₦airaland Forum

AkinEgba: Not sure what you mean. I got them from Google search. I did not make them

These ones from skyscrapercity is Aba undiluted with aerial view taken from a slum settlement beside the city centre adorned with thousands of highrises.

AkinEgba: Aba (arguably the most underutilized great cities in Nigeria). The citizens need more work to govern and promote their city

Those are Port-Harcourt pictures. Aba does not have 8 lane highway.

It seems Chino and some intellectual lilliputians are always out to turn every useful discourse into tribal/religious/inter-state wars. Nairaland needs a VIP section where sound minds can discuss issues free from these children.

AkinEgba: You mean twice their individual sizes or their combined size?

Twice there individual population. Port-Harcourt should be above 2million while Aba and Onitsha are roughly above a million each.

AlJarzirah: I don't believe that Port Harcourt, Benin or even Onitsha is more populous than Enugu. Enugu is one of the most thickly populated cities in Nigeria.

Where and how did you arrive at this conclusion? Use your google satelite pictures to view Nigeria. The most populated rural area which starts North of Owerri in Imo State and ends at Awka in Anambra State has same population density as Enugu city. I'm talking of places like Amucha, Nkwerre, Urualla, Igboukwu, Ekwulobia, Nnewi, Orlu, Ihiala, Orsumoghu, Amaifeke, Dikenafai, Uga, Ozubula, Nnobi, Oraifite etc. The most populous Igbo cities are simply Onitsha and Aba. Port-Harcourt is about twice their population.

Boyedex: A six city cluster around the Niger Delta in the
southeast
Port Harcourt, Warri, Benin City, Aba, Enugu and
Onitsha make up the six city southeast cluster. Its
proximity to oil wells has led the region to be a hub
of activity for oil companies and foreign investment .
According to the report, total GDP in this cluster
alone is $63bn, which is a close rival to Lagos’s
GDP of $68bn, despite having far fewer households.
Both Port Harcourt and Aba have considerably
higher consumption per capita than Lagos. Port
Harcourt, followed by Benin City, Onitsha and Aba
have the largest populations within the cluster.
Companies looking to target the luxury segment
might want to especially consider Port Harcourt, the
capital of Rivers State, which has the highest
consumption per capita in the country ($6,843 in
2013). The city has one of the largest consuming
middle classes in Nigeria with household incomes
between $20,000 and $70,000 a year. It has access
to two of the country’s busier ports and is home to
the Port Harcourt Airport.

That Port Harcourt has by far the highest consumption per capita in Nigeria is very indisputable, but the fact that Aba is higher than Lagos comes as a surprise to me. I believe that the under-estimated population of Aba or over-estimated population of Lagos is the reason for this miscalculation.

For Mbaka to have admitted lying against Ohakim, his credibility has been nullified. Sometimes I wonder the level of intelligence of some matured men.

phantom: this has got to be a joke....

Since Amaechi and Rochas left PDP, they've been trying to use propaganda to write off the level of development in both States. Enugu is a village when compared with Port-Harcourt. An aerial view of Enugu will tell you that it is not even as populated as the villages around Orlu and Nnewi in Imo and Anambra States. Its a kind of semi-inhabited area or sprawl and not completely urbanized like Port-Harcourt.

forgiveness: We need to redevelop our cities and build new ones. If lagos is just like one of South Korean third or fourth cities then you know what others will be to there towns.

In 1979-1989, Nigeria was far developed than South Korea but behold they have surpassed us without even having a single drop of oil or resource. They developed through technology only. Whereas, we have the mixture of both in our beloved country.

Uunfortunately, tribalism, nepotism and corruption has blinded our eyes to see this.

Nigeria is better than South Korea because we are nobody's colony. They are more or less a colony of the West used in check-mating their brothers in North-Korea. More like Hong-Kong before it was given back to China. Same can be said of apartheid South Africa or Namibia.

Sincere9gerian: From all indications, the reverse is the case. You and the OP are the propagandist who took only pictures of a very tiny bad portion (not up to O.05 km) just to discredit an over 300 km long stretch road. Even the pictures of the tiny bad portion is being disputed by regular users of the road.

On the other hand, the combined pictures of the GOOD section of the Lagos-Ore-Benin road posted on this thread by Chino and others can span several km. Shame on you.

A single bad spot nullifies all the good part of any stretch of road. The Owerri/Port-Harcourt highway has just a bad spot at Umuapu and that's why most people dodge the road. From Owerri to Umuagwo has been completely dualized.

spyder880: OK, this is a foundation I did at world bank Owerri, soil colour?

There's nothing to prove as red soil is not anyone's fault but nature. Owerri has black loamy soil just like Aba, Oguta and Umuahia. That's why houses in Owerri don't turn red. Like I wrote earlier the Northern part of Imo State is red and that's why they repaint their village homes yearly.

Why is it that Igbos outside Imo State are busy looking for ways to discredit Okorocha in conjunction with Imo PDP/APGA? I beg Okorocha please contest for Governorship next year let us show them that we the Imo masses decide who governs us.

This Mbaka man is a useless idiot and a conman using religion to brainwash his gullible followers. People like him deserve to spend the rest of their lives in jail for admitting framing a Governor up.

spyder880: This is a house I built for a Nairalander in Akabo, near Owerri, what is the colour of the soil again?

This sand was bought from burrow pits to achieve land levelling and Akabo is not Owerri. They neither speak same dialect, nor share same cultural festivals nor even share same LGA. Akabo is a populated village.

Ok NgeneUkwenu please come up with the pictures. People are busy lying everywhere while reality stares them in the face. What this goes to tell us is that only few roads are good in their entire stretch across Nigeria. The propagandists just take pictures of the good part to deceive us.

ChrisOD: Correct. Red earth aka laterite is a northen (Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi) igbo feature

The Northern part of Imo State is exactly same laterite as Anambra and Enugu. This includes Orlu and Okigwe area.

Unemadu: people with money know where to invest as is seen in Enugu real estate.

portharcourt is a rag-tag place only to be milked and run to nice places like u know naaa....

Port-Harcourt is way more advanced than Enugu or any other city in Nigeria aside Lagos and Abuja. No propaganda can change that fact.

Why not allow the poster show us the state of our roads instead of doing everything to derail the thread. I'm very much aware that the Onitsha-Enugu and Port-Harcourt-Enugu hoghways are death traps. It is good to learn that the Lagos-Ore is also same. At least Igbos were not singled out in the bad federal roads regime.

HopeAtHand: Anyone planning on levelling Nigeria can go ahead as far as they dnt level Port Harcourt.

No one should insult the young man becos of his opinion. We all differ at one point or the other. The reason i do not rily fancy SEastern cities is because of the red earth..It has its way of making clean places look dirty..


That said, take away Shelter Afrique and Ewet housing, Uyo is only roadside beauty. I hardly refer to Nigerian cities as beautiful, i only rank them according to economic importance and Uyo and Enugu are way below my economic radar...I don't see them.

Remove Owerri, Aba and Umuahia from that list. They don't have red earth.

chinolization: You can believe whatever you like. I have no problem with the good people of Imo state. The only reason why I dabble on issues as this is because of abagworo! Until that silly old fool learns to mind and focus on his state issues as this will continue to arise! He calls on my state at any slightest provocation from his own people who do not agree to his deception and bad governance in his state. Let him mind his state that is my humble advise. Thank you

You are so jealous of Imo State that you sleep, eat, think and walk hating. If an Imo girl dumped you, just take heart and move on. One of the modes(very likely Ngwakwe) is also a jealous mofo and is always there to ban me anytime you start posting rubbish and I hit you back with true pictures of your State.

Finally you seem to celebrate the bad federal roads in the Southeast. We can never be taken seriously if we don't demand for what is due for us. Rather than to demand for Jonathan's attention to the spate of death traps called roads in the Southeast, you are busy covering up the obvious. God shall surely punish all the Igbos that turn blind eye to the plight of Igboland because of paltry sum of money that exchanged hands. I spit on all of you.

Plshavmercyamen: I condemn intoto Okorocha's public comments about Chris Anyanwu slapping the husband. But, at the same time, I feel no pity for Chris Anyanwu who seems to be very reckless and utterly irresponsible in her choice of words when the ish of the "alleged" registration of Northerners in Imo state came up on the floor of the Senate where she throw caution to the wind and verbally attacked not only the person of Okorocha but IMSG. Well, 1-1 is the score line for now and more goals to come.

Okorocha did not attack Chris Anyanwu. It is more or less the media trying to twist his statement to sell. Go back and read the news well.

meforyou1: chief propagandist, u are as much a fraud as your okorocha. Tot last night u said u were banned and hacked. And that u'r leaving nairaland.

Attacking Abagworo will not change the truth. Okorocha is loved by market women, keke drivers, school children, Imolites that live outside but visit frequently, teachers, government workers and traders.

Coming on Nairaland to write thrash won't make Imolites support those who robbed us dry from 1999 to 2011 to come back to power.

At the end of the day, the poster is correct about the dusty nature of Enugu. Boy it is more or less as a result of the soil type in much of Enugu State. Uyo is not developed at all to compare with Enugu. The 4 major roads around Uyo are wide with roundabouts, fountains, flyovers and pedestrian footbridges but beyond that lies the real Uyo which is nothing to write home about.

You might post pictures of bad part of Enugu but Uyo has worse parts. As usual I am frank with my contributions. Finally don't use the natural red soil of Enugu to dismiss its beauty.

The conduct of Nairaland is becoming suspect to me. My account was barred and someone tried to hack my "IP". If the Government or whoever is involved does not want citizens to express themselves or resort to threatening people who have opposing views then I have no option than to quit Nairaland. Let them have it and eat it all alone while alienating people further and creating more security challenges. I just pray the threshold is not reached in my generation. I want peace.

They've banned Abagworo for defending his State against Chino. It still does not stop Onitsha from being the dirtiest village in the world inhabited by stack illiterates that cannot distinguish between "L" and "R".

pokur: You are a certified id!ot,you know.What exactly brought that on,that stite u spewed there?.

Borno and Anambra are not in same condition. One is war torn and the other is misgoverned.

amakenny: I am on ground and understand the issues at stake here more than you.

Before Okorocha came on board as Imo state governor, then Orlu modern sports stadium hosted international club football competition - that was when Dan Anyiam stadium, Owerri, was undergoing major repair works - when Ohakim was governor.

Orlu sports Stadium was completely built with modern flood lights by 2007 - save for tartan tracks that were about to be laid by the contracting firm before Ohakim came to office. The stadium was dedicated to Sam Okwaraji and commissioned by OBJ in May 2007.

Okorocha came in as governor in 2011 and instituted a probe panel on the stadium - for who knows why. Thereafter, demolition of the stadium started.

It was within that period that demolition started under Okorocha govt - between January to February 2012 - that a team of Nigeria Premier League stadia assessors declared the Orlu stadium unfit for Premier league soccer competitions.

By the way, what is there to defend in the fact that it is about two-and-half years since more than half a million youths in Orlu zone have not engaged in their usual zonal sports competition due to lack of stadium complex - as before Okorocha came to office? Never happened since Nigeria got independence in 1960, about which time the Orlu township stadium came into existence.

Common sense dictates that before the old stadium is demolished, a new one must be in place. But only a foundation block laid in Orlu about two years ago for a new stadium is all there is there.

This is no politics: Okorocha has to restore the old stadium as it was the day he came in to office - or complete a new one before this year ends.

For your info, the Youtube video of Orlu you pasted has been in existence in the last four years. Unless you want to let us believe Orlu-Owerri Rd in Owerri is what you have have as Orlu.

You are not sincere at all. I don't have any youtube video of Orlu right now but I have the one I took 3 years ago in 2011 which will later be compared with any recent one for all to see. What PDP couldn't do in 12 years has been done in 2 and half years. Since you claim to be on ground, you should be the one populating this thread with good pictures of Imo State because it is more than Ohakim or Rochas or whoever. The way you people respond like I'm a politician or an APC member competing with you is funny to me. I visit Imo often and have done so for much of my entire life and I've never witnessed the level of development as the last 2 years. It is a miracle to me especially with regards to Orlu in particular. Imagine if the 12 years of PDP was like this, we would have been on another level. Udenwa and Ohakim tried but a combination of both is not up to the level of development I've seen under Okorocha.

This picture is from Orlu. You can look for older pictures and compare.

maasoap: May be, you should try to read more dailies and watch NTA more. These girls are being lured into these "orphanage" of yours by promising them to take care of them but once they delivered their babies, the owners would simply start to appeal to them to "sell" their babies. Some of these "orphanages" even keep young men that impregnate them after first unwanted pregnancy that led them to the place. About five days ago, police showed on tv, one of your "orphanages" where these girls are trapped forever after luring them into the compound. The fence of the so called "orphanage" was built high with broken bottles plastered on the whole surface from the base of the fence to the top just to make it impossible for for the pregnant girls to escape. One of the girls even showed her wounds to the police because she tried to escape from the house of horror after witnessing what is really going on behind the fence of the "orphanage". My dear friend, for the problem to get solved, we have to admit its existence. We can't just deny it and wish it to just magically disappear. Baby factories truly exist, and the business is really booming. In fact, some girls have come to terms with it. I hope you understand what I meant.

That's a complete lie. The girls run away from home and look for where they can have secret delivery. Many teenage pregnant girls even throw their babies into the pit, river or refuse dump. That's a reality that the media has deliberately denied. It is wrong to make profits off these misguided teenagers but we all know that they were not lured.

http://www.digitalsensenews.com.ng/DSBNews/244187/2013/12/1st-quarter-2014-zinox-set-to-open-two-mega-facilities-in-abuja-owerri

Apart from the significant role of Imo indigenes in the ICT, Imo indigenes also hold the highest stake in both formal and informal sections of pharmaceuticals in the trade and manufacturing areas.

I tell all these people writing trash about factories not being in Imo to watch their mouth because Imo will soon be bombarded with pharmaceutical industries in the Orlu area. The infrastructure is being put in place to encourage these people to come home and invest. Also watch out for the ICT sector.

@Ndu-chuks, I always thought we had something in common which is a quest to make Nigeria free from all negative dichotomy and evil conspiracy as well as boldly preach against tribalism and religious intolerance. I'm highly disappointed. You seem to have the interests of a particular group of people at heart and those people might be the sponsors of Boko Haram. Oil block owners should be investigated because most wars are for business interest camouflaged as Religion or ethnicity. They are the ones capable of sponsoring this prolonged hostility. Oil blocks should not be privately owned but belong to the communities who determine how the proceeds are managed. That is what I want that Jonathan has been unable to do which is to better the lives of Nigerians in general and the real Niger Deltans in particular.

Huge lie or misinformation. Nigeria's total debt is not much more than that. The mos indebted State in Nigeria is Lagos and it is not more than $2billion.

IGBO-SON:
Those newly built roads are ok, but look kinda rough around the edges! They don't have that 'finished look' like you see with the roads in say Uyo! The contractor should go back and finish the job so all the roads look pristine and new! And they should plant more trees as well.

Also, the state (or local) gov't should sweep all the roads well.....the sand/rubbish gathering on the sides is very annoying!

Overall it's a good job from the gov't! Now waiting to see some other projects like schools, hospitals/clinics and other new investments in the state.

I'm happy you observed that its not completely finished. There is no aorta of sand on the roads and they are completely neat. I believe you've not visited Uyo but is making your assessments based on pictures snapped immediately the road was painted. The roads there are quite sandy and most have open drainages and no walkways. I like your taste and that is what every sane Nigerian should demand. You should however not be scared of demanding same in Uyo or any other place or turning blind eye for whatsoever reason.

Ikengawo: Stop selling this lie
Rockview is owned by Chief Alex Ekwueme, he recently sold it to a group of investors that in collaboration with him are renovating the hotel.
You haven't posted a road that wasn't there before Rochas.

Rockview hotel is owned by Vincent Obianodo who also owns "The Young motors" and is a private investment. All the roads in Orlu I posted were not there before Rochas and so is the Owerr/Aba road. We all remember the Nekede/FUTO road which is a federal road and how it was politicized late last year. Visit there and see the level of work.