AmericanQuarter:



Onitsha main market is a single largest well planned neat market in the whole of Nigeria. The market is now moving from mere stalls to shopping plazas. Banks/ATM centers are easily accessible for shoppers coming from all over Nigeria. The market is the most organised market I have seen in Nigeria, because it has well paved roads running through it. The market lines are equally fitted with TV sets/CCTV, this is the only market in Nigeria with such luxury. This explains why lettable spaces are high in rent..

mktinsight:


Clearing them will not stop them from going back. The state has too many overgrown markets that are interfering with the street. Eke Awka, Afor Igwe, New Parts all have all buildings next to the expressway. Meanwhile they offer no parking or sanitation or waste disposal areas. Contrast with Obosi electrical market which is well inside a walled off area with lots of parking and entry exit gates. No traffic near the road for Informal traders to take advantage of.

This is what ANSG should be doing with all markets. Ensure there is a setback of 20 feet from any major road with parking and wall them off. If this requires removing buildings then they should do that. Many markets need to be downsized entirely but does ANSG have the guts like LASG or Enugu or Imo? I doubt it.

Dremca:
That's why the government is building the new Awka market in Isiagu, work is ongoing there.

Stnomso:
. thank
You

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My visit to Awka Diocese

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My visit to Awka Diocese

Cjrane2:


Those who say grass,trees and flowers can't be grown in our home environment, yet they grow freely in the bush all over the SE should ask themselves why the missions are able to have clean environment with landscaping. How are they able to grow flowers, trees and grass in the same environment which government buildings are always unable to grow??

That is why i love anything touched by the missions. They do everything with love and perfection.

investnow2013:
FIRE SERVICE OF ANAMBRA STATE

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Obiano To Build More Fire Stations In Anambra
Awka – Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State is to build more fire stations equipped with human and material resources for rapid response to fire situations in the state.
Disclosing this to journalists at the headquarters of the state fire service on Tuesday, Martin Agbili, director and fire chief of the agency, said six more fire stations would be built by the state governor to augment the existing nine across the state.
He told journalists that the aim was to have enough out-stations to enable the agency respond to fire calls in real time, adding that fire-fighters were always on stand-by to combat fire out-breaks in the state.
The state fire chief, who stated that the state already had about nine functional fire stations, posited that when the six stations under construction were completed, there would be 15 fire stations across the state fully equipped with modern facilities and trained fire personnel.
Agbili also disclosed that Anambra recorded about 100 fire outbreaks in the first quarter of 2018, noting that from the analysis, no severe damage was recorded in the inferno, as some of the fire incidents were extinguished on arrival.
Although he noted that people were becoming aware of the dire need to adopt fire preventive behaviours to avoid contingencies, he said the agency embarked on ‘fire evangelism’ to churches, markets and other public places to educate residents on fire safety tips.
The chairman of Association of Safety Engineers Anambra State chapter drew the attention of the public to the agency’s forthcoming International Fire Fighters’ Day on May 4, 2018 at the agency’s headquarters in Awka, the state capital.
The maiden edition since the inception of the agency, Fire Fighters’ Day will feature roadshows and other programmes.

mktinsight:


The fastest way to ensure fire safety is requiring that every multi tenant, public and commercial building should I nstall one fire extinguisher per floor like obtains elsewhere. These fire extinguishers should be encased to prevent child tampering or theft.

The fire service should be in the business of inspecting all such buildings for fire safety worthiness and issuing a license renewable each year pasted on building entrances with emergency fire service phone lines printed boldly That should help them generate revenue and know the towns they are working with. There are over 100,000 such buildings in Anambra.

mktinsight:


Population is not important. Development is what is needed. The state should copy Lagos in the sense of what brings revenue which is industry, commerce and sophisticated services. Not lawless trading.

The ANSG need to.up their game with markets. People like to shop. But contrast Onitsha Main Market with some of America's Outlets Malls or European commercial districts and you see the difference in planning and organization. People want to buy in clean organized places where they can park or get transport easily to not one massive pigsty. Transform those primitive markets into decent planned markets with security, parking, convenience, bank aTMs and you will see hordes from Port Harcourt to Edo coming to Anambra to shop. Create new markets elsewhere when older ones reach capacity.

Then ensure every shop in the market has a TIN number and collect VAT and business taxes. If you get at least 10 million shoppers spending 50,000 a year that's 500 billion. Your VAT will be 25 billion. You will create jobs in transport, hospitality, logistics for those shoppers not endless barrow hawkers messing up the road. That's planning.

The same goes for transport. Lagos is building bus terminals what is Anambra doing? Onitsha is supposed to have a central bus terminal where all intercity and interstate buses have ticket offices and pickup and drop passengers. Not loading on the side of roads. Awka the same thing. This is what makes a place look civilized and not like a zoo.

Finally they need to ban okada within all cities. Let them exist in villages and small towns with poor roads.

Yyeske:
Everything you wrote up there is in order but that of banning okada doesn't go down well with me especially in Onitsha when you would need to dash across town for something, they just need to be regulated.

Cjrane2:


Banning of Okada is one of the worst thing that has happened to Onitsha, Nnewi and Awka.
Okada should be banned from these cities and the least permissible form of mass transportation should be a tricycle. It is also a shame that states and cities such as Abakaliki mocked in the past for allowing Okada ruin it have since banned okada as a form of mass transportation and Keke has made those cities sane and liveable. I don't want to mention Owerri or Enugu. Suffice to say that even cities in Northern Nigeria, Kano,Kaduna,Sokoto,Maiduguri, Bauchi, Minna, Katsina etc have all banned use of okada as a means of transporting their people, yet a progressive state like Anambra still uses okada as means of public transportation?

Okada has been a bad call and the continued use of this extremely dangerous form of public transportation is causing so much untimely deaths and making Anambra cities to always appear like the worst rowdy places in the world.

Cjrane2:


Failure to BAN Okada is one of the worst things that has happened to Anambra urban centers especially Onitsha, Nnewi and Awka! Looking at all the southern states of Nigeria, not even ONE allow their people to be exposed to the hazard of being transported with Okada EXCEPT Anambra!
Okadao killing and maiming Anambra people has been a hallmark of bad and ineffective governments of the past which needs to be rectified to bring the state at par with modern means of public transportation in it's key cities.


Okada should be banned from Onitsha, Awka and Nnewi and the least permissible form of mass transportation should be a tricycle! It is also a shame that states and cities such as Abakaliki mocked in the past for allowing Okada ruin it have since banned okada as a form of mass transportation and Keke has made those cities sane and liveable. I don't want to mention Owerri or Enugu, those were one of the first progressive cities in the East. Even Abia state also banned Okada EXCEPT Anambra! Suffice to say that even cities in Northern Nigeria, Kano,Kaduna,Sokoto,Maiduguri, Bauchi, Minna, Katsina etc have all banned use of okada as a means of transporting their people, yet a progressive state like Anambra still uses okada as means of public transportation?

Okada has been a bad call and the continued use of this extremely dangerous form of public transportation is causing so much untimely deaths and making Anambra cities to always appear like the worst rowdy places in the world.

These sorts of images below has since ceased to exist in many Nigerian cities since 2009 except in Anambra! Keke is the way to go. It is not perfect, but at least its safer and also more economically viable for the rider to make a good living from it because it can take 3 passengers in one trip where okada take one passenger on the same amount of fuel. Pregnant women or mothers with little children can always board safely. Unlike okada which has continued to kill our people and nobody in government house Awka seems to care because it is not their wives or children that are dying..

Cjrane2:


Those who say grass,trees and flowers can't be grown in our home environment, yet they grow freely in the bush all over the SE should ask themselves why the missions are able to have clean environment with landscaping. How are they able to grow flowers, trees and grass in the same environment which government buildings are always unable to grow??

That is why i love anything touched by the missions. They do everything with love and perfection.