spyder880: The old state secretariat, partly demolished.

spyder880: At the site where they are building the new multi-level state secretariat, there are houses still standing, this one was built in 1928, but may still be demolished to build the new floors.

Eko Ile: nice village development...

PROUD-IGBO:


^^^So what's your 'village'? let's see how it measures up.

PROUD-IGBO:
Video courtesy Joe Chukwu


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsXWqF9OTDw

Is anyone else seeing what i'm seeing?: they've nicked more than half of the streets lights! Now how the fuc/k do you nick something so high up like that? ....so neatly done that the pole is still left standing unscathed!
Does this mean the Enugu state gov't wiil be wasting scarce resources replacing these vandalised street lights every few months?; they need to go out at night with a good marksman and shoot these bastards in the act.

On another note: it might be b'cos of the harmattan, but i noticed the road at the beginning of the video was a bit dusty.

Besides these two issues, everything else (the traffic lights, signage, etc) looks ok.

spyder880: Feel like playing golf? the golf course in Enugu.

Now you wanna wake up the animal is me oh . . . That is a gain that is better than all soccer put together

centje: Hi spyder,
There's on going work at the left side of bisala road opposite blue inland hotel. Do you have any idea of what they plan to do there.
I also noticed some level improvement on ESWAMA service. They have been deploying new waste bins,recently.

spyder880:

I have also noticed the new improvement in ESWAMA. The heaps of rubbish has been reducing and of course the new bins in most locations. Wonder who is in charge now.
That land opposite the blue island hotel is a private land as I heard, I also noticed the new activities there, a road going through it and some works. That property is among the most well positioned lands in Enugu. Some of the buildings inside it looks like they collapsed out of neglect. There is a story about the land which I cannot mention here because I could not confirm the information.

Nightshift: Seems you guys are talking about the old Pascal and Jake Estate ? Have they settled issues over that vast land?

spyder880:

I have also noticed the new improvement in ESWAMA. The heaps of rubbish has been reducing and of course the new bins in most locations. Wonder who is in charge now.
That land opposite the blue island hotel is a private land as I heard, I also noticed the new activities there, a road going through it and some works. That property is among the most well positioned lands in Enugu. Some of the buildings inside it looks like they collapsed out of neglect. There is a story about the land which I cannot mention here because I could not confirm the information.

centje: yeah,i recently noticed the place is been cleared. Please, help us with the history of the place,you seem to know much about enugu.

nedu210:
from what i heard, a catholic priest bought that land when that part of enugu was still a forest, gradually development started coming and the church started clearin the site for use, but the former owner of the land forcefully took the land from the church, angered by what the man did, the priest cursed the land. After the land was taken from the church, an estate was built there, but few weeks after it was completed, it was destroyd by fire, after some years or months another one was build and was also destroyd, so after that second incidence, the site and the building was abandoned till date.

The place is called Pascal jake, what i dont knw is if the priest is pascal jake or the owner.

Eko Ile: nice village development...

spyder880:

Thank you, this is exactly what I heard, that the priest placed a curse on the land and because of that no development can happen there. Such a prominent site, very well positioned for any type of business.