@Abagworo, let your boss Rochas see Akwa Ibom Specialist Hospital. It is now open. That Imo deoes not earn as much as Akwa Ibom must not be an excuse for Imo state university teaching hospital to be paralysed.

ZeroTolerance:

Palm tree by the road side?
I don't think that's the type of tree you would want by the road side.

There is nothing bad about that type of palm tree on our streets, i have seen it where they used it, in a city street in Enugu

millionaireman:
@Abagworo, let your boss Rochas see Akwa Ibom Specialist Hospital. It is now open. That Imo deoes not earn as much as Akwa Ibom must not be an excuse for Imo state university teaching hospital to be paralysed.

Don't be deceived into making useless comparison. Remember only one hospital which took 9 years to complete but 4 years into Okorocha's admin you expect him to complete 27. That's absurd even barring in mind that Akwa Ibom was getting 20billion monthly much of Akpabio's time. Imagine if Imo was getting 20billion monthly for the past 7.5 years. Even a zombie would do something better with excess of 17billion outside wage bill.

Cjrane2:


It is amazing that semi arid north like Dutse with very little rainfall or even Abuja understand the importance of trees, but our people don't.
Apart from aesthetics and its effect on ensuring clean air and good health, trees also help control erosion
Planting trees to line our streets is one thing we have been pleading for a long time.Using palm or pine trees along Owerri streets will transform the city.But, it is almost like pleading to a chicken to urinate.

Owerri streets are like that. The old part had pines at Okigwe Road which Rochas Okorocha Government removed recently for a reason I dont know but most of New Owerri is lined up with palms and pines. I guess human activities tend to kill the trees in the old densely populated parts like Douglas and Wetheral.

Cjrane2:


It is amazing that semi arid north like Dutse with very little rainfall or even Abuja understand the importance of trees, but our people don't.
Apart from aesthetics and its effect on ensuring clean air and good health, trees also help control erosion
Planting trees to line our streets is one thing we have been pleading for a long time.Using palm or pine trees along Owerri streets will transform the city.But, it is almost like pleading to a chicken to urinate.

If there is any SE city with well aligned trees in the middle of the road, then Owerri should be the number one. Owerri has in abundance flush green vegetations overlooking major roads. So CJ nwannem maybe you should visit Owerri one of these days.

Ezeagu, Afam et al have done well in reviving this thread. At least we now see real and current pix of Owerri. Not the fake and outdated pix Abagworo has continuously posted here.
Kudos also to Mandax, Asha, Rarediamonds and Millionaireman for their inputs so far.

Chiwude:
If there is any SE city with well aligned trees in the middle of the road, then Owerri should be the number one. Owerri has in abundance flush green vegetations overlooking major roads. So CJ nwannem maybe you should visit Owerri one of these days.

i am so happy to learn that my bother. Let us keep mounting pressure so that our cities will reach global standard and begin to attract national and international tourists. Aba is the next place that must be made decent and habitable.

nwannem, i surely will visit owerri.
The last time i just passed through enroute. But i will find a reason to return to Owerri soon. i do want to see orlu road, Sam mbakwe road and the new Owerri .. and i will take lots of pics when i'm in town just as i did when i visited Enugu.

Cjrane2:


i am so happy to learn that my bother. Let us keep mounting pressure so that our cities will reach global standard and begin to attract national and international tourists. Aba is the next place that must be made decent and habitable.

nwannem, i surely will visit owerri.
The last time i just passed through enroute. But i will find a reason to return to Owerri soon. i do want to see orlu road, Sam mbakwe road and the new Owerri .. and i will take lots of pics when i'm in town just as i did when i visited Enugu.

Haha! Dee Sam Mbakwe road is one place motorist and passersby would always like to ply. You know why? It's got one of the most sceneric landscape in Owerri. Highbrow neighbourhood, lush gardens, neat and well lined buildings, 4 star breathtaking hotels, eateries and bars and a well planned residential abode interlinking to other lovely layouts and junctions all termed New Owerri.
Hmm Orlu road? Used to live there during my IMSU days and now frequent there whenever I travel home for xmas. A drive to Orlu road connects you to highbrow and low class areas. Some nice scenes are places like Shell camp - overlooking Douglas house, Alvan, FMC, then a further drive takes you into interior areas like Amakohia/Akwakuma interlinking Egbeada housing Estate down to Onitsha road.
Taking a tour to areas like Akwakuma recently, may bring you face to face with a resurgence of waste and heaps of unpacked sewages. The major cause of this is the non-chalant attitude of Rochas towards cleanliness since assuming office, a big contrast from Ohakim's clean and green tenure when Imo was adjudged a mini paradise on earth.

Another thing that should be tackled in Owerri is the menace of Keke napep.there are more kekes than there arhukan beings in Owerri. We need an alternate form of transportation. Let's introduce the BUS system to Owerri.

Abagworo:


Owerri streets are like that. The old part had pines at Okigwe Road which Rochas Okorocha Government removed recently for a reason I dont know but most of New Owerri is lined up with palms and pines. I guess human activities tend to kill the trees in the old densely populated parts like Douglas and Wetheral.

If Owerri streets were like that then I won't be here making such suggestion. I don't know when some of you will learn to accept the reality so that we can forge forward instead of always lying to yourselves. Kai.

Afam4eva:
Another thing that should be tackled in Owerri is the menace of Keke napep.there are more kekes than there arhukan beings in Owerri. We need an alternate form of transportation. Let's introduce the BUS system to Owerri.

Ohakim introduced the Bus system before Rochas auctioned all. Also, apart from baning motorcycles from Owerri, he drastically minimized the quantity of Keke Napep plying in the city. We had taxis, mini buses and Kim Kim. But trust Rochas as soon as he assumed office all when down the drain all in the name of solidifying the Keke Napep union and providing jobs for the youths

Cjrane2:

Aba is the next place that must be made decent and habitable.

Aba looks like a place abandoned and still recovering from the civil war that ended in 1970. Not only has the town been abandoned, the people look depressed and strong faced. Aba needs a renaissance.

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Abagworo:

Owerri streets are like that. The old part had pines at Okigwe Road which Rochas Okorocha Government removed recently for a reason I dont know but most of New Owerri is lined up with palms and pines. I guess human activities tend to kill the trees in the old densely populated parts like Douglas and Wetheral.

I just have 3 questions for you
1) why did okorocha build 27 hospitals and there is nothing inside why didn't he renovate the old ones to standard ones or at least he should have built a mega hospital in the 3 zones of Imo instead of Wasting funds?
2) why is is it that okorocha is to dirty and a greedy man I was Juat talking to an elderly man not to long ago and he said that Rochas just have them bounce cheques people are suffering while Rochas is doing nothing to help them don't tell me that he has paid them because of u say so then I would confirm that u are a fool and the state has no environmental agency to clean up the state go to West end and see how that place is dirty
Lastly why is it that no road done under this government has lasted up to a month with spoiling all his projects are fake if u like go and confirm for your self
Pls give me a reply ASAP
My wishes is that this governor does not leave to see 2019 unless he changes everybody in Imo is complaining about voting him back we all know that Rochas rigged his way into power because nobody voted him

Some of those roads are ok but they really need to be marked and from the pic it looks like theres traffic lights in some roads. Theres need for more cus owere is jam packed and that may help in regulating the traffic. Also new roads need to be opened up and owerri need bypass nd bridges too in order for drivers to have alternative route

Owerri mania?

Make Owerri more grandiose by uprooting any functioning roads, bridges, etc. in Imo outside Owerri and take them to Owerri.

Seems more than half of Imo state is made up of mugus. Be they from Okigwe, Orlu, or wherever, progress for only Owerri is all the mugus talk about. And some smart tate governors exploit their muguness. The governors undertake about 90% of whatever development infrastructure they want to make in the state only in Owerri Municipal council area..

It's like money that is meant for 27 local government areas, a governor brings out a tiny fraction and provides infrastructures in one of the 27 lgas. Mugus clap. But what happens to the money that should have gone to infrastructure in the other 26 lgas,? Mugus are not interested.

The problem of planting trees in these parts has to do with the average guy not really the politicians...it is a mindset thing..if you think I am joking just ask the average guy on the streets anywhere around streets in the east above trees and see whether you will not hear things like ' e dey block space for doing something important', 'it will make this place look like bush' and 'i dont have strength to be sweeping these leafs'

Ok I visited Owerri and have some pictures.

asha80:
The problem of planting trees in these parts has to do with the average guy not really the politicians...it is a mindset thing..if you think I am joking just ask the average guy on the streets anywhere around streets in the east above trees and see whether you will not hear things like ' e dey block space for doing something important', 'it will make this place look like bush' and 'i dont have strength to be sweeping these leafs'

You as an Owerri boy know very well that Owerri is a tree friendly city. That Afam went to just Douglas and Wetheral cannot give him a full verdict. Name all the dual carriageways in Owerri and 90 percent are green.

Even Egbu Road which is in old part of the city is lined with trees.

Abagworo:


You as an Owerri boy know very well that Owerri is a tree friendly city. That Afam went to just Douglas and Wetheral cannot give him a full verdict. Name all the dual carriageways in Owerri and 90 percent are green.

Even Egbu Road which is in old part of the city is lined with trees.

I am talking about general attitude towards tree planting in the east and not what afam posted or said

asha80:
I am talking about general attitude towards tree planting in the east and not what afam posted or said

Ok. Pics from Mgbidi one of the dozens of semi-urban settlements in Orlu zone of Imo State. It is located on Owerri-Onitsha expressway and is a conurbation with Awo Omamma The twin towns play host to Jacobs wine and Heineken consolidated breweries. It will expand to join Oguta in the near future to produce a city of industries and petroleum.

Area H Owerri lined with trees.

Abagworo:
Ok I visited Owerri and have some pictures.

Abagworo,

It is on record: your Oga Rochas has not made any news connected with infrastructural development in any other local government area outside Owerri Municipal in recent times - perhaps since he joined APC.

Make una continue to bamboozle una muguish followers with piksures of Owerri - as if Owerri Municipal is the only LGA in Imo sate. There are 27 LGAs in Imo state.

millionaireman:



Abagworo,

It is on record: your Oga Rochas has not made any news connected with infrastructural development in any other local government area outside Owerri Municipal in recent times - perhaps since he joined APC.

Make una continue to bamboozle una muguish followers with piksures of Owerri - as if Owerri Municipal is the only LGA in Imo sate. There are 27 LGAs in Imo state.

Yes oh my brother ur right the stupid governor is just focusing on only owerri while there are 26 lga without no infrastructure development is he the governor of owerri alone

Noticed a lot of rising middle class neighbourhoods in Owerri and they are rising fast too.

The builders on Nairaland need to move down as opportunities is high.

The future is bright here.

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More of new spring ups and land is not so cheap.

Abagworo, those are lovely pics. Big up! More abeg!

Abagworo:
The future is bright here.

Abagworo:
More of new spring ups and land is not so cheap.

Abagworo:
Noticed a lot of rising middle class neighbourhoods in Owerri and they are rising fast too.

Which areas are these located?