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More on messed up Owerre.

Okija juju was right when he pictured the fraud in Imo state. Rochas is a fraud of the century. Imo state people will have to endure for another four years. I saw messed up state capital this morning.

Was on my way from Port Harcourt to Onitsha this morning because I just got a job in Sabmiller, I was feeling for the poor people of Imo state on the sorry state of their state. Red mud all over the state capital.

1k per nyu. E no dey cost for oweri. Am from Edo but when I got to oweri I see say prostitution pass prostitution. I didnt stay for the job I came for I had to run out the forsaken town.

"In Owerri today, this act of sex-peddling has proven to be a chronic societal ill, flowing undeterred, gradually becoming a norm"


This got me laughing all over the house..

What a state.

This is heart breaking. Am even suspecting the imo girl I have been dating for years now, because every weekend she will tell me that she is going to oweri. "Nigeria's sin town"

Once you hit the ground, you will feel the vibe of Owerri, the capital of Imo State. The city is warm, with many things to keep visitors engaged. Known for its robust hospitality industry, Owerri is the destination of fun seekers. Visitors to Owerri will always have fond memories of the city as well as the longing to return. They will remember the nightlife. They will remember that most of the fine restaurants, hotels and fun spots are places to be in the night.

They know that Owerri has its fair share of nightclubs. While some of the clubs operate on their own, others are built inside hotels. Those who lodge in the hotels that operate nightclubs are admitted free, upon showing their room keys. Others pay gate fee. Expectedly, going by the active nightlife in the city, Owerri is brimming with prostitutes. Investigations revealed that commercial sex workers flock around popular hotels and fun spots, looking for men to hook.

Most of these sex workers are students in tertiary institutions in the state and neighbouring states. In the day, these students appear somewhat respectable on campus, but at night they wear a different cap. By their dressing you shall know them. They appear in low waist trousers, short gowns/micro mini skirts, midriff and breasts revealing tops and patrol premises of hotels with nightclubs.

One of the commercial sex workers told Saturday Sun, at the Rappour Hotel nightclub, that she comes around to earn money and take care of herself and siblings. Ijeoma, as she called herself, said: “I come to the club about three times a week to catch some fun, but nothing goes for nothing.”

Mr. Livinus Manukwem, an Owerri based businessman, the situation could not have been otherwise, every factor considered. “The sheer number of tertiary institutions in and around Owerri naturally creates the environment for people to indulge. I think there are more higher institutions in Owerri than in any other town in the country. Those setting up such facilities in Owerri are smart business people, taking advantage of the environment or situation. It is just like locating an industry where the raw materials for production abound,” he argued.

Open sex club One of the nightclubs offering “special services” is located unobtrusively off All Seasons Road, New Owerri. The club begins business from about 8pm. However, activities reach fever pitch from 10pm and continue till the wee hours.

This hangout is a white bungalow that hardly gives itself away. It looks like the regular club inside but without heavy décor and neon lights at the entrance. The regular dance hall is always almost empty, making one wonder how they manage to stay afloat. But if you wait long enough, you will notice young and middle aged men strolling into a passage on the left side of the dance hall. And that is where the real action is.

To go past barrel-chested bouncers manning an inner door, you must pay a gate fee of N1,000. There is an adjoining room also and both have something in common: Wild sexual obscenity.

The rooms are not well illuminated but bright enough for you to see what is being offered. Once you step in, the sight that greets you is that of a number of naked girls or at various stages of nudity. The girls in bra and pants soon shed every piece of clothing, as the show gathers momentum.

The nightclub parades these girls in appreciable number. Unlike some strip bars where only a handful of girls entertain, this nightclub has them many. And they come in various sizes and shapes: slim, flat, tall, short, fair, dark. Again, unlike most nude clubs, where go-go girls exhibit their stuff on a platform, in this fun spot the girls offer more or less personal service. They move from one patron to another, showing the stuff they are made off.

Saturday Sun was at the nightclub recently. As soon as the reporter and two of his friends sauntered in, naked girls began to hover around them. About 12 of them were inside the room. Some were smoking cigarettes and drinking can beer, which is sold for N500 each.

Others were rocking to the pulsating music blasting from the speakers. They were making explicit sex remarks and gestures to the men, even as some playfully squeezed one another’s buttocks and breasts, like lesbians.

Shortly after the reporter walked in, Flavour’s monster hit, Ashawo, began to play. The tempo of the music seemed to energize the dancers and they did exotic dance steps and got wilder.

In corners, some of the girls were engaged in lap dance with men, who grabbed the opportunity with both hands, kissing, sucking breasts and caressing the lower region of the girls. The mischievous guys were inserting naira notes in between the thighs of the girls. As the guys titillated their tits, they squeezed the hard-on of their partners even as they asked to be “appreciated.” In this nightclub, to be “appreciated” is euphemism for “I need some money.”

The inner room is a shade darker and sleazier. There, the patrons and the girls get more intimate, engaging in all manner of sexual acts. Some of the strip dancers were sitting astride men even as others were caressing themselves. One of the girls, who gave her name as Marbel, said that for N2,000 she would engage in MouthAction with a man in the dark hall. It was gathered that a patron could also take any of the girls out for the night, for an agreed sum. The price depends on the time, desperation of the girl and bargaining power of the patron, but it could be anything between N5,000 and N10,000.

Private parties It was also learnt that the strip dancers equally entertain at private or house parties. According to one of the girls, who identified herself as Maureen, “If guys want to be entertained in a private apartment or hotel room, the girls would be willing. The price tag is N5,000 per girl for an outing of between four and five hours.”


She said: “You can have sex with a girl at the house party, but it is a personal thing. Of course, if you make a good offer a girl will not refuse it. It is a matter of cash.” She further said that if given at least two days notice, she can arrange for up to 30 girls for such special outing. She further said that payment must be made before the girls begin to drop their pants Dark, slim Maureen, who described herself as a professional dancer, sees nothing wrong with strip dancing. “It is like every other profession.

I personally like to dance and if I strip while dancing, what is the big deal? On the issue of sex, everybody is doing it. Female bankers do have sex; medical doctors have sex; actresses have sex; teachers have sex; lawmakers and ministers have sex. In fact, every person is having sex with the people they like or under whatever arrangement. It’s just that people pretend a lot. Some civil servants have sex with more men in a week than strip dancers,” she said.

An insider told Saturday Sun: “Some of the strip dancers are students and they pay their bills with the money they make. But all the dancers are not students. Some of the girls come from poor homes, so they use what they make at the bar to take care of themselves and families. Single mothers and young widows are also among them.

It was also gathered that more girls are coming to the club almost on daily basis seeking to be registered as strippers. One of the requirements is that the girls must be 18 years and above.

Prostitution, one of the oldest professions in the world, regardless of its moral decadence and negative trailing effects, still thrives even with the interference of religious injunctions and countless laws enacted against it. A malignant scourge and a threatening ill in the society, eating deep like cancer across all class and strata from the younger generations to the older ones, taking its negative toll in different ways. Countries around the globe suffer this ugly menace at varying degrees depending on the extent of repulsiveness the act has on the citizens, not forgetting also the psychological reactions, psychosocial damages and the political implications which the imprints leave in such nations.

Prostitutes have being in business from time immemorial, and are most times viewed as social outcasts by all generations from way back to date. Though the act is still practiced in brothels and streets of major cities all over Nigeria today, the dark trade has shifted and is now flourishing in the country’s higher institutions of learning, right under the very nose of the authorities concerned. This high level of patronage coupled with the usual excuse of ‘poverty’ has made students of higher institutions of learning embrace the ungodly act, often times re-branding the ugly act with disguised names such as ‘Runs’ or ‘Hustle,’ simply to fine-tune and hide the originally evil-branded form for the sake of carrying out their nefarious acts freely. The predominance of this degrading act among our youths today points out to a number of factors which have directly or indirectly led these youngsters towards this ungodly path unworthy and condemnable in the sight of God and man. In Owerri today, this act of sex-peddling has proven to be a chronic societal ill, flowing undeterred, gradually becoming a norm among our beautiful young girls, and like a virus, it is gradually percolating its tentacles un-relentlessly around the town. The situation has become so worrisome and it isn’t a rare sight to find our young girls on a daily basis frolicking and hovering at nights around hotel lobbies, guest houses, club houses or even beer palours as sex peddlers, seeking for interested ‘patrons’ to ‘trade’ their bodies with for money. The situation has become even more dire and pathetic as some greedy hoteliers and club owners within the town, in the bid to spun more money for themselves, open up their fun gates to every Tom, Dick and Harry, ignoring the minimum world accepted age exclusively accorded to adults only (18+), simply to satisfy their insatiable love for money at the expense of the eventual victims. Even with the gory tales of ritual killings and manipulations, unwanted pregnancies, and the increasing wave of sexually transmitted infections which befall some of these unlucky victims involved, the status-quo surprisingly still remains the same.

Quite disheartening to know also that some marriages and relationships break up as a result of the condescending attachment of supposedly married men to these young ladies of easy virtue who in turn make use of material benefits gotten from these men to graciously complement whatever they must have mustered through the same ill means.

But, where did we go wrong, and how did we end up in this sorry state? Must pre-marital sex become a fad among these youngsters not just in Imo state alone but Nigeria as a whole? Why has prostitution eaten so deep in Owerri, the Imo state capital, and where lies the future of these ladies of easy virtues? How hard is the government of Imo state fighting the scourge, and to what extent? Are there binding laws and punishments ruling against the menace and the perpetrators of the act? All these questions should abound in the hearts of well-meaning Imolites who are fed up and determined to turn around this unwarranted development for the better, for the sake of proffering lasting solutions necessary to restore dignity back to the Eastern Heartland. While trying to curb this sorry situation, there is the utmost need to retrace our steps back to the basis, which is the home, as this platform provides the first and direct link between these young ladies and the outside world. The family institution needs to be re-invigorated. If parents were at home performing their parental responsibilities, their daughters would probably not have taken to the streets to prostitute or make cheap their bodies to just any stranger. ‘Poverty,’ a common excuse, should never be a reason to commit such a degrading act, instead adequate efforts ought to be channeled by guardians and parents towards sensitizing their wards on the dangers and life threatening consequences linked to indulging in such an unholy duel.

This is also a wakeup call for the state government, as stringent rules and stiff modalities need to be set up to see to the close monitoring of such activities in the town in order to curb its widespread encroachment. Stiff penalties should be enforced on men who patronize these ladies, while persons trading directly or indirectly in prostitution should be arrested and prosecuted instantly to serve as a deterrent to other intending individuals. Public awareness/ Rehabilitation programs also need to be set up in the state not only to equip our young ladies on the negative effects of indulging in prostitution, but also to help those already in the act have a positive turn-around, either engaging themselves in respectable businesses or concentrating more on acquiring serious education to make a better future for themselves.

Dear Imolites, Prostitution has never been in our culture, and as such shouldn’t be tolerated in any form. Imo state possesses an enviable rich cultural heritage which includes living a chaste life and according utmost respect for the body. The truth must be told, and the time to revolt against this disturbing issue is now. Let’s heed to the clarion call and join hands in fighting prostitution in our land to a standstill. Imo must be better!

Story story!! Na today..We don't want to give aboki our land. Soon they will start throwing bomb for our place..

We don't want to give aboki our land. Soon they will start throwing bomb for our place..

Btw..talk is cheap and affordable..

Abagworo: As at today "Ndaa Leti", "Mbari kitchen", "Bongo music" and "Ibari Ogwa" are few of what is left to remember in Igboland. Mention any other. Bush man. As for prostitution, it is still part of civilization. A more civilized and booming economy will certainly attract young girls. Most of thegirls are coincidentally from your State.

At least my Edo people dey go international and while your people still dey do local champion in your local place

Abagworo: At least you do visit a civilized town and enjoy civil things.

Are you civil with your narrow chauvinistic views to things. I can go all other places but your place where they buy one(wh.or/e) dash you two free.

Abagworo: Your hatred for anything Igbo that is not Anambra gives you away. I even know when you are commenting with 3 different monikers. It is best you steer clear of mentioning anything Imo State in a derogatory manner born out of jealousy. Owerri continues to be the most organized and fastest growing city in the Southeast and you cannot do anything about it.

Who is jealous about you??

E be like say you dey craze..make I get you for OCABIQUES for stadium road again..anu mpama

Abagworo: Bia chino11 stop this your open hatred for Owerri or I will open an Owerri versus thread. Be warned. Owerri is an advanced city and also very viable for tourism and relaxation. It is way ahead of most Nigerian cities in tourism and relaxation. Commerce is not the only thing that drives the economy.

Foolish man!!

So anybody that busted you is not chino. Wait until chino comes and get you calling his name.

So you used your thelastpope monika to be spewing rubbish. Open whichever thread you want to open let us all die there, who is scared of opening your trash thread.

@lastpope


This topic is not discussing 'neat' and economically non-viable towns as Owerri etc. We are talking about economic giant cities of Nigerian extraction. Benin has its own fair share of same 9ja 'neat' and also economically viable which is the real thing now in the world at large.

Mgbadike80: onitsha ado is not perfect but it's far better than most of the one street cities with only a fraction of it's population. Look at minna,suleja,gwagwcrada etc, are they not far more dirty, disorganized and crime prone than onitsha? U have to compare d population and function of onitsha b4 such a hash statement. Peter obi is trying to put onitsha in place without making anybody feel excluded. Do u realise that d easiest way to clean onitsha is to send back most ppl from ebonyi? And that would defeat our aim of making her a home for all. Also saying that non indigenes don't see it as a home is outlandish. I'm not an indigene but i was born & bred there, and knows no other home than there. That is the general mentality in the metropolis. Even d ppl occupying d political positions are not indigenes. I know in 1999, the man that represented the head bridge was an hausa man.

Even I myself am from Auchi Edo state and happily married an Anambra girl, lives and works in Onitsha. For me and many other Edolites and non Anambra people working in Sabmiller its a home away from home for us all. The city is far better organized and clean with the coming many multinationals and expatriates into the city.

PhysicsQED: Really? Are you really from Benin? [size=3pt]Why am I skeptical. . .[/size]

Do I need your a/s/s to prove my point..Bleep you

[quote author=]My favorite post thus far!

your experience has really given you a lot of insight on the truth.
You do need to go somewhere else and challenge yourself. Travel opens the mind and having to adapt makes you twice the man you were before it. If you can give my a brief on how every city works and feels i would like to hear it. My trips and life in naija was limited to Lagos, Onitcha, Owerri, my villa.

my next time down im doing a lot of traveling and networking so i would like to know what's what and where is where.

Benin is a great city too though i've only driven through the rough parts[/quote]Yea Benin my place is not bad at all. At least the new government is doing alot in that regard. Benin is also home to many non-indegenes.

[quote author=]Well the federal government is the uniting factor of nigeria, sadly one of the only, and thus where the fed is at the 'true' nigeria comes with it in the form of diversity.

im not ready to see state governors become uniting factors the way Fashola has been and for cities to be uniting factors the way Abuja PH and Lagos have been because it's not 'federal attention', it's the trans-ethnic, national nature of federal attention that makes those cities prosper. The fed invites all tribes where ever it stands, and from this comes a modernizing energy. Enugu Kano and Ibadan as you said are stagnant, i completely agree with you. though Owerri is liveable the main source of income and employment is still the state government and that's a bad sign. Enugu is liveable but it's in the same hole and it's not a place where people think they can make money because it lacks the energy of a Lagos or Onitcha. Onitcha has the energy but lacks the internationalization that keeps it from being a top tier city.


the fed needs to make the ports of PH Calabar and Onitcha into deep sea ports that can handle large freight. Lagos is overheated.[/quote]On point that is the economic energy we are talking about..

Btw I live and work in Onitsha (Sabmiller precisely), the city is in good shape presently because the govt FG/State are presently doing most federal and state roads and cleaning up the place to meet the trend of the day. The city has all the indices that made Lagos and PH what it it today. From Seaport/Riverport to huge population to large market. I think Ibadam and Aba should be competing for the most dirtiest and disorganised cities in Nigeria. No offence intended

Paul John: Yeah, Fashola all the way.

Hmm, Rochas! The man seem to be a wolf in sheep clothing to me.
From recent news I've heard about him, he can't be trusted.
Also, he seem to be desperate for presidency. For this, I can't say he's a hard working governor, all the works that I heard he's doing might be to convince people of his credibility.

I'm not just saying this to castigate the guy, but I just have the feeling he isn't the man we think he is.
Imagine this; I woke in the morning to check what's up, switched to AIT, surprisingly it was MR Rochas on my TV screen. I was like, yeah I've heard of this dude, his a very good and hard working man.
I took my time to learn from the great speaker , after like ten minutes, I realized his speech were baseless and look more of a campaign manifesto.
After watching this, I concluded it's just an uncommon event, that AIT just want to broadcast.

Some days after, I switched on my TV set. Again, MR Rochas!
Imo state's new development was displayed, like an election is coming up in the state and the hard working governor needed re-election.
Later, some weeks after. Same thing was done. Mr Rochas delivering speech and his good work shown

It was later I heard he has the intention of becoming the president. Hearing this, I just
No more story case closed.

I think a good hard working governor don't need to broadcast himself.
You can't see the likes of: Fashola, Oshiomole, Obi... Preaching to be the messiah on TV(nationwide).

Back to Topic.
My nomination;
Fashola of Lagos
Obi of Anambra
And any right thinking governor from the North.

You are on point, Roachas is just a mere talkative with nothing to show for it on the ground.

Obi and Fashola/Oshomole as running mate..

Case closed..

code.africa:
thanks ossagy for showing the world the real state of the "giant of africa". but even that is not enough to make you and your ilks wake up from your slumber.
you guys need to do better than that to evoke "envy" from the rest of us.

Am from Edo..but I will not be here you ediots sweep the truth away..

Here is picture of beauty of lagos yoruba mega city

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This is picture of code.africa, just got it from his profile

Lagos and SW yoruba land remains the most unliveable part of Nigeria

This settles it..

Yorubaland in the 21st century

[quote author=looplat]Omo, see yorubaland. we too much ooo, gbabe.
Igbo pipu go beat their chest sotey dem go start to dey cough for chest beating. empty barrels



What you are posting was built by FG, Igbos, and Hausas. And take note lagos is Aworis and not yoruba land.

Here is a typical of yoruoba development height in the 21st century..

Stopping deceiving yourself anymore

Lagos is unliveable.

These are among quiet and livable southern cities: Benin, Calabar, Enugu, Yenegoa, Awka, Uyo, Owerre, Ondo maybe manageable. etc

More beauty of yorubaland

O boy..more beauty of lagos..