPA) in Conjuction with J.C Michaels Nigeria Limited.

https://anambrainternationalmarketng.com/

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EASTGATE INLAND CONTAINER TERMINAL

Massive inland container terminal located at Isiala Ngwa LG, Abia state

Eastgate Inland Terminal Limited, project concessioners for the Inland Container Depot (ICD) in Abia State has announced that BRJ and Associates, a construction and project management firm, based in Pasadena, California, USA, as its major partner on the project. Bill Nkemdirim, chief executive officer, Eastgate Terminal Limited, while presenting the BRJ team to the State project.

http://www.sapidholdings.com/company-news.html

The last thing we need is abandon project
..
Already
Most of these projects especially the enyimba economic city
I don't think anything is going on there,
After hype of how many years

Only Enugu and sometimes anambra, keeps to there promise when it comes to building new city opening New layout (although owerri is doing super b in estate development)
And meanwhile, the south east is one of the most dense populated Area in West Africa,
so we should all encourage the building of high rise, not all these shallow buildings am seeing here,
Here are my suggestion for South East
Ebonyi state is doing well but I think they governor needs to construct a 8 or 12 lane from abakiliki town to they new city which is under construction,
Abia should open another superhighway (10 lane) let's say from obingwa to umueka, joining the express road leading to owerrinta to decongest ABA,
Ohafia is the third biggest city in Abia, the need dualised roads

Enugu should do more on high rise as most new cities upcoming are mostly duplex,

IMO state is already doing well in terms of expanding owerri but more should be done the akachi stuff should be renovated to improve tourism, and most roads adjoining owerri city should be renovated

Anambra is not doing bad as well, but Nnewi needs dualised roads like mad.

These are my opinion shaa each state too needs a cBD

Nigercity:
The last thing we need is abandon project
..
Already
Most of these projects especially the enyimba economic city
I don't think anything is going on there,
After hype of how many years

Only Enugu and sometimes anambra, keeps to there promise when it comes to building new city opening New layout (although owerri is doing super b in estate development)
And meanwhile, the south east is one of the most dense populated Area in West Africa,
so we should all encourage the building of high rise, not all these shallow buildings am seeing here,
Here are my suggestion for South East
Ebonyi state is doing well but I think they governor needs to construct a 8 or 12 lane from abakiliki town to they new city which is under construction,
Abia should open another superhighway (10 lane) let's say from obingwa to umueka, joining the express road leading to owerrinta to decongest ABA,
Ohafia is the third biggest city in Abia, the need dualised roads

Enugu should do more on high rise as most new cities upcoming are mostly duplex,

IMO state is already doing well in terms of expanding owerri but more should be done the akachi stuff should be renovated to improve tourism, and most roads adjoining owerri city should be renovated

Anambra is not doing bad as well, but Nnewi needs dualised roads like mad.

These are my opinion shaa each state too needs a cBD

Very good points. The goal of this thread is to publicize these projects so that we can key into them. Most of these projects are private sector led. Government cannot do it all and when it comes to Nigeria, we have very dysfunctional government. These projects are not abandoned. They are just slow in progress. Most of the reasons why some of them are slow is because of funding and poor governance.

Very nice initiatives. Work is going on in almost all of them. But we need more.

horsepower102:


Very good points. The goal of this thread is to publicize these projects so that we can key into them. Most of these projects are private sector led. Government cannot do it all and when it comes to Nigeria, we have very dysfunctional government. These projects are not abandoned. They are just slow in progress. Most of the reasons why some of them are slow is because of funding and poor governance.

Eyemba city is very very viable ...the gas network would be the icing on the cake so that factories can generate their own power ...companies are already taking up spaces there

Aba leather City Industrial Park


Platform Capital is pleased to announce the ground-breaking ceremony of its Leather City Park (“Leather City”) and NIBRA Designs Limited (“NIBRA”) – a shoe production initiative in Ariara market, Aba, Abia. The shoe factory will be the largest in sub-Saharan Africa, leveraging world class Brazilian technology. The NIBRA facility will launch with an initial capacity of 10,000 pairs a day, growing to 100,000 in 5 years.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv1gLo1BjWE

horsepower102:


Very good points. The goal of this thread is to publicize these projects so that we can key into them. Most of these projects are private sector led. Government cannot do it all and when it comes to Nigeria, we have very dysfunctional government. These projects are not abandoned. They are just slow in progress. Most of the reasons why some of them are slow is because of funding and poor governance.

Yes I believe you
Most of them are very slow,
But I think government should always do a background check of the private company before entering pop
Also big names and companies like innoson, emeka offor, eze Arthur, air peace boss and co
Should enter this ppp of a thing, not some upcoming private company
The slowness in most of these projects is heart breaking
Check out the enyimba mall that has been in construction for how many years now, the worst part is that is above 70% construction since December 2019 yet up till now the Never finish.
Enyimba economic city sounds more like an audio project, no update from there website nothing nothing, no block has been layed,
And government should stop giving individual Large project without entering agreement on completion deadline, if possible many other companies should participate in handling of these projects