Anambra. 1st.son is the most loved Onye Anambra on this platform and I want you to desist from this uncivilized behavior and show respect. I didn't see anything he did wrongly. He has defended all the threads he created and taken his detractors to the cleaners every single time.
He presents data with proofs of evidence using solely Anambra state to shut them up because he knows Anambra state can match these other states and come out unscathed.
Anambra1stso.n is different from Chino. Chino is a stupid boy that should be cautioned.
Don't defend his stupidity because he's defending your state and denigrating others. Caution him, he's a stupid person
You are a cursed stoopid envious ediot the only reason you don’t like chino is because he is the only that gives it back to you ediots in equal measures. You hide under Igbo unity to post nonsense about Anambra. Anuofia caution yourself and stop being envious and bitter about Anambra
Kepukepu: Anambra1stso.n is different from Chino. Chino is a stupid boy that should be cautioned.Don't defend his stupidity because he's defending your state and denigrating others. Caution him, he's a stupid person
Stoopid ediot. You were in a thread posted by Anambra 1stson to attack Anambra simply because he was posting about Anambra, but when chino comes out you will start crying . Why can’t you ediot mind your state. Anambra is not the reason your state is backward and useless
Kepukepu: he's a very stupid boy person. Don't defend stupidity. Why is that only him fights others, he's right and every other person is wrong because he's from Anambra
Nobody is backstabbing you. Stop the defamation. You need to understand that Anambra people are very successful and proud. This is not a rocket science. The state possesses some of the brightest Nigerians and captains of industries ....from Peter Obi, Soludo, Kingsley Muoghalu Osita Chidoka , Oby Ezekwesili, Chimamanda Adichie, etc. Anambra people have a very high human capital unmatched by any state in Nigeria. Anambra has also been blessed with a great leader in Peter Obi who turned the state into a success story....so naturally the people would be proud of their state.
The problem is that some of you feel intimidated when Ndi Anambra tries to celebrate their state which everyone does....you want them to label their achievements the Igbo achievements due to your insecurity but Ndigbo are not under one government. We are divided by states. You people need to stop this behavior because the problem is from you not Ndi Anambra.
The other day you were attacking Anamb.ra1st.Son for posting development in Anambra and tagged him agent of division. What was that about ? The man has been posting about Anambra for well over 10yrs. What do you expect him to do ?
Some of you people have deep issues and its embarrassing. You have been posting about Abia state and nobody said Anything to you but immediately Anambra man does the same you start attacking him....its insecurities problem.
You should understand the level of development going on in Anambra and celebrate it. Emezina ntaji anya.
SOLUDO WAS CELEBRATING 100 DAYS IN OFFICE AND TALKING SHIT, WASTING TIME.
WE KEPT WARNING HIM TO FOCUS AND LEAVE SIMON EKPA IPOB.
LEAVE SIT AT HOME.
FROM JANUARY HE HAS 12 MONTHS LEFT TO COMPLETE HIS FIRST TENURE.
WHAT HAS HE REALLY ACHIEVED IN THAT TIME?
BUILDING LIESURE CENTRE IS A CHILD LIKE AFFAIR, NDIANAMBRA ARE GROWN UP.
I HOPE, HE KNOWS HIS FIRST TENURE HAD LEFT MUCH TO BE DESIRED.
HE IS STILL A BETTER OPTION THAN IFEANYI UBAH AND APC.
PLEASE, SOLUDO LEAVE BIAFRA AGITATION ALONE LIKE OBIANO AND FOCUS ON DELIVERING INFRASTRUCTURE.
THE AVERAGE IGBO ARE VERY UPSET WITH NIGERIA, TO GET YOURSELF INVOLVE IS TO ENSURE IGBO ON IGBO VIOLENCE WHICH IS NOT THE INTENTION OR DIRECTION.
THE PROBLEM IS MEANT TO BE US AS IGBOS UNITED AGAINST NIGERIA AND WE MUST UNITY, TO REGISTER OUR DISPLEASEURE WITH NIGERIA.
SOLUDO STAY FOCUSED ON GOVERNANCE AND LEAVE BIAFRA AGITATION.
Soludo loves going to yam festival and other ceremonies to only talk🤣🤣🤣. I am surprised as a prof one can't point out what he has achieved for 3yrs on governance.
Uzodimma your cursed useless governor likes bombing you people. During Christmas your useless incompetent governor brought the military to bomb you guys, no wonder millions of imo indigenes prefer to live in Anambra. Imo state is a cursed useless worthless shithole state.
Soludo loves going to yam festival and other ceremonies to only talk. I am surprised as a prof one can't point out what he has achieved for 3yrs on governance.
SOLUDO WAS CELEBRATING 100 DAYS IN OFFICE AND TALKING SHIT, WASTING TIME.
WE KEPT WARNING HIM TO FOCUS AND LEAVE SIMON EKPA IPOB.
LEAVE SIT AT HOME.
FROM JANUARY HE HAS 12 MONTHS LEFT TO COMPLETE HIS FIRST TENURE.
WHAT HAS HE REALLY ACHIEVED IN THAT TIME?
BUILDING LIESURE CENTRE IS A CHILD LIKE AFFAIR, NDIANAMBRA ARE GROWN UP.
I HOPE, HE KNOWS HIS FIRST TENURE HAD LEFT MUCH TO BE DESIRED.
HE IS STILL A BETTER OPTION THAN IFEANYI UBAH AND APC.
PLEASE, SOLUDO LEAVE BIAFRA AGITATION ALONE LIKE OBIANO AND FOCUS ON DELIVERING INFRASTRUCTURE.
THE AVERAGE IGBO ARE VERY UPSET WITH NIGERIA, TO GET YOURSELF INVOLVE IS TO ENSURE IGBO ON IGBO VIOLENCE WHICH IS NOT THE INTENTION OR DIRECTION.
THE PROBLEM IS MEANT TO BE US AS IGBOS UNITED AGAINST NIGERIA AND WE MUST UNITY, TO REGISTER OUR DISPLEASEURE WITH NIGERIA.
SOLUDO STAY FOCUSED ON GOVERNANCE AND LEAVE BIAFRA AGITATION.
I cannot agree more! You do not tell a child that has been constantly bullied and molested not to cry and vent! It is completely unnatural ! Dipping his hand into the murky waters of Biafra agitation was the biggest strategic error Soludo made........another tactical error Soludo made was to get lost in okpoko and those "less vital rural roads"projects he awarded!
He should have tackled insecurity without getting involved in IPOB imbroglio.....secondly he should have faced Onitsha squarely from the word go! Soludo in my view means well but he is hampered by his apparent naivety of Nigeria's tribal political environment! Otti has been able to navigate the Biafra issue well and he has not offended anybody in Abuja as well! This idea of throwing your people under the bus in order to gain Abuja favors must end! Otti having survived and rose to an executive director position in a yoruba dominated First bank seems to be more adept at this national politics thing....I still love soludo's vision and I pray he succeeds and he will succeed!
I cannot agree more! You do not tell a child that has been constantly bullied and molested not to cry and vent! It is completely unnatural ! Dipping his hand into the murky waters of Biafra agitation was the biggest strategic error Soludo made........another tactical error Soludo made was to get lost in okpoko and those "less vital rural roads"projects he awarded!
He should have tackled insecurity without getting involved in IPOB imbroglio.....secondly he should have faced Onitsha squarely from the word go! Soludo in my view means well but he is hampered by his apparent naivety of Nigeria's tribal political environment! Otti has been able to navigate the Biafra issue well and he has not offended anybody in Abuja as well! This idea of throwing your people under the bus in order to gain Abuja favors must end! Otti having survived and rose to an executive director position in a yoruba dominated First bank seems to be more adept at this national politics thing....I still love soludo's vision and I pray he succeeds and he will succeed!
The three south-east governors i have high hopes for and can see they have the capacity, desire and vision to deliver are Otti, Soludo and Mbah! Of the three, Otti has navigated the secession/Biafra/IPOB issue the best, but all three have their hearts in the right place and genuinely mean well for their people!
Besides one or two missteps, i don’t think Soludo and Mbah have done as badly in handling the Biafra issue as some suggest. After all, both have repeatedly called for the release of Mazi Kanu to help douse tension in the region, and help isolate and identify the 5th-columnists and state agents fomenting insecurity in the region just so IPOB and Mazi Kanu can be blamed! Soludo in particular has been making this call for the release of Mazi Kanu since the time of Buhari up till now, but the Buhari/Tinubu hegemonic alliance has ignored these calls! The one misstep Mbah made was to invite the murderous Nigerian security to police the protest in Enugu on the sealing of businesses that didn’t open on Mondays, in which one poor soul was shot dead! I hope he’s guided better in future, and doesn’t toe the line of some useless governor in the south-east who delights in inviting the murderous Nigerian army to murder his citizens and burn down entire villages!
Given the nature of the political-economy we are subjected to in Nigeria, south-east governors have a very delicate balancing act to manage: they try not to offend their people, who are rightfully despondent and fed up with Nigeria, while at the same time trying not to antagonise the Fulani/Yoruba hegemonic alliance that is clearly anti-Igbo and looking for any excuse to work against Igbo interests!
The three south-east governors i have high hopes for and can see they have the capacity, desire and vision to deliver are Otti, Soludo and Mbah! Of the three, Otti has navigated the secession/Biafra/IPOB issue the best, but all three have their hearts in the right place and genuinely mean well for their people!
Besides one or two missteps, i don’t think Soludo and Mbah have done as badly in handling the Biafra issue as some suggest. After all, both have repeatedly called for the release of Mazi Kanu to help douse tension in the region, and help isolate and identify the 5th-columnists and state agents fomenting insecurity in the region just so IPOB and Mazi Kanu can be blamed! Soludo in particular has been making this call for the release of Mazi Kanu since the time of Buhari up till now, but the Buhari/Tinubu hegemonic alliance has ignored these calls! The one misstep Mbah made was to invite the murderous Nigerian security to police the protest in Enugu on the sealing of businesses that didn’t open on Mondays, in which one poor soul was shot dead! I hope he’s guided better in future, and doesn’t toe the line of some useless governor in the south-east who delights in inviting the murderous Nigerian army to murder his citizens and burn down entire villages!
Given the nature of the political-economy we are subjected to in Nigeria, south-east governors have a very delicate balancing act to manage: they try not to offend their people, who are rightfully despondent and fed up with Nigeria, while at the same time trying not to antagonise the Fulani/Yoruba hegemonic alliance that is clearly anti-Igbo and looking for any excuse to work against Igbo interests!
I agree with you especially on Otti, Soludo and Mbah making the right noise and on track to develop our region. The 2024 budget of these 3 governors followed same trajectory and full of ambitions for disruptive change.
Hmmm the other two, I do not understand their allegiance, especially the supreme court governor
The three south-east governors i have high hopes for and can see they have the capacity, desire and vision to deliver are Otti, Soludo and Mbah! Of the three, Otti has navigated the secession/Biafra/IPOB issue the best, but all three have their hearts in the right place and genuinely mean well for their people!
Besides one or two missteps, i don’t think Soludo and Mbah have done as badly in handling the Biafra issue as some suggest. After all, both have repeatedly called for the release of Mazi Kanu to help douse tension in the region, and help isolate and identify the 5th-columnists and state agents fomenting insecurity in the region just so IPOB and Mazi Kanu can be blamed! Soludo in particular has been making this call for the release of Mazi Kanu since the time of Buhari up till now, but the Buhari/Tinubu hegemonic alliance has ignored these calls! The one misstep Mbah made was to invite the murderous Nigerian security to police the protest in Enugu on the sealing of businesses that didn’t open on Mondays, in which one poor soul was shot dead! I hope he’s guided better in future, and doesn’t toe the line of some useless governor in the south-east who delights in inviting the murderous Nigerian army to murder his citizens and burn down entire villages!
Given the nature of the political-economy we are subjected to in Nigeria, south-east governors have a very delicate balancing act to manage: they try not to offend their people, who are rightfully despondent and fed up with Nigeria, while at the same time trying not to antagonise the Fulani/Yoruba hegemonic alliance that is clearly anti-Igbo and looking for any excuse to work against Igbo interests!
I have observed Soludo for a while and I am glad that he lived up to our expectations as THE SOLUTION!
If he can complete all the roads he is doing in Onitsha, Awka, Nnewi, and Ekwulobia, then we can right call him Prof SOLUTION aka The ROADMASTER!
Soludo will transform Anambra cities and make them habitable if he completes all those urban roads with sidewalks, street lights, and well-designed drainages. No governor before him will come close to his achievements because he tackled the hardest task of developing Anambra which every other governor since 1976 artfully dodged. He stopped the sluming of Anambra in the name of "development" where people build on gutters, block the end of a street and build a house there, and many other lawless things that no governor dared to confront the perpetrators and correct the decay of our cities. After all, no former Anambra governor dared to demolish buildings and do some politically "unpopular" but right things to return to the master plan of Anambra's cities.
I am personally shocked that he dares to even dualize Iweka Road, Isu Anaocha Road, and more. Imagine how Anambra cities will look upon completion of these key city roads with walkways and all! Soludo is truly a ROADMASTER in the making!
I heard that Soludo also wants to build a 10-storey 5-star hotel in the capital city.
I wish he would use the structure to complement the Awka International Conference Center (ICC) by building the hotel within the area reserved for a 5-star hotel inside the ICC. Although Agulu Lake Resort is a very standard hotel, because it's far from most things, it attracts only those who specifically want to go and sleep in Agulu. A 5-star hotel in the middle of town means that people could easily lodge there and still enjoy the benefits of going to Solution Fun City or Ibiza nightclub at night and still get back to their hotel room without risking their lives by driving far from the city at night. This is the huge disadvantage of why people only go to Agulu Lake to stay there and not really to commute to Awka at night from there.
Such a big 5-star hotel inside the ICC center will give life to the ICC and the venue will quickly become the best events center in the southeast. Globally, major hotels are situated very close to International Conference Centers to make them attractive to host international conferences where people don't have to worry about transportation to get to the conference venue. There is accommodation of more than 200+ rooms and a world-class international convention center really within walking distance from where people could lodge.
I agree with you especially on Otti, Soludo and Mbah making the right noise and on track to develop our region. The 2024 budget of these 3 governors followed same trajectory and full of ambitions for disruptive change.
Hmmm the other two, I do not understand their allegiance, especially the supreme court governor
OreMI22: I heard that Soludo also wants to build a 10-storey 5-star hotel in the capital city.
I wish he would use the structure to complement the Awka International Conference Center (ICC) by building the hotel within the area reserved for a 5-star hotel inside the ICC. Although Agulu Lake Resort is a very standard hotel, because it's far from most things, it attracts only those who specifically want to go and sleep in Agulu. A 5-star hotel in the middle of town means that people could easily lodge there and still enjoy the benefits of going to Solution Fun City or Ibiza nightclub at night and still get back to their hotel room without risking their lives by driving far from the city at night. This is the huge disadvantage of why people only go to Agulu Lake to stay there and not really to commute to Awka at night from there.
Such a big 5-star hotel inside the ICC center will give life to the ICC and the venue will quickly become the best events center in the southeast. Globally, major hotels are situated very close to International Conference Centers to make them attractive to host international conferences where people don't have to worry about transportation to get to the conference venue. There is accommodation of more than 200+ rooms and a world-class international convention center really within walking distance from where people could lodge.
How about completing the Onitsha hotel started by Obi?
OreMI22: I heard that Soludo also wants to build a 10-storey 5-star hotel in the capital city.
I wish he would use the structure to complement the Awka International Conference Center (ICC) by building the hotel within the area reserved for a 5-star hotel inside the ICC. Although Agulu Lake Resort is a very standard hotel, because it's far from most things, it attracts only those who specifically want to go and sleep in Agulu. A 5-star hotel in the middle of town means that people could easily lodge there and still enjoy the benefits of going to Solution Fun City or Ibiza nightclub at night and still get back to their hotel room without risking their lives by driving far from the city at night. This is the huge disadvantage of why people only go to Agulu Lake to stay there and not really to commute to Awka at night from there.
Such a big 5-star hotel inside the ICC center will give life to the ICC and the venue will quickly become the best events center in the southeast. Globally, major hotels are situated very close to International Conference Centers to make them attractive to host international conferences where people don't have to worry about transportation to get to the conference venue. There is accommodation of more than 200+ rooms and a world-class international convention center really within walking distance from where people could lodge.
In an era of declining revenue it would be foolhardy to build another hotel and one that will render the huge investment in Agulu Lake wasted.
Agulu Lake should be maintained however the government should provide free buses to bus guests between that place and ICC and other parts of Awka. It is less than 15 minutes from the core of Awka. After all the distance of hotels in Lekki to VI is almost the same.
My concern is why the police continue to block one lane of Zik Avenue near Amawbia roundabout rendering that axis a traffic mess while Soludo does nothing? They should build a new Police HQ in the Executive Business District to complement the governors lodge, state and federal secretariat and free up Zik Ave.
The other hard decision he should take is to relocate Eke Awka. The size of trailers that enter that market on narrow roads says that it is incapable of handling the type of activity happening there. The market has become a wholesale warehouse rather than just a retail place. There are too many shops squeezed into a tiny space.
In an era of declining revenue it would be foolhardy to build another hotel and one that will render the huge investment in Agulu Lake wasted.
Agulu Lake should be maintained however the government should provide free buses to bus guests between that place and ICC and other parts of Awka. It is less than 15 minutes from the core of Awka. After all the distance of hotels in Lekki to VI is almost the same.
My concern is why the police continue to block one lane of Zik Avenue near Amawbia roundabout rendering that axis a traffic mess while Soludo does nothing? They should build a new Police HQ in the Executive Business District to complement the governors lodge, state and federal secretariat and free up Zik Ave.
The other hard decision he should take is to relocate Eke Awka. The size of trailers that enter that market on narrow roads says that it is incapable of handling the type of activity happening there. The market has become a wholesale warehouse rather than just a retail place. There are too many shops squeezed into a tiny space.
So because of agulu lake hotel, we shouldn’t have a 5star hotel in awka?? Did you also realize that another mighty hotel is about to be open in agulu this year that may even rival agulu hotel?? Is even rated a 5star by reputable companies and it’s own by an agulu native..
Awka needs at least three 5stars hotels to compliment the city, I love that Soludo is building one by next year. Obiano was meant to build one then but he chickened out
I quit agree with you on relocating both police headquarters and Eke Awka from their respective positions, I believe Eke Awka will be relocated before Soludo first tenure elapses, can’t say anything about the police headquarters but it will nice if Soludo relocate it close to government house
How about completing the Onitsha hotel started by Obi?
The problem with the Onitsha Hotel was that it was sold to a company to complete and operate. The company built it to the 5th floor and suddenly went bankrupt. It's a shady story that makes you think "WHO" was the real buyer, and "WHY" hasn't the state taken any action against the buyer for failing to complete the project as expected? But legally, the hotel does not belong to the state government at this point. But the state has the power to retrieve it back.
However due to the strategic importance of the location of the Onitsha Hotel and the potential use of the abandoned structure as a hideout for criminals, it is in the best public interest to revoke the C-of-O of that property and either resell it to a capable investor with clear terms to complete the structure within one year or simply taken over by the state, completed and concessioned to a credible hotel chain for management.
These are some actions that a fearless Governor like Soludo could pursue against whoever was the powerful individual who bought the Onitsha Hotel. To ensure the overall public safety by denying criminals the use of the structure as a hideout and for the overall wellbeing of the state.
In an era of declining revenue it would be foolhardy to build another hotel and one that will render the huge investment in Agulu Lake wasted.
Agulu Lake should be maintained however the government should provide free buses to bus guests between that place and ICC and other parts of Awka. It is less than 15 minutes from the core of Awka. After all the distance of hotels in Lekki to VI is almost the same.
My concern is why the police continue to block one lane of Zik Avenue near Amawbia roundabout rendering that axis a traffic mess while Soludo does nothing? They should build a new Police HQ in the Executive Business District to complement the governors lodge, state and federal secretariat and free up Zik Ave.
The other hard decision he should take is to relocate Eke Awka. The size of trailers that enter that market on narrow roads says that it is incapable of handling the type of activity happening there. The market has become a wholesale warehouse rather than just a retail place. There are too many shops squeezed into a tiny space.
The one-size-fits-all copy-and-paste approach to everything is what makes some analyses faulty. You or someone with a similar name argued something similar that Anambra airport would not be viable since it was so close to Asaba. In fact suggested that since Abakaliki airport was more than 100KM from Enugu airport, it was a more viable airport. The problem with such an analysis is that you based them on just one line of thinking "distance between them" and not the even more important factor which is the population and economic activities in the area to support even 3 airports. There is a very popular saying that has held for ages "If you build it, they will come!"
Agulu Lake Hotel was not a waste. If you like to provide free Keke to every location for the guests, it does not take away that it is located a little far away from any major city center. It is a resort and serves a certain niche for people to just go there and relax. That is why the effort should be around creating unique fun activities around the hotel such as boating, water parks, etc, to create its eco-system and drive tourism to the hotel and location. Not thinking about unsustainable ways to waste money hiring free buses or the guests to attend nightclubs in Awka and back to compensate for not being located in Awka.
Now all the hotels you see springing up in Asaba are largely due to Onitsha having so many economic activities but very very few hotels. Therefore, hotel investors rightly reasoned that building in Asaba would still put whoever needs to have a transaction in Onitsha within a reasonable distance. The hotels in Awka will not just grow the Awka economy, but will also tap into this good hotels deficit in Onitsha that is currently solely enjoyed by Asaba at the moment. Someone mentioned that Awka needs 3 five-star hotels and he is right! The truth is that there are many hotels in Awka but not so standard. They are mainly nosy nightclubs at night and are mainly used as brothels for hookup girls. I know this first-hand because is visit Awka regularly and stay in many hotels in the city. Apart from the BON hotel and about 2 or 3 more, we don't have any decent places to stay with a family in Awka. Many Awka hotels with big buildings are filthy, with roaches in the rooms, dirty-over used towels, and not even basic wifi! I am glad that Parktonian and Geo Gold are gradually improving their standards and even now offer basic services such as wifi for their guests. If you have never been to other cities even within Nigeria such as even Owerri hotels, you will not understand this deficiency because most people in our locale view a hotel as some type of eatery or nightclub. Not a place for high-quality lodging to attract decent tourists to the city.
I am glad that Soludo has a mindset that is different from the typical local governors. Who only think about how to compete with the next local enterprise. Soludo seems fixated on the future and how to establish what will make Awka attractive to global tourists and not something that is just a little better than existing local hotels based on "Awka" standards. That is truly something I have not seen in many Nigerian governors who compete among themselves in mediocrity. I see Soludo's vision as the equivalence of the vision of Obasanjo in 1976 when he declared that Nigeria would build a brand new Federal Capital Territory in Abuja that would be a modern city comparable to similar capital cities in Europe and America. The good thing was that he meant it. Otherwise, all Abuja roads would have been designed like Lagos roads of single carriage roads at the time, and houses would be allowed so close to the roads just like in Lagos. Of course, Soludo does not have the funds to achieve all he says. But Like Rwandan President Paul Kagame who knew in 1995 that Rwanda didn't have the money to build a modern capital city in Kigali. But it could achieve greatness eventually if it begins ensuring that every new road has walkways and trees planted in the road median etc. Every major hotel built by the government was designed to attain the best global standards. Even when people criticized him at that time for aiming "too high". Today we have seen the new Kigali city emerge even though Rwanda had no oil or any tangible resources to fund its emergence quickly. But just ensuring that every new project was done in the best global standard would eventually get you there. I have written a long response. But it takes such long responses to make the very fine point that it takes a visionary leader with a modern mindset and not just the available resources as the most critical ingredient in developing a society into a world-class society. From America to Japan to China to Singapore to Malaysia to Rwanda to Dubai etc, it took just one visionary at a point in their history to decide that they had to leapfrog into a modern society regardless of their income at the time. They had the idea and gradually followed their plan until it happened. That is what I am hoping that Soludo will be for Anambra and Southeast Nigeria.
In summary, we have to think higher than our current environmental situation if we hope to become better and achieve a greater future that we will no longer be called "Third World" or something less than the best. We have to aim to be in the league of the best. We can do it. So let's support those leaders who dare to dream big even when the resources seem not to be immediately available.
OreMI22: I heard that Soludo also wants to build a 10-storey 5-star hotel in the capital city.
I wish he would use the structure to complement the Awka International Conference Center (ICC) by building the hotel within the area reserved for a 5-star hotel inside the ICC. Although Agulu Lake Resort is a very standard hotel, because it's far from most things, it attracts only those who specifically want to go and sleep in Agulu. A 5-star hotel in the middle of town means that people could easily lodge there and still enjoy the benefits of going to Solution Fun City or Ibiza nightclub at night and still get back to their hotel room without risking their lives by driving far from the city at night. This is the huge disadvantage of why people only go to Agulu Lake to stay there and not really to commute to Awka at night from there.
Such a big 5-star hotel inside the ICC center will give life to the ICC and the venue will quickly become the best events center in the southeast. Globally, major hotels are situated very close to International Conference Centers to make them attractive to host international conferences where people don't have to worry about transportation to get to the conference venue. There is accommodation of more than 200+ rooms and a world-class international convention center really within walking distance from where people could lodge.
You are right, especially in your last paragraph...
In Nairobi their International Conference Center abuts a major hotel, same with the one in Kigali, New York and even Lagos here...
I hope Soludo buys this your idea, it will surely push Awka ICC to an unimaginable height. He should rather plan for another major highrise at the New Awka city, maybe an International Special Hospital or something.
Everything you wrote here are in order except for the hotel. Yes , Soludo is very much in order for the upcoming five star hotel that will dwarf every hotel in SE, but saying that some of the hotels in Awka are for hookups is a total lie. Awka has some of the best hotels in SE and most of them are branded hotels like BON, Best Western, Golden tulips, etc. If you are looking for hookup hotels look the way of Owerri because that’s where the business commercial sex hawking thrives without restraints. I totally agree that Anambra even needs more than one airport and it will thrive due to the economic standing of Anambra
The one-size-fits-all copy-and-paste approach to everything is what makes some analyses faulty. You or someone with a similar name argued something similar that Anambra airport would not be viable since it was so close to Asaba. In fact suggested that since Abakaliki airport was more than 100KM from Enugu airport, it was a more viable airport. The problem with such an analysis is that you based them on just one line of thinking "distance between them" and not the even more important factor which is the population and economic activities in the area to support even 3 airports. There is a very popular saying that has held for ages "If you build it, they will come!"
Agulu Lake Hotel was not a waste. If you like to provide free Keke to every location for the guests, it does not take away that it is located a little far away from any major city center. It is a resort and serves a certain niche for people to just go there and relax. That is why the effort should be around creating unique fun activities around the hotel such as boating, water parks, etc, to create its eco-system and drive tourism to the hotel and location. Not thinking about unsustainable ways to waste money hiring free buses or the guests to attend nightclubs in Awka and back to compensate for not being located in Awka.
Now all the hotels you see springing up in Asaba are largely due to Onitsha having so many economic activities but very very few hotels. Therefore, hotel investors rightly reasoned that building in Asaba would still put whoever needs to have a transaction in Onitsha within a reasonable distance. The hotels in Awka will not just grow the Awka economy, but will also tap into this good hotels deficit in Onitsha that is currently solely enjoyed by Asaba at the moment. Someone mentioned that Awka needs 3 five-star hotels and he is right! The truth is that there are many hotels in Awka but not so standard. They are mainly nosy nightclubs at night and are mainly used as brothels for hookup girls. I know this first-hand because is visit Awka regularly and stay in many hotels in the city. Apart from the BON hotel and about 2 or 3 more, we don't have any decent places to stay with a family in Awka. Many Awka hotels with big buildings are filthy, with roaches in the rooms, dirty-over used towels, and not even basic wifi! I am glad that Parktonian and Geo Gold are gradually improving their standards and even now offer basic services such as wifi for their guests. If you have never been to other cities even within Nigeria such as even Owerri hotels, you will not understand this deficiency because most people in our locale view a hotel as some type of eatery or nightclub. Not a place for high-quality lodging to attract decent tourists to the city.
I am glad that Soludo has a mindset that is different from the typical local governors. Who only think about how to compete with the next local enterprise. Soludo seems fixated on the future and how to establish what will make Awka attractive to global tourists and not something that is just a little better than existing local hotels based on "Awka" standards. That is truly something I have not seen in many Nigerian governors who compete among themselves in mediocrity. I see Soludo's vision as the equivalence of the vision of Obasanjo in 1976 when he declared that Nigeria would build a brand new Federal Capital Territory in Abuja that would be a modern city comparable to similar capital cities in Europe and America. The good thing was that he meant it. Otherwise, all Abuja roads would have been designed like Lagos roads of single carriage roads at the time, and houses would be allowed so close to the roads just like in Lagos. Of course, Soludo does not have the funds to achieve all he says. But Like Rwandan President Paul Kagame who knew in 1995 that Rwanda didn't have the money to build a modern capital city in Kigali. But it could achieve greatness eventually if it begins ensuring that every new road has walkways and trees planted in the road median etc. Every major hotel built by the government was designed to attain the best global standards. Even when people criticized him at that time for aiming "too high". Today we have seen the new Kigali city emerge even though Rwanda had no oil or any tangible resources to fund its emergence quickly. But just ensuring that every new project was done in the best global standard would eventually get you there. I have written a long response. But it takes such long responses to make the very fine point that it takes a visionary leader with a modern mindset and not just the available resources as the most critical ingredient in developing a society into a world-class society. From America to Japan to China to Singapore to Malaysia to Rwanda to Dubai etc, it took just one visionary at a point in their history to decide that they had to leapfrog into a modern society regardless of their income at the time. They had the idea and gradually followed their plan until it happened. That is what I am hoping that Soludo will be for Anambra and Southeast Nigeria.
In summary, we have to think higher than our current environmental situation if we hope to become better and achieve a greater future that we will no longer be called "Third World" or something less than the best. We have to aim to be in the league of the best. We can do it. So let's support those leaders who dare to dream big even when the resources seem not to be immediately available.
I have observed Soludo for a while and I am glad that he lived up to our expectations as THE SOLUTION!
If he can complete all the roads he is doing in Onitsha, Awka, Nnewi, and Ekwulobia, then we can right call him Prof SOLUTION aka The ROADMASTER!
Soludo will transform Anambra cities and make them habitable if he completes all those urban roads with sidewalks, street lights, and well-designed drainages. No governor before him will come close to his achievements because he tackled the hardest task of developing Anambra which every other governor since 1976 artfully dodged. He stopped the sluming of Anambra in the name of "development" where people build on gutters, block the end of a street and build a house there, and many other lawless things that no governor dared to confront the perpetrators and correct the decay of our cities. After all, no former Anambra governor dared to demolish buildings and do some politically "unpopular" but right things to return to the master plan of Anambra's cities.
I am personally shocked that he dares to even dualize Iweka Road, Isu Anaocha Road, and more. Imagine how Anambra cities will look upon completion of these key city roads with walkways and all! Soludo is truly a ROADMASTER in the making!
Nwokem, good to see you are back to the thread again. I was wondering why you and a few others suddenly left this thread this year. Biko make una dey come share una opinion about omalich state anyi! Everyone dey contribute hin own quota. From who dedicated his entire YouTube channel for the good of the state, and to project the state in good light. To the many others who share many valuable ideas based on their experiences from different areas, they have been and worked. Daalu nu rinne!
Gradually we are moving forward as a people and I have no doubts that Ndigbo as a people will reach the promised land. Good to see you're back bro!
The one-size-fits-all copy-and-paste approach to everything is what makes some analyses faulty. You or someone with a similar name argued something similar that Anambra airport would not be viable since it was so close to Asaba. In fact suggested that since Abakaliki airport was more than 100KM from Enugu airport, it was a more viable airport. The problem with such an analysis is that you based them on just one line of thinking "distance between them" and not the even more important factor which is the population and economic activities in the area to support even 3 airports. There is a very popular saying that has held for ages "If you build it, they will come!"
Agulu Lake Hotel was not a waste. If you like to provide free Keke to every location for the guests, it does not take away that it is located a little far away from any major city center. It is a resort and serves a certain niche for people to just go there and relax. That is why the effort should be around creating unique fun activities around the hotel such as boating, water parks, etc, to create its eco-system and drive tourism to the hotel and location. Not thinking about unsustainable ways to waste money hiring free buses or the guests to attend nightclubs in Awka and back to compensate for not being located in Awka.
Now all the hotels you see springing up in Asaba are largely due to Onitsha having so many economic activities but very very few hotels. Therefore, hotel investors rightly reasoned that building in Asaba would still put whoever needs to have a transaction in Onitsha within a reasonable distance. The hotels in Awka will not just grow the Awka economy, but will also tap into this good hotels deficit in Onitsha that is currently solely enjoyed by Asaba at the moment. Someone mentioned that Awka needs 3 five-star hotels and he is right! The truth is that there are many hotels in Awka but not so standard. They are mainly nosy nightclubs at night and are mainly used as brothels for hookup girls. I know this first-hand because is visit Awka regularly and stay in many hotels in the city. Apart from the BON hotel and about 2 or 3 more, we don't have any decent places to stay with a family in Awka. Many Awka hotels with big buildings are filthy, with roaches in the rooms, dirty-over used towels, and not even basic wifi! I am glad that Parktonian and Geo Gold are gradually improving their standards and even now offer basic services such as wifi for their guests. If you have never been to other cities even within Nigeria such as even Owerri hotels, you will not understand this deficiency because most people in our locale view a hotel as some type of eatery or nightclub. Not a place for high-quality lodging to attract decent tourists to the city.
I am glad that Soludo has a mindset that is different from the typical local governors. Who only think about how to compete with the next local enterprise. Soludo seems fixated on the future and how to establish what will make Awka attractive to global tourists and not something that is just a little better than existing local hotels based on "Awka" standards. That is truly something I have not seen in many Nigerian governors who compete among themselves in mediocrity. I see Soludo's vision as the equivalence of the vision of Obasanjo in 1976 when he declared that Nigeria would build a brand new Federal Capital Territory in Abuja that would be a modern city comparable to similar capital cities in Europe and America. The good thing was that he meant it. Otherwise, all Abuja roads would have been designed like Lagos roads of single carriage roads at the time, and houses would be allowed so close to the roads just like in Lagos. Of course, Soludo does not have the funds to achieve all he says. But Like Rwandan President Paul Kagame who knew in 1995 that Rwanda didn't have the money to build a modern capital city in Kigali. But it could achieve greatness eventually if it begins ensuring that every new road has walkways and trees planted in the road median etc. Every major hotel built by the government was designed to attain the best global standards. Even when people criticized him at that time for aiming "too high". Today we have seen the new Kigali city emerge even though Rwanda had no oil or any tangible resources to fund its emergence quickly. But just ensuring that every new project was done in the best global standard would eventually get you there. I have written a long response. But it takes such long responses to make the very fine point that it takes a visionary leader with a modern mindset and not just the available resources as the most critical ingredient in developing a society into a world-class society. From America to Japan to China to Singapore to Malaysia to Rwanda to Dubai etc, it took just one visionary at a point in their history to decide that they had to leapfrog into a modern society regardless of their income at the time. They had the idea and gradually followed their plan until it happened. That is what I am hoping that Soludo will be for Anambra and Southeast Nigeria.
In summary, we have to think higher than our current environmental situation if we hope to become better and achieve a greater future that we will no longer be called "Third World" or something less than the best. We have to aim to be in the league of the best. We can do it. So let's support those leaders who dare to dream big even when the resources seem not to be immediately available.
The ICC should be fully utilized and busy before you build a hotel otherwise that hotel will be a waste of money and that's speaking as a businessman. The location of the ICC itself is isolated from the town. If the ICC is lonely few will want to lodge in its grounds.
ANSG should focus on utilizing the ICC fully by partnering with a proper events management company not one connected to government officials. Ensure one event per week.
Comparing Awka to Nairobi or Kigali is exaggeration. Nairobi hosts UNEP and has for over 40 years been a regional center for aid agencies. There are over 50,000 whites living in NBI more than in Lagos and Abuja combined. Kigali in the aftermath of genocide had over 100 foreign NGOs working there and the country receives billions in aid support.
Awka has to design it's own narrative within the regional and national context. If I were ANSG, the play should be the premier business services city in the East.
What do I mean by business services? Awka should be hosting regional banking and finance, insurance, telecommunications, research institutes, advertising, ICT firms. Basically catering to the knowledge economy.
None of the Eastern states are doing this particularly well. Awka would need to show a high level of sophistication to attract this type of activity and the government has its work cut out to stamp out cultism, the chaotic transport system, the unruly market in the center of the town.
Soludo at least is building roads that showcase sophistication but he has to tackle the transport sector and deal with unruly hawkers.
The ICC should be fully utilized and busy before you build a hotel otherwise that hotel will be a waste of money and that's speaking as a businessman. The location of the ICC itself is isolated from the town. If the ICC is lonely few will want to lodge in its grounds.
ANSG should focus on utilizing the ICC fully by partnering with a proper events management company not one connected to government officials. Ensure one event per week.
Comparing Awka to Nairobi or Kigali is exaggeration. Nairobi hosts UNEP and has for over 40 years been a regional center for aid agencies. There are over 50,000 whites living in NBI more than in Lagos and Abuja combined. Kigali in the aftermath of genocide had over 100 foreign NGOs working there and the country receives billions in aid support.
Awka has to design it's own narrative within the regional and national context. If I were ANSG, the play should be the premier business services city in the East.
What do I mean by business services? Awka should be hosting regional banking and finance, insurance, telecommunications, research institutes, advertising, ICT firms. Basically catering to the knowledge economy.
None of the Eastern states are doing this particularly well. Awka would need to show a high level of sophistication to attract this type of activity and the government has its work cut out to stamp out cultism, the chaotic transport system, the unruly market in the center of the town.
Soludo at least is building roads that showcase sophistication but he has to tackle the transport sector and deal with unruly hawkers.
Stop talking ignorant rubbish every time. The location of ICC is what can be descibed as the new Awka. There is APGA regional headquarters just opposite it, there is Awka Millenium City close by, the shopping Mall of which the construction will begin early next year, Solution Fun city, together with the new 10 storey hotel not to mention there is already a Hotel nearby.
All these are located in less than 10 mins from the ICC location besides it connects easily to the old Awka via Ziks Avenue and the other part of Awka via the expressway. Sometimes you just listen and not quick to say ignorant rubbish.
Nwokem, good to see you are back to the thread again. I was wondering why you and a few others suddenly left this thread this year. Biko make una dey come share una opinion about omalich state anyi! Everyone dey contribute hin own quota. From who dedicated his entire YouTube channel for the good of the state, and to project the state in good light. To the many others who share many valuable ideas based on their experiences from different areas, they have been and worked. Daalu nu rinne!
Gradually we are moving forward as a people and I have no doubts that Ndigbo as a people will reach the promised land. Good to see you're back bro!
Awka indigenes should beg their wealthy sons to also help in developing the rugged town abi is it only cultist IGR dey know how to generate for Anambra? The other one up there is querying obi Jackson for developing his town🤣. If he doesn't develop okija..na Awka him go develope? Another problematic pple in Anambra are Awka pple..u pple font like development and u won't allow others develop their towns...other state capitals have left u pple behind. Continue in ur cultism IGR and embarrassing Anambra State all d time with naked women swearing on the streets
illiterates every where. You talk as if cultism in Awka are committed by Awka indigene. You have to know that even before Awka became capital, nobody knows about ihiala. Under the former Anambra state, we have Enugu city, onitsha, nnewi and Awka. Then Abakaliki and Nsukka. Less noise.
