Enugu !

[Toyin Falola]

Greetings from Enugu, beautiful city to behold. Located on the hills, Enugu is a city of beautiful people smiling at you. With lots of hotels, pepper soup joints, eateries, Enugu makes you want to come back for more experience.

Enugu has good road networks. From Akanu Ibiam Enugu International Airport, we drove through Thinker’s Corner, joining the Enugu-Abakiliki Express-road. The road networks are well-laid, though not without ‘artificial road bumps ‘ created by the ‘khaki boys’ at 82 Division. We got to Ogui roundabout, turning right, we got to ‘Otigba roundabout’, the then centre for commercial sex workers at night. We passed through government house until we arrived at Nafelis Hotel, along Ezeilo Street, Independent Layout. The road networks within the city is very good compared to what is obtainable in other cities in Nigeria.

The city has lots of ugba and ishi-ewu joints where one can spend his/her money to the last penny without knowing. The city is not only busy in the day but also at nights when people come out from 8pm to spend some parts of the money made during the day in different ugba, ishi-ewu, among other local streets restaurants.

It is a cosmopolitan city, with diverse peoples from South-south, south-west and northern Nigeria. The people are cosmopolitan, industrious and accommodating. Certainly, Enugu City is a place to always visit in Southeast Nigeria.

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[Okey Iheduru]

In January 2016 when I was dropping off my son for is return flight to the US on Ethiopian Airlines, we made a quick drive around town before heading to the airport. After about 20 minutes drive, the young lad said: "Dad, why did you build your house in Owerri?" Startled, I asked why, to which he responded: "'Cos, this is a really cool city. You should have built here." Yes, there's a charm effect that Enugu has on the first-time visitor!

Btw, Sir, I hope you didn't just zoom past the women at Otigba Roundabout and head straight to the Isi Ewu joints. You don't have to "do" anything with them...just drop some "Azikiwe's" and get five genuinely appreciative "Gbozaas!!!!! They have to eat, too. :).

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Just published “The African Corporation, ‘Africapitalism’ and Regional Integration in Africa” (September 2018). DOI: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785362538.

[Segun Ogungbemi]

TF,
It nice you are in Enugu and we can trust your assessment of the environment.
Please send pictures of those places you have beautifully described so that we can also appreciate its aesthetic ambience.
We look forward to seeing you back to Texas.
Segun Ogungbemi.

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[Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM]

"Btw, Sir, I hope you didn't just zoom past the women at Otigba Roundabout and head straight to the Isi Ewu joints. You don't have to "do" anything with them...just drop some "Azikiwe's" and get five genuinely appreciative "Gbozaas!!!!! They have to eat, too. :)"

If that had happened, Prof's original reason for being in Enugu would have been seriously jeopardized!

CAO.