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Juicegal:
This area is Orlu- gedegwum town(Ishiobiuwku) starting from the local govt office at Enugu road down to Eluama and Abor village bordered by Amike Town . I wrote about them in my thread on the origin of the Orlu nomenclature. People from this place find it hard to tell outsiders even in Orlu LGA that they are from Orlu Town. They will always be asked what part of Orlu. Lol

https://www.nairaland.com/6352206/re-only-city-12-l.g.a

It’s believed that people from that place don’t engage in political discourse. And they are very few in population anyway.

nocomment1:
Well I am not Igbo, I am Edo and I was on a thread of my Anioma people and our Oba when some of your hoodlooms came to say rubbish.
Also right here, I responded to some of you who keep dragging us along into your imaginary Igbo country.
Talk about your south-eastern people and let us be

Whoever dragged you in Edo into an imaginary Igbo country?

Juicegal:
You are also correct. Parts of Nnewi south , Ekwusigo, and all of Ihiala LGAs used to be under Orlu division of Owerri Province. Their dialects are also almost the same with Orsu, Orlu and Oru which are border LGAs in Imo state. A lot of kith and kins were separated while states were being apportioned. For example, Orsumoghu in Anambra and Umuhuokabia(Lazarus Mouka community) in Imo states are brothers same as isseke - Ibiasiegbe -Amorka, Ubulu yet partitionrd into different states.

In bold:

Exactly. Even when new state was about to be created in the South east around 2006, political leaders in these parts of Nnewi and whole of Ihialla local government area opted to join Njaba state proposal with the 12 local government areas in Orlu senatorial zone.

But soccer is not Islamic as well. They should have first blasted Musa for playing soccer.

Why can’t some people abandon outdated religious beliefs and embrace the realities of today?

officialsaw01:
So this people don finally leave PDP 4 APC all because of 2023 election wey fit no hold, God forbid bad thing.

Whether the 2023 presidential election will hold or not, Nd’Igbo are saying: it’s the turn of the Igbo to present a president for Nigeria.

Enough of inequality in Nigeria.

Bialegend:
Ol'boy, there is nothing like Orlu town. No single place is known as or called Orlu town. What you have or get is different towns in different areas of the place called Orlu. The zone called Orlu doesn't have one single place that is referred to as it's town/city, similar to Aba, Owerri, or Onitsha. If yes, then tell us where this town/city is.
Stop misinforming people here, and moreover, stop posting these dilapidated roads and buildings that are more of glorified shanty/dusty places. When Biafra is restored, we shall build what is called towns and cities. For now, it will be difficult to build anything that resembles a city under "one nigeria" nonsense.

The area where Holy Trinity Catholic Cathedral, Bishop Shanahan College, Ojike Memorial Secondary School, Girls Secondary School, Imopoly campus are - that’s the area known as Orlu town.

But you will not know when you move from Orlu town to neighboring Umuna, Amaifeke and Mgbee that are all parts of Orlu urban LGA.

Rugaria:
Lol,
You want to compare Orlu with Awka and Abakiliki? Orlu na my area oo, but the truth has to be ssid... Orlu has no city plan! No integrated water projects and no economic master plan! I don't know what my people get hyping our struggling town. Our predicament started with Dee Mbakwe. A very visionary leader who as was typical of the time, had a serious grouse with Orlu because the then opposition leader was from Orlu zone. In fact NPN had it's opposition base at Orlu, so Mbakwe and his NPP focused more on Owerri, Aba and umuuahia. Thosexareas were pro NPP.. The military didn't help. Since 1999, Orlu has been producing most of the governors; Udenwa, Rochas and Uzodinmma the incumbent. Yet, these guys seem to be more interested in enjoying the enchanting life of Owerri. None of them has been able to provide a solid master plan to modernise the city. Rochas tried but he lacked tact. Orlu is just like Nnewi, just that Nnewi has got more serious commercial activities going on..

Even the city plan with many urban roads started in Orlu and embraced by an outsider former governor of Imo state from Bende, Amadi Ikwechegh, no governor from Orlu zone continued from where Ikwechegh stopped.

The urban roads and drainage project started and not completed by Ikwechegh lay in ruins today.

kettykin:
I sincerely hope orlu is not living in some past glory. The new kids on the block like abakiliki ebonyi and awka have recorded so much traction in the past 5 years that the demographics of the east has changed dramatically.

For Orlu’s predicament today, blame governors and so-called politicians from Orlu senatorial zone who have governed and are governing Imo state. Like someone earlier mentioned, no integrated water supply system as used to be in Owerri; hardly any public university in the zone of 12 LGAs.

johnmartus:
Vp self they will not get .

... and your parasitic life ends with that.

Emlproperties:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN7CksehQkA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYxp7xmZi-M

It’s like magic: two rivers - Njaba and Orashi meet in Oguta lake- but the waters of the two rivers never mix.

Emlproperties:
Welcome to Nkwerre. One of the richest towns with lots of millionaires in Orlu. Stratford Hotels Nkwerre welcomes you. Nkwerre is the home of late Chief John Anyiehie the man who donated a large sum of money for the Imo state airport under Dee Sam Mbakwe. He was the richest man in Port Harcourt during his time and single-handedly built a Cathedral for his people in Nkwerre.

Nkwerre also boast of notable Igbo sons and daughter, one of whom is Illbliss.

This is Stafford Hotels Nkwerre

You got it.
Late John Anyaehie of Nkwerre had the first land line telephone service in Nkwerre.


He built the first modern Hotel -Richards Hotel -along Bank Road in Orlu during the early 1970s. The hotel was most luxurious then.

There is John Anyaehie Street in Orlu today.

Emlproperties:
Now let's see the beauty of Oguta lake resort

Can someone post Orashi and Njaba rivers meet and empty into Oguta lake.

Another part of Eastern Palm university.

Dedetwo:
OP wrote "Orlu is the heart of Igbo nation
Porter wrote "Orlu is in the heartland of Igbo.
It is only a person with comprehensible hiccup who can not deduce the above sentences have different connotations.

Bros. This is not a Nigeria vs Biafra war thread. It’s not a thread on your hometown Owerri Vs Orlu.

It’s like an exhibition thread on Orlu senatorial district. Orlu is the heart of Igbo land.

Eastern Palm university in Ogboko, Ideato South in Orlu senatorial zone.

Dedetwo:
OP wrote "Orlu is the heart of Igbo nation
Porter wrote "Orlu is in the heartland of Igbo.
It is only a person with comprehensible hiccup who can not deduce the above sentences have different connotations.

Bros. This is not a Nigeria vs Biafra war thread. It’s not a thread on your hometown Owerri Vs Orlu.

It’s like an exhibition thread on Orlu senatorial district.

Op talked about Uli now in Anambra state from where Ikemba Ojukwu left at the last days of the war.

But in Catholic Church diocese, Uli still remains in Orlu where it used to belong before taken to Anambra state by Abuja.

IDENNAA:
With the location of Orlu which is situated in the Igbo heartland it makes sense to be the last section to fall. You don't think so ? Why are some Igbo so unreasonable and down right emotional.

In bold.

You wrote Orlu is in the Igbo heaerland.


Op wrote Orlu is the heart of Igbo nation.
Bros, what is the difference between what you wrote and what the op wrote? Heart is heart, abi?

Nigeria’s brutal Civil War ended when the war was about to enter into Orlu senatorial zone.


It’s apt to classify Orlu zone as the soul of Igbo nation because it was in Orlu zone where all surviving Igbos clustered last days of the civil war

@Dedetwo.

We don’t use miles in Nigeria. We use Kilometer - Metric system in Nigeria. Only those Nigerians who went to school during the 1960s and before still talk imperial - mile.

It’s like you be Great grand Papa in your Owerri hometown.

Part of Imo State University Teaching Hospital Orlu.

Bonesking:
Nigerian Breweries Awo-Ommama. The brewery is located at Ubachima Village, Awo-Ommama Oru West LGA. It was formerly Consolidated Breweries before bought by Nigerian Breweries.

The major drinks brewed here are: Lager, Stout and Malt categories and include "33" Export Lager Beer, Turbo King Dark Ale, Williams Dark Ale, Hi- Malt and Maltex Malt.

I think there is one Stout-like beer brewed by Consolidated? You didn’t list it.

Dedetwo:
Sometimes, you appear very funny. How would Ohaji or Egbema or Oguta fuse with Orlu as one big modern city? Some party of Ohaji will soon become Owerri metropolis since 20km radius is about to be lapsed. It is out of logical sense to have Ohaji\Egbema and Oguta LGAs under Imo west senatorial zone.

In bold:

You wrote that Ohaji in Orlu senatorial zone will soon be part of Owerri Metropolis.
But you wrote that Op is stupid for taking Nkwere as part of one city with Orlu.
You know that a stranger moving from Nkwerre to Orlu or vice versa, can’t see that he has left Nkwerre and entered Orlu, and vice versa.
In other words, you don’t want any modern development in Orlu zone to make the LGAs fuse into one large city, but you like Owerri to expand beyond expectations.

Na you the expose your mental deficiency here in every comment you make.

agadez007:
we are still saying the same thing,To igbo and non igbo alike yall claim orlu,cant get why you are getting too emotional over this,the first guy I heard this from was even from Orlu town,he complained why "everybody" is claiming to be from Orlu while they are from far away,his words not mine

and secondly Nnobi and Nnokwa are idemili towns and under Anambra central senatorial district and do not fall under Nnewi at all which is Anambra south

You talked about people from Njaba. There is nobody who has Njaba as his/her hometown in Orlu senatorial zone. Njaba is name of a river and LGA.


Why pollute this thread with irrelevant comments?

The OP who created this thread had in mind about discussion of modern development in Orlu city which he appropriately placed most of the LGAs in Orlu senatorial district, because these LGAs can all comfortably fit into one big city - if adequate roads are built to connect the LGAs.


If you are not from Orlu senatorial zone and you ask anyone from Okwudor or Amucha from Njaba LGA where he/she comes from. He/she shall tell you Orlu. So it is for nearly 90% of people from Orlu senatorial district.

.... and the bad: the State Fire Service in Orlu established ages ago to fight fire outbreak in Orlu senatorial district.
Govt failure left it like this. Op can ask for deletion of the bad if not desired in this thread.

Nigercity:
Gues where

That’s beautiful Oguta lake and resorts.

Dedetwo:
I have said you write and read with silly emotion. I remembered vividly in one of my posts where it was stated Orlu dubiously clothed itself with so many LGAs in order to produce governor of Imo State. I gave such instance that Ohaji\Egbema is closer to Owerri than Orlu yet they were lumped into Imo West senatorial zone for cheap political gain. You are such a village tout who will blunder into hell if given Kolanuts to present. Such dunces think affinity of landmark boundary denotes ancestral lineage.

OP, please blot out this Dedetwo from Owerri from this thread. From beginning, he started to post his usually irrelevant comments here, insulting and gnashing teeth as usual every where he sees the name Orlu.

thinkmoney:
I don't know how u made front page. Because your post is obviously shallow and u didn't put enough research into it. Worst, it is misleading, especially were you said Kano was named after Aminu Kano.
And three out of the cities you mentioned are not northern states. So your motives too is questionable

When did Lokoja, Jos and Makurdi stop being northern cities?

Was the last northern governors forum meeting not attended by governors from Plateau, Benue and Lokoja?

vanbonattel:
Only 5 states are safe out of 19 northern states?

No freaking bragging, northern Nigeria has developed a MILLION TIMES more than the south through creation of 19 states in the northern region by northern soldiers. Abuja is also in the north.

Southern Nigerians are yet to understand the bee that stung them through state creation.

Freaking bragging southerners.

letu:
I thought that people from Orlu Zone are predominantly of ISU origin well I might be wrong but that's what I think.

You are right.

But Orsu clan begins from behind old Orlu township stadium till boundary with Anambra state.

Oru is another clan too.
But we all - Isu, Orsu and Oru clans - identify with the name - Orlu.

Dedetwo:
What is wrong with education in Nigeria? Orlu, as city, does not have any LGA. However Orlu urban town is an integral part of Orlu LGA. The display of stark ignorance of the fact by the writer of the above crap is complete unbecoming of Igbo person. When did Nkwerre or even Nwangele become part of Orlu town? Instead Imo State is divided into three senatorial districts under three major urban areas of Imo State hence Owerri, Orlu and Okigwe. It is amount to irredeemable stupidity to remotely insinuate the Ohaji\Egbama LGA is part of Orlu town. [b]In fact, Ohaji is closer to Owerri municipality than Orlu urban



.

You now agree that Ohaji is closer to Owerri than to Orlu urban? But Imopoly in Umuagwo-Ohaji is in Orlu according to you in other threads in NL.

Banana Junction near Orlu city center.

Nigercity:
More

That’s Alhaji Tijani Street in Orlu center

Orlu is the name taken by people from nearly all the 12 LGAs in Orlu senatorial district because before local government areas were created, people from the local government areas of Orlu zone regarded themselves as Orlu people; they do same till today despite the differences in the local government names. Similar culture, same dialect referred to as dialect of “ndi uzo Uzo.”
These local government areas in Orlu zone would have all fused to one big modern city if not for the inadequacies of governors of Imo state from Orlu senatorial zone who paid scanty attention to modern development in their zone.

So poster did not deviate much in some of his assertions.