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EastisBae:
Is there any serious business in Nigeria today that does not use a standby generating set? Are you aware that when people use a centralized power generating system they end up paying less individually?

When you a build skyscraper in a CBD like Wetheral road, you will definitely attract big/successful brands, particular those that use light throughout the working hours. For instance, if a company like MTN or bank branches spend 1 million naira monthly on diesel and EEDC, when they share such resources with others, they will leverage economies of scale and end up spending much less!

Another huge advantage is that, such a building will become a melting point of economic activities and any business located there will attract more customers than a similar brand located elsewhere. Someone that wants to go to a bank will rather go to the one located there so they can do other things like going to an eatery, paying their pay TV subscription, or other brands like MTN, GLO etc. without leaving the building. The result? Less stress and less expenses!

You just raised a sound argument, am impressed, all that's needed is for one investor to try it maybe 12 floors building and succeed, others will follow.

EastisBae:
Is there any serious business in Nigeria today that does not use a standby generating set? Are you aware that when people use a centralized power generating system they end up paying less individually?

When you a build skyscraper in a CBD like Wetheral road, you will definitely attract big/successful brands, particular those that use light throughout the working hours. For instance, if a company like MTN or bank branches spend 1 million naira monthly on diesel and EEDC, when they share such resources with others, they will leverage economies of scale and end up spending much less!

Another huge advantage is that, such a building will become a melting point of economic activities and any business located there will attract more customers than a similar brand located elsewhere. Someone that wants to go to a bank will rather go to the one located there so they can do other things like going to an eatery, paying their pay TV subscription, or other brands like MTN, GLO etc. without leaving the building. The result? Less stress and less expenses!

You made good points. I think it's left for our economy to create viable reasons for investors to build such. Only the likes of Onitsha, Owerri, Aba ànd Enugu(capital) has the need for it at the moment. The current governors are too local to put anything to work.
We the people too are not serious about politics. You've seen the vote apathy and the foolish excuses like, they will rig the elections so need of voting.

boyfrank:
You made good points. I think it's left for our economy to create viable reasons for investors to build such. Only the likes of Onitsha, Owerri, Aba ànd Enugu(capital) has the need for it at the moment. The current governors are too local to put anything to work.
We the people too are not serious about politics. You've seen the vote apathy and the foolish excuses like, they will rig the elections so need of voting.

Personally I won't support the idea of government investing in it, but what's is needed is just a mixed used 10 floor private investment, if it's successful others will invest in taller buildings.

IMSU

NwaforIgbo:
U are not making sense... FDI is what every country needs to grow its economy. Yes, it has its disadvantages but the advantages outweigh its disadvantage. If not for Shell which started oil exploration in the early '90s do you think anyone in Nigeria would've been able/willing to invest money in exploration? Now today our local oil coys can now explore and refine. Thanks to FDI which has not only brought capital but also experience and knowledge.

And you said Dubai is yeye?? SMH how do you mean? Did they inform you that they are in a recession? Please give me a reference. If you want to refer to COVID countries' economy dropped during COVID even CHina and US.

So emphasizing the demerit of FDI only does not sound right.

If every country need foreign direct investment to develop how did the country to develop achieve development?

How do you see shells history in Nigeria and thinl someone did something good for you? Lol

EastisBae:
Is there any serious business in Nigeria today that does not use a standby generating set? Are you aware that when people use a centralized power generating system they end up paying less individually?

When you a build skyscraper in a CBD like Wetheral road, you will definitely attract big/successful brands, particular those that use light throughout the working hours. For instance, if a company like MTN or bank branches spend 1 million naira monthly on diesel and EEDC, when they share such resources with others, they will leverage economies of scale and end up spending much less!

Another huge advantage is that, such a building will become a melting point of economic activities and any business located there will attract more customers than a similar brand located elsewhere. Someone that wants to go to a bank will rather go to the one located there so they can do other things like going to an eatery, paying their pay TV subscription, or other brands like MTN, GLO etc. without leaving the building. The result? Less stress and less expenses!

These are great points and I agree, but its not the business of the government to build these things at all.

Ofodirinwa:
If every country need foreign direct investment to develop how did the country to develop achieve development?

How do you see shells history in Nigeria and thinl someone did something good for you? Lol

Do you know how long USA and other developed countries have been developing?

This argument is Kindergarten to be frank with you.

Ofodirinwa:
These are great points and I agree, but its not the business of the government to build these things at all.

Nobody is opining that Gov shoul build it either. Govt should simply plan the layout and provide infrastructure for people to be able to build there.

NwaforIgbo:
Do you know how long USA and other developed countries have been developing?

This argument is Kindergarten to be frank with you.

Ok, who was the primary foreign direct investor that made the US the US? That has nothing to do with the length of time. You said it doesn't happen without FDI.

Who were the foreign investors that developed Britain?

AIHWA, American Initiative for Health and Wellness in Africa

AIHWA, American Initiative for Health and Wellness in Africa

Ofodirinwa:
Ok, who was the primary foreign direct investor that made the US the US? That has nothing to do with the length of time. You said it doesn't happen without FDI.

Who were the foreign investors that developed Britain?

Lol.. THis argument is sounding very childish

NwaforIgbo:
Lol.. THis argument is sounding very childish

u get time to argue with him once you are not talking about Owerri his home town u are not making any sense to him. Had it been u said people should start building high rise residential apartments or offices in owerri he won't have problem with that

sanctity454:
IMSU

Painting.
As people make brilliant discussions on this thread about Imo state, all you do is take photos of some spots in Owerri, paint them with brush and post here.
Develop more sense.

sanctity454


Here, with cry that flood was taking lives and property in Orlu due to IMSG's failure to provide urban drainage gutters; your next post was 6feet deep underground flood drainage gutter in Owerri to ridicule the mayhem going on in Orlu.

You represent IMSG here, and you come from Imo West senatorial district.
You people continue to shoot yourselves on the feet, as you celebrate that you are arresting urban development in Orlu.

Ofodirinwa:
This isn't a conversation for emotional ndiyem words like 'nawao'. You're not talking to someone who doesn't know why he's saying what he's saying, and if we have passed the point that you can discuss then you're wasting your time.

Again, during the Iraq war, the US learned that big PPP projects drain money, don't produce results that justify their cost, increase corruption, and fail when the hype it's was born by dies. People who aren't progress oriented and want to wear the ornaments of progress are not willing to ask themselves if what they're doing works even when it looks good or sounds like progress. People in poor countries like the appearance of progress rather than progress so they're inclined towards projects that are big and shiny even if it's impractical and produces nothing.

Eko Atlantic does nothing for Lagos, and what it eventually will do (provide 3-4th homes for already wealthy people to vacation at) will not justify it's cost. All of the housing estates in the SE are owned by people who don't stay in Nigeria year round and many of those homes are the 3-4th home of that person. So these 'mega projects' 'ppp' etc don't do anything for anyone. We can keep repeating it because we're not problem solvers and nawao our way out of considering new thoughts like reptiles, or we can look at whether this is working and move accordingly.

Oguta has businesses. Those businesses need access to new customers, and the capacity to expand organically. Ways to give those businesses new customers.
1. Seaport
2. Riverport
3. Legislation allowing for both
4. Rail
5. Improved road network
6. Improved high-speed internet
7. Training in global sales and expansion (people making chairs in Oguta and selling them for 8K can fetch 30K for the same thing from customers in the US and UK if they knew how to use the internet and had reliable connection)
8. Create a site where companies in Oguta can sell their products to the government when the government needs supplies etc.

That's how you as government 'partner' with the private sector. Not build towers where there's no demand for towers because it 'looks' like progress. There is an Anambra man that build a tower in his village. Because nobody is interested in living or working in his village the tower is basically a statue. It's not useable or being used by anyone.

If there was a demand for a new 'smart city' in Oguta, it will organically arise. The government isn't building mansions in your village but they are arriving. What people need, they will create. You cannot create under the pretense that once you create it, they will use and need it.

God bless you for this

NwaforIgbo:
Did I in any way say or suggested that government should build a High-rise building in Oguta?

I said, first of all, there should be a plan on the ground that will motivate people to go there. Now you may ask what type of plan am I talking about, well its simple;

1. Buil a rail network that will be able to transport people from Oguta to Owerri in less than 30 mins
2. Setup a plan and structure for the planning of the new city.
3. Establish an agency that will ensure strict compliance and will ensure that the plans and standards of building across the length of the new city would not default.
5. Build infrastructures and utilities like power, internet, water, hospital, roads etc.
4. Set up a vehicle company that will mobilize and market the city for investors to buy into
5. At this time people would start buying and building
6. Now utilize the Oguta and use it to generate money via tourism and shipping.

Lol, you said Abuja that was built just 40 years ago is not growing?? Please see the pics below and change your stance.

BTW when you build a properly planned city, foreigners would love to visit, spend money and stay there. Thereby increasing revenue. As it stands I've not seen any proper city in SE that is livable by international standard, no SE state has a proper CBD.

What is stopping Owerri from having a standard CBD?

Ofodirinwa:
Oguta's success is inevitable because of it's geography and it's populated by Igbo people. We're a very productive group so I'm not worried. What I would like to see is us as africans letting go of this idea of foreign investment. There's billions of dollars in oil under your village. Rather than thinking of how to extract and refine it and become a billionaire you are inviting 'foreign investors' to come collect the billions and give you N50K pipeline security contract.

The minute someone says 'there is oil' anywhere in Igboland, we should all be thinking 'how can I get in' not 'if someone from belgium comes and gets this money, I can get a job cleaning their temporary residence.'

We should also be taking Biafra as an option very seriously. There no reason for us to have to share our inheritance with hostile people who we don't benefit from.

You are indeed a man of wisdom

Easternblood:
What is stopping Owerri from having a standard CBD?

Definitely Govt's indecisive, lackadaisical and non-proactive attitude.

Amah70:
Painting.
As people make brilliant discussions on this thread about Imo state, all you do is take photos of some spots in Owerri, paint them with brush and post here.
Develop more sense.

@ the bolded. Thank God u acknowledged he has sense, but needs more. In ur case, u don't have sense at all. Old man, always insulting people he is old enough to be their father. I spit on u.

rtdCivilservant:
@ the bolded. Thank God u acknowledged he has sense, but needs more. In ur case, u don't have sense at all. Old man, always insulting people he is old enough to be their father. I spit on u.

There is no sense in a
YOUNG MAN like you and your likes here who are always recycling photos of Owerri on a thread meant for pics from developments all over Imo state.
Your pimpingg business from Hotels in Owerri has been driving you crazy. Now take to your other monikers on NL to post more photos of Owerri and its Hotels.

SANCTITY454

rtdCivilservant

Who shame catches more?
This is Orlu zonal fire service station, as you post Owerri for those you represent in IMSG demolishing and rebuilding existing roads all over Owerri district.
https://dailytrust.com/imo-fire-service-left-in-cold

Use of IMSG funds to fight unseen enemies in Orlu, in the process, fighting your own people in the senatorial district.

The two zonal sports stadiums in Orlu are under ruins since 2020.
Ihedioha government was reconstring one until Hope Uzodinma took over, and reconstruction stopped.
https://www.nairaland.com/6354833/orlu-untold-story. A strong political bond by previous administrations built for people in Orlu senatorial district, is being eroded by the people from Orlu senatorial zone manning today's IMSG.

Isu section of Owerri Orlu road

Today no be court day to recover our oil? Could it be it's no more going further as nobody seems to care. Me am worried we are losing out to what that will boost the economy of the state and igboland. Because of lack of fund, the Government cannot dualise and expand Owerri/Okigwe, Owerri/ Orlu road to High way. This should be the topic not this fort and back argument some peeps are making here.

Permesso:
Today no be court day to recover our oil? Could it be it's no more going further as nobody seems to care. Me am worried we are losing out to what that will boost the economy of the state and igboland. Because of lack of fund, the Government cannot dualise and expand Owerri/Okigwe, Owerri/ Orlu road to High way. This should be the topic not this fort and back argument some peeps are making here.

Information about the court hearing is yet to hit the internet space, exercise patience bro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsHISMiifr8

Amah70:
SANCTITY454

rtdCivilservant

Who shame catches more?
This is Orlu zonal fire service station, as you post Owerri for those you represent in IMSG demolishing and rebuilding existing roads all over Owerri district.
https://dailytrust.com/imo-fire-service-left-in-cold

Use of IMSG funds to fight unseen enemies in Orlu, in the process, fighting your own people in the senatorial district.

U are the one that needs to cover ur face in shame. Are u sure u are OK? A report of September 2018, and u think u are OK.

Permesso:
Today no be court day to recover our oil? Could it be it's no more going further as nobody seems to care. Me am worried we are losing out to what that will boost the economy of the state and igboland. Because of lack of fund, the Government cannot dualise and expand Owerri/Okigwe, Owerri/ Orlu road to High way. This should be the topic not this fort and back argument some peeps are making here.

It was fixed for May 6th(not March 8th)
https://www.thecable.ng/scourt-fixes-may-6-for-judgment-on-rivers-imo-oil-wells-dispute/amp

Shut up and get out from here. Awka ICC is completely done and of the highest international standard. Be proud of your useless imo state., we don't need your proud in Anambra matter. How many times did you go to imo thread to question why the substandard owerri ICC collapsed? It is only on Anambra matter that all of you ediots always have one or two things to say, simply because of envy and bitterness. Show me your comments concerning this Owerri ICC as shown below. Ndi ala.

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jamjo:
Stop being childish with your name-calling. I am a proud Igbo man regardless of my state of origin and as such, I have a stake in Ala Igbo. I am also proud of what Anambra State has archived, but what is worth doing is worth doing well.
This is a completed convention center before the k

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rtdCivilservant:
U are the one that needs to cover ur face in shame. Are u sure u are OK? A report of September 2018, and u think u are OK.

The fire service station at Orlu is still in the condition when the 2018 report was made.

You keep repeating yourself on your "are you okay" question.

Our Igbo proverb says [it's a lunatic who first querries the sanity of a saner person].

You don't reason like a normal person.