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From what some of our colleagues inside the stadium could confirm as at this morning is that Buhari is already in early lead. Hope he maintains the lead.

Atiku is likely to decamp almost immediately if the result is announced in favor of Buhari..

Former Governor of Cross River Donald Duke on a courtesy visit to Dr Obiano in Awka. We must continue to shine for the world to see..

Trust me its a promise..

OdenigboAroli:
Guy,keep it coming.....Greenwood village needs coverage.
Daalu,nwanne.

All the streets and roads are being light up in Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi. Developing all cities, towns, communities and sectors simultenously is what marks us out as Anambrans- the light of the entire black nations..

Obiano is maintaining constant inspection of ongoing projects particularly the Awka flyovers/tunnels and overall infrastructural development to be sure of quality of work. Awka the emerging Dubai of Nigeria..

Anambra obodo oyibo..

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The 3 Shoprite malls in Awka, Onitsha and Nnewi will compete amongst themselves. I heard that the one in Awka will have Cineplex and games/amusement inclusive. Its Cineplex is likely to be powered by Genesis Deluxe an Ozubulu born big boy..

tabletman1:
Peter Obi did well by siting that shoprite at that location.
The location is between the high class(gra,akpaka forest & 3-3) area and middle class(inland town, odoakpu) area.

The good thing about the shoprite is that Onitsha is fast adapting to posh life and night life.
I called my friend last two week sunday by 11pm and was confused when i heard loud music on blasting from the background, I asked him where he was and he told me he is at fish farm omagba phase2. He told me that people where still coming by the time they left there around after 11pm.


This pix was posted by Oga frank, the bush bar is located at Omagba phase 2 just by the express way that leads to nkpor flyover and it's also a happening place...

Anambra on the move. The MPs are making sure that the high steam of development and advancement in Anambra is not distracted. No time to waste.




Anambra Lawmakers Pass 2015 Appropriation Bill Into Law
NAN
— Dec 10, 2014 | Leave a comment
The Anambra State House of Assembly has passed into law, the 2015 Appropriation Bill of over N164 billion, subject to amendment made in some sectoral allocations.

The Chairman of Finance and Appropriation Committee, Miss Nikky Ugochukwu, presented its report in Awka on Wednesday during its plenary session.

The chairman explained that after a thorough examination of the provisions in the budget, the estimated overhead cost was reduced from N282 million to N82 million.

According to her, the overhead cost of the office of the Secretary to the State Government was slashed from N855 million to N755 million.

That of the Executive Governor’s Office was increased from N16.77 billion to N17.74 billion.

The financial estimate for Anambra State Lands Information Management System was also changed from N100 million to N30 million while the financial provision for completion/expansion of the ministry’s headquarters building was hiked from N30 million to N100 million.

Ugochukwu said that the committee swung into action and issued a time table for bilateral budget discussion between the House Standing Committee and various ministries, departments and agencies.

She said that the report was based on the budget defence and hearing which were concluded and after thorough examination of the provisions in the budget, decisions was reached

In her speech, the Speaker of Anambra State House of Assembly, Mrs Chinwe Nwaebili, thanked the members for having worked assiduously towards the passage of the budget so early as to enable the governor to implement them for the betterment of the state.

Nwaebili said that the legislative arm had done its bit and encouraged the government to ensure later implementation of the budget to give a sense of new direction to the people.

“ The governor will have no reason not to give quality service to `Ndi Anambra’ as we have given him the tool with which to change lives in the state,” she said.

She said that efforts must be made to ensure the implementation of the budget.

Also contributing, the member representing Orumba North (APGA), Mr Romanus Obi, described the bill as the fastest in terms of its passage and observed the positive impact it would have in the overall development of the state.

Mr Ebele Ejiofor (APGA Anaocha1) said that the legislators decided to spare their time in spite of the political process going on in the state, to discharge this responsibility and maintain the current developments.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)reports that the budget was passed with the majority of the ruling party members as the APC and PDP members were absent due to their involvement in political activities of their parties

Gov. Willie Obiano presented the bill to the legislature on Nov. 24 and the lawmakers assured him of speedy passage. (NAN)

http://leadership.ng/business/394208/anambra-lawmakers-pass-2015-appropriation-bill-law

My Osumenyi is still in tact with nature..

@Tabletman1, please who owns this Feli Feli Pharmacy?

The guy is on over-drive. Anambra adigo mma for real..

FKO81:
O boy this man dey vex,

Obiano launches Anambra city cab. Anambra obodo oyibo..

Wow..second largest bank branch network in the country. This no be small feat oo.

investnow2013:
Okija. Newly build Diamond Bank Branch in The rural Town of Okija Ihiala lga of Anambra-State. Anambra-State have the Highest number of Bank Branches in Nigeria after Lagos!

What is the level of work at the site like? I am sure they might have done above 70% by now.

investnow2013:
Former Governor Obi at the Laying of the Foundation of one of the many industries coming to Ozubulu industrial layout January This year!. Obiano have also paid a Visit there!

Obiano said that the long stretch of the road that will lead to the Ogbunike cave will be completed before xmas holiday.

FKO81:
Anambra has tourist sites Agulu lake, Ogbunike cave, Rojenny tourist village Oba etc.

Wow..imagine a rural area. Anambra obodo oyibo.

investnow2013:
Ozubulu Industrial Area! Govt & People are starting to move in This Town with some eye catching investments & investment proposals like Factories, Houses,University /School,Hotels/Restuarants, Hospitals,Petrol Stations, Civic Halls,Markets,Church Camps, Farm Settlements etc!. Some of up coming Houses in Ozubulu:

Wow..Anambra shall continue to lead the pack.

FKO81:
Security security very important in our state and Gov Obiano's eyes is on the ball.

My able governor.

FKO81:
His excellence Chief W. Obiano with Dr. Mrs Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Minister of Finance and
Coordinating Minister of the Economy met on way forward to move our economy forward.

No biggy nwanne mu.

FKO81:
Bro please be cool, just control yourself Igbo bu-ofu, you have every right to comment in any eastern state thread so with him and any Nwa-afor, you guys should show maturity. One love!

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We don't care. Leave this thread and go and post whatever you like on your own thread. We are not interested. You have been posting brothels as development on your thread but we are not interested that was wny you did not see any of us there.

Like as I said what Obi achieved will take all the governors in Imo state 100yrs to attempt. Its a fact.

Abagworo:
Hypocrisy is bad and I still maintain that what makes criticism bad is when you start posting foul pictures to mock a State or town. We all know how Theodore Orji has been wrongly treated on media or how Peter Obi has deceived people using the media. Imagine if Abia people start posting all those 6storey glass houses in Aba or beautiful private homes in Abiriba or Lever brothers, PZ Cussons, Colgate palmolive, NBL, Guiness, Star paper mill, Geometric, 7up, Tura industries, Glassforce, Tonimas etc. it does not mean Orji worked. What it means is that Igbos and some multinationals developed Aba. Nnewi is an obvious case of self-help as all the industries are private with little or no multinationals.

Going by the pictures shown here Peter Obi is not better than Theodore Orji.

You don't actually need to do this. He is here because he feels so much hurt on the towering advancement of our dear state.

FKO81:
My brother please be civil, when you where posting pictures of interior and exterior of hotels in Imo thread, no body critics you please don't expect us to do things the way you do, Imo state has been oil producing state for so long now and member of NDDC and Owerri was the formar capital of Aba, Anambra state has three major cities to take care of with little resources from fed, we just started oil production not too long and Awka became state capital in 1991, and you know what we battle before Ngige, Obi and Obiano came in, please I'm not say you shouldn't comment but please be civil. There is difference between Anambra Imo, Enugu and Ebonyi state, Anambra and Abia state are commercial and industrial states in south/east and where created at the same time.Thanks

Nobody asked for your input on this thread. There is no need to pretend Anambra trounces Imo state in all indices of development. We have so much to show for our dear state unlike you. When I look at Imo thread I laugh because what I see each time is the same pictures of the ugly town that is being repeated all over and some brothels.

If you really want to know how backward Imo state is look at the following basis for your assessment: education, health, infrastructure, job creation, industrialization etc. Your state is far below Anambra in all these, so what is your point? Like someone already said what Obi achieved in 8yrs will take all the governors of your state 100yrs to attempt. I think you should focus more on your ordinary and useless state and leave us alone. It is very clear that you are suffering from frustration and envy. We are not the same people with you people.

Abagworo:
My friend I havw caused nothing by airing my view. Criticism is not bad but looking for bad pictures to post and make mockery of Anambra is bad. I will continue to say the truth forever. Theres nothing to show on this thread other than new Upper Iweka or either ongoing projects or people's personal houses or business. My criticism is informed on knowing what Peter Obi did in his 8 years.

Most of those nnewi roads are marked for dualization, particularly all the roads around the ongoing mall. It is already in the new budget.

FKO81:
You are right, Nnewi people where focused and committed in developing their town early but government then did carry them along, that is why the presence of industries it will be difficult to dualise their roads.

Update: Awka massive infrastructural development. The contractors are virtually working day and night on the three flyovers and also that long stretch of road.

APGA concludes senatorial primaries in Awka. A particular nairalander that I know is eyeing state assembly seat. Please we shall all vote for him when the chips are down...

Nwanne did you reach where they are building the Resort? I hope we shall use the resort for the xmas?

Anambra adigo mma for real..

Yeske2:
On

It is true that those steel people are moving. Most of the markets are being relocated to the outskirt. I think the new Oba market will accommodate them. Building material has moved to the outskirt too near Toll gate.

Nedu09:
e author=BuddahMonk post=28534410]Yes they are relocating to Ogidi or Ogbunike, even the irondealers along Uga Street and Port Harcourt Rd are moving, those GeePee tank dealers along Atani Rd are moving also.

Mkts are moving toward Ogbunike, Umunya, Ogidi axis while Industries are finding their ways back to Harbour n Bridgehead



Guy no worry.. you sabi lair.. Uga street/PH road that am passing every moment... those tank and iron dealers have not moved to anywhere. is it today people are clamouring for there exit? they are still there injuring and ploughing peoples eyes daily. can't imagine this people turning all Uga street residence that use to be less traffic to a dirty open building material market.. bending iron on the road. talk wating you know and stop feeding people with white lies.. at list am on ground now.

I think this will repeat itself again.

You are right more especially now that our lovely state is turning into Las Vegas.

BuddahMonk:
I dnt want to debate this issue further, Anambra have the worst local government administrators in this world, i hate talking or remembering them in my topics.
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Pls how can we get a comprehensive and expansive skylines of Awada and Nkpor.

Who can finance this project by.

1.Hire a pro or semi photographer with a DSLR camera that can cover wider perspective with good depth of field, look for a strategically located building in Awada and capture the neighbourhood from the rooftop.

We need things like this because am tired of anyday visitor or i Google Onitsha or Anambra State we will be greeted by seeing gory images of dead people, poor drainages, bad roads and accident victims.

Can we get our Ministry of Informtion or Tourism to start this, we need these beautiful skylines of our marvellous cities, nobody in Nigeria can challenge us in having the best and mostly highrise neigbourhoods line one of the other in a neatly arranged pattern.

Please how can we make it happen.

Get a pro photographer, look for a strategic building with a bird eyeview of the city....

Lights....

Camera....

Action.....

Investnow2013, schematic, 3dankey, myluv1, odenigboaroli,

Anambra auto-maker forces car importation down as Anambra maintains steady and wide gap ahead of the pack in all spheres of development. It feels great to be an Anambran!

ducii:
The nation's industrial development finance institution, Bank of Industry (BoI), has stated that it is fully convinced about the feasibility of automobile manufacturing in Nigeria and is ready to inject more funds to boost the industry.

The bank said it was impressed with Nigeria's determination to join the league of industrialised nations like Germany, Britain, United States, China, Japan with the unveiling of the first ever truly made-in-Nigeria cars by the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) Company Ltd, in Nnewi, Anambra State.

The Managing Director of BoI, Mr. Rasheed Adejare Olaoluwa, said having seen the progress made by the Innoson Group in automobile manufacturing, "we are prepared to work with other serious-minded automobile manufacturers and provide financing opportunities which they can take advantage of".

Unveiling the IVM Fox hatchback and the IVM Umu saloon cars at Innoson’s Plant in Nnewi, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, noted that the recent Auto Policy of the federal government, which he said had dramatically reduced the volume of imported cars by 20 per cent since its introduction, made the feat possible.

“This is another milestone under President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who insisted on positioning industrialisation and value addition at the forefront of his administration’s developmental policies and I commend Innoson for making significant investments to show that he supports our industrial policies,” he said.

He pointed out that President Jonathan had implemented policies that would diversify the country’s economy and sources of government revenue, given the fact that Nigeria has the raw materials to support industrialisation and so far the policies are yielding the desired results.
Commenting on the local content analysis done on the IVM brand vehicles by the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), which disclosed that the vehicles were made up of about 70 per cent locally-sourced contents, the minister pointed out that there was no country in the world that could boast of 100 per cent local content.

“Some OEMs do only 30 per cent but today we are all here making history in Nnewi, the Japan of Africa, where we have successfully produced 70 per cent local component cars which is one of the highest and when you talk about affordability, Innoson is the cheapest,” he said.
Aganga added that other global brands like Nissan and Peugeot were driving partnerships and capacity expansion in the country’s auto sector.

“As we talk of the fall of oil price, it has become critical that we cannot continue to import what we can produce here in Nigeria. We spend about $6 billion annually importing cars. However since the introduction of this policy, we have experienced a 20 per cent drop in imported cars and have exceeded expectations in a very short period,” he said.

According to Aganga, those who initially opposed the Auto Policy have decided to go into production.

“Without the political will of the president, we would have had a policy reversal with the amount of pressure that was mounted on us to drop it and we would not have been here unveiling these today,” he said.

He commended Innocent Chukwuma, the Chief Executive Officer of the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Ltd, for possessing a can-do spirit, which has propelled the company to dizzying heights of industrial success.

“Our industries deserve infrastructural and financial support to reach their objectives and for Innoson those two critical support components came from the administration of the former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi and the Bank of Industry (BoI),” he said.

Aganga pledged federal government’s continued patronage of locally manufactured products, stressing that in passing the Auto Policy it was established that government would only buy made-in-Nigeria cars and provide the needed support for industries to excel and compete globally.

“We plan to open three auto component cluster parks in the countryand we need the governor of Anambra State (Willie Obiano) to sign an MoU and give us a piece of land and the C of O here in Nnewi and we would establish one of the three cluster parks here,” he said.

Making his remarks, Olaoluwa expressed the delight of the development bank in witnessing the historic event.

“In Nigeria today, there are many companies that are into the assembly of cars but today for the first time, we are actually manufacturing cars. The Nigerian Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP) is beginning to bear fruits in the key areas of competitive and comparative advantages, where we can drive growth and development in the economy," Olaoluwa said.

He noted that Innoson is an exemplary customer of the bank, adding that this was the beginning of more good things to come from the Bank’s partnership with the company.

Also, President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Ademola Olorunfemi, disclosed that a few years ago when the body paid a visit to the vehicle plant, they were given an IVM bus to carry out a product analysis on it.

“We did observe that being an effort in the right direction, more needed to be done to introduce more local content into it and more.

"Today, within two years Innoson has improved on all our recommendations and increased the vehicles' local content up to 70 per cent which is not less than what is obtainable elsewhere in the world,” he said.

He said the Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company Ltd had been granted permit by NSE to use its seal, while the CEO, Chukwuma, would be inducted into the NSE hall of fame, making him the 19th person in over 60 years of the body’s existence to be so highly honoured.

He urged President Jonathan to muster all the political will at his disposal to mandate the use of only made-in-Nigeria cars by all MDAs.
Representing the Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, his Deputy Nkem Okeke commended the Innoson group for its developmental strides, value addition and job creation.

“It is not only through trade that a nation can develop, but through the conversion of our local raw materials into finished products. Therefore we will continue to support Innoson and other well-meaning industrialists,” he said.

Okeke stressed that the only way a company like Innoson can develop is when the nation buys the products of local manufacturers.

“I thank BoI and I hope that what they have done for Innoson will be extended to other industries from this state in our quest to provide jobs for our citizens,” he said.

In his remarks, Chairman of the occasion and National President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Dr. Frank Jacobs, noted that the feat of achieving the production of made-in-Nigeria cars was attained despite the challenging business environment which manufacturers are facing in the country.

“It is a testimony that the federal government’s Auto Policy is working. The automobile industry bill has not yet been passed by the National Assembly and we are all expecting that it will be done soon enough,” he said.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/boi-pledges-more-investment-as-vehicle-importation-dips-by-20-/195685/

Young Jonathan Had Shoes And Even A Horse! Apparently they are trying to refer to his campaign speech back then when he said he had no shoes. Biko let them leave our president alone oo

Dude was actually born into a very rich family.