₦airaland Forum

Sincere 9gerian: Southeast and southsouth not part of the N42 billion road contract bazzar. Na wa!

PhenomenonVFX: I am beginning to have a soft spot for this Orji dude. He is probably not as bad as u guys make him out to be. I was expecting Umuahia to look like Aba.
The only grouse I have with him is the neglect of Aba. Aba is the life-blood of the state. He should have concentrated his development efforts in Aba as much as Umuahia. Most people I know have no business with Umuahia. Aba is probably more popular.

FACE: This stretch takes you to Mbaise. The hill known as Ugwu nde nso is an accident prone zone. Ahiara Mbaise 2,3,4

FACE: This stretch takes you to Mbaise. The hill known as Ugwu nde nso is an accident prone zone. Ahiara Mbaise 2,3,4

FACE: Sam Mbakwe is the 2nd bypass I think and it is yet to be completed.

OK, I won't tell you. I have some good pictures of Owerri but this is not for Owerri.

FACE: Just after assumpta, a new by pass to Concorde and Nekede, after the by pass and remodelling of Imo hotels. we are still on our way to Umuahia.

FACE: So I actually dropped out of the sky and hit PH-Owerri road still under construction.

FACE: Asha, I have been very busy and only remembered nairaland when I was looking through my pictures. I can see the ethnic battle is still on and has entered a nuclear level.

FACE: Asha, I have been very busy and only remembered nairaland when I was looking through my pictures. I can see the ethnic battle is still on and has entered a nuclear level.

FACE: Ok, I didn't just drop down from the sky to Umuahia. I passed through some areas from Owerri to Mbaise to Obowo before getting to Umuahia. Owerri has actually burst at the seams and many suburbs are now firmly in Owerri and it is rapidly expanding. Whoever says that Rochas has done nothing in Owerri is full of BS.I can't hold brief for him in other areas but I had a glimpse of Okigwe (Owerri Road) on my way to Enugu from Umuahia. So my Umuahia pictures will start from Imo state.

Abagworo: Southeast has been receiving the least funds in Nigeria for more than 40 years but we are thriving. Our major problem remains public utilities, urban renewal, pipe-borne water and good refuse disposal in our cities. In terms of housing, Southeast is far ahead of the rest of the country. Our houses look dirty now because of bad roads and secondly some parts that have laterite surface soil that tends to discolor houses after every harmattan. Our economic hopes lies in Anambra and Abia which actually could have been leading the rest of Africa if not for misplaced priorities by successive governments. The biggest mistake was making Awka and Umuahia capital of Anambra and Abia and in that process denying the required formal/public sector from merging with commerce and industry to create a Kano or Ibadan in Igboland where a State capital will be fully commercial and industrial.

Why have I been a major critic of Peter Obi? From every information at my reach, he tried better than the other Governors before him and that is commendable but if he had focused on Onitsha in particular and Nnewi most of Igboland will be affected positively.


Now these are pictures from Aba and Onitsha which was developed through individual efforts without Goverment contribution.

Ngwakwe: @Afam try answering these questions first

I would have taken time to do justice to Afam's obsession only that he has prejudice and moreover the thread has already gone to the dogs. However, I will provide comprehensive analysis and answers if the following questions below are clarified

The only sensible comment here are those of Abagworo and other one or two comments.

Afam's question is a premise on what he sees on the pages of Newspapers and internet hence very much faulty and baseless.

The first question should be what actually constitute development?

What are the immediate need of the people?

What foundation are already on ground to necessitate the second, third etc levels eg Enugu was the capital of East Central States when Umuahia was a glorified village?

What resources are readily available to prosecute those capital development as the case may be?

Are PPP also part of the comparism?

Is debt free balance sheet another type of development?

What roles the FG has played to encourage sustainable development in such area?

What Economic policies of the FG has been favourable to the State to attract foreign investments?

I will be back if Afam provides his answers.

Onlytruth: My brother all the things you listed can NEVER happen without the likes of Soludo leading a state like Anambra or Abia, or even Enugu.
Enugu is trying but it could do more, much more, because it enjoys old development in the main city of Enugu.

My fervent pray is the Obiano will DEPART PERMENANTLY from Peter Obi's philosophy of minute developments scattered throughout the state.
We need hub businesses, and they can never happen without things like power stability and INTERNATIONAL ACCESS.
We have international access now, but we need AMBITIOUS leaders like Soludo.

sCun: Precisely! I wonder what they discuss in those development union meetings

one.east1:
I never denied am not. But focus on your state and tell us why Chime cannot see beyond his nose in terms of development. Anambra attracted Sabmiller, Chrisoral Group, Orange Drugs, Emzor and kickstarted the Orient Petroleum etc. Do you know the economic implication of these capital injections in the state?

Stop generalizing biko.

Afam4eva: I didn't intend for it to be a comparison though i juxtaposed the SE with some other parts of the country and i expected that we'll discuss our problems instead of abdicating them for comparisons with other parts of the country.

Afam4eva: This is the problem. Instead of you to look inward, you always want to compare yourself to others who are probably like you in order for you to look better. That's how failures reason.

obayaya: Bros... there are so many threads on anambra elections all over nairaland.. when we meet there we talk about anambra elections

niyisky: Elections was conducted in Ondo state and all parties involved accepted the result in good faith because it was free and fair to all. Let us stop supporting nonsense, the election in Anambra is a complete scam.

begwong: why not? After the directors might have delivered their local govts by rigging in favor of apga!

taharqa: Good development... But, I hv a question: when is d Aba Power Plant going to come on line? When are they commissioning it??

donphilopus: The man was simply against APC winning the Election in Idimeli LG. So if this happens, the Gov should be blamed

Sincere 9gerian: The question is who are the "aggrieved politicians" in the Anambra election? If this report is anything to go by, aggrieved chieftains of APC and PDP sabotaged the election in Idemili North.

donphilopus: Are you aware that the PDP chieftain is also an INEC Official??

donphilopus: And some people will still come out and defend Adaobi now

berem: That does not qualify him to be a good governor. There are some governors who attained higher qualification and have good experience than Obiano before they became governor and they are great disappointments to their people. If he like let him be the former prime minister of England, doesn't stop him from failing like his predecessor.

obayaya: bros, Ngige just have photons of supporters in the major cities and then his Home lga where he developed very well when he was governor..

but in other parts of state, the lil support he has is actually born outta sympathy from what he went through in the hands of the Ubas.

but he wasted all that political goodwill.. I live in anambra.. so I know..