₦airaland Forum

vallyjohn:
uyo is over hyped
av been there
roads and d national stadium and ibom Tropicana aside
the real nature of the state is nothing to write home about
don't say i didn't warn you

At least you have mentioned 3 things on ground. That's enough for me.
You will recall more with time.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a step. �

mccoy47:
Yet u blame Nigeria ba?
Why not blame the government of AKS.
By the way, using Nigeria as a yardstick for AKS is wrong, what is the population of AKS compared to dat of Nigeria?
Let's call a spade a spade and shun mediocrity!
AKSG has failed it's ppl when scored by allocation alloted to it!

That's your opinion, I score the govt. In akwa ibom since 1999 till date very high.
They could have done more but what we have on ground is not bad comparatively.

Kuffree:
If you are looking for facts ask your self how many business tycoons in present day Nigeria are of Akwa Ibom extraction?
How many business owners of Akwa Ibom can be raise their hands in the presence of the likes of Tony Elumelu or Adenugu?
Am sure you will have to go back to google to search for them.
Stop celebrating mediocrity.

You mean the Abacha or the obasanjo billionaires?
God will one day bring our own obasanjo that will use public funds to make us billionaires.

You think we don't know how billionaire are made in Nigeria? It's not hard work it's by political patronage, our turn will come.

If states controlled their resources we would be the real billionaire in Nigeria ,God willed it that way but "one Nigeria " has conivied to rob us.

That's why our oil money is used to make others billions.

The yoke shall be broken someday! IJN.

LordAdam16:
Go to Lag, Ogun, PH, Kano. Places are advancing. We should be leading the pack, not looking for excuses.

-Lord

Uyo and akwa ibom is advancing as we speak. I don't know where you are from, but am great full for where we are in akwa ibom today. Tomorrow will be better.

LordAdam16:
No compare SS to Hausas abeg.

Hausas were trading with the Arabs even before the Igbos saw cloth. Dantata was the richest man in Africa before oil was discovered.

The SS is lazy and I'm from the SS. Go to Bayelsa, Delta, Akwa Ibom, Calabar, Igbos run everywhere except politics. PH would have been the same if not for the Igboid groups there.

With the amount of money that has been shared from politics, enterprising people would have transformed the SS. You know how much boys n chairmen they pick, wen them go come later blow. If e too much na hotel, bar, restaurant, provision store them go open. Na so development 1 come? The Igbos only come to sell things to us, and carry the money to go build houses in their villages. It's a vicious cycle.

-Lord

With the amount of oil money stolen from the niger delta since 1957, how comes enterprising nigerians have not transformed the country?

Provide evidence of laziness and we can have a debate
Stop postulating notions that is not backed by fact.

bigmee:
One of the worst, if not the ONLY worst State when it has to do with flooding and gully erosion, landslide and ravines cut by running water usually after a heavy downpour.

AKWA ibom has the best drainage system in Nigeria. The only place in west Africa where pipe jacking technology has been deployed for drainages.

Lookup pipe jacking technology on Google I know you have probably never heard of it.

And yes a combination of highest rainfall rate + rapid urbanization,climate change,topography ofor uyo and construction of more road network than most states in the federation has predisposed us to flooding but this is being addressed by our storm water drains and the above technology.

lacasera14:
Just fine roads, no malls, few banks, you will drive from port harcourt to calabar passing through Uyo and you'll meet no bank on your way. few industries, few clubs, dry place. Na fine road we go chop or we go boil the green trees chop? they should develops the place mbok.

Driving from Port harcourt to calabar via uyo does not led you into the heart of any city or town in akwa ibom which is evidence of a well planned road network of highways as is done in sane climes.
It was deliberately design that way. Next time get off the good highway commuter roads which you acknowledge and visit the city or towns in Akwa ibom and see the heart of those towns, do not rely on what you can only see from your commuter viewpoint.

For pointers visit budgIT website they have national statistics on every state.that will give you accurate information on things like number of banks per state in the nation.
Akwa ibom has not done badly on that regards. Learn to speak with facts. Preconceived ideas not backed up with facts is the bane of Nigeria.

Kuffree:
Uyo is serene but it is not as beautiful as people claimed. Akpabio did a good job moulding the city to what we see today, the roads, stadium, airport and tropicana.
The greatest disappointment of the city are the indigenous people who lack industry and entrepreneurial spirit.
The highest aspirations of Akwa ibom youth is to get a job and sleep with as many girl as people.
Their elders are so insecure that they would rather die than help a young man advance forward, for this reason Mobil in eket is completely ruled by the Yoruba who can go to great troubles to help his fellow Yoruba.

Fallacy of hasty generalization. Where are your facts and figures to buttress your point?
Dem say go kill us for niaja.

mccoy47:
Rubbish!
Akpabio collected #25 billion monthly in his 8 yr tenure. Dats over 2 trillion in allocation with a population of less than 5 million!
Ask yourself if Akwa ibom total govt projects is worth #500billion!

Nonesense, Nigeria has collected trillions dollars since independence, has total project in the country reflects the trillions of dollars?
Akwaibomstate is a microcosm of Nigeria.
Comparatively I can tell you that Akwa ibom has done better.

CHUKWUNOLOGICAL:
na only stadium i see

Humans only see what they really want to see.suit yourself.

DaVinciii:
I don’t want to bash your city because it’s where I am now. But if we keep praising mediocrity, we wont move forward. Uyo has one of the best “major” roads in Niger Delta for sure but development is more than major roads. The inner roads are all not tarred except few select areas, and this is just talking about roads.
I’m talking about the lack of good roads (only major roads are BEAUTIFUL). What about the lack of amenities in Uyo? How many branches do the banks have ? 2? 3? What of armed robbers? If you don’t pay your vigilante old men, how far? How is your night life and the business atmosphere? Not everyone that points out your bad points is “hating”

Are this problems you listed peculiar to uyo? Or are they national challenges? Make real points, so we can have a pointed argument.

DaVinciii:
From Federal Secretariat to tantalizer area uses one transformer which blew in May. Up till December last year, it was not fixed. Hopefully, it’s fixed by now. Anyways, enjoy your Uyo!

Oga we are in feburary now, are you stuck in dec?

Remember Akwa ibom has a power plant that generates 191MW of electricity but the whole state according to experts only require less than 50MW.

That means that akwa ibom is one of the only state in Nigeria that produces more electricity than it requires.

But since nigeria is a country that has perfected the arts of robbing the Nigeria Delta to pay others,
Our electricity has been sucked into the national grid to feed "One Nigeria". One day God will liberate the Niger delta from the cabals yoke.

As It stands, without fg unfair policy Akwa ibom should have nothing to do with darkness.

We should be having 24 hrs electricity.

Akwa ibom produces more electricity than most countries in Africa.

YoungDaNaval:
True but Abuja need the development more since it's the capital of the country

Really? Why? Federal govt.should use its revenue to develop its capital, not robbing The delta of it resources to build its capital.

Abogwara:
Uyo is disappointingly slow in development. The Government tried in building roads, stadia, mall and other necessary infrastructures but the people cannot complement Government's efforts in their own little ways. Since that 2007 Akpabio brought uncommon transformation till date it is still Government trying to put up all structures.

Okorocha number one fan,we have seen what your, my people my people governor has done in imo,and how his commissioner of happiness is making the good people of imo state happy.

Trust me we prefer our government, and governor, slowly we will get to our goal. Slow and steady wins the race.

YoungDaNaval:
Uyo is beautiful but not a business area just like Abuja

If the money generated from oil in akwa ibom was directed towards developing uyo instead of being ferried to Abuja, trust me Abuja will not have seen uyo's breaklight in terms of development.

What is happening in Nigeria is man's inhumanity to fellow man. Niger Delta is being robbed to pay Abuja + others.

DaVinciii:
I’m in Uyo Sir

And you have not seen the new roads completed and new ones under construction?

DaVinciii:
Lmao negative opinions? Maybe. But it’s true sir. Has Abak road (major area) started having light? Since last May?
How many inner roads are coal tarred Uyo? No go there please.

What's your point?
Why don't you do the counting? When last were you in Uyo. You should go there and see what the new govt.is doing in terms of road construction.

khalhokage:
Well that's a lie, I've lived in Uyo.
Resource control is not the problem of Akwa-Ibom state, laziness is, most Ibomites don't have any entrepreneural spirit, they're always waiting for a handout.

Mr entetprenure how many akwa ibomites did you meet or interact with per the % of the population to come up with your barefaced fallacious generalization?

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Asowari:
only roads

Is that only what you saw? We only see what we choose to Lol

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