If not for self help of students, education in the east would grind to near zero. You mentioned School for the Deaf and Girls Secondary School, both in Orlu.Today, no road leads to the two schools, as Imo governors are one after the other building state capital where they and the well to do settle down with their families.
Okorocha of I am building our state capital to a big city.
You refused to develop the other two principal cities in Imo state. That's why whatever development you did in the state is NEVER gonna be acclaimed by anyone..
See your scam of Prince Hotel Orlu and Princes Hotel Okigwe. Both hotels never built. Where is the money?
So far, you remain the worst scam governor ever to rule Imo state.
ckenneths: The new government should take over the project and complete it.
New Imo govt instead started to build new 1000 housing estates in Owerri, instead of completing this at Obiohia.
Does the new gov not understand that if he completes this and provides water supply system in the area, many people who work in Owerri , Orlu and Okigwe can settle in these Obiohia housing estate?
Danzakidakura: Northerners are not illiterate as they may want you to believe, illiterates rule the country locate all the military high institution to north,monopolize every resources from south to north, control every institutions of government. Systematically cause fight between two major educated group while they keep fighting. And you call them illiterate if this is signs and symbols of illiteracy them i want to be an illiterate too.
North rules not because northerners are more intelligent than southerners, but because of the FRAUD of creating 20 states in one Northern region, but only 17 states in two southern regions.
A president candidate must win 25% of votes in 24 states before proclaimed winner.
That makes even a goat from the north capable of winning a lawyer from the south in Nigeria's presidential election.
Northern military dictators presided over state creation.
titiloyeblog: Illiteracy in the north has a direct negative impact in other parts of the country - Senator Rochas Okorocha (video)
Rochas Okorocha, the Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District in the red chamber has raised an alarm over the high level of illiteracy in the northern part of the country.
The former Imo State Governor who expressed fear of having lawmakers from the North who cannot address the senate chamber in English, asked for an intervention in the educational sector in the region.
Okorocha also stated that the illiteracy in the northern region has a direct impact in other parts of the country.
clarocuzioo: Oya , come and disgrace you generations defending the indefensible.
FG charged Sowore to court , and the courts granted him bail, and he has met his bail conditions, yet the DSS still kept him in custody giving various degrees of excuses, and now they are applying to the courts to transfer them back to the priaonsy
It's unfortunate where we found ourselves as a nation.
Nation
If Nigeria is a nation, what's happening to Sowore wouldn't happen.
Nigeria is not a nation, it's a country - a business premises of other foreign powers that indirectly appoint who supervises Nigeria on behalf of the foreign powers.
Court, Detention. Prison, Police and Army brutality talks - all na cosmetic talks. The real talk is: either the entire Nigeria submits to the Sokoto Caliphate before long, or southern Nigerian groups are able to resist, and free themselves from one Nigeria. Commander on top is a Jihadist advantaged by instruments of government.
The Police actually lied. They set their own van ablaze, to make it seem incriminating yo their victim. The same way they plant riffles on murdered innocent Nigerians tagging them as armed robbers.
They have a record of killing innocent citizens for crime they never committed.
They have tried it with me once on a highway, That if do not give them =N=100,000, they will take me to the bush kill me there, burn my car and nobody will know what happened. All because my headlights were on while i was driving from Lagos to the East. Thank God for a Delta State government convoy that asked them what happened and they couldn’t say a thing, they only said I’m being disobedient. I still gave the policemen =N=5,000, followed the convoy and nobody stopped me till i got to Onitsha.
From that day, whenever I’m going to the East, i let a driver take my car there while I take a flight.
I don’t trust the police anymore.
They are blood thirsty.
Police usually invite such suspects to report to police.
We have Non redeemable country with non redeemable police formation.
Charleys: Where polygamy is rampant, young males are left without sexual partners. Simple math shows that in a population of 10 men and 10 women, if 1 of the men has 4 wives, that leaves 6 single men. Scale that up to entire states, and you can see this playing out across the North.
So wars and destabilization give young men a chance to kill potential rivals (ie, other men) and seize or rape women.
polygamous societies suffer “higher rates of murder, theft, rape, social disruption, kidnapping (especially of females), sexual slavery and prostitution.”
One well-known passage from the Hadith is the reward of 72 virgins given to a martyr after death. This appeals directly to a young man’s sexual desires. Martyrs are not promised a well-paying job, political peace, or economic security. They are promised sexual partners.
This is my opinion.
That's it.
In a society where women are segregated from men in public, like covering women with hijab or burqa, in some extreme cases disallow women from going out without male companion, preach 72 virgins for a Moslem matyr, the result is young people burning with libido going for rape of women. The unfortunate thing in Nigeria is that no amount of reformation preaching can change this religious tradition.
Most unfortunate thing is that the parts of Nigeria with the tradition have refused any restructuring of the country's political process.
Worse, one Nigeria traps together the group with this tradition and others.
uvie66: why will they issue any international arrest warrant for a Man who is striving to keep the unity of Nigeria compared to a cowardly slowpoke who seeks self rule through destruction.
Killing spree in this Buhari govt is not a way to unite Nigeria. It's the opposite.
Buhari cabal is pushing its luck too far.
A few days ago, Buhari replied Rtd Gen Ogomudia asking for political restructuring of Nigeria, Buhari's primitive reply was that the armed forces are guarding Nigeria's constitution since 1999.
What sort of country do armed forces guard its constitution? Only in Nigeria.
Does Buhari not know that Northern soldiers supervised the constitution after creating a roguish political structure favouring Northern Nigeria?
We will see where chest beating would lead Ipob to
Parasite. God did not decree that your part of Nigeria must be in one country with the Eastern side of this most dysfunctional and hate-filled Nigeria.
Stay on your lane.
Crude oil is not all there is for a country to survive.
Concocting allegations against Barrister Ejiofor with a view to provoke mayhem is it. You think the mayhem you are looking for in the east shall end like the 1967/70 civil war against Biafra? Britain shall fail you this time. This time, you shall lose all.
YorubaPrince: Guy, leave story for Tori joor! Una pple too like to dey incite violence and savagery. You guys are always the first to instigate violence in the guise of clamoring for self-governance while you're the ones to cry foul when it gets heated.
If you don't like the heat, don't chill around the kitchen!
See Aboki. Who crowned you Yoruba Prince?
Real Yorubas know that one Nigeria is a stumbling block to development of entire Yoruba land.
Dicktionary: All those declaring war or Crisis in the First trend and this one, don't really know the Magnitude or what war look like or can cause.
I have been to Syria, Mali, South Sudan, Congo, Somalia etc and More recently Borno state, if probably anything occur in the South East I will also be there (I HOPE NOT). What I saw, My Mouth can only tell my Grand Children not even my Children yet unborn.
War is not a Street Fight or Riot!!!
You talk of the jihadist Boko haram and Fulani herders but cannot identify one, when you are even close to one, because you have never seen one before, Face to Face.
Manage the little peace you all/we are enjoying in Nigeria, before it's become very very Late.
As for the Terrorist Leader Nnamdi Kanu, I beg my Brothers/Sisters in the South East, Please be Wise, look for someone else to lead us in achieving our goal not that CLOWN. Smh
Clowning parasite. Easily understood from their fear mongering nature. Britain shall no longer be behind Nigeria if the war you parasites crave comes.
noleflendum: who is holding you back? You were asked to leave northern states in 2017 but you guys were crying (kaduna declaration 2017)
Is Easterners leaving northern states a declaration of Biafra?
Northern military dictators created a large and undeserved number of 20 states in the northern region to draw more oil revenues from the south to the north.
You want non northerners to leave north, so that only northerners can enjoy the facilities built with excess oil revenues going to the north. Develop more sense. Totally submit to Biafra as a sovereign nation, after that, any easterners you see in the north, do what you like with them.
helinues: The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu
Yanga sleep una go wake am.. No justifications for the police brutal killings on the 4 Ipobs member at the same time no justifications for killing and burning Nigeria security officers
I just hope SE leaders can intervene immediately before things escalate
Why send armed soldiers to people you know are unarmed?
Why send armed forces to confront IPOB group with "no armed struggle" as a motto?
Were the police not purposely sent to provoke the IPOB members, for the govt to implement mass murder intentions?
helinues: How come everybody hates you in your state of origin if you are indeed a good man?
How?
As governor, Okorocha hated his constituency he represents now in the Senate, in the constituency, he only built roads that lead to his village from Owerri. He venomously ravaged the only govt establishment - teaching hospital - in the constituency, the present governor has to come immediately to rescue the hospital, He reduced the urban towns in his constituency to rural status, told the people to come to settle in the state capital where he said he was building mega city.
Nigeria with millions of well educated people, yet a man with questionable education with his cabal is running the country aground, inflicted millions with hunger, closed the country's borders.
Education without true education is the place of Nigeria's so-called millions of educated people.
Sowore is fighting for people with no plans,, no political conviction.
Nigerians kept mute as PMB cabal carefully selected the apex leadership of the Legislature and the Judiciary in 2019, placed Islamists as heads of nearly all security agencies. The cabal can now fry all Nigerians in a pan. The international community shall overlook that as a democratic process.
ijelovvee: An unnamed tea vendor has stabbed one of his customers to death following a disagreement over N100 bread.
The incident happened at 10pm on Monday November 25, at Juba Alaro Junction off Liasu road in Idimu, a Lagos suburb.
The deceased, Peter Nwala had gone to the tea vendor’s kiosk to buy fried egg, tea and bread when he complained about the bread’s bad taste.
He was said to have explained to the Hausa tea vendor that he would not pay for the stale bread.
His refusal to pay for the bread, according to sources angered the vendor who reported him to a nearby suya seller, who stabbed him with a dagger.
‘’He paid for other food items except the bread. It was when he wanted to leave the place that the tea vendor signalled the nearby suya seller, who brought out a dagger and stabbed Peter to death.’’
The incident was reported to Ikotun Police Division.
Sources said police have launched a manhunt for the culprit.
‘’The police have contacted the leader of the Hausa community in the community and he has promised to produce the culprits.’’
An impeccable police source however said the deceased was stabbed by the vendor in retaliation.
‘’The boy (deceased) was an alleged internet fraudster who had been arrested in the past by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). He went to the tea vendor’s kiosk to buy fried egg and was said to have refused to pay the man.
‘’ He took a stick and hit the tea vendor who insisted he must pay for the food. When the tea vendor could no longer bear the brutality, he motioned to his colleague who took a knife and stabbed the boy(Nwala) in the back leading to his death a few hours later at a hospital.
‘’Friends of the deceased then launched into violent attacks on Hausa traders in the neighbourhood but we quickly deployed our men there and restored normalcy. However, we are still looking for those who killed the boy and the police is engaging the leadership of the Hausa community in the area to ensure that peace reign and apprehend the culprits,’’ he added.
ijelovvee: An unnamed tea vendor has stabbed one of his customers to death following a disagreement over N100 bread.
The incident happened at 10pm on Monday November 25, at Juba Alaro Junction off Liasu road in Idimu, a Lagos suburb.
The deceased, Peter Nwala had gone to the tea vendor’s kiosk to buy fried egg, tea and bread when he complained about the bread’s bad taste.
He was said to have explained to the Hausa tea vendor that he would not pay for the stale bread.
His refusal to pay for the bread, according to sources angered the vendor who reported him to a nearby suya seller, who stabbed him with a dagger.
‘’He paid for other food items except the bread. It was when he wanted to leave the place that the tea vendor signalled the nearby suya seller, who brought out a dagger and stabbed Peter to death.’’
The incident was reported to Ikotun Police Division.
Sources said police have launched a manhunt for the culprit.
‘’The police have contacted the leader of the Hausa community in the community and he has promised to produce the culprits.’’
An impeccable police source however said the deceased was stabbed by the vendor in retaliation.
‘’The boy (deceased) was an alleged internet fraudster who had been arrested in the past by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). He went to the tea vendor’s kiosk to buy fried egg and was said to have refused to pay the man.
‘’ He took a stick and hit the tea vendor who insisted he must pay for the food. When the tea vendor could no longer bear the brutality, he motioned to his colleague who took a knife and stabbed the boy(Nwala) in the back leading to his death a few hours later at a hospital.
‘’Friends of the deceased then launched into violent attacks on Hausa traders in the neighbourhood but we quickly deployed our men there and restored normalcy. However, we are still looking for those who killed the boy and the police is engaging the leadership of the Hausa community in the area to ensure that peace reign and apprehend the culprits,’’ he added.
EmptyCoconutHead: after then we'll feed the debris of your carcass to the dogs. same way we're waiting for that Hunchback Albino from Afara-Ukwu. as Soon as he lands Nigeria for his Mama's burial we'll capture him and feed his bleached body to the escaped Lion in Kano Zoo.
Same barbaric treatment awaits all Ipob terrorists and secessionists that wants to destabilize the unity of this great country
RareDiamonds: Imo: Can Ihedioha meet the expectations?
September 29, 2019
The politics of Imo State has never remained the same since Governor Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) emerged the helmsman. In this report, Associate Editor, Sam Egburonu, reports on the changing politics and the efforts of the new government to meet up with the high expectations of the people of the Southeast state
THE intrigues that surrounded the last governorship election in Imo State left no one in doubt that whoever wins the race will be of special interest to both the Imo State stakeholders and other Nigerians eager to see good governance in the southeast state. Everyone therefore expected the then governorship candidates to be aware of the high expectations.
So, as soon as he was declared winner of the election, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) promised to turn what he called the state’s “bad news to a good story.” He promised to do so by making fundamental changes in several critical areas, especially in the style of governance.
One of such areas, he promised to do differently is the relationship between the state and the local governments, which until then was reportedly frosty. When he went to the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to collect his Certificate of Return, Ihedioha said, “For us in the executive, we shall run a government that is responsible in every sense of the word. For us, the local government administration shall be appreciated and seen as an arm of the government that is respected because that is where the grassroots people participate.”
Considering the intrigues, allegations and counter-allegations that trailed the past government of Owelle Rochas Okorocha over his style of governance and his relationship with local governments in the state, many observers have been keen on seeing if Ihedioha will fulfil his promise to local governments and restore confidence in the state’s civil service.
Though his government is just a little bit more than three months old, Ihedioha said he has already taken action on this critical area. “Another immediate concern we confronted head-on was the weakness of the state civil service due to high nepotism, lack of motivation, delayed salaries and under-payments by, sometimes, as much as 30 percent of salaries due. We, thenceforth, set up a review committee to look into cases of improper or irregular appointments, promotions and other related matters.
“The committee has turned in its report and, subsequently, we have approved the restoration of payment of 100 percent salaries to all workers in the state, recalled all unjustly suspended directors, reversed some undeserved promotions and sponsored officers to capacity building programmes. Similarly, local government workers have been paid the backlog of salaries owed them by the last administration. I can tell you that there is a renewed sense of motivation in the civil service across the state today.”
Another area observers identified as immediate challenge to Ihedioha’s government is the problem of the state’s economy; especially the irony inherent in multiple taxation but low Internally Generated Revenue (IDR). During the electioneering campaigns, Omo indigenes made this a major campaign topic. So, while taking oath of office, Ihedioha pledged to change this story.
In his 100 days address, he said: “we have signed into law, Executive Order 005, known as Treasury Single Account (TSA) Order to consolidate all government revenues under one account. We have also adopted other measures designed to plug leakages and increase Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) in the state coffers.
“We cannot achieve the right growth as a state without a sustainable revenue generating system. The state has less than 5 percent of the working population of over two million paying taxes and this is not an acceptable position. We met an arbitrary tax collection system leading to leakages, fraud and all sorts of irregularities.
“To ensure a sustainable IGR regime, we took steps to reform the state Internal Revenue Service. From August 2019 all cash tax payments have been banned and the government has mandated the use of the PayDirect Platform with a single source sweeping of revenue. This has started addressing the issue of multiple accounts and leakages, and the IGR has grown from an all-time low of about 300m in July to 600m in August.
“We have commissioned a Central Billing System which will drive the use of technology in tax collection. We have started a tax payer enumeration exercise with the attendant benefit of identifying the tax payers and ensuring they pay the right amount of tax to the right source.
“A transformation of the revenue service built on the pillars of People Processes and Technology to ensure that we serve the needs of the populace in the most efficient and professional manner, by operationalizing the autonomy of the Imo Internal Revenue Service in line with global standards.
“We have also listened to your issues on multiple taxation and commenced a tax harmonisation exercise in a bid to eliminate multiple taxation and streamline taxes in a manner that will only focus on the most relevant taxes to be paid.
“Due to these strategic and fiscal responsibility moves, Imo State has gained positive image and is now on track to join the Open Governance Partnership league. It also now qualifies for performance-based grants of the World Bank as well as other multilateral development institutions. We are also currently developing the Imo Growth and Economic Development Fund. The fund will be unique in Nigeria and would serve as an investment catalyst for the Imo State economy.”
The Nation observed that at the twilight of Okorocha’s government, another critical challenge in Imo State, especially in Owerri, the state capital, was water supply crisis. Mazi Ikechukwu Ukachukwu, who resides in Mbaise Road, Owerri, said “water scarcity in Owerri had almost become a norm, so much so that some of us did not believe it could be reversed in a short while. This is because we had burst water pipes all over the metropolis, buried in the muds. The neglect has taken a very long time. You will not believe that sachet water here has always been N10 even when it was still selling for N5 in Lagos.” Ihedioha also said he has commenced action in this area: “For several years, the Otamiri Water Supply was not functional and our people in the state capital and its environs suffered untold hardships. We have therefore, provided what was required to get it working again. Specifically, water started running again in Imo on 24th July, 2019 after almost seven (7) years of dry pipes. In the same vein, work is ongoing to rectify cases of burst pipes across the major roads,” he said.
His claims notwithstanding, some of his critics in the state, making reference to some of the actions attributed to Ihedioha at the dawn of his administration, like the demolition of some monuments erected by former Governor Okorocha, alleged that the new government may be doing more hype than it has actually accomplished in physical terms. “Is it everything the new government claims that we should agree with? I suggest the Ihedioha-led state government should go to the field and work instead of beating its chest so early in the morning. Though I do not agree with the way they condemned everything Okorocha did, I cannot deny that this new government seems more sensitive to the actual needs of the people. But they should leave Rochas alone and face the work for which Imo people elected them,” Kingsley Uzochukwu said.
But Dr. Nicholas Nwulu told The Nation during the week that the present state government is determined to make the needed difference in the area of agricultural development. “If Ihedioha continues the way he has started, Imo will soon experience positive revolution in agriculture…,” he said.
Steve Osuji, the Senior Adviser to the governor on Media, who listed “removal of massive heaps of refuse across Owerri and environs,” as one of his principal’s first areas of concern, told The Nation during the week that the Ihedioha-led state government has “initiated the revamping of Avutu Poultry, Adapalm and Imo Rubber Estates,” amongst other areas of interest in the agricultural sector.
The governor himself also spoke glowingly of his interest in the development of the agricultural sector in his 100 days in office broadcast when he said: “Pursuant to our resolve to harness our agricultural potentials as well as generate employment, just a few days ago, we launched our Agricultural Roadmap which represents a comprehensive framework for self-sufficiency in food production, both for domestic consumption and for exports purposes. By our strategic location at the heartland of the South East and our endowment with the only international cargo airport in the region, we are certain that with the right investments, the state would harvest monumental benefits in this sector.
“I am happy also to report that the first batch of 500 youths selected from all the 27 LGAs in Imo State will be sent to a modern farm at Nasarawa State, in a few weeks, under the Imo Youths in Agribusiness Programme (IYAP). Here, they would learn the best practices in tropical agriculture, after which they will be supported to start their own businesses in Imo State.
“We have also commenced the establishment of a Rice Seed Farm Cluster on the Imo River Basin at Amumara Ezinihitte Mbaise LGA. This programme will make Imo State self-sufficient in the production of improved variety of rice seeds with a view to strengthening our rice value chain. Experts in rice breeding, production and processing from the Africa Rice Centre at IITA Ibadan will be training our groups of rural young farmers to grow and process improved rice seeds.
“We have also commenced the introduction of light mechanization to farmers in areas where full tractorization may not be possible.
“The process for the rejuvenation of Imo ADP has commenced and plans are underway to train staff and reintegrate them back to intervention programmes that have suffered severe setbacks in the past as a preclude to granting access to reputable, time-tested investors.
“It is noteworthy that, the Avutu Poultry Farm has been cleared for a full restoration to a world-class standard. Similarly, Adapalm is being cleared through the relevant Committee and we would soon commence operations. The challenge of pending legal issues is being attended in order to clear the way for full optimization of its potentials.
“Our state is set to host the only Agribusiness Park in Nigeria at Ngor-Okpala. This comprises an agribusiness academy, and a smart agribusiness centre, thus positioning the facility for revenue generation and job creation. In a few weeks’ time, we would begin the process of data capture of afffected Imolites in the upcoming agriculture revolution program targeting 400,000 participants between the ages of 15-64,” he said.
This is supposed to be an article on Imo state, abi?
but the author and those he interviewed lamented on absence of water in Owerri for 7 years; was water existing in other areas of Imo state then? Steve Osuji, the Special Adviser to gov Ihedioha on New Media, also saying the governor's main concern is on quick removal of refuse in Owerri. Do people not live and generate refuse in other parts of the state? In fact, a stranger reading this can ask: is this Imo state all about Owerri? I have come across too many unhealthy lamentations in so many online media about lopsided development in Imo state favoring only the state capital. What I read were at times unprintable.
There needs to be some adjustments to approach to governance for all the state.
asha80: I dont think that housing estate project is a state government program
It's Imo state govt program 100%.
Imo state has all its four federal housing estates in Owerri, here, Imo state is unique among all the states in Nigeria for having all its federal housing estates in one town alone.
This Eastern Palm, what is its status now? State or private? There was time a govt committee established that it's 100% govt university and be used by IMSU.
Education › Re: Dilapidating State Of Schools In South East by discusant: 8:41pm On Dec 31, 2019
