₦airaland Forum

uduokirika1:
We keep depending on private firms to provide infrastructures for us at expense of govt mediocrity.

Thank God another private firm (Rojenny) had just saved the state another embarrasment by providing alternate playing turf for an Anambra state based club side.

Imagine if govnment had channelled resources used on 3 mini stadia to construct just one standard stadium all these lacuna would have been solved!

it was the state govt that actually gave money to rojenny to build that turf

RareDiamond:
Factory! Factory!! Programme Okorocha To Commence 26 Industries In Ogboko Home Promises 10 New Universities
Posted by admin on Jun 17th, 2015

In line with his pre-campaign promises, Governor Rochas Okorocha has declared intention to begin the industrial revolution in Imo from his Ogboko, Ideato South LGA home.
Speaking during a thanksgiving mass organized in honour of Governor Okorocha by the coalition of Ideato nation, on Sunday at the (Holy Trinity Parish Ogboko) the Governor disclosed that he will in few days time lay the foundation stone of 26 industries and 10 universities in line with his Factory, factory, Industry, industry and employment,” employment programs in Imo.
According to him, arrangements have been concluded for the takeoff as Ogboko people have indicated interest to provide land for the smooth take off of the industries.
The Governor used the opportunity to advise the Catholic Bishop of Orlu Diocese and stakeholders of the area to provide a secondary school for the first Catholic University in Imo which according to him will admit students this September. He explained that the secondary school will serve as a temporary site while the construction of the permanent site goes on.
He maintaine that youths of the state will be gainfully employed, adding that investors have already arrived in Imo to contribute in the massive development project going on in the state right now.
The Governor advised the youths to take advantage of all the Rescue Mission programs to excel in life and be good ambassadors of their various home.
One of the priest who preached at the church service challenged Governor Okorcha on his abandoned projects.
In his words “if you can complete all the abandoned projects in Imo you will stand the chance of being the best Governor in the world” the priest told Okorocha.

http://www.imotrumpeta.com/?p=14417

all Na wash if the industries are going to be built by govt

Sagamite:
This state has no excuse of owing workers salary.

Akwa Ibom gets the HIGHEST allocation out of ALL states in Nigeria from the federal government. The Federal Allocation is the biggest source of funding/revenue for virtually all states in Nigeria, hence it is like the main salary for a state.

Its allocation is so high, it is more than 3 times that of all the other states in that list bar Rivers. THREE TIMES!

In a quarter, Akwa Ibom once got N136bn from Federal allocation. The next highest (bar Rivers) on that list was Kano with N43bn. All the others got less than N35bn, with Osun being the lowest at N20bn.

And Akwa Ibom has one of the smallest populations by far. So way too much money to cover a small population. A population less than half of some of the states on the list and not on the list.

So why are they owing workers salary?

Because a fuuktard like Akpabio is more interested in buying and flying private jets for his personal use?

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/gov-emmanuel-to-auction-a-iboms-private-jet/

I have always said this cretin is a useless politician.

https://www.nairaland.com/1916418/how-elected-governors-performed-sagamite/1#26543806

lol.

You don't fancy loquacious akpabio I guess

Chubhie:
You still in Ala owerri?

no ..dey Lagos now though I visit owerri time to time..
Cant just ignore the town.

Chubhie:
Okay...... Was same class with somkey from JS2 till we finished. His uncle used to have a photo studio around royce road.

You remember Master P and diesel power?

yep

Chubhie:
You know stainlez?

no...but I know baresi personally and played ball with Smokey at aladinma at times...i finished at colladge

Chubhie:
My very own ECOL!!! It has always been a tradition in owerri. From the days of Omo baresi, smokey and co. Da Emperor was here.

I thought all these are outdated by now. Quite an experience in the streets of Ala owerri.

if you know these guys then I think I might know you

CharliParker:
To be honest Rochas is a prayer warrior, that man Rochas can pray that's why he built that temple of God at library junction it left for him now to start doing miracles and healing plus deliverance.

brainless comment

investnow2013:
rainy season!

not good enough excuse unless the road shoulders were not properly done.

investnow2013:
Obiano at The commissioning of Awkzu Anambra University Campus Road Igbariam today!

the road is brown

Igbonazy:
Replace Enugu with Lagos and see how that sounds...



Who even gave Anambra the "permission" to build a refinery and explore her oil.

Who gav lagos "permission" to build Eko Atlantic city.
Who gave Akwa ibom "permission" to build Nigeria's most modern hospital on its soil.

keep waiting for federal "permission" while dangote is allover mining "our limestone"

Keep waiting for permission. Keep blaming permission sorry the North,Lol.

eko Atlantic city,akwa ibom modern hospital are not solid minerals so those examples hold no water..anambra and Lagos have gotten permission for those oil exploration in their domain..dangote has unexplained leverage in Nigeria we all know that..if it was straightforward as that how come kogi,plateau,nassarawa and the likes are not mining legally their enormous solid mineral resources?..do you suggest that Enugu just go in like that without a back up?even Ibeto has back up to take over nkalagu cement if not that ebonyi state government messed up...how come ondo has not tapped into the large bitumen deposit in ondo?..i hope you know about the 'exclusive lists' of fg?why is Lagos not in charge of port charges and vat in Lagos?

Igbonazy:
Enugu government MUST do things her self, dont trust the Jihadist at the Center to help you develop your Coal industry. I love how Anambra is doing it in oil industry,i will recommend Enugu to follow suit.
Tell the Jihadist at center you dont need their input before they begin to invade Enugu with Arab or Northern investors.
Ugwuanyi MUST make it a point of duty to attract investment in the Coal industry before 2019
.

Enugu state govt can't do jack unless giving permission by fg.

kcthepundit:
Let me correct something here, am from Imo and its true that the state is in a huge debt of N72b. However, the governor is owing civil servants 2months salary.
The 11months salary you see on the paper is the no of months he owes some youths he enrolled in a programme he tagged "youth must work programme" where he pays them N20,000 monthly using SURE-P funds. However, due to financial mismanagement of his administration, lack of due process in handling state affairs, unguarded speeches which most times amount to failed promises, 'familiriocracy' (govt of his family and in-laws) and an accomplice cabinet/house of assembly; he was not able to manage this SUREP fund and state allocation properly amounting to this 11months owed these youths and 2months owed civil servants/teachers.
Thanks.

and this is why i have always said that when it comes to administration rochas is deficient

If ikpeazu wants to succeed he has to keep sycophants at bay...sycophancy paid big in the last cretins administration

kettykings:
I would have agreed with you but if igbos left the north during bokoharam saga they can divest from lagos. Lagos is overated, congested, over hyped ,over expensive ,over flooded.
There might not be any insurgency in lagos but the floods are coming with tsunami igbos need to plan ahead.

this is just emotional talk

Abagworo:
If I claim there are no Igbotic houses in Owerri then I am the biggest liar. I am only suggesting we review our architecture henceforth. This one is a 4 storey building.

https://s26.postimg.org/s9kf7j15l/hotel1.jpg

continue posting hotels like the one you just posted and the the earlier one you posted as poster children for what residential buildings built by individuals are supposed to be...until you post a residential highrise building built by an individual (not estate firm) and lift for rentage and equipping it with generator then I can't take you seriously on this yout new found crusade against those buildings

Abagworo:
Imo and Osun are not the same. Amaechi equaly suffered even more than Okorocha at Jonathans hand. There was an open gang up against Amaechi and Okorocha by both ignorant masses and political thieves of Igbo descent.

like I said let me see investment enter into Imo now that 'coast is clear'.

Abagworo:
Rochas Okorocha suffered a lot of obvious victimization under Jonathan. Lagos and Ogun were not treated so because Jonathan wanted their votes. Did Jonathan send Olamide to snatch mic from Fashola? We all know what happened. Buhari's victory freed Imo State from deliberate victimization.

not interested in all these cock and bull stories as that I how osun workers were brainwashed that it was Jonathan that was withholding osun's allocation hence why there were no salaries until now that it is they know that rauf's mismanagement is the real issue..
Let me just watch and see investment flow into Imo now that the center and Imo supposedly on the same page

Ymodulus:
Citing the Tin Can in lekki is not wrong. Reason been that Apapa and Tincan are over congested. Lagos needs more ports..


Do not get confused with my explanation you quoted. Am not against establishment of more ports in a state where there is need for more but against more ports in multiple states. Lagos already have Tin can island which is OVER CONGESTED, same goes to APAPA. So creating lekki Port is not a wrong move, as log as it falls within Lagos. However creating or spurring up ports in multiple states unnecessarily is a wrong move.

well nothing unnecessary about a port in ibaka akwa ibom..apapa and tincan are conjested because of the planlessness of Nigeria...if Nigeria was well planned goods entering the country and meant for places in north east like bauchi and Maiduguri and south south and south east have no biz berthing in Lagos if if there was a functional deep port around rivers,akwa ibom and cross river with good access road to it and functional rail lines connecting to it and other parts of the country

Ymodulus:
Bro, while creation and availability of Ports are good for a country economy. It is also bad and needs to be controlled.

Even the world Greatest hub for manufacturing known as China has deliberately restricted her Port to Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Yiwu Province this goes a long way in addressing unforseen circumstances.

In fact recently the government of China had to trim down the ability of the shenzhen port here by promoting the Guangzhou province port.

All these affects the MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS / VARIABLES - (Money Supply, Exchange rate, inflation rate, Interest rate , GDP etc). And f not readily curbed can lead to a bad economy.

In conclusion, this project is Laudable, however it has to stop at Akwa Ibom. No port should be created at any other region close by to Akwa Ibom ( like Abia and likes. )

The earlier the government take note the better.

Ymodulus

what have you to say about the proposed lekki port when apapa and tincan is there?

emmysoftyou:
i am not segregating myself bro..

I guess this thread that is set up for enugu thread,imo thread and anambra thread is causing disunity among ndigbos in the east..

I ve not seen a yoruba thread that is set up or that open a thread for his/her particular kinsmen to comments.?

Ndigbos frm the east has a long way to go cos i ve seen a different kind of aptitude ball game here.
i am so ashamed of all this tracks that couldnt set the record straight to unity and love..

Though discussing or interracting on issue like development and social/political factors or issues affecting their state aint bad at all
but whenever someone like chino took all their comments/views personally,the non igbos on nairalands,will troop in and see how disorganised igbos re lol.
May God help us......

maybe you should have started with the person who first introduced the 'igbotic buiding' nomenclature as nobody else uses it on this nairaland

emmysoftyou:
Which one is igbotic building again?
??

I just dey hear this one first the first time o
After insulting the yorubas race of building their houses like ancient day and calling it red roof..lol.
Una dey find name wey una go give una sef..
Ndigbos..
Na wa o..
Am sure a yoruba guys is reading all this altercation and very soon,he will start commenting and calling eastern houses,igbotic building?lol

ndigbos,when will you wake up and start loving each other and taking all eastern places as your own irrespective of the state they re in...?

anambra is part of igboland,likewise imo,ebonyi,ph,enugwu,ikwerre,etche,asaba,aba.etc.

I ve told my friends,my brothers and even my neighbours that the igbos that stays in the east(ph,onitsha,owerri,aba,enugu) re different frm us here in lagos and kano..

yu guys re something else,i swear...

As far as i am concern,nigeria is not yet develop at all..
Lagos is worst ,kano is trying while onitsha is trying to meet up but very small in landmass.
may God help us to witness changes and drastic development in the east,west and north one day..
Cos i ve not seen any state in nigeria that can compete with western states..
not even the pix of akwa ibom,lagos,anambra,imo.calabar and enugwu can make me gullible..
Those states re still learning.QED.

you mean western countries? Sorry bro no matter what you tell your so called neighbours when push comes to shove you would be treated as such...trying to segregate yourself will get you nowhere

dancok:
distance and cold bro,

it is colder in uk than in Australia

Abagworo:
I still view this as another fraud like his predecessor. Just like the 2nd Niger bridge I predicted the fraud in the Ibaka project. South-south leaders should demand for upgrade of existing ports which should be far cheaper and as well urge for more utilization of the existing ports. The anti-Igbo stance of some of the host communities chased importers to Lagos and it will take years of FG intervention and good public relations to compete with Lagos.

no other ports in ss can function with constant dredging..this seems to be the only deep axis in ss..as for there anti Igbo stance they are the one loosing on much needed revenue


Macelliot nothing to get excited about unto it I finished

Abagworo:
You are going off topic. I addressed the picture as a separate issue. Igbos believe in investing wherever they earn most. They fail to realise the damage it does to their homeland.

you went off topic in the first when you Brough in a totally irrelevant issue of Kano and skyline to what I initially posted about industrialization and commercial prowess

Abagworo:
The only source of revenue for a State is taxation. Ability to establish transparent and effective tax regime is equal to increased IGR. Do you have any idea on how to increase tax base without rapid influx of direct investments either foreign or local? I believe that now APC is in power at federal levels, foreign investors will have confidence in Imo State.

if you believe in your last sentence then you can believe anything...lagos and ogun were still getting investements despite pdp at the center..

Abagworo:
I just saw this. It is a shame that we have not been able to harnes our revenue capabilities as a result of persistently flawed tax regime. Maybe Tinubu Lagos model should be employed in other Nigerian States. Nigeria is about the only country where people do not pay tax.

Heard Keke us about to be banned in Owerri. Remember I always complained of the eyesore they constitute to a sane mind. It is a welcome development. On the other hand induscriminate building of flats which I termed Igbotic should be banned at least in Owerri. If one wants to build flats, it must be designed well and with lift.

banning keke in owerri is just laughable..how does doing that generate revenue for imo govt?we are talking about generating revenue to run the state due to financial state of the country at the moment you are talking beauty and igbotic houses?so what is the alternative to keke after it had been banned?taxi?in owerri ?are you insane?

Before you sink your mind into tinubu model for Imo what has the present Imo govt done to expand the tax base of the state?

Designed with lift abi?average individuals building houses go carry lift for mind in Nigeria epilieptic power situation..very funny you will tell me why Lagos state govt that built rentage flats of up to three stories did not factor in lift Na individuals go factor in lift

Abagworo:
I never ever said Imo does not need industries. What I wrote is that Government is not meant to build industries but we the natives. I often cited Nnewi model as a good thing to emulate among Igbos at least for a start. I always wrote that no Governor or government can claim any form of help given to Nnewi either in terms of power, road, housing or water supply. Almost everything there is through self help.

The Kano picture happened to be necessary here because of too much Igbotic buildings being posted. Real highrises help give a city good skyline .

your second paragraph is of no relevance to the issue I raised earlier..if you believe high rise building or your so called igbotic building I the reason why the person in that interview is saying the east is losing it industrial and commercial power then you are being mischievous..how does good skyline affect commercial and industrial nature of a town?when aba wad at its industrial peak and when nnewi came on board what was the skyline like? Mehn no need bring bringing irrelevant issues here..igbotic buildings as you say it has come to stay until various govts halt individuals from building houses fir rent and govt in turn starts building residential houses to let at reasonable fare..if you don't know all those your igbotic house are springing in places like amakaohia,akwakuma and uratta axis....shebi you say you have money and also rich,why.not go and build high rises in owerri and set and eg to others iinstead of all these lamentations about igbotic houses that has nothing to do with what I earlier posted about

Still on technical committee stage?by the way fg really has to get involved in this.

chinolization:
Abagworo is in order, imo state does not need industries. What it needs most is hotels, brothels and chalets. This will help boast its economy to be like Las Vegas.

by now you should know I am not interested in your abagworo bickering over Imo and anambra

ak47mann:
Emeka Ike takes on Wale Adenuga
Nollywood came about with the sales, marketing and multiplication of CDs. The Igbos got more involved by their investments. The Igbos did what they had to do, whether good or not, it has given us the platform.
...See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/…

at a point we might have to ignore issues like this and focus on more important things like the one i posted above

Abagworo:
We moved our businesses to Ogun, Lagos and Kano but keep acting like we dont want to be in Nigeria. I posted a picture of Kano and they were calling for my head. Keep developing other lands and keep pretending like you dont know. Ndewo

your reply here is hypocritical.first you are the one that seemed to be admiring nnamdi kanu when saying he is simply involved in propaganda without hurting anyone and i remember saying that preaching hate gets one no where.

Why did you not post the picture of Kano in Imo thread?shebi you are the one saying Imo does not need industries since our neighbours are deep into it so we should focus on tourism?what has the present Imo govt done to encourage industrialization in Imo so that at least Imo can absorb these guys supposedly relocating?

By the way I actually do not believe that aspect of Kano because I know Kano has been experiencing deindusrialization for some time now too..