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Make road users to pay road tax, instead of creating toll gates of corruption.

In countries that produce vehicles and provide good roads, it's unimaginable to see a vehicle on the public space without pre-paid road tax.
Road tax is undoubtedly going to yield more revenues to government than toll gates of corruption.

ignis:
What is nice about creating 2 more universities in a state?
Can't we create industries that will create job for millions of jobless youths and numerous graduates that graduate from universities and polytechnic on daily basis ?

In China, Dubai and other serious countries, they have more industries than universities, but in Nigeria reverse is the case.

Industries are created by graduates who received good and quality education from tertiary academic institutions.

Government does not create industries, but provides good environment for people, including you, to create industries.

Progress. Wow.

Aba is moving forward.

Umuahia is moving forward.


Neighbouring Imo state reduced development in their state to only state capital.
Aru na mpu na greed are in Imo's dilemma.

OmoEpe:
3 geopolitical zones had 3 leaders representing them in the preparation for independence. Azikwe,Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello

2 of them wanted secession clause included so that any region desirous of exiting the union in future will be free to. Only Azikwe an Igbo man opposed it by declaring that Nigeria is indivisible. Had he not been driven by greed and desire for dominance, the civil war wouldn't have happened as Ojukwu and Biafranistans would have gone peacefully and legally but the greed and expansionist tendencies of the SE always rob them of common sense

Yes the negotiators of independence weren't stupid it was your forefather Azikwe that rejected wisdom in the negotiations and had an alliy in the British


Nigeria had regional Govt at the beginning but the moment an Igbo man got there by coup he turned it into a unitary state because he thought he will be there for life but unfortunately after 6months fulani soldiers overthrew him and Nigeria has remained that way since then


The 2 unfortunate times we had Igbo leaders was the 2 times we laid foundation for today's suffering


What Biafranistan cannot destroy for greed and dominance doesn't exist

So you still live in the past when Azikiwe purportedly said that Nigeria was indivisible?

Kwontinue to live in the past while the realities of dysfunctional one Nigeria stare us in the face and we live in the present.

But for how many more years will Nigeria’s armed forces continue to fight, bomb and kill Nigerians?

What sort of country is this?

Northern politicians and religious leaders adopted sharia criminal laws that were outlawed in the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria
Boko Haram quickly emerged after and says that it’s fighting for a Nigeria to be governed with Islamic Sharia criminal laws.

Why can’t rest of the politicians outside the sharia states understand that giving the sharia states the sort of Islamic Republic they seek is going to stop Boko Haram and its offshoot - the bandits?

If Nigeria is inhabited by white peoples, the political class outside the sharia states would have met and tell the sharia states to have their deserved country to be governed with Islamic Sharia criminal laws.

Xscape1993:
The wickedness of men and the evil party.

Political party of conspirators. Their die-hard supporters are either sympathizers for Nigeria to be governed with Islamic Sharia criminal laws, or plain parasites.

Party which brought unprecedented insecurity to Nigeria.

RIP to the murdered.

OmoEpe:
Sometimes I just wonder if stupidity is part of the DNA of Biafranistan.

Cownu lawyers walked out of court which subsequently led to an adjournment yet it is the FG you are blaming for the adjournment


Sense and IPOB are typical example of words and opposite

If stupidity is asking for Biafra from Nigeria, what do you call those Nigerians who struggled for independence for Nigeria from Great Britain?

Anyway, most of you people that infested this thread are terrorists sympathizers and/or parasites defending dysfunctional one Nigeria.

ObiOfOnitcha:
Kanu is already seeing the handwriting on the wall, life imprisonment is already smiling at him, unless buhari pardons him, he is in for big trouble, his charge and bail lawyers were deceiving him before, now he is knowing what he is into

Terrorists spokesman?

Parasite?

It’s not an offense to seek for a new country from an existing country.

siant:
Yes O stand for head (ori),. Ori in yoruba means head. As in okija, owerri.

Supprisinglly, the number of Igbo in osun Oyo Ogun ondo are more than all the Igbo in the whole South East.

That’s what you deserve after military dictators restructured Nigeria and denied Igbos a commensurate number of states, according to Igbo population.

Beware before those Igbos buy the graveyards of your forebears.
No be una want one Nigeria?

The day you agree on restoration of Biafra, the population of those Igbos in the SW shall reduce by 99%

Adebeeyi:
REVEALED: What Timothy Adegoke's Body Looked Like When Found | FIJ



https://fij.ng/article/revealed-what-timothy-adegokes-body-looked-like-when-found/

Even in a Hilton Hotel, a stranger was not safe, paid for his death.
So how can one go to lodge in lesser hotels in Nigeria?
Horrors of Nigeria growing daily.

It’s hard to understand what you wrote. You kept talking about illiterate people in Nigeria but half education you manifest is worse than being illiterate.

Is it only in Lekki that Nigeria’s armed forces started to shoot and massacre unarmed civilians? No. In the east of Nigeria, Nigeria armed forces of mostly northern Nigeria origin have been shooting and massacring unarmed civilians. So why would any educated person doubt that there was massacre in Lekki? It’s only a poorly educated person who would ignore the history of massacre of civilians by Nigeria armed forces.

ivolt:
Stop spreading ethnic hate.
"Armed" police in every country point gun and shoot.

When we point out the hatred some sections of Nigeria manifest against one section, you say one promotes ethnic hatred.

That means person like you is engrossed in promoting ethnic hatred against others.

It’s a misnomer anywhere for armed policemen or soldiers to shoot unarmed civilians.

In some developed European countries, policemen are not even allowed to bear arms in the presence of unarmed civilians, until terrorists started to emerge there.

NaijaFutbol:
Nothing is more fictitious than this woman


Good that she confirmed the death of Nathaniel Solomon’s brother at Lekki toll gate.

Let us even say that out of 14 dead/missing, that half are fictitious, the fact remains that some soldiers shot at unarmed protesters, prevented ambulances from accessing the place, doctored videos and cleaned up the place to cover up their mess.

For those still saying that there was no massacre at Lekki Toll Gate, there is no need arguing with you guys. No level of evidence will make you guys use your brain

Even if one person was shot dead, that’s enough to stir uproar in saner countries.

Fact remains that in saner countries, police or soldiers don’t point guns, talk less, shoot unarmed civilians.

Nigeria armed forces personnel from northern region are always in Jihad mode once they are sent to the south, especially in the southeast region, to quell civil protests.

From a certified psychiatrist patient.

sanctity454:
Fire service sentization against bush burning this dry season

If fire breaks out in Ideato or Oru East, the whole place will be burnt to ashes before fire engines arrive from Owerri.
This is Orlu zonal fire service station rotting.
Yeye de smell for Imo - Orlu zone.
By now, Ihedioha would have rebuilt and equipped this Orlu fire service station.
Don’t play with fire.

Kwanza:
...North Central, South East may get national chairman, secretary



https://leadership.ng/national-convention-apc-governors-to-meet-tomorrow-over-zoning-of-party-offices/

It’s clear that given Nigeria’s lopsided political structure created by northern military dictators, no presidential candidate from the south can win presidential election in Nigeria if the north supports a candidate from the north.

That’s why rotation of the presidency between the north and south is necessary.
It’s also clear that if the SW APC politicians don’t support APC presidential candidate from the east to succeed PMB, a northerner president-elect shall succeed PMB, because the SW can’t subscribe to rotation to make south produce a successor to PMB, but refuses rotation in the south to enable the east whose turn it is to produce a successor to PMB.

Fake man ever looking for only his goodness.

orjisblog:
Orjisblog Appeasing The gods Of The Land At Ohi - Orogwe Road With My Wife Owerri_chic.
Its now time they intercede in this affair as the situation of the road is deterioratinv everyday. We pray our prayers will be answered some day.

Imo state politics of blackmail.
Bad road and flood consumed a little boy in Orlu last week.
But for some people, it’s like IMSG must be blackmailed and forced to reconstruct all roads in Owerri before any other road outside. Tufiakwa.

Imo is New day with new ugly story. A state whose leaders have driven most of the citizens to live in the state capital, because the governors abandoned other towns in the state to rot.

Good and huge development for Anambra.

Let the next governor make it to take in flights from abroad.

The fact that the airport is not in state capital is irrelevant.

Let Ndi Anambra not be like Nd’Imo state where every govt development project must be in state capital - or be killed if established outside state capital.

Imo is state without teaching hospital because one that was established 19 years ago was killed because it was not in state capital.

Biafrarep:
Trash!!!

The Hopeless man is now paying afonja guys to write fake stories for the gullible. This man is the worst thing that ever happened to Imo State. People said that Rochas built "China" roads and structures but at least he did something and widened the roads while establishing markets outside the city center which helped in opening up new areas. Rochas also allowed free education and renovated many schools across the state and opened up new areas with roads. But we felt he didn't do enough only for this Hopeless man to seize power and everything went under.

Almost all the roads in Owerri are now in terrible disrepair. I was forced to pack my car at home and started entering public transport because each day it rains, you will suffer untold hardship and may either get home at 12 midnight or you just park it at the road side and risk burglary. Mechanics are the biggest boys in Owerri now and cashing out as damaged cars are brought to them everyday.

The only thing this hopeless man has done since he forcefully took over is to destroy roundabouts and replace them with traffic lights while patching and painting the junctions!

We are counting days and praying for this locust phase to pass away.

You talk TRASH.

The topic is about IMSUTH getting affordable health facilities for the people of Imo state; while you are talking about Owerri and its roads.

Have the MRI and CT Scan of IMSUTH been restored? That’s what one expected from a true citizen of Imo state to ask.
FYI, one of the earliest pledges of Hope Uzodinma when he became governor was to restore efficiency of IMSUTH through recovering IMSUTH’s CT Scan and MRI machines dismantled by Okorocha government and used to build private hospitals in Owerri.

Even Imo International Market started since 2003 is not completed at Orlu. A narrow alley way is what is left leading to the market.

Imo my state is a wonderful state.

Returned to this thread nearly three months after the last visit, it’s still photos of Owerri being recycled.


Worse, the people recycling the photos here come originally from rural areas of Imo state long abandoned to rot and decadence.
Iberiberism includes when you have no head to understand that state was created for near uniformity in the development pattern all over the state at any time.

orjisblog:
"Few months after our wedding and honeymoon on this same road, Ohi - Orogwe road in Owerri, west LGA of Imo state.

My wife @owerri_chi and I @orjisblog decided to go fishing, guess what? We caught lots and lots of fishes on the road. We also caught a star fish there too. We are so excited."

Orogwe is a village.


Consider that Orlu and Okigwe that are urban areas but have no motorable road.

Bitter Politics of the past made Hope Uzodinma to make Orlu to become a battle ground. This is his way of political vengeance against some political elements in Orlu.
How come Orlu became ESN camp since Uzodinma was made governor? These people are no ESN. They are baits from Uzodinma to have soldiers terrorise Orlu and it’s residents 24/7.

Orlu has never seen war before Uzodinma came to power.

Wow!

Buhari commissions road built by Mbakwe and Okorocha in Owerri should have been the title.

A governor who recreated his state to be state capital is gradually killing economic activities in rest of his state outside the state capital.

presidency:
JINXES BROKEN BY THE MUHAMMADU BUHARI ADMINISTRATION—PRESIDENCY

A giant-sized jinx was broken recently when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced a first Net Profit in the 44-year history of the organization. Under President Muhammadu Buhari, who doubles as Minister for Petroleum Resources, the oil conglomerate announced a first-ever profit of N287 billion. Such had never happened before.
But that was by no means the only major jinx broken in the lifetime of the Buhari administration. They abound. And here are just some of them. The list is by no means exhaustive:

Policies and legislation:

*Petroleum Industry Bill signed into law in 2021, after almost two decades in the works. It is aimed at reforming a Petroleum Act dating back to 1969, as well as other supplementary laws and regulations.

*Deep Offshore and Inland Basin (Production Sharing Contracts) Act, 2019, amended for the first time since 1993.

*More than 6 billion dollars of inherited Cash Call Arrears now being cleared by the Buhari Administration, since 2016. More than 3 billion dollars of the arrears (payments due to International Oil Companies) have since been paid.

*The Buhari Administration has overseen the first successful Marginal Fields Bid Round in almost 20 years.

*The Buhari Administration has launched the first National Social Investment Programme in the country’s history. Today it is the largest Social Investment Programme in Africa and one of the largest in the world.

*Restoration of the Federal Budget to a January-to-December cycle, after more than a decade.

*The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) was established in 2011, and for its first seven years did not have an enabling Act of the National Assembly — Until 2018 when President Buhari assented to the NCDC Act.

*Nigeria Police Act, 2020: The first overhaul of the Police Act since it was originally enacted in 1943

*Nigeria Correctional Service Act, 2019 - overhauled the existing Prisons Act, almost 50 years after it was first enacted.

*Finance Acts 2019 and 2020 - the first time ever that Federal Budgets are being accompanied by dedicated and specific reform legislation, to support implementation.

*Suppression of Piracy and Other Maritime Offences Bill (SPOMO), 2019: The first of its kind in the entire Gulf of Guinea, dedicated to prosecuting maritime offences.

*Police Trust Fund Act, 2019: First-ever legislation dedicated to addressing the financing of the Police Force

*CAMA, 2020 - the first overhaul of the Company and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) in 30 years.

*Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, 2018: Another unprecedented piece of legislation in Nigeria

*Treasury Single Account (TSA) started in 2012, expanded across the entire Government by President Buhari

Projects

*Itakpe-Warri Rail Line, started in 1987, abandoned for decades, and finally completed in 2020

*Completion of four standard gauge railway projects between 2016 and 2021: Abuja-Kaduna Rail Line, Abuja Metro Line, Itakpe-Warri Rail Line and Lagos-Ibadan Rail Line.

*President Buhari is the first President to start and complete a rail project in Nigeria’s history (Lagos-Ibadan Rail).

*The last NLNG Train project (Train 6) was completed in 2008. President Buhari has successfully flagged off Train 7 construction.

*Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonshoki Expressway, undergoing full reconstruction for the first time since it was constructed in the late 1970s.

*Bodo-Bonny Bridges and Road: Construction finally kicked off in 2017, after several decades of planning, and three false starts.

*The long-awaited Ogoni Clean-Up kicked off under the Buhari Administration.

*The Nigerian Navy has this year (2021) acquired its first new Landing Ship Tank (LST) in more than 40 years.

*The Nigerian Air Force has enjoyed the largest investment in fleet renewal in decades, under President Buhari, acquiring more than two-dozen new aircraft since 2016.

*Construction of the first full-scale private refinery and the first privately financed Deep Sea Port in Nigeria’s history both started under President Buhari’s watch.

*Only one Modular Refinery in the country pre-2016. Since 2018, there have been several either under construction or already completed.

*Maritime University, Delta State, licensed by the NUC and operationalized in 2018

*Completion, since 2016, of twelve (12) inherited Dam projects across the country: Kashimbila Multipurpose Dam, Taraba; Ogwashi-Uku Multipurpose Dam, Delta; Adada Dam, Enugu; Sulma Earth Dam, Katsina; Gimi Earth Dam, Kaduna; Amla-Otukpo Dam, Benue; Amauzari Earth Dam, Imo; Ibiono-Ibom Earth Dam, Akwa Ibom; Gadau/Lafia Zigau Dam, Bauchi; Alajue Small Earth Dam, Osun; Kampe Omi Dam, Kogi (Rehabilitation) and Kargo Dam, Kaduna (Rehabilitation)

*Completion of three (3) inherited Hydropower Projects, accounting for more than 100MW of electricity in total: Gurara Hydropower Project, 30MW, Kaduna State - completed and concessioned in 2020; Kashimbila Hydropower Project, 40MW, Taraba, Dadin-Kowa Hydropower Project, 40MW, Gombe.

*Completion, since 2016, of seven (7) inherited Irrigation projects and 30 Water Supply Projects inherited by the Administration, including the Central Ogbia Regional Water Supply Project in Bayelsa State, Northern Ishan Regional Water Supply Project and the Ojirami Dam Water Supply Scheme and Reticulation Network, both in Edo State; Sabke, Dutsi and Mashi Water Supply Project in Katsina State; Vom Water Supply Project and Mangu Regional Water Supply Scheme in Plateau State; Takum Water Supply Project in Taraba State; Gambaki/Chinade/Hardawa/Bulkachuwa Water Supply Project in Bauchi State; Inyishi Regional Water Supply Project in Imo State; Ilobu Water Supply Scheme and Osogbo Water Supply Scheme in Osun State; Idanre Water Supply Project in Ondo State; Ofeme Water Supply Project in Abia State; Uburu Water Supply Scheme in Ebonyi State; Gashua Water Supply Scheme in Yobe State; Kwami Gadam and Bojude Water Supply Project in Gombe State; the Saki Town Water Supply Project, Oyo State; and the Zobe and Kazaure Water Supply Projects in Katsina and Jigawa States respectively.

*NDDC HQ Complex, started in the mid-1990s, completed in 2021.

*EFCC HQ Complex, construction started in 2011, completed in 2018.

*Zik Mausoleum, started in 1996, completed and commissioned 2018.

Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media and Publicity)
September 5, 2021

On Nigeria Infectious Diseases Control Centres: but the SE center whose foundation stone was laid last year by NNPC at Imo state university teaching hospital in Orlu is yet to have another block added since the foundation laying ceremony. Why?

Please do.
Don’t be like Imo state where everything must be in state capital. Don’t relocate Ariaria to Abia state capital, the way Imo people would do.

sanctity454:
What do you suggest, that can be done to improve the city of Owerri, that's practicable

What shall we do to make cities in Imo state, make the entire Imo state, beautiful,
not the cave man, primitive man’s question you asked.

A foolish person’s question.

RIP the DSP who devoted efforts to create a 6th state in the south east but the efforts were sabotaged by Arthur Nzeribe.
Nzeribe wanted Orashi state for himself, but kicked against Njaba proposed by all.

Continue to rest in the Lord, Sam.

Even in your Orlu local government area in Imo state, two former governors tried to build, but did not complete Sam Okwaraji stadiums, in remembrance of your name.
But after the present governor rebuilt the stadium in the capital city, Owerri, he said he is expanding the stadium in Owerri to Olympic size. The two Sam Okwaraji Stadiums are left to rot.

EBMedia:
https://igberetvnews.com/1397610/nigerian-woman-shows-giant-cassava-tuber-harvested-farm-photo/

Wow. A big harvest in Orlu;
the governor from nearby Oru East has been rubbishing this Orlu since last year he became governor.
Because of one person, the governor throws out vendetta against hundreds of thousands of people in Orlu.