;DI feel like lying down on the grass, to rest my bones

Can you see the cheap erosion control mechanism

Terraced drainages inserted into proper positions. Quality delivery.

who says i shouldn't be proud of my state?

All the roundabouts towards Naira triangle, same treatment

well God bless Barr.sullivan chime and mr.spyder888

Sincerely, we need to vote this man to the senate. We do need people like him which is sure difficult to find. Enugu West people let's rise up against this Abuja selfish politicians. They say that the will of the people be uphold. But I wonder how a president will go against this will just to avoid impeachment. Is that not selfishness?? We chose the we want, they cannot chose for US!!!

I believe in Sullivan Chime...

I'm impressed!

Apart from the little issue of sweeping the gathering sediments and dust on the road sides, i'd say this is a sterling job!

spyder880:
All the roundabouts towards Naira triangle, same treatment

Thanks Oga Spyder for treating us to another delightful Saturday with you awesome pictures.

The Naira triangle is one spot that will finally define the new status of Enugu as you fly in from the airport.
I hope the naira triangle is converted into a great awesome roundabout of sorts, with lots of flowers & palm trees, water fountain and solid sculpture about Enugu state!

Thanks again Spyder for the wonderful pics.

Very impressive I must say, Sullivan has truly done a lot for us. Wishing him the best. Enugu bu just oyoyoyo!!! (according to indomie advert)

cjrane:


Thanks Oga Spyder for treating us to another delightful Saturday with you awesome pictures.

The Naira triangle is one spot that will finally define the status of Enugu as you fly in from the airport.
I hope the naira triangle is converted into a great awesome roundabout of sorts, with lots of flowers & palm trees, water fountain and solid sculpture about Enugu state!

Thanks again Spyder for the wonderful pics.

^^^I was about to edit my post when i noticed you've touched on what i was going to say: Trees and shrubs! It must have been an oversight, otherwise i would have expected the contractor to have planted some trees once the road had been surveyed and work commenced; by now they could have matured a bit and given the whole area a lush green ambience!

Oh.....and they shouldn't paint the road sides with that annoying black-white-black-white marking! The white part quickly looks brown and dusty if the roads aren't swept often! They should leave it as it is!

IGBOSON1:


^^^I was about to edit my post when i noticed you've touched on what i was going to say: Trees and shrubs! It must have been an oversight, otherwise i would have expected the contractor to have planted some trees once the road had been surveyed and work commenced; by now they could have matured a bit and given the whole area a lush green ambience!

Oh.....and they shouldn't paint the road sides with that annoying black-white-black-white marking! The white part quickly looks brown and dusty if the roads aren't swept often! They should leave it as it is!

Nwanne,
Even if i mentioned the trees, please do so again and again and again.
We can't say it enough until our people get the reason why we are so adamant about using grass, flowers and trees as part and parcel of construction in our cities to help them reach at least the minimum world class standard.We are gradually winning the campaign on including gutters as a standard practice to road construction in the SE since its soil is so prone to erosion in the absence of concrete gutters.
I don't need to be told that you have been to America, Germany etc and seen exactly how the proper use of trees and grass can convert the whole environment into a very beautiful and conducive city.Development isn't just about creating a concrete jungle with cement alone.

Left to me, I want all our roads and open spaces to be line with this type of palm tree in the picture.The first picture is Florida keys which has exactly the same climate as SE Nigeria, which Akwa Ibom is obviously copying their beautification model with palm trees lined roads. You can see that Akwa Ibom is judiciously doing a good job replicating the palm trees lined roads of Florida keys in Uyo, which is evident in the later pictures of Uyo posted here.They understand that it helps make a city stand out as a tropical paradise for tourists.

Enugu and Uyo will get there if they continue to upgrade the environment and urban infrastructure.

cjrane:


I have said it that Nigeria does not need the LGA structure or at least they should be firmly under their host state governments to manage since they must be funded by the federal government from the federation account instead of generating their own funding in a true federal system.
Northern Nigeria simply perpetuates the LGA structure because it provides yet another level of cheating where they can corner a lion share of the federation account via the hundreds of LGAs they created in the bush where nobody lives.Simply to steal money from the federation account.

However,I hope someone will patch up those potholes soon.Speak of a stitch in time.
If the potholes persist longer, they will grow so much and cost much more because it would require reconstructing the entire road.

You are right my brother. Every country in the world has 2 tiers of government except Nigeria. It is either you have state and federal government like America or local and central government like Britain.

I have equally argued that if we must retain the present system of government, then local and state governments should be coalesced into one. Alternatively, we can adopt the British system whereby there will be regions with high level autonomy and those regions can create their own local government.

The present local government is simply useless.

spyder880:
All the roundabouts towards Naira triangle, same treatment

Fantastic but I think we should form a charity club whose job would be to pressurize the government to consistently sweep the side roads or we can offer to do it ourselves. I know I sound awful sometimes, but those sand on the sides of Enugu roads are disgusting.

Common, we can't spend billions on road construction, then fail to mobilize people to sweep the side roads, at once a week.

biafrandream:




Fantastic but I think we should form a charity club whose job would be to pressurize the government to consistently sweep the side roads or we can offer to do it ourselves. I know I sound awful sometimes, but those sand on the sides of Enugu roads are disgusting.

Common, we can't spend billions on road construction, then fail to mobilize people to sweep the side roads, at once a week.

Gbam!!!

We need some type of non-profit organization to encourage the government to keep the city clean by sweeping streets, clearing refuse dumps and planting flowers. The idea of helping government to keep the city clean and beautiful will surely sound awful to the average Nigerian. The average Nigerian mentality have been primed as a "Fee for Service" mentality.We don't like to do any public good unless we are getting paid for it. That is why if you praise Chime for his great works, some people already assume he must be paying you some phantom millions of naira to speak the naked truth!

However, helping to keep our immediate neighborhood clean and planting flowers along the streets leading to our houses will be a good place to start.

That road is still under construction just wait till the job is done.

biafrandream:




Fantastic but I think we should form a charity club whose job would be to pressurize the government to consistently sweep the side roads or we can offer to do it ourselves. I know I sound awful sometimes, but those sand on the sides of Enugu roads are disgusting.

Common, we can't spend billions on road construction, then fail to mobilize people to sweep the side roads, at once a week.

spyder880:
Actually, I think they are already working on this even before we started saying it. Starting from the Abakaliki expressway end of the city.

Looks like someone already tried to paste a poster on the concrete and a good Samaritan Enugu citizen ripped it out?

cjrane:


Looks like someone already tried to paste a poster on the concrete and a good Samaritan Enugu citizen ripped it out?

Unemadu:
That starts at umana on the onitsha express through umumba to aguobu owa in ezeagu LGA.

So no need to get to ninth mile before going to aguobu owa or oghe etc.

Work still in progress by ccg

This is great. I lived in Aguobuowa as a local government staff after my college

substandard projects everywhere
anambra IDC should be used to do better contract on roads
chime is a tiff

just felt i should put this here...some can help me paste the story and highlight the important parts......http://www.punchng.com/business/sundayceo/we-dont-need-eastern-ports-amiwero/

someone is owing me apologies here
for insults
or I start again this morning

asha80:
just felt i should put this here...some can help me paste the story and highlight the important parts......http://www.punchng.com/business/sundayceo/we-dont-need-eastern-ports-amiwero/

The contract for Calabar port was awarded a few weeks ago. Why do you think the eastern ports have not been a success?

It is because they all have a shallow draught. They should never have been constructed in the first place with the exception of the Port Harcourt port and Onne port. That is why when the Europeans were there, they did not build a port there. It is just like the Sapele port; it was a Pontu port. It was the Europeans who were running it under UAC that noticed that a sea port could not be built there. So what they did was to discharge cargo on the high sea and then use vessels to bring it to the port. They should not have been created at all. How is Onitsha port doing now? It has been commissioned since.

This is why Calabar has to be dredged continuously and it is expensive. You don’t operate an expensive port; most of these ports are political ports with the exception of the ports at Port Harcourt and Onne. The day you put experts in Transport and in the Ministry of Finance, we will be able to get what other nations have got. Nigeria is losing out from all our God-given potential because of this.

[/b]A modern port should be able to accommodate mega ships and these ports cannot do so. In fact all our ports are river ports; it is only the deep sea port being constructed at Lekki that is an ocean port. If we must have ports in other states, they should be built where it is closer to the sea like Port Harcourt. Even at that, the port of Port Harcourt is still expensive by freight because it does not have destination of cargo.

Lagos has industries and can attract cargo. So ships must keep coming here. But these areas are not industrial areas. You don’t create a port out of nothing. The eastern ports don’t have a destination of cargo for them to be created.

There are no industries in the eastern region that can attract high import of cargo. You can’t divert cargo just because you want to use the ports. You have to attract cargo and one of the ways of doing that is the destination of cargo[b].

Now that they have been constructed, what do we do with them?

The government has to plan what those ports can be used for. In Ghana, there are fishing ports. So we can equally redesign these ports for other uses. We need to bring in experts for this or else those ports will just remain there politically and we will continue to dredge them and waste money and the income will not be there. How many ships are going to Calabar, Warri and Onitsha? There have to be industries there that will attract the ships.

so in essence what the guy is saying that congestion in lagos ports will never stop?well maybe industrialisation of the eastern axis has to reach lagos proportion before a port wopuld make sense there?by the way i thought the so called ibaka deep sea port needed no dredging?

I don't really care about what Mr Amiwero said here, what's really bothering me is why Akpabio hasn't started the construction of Ibaka deep sea port

Ozonna:
I don't really care about what Mr Amiwero said here, what's really bothering me is why Akpabio hasn't started the construction of Ibaka deep sea port

i cant really say

Sometimes lack of continuity from our governors makes them look a bit confusing.They start project and abandon it half way so what is the essence of starting the project in the first place.Mr Amiwero with his shit dumb head cannot hold his feelings specially when they asked him about Eastern port his blood was boiling when the question came up, same mentality never change SMH

cjrane:


Looks like someone already tried to paste a poster on the concrete and a good Samaritan Enugu citizen ripped it out?

that looks like chosen mopol banner

asha80:
so in essence what the guy is saying that congestion in lagos ports will never stop?well maybe industrialisation of the eastern axis has to reach lagos proportion before a port wopuld make sense there?by the way i thought the so called ibaka deep sea port needed no dredging?

if you believe those liars, you will believe anything. Most imports ate not for industries, ranging from cars to tooth pick, they are for consumer use.
They can go on and on to discourage Port devt in the eastern region but I know its a farce.
If pH is the only one that is deep enough, what's preventing the FG from opening it for general importation?

vanbonattel:
someone is owing me apologies here
for insults
or I start again this morning

^^^Go screw yourself.....how's that for an insult!?

Now start!

InyinyaAgbaOku:


if you believe those liars, you will believe anything. Most imports ate not for industries, ranging from cars to tooth pick, they are for consumer use.
They can go on and on to discourage Port devt in the eastern region but I know its a farce.
If pH is the only one that is deep enough, what's preventing the FG from opening it for general importation?

Don't mind the common yoruba clearing agent now posing as a marine engineer. As if he has a clue what he is saying. Talk about a chemist dishing out medical diagnosis as if they are doctors an initiating a quack treatment. These things only happen in Nigeria.

I feel the pains of those who ask about Ibaka seaport. That project has had panic bells ringing across Nigeria and there is a concerted effort to frustrate it. But for how long? Just as they have continued to frustrate other Eastern ports by denying certain types of imports commonly used in the eastern markets. All these things boil down to seeking sound political power in the center. That is why we must make sure those who have sworn the destruction of Igbo people in Nigeria, must never rule us again.