₦airaland Forum

Flangelo12:
You chop yam tire for there, abi?

Na pepper soup I chop tire and some other things too,if u understand what I meant

Johnpiss:
Eyaa... U na senior man u be na. Me I just finish service. Try drop something for ur boy make him chop small abeg 🙏🙏. Hunger dey

Bro na everywhere ooo.....things be as e be for now

Officialmrt:
Na pepper soup I chop tire and some other things too,if u understand what I meant

Hahaha.

From Mbube to Gakem.

Them full there.

Flangelo12:
Hahaha.

From Mbube to Gakem.

Them full there.

I tell u....those chicken peppersoup

Sure, and their political leaders are not helping matters. The town is littered with hotels and guest houses; no man power development, no industries, it's all man for himself.
Prices of food and basic commodities are more expensive here than even Abuja and when you complain they will cite increase in transportation dollars as their reasons. It's such a pity here.

BoldBrainz:
I visited Ogoja twice in December. Even did small toiletries shopping at that Jopal. That town has enormous business potentials, but the lack of government presence is very worrisome.
I spent two hours driving round that town looking for where to eat proper "bolë and fish", I no see. E shock me. The annoying part is that the town is even expensive to live in, especially that Okuku and Abakpa axis.

hmmm over 7 years ago, I last passed through that axis sha!.

Whenever I see the name Ogoja my heart leaps for joy. I grew up in that town in the mid eighties during the military era, all my memories there are very happy ones, I remember a quaint little town with clear blue skies, yellow taxi cabs with all yoruba drivers, numerous thriving small businesses like supermarkets (owned by the igbos) on mission road, food vendors, with delicious delicacies, akara and suya joints by the hausas. And successful nuclear families usually with 7 or more children, where every family knew each
other, there was so much love and respect for the able and gallant family heads (ie the
fathers). Oh and the sound of the eighties disco music, parties by my older siblings and
aunts and uncles, they all looked so cool,
aswear those where the best times, just
thinking about the disco music fills me with
such happy excitement. The Ishibori, Yala,
Bekwara, obudus, etc were a set of unique
beautiful humble people, those who were
educated had this subtle sophistication about
them. There was no one accent there, as
majority of the people spoke pidgin English.
Looking back now with this nostalgic feelings, I
can say that above all there was peace and
tranquility for some reason it seemed the
town was insulated from the small small
armed robbery incidents going on around it's
environs of Enugu, Abakalike, Benue etc. Oh
those were certainly happy times. It makes
me wonder how instead of developing and
growing these little towns have been left behind and have become a shadow of themselves. Could we blame it on the transition to democracy?? Can we say development was more rife in the military era?