RareDiamond:
I like the fact that you love and admire your state but that doesn't stop anybody from mentioning Anambra State. Don't make a big deal of nothing.

tanx for ur understanding...

Owerri-Orlu road. Mbaitoli axis.

Umutanze-Akata road in Orlu. First time i see a rural road with drainage in Imo State.

berem:
Umutanze-Akata road in Orlu. First time i see a rural road with drainage in Imo State.

Would you know why our LGAs and state governments cannot recruit people to clear the road sides of bush so the roads last longer and people are employed

anonimi:


Would you know why our LGAs and state governments cannot recruit people to clear the road sides of bush so the roads last longer and people are employed

why are you asking me?

francizy:
Seriously, why are we like this?

We're not united at all.

This is where Hausa/Fulani people are better than us because the word unity is not enough to describe how they value each other and value themselves.

We shouldn't be comparing one state with another in terms of which is better or worse. We shouldn't see ourselves better than our neighboring Igbo states.

We do not love ourselves because it is only when we love ourselves we can extend the love outside.

I love my tribe and always, I uphold her in any way possible. I love being an Igbo man and I will always love the letters I-G-B-O. Let's unit all and I will also love us to refrain from exchanging words too.

By my beloveth Igbo people..

Signed

Nwa Oraukwu

nna, onye ka ibu?
nwa ibenabo na ekene gi

Jonathan and his Transformation Agenda

Feb 13, 2015

MALACHY UZENDU,
Deputy Editor, Abuja

BETWEEN former President Olusegun Obasanjo and incumbent Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, there is a whole lot of difference both in style and performance. While Obasanjo believed in “do-or-die” and professed it openly, Jonathan believes in methodical approach to issues. Obasanjo broached no contrary opinion, if anyone did, that person met his or her waterloo. For the over four years that Jonathan has held forth in the administration of the country, there has not been a single insinuation of state sponsored killings or elimination of persons who belonged to any opposition political party, or persons who hold contrary opinion.
Instances of politically-motivated killings are replete. For instance, former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, a chieftain of Alliance for Democracy (AD), was gruesomely murdered under circumstances Nigerians believed were politically-motivated. Ige was killed during the Obasanjo regime. To make matters worse at the time, there was orchestrated drama led by one criminal element, Fryo, who staged an ignoble drama, partly acted between him and the Nigerian Police, concerning Ige’s murder.
Then, the killing of Chief Marshal Harry, erstwhile chieftain of All Peoples Party (APP). Harry was said to be so strong politically that the government at the centre became convinced he was capable of removing Rivers State from the grip of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Marshal Harry had to be killed. He was killed at his residence behind the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, in a manner stage managed to look as if some “rag-tag armed robbers” killed him. But, the theory up till today, concocted by the state, have refused to be bought by the public. They knew Harry’s death was politically-motivated.
Then, Chief Ogbonna Uche. Uche was a chieftain of APP in Imo State. He had to be eliminated because the government at that time never broached any opposition. Uche’s killers, up till today, are walking the streets as free citizens. Similar sordid stories are replete, but let us stop at these.
State governors are no longer daily facing orchestrated politically-motivated impeachments or abductions as was the case between 1999 and 2007. Recall the case of the abduction of former Governor Chris Ngige by the late Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Raphael Ig,e simply because Ngige refused to open the vault of Anambra State to his political godfathers, who were intimate friends of the Obasanjo administration. Also, the case of the impeachment of former Governor Joshua Dariye of Plateau state and Dieprieye Alamieseigha of Bayelsa state. The sordid arm twisting of state Houses of Assembly to move out of town, under heavy security threat and escort, to impeach a sitting governor in the middle of the night in a hotel room are no longer part of our recent history.
Arm twisting of state anti-corruption agencies like the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Nigerian Police, are no longer the case. Remember the humiliation of former Internal Affairs Minister, Chief Sunday Afolabi, former National Chairmen of PDP, Chief Okwesilieze Nwodo and Vincent Ogbulafor, as well as the ignoble removal of Chief (Mrs.) Ifenyinwa Obegolu, National Commissioner (Legal) at INEC, on trumped-up charges, have not yet obliterated from our memories. These gentlemen were arrested in a most disgusting manner, state agencies used to blackmail them of corruption, “abracadabra” charges preferred against them, only for all the charges to fail the litmus test of evidence in the courts after several years of struggle to prove their innocence, yet bruised and dented even in their innocence. They suffered all these because they offered contrary opinion against the wishes of the government then in power on certain policy decisions.
It was only the case of Mr. Tafa Balogun, then Inspector-General of Police (IGP), who was humiliated by a far subordinate, then Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Nuhu Ribadu, then at the helm at EFCC, that succeeded. Balogun was removed from office in a most ignoble manner. But, the under lining factor was that Balogun disagreed with his erstwhile partner, one Tolu Jinadu, who was a government agent, on sharing formula of a mere N5 million out of several billions voted for Police salary, welfare, equipment and accouterments. But Chief James Onanaefe (Ochuko) Ibori, former Delta State governor, who stole the state funds silly, was assisted to obtain legal reprieve here in Nigeria for series of charges, of which a fraction of it all, got him convicted and landed him in a London jail.
On the agricultural sector, Nigerians will not forget in a hurry, the unprecedented fertilizer scam that was the order of the day between 1999 and 2007. Then, farmers had tales of woes to tell unlike now that the introduction of e-wallet system completely eliminated the huge billion Naira scam that the agric sector had been. Under Obasanjo’s watch, nobody knew that the problems in the agriculture sector was so menial that it had a roadmap towards resolving it; fertilizer, both adulterated and pure fake, arrived to middlemen long after each planting season. issues of storage, hiring and purchase of tractors, irrigation, Fadama farming, better yield seedlings, among other factors, remained intractable.
Remembering the nightmare the Nigerian federal roads were during the Obasanjo administration, is capable of making a pregnant woman deliver prematurely. Sordid stories of how Nigerians spend up to three days travelling from Onitsha to Lagos; two days from Ibadan to Kaduna; five days from Enugu to Maiduguri, a day and half from Makurdi to Abuja; two days from Kaduna to Sokoto and almost a week traveling from Benin City to Calabar or Yenagoa, have not disappeared from peoples memory. Yet, no less than N500 billion were allegedly spent rehabilitating the vast Nigerian roads. In less than two years of the Jonathan administration, all the nightmare that were Nigerian roads, have literally disappeared to the extent that traveling from Uyo to Maiduguri which hitherto took a week, are now completed within a day, or slightly above that, due mainly to the drivers taking their time to avoid insurgents. It is only remaining the Enugu – Onitsha; Enugu -Port Harcourt; Enugu – Makurdi and Calabar – Uyo – Yenagoa and Calabar – Makurdi as well as Benin – Port Harcourt highways, that are being reconstructed at snail speed. Top government functionaries at that time, especially in this sector smiled to the banks, unlike now where Arch Mike Onolemene, is seen practically doing his best and offering first-hand explanations on what was going on, unlike in the past, when nobody felt the public has any need to know.
In the education sector, the level of confusion and fraud that bedeviled the sector with attendant ghost worker and pension scam, have become stories of the past. Under the Onasanjo administration, the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities and its counterparts in the education sector, received the worst form of treatment; agreements reached were fragrantly violated because such criminal acts cannot be punished on the state. Contractors were owed billions of Naira for contracts executed and budgeted for, while in the health sector, aviation sector, maritime sector, the stories were not different. The central payroll system introduced by the Jonathan administration and the close scrutiny of out-of-pocket expenditure through a central poll, have in no small measure reduced outright stealing of public property and funds.
Apart from the self-inflicted tension by the political parties which exacerbated tension through their utterances, campaign of hate and outright acts of intimidation and violence, the current electoral atmosphere, none the less is not as tension-soaked when compared with electoral period under the Obasnjo administration. At about this moment in 2007 or 2011, the level of tension and uncertainty in the land would have reached its crescendo. Stories of “do-or-die” would have rented the atmosphere and it would have been obvious that the government would not let go, even if it would involve announcing a non-existent result and asking the agrieved party to go to court. That was what happened in Anambra, Ondo, Edo, Osun, Ekiti, Ogun and Oyo states, which were recovered through judicial pronouncements.
If nothing else, the transformation witnessed in these sectors, among several others which space and time would not permit, are obviously verifiable instances which the Jonathan administration can rely and boast of. What could be said to be remaining is a credible internal party democracy, which is still lacking across the political parties. Until the system permits the party members use the guidelines approved for party primary without changing the game in the middle or without unnecessary meddlesomeness by the leadership of political parties, then all the talk about political thuggery; all the talk about political tension; all the talk about massive movement of people from the cities to their villages during elections, will never come to an end. It is up to Jonathan or his successor, whoever wins, to improve on the successes recorded and take the bull of internal party democracy by the horn.

http://www.championnews.com.ng/jonathan-and-his-transformation-agenda/

anonimi:


Would you know why our LGAs and state governments cannot recruit people to clear the road sides of bush so the roads last longer and people are employed

they did but only in otown...

Malawian:

nna, onye ka ibu?
nwa ibenabo na ekene gi

Nwanne'm nwoke. Abu kwa'm onye Ibenabo oh.. Achoro'm ikpo afam ebe á

berem:
Umutanze-Akata road in Orlu. First time i see a rural road with drainage in Imo State.

There are lots of rural roads with drainage in Imo State. The road in my villlage built by the Ohakim's administration have drainage.

IMO STATE IS BEAUTIFUL AND BLESSED

anonimi:


Would you know why our LGAs and state governments cannot recruit people to clear the road sides of bush so the roads last longer and people are employed

Clearing of road sides and drainages fall under routine maintenance of road pavement. We don't always have to wait on sanitation days to clean the drainages and then leave the dirts near the drainages and when rain falls, every dirts go back to the drainage. A good state or federal ministry of work should have a good maintenance department that looks into this. But you see many state government appointing non engineers as commissioners of works, even our minister of work is an architect. Now what all these commissioners are after is signing road contracts and collecting their own shares from the road contracts. Some road constructions could be done by state ministry of works by direct labour, but what do we get, even some rural roads are contracted out. I once asked what happened to IRROMA? If only that agency was sustained. Most engineers in state ministries are just 'redundant' not because they don't know what to do rather the person at the head don't take them along and Nigerians always like to be pushed before doing the right things.

anonimi:


Would you know why our LGAs and state governments cannot recruit people to clear the road sides of bush so the roads last longer and people are employed

^^^Because they just couldn't be arssed! Nobody is holding them to account!!

OdenigboAroli:



Thats where you get it wrong,the name "Anambra" is not a "mere" name. It carries alot of weight and pride...The mystic Omanbala river is the largest tributary to Orinmili Niger. Its a namr that depicts a people filled with beautiful culture,wealth and pride. Its the name of the river that enriches the agricultural belt around it. This river is where the legendary Eri settled and and beget his descendants...Alot of Omanbalas make their sacrifices at the River Omanbala and it hold a great destiny for them. So mr. emmysoft or whatever they call you it would be better you stfu than open it and spew nonsense.

POINT OF CORRECTION
Anambra is a mere name if you do not understand English

francizy:


Nwanne'm nwoke. Abu kwa'm onye Ibenabo oh.. Achoro'm ikpo afam ebe á

onwelu ka anyi ga esi mata onwe anyi.

abum nwa big-do. ginwa kwa nu?

BuddahMonk:
Serious if there a state that deserve two state univ she is Imo state, do you know in 2011 the number of JAMBites from Imo alone dwarfted the number of 14States in North combine and 3states in South West.

Yet Ogun have 2 states Univ and Kano just completed their second this year called Northwestern University

The number of JAMBites from Ikeduru alone in one year could surpass everything Kano have to turn out in 3years

There is wide-spread belief that only Okorocha is hindering having a state university or location of more IMSU faculties in Orlu zone, or expansion of FUTO campus to Orlu area, because Okorocha believes (wrongly) that if any of these institutions is located in Orlu zone, it shall pose serious competition against his private Ogboko university.

Rochas is the best governor in d southeast, wen talking abt the Eastern region I wud want to compare him with Akpabio, but then I remember that there allocations re not same... I bet u if rochas receives the same allocation as Akwa Ibom... u wud know dat he's one of d best Nigeria ever produced.

I hv an idea that I think would add to the IGR of local governments in imo state...

RareDiamond:


Are you sure of what you are saying

Yes!.

amakenny:


There is wide-spread belief that only Okorocha is hindering having a state university or location of more IMSU faculties in Orlu zone, or expansion of FUTO campus to Orlu area, because Okorocha believes (wrongly) that if any of these institutions is located in Orlu zone, it shall pose serious competition against his private Ogboko university.

u ppl re just talking, but u ppl re not putting d students into consideration... do u think they wud be flying to Orlu for lectures?...

When a small city like Owerri has overthrown mega cities like Kano and Ibadan in air traffic even with proximal Asaba, Uyo, Calabar, Enugu and Port Harcourt it does not take an expert to know that it now hosts higher number of affluent visitors than most cities in Nigeria. That same way it is probably the 4th fastest developing city in Nigeria behind Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.

So welcome to the boom. Imolites should get ready to tolerate new settlers and embrace cosmopolitan reality.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=105515

Passenger patronage of domestic
airlines leaps by 20%
BY LOUIS IBA
Passenger patronage of domestic airlines in Nigeria rose by
20 per cent between 2013 and 2014, according to a recent
industry data obtained by Daily Sun.
The data sourced from domestic airline operators at­
tributed the increase to “signs that the larger economy was
witnessing a growth although it, noted that the increased
patronage did not translate to higher profit margins for op­
erators.
About a decade ago, a lull had hit the aviation industry
following the reluctance of Nigerians to fly owing to the
poor airworthiness of most operational aircraft and obso­
lete navigational and weather forecast facilities, which cul­
minated in frequent air crashes claiming hundreds of lives
of passengers. The industry also had issues with the poor
state of the airports and poor regulatory environment.
“But between 2013 and 2014, passenger growth on
domestic routes went up by about 20 per cent meaning
that more Nigerians are now taking the convenient option
of flying to their destinations with domestic carriers than
go by road,” said the report obtained on Tuesday.
“Aviation is a barometer for measuring an economy. One of
the ways to check the pulse of an economy is to observe
whatever happens to the flow of passenger traffic in the do­
mestic airline industry.
“There had been a lull particularly after the Dana Air crash
of 2012. Traffic slumped. It hovered around three million
and at its peak four million. But between 2013 and 2014,
passenger traffic rose to above 14 million, which clearly
shows signs that the larger economy was witnessing
growth,” it added.
Four airports were listed as attracting the highest volume
of passengers: Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Owerri,
while airports in the crisis-ridden North East of Nigeria
ranked as the lowest in terms of passenger patronage.

Malawian:


onwelu ka anyi ga esi mata onwe anyi.

abum nwa big-do. ginwa kwa nu?

Abu'm nwa safe mokwe.. Kedu aha nna gi?

Igbo States should try and realize that we share same fate in this world and that States are mere nomenclature and does not create marked differences. This is a bridge linking Ihitenansa in Imo State to Akwa Ihedi in Anambra State. The bridge is quite short and planks+wood is still used and cannot contain more than a car at a time. The picture was taken from the Imo side and across is Anambra. The people of this area plead with Obiano and Okorocha to come to their aid.

oneeast:
Abagworo shut up, that pics is from Anambra side precisely Akwaihedi. That place that road stopped is Anambra state. Once after the bridge it is Imo state which has nothing to do with Anambra. I have a similar pics. I will post it.

That remaining part is Imo state responsibility. You should be calling on your Okorosha to fix your own side because our own side is completely tarred with road markings.

Lets assume it was taken from Anambra side. The reality is that the road is bad right from Orlu till you get to Ezinifite and the bridge is messed up. During OBJ era, NDDC worked on the road but did not reconstruct the bridge. The people are not even asking for road but just to help them fix the bridge.

Now this is the same pics here. This is the Anambra side while that untarred part with the wooden bride is Imo state. It is very clear that Imo state does not have roads. Okorosha should do something about the poor state or non existent state of roads in that state.


Anambra part is properly tarred with drainages and road markings while Imo state part is begging for serious attention.

You are right. Imo Airport is the 4th busiest Airport in Nigeria as most Airline starting from Arik, Dana, Discovery, Peace Airline etc now fly regularly to Owerri. Ala Imo State wu Oke Mba !!!

Abagworo:
When a small city like Owerri has overthrown mega cities like Kano and Ibadan in air traffic even with proximal Asaba, Uyo, Calabar, Enugu and Port Harcourt it does not take an expert to know that it now hosts higher number of affluent visitors than most cities in Nigeria. That same way it is probably the 4th fastest developing city in Nigeria behind Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt.

So welcome to the boom. Imolites should get ready to tolerate new settlers and embrace cosmopolitan reality.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=105515

Passenger patronage of domestic
airlines leaps by 20%
BY LOUIS IBA
Passenger patronage of domestic airlines in Nigeria rose by
20 per cent between 2013 and 2014, according to a recent
industry data obtained by Daily Sun.
The data sourced from domestic airline operators at­
tributed the increase to “signs that the larger economy was
witnessing a growth although it, noted that the increased
patronage did not translate to higher profit margins for op­
erators.
About a decade ago, a lull had hit the aviation industry
following the reluctance of Nigerians to fly owing to the
poor airworthiness of most operational aircraft and obso­
lete navigational and weather forecast facilities, which cul­
minated in frequent air crashes claiming hundreds of lives
of passengers. The industry also had issues with the poor
state of the airports and poor regulatory environment.
“But between 2013 and 2014, passenger growth on
domestic routes went up by about 20 per cent meaning
that more Nigerians are now taking the convenient option
of flying to their destinations with domestic carriers than
go by road,” said the report obtained on Tuesday.
“Aviation is a barometer for measuring an economy. One of
the ways to check the pulse of an economy is to observe
whatever happens to the flow of passenger traffic in the do­
mestic airline industry.
“There had been a lull particularly after the Dana Air crash
of 2012. Traffic slumped. It hovered around three million
and at its peak four million. But between 2013 and 2014,
passenger traffic rose to above 14 million, which clearly
shows signs that the larger economy was witnessing
growth,” it added.
Four airports were listed as attracting the highest volume
of passengers: Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Owerri,
while airports in the crisis-ridden North East of Nigeria
ranked as the lowest in terms of passenger patronage.

You don't have to assume anything because the good part of the road is in Anambra. Why then are you calling on Obiano when we have completely tarred our own part with road markings?

Go and call your Okorosha to fix Imo state part and stop calling Anambra on this thread unless you want to see this thread go down the drain. Face your fate in your state, we are not responsible for the poor state of roads in Imo state

Abagworo:


Lets assume it was taken from Anambra side. The reality is that the road is bad right from Orlu till you get to Ezinifite and the bridge is messed up. During OBJ era, NDDC worked on the road but did not reconstruct the bridge. The people are not even asking for road but just to help them fix the bridge.

This is Akwaihedi below as you head to the boundary. You must have passed these roads far ahead before getting to the bridge that marks the boundary between the two states. All the rural roads in Anambra are well paved with road markings.

Stop spreading falsehood here, face your state..

RareDiamond:
You are right. Imo Airport is the 4th busiest Airport in Nigeria as most Airline starting from Arik, Dana, Discovery, Peace Airline etc now fly regularly to Owerri. Ala Imo State wu Oke Mba !!!

^^^But i read another report a few days ago saying that it was kaduna (not Owerri) that was among the top 4 busiest airports.....and i was wondering how it came from nowhere to carry 4th!

Owerri needs to be upgraded to int'l status, and they need a brand new int'l terminal as well!