Imo1stson:
Work going on seriously at Imo Pilgrimage resort at Akachi. Isn't everything beginning to make sense?

Oh my God. ihe a o wu kwa nini?

sonature1 Hey I've seen it before and it's no where near a mall. It's a freaking supermaket. A mall is not that small. I doubt if 3 shops can fit into that building.

Just call it a supermarket (by Nigerian standards). It's in the same league with market square and everyday supermarket.

Although I would call it a shop though. it doesn't look big to me.

Xander85:


There's two reasons for this: the useless and visionless governors they've been saddled with from 1999-date; and the Nigerian political-economy!

They can't do much about the latter, but the former is entirely of their making! Aba ordinarily should have taken advantage of its proximity to Port Harcourt like Ogun (Agbara) has done with Lagos...this is despite the Nigerian political-economy not giving it the advantages Agbara has!

The fault solely lies with the State Government.

SoNature:


@ the emboldened, this is certainly not the best.
Lagos-based businessmen are groaning because of high taxes. Funnily enough, LASG doesn't care as they are even taking the land use tax seriously. Sadly, businesses are taxed for everything in Lagos, including their sign posts, which LASAA measures and taxes annually.

The truth is, all this happens because it is Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria. But I think it's a way of discouraging small business owners from moving to Lagos because Lagos is already overcrowded.

If another state tries this nonsense, there will be a mass exodus of companies from that state. Overtaxation kills businesses.

True talk, However, the IGR of Abia is so meager, one of the reasons, large scale infrastructural projects are not being carried out. If Aba business men can be *Effectively Taxed* their taxes would be used to develop aba. with little assistance from the state coffers.

nnamdijonathan:


others are not stagnating, they are in fact going backwards. Anambra and Abia really disappointed me last year.

Abia should be generating a lot of IGR because of the large Aba economic cluster. I don't know whats going on there. If Aba were to be in Lagos, LASG would have taxed the living hell out of them.

Yampotatocarrot:


Yeah, we need more. The few people I quoted above actually use to lament that they can't meet up with demands for their products, n I believe them because all the hotels and restaurants springing up in Imo will be in constant demand for agricultural products.

Whenever I say hospitality business, which seem to be the forte of Imo state should be focused on and improved on, some people begin to lament also. Before hand, it was just hotels, but currently, imo boasts of so many exotic restaurants with local and contimental dishes. We need to leverage of this comparative advantage.

Yampotatocarrot:


It doesn't need to be the duty of the government per say. The presence of hotels and restaurants in Imo is already fueling the agricultural industry there. People are trooping into agriculture in IMO, and guess what they are selling at higher prices to the hotels compared to those if us doing it in Lagos n Abuja.

I personally know vegetable farmers who are making thousands of naira per month, and also know poultry and snail farmers who are making their cool cash (both are lecturers in FUTO). The poultry farmer even processes his own in such a way you'll think they are imported frozen food.

All I'm saying is that the hospitality industry have opened way for growth in agricultural industry in Imo state.

Incresed agricultural output for Industrial use.
That's a big win for Imo. We need more of this.

Javierleon:
I think if owerri should become an interesting place
The upcoming governor has to
1 focus on roads
2then properly landscape
3 get rid of shabby posters and sign boards like ohakim did
4 visit oguta
5 complete all the projects Rocha' is commissioning
6 if possible complete ohakims good projects too and ensure water at the three zones
7 clean up owerri city drainages and western cement
Replace it with greenliness
The check for all tourism potientials
Like akachi park
Centenary city
Otamiri and nworie widening
Centenary towers
Streetlighting
Oguta city
Smicairpot
Heroes statues
Road road road road
Tree tree Tree tree
Green green green green
Clean clean clean clean
And then people should migrate to 15+ storey buildings
Okigwe industry
Orlu production and industry
Okigwe rice
Owerri and orlu agriculture
Okigwe and orlu good road
Okigwe rice
Orlu development
Okigwe development
Okigwe zone power plant
And ohaji power plant
Green green green
Road road road
Tourism for owerri
Industry for okigwe and orlu
Production for orlu
Ceramics okigwe clay

Move or decentralize imsu into multicampus university
complete all new hospitals and sell them to private firms or churches.
Hand over running of primary and secondary school to churches
construct roads in inner villages in densly populated areas especially eastern axis Imo.
Start up a long term housing projects - Multistorey housing system.
Dedicate new owerri as strictly Business District and not as housing area.
Extend housing projects to orlu and okigwe zones.
Start up new mini business destricts at okigwe and orlu zones.
Priorities Maths, science and technology education for primary and secondary students
Build Technical hubs in the three zones. Priority should be in owerri cus of comparative advantages.
Encourage Mordern farming practices.
Complete Ohaji power plant and integrate into imo state power transmission.
Exploit gas reserves to woo investors.
Encourage more Hospitality investments.
Expand govts internally generated revenue and work towards self sustainability.
Reconstruct, and expand economic roads and routes to as least 8 lanes.
-Port harcourt road
-Onitsha road
-Aba road
-Orlu road
-Okigwe/Enugu road.
Encourage and improve the pharmaceutical industry at orlu and construct and institute of pharmacy and drug manufacturing.
Factories for domestic consumption.
Factories for international consumption.
Agriculture for industrial use
A healthy and educated citizenry can not be over emphasized.

You can add yours...

Afam4eva:

Wetin remain na for you and chino to enter market. This is madness.

Please post the video and leave those two clowns

Corrinthians:
Save yourselves the trouble. Get the fvck out the forum.

Nonsense.

You people hate everyone and expect love in return. Never worked that way, never will.

Lol, why filled with so much hate bro?

Have a nice life though...

This just proves the Mods on NL are bigots. Just imagine the shitss they are taking to the front page. The heading alone is offensive.

Igbos have indeed suffered in this country.

lacasera14:
This is where I wonder the kind of food you bigoted Igbos wean. Everytime you compare any of this your mediocre cities to PH it further displays how blinded you are. You'll divide PH into 3 one part is bigger and better than owerri. Argue with your ancestors.

Bro coolu temper. I'm a ph boy. Don't think I don't know what I'm saying. If you believe saying the truth makes me a bigot na ur business, it still wouldn't change the truth.
Ph needs to do more. There's no place on can take a breadth of fresh air there. The garden city is now a garbage city. Pollution everywhere (black soot), Ph is rich no doubt but it's a big mess of a city.

Rekyz:
Story! Story!! Story!!!

Ya fuma gi...

Galaxyowerri:
Very true, I was strolling along Whetheral road this Sunday morning and the atmosphere was really superb and very lovely: wide road, covered drainage and beautiful houses all around!
Owerri will soon knock off P.harcourt to become Nigeria's third most aesthetically pleasing city!;

I don't think PH is an aesthetically pleasing city. It's merely a highly populated place with more businesses. Ph GRAs are child's play compared to new owerri.

Owerri has this abroad looking feel. It has a Beautiful weather and clear airy look. More lush green vegetations would make it a lot better.

sanctity454:
Play house owerri

What is this place for?

chloride6:
Port HArcourt See your life!!
too much crime

my thoughts exactly. those guys too like violence.

Stumbled on this on the net and thought it good to share it here. It says a lot about the attitude of igbos and why we are where we are today.



Who are Owerri people?

Written by  Ozodi Osuji Ph.D

Generally, I am quiet and very slow to anger. However, when I am angry I will come after you and do whatever I have to do to take you down. And your death would mean nothing to me; what matters to me is doing what is right.
For years now, I quietly tolerated Igbo idiots call me every kind of put down name their limited vocabularies could muster.

Why do they do it? It is because I insist on speaking my mind, stating the truth as I see it (what is the truth, do you know, truth is a social construct!).

Apparently, I must not seek and speak the truth but must conform to whatever the generality of Igbos say is the truth (which, invariably, is spurious rendition of the unknown truth).

Collins Ezebuihe, yesterday, wished me death. The subject at hand was talk on what town should be the capital of their proposed Alaigbo Republic. Apparently, I expressed a wish that is contrary to his wish and for that he wants me to die. So, if one does not agree with these people one must die! They must get their childish wishes gratified at all times (this is part of the root of the Igbo problem of Nigeria).

Ojukwu did the same thing; the man arrested and detained those Igbos who opposed his ill thought out Biafra or presented a different way to prosecute the war; folks like Jaja Wachukwu, Nigeria's first republic minister of external affairs, spent the war years in detention camp. Apparently, Igbos have a strong dictatorial streak in them; it is either their way or the highway.

From my perspective, Collins has stepped outside the line of permitted social discourse and attacked me personally. He is no longer a human being; my mind has defined him as a non-human being and wants to destroy him.

However, instead of coming after him, as everything in me wants to do, I will take this opportunity to teach him a thing or two about Owerri people.  These fools have no knowledge of Igbo history but come to the Internet to talk as if they are all experts on everything Igbo.

Grandstanding as experts on everything Igbo does not make one an expert on Igbo.  Collins said that he is more Owerri than I am. I do not know why he found it necessary to say that, why it matters one way or the other that he is more Owerri than I am.

Here is the deal. Until the twentieth century there was no such thing as Owerri people. Igbos in what is now called Owerri area lived in villages and towns. Their identification did not exceed their town. However, they speak the same Igbo dialect, now called Owerri.

These towns are Egbu, Emekeuku, Urata, Nnaze, Emii, Iheagwa, Ohaji, Nnekede, Obube, Imerienwe, Umuewere, Umukabi, Mbutu Okahia, Ntu, Umuowa, Ihite, Umuohiagu, Obiangwu, Norie, Okpala, Umuneke and many others. Each of these people went by their town's name.

There was a market where slaves were sold. The market was nicknamed owere, "it has taken". It denoted that those sold there were taken and are now lost to the people. They were thereafter marched to Igwe Ocha (where white slave buyers are; Port Harcourt) and Bonny and sold to the Portuguese or Spanish, Dutch, French, English etc.

In the late 1800s the British, through its Royal Niger Company, began to operate in the lower Niger area, all the way from the Niger delta to interior Igbo areas. They had outposts at Onitsha, Asaba and Lokoja.  Mission schools established themselves at a little town of a handful of people called Onitsha in 1851 (the first Igbos were exposed to Western education at Onitsha and Onitsha folk came to dominate Igbos and began fancying themselves superior to other Igbos; they called Igbos Ndigbo in a derogatory manner and called themselves Bini people...why Igbos believe that to be attached to non-Igbos make them superior is a subject for study; it is probably due to their apparent sense of inferiority covered up with false sense of superiority; Ikwerri people who are a mix of Igbos and Ijaw now see themselves as non-Igbos and imagine themselves better than other Igbos).

By 1900 the British began taking over the activities of the Royal Niger Company. Frederick Lugard, who had hitherto worked for the Royal Niger Company, was given the responsibility of administering the ensuing two protectorates of what came to be called Nigeria (his girlfriend, Flora Shaw came up with the name of Nigeria, Niger area;  Niger/Nigra/Negro is derived from Spanish, meaning black; thus Nigeria means black people's area, derogatively, nigger area; eventually, the southern and northern protectorates were amalgamated as one Nigeria in 1914 and Lugard made its first Governor general).

Lugard heard that slavery was still going on inside Alaigbo. Apparently, he believed that Aro folks were the kingpins of slavery. He resolved to march to Arochukwu and destroy the town's long juju, and other oracles such as the one at Umunoha.

In 1902 Lugard and his West African Frontier Army marched on Arochukwu and thereafter marched on other Igbo villages (he called what he was doing the pacification of the lower Niger savages; that is, he saw Igbos as savages; see his book, The Dual Mandate). Having destroyed Arochukwu he came to what is now called the Owerri area. Apparently, he had heard about the Owere slave market and brought his troops to camp there to prevent further selling of slaves. This was around 1904.

He spelled owere as Owerri and called the people in the surrounding area Owerri people. This was the origin of the term owerri people.  Before Lugard there was no such thing as Owerri people.

Lugard created his Owerri province which included the people that spoke Owerri dialect of Igbo and other areas, such as Port Harcourt, Okigwe, Orlu, Aba and Umuahia and so on.

Owerri at one time was considered a district in Owerri province; later a county and local authority area.  Eventually the area was divided into what are now called Owerri proper and Ngor Okpala (the two people speak the same Owerri dialect).

My town is Umuohiagu and it is in Ngo Okpala local government area. The people identify as Owerri people (by the way, Owerri Airport is in my village; my people donated the land on which the airport is built...guess who is working there...Igbos from other areas of Alaigbo...and this is making my people as angry as hell!).

The point is that some Igbos identify as Owerri and call themselves Owerri people even though they are not part of the township of Owerri.

Now, if a people identify with a name who the hell are you to tell them that they are wrong, as the emotionally underdeveloped Collins told me (and why he told me that I do not know since I personally identify with all black Africa)!

What is wrong with Igbos, anyway; why are they always telling other people who they are and what to do! If they are not telling Hausas and Yorubas who they are and how to live their lives they are telling other Igbos who they are and how to live their lives.

Why can't these people simply accept people as they present themselves instead of having the arrogance of trying to define other people?

Talking about identification with larger entities, why must Igbos only identify with their little towns and not with larger social aggregations?

Why can't all the people in what is now called Owerri south and north and Ngor Okpala, since they speak the same dialect, call themselves whatever they want without some idiot from Mbieri or any other part of Igbo land feeling like he knows what is better identification for them?

Are Igbos really born idiotic?  Why are they always making enemies for themselves? Why must they always pinch sleeping dogs and make them come bite them, why not leave sleeping dogs lay? God, Igbos seem born idiotic. Collins and his fellow Biafra Internet warriors have made it their life's vocation to insult me in every which they can.

Does it not occur to these imbeciles that they are alienating me? Is it okay to alienate a person in a position to obstruct your goals? Don't these fools understand that one determined man can destroy any enterprise they embark on? If an articulate man opposes the Biafra fantasy and write about it I doubt that its proponents would easily actualize it. Rational persons court the friendship of those in a position to destroy their missions but mentally retarded folks like Collins do everything in their power to generate opposition to their goals.

I do not want these fools telling me who I am supposed to be.  Why can't they leave me to define me instead of trying to define me for me!

Ironically, when you look at these folks trying to define you for you, you see mentally and emotionally underdeveloped folks. And yet they have the audacity to tell you who you are! These people's arrogance is the arrogance of the stupid!

We have Igbos from Anambra abuse the fact that they were the first Igbos given Western education to write rubbish to the effect that they are the fountain of Igbos! Imagine folks who are mostly a mixture with non-Igbos telling pure Igbos that they are their root!

They write fictions about how Igbos began at what they call Nri. They put together a fairy tale, a hagiography called Nri and its religious leadership of Igbos.

These idiots want to tell me, a man from Umuamadioha, the children of Amadioha, a people who have led the people spiritually for hundreds of years that they are now sub-servient to them just because some mixed pseudo Igbo from Anambra (a people that are mixtures of Igbos and Bini people) are now my spiritual leader. This is outrageous and grotesque.

If you must talk about Igbo spirituality you had better listen to those Igbos who are from Igbo priestly families and who know a thing or two about spirituality instead of listening to overfed, fat Anambra know nothings pontificating on Igbo spirituality.

Some of this idiot Igbos even interpret the name Osuji to mean that one is an osu, slave. Can you imagine that outrage! And these are people who claim to be experts on everything Igbos! They know little or nothing about Igbo culture.

Listen, in the Owerri area usually a man who is very rich, as measured by ownership of land and yams, a Diala, a freeborn, may feel happy that the gods treated him well and call one of his sons Osuiji or Njoku (both names mean the same thing), and that son would lead Ahanjoku ceremonies (lead religious sacrifices to the god of yam, Ji).

God, many Igbos are truly dense; their density is now beginning to annoy me. My tolerance level has reached its limits; I feel like punishing some Igbo idiots that keep messing things up for all Igbos.

Discussion

Igbos are so parochial that when their so-called scholars say that they are writing Igbo history invariably they write about their town. Every Igbo wants us to know about his town's history. Talking about Igbo wide history is not their cup of tea.

Can you imagine an English man who instead of writing the history of England writes about the Celts, Romans, Angels, Saxons, Norman-French men and Vikings  that settled in his town and does not write about all of England? Igbos are self-centered, narcissistic and deluded; they believe that the world is centered in their town, village and family; they have not developed identification with larger social aggregations.

Incidentally, that is why they ought to be in Nigeria, for that enables them to develop Igbo wide identification and stop identifying mostly with their towns and trying to make their silly towns superior to other Igbo towns and Igbos superior to Nigerians; Nigeria ought to stay together but reconfigured into twenty states where each state is a large tribe, with smaller tribes grouped into states.

Human beings are creatures that bear grievances and seek vengeance for what is done to them in the past. People are motivated by anger and revenge; forgiveness is learned and does not come easy to people. When you annoy people they bear grudges against you for life; they will put obstacles on your path and make sure that they frustrate you and make sure that you fail. They may hide their anger at you but smile at you and make you think that they like you.

Collins and his Biafra paper tigers keep irritating Nigerians and anybody they believe is opposed to their fantasy republic. They do not even ask folks from the south of Nigeria but simply assume that those people do not have a right to self-determination. Imagine the arrogance that assumes that Igbos have the right to tell Ijaw and Efik people what country they ought to be in!

Listen, if you anger people they will come after you. So, why do Igbos always do what annoys people knowing that those would not forgive them; why make the entire world your enemy?

Do Igbos have a death wish and want all people to be after them? Perhaps, this is a paranoid thing; the paranoid provokes people to persecute him and he is persecuted and he complains that he is persecuted.

Why don't Igbos, for once, try love and respect for people. Love people and they will like you and do what helps you get what you want out of life.

Conclusion

I do not know why many Igbos feel that it is up to them to define other people for them, why they cannot leave folks to define themselves as they want to. I am supposing that it is due to their well-known narcissistic and delusional nature; they are grandiose beyond belief; even those of them who cannot read or write believe that they have the right to tell other people who they are.

Yesterday, an Igbo cretin called Collins Ezebuihe not only was wishing me death but was telling me where I am from and who I am. Just think about that, an idiot with literally nothing in his head telling me who I am and how I ought to behave.

Igbos ought to develop humility and understand that other people have minds and can define themselves as they want to, not as they tell them that they are.

I hope that the snippet of information given in this brief paper helps Igbo busy bodies to understand something about Owerri and enable them to stop talking nonsense when it comes to Owerri people.

Ozodiobi Osuji

November 21, 2015



http://chatafrik.com/articles/nigerian-affairs/who-are-owerri-people#.XBhLbLko80M

Xander85:


Was about to ask the same question! Where in Owerri looks that scenic...with a river running through the city like the Rhine or Thames? Unless it's Nworie river.

I'm thinking it could be a bit of Photoshopping going on!

it's no photoshop, that river runs to and beyond futo. It's green in color because of the presence of microscopic algae. It adds its scenic beauty to owerri.

I heard Cross country transport run straight to camp services during periods like this.

ANY LAGOS TO ABUJA IN THE HOUSE?

Dhesteenhy:

Hello Brother... We are in the same shoe

Ok. How's it going to be like?

Any abuja corper moving from Lagos? Link up

Any Lagos to Abuja in the house? Lets link up.

Was posted to abuja. Wana redeploy to lagos sha.

Good to see that People have started heeding to the philosophy of aku ruo ulo.

If you want to see repid development in your community, from what I've learnt from my economics professors in school is to go industrial.

Look for what is being produced in you community and environs, be it casava, yams, plantain, fruits, cashew, palm, etc usually these products are produced and sold off in raw form, develop a business model of refining these products to semi or final products e.g flour, fruit drinks, refined cashew, oil, and other byproducts of these raw materials, and sell them or better still export them (which is more profitable) There are always markets for anything edible.

I would advise you go to Imo state and carry out a feasibility study and analysis to carefully know what you want to do. talk to the farmers, know how much they produce, sell and for how much they sell, who their buyers are. Study the market chain. This isn't difficult. Then you will know the most economic value chain.

When you exploit and existing value chain, more employments are created, people begin to see the economic importance of these goods and therefore look for ways to fit into any of the chains, eg farming, distribution, security, and other services begin to appear. This is a faster way to attract development.

Nigerian are becoming lazy, giving grants wouldn't make impacts faster, engaging in farming would not employ much labour. Industry is the way.

222Martins

hammer6F:



This is my point exactly.

Successive Governors of Delta State have all deliberately ignored the requirement for a federal university in Delta State.

States recently created that are younger all have Federal University.

These same minorities cleverly built a State University in Abraka.

My question is why did Okowa not push for a Federal University?

Why the focus on a cargo airport that is already standing and Keshi stadium?

The federal government already approved Federal University for every state, so what stops him from negotiating for one to be constructed?

Alternatively use the state funds to build a University of Asaba, that would have been a better legacy than Keshi Stadium in my opinion.

I guess there is a Federal University already. Federal University of Petroleum Resources Efurrun.

Just released. Anambra has the least domestic debt. The fiscal discipline of Peter Obi has been upheld and obiano is doing well in that light. Other Governors in the South East, especially our Douglas slowpoke Okorocha has to be investigated.
When industrialized states like kano, kaduna, delta, lagos, etc take loans, we see the resulting infrastructure and a high internally generated revenue and besides their industries that can be taxed to repay such loans but In Imo state, Rochas keeps borrowing, there are no improved IGR, there are no infrastructure, there are no industries. What is he using the state funds to do?

At the moment, Enugu is doing well in terms of IGR and Anambra has to take tutorship from them, with the number of business in Anambra, they should be in the same league as Ogun, Rivers, Kano and the likes.

At the Toronto Film Festival and the Premiere of Lion Heart, Genevieve Nnaji has Confirmed the Nollywood and professional film acting started at Enugu and in igbo language.

Skip vid to 16:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzEzzCpTWXY

arinzeejikonye:
Umuguma owerri

My home town.

mancanoe:
I observed from google earth map that OWAZA a community in ukwa west LGA OF ABIA STATE which hosts shell gas & crude oil installations is now seen as a Town in Rivers state..... Its just like seeing OBOLLO AFOR A TOWN IN ENUGU STATE IN KOGI OR BENUE STATES FROM GOOGLE EARTH MAP..... Or is google earth map not an authentic map source/reference?

It is the same way you would view Chukwuma Odumegwu University (Anambra State University) in Imo state. Google is sometimes wrong.