LordNaya:
THE ONLY PERSON WHO GETS ANGRY OVER DEVELOPMENTS IN IMO STATE IS CHINO. I WONT BE SURPRISED IF THIS EKAFINE IS CHINO BECAUSE NO CALABAR PERSON WILL HAVE THE TIME TO BAD MOUTH IMO STATE OUT OF JEALOUSY.

U people should stop calling me chino. Wat is wrong with all of u. I am not from calabar but from Akwaibom but by the virtue of my mom coming from crossriver that was why I replied the guy that tried to say thrash about Calabar. I didn't comment on this thread because I saw development but because of the insult.

Duru1:



I shall not be perturbed to say that anybody of Ibibio or Annang ancestral background cannot put a hurting on my feeling due to long closeness cultivated between them and Ndiigbo particularly my family. Now, there are few misguided trolls among each group which is understandable due to human complexity. However, we must watch when our criticisms become borderline insults.

Brother me don't take it thus, like as I said only retorted when I saw what an Igboman wrote about Calabar. We are supposed to be one people if not for state creation.

Duru1:


I have shown wisdom in my post against the posters who attacked you on previous posts but the above post bordered on insult on the people of Owerri and Imo State. Owerri can never have more decaying infrastructure than Calaber. In addition, Owerri cannot have more women seeking for men than Eket or Calaber. I started visiting the region that made up Akwa Ibom and Cross River States at 17 and I am not a girl. I use to travel to Eket when it was semi-village in later 70s. You should also understand that the federal government ran by Yari.ba, Hausa, Pula, Kanuri and rest of them from northern region of Nigeria have concluded to bypass AlaIgbo in terms meaningful federal presence.
The two federal roads that passed or intercepted at Eket are Eket-Uyo and Oran-Ikot Abasi via Eket-PH Expway. These roads were constructed by the federal government and any boast of economic infrastructure in Eket was due to federal government plan to abuse the minds of Ibibio and Annag towards Ndi-Igbo especially through Helen Esuene. The federral government neglected the Owerri-PH road which is a federal responsibility. Now, if you were coming from Onitsha, the Owerri-Onitsha road is good form until Obirinze.
One begins to wonder at what point in Owerri you started to see the decaying infrastructures and battalion of women seeking for men. Everything from the control post to Obirinze are most new projects.

Don't Feel hurt over my comment because I Was only responding to your brother who tried to run down Calabar only to uplift his own town. Although most of the things I wrote up there are truth but I said it in defence of Calabar which gave me my mom. for the decaying infrastructures I will not post it yet at least for now.

Abagworo:


On a side note ekafine and EASTSIDAZ share same IP and location meaning both of them are Chino. Change your ways as you are getting older Mr Chino.

On my contribution you quoted I clearly pointed out that the bad road affected weekly influx of Port Harcourt boys to Owerri. I for example visited only 3 times this 2015 as against other years that could be up to 20.

Lol me chino? Now I know u are going mad. Go through all my posts and feed your ignorant brain. Pls stop trying to sound insane. Wat I said is that the road connecting owerri to rivers state is worse than the road connecting calabar. Fact.

Bruce is on point

Where is my Akwaibom governor?

MyGeneration:
I am at owerri right now, Imo state.
Apart from the area the rock view is located all other areas are flop.
Roads are bad, all u see is Rochas pictures on every school, every road etc. The other local governments are worse my local govt at ehime apart from one small road that passes tru our junction nothing again.
We ve been hearing Rochas school, Rochas hospitals, its not by building fine buildings thats not operational and its empty.
Rochas, and all other past and future politicians, imo state is ur state if u think u can run from it by building houses in Abuja or Lagos or Abroad think again wh :Dat is yours is yours. Even if u like buy heaven for the sultan of sokoto or stay in Lagos all ur life even if u like speak fluent yoruba or hausa dat won't change d fact that if u are and will always be from Imo.

U nailed it bro. This is point blank. I like unbiased people like you. Mandax did you read this? Hahaha

Abagworo:


I never downgraded Calabar. The issue I raised was simply how FG's neglect killed Donald Dukes costly investments. No road to Calabar from every part of Nigeria. As at 2009 the roads were motorable and people trooped into Calabar more. I stopped going to Calabar because of the roads. I have always loved the city which of course is the most beautiful in the East but the truth is that its dying and if nothing is done about the link roads then it will die completely. The bad Umuapu road affected influx of tourists like me from Port Harcourt to Owerri.

Owerri took advantage of its strategic location and easy accessibility to steal the show. The rich tourists in the East come from Port Harcourt, Delta, Bayelsa, Onitsha and Aba. Today Aba people stop at Ibom resort and Uyo then turn back without passing Itam.

U are now talking connecting road as if the road connecting owerri to rivers state is not worse.

MyGeneration:

calabar girl, ur state is dead...
If u dont know even in owerri its only the prettiest of ur girls dat come here why the ugly left overs stay back, when they come they start using igbo names like chidinma and d rest it's only as time go on that u find out they are from calabar what is driving them from there state, apart from Rivers state, no southsouth state should make any silly noise on the Internet.
Now take the rope, go hang urself.

i laugh at you. the same owerri girls that are everywhere including here in abuja. keep deceiving yourself

Afam4eva:

So, what's the difference between you saying that Port Harcourt is better than Enugu which is your opinion and another person saying that Owerri is better than Calabar which is his opinion.

they are two different things because. read in between the line, then you will see where i cautioned him for downgrading calabar

MyGeneration:

look at dz mumu calabar gal u re calling hopeathand an ikwerre man from ph to come and defend u.
u want to turn it into southeast vs south south, calabar is a dead city, tourism zero, development dead, d moment unical closes everywhere bevomes a dead town, call even barcanista that wont change the fact that u are from a dead state. Even ur women even if it they like let the sex be free I wont come.

you just confirmed in your post that owerri is a flop and has bad roads all over it, so what else am i supposed to trade with you? calabar is another level. owerri is full of cheap se.x slaves, i can't spend a night there for anything in that jungle. let your gov do something about decent job creation instead having your girls engaging in dirty roadside job you all call tourism.

MyGeneration:
I am at owerri right now, Imo state.
Apart from the area the rock view is located all other areas are flop.
Roads are bad, all u see is Rochas pictures on every school, every road etc. The other local governments are worse my local govt at ehime apart from one small road that passes tru our junction nothing again.
We ve been hearing Rochas school, Rochas hospitals, its not by building fine buildings thats not operational and its empty.
Rochas, and all other past and future politicians, imo state is ur state if u think u can run from it by building houses in Abuja or Lagos or Abroad think again what is yours is yours. Even if u like buy heaven for the sultan of sokoto or stay in Lagos all ur life even if u like speak fluent yoruba or hausa dat won't change d fact that if u are and will always be from Imo.

Afam4eva:

The other day you were rubbish in Enugu-pride-east and now you have the audacity of accusing someone else of running down Calabar. You must think everyone sees the world through your eyes. You prefer Calabar to Owerri, another person thinks otherwise and you want to run mad. Have you ever considered killing yourself?

i never rubbished enugu but what i stood against was saying that enugu state is better than river state. go back and read my posts. kill yourself if you want.

Governor Okorocha’s Christmas Tree And Other Tales Of Political Vanity By Moses Ochonu

Political vanity is a particularly Nigerian affliction and has been an ancillary scholarly interest of mine. I published an academic article in 2004 on the subject, citing several examples from Nigeria’s then fledgling experiment with civilian rule. The article dwelled extensively but not exclusively on the cases of late former governors Abubakar Audu of Kogi State and Mohammed Lawal of Kwara State.

The former had an obnoxious penchant for naming every government project after himself and his family members. The latter was so consumed by a need to personalize his power that all mass transit buses belonging to the Kwara State government during his tenure were boldly marked with the moniker “UP LAWAL.”

Since the publication of that article, similar examples of personalized power and political vanities in high places have proliferated. I am reliably informed that in Kayode Fayemi’s Ekiti State, a remarkable record of infrastructural investments was marred by an inexplicable insistence on naming all projects after the former governor and his wife.

Public office holders in Nigeria adorn their offices with all manner of silly award plaques. One former minister, God rest her soul, had an entire wall of her office covered in awards from all manner of organizations — some of them concrete, others clearly made up by sycophants to curry her favor. She liked to take pictures against the background of this wall of vanity. The pictures made it to newspapers and then the to Internet, where they live to date. It was a vulgar form of political narcissism, a kind of self-deification.

The said former minister was so in love with her own image that she invested energy, time, and resources feting and garnishing herself in awards and other accouterments of self-validation. She built a shrine to herself, reveling in her own proclaimed greatness. Fortunately, she was a largely effective, achieving public servant, so her political vanities didn't matter that much. She could be forgiven for her vain indulgences.

Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra state is another vain politician. Whether by design or happenstance, Obiano has emerged as one of Nigeria's most conspicuously vain public servants. It is comical to see him surrounded at public events by aides and appointees wearing Obiano-emblazoned Ankara. Obiano, for good measure, literally wears himself, dressing in the same Obiano-branded Ankara fabric as his aides.

I can't even imagine the embarrassing awkwardness of seeing your own face on your own clothes — on your own body. It is spectacle to behold in its vacuous vainglory. It looks like something out of Chinua Achebe's novel, A Man of the People.

But, all things considered, Governor Obiano is a performing governor. He is building and commissioning things and, I am informed, does not owe Anambra civil servants a single month salary arrear. He even paid them a Christmas bonus! His vanity should therefore be excused and forgiven. He has earned the right to be vain and to celebrate himself in flamboyantly self-adulatory terms. I have no problem with a little vanity to go along with purposeful leadership.

Former Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano has a certain strain of political vanity in him. As Kano governor, he built a personality cult to himself — a movement labeled Kwankwasiyya, with its own esoteric chants and its own ubiquitous emblem of the red cap. During his tenure, it was always amusing to see the sea of reds whenever and wherever the former governor appeared. Kwankwaso was and still is a man of bombast and arrogant self-flattery. He is seduced by his own hype. But like Obiano, he largely backed up the boast and hype with his performance as governor.

Recent revelations that Kwankwaso left a crippling debt profile for his predecessor, commissioned heavily mortgaged white elephants, and owed contractors billions of Naira have dented but not diminished the essential reality of his successful governorship tenure. His vanities too should therefore be understood as tolerable footnotes in his larger political biography.

Then we have the clownish Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha. Among other comically cringe-worthy acts of vanity, Okorocha has apparently erected a Christmas monument to himself in Owerri, a lavishly decorated Christmas tree that is at least thirty feet tall. Some accounts estimate the contract for this giant public Christmas tree to be 600 million naira. Some of his supporters may dispute this figure, but I don't want to hear that the contract was awarded for 50 or 100 million naira, not 600 Million. It does not matter. It's not the amount but the principle.

A governor who has not paid pensioners their entitlements for 21 months has no business spending any public funds, even if it's "only" 10 Million Naira, on a Christmas tree that will be removed and trashed in two or three weeks.

A governor who owes most of his state workers at least six months salary arrears has no business investing state funds in an ephemeral religious symbol, especially since the said religious symbol stands for a religious festival that, because of the failure to pay salaries and pensions, many Imo citizens will not be able to celebrate.

This is the same governor who caused or allowed — take your pick — the infamous Obama handshake billboards to be erected in Owerri upon his return from Washington DC, where he had been part of President Buhari’s delegation on his official visit to the United States. Owerri residents woke up to a picture of a grinning Governor Okorocha shaking hands excitedly with President Obama on huge billboards, a vain attempt to publicly memorialize a fairly routine diplomatic encounter.

So, when we speak of political vanity, Governor Okorocha is for me its poster boy. His investments in the instruments of vanity and grandeur are not accompanied or mitigated by any appreciable performance indicators.

Okorocha takes the end of the year award for political vanity. At least in my book

http://saharareporters.com/2015/12/23/governor-okorocha%E2%80%99s-christmas-tree-and-other-tales-political-vanity-moses-ochonu

Abagworo:


Owerri has surpassed Calabar. Calabar bubbles only during carnival and goes dead for the rest of the year but Owerri bubbles all year round. Calabar used to have the tallest Christmas tree but Owerri has taken over. TINAPA is dead and Obudu is dying. Jonathan killed Calabar with bad access roads.

This is what pisses me up about igbo people. U run a place down just to uplift your place. In which way has owerri surpassed Calabar. Calabar Is another level. Is it beauty, good roads etc. If u say that Owerri is the cheap se.x capital of Nigeria that would be understandable. Because all I saw in owerri aside bad and decaying infrastructures are battalions of women all over the town seeking for men. U dont call that tourism but disaster & chaos. I refused to share the pictures i took here knowing how some of u will misconstrue it but I will share it anyways if u keep attacking south south states.

Cc: HopeAtHand

soyinka should be hanged for introducing the deadly campus cultism in nigerian universities.

Abagworo:


Busted!

busted what? Pls stop distracting so I can arrange these photos for once and post.

Abagworo:


Like Calabar-Itu road is not worse. This thread is not for going out of your way to look for bad roads as they exist everywhere and worse in other States. For example Mandax has been complaining of a small flood without being aware that Uyo has one of the worst flood challenges in this part of the country.

I don't have time for a career liar like u. Even eket my home town has better road than the shitty owerri that I saw the other day. Well I will go on with the photos.

the photos are ready. I just do not want people to misinterpret this to mean attack on imo state but what I saw in owerri and parts of imo state.

MyGeneration:
Ekafine owerri-ph road is a federal road, Gej used it to purnish Rochas for being in Apc, despite d fact that he did absolutely nothing for Imo people our people still f00lishly voted him.

Gej is also the reason the town is jammed like like a lawless fiefdom? anyways when I post the pix u can then judge whether its gej or rochas that destroyed imo state. I only blame the bus driver that carried us from abuja into via that town.

I just stumble on this, decided to share. me think rochas has destroyed imo state. besides what I suffered on owerri road on my way to p-town is a story for another day. I dont know why all these abuja buses still pass this route? the whole town was jammed with traffic. will share d pix when I settle down.




Workers in Imo shut down state over 13 months unpaid salaries and allowances By Maduabuchi | December 2, 2015

Sick of the inability of the state government to pay salaries and allowances for up to 13 months in some cases, angry civil servants in Imo state took to the street in a protest that virtually shut down the state capital Owerri on Tuesday.

Governor-Rochas-Okorocha

Most of the workers, who wore black attires, a symbol of grief, wept and sang while directing curses at the administration of Governor Rochas Okorocha.

“What have we done to Okorocha to deserve his punishment?’ ‘Governor Nebuchadenazar, pay us our salaries,’ ‘Our children are suffering,’ ‘Rochas, the Idi Amin of our time,’ and ‘We have never had it this bad,” where inscribe on the placards some of them were carrying.

According to the workers, Okorocha mismanagement of the state resources is responsible for his inability to pay workers.

“The judiciary staff are now owed for nine months and the end of their travails appears not yet in sight. We are really in for hard times in this state and the governor is not worried about our plight,” one of the workers said.

According to the Vanguard newspaper, workers of the state’s Water Board have not been paid for 12 months; Library Board, eight months; Due Process, nine months; Imo Marketing Board, 10 months; Imo Specialist Hospital, 13 months; Hospital Management Board, nine months, and Imo ADP, 10 months.

The State Chairman of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Mr. Austin Chilakpu, said that the workers were left with no choice than to embark of the protest following the repeated failure of the government to honour agreements reached with workers in the past.

“The leadership of the NLC had, on November 13, promised workers that the state government would pay their salaries on November 17, based on the agreement it entered into with labour but failed.

“This failure on the part of government made the workers to doubt the inability of the organised labour to fight for their rights,” Chilakpu said.

Source: The Vanguard

Flyoruboy1:


Guy, remember this picture of Idemili (first pic)? And this one of the "Frontline Warriors"? (ABEC stands for Anambra Bi-Atlantic Erosion Commission (ABEC)) Won't you agree that those folks living there would jump at those Ibadan brown roof houses you are deriding? If you live in a glass house, please don't throw stones.

Chai see pain. I don't think they have started posting natural disaster in ibadan yet. What is being posted is just the normal things in ibadan and u are crying already lol

Flyoruboy1:


Ok!!! But they also live here too!!!!!!

how do we know this ibadan if not that you labeled it ibadan but this one has the landmark of ibadan. you cannot run away from this reality

Flyoruboy1:


If you call my pix "selected", what would you then call yours? Ekafine, I put it to you that you're not being fair to me!! Mend your ways!!!!!! Hell fire is REAL!

you cannot run away, this is where ibadanites live

Flyoruboy1:


Guy, slow your roll. "Common man" in Ibadan comes out of these too everyday!!!!!! Dammit!! Stop this foolishness coz we can keep going on and on!

who then lives here?

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Flyoruboy1:


Lol. Everything that doesn't fit your jaundiced view is 'edited'. Guy, everyone has seen that pic you just posted over and over, but they ain't seen these though, so thanks for giving me the opportunity to show another side of Ibadan to Omanbalas. . Now, do you know we have 2 Cinemas in Ibadan? Oh Yeah, there's Viva, and there's Film House. Oh, there's also Dominos Pizza, asides the KFC you saw earlier. Do y'all have those in Anambra? Just asking coz sometimes I just imagine what one can do to unwind out there. You know... .

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stop jumping around, what we asked for is the aerial view of where the common man comes out from everyday. there are malls everywhere even anambra i heard is building 3 right now. ibadan should be knocked out with atomic bomb, this will give birth to new city and not this mess

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Flyoruboy1:


Lol. If you call mine internet pictures, please what are yours? Omo, I think you need a good fvck from your man coz you're obviously on heat or something. Opps! I forgot, you're a dyke. If you like show that picture 1 million times, all you're doing is giving me a platform for Omanbala folks in the village to see a different perspective of Ibadan in it's fullness .

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you are running round in a circle. what we asked is for to show us aerial view of ibadan and not selected internet photos

Flyoruboy1:


FreeGlobe, me sef get your time small.. so I go dey respond you with my own counter pix. Deal? You mention me with pix, I go respond with mine. All na Ibadan.

stop fooling yourself, stop the useless internet pictures and face this real life picture of the current state of ibadan. any picture of ibadan without brown rusty roof is a fake

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Flyoruboy1:


It seems you people just can't help dragging me back to this thread, as much as I prefer to stay away. But I think I have a lil' bit of time on my hands for y'all. . Did you just say "any aerial pic which cocoa house cant be seen is fake"? ? Like seriously? ? And what if I'm taking pix from a different angle? Do some of you reason out of your anus or something? Cocoa house is located in the Ibadan CBD, which is but a minute part of the entire city (a city almost as big as Anambra state). You sound extremely daft, I'm sorry. The photoshopped aerial views you showed of onitsha and awka obviously left out the filthy and dirty parts of them, why's that? Was that deliberate, or was it that your high res camera's angles just aren't wide enough. I won't even bother showing pictures of Dirty Anambra here coz aba goro has already taken care of that bit on your other dedicated threads . But I do know y'all are just mad coz those buildings I pasted back there blows away anything y'all have in the SE. Besides that, y'all have nothing close to the BirdsEye views I've presented of Ibadan thus far. Like for real, y'all need help coz you're sick as fvck.

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Try all you want but this is the real ibadan and not this thing you keep posting. ibadan without the cocoa house is not ibadan. by the way point out those estates you posted on this my picture.

so no suffersticated person is posting yorroberland pictures again?

AfricanFinest:


Immediately I saw it... I withdrawed my statement... Even if it should it exist I doubt is Ibadan...

have you seen why half of yorrobbers claim to be lagos indigenes. they are actually ashamed of their respective states

AfricanFinest:


Why do you prefer editing it... Mumu

he is really ashamed of the roof