Handsomegod:
True to type,here you go again. Someone just gave a real life account that countered and dispel your type of POV. His real life experience finally laid to rest views such as yours even as we know there exists remnants who propose your divisive views like yours.Now you've migrated from Ikwere and Ndoni to Ika and Ukwuani? Oga,let people be.

AuntLaVIV:
Amazon Event Center, Millennium City, Awka]

AuntLaVIV:
Amazon Event Center, Millennium City, Awka]

Xander85:


I think it's now time to enforce a rule that says ALL open lands (whether gov't or privately owned) not built on should be covered with well-tended lawns! If the private individual doesn't have the time or tools for the job, then they could pay a little monthly sum to a gov't agency that will come around say every fortnight to mow it! This would also help find jobs for unemployed youths!

It's very unsightly and frustrating seeing drone shots of city landscapes with overgrown bushes and bald patches of brown earth here and there, as if the land is suffering from alopecia!

odogwu125:

Enugu govt seem to show "I don't care" attitude towards the federal express. Well manicured lawns abound in the inner city

Handsomegod:
This your exposition gladdens my heart for two key reasons. First,it showed,contrary to long and endless debate on this thread that Agbor as well as the entire Anioma axis remain fundamentally and proud Igbo enclaves same way as Umuahia and Awka. Secondly,it finally reinforced the need for first hand experience over online phantom debates. Let us all be reminded that IPOB protest to release Nnamdi Kanu happened first in Agbor and Asaba before it occurred in Aba and Onitsha. This fact alone is highly significant. Aniomafirstson,CJrane and Nnamdijonathan(?) are the few Anioma sons on this thread. Sadly,none of them lives close to home to bless us with pictures of Agbor and other nearby communities perhaps until after Xmas celebrations if any of them travels.

whirlwind7:
I was a kid during the 1993 chaos that erupted following the annulment of the presidential election. We lived in Lagos. As more tension rose, my father decided we should temporarily relocate to the SE until the situation becomes calm.

Lots of Igbos in the SW also made that decision to at least take their families back home. My father drove us to the village that period. Since my mother had travelled earlier, I had the luxury of occupying the front passenger seat. So, little me was the assistant driver/co-pilot on that trip
Those who remembered that period will also recollect that there was fuel scarcity.
Now, it was during this trip that I got to navigate the backstreets of Onitsha due to the heavy traffic that ensued from the mass exodus, referred to as "ösö Abiola", beginning from Umunede till after Obosi or so. The Onitsha bridge was the choke point/bottleneck.

Now, why I'm writing this is because of the eye opening experience I had when we had to abandon the Owerri-Onitsha expressway because of the gridlock and navigated some backstreets in Onitsha, as we were heading to Imo state.

Wow! I was overwhelmed by the sheer concentration of 5 storey buildings in those back streets. Never knew that such residential buildings in those numbers existed inside Onitsha. I had seen taller buildings in Lagos, but never in such concentration. I mean, every single building in those streets are all 4 or 5 storeys. I kept asking my father where are we?
He replied that we are still in Onitsha.
Yes, but I never knew that such tall buildings existed in these "backyard" streets!
It looked surreal. I kept gaping. When were all those buildings erected?

They were owned by different individuals. I doubt that till this day, there is a more concentrated settlement with 5 storey residential buildings in Nigeria.
The downside was, those areas were never planned. They looked haphazard. The streets were in ruins, but all the buildings were fully occupied.

I don't knw in what condition those buildings and those areas are presently in. Just narrating what I witnessed in 1993. I don't even remember exactly what part of Onitsha it is. Should be around Iweka. I may be wrong though.

Most of those buildings were erected in the 80s. This goes to show the undying spirit of the Igbos. Till this day, such building prowess has never been matched by any part or people of the country.

We can surely do better if the right leaders are in place.

aniomafirstson:


Igbo day celebration which occurred in delta yesterday

Okowa was present

bestview:
Please give us more excuses why the entire Enugu town looks like ebe ndi ala bi.

aniomafirstson:


Igbo day celebration which occurred in delta yesterday

Okowa was present

Handsomegod:
The wonder you expressed at such cluster of multi storey buildings represent the shock of non Igbos when they eventually take a trip to any of the major eastern cities. Meanwhile,on constructing inner street roads,we all give kudos to successive Enugu governors for making urban renewal an integral policy thrust. There are far better houses in Onitsha,Aba and Owerri than Enugu but simple application of common sense and a focus on street enhancement makes Enugu stand out and is arguably the most livable city in Igboland today.Obiano is doing modest works in Awka and parts of Onitsha currently. Areas like Ugwuagba,Awada,Fegge,Omagba Phase 1 and 2 etc need such intervention as a matter of emergency and it can only succeed with State's intervention. It will lead to knocking down a few walls,re-installation of a few electric poles and puncturing a more water pipes but in the end we will have well planned and much more modern city. A well fixed Igboland is a tourist haven waiting to be unleashed. The government do not necessarily need ashpalt for our inner streets. The whole advanced world has since diverted to interlocking tiles in fixing inner city streets. Focusing on using interlocking stones for our inner city streets can kickstart a new sector and provide massive employment chain. These things are not hard to do. I do not know how much it is already done in the east but aggressive introduction and collecting of building registration levies and privatisation of refuse/sewage management will provide all the funds needed to fix some of these without the government spending a dime or labouring the budget more. Until we run governance like business,we may never unleash our best in Igboland since the massive federal intervention and assistance is already systemically skewed against us.

odogwu125:

Please create a thread for this

odogwu125:

"Money can't buy class" is the case of Anambra state. Enugu has been governed by people with class

odogwu125:

Lol. ENUGU inner city is decaying but they are wasting money on federal express. Misplaced priorities

aniomafirstson:


Igbo day celebration which occurred in delta yesterday

Okowa was present

BankeSmalls:


So that you will isolate the pain to another place?
Abagworo, you must be heartbroken already.

odogwu125:

"Money can't buy class" is the case of Anambra state. Enugu has been governed by people with class

BankeSmalls:


Fanning the embers of division between two loving Igbo states.



There's no anambra, no ikwerre , Enugu, no ebonyi, no abia, imo and Anioma. There's only Igbos.




Murtala is dead, so also is his divisive state slashing

odogwu125:

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OMANBALA1:


Who are the classy men of Enugu? Nnamani, Chime and your the pot belly clown you have now ? What you have in Enugu is a remnant of the old city. When Anambra people started migrating to Enugu which was the capital of Eastern Nigeria Enugu people were still in darkness. The presence of Ndi Anambra in Enugu changed the way an Enugu man speaks Igbo and live. After the construction of University of Nigeria by Zik Anambra people were the brain behind the excellence the school recorded. Most of the lecturers were Ndi Anambra and they stamped not only their intelligence but culture in Enugu and Nsukka. Most Enugu people do not speak their dialects in the open , they speak Anambra Igbo.

OMANBALA1:


Who are the classy men of Enugu? Nnamani, Chime and your the pot belly clown you have now ? What you have in Enugu is a remnant of the old city. When Anambra people started migrating to Enugu which was the capital of Eastern Nigeria Enugu people were still in darkness. The presence of Ndi Anambra in Enugu changed the way an Enugu man speaks Igbo and live. After the construction of University of Nigeria by Zik Anambra people were the brain behind the excellence the school recorded. Most of the lecturers were Ndi Anambra and they stamped not only their intelligence but culture in Enugu and Nsukka. Most Enugu people do not speak their dialects in the open , they speak Anambra Igbo.

bestview:
Odogwu123, this is the same Enugu that some of you are using propaganda to sell here. Enugu was created the same time with Port Harcourt but today Enugu is a mess and worthless. Lol

bestview:
Sucker punch..