Umunne na umunna. O di mma otu unu si gbachizia ndia nkiti. Ndi no na otu nzuko eze; okwa unu ahuna ihe mere m ji si na anyi agaghi e-buru ihe anyi kpara na nzuko gbasara oganihu anyi,wee buputa ha ka akpaa maka ya n'ebea. Onye ndi iro gbara gburu gburu na eche ndu ya nche mgbe nile. Ekwere m kwesie ike na ihe nile anyi n'akpa bu ihe anyi ga ahu isi njedebe.

Anyi agaghi abu o-ka mma na ama; a na esi n'ulo mara mm puta n'ama !

Umunna, ndi na achi anyi na owuwa anyanwu, a-naghi achizi anyi achizi. Ebu na uche anyi na nzuko eze bu na anyi ga na eweta atumatu oganihu owuwa anyanwu mee ka ha rue ndi okwesiri iru aka. Oge mkpotu a-gafeela, ugbua bu omume.

I buru nwa afo owuwa anyanwu choro ka umunne gi no na ulo na agba na okporo uzo di mma, nuo mmiri dimma, ga ulo ogwu na uloakwukwo di mma, biko gaa ka idee aha gi n'ihi na igwe bu ike.

Onwere ufodu n'ime anyi maara ka esi eru ndi ochichi anyi; anyi choro ka ndi ahu puta gosi onwe ha. O buru na i chobeghi i-puta na ihe maka ezigbo aha gi, o nwere email nzuzo a na akpo hush.com; were email ebe ahu ka iruo anyi aka.

FACE anaghi etu onu, mana FACE anaghi etinye aka n'ihe n'enweghi atumatu ma obu ogwugwu. A naghi m enwe ohere ma oli, mana e weputara m ohere maka oga n'ihu anyi. E lekwara m anya, na mgbe n'adighi anya onye FACE bu ga aputa ihe.

Eze anyi bu Only_truth n'agbali sie ike na ihe gbasara njiko na oganihu ndi Igbo. Ka anyi kwado ya maka na o dighi ofele.

Nke a bu okwu ikpete azu m ga ekwu n'ebe-a.

Ndu_chucks and Gbawe, I would ignore you on another day, because I have seen your posts and I know that you breathe and live antagonism. Your views and what you think do not count on this issue. Really, I would not engage you because you are not worth my time; Ndu-chucks, not on this occasion, Gbawe, not ever. Ndu_Chucks, if you believe this statement:

It is this kind of egotistical mentality and unwillingness to share the table of discussion with intelligent women, which is substantially responsible for the demise of Ndigbo.

then charcoal is white. Subjugation and Igbo women do not appear in the same sentence. Look inward and take thine own advice.

BlackPikiN:



Are you freaking outta your mind.

In Nigeria I repeat it is only the Igbo that have their women in elective and sensitive posts.

If I lie, bring your own make I see am.

I repeat it is only the SE women in Nigeria that have continuously fought their to the top without fear and intimidation in the midst of strong willed men.

Again if I lie, state your own facts.




[b]Eze Onlytruth, Point B, ACM10 and the rest, una suppose apologize to Ogugua, she got a say too.

If there's any strong young Igbo lady, I repeat Ogugua bu Ada eji agamba!
Quote mua anywhere.[/b]


Gbawe you be mumu as usual. Na to quote and write long nonsense na him dem go dey see you.

Nonsense nincompoop.

Blackpikin, no one owes her any apology. You said that "she got a say too". Well, her " got a say too" ends where other people's "got a say too" start from. In other words, she can not be infringing on other people's rights to free association, just because she got a say too. Surely, she can make her points without being condescending to other people's choices and preferences. Ada eji a ga mba or not, her challenge to other people's fundamental rights to association and choice are nothing but fascism.

Who is she to dictate what other people's priorities should be ? If she has issues that are of priority to her, why not take action on them and leave others to take actions on what they perceive to be a priority ?

I do not care what people say or do as long as they don't try to force their views on me, infringe on my rights or try to ridicule my prerogatives. I am one of the most unbiased Nigerians you can find on this planet and my friends cut across all groups and yes, I understand all three major languages in Nigeria , but I will not tolerate rubbish from people or sell my roots for porridge. I do not engage in tribal mudslinging or ethnic baiting and my few posts in 5 years speak for themselves.

Surely, I can accommodate being Igbo and Nigerian at the same time; I have done that all my life. Without any atom of doubt, I can also accommodate being Igbo and Biafran at the same time. None of those choices are written in blood and set in stone !

My fundamental being is Igbo, which is a sin qua non to my being Nigerian or any other nationality within that geographic location. This means that I will always look towards making ala Igbo a comfortable place for my generations to come, because there is no country without origin. This should also rub off on Nigeria as place if the Ndu_chucks and Gbawe of this world also adopt the same approach to better their ethnic lands, which are also sin qua non to Nigeria.

PointB:

Let me pick the fuel subsidy strike and a few other comments of yours.

If we (Igbos) did not join in that strike, does that not mean anything to you? Have you forgotten that prior to that strike, for all intent and purpose, it appears like Igbos were being targeted and hacked down in their numbers by Boko Haram in the North? Besides, was fuel subsidy the biggest headache of Igbo, and indeed Nigeria? When the issue of second niger bridge, and international airport, and indeed federal presence in Igboland is what we should be protesting for? Look around you. Is Igboland not part of Nigeria? To what extent has successive central government demonstrated this? Beside, are there no bigger issues in Nigeria than the fuel subsidy removal that warrants such vigorous politically motivated protest?. I thought you will be pleased that Igbos did not go the way of herd mentality!

As per showing our full potential on matter concerning Ndi Igbo, I don't know where that come from, and I haven't really observed it. And I think if Igbo were to really act selfishly, the bulk of our investments will find the way back home. In any case, Nigeria is tending towards regionalism, if we can get as many Igbo man and woman to think 'Igboland' that's a fine start.

By the way to avoid contradicting yourself, you should consider quitting the Anambra association in California, and join the Nigeria Association, as it make more sense since you are more 'Nigerian' than other (Igbos). But I bet you won't, as you will realise like some of us that you disdain here that indeed 'Charity begins at home.' and that a prosperous, developed and thriving Igboland is good for Nigeria. And like OnlyTruth said, who want Biafra if we can have a just and fair Nigeria?

Peace be unto you my sister!

Point B, you captured her glaring hypocrisy, and I would leave it at that. She belongs to her hometown association, yet she had the cheek to ask what others were doing forming their own associations.

What she did was to challenge a very important human right instrument and a very important bill of rights, which is covered by the first amendment of the country she lives in. A right, which many people fought for and died for: FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION/ASSEMBLY.

People with fascist views all have one thing in common; they do not respect other people’s freedom of choice. It has to be “my way or the high way” with them. It is laughable, pathetic and psychopathic that those that support fuel subsidy should feel that those of us who do not should join them in their protests to prove our Nigerian hood. It is even more pathetic when those with such strong views live in societies that recognise freedom of choice, right to remain silent and freedom of speech.

Anybody that asks for the essence of our association and tries to make a mockery of it does not know what it takes to be Igbo. Our fore fathers have been in associations with things to show for it.

Onye Igbo obula that is in touch with ala Igbo can testify that we have built schools, health centres, bought transformers, done rural electrification because we hold meetings (Association) where we decide on projects we should execute in Ala nnaa. Why should we stop or hide because someone feels that we should start building from top to down ?

Not that we owe any explanation to hypocrites, but for the benefit of those that share our views; the aim of this our association is to bring renaissance to Igbo land and Nigeria at large. We are on the move and we plan to start reaching our leaders through contacts and resources available to us.

We have intelligent and professional people among us and we intend to transfer our knowledge, experiences and ideas to Igbo land and regional neighbours who are interested without any charge for our time or services. This forum/association is open to everyone who is interested in development, equity and justice. Ndi Igbo and friends of Ndi Igbo are welcome to join. Nairaland cannot provide us with the platform for the serious and practical discussions that we hold.

Charity begins at home and we have chosen that we must put our house in order before trying to put the whole Nigeria in order. Who says that we cannot fix our homes while contributing to the nations growth as well? Life is not a one way street, so everyone must multitask to get anywhere.

Forward march to the task ahead !

Onlytruth:

People like you are what we call "Ndi ogba ka o data ego" - translated (because I can almost be certain that you cannot read Igbo ) it means those who would throw their clans, families and friends under the bus just to win the approval of others, or to appear "fair minded". If you were a man, you would be called something much worse (like efulefu, lol).
I say this, not on the strength of your post above, but on your general posts on Nairaland.
Our (IGBO - yes we are still here and will continue to talk! ) people say that "Onye siri na umunna ya na awi ara, na ara nke onye ahu ka!" -a person who thinks that ALL his kinsmen are mad, that person is suffering from the worst kind of insanity.
Nuff said.

This thread is not really for people like you who thinks that Igbo redemption lies in our disappearance, or total silence and subsumption under other groups in Nigeria. To you, we should never self identify; we should just shut up and tip toe around, unheard. Unfortunately for people like you with the WORST type of inferiority complex and self hate, we are a nation of about 40 million people.
Only a fool would believe that such a HUGE nation can ever be silent.
Keep deceiving your self and your few brainless minions on Nairaland.

Good response to arrant nonsense. Ndeewo !

It's possible that the op is a fake. However, I believe in looking at the content of a message regardless of the messenger and there after I can decide on what to do with the message.

I have also heard a few things regarding Massob but it is also possible that those things I heard were done by pseudo MASSOB members. If that be the case; it is a failure on MASSOB leadership's part. We want a Biafra that respects the rights of individuals, not a mafia set up.

I have my reservations about MASSOB, yet I have the Biafran dream. Let us give ears to all parties regarding the activities of MASSOB and if there is any truth to the allegations against them, we should be speaking as one to condemn those activities and dissociate ourselves from them. I had my own experience when Bakassi boys were in Onitsha and it was disgraceful. I believe that MASSOB is also made up of a large chunk of the bakassi boys.

There are always miscreants in organizations, but it is the responsibility of the leadership to call them to order.

Onlytruth Nwanna, o ruo kwala afo iri-abuo m dere Igbo n'uloakwukwo. N'eziokwu, onye maara Igbo ofuma tulee ihe m dere, o nwere ike inye m akara ato n'ime akara iri.Ihe kachasi mkpa n'edemede obula bu rikom, kpom na i-de okwunile na mkpuru na mkpuru ma o bu n'ahiri n'ahiri. Ndewo.

Nedu210 Nwanna, aghotara m ihe i kwuru, mana ihe m jiri tapia ufodu okwu ndi ahu na bekee bu maka na ha a-bughi okwu ndi igbo nile na ekwu mgbe nile.E dere m ya otu ahu ka onye obula ghota, n'ihi na o bughi onye obula maara ufodu okwu ndi ahu. O nweghi onye uta diri na nkea, n'ihi na ufodu okwu ndia bu okwu ohuru nke mere na soso ndi guru akwokwo Igbo na ndi bi n'ala Igbo na ndi na a-ga uka (church) e doro n'Igbo bu ndi ga ama ihe ha putara.O bughi ndi bekee nile maara ka esi ede okwu bekee.

N'ezie, a-hutubeghi m onye n'ekwu ihe di ka "supee re m aha gi", kama ihe onye obula n'ekwu bu " spelliara m aha gi", "ngwa nye m example" "e use-ola m uzo ahu last week".

Igbo anyi zuru oke, mana eziokwu bu na olile anya nzuputa asusu Igbo di n'aka ndi ime obodo na ndi okenye. Onye Igbo bi na nnukwu obodo n'ekwu okwu, o na ejikari okwu bekee agwa ya ka oburu engligbo.O bu ihe nwute, mana o bu ihe mere eme.

Odumchi, jisie ike; i bu nwa mazi kajara akaja. Ekele diri gi.

Chinenye, I maara otu esi ede Igbo izugbe ofuma. Jisie ike.

N'obodo m n'ime Umuahia, o buru na ndi okenye kara aka noro na nzuko na ekwu okwu, o nwere ka ha si ekwu okwu n'usoro n'usoro n'ato m uto. Onye kwu chaa okwu, o si "aka m ji a-habeghu m ye" (literally : i have not let go of my grips, meaning; my interests are still on this issue).Mgbe ndi okenye no n'ama !

Umunne na umunna, aka m ji a-habeghi m ye !

Umunne na umunna, ekele diri unu nile. O na amasi m na onye obula no ebe-a na agba mbo i-de Igbo. O bu kwa eziokwu na anyi kwesiri i-gba mbo n-akuziri umu anyi asusu anyi, maka na nwanne di na mba.

Gbasara i-de na Igbo izugbe; o ga ekwe nghota karia ma o-buru na anyi na ede ihe dika e si a supee (spell) ya na Igbo izugbe, karia i-de ya ka osi a-da na nti anyi. O buru na anyi dee ya otu-a, o ga ekwe nghota karia, ma obuladi (regardless) ma i ji olu ndi unu dee ya. Atumatu (example): anhu = ahu, hwe = ihe etc. O buru na anyi jisie ike dee ihe ndi obere-a ofuma, mgbe o gbadoro anyi, mee ka anyi dee ya ka osi ada anyi na nti (olu anyi), onye na-agu ya, ga-agu ya serere wererem (smoothly).

Ihe ozo di mkpa, bu rikom na kpom (punctuations). Rikom na kpom na-eme ka mmadu mara mgbe o kwesiri izu ike.O buru na i-dere gawa n'ihu ma i-tinyeghi rikom na kpom, o ga e-siri ndi ozo ike i-guta.

Ihe ozo anyi kwesiri i-ma bu na a, e, i,!, o , o(with dot) na aru oru onochiri mkpo aha (pronoun), mbu-uzo (prepositions)na enyemaka ngwa( helping verb).

O buru na i dee onochiri mkpo aha na mbu-uzo dika ha bu okwu nke onwe ha (separate from the verb or conjunction), o ga ekwe nghota karia. I nwere ike i-deko enyemaka ngwa onu ma o buru na i nwere okara elu na okara ala (accents) na computa gi; ma o-bu were okara etiti (hyphen -) jikoo ha onu.

Onye nwekwara ntuzi aka(corrections) na ihe ndi-a, tuzikwaraa anyi aka n'ihi na otu onye anaghi a-bu ama-ama amachaghi amacha.

jason123:

I guess most Northerners now prefer Abuja airport to Kano.

I don't think so. Nearly all the northern states have their own functional federal government built airports. Kano is nearly 500KM away from kano. Why would anyone living near Katsina, Yola, Kaduna,Jos, Ilorin prefer Abuja airport, which is moons away from their local airports ?

Onlytruth: ^^ Contd.
Now if you add a statistically very SIGNIFICANT + or - 30% of traffic at Lagos which usually terminates in SE, the Enugu and Owerri airports if given full international operations, would dwarf Kano, and even Abuja.

You people should learn to speak the truth always even if it hurts you.

Spot on. All airports in the north are operational international airports with the exception of markurdi airport. According to the last stats (2009) from FAAN. Katsina int. airport had more international passengers than domestic passengers. All the int airports in the north get a significant portion of their passenger numbers from int flights.

Now according to FAAN, Enugu and Owerri airports handle more domestic passengers and flights than any airport in the north apart from Abuja. Enugu had 6286 flights and 366592 passengers while Kano domestic handled 4135 flights and 188722 passengers and kano internation 1971 flights and 134760 passengers making a total of 6106 flights and 323482 passengers. Owerri had 4362 flights and 276962 passengers which also surpass kano domestic.

http://faannigeria.org/documents/statistics/2009-Annual-Passenger-Traffic.pdf

http://faannigeria.org/documents/statistics/2009-Annual-Aircraft-Movement.pdf

Given that international passengers from the east end up somewhere near Owerri, Enugu or PH;granting full international status to Owerri and Enugu will see both airports alsopicking up numbers in international flights and passengers.

Finally, I think it is criminal that nearly all the airports in the north have full international airport status while airports like Enugu, Owerri, Benin and Warri remain local airports. This summarises the cheating that goes on in Nigeria.

Regarding what our reps do in Abuja; mostAll of them only go there to grab their own share of GMG bags and I don't think it is a PDP thing. Ngige is regarded as a progressive, but have you opened the webpages anyday and seen any thing (bill, proposal etc) credited to him? It is time to start teaching them a lesson. They have been going scot free because the electorate only focus on their governors and not realising that their reps are also accountable to them. We should start educating our people about the responsibilities of our reps.

Ndu_Chucks, yes we can accomplish a lot on our own if we tried harder, just like we achieved Sam Mbakwe Airport on our own; just like we set up Anambra and Imo universities as pioneer state universities in Nigeria when we realised that quota system and being "educationally advantaged" were holding us down. Yes, that is our new message; a message of self help and economic growth just like our fathers did, just like we plan and execute during our christmas meetings in Ala Igbo. However, heaven knows that we are not going to forfeit our own fair share of federal government projects because of self help; if not every state should self help and leave FG alone.

Yes, Mungo Park discovered the Niger where it was hiding from the natives. It was hard job in those days when natives had to rely on well and rainwater, until good ol' Mungo happened along, grabbing the Niger by the scruff of the neck and presenting it to the natives.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NIgerianWorldForum/message/132321
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/asaba/message/13577
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NigerDeltaForum/message/3138

If you are referring to the links above, none of them have any verifiable source or link to govt documents and the tables are simply a figment of someones imagination in the absence of any source to back them up. However, this link http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/ext/latest_release/ssd09.pdf? has a source and is verifiable.

I will leave this thread now and I hope people have learnt their lessons about making outrageous claims designed to belittle others.

ekt_bear: Actually, anyone mind typing up Table 3.26b and 3.26c (pages 174 and 175) from this: http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/ext/latest_release/ssd09.pdf?

Type up and share as a spreadsheet.

FACE or someone else?

I have done a quick addition of the first two periods from pg 174-175 and they check out with the zonal totals I used. You can do same to verify.

I missed the official record you posted; I only saw the data from the other thread which was debunked at the time. Could you please post the source of the official record your referred to ? Thanks.

From the data: https://www.nairaland.com/925938/which-state-most-educated-nigeria/9


In 2005

SE App = 249618 SEAd = 41026 Ratio = 6:1

SW App = 249618 SWAD = 22901 Ratio = 9:1
A commensurate proportionality in SW Admission should no less than 34351 admissions. Percentage shortfall = 33%

2006
SE app =275758 SE Ad = 26498 Ratio = 10:1

SW app = 227834 SW ad = 17001 Ratio = 13:1
A commensurate proportionality in SW Admission should no less than 21667
Percentage shortfall = 22%

2007

SE app = 263144 SE ad = 32448 Ratio = 8:1

SW app = 218763 SW ad = 25578 Ratio =9:1
A commensurate proportionality in SW Admission should no less than 27496
Percentage shortfall = 7%

Average percentage shortfall for period = 20.7%

From the data so far, it is clear that SE applicants are more in number and also more successful in securing admission (higher pass rate).

It is good to ignore some of the B.S going on here, but once in a while records have to be set straight for those who like to put others on the defensive.

Sorry for the poor display. See https://www.nairaland.com/925938/which-state-most-educated-nigeria/9 for a better display of tables.

Oroma (epe in Umuahia ) –Orange
Pear – ube
Ube bekee - Avocado
Udara- star apple
Icheku (nkwa -Umuahia. Nchichi - Owerri)– velvet tamarin
Ede – Cocoyam (also known as edo in the carribean; one of few Igbo words still in use in the carribean. Another is unu which also means unu)
Okwuru – Okro/okra ( another word derived from Igbo)
Ona – water yam
Ji – yam
Akpu (Jigbo in Umuahia) – cassava
Unene – banana
Ogede (Abirika – Asa-Ngwa axis) – plantain
Egusi (eli-li – umuahia) – melon seed
Ugu (full name- akwukwo ugu) – Fluted pumpkin leaves
Ugba – oil bean
Oji- kola nut
Ugiri – now to be known as giris ( © Ify Always ) in the absence of any known name.
Oha/ora- name unknown
Okazi - ?

Odunnu: Berry- icheku
what is ugiri?

Icheku is velvet tamarin.

Udara is star apple - maybe.

Odenigbo Aroli:

The uzo iyi(way to the stream) is performed to usher in the new farming season; It is used to beseech the gods and the spirits of the land for a successful farming season. On the day of the uzo iyi,all the streams and rivers in the town are barricaded with a virgin palm leaves and nobody and I mean nobody goes to the rivers or the streams! There are twenty three villages in umuoji and each comes to the festivals with more than one masqurade. This festival has been in existence since the 14th century. Governor Peter Obi attended last years festival during his speech discloses that it was the masqurade from from Umuoji that helped Anambra state to win the first position at the 2006 Abuja cultural carnival tagged; Abuja carnical and won the second place in 2007 for Anambra state. The festival attracts personalities from all walks of life and most Idenmili Kings do attend. The governor is currently lobbying big corporation for sponsorship of the festival just like Ofalla Onicha.

Ife di na Oji !

That's nice. Ours is limited to the two hamlets (one village) that use our local stream. Nobody goes to the stream on that day and there is some merriment, which is very very low key in comparison to yours. I like yours though.

There used to be a masquerade festivals in the east, which attracted masquerades from everywhere including Calabar areas. The festival was stopped because the first three ended up with masquerades showing off their strengths.

The first one was in Enugu and one masquerade from Udi silenced the other masquerades drums by "remote control", until they paid some money. All of them came prepared for the Aba festival, and according to my brother (he probably added salt and pepper)spectators were being pinned at the gates by masquerades. There was even a case of mortar and pestle arriving the scene unaccompanied.(yeah my bros tells them stories like dat)

The next one was in Owerri and was good. The last one that got the festival suspended was in Enugu. Udi masquerade tried their antics again and silenced many drum sets but not all. So they decided to take on the masquerades individually and came face to face with masquerades from Izuogu the land of the great Pericoma.

Udi masquerades were able to silence Izuogu masquerades initially, but Izuogu restored their sets after breaking some eggs. Then to everyone's amazement, Izuogu set Udi masquerade on fire by "remote control". Onye obuna na oso.

Anyways good on your people and I hope you keep it up.

Obiagu1:
I recognise that dialects differ but not when an animal is given a name that belongs to another animal.
I try to incorporate the different dialects if I know them. Alligator is found mainly in North America. Aghu/Aghi is actually a small alligator looking reptile; I can't find the name now. Just a little bigger than lizard.
Ijere is a type of ant and not a name for ants.
Camel is anyinya (there's nothing like [b]e[/b]nyinya). I don't know the name for a horse.
Calling Kite egbe by someone does not change its actual name. Kites remain Nkwo, ogankwo etc but not egbe. Egbe is bigger than kite (nkwo).

Obiagu, Kite is egbe and falcon is nkwo or ogankwo. While they are both birds of prey, egbe (kite) is subtle, forever soaring, seraching for and simply picking it's prey from the ground unawares, but the falcon (ogankwo) is a fighting bird and engages other birds and animals much bigger than itself.Inyinya is standard Igbo for horse while inyinya-ibu refers to donkey and maybe camel.

Brilliant. Your uzo iyi festival must be great. So many mmanwu in your villa. I can't count more than 4 from my own villa.

Does your uzo iyi festival have any thing to do with maintaining the path to your stream/river/spring water ? We do have ikwa Uzo (path maintenance )or ikwa uzo Iyi (river path maintenance), but not on a grand scale like yours.

Kobojunkie: The way people confuse freebie with ACHIEVEMENT, e get as e be. ROFLMAO!!!


So, should we then conclude that when Jonathan offered free Rice and Umbrella rice during elections, that was also an achievement of his??

Madam Kobo, I can see that you have dropped your "mad man jaw drop" emoticon and reverted back to the good ol' ROFLMAO. By the way, have you managed to contact "Imo help desk" to find out if there is an airport in Owerri? Oh, never mind, I know what your response will be:

And again:

Kobojunkie: The way people confuse freebie with ACHIEVEMENT, e get as e be. ROFLMAO!!!


So, should we then conclude that when Jonathan offered free Rice and Umbrella rice during elections, that was also an achievement of his??

Of course I have my reservations regarding some of his policies, but it would be foolhardy to insinuate that he has achieved nothing in the short spell of his administration.

For starters, I am not very sure whether he thought through some of his socialist moves. The free kerosene was a one off, so I will cut him some slack on that as that was a gesture to the public that his administration will consider their needs.

The free education was also a good idea for primary and secondary schools, but I think that free education for Imo indigenes in Imo State tertiary institutions should have been replaced with a scholarship/bursary scheme, which would be academic, sports, arts or means tested.

Imo state is already the most educated state in Nigeria by a mile and people are already going to school without any inducement and many people try to go to school regardless of the cost, therefore the free education across the board was a huge relief and enough incentive and there was no need to also give monthly stipend and blanket yearly bursary/loans to Imo students. The payment scheme to the students is unnecessary and probably unsustainable, but we will wait and see.

Now, in the short spell of his administration, he has changed the way things were done in the past. For the first time in a long while all areas of Imo are receiving attention and roads are being constructed in all local governments. Orlu and Okigwe are receiving attention with regards to their roads and some of the roads in those areas are being converted to dual carriages.

The Owerri ring road which has been on the master plan since God knows when is also being worked on. Ohakim started the actual construction with the flyovers at Orji and Amakohia, but Rochas has continued the project from where he stopped. Several bad roads in Owerri have also been fixed and schools are also receiving attention, with buildings being upgraded.

There are various ongoing projects in the state capital and the site for the 23 storey five star hotel has been cleared in Area N with actual construction due to start soon. Imo’s status as a top hospitality destination in the country is indisputable and I support the construction of this hotel. Although there are many classy hotels in Owerri, I once found my self going from hotel to hotel trying to get an accommodation, so more hotels are welcome.

According to the state government, the 9 storey Concorde hotel has now being turned around from a loss making to a profit making hotel. The hotel is also being expanded to include the chalets which were originally meant to be part of the commissioners’ quarters. Rochas said that this hotel now makes enough money to offset most of the wages of the ministry of culture and tourism. And the goal of the government is to make the ministry to be self sustaining while bringing some revenue to the state. This is also his goal for other ministries.

No too long ago, the governor also laid the foundation for the tile factory in Mbano and he is also giving attention to the moribund ones and trying to get investors to resuscitate those industries. Avutu poultry is one of those industries.

According to the state government, the PPA on Imo Transport Company has brought in more than 200 million naira to the state government and the management compay has also expanded and employed more people in the state.

The agreement with a foreign company to manage ADAPALM has so far brought more than 3 billion naira to the state government and the management company has increased production and also employed more people.

Finally, although the government has been unnecessarily socialist in some of the recurrent expenditure, the administration is also trying hard to generate as much revenue as possible and to provide an environment for private investments to flourish.

Quite commendable and I hope they place very high duties on non energy bulbs. I already use energy saving bulbs in my house, yet I receive free energy bulbs from british gas from time time despite the fact that less consumption from me means less revenue for them but they still feel the need to conserve energy. Since we are unable to produce enough electricity for all, it makes sense to maximise the use of the amount we are able to produce.

If you live in the UK, have you ever wondered why all tv stations go on commercial break at about the same time ? Well energy conservation and utilisation is part of the reason. I watched a program about energy distribution and was amazed. There is what they call the tea time surge and the technology that they employ to ensure adequate supply in something else.

I think that old places can still manage to look beautiful , but they need to be orderly to look good. Central London is nearly 2000 years old and still manages to look very orderly with well defined streets albeit narrow at times. Flying into London at night is a sight to behold.

All the places that I have lived in my life have well defined layouts and are orderly, so it itches my eyes to see places with zig-zagged, meandering narrow roads and houses built in a haphazzard manner that creaters a huge urban clutter.

When houses are built in such disorganised manner as Ibadan, it devalues any area and it would take massive demolitions to put things right. However, I like old cities and I think that there must have been something that was big enough to attract so many people to Ibadan back in the days. They need to find whatever it was that made it tick and restore the whole metroplis with good urban planning and development. Kano is also an old city (over 1000 years old) with a metropolis as large or larger than Ibadan, but is not cluttered in appearance.

The full story is on Imo website. I find it interesting that the arrangement with the management company has already generated 3.5 Billion for Imo state.

The other day, Rochas also declared that several hundred millions (can't remember the figure) have also been made through the arrangement with the management company of ITC.

I also remember that he said that Concorde hotel was now generating enough money to run a significant portion of the culture and tourism ministry and the ministry was moving towards self financing with further income to the state.

Kudos to him ; I think that Imo is on course with generating significant revenue internally and creating more employment.

Speaking further during the visit, the governor disclosed that the present agreement between the Rocche Group and Imo State government has earned about 3.5 billion naira for the State.

He directed the management of Roche Group to give 5% of the profit from the plantation to the landlord Communities in line with the concepts of the Community government and urged them to focus more on job creation so as to ensure that about 3000 new job opportunities are created in the establishment.

Earlier, the Managing Director of Imo Palm Plantation (formerly known as Adapalm Nig. Ltd.,) Neil Danby said the management has introduced several innovations to revive and reposition the establishment for optimal productivity, adding that machines with modern technology in agro-business have been imported and put into use with a view to increasing the output in Imo Palm Plantation in the nearest future. Danby further disclosed that Roche Group has received delivery of a modern milling plant which will soon be installed to enhance productivity

http://www.imostate.gov.ng/news/975

Thanx Oam4j if you were the one that overruled spambot and unbanned my account.

Unbanned? na waa for Spambot. Just testing

igbo boy: Does anyone live in enugu? Looks empty to me.

Enugu's population was in excess of 700K as at 2006 census and that does not include metropolitan areas like 9th Mile, Emene and Nike. Enugu has very good road network and exchanges. You will be hard pushed to find other areas with road network as good as Enugu. Atlanta reminds me of Enugu each time I visit, cos it is pretty much laid out the same way, but withh more posh subdivisions and downtown, but Enugu is improving all the time.

I can't embed videos here, but look at this web page to give you a feel of more Enugu.

http://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/play?p=enugu&tnr=21&vid=4965029982372043&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts4.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D4965029982372043%26id%3Dd0ee36196ac722b18ec7dc8c7cfcbaf9%26bid%3DCzt%252fWH644d25kQ%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.com%252fwatch%253fv%253dEm96W-Xm6WU&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEm96W-Xm6WU&sigr=11ao5ujtb&newfp=1&tit=ENUGU+CCTV+10+%28NIGHT%29

aasog1: [b]Good thread, but this isnt something you should encourage. What you have currently built here will definitely have some problems
The house is extremely flawed in a lot of ways....

1. You didnt post the plan of your structure....for everything called REAL construction, there has to be plan.
2. The foundation is about 2 feet high (which would give you loads of mess in future after roads has been graded and you have more houses around you). When you have heavy flooding in the future, Mr. you will be picking out all the snakes and frogs washed into your sitting room.
3. I can count the pillars. For chrissake, please indicate what engineering school you went! because if a strong wind hits your structure, those horrible blocks they sell all around will splinter) you need pillars, its your house not a chicken coops that must be managed. And with all that load your putting ontop of your house (lintel, woods, including the roof, your putting so much weight on such a fragile structure. Abeg!)
3. No clear planning....you didnt set out a fence (be it just through 2 or 3 coaches of blocks), and im not even sure if there is plans for parking lot, garden, etc....you are just building
4. This appears to be the type of defective project you see strewn all over ikorodu. Eventually, in 4 years time, you'd have a lot of spending to do on this structure....I guarantee you.

Anyways, you opened a great blog for those willing to spend 1million naira on a property. You should rename it, how to build your house Ijebu-style.
Apologies to my ijebu bros. Totally one of ya![/b]

I tried to respond to you on this absolute bollocks without foundation but decided to wait for Spyder to put you in your place, but I can't take it any more. I am not a structural engineer but I am quite knowledgeable to challenge that rubbish you wrote.

1. You saw a building with well defined layout and you presumed the building has no plan because Mr Spyder did not post a plan. Are you for real or is this the case of know all know nothing ?

2. What do you mean by foundation is 2 feet high and the house is likely to be flood prone? What basis did you use to arrive at that conclusion ? Are you privy to the landscape and topography of the area or do you presume that all areas have to be elevated like the areas you know? In my field, just like structural engineering, you have to have facts and data to draw inferences or conclusions. What data did you use? Someone pointed out the use of drainage here and other factors, why do you think that Spyder did not consider the consequences of leaving the floor level at that height?

3. What makes you think that he is not following a structural spec for the building ? The building is a bungalow and top load on the foundation is not as much as the top load of a duplex on the foundation. The lintel of that building is chain linked and this helps to spread the load of the roof. The walls are in effect load bearing and the chained lintel (1) will help spread the load (2) make it possible for breaking of some walls in the future to link two areas together without much effect on the overall load bearing ability of the entire walls.

4. No fence. This has got to be the laff of the day. Dude what role does a perimeter fence play in the structural integrity of a house ? Parking lot and garden are the prerogative the owner and I can't see the bearing to the structure of the house.

5. If you have real issues here, please state them and stop "bad belleing" up and down.

afam4eva:

People are always in a hurry to fight anything Rochas does that they don't even take their time to read thouroughly.

Na waa for some people. I just hope that Rochas maintains his current tempo; some people will just go and buy rope. Owerri and Imo are transforming and we no get time for bad belle.