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phantom: you dey worry yourself over person wey fit don buy land for the whole PH...lol

beblessed: Mr. Jp, i see u viewing this page now, e don dooo! Phc na village, we gree. How is ur own village? If you are a rivers man, come out lets vote for you in 2015. Phc no good but u do business in phc...no yab us again. Better still stay permanently in lag or abj. I can see you are a big man, paying billions for taxes. Comparing phc to lag is like comparing 9ja to britain. Lag senior phc well. Compare ikeja to phc at least. Even dat is much. Ikeja is almost bigger than rivers in terms of developments.

True NaijaBwoy: Na wa o

I always thought people who divorce must have been lazy in their marriage to keep things together.... but the sad fact is i am now going through a divorce. Its even more painfull to realise the key reason for me parting ways with the woman i still love is simply because she wont address the error of her ways.

Ironically, if she had said, "my husband, i am sorry please fogive me and lets patch things up (even for the sake of the kids)". I would with out doubt reconsider. it would help restore my confidence in her and my marriage.

The harsh reality is without these words, I would continously battle with her in respect of who wears the pants in our marriage. it truly doesnt help that her tenacity is supproted by her family. This truly chops my legs of me manhood and dignity... My marriage is currently the spin off from Eastenders... the family affairs is out there...

Im guessing you want to know what she should be sorry about it will pop out when i get enough feedback from the women out there.

9yrs knowing her, 5yrs married, 2kids later and a divorce............ Ladies, Learn these words, it goes a long way to retaining your marriage " my husband i am sorry"

tspun: instead of calling a meetin with all d governors to takle d issue of power u want to fight fed govt alone bcus u think u r too special. Rubish

phantom: okija...take my advice..debating with this guy na just waste of time.you would have a more fulfilling time with arguing with a 'newt'...qed.lagos is heaven but on my way to ijanikin the other day i could count not less than ten people sh.itting in nylon bags and my uncle who i stayed with at ago had water stored in containers.lol.

No need to press further, this is no night school matter where you were thought that cholera thrive in oil polluted water,
guy wetin do your school fees?

cholera swimming in oil and water mixture, kai kai kai kai,

Amaechi what have you done to education in Rivers state?

Afam4eva: [size=14pt]Chineke Nna. Beneath that bridge is very dirty...

Btw, where exactly is that bridge located in PH? Since Ezepromoe said he uses that bridge to escape the Aba road traffic, i should assume that the bridge is located somewhere near Woji/Rumuibekwe.[/size]

phantom: youre an embarrasment..lol....i actually gave you benefit of the doubt.big error on my part!

phantom: You keep talking of water and cholera. If you were smart you would also acknowledge the fact that the niger delta including rivers state should have the highest incidence of water borne diseases BECAUSE OF OIL POLLUTION.you talk of exam scores at secondary school level, please can you tell us what the national average is? No offence but you try to sound intelligent when in actual fact your are probably lighter than my toilet tissue.

phantom: my friend stop acting condescending.i think most posters here have extended nothing but civility to you but you insist on being a major a.hole.okija has given you points to debate properly but you are busy groping at straws.i was in lagos not to long ago and my conclusion is fashola don try but the place reminds me of a mad woman whos been attended to by a very good cosmetologist.

Okija good points? i didn't see them please show me?

in my previous life when i was insane, i really thought like you, thank God for this life.

Yup!! A suspension bridge was built in Lagos State, So Amaechi should buil a suspension bridge as well or what?! Are you telling us that there are no bad roads in Lagos?! You keep calling Ikoyi, how about you talk about the other places on the mainland. I have been to this lagos severally so please dont try to hoodwink anybody here. Fashola had a developed state that needed rehabilitation, Amaechi met a shithole that need total salvaging. Their scopes of work differ by miles .

I will not speak with the same authority for Riverine communities as I will for Port-harcourt because my work and life barely gives me reason to visit these communities except maybe Okrika. For what its worth, atleast the Amaechi schools were built in all the Local Governments of Rivers State. Same Standard, Same design. I dont know about roads and stuff, but I'm sure that a few roads and some government works, no matter how small must have been done in these communities. Again, I am not certain, so i wouldnt speak categorically. But if nothing, salaries are also being paid to workers in these communities.

[b]Cholera Outbreak in water side communities.. I am not surprised one bit. Amadi Ama is a good example of the poor level of hygiene that these waterside communities have. How do you balme government for the outbreak of a disease that was caused by the residents. They shiit in the same place they eat. Even if they had government water, they would still contact these sicknesses because they shiit, piss and bath into the same rivers that they fish from. Back to government water issue. You may not know this, but I didnt start out as a Port-harcourt Boy. I have lived in some communities of Rivers State like Omoku and had reason to visit bonny as well. I know what people go through to get clean pipe-borne water, but I tell you now that Water is not as bad as. We in Rivers State have not had government water in over 20 years. Maybe Old Port-harcourt town, but not anymore. So we have a cholera outbreak, My sympathies to the victims, but maybe they need to start by practicing better hygiene. Even Amadi Ama that is a shiithole has pipe-borne water. The chief in their community has provided them with many of such. Now!! Should Amaechi decide to focus on providing government water to everyone in Rivers State, then we would have another round of massive demolitions to create a passage for these pipse to run through. Not even Lagos state is fully supplied by government water. Not even Cross Rivers state which was the first state that I saw a functioning water company. So my guy, my post may have sounded like I didnt care that some people were without government water, but that wasnt the message.. i was only pointing out that we have other rather bigger pressing needs in Port-harcourt.
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Did public schools in Rivers State ever have good teachers?! Like seriously!? I'm not aware of the salary deductions and all worth not, but the fact is that the schools have been built. Teachers are there teaching. What private schools decide to charge is non of my business nor the states business. I will check on the result stats you posted and see wether it has decreased under maechi or increased. that would be a good yardstick to measure what progress has been achieved in the Education sector.

[b]LOL!! Yeah! I have never seen trains nor even lived in a civilized or developed city before in my life..

You really crack me up! First of all, those trains that you are crediting to Lagos State government were bult and is being run by the Federal government! Stop all this unnecessesary huffing and puffing. Lagos State government is still working on building their light rail system, which is fine. But sadly, Port-Harcourt has never been at par with Lagos even before. A man who has a 4 storey building to repair and the man who has a bungalow to turn into a four storey building both have two separate scopes of work. For gods sake, Lagos already had wide roads before fashola, all fashola had to do was take out 1 lane and dedicate it to buses. Port-Harcourts widest road prior to Amaechi was Aba road. Is it the narrow Mile one 2 lane road that you will now mark off one lane for buses?! Do you know the clusterfuck of traffic that would cause?! Thats why he started re building the roads to make ways for bus lanes. Go to the new Mile One road, it has a dedicated bus route all the way to mile three with two lanes left for regular traffic. [/b]

That it didnt start with Amaechi simply means that the man has really done a lot. I choose to appreciate the good he has done (which no one prior to him has ever done) and encourage him to do more, you choose to dwell on what he has not done and sulk about them.

[b] Sadly, thats the port-harcourt we have. Its still very tribal and the government of Rivers State has to put up with a more difficult terrain both politically, tribally and geographically than Lagos State government. Look at the mess going on in Rivers State politics with the Local governments and all. Lagos was once the capital territory, the path had been greatly paved for Tinubu, Fashola and co before now. Doing up Lagos is going to be a breeze compared to port-harcourt. A city with various ethinic groups and tribes. Where virually 100% of the lands are tribal. Look at the cases in court against the government for Greater Port-harcourt lands. Its easy to sit in your little corner and point at all the faults. Even I can point at many as well. But when you see something positive, you also commend it. Port-harcourt is wearing a new look and I'm likeing it. If all the subsequent governments continue atthis same pace, then we should have somethingto baost about by 2020. In 6 years, we have covered a whole lot of distance. The city is a work in progress. Nobody said its the perfect city, but it sure as hell is moving in the right direction.

Now!! If you want a fair assessment, compare Rivers State with its Peers.. Thats States that were not once former capitals on Nigeria, that have to deal with teh same population density and terrain and also have money! Example Delta State, Bayelsa State, Akwa Ibom State, Cross River State (Before their oil got stolen by Akwa Ibom), e.t.c #Datsall[/b]

phantom: Syoure not different from me.i am a full blooded ph boy.i was born here.dont know bout you but there are aspects of your criticisms that are not true.truth be told...after dietespiff's govt, amaechis is probably next not even after ada george.

[b]Lagos State Government only has to deal with that small already developed state. Thats why Fashola spends more time Painting roads and planting flowers than building new roads.

Rivers State is so darn big, we even have communities that are only accessible by boat. And everybody has to catered to, not just Port Harcourt. To say that there are no streetlights in Port-Harcourt would be a big fat lie. Odili Road, Oginigba, Aba Road, Azikiwe road, Mile one, Agip, Abacha road, e.t.c all have street lights and they are functioning. The Standard road contract in Rivers State consists of Road, with covered or underground drainages and streetlights. That’s how the contracts are given. So I dare you to mention one road done by Amaechi that does not have streetlights.. Even the Elele - Omerelu road has functioning streetlights.

Pipe-borne water.. I have to say again, no be today country spoil. To accuse Amaechi of not providing Rivers State with Pipe-borne water would look as if it had always been there prior to him, which is not the case. I am not interested in pipe-borne water, virtually every Home in Port-Harcourt has a bore-hole or access to water in one way or the other. If anything, pipe-borne water has never been priority on any governments list. I'm not excusing the lack of it o!! I'm just saying, our problems are bigger than government water.

Schools: How dare you talk about public schools in Rivers State. Its either you are a natural Amaechi hater or you have not been into port-Harcourt since his tenure began. The issue of Rivers State schools were all sorted out and dealt with in his first tenure. Let’s not even go there. The only problem he hasn’t tackled with regards to public schools is the Teacher re-evaluation which has been truncated somehow by the union.

First tenure achievement commendable and indisputable, what is on the ground today;
News flash; the unscrupulous accountant of rivers state is deducting 40% of teacher's salaries, the good ones have long left to open private schools while the left overs are living up to their names, Amidst the pretty schools his first tenure brought forth, there are no teachers to teach, is that life?

now the resultant effect is that an average quack private school in Ph charge as much as 100k a term, 6yrs on, the child cannot differentiate between an Apple and an Orange. i ask again is this life
Did you see last year's UME and WAEC results of rivers state huh!!! 37% pass is nothing to give Amaechi glory for.

Transport System: Na wah o!! Abeg which other State has a mass transit system that is better than Rivers State?! Is it the Lagos BRT bus system?! How does that really differ from the big Amaechi buses that we have today. If anything, Amaechi has taken a giant leap forward in transportation with the Rivers State Monorail project which should be completed and function by middle - close of 2014. If its that we don’t have a dedicated bus lane, then I will ask you whether its the roads that we had under Odili which could barely take two cars that you now want to create a bus lane?! At least go and look at Mile one road. New roads in certain areas all come with dedicated bus lanes. The old roads cannot accommodate a dedicated bus route.

Residential Areas: This one breaks my heart. GRA Phase 1 and 2 look like Diobu. Businesses, churches, shops, salons, eateries, e.t.c. HOWEVER!! This problem did not start with Amaechi. Infact, it didnt even start with Odili (but got worse under him). With the exception of Old GRA (Nzimiro, Amadi-flats & Forces Avenue), I dont think we have any residential estate of note in Port-Harcourt. Trans-Amadi garden was only salvaged because of the calibre of people that bought properties in it. Certain Areas on Odili road hold a lot of promise as well.. But in Amaechis defence, thats why we have the Greater Port-Harcourt Project. When its ready for sale, it promises to be better than Elekahia Housing estate and GRA Phase 2.

Interconnecting Roads: Its obvious that you are ignorant of the constraints that Port-harcourt faces. Now let me school you on what really makes PORT-HARCOURT. Everything you see from Azikiwe Junction - Obigbo is not really port-harcourt but Ikwerre communities that have been swallowed up by the population expansion of Port-harcourt. The Original areas of Port-harcourt where the lands belonged to the State Government and not communities all have interconnecting Roads. D-line, Diobu and Port-Harcourt Town (Borokiri). The rest is actually Obio-Apkor and these lands are owned by communities who sell them indiscriminately with no regards for urban planning. We cant blame Amaechi for that now can we. Its this reason that has prompted him to have to destroy buildings in other to build roads. Hence the Nickname HURRICANE AMAECHI!

Port-Harcourt is a mess and has always been a mess, but we are beginning to clean our act up. You cant blame the woes of Port-Harcourt on Amaechi, if anything he has done more than even the critically acclaimed Governor Rufus Ada George.

To say Amaechi has defaced the beauty of Port-Harcourt is nothing short of laughable at best.

I know where we were before Amaechi and I know what we have seen since Amaechi, and I am loving what Amaechi has brought us so far which is CHANGE YOU CAN SEE..

phantom: you seem to bitter about 'something' .

texazzpete: Please stop making these silly excuses. It doesn't matter if it's a big task or if you need sharp sand. Rivers State has the resources to carry out these activities...to insist otherwise is not sensible.
Amaechi's 2nd term is a disappointment. We know what he did in his first term...I drive down the excellent Oginigba road daily. The state of Trans-Amadi is a massive embarrassment to any right-thinking person and as Okija Juju said, the neglect of the Woji-YKC axis that houses a massive percentage of Rivers workers (that pay billions monthly in taxes) is very strange.
More than 5 years into his administration and the traffic jams at YKC have not been reduced significantly. The relief road being built is still yet to be completed after how many years. Last year, it took divine intervention before Woji road was patched up a bit to allow it to be motorable. All this praise singing will not help move us forward o!

Eze Promoe: [color=crimson]I never knew before now that you're a PH boy like me. Meka o. Anybody who says Amaechi isn't working is a hater.
P.H is a fast growing city, growing to become like Lagos in population. It's not that easy to control the state entirely, Rivers state soil is very bad, that it can't drain water just like the soil in Imo, Anambra etc. Before a road is constructed in Rivers state, the old soil is removed and a new sharp sand is used to sand fill it.
Talking about Woji slaughter road, you'll agree with me that it is gonna be a very big task. The land is like very high on the road side and the settlement areas have a downward slope which is to say, dualizing it will require the sand filling of those slopes and demolishing the houses down the slope. So I can see why it's being delayed and also note that there are some other projects going on. The one I can see which is speedy is the new dual carriage way linking Airport road with the main Aba road, going through Igwuruta, Eneka, Atali, Elimgbu and Rumuokwurushi respectively.
I can see good works there but not to leave the bad.
Oyigbo roads are very bad and work need to be done there.
Meka o![/color]

[quote author=Okija_juju][b]Make I first throway salute for a fellow PH boy!!

O.K!! Woji Road.. To say woji road needs to be dualized is an under statement. The amount of traffic that Woji Road carries requires road that is similar to what we have on Stadium road. However, dualizing that road would mean a shiitload of money would be paid in compensation to residents of that area. I'm sure that Rivers State can afford that, but I will not claim to know the reason for which that Woji road has not been fixed. I only spoke about a street contract given by NDDC that was truncated by Woji Youths because the contractor wouldn’t pay them before he started work. Sadly, this story has been the case all over Ikwerre communities in Rivers State.

Speaking of Road and their lenghts, I have to agree that Opkoro road isn’t done yet, but at least its passable now.. That was never the case under Odili. Also remember that in most of the road construction Amaechi has to deal with in Rivers State, Aside from paying for the road work, he still has to pay a great amount in compensation for the expansion of those roads. A classic example is the Garrison - Slaughter road. A lot of houses have been marked for demolition and some also require a huge amount in compensation so that has halted that job. When you measure the Lenght of Stadium road, remember that contract covers the length of Npkogu - Rumuomasi (Through Elekahia), Elekahia - Aba Road (That’s Stadium Road), And the link road from Stadium road - Rumuola. And they are all dualized, complete with drainages, not open drainages but covered drainages with sidewalk as well. In fact, I put it to you that not a single road constructed by Amaechi lacks drainages, and most of those drainages are either underground drainages or covered drains. The lenght of Rumuokwuta road - Uniport Nko?!

So I agree with you that his first Tenure was a blast of fresh air, no contesting that, but I wouldn’t call his second tenure all that bad.. Honestly, work is still going on in Port-Harcourt. O!! Lest I forget, From Airforce - Elele (boundary of Rivers State/Owerri) is definitely more than 30km. And that’s 30km of darn good quality road. I can never forget the packing job done on that road. Same thing for Woji Road in GRA, that road was lifted over 8 ft from its previous height and the drainages are 8ft inside the ground. That road was premium quality as well.

We can complain about Oginigba Road. Not Today, Not tomorrow either. Lets also not forget Old Aba Road o!! I have not been to Rumuodara in a very long time so I wouldn’t even speak about it. But if my memory serves me right, doesn’t the RCC contract that spans from Port-Harcourt - Akwa-Ibom also cover that road?! I don’t know sha so I'll leave it. The Nkpogu - Abuloma - LNG Roundabout road has been opened as well.. Now dualized and they are working on the bridge as we speak. D-line Nko?! Diobu sef has been touched (Somewhat sha, although I think Iloabuchi is still a hot mess).

You talked about Forces Avenue not being motorable?! Please be specific about the Area of Forces Avenue, cos Last time I drove on that road, with the exception of the areas approaching Mile-one Fly-over and maybe that one bad spot approaching Azikiwe road (Not the Leventis side o!), Forces Avenue has always had good roads. Infact Nzimiro, Amadi-flats and co jus had their roads resurfaced recently.

Anyways, lets give thanks for what Amaechi has done.. Rivers State saw changes. At least we are here calling out roads that have been fixed and transformed from the one lane narrow passages they used to be into Dual carriage Highways. Ada George road, Agip Junction - Mile 3 - Mile one - Building materials - Olu-Obasanjo - ..... My Guy!! He has really tried. All this and he still has to handle other Projects outside of roads, pay salaries, e.t.c.

I am no doubt surprised about Woji Road. My shock with Woji ROad is especially high because there is no questioning the fact that Woji and Elekahia houses at least 35% of 'Port-harcourt' workers. This one, I will say YES!! Amaechi no try for Woji Residents. In fact, Woji - YKC - Inside of Woji housing estate, Elelenwo roads - slaughter.. All these Areas needs serious intervention..

But let nobody dare compare Amaechi to Odili. I have lived in Port-Harcourt all my life and can offically say Odili was the worst thing to happen to Rivers State. Not even the Military Administrators (Ewang & co) were as bad as Odili.

@ Topic: #Fact: That bridge is shifting and shifting fast, all you have to do is enter into the Zoo or the Car lark and look under the bridge to see the issues there.. That Bridge would eventually be demolished and rebuilt. 1; its a poorly built bridge, 2; its a badly designed bridge (How can you build road that is as wide as a 3-lane dual carriage way and then build a one-lane bridge to service that road.. Thats already chaos).

And JP Phillips: Port-harcourt is a small city. Nothing like Lagos (a former Capital of Nigeria).. But we have come a long way from where we used to be at. Don’t expect Port-Harcourt to blow-up, especially not with the way the country is presently being run. Go to Onne Ports and see what comes into Port-Harcourt and compare it to Lagos. Also, Community influence in Port-harcourt has contributed to stifling the growth of the City. The Ikwerre man would always be who he is.. Sell lands indiscriminately with no regard for access roads or drainages. Then they (Ikwerres) would still constitute a nuisance to businesses and companies through Obio Apkor, Phalga, one Local Government taskforce or the other and so on. Our terrain is unique. Port-harcourt is not an easy town to govern, do business in or even live in.


God Bless Rivers State. _{Land of Milk and Honey..} [/b]

joshua idibia: u b fool. Although d tin na true,nd e dey pain me. But plz tel me,whch western,southern nd eastern state wey no dy do am?

jodeci: Make we hear word jor!! I wonder the last time you passed through okporo road,who said okporo road to rumuodar junction is not motorable?

have u traveled the eliozu-airport owerri road to Omerelu? is that stretch of road also Short? If Odili had done half of what Amaechi is doing,Portharcourt roads would have been alot better than it is presently.

Symphony007: you're asking me the difference? Which city has the tallest building in the entire south south and south east? How many corporation has their HQ in port harcourt? You wanna talk about the road network? Infastructure? Wow! Please get off the crack.

ibiso1986: those community people are damn so useless.. Imagine, the government is trying to construct good roads in their communities and they are asking for marching ground fee.

Symphony007: only a crack addict will compare onitsha to the city of port harcourt.

davechika: Hello nairalanders living around woji/slaughter axis,pls confirm. i got this disturbing pixs of slaughter bridge woji in Ph about collapsing.take a close look at the circled pillar.
lets prevent this calamity waiting to happen,who knows it could be your loved ones making use of the bridge as at when it will finally collaspe.

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berem: I hope this is not the usual chest beating and empty threats! MASSOB should learn from MEND how to issue threats and carry it effectively. This is long overdue!