adimsmt:




My people please can anyone explain to me what does it take to plant grass. Why do we as individuals and government can't understand the importance of landscaping. Planting grasses, flowers and trees prevent erosion. Our topography are prone to erosion and our children are not suppose to be expose to respiratory problem just because they want to acquire education its not fair.

iamhorny:
Abagworo tahnsk for your good works on this thread. we need an Ariel/ drone view of Owerri. we have seen that of Awka, Onitsha, Enugu, Aba and even Abakaliki... we are yet to see that of Owerri. please can you make that possible? we love to see the beautiful roofs and plan of owerri from the sky. I will really appreciate that. Thanks

Abagworo:
IMSU College of Agriculture in Umuna, Onuimo LGA is also being built by Okorocha led Government.

iamhorny:
Abagworo, i mean something like this

Abagworo:


Like this.

Abagworo:


Like this.

mandax:


Abagworo,

You don't know that Imo people would like to see developments outside Owerri as well as developments in Owerri, your city?

I am on your 'ignore ' list for writing about IMSUTH Orlu, abi?

RareDiamond:
You don't deserve any response because you are
selfish in all yours. You don't care if other parts of Imo State are neglected as long as all useful projects are located in Orlu and neighboring towns when they are supposed to be spread evenly across the State.

I told you in 2015 not to vote for Rochas since He neglected your Orlu but you still supported him only for you to return back to your usual bull sh1t complain of Rochas abandoning Orlu zone after the election and you want sensible people to take you serious?. Who does not know that Rochas has massively developed Orlu with numerous projects ? You deserved to be ignored. The zone that have not been treated fairly is Okigwe zone and Rochas should correct this injustice.

Abagworo:
Mbaise/Ngor-Okpala campus of IMSU under construction. It is the College of Engineering being completely built by Okorocha led Government.

Abagworo:

Abagworo:
Mbaise/Ngor-Okpala campus of IMSU under construction. It is the College of Engineering being completely built by Okorocha led Government.

Abagworo:
Mbaise/Ngor-Okpala campus of IMSU under construction. It is the College of Engineering being completely built by Okorocha led Government.

OWERRI—Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has raised alarm that Human Immune Deficiency, HIV, virus infection was increasing in geometric proportion in the state.

Okorocha raised the alarm yesterday, while addressing journalists in his Spibat Road palatial residence, Owerri. “Hotels are increasing in Owerri, at a very fast rate. In the same way, HIV is increasing in Imo, courtesy of the increasing number of hotels in the state”, Okorocha said.

While saying that “there is no hotel in Owerri that is not filled to the brim, especially at weekends”, the governor however urged parents and guardians to caution their children and wards on the dangers of the scourge. Chief Rochas Okorocha “Night life has no doubt, improved in Owerri. We will continue to light the streets. We should however remember that the situation carries with it, a collateral danger like HIV and this is why we should be very careful”, Okorocha said.

Going into other state matters, the governor wondered why people never get to know the good things he has been doing in the state. “I gave churches the sum of N450 million for the upgrading of facilities in mission schools, but the story was not told anywhere. This is not fair at all”, Okorocha said.

While warning that all local government workers that never made 10 percent attendance at their places of assignment, must be offloaded, the governor also said that he was “prepared to absorb all the blame, but the right things must be done.”

On the vexed issue of free education in the state, Okorocha agreed that most schools outside Owerri municipality were in bad shape. “Government is hereby, declaring a state of emergency in our school system. All schools outside Owerri are in very bad shape and we can’t allow this to continue”, the Governor said.

According to Okorocha, “my administration has spent over N60 billion on our free education programme and we have no plan to stop the policy”.

Continuing, Okorocha said that the renovation of schools in the oil producing local council areas of Oguta and Ohaji/Egbema will gulp N1 billion.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/03/hiv-increasing-imo-okorocha/

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a global pandemic that continues to affect millions of people worldwide and the vast majority of people living with HIV are from low and middle-income countries

In Nigeria, the number of people living with HIV and being diagnosed with AIDS has been steadily increasing. In the first wave in 1986, AIDS emerged through infected blood products in a six-year-old girl diagnosed at the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR)
Nigeria is no more in denial of the virus, thus at every gathering of experts, discussions on how to increase funding for preventions and care for those already infected dominates discussions. While these are so at the national levels, states ,and Local government areas are playing lip services or simply do not see HIV as a development issue.

In Imo State, HIV is regarded as an old school disease, and life goes on as the youth cares less about the virus. The state government is the worst of it all. For over 12 years, there is no single coordinated effort to control the viral spread of the epidemic. World Bank support fund to control the virus has been hanging in the air for over 10 years and the government wants to divert the fund for other uses. Incredibly offensive to the control of the virus, the state government sees HIV as a non-issue and therefore a complete waste of the resources. HIV Program Development Project2 (HPDP2) was established to support HIV/AIDS national response in Nigeria. Imo State Agency for the Control of AIDS (ImoSACA) received funding from the World Bank towards the cost of the second HIV/AIDS Program Development Project (HPDP 2).

HPDP2 is a project in Nigeria supported by the World Bank within the overall framework of the National Strategic Framework aimed at repositioning prevention of new infection as the major focus of the National HIV/AIDS response as entrenched in the National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan (NSP) 2010-2015. Sadly, the government sees this fund as one of the largess from the international agency that could be used for other developments instead of the HIV/AIDS prevention, regrettably the state will lose this fund due to its glutton and insistence to divert the fund.

Already, Imo State leads other states in the South East in the prevalence rate of the virus and this means nothing to the State government.
More worrisome is the lifestyle of young men and young women in Imo State. Men trade sex, just like every young girl in the state is actively involved in commercial sex.

A study conducted to determine the incidence cases of HIV/AIDS infection in Owerri West L.G.A. Of Imo State, Nigeria, between April 2007 and September, 2009 showed that a total number of 17964 patients made up of 1110 (16.3%) females and 6954 (38.7%) males were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS infection; statistical analysis shows that 1462 (8.1%) patients were infected with HIV/AIDS. From this number, 1218 (83.3%) patients aged 25 years and above were most infected with HIV/AIDS while 244 (16.7%) patients aged below 24 years were also infected.
The State witnessed the highest HIV and AIDS prevalence in 1999 which was 7.8%, in 2001 it dropped to 4.3%, 2003 to 3.1% it rose to 3.9% in 2005, 4.6% in 2008 and 7.5 % in 2014. The State epidemic is a mixed epidemic and factors that aid escalation of HIV and AIDS in the State include high commercial sex rate, low perception of risk of contracting the disease, high use of alcohol, use of psychoactive agents, high mobility of the people, early sexual exposure, multiple sexual partners, gender issues, non-marital sexual relationship and high transactional sex (ERPS, 2008).
With the foregoing, the state will experience a trajectory wave of the HIV/AIDS explosion of probably more than what is being witnessed in the high prevalence states

https://healthcomspringboard.org/discussions/topic/a-new-wave-hivaids-in-imo-state-nigeria/

adimsmt:





What do Okorocha see in this ugly green roofs. Just compare Okorocha's buildings to this simple architectural design. The cost of the ugly roof can even offset the cost of the glass cladding.

Abagworo:


It was adopted as Government roofing colour and nothing more. Try to visit the Eastern Palm University at Ogboko near Orlu and behold the beauty.

adimsmt:




Yes the buildings look good and the materials used are also good but he is building a university not a residential homes. Just compare this luauda Angola university, this is what other small African countries are doing we call our country giant of Africa. My people it is time we stop prizing mediocrity. If he want to build a school let be school not all this glorify secondary schools.

Abagworo:


Eastern Palms University is finer than this your Luanda photos. I've been there and the photos posted don't do justice to what's on ground. Pay a visit.

adimsmt:




Yes the buildings look good and the materials used are also good but he is building a university not a residential homes. Just compare this luauda Angola university, this is what other small African countries are doing we call our country giant of Africa. My people it is time we stop prizing mediocrity. If he want to build a university let it be a university not all this glorify secondary schools. And FYI just because its government projects that is not an excuse to carry out out substandard and ugly projects, please we deserve at least a decent projects in our state don't you agree.

discusant:

But the university is Rochas private university.
Is it right to compare a private project to a government one?

XerXers:

This is not different from the classroom blocks of secondary schools shown earlier, a university deserves better structures such as these ones found in ESUT

Abagworo:


It was adopted as Government roofing colour and nothing more. Try to visit the Eastern Palm University at Ogboko near Orlu and behold the beauty.

Abagworo:


That's a partnership based on the fact that moving IMSU there was rejected.

Ogene001:

Is this a university or a residential estate?? the roofing is unfit for public building

discusant:


Is it partnership between who and who?

discusant:


Is it partnership between who and who?

adimsmt:



You just asked the question i was about to ask. He is taking state funds to build a private university, how much did he pay for the land and is it not the time for him to explain who are the other partners in this venture and also the modalities.

Abagworo:


List your reasons for it being unfit for public building. It's the hostels though.