₦airaland Forum

sojayy:
Ooh no ! No single day without a bad news, especially rivers... I wonder hw people live in that hell of a state

Rivers is a state reduced to rumbles because of crude oil in its domain.

In other parts of the world, areas that have crude oil are near heaven.

In Nigeria, it's the reverse ...

The Buharis of northern Nigeria use oil money to build modem development infrastructures but exclude the oil producing areas. Because the Buharis believe that one Nigeria is a lie waiting to be exposed.

etcsines:
@titiloyeblog.com

- Two oil workers of Shell Nigeria have been kidnapped in Rivers State.

- Two police escorts were also killed during the kidnap.

It was gathered that the incident happened on Thursday evening along the Ahoada-Ndele-Rumuji-Emohua axis of the East-West road, Rivers Staten.

The two kidnapped senior staff members of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) were said to be returning from an official trip from the neighbouring Bayelsa state when they were attacked by the gunmen, killing their security escorts.

A source in Shell who preferred anonymity confirmed that the senior staff members were returning from Bayelsa State about 4pm, Thursday, with their escorts when they were attacked.

source: https://www.titiloyeblog.com/2019/04/gunmen-abduct-two-shell-personnel-kill.html

Wow. Now that Shell says it is apologizing for all its misdeeds in the Niger delta.

Shell apologies but still sustaining in power the northern Buharis who refuse regional resource control, is like Shell giving two and taking ten.

That's Nigeria for us: new governor comes in, he destroys the development projects of others.

Like it has been in Imo state since 2007.
In 17 years, Imo state couldn't complete a university teaching hospital till today because of sectional bad belles in connivance with new govs..

maxiuc:
Owerri should be there

Owerri has practically been made to become Imo state.

Old Owerri, New Owerri and other Owerris are emerging in Owerri.

But no other town in Imo state has witnessed real development or urbanization.

Every now and then, Nigeria's govt acquires jet fighters and bombers to kill its citizens.

Nigeria has no external enemy.

The only enemies of Nigeria are the lazy drones who because of crude oil proceeds refuse political restructuring of Nigeria.

Boko Haram, bandits and herdsmen are all fighting for a country to be governed with Islamic Sharia criminal laws, the same laws adopted by the 12 northern Nigeria's states since 1999.

If Nigeria is restructured to make Islamic Sharia Criminal Laws constitutionally allowed in the Sharia states, Boko Haram, Bandits and Herdsmen violence must stop.

SoNature:
I think the EFCC will probe him under any of the two conditions:
1. The incoming governor encourages it by writing a petition to the agency with incriminating evidence
2. President Buhari does not interfere in the agency's SOP. Just a phone call from Aso Rock can end Rochas' probe. The second reason is one of the key reasons why I am disappointed in Buhari.

In the U.S., the DoJ just concluded the probe into the activities of Donald Trump during the last presidential election.

While the investigation was on, jittery Trump maintained that there was no collusion. Now, Mueller has concluded his investigation and has forwarded his report to the Congress. Everyone's waiting for the Congress's action. However, those in the know say that Mueller's report couldn't establish whether there was a collusion or not.

You see, I am particularly elated that there's a serious country out there, where a president is being probed to determine if he used external forces (Russians) to influence the outcome of their election.

But in Nigeria, Buhari doesn't just dictate to all the agencies of government, he also invites politicians from neighboring countries to his election campaign.

My point is, if Buhari does not strengthen our antigraft agencies and make them independent of executive control, rational observers (like Transparency International) will continue to see him as a big joker.

You paint President Buhari as a man who condones corrupt practices by your insinuating that just a phone call by Buhari to EFCC, the anti corruption agency would stop probing questions to whoever.

If you had just shut up on this Imo state thread. You don't have the brilliance to contribute to public discourse.


You cite US justice system without knowing that some ill-guided statements you made above can warrant your being invited for questioning by law enforcement agencies.

Anambralstson:
I visited the site of Second Niger bridge Onitsha today being Sunday, massive work was going on there,Thanks to GEJ and PMB

Still, no sign of bridge in sight, after more than a decade of politics with common bridge.

Turkey has built a Second Bosporus bridge, ten times the size of Niger bridge, since Nigeria started to talk about second Nigeria bridge.

Turkey has no crude oil.

The name is Sam Mbakwe Cargo Airport.
It's not OWERRI airport, not Imo airport.

B2mario:
brother if you don't know it know it now, when you are dealing with your people you trade with caution. Umunna di ka ejiji no n'akpa amu, I si ka I hapu ya, ya atawa gi akpa amu. I sikwanu ka I piagbuola ya gi piakashi a akwa mkpuru amu give.

Loool.

What can Umuna or Orlu people do in the presence of three armed policemen guarding excavation workers determined to complete the gutter started by former governor Ikwechegh?

Udenwa used koboko -bearing policemen to drive unreasonable people from continuing to trade at the old market when International market was built.

Rational Force leads humans, all over the world

No Umuna or Orlu man raised an objection when the gutter was started, until the job was abandoned, when fears came that it can be abandoned half way again to cause disaster without govt demonstrating commitment that it can finish the gutter in record time.


Okorocha has shot himself, Ideato and Orlu, on the feet by not completing Orlu urban drainage project.

B2mario:
is it the drainage system that was objected by Orlu Nwafor people? You've not told us why you hate Rochas.

How could a community override a govt? No community can stop an armed govt from doing what govt wants to do. Not possible.

Gov. Rochas Okorocha merely wanted an easy excuse to not complete the drainage project. His usual intelligence.


Now have you heard that the Akokwa to Ogboko to Orlu dual carriageway way of Okorocha govt has collapsed at Urashi River bridge area ?
In effect, Ogboko is no longer accessible from Orlu by road?


Floods from Orlu usually cut the Orlu-Ideato road into two.
If floods from Orlu are not diverted to Mgbede or Ogidi valley, as planned by former governor Ikwechegh, this Orlu-Ideato road shall always fail. The road has collapsed at the same point many times in many years past.

Pigs clash in a zoo.

No police, no intelligence agencies.

Politicians only form a semblance of govt, pay themselves fat salaries with crude oil proceeds, that's all.

The politicians then present a sovereign nation before GB the owner of the country. Thus the UN reckons there is a sovereign nation, Nigeria. No body cares that life is near worthless in the country, Nigeria. Tufuakwa.

B2mario:
Please do to prove me right. These two people I don't really know what they want to achieve. One disagrees totally that Rochas does anything good in Imo state while the other keeping on singing that Rochas developed only Owerri at the expense of Orlu.

Rochas Okorocha's major issue is his belief that people are fools except himself.

Any gov who wanted to complete Orlu urban drainage system can do that easily. Just deploy two to three pay loaders and three policemen on ground, and demonstrate commitment to finish the gutter in a set time.

After eight years of Okorocha as gov, flood from rains still continue to wreck havoc on Orlu due to uncompleted urban drainage system, no pipe borne water in Orlu.

Why then did Orlu municipal local government area risk Ohakim and ruling PDP to give Okorocha the highest number of votes, more than any other local government area, in 2011?

Rosskii:
SE and bungalows. Na wa.

Problem is when the place is equipped and unemployed doctors are recruited there tomorrow, it shall become a place for those doctors to solicit for patients to their quack private hospitals outside.

The hospital then crumbles.
We start blaming politicians for not providing good health institutions like in foreign countries.

Imo1stson:
When kikake and MixRer are done with their nuisance I will repost pictures and more. I don't have time for childish exchange of stupidity with touts.

You posted Owerri photos and headed them Orlu.
You people are nuisance folks Nd'Imo are up in arms to chase out from govt house.

B2mario:
Guy I'm not a liar like you because I don't have time for such. I grew up in Orlu and I know Orlu more than you. I ma ihe e ina ako nwe e nini awu a nne wani.

I made mention of 7 roads then you decided to take 4 just to suit your argument. What of the old owerri road, what of the new Owerri road that runs from Owerri to Orlu which is more than 57km, what of mgbee road that runs from Orlu to Akokwa(ie boundary between imo and anambra) that is more than 40km and all the new roads dualised in Ogboko which is a suburb of Orlu city? He wanted to expand the nkwerre road to nkwerre lga but was objected by nkwerre people who don't want their houses to be demolished, he also wanted to dualised the road that led to holy Trinity cathedral, the seat Bishop of Orlu diocese and build a drainage that run through the community for collection of flood from Orlu city to ogidi valley but was rejected by Umuokpara/Orlu nwaofor people.

Brother, you said that Rochas built a one-city state, but can you give me a past imo governor that gave attention to other imo towns and cities than Rochas? In Orlu alone, he beautified it by expanding all the aforementioned roads, built new stadium, built an event center almost opposite the new stadium, built school of health and nursing technology in Okporo, upgrade Tesac to Imo state polytechnic Orlu campus, upgraded the Imsuth, which you've been shouting of the poor state of the road that leads to it without knowing the present upgrade of the teaching hospital, he built a general hospital beside the new stadium though not fully equipped which I'm expecting Ihedioha to do so, built new markets, dualised a road at back of Udenwa's house though not completed as at last 2yrs just like the ones beside the children park and opposite St. Joseph Catholic Church, the wife built skill acquisition center beside the new stadium and built houses for widows. Rochas built a building materials market still in same area, refurbished the Umuna central school, built the Eastern palm University Ogboko which was meant to be the new Imo state University but was rejected by Owerri people. The records are there for any one to verify.

He created a 20,000 job in Imo state since 2015 which Orlu people benefited like their other folks from other zones of the state. Orlu also benefited from free education.

In Okigwe, he dualised the Okigwe main road which is more than 8km, built a new stadium, built all the adjoining streets, dualised the road that leads to the new stadium, built the imo state University of engineering, Onuimo, the princess hotel under construction and a general hospital.

Other towns of Imo state are not left out like Oguta, Umuka, Mgbidi, Mbaise where he built the Imo state University of agriculture and vetenary medicine and Obowo where he built the Maleysian market.

He completed the blocks for the 27 Imo general hospitals which the incoming governor will equip the ones that have not been equipped.

Imo state does not have that money and this man really did magic in Imo state, so as Igbos I think we should appreciate he irrespective of his party affliction.

B2mario,

You are a serial liar. You live by propagating falsehood for politicians.

1) From Orlu to Owerri road distance is not 57 km; it's 38.8 kms.

2) From Orlu pass Ogboko roundabout to Akokwa is not 40 kms; its 13.7 kms.

Okorocha enlarged this Owerri pass Orlu to Akokwa road for his business in Ogboko.

Orlu-Ihialla road, the economic route of Orlu to Onitsha laid non navigable since Okorocha is in power till a local representative got to its repair.


I don't have time to debunk all the lies you put up there.
But fact is:
Gov Okorocha underdeveloped Orlu, depopulated Orlu, economically marginalized people from Orlu area, but economically empowered native land owners of Owerri zone through lavishing nearly all his government's development efforts on Owerri with the eight years federal allocations of Imo state and its 27 local government areas.

Scrapped and abandoned roads in Orlu.

Old Orlu -Owerri road has remained dusty after it was scrapped by Okorocha govt since 2012.

The road from International Market pass St Joseph Catholic Church Umuna to TESAC remains scrapped.


The road to oldest Girls Secondary School Orlu from Amaigbo Road remains scrapped since 2012.

Umuna Street remains scrapped since 2018.

The road to Carrot Junction from Ihioma road remains scrapped since 2012.


The roads to the economic nerve of Orlu - international market - have all worn out since 2013, none repaired.

Orlu stadium dismantled by Okorocha in 2012 is no more functional as the exposed seats have rotten, long after the empty stadium was re-roofed 2 yrs ago.

FYI. laying green synthetic turfs on the ground, then chairs that shall rot soon because of no roofs - don't count that as new Orlu stadium.


You people have been told: tell Okorocha to complete the roads he scrapped or initiated in Orlu municipal local government area, for his misdeeds against Orlu to lessen.

NLModsAreStupud:
Wetin concern me

Exactly what president Buhari is saying now.


Buhari is old, has nothing at stake anymore with Nigeria, except enjoying the little that is left of his life span.

People in normal countries vote young persons to lead them.


In Nigeria, ethnoreligious bigots and profiteering conspirators voted a Buhari to lead us in Nigeria.

Corruption permeated all aspects of Nigeria.
Even medical doctors are worse. Some of them are acting beggars, as they want to be rich quick.

Delsuth shall not survive with doctors like this.

Govt investments in Delsuth go to the drain.

Citizens keep blaming political leaders for not providing standard hospitals like in overseas.

Nwanyiocha247:
Sex romp: Rector bars course mates from attending victim’s burial

Nwanyiocha Reporting

The female victim among three out of the four students , who died at Sunshine Castle Hostel , Ihiagwa , Owerri , Imo State , Onyinyechi Okafor, during a sex romp , has been buried.

The victims had died after allegedly taking Tramadol tablets and Indian hemp before embarking on a sex spree .

She was buried on Thursday at her hometown in Ihiala , Anambra State , our correspondent gathered , even as some students disclosed that course mates to the victims were prevented from attending the funeral.

Southern City News gathered that while the three male victims were students of FUTO , Okafor was a student of Federal Polytechnic Nekede , Owerri .

But an undergraduate of the polytechnic, said that the school management barred her course mates from attending the burial.

The Rector of the institution , Michael Arimanwa , our correspondent learnt, threatened that any student of the school , who attended the burial would be sanctioned .

He ( rector ) was said to have been irked by the shameful circumstance leading to the death of the female undergraduate .

The source said , “The female victim , Onyinyechi Okafor, has been buried. She was buried on Thursday in Ihiala , Anambra State .

“She was a HND One student of Pharmaceutical Technology . The rector warned her course mates not to attend the burial or be associated with her funeral rites .

“You know that our rector is a priest . He was saddened by the shameful stories surrounding the death of the girl .

“ The management warned that any student who attended the burial would be sanctioned . That was why every student stayed away from the burial.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/futo-sex-romp-rector-bars-course-mates-from-attending-victims-burial/amp/

Bush Meat - lions have Bush Meat as name for non University girl, but treated the bush meat kindly.

The three FUTO boys must have believed they had a bush meat, so she could be dealt with.

Idiots. That's not how lions treat Bush Meat.

Cost of landed property in Abuja does not tally with global trends.

Globally, cost of landed property is tied to the number of industries, population and availability of space.

The more the population, industries and Service companies in a city, the higher the cost of landed property.

The lesser the space in a highly populated city, the higher the cost of landed property in the city.


But Abuja has no industries and Service companies.
Abuja has little population.
Abuja has all the space to build.

Yet cost of landed property in Abuja is very high, often higher than in highly populated and industrialized cities of the industrialized countries.


Fact is: cost of landed property in Abuja is fraudulent.

B2mario:
Oga stop lying here, you paid e-rats. Some of your colleagues will not even agree that he did anything in owerri while you are here saying that he made Owerri to look like London at the expense of Orlu.

You said just 4 roads? Chai, brother there's God ooo. Are you sure you know Orlu too well?
In Orlu, he dualised Amaigbo/nkwerre road, Old Owerri road, new Owerri road, asika ilobi avenue, bank road, Owus avenue and orlu/ideato road (which is more than 40km). So count and tell me how many they are.

Stop your usual exaggeration:
In Orlu urban local government area, the second most populated town in Imo state, Okorocha govt dualized/enlarged:

1) Ihioma road -- 1.8km/Amaigbo road 500meters.

2) Owus Avenue -- 600 meters.

3) Asika Ilobi Avenue/Enugu road -- 600 meters.

4) Bank road --- 300 meters.

Total 3.8 kms.

Okorocha must have dualized or paved up to 60kms of Owerri streets.

More than 40 kms of Orlu urban streets are either dilapidated or brown - unpaved

Your adding to Orlu the road from Owerri pass Orlu to Akokwa which Rochas is enlarging to lead to his Ogboko businesses and hometown - that is not it. Who is fooled?

Alhaji Tijani Street beginning from Orlu stadium to Old Owerri road is not through to Y junction, therefore hardly useful.

Next, I shall enumerate the more than 15 kms of roads either scrapped or initiated by Okorocha govt in Orlu since 2012, but abandoned since then.

SoNature:
Stop replying that guy.
He hasn't visited Imo State in 7 years.
The pictures of Orlu that he shares online are those of 2012.
He may never even know the way to his Orlu home.
All sourced from Nairaland

I live in Orlu.

Mention of Orlu sends you mad - as usual.

I can bet that you don't know where Orlu is.

In five years here, you praised Rochas Okorocha and his Owerri one-city development policy.

Okorocha is now a persona non grata before the people of Owerri. Now Owerri even allege that Okorocha is dismantling and looting what he built in Owerri.

B2mario:
last time I was in Imo state the roads have nothing wrong to say about them, infact, Owerri was like London, the roads were in good shapes starting from Aba road to okigwe road, Akachi road, egwu road, Douglas road still under dualisation, Dee Sam road, bank road, Orlu road, the expanded Owerri/Orlu expressway even all the orlu city roads dualised by him apart from the abandoned ones like the old owerri road, the road besides the children park and the one opposite St. Joseph Catholic church. So why terming them substandard while they've lasted for more than 6yrs.

Mind you, Rochas patronized local contractors and local products which is appreciable and Imo is not rich. So we have all it takes to appreciate Rochas, he is a good economist and a good manager.

As you said, Rochas Okorocha made Owerri look like London,

but Orlu outside the four streets enlarged by Okorocha looks like hell.

Little rain wrecks havoc because Okorocha refused to complete Orlu urban drainage gutter.
Most of the inner streets of Orlu are dilapidated, no maintenance since 2011.

Okorocha seems bent on leaving office without completing work on the more than 15kms of roads he either scrapped or initiated in Orlu.

If he does, he has set a precedence that shall never go well in this region.

meobizy:
So somebody from the East is now a Kannywood yeyebrity?
My friend, knock yourself and stop talking out of your ass.

Is he/she not a senseless House Nigga from the east who could write "Nollywood Yeyebrity"?

Who does not know that Nollywood is one of the greatest employers of labour and entertainment in Nigeria?

teufelein:
Buhari's government arrested Nnamdi Kanu and it brought in millions of followers. Government agencies leaked a private video in his phone they seized and it's bringing in more followers and is currently making IPOB more stronger.

When will this government stop misfiring?

When will they understand that the people of old Eastern Nigeria have already decided it's Biafra or Biafra.

We are highly informed people. We don't care about your useless religious game or divide and rule. We are determined people. And we won't stop until freedom is achieved.

Tell them that have lost their manhood because of smell of crude oil in the Niger delta.


Fools who don't know that the countries with the highest citizen standard of living have no crude oil.


Abokiiis now in govt are wasting the scarce revenues from oil in their futile search for crude oil up north.

They believe that crude oil is all there is for a country to survive on.

meobizy:
Na so?
It’s now the #NnamdiKanuChallenge.
Atiku should do and release his own with that Nollywood yeyebrity.

Nollywood Yeyebrity?

Na Kannywood Yeyebrity.

US is more populated than Nigeria, yet has only Hollywood.

India is more than a billion people, yet has only Bollywood.
Nigeria has Nollywood and Kannywood. Wow

You know that Nigeria is not one country, can never be, yet the aroma of crude oil in the Niger delta wouldn't allow you see the need for Biafra exit from Nigeria.

MyVILLAGEpeople:
This IPOB people are not behaving like real igbos. How can one man be brainwashing and deceiving you guys like this.

Igbos ain't this daft and ignorant.

Mtcheeew.

Guy, develop more sense. If Nnamdi Kalu is out today, there are thousands of other Igbos, even more committed than Kalu, to lead the struggle for restoration of Biafra out of the zoo.

AutoReportNG:
If the Federal and State law enforcement in Nigeria are asked to state their major challenges with drivers in Nigeria, we are sure phone calls, text-driving and browsing while driving will top their list.

While this is a global issue which has caused loss of lives and causes series of accidents for road users around the world, Police in the UK seem to have found a long lasting solution to this menace.

According to Bloomberg, Police have unveiled a new device which can detect when motorists are using their mobile phones while driving.

Hampshire and Thames Valley police forces are the first to use the new technology which can determine how many cars on a stretch of road have phones being used without hands-free kits.

When the device, created by technology firm Westcotec, spots a phone being used, it will flash a mobile phone symbol at the vehicle to advise the driver to stop using their mobile phone.

It can also enable police to identify hotspots where mobile phones are frequently used by motorists.

A spokesman for the two forces said: “The technology can detect when Bluetooth is being used but cannot detect if a passenger is using the phone, but the sign will still be activated reminding motorists of the distraction of a mobile phone whilst driving.”

The only disadvantage of this device is that It’s a Bluetooth detector... and all it detects is if the Bluetooth is activated.

Source:
https://www.autoreportng.com/2019/04/police-in-uk-unveils-device-that.html

UK doesn't even have FRSC like Nija, yet minimal road accidents.

Wiseandtrue:
I expect feed back from Government on their moves and how they intend to recover the girl but it seems the girl is completely forgotten!!!

Oby Ezekwesili who was consciously reminding everyone of this girls plight have being silenced under Buhari's regime!!!

Does that mean that the Federal Government has a hand in it

My prayers are with her.

Say that again.

musictori:
Reno Omokri who has been really focused on the Free Leah Sharibu campaign has taken the campaign to the highest peak on earth.

Source: https://www.musictori.com/2019/04/freeleahsharibu-reno-omokri-takes.html

BETWEEN LEAH SHARIBU, PRESIDENT BUHARI & BOKO HARAM.


What president of a country would pay huge ransom money to kidnapping terrorists without first ensuring that all the kidnapped must be released?

In a saner, multi religious country, Buhari should have resigned over the matter of Leah Sharibu, because of the grand implications of her not been released when other Muslim hostages were released.

Nwodosis:
They should be arrested, they couldn't even wait for the NEXT LEVEL to kick off before migrating, they are not patriotic!

Trust. Before NEXT LEVEL ends, Tchad, Niger Republic, Burkina Faso, and even Somalia, shall be deporting Nigerians.

Nigeria's fraudulent political structure springs up the least educated, least equipped and least qualified presidential materials either from far north Nigeria to lead Nigeria; or least qualified presidential materials selected from the south by far north politicians, whenever far north is tired of ruling Nigeria.

FRAUDULENT MEANS IS ONLY WAY FOR A CIVIL SERVANT TO LIVE AND SURVIVE IN THE FRAUDULENT CITY CALLED ABUJA, A CITY WITHOUT ANY VISIBLE MEANS OF WEALTH CREATION, BUT COST OF LANDED PROPERTY ARTIFICIALLY JACKED UP BEYOND THE REACH OF AN AVERAGE CIVIL SERVANT, NOT EVEN BY MORTGAGE FINANCING. STRANGE CITY.

daddytime:
Lol...

Sometimes I just seat and wonder how civil servants and minimum wage earners can live in Abuja/other expensive cities, and comfortably afford the high cost of rentals which is often thrice or more of their annual salaries.

As a government, you rightly have a cap on salaries and how much you can pay your workers who must be living in these areas to be able to work for you but you forgot or choose to forget to place cap on rentals such that your citizens/workers won't be over-exploited and would have some change to feed and meet other needs.

How the government hopes to fight or discourage corruption without tackling these basics still seems to me like a mirage.

Nigeria itself was refashioned on FRAUD by northern military dictators who supervised Nigeria's constitution, restructured Nigeria politically, took the capital of the country from Lagos to Abuja, created an artificial city of Abuja with high cost of landed property, an Abuja City not sustained by any industries or Services, but sustained by crude oil proceeds from hundreds of kilometers away in the Niger delta.

Civil servants are therefore constrained to live and survive in Abuja on FRAUD.