₦airaland Forum

Ohaozara:
hmm! finally I'm a registered member of NAIRALAND, anyways congrats to myself. Meanwhile I've being a long time visitor to this forum but I'm forced to register today because of the great works Spider888 and other lovers of Igbo unity and progress has being doing. I may not be calling your names but we viewers are always proud to read your comments as you strive to defend and project the GREAT IGBO nation in a better perspective. We in OHAOZARA here are just fine. Ekenem Unu!!

That's in Ebonyi right?

I've never seen a conference center that has taken so long to complete. This center has been abandoned since the days of Chimaroake Nnamani.

Abagworo:
Same road 2011 vs 2018. Can Mcstoic tell me how Okorocha destroyed the greenery?

That's definitely not the same road. Where are the street lights in the first picture?

I have called out Rochas Okorocha for his many misdeeds buut it has to be said that apart from Dee Sam Mbakwe, no other Imo state governor, not Udenwa, not Ohakim comes close to him. He has bested them but i still don't think we should use him as a standard in Imo state.

I actually don't get excited whenever i exit the major roads in Owerri and enter the inner streets. Roads are not existent. Even in areas with very good structures have very bad roads. This has made me think that what a lot of Governors actually is cosmetic surgery on the outside to deceive people.

The cycle of life.

You travel abroad and make it and you make it a duty to dissuade other from doing exactly what you did and tell them about how horrible living abroad is yet to you remain there. Who's deceiving who?

When did Zebras become yellow and white?

AutoJoshNG:
.Fadipe Street, Ogba-ijaiye
Ishola street, Ogba-Ijaiye
Inuobimi Street, Ogba-Ijaiye

I think it's Oshola street.

spyder880:
Some parts of Awka, Anambra state..........

Most south eastern capital cities such as Enugu, owerri, Awka etc all look the same from the top. The architecture of the residential building are identical which is not a bad thing. However, i think one problem that has plagued most of our cities except for Enugu is the lack of tarred inner roads. From this image, you can see that long stretch of road that is left in it's natural state. That's the same problem i highlighted about Owerri sometime ago.

horsepower101:
A college sounds close to what it was but it wasn't a university during its operation in colonial times. The actual university that it operated under was in London and all the degrees offered had the school name on it.


The first real University in Nigeria was UNN Nsukka

University Definition:
an educational institution designed for instruction, examination, or both, of students in many branches of advanced learning, conferring degrees in various faculties, and often embodying colleges and similar institutions.

The problem with some of you is that you're not open to learning. You just want to argue to your graves.

University College, London is a university and the one in Ibadan operated as a branch campus.

horsepower101:
Ibadan was an "Extension" of the London college during colonial times. It wasn't even a University on its own. It was 2 years after the founding of UNN Nsukka that it indigenized itself and transitioned into a university.

So, if it was an extension of the university of London, what do you call it? A polytechnic? Perhaps a college of education.

horsepower101:
I found out recently that UNN Nsukka was actually the first University in Nigeria and not University of Ibadan as been claimed for years.

You found out where? Ibadan is the first university in Nigeria while UNN is the first indigenous university in Nigeria.

Merimental:
A journey of thousand miles begins wit a step...
Many more nid to be shown d exit door..
Next shuld be IGP,BURATAI, den right tinking nigerians can take u SERIOUS for once Mr Vp..
we must save dis DEMOCRACY or risk becoming anoda Somalia in d making..GOD FORBID!

And you think the vice president did what he did without getting directive from the president?

Useless pig

Handsomegod:
Sorry,which dialect is this? Certainly not Central Igbo. Can you rephrase this towards more Anambra Igbo? I know you passed a vital message and I wish to capture it well. Dalu.

Basically, he's talking about going to the cattle rearing business by buying cows from the Fulani through the middle-belt people. He says it will bring a lot of money for us.

It's a shame that Akpabio is trying to defect to APC because he was was of the top guns that i thought would help PDP capture 2019.

internationalman:
Atlanta USA is now the new Torino, Italy for Nigerians
.
Every Nigerian that wants to give birth in the USA usually goes to Atlanta.

If trump talks now....

the population of black in Atlanta is the highest of all the US state.

Is it the cheapest state in the US to afford.

O boy, that place is about to take over from Baltimore, Maryland and Houston, Texas. it just seems everyone is going there, especially all these celebrities.

Tolexander:
See this one!

Who get the time to dey wash only boxers.

Changing boxers na weekly thing jor.

He obviously want to become governor under APC. Why do some politicians, especially from the Se like committing political suicide.

But Oruka got the accolades it deserved. It's unfortunate that there wasn't a lot of money in music back then as it is now. Even Mr Fantastic was also popular.

cococandy:
Brunch:
coffee and some buttered Cheesecake Factory house bread.

Thai coconut milk chicken curry with mangoes, toasted coconuts, sweet peppers, cashew and mushrooms, served over white rice

Yum

How do you oyibo people have the time to make all these things for just one meal.

Shakushaku1:
How much be visa fee sef, e Don tey I reach that side last, make I go try ma luck again

Your name has been blacklisted. I saw your name on the list.

nzeobi:
good but most construction works going on in lagos now is progressing at a very slow pace. e.g lagos-abeokuta road and that pen cinema flyover.

abode please tell them to be fast while reminding visionscope that disease outbreak is imminent cos of heaps of refuse.

There's nothing slow about the Pen Cinema flyover. if anything, i thik it's going on at a very fast paced. They should be done by the end of the year.

Makarfa has a very good point. Taking the party leadership position from Ekweremadu and giving it to Saraki is uncalled for.

No single SUV in sight. Dem use SUV swear for us for this country because of horrible roads.

Anything but Buhari.

This just shows how tribalistic our generation is. How is a university theatre that produced the father of African Literature, Chinua Achebe not named after him but after someone that attended a different university. I really don't see the logic in this.

The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) is organizing a National Micro Small and Medium Enterprises awards tagged: NMSME Awards 2018.

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A free exposition for all award nominees and select SMEs would take place from 12pm on 1st August, 2018 at the head office of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council in Abuja.

Lagos State edition of the National MSME Clinic would hold on 6th and 7th August, 2018 at the Teslim Balogun Stadium at 9am.
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investnow2013:
I am particularly interested in Onitsha city Wi-Fi.

I wonder which parts of Onitsha that they will situate it.

Ohh, that explains the free Google WiFi that i got at the Ikeja mall yesterday.

With the way people have become stingy, the Nigerian government might decide to by TheNigeriaAir.NG or NigerianairBuhari.com.

Once again, i want to use this opportunity to thanks Spyder880 and everyone that has contributed in one way or another on this beautiful thread. As enlightened Igbo people, the development of our land is in our hands and all hands must be on deck to build the Igboland of our dreams.

I have frequented Igboland in recent times and every time i go there, i keep seeing clearly what the problem is as it relates to the South-East and i will be reeling them out based on my limited knowledge about the various Igbos states and cities in them.

From my observation, i think what we need most in terms of infrastructure in the South-east or should i say, what is very evident is the state of our roads. I'm talking about state roads and not federal roads (that's a topic for another day.) Let me use Owerri as an example.

Owerri is supposed to be a touristy city where you go to have fun and that is evident in the number of hotels and hangout spot in the city. But what you will realize in Owerri is that a lot of roads are just bad and even some that are well tarred were done poorly and will give way in the near future. I could count the number of good roads in the places i went to in Owerri. For instance, the road where Concorde hotel is up to down the hilly road looks okay. From Control junction through bank road to Rockview hotel, the road is also okay. But the moment you venture into Wetheral road, it's really an eyesore. That place used to look better a few years ago. Though i understand there's work going on there but it seems to be moving at a very slow pace. Even the side walks are nowhere to be found. Infact, the side walks of most Igbo cities are usually embarassing.

You would expect that a city like Owerri that prides itself in being a tourism haven cannot do as little as make sure all the roads are in good condition. Why should a popular junction like Control have big pot-holes? That's the gateway to the capital of the state for crying out loud. Should i talk about the lack of roads in inner streets in Owerri despite the fact that these inner streets have beautiful structure like houses, hotels and what have you.

I think our Governors need to make it as a point of urgency to fix our roads. That will definitely change the face of our towns. For instance, i found Orlu attractive because the roads i passed through on my way to Ideato was well Tarred. it looked like a decent town in my opinion.

I also think it's imperative that we start building bridges. I know bridges are built primarily to ease traffic and to connect to different parts of a city, it in addition gives a town, a big city outlook. For some reason Owerri and some other cities have this small city or town look because they lack such infrastructure. The only cities in the east that look like big cities are Onitsha, Aba and maybe Enugu.

Even Abakaliki that seems like the youngest city among them is already having the trappings of a big city owing to the road and bridge constructions embarked upon by the current governor. We will begin to see what Abakaliki will become in years to come.

Another very important area that i think needs to be looked at is in the area of attracting invevstors and setting up industries. I think this applies mainly to Enugu and Owerri. That is because these cities pride themselves as the tourist cities in Igboland but it seems to me that anyone that has any good thing to ay about Enugu for example, probably used to live there when they were much younger but had to leave to Lagos, Abuja or Port-hacourt. if Enugu is as nice as people claim, why then are people leaving. The answer is very simple, it's because there are no opportunities. The only thing that is still giving Enugu and Owerri life is because of the Tertiary institutions that are located in them and this has given the cities some color. But a lot of these students leave as soon as they are done with their programs.

Now as for Onitsha and Aba. Despite it's problems, i think i'm impressed with Onitsha the most among all South-east cities. That's because i know how Onitsha used to be and how it is now. Like i said, it's one of the few cities in the SE that has that Big-City feel to it owing to the bridges and developed expressway. It's a city that people will be surprised by if very few things are added to it.

I think Onitsha proper needs a university. I don't know the name they want to call it, but it needs a big academic institutions to give diversity to it's inhabitants. people still see Onitsha with an Omata mindset. Like it's a city littered with illiterate trader and that is not true. But we must also make a concerted effort to bring the academic into Onitsha. the same thing goes for Aba.