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Politics › Re: Reps Threaten To Arrest Okonjo-Iweala Over N4.5trn Contract by FACE(m): 8:28am On Sep 13, 2011

For the avoidance of doubt and for those who cannot read; this contract was awarded in June 2009 to an unregistered company, which later got registered in 2010.

Okonjo Iweala has been summoned because it was awarded by her ministry, eventhough she was not in charge at the time.

NASS is really silly though, cos I doubt that she is able to provide any answers without carrying out investigations. Talk about playing to the gallery.

Politics › Re: Ndigbo Demand 2 More States In The South-East by FACE(m): 2:33pm On Sep 08, 2011

When Ndi-Igbo ask for more states, what we are really asking for is a very level playing field for all. We realise that our land mass in the SE is the smallest in the federation, but our population is quite similar to other zones.

Let me give a few examples of how fewer states and LGAs affect us.

Revenue allocation is based on population, land mass and the number of LGAs. We already lost out in land mass (naturally) and the imbalance in states/LGA per zone also make us lose out. In other words we lose out in all fronts of revenue allocation. The only exceptions are Imo and Abia that get some more from their own share of 13% oil derivation.

Academic pursuit and employment in federal parastatals and other institutions: The quota system element of school admission plays a large role in curtailing the number of more qualifying SEners that would gain admission to schools. For example, about 10% of admission into Fed Unis are on quota bases. This means that if each state had a quota of 2, SE states would have a total of 10 places as against 12 and 14 places for other zones. The same applies to federal employment as well. Because of this system, people from some zones only need to score up to JAMB/University pass mark to gain admission, whereas their SE counterparts don't have the same opportunity due to very high interest in uni education. In my time, the cut off point for mech engine at UNN was 264 for Imo state candidates but candidates from states like Benue were admitted on university pass mark of 200 and still, they could not fill their quota.

Federal character: siting of some institutions and appointments are based on fed xter. For example, federal ministries, federal govt coll and universities in all states mean that SE zone only get 5 for every 6 or 7 for other zones.

Legislative relevance/decisions. SE states have to work harder than other zones in forming alliances to sway the NASS to pass favourable policies, because they have only 15 senators as against other zones with 18 and 21 senators. This becomes even more ridiculous with the House of Reps because of very few constituencies in comparison to other zones.

Many more examples abound.

If we get rid of quota system and some other silly stuff and embrace equal opportunity for all and the right for states to exploit their natural resources and pay tax to FG, just maybe, SEners will become satisfied with 5 states in the zone.

Politics › Re: Why Hasnt The I.g Hafiz Rigim Resigned Or Been Fired? by FACE(m): 4:59pm On Sep 06, 2011

13volts:
like the chief of army sstaff or national security adviser

Yes, like NSO but I can't see what the army has got to do with internal security unless they have been deployed to keep peace.

In any case, the army can only deploy on orders from CICAF, therefore I don't see how you can blame the army for not carrying out a mission they were not sent on.

Politics › Re: Why Hasnt The I.g Hafiz Rigim Resigned Or Been Fired? by FACE(m): 12:54pm On Sep 06, 2011

Ringim's appointment shouldn't have happened in the first place. Mr President played a bad hand from the start or his hands were forced.

Ringim was in charge of Zone (6 ?) with Umuahia as headquaters when kidnapping reigned supreme in Aba and he was rewarded by promoting him to IGP at the very period that the height of his incompetence was at its peak.

How do you expect a man who couldn't solve the problem in Aba to solve a problem that has engulfed a significant portion of the country ?

I am still behind Goodluck, but he should grow some balls and fire those that need to be fired.

Politics › Re: Lost But Found! Nigerian Airforce Plane Lost Midair But Rescued By British Jet F by FACE(m): 11:52am On Sep 01, 2011

werepeLeri:
whats d wahala there?

How then did they find her if she lost radio communication mid air and her coordinates are unknown?

Radar. That's how unidentified planes are detected, intercepted and escorted or shot down by any nation with reasonable radar system. Moreover, finding the C130 would be very easy as it had radio contact initially and was not trying to evade radar and sneak in.

Politics › Re: Economic Blueprint: Jonathan, Okonjo-iweala Are Insincere by FACE(m): 10:01pm On Aug 30, 2011

I hardly get involved with very long articles because I just do not have the time to engage in long arguments. As long as the article was, the writer could not establish the relationship between the sensational headline and the article.

Okonko-Iweala made her goals and targets very clear and the writer could not even fault her on any of those targets, which are macroeconomic stability, fiscal responsibility, reduction of % of recurrent expenditure to annual budget. However, he made a woeful attempt at disparaging her stance on petrol subsidy so let’s go there also.

According to him;

[b]“Another major area of contention is the recurring issue of petroleum subsidy. Experts believe that the government's claim that subsidising petrol hinders its ability to create enabling environment for private sector investment in the downstream petroleum sector is false.

The FG made it known that the huge cost of petrol subsidy was draining government resources.

The claims, they stressed, are unproven. Government's implicit characterisation of cheap energy as wasteful is not economically factual. It is sufficiently chastening to contemplate the ramified costs occasioned by the escalating prices of kerosene, diesel and aviation fuel (which are officially deregulated) owing to inadequate supply at a time there is ample foreign exchange for necessary imports.

The absence of the enabling environment for the private sector to exploit the comparative advantage in the petroleum industry is caused not by petrol subsidy as officially believed, but by the inappropriate handling of crude oil export proceeds down the years.”[/b]

He made reference to “experts” belief that bla bla bla, but you have to know his definition of an expert to understand how mentally lazy he is. For example, the US ambassador is an economic expert because he simply stated what any okada man could have said about the problems facing Nigeria.

I have to doubt the academic credentials of anyone who disputes that “subsidising” petrol is a huge drain on government resources.

My understanding of this statement;

“The absence of the enabling environment for the private sector to exploit the comparative advantage in the petroleum industry is caused not by petrol subsidy as officially believed, but by the inappropriate handling of crude oil export proceeds down the years.”

Is that due to the inability of the govt to provide good roads, constant power supply, security, etc, the private sector has not been encouraged to blossom.

If that is the message, this holds for all sectors of the economy and not limited to the petroleum sector. I daresay that petroleum sector is least affected by those inadequacies because, demands for their products far outstrip supply at the moment and since any serious production in the petroleum industry is gas fired, they have comparative advantage over other thriving manufacturing sectors in Nigeria.

Petroleum subsidy is the chief culprit here, as there is no way any body from the private sector can make a profit by selling at N65/litre unless the crude oil for production is also subsidised for local manufacturers.

Buying crude oil at international market rate and considering the cost of labour in Nigeria, the true cost of petrol should be circa N80-N120. For the avoidance of doubt, a barrel of crude oil yields about 75 litres of petrol, 40 litres of diesel, 15 litres of kerosene, 7 litres of LPG, 12.6 litres of heavy oil and distillates (engine oil and co) and about 25 litres of feedstock for petrochemical industries. How is anyone going to invest in a venture that would not be profitable because of the existence of subsidy that delivers the same product at more than 20% cheaper than locally produced products?

So I think it’s time we got rid of the useless subsidy, which we all know is a guaranteed source of income for the few who have been granted import licenses. Okonjo-Iweala realises that subsidy removal is a very thorny path to follow because it is unpopular with both cabal and public but she is threading carefully and has proposed gradual removal in order not to cause a shock to the system, so all well meaning Nigerians should support her and not attempt disparage her efforts.

Politics › Re: Aguiyi-ironsi Killed True Federalism In Nigeria, Says Ishola Williams by FACE(m): 9:28am On Aug 26, 2011

PhysicsMHD:
I am actually not proving your point here.

Stop and think harder about it.

A simple hypothetical should illustrate my point:

You are 1 of 14 athletes in segregated late 1950s South Carolina and you and your fellow athletes want to compete in the national (U.S.), state-wide competition at your level (high school, college, professional, etc.) and 11 out of 14 are the best in the sport but the state government says it will only fund/sponsor a team which adheres to a racial quota where 6 out of the 12 positions are reserved for people of a different race from your own, regardless of their athletic ability.

(a) Now if these 14 athletes took illegal, violent, and barbaric steps to see that merit was adhered to would you say that they had a black power/latino power/asian power/native american power etc. racial agenda?

(b) Now what if the 14 athletes dressed up in fancy suits, filed eloquent formal complaints, filed lawsuits, peacefully protested and took other civil approaches to see that the racial quota that had been declared without consent or voting was overturned and a merit system was adhered to? Would you still claim they had a racial empowerment agenda? Or would you admit that they were arguing for what is right?

Absolutely nothing has changed between (a) and (b) except for the method. Do not side step the parallels between (b) and modern and recent attempts to correct improper practices and laws by ordinary people. It would be difficult or impossible to ascribe a racial/ethnic empowerment agenda to any and every group which is or almost is racially or ethnically homogeneous and which uses method (b) if the actual complaint has legitimacy. There is no fundamental difference between (a) and (b) except the approach, yet an ethnic agenda is being assigned to a group that used method (a) merely by arguing that the overwhelming majority Igbo makeup of the coupists definitively suggests an ethnic agenda, when one could not just assert that this is self-evident for all cases in which a group which takes either method (a) or (b) in a similar situation is composed overwhelmingly of one ethnic group.

Do note that there are only a few areas where a quota system can be justified, such as to make up for past discrimination with the hope of achieving equality, but can anyone name any past discrimination with regard to the 1950s - 1962 Nigerian military or the officer promotions therein?

With regard to Adekunle, Rotimi, etc., the Westerners and Midwesterners were not in the same position. Scroll down to page 100 of that google books link I posted in my previous post. You can clearly see where it states that prior to the 1962 quota system, two-thirds of officer positions had been going to Easterners. The author of that book is certainly not an Easterner.

Not at all a coincidence. Having a disproportionately higher number of military radicals and/or politicized soldiers (I think this is basically self-evident and I don't think it is at all a conjecture, but if you want, label it as such) in one ethnic group can give the false impression of a conspiratorial group. However having a higher proportion of political soldiers is not an amazing or unbelievable phenomenon when one also considers that there were also higher numbers of officer quality/material soldiers among Igbos with no fundamental explanation for that phenomenon besides culture. If you grow up in a culture where each man is his own sovereign and you bow to no one (not a detailed or precise representation of all Igbo societies, but a rough sketch) outside your own family isn't it plainly obvious that you'll have different political inclinations and responses to crises than someone from a culture where you pay obeisance to at least 8 different title holders and then to a king and never dare to go against their word?

Regardless of whether that is the case, if you want to go into the details, they have all been fleshed out before, but it wouldn't hurt to rehash what you already know.

a) All of those killed were seen as corrupt or morally compromised in some way, including Balewa, from a certain political (not ethnic, some AG Yorubas could have seen him the same way) perspective

b) The killings of the relatives of the targets or those that did not resist arrest were a result of the brutality of the coup (such as killing Akintola's nephew just for coming out of the house) and not merely for ethnic reasons.

c) The fact that the coup was already foiled by the time the "competent" or "honest" members (not Ifeajuna, for example) of the coup would have been able to kill the few lower priority Igbo targets that they had remaining out of their total hit list.

I believe I somewhat understand the insinuation that is being made here but correct me if I'm wrong. In the book Biafra: the Making of A Nation, the authors (Nwankwo and Ifejika), writing very much from that era and from an Igbo perspective, strangely present Balewa's response of "No" to the question of whether he would concede leadership of government to Zik as though there was actually something wrong or inappropriate or power hungry about Balewa's response to that strange question. So if the authors of that book, who were well educated, were biased enough to think that there was anything unjust or wrong or out of place in Balewa not conceding to Zik when Balewa had no obligation to do so if he felt he were indeed the (properly) elected prime minister, it's not hard to imagine that less intelligent and less educated individuals could distort this sort of biased sentiment into a much simpler "get rid of Balewa" idea, but once again I see politics, rather than ethnicity in this. In that simplistic "eliminate and replace Balewa with Zik if he doesn't concede power" idea it's not so much about having an Igbo replace Balewa because of the rigging. Rather, it's about having "Dr" Nnamdi Azikiwe, Zik of Africa, replace Balewa. There is a difference.

Whether or not there was a "replace Balewa with Zik idea" in the air among the coupists, I have to say that with regard to your unstated, implicit conjecture about the significance of this event with regard to the January 1966 coup, I don't see how realizing that Zik had such limited powers would spur Zik or his Igbo supporters in the military to conspire to brutally murder the obstacles to his power (Balewa and co.) and think Zik or somebody more appealing to Igbos could somehow replace him while everybody else sat and watched quietly.

If this is not what you are saying then I should point out that the fact that the military was forced to stand by while a possibly rigged in government was ushered in with the army subservient to this government, while Zik's attempt to call for fresh, more valid elections instead of swearing in Balewa was ignored, is a purely political motivation for trying to get Balewa removed, not an ethnic empowerment motivation. If the consequence of Balewa's elimination and removal would be the empowerment of Zik, then that still does not demonstrate that the motivation for getting rid of Balewa was to empower Igbos. If the argument is that if the NPC and NNDP alliance had not existed (considering point # 3 that you raised) then they would not have attempted to eliminate Balewa and/or more greatly empower Zik, then I would have to point out that that is actually a conjecture or "what if".

If you're actually insinuating that Zik was some co-conspirator (which I don't believe that you even believe) then I would have to point out that this man ceded power twice - once in choosing not to govern an independent Eastern Nigeria in 1957, and again in choosing not to form a coalition with AG in which he was the one actually doing the governing. Then of course, there is Zik's historical romance with the north in order to "unite the country" to consider. This blind enthrallment with the north even lead him to reach out to the north again in 1979. If he had a problem with the North in 1964/1965, and was chiefly interested in Igbo advancement/power, how do we explain his overtures to the north in 1979?

In John de St. Jorre's book on the civil war it mentions that he interviewed certain Igbo intellectuals who admitted that they had already thought about Eastern secession before the 1966 crisis and before Ojukwu even came on the scene and a few had even drafted up proposals and that a very large contributing factor to this was the extremely heated tussle over the replacement of Igbo vice chancellors with non-Igbo vice chancellors in universities in the Western region.

I only mention this "random" fact in the same way you've mentioned your other facts to make a counter-insinuation to the insinuation and implicit conjecture about the motivations of the coup that underlie your posting of this fact. It might not be obvious to others so I should probably just state my counter explicitly: Isn't it glaringly obvious that if the Igbo political and military elite had an issue with the shift of power away from Igbos due to the political realignment that it would actually have been far more in line with their interests and more easily attainable and less risky to pursue secession rather than attempt a military takeover of the country using a thinly stretched squad of primarily Igbo soldiers and then attempt to sustain that takeover?

This is not actually a fact and not even a theory, until you can provide convincing evidence of the Ifeajuna -> Zik tip. (Not Emmanuel Nwobosi, unless he can provide any proof for his allegation. Nwobosi was not even in the same "sub-group" of coup plotters as Ifeajuna, by his own admission, so how would he know?). I also want to know who claimed Ifeajuna and Zik were cousins, I haven't been able to find the source (not Omoigui, but the source) of that claim.

We can actually only conjecture about why Ifeajuna went to Okpara since both are not alive. You seem to be conjecturing about motivations or the significance of "parleying" with Okpara here without solid evidence. I can't recall Michael Okpara being held in any prison like Ademoyega and Ifeajuna after the first coup. I can't recall Okpara being detained or interrogated about the 1966 coup after the fall of Biafra or any other time afterward. I can't recall Michael Okpara being identified by the special branch report as being a possible suspect, coup ally, or mastermind. Perhaps you can explain this? If they wanted to pin somebody for being a key mastermind of a coup that was in line with UPGA interests, why not one of the most key people in UPGA? Yet nobody did. Not the coupists that confessed, not the federal government before or after the civil war. Nobody suggested any wrongdoing on his part, yet it would have been so easy to do so.

I also wonder why you don't mention that Fajuyi (military governor the West, Yoruba man) is known to have helped the coupists. What motivation would you read into that? A Yoruba + Igbo coup? Or would you here admit that even if Okpara was somehow involved (and there is still no evidence), it still could easily be a politically motivated coup, rather than an ethnically motivated coup?

I can take a crack at explaining it but you'll say it's all conjecture. Nevertheless, I think my view is reasonable enough.

Michael Okpara was UPGA. The coup was definitely in line with UPGA's interests, though there is no evidence that it was sponsored by UPGA. Ifeajuna went to Okpara for protection and/or advice now that he was a dead man after the coup had failed, thinking he would find a sympathizer in the man. Now was Okpara (doctor/politician) supposed to somehow arrest Ifeajuna (soldier) while Ifeajuna was there? Ifeajuna then left upon failing to get any protection or guarantees for his safety. It's that simple to me.

And once again, what you posted doesn't even prove or demonstrate an association or intent without an insinuation or conjecture ("parleying" with an ally, for instance) applied to it.

Nzeogwu's words are not to the effect that it was an Igbo coup but more in line with stating that those who bungled the coup in the south were sentimental and didn't have the ruthlessness to see their responsibilities through. Nzeogwu got into a heated argument with somebody who pointed out the ethnic pattern of the killings while the coup was still going on. He would not then go and state for no reason that it was a partially ethnically motivated coup later when he had blatantly said otherwise around the time of doing the actual killing.

Please tell me what Emmanuel Nwobosi said that could be interpreted as acknowledging that there was an ethnic undertone. I was under the impression that he said that Ifeajuna failed the other coupists.

Your posts are always very long and I wonder where you get the energy ; but every point is always well thought of. That was very brilliant and very well articulated. Personally, I shy away from topics that are likely to take my time.

Properties › Re: Building Of A 5 Bedroom Executive Duplex In Enugu by FACE(m): 9:24am On Aug 24, 2011

spyder880:
I am preparing to keep 4 trips of sand, 6 trips of stone, 150 bags of cement on site before the deck, it may be enough, it may need a little more or less than that.

Thanks.

Properties › Re: Building Of A 5 Bedroom Executive Duplex In Enugu by FACE(m): 1:26pm On Aug 23, 2011

Hi Spider, good job bro. How many trips of sand + stone and bags of cement would be sufficient for the decking ?

Properties › Re: The Business And Profitability Of Rental Properties by FACE(m): 8:14pm On Aug 15, 2011

Fhemmmy:
Yes i know . . . how many rooms do you have there?

spyder880:
My hostel is a 22 room face me I face you, I just fell for the corner plot.

Politics › Re: Okorocha Begins Delivery Of Free Kerosene In Imo State by FACE(m): 9:58am On Aug 08, 2011

I don't support this idea of free kerosene. We need something that is sustainable without being a drain on public funds. Since he can obtain kerosene so easily, he should be making sure that people are buying at normal pump price and not giving it away at the expense of the state. How about channeling that money towards equipping the state hospital with MRI , CT scanners and dialysis equipment ?

The kerosene hardship is as a result of non-availability at the station pumps, forcing people to buy from black markets at more than three times the pump price. By the way, 111000L of kerosene is just three tankers of kerosene so I don't see what he aims to achieve with that stunt.

We, Imo people do not like stunts and handouts, we just like to see our money go a good distance, so he should help us by helping kerosene dealers (since he can do that)lift kerosene from NNPC without having to pay huge bribes.

Rochas has taken a few suspect decisions so far, but I will wait and see how it plays out.

Politics › Re: Athan Achonu Builds ?new Dubai? In Imo State: Says, ?we Have Funding For It by FACE(m): 9:55am On Aug 07, 2011

I wonder why guys are bothering with someone who gathers information about a place from driveby assessments. Someone sits in the middle row of L300 being suffocated by 3 other fellas, goes through a place and takes a head count of prost.itues and also measures the size of the place. Excellent !

He is suffering from self delusion of the highest order and should be ignored. Unless he had free education, his folks should demand a refund of their money.

Politics › Re: Athan Achonu Builds ?new Dubai? In Imo State: Says, ?we Have Funding For It by FACE(m): 10:08pm On Aug 05, 2011

Some people are very silly and absolute knob heads. How can anyone in their right senses be talking about what another person should do with his own money ? If any of you twats want some other investments, why don't put your money where your mouths are ? Is there any law that has restricted any of the twats here from investing in any venture they want to invest in.

Some people here are incorrigible skeptics, everlasting whingers, bad bellians, lazy brained paupers, cannot invest a kobo to save their lives and completely reliant on paid employments , yet would want to talk about how others should invest their money.

He who dares - wins. Leave they man alone and don't cry more than the bereaved. If he fails, he fails and if he wins he wins. It's his money after all.

Politics › Re: Enugu Moves To Prevent Farmer/herdsmen Clashes- Igbodefender.com by FACE(m): 12:04pm On Aug 05, 2011

Lands do not fall from the sky and I hope the owners of the lands are paid the correct amount for their lands and the herdsmen pay for their use of the grazing lands.

Politics › Re: Athan Achonu Builds ?new Dubai? In Imo State: Says, ?we Have Funding For It by FACE(m): 9:42am On Aug 05, 2011

jason2010:
Owerri do not need another gaddam hotel, there are waaaay too many hotels. Why don't Chief Achonu use that money for factories to employ youths

It's his money and his call on what to do with it.

exago:
the aerial view of these roads are good, but I doubt if the condition of these roads are that good.

I don't know, but they were quite smooth when I used to walk upon Enugu. They are all fed roads tho, so I won't be shocked if they have gone very bad.

Politics › Re: Athan Achonu Builds ?new Dubai? In Imo State: Says, ?we Have Funding For It by FACE(m): 1:37am On Aug 05, 2011

Enugu is a fine end in terms of road connections. There are so many of these connections around Enugu, but let me no spam this thread.

Politics › Re: Athan Achonu Builds ?new Dubai? In Imo State: Says, ?we Have Funding For It by FACE(m): 1:32am On Aug 05, 2011

or this

Politics › Re: Athan Achonu Builds ?new Dubai? In Imo State: Says, ?we Have Funding For It by FACE(m): 1:30am On Aug 05, 2011

I keep wandering why there are so many hotels in Owerri, but try getting a room at weekends.

romeo:
PH is not in the East, And Enugu is in the East too. Enugu is the most bubbling Eastern city, and without doubt light years ahead of owerri in modernity. We can promote Owerri without lying about it.

Enugu and owerri na my ends and they have different kinds of beauty. Owerri was almost built from the scratch and is very modern it terms of layout and outlook. In terms of being modern, I can only give Abuja the flag ahead of Owerri and I have being around Naija. I don't know of any other city in Nigeria with extensive network of underground drainage. Umuahia has it but not as extensive as Owerri.

Now Enugu has natural beauty like northern Nigeria with their rolling hills and in my opinion if they work with Nature would be a sight to behold. Enugu is bigger and probably more bubbling than Owerri but Owerri has better hotels. But one thing I love most about Enugu is the connecting/peripherial road network like these:

Travel › Re: Where Have You Lived In Nigeria-only Places one year and more please by FACE(m): 6:40pm On Jul 06, 2011

Imo, Enugu, Rivers, Lagos, Kaduna, Plateau, Abia and Kogi.

Negro_Ntns:
When I applied to Nsukka to study astronomy they used quote system to reject my interest.

I already was very fluent in Yoruba and Hausa, could write and read both and was interested in completing my WAZOBIA identity with igbo by studying in East.

So I ended back in North - Zaria.

Your people discriminated against me and robbed me of the chance to learn igbo.

I should report this to human rights grp to look into your discriminative practices against teenagers.

If you did not make UNN, it means that you did not make the merit cut off mark. Chances are that you also did not make the university pass mark of 200 either as that might qualify you to be admitted on quota depending on the level of performance of people from your state.

In any case quota admission is always less than 10% of total intake in UNN, otherwise the educationally disadvantaged people will just steal us-merit guys chances.

The cut off point is always very high for eastern states because of the competition to go there, therefore quota system never worked for us.

However, I had a friend from Kogi who was admitted to study medicine with a score of 220, whereas my friend from Imo who had 263 missed the cut by 4 points, but he was able to get uniport with some strings as uniport merit cut was 243 for medicine.

Travel › Re: Welcome To Aba by FACE(m): 11:07am On Jul 06, 2011

chino11:
This is absurd. Do you think we are all dunces here. How can you post google earth as a town landscape. Am sure you know your dealing with an environmental scientist here. Can you please post an aerial photographic view of aba Get a helicopter to to that ok. We have done a survey in the town, aba is a semi-urban town with no infrastructure, no planning, no organization. Have you traveled thru the express in aba before?? Did you see the menace, the horror, the environmental degradation threatening the human exixtence in Aba You guys should start thinking of how to save your dying home state from going down. Ignorants!!!!!!!

You are uncouth and ignorant and I am not going to descend to your level. You have only confirmed that your knowledge of Aba and Umuahia are from your express road drive-by.

You call yourself an environmental scientist but you lack in analytical abilities. FYI my first degree is in Industrial Chemistry and I have further degrees in Environment and Pollution control. I also employ labour in the UK providing environmental services (Asbestos management consultancy and project management and Legionella Control)

Your understanding of environmental science is poor and you equate the role of the environmental scientist to that of an urban and regional planner or a surveyor, otherwise I don't see how you can equate your degree as having to do with aerial photographs. It shows that you crashed through school without knowing what you were studying.

Onlytruth already provided a snapshot of Aba and I am not going to oblige you. This is my last response to you.

Travel › Re: Welcome To Aba by FACE(m): 8:35am On Jul 06, 2011

kasiem:
Ezeuche, i'm not living in anambra, i only visit my village, which is located in nnewi south, periodically. And within my area, the government is not doing bad. So, it behoves any person that sees where gov't is shortcoming to criticise,inorder, to make that gov't (not the people) feel abashed. The moribund state of aba need not to be embellished with e-publicity.

Nobody is disputing the level of disrepair of Aba Urban roads and no one is disputing the poor sanitation either. However, you can criticise the government without trying to knock the hardworking people of Aba and act like its a ghost town with no activity going on there. You do a great disservice to Aba people when you don't give them credit where it is due and not acknowledge the things that make Aba strong. A sick man still deserves some dignity.

kasiem:
I'd love to visit this your aba, cos it seems that i am living in the fake one.

Those places I posted are still there; I have not put them in my pocket. Notice that all the pictures I posted are the industrial areas only and I mentioned the areas I was posting. If you actually live in Aba, go to those areas and verify for yourself.

I am from Umuahia, same as the governor and I admit that he has given a lot of attention to Umuahia, but he is a dunce to not know that Aba is Abia's goldmine and he is slowing down the momentum of the city.

Yes, Aba is suffering from infrastructural neglect, but the basic foundation is there and the only work needed is a facelift and rejuvenation.

Travel › Re: Welcome To Aba by FACE(m): 1:21am On Jul 06, 2011

Lastly, while coming in through PH, there are also small and large scale industries left and righ of the Express spanning a huge distance towards Tonimas or toll gate.

It is hightime someone stood up for ABA.

Travel › Re: Welcome To Aba by FACE(m): 1:13am On Jul 06, 2011

Still Osisioma Industrial Estate. Some people just cruise by the express and they imagine that they have been to Aba or Umuahia. In short make we leave am like that before I spam this place.