Collynzo9:
You can make him President of Odua Republic, he will suit you guys perfectly since you prefer showmanship and propaganda to real performance.

seunfly:


You really don't get me, it is not about showmanship or propaganda, it is about inspiration and message it send out.

When Gej went to Maiduguri in full military uniform, what message does it send to the soldiers in warfront, the BH themselves and the Nigerians at large?
I don't blame you anyway, most of you just support or hates for no particular reason other than sentiments.

berem:
Fresh okro soup is ready for lovers of the delicacy.

RareDiamond:
Ihedioha ‘ll Liberate Imo – Patience Jonathan

Stanley Uzoaro
— Mar 10, 2015 | 0 Comments

The wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience, has urged the Imo State electorate to vote massively for the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) in the state, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, to free the people from what she described as misrule by the present administration in the state.

Speaking during the PDP Women Presidential Campaign rally in Owerri, the state capital, the First Lady described Ihedioha as the only candidate among others that could bring the dividend of democracy to the people.

Mrs. Jonathan stated that ‘‘Everything about the All Progressives Congress (APC) is shrouded in lies, deceit and insincerity”, urging the women to vote particularly for all the PDP candidates in the state.

She also appealed to the women to vote for President Jonathan, the PDP presidential candidate in the March 28 presidential election.

Speaking earlier, Ihedioha who is also the deputy speaker, House of Representatives, assured the First Lady that Imo State will repeat the 99.6 per cent feat recorded in the 2011 presidential election by voting for Jonathan.

He urged the registered voters in the state to obtain their permanent voter cards (PVCs) to enable them discharge their civic responsibility.

http://leadership.ng/news/416477/ihedioha-ll-liberate-imo-patience-jonathan

lygn19:





Pls I wud like to know wats so special abt orlu getting a university... if its not a university wobt der be development?

lygn19:
Pls I wud like to know wats so special abt orlu getting a university... if its not a university wobt der be development?

millionaireman:




Cost:
It must be cheaper and most convenient to provide university education from a government university closer to the large number of people in the 12 LGAs of Orlu district, than having them pay expensive house rents in the already crowded state capital.

Fairness:
Having Owerri areas alone to profit from closeness to the five public tertiary institutions in Imo state, all located around Owerri, creates and perpetuates ignorance in one part of the state - but awareness in the other.

Economy:
The more than 100,000 students and tertiary institutions' staff in the state capital create the necessity for every state govt to be stretched to spend most of the state's resources every year to expand social infrastructures in the state capital - at the expense of providing basic infrastructures for development in other areas of Imo state.

Development - Town and Gown:
Every month, money from these students in the state capital, as well as money from governments' subventions to the institutions, turn in huge suns of money which create development boom only in the state capital. –---- Private tertiary institution does not bring any spectacular development to where it is located.

Education key to other forms of development: Presence of public tertiary institution in an area rouses interest in young people from the area to get higher education which enhances other forms of development.

Or why then do some sets of Imolites resent anybody or state governor that talks about relocating IMSU from Owerri?
Last year, E. Iwuanyanwu even asked the federal government for more university facilities specifically for Owerri.

millionaireman:






Four doable things Emeka Ihedioha can promise in Orlu and he gets massive number of votes from here:

1, A government university or duplication of faculties of present IMSU located in Owerri for Orlu zone - already, there are infrastructures in the zone waiting to accommodate the faculties, and there are large numbers of Imo state university applicants ready to jump into them.

2, Completing the Orlu urban Drainage system started by former governor Ikwechegh and Asphalting of as many of Orlu urban roads as he can - there are too many of these roads nearly fully built with houses but remain with dust and mud.

3, Rebuilding of Sam Okwaraji Stadium - or replacing it with a new one.

4, Portable water - if the state govt is providing that for Imo state.

Abagworo:
To me keke should be banned from our major roads and replaced with cabs. The ugliest sight I behold driving in Owerri is the cluster of keke on highways. They should not be banned but restricted to inner city areas while some of them are empowered with subsidised taxi scheme.

Abagworo:
To me keke should be banned from our major roads and replaced with cabs. The ugliest sight I behold driving in Owerri is the cluster of keke on highways. They should not be banned but restricted to inner city areas while some of them are empowered with subsidised taxi scheme.

Abagworo:
To me keke should be banned from our major roads and replaced with cabs. The ugliest sight I behold driving in Owerri is the cluster of keke on highways. They should not be banned but restricted to inner city areas while some of them are empowered with subsidised taxi scheme.

spyder880:


The effort should be on building straight smooth roads in Owerri and surrounding towns. In my little understanding of the city of Owerri, there are very few roads taxis and buses can profit from, hence the resort to keke.

I will like to see an Owerri with Okigwe road from Library area run smooth and straight without the trouble of incessant traffic stops at IMSU junction, at least 2 heavy flyovers before Orji town then wide road till out of the city limits.

I will like to see a straight running wide road from Fire service to all of Mbaise towns to Umuahia road, Ditto for Orlu area.

With this arrangement, keke cannot complete as city shuttle buses will take over and taxis reappear.

I love Owerri and always feel at home here.

lygn19:
Pls I wud like to know wats so special abt orlu getting a university... if its not a university wont [there] be development?

ROYALD:
My vision for my people is to build an Imo State of our collective dream for this and indeed the future generation,In the end,we will remember not the words of our enemies,
By Owelle ROchas Okorocha

Abagworo:
To me keke should be banned from our major roads and replaced with cabs. The ugliest sight I behold driving in Owerri is the cluster of keke on highways. They should not be banned but restricted to inner city areas while some of them are empowered with subsidised taxi scheme.

Abagworo:
[s] To me keke should be banned from our major roads and replaced with cabs. The ugliest sight I behold driving in Owerri is the cluster of keke on highways. They should not be banned but restricted to inner city areas while some of them are empowered with subsidised taxi scheme. [/s]

Imo, FG fight over ownership of school classrooms project 0

The faceoff between the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and the Minister of Education (State), Prof Viola Onwuliri, is not abating.
The duo had been engulfed in verbal war with the latest being the claims and counter claims over the ownership of a twin storey block of classrooms erected in the 305 wards across the 27 local government areas of the state.

While Okorocha has constantly told the Imo people that the block of classrooms were being built with the N3 billion proceeds of the concessioning of the Adapalm to Roche as part of his free education policy, Mrs Onwuliri claimed that the 305 twin storey classroom blocks were indeed projects sponsored by the Federal Government.

But Oriental News reliably gathered that the project was actually initiated in 2010 by President Goodluck Jonathan as part of his transformation agenda to upgrade primary schools across the federation.

It was equally learnt that the project with the estimated cost of N40 million for each of the storey blocks of classrooms across the state actually commenced in 2011 during the tenure of Governor Okorocha.

However, the Imo governor who has been receiving commendations from natives of the state for erecting the buildings has claimed he had solely erected the twin buildings as part of his free education policy, insisting that the project was funded from the proceeds realized from concession of the Adapalm to Roche, an Irish company, who he said had paid the Imo State government the sum of N3.5 billion.

But the Minister of Education stated that claims by the governor that the schools were built from the proceeds realized from the leasing of Adapalm was fraudulent, describing the attitude of Okorocha as deliberate mischief and a calculated attempt to mislead the Imo people into believing that the administration of President Jonathan has abandoned the state by not citing projects in it.

Prof Onwuliri revealed that she had discovered during her tour of the state shortly, after her assumption of office late last year, that the twin storey classroom blocks the governor was claiming he built was in actual fact sponsored by the Federal Government, pointing out that the Imo State government deliberately refused to put the inscription of Universal Basic Education Commission on them as done in other states which would have enabled the people to know that the project was indeed sponsored by the Federal Government.

Her words: “On assumption of office I had toured the state and I discovered to my utmost surprise that the twin storey classroom buildings sponsored in the state by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Education has no inscription of the Universal Basic Education Commission on them because the state government deliberately refused to inform the Imo people that indeed the project were sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education through UBEC which is under my direct supervision.

“I quickly alerted the necessary quarters and queried why there was no sign to indicate that the project was sponsored financially by the Federal Government. It was shortly after the inspection of the Federal projects in the state that the state government began to label the building SUBEB/UBEC. Even at that, the inscription was not visible for people to see, yet the governor was busy telling Imo people that the President Jonathan-led PDP administration has done nothing in the state.”

She pointed out that the Universal Basic Education programmes was introduced by the Federal Government to reform specifically the basic education sector and the Nigerian education sector in general.

“State Universal Primary Education Board (SUBEB) is an offshoot of UBEC in the states, which is established to address the inequality in educational opportunity at the basic level,” she pointed out, stressing that the programme was introduced by the Federal Government to remove distortions and inconsistencies in basic education delivery and reinforce the implementation of the national policy on education as well as to ensure access, equity and quality of basic education throughout the country.

She accused the Imo State government of having the penchance of covering Federal Government projects in the state from the public knowledge.

For instance, she pointed out that the Federal Government also built similar projects such as new ICT centre and Faculty of Law building at the state-owned university which she commissioned in December last year, built administration block, Engineering Department and Laboratory at Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo.

“This is aside the MDG, River Basin, NDDC, FERMA, Sure-P, You WIN, National Directorate of Employment projects executed by the Federal Government in Imo State, including roads and construction of multi-billion naira grain silo in Okigwe. Yet Governor Okorocha is busy telling the Imo people lies that President Jonathan has done nothing in the state just to deceive them to vote for him and his party, APC,” she lamented.

According to the minister, the Federal Government gave the state government free hand to hire its contractors for the twin storey classroom blocks project.

“But you cannot believe it that only one contractor was hired by the state government to execute the multi-million naira project in all the 305 wards of the state against the Federal Government initial plan to spread the contract and allow the communities to handle the projects, but only one contractor executed the projects for Governor Okorocha,” she disclosed.

However, the claims of Prof. Onwuliri were dismissed by the Imo State government as a bogus lie meant to deceive the people of the state that the projects were sponsored by the Federal Government.

According to the Imo State Deputy Governor, Prince Eze Madumere, the claim of the minister was a “bogus lie.”

The deputy governor insisted that claims to the 305 schools in 305 wards in Imo State would remain the greatest lie ever told in history in desperate want of political power.

Mrs Uduka stressed that ISUBEB has action plans for all projects which must be approved by UBEC before being implemented.

“UBEC officials came here and saw the twin storey buildings and appreciated Governor Okorocha’s initiative to step up the hope of the children of the poor and the downtrodden because UBEC and ISUBEB as partners in progress in the education of the children,” she said

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=108643

RareDiamond:
You only talk about Orlu. What of Okigwe zone that have been neglected

Abagworo:
To me keke should be banned from our major roads and replaced with cabs. The ugliest sight I behold driving in Owerri is the cluster of keke on highways. They should not be banned but restricted to inner city areas while some of them are empowered with subsidised taxi scheme.

IGBOSON1:
Anyone know why the Imo Palm plantation that is now being managed by foreigners hasn't improved the states IGR exponentially!? Was watching a program on tv the other day, and someone pointed out just how valuable palm-oyel is......he said you find it in so many products (edible and cosmetics)! I then remembered the huge plam plantation in Imo state and i got angry that yet again we have a situation where there's too much fuc'king talk-talk-talk, yet nothing comes out of it!

The palm plantation was either sold or handed over to these foreigners about 4 years ago; coupled with the state gov'ts ikwuola nku initiative which so much noise was made about at the time, but we're yet to see the benefits of all this in hard cash! Imo and Rivers states should be getting nothing less that 3 billion naira respectively per month from their palm plantations

Despite the warped federal structure this country operates, some states can still make a killing in certain areas! Plam oil should bring in as much revenue to the farmers/state concerned as cocoa does.....if not more!

Abagworo:


That guy is not from Imo State. He is one of those looking for a fault to discredit our rapid development. All that Imo lacks today is federal presence of which if APC wins at federal level, we will get our fair share of that.

Abagworo:
To me keke should be banned from our major roads and replaced with cabs.The ugliest sight I behold driving in Owerri is the cluster of keke on highways. They should not be banned but restricted to inner city areas while some of them are empowered with subsidised taxi scheme.