Are you one of the ediots that’s being dealt with by chino? Why are you screaming his name in your sleep? Chino must be doing the right thing no wonder you envious ediots from other states are crying

Kemistri3:

Is your name Chino?Why are u hyperventilating?

Good development. This is the biggest mall in igboland

ChimaAdeoye:
So glad that Gov. Soludo is completing the Ikenga Mall, Awka! As well as adding a 5-star multi-story hotel within the compound of the International Convention Center for both facilities to complement each other! Awka will soon emerge as a preferred holiday and international conference destination when these projects are completed!

So glad about the wisdom of Soludo to complete these projects instead of running off elsewhere to start the same projects as many clueless Nigerian governors would do.

Video Credits to Anambra 1st Son TV


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51CnCbQjh88

SpaceTour:
Are you one of the ediots that’s being dealt with by chino? Why are you screaming his name in your sleep? Chino must be doing the right thing no wonder you envious ediots from other states are crying

Dude, all I know is, just stop derailing this beautiful thread🤦

You should be more concerned about your backward state

Kemistri3:

Dude, all I know is, just stop derailing this beautiful thread

Grandswiss hotel Agulu is arguable the most furnished hotel in Anambra state

More of this massive investment is expected in Anambra state.

The owner indeed have high taste

See below 👇

objpmb:


It is better to have many more malls so that Eke Awka can die a natural death and that site will be cleared and cleaned up for a public green park.

hahaha

Beautiful development. Anambra is clearly the most developed state in igboland. Even rural areas in Anambra are competing with main townships in other states .

Jcoleworld911:
Grandswiss hotel Agulu is arguable the most furnished hotel in Anambra state

More of this massive investment is expected in Anambra state.

The owner indeed have high taste

See below 👇

objpmb:


It is better to have many more malls so that Eke Awka can die a natural death and that site will be cleared and cleaned up for a public green park.

Let’s stop spreading this archaic idea that one development will mean another must die or disappear. Although I hate the location of Eke Awka market in the city center and along the most important Boulevard in the city, it still serves a purpose of circulating wealth through exchange of goods and services.

Every retail outlet has its own niche and purpose. Even if you build another open air market bigger than Onitsha main market in Awka, it will not lead to the disappearance of Eke Awka market.

The same mindset caused the state incalculable harm when Onitsha luxury bus association transporters vehemently opposed an airport in Onitsha because it will cause their business to “disappear”. As if everyone in Anambra would suddenly afford or even prefer to travel to Lagos by air! Until an airport was built in nearby Asaba and they realized that airports serve their own niche of customers different from luxury bus customers. Same idea that Anambra airport would cause the Asaba airport to close down. Has that happened in more than 2 years now? The same mindset that Onitsha mall would cause Onitsha main market and Ochanja markets to close down. Again has that happened? I remember when similar statements that new hotels in Awka would kill the big hotels like Geo Gold and Parktonian etc. Today we have hundreds of new hotels and nightclubs in Awka and even Geo Gold and Parktonian hotels have expanded and added more wings that are bigger than the original pioneer wings of the hotel! More importantly their services are now up to standard and now even offer free breakfast and WiFi to guests because the newer hotels introduced that complementary service.

Please let’s stop propagating these falsehoods that have continued to stifle development in Igboland. Some of our people don’t often research things properly. So if they see your comment from naira land, they could run with it as the gospel truth. Not knowing you were probably only joking!

The Awka mall will not cause Eke Awka to disappear nor cause the Everyday supermarket , Roban stores and others to disappear. It simply helps to expand the city, create competition that drives improvements and progress while ultimately helping to position the city as a thriving urban center to attract more investors. Let us stop viewing any new development in Igboland as a threat or something negative that would cause the death of something instead seeing it correctly as a new addition of options and new opportunities that will drive improvements in that sector.

Nothing is happening here, what Is Soludo even doing sef? Na so him won take build the Dubai in anambra state?

Imo state is a cursed useless worthless state with nothing happening there while millions of imo indigenes are running to Anambra to live and uzodimma has been living in Abuja because of how useless and unsafe imo state is

Despacito1:
Nothing is happening here, what Is Soludo even doing sef? Na so him won take build the Dubai in anambra state?

Beautiful Estates in Awka


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNXv5q9WxXk

We anambrarians keep on overhyping our shambolic state.

You just wish you are from Anambra. Just keep deceiving yourself. Anambra is the best and most developed state in igboland. You cannot change it by crying here. Just go and cry for your backward useless worthless shambolic state that’s is in shambles

NLegendforte:
We anambrarians keep on overhyping our shambolic state.

Thank you for your good points. Most of these people are infiltrators, they are just envious and bitter about Anambra. Don’t be deceived because we know them

ChimaAdeoye:


Let’s stop spreading this archaic idea that one development will mean another must die or disappear. Although I hate the location of Eke Awka market in the city center and along the most important Boulevard in the city, it still serves a purpose of circulating wealth through exchange of goods and services.

Every retail outlet has its own niche and purpose. Even if you build another open air market bigger than Onitsha main market in Awka, it will not lead to the disappearance of Eke Awka market.

The same mindset caused the state incalculable harm when Onitsha luxury bus association transporters vehemently opposed an airport in Onitsha because it will cause their business to “disappear”. As if everyone in Anambra would suddenly afford or even prefer to travel to Lagos by air! Until an airport was built in nearby Asaba and they realized that airports serve their own niche of customers different from luxury bus customers. Same idea that Anambra airport would cause the Asaba airport to close down. Has that happened in more than 2 years now? The same mindset that Onitsha mall would cause Onitsha main market and Ochanja markets to close down. Again has that happened? I remember when similar statements that new hotels in Awka would kill the big hotels like Geo Gold and Parktonian etc. Today we have hundreds of new hotels and nightclubs in Awka and even Geo Gold and Parktonian hotels have expanded and added more wings that are bigger than the original pioneer wings of the hotel! More importantly their services are now up to standard and now even offer free breakfast and WiFi to guests because the newer hotels introduced that complementary service.

Please let’s stop propagating these falsehoods that have continued to stifle development in Igboland. Some of our people don’t often research things properly. So if they see your comment from naira land, they could run with it as the gospel truth. Not knowing you were probably only joking!

The Awka mall will not cause Eke Awka to disappear nor cause the Everyday supermarket , Roban stores and others to disappear. It simply helps to expand the city, create competition that drives improvements and progress while ultimately helping to position the city as a thriving urban center to attract more investors. Let us stop viewing any new development in Igboland as a threat or something negative that would cause the death of something instead seeing it correctly as a new addition of options and new opportunities that will drive improvements in that sector.

OreMI22:


Bros, you hit the nail on its head! The big issue is that there is no money! Most of those criticizing Soludo for why he has not built heaven and earth DO NOT and WILL NOT pay any tax! That was precisely the reason the previous governors neglected these cities to rot. Since the average trader passionately hates to pay any tax for the development of the society. Thus, previous governors preferred to use thugs and part-time criminals to extract taxes. Which 99% of such taxes end up in the pockets of the criminals themselves. So it was great that Soludo first stopped using thugs to collect taxes and then digitized the payments through POS directly into the government coffers. I hope that the modernization of the Anambra state tax payment system continues to be improved so that the government can be supported by the few business organizations that view their payment of taxes as a serious civic obligation.

Many armchair critics whose only job is to pontificate online about the skyscrapers or flyovers they need here and there, and how they want all the gutters in the state to be underground or covered always crack me up. Just look at sections of Onitsha - Owerri road where the company CCC built covered gutters! The gutters are now filled with sand and refuse, however unfortunately they cannot be easily desilted because they were permanently covered with concrete! Again, we all like to blindly import anything we see abroad, but nobody asks if our people are as developed as people in such societies that do not dump refuse in their gutters. The reason why some ideas imported from abroad will fail in Nigeria is that we are not at their level of development yet and our people need proper orientation about how to take care of their environment.

Many of those trying to distract Soludo through online smear campaigns also smeared Obiano for building what they called an "unviable poultry farm" as an airport. They posted the images of Atlanta or Heathrow airports as what they "expected" Obiano who was ruling a non-oil producing Anambra state to build! Today such people are now pretending to be praising Obiano for his foresight in building a modern airport, flyovers, and hotels! Wonders shall never end!!!

Now their current antic is to dismiss Soludo's solid efforts to rebuild the collapsed and neglected cities of Anambra. Anyone who goes to Fegge, Okpoko, Awka, and many others will appreciate that Soludo is trying his best to upgrade some of the worst slum settlements in the state while managing the meager resources. It is NOT easy for a state like Anambra to build all these roads at once while also building hospitals e.g. in Okpoko while paying workers' salaries etc. The only way to achieve them is through expanding the tax base and an increase in taxes. Yet, Soludo keeps excluding the poor and vulnerable from taxes! So he should be applauded for taking the bull by the horns to attempt to upgrade our inner cities and make them liveable places again. Some of these armchair critics NEVER consider that there isn't enough money to award a single road in Awka or Onitsha to an international construction company while there are just too many other roads all over the state that are in appalling conditions.

Finally, Soludo should also continue to sanitize our cities through the removal of shanties used in irregular street trading all over our cities. Also to find new locations for small neighborhood markets where private investors can be engaged to build approved plazas or open market stalls for the street traders to be relocated. I see a new Anambra being born. it isn't easy, but you can now clearly see the man's developmental strategy.

Anambra state is the smallest yet the richest state in the east. It is also the gateway to the east and a business hub. The job of the leader is to lead and use every machinery in his power to ensure that people follow rules and regulations in the state. If there's any state in the east that is supposed to undertake audacious projects is Anambra state. With growing revenue from oil and expanding business zones in the state, we should build projects that will not only cater for the services of the state but of the region.

The budget of this man is over 400 billion naira this year and we are not seeing what he wants to use that huge sum of money to solve in the state. We must as a matter of urgency decide if we want to remain as we were in the 90's or move forward.

cjrane:


Why do I support open drainage systems? It's simple! They are easy to unblock and maintain in our environment.

I will support closed drainage gutters if it's in high-brow, low-density areas where the homeowners of the mansions would never want to dump heaps of trash in front of their houses. Therefore, it would be very difficult for such covered drainage systems to be clogged with trash.

Soludo is sensible for keeping most of his drainage gutters open for now. he understands our people and the problem associated with cleaning blocked sealed gutters.

Our level of education in Nigeria is sorely lacking and needs a proper upgrade. There is no reason that we should keep open gutters. There are designs currently that will help in removing silts and prevent scenarios like this. We build the most basic infrastructures in the east without paying attention to different designs all over the world that will not cost you an extra coin. We must understand that we live in temperate regions where mosquitos, other insects and micro-organisms will kill us if we do not try our best to curb it now. For crying out loud, we are in 2024 and we are supposed to look at these things as old and should no longer feature in our state again.

AsomughaChuks05:
Men in terms of real estate development, no state in the south east comes close to Anambra. Go to Awka, Oba, Nkwelle and feed your eyes. One week, one mansion. So much confidence in Governor Soludo's government that investors are bringing in capital at a frenetic rate. You begin to wonder if economic downturn is not affecting the state. The new direction for investment in the coming months will be the corridor around the new expressway from second Niger bridge to Obosi. Anambra is too much.

And that is because it is the culture of Igbo people to build in their states and not because the governor has achieved anything. We should know the difference please.

17th February is boxing day at the icc awka
Awka 2.0

Ceegar01:
17th February is boxing day at the icc awka
Awka 2.0

What exactly has Slowudo done since 2 years in office?

Beautiful . Awka is the entertainment capital of igboland . This is the biggest and best ICC east of the Niger

Ceegar01:
17th February is boxing day at the icc awka
Awka 2.0

Purehuman:


And that is because it is the culture of Igbo people to build in their states and not because the governor has achieved anything. We should know the difference please.

Did that culture not include imo, Abia, Enugu and Ebonyi cox such isn’t going on in their states? Or is it only Anambra that the culture is working??

Purehuman:


Anambra state is the smallest yet the richest state in the east. It is also the gateway to the east and a business hub. The job of the leader is to lead and use every machinery in his power to ensure that people follow rules and regulations in the state. If there's any state in the east that is supposed to undertake audacious projects is Anambra state. With growing revenue from oil and expanding business zones in the state, we should build projects that will not only cater for the services of the state but of the region.

The budget of this man is over 400 billion naira this year and we are not seeing what he wants to use that huge sum of money to solve in the state. We must as a matter of urgency decide if we want to remain as we were in the 90's or move forward.

Really
You’re not seeing the new government house/roads leading to it?

You’re seeing the solution fun city??

You’re seeing Ekwulobia flyover and road dualization?? Including modern car park

You’re not seeing the ongoing ochanja dualize roads??

You’re also not seeing ongoing okpoko roads dualization and the general hospital??

You’re seeing so many road construction going on in the state??

Portharcourt road has been recently completed with streetlights

Akpaka gra has been long completed with streetlights??

You also not seeing awka- ofe mmili road??

Bros, are you blind?

Jcoleworld911:



Really
You’re not seeing the new government house/roads leading to it?

You’re seeing the solution fun city??

You’re seeing Ekwulobia flyover and road dualization?? Including modern car park

You’re not seeing the ongoing ochanja dualize roads??

You’re also not seeing ongoing okpoko roads dualization and the general hospital??

You’re seeing so many road construction going on in the state??

Portharcourt road has been recently completed with streetlights

Akpaka gra has been long completed with streetlights??

You also not seeing awka- ofe mmili road??

Bros, are you blind?

Very blind to see substandard mediocre 1km paths under construction since 2 years ago.
Modern 1 plot keke park you mean? And ofcourse, slowudo is not dualizing any road in Ekwulobia! just maintaining APGA mantra, "uzo otu okpa" with his 100 feet culvert.

Jcoleworld911:



Really
You’re not seeing the new government house/roads leading to it?

You’re seeing the solution fun city??

You’re seeing Ekwulobia flyover and road dualization?? Including modern car park

You’re not seeing the ongoing ochanja dualize roads??

You’re also not seeing ongoing okpoko roads dualization and the general hospital??

You’re seeing so many road construction going on in the state??

Portharcourt road has been recently completed with streetlights

Akpaka gra has been long completed with streetlights??

You also not seeing awka- ofe mmili road??

Bros, are you blind?

Learn how to ignore dumbs, these days I don't stress myself trying to enlight bitter mind

Bunch of govt agents hyping a failure. Anambra is gone.

We should have known anuofia

NLegendforte:
I am a useless frustrated bitter envious ediot I am a failure .

Miserable frustrated envious bitter fellow. Keep camping here like an evil spirit, it won’t still change the fact that Anambra is the best and most developed state in igboland and Soludo is the best Igbo governor , while your backward useless worthless shithole state is in shambolic condition

cadmanspize:

Very blind to see substandard mediocre 1km paths under construction since 2 years ago.
Modern 1 plot keke park you mean? And ofcourse, slowudo is not dualizing any road in Ekwulobia! just maintaining APGA mantra, "uzo otu okpa" with his 100 feet culvert.

These people are driven by envy and bitterness. They thought they would hijack this thread to spread their lies and propaganda but we shall never allow them have their way here

Jcoleworld911:



Really
You’re not seeing the new government house/roads leading to it?

You’re seeing the solution fun city??

You’re seeing Ekwulobia flyover and road dualization?? Including modern car park

You’re not seeing the ongoing ochanja dualize roads??

You’re also not seeing ongoing okpoko roads dualization and the general hospital??

You’re seeing so many road construction going on in the state??

Portharcourt road has been recently completed with streetlights

Akpaka gra has been long completed with streetlights??

You also not seeing awka- ofe mmili road??

Bros, are you blind?

Purehuman:

Our level of education in Nigeria is sorely lacking and needs a proper upgrade. There is no reason that we should keep open gutters. There are designs currently that will help in removing silts and prevent scenarios like this. We build the most basic infrastructures in the east without paying attention to different designs all over the world that will not cost you an extra coin. We must understand that we live in temperate regions where mosquitos, other insects and micro-organisms will kill us if we do not try our best to curb it now. For crying out loud, we are in 2024 and we are supposed to look at these things as old and should no longer feature in our state again.

It is easy to cite Americans, Japanese, or Germans as the people we should copy. But you fail to also copy their BEHAVIOR / MINDSET! No American, German, or Japanese would take trash from their homes and dump it in the street or into drainage gutters hoping the flood would carry the trash to the River Mississippi. That is the underlying difference between the people who live in those countries and the behavior of our people! If you take Nigerians to America and bring Americans to Nigeria, in less than 2 years, they will make our cities look sparkling clean with flowers and trees all over, while we would make New York and Los Angeles look like piggeries with decaying trashing filled gutters and underground drainage seeping out sewage onto the streets. That my friend is the DIFFERENCE! Our people are still getting accustomed to the tenets of modern city life. Unfortunately, previous governments paid zero attention to environmental sanitation, so our people assume that it is perfectly okay to litter and pollute their environment as much as possible. So long as they sweep inside of their homes. The exterior can be a pile of trash and nobody cares.

If someone hears you talking like this they would think you are the type that does not throw trash on the street or properly bag your refuse and drive to authorized places to dispose of them. Or they would believe that you will gladly pay taxes without being chased around. An average American or German would do these things on their own without waiting for the government to chase them around before doing the right thing!

The problem with most of you is MINDSET! Nigerians are the most difficult people to govern and Igbos have learned and imbibed that recalcitrant attitude. Imagine that people asked to stop trading on the street and blocking the free flow of traffic would return to the same spot immediately after the enforcement team moved to another location. Until the enforcement team returns with clubs and begins to damage their wares to forcefully make them comply! There is a total disregard for the laws and norms of a sane society.

cjrane:


It is easy to cite Americans, Japanese, or Germans as the people we should copy. But you fail to also copy their BEHAVIOR / MINDSET! No American, German, or Japanese would take trash from their homes and dump it in the street or into drainage gutters hoping the flood would carry the trash to the River Mississippi. That is the underlying difference between the people who live in those countries and the behavior of our people! If you take Nigerians to America and bring Americans to Nigeria, in less than 2 years, they will make our cities look sparkling clean with flowers and trees all over, while we would make New York and Los Angeles look like piggeries with decaying trashing filled gutters and underground drainage seeping out sewage onto the streets. That my friend is the DIFFERENCE! Our people are still getting accustomed to the tenets of modern city life. Unfortunately, previous governments paid zero attention to environmental sanitation, so our people assume that it is perfectly okay to litter and pollute their environment as much as possible. So long as they sweep inside of their homes. The exterior can be a pile of trash and nobody cares.

If someone hears you talking like this they would think you are the type that does not throw trash on the street or properly bag your refuse and drive to authorized places to dispose of them. Or they would believe that you will gladly pay taxes without being chased around. An average American or German would do these things on their own without waiting for the government to chase them around before doing the right thing!

The problem with most of you is MINDSET! Nigerians are the most difficult people to govern and Igbos have learned and imbibed that recalcitrant attitude. Imagine that people asked to stop trading on the street and blocking the free flow of traffic would return to the same spot immediately after the enforcement team moved to another location. Until the enforcement team returns with clubs and begins to damage their wares to forcefully make them comply! There is a total disregard for the laws and norms of a sane society.

I see Purehumans’ argument! Anything worth doing is worth doing well….to international standard!

I think you’re being a bit unfair to the average south-east city dweller (let’s focus on just our region….let others give reasons for their own seeming anti-social behaviour) who you imply are not deserving of underground/covered drainages with nice sidewalks on top because they’re yet to imbibe the culture of proper waste disposal. I’ve always argued it’s the fault of the state or local municipal authority who don’t fashion out a workable waste collection and disposal arrangement that goes to individual/commercial properties and collects their bagged waste at least once a week! That’s how it’s done in the western societies you argue have better law-abiding citizens. I’m sure you’ve seen how filthy, unkempt and rat-infested their streets look when unions that include the rubbish collectors go on strike? The blame for our unswept and rubbish strewn streets, and our clogged gutters lays squarely with the gov’t (state and local)!

Another way of looking at it is….if say you were to exchange state and municipal gov’ts between our south-east and say the Greater London Authority or the State of New York, while leaving the citizens intact and untouched, i can bet you that within the two years you gave, that our south-east cities would become sane, organised, clean and green, while New York and London would become unrecognisable, urban dystopian environments where life is short, nasty and brutish!

Jcoleworld911:



Did that culture not include imo, Abia, Enugu and Ebonyi cox such isn’t going on in their states? Or is it only Anambra that the culture is working??

You seem to be ignorant of what is happening in other states. A video was recently uploaded by a popular Nigerian youtuber where he showcased mansions that have been built in the East. The video showed massive mansions that have completed in both Awka and Owerri with more under construction. I'm also sure that if you extend your research to other states in the East, it will be the same story. Real Estate development is growing fast across all the states in the east. Just go to property mart website and see the real estate growth taking place in Enugu and Nsukka.

cjrane:


It is easy to cite Americans, Japanese, or Germans as the people we should copy. But you fail to also copy their BEHAVIOR / MINDSET! No American, German, or Japanese would take trash from their homes and dump it in the street or into drainage gutters hoping the flood would carry the trash to the River Mississippi. That is the underlying difference between the people who live in those countries and the behavior of our people! If you take Nigerians to America and bring Americans to Nigeria, in less than 2 years, they will make our cities look sparkling clean with flowers and trees all over, while we would make New York and Los Angeles look like piggeries with decaying trashing filled gutters and underground drainage seeping out sewage onto the streets. That my friend is the DIFFERENCE! Our people are still getting accustomed to the tenets of modern city life. Unfortunately, previous governments paid zero attention to environmental sanitation, so our people assume that it is perfectly okay to litter and pollute their environment as much as possible. So long as they sweep inside of their homes. The exterior can be a pile of trash and nobody cares.

If someone hears you talking like this they would think you are the type that does not throw trash on the street or properly bag your refuse and drive to authorized places to dispose of them. Or they would believe that you will gladly pay taxes without being chased around. An average American or German would do these things on their own without waiting for the government to chase them around before doing the right thing!

The problem with most of you is MINDSET! Nigerians are the most difficult people to govern and Igbos have learned and imbibed that recalcitrant attitude. Imagine that people asked to stop trading on the street and blocking the free flow of traffic would return to the same spot immediately after the enforcement team moved to another location. Until the enforcement team returns with clubs and begins to damage their wares to forcefully make them comply! There is a total disregard for the laws and norms of a sane society.

You are actually suffering from the negative mindset you are talking about. I will use Lagos and Abuja for as examples. A friend of mine who lives in Lagos mainland visited Abuja, when he returned, he told me explicitly that he actually had to adjust his way of life during his short time there. He stopped dropping waste on the road, he stopped honking his car's horn unnecessarily just like he normally does in Lagos because he found Abuja to be more serene and sane. Now where am I heading with this? As long as the government of a state has refused to improve on its standards, the government should not also expect the residents to improve on their standards. No matter how you view us, we are also human beings in Nigeria and we can adjust to better standards more quickly than you think. During the time of Donald Duke in Cross River, he met Calabar as just one ordinary nigerian city. Duke singlehandedly improved the standards in Calabar. It got to a point where if you throw dirt from the window of public bus and driver notices, he will stop his bus and ask you to go and pick up what you threw on the road. The people saw that the government was moving Calabar to a higher standard and they quickly adjusted. In Lagos, you can't see people dropping waste on the streets of Banana Island, Ikoyi and Victoria Island because the standards are high in those areas and even people who are visiting from poorer area like Iyana Ipaja quickly adjust to the new standards.

This is 2024 for goodness sake. Constructing roads with open gutters does not send the right message to the residents in any way. An open gutter is a clear invitation for waste disposal because anybody walking on the road will see an open gutter as an easy dump site. Let's not even begin to talk about the health consequences, growth of mosquitos and houseflies and the dangers of children mistakenly falling into these open ditches while trying to cross over them. In terms of aesthetics, open gutters are completely horrendous and disgusting to look at and does not protray any city as a modern city in this century. Are you telling me that it is an abomination for Anambra state government to cover the gutters and provide waste bins for residents to dump their wastes in? I remember vividly when Fashola was the governor of Lagos and he was hell bent on cleaning up the state. He began covering all the gutters and fitting manhole covers so that they can easily be cleaned. There was a threat then that any place where waste was dumped on the road, the electricity distribution company will be ordered to switch off power to that area untill the residents did what was right. This prompted Lagosians to always wait for the waste agency to arrive before disposing their wastes. The Lagos state waste management agency was always moving from street to street at least once every week to clear waste from people homes. If Anambra state's Government is serious, they can cover those gutters in Anambra and give that state a better look.