spyder880:
Looking at the sky over New Haven Enugu.

bro Spyder,
Did you take any pics? You know say i come here on weekends to enjoy your weekend shots.

cjrane:


bro Spyder,
Did you take any pics? You know say i come here on weekends to enjoy your weekend shots.

Lots of pictures, I will upload them when the network improves.

The views over New Haven Enugu. ....

The views over Abakpa Nike, Enugu. As seen from Thinkers corner. ...

More of the back of Abakpa. .....

More. .

Eswama on duty, working seriously. .....

Some parts of Independence layout, Dmatell area.....

More of the area, cool.....

Some classy homes. ...in a classy environment. ....

Decorations for Christmas ongoing along the roads. ......

New Haven, Enugu. ....

This street is......

Udenweze street, New Haven Enugu.

These people are doing the wrong things here, like parking cars on both sides of the road. ....

Chime avenue, New Haven Enugu.

Many shopping plazas. ....

Closer. ......

Lower Chime avenue. .....

Discovery plaza, another new addition to New Haven shopping ........

spyder880:
Discovery plaza, another new addition to New Haven shopping ........

Mr. Spyder how about pictures of the centenary city? We'd love to see what it's like. Thanks

Bishop42:
May i suggest a Secret Brotherhood of Patriots from SouthEast who will direct the developmemt and advancement of the Igbos society and Black race.
1) The Secret group should be made of Elders, Engineers,Scientists,Military men,Billionires, Politicians,Philosophers,Gurus etc.
2) They must be extremely passionate about the Igbos.
3) They must be Progressive in thinking
4) They must be perfectionists
5) The agenda is to build a First Class igbo society
6) The Agenda must be about leading not just copying the world
7) Other Agenda Must be the Stealing of superior Technology Secret from countries, for competetive reasons.
8. They shall Recruit the Best Talents i call "The Top Geniuses". A special fund will be created to take care of The salaries and welfare of these genius.
This is How they should go about recruiting these people: The recruits are of 2 GROUPS...
*THE FORMAL GROUP:
a) Made up of the best graduates in Math,Physics,chemistry,nanotech,engineering one can find in SE and Nigeria.
b) Best known Lecturals /coach one can find in SE and Nigeria, the lecturals for example must be best and vast in their fields such as in Nanotech,Physics,Chemistry, Structural Engineering,Maths etc. They should be able to guide the INFORMAL GROUP and the graduates

INFORMAL GROUP:
* Made up of the most talented technicians one can find in SE and Nigeria, such as... Fabricators,Mechanics,Welders,Eletronic repairers, Vulcanizers etc

I will write in detail about the Top Geniuses Next week

I have to conclude this today. i haven't been so well for a while now.

Also...
Wondering if Synthetic Grass should be adopted by Enugu and other SouthEast Governors in Beautifing important spots in our Cities. So we don't have worry too much about maintainance and harmattan


I read somewhere it would cost about N100million to cover an area the size of Enugu stadium with synthetic grass.

The pix below is a road with synthetic grasses.

Bishop42:
May i suggest a Secret Brotherhood of Patriots from SouthEast who will direct the developmemt and advancement of the Igbos society and Black race.
1) The Secret group should be made of Elders, Engineers,Scientists,Military men,Billionires, Politicians,Philosophers,Gurus etc.
2) They must be extremely passionate about the Igbos.
3) They must be Progressive in thinking
4) They must be perfectionists
5) The agenda is to build a First Class igbo society
6) The Agenda must be about leading not just copying the world
7) Other Agenda Must be the Stealing of superior Technology Secret from countries, for competetive reasons.
8. They shall Recruit the Best Talents i call "The Top Geniuses". A special fund will be created to take care of The salaries and welfare of these genius.
This is How they should go about recruiting these people: The recruits are of 2 GROUPS...
*THE FORMAL GROUP:
a) Made up of the best graduates in Math,Physics,chemistry,nanotech,engineering one can find in SE and Nigeria.
b) Best known Lecturals /coach one can find in SE and Nigeria, the lecturals for example must be best and vast in their fields such as in Nanotech,Physics,Chemistry, Structural Engineering,Maths etc. They should be able to guide the INFORMAL GROUP and the graduates

INFORMAL GROUP:
* Made up of the most talented technicians one can find in SE and Nigeria, such as... Fabricators,Mechanics,Welders,Eletronic repairers, Vulcanizers etc

I will write in detail about the Top Geniuses Next week

CONTINUED...
Assembling great minds for specific purposes would be counter productive unless you have Versatile Team Leaders (should come from the Formal Group) to lead the Team(Both Formal & Informal group).
Most Bright people tend to be passive or not adventerous. Gathering them together to create the next big thing or develop a hybrid space rocket for example,is like gathering exotic car parts to assemble itsself.
The "Versatile team leaders" should be able identify a given talent in each member of his team, fit it in his or her field (let say the field is car engines or carburators production) get him specialise in it, improve and refine his product.
A gifted carburator maker should not only make great carburators but also unique ones,because, believe it or not, there are thousands of unknown ways to cook a meal,refine petroleum make flying machine or stuff like that. So,your carburator must not look exactly like BMW carburators-
Thank God for the Versatile team leader whose job will also be to ensure dynamism in his team.

{THIS MODEL CAN BE REPLICATED IN OTHER FIELD LIKE JUDITIARY, CIVIL SERVICE,SPACE RESEARCH,MILITARY,EVEN PRIVATE BUSINESSES.. ETC}..E.g The Military will have the best graduate in military courses,best known military coaches, gifted soldiers (the INFORMAL GROUP)
& Versatile Team military Leaders. Same goes for the Juditiary, Civil Service,e.t.c

So Here are the Qualities Versatile Team Leaders MUST possess.
1. He must be a Futurist
2.His Willpower must be impregnable
3.He must be adventrous and Open minded
4. He must have a mind of an enterpreur
6. Must be Radical progressive.
7.His team must constantly make New and Improved product
8. He must be consistent
9. His team must be innovating constantly
10. Must have the ability to put together something irresistable,competitive and durable.
11. He must not neccesarly have the best accademic qualification

NOTE that this piece is still about the Underground patriots(The Secret Brotherhood).
All you need to know about them:
*They are usually reserved for sensetive government project.
*Their major goal is to build Progressive and First class society for the citizens of SouthEast
*They act as the last resort if
everything else fails.
* They act as guardians of every citizen of Southest.
*They help grow and establish some of the Top private companies and Establishment in SouthEast




ADOPTING THE ECONOMICS OF SUCCESSFUL SOCIETY.

To avoid making this part boring, i will make it short & simple...

So are the Advanced society so developed?
Answer: They turn virtually everything into business!! In other word,they are deeply enmeshed in capitalism and the reason being that Capitalism is self-sustaining.
There is hardly any free thing in advanced world,even the so called Welfare scheme is funded with taxes.

Their Grand Philosophy is
"If We Must Build, we must Turn It Into Profitable Business or Create A Sustainable Source For Funding It"...
"OTHERWISE LET THE PRIVATE SECTOR TAKE CARE OF THAT."
These phylosophy is seen everywhere such as thier Roads, Parks,Trains,Stadia,Education, Science and Tech.
The Beautiful things about Capitalist model is that government makes tons of money from these sea of companies. The country becomes very rich enventually and there is enough to go around in terms of Infrastrure, Welfare and Improved standard of living.

FINALLY,

How To FUND The Top
Geniuses: funding should come from government & private donation. I recommend they start with 30billion naira per year,though not enough for effectivness and somewhat too small for a project of this size,it still better than nothing.

FUNDING Private Businesses : If you wish to go into Battery production for example,be sure to have a reasonable amount of fund and the right team. Successfully producing great batteries will attract more fund from Banks & private people.

Bishop42:
Also...
Wondering if Synthetic Grass should be adopted by Enugu and other SouthEast Governors in Beautifing important spots in our Cities. So we don't have worry too much about maintainance and harmattan


I read somewhere it would cost about N100million to cover an area the size of Enugu stadium with synthetic grass.

The pix below is a road with synthetic grasses.

I like this idea, since it's difficult for the state to maintain natural lawn. And it will perfectly seal in the red soil.

PDP Gubernatorial Primaries and Matters Arising in Enugu

13 Dec 2014

Ike Ekweremadu

By Samuel Okechukwu

The Peoples Democratic Party has concluded its governorship primaries across the nation. Yes, the dust trailing the exercise has not fully settled in many states, but there is hardly any doubt over candidates that would fly the party’s flag in the 2015  elections. As in every election, while some are jubilating and beating their chests for emerging victorious, others have relapsed into melancholy and despondency. There are also those who are still day-dreaming that fate would bring back the hand of the clock.
However, in the frenzy, one state that comes to mind is Enugu State. Many would say that the state has become a flashpoint in Nigeria ahead of 2015 general elections.

The last primaries of the PDP in Enugu confirmed that new status the state has assumed of late. Since last Monday’s exercise, one question that has continued to agitate the minds of critical observers is -were there indeed parallel governorship primaries in Enugu as reported in the media?
According to reports, ‘two’ candidates emerged from the elections.
While Hon Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi was declared winner in the primary election conducted by the five-man electoral panel headed by HRH Asari Asari at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium and attended by Governor Sullivan Chime, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and other prominent members of the party in the state, Senator Ayogu Eze was declared winner in another primary exercise organised in Filbon Hotel tucked in, in New Haven part of the state.

Senator Eze pulled out to organise his own primary election after a meeting held earlier in the day with the electoral panel at Allens Hotel, Enugu collapsed as they disagreed on the delegate list to be used for the election.
The panel had met with all the aspirants including Eze, Ugwuanyi, Sam Onyishi, Hon Eugene Odo and Onyeke A. Onyeke, where Eze was said to have insisted on the delegate list approved by an Abuja High Court after the November 1 ward congress instead of the harmonised list which the two factions of Chime and Ekweremadu had agreed on.
But critical observers argue that to understand what transpired in the Enugu PDP primaries, so many factors should be put in proper perspective.

Popularity: Many in Enugu including the deaf and dumb would agree that in the history of politics in the state, no candidate has enjoyed the level of support being given to Hon Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. In the estimation of observers, the House Committee chairman on Marine Transport is a brand in the politics of Enugu State. Before the primaries, the belief in virtually every quarter in Enugu was that Ugwuanyi was merely going into the contest as a formality. He is seen as one politician next door, having invested so much social capital in his rise to power.
Not a few argue that even Senator Ayogu, his major opponent knew that one, on one, he did not stand any chance against Ugwuanyi whose governorship ambition literally has become like a movement in Enugu politics.
Harmonisation: The saying that in politics, there are no permanent enemies or friends but permanent interest came to the fore in the recent PDP primaries in Enugu. Before the harmonization, the power struggle was between two camps led by the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and Governor Sullivan Chime. The two major contenders in the governorship race, Senator Ayogu Eze and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi belonged to the two camps. While Ayogu was with Ekweremadu, Ugwuanyi was in Chime’s camp. However, many believed that Ugwuanyi was still at home with leaders of the Ekweremadu camp unlike Ayogu who is derided in Chime’s camp like a plague. There are those who insist that even before the harmonisation, many members of the Ekweremadu camp were only interested in the Deputy Senate President going back to the National Assembly and not necessarily Ayogu becoming the governor of Enugu State. Analysts are in agreement that Ugwuanyi’s victory at the primaries became a done deal immediately Governor Sullivan Chime sacrificed his Senatorial ambition to pave way for Ekweremadu to go back to the National Assembly. Judging by Ekweremadu’s body language even at the height of the power struggle with Chime, it was obvious that he did not have anything against Ugwuanyi becoming the next governor of Enugu State.
The argument is that even though supporters of Senator Ayogu Eze believe that Ekweremadu betrayed their camp, what they did not know during the power struggle was that the Deputy Senate President was not even interested in the emergence of their principal. On Sunday night ahead of Monday’s primaries, there were clear indications that Ugwuanyi, would emerge as the governorship candidate of the party.

The endorsement of Ugwuanyi on Sunday by Ekweremadu, whose political camp controls a reasonable percentage of the elected party delegates in the state and the stepping down of two other governorship aspirants, Chief Anayo Onwuegbu and Hon. Chinedu Onu, brightened his chance as the candidate to beat. Ekweremadu had after he was returned unopposed as the senatorial candidate for Enugu West on Sunday publicly declared his support for Ugwuanyi, describing him as the “future of Enugu”.
He urged his supporters to vote for Ugwuanyi, who had been earlier endorsed by Governor Sullivan Chime, PDP Enugu State Caucus and other stakeholders as the party’s gubernatorial consensus candidate.
He said: “In the spirit of equity, we have all agreed that the governorship seat should go to Nsukka, so let us support Ugwuanyi.
As you can see today, Chief Anayo Onwuegbu has withdrawn from the race; Chinedu Onu has also withdrawn. So, I urge all our people to vote for Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi tomorrow (Monday). Peace requires making sacrifices and that is what they have all done.”
Following the harmonization, Onwuegbu, a gubernatorial aspirant from Enugu West senatorial zone announced his withdrawal from the gubernatorial primaries during the Enugu West senatorial primary election at Awgu, saying his decision was to stabilize the peace which was gradually returning to the PDP in the State.

In the same vein, Onu who is from Enugu North senatorial zone where the governorship slot has been zoned to, also announced his withdrawal from the race in the interest of peace in the party. The two candidates who hitherto were in Ekweremadu’s camp stepped down for Ugwuanyi ahead of the primaries to pave way for a smooth exercise.
Many also believe that Governor Chime’s strong support for Ugwuanyi from the moment he was nominated and the strong backing he enjoys from the PDP stakeholders in all the three senatorial zones of the state, also gave Ugwuanyi the victory.
Difference in Parallel primaries: Many believe that what happened in Enugu on Monday showed that the era of impunity is gone for good in Enugu State. Before now, especially during the administration of former Governor Chimaroke Nnamani, many politicians in Enugu believed that the voters did not matter. That culture of impunity was rejected by Enugu people on Monday during the PDP governorship primaries. Even a child knew the difference between the primaries held in Nnamadi Azikiwe stadium and the one in Filbon Hotel, New Haven.

Political watchers believe that there is a world of difference between the primaries held at the Stadium where Ugwuanyi emerged and that organized in Filbon, New Haven where Ayogu was declared winner.
At the stadium, there was an official seal to the primaries as all five-man electoral panel led by HRH Asari Asari were present.
As early as 8:00a.m, the 1008 delegates from the 17 local government areas of the state had gathered at the Okpara Square for accreditation from where they were taken in an organized manner to the stadium in 17 buses.
As soon as Governor Chime arrived at the stadium by 3:00p.m, the primary election started with the state PDP Chairman, Chief Ikeje Asogwa introducing members of the five-man electoral panel led by HRH Asari.
At the stadium, seven aspirants were listed for the election: Senator Eze, Hon Ugwuanyi, Chief Onwuegbu, Chief Onuh, Hon Odo, Dr Onyishi and Onyeke.

Many also argue that the quality of PDP stakeholders at the stadium showed that it had a seal of authenticity. Those present at the stadium included the Deputy Senate President, Chief Ekweremadu; Deputy Governor, Rev Ralph Nwoye; former Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani; Senator Gil Nnaji; Speaker of the House of Assembly, Hon Odo; former Governor Okwesilieze Nwodo and former Deputy Governor, Chief Okechukwu Itanyi. Others were the state PDP Chairman, Chief Ikeje Asogwa; his Deputy, Elder David Aj, former state PDP Chairman, Chief Vita Abba, former Aviation Minister, Mrs Fidelis Njeze and PDP BoT member, Amb Mrs Justina Eze.
For the parallel exercise held at Filbon where Senator Ayogu was declared winner, the situation was the opposite. As it appeared, no popular politician was in the venue except Ayogu alone. Even the two warring chairmen of the state chapter of PDP, Ikeje Asogwa and Elder David Aja were at the stadium.

Strategy: There is a school of thought that believes that even though it is crystal clear that Ugwuanyi is the man that has the support of the majority in Enugu, Senator Ayogu is banking on exploiting the judiciary to go to the Lion Building.
–– Okechukwu writes from Enugu


http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/pdp-gubernatorial-primaries-and-matters-arising-in-enugu/196564/

centje:
I like this idea, since it's difficult for the state to maintain natural lawn. And it will perfectly seal in the red soil.

I guess it still needs to be swept unless it will turn brown.



What is star doing at Okpara square?

eaglechild:

I guess it still needs to be swept unless it will turn brown.



What is star doing at Okpara square?

Star is doing its yearly cultural carnival, I will cover that in the weekend.

@ centje, eaglechild, this is another way to preserve the road median. This road is the stretch of Abakpa junction to Emene express, concrete median instead of flowers which may not be well maintained.

I want people to plant more decorative trees in Enugu, see how this house is chilling out, surrounded by royal palms. ......

I feel like playing football this morning

spyder880:
I want people to plant more decorative trees in Enugu, see how this house is chilling out, surrounded by royal palms. ......

Absolutely!

In some countries in desert climes, they spend so much money to construct water irrigation pipelines to their flower gardens.
However, in the SE where we are blessed to have adequate rainfall to support luxuriant vegetation, we have decided not to use that great advantage of nature to make our environment beautiful and very pleasant.

That is why the use of artificial grass as if we are in a desert like Saudi Arabia will be very unacceptable since our land can grow any type of grass. Spending money to buy plastic grass and put by the roadside where natural grass will naturally grow is crazy. In some desert countries, even those palm trees are plastic. However, Since our land support growth of plants, we should continue to learn how to nurture plants.

Compare the artificial and natural plants in the pictures and see which you will prefer.