spyder880:
Spyder880 is here live in Owerri, and I am here to float a new housing estate at Okuku, a developing part of Owerri. Buy your own plots before it will sell out like others. Follow this link ....... https://www.nairaland.com/2555459/buy-lands-royal-palms-estates/4

Great job Spyder!

Okorocha should please plant some trees in that median.
Please beautify Owerri.

Owerri na hotel gbara ndu

Scholes007:
Owerri na hotel gbara ndu

It isn't a bad thing at all. Forget all that crap being said about hotels in owerri.

In fact, they should build more and Casinos to transform Owerri into the las Vegas or the holiday city of West Africa.

Cjrane2:


It isn't a bad thing at all. Forget all that crap being said about hotels in owerri.

In fact, they should build more and Casinos to transform Owerri into the las Vegas or the holiday city of West Africa.

i didnt say its bad but i think they should consider other investments in owerri other than hotels

spyder880:
This seems to be a drainage project ongoing in Owerri, quite huge.

spyder880, you don return?
Welcome. You no bring any development in Okigwe or Oguta or any other part of Imo state?

Okorocha resumed second term still digging and digging only in Owerri. Digging drainage systems, flyovers in Owerri, demolishing Church schools in Owerri and building new ones, etc..

If you even find a road to go to Orlu, you will cry your hearts out.
Owing to the uncompleted Orlu urban drainage work started by former Gov. Ikwechegh, Amaigbo road is now totally cut by flood at St. Joseph Catholic Church.


the Old Orlu-Owerri road;

the road leading to Morning Star Girls Secondary School;

the road to the state UniversityTeaching hospital;

the road to international market;

the road from former TESAC to St. Joseph's Catholic church -

name them - many others, inside the town - they have remained non practicable for about four years since bulldozers from Okorocha contractors touched them and ran away.

Question on people's lips now: why would Gov. Rochas Okorocha want Orlu to be closed down?

spyder880:
Spyder880 is here live in Owerri, and I am here to float a new housing estate at Okuku, a developing part of Owerri. Buy your own plots before it will sell out like others. Follow this link ....... https://www.nairaland.com/2555459/buy-lands-royal-palms-estates/4

is this not the estate that is said to host a projected nollywood city?

spyder880:
What is this nice building for?

Imo trade and investment centre

asha80:
is this not the estate that is said to host a projected nollywood city?

LMAO :

millionaireman:


LMAO :

what is lmao for?

Ofodirinwa:


You're usually reasonable until you pass 1 paragraph lol. Don't take it disrespectfully, but what if you don't want to work in a hotel? No reason group of over 100 people will wish to focus on one industry. Paris is the world's top tourist destination and houses more industries than the whole of Nigeria's total output. Foreign hotels opening in your state is no substitute to industrialization. Even the materials needed to build and fill these hotels are manufactured. So if we have no manufacturing base, and we're making 100 million naira, but 100% of what it takes to run a hotel is made elsewhere then we're throwing money in the trash. The better the hotels do, the more we'll throw in the trash.


Nigeria has a lot of loose end industries, and this is why development is so awkward. When you go to a hotel in Paris, you use towels from paris, it's built by a Parisian, soap, sheets, beds, doors, paint, rugs, carpet, tiles, scafolding, uniforms. As the hotel grows it buys more from local industries and that's why most things work.

In Nigeria you'll have a hotel industry booming for the sake of spending all of it's expense money buying things from abroad or Lagos. By the time it has travel to Imo the price has increased due to transport and labor. The chance of damage or loosing your goods or theft skyrockets. Anyone saying Imo should focus on 'tourism' isn't serious. Let every man and women start the business they wish to state and let the state focus on making the place work for business as a whole.

If you don't work in a hotel and don't have aspirations to you should stop wishing on to other that which you don't want for yourself. It's our home first, not a vacation. You sound like you're from elsewhere.

Abia and Anambra are beside us and are equally Igbos. They dominate commerce and industry thereby making it difficult for Imo to take off in that aspect. If we go about trying to be jack of all thread then we will lose our stronghold on tourism and hospitality while chasing shadows. Okorocha has been pushed into trying to use State funds for industries and it will be regrettable after his tenure when the next Government will reveal they exist on subsidy.

Common sense should tell us why Igbo industrialists and foreign industrialist prefer siting their plants in mostly Aba and Onitsha. They have large markets for distribution. You can equally notice that the largest hotel chains prefer Owerri to Aba and Onitsha even though they are much more populous. Concorde hotel is the only investment of that era that survived till this day while all the industries died.

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Shut up your stinking mouth and stop mentioning any part of Anambra in your tirade. That Lagos has industries does not stop Ogun state from attracting its own too.

Coming to hotel, Onitsha has an international brand- Raddisson Blu under construction and it beats everything you have to offer as hotels. Owerri does nothing else other than building brothels so it has become dangerous trend for any person that dare to raise a family there. The only reason people condemn siting of all these silly hotels in owerri is because the town is just full of poorly paid civil servants without a vibrant economy.

There is no net-worth person resident in the town to actually use the hotel for meaningful thing which is lodging for business sake like it is seen in PH, Lagos, Abuja, Onitsha, Warri and other major cities. So since there is nobody to patronize those owerri hotels they now converted most of them to where commercial se.x hawkers gather c every evening.

When you build industries you are attracting capital and labor that will in turn patronize hotels for genuine reasons by way of lodging and eating. But you are blind to all that but choose to blame others for your problem.

Mention any part of Anambra on this useless thread again and see what will happen.

We are on our way to Ph. Be ready.

Spyder880 please continue with those real pinchures LOL


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Abagworo:
Common sense should tell us why Igbo industrialists and foreign industrialist prefer siting their plants in mostly Aba and Onitsha. They have large markets for distribution. You can equally notice that the largest hotel chains prefer Owerri to Aba and Onitsha even though they are much more populous. Concorde hotel is the only investment of that era that survived till this day while all the industries died.

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Stop talking about any part of Anambra here, its an insult to mention us and your state on the same paper.
Those things in Owerri are cheap brothels for prostitutes. There is no international brand there because international brands does not go to civil servants state like Imo.



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Abagworo:
Common sense should tell us why Igbo industrialists and foreign industrialist prefer siting their plants in mostly Aba and Onitsha. They have large markets for distribution. You can equally notice that the largest hotel chains prefer Owerri to Aba and Onitsha even though they are much more populous. Concorde hotel is the only investment of that era that survived till this day while all the industries died.

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chinology:
Stop talking about any part of Anambra here, its an insult to mention us your state on any paper.
Those things in Owerri are cheap brothels for prostitutes. There is no international brand there because international brands does not go to poorly paid civil servants state like Imo.



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Oboy free this guy what is wrong wif you?

Not until he does the right thing by discussing his state without mentioning another state that does not have anything in common with his.

He blames everything and everyone for his misfortune.

FKO81:

Oboy free this guy what is wrong wif you?

asha80:
is this not the estate that is said to host a projected nollywood city?

Okuku is a town. The town is proposed to host the Nollywood city. Spyder's proposed estate is equally in that town. Both are 2 different issues.

Thornberry which is an international brand has at least two hotels in Owerri viz Thornberry Full Moon and Thornberry Maranatha Suites.

Hilton is underway

http://www.hotelmanagement-network.com/news/newshilton-worldwide-open-two-new-hotels-nigeria-4391906

Hilton Worldwide to open two new
hotels in Nigeria

2 October 2014
Hilton Worldwide has signed agreements to open two
additional Hilton Garden Inn hotels in Nigeria, with first to
open in the city of Owerri and second at Abuja Nnamdi
Azikiwe International Airport.

Hilton Garden Inn Owerri, slated to open in Q4 2017, will
offer 150 guest rooms, various meeting spaces, as well as
fitness centre and lounge, bar and all-day dining
restaurant.

Hilton Garden Inn Owerri will be operated under a
management agreement with a private investor.
Hilton Garden Inn at Abuja Nnamdi Azikiwe International
Airport will be located approximately 1.5km from the airport
terminal.

The 220-room hotel, slated to open in Q2 2017, will be the
first property to be constructed in the vicinity of the airport.
It will be operated under a management agreement with
Oneplus Holdings Nigeria Ltd.

The hotel will offer 425m² of events space, a health club, as
well as lounge, bar and grill restaurant.
Adrian Kurre, global head, Hilton Garden Inn, said: "The
growing pipeline of Hilton Garden Inn hotels in Africa
demonstrates our ambition as a major player in the mid-
market segment across the world. Our focus on offering
affordable accommodation, with quality product and
service, is demonstrated with the significant popularity of
the award winning Hilton Garden Inn brand."


And Protea has reached 70% completion

http://www.acagp.com/update-and-media.php?ids=13

PROTEA HOTEL SELECT IKEJA OPENS ITS DOORS


August 2, 2014 -

Capital Alliance Property Investment
Company (CAPIC) an ACA-managed fund, has announced
the opening of Protea Hotel Select Ikeja. Protea Hotel Select
Ikeja is the result of a partnership deal made between
CAPIC and the Skye Shelter Fund, a real estate investment
fund, to increase the availability of quality, affordable
business accommodation in the country. The hotel also
feeds into CAPIC's wider strategy, which will see the
additional launch of Protea Hotel Selects in Owerri and
Takoradi, Ghana in 2015, to take advantage of the growing
trend in real estate development across the West African
region.

This is what I expect from you. Keep the argument with you and within you but stop mentioning my state here, we are not interested in whatever that is happening in your state. I don't have time to argue over newspaper projects. Most times I hardly remember that the state is in the SE. The only time you will see me here is when you cross the line.

chinology:
This is what I expect from you. Keep the argument with you and within you but stop mentioning my state here, we are not interested in whatever that is happening in your state. I don't have time to argue over newspaper projects. Most times I hardly remember that the state is in the SE. The only time you will see me here is when you cross the line.

I hope you know I don't notice you.

LOL

Dunce but you quoted me? I have made my position clear!


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Abagworo:


I hope you know I don't notice you.

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Abagworo:


I am totally against Government running businesses but unfortunately Okorocha's critics are against privatisation. If I were him I would not listen to critics but simply do what satisfies my conscience. I am sure same people kicking against privatisation will now turn around to find fault in Okorocha's action of investing Government funds in industries.

Mbakwe did it and none lasted more than 2 years before going moribund. All have remained same till Okorocha started making this possibly wasteful attempt. Concorde Hotel was the only State owned business that precipitated a growth in hospitality sector. Owerri today hosts the best Hotels in the East with Concorde as pioneer. Hilton, Protea and Thornberry international brands are already on the verge of opening Owerri branches.

Imo should stop thinking manufacturing and focus on tourism. Okorocha should continue with Conference centers, parks, gardens, Akachi tower and things that will boost tourism.

I beg to differ. What on earth do you want to turn our dear state to? Home to harlots, gamblers, and LBGT? Olo! We need industries to complement tourism. Lagos is a very good example of a state doing that - combining industrialisation and tourism.

Chino and Abagworo, na wa for both of Una. Saying am disappointed in both of you is an understatement.


As for Abagworo, am from Imo and I find it hard to believe your blind, sily and myopic support for rochas. Your comments atimes make me doubt you are igbo or related to igbo. I dey shame for your comments. They dont make sense and not practicable.

Nature129:


I beg to differ. What on earth do you want to turn our dear state to? Home to harlots, gamblers, and LBGT? Olo! We need industries to complement tourism. Lagos is a very good example of a state doing that - combining industrialisation and tourism.

You can as well add Port Harcourt and Abuja. It is private individuals that build industries where they find it profitable and easy to market their products. Why Hotels, Eateries, Event centers are springing up in Owerri is because private investors find them profitable there. The Government building industries will end up as waste.

manchy7531:
Chino and Abagworo, na wa for both of Una. Saying am disappointed in both of you is an understatement.


As for Abagworo, am from Imo and I find it hard to believe your blind, sily and myopic support for rochas. Your comments atimes make me doubt you are igbo or related to igbo. I dey shame for your comments. They dont make sense and not practicable.

I have no blind support for Okorocha but I cannot allow people lie against my State or spoil our image like they did to Abia because Okorocha became the biggest politician out of Igboland. I understand the motive behind the attacks and display of all the bad roads in Imo State just to prove Okorocha is not good. I cannot allow that happen. No State in Southeast is better than Imo as evidenced by the display of the worst part of Imo by PDP and Anambrians who declared war on Okorocha for saying the truth about Igbo disunity and the role of some Anambra leaders in stopping Igbos from political emancipation.

I have not been able to travel to Southeast as a result of failure of all roads linking Rivers State to Southeast but when I do, I will once again flood this thread with beautiful pictures from Imo State. It does not mean I support Okorocha but it means I love my State and have her image to protect. They can fight Okorocha politically but not by using propaganda against my State.

This b.astard you keep talking about Anambra as if it was the state that left Imo state in comatose condition?

Okorocha is a dunce and cannot be any popular than rabble rousing and making noise all over the place. Okorocha is a failure, apart from not being able to pay workers for over 11months he has not achieved anything? Your state is not better than any state in the SE, in fact it is the worst in the SE..records are there. This is why the larger igbo population on NL do not visit this thread.

Like as I said nobody not even Anambra people are interested in your useless and worthless imo state.

You like diverting attention each you are boxed into a corner.

Spyder880 please continue with the real pinchures LOL



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Abagworo:


I have no blind support for Okorocha but I cannot allow people lie against my State or spoil our image like they did to Abia because Okorocha became the biggest politician out of Igboland. I understand the motive behind the attacks and display of all the bad roads in Imo State just to prove Okorocha is not good. I cannot allow that happen. No State in Southeast is better than Imo as evidenced by the display of the worst part of Imo by PDP and Anambrians who declared war on Okorocha for saying the truth about Igbo disunity and the role of some Anambra leaders in stopping Igbos from political emancipation.

I have not been able to travel to Southeast as a result of failure of all roads linking Rivers State to Southeast but when I do, I will once again flood this thread with beautiful pictures from Imo State. It does not mean I support Okorocha but it means I love my State and have her image to protect. They can fight Okorocha politically but not by using propaganda against my State.

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manchy7531:
Chino and Abagworo, na wa for both of Una. Saying am disappointed in both of you is an understatement.


As for Abagworo, am from Imo and I find it hard to believe your blind, sily and myopic support for rochas. Your comments atimes make me doubt you are igbo or related to igbo. I dey shame for your comments. They dont make sense and not practicable.

Abagworo isn't Igbo, he's Ikwerre. I don't understand how any bonafide Imolite would think that the best our state can do is concentrate on tourism and ignore industrialization.

Curlieweed:


Abagworo isn't Igbo, he's Ikwerre. I don't understand how any bonafide Imolite would think that the best our state can do is concentrate on tourism and ignore industrialization.

Don't misquote me. I said Government not State. It is private investors that build industries and not Government. Imo State has tried in mapping out industrial area 35 years ago which still barely has few industries. Government should encourage private investors and not waste State funds building industries.

Abagworo:


You can as well add Port Harcourt and Abuja. It is private individuals that build industries where they find it profitable and easy to market their products. Why Hotels, Eateries, Event centers are springing up in Owerri is because private investors find them profitable there. The Government building industries will end up as waste.

Where and where in Owerri is present government building industries?

I say Owerri because since he joined APC, our present governor reduced himself to governor of Owerri - to cut costs, I believe.

Late Mbakwe acquired lands in Owerri, Amike in Orlu and somewhere in Okigwe for Industrial estates. The lands are still there. But sure your governor Okorocha has only the one at Owerri in mind whenever he talks industry, industry, industry.

Abagworo:


Abia and Anambra are beside us and are equally Igbos. They dominate commerce and industry thereby making it difficult for Imo to take off in that aspect. If we go about trying to be jack of all thread then we will lose our stronghold on tourism and hospitality while chasing shadows. Okorocha has been pushed into trying to use State funds for industries and it will be regrettable after his tenure when the next Government will reveal they exist on subsidy.

In theory this is nice, in reality it's not. My entire village has to disburse to just have work and see each other every december. While many have come to see this are normal, it's very very pathetic and needs to stop.

Why would you root for a situation where Abia and Anambra now become several hundreds of times richer than Imo, so that Imo people can go there looking for work? You don't understand development.


In sane countries, everything is linked to local industry and local agriculture. So that when tourism booms, industry booms, when entertainment booms, industry booms, etc. This idiotic development Nigeria is into where 1 thing will boom and all the materials needed to support and create that industry are imported ensures that the boom benefits only the person that owns the business and not the state as a whole.

No real Imo man will opt for a position of economic subservience to Abia or Anambra, and your willingness to suggest it makes me wonder if you are from either realm. More importantly, if you're not and you yourself don't have to go to Abia and Anambra to find work or don't want to work in a hotel, you're a hypocrite.

Abagworo:


I have no blind support for Okorocha but I cannot allow people lie against my State or spoil our image like they did to Abia because Okorocha became the biggest politician out of Igboland. I understand the motive behind the attacks and display of all the bad roads in Imo State just to prove Okorocha is not good. I cannot allow that happen. No State in Southeast is better than Imo as evidenced by the display of the worst part of Imo by PDP and Anambrians who declared war on Okorocha for saying the truth about Igbo disunity and the role of some Anambra leaders in stopping Igbos from political emancipation.

I have not been able to travel to Southeast as a result of failure of all roads linking Rivers State to Southeast but when I do, I will once again flood this thread with beautiful pictures from Imo State. It does not mean I support Okorocha but it means I love my State and have her image to protect. They can fight Okorocha politically but not by using propaganda against my State.

Please stop talking poo.


Rochas is the worst thing in Nigeria. I go home well and sincerely, I have not seen anything close to development in the state. We have some of the worst roads in the country. Owerri has become a glorified town,No real development. I wonder what owerri would have been like if not for the individual resilience of Ndi Imo and non Ndi imo investing in Owerri especially in the tourism sector of the economy.

The governor only destroy people's houses in the name of expansion and development only for him to abandon them later.

The schools he said he is constructing is a scam.

Thirdly as for the building of Hotels, it is not the duty of the government to do such. Most of those hotels are privately owned

Families establish small scale industry even in their garages, obi, mbari, warehouse attached to houses, more so, if government provided facilities like good roads, electricity, pipe borne water, communication facilities, industry-friendly laws, etc
Government has no business establishing or running industry, unless social service related industriy which either makes profit or lives on government subsidies.

Okorocha's talk and talk about industry, industry, and industry is mere diversionary - as usual. At the end of the day he builds nothing, or establishes one quack business that shall crumble as soon as he left office.

One good method government encourages industrialization is by establishing clusters of warehouse in several locations and sublet the warehouses at subsided rates to small scale industries and artisans. In many instances, some of the small scale industries in the warehouses can grow to large scale industries.

But instead of doing this, Okorocha advisers may tell him to encourage the establishment of hotels and clustering of tertiary institutions in Owerri. Tourism or Sodom and Gomorrah