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Some Coal city sculptures

IGBOSON1:
Wallahi, if i had my way Chime would be allowed (if not forced at gunpoint ) to go for a third term!

I just hope the Ugwuanyi guy is equally capable!

Maybe Ugwuanyi has not realised it yet, but the type of expectations we have of him will need him to be on his toes daily just to meet up. He needs to beat Sullivan or people will see him as unfit to rule.

spyder880:
Maybe Ugwuanyi has not realised it yet, but the type of expectations we have of him will need him to be on his toes daily just to meet up. He needs to beat Sullivan or people will see him as unfit to rule.

Making Enugu an international holiday haven must be taken very seriously. As well as building a coal powered power plant to ensure regular electricity in the city.
We must complete that abandoned International Conference Center building and the Hotel and Igbo history museum planned for that location. These will help build on conference tourism as well as bring people to see ancient Igbo cultural tools,agricultural tools, gods,clothing, mud house design, Igbo village design etc displayed in a museum. This also helps us preserve these cultural things for future generations to see as we modernize.

I wish Nike lake is developed for leisure boating as an added attraction for couples coming into Enugu.

cjrane:
Making Enugu an international holiday haven must be taken very seriously. As well as building a coal powered power plant to ensure regular electricity in the city.
We must complete that abandoned International Conference Center building and the Hotel and Igbo history museum planned for that location. These will help build on conference tourism as well as bring people to see ancient Igbo cultural tools,agricultural tools, gods,clothing, mud house design, Igbo village design etc displayed in a museum. This also helps us preserve these cultural things for future generations to see as we modernize.

I wish Nike lake is developed for leisure boating as an added attraction for couples coming into Enugu.

This is Nike Lake, I'm not sure it is that big.

look at Coal city how they live good life over there nice houses, shopping at the shopping mall what can one say rich daddy's girl

backtosender:
look at Coal city how they live good life over there nice houses, shopping at the shopping mall what can one say rich daddy's girl

Enjoy the city sister, you have every right to do so

spyder880:
Enjoy the city sister, you have every right to do so

she is enjoying it wella

cjrane:
Making Enugu an international holiday haven must be taken very seriously. As well as building a coal powered power plant to ensure regular electricity in the city.
We must complete that abandoned International Conference Center building and the Hotel and Igbo history museum planned for that location. These will help build on conference tourism as well as bring people to see ancient Igbo cultural tools,agricultural tools, gods,clothing, mud house design, Igbo village design etc displayed in a museum. This also helps us preserve these cultural things for future generations to see as we modernize.

I wish Nike lake is developed for leisure boating as an added attraction for couples coming into Enugu.

Huge Igbo diaspora population, their families and friends will sustain that tourism sector for eternity and beyond your believe.

cjrane:
Making Enugu an international holiday haven must be taken very seriously. As well as building a coal powered power plant to ensure regular electricity in the city.
We must complete that abandoned International Conference Center building and the Hotel and Igbo history museum planned for that location. These will help build on conference tourism as well as bring people to see ancient Igbo cultural tools,agricultural tools, gods,clothing, mud house design, Igbo village design etc displayed in a museum. This also helps us preserve these cultural things for future generations to see as we modernize.

I wish Nike lake is developed for leisure boating as an added attraction for couples coming into Enugu.

@CJ. U mean alll these facilities you mentioned willl be in that complex when completed? I dare say that complext alone holds the key to the bursting of Enugu's tourism potentials because I know countless of my folks overseas who will give anything to catch a glimpse of an Igbo exclusive museum having being disconnected from their roots,no thanks to long years sojourn abroad. Meanwhile,I read somewhere on this thread before the NL tsunami that it was contractual complications that stalled the completion.Trust me,if completing that complex which I saw from the original render will also contain a specialist hospital and medical schoool is the only thing Gburugburu will do,I for one will be satisfied cos it will enhance both the prospects and landscape of Enugu.

HappyJoe:
This is Nike Lake, I'm not sure it is that big.

In some Hotels in Arab countries, they have water bikes on big swimming pools. The lake is small but the can devise some ingenious fun activities to use it for. Building hotels near beaches or lakes isn't just to look at the water, it is because they want to use the natural water body for some fun activity too.

Handsomegod:
@CJ. U mean alll these facilities you mentioned willl be in that complex when completed? I dare say that complext alone holds the key to the bursting of Enugu's tourism potentials because I know countless of my folks overseas who will give anything to catch a glimpse of an Igbo exclusive museum having being disconnected from their roots,no thanks to long years sojourn abroad. Meanwhile,I read somewhere on this thread before the NL tsunami that it was contractual complications that stalled the completion.Trust me,if completing that complex which I saw from the original render will also contain a specialist hospital and medical schoool is the only thing Gburugburu will do,I for one will be satisfied cos it will enhance both the prospects and landscape of Enugu.

Yes, The land where the Enugu International Conference "Dome" is located will have a mini Conference Hall of 1,000 sitting capacity, 5 star hotel and Igbo Museum.

The website ebeano.com has been taken down, you would have seen the plan for the area. If i find it somehow, i will post it here.

I am actually more interested in building a modern museum ofr Igbo culture to preserve these things for the future generation that will not see where we started from.
The Umuahia war museum has done well to preserve some of the war materials. But that was just 3 years of our history preserved. What about our 1000 years history? Our ancient plates, cups from animal horns, clothing, farm tools, tradtional war weapons, customes of our ladies,jewelry,cowrie money,men's clothing, ceremonial beads,kings costumes,chiefs and indeed the entire Igbo culture. We should begin preserving these things now before they all disappear.

Around the world, most indigenous peoples and cultures preserve their traditions in cultural museums for the future generation to see what it used to look like.

cjrane:
In some Hotels in Arab countries, they have water bikes on big swimming pools. The lake is small but the can devise some ingenious fun activities to use it for. Building hotels near beaches or lakes isn't just to look at the water, it is because they want to use the natural water body for some fun activity too.

you re right but the same time nike lake hotel was build long time ago the new ideas of water bikes was not around at the time,i think as tourism grows in the state the govt will acquire all those things and trust me i will like to ride on one of it once is available,that lake will be a nice tour...

A museum in Brazil built depicting an ancient "hospital" showing how the "dibia" would have sat in his shrine,wearing his sacred mask and "diagnosing" all the ailments or fortunes. The whole thing was built to scale in mud houses outdoors so that people can experience it first hand. This culture is similar to ours, but others have found ways of making tourist capital out of theirs, which is not even a deep as Igbo cultural practices.

cjrane:
In some Hotels in Arab countries, they have water bikes on big swimming pools. The lake is small but the can devise some ingenious fun activities to use it for. Building hotels near beaches or lakes isn't just to look at the water, it is because they want to use the natural water body for some fun activity too.

Artificial lakes and lake expansion by channeling nearby rivers to it can help. The lake can be made bigger and redeveloped as a tourist attraction instead of the natural way it is.

I just realized that Dubai makes more money as a tourist destination than it makes from oil

Shots how other cultures have documented their past in museums for posterity and the future generations.

cjrane:
Shots how other cultures have documented their past in museums for posterity and the future generations.

I will go and see the national museum in Enugu for shots on what little they have over there next week.

Looking for lands for guys who wants to build in Enugu. The way people build houses here, you will think they pluck money from trees.

.......and the award for the worst street in Enugu goes to.........Akpu street in Abakpa Nike Enugu. An eyesore. I will not hide this, showing the good and the absolutely horrible......

spyder880:
.......and the award for the worst street in Enugu goes to.........Akpu street in Abakpa Nike Enugu. An eyesore. I will not hide this, showing the good and the absolutely horrible......

It hurts my eyes

CFCfan:
It hurts my eyes

I am using this to put pressure on those it concerns to do something about it. .....

Now compare the above picture to the residents of this street. ....... also in Enugu. Double standards? abi na apartheid

If una no see me again, well...........

Abakpa Nike Enugu, you would think there is a mass rally here

spyder880:
I will go and see the national museum in Enugu for shots on what little they have over there next week.

Oga Spyder,
That would be very kind of you to get us some of the pics there. Truly, our people don't know how to market our treasures. African culture is something many scholars around the world actually want to learn. Unfortunately, there isn't any real cultural museums in Africa meticulously documenting our culture. A few centers exist in Kenya and Tanzania and they have continued to pull tourists to them.However, those countries have the development of their safaris as a priority.

Since we do not have safaris or game reserves to pull tourists like the Kenyans and Tanzanians, Our cultural heritage should be developed and packaged in modern museums like our movies. In the past, Nigerian movies tried to copy American action movies and we failed woefully. Today, producers have learnt to tell our own authentic cultural stories set in villages and towns, and it has made Nollywood a sensation across the world.
Prof. Chinua Achebe had always said that if he had based thing fall apart on some European culture, it would have been a woeful flop. But since he based it on his own Igbo culture which he was very familiar with, even schools in far away Korea and Japan caught on to the story because it was authentic and not a copycat novel imitating Europeans and their culture.
I think CJ is right. They made provision for a museum around the conference zone. See the satellite imagery of the uncompleted complex. They should complete that complex and begin stocking the museum with artefacts of cultural significance and watch it blossom beyond everyone's imagination.

spyder880:
Abakpa Nike Enugu, you would think there is a mass rally here

Street markets are a problem. I wonder how that can be solved without making people jobless.

OreMI22:
Street markets are a problem. I wonder how that can be solved without making people jobless.

Someone should demolish the Abakpa market, then build a high rise shopping plaza of groceries there with good parking and employ all these sellers. Abakpa is large enough to buy up everything in the plaza.

spyder880:
Someone should demolish the Abakpa market, then build a high rise shopping plaza of groceries there with good parking and employ all these sellers. Abakpa is large enough to buy up everything in the plaza.

Building a two or three storey open air shopping complex is one solution. It has worked in places like Warri to decongest Effrun road. But where will they park the cars? Using the street as parking lots is one of the biggest problems we have, because people just build big public buildings and have no plans to provide parking space for the customers.

OreMI22:
Building a two or three storey open air shopping complex is one solution. It has worked in places like Warri to decongest Effrun road. But where will they park the cars? Using the street as parking lots is one of the biggest problems we have, because people just build big public buildings and have no plans to provide parking space for the customers.

In the interim, government should just go there, evacuate the street, seize the umbrellas and make the road passable.

spyder880:
In the interim, government should just go there, evacuate the street, seize the umbrellas and make the road passable.

Gbam!

backtosender:
you re right but the same time nike lake hotel was build long time ago the new ideas of water bikes was not around at the time,i think as tourism grows in the state the govt will acquire all those things and trust me i will like to ride on one of it once is available,that lake will be a nice tour...

kettykin:
Artificial lakes and lake expansion by channeling nearby rivers to it can help. The lake can be made bigger and redeveloped as a tourist attraction instead of the natural way it is.

I just realized that Dubai makes more money as a tourist destination than it makes from oil

Thanks Bro,
As a matter of fact, one of the issues with Nigerians and tourism development is our mentality that tourism is based on some "Natural wonder" which people will have to cross continents to see. It's all about creating fun things to see or do when some visits your city. For instance many African capital cities located in arid deserts may create water parks where tourists can have fun at the back of a hotel!
That is also a tourist attraction in the city! it doesn't always have to be a natural park or some natural wonder as we tend to think.

^^
Lekwa umu nwanyi mara nma

cjrane:
Thanks Bro,
As a matter of fact, one of the issues with Nigerians and tourism development is our mentality that tourism is based on some "Natural wonder" which people will have to cross continents to see. It's all about creating fun things to see or do when some visits your city. For instance many African capital cities located in arid deserts may create water parks where tourists can have fun at the back of a hotel!
That is also a tourist attraction in the city! it doesn't always have to be a natural park or some natural wonder as we tend to think.

Is this Enugu?