Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Nobody: 11:52pm On Jun 12, 2015 |
obum042: N5b Corruption Trial: Enugu govt tampered with seized properties of companies associated with Nnamani - EFCC WorldStage Newsonline-- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), today complained to a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos that the Enugu State Government had tampered with the assets of companies associated with the former governor of the state, Chimaroke Nnmana. The four companies which had on May 19, 2015 pleaded guilty to a 10-count amended charge brought against them by the EFCC are Rainbownet Nigeria Limited, Cosmos FM, Capital City Automobile Nigeria Limited and Renaissance University Teaching Hospital. The companies are alleged to have failed to comply with lawful inquiry made by the Commission. Their assets are central to the review of facts of the four companies linked to the ex-governor which was fixed for today, June 11, 2015 by Justice Mohammed Yinusa. But the trial judge had to adjourn the review to July 7 after counsel to the EFCC, Kelvin Uzozie told the court that he was still working to get a schedule of all the assets and properties of the companies. He told the court that in the course of preparing the schedule it was discovered that some of the assets and properties have been taken over or tampered with by the immediate past government of Enugu State. “We discovered that most of the properties have been allocated to their friends, family members or political office holders. We are interested in getting all the assets as there was an interim forfeiture order by the court on the assets and properties. We believe it is not right for anybody no matter how highly placed the person may be to tamper with properties that are before the court. We want the properties to be harmonised,” he said. According to the EFCC counsel, 21 properties in Gulf Estate on which there was an interim forfeiture order, were discovered to be sold. Also, Ebeano Tunnel which had 22 Duplexes when an interim forfeiture order was made has been taken over by the state government and renamed Fidelity Estate and sold to various individuals. In addition, Block of 15 Residential Houses at Ebeano Housing has been taken over by the state government and sold to Hospitality Company which has now built an event centre on the land. Chimaroke Nnamani was first arraigned before Justice Tijani Abubakar in 2007. The ex-governor was docked alongside Sunday Anyaogu, his then aide and six firms linked to them: Rainbownet Nigeria Limited, Hillgate Nigeria Limited, Cosmos FM, Capital City Automobile Nigeria Limited, Renaissance University Teaching Hospital and Mea Mater Elizabeth High School. The case was re-assigned to Justice Charles Archibong following the transfer of Justice Abubakar, now of the Appeal Court, out of the Lagos division of the Federal High Court. Again, the case was re- assigned to Justice Yinusa, after Justice Archibong (now retired) was also transferred out of the Lagos division of the court. According to the charge, Nnamani conspired with other accused persons to launder funds from the state treasury, especially monies meant for the local government areas of Enugu state. I am not interested in all those crap they wrote there. My annoyance is, how can EFCC and Court ground companies built with state fund for over a decade, for what!! I refuse to accept that as fighting corruption. It's retrogressive. They should presucute and sentence who ever is found guilt, and either hand over the properties to the state or auction them. It's serious economic loss to the state closing down those companies for years! It's too annoying...another governor has finished his first term, second term and you're still prosecuting the previous governor. Rainbownet could have employed a sizable number of people by now, same with Cosmo fm and their planned Tv station. 8 Likes |
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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 4:25am On Jun 13, 2015 |
centje: I am not interested in all those crap they wrote there. My annoyance is, how can EFCC and Court ground companies built with state fund for over a decade, for what!! I refuse to accept that as fighting corruption. It's retrogressive. They should presucute and sentence who ever is found guilt, and either hand over the properties to the state or auction them. It's serious economic loss to the state closing down those companies for years! It's too annoying...another governor has finished his first term, second term and you're still prosecuting the previous governor. Rainbownet could have employed a sizable number of people by now, same with Cosmo fm and their planned Tv station. EFCC had gone to a deep sleep, I wonder why they just decided to wake up now. 1 Like |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by biafrandream: 6:42am On Jun 13, 2015 |
centje: I am not interested in all those crap they wrote there. My annoyance is, how can EFCC and Court ground companies built with state fund for over a decade, for what!! I refuse to accept that as fighting corruption. It's retrogressive. They should presucute and sentence who ever is found guilt, and either hand over the properties to the state or auction them. It's serious economic loss to the state closing down those companies for years! It's too annoying...another governor has finished his first term, second term and you're still prosecuting the previous governor. Rainbownet could have employed a sizable number of people by now, same with Cosmo fm and their planned Tv station. They are using the case as a smokescreen to destroy the businesses in Igboland. In as much as I detest corruption in public offices, I am not deceived into thinking that EFCC is fighting corruption, nay, they are fighting Igbo businesses. How come they are not closing businesses built through corrupt enrichment in other regions. How many Nigerians made money by personal effort, if not embezzlement of public funds and government patronage. Talk of Atiku and co. Tinubu owns the entire Lagos yet no one is talking about it. This should teach a very big lesson to every Igbo sons and daughters, that united we stand divided we fall. I remember that Chimaroke organised a party to celebrate the closure of Jim's Savanna Bank by Obasanjo. He forgot then that every Igbo person has a common enemy in Nigeria and once they are done with your brother, they are coming after you. The overall objective is to make sure no big business survives in Igboland so that all of you will migrate to Lagos, Kano Abuja and Maiduguri. It will then be easier for them to control your destiny, kill you whenever they want and take over your land. 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by cjrane: 1:20pm On Jun 13, 2015 |
biafrandream:
They are using the case as a smokescreen to destroy the businesses in Igboland. In as much as I detest corruption in public offices, I am not deceived into thinking that EFCC is fighting corruption, nay, they are fighting Igbo businesses. How come they are not closing businesses built through corrupt enrichment in other regions. How many Nigerians made money by personal effort, if not embezzlement of public funds and government patronage. Talk of Atiku and co. Tinubu owns the entire Lagos yet no one is talking about it. This should teach a very big lesson to every Igbo sons and daughters, that united we stand divided we fall. I remember that Chimaroke organised a party to celebrate the closure of Jim's Savanna Bank by Obasanjo. He forgot then that every Igbo person has a common enemy in Nigeria and once they are done with your brother, they are coming after you.
The overall objective is to make sure no big business survives in Igboland so that all of you will migrate to Lagos, Kano Abuja and Maiduguri. It will then be easier for them to control your destiny, kill you whenever they want and take over your land. Exactly! 2 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by cjrane: 1:30pm On Jun 13, 2015 |
We need to work on tourist attracting activities and structures in Enugu.We need to make sure that is easy for people to visit from far places and there are activities or places to visit and the city will be safe for them to enjoy. So that they can go back and bring their friends. Tourism and agriculture with agro-allied factories are the two pronged strategies to develop the economy of Enugu state.Building decent markets for the city residents will also have some limited impact in the state or city's development. However, the bottomline is that we need people coming into the state to spend money which will generate jobs and economic activities more than merely circulating the money in the state in the form of local markets.
I am glad oakland has been set up. We need more amusement parks and fun things in the city. Someone talked about building water parks behind hotel presidential and Igbo history museum beside the international conference center. A hotel with many fun amenities such as Grand Hotel Asaba complimented with the type of water park at Tinapa (Calabar) is needed in Enugu. These things should be pursued seriously. 5 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Kcinho(m): 5:04pm On Jun 13, 2015 |
cjrane: We need to work on tourist attracting activities and structures in Enugu.We need to make sure that is easy for people to visit from far places and there are activities or places to visit and the city will be safe for them to enjoy. So that they can go back and bring their friends. Tourism and agriculture with agro-allied factories are the two pronged strategies to develop the economy of Enugu state.Building decent markets for the city residents will also have some limited impact in the state or city's development. However, the bottomline is that we need people coming into the state to spend money which will generate jobs and economic activities more than merely circulating the money in the state in the form of local markets.
I am glad oakland has been set up. We need more amusement parks and fun things in the city. Someone talked about building water parks behind hotel presidential and Igbo history museum beside the international conference center. A hotel with many fun amenities such as Grand Hotel Asaba complimented with the type of water park at Tinapa (Calabar) is needed in Enugu. These things should be pursued seriously. The government has not really considered developing tourist sites like the Ngwo pine forest, ezeagu water falls , akwuke beach etc. I love visiting these sites but the road to the beach was so bad I considered turning around the last time I went there. I bet there are other interesting sites out there to tap into if the right people manage the tourism board coupled with adequate government support. Some cultural festivals and carnivals can be promoted too. With adequate investment and management,those villagers who harass individuals that visit these sites can be employed while revenue from these sites and festivals increase our IGR. |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Nobody: 5:13pm On Jun 13, 2015 |
biafrandream:
They are using the case as a smokescreen to destroy the businesses in Igboland. In as much as I detest corruption in public offices, I am not deceived into thinking that EFCC is fighting corruption, nay, they are fighting Igbo businesses. How come they are not closing businesses built through corrupt enrichment in other regions. How many Nigerians made money by personal effort, if not embezzlement of public funds and government patronage. Talk of Atiku and co. Tinubu owns the entire Lagos yet no one is talking about it. This should teach a very big lesson to every Igbo sons and daughters, that united we stand divided we fall. I remember that Chimaroke organised a party to celebrate the closure of Jim's Savanna Bank by Obasanjo. He forgot then that every Igbo person has a common enemy in Nigeria and once they are done with your brother, they are coming after you. The overall objective is to make sure no big business survives in Igboland so that all of you will migrate to Lagos, Kano Abuja and Maiduguri. It will then be easier for them to control your destiny, kill you whenever they want and take over your land. You kill it!!! It gladdens my heart to see an Igbo who DEEPLY understands the situation of Ndigbo in hell-nigeria, cos such are rare. Bitter truth is, a good majority of our people don't understand the level of Igbo-phobia in hell-naija. I have not forgotten the Ghanaian business group that was headed to Enugu but was stopped by the federal gov't. 6 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by cjrane: 5:33pm On Jun 13, 2015 |
Kcinho:
The government has not really considered developing tourist sites like the Ngwo pine forest, ezeagu water falls , akwuke beach etc. I love visiting these sites but the road to the beach was so bad I considered turning around the last time I went there. I bet there are other interesting sites out there to tap into if the right people manage the tourism board coupled with adequate government support. Some cultural festivals and carnivals can be promoted too. With adequate investment and management,those villagers who harass individuals that visit these sites can be employed while revenue from these sites and festivals increase our IGR. I very much like your contribution. i just like to add to your contribution a little more. One thing i have gained by traveling to some few tourist sites abroad myself is that if the site isn't a true wonder of the world, such as Niagra falls or Zambezi/ victoria falls, it would be almost impossible for anyone to leave their country of origin in Europe or America to head to Ogbunike cave or Ngwo pine forest. However, you can attract them to Enugu first by a proven partnership between (International Airline to Enugu + Hotels where they would lodge and to pick them up from the airport and the travel agency in their home countries).This is the tripod for successful tourism in any country doing it. Thus, working with fine hotels here and Ethiopian airline to package a subsidized vacation. Once they know one week vacation will cost $2,000 dollars including airfares and hotel, then they are likely to pay for the package. Ofcourse when they are here, the participating hotel can take them to local tourist sites like Ngwo pine forest, Ogbunike cave, ezeagu waterfall etc, if those were developed. They will typically buy souvenirs in Nigeria, they will pay for the transportation of using the hotel's air-conditioned mini-buses to travel around, food, local clothing, local art work etc. These will then add to funds coming into the economy. Kenya and South Africa are able to maintain a reasonably high amount of tourists visits from western countries in spite of fear about terrorism and crime in those countries because they organize packaged vacations through travel agencies in the West, Japan and China. Coming to Nigeria isn't an easy task at all, even for Nigerian citizens living abroad with their spouse and children. If you go to our embassies for your children visa because they are born abroad, they will be dribbling you from pillar to post, until you pay someone bribe. For foreigners who aren't used to that type of "settlement" behavior from government offices, they simply skip going to Nigeria and choose Kenya, Tanzania or South Africa. That is why i always laugh when our Nigerian tourism ministers naively say building up a cultural carnival or festival is just enough to bring anyone to come to Nigeria without fixing the massive hurdles involved in actually coming to Nigeria.If we fix the hurdles involved in coming to Nigeria, even without ministry of tourism, tourists from all parts of the world will flood Nigeria. Think about it and put yourself in a tourist's position. If there were a travel agency at the Shoprite Mall, Enugu who is speaking Igbo or English and promoting a packaged one week vacation trip to Brazil for $2,000 or $3,000 dollars (airfare, hotels,visa), if you have money, you may want to pay and the travel agency will sort out everything. If you had to seek out Brazil embassy yourself and find airlines flying to Rio de janeiro, and also to find hotels in Rio where you will stay for 1 week, to learn how to communicate in Portuguese or learn the language so that you can take taxis there and move around, it will be too daunting and you will probably never visit there. Unless, we simplify these and make the tourist just pay a lump-some specified amount upfront and everything else involved is taken care of, they will never come here. 11 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 11:27pm On Jun 13, 2015 |
This is among the fastest developing parts of Enugu, if we are to consider housing delivery and the number of ongoing buildings, usually multi storey buildings....... Presenting to you, Achara layout, as seen from a nearby hill. 18 Likes 2 Shares
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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 11:33pm On Jun 13, 2015 |
The way guys print and mint houses here........... ![cheesy](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/cheesy.png) 8 Likes
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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ChimaAdeoye: 2:46am On Jun 14, 2015 |
cjrane:
I very much like your contribution. i just like to add to your contribution a little more. One thing i have gained by traveling to some few tourist sites abroad myself is that if the site isn't a true wonder of the world, such as Niagra falls or Zambezi/ victoria falls, it would be almost impossible for anyone to leave their country of origin in Europe or America to head to Ogbunike cave or Ngwo pine forest. However, you can attract them to Enugu first by a proven partnership between (International Airline to Enugu + Hotels where they would lodge and to pick them up from the airport and the travel agency in their home countries).This is the tripod for successful tourism in any country doing it. Thus, working with fine hotels here and Ethiopian airline to package a subsidized vacation. Once they know one week vacation will cost $2,000 dollars including airfares and hotel, then they are likely to pay for the package. Ofcourse when they are here, the participating hotel can take them to local tourist sites like Ngwo pine forest, Ogbunike cave, ezeagu waterfall etc, if those were developed. They will typically buy souvenirs in Nigeria, they will pay for the transportation of using the hotel's air-conditioned mini-buses to travel around, food, local clothing, local art work etc. These will then add to funds coming into the economy.
Kenya and South Africa are able to maintain a reasonably high amount of tourists visits from western countries in spite of fear about terrorism and crime in those countries because they organize packaged vacations through travel agencies in the West, Japan and China. Coming to Nigeria isn't an easy task at all, even for Nigerian citizens living abroad with their spouse and children. If you go to our embassies for your children visa because they are born abroad, they will be dribbling you from pillar to post, until you pay someone bribe. For foreigners who aren't used to that type of "settlement" behavior from government offices, they simply skip going to Nigeria and choose Kenya, Tanzania or South Africa. That is why i always laugh when our Nigerian tourism ministers naively say building up a cultural carnival or festival is just enough to bring anyone to come to Nigeria without fixing the massive hurdles involved in actually coming to Nigeria.If we fix the hurdles involved in coming to Nigeria, even without ministry of tourism, tourists from all parts of the world will flood Nigeria.
Think about it and put yourself in a tourist's position. If there were a travel agency at the Shoprite Mall, Enugu who is speaking Igbo or English and promoting a packaged one week vacation trip to Brazil for $2,000 or $3,000 dollars (airfare, hotels,visa), if you have money, you may want to pay and the travel agency will sort out everything. If you had to seek out Brazil embassy yourself and find airlines flying to Rio de janeiro, and also to find hotels in Rio where you will stay for 1 week, to learn how to communicate in Portuguese or learn the language so that you can take taxis there and move around, it will be too daunting and you will probably never visit there. Unless, we simplify these and make the tourist just pay a lump-some specified amount upfront and everything else involved is taken care of, they will never come here. @ bolded, Excellent ideas. Hope someone begins to put these arrangements in place. 7 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Kcinho(m): 3:11pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
cjrane:
I very much like your contribution. i just like to add to your contribution a little more. One thing i have gained by traveling to some few tourist sites abroad myself is that if the site isn't a true wonder of the world, such as Niagra falls or Zambezi/ victoria falls, it would be almost impossible for anyone to leave their country of origin in Europe or America to head to Ogbunike cave or Ngwo pine forest. However, you can attract them to Enugu first by a proven partnership between (International Airline to Enugu + Hotels where they would lodge and to pick them up from the airport and the travel agency in their home countries).This is the tripod for successful tourism in any country doing it. Thus, working with fine hotels here and Ethiopian airline to package a subsidized vacation. Once they know one week vacation will cost $2,000 dollars including airfares and hotel, then they are likely to pay for the package. Ofcourse when they are here, the participating hotel can take them to local tourist sites like Ngwo pine forest, Ogbunike cave, ezeagu waterfall etc, if those were developed. They will typically buy souvenirs in Nigeria, they will pay for the transportation of using the hotel's air-conditioned mini-buses to travel around, food, local clothing, local art work etc. These will then add to funds coming into the economy.
Kenya and South Africa are able to maintain a reasonably high amount of tourists visits from western countries in spite of fear about terrorism and crime in those countries because they organize packaged vacations through travel agencies in the West, Japan and China. Coming to Nigeria isn't an easy task at all, even for Nigerian citizens living abroad with their spouse and children. If you go to our embassies for your children visa because they are born abroad, they will be dribbling you from pillar to post, until you pay someone bribe. For foreigners who aren't used to that type of "settlement" behavior from government offices, they simply skip going to Nigeria and choose Kenya, Tanzania or South Africa. That is why i always laugh when our Nigerian tourism ministers naively say building up a cultural carnival or festival is just enough to bring anyone to come to Nigeria without fixing the massive hurdles involved in actually coming to Nigeria.If we fix the hurdles involved in coming to Nigeria, even without ministry of tourism, tourists from all parts of the world will flood Nigeria.
Think about it and put yourself in a tourist's position. If there were a travel agency at the Shoprite Mall, Enugu who is speaking Igbo or English and promoting a packaged one week vacation trip to Brazil for $2,000 or $3,000 dollars (airfare, hotels,visa), if you have money, you may want to pay and the travel agency will sort out everything. If you had to seek out Brazil embassy yourself and find airlines flying to Rio de janeiro, and also to find hotels in Rio where you will stay for 1 week, to learn how to communicate in Portuguese or learn the language so that you can take taxis there and move around, it will be too daunting and you will probably never visit there. Unless, we simplify these and make the tourist just pay a lump-some specified amount upfront and everything else involved is taken care of, they will never come here. You are so on point. I would have nominated you for SSA to gburus on tourism/hospitality but them no go listen. One money bag who funded his campaign should be warming up to hijack that one....dats if his mind dy tourism. 7 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Abagworo(m): 4:23pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
spyder880: This is among the fastest developing parts of Enugu, if we are to consider housing delivery and the number of ongoing buildings, usually multi storey buildings....... Presenting to you, Achara layout, as seen from a nearby hill. Typical Igbotic buildings clustered like South American slum. Look to your left on the 2nd picture and see something decent. Government needs to give designs for both structure and roofing to stop this kind of nasty housing. 1 Like |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by FKO81(m): 4:37pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
Abagworo:
Typical Igbotic buildings clustered like South American slum. Look to your left on the 2nd picture and see something decent. Government needs to give designs for both structure and roofing to stop this kind of nasty housing.
I'm now convinced you smoke Igbotic weed 13 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ChimaAdeoye: 6:01pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
FKO81:
I'm now convinced you smoke Igbotic weed Leave the deranged Ikwerre lunatic for Chino to handle. 4 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ChimaAdeoye: 6:06pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
FKO81:
I'm now convinced you smoke Igbotic weed I have come to disregard the jealousy inspired comments of Igbo haters. Just as i disregard many so called oily people's comments because i know they are coming from a default position of unjustified Igbo jealousy and hatred. It burns their heart to see progress in the SE. So they will naturally insult,oppose, deride, or underplay the significance of anything positive in SE. The very same buildings here are "obodo oyibo" buildings once it's not built in Igboland, but once our people copy the design and build it on our land, they attempt to deride or give it scornful names to belittle it. 13 Likes 1 Share
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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by cjrane: 7:05pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
ChimaAdeoye:
I have come to disregard the jealousy inspired comments of Igbo haters. Just as i disregard many so called oily people's comments because i know they are coming from a default position of unjustified Igbo jealousy and hatred. It burns their heart to see progress in the SE. So they will naturally insult,oppose, deride, or underplay the significance of anything positive in SE.
The very same buildings here are "obodo oyibo" buildings once it's not built in Igboland, but once our people copy the design and build it on our land, they attempt to deride or give it scornful names to belittle it. As a matter of fact, once we have stable electricity to enable use of elevators, we can actually begin making our apartment buildings to reach 11 or 12 floors as in the picture.It will save land and enable people have decent cheap housing. 8 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ZeroTolerance: 7:12pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
Nsukka 2 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by EzeUche(m): 7:15pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
Enugu is a nice city but it needs industry. I am not talking about factories. Maybe call centers like India or in health care. Enugu's greatest resource is its intelligent population. 8 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by EzeUche(m): 7:22pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
Abagworo:
Typical Igbotic buildings clustered like South American slum. Look to your left on the 2nd picture and see something decent. Government needs to give designs for both structure and roofing to stop this kind of nasty housing.
Abagworo I see things do not change for you. What is wrong with with these "Igbotic buildings." Enugu is still a beautiful city. The more Igbotic buildings the better I say. 9 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Bishop42: 7:31pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
cjrane:
As a matter of fact, once we have stable electricity to enable use of elevators, we can actually begin making our apartment buildings to reach 11 or 12 floors as in the picture.It will save land and enable people have decent cheap housing. Elevators can be powered by high capacity inventers(or electric car batteries). I guess we should outsource the design to the Chinese since we refused to think outside the box 1 Like |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by kettykings: 7:41pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
Even though nothing appears wrong with the architecture initially but I think it is high time we stepped up things a little bit and try a little catch up with city states like dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong.
An instance is instead of having 300 hundred blocks of 3 bedroom flats in the whole place with each having its own soak away pit, security perimeter fencing, bore hole and water filter and storage, transformer and security, would it not be more cost effective to have just 10 high rise with 10 floors each having 3 flats of 3 bedroom per floor with more than 900 land Lords sharing facilities like the same security, power supply, water treatment plants, and same perimeter fence sitting in a smaller and smarter space saving up land for other things like recreation parks, agriculture, roads etc. 1 Like |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 7:44pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
Bishop42:
Elevators can be powered by high capacity inventers(or electric car batteries). I guess we should outsource the design to the Chinese since we refused to think outside the box And why should people climb elevators to get to their room? That guy is on his own. Ask him whether the two kano skyscrapers are the residential homes of kano indigenes or corporate buildings . Why some of you give considerations to his irate thoughts is beyond me. 2 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by kettykings: 7:45pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
Bishop42:
Elevators can be powered by high capacity inventers(or electric car batteries). I guess we should outsource the design to the Chinese since we refused to think outside the box It will actually take one innovative engineer to pioneer this ,as soon as it is done that would become the main stay as every building would adopt it. 2 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ChimaAgbalajob: 7:47pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
cjrane: We need to work on tourist attracting activities and structures in Enugu.We need to make sure that is easy for people to visit from far places and there are activities or places to visit and the city will be safe for them to enjoy. So that they can go back and bring their friends. Tourism and agriculture with agro-allied factories are the two pronged strategies to develop the economy of Enugu state.Building decent markets for the city residents will also have some limited impact in the state or city's development. However, the bottomline is that we need people coming into the state to spend money which will generate jobs and economic activities more than merely circulating the money in the state in the form of local markets.
I am glad oakland has been set up. We need more amusement parks and fun things in the city. Someone talked about building water parks behind hotel presidential and Igbo history museum beside the international conference center. A hotel with many fun amenities such as Grand Hotel Asaba complimented with the type of water park at Tinapa (Calabar) is needed in Enugu. These things should be pursued seriously. @ the bolded, Since our weather reaches 35 degrees on most days of the year, abroad those hot summer climates usually have several mini-water parks built around swimming pools in hotels of those cities. I had always wanted to get the idea of a relaxation water park in Enugu major hotels, but each time i mention it, a mod bans me! I was even banned for a month for posting a Bostwana water park as a template to emulate in this thread months back. I am glad the idea is already out there for our people to explore. Even Akpabio incorporated water parks in his Ibom entertainment center project. Wherever water-parks exist in hot climates, they attract a lot of tourists and holiday makers. 8 Likes
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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by kettykings: 7:54pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
InyinyaAgbaOku:
And why should people climb elevators to get to their room? That guy is on his own. Ask him whether the two kano skyscrapers are the residential homes of kano indigenes or corporate buildings . Why some of you give considerations to his irate thoughts is beyond me. The truth is that some well designed high rise can have both offices and residential lettings in one high rise. |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 8:05pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
kettykings:
The truth is that some well designed high rise can have both offices and residential lettings in one high rise. Residential areas should be separate from corporate zones, not to talk of a building serving both functions. Though I get your part of the argument, but I expect the initiator of this issue to stop comparing apples to oranges. Pix of skyscrapers serving as residential abodes in other parts of Nigeria or he should quit using igbotic to denigrate our residential houses 5 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 8:06pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
kettykings:
The truth is that some well designed high rise can have both offices and residential lettings in one high rise. 1 Like |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ZeroTolerance: 8:07pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
You guys should make money and build whatever kind of building you like instead of making noise all over the place. It is humans like you that own those buildings. 7 Likes |
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 8:36pm On Jun 14, 2015 |
InyinyaAgbaOku:
Residential areas should be separate from corporate zones, not to talk of a building seIrving both functions. Though I get your part of the argument, but I expect the iniatiator of this issue to stop comparing apples to oranges. Pix of skyscrappers seeving as residential abodes in other parts of Nigeria or he should quit using igbotic to denigrate our residential houses The entire Okpara avenue/Garden avenue area is slowly turning into a corporate zone. We need more companies to set up headquarters there. 5 Likes |