₦airaland Forum

Owerri:
Akwakuma girls secondary School newly rebuilt by Okorocha Rescue Team
another angle of Heroe's on land.

Owerri:

New City Layout Roads asking for developers.

Owerri:
Heroes Square
City Waterfalls

Owerri

Second Inland Road
Hero's Bridge

Owerri:

More of Top of road decorations with governors Xmas greetings on top road decorations.

Akachi Road byepass

Gov. Okorocha has changed the face of Imo state.
Owerri: top-of-road decorations, not just building roads in the capital city

More City Schools in Owerri, this on Egbu road.

PHOTONEWS: OKOROCHA'S BATTLES ON IMSUTH, ONE-CITY-STATE; IMO STATE BLEEDS.

Nigeria's fore-leaders demarcated the country into states, senatorial districts, local government areas and wards.

Part of the objective for this is to ensure even development in every state, and by extension, in the entire country.

But Imo is the state where this noble objective of even development has been soundly rejected – and defeated. How? There is a mantra held by Owerri that Orlu and Okigwe areas may be carved out from present Imo state to form the nucleus of a possible sixth state in the south east.

The aftermath is that in Imo state, it is rare to find any meaningful establishment of government outside the Imo state capital and its environs.
Development projects located by former state governors outside the Imo state capital are shut down and transferred to the state capital once the establishing governor left office. Two large campuses of Alvan Ikoku College of Education renovated with hundreds of millions of Naira in Orlu and Umuahia in the 1980s were shut down immediately after Mbakwe-led government which established them left office. Thereafter, students literally slept on top of the other for lack of space in the Owerri campus of the institution.
Mega Regional water supply schemes were planned for or started by the Mbakwe administration for Okigwe, Orlu and Owerri senatorial districts. The water scheme for Owerri was implemented and fully utilized, the scheme for Okigwe remains uncompleted, the scheme meant for Orlu is yet to be started. Talk is now about a new mega water scheme for Owerri.

State libraries established in local government areas outside the state capital were shut down and materials transferred to Owerri, the Imo state capital immediately after the governor that established them left office.

All federal Housing allocations to Imo state were built in Owerri.

Mobile police and Military barracks once established outside the senatorial zone of the state capital were shut down and transferred to the state capital area.

Contracts for urban roads and drainage system in towns outside the state capital were canceled once the governor that issued the contracts left office.
The five federal and state universities and polytechnics in Imo state are in the state capital and environs. Honest attempts by two previous governments to relocate the Imo state University from downtown Owerri to a quieter environment were stiffly resisted by indigenes of Owerri zone.

Except secondary schools, the only education institutions in Imo state outside the state capital are the School for the Deaf and Mentally Retarded Orlu, and the Imo state University Teaching Hospital, Orlu; as well as a College of Education in Okigwe district. Citizens of Imo state are constrained to troop to Owerri and often end up settling there for services that are usually decentralized at senatorial and local government area levels in other normal states.

In the process, two cities – Old Owerri, and New Owerri - surged in one senatorial district of Imo state since the state was created. The rest of Imo state remain rural or urban-glorified villages.

Okorocha has exacerbated the policy of Imo-One-City-State. To be easily noticed by the public as a working governor fit to become president of Nigeria, Okorocha built nearly all his development projects in the state capital after changing political party.

Last year, Imo state deputy governor, Eze Madumere told Vanguard news that Rochas Okorocha placed 75% of his government's development projects in Owerri area. The governor seems to be proud of that figure as audio/visual documentaries from Government House on development projects are about Owerri.

Recently, Okorocha-led government struck on already frayed nerves when it set up a committee headed by Speaker, Imo state House of Assembly, Acho Ihim, to see how Imo State University Teaching Hospital (IMSUTH) Orlu, could be relocated to Owerri. Altruism was never behind the committee; behind the committee was a scheme to boost Okorocha’s private business empire. It was a quid pro quo strategy to trade IMSUTH with Owerri. It was aimed to calm Owerri to let Rochas Foundation a soft-landing in future to claim full ownership of one Eastern Palm University built in Okorocha’s hometown, Ogboko, Ideato South local government area. The university undergoing construction is still associated with Imo state government. While receiving license for Eastern Palm University, Okorocha told the National Universities Commission that the university was “my 12 years’ dream come true.”


Before now, IMSUTH has thrived in Orlu, has produced medics who have excelled and were acknowledged in their various employment positions. This leadership of Imo state government cannot feign ignorance of the fact that if a hospital is managed well, patients from far and near, even from abroad, go to wherever the hospital is located. Okorocha knows that in Owerri, there are: the federal Medical Centre, the Imo specialist Hospital, the various diagnostic centers established by Okorocha government; above all, the Federal University of Technology Owerri is preparing to establish a University Teaching Hospital in Owerri.

Prior to setting up his IMSUTH relocation committee, Okorocha assembled some local chieftains from Orlu under his government’s payroll, he read them the riot act that IMSUTH was not profitable in Orlu and had to be taken to Owerri. The chieftains had no choice. They could not even ask Okorocha how his government sustained its free education policy, as well as how the government sustained the other state tertiary institutions, and why IMSUTH should be made the scapegoat.


Anatomy of Five Year Relocation Plot.

Since 2012, as roads leading to and around the Imo state University Teaching Hospital Orlu started to wear away, Okorocha-led government refused to rehabilitate the roads. Sustained pleas from stake holders and series of students’ appeals and protests before the governor to make the road to IMSUTH motorable fell on deaf ears; thus, in the last five years, only a most-determined patient or client would venture into visiting the IMSUTH.

As teaching hospitals around the world researched, some, to rewrite the genome of fetuses to foreclose certain diseases before birth, diesel was not provided to power the generators of IMSUTH when public power supply went off. At night, darkness enveloped the hospital; but at the same time, Okorocha government increasingly lighted up the streets of the Imo state capital at night, up to the areas where no body lived;
As provision for renewal of accreditation of some medical courses in IMSUTH was denied by Okorocha-led government, the government established many ultramodern medical diagnostic centres in the state capital.
Staff salary was delayed for months to frustrate medics to leave IMSUTH.

When the relocation committee was constituted, many of the committee members were stunned. Queries from well-meaning people, including indigenes of Owerri ranged from for what, why, and to how? There are laws establishing the teaching hospital. From Orlu, the outrage and citizens’ intents if “Emperor” Okorocha relocates the teaching hospital are better not put in print.

Significantly, in a 2011 video at the inception of his guber campaign in a Town hall meeting with people from Orlu senatorial district, Okorocha scolded former leaders of Imo state for not allowing government development infrastructures in Orlu; he said, if not for the Imo state University Teaching Hospital established by former governor Achike Udenwa in Orlu, the zone was left with nothing. During the 2011 guber contest, Rochas Okorocha scored the highest number of votes in Orlu Urban local govt area, far more than in any of the other 26 local government areas in Imo state.

Everything said, Okorocha government needs to leave IMSUTH in Orlu. If this government is not interested in the growth of the institution, future governments shall return the institution to its former glory - and let it grow.

In 2011, Rochas Okorocha campaigned on a promise of rotating Imo Govt House to all the local government areas in the state - read: even development of the state. He tried to redeem that campaign promise when he started to develop roads and schools in every ward and local government area of the state. Suddenly, he withdrew to the state capital.
Many of the road projects and urban drainage systems he started or inherited outside the state capital remain abandoned, as the government builds inland roads, tunnels, flyovers, bye pass roads, eight-lanes streets, urban drainage systems and other projects of the government only in the state capital.


Today, a very large portion of Imo state outside the state capital lags many decades behind the state capital. Imo state bleeds.
Well-meaning citizens of Imo state shall no longer accept the trend.
Every government of Imo state is morally and constitutionally obliged to spread its development projects to all the 27 local government areas of the state.

Gov. Okorocha has overdramatized his Imo-One-City-Only policy which has led to a tiny portion of Imo state - the two cities of Owerri - gulp the development funds of the state.
If governance in Imo state continues this way, before long, the Imo state capital shall become a junk city from overcrowding and social vices, while rest of Nigeria leaves the abandoned larger portion of Imo state behind.
Gov. Okorocha has about two years left to redeem his campaign promise of even development for all of Imo state.



By Chigozie Uzukwu

badassProdigy:
see more photos of her

Booty For Rent:

Qualification: Rod size XXXL.

Loooolol. If this woman farts in Imo state, people in Maiduguri may hear the sound, even the ordour of her fart sef go travel far.

12inches1:
lol...It seems you understand oyinbo very well. You must have had some dealings with them. Only time Oyibo will give you such accordance is when they hear 1. You're a governor from Nigeria. 2. Nigeria has oil. 3.You come with a huge entourage to the school that includes personal media team, photographer, P.A, secretary etc. And all this is on state funds and state time. I wonder how one can be both a state governor and a Phd student at the same time. MSc abroad is hard enough sef. Talkless of Phd. Anyways.....na him and those that voted him sabi.

Being a governor and a student in a foreign country at the same time. The law against divided interest forbids an elected person to sit in office and pursue personal things likely to distract the elected person from office duties.

But this is Buhari government, what does old Buhari remember?

Some governors now even stay in office and build private university.

It's only when the governors and Buhari leave office, lawyers can then sue for government to seize whatever was acquired illegally by the governors while they were in office.

12inches1:
lol...It seems you understand oyinbo very well. You must have had some dealings with them. Only time Oyibo will give you such accordance is when they hear 1. You're a governor from Nigeria. 2. Nigeria has oil. 3.You come with a huge entourage to the school that includes personal media team, photographer, P.A, secretary etc. And all this is on state funds and state time. I wonder how one can be both a state governor and a Phd student at the same time. MSc abroad is hard enough sef. Talkless of Phd. Anyways.....na him and those that voted him sabi.

Being a governor and a student in a foreign country at the same time. The law against divided interest forbids an elected person to sit in office and pursue personal things likely to distract the elected person from office duties.

But this is Buhari government, what does old Buhari remember?

Some governors now even stay in office and build private university.

HARDDON:
Then he wud return n waste it all on jihad ! n d northern colonization of d south.
N christians n shitees killins

It is southern Nigeria people who bowed to northern Nigeria colonising the south.

Yoruba and Igbo distrust one another. So northern Nigeria colonised Yoruba land Igbo under Nigeria and tells them that Nigeria is indivisible country. But there is no indivisible country anywhere in the world.

El-Rufai has always opposed Buhari becoming president of Nigeria since 2003. Seems he had no choice when Tinubu forced Buhari upon APC.
El--Ruffy went to exile abroad when Yar Adua was President. El-Ruffy is most likely to remain in exile under Buhari administration.

Having to get half-backed quacks to preside over Nigeria is not El-Ruffy's brand.

He came to Netherlands with lots of money to throw about. That is how he could easily be at the centre of Oyibo for friendship.

kikake:
Palm University risks getting grounded for ever if Okorocha takes the teaching hospital from Orlu to Owerri.

It's unimaginable how Okorocha can at the long run slap the political class from Orlu zone, who between 1999 till today, chose the teaching hospital for Orlu but refuses the main campus of IMSU.

Okorocha's Ogboko university must not function if he transfers IMSUTH Orlu to Owerri. - Real Stake Holders in Orlu zone and beyond, not those Okorocha's appointed stskeholders, have decided on this.

If Okorocha peddless the falsehood that IMSUTH is not viable in Orlu, why can Eastern Palm University be viable in little Ogboko?

Only bread sells in that Owerri Shoprite mall. I was there Saturday afternoon last week. The number of security and other staff outnumbered the buyers.
It's like the mall is one of those projects being foolshly concentrated on Owerri by the governor who is concentrating every project of his government on the state capital, thus making the other parts of the state decay.

neoclassical:
I woke up this morning with the news that FCSC has shortlisted lists of successful candidates in the ongoing recruitment exercise by the Commission in various Federal Ministries.

Succinctly, I have a friend who studied Business Administration with 3rd Class, while I have Msc and Bsc (2.1) all in Economics. Both of us applied for the same position (SGL 09) in the Ministry of Trade & Investment. Perhaps, to my greatest perplexity, this guy's name was shortlisted while mine was conspicuously missing. Just a few minutes ago he opened up to me that the father made "some calls" on his behalf prior to this time.

For your information, we are of the same age bracket, applied for same position, from the same State. So what criteria could have been used to disqualify someone with Msc and Bsc (2.1) and someone with a 3rd Class was selected.

Holding other factors constant, I am so happy for him and I am so expectant that mine is coming. But this has kept me in an awe position, as the whole scenario depicts lack of correlation between merit and success in this entity called Nigeria.

WHAT A COUNTRY? So help us God!

You are still in Nigeria.
Quota system even inside the states and in lgas.

Buhari won presidential election above the most qualified Nigerian PhD holders in Law, Political Science, Natural Sciences.

Buhari's victory could not have been possible in any other country - except Nigeria.

Nigeria is merely a country milling round and about, as politicians share more of oil revenues among themselves, send their kids abroad but wait in Nigeria for the D-day.

NgeneUkwenu:
I love these lines......

IPOB Miscreants, Your Political Party Is Gone!

Buhari promised you to bring one Naira equivalent to one Dollar.

See the abysmal low performance of Buhari/APC in Nigeria, yet this Ngene Ukwenu can't go to commit the S-word for campaigning for what brought hunger and disease to millions of Nigerians.


If you are Oyibo, you for don go committ the S-word for propposing famine and failure..

You want to close your CORRUPT tracts under APC, Talk true.

PDP was built by human beings, before somebody like you used the party to climb up.
Why can't you rebuild the party? I see, you have no back bone to build.

Nne5:
Has el rufai turned wailer?

Even beginning 2003, El-Ruffy has always told Buhari that Buhari is not fit to preside over Nigeria.

Na Tinubu invite Buhari to contest in 2015. Na Tinubu and his Yaribawaaa who still have confidence in Buhari. Why? Because Tinubu and his group want make Buhari hand over to Yaribawaaa Osinbajo. Tinubu riding piggyback to Aso Rock on the back of old Buhari.

Hausa can't come to the south to kill people if Yoruba quickly understand that one Nigeria shall not last, as well as understand that one Nigeria is a clog on the wheels of development of Yoruba land.

dom:
That's strange. Considering Orlu is his zone.

Okorocha is building a new university in his village.

People from Orlu zone say they will never accept the relocation of the hospital.
They say Okorocha wanted to please Owerri by dashing the hospital to Owerri so that Owerri zone shall look the other way when soon Okorocha shall start to claim the new university as his private university.

dom:
Move IMSU and the other higher institutions out of Owerri town. Simple

That governor Okorocha knows full well that too many higher education institutions in Owerri is responsible for the sex tourism in Owerri, yet last year, Okorocha wanted to relocate the College of Medicine and Imo state University Teaching Hospital in Orlu to Owerri.

But is Okorocha a pupil politician? He breathes, drinks, eats and talks only state capital development all the time. He doesn't care a shiit what others from outside the capital think.

Politicians from outside the state capital can strip him bare after 2019. Doesn't he understand this?

kinibigdeal:
CONCLUSIONS

If you think a degree holder is better than a person with experience but no degree, then i say, bring a PhD holder in mechanical engineer (if any) and a road side mechanics for a presentation. The PhD holder may prevail with 'Smart terms and Linguistics' but the road side mechanic will thrill the audience with 'practical methodologies'.

From your conclusion alone, with your jargon and very poor communication skill, one is not surprised that you may prefer learning and getting experience from the roadsides to formal school education.

Marching all of us in wan Nijeriyaaa to accept that Western-Education-is-Haram is through gradual and subtle propaganda of falsehood like this your own.

Experience to replace university degrees? Only a Nigerian would suggest that. In Nigeria where a Buhari is taken as better presidential material than PhD holders in Law, Politics, Business Management, Sciences, etc. Yet Buhari has followers after two years of ruling Nigeria into recession and near -famine.

xjiggy:
I be think say you get brain but after x-ray, I come see say 9ja spaghetti dey there

Looooool, you never understood that you were truly describing yourself.

pittoilet:
Picture of Buhari, Osinbajo, In An Emotional Handshake Today In Abuja is the best.

So emotional

Looooool. 160,000,000 Mumus. Dry bones and skin may soon be presiding over them;

in this 21st century when normal countries search for and vote in the young and their most educated to lead them.

omenkaLives:
A category that is dejected he is back.. .

The Tiiiivs must be worse dejected.

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CoolFreeday:
Nigerians that believe in Nigeria are really happy.

God bless Nigeria

God bless PMB.

Welcome back my President

You believe in a failed experiment that has lasted more than 100 years. Must I or other Nigerians believe with you in the same hopeless experiment, just because there are some crumbs you get from it?

Spoiling for action.

A country of 160 million people that for decades been systematically refused relevant education and information by the military that ruled them for decades.

The military created a rogue political structure, supervised a constitution and imposed upon them. They can't get the real education to challenge what the military did.

The Military political structure and constitution nornally choose the least qualified to lead them.

The 100,000,000 mugu who chose an ailing, least-educated octogenarian to lead the country sing praises, even if the least qualified leader is leading them to starvation.

A country of 100,000,000 mumus, according to Lagbaja.

Brotherly squabbles.

Even if the killers from north murder nearly half of the population of the SW, people of the SW can't afford to break away from the north for another country. Religion binds north and southwest together.

RIP to the dead. Next? This is Wan Naigeriyaaa.