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Artistree: My christian brother was killed an auto crash caused by the reckless driver in a convoy of the den 1st Lady of Anambra State, who was detained? If u c d manner in which dese animals-turn-governors move on the highway, u would think they're immortals.
How could u be so heartless to have detained a poor man just cos ur car collided wit his? What if he had died,who would he have arrested? And those filthy things in black would be more dan glad licking d feet of their master, shameless faculties!

What if the Governor died?

berem: Thank you Abagworo for clearing the air. Salaries owed by previous government and Okorocha takes the blame? Now i see that the opposition is trying to cause trouble.

They earlier posited that the accident was stage-managed but now that the 3rd party has been revealed, they've resorted to cheap blackmail. Someone rammed into a Governors convoy and he wasn't shot but detained and people are complaining. I'm so sure that if it were most Governors, they would have ordered the person killed at the spot. What we are yet to ascertain is if the man was paid to ram into the Governor.

This report was carried out by opposition and that is why emphasis was laid on unpaid salaries. The truth is that the Doctors have been or strike and have not been able to resolve it with Government. The students even took to the streets earlier this year. What is the reason? Because successive Governments owed them and they are demanding for the present Government to clear the arrears and re-visit old issues and employ more than they can pay. They also don't want the health sector capitalized.

http://www.imotrumpeta.com/?p=1395

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The Imo State University Teaching Hospital Orlu Chapter of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) has issued a seven (7) day ultimatum to the executive Governor of Imo state Rochas Okorocha through the Joint Action Committee of Trade Union IMSUTH branch as follow – up of their earlier issue 21 and 14 days date 9/07/2012 and 31/07/2012 respectively. The latest ultimatum of 7 days stated emphatically that by the expiration of the 7 days, theUnioncan not guarantee industrial harmony if their demands were not met.
Their demands include: total rejection of the planned downsizing of IMSUTH workforce from its 934 staff. They are of the view that more staff should be employed in areas of need, payment of monetization arrears of 24 month, implementation of the consolidated tertiary institution salary structure (CONTISS) of 15 month and consolidated health salary structure (CONHESS) of 19 months, release of 2008, 2009 and 2010 IMSUTH promotions, upwards funding of IMSUTH subvention to 152million naira as a proved by the Imo state House of Assembly, and the removal of the Chief Medical Director Dr Alex Emeka Chukwuemeka. It was revealed that Dr Chukwuemeka has been removed.
The ultimatum was issued at a congress of the Joint Action  Committee of Trade Unions (JACTU) with the participation of both the National and the state executives of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). The ultimatum was signed by Comrd. BOV Okere Chairman MHWUN, Comrd J. Adim, Secretary MHWUN, Comrd Faith Uchenwoke Chairperson NANNM, and Comrd Ihetu Gladys Secretary NANNM all of IMSUTH branch chapter.
Speaking at the congress Comrd DV Nnadi state Chairman MHWUN reminded the workers that, they are the electorate that made Okorocha the governor, therefore he is bound to listen and meet their demand.
The National president Health Institutions Consultations Forum (HICF) Comrd Chinedu Nwobodo, frowned at the non- chalant attitude of the government towards Health Care sector, he challenged health workers to rise against any form of capitalism in the state. Comrd Nwobodo charged the workers to take their job seriously.
Comrd Hycinth Anyanwu the deputy chairman National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNAM) decried the mess in the health sector inImoState, he wondered why traditional ruler should be the ones to manage health centers. Comrd Anyanwu Pledged his Unions support to the IMSUTH workers on their step to press home their demand.
The national deputy chairman of MHWUN Comrd. SAB Osuji who represented the National chairman Comrd. Ayuba Awaba, disclosed that there are enormous problems in the state and caution the state Governor not to create more by allowing the health worker of IMSUTH embark on strike by meeting their demand which he said is justified, in his words “The new salary structure should be implemented, as applicable in FMC, promotions should be released, we are against downsizing because unemployment is the major problem in Imo state. as we all know every workers has more than two other dependants”.
Some of the dignitaries that graced the congress include Comrd BOV Okere the convener, Comrd SA Osuji Deputy National President MHWUN, Comrd Chinedu Nwobodo, President HICF, Comrd DV Nnadi state chairman MHWUN, Comrd Hyacinth Anyanwu, Deputy state chairman NANNW, Comrd Onyinye Okere state PRO NANNW, Comrd Nwaneri, Comrd Faith Uchenwoke, Angela Okorie state officers among others.

Onyegecha: Abagworo:

There's more to it than what you think. But Dede I want to ask you a sincere question as an elder from Imo State. What has Rochas failed to do as a Governor that any other Governor in the history of Nigeria has done? Just give me a sincere answer without allegations.


Abagworo, i challenge you, instead, to show me one single system that Rochas has improved since he took over the administration. Here's what we have on ground-

Health- He ha demobilized all the health facilities he met on ground, putting that sector in disarray.

Education- He has made the standard of education to nose-dive and kiss the dust while mouthing free education. Meanwhile people are paying more now than before for a service that is hardly rendered to Imo youths. SUBEB has been abandoned because its structure did not allow Rochas to wreck it like the other outfits. Imo children are now strangers in their own land as IMSU has denied them admission on the orders of the "commander of free education".
For him one bogus school structure in the centre of the city translates into transformation of Imo schools.

Transport--Nothing new has happened to suggest rescue, EXCEPT THE REPAINTING OF OHAKIM'S BUSES to carry rescue mission slogans and colour. We are still at the mercy of keke operators. ITC is comatose. Workers are lamenting. They regret the change in government.

Hospitality--Rochas has strangulated Concord hotel while his sweet mouth says the hotel has been rescued. A visit will convince any doubter

Industrialization--Zero level

Employment---Zero level. In fact Rochas has sacked so many thousands of Imolites. People keep referring to the 10,000 job abomination, but that was just the beginning for the man. Sometimes i wonder whether he is on a revenge mission over an unnamed offence the people of Imo state committed against him.

Civil Service---No improvement whatsoever, except decreeing a change of dress code that is not based on any principle. Corruption is still waxing strong and those connected to the government get their due while others are left out. This government is highly inefficient in managing the civil service. Civil service is based on due process while this government is known for disregard for due process, so you can imagine the rest.

Infrastructure--- He specializes in building big structures that mean nothing to the people.
Bongo square, Heroes square, Freedom square, Government house chapel, centenary tower, roundabouts without roads, roads with red mud and a sprinkling of asphalt.

Local Government system--- Comatose

Community Government Council---Dead on arrival. ALL the communities in the state are enmeshed in confusion because even the proponent of this bizarre system has no idea on how it should run.

Water supply---Big Zero. No water from the public taps since he took office.
Retirees--- Their condition is worse under the rescue mission than ever before.


Privatization of para-statals without due process and sacking the workers is a crime he must be ready to answer to. Meanwhile not one of these privatized outfits is functioning well now. So tell me, which system ha Rochas improved?


I wish him quick recovery, but above all, i wish him soberness and a presence of mind that will enable him to get a grip of the meaning of governance. For now, he sees it as only an avenue to harvest praise from people by saying what he knows they will like to hear.

I'm not a politician but I visit my State and in terms of infrastructure, there has been a miraculous improvement at least in roads. Infact Imo looks brand new in terms of housing because houses are springing up at an unprecedented rate while there has been a high influx of people into Owerri and Orlu. Adapalm has become functional and is employing hundreds of people while Government has withdrawn subsidy from ITC and Concorde hotel by concession to private firms . They are meant to be self sufficient and not to be subsidized by Government. Do you know that successive Imo Governments were owing Concorde billions of unpaid subsidy?

As for Ohakim's 10,000 jobs scam, tell me what they were employed as. You can't just put 10,000 people under Government payroll and call that employment. Those employed in road constructions, farming at Adapalm and building of the various housing projects far exceeds the 10,000 and they actually do work for their money. Rochas Government is providing the enabling environment and that is why there's influx of people. I've noticed several ongoing construction of what looks like mid-sized factories along Owerri-Orlu highway. I believe they could be pharmaceutical industries or so but let's keep our lips sealed for now. IMHO the most significant things achieved by Rochas Government is the transformation of Orlu from a town to a city(by Nigerian standards). Imo used to be a one-city State but we can boast of 2 large and livable cities today with stadia, commercial banks, relaxation parks and several dual carriage ways almost complete with streetlights.

Below are pictures of roads almost completed in Orlu. Not Owerri. I'm sure Rochas does not want them displayed till complete with covered drainage and road markings but people like you need to be shut up.

Nuzo':
Before all ya sentimental bigots jump in to yarn rubbish as usual, I want to quickly remind you that this thread has nothing to do with the ongoing GEJ and Amechi brouhaha.

I lived in portharcourt city for about three years before relocating to my present place of residence.

While living in PHC, I was opportune to witness first hand the governmental strides of Amechi of which a few are Greater PH City, constructions of major and dilapidated roads like airport road Rukpoku. I also witness some of his shortcomings/scams like the monorail project.

Before I left PH last year, I placed a bet with my friends that okporo road would've been completed before easter this year and they all laughed. To my greatest surprise, I was in PH last 2 weeks for a friend's wedding and noticed that the road was still in that sorry state.

We are fast approaching the rainy season which was the same reason the govt gave for not completing the road last year.
What actually is the problem as over 70 percent of the project which is the underground sewage system has been completed about a year ago.

Did the white contractors scam the Rivers state government as I heard?

The road is 90% completed but I hate everything about the road. The design looks very much like what Ohakim did at Orlu road in Owerri. The road should have been left as a single lane.

So nothing for the Igbos who are the 2nd largest ethnic group. This hypocrisy is getting out of hand. It is understandable to support the best candidate but if ethnicity must come into play, then it is only fair to move Governorship to Delta North.

Few hours back, I stumbled on a publication by a very respected online medium [Premium Times] containing excerpts of what is said to be Nigerian government's White Paper on the origin of the ongoing deadly terrorism spearheaded by the armed Islamic extremists known in popular Hausa parlance as Boko Haram which when translated means that education is sinful.

From what I read, it is the thinking of the current Federal Government, which set up a presidential panel made up of local experts who investigated the upsurge in the deadly attacks of the armed insurgents, that politicians were the masterminds of the armed bandits that are now ravaging most parts of Northern Nigeria in the guise of waging war against selected government institutions, the Nigerian security agencies, Christians and some moderate Muslims. At the last count, over 5000 persons have been slaughtered by these murderous gangs of Islamic religious extremists.

In the government's White Paper sighted by the online medium, the Nigerian government blamed some powerful politicians in the North East for setting up well -armed and fortified gangs of political thugs whom they used to rig the 2003 and 2007 governorship and national elections in their respective states but soon abandoned these armed gangs with their guns and other sophisticated weapons intact which led them to align themselves with the then radical Islamic preacher, Sheikh Mohammed Yusuf, whose sermons opposed the validity of the secular constitution operational in Nigeria.

These armed youth later metamorphosed into hardline terrorists after undergoing unspecified foreign terrorism trainings in Chad. The government's White Paper, now gazetted, was said to be silent on how to deal decisively with these identified political kingpins who set up these armed political thugs that now transformed into the biggest terrorists organization in the West African region.

The White Paper on the Boko Haram insurgency in my thinking is severely deficient in the sense that it never mentioned the widely held suspicion which was even leaked by the immediate past National Security Adviser to President Jonathan, General Patrick Azazi, that the internal crisis within the ruling Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] on the insistence of the current President to run for election in the 2011 Presidential election rather than allow a Northerner complete the second term of the late Alhaji Umar Musa Yar'adua two-terms in accordance with the so-called zoning arrangement, was instrumental to the upsurge in the terror attacks by the armed insurgents.

The above narratives bring us to the all-important question of why the contemporary Nigerian politicians never learn from mistakes of their predecessors which is the fundamental cause of the seemingly unprogressive and stunted growth of Nigeria's democracy.

While his foot -soldiers outside of the highly partisan executive council of the federation are positioning themselves to ensure that the current President, who might face one of the toughest opposition from Northern Politicians, gets soft-landing in the contest for who would fly the Peoples Democratic Party's flag for the 2015 Presidential election, his supporters, who are holding some of the juiciest offices in the Federal Cabinet, are busy exercising arbitrary powers aimed at undermining the lawful activities of some persons in government at the state levels considered as rivals to the President's 2015 Presidential ambition.

It is strongly rumored that the River state Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, who is serving out his second four-year tenure, is interested in running for the prestigious office of the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and that he will run with a Northern candidate who will likely be the Niger State Governor. Aliyu Babangida [PhD] or Sule Lamido of Jigawa state.

And since this rumor has refused to die even with several denials by the Rivers State Governor, the President, whose position in 2015 may be challenged if this widely held political rumour turns out realistic, has started a well -coordinated hostile activities aimed at undermining the authority of the Rivers state governor.

Read more http://www.allafrica.com/stories/201304290482.html/

ijaw citizen: Come on guy! these claims are evident in the title of the thread, everywhere here in nairaland and all over the internet, don't force me to root out threads & cites where the claims that all Eastern Ijaw clans down to Nembe were founded by Igbos and claims that the entire south-east and south-south was once populated by Igbos before Ijaws & other Niger Deltans came to live amongst them.

If that is not the claim made here, why aren't there other threads where you write about the igbos in Kaduna, Lagos, Abuja, Kano etcwho also intermarried there. Guy pls be coherent for once, how can someone be an INDIGENE of Bonny and come from Igboland at the same time? how many of such Igbo groups have shared history with Bonny apart from Ndoki people who are in fact Ijaw people Igbonized over a period of time?

You write as if they just migrated there innocently, as if not thru' slavery imposed on them by fellow Igbos.

I have never said Igbos imposed their language on us, but the aspect of Igbo imperialism is real. What the fcck is Umu Ubani, Igwe Nga, Igwe Ocha, Odurogwu and all the renaming of Ijaw towns. They even go as far as creating an Igbo origin for all Ijaw groups.

Opobo is barely over a hundred years old yet you claimed they've been Igbonized "hundreds of years ago". I don't wanna sound like all Igbos are this Stu.pid, all people are welcome to Ijawland and live in peace with us but we will not tolerate this overbearing attitude of Igbo e-Warriors and their internet campaign of public deception and the justification of their land grabbing agenda

To address you. Umu Ubani is used in Opobo by Opobo people as I have witnessed personally and was not created by South-easterners. They greet "Ubani maranma" and no Southeasterner does that. I never used the word "Igbonized" as you are stupidly trying to claim. I rather wrote that a preference for use of Igbo language ahead of Ibani was a spontaneous phenomenum and was not imposed by Igbos or colonial masters as some people have been trying to claim.

ezeagu: Just to be clear, Ika, as a fringe 'Igbo' community, does not claim descent from Benin. We've given too much time to random internet claims and objections. It's time we start to find out the truth.



The slave trade, starting from the 16th century, hit the Igbo people hardest in the 18th century, which led to the break down of societies. This was also around the time guns were introduced. I know, for example, that there was a lot of infighting in Igbo groups of the south after the introduction of guns.

All these history still boils down to that same period. My question is why is it that majority of our communities cannot trace their lineage beyond that era? I opened a thread earlier on origin of various Igbo clans and did my research based on the history of the towns as written from their respective oral tradition and they mostly still seem to point towards that 16th to 18th century era. This includes Arochuku and Onitsha.

I usually like to respect peoples views of themselves without imposing my impression even though I have mine. Igbos to me belong to same group as Yoruba, Idoma, Edo and Igala in terms of migration but some people were living in all these area and were mixed with the migrants. Most Igbos on the fringe usually have a story of migrating from else where outside the Isuama/Nri/Awka area which is considered by many as the Igbo core. We usually say we migrated from Idu, Obiama, Itu etc but many of these stories are quite doubtful to me.

Another thing I've noticed about Igbos is that the oral history of majority of communities dates back to around 16th to 18th century and nothing more is remembered beyond those dates. Something must have happened that caused the sudden emergence of several Igbo communities around that period.

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Not as bad as being portrayed.

Maxymilliano: This is not getting funny anymore

A major ethno-political crisis could break out in the South-South from this joke taken too far.

Texas.Cowgirl:
Thank you for posting one recent picture. . . . .as I've told many others to do.

Most of them are more than 8years you say?

Then it shouldn't be hard to post most recent pictures.

For example, what has orji done to change these pictures of Aba/Abia? Are you trying to say the areas have been cleaned up and remodeled with modern infrastructure?

There has been a lot of changes in Nigeria including Aba. Even though they are not up to my expectation, a lot has been done in infrastructure. I traveled to Aba in march and there was not any terrible looking places like the ones posted here. The expressway was good and I didn't switch lane till I got to Aba.

django1: Seriously I need someone presently in ibadan to disprove what I'm saying, just tell me if you're in IB and the area that you can find filth like the ones posted in this thread!

If you can't, that means you just don't want to drop the ignorant tag of Ibadan is dirty that we've being told since we were babies.

Most of those pictures are more than 8years. There definitely are still some dirty places in Ibadan but many of the scenes posted here have been fixed.

Texas.Cowgirl:
You just came from Aba, coincidently yesterday when I created the thread, but you forgot to take pictures of this marvelous, groundbreaking, o-m-g-it-is-finally-happening change.

Even the jury ain't buying this one.

Here's one I've posted earlier about one of the 2005 pictures. Most Governors of. 2007 to 2013 have improved on infrastructure even though some have done better than others.

I think date should be attached to the pictures because many of those pictures were posted as far back as 2003 and they've mostly changed.

chino11: Stop deceiving yourself about your criminal gov okorosha. Frankly speaking it will take imo state the next 100yrs to get to where Anambra is today. You guys are not evolved yet. More than 1/3 of imo population are presently living and earning a living in Anambra and you are still looking for more evidence to prove to you that both okorosha and imo state are not failed entities. Lol

Stop boasting and show us just one picture.

slimghost: You opened a thread on that and was disgraced. I have lots of pics, so if u dare, open another thread on that and I will address that. For now, take your inferiority complex somewhere else

Between a spare parts dealer and medical practitioner who is inferior? The fact is that Peter Obi did nothing in 8 years. So show us just one picture of any clean road or housing estate or pipe borne water in Anambra State.

slimghost: Bikonu my brothers, if Imolites say that Rochas is their messiah, pls let us leave them alone. But I will take it personally with any efulefu that dares mention Peter Obi in their senseless posts. Madam Clown Berem and dundee Abagworo take note.

Can we please compare Obi's 8years with Okorocha's 2years to make things clearer? Just show us the picture of a clean street, quality housing or pipe-borne water provided by Obi. Don't mention private investments.

ngozievergreen: hey, hey,hey, is it my nauth u are bashing like dis? My alma mater have been graduating medical students since many years ago. Those 8 yrs(if they are true) were probably bfr d yr 2000 and couldnt have been different from wat happened in other med sch.

Not interested in d argument but then ,Didnt IMSUTH take time as well?

You don't get what I meant. NAUTH and Calabar were still under rehabilitation while the completed ones like UNTH were barely ok. The issue is that we lack confidence in our health care system and would always prefer UK, Europe or US once we can afford it. The less buoyant would try India. Chino was trying to make it seem like Rochas has failed by not building a UK-equivalent hospital in Imo whereas we don't even have it on the entire African continent and Okorocha is one of the shortest serving Governors.

http://lindaikeji..co.uk/2011/09/exclusive-photos-absu-students.html?m=1

Absu students even protested against the false news.

Why was my post hidden and banned?

Agrika: In all my lives i have never seen a spineless coward like this man, you are the president for christ sake do something, dont tell me cassava bread has no positive effects on the brain.

Its not Jonathan's fault. Even the US have been fighting like forever in Afghanistan to no avail. It pains me most that Nigerians don't realize that it is our duty to protect our country and not only Jonathan or IGP. Boko Haram consists mostly of foreigners- Nigeriens, Chadians, Sudanese, Malians etc who have physical similarity with Northern Nigerians. If we report every alien that suddenly appears in our neighborhood, then we'll start heading somewhere. Our Immigration corps and Customs have more share of the blame than everyone else. Nigeria is the only country in the world where immigration laws don't exist .

Never knew many Lagosians are seeing streetlights for the 1st time in their lives. I personally gave out streetlights covering a distance of about 500 metres to my street in Port Harcourt and another resident is powering them for free.

How do we change the culture?

This thread has been idle. Its time for us to list the prominent men from these States and compare. We already know that Umuahia is more developed than Awka and Aba is bigger and more industrialized than Onitsha and the entire Anambra State.


I've been reading where many people claim Anambra has produced more great people in Igboland so let us compare. To Start with both have produced President and vice Viz Azikiwe-Ironsi and Ekwueme-Ukiwe. Both have also produced Eastern region Premier. So Anambrians list your so-called great men let me list that of Abia.

NB Onitsha people are not Anambra people in ideology and life style. They are more like other Igbos as they believe in education and good life. I therefore subtract Zik and Ukpabi Asika to start with.

Afam4eva: Ekene is a short form of Ekenedilichukwu just as Afam is a short form of Afamefuna. Ekene means greeting which really doesn't say anything. You have to decide who you're thanking. is it your Father , Mother, God or satan.

The same thing applies to Ngozi. Most names you hear eg Uche, Emeka, Somto are just shortened form of other names.

People are also given the shortened names as their full and only names. I know a lot in my generation and my kids generation.

jajajaja828: this has show that u dont kw u left fm your right.
Pius Anyiam is from ebonyi state not imo. u be mumu.
imo girl r kw for prostitution in port harcourt etc.

He has already cleared himself that it is Dan Pius Anyiam. The name of the Owerri stadium is "Dan Anyiam". I've only seen few Imo girls involved in that. If you understand Igbo language just walk past a congregation of girls and listen to their dialect.Forget about where they tell you they are from. All na wash.

BabaTony: Mr man please can you stop talking trash, how much is rivers state collecting plus its igr.how dare you compare akpabio with with that failure called amaechi. PH used to be a garden city but today its a complete slum no thanks to amaechi. Anyone travelling from ph to aks will immediately see the difference. Amaechi is a failure my dear. Rivers state should be currently thinking of replacing him fast.

You are taking things personal instead of being objective. I wrote clearly that Akpabio only achieved roads and to me it is nothing compared with the amount given to him. Amaechi achieved Health,re-orientation, education/schools, agriculture and resuscitation of some industries like PABOD and Rivers feeds. Amaechi equally achieved roads but not up to Akpabio. I also wrote that Amaechi wasted funds on monorail.

I think it is high time Ohakim and his friends stop this war for the good of everyone. I'm beginning to have a feeling that there is high political undertone to all these.