₦airaland Forum

Onlytruth:
Posted by: asha 80
Yes I am sure. Onitsha's problem is mainly infrastructure management, eg electricity and transportation planning issues.
I am an Onitsha boy because I spent most of my young life in Onitsha. Even the four story buildings are not planned to accomodate more than 2 flats per floor. In normal circumstances, it should be at least 4 flats per floor. Fortunately, Onitsha has one of the best planned layout system in Eastern Nigeria. If you don't believe me, take a look with Google satellite view. So, even with current space (without spreading out), Onitsha can still accommodate double its current population if properly densified.

But my hope is really on the undeveloped Iyi Owa Odekpe side.
I didn't even know that Anambra state borders Rivers state directly till now and there is a forest reserve there too. Just take a look. 

Onlytruth:
Posted by: asha 80
Of course it can! Have you taken a look at the map of Anambra state, specifically to the south bordering Rivers state? I didn't even know there is a forest reserve in Anambra state, toward "iyi owa Odekpe" and Osomari ? Also Onitsha is yet to be properly densified. Fegge is still mainly low density. Onitsha is still small.

Onlytruth:
Posted by: asha 80
I believe that the dredging of the lower Niger has been completed already. I read somewhere that if this route is not put into use soon enough, the river will silt up again and need another dredging.
These cranes are part of that effort, I believe.

macjive01:
soon, watch and see

Onlytruth:
I'm really imagining what would happen if this port becomes fully operational.
Envision Onitsha port, with an Asaba airport just across the river Niger!

Imagine if goods can land almost directly to Anambra state! If that oil and gas industry takes off, and we get that independent power station, now throw in a governor like Soludo in 2014; Nna mehn Anambra would explode overnight with business.

When Peter Obi's term ends in 2014, we replace him with Soludo!

Japan here we come.

ChinenyeN:
Okay. I see what you're getting at now. So do you think that that standard short term disadvantage would last "long term"?

ChinenyeN:
Oh okay. Well, I see how that's possible, especially if said dialect is spoken by a small group of people.

ChinenyeN:
These are all standard short-term disadvantages, that I fully expect.

ChinenyeN:
Wait, what do you mean by excuse? An excuse for what?

ChinenyeN:
How is it not that simple? It need not get any more complicated than that.

ChinenyeN:
It's been documented. One group from Anambra, close to Onitsha is said to have nearly lost their dialect, or have already lost it. The people's name has an N and a J in it. . if I remember correctly. Let me go and search for the document.

ChinenyeN:
I really don't get what the problem is here. If non-Abians get deported, then you in other states deport Abians. Simple. Na wahala?

Onlytruth:
Posted by: asha 80
And I guess you support Theodore Orji?

ChinenyeN:
Naturally. I agree. I remember when I was younger and I would be told stories of community development projects, when village-groups erected local schools, or when families provided communal plots to build this or that center. I don't hear those stories anymore. I barely even hear word of community development/benefit programs. Instead, it's all been replaced with pictures of the deplorable state of Aba, and that isn't right. Development is the most important thing.

ChinenyeN:
I'm presume you're asking a rhetorical question, asha_80, but I'll answer anyway, and my answer is that I actually plan on doing just that.

ezeagu:
Which towns?

Beaf:
Yes, its DPP, but ACN is extremely desperate to add an oil producing state as another cash cow in addition to Lagos.
It is their primitive ethnically bigoted style to attempt to lure the Itsekiri into their trap and reap the state to pieces ethnically, then stroll in to pick up whatever pieces they can gather.

Its better to convince people in a civilised way, than to cause strife in a state where the people have learnt to get along.

Remii:
I hope this guy knows that there are more Ibos outside Iboland than other tribes outside their home states.

This same Governor that did not know that a whole oil company that was operating in his state was there legally, he went there with his security apparatus to send them out only to apologise to them later on TV that they were there legally, uhmn.

jason123: