₦airaland Forum

asha9:
Yes Roban looks so much like Shoprite! See the interior of Robans, you can't even differentiate from Shoprite..

Most superstores have interior like Shoprite and moreover Shoprite isn't a mall but a superstore as well like Spar, Roban, Everyday and Priceless. Nigerians erroneously identify malls with Shoprite because they are mostly the anchor retail store in our malls. There are 3 functional malls in the Southeast today and they are Enugu, Owerri and Onitsha all with Shoprite as anchor retail store. Port Harcourt Mall has Spar.

asha9:
This is nonsense and cannot be considered a mall! Please how us more 3-D designs..

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I don't have the pictures but here's Roban.

Chino is this a mall? If it is a mall then Owerri has more than 20. It is Priceless Stores.

adconline:
Is Everyday super market not owned by an Anambra with Onitsha mentality??

It is owned by an Anambra man of course but its not a mall. This Roban is equally not a mall. Genesis is closer to being a mall than Roban or Everyday.

asha9:
Is it functioning? It is not about showing us useless pictures but a functioning mall..like the Robans mall below..

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I can show you Everyday or Nextime or Spar but they are not malls but just supermarkets like the one you showed. Lol. That's what local Onitsha mentality can cause. Very soon you will call Onitsha Main Market a mall.

asha9:
Abagworo aka ImoRiver, these are different concepts of shopping mall from different authorities. Maybe when poor people like you hear mall you think it is something extraordinarily strange..


1. Mall | Define Mall at Dictionary.com
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Also called shopping mall. a large retail complex containing a variety of stores and often restaurants and other business establishments housed in a series of connected or adjacent buildings or in a single large building. Compare shopping center.

2. shopping mall Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary
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shopping mall meaning, definition, what is shopping mall: a large usually covered shopping area where cars are not allowed.

3. Shopping mall - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_mall
A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which one or more buildings form a complex of shops representing merchandisers with interconnecting walkways that enable customers to walk from unit to unit.

Going by your definition Roban is just a store like the spar at Garrison or Nextime at Abacha road. Here is an example of a mall.

Call07034780891:
Abagworo the daft please define a mall for us? I am more interested in you discussing Imo state matter with me than digressing to take a cover with other states! Now how many malls does your useless and worthless Imo state has? Answer me fast..

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As at date Anambra has 4 malls, 2 has been delivered(Onitsha mall and Roban), while Ikenga mall and Nnewi malls are coming too..

Imo State has more than 20 malls.

Call07034780891:
Clown if you must know I am talking of the Onitsha mall. Robans already berthed in (Ikenga mall)Awka mall and Nnewi malls will soon join the league..

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Lol. Roban is not a mall Mr Chino. Its a store or supermarket. Abia has malls BTW and this is Umuahia mall looking good to go.

Call07034780891:
Is the so called restiny store based in your swampy batterer Abia state? The answer is NO!

Ordinary shoprite that is opening everywhere your dead Abia state don't even have.

We have 2 malls now another 2 are coming up Awka(Shoprite) and Nnewi(Spar)..kill yourself!




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Where is the 2nd Mall?

worldmoney:
my community for instance have been producing oil for some time now and there is no electricity, road or any sign of development. If you complain too much you will be arrested or punished by soldiers, graduates from other parts of the country come and work in this multinationals and our graduate remain jobless.

If you are not lying can I know your community? Some youths in Niger Delta don't like humble jobs. Etche, Ogoni and if we include Akwa Ibom, Edo and Crossriver as Niger Delta are some of the block exceptions. My company employs for 100k start up as a servicing company but none of the host community employees has ever lasted more than 6 months because there is a belief that 100k is too small for a graduate from the community. Igbos, Ogonis and Akwaibomites even apply for manual jobs of 50k and yet look much happier and fulfilled.

One thing I've noticed is that some politicians are involved in brainwashing the youths into believing that oil being in their soil means they should be rich without hard work but their own children are working despite being sure of inheriting billions. Niger Delta areas in Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta need total reorientation to change this wrong psych. All of Nigeria suffers from bad leadership but others are more self reliant.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
This is not super market

What is it and how is it different from Everyday or Nextime supermarkets?

Call07034780891:
It cannot stop Imo state from being broke, useless and worthless. It can still not stop 97% Imo state girls from being all prostitutes and unmarriageable..LOL

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You can ho ahead and commit suicide. You keep bringing shame to Igboland. If it's not hiring assasins to kill their husband and run away with his car, it is cucumber video or leaving their children to die at home while they went to have bodily pleasure. It is a shame Mr man. Umu nwanyi unu abughi ndi alu alu.

http://punchng.com/banker-hires-assassins-kill-ex-husband-lagos/

http://www.thejanesroom.com/2016/06/baby-boys-burnt-to-death-in-uga-anambra.html?m=1

The price citizens pay as a result of failed water distribution system. The Governor has been busy commissioning streetlights and supermarkets.

Beautiful Chidinma rocking Obiano prints. Both Anambra rice and Miss Anambra must have the image of Obiano on their clothes or cover.

Wike commissions Everyday supermarket as gini? This Obiano's comedy show is getting extremely ridiculous.

Ponponkon:
Thank you General Tukur Brutai and President Mohamadu Buhari for taking the bold step to patronize made in Aba goods. Together we will get to the promised land. Ride Dee Okezie Ikpeazu
God Bless Abia

Hopefully some of you will start identifyung Jonathan's deceit of the almighty Igbos. I'm ever glad for standing with Buhari and standing with truth.

TonyeBarcanista:
@OP Firstly, who says pipeline vandalism. facilitates ND development?


To answer you, vandalism doesn't cause development but it draws attention to the plight of the people.

Unfortunately, most vandals today are businessmen with backing of politicians that are taking advantage of the plight of the people to further their interest.

Thinking vandalism draws attention to Niger Delta plight is like thinking suicide or self destruction can draw attention to one's plight. There are other ways to draw attention without killing oneself. The major advantage the Southwest has over the rest of the South is their ability to draw attention without self destruction. An example is this failed bill

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/10/senate-rejects-lagos-special-status-bill/

Lagosians will never start bombing seaports, pipelines, industries and other developmental infrastructures but will rather persist peacefully until parts or all of the bill is passed. The guaranteed safety of investments will always make Lagos a preferred zone. Even Kano or Sokoto is far more investor friendly than Niger Delta today. Mist foreigners will rather invest and live in Sokoto and then tap oil from Rivers State.

izombie:
Op here is a question for you . how has not blowing pipelines and oil facilities for decades developed niger delta?

If not for militancy, the oil boom of 2006 to 2014 would have made much more positive impact on Niger Delta. Many companies relocated to Lagos instead of increasing their presence in Warri and Port Harcourt thereby moving wealth away from the source. Many roads and other developmental projects were abandoned for security reasons. What about the environmental degradation and high rate of school abandonment to join militancy?

InyinyaAgbaOku:
I am more interested in the fact that 400 policemen were at fmc two days ago, on the call of Mrs Angela and seven babies died from teargas injury.
True or true?

That's a lie. As an Imo State citizen my plea to Angela is to resign even if she is innocent. For any institution to function there must be peace and understanding between management and staffs. Dr Uwakwem may be an incorruptible and extremely good woman but since majority have rejected her goodness then she should resign honorably.

LoveMachine:
Continue to applaud the bombings in the ND. This is the aftermath. Not only is the environment worse and the budget deficit increased. But now workers are being laid off.

Some stupid people will want to use this to score political point. The fact is that nobody likes to operate his business at a loss in an unsafe environment.

mandax:
The same old photo of 1902.
Ihioma road - about 3km.
Owus Avenue - about 300meters
Enugu road - about 300 meters
Asika Ilobi Avenue -about 200 metres.
Total 3.8 kilometres in Orlu urban.
That's all a governor did about urban road network in his state's second most populated urban town in five years.

I don't know the name of most roads in Orlu but all the major roads in the urban have been dualized with streetlights and many of the inner roads have been paved with good drainage. So if you are truthful you will acknowledge it. There may be just 1 or 2 untarred roads in Orlu urban which I even doubt.

vanbonattel:
Do you know that the road to Mbaise at Egbu is impassable?

Do you know that it's a federal road and 98% of federal roads in Southeast were left impassable by the Jonathan government? Repair work has started on it as we write courtesy Buhari led FG.

Another beautiful roundabout at Assumpta.

One of the beautiful roundabouts that adorn the State at Warehouse junction.

Clear photo of Ihioma road Orlu urban. One of the 800km roads done between 2011 and 2015.

Imo State secretariat

PaulIdu:
That means 75 percent of Nigerians are currently trying Boko Haram members because for sure more than 70 percent of Nigerians can't wait to see Buhari resign

That's a figment of your imagination probably because you roll with your type. 80% of Nigerians will vote Buhari 100 times and over.

I think it's high time Vanguard newspaper correspondent and others who dish out these lies on their blogs or facebook page be arrested and detained till they prove their stories. Okorocha's tolerance is getting too much for my liking. In fact I've never admired his tolerance.

THE TYRANNY OF OPPOSITION IN IMO By Charles Asoluka The level of antagonism towards the progressive policies of the government of Governor Rochas Okorocha, by a vocal minority in the state, constituted mostly by members of the electorally disgraced opposition and a section of the Mass Media is increasingly becoming a source of serious concern to political observers and analysts. In the last few months, the barrage of criticism has been overwhelming. Opposition has become determined, more than ever before, to obstruct virtually all government policies and programmes. This, it has relentlessly done by spewing hatred, intolerance and distrust alongside propagating mischief and falsehoods. In many instances, it has engaged in publishing what could pass as seditious documents against the state in its criticism of the government and its policies. At some other times, opposition has engaged in the manufacture of controversies, mastermind and sponsorship of unbelievable propaganda against the government with the intention of creating anarchy, distracting the government, setting it up against the people and making the state ungovernable. So much so that at a stage, the entire state and its citizenry almost became paralyzed with curiosity and concern over the spread of such troubling but highly mischievous falsehood. No doubt, these attacks on government and its policies are spurred as much by frustration, mischief and failure of opposition to gain power. Such criticisms justly expose members of the opposition to the contempt and indignation of the good people of the state as enemies and traitors of our march to true democracy and development. The ill temper they harbor and which they have expressly displayed against the government is clearly evident of their discomfort and frustration. To be sure, lies and malicious propaganda are among the greatest obstacles to democracy. Unarguably, the confidence of opposition seems to have been energized, redoubled and strengthened by the current economic hardship in the country, occasioned by the fall in the prices of crude, which has tightened the economic and financial noose on the Nigerian state, resulting in rising inflation and high cost of living among the people. As a result, opposition has used the current economic quagmire to castigate and justify its attacks on the government. Rather than worry about experts’ warning on the dire consequences of the present economic predicaments on the country, which they say constitute a clear and present threat to everyone as well as to the stability of the state and indeed, the country, these conspirators and political desperados, are more interested in defending selfishness and creating fear and division. Indeed, it is clear that opposition is very conscious of the wickedness of its acts and the fact that its cause is anti people and anti democratic. In spite of being internally divided and generally unpopular as a result of its performance in the last 16 years in the country and 12 years in the state, the main opposition party in the state still deludes itself as a party of choice among the electorate. Ever ready to politicize every issue and conversation, some factional members of the party, recently engaged in the politics of waste removal along a major road in the state capital. Fortunately however, the people are not deceived, as their showy expression of patriotism is nothing but a refuge of scoundrels. Hence, rather than concert effort in reconciling its disparate factions and rebuilding its battered image in order to attract the sympathy of those suffering from selective amnesia, as the people have seen the best and worst of them, the party has been engaged in all manner of campaign of calumny and invectives. Pity that the party hopes and truly believes that its desperation and resolve to make the state ungovernable will enable it dislodge the government in power and reenter Douglas House in 2019. It is indeed instructive to draw their attention to the outcomes of the recent senatorial election in Okigwe North in the state and the governorship election in Edo as clear evidence to the contrary No doubt, Governor Rochas Okorocha’s 2011 electoral victory was aided by the rudderless leadership of his immediate predecessor, abuse of office and the kind of corrupt excesses the administration had allowed, if not encouraged, having been hijacked by swindlers, traitors, sycophants and psychopaths. Most unfortunately however, the very same person who, many alleged, squandered a great opportunity, has been in the vanguard of opposition, the latest being his attacks on the Governor in a speech he delivered during the 2016 Diocesan Synod of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Diocese of Ikeduru, and his wanton open letter of two months ago. Hence, upon his election in 2011, Governor Okorocha did well to give the administration all the weight of his great reputation, and ever since then, his overriding desire has been on how to make Imo state a vibrant commercial and industrial giant, with modern infrastructure. Owelle has over the years demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that he has the political will, courage and capacity to put Imo state back on the wheels of progress. As a man with a firm conviction and a long term perspective, his openness for new solutions under changing conditions is legendary. Without any fear of contradiction, Governor Okorocha’s working class image and the distributive and transformative policies he embarked on can easily be said to have caused the escalating resistance from the opposition. Such policies of the government helped to dislocate not a few grubby, ravenous, desperate, and opportunistic politicians, specious demagogues, petty bourgeoisie, greedy election financiers and bankrupt intellectuals, thus, breaking their hegemony and the terrible culture of god fatherism/motherism in the state. A section of the media, on the other hand, has been complicit, having been equally hijacked by the opposition. These Media Houses either belong to members of opposition or are seriously under the control of certain people who are opposed to just everything the present government represents. No doubt, the impact of the dissemination of falsehoods and opposition political propaganda to the wider society is far reaching. Indeed, some writers and publishers have gone to the unfortunate extent of abandoning the trade’s traditional ideal of impartiality and commercialism. Instead however, they have become political parties’ spokespersons, manipulators and operatives. I however commend those courageous and honest ones whose impartiality and objectivity on a number of public policies are reassuring. To this people, I dare say that the cause of truth and our fledgling democracy are immensely indebted to their pens. It is however not as if credible opposition is unacceptable. As a matter of fact, it helps to keep the government in power on its toes by continually reminding it of its pact with the people. However, when such opposition is taken to a breaking point, it causes disruptions in the system, constitutes a tragic distraction and therefore becomes counterproductive. While it is not in the nature of Governor Okorocha to attempt to silence critics of his government as some governors are wont to, he however regards unguarded criticism as a pull on the system which, if unrestrained, could impact on the democratic process. As a matter of fact, the government has been remarkably tolerant of opposing viewpoints on issues surrounding its policies despite the ferocity of such views. Notwithstanding all of these however, the Owelle-led government is not perturbed, neither will the shenanigans of opposition result in derailing the people’s mandate. Of a truth, the people of the state have never been denied of the dividends of democracy as the government is alive to its pact with them, not minding the present economic setbacks which are only temporary and national in nature. The noble efforts of the courageous and visionary Governor to enthrone a new Imo state must not only be encouraged but embraced by all. The present stakes are rather too high for unnecessary criticism. A time like this therefore calls for great inspiration and instruction from everyone. It is a time when all of us should be guided by the virtue of our capacity for self correction and renewal. It is not a time for playing politics but that of providing the much needed maturity in both leadership and followership.

Very soon there will be demand for Jonathans arrest. His friends should tell him to stop being careless.

Where is Chino, Asha90 et al. Pray for your queen. What if this woman was from Imo State? The usual suspects would have been everywhere celebrating the scandal.

eph12:
I thought it was reported here that work has started on the roads already

Yes repair works started 2 weeks ago on some roads like Enugu-Onitsha, Owerri-Okigee and Owerri-Umuahia. Buhari will definitely be more fair on Southeast with regards to roads..