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Rgade:
Why always the black and white patterned embankments??
Looks tacky....
Good job tho.

Black and White actually looks very spectacular to me. One million times better than green white rubbish you see a lot in igboland.

Ofuzo:
This is very very good. Refinery being built in imo state, which will be the first refinery in igboland. Imo state is carrying the rest of igbo states in firsts, like being the first igbo state to implement a free education system.

Come to think of it, anambra state have been trying to build a refinery for 20 years (orient) but otu awu na ezi. Even their drunkard governor launched a 5 billion dollars airport city, but otu awu na ezi. Absolutely nothing on the ground.

Nawaoooo.

Word!!

lilfreezy:
Development will spread as other business and banks will move in to the area

This is very very good. Refinery being built in imo state, which will be the first refinery in igboland. Imo state is carrying the rest of igbo states in firsts, like being the first igbo state to implement a free education system.

Come to think of it, anambra state have been trying to build a refinery for 20 years (orient) but otu awu na ezi. Even their drunkard governor launched a 5 billion dollars airport city, but otu awu na ezi. Absolutely nothing on the ground.

Nawaoooo.

Ofuzo:
That drunkard obiano, the dark spec wearing, akpokue wimp clueless governor, have finished anambra state. The man have not built anything in anambra state since he came to power. A governor riding around in Toyota SUV in a state that produces INNOSON G5 and INNOSON G6 SUV. A governor in his first year was brandishing 5 billion dollars MOU's, many of which have not materialized. The 5 billion dollars airport city, which he signed a contract for, is nowhere to be found. Peter obi built 800 kilometers of roads and left billions of naira in savings. This buffoon useless clown governor have not built any roads and have SQUANDERED the state savings in no time.

Word.

ScotMisile:
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Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State
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Anambra State has just made the seventh in the list of the ten most indebted states in Nigeria with an external debt profile of N107 billion.

The disclosure was contained in an information recently provided by the Debt Management Office [DMO].

The news came as a shock to Anambrarians who recall vividly that barely six years when Mr. Peter Obi handed over as the governor, the state was not just debt free but has well over N75 billion in cash and savings.

However, in the six years Willie Maduabuchukwu Obiano steered the fortunes of the state, the debt profile jumped from N75 billion savings to N107 billion debt.

Also, according to another official document, the state is burdened with 92,332 out of school children

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It could be recalled that Anambra State owed nothing to any individuals or institutions in the form of salaries, pensions, or contracts, as at 17th March 2014.

Other states that made the top ten list include:

Lagos — N1.4 trillion
Edo — N276 billion
Kaduna — N227 billion
Cross River — N188 billion
Bauchi — N133 billion
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Ekiti — N106 billion
Oyo — N104 billion
Ogun— N103 billion
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That drunkard obiano, the dark spec wearing, akpokue wimp clueless governor, have finished anambra state. The man have not built anything in anambra state since he came to power. A governor riding around in Toyota SUV in a state that produces INNOSON G5 and INNOSON G6 SUV. A governor in his first year was brandishing 5 billion dollars MOU's, many of which have not materialized. The 5 billion dollars airport city, which he signed a contract for, is nowhere to be found. Peter obi built 800 kilometers of roads and left billions of naira in savings. This buffoon useless clown governor have not built any roads and have SQUANDERED the state savings in no time.

kikake:
Ofuzo wrote above: as an Igbo man, Owerri is the only city I feel good about.
I ask: how did Ofuzo not understand the absolute and unpardonable stupidity in his statement above?


Ofuzo, you mindset is like Okorocha's: most parochial.

You score F9 if you are to be tested before making you governor. Okorocha failed as a state governor.

Okorocha developed only Owerri, but Okorocha is now a persona non grata before the greater and more brilliant majority of Imo state.

By the way: who does Ofuzo think he is by telling me what I can post here and what I can't post, provided I don't offend NL's rules?

Ofuzo claimed that gov Okorocha did nothing in his possibly god-forsaken village, but praises Okorocha for developing only Owerri.
Must someone from Orlu praise Okorocha like Ofuzo? Okorocha refused to develop Orlu due to his grudges against Orlu and its people.

FYI, in 1976 when Imo state was created, there were hardly any differences in the levels of urbanization between Owerri and Orlu.

It's most foolish belief that one town in a state must be given accelerated modernization and development ahead of other towns in the same state. If you do that, the Owerri city you are building faster absorbs population and businesses from the forsaken towns. Thus, every successive gov has no choice than continue to use nearly all the funds of the state to build social infrastructures in Owerri. Common sense.
As this continues, Orlu and Okigwe dry up, can even go extinct with time.

Building Umuahia CAPITAL CITY by govs from old Bende division made Aba decay. Imo state is going the same route.

There's absolutely nothing stupid about owerri being the only igbo city I feel good about because it's the truth. Having seen world class cities around the world, the cities you have in nigeria are shitholes. I can bring my foreign friends to owerri, but, I cannot bring them anywhere near aba, for example. I will be ashamed to tell my foreign friends that my people, the igbos populated those shithole cities.

I have been posting comments here, on what needs to be done to develop igbo states, so, it's not parochial that a governor was not able to develop all the cities in his state. If you've read any of them, you would have known the absurdity of waiting for a state governor to develop a city. Cities all over the world are developed by city mayors/admnistrators, not governors. Which brings me to something you said, that made all your wailing and whining about okorocha not developing orlu very strange. You admitted that in 1976 when imo state was created, there was hardly any difference between orlu and owerri in their levels of urbanization. You have inadvertently admitted that orlu have been neglected for more than 40 years. And, we all know for a fact, that okorocha was not governor of imo state in 32 out of the 40 years. This is a very bad indictment in all your daily whining about what owerri is getting and what orlu is not getting. It seems like all the previous governors have pretty much neglected orlu.

It's also not foolish that one town is getting more development than others. Lagos and Abuja got more infrastructure development while they were capitals of nigeria. People like you claim that okorocha was a failure but your wailing and crying about all his developments in owerri proves otherwise. Like I have repeatedly said, super majorities of state governors of nigeria did not develop any cities. Umuahia indigenes are not crying about what aba is getting and aba indigenes are not crying about what umuahia is getting. Nnewi indigenes are not crying about what awka is getting and awka is not crying about what nnewi is getting. Enugu indigenes are not crying about what nsukka is getting and nsukka indigenes are not crying about what enugu is getting. The reason is not far fetched. None of those cities was rapidly developed the way okorocha developed owerri for any of them to complain who is getting what.

Now, I don't really care about your wailing and whining. I just don't get it. It absolutely doesn't make any sense here. This is the wrong fora for it. If you thought your maginalization was so bad, you should have forwarded your grievances through influential orlu stakeholders instead of coming here everyday to cry and wail.

Very very pathetic.

kikake:
As Gov Okorocha's media sycophants continue to destroy Okorocha politics.....
Okorocha is now embarrassing Igbo with his now cry cry baby press briefings at every junction blaming nearly every body in Nigeria for his political woes.

He pretends he doesn't know that his downfall is from his Orlu senatorial zone.

For the past five years Orlu wailed that Okorocha willingly scrapped too many roads in Orlu and abandoned the roads, destroyed development projects he met in Orlu.

On social media, Okorocha sycophants would show the four streets of about 5km in all expanded in Orlu by Okorocha and say Orlu was worse before Okorocha became governor.

Okorocha sycophants never reminded the man to asphalt the scrapped roads, even after traditional elders of Orlu went to Okorocha in Owerri and begged him to complete the roads he scrapped in Orlu since 2012. Okorocha told the elders from Orlu to move down to Owerri and claim Owerri City as their own. What an insult.

Three years after, the scrapped roads in Orlu remain scrapped. Okorocha builds boulevards all over Owerri.

Okorocha crippled IMSUTH, Orlu, expands Imo specialist hospital Owerri, and says he wants to represent Orlu zone in the Senate.

Okorocha and his propaganda sycophants never think of reconciliation with Orlu, at least start by completing the scrapped roads here. Instead, they insult the wailers from Orlu. They only want to see photos of Okorocha's Owerri beautiful city.

Okorocha cannot and have never heard your cries. So, stop crying. Crying to people about orlu this and orlu that have not helped you in 8 years. Orlu is not the only community in imo state. There are hundreds of others. People of other communities are not here everyday crying about what owerri is getting that their community is not getting. My community didn't get anything from okorocha's government, but I'm very very happy that okorocha tried to open up owerri. As an igboman, owerri is the only igbo city I feel good about, even better than enugu. Like I have said a million times, no nigerian governor is capable of developing any city talkless cities. It's the truth, wether you like or not.


There's not one single comment here about what okigwe is not getting from any okigwe indigene. There's no oguta person crying that owerri is getting everything while oguta is not getting anything.

You just can't come here and start wailing and wailing everyday. This thread is not an avenue to reach those in the corridors of power. Why don't the chairman of orlu local government and it's eze's visit okorocha or call him on the phone or something. You are complaining to the wrong people. We can't help you with your complaints no matter how hard you try. Lord have mercy. Jeeeeeeeez.

Innoson DOES NOT manufacture any motor vehicle. They merely assemble vehicles from Completely Knocked Down (CKD) units.

But Nigerians, especially from a certain area (me I know name any tribe o) beat their chest and hype the whole shyte up.

I am very happy that they are assembling vehicles because they are employing labor, paying taxes and assisting their community to thrive.

Here's a factory that actually manufactures motor vehicle


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhCXFsQ6kKQ

Some of you guys are just so dumb. This is an automated factory. Just because machines are doing the work doesn't mean that the ones humans are doing is not manufacturing.

All these stuff that was shown in this video done by machines, used to be done by humans.

Imo1stson:
You must be suffering from severe mental disorder. I am Imo1stson and Rochas has done better in every aspect of development in every part of Imo State more than all the past Governors put together. Orlu was a shanty town as at 2011 and often used for caricature but not anymore. Don't ever associate me with working for a politician again.

This is what I've been telling people for the longest time. Some people are crying that okorocha developed only owerri. This is actually an acknowledgement that okorocha performed. As far as I know, 99% of other governors did not develop any city. The only other governor I know that performed very well was umahi. Just like okorocha, the man built some stuff.

No nigerian governor is capable of developing one city at a time, talkless three cities at the same time.

If nigerians want their cities to develop, they must elect mayors and empower them to raise revenue for their cities development. Anybody waiting for a state governor to come and develop their city, will be waiting for ever. Four years from today, orlu and okigwe will still be looking the way it has looked for the past 40 years.

okeyfrank:
Stop deceiving yourself with this topic.

Rochas Okorocha is the greatest deceptive criminal and the worst thing that ever happened to Imo State.

Destroying the beautiful infrastructural legacies of the state is the craziest thing he has done.

I took a tour of Owerri Capital City yesterday and it was truly a sorry sight to behold.

Imolites on daily basis cry to God Almighty to take away the plague of Rochas Okorocha from them.

It will definitely be a great celebration on May 29th when Rochas and his band of criminals in govt leave the center stage in Imo State.

Their loots and covetousness MUST be visited accordingly.

Please, stop lying. If okorocha was that bad, his son in law wouldn't have come second. His son in law's party which is an unknown party in imo state also won almost half of the seats in the state house of assembly.

SoNature:
One of the misdeeds of Rochas is joining APC.

Let's face it, most Igbos hate APC.

In the east apart from Imo, if they hear that you are in APC, your political career is over.

But I like the way we play politics of maturity in Imo.

We go beyond parties and vote for individuals...unlike other states in the east

You vote for individuals huh. If an imo state man is running for the president of nigeria, anambra enugu rivers abia delta and ebonyi igbos will ignore him and vote for an individual. How about that.

signz:
I guess it's because bricks are more expensive.

Bricks will be cheaper if people who plaster and paint their buildings are MANDATED to repaint their houses every five years. Mandated because painting the exterior of buildings does not last. The paint seems to wear out, like in 5 to 10 years time. When the paint wears off, the building will start looking like shithole. But other than that, just DO THINGS THE RIGHT WAY, ALWAYS.Thats what western civilization did. They got to where they are now, without cutting corners. Brick, granite and marble houses can go 500 years without needing to be repainted.

Igbos are out there shouting that they are smart, they are jews, nnewi is taiwan and aba is Hong Kong. All these claims are pathetically false. People who make these claims will be shockstruck if they visit isreal, taiwan or hong kong. It's an insult to these people to be comparing igboland with their people and cities.

Stingman:
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi's administration fulfills one of its major contributions towards the speedy actualization of the 100 Housing Units for Nigerian workers, being developed at Ede-Oballa, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, by the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), in collaboration with Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC), Nigeria Employer's Consultative Association (NECA) and Enugu State Government under the National Affordable Housing Delivery Programme.

The newly constructed road, which is in line with rural development policy of Gov. Ugwuanyi's administration and its commitment to the wellbeing of the workers, provides access to the state secretariat annex at Ede-Oballa, recently approved for construction by the state government and some private housing estates.

Enugu State is truly in the hands of God. #amokelouis

Courtesy (OEPHIUS, Nairaland)

You guys should embrace the right way of doing things instead of doing them the same way since the end of colonization. Stop building houses with block and cement. Build brick houses whose outer exterior does not need to be painted for at least 200 years. European and American civilizations have never built block and cement houses since 3000 years. That's why some of the stuff that Greek civilization, ancient Rome civilization built is still standing. The Notre Dame cathedral that just went up in flames was built 1000 years ago and have stayed the way it was built without one drop of paint. All the federal structures built by Americans since 200 years ago are still standing without one drop of paint, because they were built with materials that don't need exterior paint ie bricks, granite and marble.

At least, from my observations, more than 95% of buildings I've seen in the US was not built with cinder block and cement.

Please, stop the mediocrity!!

Stop building gutters. Gutter is not a drainage system, because the waters in nigerian gutters do not drain. A drainage system is a system of pipes that empties the rain water it collects at designated points.

Please, you people should use your INTELLIGENCE. All the stuff being built in igboland is RUBBISH.

Ofuzo:
Clap for yourself for knowing how to spell garbage. The rest of the stuff you wrote there is absolute rubbish.

"Civilization is about human interaction"
Hahahahahahahsha hahahahahahahsha
Hahahahahahahsha hahahahahahahsha

Those humans who were interacting 200,000 years ago or 40,000 years are more civilized soceities than today is a very bad joke taken too far.

I've seen a lot of dumb people on the vangaurd comment section. But, dumb people are all over the place. My younger brother who just came back to nigeria from Japan after about 30 years, told me told me that by the time the day is over, you would have fought the urge and temptation to wickedly slap somebody with all your strength.

Word

Rossikk:
I've never read so much garbage in my life.

Oh, just to mention. ''Third world countries'' are not the opposite of ''civilized countries''.

You can be a ''third world country'', and be more civilized than a developed country.

Civilization is about human interaction. It's not about things.

Clap for yourself for knowing how to spell garbage. The rest of the stuff you wrote there is absolute rubbish.

"Civilization is about human interaction"
Hahahahahahahsha hahahahahahahsha
Hahahahahahahsha hahahahahahahsha

Those humans who were interacting 200,000 years ago or 40,000 years are more civilized soceities than today is a very bad joke taken too far.

I've seen a lot of dumb people on the vangaurd comment section. But, dumb people are all over the place. My younger brother who just came back to nigeria from Japan after about 30 years, told me told me that by the time the day is over, you would have fought the urge and temptation to wickedly slap somebody with all your strength.

Ofuzo:
You stop mutilating my comments, I'll stop mutilating yours. You are not the only one who knows how to emasculate. I might be old at heart, but I'm definitely young in spirit.

Word.

MxreR:
Hopeful and smart ofuzo.. Anambra is not developing proper airport, It's Ebonyi that is equally planning to start building.

Imo state have airport, onitsha is useless dirty motorpark where people go to shit and smoke weed. That useless dirty motorpark should be demolished immediately because it is a disaster. Tell my useless drunken bastard called Obiano to demolish this motor. Hopeless kai kai useless village boi. lol


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You stop mutilating my comments, I'll stop mutilating yours. You are not the only one who knows how to emasculate. I might be old at heart, but I'm definitely young in spirit.

MxreR:
Shut up MY mouth, everyone knows that ANAMBRA has no airport, and ONITSHA is a dirty motorpark city. Stop yapping rubbish. Imo state should demolish this nonsense, and start developing a decent airport. This is a mess.



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What happened to the 25 billion dollars airport your worthless useless governor obiano, the drunkard, laid the foundation two years ago. You killed your anambra thread in nairaland, now you a a useless parasite in imo and enugu thread.

Xander85:
Owerri airport can't have the kind of bustling activity you see abroad mainly because it doesn't have the economy to drive and sustain it. To start with, it would have to be an international airport, and Imo/Owerri state would have had to stand out for something INTERNATIONALLY....either tourism; industries; film/music; IT; conferences (for conferences, it would have to either be the capital of a country or be the 2nd major city besides the capital...kinda like you have with New York, Sydney or Durban).

This guy was deriding owerri airport as not being up to par, which I disagreed with, because I've seen lots and lots of airports like that in very very small cities in the US. You can't just build big airports just for the sake of it.

I also don't agree with your characterization of airports in capitals or second largest cities of western countries. The US have at least 100 cities that look 10 times better than lagos. All big cities in the US have bustling airports better than anything in africa. Some washington DC suburbs (not washington DC) like combination of Crystal city/Roslyn, Silver spring/Bethesda/chevy chase, Dulles corridor/Reston EACH have more skyscrapers than lagos. And these are small Washington mini towns, talkless washington DC itself.

The lagos and abuja skyline is a joke.

MxreR:
What's this clown yapping about? The imo airport is a motorpark, which means imo is yet to have an airport. Go through PHC, the new airport terminal now and confirm, it is one of the best in subsaharan Africa and very busy now. That was what Amaechi benefited for being in APC but Okoroawusa who was in the same APC insulting his people everyday in order to be acceptable to Buhari/cabal has nothing to show in his state for all the support and iberiberism to APC instead they have ditched him..

Shut your mouth. Useless village boi.

MxreR:
Lol. As it stands now Imo state doesn't have an airport. Okoroawusa should have used all the funds he wasted on those cheap useless warehouses to start a decent aviation/airport development like Obiano has done.

This is the dirty motorpark called Imo airport. Shame hahahaha

Imo state airport actually looks very nice. I don't see anything wrong with it. People always want to build big airports, but you build based on need. I went through PHC airport, and the whole place looked dead. The traffic in the airport did not justify the huge expense. I asked the people why, and they told me that it's only Lufthansa and Air France that is patronizing it. When you go to American and european airports, you will be amazed at how crowded the atmosphere is, with thousands of people arriving or departing. One time, while waiting for an interconnecting flight, I decided to observe what was going on outside. I took a sit near the window and was shocked with disbelief as I saw planes taking off and arriving at what seems like every 5 minutes. Same thing on their highways. Nigerian roads (nigeria really doesn't have highways) are mostly empty with hardly any traffic. American highways are chocked with thousands upon thousands of cars, so much so, that every hour is rush hour even at 2 am in the morning.

It's a totally and completely different world, with what you have in civilized soceities and what is obtainable in third world countries. If you'd have the chance to experience it, the contrast is MIND BOGGLING. There's absolutely no words to describe it.

SoNature:
I think they are two different interviews.
Rochas grew up in the north, but he's a coward.
He would rather insult his people to be called a detribalized Nigerian.
I try so hard to separate the infrastructural gains he brought to Imo State from his cowardice/personality.
I know that is hard for a lot of people.
Indeed, that man is a joker.
Let's see how far he will go politically when he goes insulting his people back and forth like Joe Igbokwe

I have praised okorocha on this fora and most especially on the vangaurd comment section, but, I agree with you 1000%. Okorocha and others like joe igbokwe will rush to give a newspaper interview or be quoted on newstories whenever igbos said any negative stuff about EX BRUTAL MILITARY DICTATOR EVIL TYRANT buhari. But okorocha never ever uttered a word about all igbo that were summarily removed by the evil tyrant and replaced with people from his region immediately APC came to power.

Okorocha never uttered a word when buhari could not find one single qualified igboman to head any of nigeria's security forces.

Okorocha did not raise even a finger when buhari couldn't find one qualified igboman to head any of the 10 agencies of NNPC.

About a week before the failbuhari 23 elections, the newly appointed inspector general of police, appointed police commissioners for 37 states and the FCT, and appointed only 2 igbos for sokoto on the far NW of nigeria and borno, on the far NE of nigeria. This is from a tribe that is about 20% of nigerian population with big majorities in seven states of the country. As usual, okorocha was mute and couldn't get himself to speak up for his people. But he was quick to rush to the media to defend the tyrant for any perceived slight by the igbos.

sonature1:
I think you are probably asking the wrong person because I am not a politician. However, I strongly believe that development is a process and that we grow to the level with time.

It could also be that those in government don't really see the need for breathtaking architectural designs. I remember telling Arinzeejikonye on Enugu thread that Gov Ugwuanyi doesn't build huge classroom blocks like Govs Rochas and Aregbesola. He answered: "What's more important is that there is enough to go round given that we have scarce resources." So, I think that's the mindset of most of our leaders. Keep in mind, however, that it doesn’t just happen in the east alone. I think it's a Nigerian thing.

Incredibleme, please if Abagworo knows what a mall means (as I guess he does), then that building cannot be a supermarket. A mall is NOT a synonym for Supermarket. Yes, a MALL is a building that houses many stores or supermarkets usually owned by different people. Let that sink in.

Be rest assured, I'm not complaining to you. Your comment was an avenue I'm using to educate some of our home folks. I briefly tried doing that last year but stopped. I just resumed posting comments maybe last month.

What is going on in igboland is an abomination. Every time I enter aba, coming from calabar, I feel very depressed. Aba people, nay igbo people live in hell compared to calabar people, which is a city I visit often whenever I come home. Almost all the roads within calabar cities are tarred. Some neighborhoods in calabar that was developed 10 years ago have tarred roads with HUGE WIDE gutters that are interconnected, which allows the free flow of water, preventing flooding and opotopoto. But, umungasi aba that was fully developed 40 years ago have absolutely no tarred roads. A few roads that was tarred was not maintained and have since fallen into disrepair. This is not just umungasi aba, but other aba suburbs.

What I see every time I visit home is unimaginable amateurish mediocrity of the worst kind. For example, I'm shocked that igbo states have not figured how to set up a refuse collection system. Drive around igbo cities and you'll see uncollected heaps of refuse dotting the landscape. When you travel from owerri to aba and you join enugu to portharcourt expressway, there are heads and heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of uncollected refuse in the entire highway stretch, some of, which I saw five years ago. If one does an excavation in igboland and dig twenty feet deep, what they will find is billions of plastic refuse that was never picked up going back probably 50 years ago from the end of the civil war.

sonature1:
Given the antecedent of Imo PDP during a score of its reign, I am very skeptical about this government. Indeed, PDP dealt with Imo State. For instance, I know people in the Ohakim administration who shared money every now and then in the name of Clean and Green.

And yes, Udenwa was once asked - during an interview - the foreign investor he attracted to Imo, he answered Mr. Biggs. Imo State don suffer...really

However, we must remain optimistic in the face of cynicism because everyone deserves a second chance.

Ofuzo, I think it's a mall but it's not up to the standard of malls that usually house retail chain Shoprite in Nigeria

I'm not doubting that the building is a mall. We seem to have a love affair with pillars. The way the pillars in the picture was set up, makes the building look like a museum not a mall. Our building styles sometimes have me scratching my head. I have seen nigerian gas stations with a building that looks like somebody's palatial mansion. I saw some factories owned by uche ogah where they had some buildings with balconies that looked like people's homes instead of the kinds of buildings built in factories. They all look very, very amateurish.

This is exactly what I've been saying for the longest time. The igbos are the most travelled tribe, and yet, they don't know how to build things. The first time I came back to nigeria after being away for 10 years was a big big shock. My first question was; what happened to all the engineers that came out of our technology schools scattered all over igboland. Why are they not being used to design and build stuff like PROPER drainage system instead of gutters. I'm not an engineer, but I can design and build a drainage system after observing what is obtainable in western countries. This is really what is making me VIOLENTLY angry everytime I come home and see how DISORGANIZED everything is. It is totally and completely unacceptable. Why the conspiracy of silence? Why is it, that every igbo son or daughter who is very well travelled, is seeing the way igboland and it's cities are and have decided to keep silent?

You know, there are igbo people in the US that are building contractors. There's one in Cincinnati Ohio that is a building contractor, building schools, libraries and residential buildings whose worth is in the millions of dollars. Why didn't the enugu government bring him back to build their brand new Secretariat? Why did sullivan chime give the contract to ARAB CONTRACTORS instead giving it to their own son.

Why can't igbo governors bring somebody like that to teach our people how to build things. His name is evans nwankwo who is an enugu man. There are several others, like the son of Chelsea group, from anambra. This is what the chinese do. At every given year, there's 100,000 chinese students studying in american universities. China have great universities, but the reason they and other countries like saudi arabia and india send thousands of their people to study in western countries is to steal what is obtainable there AND BRING IT BACK HOME TO THEIR COUNTRIES.

sonature1:
Keep bringing it, Abagworo
Don't let the local politics discourage you in the slightest.
We must go beyond local politics if we want a better Imo State.
Anyone can be governor...we just need a working one.
Thanks to you and Arinzeejikonye for keeping this thread alive.

The building looks like a museum, not like a shopping mall/plaza

kikake:
You asked for things ex governor Udenwa built.
They include:
Imo state government Secretariat Owerri.

New markets in Owerri.

First Expansion of Owerri to now New Owerri.

Sustained the multi million dollars Owerri regional surface water supply system.

Completion of the multi million dollars Okigwe Surface Water Supply Project started by gov Mbakwe.

Too many inter-local government and Inter-state state roads.


Imo state University Teaching Hospital, Orlu.

Imo International Market Orlu.

A housing estate in Okporo Orlu to have accommodated staff of Imo state university teaching hospital.

Construction of too many urban roads in Owerri, Okigwe and Orlu.

Too many public water boreholes across Imo state.


But today, only the projects of Udenwa in Owerri have been sustained by his successors. Udenwa's successors could not sustain the all important water supply systems of Okigwe and Owerri.

"Sustained the multi million dollars owerri regional SURFACE water supply system"

This is not the first time I'm asking this question, but I'll ask it again; what is SURFACE water supply system? When I was growing up, this SURFACE jargon is how they described the distribution of water. I really don't know what that means. If one needs to do something, one should go and understudy how advanced civilizations have done theirs. There are no such things as regional SURFACE water supply schemes in advanced countries. What they have is WATER treatment facilities and WASTE treatment facilities. Water treatment facilities are plants which collect and pool water from RIVERS (not boreholes) and treat it for human consumption which is then pumped to people's homes for drinking, washing, cleaning, bathing and pooing/pooping. The same used water is then pumped back to a WASTE treatment plant, where the impurities are removed with chemicals and the water is discharged. The isrealis use water from their waste treatment plants to irrigate their crops, for example. So, please, we should stop talking about SURFACE water supply schemes and instead build WATER and WASTE treatment plants for our cities. Right now, we are only using UNTREATED borehole water, and burying human waste in our backyards.

"New markets in owerri"

We should stop building 10ft by 10ft lock up shops, timber market, spare parts market, computer market, electronic market, building materials market, and all other this and that market. Again, go and understudy how others are doing their own. Our own system of one shop one person is GROSSLY inefficient. That kind of system doesn't exist in advanced countries. What they have are shopping centers, shopping plazas and mini marts. There is no crayfish selling here. Their shopping malls are equivalent to what the south african shopright are building in nigeria, with a giant store that is probably employing not less than 100 people in each store. Even the smaller stores you find in mini marts each employ not less than five people. All these 10ft by 10ft lock up shops in nigeria is a joke that is totally and completely obsolete.

Xander85:
Nah...dude is genuine! He was born in the UK, but his parents sent him back to school in Imo in the 70s, coupled with the fact they must have been one of the sensible parents abroad that spoke to their kids in their native tongue.

These experiences are enough to make any commited individual fluent in both english and Igbo, and keep the accents for both languages as well!

If you’ve heard Indian or Somali youths in the UK speak with their parents in their native tongues, you’d be impressed how they can switch accents so easily depending on which language they’re speaking.

Actually, the problem is not his igbo accent, but his british accent. His igbo accent definitely shows that igbo was his first language which he learned to speak in nigeria not in the UK. I'm sorry to say, but his british accent is totally and completely forced. For starters, it really doesn't sound british at all. Secondly, like I said, I've met a lot of nigerians forcing british and american accents which made it possible for me to spot one anytime I see one.

kikake:
Govts set the stage for a locality to emerge as modern town or city.
If govt did not provide Owerri regional water supply system in the 1980s, did not locate universities, etc in Owerri, the town of Owerri would not grow 1/10th of what it's today, despite being state capital.


Okorocha concentrated from in developing of Owerri where Mbakwe, Enwerem, Udenwa stopped in building infrastructures in Owerri, alienating Orlu and Okigwe areas.

If Ihedioha who emerged governor largely because of equity, refuses to provide water supply, tertiary education institutions etc in Orlu zone, infrastructures that have for long been taken for granted in Owerri zone, he ought to know what the immediate consequences shall be.


Yes, Urban towns, Cities and LGAs are supposed to generate their incomes to develop their localities.

But in Imo state, we have an absurd situation where state governors collect the allocations of LGAs and the state, use part of the allocations on lavishing building infrastructures in the state capital, scratch a few roads and market stalls and roundabouts outside the state capital, then pocket much of the rest.
People of the state capital and paid sycophants of the governor sing praises of the governor.

You guys keep saying udenwa build this and enwerem build that, but, where are those things now? I don't see anything each and everytime I go home. You see, the problems are so vast, it's impossible for one man to sit in the governors office seat in the state capital and start developing the entire state including it's other cities. It's really a joke to think that, that's doable.

Now, it's possible for nigerian state governors to build roads here and there. But, you have to consider that, only maybe 1% of imo state roads have been tarred. Yes 1%. If imo state, was in a western country, all the roads where you have human habitation would have been tarred. That will be tantamount to tarring all roads in all our villages and cities, and I mean, every single one of them.

We MUST change our mindset to make progress or there won't be any progress till thy kingdom come.

kikake:
Govts set the stage for a locality to emerge as modern town or city.
If govt did not provide Owerri regional water supply system in the 1980s, did not locate universities, etc in Owerri, the town of Owerri would not grow 1/10th of what it's today, despite being state capital.


Okorocha concentrated from in developing of Owerri where Mbakwe, Enwerem, Udenwa stopped in building infrastructures in Owerri, alienating Orlu and Okigwe areas.

If Ihedioha who emerged governor largely because of equity, refuses to provide water supply, tertiary education institutions etc in Orlu zone, infrastructures that have for long been taken for granted in Owerri zone, he ought to know what the immediate consequences shall be.


Yes, Urban towns, Cities and LGAs are supposed to generate their incomes to develop their localities.

But in Imo state, we have an absurd situation where state governors collect the allocations of LGAs and the state, use part of the allocations on lavishing building infrastructures in the state capital, scratch a few roads and market stalls and roundabouts outside the state capital, then pocket much of the rest.
People of the state capital and paid sycophants of the governor sing praises of the governor.

Well, I'm sure that ihedioha will build this and that road in orlu, but that's never going to be enough. Cities need DEDICATED leadership to grow and develop. Ihedioha might decide not to be like okorocha who built in one city, but instead be like other governors who didn't build in any city. This is what I've trying to say for the past year. You guys are angry that okorocha built something in one city, without realizing that some governors didn't build anything in any city.

kikake:
And where is Abagworo, the Owerri Mega City man of Uche Nwosu, the architect of Owerri Urban renewal?

It wasn't funny watching crowds destroy the photos of Uche Nwosu along the well lit boulevards of Owerri yesterday night.

Okorocha kept on narrating to us that he was "Building our dear state capital city" to Mega City standards.

Both undermined development in Orlu.

Congrats to Hon Emeka Ihedioha.

Let's watch how Ihedioha can lift Imo state from the list of states with only one modern city.

Some of you are unbelievable. I'm shocked that my little attempt to educate you folks on the way forward for nigerian cities fell on deaf ears. Don't tell me you're dumb enough to think that orlu will be paradise because of ihedioha?? Well don't be shocked four years from now that orlu will look exactly the same way it did for the last fourty years.

Damn.

Xander85:
I love his videos! He's fiercely proud and protective of his state, Imo!

Even though he has a conc' cockney accent, his spoken Igbo is impressive as well...when he starts speaking Igbo all trace of cockney disappears!

I'm trying not to mock guy, but his british accent sounds very contrived. The reason is because he speaks igbo with a native accent which means that his british accent is forced. I've met lots of nigerians here who sound like him.

nnamdijonathan:
Most of these skyscrapers are usually used for Free lancing, residential apartments, head offices of various small business mostly IT firms, restaurants at the bottom floors etc.
Buying and selling in Nigeria is good business and the best thing we can do to make it more attractive is switch to build more appealing and descent markets, such markets made of a combination of malls built next to each other to make up the market & banning street trading and hawking at areas near such markets. As for manufacturing, our governors in the east must introduce a system or policy whereby both foreign and indigenous enterprises are given 1 year tax holiday after the commencement of production for the first time.

You are dead wrong on the first part of your comments, especially the use of skyscrapers for freelancing, residential apartments and head offices of small businesses. It's true that some restaurants occupy the ground floors of some of the multi story office buildings, but my estimate based on observation, is that, it's less than 5%. Same as what you described as residential apartments, which is mostly condos (condominium). I've actually seen more print shops on the ground floors than restaurants.

Skyscrapers cost millions of dollars to build, so, freelancing is totally out of the question. Why would real estate companies borrow millions of dollars to build freelancing stuff. You know, commercial and residential properties in western countries are built by real estate developers.

You are also wrong about the skyscrapers being headquarters of small businesses. Washington DC being the headquarters of lobbying, means that they have lots and lots of law firms who represent clients that lobby on capitol hill. But majority of the companies that occupy those office towers are engaged in buying and selling, but not of physical goods, but ideas and other products like services to multi national, multilateral companies and corporations. This exactly why I keep telling you guys that their economies have advanced beyond buying and selling of physical goods. Millions and millions of their people are employed in downtown office towers doing these kinds of work as described.

And finally, there's really no money in buying and selling with thousands of people basically dealing in the same products. I've observed nigerian traders going to the market for an entire day without seeing any customers. I have family friends who deal in generators that sell one or two generators a day. That kind of business will not last more than one month in western countries.