mktinsight:


Not just the leadership. The igbo business culture needs to evolve to embrace teamwork and complex organization. Igbos founded Nollywood but you cannot name a single Igbo studio or production house. They are still making 3,000 low budget films. Meanwhile it is people like Afolayan and Mo Abudu blazing trails in bigger budget well marketed films.

Companies like Innoson should have minority 30% shareholding by state government s. Then they are invested in his success and he should be producing the vehicles they use of similar quality to what foreign imports.

You are very daft and ignorant, some Igbos here are so ignorant not to reply you, no wonder you came to Enugu thread and busy posting rubbish, you will sit in your mud enclave in west and be writing rubbish, come to Anambra thread and write this rubbish for them to wash you blue and black ignoramus.

How many Igbo super producers do you know

Obi Emelonye he is film director and producer. He is known for directing award-winning films like Last Flight to Abuja, The Mirror Boy and Onye Ozi.

Uru Eke she is actress and producer, she is known for her producing debut "Remember Me", her role as Obi in Ndani TV's popular webseries, Weekend Getaway and Being Mrs Elliot

Mary Njoku ROK film production company

Teco Benson is a Nigerian film director and producer. He was nominated for Best Director at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2006 and 2008, and won Director of the Year at the 2011 Best of Nollywood Awards. In 2012 he was decorated by President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic.

Stephanie Onyekachi Okereke, she is film producer and actress, she has received several awards and nominations for her work as an actress, including the 2003 Reel Award for Best Actress, the 2006 Afro Hollywood Award for Best Actress, and three nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2005, 2009 and 2010

Kingsley Ogoro is a noted Nigerian film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for the acclaimed film Osuofia in London of 2003 in which he worked with Nkem Owoh.Ace Nollywood producer, director and CEO of Klink Studios, Kingsley Ogoro, is building a film academy called the Kingsley Ogoro Film Academy in Surulere Lagos. The N1billion project is being financed by Kingsley himself in conjunction with a bank. The film school, which will teach sound, editing, directing etc will run in conjunction with the French embassy and CEA in France.

Izu Ojukwu is a Nigerian film director and producer, In 2007 he won Best Director for Sitanda at the 3rd Africa Movie Academy Awards, which received nine nominations and won five awards at the event, including Best Picture and Best Nigerian Film

Lonzo Nzekwe is a Nigerian/Canadian writer/director and producer His acclaimed multi-award winning debut feature film, Anchor Baby was released in 2010. Anchor Baby is a story of a Nigerian couple living illegally in the US, and on a quest to achieve the "American Dream" for their unborn child. The film won Best Film and Best Actress awards at the 2010 Harlem International Film Festival. It was subsequently released theatrically in Canada, Nigeria, Ghana and the United Kingdom.

Andy Amadi Okoroafor is a Nigerian born, Paris based filmmaker and the founder of the creative studio Clam, an international network of creative people around the world (France, Germany, USA, Brazil, Nigeria, Japan). He edits the internationally successful Clam Magazine and loves to use imagery in different ways, from fashion to film. Our philosophy is “local everywhere”. Local contributions are part of the magazine’s identity. The ideas and concept developed in the magazine inform different industries on the lifestyle of their clients, their behaviour and the latest trends to emerge in our fast moving world. The spirit of Clam is free, creative, inventive and always different.
Andy is a Ted-Fellow and an acclaimed Art Director in advertising, fashion and music videos. His clients have included Xuly-Bët, Jean Paul Gaultier, Kookaï, Virgin, Galeries La Fayette, Hôtel Lutétia, Figaro, Nissan, Méridiam Infrastrusture to name a few. He has directed and filmed promos and advertisements in Africa for different clients from the Oceanic Bank to music-videos for Nneka and the south-african TV-series Yizo Yizo. For the realization of his internationally acclaimed feature film “Relentless” he returned to Nigeria and fulfilled his lifelong ambition of making films about contemporary Africa for a world audience.

Mildred Okwo is a Nigerian film director and producer, She was nominated for Best Director award at the 4th Africa Movie Academy Awards. In 2012 she directed the romance comedy-drama film The Meeting which won several awards including Nigeria Entertainment Awards, Africa Movie Academy Awards and Nollywood Movies Awards.

Chineze Anyaene she is a Nigerian filmmaker and film producer. She is best known for her 2010 critically acclaimed picture, Ijé: The Journey.obtaining a master's degree in Directing at the New York Film Academy (NYFA). She made her first film, Ijé: The Journey, starring Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde and Genevieve Nnaji in 2010.
The film, shot in Nigeria and the United States tells the story of two Nigerian sisters, Chioma and Anya, and how Chioma travels to the US to help save her sister from being convicted of murder.The film was critically acclaimed, winning the Award of Excellence at the Canada International Film Festival, the Golden Ace Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival, the Silver Palm Award at the Mexico International Film Festival, the Melvin van Peebles Award at the San Francisco Black Festival and the Festival Prize for Best International Student at Swansea Bay Film Festival, awarded by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael

TundeBricklayer:

You are very daft and ignorant, some Igbos here are so ignorant to reply you, no wonder you came to Enugu thread and busy posting rubbish, you will sit in your mud enclave in west and writing rubbish, come to Anambra thread and write this rubbish for them to wash you blue and black ignoramus.

How many Igbo super producers do you know

Obi Emelonye he is film director and producers a Nigerian film director. He is known for directing award-winning films like Last Flight to Abuja, The Mirror Boy and Onye Ozi.

Uru Eke is a Nigerian actress. She is known for her producing debut "Remember Me", her role as Obi in Ndani TV's popular webseries "Rumour Has It", Weekend Getaway and Being Mrs Elliot

Mary Tammy Njoku ROK film production companycompany

Teco Benson is a Nigerian film director and producer. He was nominated for Best Director at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2006 and 2008, and won Director of the Year at the 2011 Best of Nollywood Awards. In 2012 he was decorated by President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic.

Stephanie Onyekachi Okereke, she has received several awards and nominations for her work as an actress, including the 2003 Reel Award for Best Actress, the 2006 Afro Hollywood Award for Best Actress, and three nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role at the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2005, 2009 and 2010

Kingsley Ogoro is a noted Nigerian film director, screenwriter and film producer best known for the acclaimed film Osuofia in London of 2003 in which he worked with Nkem Owoh.Ace Nollywood producer, director and CEO of Klink Studios, Kingsley Ogoro, is building a film academy called the Kingsley Ogoro Film Academy in Surulere Lagos. The N1billion project is being financed by Kingsley himself in conjunction with a bank. The film school, which will teach sound, editing, directing etc will run in conjunction with the French embassy and CEA in France.

Izu Ojukwu is a Nigerian film director. In 2007 he won Best Director for Sitanda at the 3rd Africa Movie Academy Awards, which received nine nominations and won five awards at the event, including Best Picture and Best Nigerian Film

Lonzo Nzekwe is a Nigerian/Canadian writer/director and producer His acclaimed multi-award winning debut feature film, Anchor Baby was released in 2010. Anchor Baby is a story of a Nigerian couple living illegally in the US, and on a quest to achieve the "American Dream" for their unborn child. The film won Best Film and Best Actress awards at the 2010 Harlem International Film Festival. It was subsequently released theatrically in Canada, Nigeria, Ghana and the United Kingdom.

Andy Amadi Okoroafor is a Nigerian born, Paris based filmmaker and the founder of the creative studio Clam, an international network of creative people around the world (France, Germany, USA, Brazil, Nigeria, Japan). He edits the internationally successful Clam Magazine and loves to use imagery in different ways, from fashion to film. Our philosophy is “local everywhere”. Local contributions are part of the magazine’s identity. The ideas and concept developed in the magazine inform different industries on the lifestyle of their clients, their behaviour and the latest trends to emerge in our fast moving world. The spirit of Clam is free, creative, inventive and always different.
Andy is a Ted-Fellow and an acclaimed Art Director in advertising, fashion and music videos. His clients have included Xuly-Bët, Jean Paul Gaultier, Kookaï, Virgin, Galeries La Fayette, Hôtel Lutétia, Figaro, Nissan, Méridiam Infrastrusture to name a few. He has directed and filmed promos and advertisements in Africa for different clients from the Oceanic Bank to music-videos for Nneka and the south-african TV-series Yizo Yizo. For the realization of his internationally acclaimed feature film “Relentless” he returned to Nigeria and fulfilled his lifelong ambition of making films about contemporary Africa for a world audience.

Mildred Okwo is a Nigerian film director and producer.[2][3] She was nominated for Best Director award at the 4th Africa Movie Academy Awards. In 2012 she directed the romance comedy-drama film The Meeting which won several awards including Nigeria Entertainment Awards, Africa Movie Academy Awards and Nollywood Movies Awards.

I need you guys to learn something on nairaland: you don't need to insult someone before correcting or educating him. Stop all these attacks; it's Enugu thread not Politics section. Thanks

Boundary Dispute: Enugu, Anambra Sue For Peace, call for NBC’s Intervention

http://easternreporter.com/2018/06/06/boundary-dispute-enugu-anambra-sue-for-peace-call-for-nbcs-intervention/

SmartPolician:


I need you guys to learn something on nairaland: you don't need to insult someone before correcting or educating him. Stop all these attacks; it's Enugu thread not Politics section. Thanks

Sorry I was so pissed that the boy came here asking silly question and only name he got was Izu Ojukwu, these western guys go round spreading false news in different media against us, same lies they been dishing out in education, ITC until we boasted their lies, just imagine his stupidity and lies that local movie producers make #3000 budget for movies, did he know how much the pay our actors and actress to future in a movie or how much they spend on locations and logistics? Our movies dominate Africa movie industries and third in the world, Igbos founded Nollywood not Yorubas or Hausas, all the areas we are leading they find ways to discredit our efforts, In education they will say it's exam malpractice that is why we are leading, commerce they will say we sale fake goods, indigenous industries they will say we manufacture fake products, Nollywood they also condemn our efforts and what have you, just imagine the f**l condemning Anambra for constructing rural roads very ignorant dude, did he know how many Anambarians access those rural roads to work to major cities in the state? Did he know how many use those rural roads to their farms, industries, markets etc on daily basis, with their awkward mentality, that's why when you visit their states hardly you see good building or good rural accessible roads, most of their people that leave in Anambra selling herbal medicine go to those rural areas to rent houses because they can't afford houses in the cities, the f**l should tell me any tribe in Nigeria that boasted of indigenous industries and entrepreneur more than Igbos.

SmartPolician:


I need you guys to learn something on nairaland: you don't need to insult someone before correcting or educating him. Stop all these attacks; it's Enugu thread not Politics section. Thanks

Exactly!!
Enugu thread !!

what do you expect but feral behaviour , savagery and general absence of civility? That is how they roll

greeting parents with a kick is standard.

So insutls , snarling grunting growling and other typial canine behaviour should not alarm you.That is Shinedoo for you

aribisala0:
Exactly!!
Enugu thread !!

what do you expect but feral behaviour , savagery and general absence of civility? That is how they roll

greeting parents with a kick is standard.

So insutls , snarling grunting growling and other typial canine behaviour should not alarm you.That is Shinedoo for you

SmartPolician you expect to have civility with a guy that posted the bold right?

Rangers avenue/Bisala road junction this morning. .......

Udo na achi nwanne!

spyder880:
Rangers avenue/Bisala road junction this morning. .......

Udo na achi nwanne!

I think the state House of Assembly should pass a law now that prohibits cutting of those trees on Bisala for any reason such as building a house.

Our people are fond of cutting trees to put up some building not knowing it hurts the environment and the eco system if all the trees are eliminated.

There should be a total ban on cutting trees in Enugu, Nsukka and indeed all other urban centers of the state.





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Cjrane2:


I think the state House of Assembly should pass a law now that prohibits cutting of those trees on Bisala for any reason such as building a house.

Our people are fond of cutting trees to put up some building not knowing it hurts the environment and the eco system if all the trees are eliminated.

There should be a total ban on cutting trees in Enugu, Nsukka and indeed all other urban centers of the state.

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Not only that. Sometimes when i see pics of panoramic views of the hills surrounding Enugu or Nsukka, i notice excavations at the base of some of these hills. Not only does it ruin the aesthetics of the area, it's also dangerous as this could weaken the base of the hill and after a heavy downpour, could also lead to mudslides and collapsing of part of the hill into the settlements below.

This is the result of an absence of proper governance, regulated development and adequate sanctions to offenders.

spyder880:
Rangers avenue/Bisala road junction this morning. .......

Udo na achi nwanne!

I take it that ESWAMA finally woke from their slumber. Rangers Avenue shown 2 days ago was this clean too. Meanwhile,i marvel that no government yet sees the beautiful boulevard that could be created from the full length of Chime Avenue if proper fabricated fiber embankments are installed to cover the median of that iconic street. In the absence of any embankment and metal railings,pedestrians simply converted every section of that lovely space to a footpath,totally condemning the grass planted and rendering it to same third world look.
Little renewals like that is capable of opening new vistas of business and prime corporate presence along that road. This same renewal can be done in the other major roads and these are not very costly interventions yet these seemingly little and insignificant things hold they key in redefining the ambience and resilience of a city.
Pic 1: Chime Avenue
Pic 2: Istanbul
Pic 3:Istanbul

SmartPolician:


I need you guys to learn something on nairaland: you don't need to insult someone before correcting or educating him. Stop all these attacks; it's Enugu thread not Politics section. Thanks

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Are you new on nairaland?
Some people wake up with hate everyday.

You can type "Jesus is Lord" and they will reply with barrage of insults.

We learn to deal with it.

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New Haven extension across the express road, this area is getting too crowded with buildings.........

Abakaliki express road, approaching the triangle. .........

Enugu in 1959....#042

#042

godblessenugu042:
Enugu in 1959....#042

Beautiful, even back then.

mktinsight:



There are around 3 million working adults in Anambra state and it's IGR of 18 billion says the average working adult pays just 6,000 naira a year in tax. Lagos meanwhile with around 10 million working adults generates 300 billion in IGR or around 30,000 per person per year.

Lagos has one massive advantage over Anambra and that's it's multinationals and large corporates who pay decent salaries and pay PAYE tax which accounts for a lot of its IGR. Anambra on the other hand caters to the small man. Large corporates and multinationals do several things that barrow hawkers and 10x10 shops don't do and that is hire workers and employ accounting systems. They can easily be taxed.

For Anambra it has to transition business towards larger scale and formalization. It has the density in its cities. It has the international travel experience. It has to get rid of street trading, force people into shops, rig retail towards those with capital.

Everybody should not be an entrepreneur, 90% of people should be labor.When you have a supermarket you have premises, staff, electricity, furniture that needs maintenance and repair. You can borrow from banks. You can pay taxes not mama nkechi selling ugu on a mat or Ahmadu selling torches in a wheelbarrow.

Markets should be incorporated, regulated and taxed as corporate entities. Individual proprietors should be registered and assessed. All commercial property should be taxed.

The state government should do more for infrastructure in cities and law enforcement. Cities are massive cash generators, innovators and beacons of investment if nurtured well. City states like Singapore, Dubai and Hong Kong figured this out early while the managers of Awka and Onitsha somehow believe that business will come despite the fact that dirt roads, filthy gutters, unkempt buildings and lawless markets characterize our cities.

Tourists visit European cities to marvel at buildings, galleries, bridges, parks, culture. London, Milan, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam are global centres of knowledge, production and culture today because the state prioritized their development.

Meanwhile, ANSG has governors who tend to tar the villages where their own people barely live in while leaving cities to wallow in their own vomit.

EXACTLY right. I have already talked about this issue here and at the vanguard comment section before that. There's about a four tier system of businesses operating in nigeria. You have the establishment business, the hawkers, the attachment traders and the street traders. Collecting taxes from these DISORGANIZED system of trading will never work. That's why I talked about streamlining the process to figure out which ones will be easier to collect. The one I chose for the state is REAL ESTATE taxes while the cities and towns should collect sales tax. Real estate taxes for the state, for the simple reason that residential and commercial properties are in plain sight and very hard to hide. You just can't hide them regardless of how hard you try. Some people in an earlier post talked about the landlords lying about occupancy rates or transferring the tax to their tenants. Lying about occupancy rates is very easy to solve. Simply have the responsible state agencies to regularly conduct unanounced visit to rental properties. Also, the federal government just introduced a whistle blower system that allows citizens to report incidences of crime while getting paid at the same time. I recommend that all states and localities should adopt same. As for transferring the tax cost to customers, well, there's a saying in the US that businesses don't pay taxes, but rather their workers, and in the case of real estate taxes, their tenants will pay the taxes. Nothing new there. AS FOR THIS SYSTEM TO WORK HOWEVER, THE STREET TRADERS, ATTACHMENT TRADERS AND STREET HAWKERS MUST BE SHUT DOWN PERMANENTLY.
Let the cities collect sales tax, because the city government is closest to the people, which will allow them to very closely monitor the entire spectrum of trade that is happening in the city. In the US, there's always a tax literally anytime money changes hands. You go and buy food, clothes, shoes and anything for that matter, you pay tax at the cash register. When you pay a mechanic for fixing your car, you pay a tax. When you pay your phone bill, electric bill, internet bill, water bill, you pay a tax. When you leave money in your bank account, the interest the bank pays you on that is taxed. That's why I laugh every time nigerians talk about multiple taxation. FOLKS, western civilization was built on taxes unlike africa where people are always talking about MINERAL RESOURCES. Every single year, the US government collects about 5 trillion dollars in taxes. I want you guys to think for a minute here and convert the five trillion dollars into naira equivalent. That will be 5×360. If we do that, we're going to run out of zeros. Washington DC, the nations capital with a population of about 700,000 have a yearly budget of more than 10 billion dollars. Even poor cities like Baltimore MD, with a population of about 500,000, have a yearly budget of 3 billion dollars. Sales taxes will be the hardest to collect. So, my recommendation is to tax the size of the stores. The difficulty in this approach is determining wether the business is profitable or not. The counter argument to that, is, the business should close down if they are not profitable.
On a yearly basis, there are an eye popping, staggering billions upon billions of naira uncollected taxes in nigeria, as you rightly pointed out that cities are cash cows that various nigerian governments have spectacularly FAILED to tap into.
This is exactly why I'm befuddled about the low rate of tax revenues reported by igbo states. There is something very FISHY about it. As a matter of fact, like I said on imo state thread, I've come to the conclusion that the IGR of igbo states are being embezzled. That makes a whole lot of sense, because, while the money from the federation account is traceable, the one from IGR is not. The biggest single reason why the igbo states, nay nigeria is under DEVELOPED, is lack of proportionate generation of revenues to fund it's infrastructural projects. Until this problem is solved, there will never ever be any development in nigeria.