Posts

Ugwuanyi Blazes Trail in Radical Mass Housing Programme

Last year, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi launched an ambitious mass housing programme that reduced the burden of the usually huge equity contribution on the public to a tolerable level. The Ugwuanyi administration paid  over 50 percent equity contribution for Enugu State civil servants between grade levels 01-10 for the purchase of 100 units of one-bedroom flats at Elim Estate, Ibagwa Nike, Enugu.  Barring radical gestures such as that implemented by the Enugu State government, owning personal homes was more often than not a Herculean task even for senior level public servants, let alone workers below the mid-level cadre.... Click link to read more. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/05/30/enugu-shows-the-way-in-mass-housing-programme/

Inyaba Bridge: Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Image
These two photographs were taken a few months apart at the same spot. The first paints a picture of despair and the second highlights the sort of pleasant change that a progressive vision can engender. The Inyaba River - ordinarily a natural boon to the locals' agrarian lifestyle - in Nkanu East has in large part been a nightmare for the 10 communities to which it is contiguous. The river overflows during rainy seasons, occasionally taking lives and destroying crops and the wooden structure that connects the many villages on both sides. This was the situation for decades.  But the story has changed with the near completion of a concrete structure built by the Enugu State governor, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. That is is the power of vision!

Kudos as Ugwuanyi Approves Makeover for Zik's Official Residence

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/10/22/the-great-zik-was-here-welcome-to-the-revamped-premiers-lodge/

Despite FG's Huge Indebtedness to Enugu, Ugwuanyi Still Fixes Collapsed Federal Roads

Although the federal government has yet to reimburse Enugu State the over N25b it has spent so far fixing federal roads, this has not dampened Governor Ugwuanyi's resolve to fix the many collapsed federal roads in the state... https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/12/11/for-travellers-end-to-9th-mile-anxieties-is-nigh-this-yuletide/

On Enugu's 25th Anniversary, It's Morning Yet on Creation Day

At 25, Enugu is a Study in Resilience By Laurence Ani * First published in ThisDay on August 27, 2016 . There are some rural visits I undertake - and there have been quite a few - that often leaves me wondering what such communities would have looked like decades back. So each time there is a debate on the aptness of creating additional states, I naturally recall such visits.  As states grapple with the challenge of paying workers' salaries in face of dwindling revenue from the federal purse, the entire process of states creation has come under fresh scrutiny, with some critics even suggesting a return to regions as was the case in the First Republic. Proponents of this bizarre step apparently attribute the current cash squeeze to Nigeria's multiple state structure. What they fail to reckon with is that the regions as constituted in the First Republic were to a large extent autonomous.  So even if all the states were collapsed into regions while the pseudo

Another Look at Ugwuanyi's Agric Revolution

Understanding Enugu's Silent Agricultural Revolution   By Laurence Ani * This piece was first published in ThisDay on Sunday, March 19, 2017 . At a recent conference for government spokespersons in Abuja, one of the speakers made a point suggesting that infrastructural expenditure has been implemented at a pace disproportionate to investment in intangible resources such as agriculture, education and healthcare. The reason for this, he said, is not far-fetched. Building roads or fixing collapsed ones, for example, yield outcomes that are instant whereas the results arising from agricultural investments are not immediately discernible.  While there may seem to be an excessive focus on roads rehabilitation the reason is not essentially narcissistic or driven by the desire for public acclamation. The truth is there is a yawning infrastructure deficit across the federation that even sustained rounds of extensive roads rehabilitation are often barely sufficient interventions.

How Ugwuanyi Helped Rangers Regain its Groove

http://sunnewsonline.com/rebirth-of-history-as-rangers-regains-its-groove/