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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.

I am trying to understand how people are up in arms with Rochas when the article stated that the mall will be built by a consortium of private investors.

How is Rochas expected to wrestle the money off the investors and build power stations and electric trains instead?

As an investor,people should let me decide the type of business and place to invest my money. If I lose, it's my money lose; anyone that wants some other type of investment should put his money down or move aside.

Imo State government has entered into partnership with an American company, Jesus Mary and Joseph Holdings Ltd. to build an estate with 500 units of houses that will be christened ‘Diaspora Village’.

Speaking during an interview with Journalists shortly after a meeting with Governor Rochas Okorocha at the Government House, Owerri recently, the Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr. Timothy Barton said the 500 buildings will be of same quality and standard with the estates built in Texas, USA.

Mr. Barton explained that his company will commence the project with 200 units of houses and later extend to 500 units in its second phase. He hinted that the project would commence in October, adding that forms would be made available to prospective landlords who would be interested in purchasing the houses at a reduced cost upon completion of the project.

Mr. Barton maintained that the opportunity would further strengthen the bi-lateral relationship between Imo State government and Texas in the United States of America.

He however urged indigenes of Imo State in Diaspora to embrace this opportunity by visiting home and contributing to the ongoing development of the State.

I think it's hightime we moved away from low density in occupancy buildings and estates in the SE in order to conserve and maximise the use of our lands.We need to maintain our open spaces and vegetations in order to remain eco friendly.

There are several low density estates already in Owerri like Aladinma, Prefab, Egbeada, Trans Egbu, World Bank areas A to N, works l/out etc. We need more of mid or high density areas like Ikenegbu and extension, so I am not very sure that 500 low density residential buildings would not amount underutilisation of land which might come back to bite us in future.

Good development in terms of FDI though.

The article could have been written by Dede1 for all I care. In fairness to Gbawe, he is only passionate about defending and projecting his state and ethnic group and I have never seen him go out of his way to disparage other ethnic groups. He may have his faults like everyone else, but I think he should be cut some slack.

Seun: The subsidy won't be a greater problem for Nigeria if the price of oil drops. I don't know why Sanusi keeps saying this. If the price of crude oil drops, the cost of providing the fuel subsidy will drop by a similar percentage. If the oil price rises, it will also go up.

It is not as simple as that.

According to the budget:

Disposable Income (DI)= 4.877 T
Total Recurrent Expenditure (TRE) = 3.53T = ((Subsidy) 0.88T + other recurrent expenditure (ORE) of 2.65TK)
Capital Expenditure (CE) = 1.34TK

Disposable income = CE + TRE = CE + ORE + Subsidy

K = constant (I have made both CE and ORE constants because they were derived from a fixed DI of 4.87T)

Let T = 1000000000000.

4.87T = CE + ORE + 0.88T

Income is derived from crude oil revenue and subsidy is nearly directly proportional to the price of crude oil. Lets see what 20% reduction in both parameters would mean.

0.8 x 4.87T = CE + ORE + 0.8 x 0.88T

3.9T = 1.34TK + 2.65TK + 0.704T

Note that whilst subsidy burden has reduced by 0.176T to 0.704T for the financial year, your total Fiscal income for the year has dropped by a massive 0.97 T to 3.9T, which is 72% of your capital expenditure, 37% of ORE or 138% of new subsidy requirement

To be able to meet the capital and recurrent budgets, the budget must run at a minimum of 20% deficit, which must come from your savings or more debts; both of which have their own effects on the currency, inflation and the stability of the economy.

In a nutshell, the subsidy is only one of the components in the budget. A unilateral reduction of subsidy will lead to an increase in the total disposable income and I am a staunch supporter of complete removal of subsidy and for obvious reasons.

While it is true that the cost of fuel subsidy will reduce as a result of fall in crude oil price, the disposable income will also fall since it is directly dependent of the same crude oil price.

The fall in DI will be at least 5 times the fall in subsidy requirement at 20% reduction of crude oil price. The resultant effect will be a budget deficit achieved by depletion of savings, which might not be sustainable or by further borrowing. The other way out is to make cuts in capital expenditure or ORE, which might involve redundancies and sharp rise in unemployment.

We will continue to wait in vain for good roads, hospitals and other capital-intensive projects if all we are going to commit to capital expenditure is a paltry 20% of the budget, which is a miserable 1.34K in the current budget.

The football world and fans at large are generally biased towards - us- strikers and midfielders, cos we are out there dazzling and scoring goals, but can Messi play Dani Alves' position ? Can Kanu be in goal ? Can I play in left full back position ?

My top five of all time:

1.Striker: Yekini ; he scored goals as required and his shots could rip the net apart. OK, so he missed an open goal against Italy in 94 world, but I forgive him.

2.Central Midfield: Jay Jay; this area has paraded many greats, but Okocha takes the flag for me. I can't resist mentioning, Henry Nwosu, Sam Okwaraji, Siasia, Amokachi, Headmaster (Adepoju) etc

3. Wide/Flanking Midfield: Justice Amesiamaka Adokie. This guy was the Okocha of the flanks. According to Ernest Okonkwo, he had his senior and junior mesmerisms that he could use with ease. Segun Odegbami deserves a mention like Finidi, Amuneke,Babanigida, but Adokie it is for me.

4. Defence: Chairman Christian Chukwu. No one went near the goalie without Chukwu's permission.He ruled central defence with "iron boots".Not forgetting West,Okechukwu,Babayaro (modern day attacking full back)

5. Goalie: Emmanuel Okala was great. Peter Rufai comes very close, but the picture of him going to retrieve the ball from the net 3 times against Algeria broke my heart as a kid.

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Not Polo park, but another super store in Enugu. According to their website, this store employs about 130 people.

Afam, it makes sense for you to be able to counter any fallacy in an argument. You started something you are unable to defend, even to the point of accepting the most glaring distortion of facts. I just hope you are not a dunce, cos you come across as one. I will leave you to continue making a foo1 of yourself. My last contribution here.

Afam, can I also add that your question that your question is a legitimate one in all honesty, but not just on this forum because you don't have to be a prophet to predict the direction of the thread. My main disappointment in the topic is that you came to a fight unprepared.

Some of you guys are very silly. The OP and some other people keep opening threads that leave people to wonder how some of you guys reason.

Afam or whatever you call yourself, you ought to be ashamed that you are a novice in the topic you wish to discuss.

One of the first responses you got from this silly topic was from someone, Alhaji Harem or whatever, who told you that Gowon built Nkalagu cement factory for you after the civil war and some other rubbish he said and you conceded that nonsense to him and continued to open your flanks for unwarranted attacks.

Afam, are you a dunce or does Seun give you guys money to come up with diiotic topics to keep this useless forum alive ? Who does not know that Nkalagu cement was established by eastern region govt and was the first cement factory in Nigeria ? Due to your idiocy and lack of knowledge, you let some infant give Gowon credit for one of Okpara's achievements, who also established Golden Guinea Breweries, Ceramic Industry, PH (trans Amadi) industrial estate, presidential hotel PH, Hotel presidential Enugu,Calabar cement,defunct Eastern Nigeria University alongside other achievements within the same era.

I am not going to ask you and your cohorts to stop making floos of yourselves, but a word is enough for the wise.

ndu_chucks: FACE, you are wrong in this case. The 13% derivation is not based on 13% of onshore oil contribution by the so-called oil states. It is 13% accruing to the Federal account from onshore resources and off shore resources(which belong to every state). To date, the so-called oil states have been wrongfully consuming 13% of contributions from all onshore and offshore resources.

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TO KEEP NIGERIA ONE IS A TASK THAT MUST BE DONE

You are wrong on this one. The 13% oil derivation is based on onshore and offshore oil with the offshore oil revenue credited to the state on whose continental shelf the oil is found. I don't see how crediting the coastal states with offshore oil is a problem unless you also want Niger republic to be given a share since they are also on the land contiguous to the Atlantic. Unless there are significant mining activities in any state, the 13% will amount to nothing. The solution is to let all states control their resources and pay tax to FG.

ACM10: You and Abagworo were able to provide th satelite picture of Aba. Why can't u provide the satelite picture of Onitsha and its environs too.
But pls we don't want to enter this debate that you guys are dragging us to. Brothers, Y-O-U W-O-N-T L-I-K-E I-T-S O-U-T-C-O-M-E! All of us will lose.
I've been pleading with Abagworo to stop these childish comparison. But he wont listen. Till Okija_juju gave him a serious beat down. Now he wants to push his luck further here.
BTW, both cities are unique Igbo cities that are the livewires of both states. It will be a mistake if we tear down those cities in a bid to win an online debate.
I'm proud of the resilience of the people that makes those cities thick

I spelt it out from the onset of my post that I was not going to engage in any mudslinging and only proceeded to present Aba and my state in the best way that I could.

I am familiar with Onitsha as well, but apart from Ochanja,Headbridge,Nkpor, Oba, Awada and Upper Iweka, I will not be able to identify other areas in onitsha as much as I am able to cherry pick Aba, so it will be unfair to start a comparism based on the limited knowledge that I have and why should I feel the need compare.

If you must know, Aba is a lot bigger than onitsha from end to end. I have actually passed through the length and breadth of both cities several times and also stayed in both. I could paste a google snapshot to prove that but I wont because I don't want to dragged into this mess created by Abagworo.

Now, Nnewi is sprawing and extremely large depending on where you want to stop because there is no clear divide between Nnewi and nearby towns.All it needs is town planning to prevent a haphazard look. If Imo and Anambra were merged into a state with Nnewi as the capital,places like Ideato in Imo will be under Nnewi metropolis because as it stands at the moment, there is no clear divide as you travel from Nnewi all the way to Aro Ndi Izuogu in Imo state.It is one huge urban sprawl.

I wrote about Abia without mentioning any other place, so it behoves on those who feel moved to put their states on display and present their states in the best way that they can without trying d..ik measurements a la Abagworo.

We'll have to see how the 13% derivation is implemented going forward. By the time every state with revenue generating natural resource is accounted for as required by the constitution, the remaining of the 13% shared among the oil states would have been reduced significantly.

Very poor calculation there, Ndu_Chuks. The 13% derivation to oil states will not be affected in any way. If the federal pool N consists of funds from x(oil)+ y + z sources, 13% of X will remain the same regardless of the values of y,z and N. While N depends on those variables,the variables do not dependant on N or each other. 13% derivation is actually 13% of a fraction, which happens to be more than 90% of N.

IMO,every state should own all their resources and pay FG 25% contribution.

I posted aerial views of the industrial layouts a while ago so I will not post them again

Palm plantation close up and power stations

Cemetery market
Electronics market
Aba golf club
Typical palm plantation Aba south

I think it’s silly to engage in any form of mudslinging with people who are ignorant, so I will simply talk about my home state Abia so that people can know a little bit more about Abia. The information below probably under represents Abia but it should put Abia into perspective.

The face of Umuahia is forever changing and the governor has done some works in Umuahia to his credit, but has let Aba down. Umuahia is developing in the same organised pattern as Owerri and Enugu with well-defined housing sub-divisions. The governor is trying in the area of health care and has equipped two specialist and diagnostic centres with top of the range diagnostic machines.

Umuahia also has a few industries (breweries, ceramics, plastics, palm oil refining, research institute and a few others). B4 the war companies like John Holt, PZ, UAC were all in Umuahia. Umuahia is still a major exporter of palm oil and the palm oil export market (Beach) is still functional.

Aba has taken a lot of flak lately because of the negative news that dwarfed any other news coming from the city. The kidnapping episode late last year seemed to subdue
the erstwhile indomitable and can do spirit of Enyimba people. Even though security is no longer a big issue in Aba since Osisikankwu’s demise, Aba has continued to be the playground (Nairaland) fall guy; with bullies taking their turns to deliver their punches. Lets put this Aba into perspective for any neutral person to judge.

Aba has also suffered immeasurable neglect from the governor resulting to monumental decay of infrastructure. (Although according to people, he is beginning to tackle the road and sanitation issues in Aba) The governor once lamented that only 20% of the 600+ manufacturing outfit in Aba were paying taxes to the state government. Rightly so IMO; pay good attention to your investments if you want good rewards.

Aba was well planned and only requires a facelift in terms of road repairs, drainage and sanitation, which would be provided by a committed governor. The aerial view of Aba can bear testimony to this. The city is self-propelling as long as the infrastructures are there.

We don’t do meandering roads in old Imo state cities. Our roads are well defined planned and as straight as possible. Umuahia and Aba benefited from this planning by Mbakwe, who simply designed the master plans of our cities without waiting for any “UN habitat master plan”(laughable for people to wait for UN to help them design a master plan for their cities).

The cities of Aba, Owerri and Umuahia were planned with underground drainage system. Mbakwe’s master plan was to connect the entire drainage system in old Imo state including Orlu and Okigwe zones. He had bought the heavy-duty drainage pipes (about 1m diameter) and lined them up from Umuahia to Owerri and from Okigwe to Owerri before the military struck and sold our drainage pipe works, but I digress. Umuahia and Owerri don’t do water logging regardless of how much rainfall they experience. Aba was once like that as well, but I don’t know about now.

Aba was estimated to have more than 870000 residents as at 2006 census. This figure would be significantly higher if you include the greater/metropolitan Aba area. This population is made up of artisans, corporate workers, factory, workers, traders and their families. It is a hands-on city and everywhere is like a market.

Without including the suburbs with several industries, a drive through the densely built up area of the city is about 23KM long. Aba metropolis is forever expanding and has nearly connected with Owerrinta, which is a naval base and mini industrial area by Imo River in Abia. We await a visionary governor (probably FACE) to embark on greater/metropolitan Aba project.

Aba is a commercial and industrial city.

Markets: Apart from the markets listed below, several markets in Aba would qualify as main markets in some states.

Ariaria is the main market. To put it in perspective, the main area known as Ariaria market is about 1.2km x 0.7 KM in area. The spill over Ariaria is more than quadruple that area, all roads leading to Ariaria major trading areas. People visit this market from other countries everyday. This market alone is capable of putting more than N50 billion per annum on Abia revenue table if rates and taxes were to be properly organised.

Alaoji spare parts market as originally defined and now including adjoining areas. If you are looking for vehicle spare parts and you don’t find them in this market, Lagos or Onitsha/Nnewi, you will not find them elsewhere in Nigeria, if you are looking for heavy machinery and heavy equipment and you don’t find them in this market or elsewhere in Aba, you won’t find them in Nigeria.

Textile Market (Ngwa road market): As the name implies, it is noteworthy that the areas around Aba were known for cloth weaving (Akwete), therefore it made sense for Aba textile mills plc to be built. This market hosts tonnes of people from other African countries, who flock to this market in search of bargain.

New market: An offshoot of the original Ngwa road market. Textiles and everyday trading.

Electronics market: This market quickly became too small for the merchants and spilt over to the adjoining areas including the famous pound road. All the people in the satellite areas will soon be moved to another area (Business and industrial park) being developed by Abia govt.

Cemetery Road Market (Eziukwu): Also a large market trading in various stuff.

Bakkasi market: Shoes,leather,handbads,suitcases.

According to UNIDO. “The Aba shoe and leather goods cluster is composed of seven zones. Each zone is specialized in certain product line such as ladies sandals, mules, men’s closed shoes and sandals,boots, leather goods such as bags and travel goods. It is estimated that the total number of entrepreneurs in all the zones is 55,371. Average number of people employed is about 4.3persons/entrepreneur making it totally to 240,000 people in the whole cluster. Average number of dependants per entrepreneur is 7.8 and this means that 1.87 million people are depending their livelihood on Aba shoe and leather goods community. Approximate combined production of footwear and leather goods is 75,000 pieces/day” http://www.unido.org/fileadmin/import/32799_BergRep1a.pdf

This market is locally known as Bakassi and traders from other West African countries flock to that market to buy their products. This should be another revenue cash cow for Abia.


Industrial Layouts

There are several industries scattered within the city but there are also well-defined industrial layouts, which are heavily subscribed. As you approach Aba from Umuahia direction, you will not fail to notice various factories/industries to the left and right of the express road. This trend continues until you start heading into town. The state government says that there are more than 600 small to large-scale industries registered in Aba. This excludes industries employing few people.

The are 4 well defined and heavily subscribed industrial layouts in Aba:

Factory Road Industrial layout (here you will find factories like Nigeria Breweries, PZ Plc, Unilever, KSI plc, NBC aka Coca-Cola etc) this layout is fully subscribed by big hitters.

Ogbor Hill Industrial L/out (the likes of International Glass Industry PLC, Aba Textile PLC, International Equitable Association PLC,
Glassforce PLC (largest bottle, test tubes and laboratory glassware in Nigeria), 7UP bottling co etc.

Osisoma Industrial L/out (NNPC depot, TONIMAS lubricants, Guiness breweries, Choice paints, De Smet Refineries, Plant Oil and Chemical Industries Ltd, Theo & Theo paints, Ceeplast Resin and Plastic Industries, Oil Crusher and refineries and many others.

There are several other big timers scattered all over town like Star Paper Mills, ANCOS steel (fabricators of steel and machineries including trailers, tankers and industrial reservoirs),Slok Vegitable Oil.

Accordingly, Aba integrated power project by Geometric power is developing substations in the 4 industrial belts in Aba. Shell is already supplying gas through their pipeline to industries in Aba.

Agriculture:
If anyone ever wandered why there are several oil palm/vegetable oil refineries in Aba, the area from Alaoji towards Obehie/PH would provide the answer. Alaoji area is a small, medium and large-scale industrial sector and also hosts several oil palm plantations, which provide the feedstock to those industries. Snapshots below.

Power stations:

There are three power stations either in operation or nearing completion in Aba or near Aba (Umuobasi, Alaoji and Geometric Power stations Aba). While Umuobasi and Alaoji will feed into the national grid under NIPP, geometric will serve only Aba and would be independent of the national grid.

More aerial photos to follow.

I get what you are saying but it is ambiguous writing it that way or maybe, it’s the way it is displayed on the screen.

I would write it this way 4/5(X),(4/5)X or 4X/5 rather than 4/5x, which are different operations. In operations, if you use slashes /, everything to the right of the / becomes a denominator or a direct function of the denominator if it is directly attached to the first denominator unless you use brackets or you write like this: 4/5X
Alternatively, using bars with X attached outside the bar to the right means that X is not a denominator in the operation.

4/5x appears to read that X is a direct function of 5 which automatically makes it a denominator of 4. i.e. 4 over 5X. Lets give X a value of 3 and the answer you obtain by substitution is 4/15 as opposed to the desired result of 12/5.

ekt_bear: Then at this point, given that we know that:

1. AB is of length 3X
2. BD is of length 4X
3. The angle at B is 90 degrees

then we immediately know that
4. AD must be of length 5x (just the 3-4-5 triangle identity for right triangles like ADB).

Examine the triangle CND. Notice that it is a right triangle (the angle at N is 90 degrees), and must be similar to ADB because both triangles share the angle at D (ADB has a 90 degree angle, an angle(D) degree angle, and so does CND. Sharing 2 angles means you share all 3, and so by definition the two triangles are similar.)

So that takes care of the first result (proving that CND is similar to ABD.)

To find CN and AN, we again use the fact that we have a 3,4,5 triangle. We know that the length of CD is 4x-y. This is the longest face of the triangle CND, since it is opposite the largest angle. So using the fact that we have a 3,4,5 triangle, the other two faces must be of length:

a. 4/5 * (4x-y)
b. 3/5 * (4x-y)

Which is which? Which side (CN versus ND) is longer? Well, in triangle ABD, the face AB is shorter. By similarity, then the face CN must be shorter. So

a. length(CN) = 3/5 * (4x-y)
b. length(ND) = 4/5 * (4x-y)

So we've found CN. Now we need to find AN.

Well length(AN) = length(AD)-length(ND) = 5x - 4/5*(4x-y) = 9/5x + 4/5y

Check that answer in bold again. How did y end up a denominator ?

Ibime and T22’s interpretations of the information are nearly correct, but Saintneo’s interpretation is completely in line with the information given. Proofs to both interpretations have been given, but full marks can only be awarded for correct interpretations and correct proof. It’s been nearly 20 years since I did basic maths, but here we go.

It noteworthy that the foot of a perpendicular line is the point that it makes a right angle (90’). Therefore, N is located on line A – D. (just like Saintneo’s drawing)

Proof:

Inverting CND so that it looks like ABD. (You don’t have to invert, it just makes it easier to the eyes. Doing this is quite elementary and I would simply go straight to prove the existing interpretation (drawing) of the question)

In the drawings call the angles at ABD a, b and d and do the same for CND i.e. c, n and d.

Angles n and b are both right angles = 90’
Therefore n = b.
Angle d is the same for both triangles.

Sum of angles in a triangle = 180’
Therefore Angle c = 180 – n – d = 180 – 90 – d = 90 – d.
Similarly Angle a = 180 – 90 – d = 90 –d.
Therefore Angle a = Angle c

2.

A-B = 3x, B-C = y, B-D= 4x
using Pythagoras rule.

A-D = Sq root of(A-B)sq + (B-D)sq = 5x
C-D = B-D – B-C = 4x-y

SOHCAHTOA:

In ABD sides = 5x, 3x and 4x.

In NCD sides = 4x-y, ND and NC.

Angle d is the same for both triangles: lets go,

In ABD sin d = 3x/5x = 3/5 ------- (1)

In NCD sin d = NC/4x – y ------ (2)

(1)= (2) thus:

3/5 = NC/4x-y
NC = 3(4x-y)/5 = 12x-3y/5

In ABD, cos d = 4x/5x = 4/5 -------- (3)

In NCD cos d = ND/4x-y ----------(4)
(3)=(4) thus:

4/5 = ND/4x-y.
ND = 4(4x-y)/5 = (16x-4y)/5 ---------(5)

AN = AD – ND = 5x – (16x –4y)/5 = (25x –16x + 4y)/5 = (9x + 4y)/5

QED