Last week, a customer of mine, who was applying his business in Aba, called me and told me that he was in Lagos. When he found his way to my office, he started telling me his plan to relocate to Lagos. As a matter of fact, he has already found a shop near computer village.

Next, he started telling me horrible stories about Aba.

When i visited my Port Harcourt office some years back, about 6 years back to be precise, the story I heard about Abacha was not the different from what my friend told me.

According to them, the journey from PH to Aba is l smooth until you get to the border line between River state and Abia state. They said, you would think that's were satan lives.

According to some people; things were cheaper in Aba. But the Roads to Aba is like the biblical roads to heaven, so hard and narrow.

My customer told me how the roads to Aba and inside Aba have frustrated business men like him out of Aba.

Some of us grew up to hear of " Aba made ". A kind of substandard products made in Aba. That was before the emergence of "Made in China" Also a kind of substandard products from china.

The once strong city, Enyimba city has not received enough support from both the state and the federal government.

Aba used to be a trade zone for manners of items; leather shoes, rubber shoes, nylon products, plastic products, already made clothes, name it, Aba was the center of it all. Aba attracted people from neighboring countries and different parts of the country.

Aba went from hot to cold. From once a pride giant to now a sleeping giant.

Aba needs a bailout from the federal government. Nigeria can not survive only from agricultural produce. It is not enough to tell people to go back to farm, the government has to tell people also to go back to their shops. We have to make our shoes, our cloths, our toothpicks etc.
Currently President Trump is bailing banks in America.

The roads in and around Aba should be fixed. The roads leading to Aba should be fixed. There should be steady power supply to Aba. And security should be given priority in Aba.

Aba is a major industrial city.

What Aba needs is road simple.

But due to the criminality attitude of Abians and her leaders the future remains bleak.


Let Abia state govt construct their road and leave Federal govt after all Rivers state constructed their own part by themselves.


Recently the Asaba road leading to head bridge was damaged beyond reason but as now the road is been reconstructed by Delta state government because they know the importance of good road network. Delta didn't wait for buhari or said this is a federal road.


So nothing like sleeping giant but Abia has so many criminals as leaders and they enjoy it if not how can people like Orji Uzor kalu stage a come back to power to same state he rendered hopeless.

Both past and present Abia governors are worst than an Ebola.

The electorates should be blamed for that

A sleeping giant indeed.........

I went to Aba last week...... It is not like inside Aba is too bad. They still got good roads but the problem is the Expressway that leads to PH and Umuahia.

I always see Ikpeazu as NURTW chairman...... He is not worthy to be a Governor.

MelesZenawi:
What Aba needs is road simple.

But due to the criminality attitude of Abians and her leaders the future remains bleak.


Let Abia state govt construct their road and leave Federal govt after all Rivers state constructed their own part by themselves.


Recently the Asaba road leading to head bridge was damaged beyond reason but as now the road is been reconstructed by Delta state government because they know the importance of good road network. Delta didn't wait for buhari or said this is a federal road.


So nothing like sleeping giant but Abia has so many criminals as leaders and they enjoy it if not how can people like Orji Uzor kalu stage a come back to power to same state he rendered hopeless.

What Aba needs is good roads, lights, security and a competent waste disposal system so one entire lane of a dual carriage way will not be turned into a dump.

It needs streetlights and the governor should lift the curfew on tricycles. How do you have a commercial city where tricycles which form an integral unit of transportation is banned after dark? The darkness and lack of transportation is causing people to want to be behind closed doors too quickly.

As for security which is why tricycles were banned and nightlife dead, have manned police patrol cars with armed policemen at street corners and junctions. The police cars and men should be visible to all so they know that you mean business. Not have policement guard individuals and hotels leaving citizens to the mercy of their locks

Policemen should patrol the inner streets during the nights with police lights on so residents and trouble makers will know policemen are around and they mean business.

I see no reason why markets in Aba close at night. If I have a order to supply shoes why must I close shop when my staff and I can work all through the night to improve our work time? All this needs is security and electricity. But major markets close around 6 or 7 so problem.

We can't also say the proximity to Port Harcourt during the militancy didn't add to the insecurity situation as a lot of criminals found Aba as hideout or where they can recruit members

They should blow the Niger bridge. Do something drastic. That way the SE would be taken seriously

For those that read psalms;
For the road of the wicked shall be condemned. Some wicked people in aba fishing out the good once away.
Why is the road of bad people are good and the Good people of God's own state are dwelling on bad roads.

Available the restless giant.


I buy and sell funds of all kinds

Aba is not a sleeping giant buh rather a dead Giant.

We Aba gwoda!
No federal presence in entire southeast but billions of dollars of relief and international support keep going to the north where the richest man in Africa is originated and also the two-time current Nigeria president emanated while the conquered ‘Igbos’ are left on their own yet, operation python dance can dance to okada man’s house and ‘bit’ him to death

It is quite unfortunate

I weep for my dear city. I weep anytime i want to come aba. The leaders are over greedy. What the city need is ROAD. Just road and yet it seems its a big deal.

It is very evident that the Buhari administration will do nothing about it rather encourage economic crunch amidst sweet talking.

Nevertheless, you have enlightened the masses. Thank you


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Live from aba the road is hell and its collapsing businesses I just start my own business this year but I am almost regretting starting it in aba cause of roads and movement of goods

ojnnaco:
I weep for my dear city. I weep anytime i want to come aba. The leaders are over greedy. What the city need is ROAD. Just road and yet it seems its a big deal.

You can't solve roads if the waste disposal system is non existent people will jist start dumping refuse on the road and spoil it

Since I was born, and now I am getting old, I have never seen nwoke ngwa toro ogologo

In God we trust.

what we need in Aba from the govt is "ROADS" every other thing can be spontaneously done by the residents.

umuahia roads are bad as well not just aba

Why did the people re elect Ikpeazu?

I have been there. From Ogbor Hill to Umule to Pound road.

Cheap to live in too.
All these boutique owners go to Aba to buy clothes and shoes at cheap prices and come to town to sell at exorbitant prices.

I went to "Shoe Plaza" to buy a nice sandals which was priced N7000 in Abuja. Guess how much I bought it, N2500.

Aba is full of hustlers, old (you can see colonial era styled houses) and modern buildings.
Nice city!

PS: Some sections on the Federal Roads linking Onitsha-Umuahia-Aba-PortHarcourt is in a bad state.

Bad Sections are (but not all): Upper Iweka-Obosi, Ihiala-Orlu, Ihiala-Mgbidi, Owerri-Aba via Imo Gate, most sections of PH-Aba-Enugu hwy.

Aba and the southeast problems are caused by Tinubu. Jagaban and not their governors is their main headache in that region.

You can't say more

MelesZenawi:
What Aba needs is road simple.

But due to the criminality attitude of Abians and her leaders the future remains bleak.


Let Abia state govt construct their road and leave Federal govt after all Rivers state constructed their own part by themselves.


Recently the Asaba road leading to head bridge was damaged beyond reason but as now the road is been reconstructed by Delta state government because they know the importance of good road network. Delta didn't wait for buhari or said this is a federal road.


So nothing like sleeping giant but Abia has so many criminals as leaders and they enjoy it if not how can people like Orji Uzor kalu stage a come back to power to same state he rendered hopeless.

Give Aba roads, power supply, properly waste mgt system then watch her blossom

Even as the giant is sleeping, the successive Visionless govs in Abia including the present one, are adding more doses of the sleeping pill to the already sleeping giant


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