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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 8:37pm On Jun 14, 2015
spyder880:


The entire Okpara avenue/Garden avenue area is slowly turning into a corporate zone. We need more companies to set up headquarters there.
And that's how it should be
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 8:37pm On Jun 14, 2015
ZeroTolerance:
Nsukka

This is beautiful, please rotate the pictures and post again so we don't rotate our necks cheesy

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 8:39pm On Jun 14, 2015
InyinyaAgbaOku:

And that's how it should be

Yes, I will look for pictures of Okpara square, our own Wall Street grin
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 8:43pm 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.

This is why I loved Chime's administration focus on Enugu urban, good roads, smart shopping centres and excellent infrastructure can only attract more tourists who will come in and spend some cash. Investment can easily follow.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Bishop42: 9:21pm On Jun 14, 2015
ZeroTolerance:
It is humans like you that own those buildings.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Bishop42: 9:34pm On Jun 14, 2015
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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by InyinyaAgbaOku(m): 9:42pm On Jun 14, 2015
spyder880:


Yes, I will look for pictures of Okpara square, our own Wall Street grin

Okpara avenue you mean?
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 10:23pm On Jun 14, 2015
InyinyaAgbaOku:


Okpara avenue you mean?

Okpara avenue, dont mind me grin
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 10:52pm On Jun 14, 2015
This is the remains of the once busy Onyeama coal mines of Enugu.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 10:54pm On Jun 14, 2015
This was a large company founded by the Europeans around 1910 and sustained till Nigeria's independence.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 10:56pm On Jun 14, 2015
There were roads built, rails constructed and living quarters built to support the business of coal mining which used to be a big employer of labour.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 10:58pm On Jun 14, 2015
The company has now been left to rot even as many mining graduates are left unemployed. Talk about refusal to use our God's given resources.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 11:05pm On Jun 14, 2015
These grounds contain a large deposit of coal. It could even be seen on the surface in some places......

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by cjrane: 12:08am On Jun 15, 2015
spyder880:
These grounds contain a large deposit of coal. It could even be seen on the surface in some places......

Nigeria is indeed a land of waste opportunities.
Imagine how much industrial generation and progress Nigeria could have derived if these wasting coal had been used to generate power to industrialize Nigeria. But because it is in Enugu, Nigeria elected to rather stay undeveloped and poor than use Enugu coal to develop!

Poorer African countries with unclean coal have managed to secure loan to build coal fired plans to support their industrialization and progress. See Zambian coal fired power plant under construction. Tomorrow when Zambia Industrial growth begins to progress and benefit from cheap coal electricity, Nigerians will flock to Zambia to look for work, while God gave them even better resource than Zambia!

Anyhow, Gov. Ugwuanyi should explore ways of partnering with a company to build power plants near Onyeama miles and sell power to recoup their investment. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=123913389#post123913389

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Macelliot(m): 1:00am On Jun 15, 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.

Are you alright? Which one is Igbotic?

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by biafrandream: 4:44am On Jun 15, 2015
“Sullivan Chime handed over success and the well being of Enugu State to me. God will help me to follow in his footsteps. Chime is today a prophet who is honoured in his own town. It is simply good to be good, you completed your term and people are still thanking you. I will also want to be praised when I leave office”.

Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu State Governor), during the home coming reception, organised by Sullivan's kinsmen.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by biafrandream: 5:21am On Jun 15, 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.



We can power our lifts with solar or wind energy. Where there is will, there is a way!
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by IGBOSON2: 8:15pm On Jun 15, 2015
spyder880:
Okpara square observation post grin

^^^Can one climb the insides to the top like the Eiffle Tower and Statue of Liberty? I should hope so....if not then they've missed a trick there!
Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Dollyak(f): 8:30pm On Jun 15, 2015
spyder880:
The way guys print and mint houses here........... cheesy
That place looks beautiful. I hope the government can compliment the environment with tarred road and nice landscape

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Dollyak(f): 8:32pm On Jun 15, 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.
I love this idea. Why can't you pitch or email the governor some of these ideas?

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ArodeTsolaye: 8:35pm On Jun 15, 2015
Dollyak:

I love this idea. Why can't you pitch or email the governor some of these ideas?

Dayuuum you too are pretty for the ruggedness of the politics section. u r Igbo?

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Dollyak(f): 8:40pm On Jun 15, 2015
ArodeTsolaye:


Dayuuum you too are pretty for ruggedness of the politics section. u r Igbo?
Yup. Imo state. Nothing wrong with politics section lol.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by chinolization: 8:47pm On Jun 15, 2015
Don't be too gullible. There are so many transgenders on nairaland. A lot of men masquerading as female here. Don't let anybody sell a dummy picture to you. Be wise. wink

ArodeTsolaye:


Dayuuum you too are pretty for ruggedness of the politics section. u r Igbo?

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by ChimaAdeoye: 8:58pm On Jun 15, 2015
Dollyak:

I love this idea. Why can't you pitch or email the governor some of these ideas?

I guess this forum is needed to pull our resources together.
Some people may have ideas because of what they have experienced or where they have traveled to, but are not living in Enugu nor have access to the governor to pass the ideas.
The onus is on those of us who have access to His Excellency or people that can influence change to make sure they pass the ideas of our people in order to use it and improve the socio-economic well-being of Enugu State. I guess it is a sort of division of labor.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Nobody: 9:31am On Jun 16, 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.

one word [b]INTELLIGENT[\b]

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Igbonazy: 10:56am On Jun 16, 2015
spyder880:
These grounds contain a large deposit of coal. It could even be seen on the surface in some places......
Enugu government MUST do things her self, dont trust the Jihadist at the Center to help you develop your Coal industry. I love how Anambra is doing it in oil industry,i will recommend Enugu to follow suit.
Tell the Jihadist at center you dont need their input before they begin to invade Enugu with Arab or Northern investors.
Ugwuanyi MUST make it a point of duty to attract investment in the Coal industry before 2019
.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by asha80(m): 11:10am On Jun 16, 2015
Igbonazy:

Enugu government MUST do things her self, dont trust the Jihadist at the Center to help you develop your Coal industry. I love how Anambra is doing it in oil industry,i will recommend Enugu to follow suit.
Tell the Jihadist at center you dont need their input before they begin to invade Enugu with Arab or Northern investors.
Ugwuanyi MUST make it a point of duty to attract investment in the Coal industry before 2019
.

Enugu state govt can't do jack unless giving permission by fg.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by IGBOSON1: 11:31am On Jun 16, 2015
asha80:
Enugu state govt can't do jack unless giving permission by fg.

^^^That's what i wanted to tell him! This is how they hold us down and keep a check on our progress.....there's an unwritten rule that Igbos and Alaigbo are not allowed to develop beyond a certain level! There's a glass ceiling preventing us from reaching our full potential in this hateful country!

Ever wonder why issues like aviation and resource control are firmly in the hands of the center, with the dogged determination by some to sustain the present status-quo that benefits them; where the 'tail wags the dog' and not the other way round as should be the case in a true fiscally-compliant federal system of gov't?

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by Igbonazy: 2:47pm On Jun 16, 2015
asha80:
Enugu state govt can't do jack unless giving permission by fg.

Replace Enugu with Lagos and see how that sounds...

asha80:
Lagos state govt can't do jack unless giving permission by fg.

Who even gave Anambra the "permission" to build a refinery and explore her oil?

Who gav lagos "permission" to build Eko Atlantic city?

Who gave Akwa ibom "permission" to build Nigeria's most modern hospital?

keep waiting for federal "permission" while dangote is allover mining "our limestone"

Keep waiting for permission. Keep blaming the North.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by asha80(m): 2:59pm On Jun 16, 2015
Igbonazy:


Replace Enugu with Lagos and see how that sounds...



Who even gave Anambra the "permission" to build a refinery and explore her oil.

Who gav lagos "permission" to build Eko Atlantic city.
Who gave Akwa ibom "permission" to build Nigeria's most modern hospital on its soil.

keep waiting for federal "permission" while dangote is allover mining "our limestone"

Keep waiting for permission. Keep blaming permission sorry the North,Lol.
eko Atlantic city,akwa ibom modern hospital are not solid minerals so those examples hold no water..anambra and Lagos have gotten permission for those oil exploration in their domain..dangote has unexplained leverage in Nigeria we all know that..if it was straightforward as that how come kogi,plateau,nassarawa and the likes are not mining legally their enormous solid mineral resources?..do you suggest that Enugu just go in like that without a back up?even Ibeto has back up to take over nkalagu cement if not that ebonyi state government messed up...how come ondo has not tapped into the large bitumen deposit in ondo?..i hope you know about the 'exclusive lists' of fg?why is Lagos not in charge of port charges and vat in Lagos?

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by TabletMan: 3:29pm On Jun 16, 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.

So this ikwerre man is still campaigning against this beautiful storey buildings.
You prefer the building on the left of 2nd picture which is an estate and also bungalow that will only accommodate one family or at best two and you know southeast have small landmass.
This is how you will like to see your beloved zone littered with bungalows.

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Re: Enugu, The Pride Of The East. by spyder880(m): 4:14pm On Jun 16, 2015
As I just approached Chris chemists roundabout along Okpara avenue Enugu. .....

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