adimsmt:




If Imo state government will go back and take a good look in Orlu and Oguta and give this two cities what they need in terms of infrastructures we will not have Imo state as one city state.

Imo State is a one city State but Orlu is urban and has better infrastructure than other non-State capital urban areas apart from Aba and Onitsha. Okorocha has really given Orlu an uplift.

As for Oguta, the tourism potential needs to be harnessed as we already have the most organised indigenous settlement in Igboland in particular and Nigeria in general.

Stop mentioning Anambra or any part thereof on this thread unless you want us to relocate our camp here. Focus on discussing your useless state. You are warned!


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Abagworo:


Imo State is a one city State but Orlu is urban and has better infrastructure than other non-State capital urban areas apart from Aba and Onitsha. Okorocha has really given Orlu an uplift.

As for Oguta, the tourism potential needs to be harnessed as we already have the most organised indigenous settlement in Igboland in particular and Nigeria in general.

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Abagworo:


Imo State is a one city State but Orlu is urban and has better infrastructure than other non-State capital urban areas apart from Aba and Onitsha. Okorocha has really given Orlu an uplift.

As for Oguta, the tourism potential needs to be harnessed as we already have the most organised indigenous settlement in Igboland in particular and Nigeria in general.

You and Rochas used to call Orlu a city after dualuzing Ihioma road to Banana junction, then Owus, Ilobi Avenue and Enugu road. Have you now changed to Orlu is urban?

For roads, all Orlu needs is asphalt the roads scratched by Okorocha contractors as well as complete the channelling of floods from St Joseph to Ogidi valley.

City or urban is no body's headache - when there's not even pipe borne water or any full government tertiary institution.

We have given up on this government. Until the next one, if we want to see city, we go to Owerri, that's how Gov. Roch wants it.

Do We Need A Tunnel In Owerri Now?

Post by Central News Online - Apr 14, 2016

Do We Need A Tunnel In Owerri Now?



The trending news, and it is already a reality, is that Imo State Government is constructing a tunnel to link Imo Concorde Hotel and Musa Yaradua Road junction, along Port-Harcourt road.




The fact is that the construction of the tunnel is already taking its toll on citizens and commuters. It is no longer freeway to and from Port Harcourt road.
To ply that road now, commuters will have to divert to several hide-outs, lanes and streets to avoid the blocked Port Harcourt road, because of the construction work going on at that Imo Concorde Hotel junction.
Therefore the drivers, especially keke operators have responded by increasing the fare and add to the burden already inflicted on citizens as a result of available, but unaffordable petrol at fuel stations.
But, the question agitating the minds of Imo citizens is this: do we need a tunel at that junction and at this point in time, considering the lean purse of the state. Can the state afford to build a tunnel at the cost of N300million, just because one politician escaped death at that junction?
What about other junctions across the state and Nigeria, where people are knocked down by crazy drivers?
Does it mean that every junction where a big man escapes death, a tunnel most be built there? There are other junctions in the capital city of Owerri, where a tunnel is most need. The Orlu road roundabout is one. Or, is the politician who escaped death at Concorde Hotel junction going to contribute to building the tunnel.
This is because we don't see how a whopping N300m is budgeted to build a tunnel at a junction, where road traffic is to say the least, not heavy.
Meanwhile will govt spend such huge sum, while Imo workers and pensioners remain without salary for close to four months now.
Or, is it a case of penny wise, pound foolish?


http://centralnews.com.ng/index.php/money/item/589-do-we-need-a-tunnel-in-owerri-now



N300 Million to built a road tunnel at a road junction in Owerri by Okorocha govt; while thousands of people breathe dust in Orlu from roads abandoned by Okorocha govt in Orlu for four years going; while uncompleted urban drainage started by former state govt threatens to uproot a catholic Church and other houses in the same Orlu.

Tell, who is that who uses his gubernatorial office to inflict punishment on innocent people because, the governor has political or traditional issues with a few persons in the area he punishes?

Are there no more normal humans in Imo state to tell Gov. Rochas Okorocha that there has to be a limit to this excess and open demonstration of hatred?

Abagworo:


Nnewi pass Owerri for everything. Don't even go there. Until imo state gets a Governor interested in Owerri it will not get to level of Orlu as transformed by Rochas Okorocha.

Indigenes of a place building factories in their village without government presence creates unplanned dense rural settlement. There is zero Government presence in Owerri as seen below.

I can't believe you could be so sincere.

Abagworo where are you? This is our new camp field.

RareDiamond:
Hezekiah University: The Nigerian University where the Vice Chancellor Lectures
By Odogwu Emeka Odogwu On 15/04/2016 05:53:10 AM

Hezekiah University is the cheapest private university in Nigeria, says VC Prof Emeka Ezeonu
His Grace, the Most Rev. (Prof.) Daddy Hezekiah (MFR), the Anointed Prophet of the Most HIGH God and founder of Living Christ Mission Inc., made another major achievement recently by founding the Hezekiah University, Umudi, Nkwerre Local Government area of Imo State.
And with the arrival of this great, new private university in Nigeria, the Hezekiah University (aka UNIHEZ), hundreds of stu­dents seeking admission into ter­tiary institutions in Nigeria heaved a big sigh of relief. This is because Daddy Hezekiah is known for ex­cellence, professionalism and phi­lanthropy in all he does.
The Board of the Institution went for the best and appoint­ed Prof Francis Chukwuemeka Ezeonu as its pioneer Vice Chan­cellor. Before, Ezeonu’s appoint­ment in November 2015, he held dual Professorial appointments at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Univer­sity, Awka, Nigeria as Professorial Chair in Environmental Biochem­istry & Toxicology at the Depart­ment of Applied Biochemistry (appointed in 2001) and another chair in Drug and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (appointed 2010) at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Scienc­es both of Nnamdi Azikiwe Uni­versity.
Ezeonu holds a Bachelor of Sci­ence (B.Sc) degree in Applied Bio­chemistry of the defunct Anambra State University of Technology (ASUTECH), Enugu, the pro­genitor of Enugu State Univer­sity of Science and Technology and Nnamdi Azikiwe Universi­ty, Awka. He also hold a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree in Bio­chemistry from the University of Ibadan and a Doctor of Philoso­phy (Ph.D.) degree in Applied Bio­chemistry from the Nnamdi Aziki­we University, Awka.
He started his university teach­ing career in 1988 from the Uni­versity of Ibadan where as a post­graduate student he doubled as a Graduate Demonstrator and was entrusted with organizing prac­tical classes for pre-clinical med­ical students. On completion of his M.Sc. programme in 1989, he was hired as Assistant Lectur­er by his undergraduate parent department at ASUTECH and promoted to Lecturer II in 1990. With the splitting of the Universi­ty into two, he transferred his ser­vices to Nnamdi Azikiwe Univer­sity and rose speedily to the rank of Professor in 2001. He also holds a certificate (Executive Education) in Leadership Decision Making from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univer­sity, U.S.A.
He was in 2010 appointed the only African scientist in a 31-member International Joint Expert Committee of FAO/WHO on the Toxicity of Bisphenol A. He is widely travelled and capacity de­velopment and educational tour­ism has taken him to over twenty five universities outside Nigeria (in Europe, USA, Canada, China and the rest of Africa).
He pioneered the establishment of the Directorate of International Cooperation (IC), the Directorate of Information and Communica­tion Technology (ICT) and is cur­rently founding the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Devel­opment.
No wonder Daddy Hezekiah went for Prof Ezeonu even when he did not apply for the job but had superlative recommenda­tions of the greatest Vice Chan­cellor Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka ever had, Prof Ilochi Okafor, SAN. Ezeonu , the Hezekiah VC, is conversant with the world’s best academic practices and has in his short stay in office demonstrated uncommon knowledge, financial prudence, discipline, courage and will-power to pioneer and bring about innovations that can enrich the fortunes of UNIHEZ universi­ty to the admiration of all.
The first matriculation ceremo­ny of the university comes up to­day, 15th April, 2016 at the Univer­sity’s Matriculation Ground, with 112 students, because the Universi­ty academic programmes were not advertised in the JAMB brochure for the 2015/2016 session. So, they sourced for students, which is their responsibility and regularized their admission with JAMB because they didn’t have people who applied to be admitted or sent to them by JAMB.
Prof Ezeonu reveals the efforts and journey so far in this encoun­ter with The AUTHORITY News­paper’s team. Excerpts:
The journey so far
I never applied for the job but I was quite impressed when I got there. I saw evidence of somebody who is serious to run a Universi­ty from the Promoter, Prof Daddy Hezekiah, MFR, Odum-Ebo-Ndig­bo (The Lion of Igbo tribe), and I felt it will be a good development if I can also lend my support. I was appointed and I resumed duty on 2nd November, 2015 and by 30th November, we kicked off with ac­ademic activities with the first set of students and we were able to complete our first semester and by Thursday of the Holy Week, we completed our first semester and we resumed for the second semes­ter on April 11th.
Is it true you enter the classroom as VC?
Under normal circumstances, a VC is just like a teacher. You have to be exemplary in what you do. I like teaching and under normal circumstances, a VC should have at least 1 or 2 Credit loads and in more advanced Universities, they take it from the post-graduate stu­dents. I feel that a VC teaching will serve as a morale booster to stu­dents.
For the lecturers, they know that if a VC is in the classroom and on time, they will have no excuse to stay away from lectures. Apart from that, I do regular monitoring, since we have limited departments and few number of students. As for the students, I interact with them reg­ularly as a way of creating a feed­back mechanism.
Once every month, I create a forum where I interact with stu­dents to find out how the lectures are going and the challenges they have. So, I think it has some posi­tive impact on the students because they feel excited when VC comes around for lectures.
Plans in view to enlarge the uni­versity?
From the experience of the pri­vate Universities, starting up a uni­versity with 112 students indicates that we have a good patronage be­cause before now, we have no name identity. But this time, our univer­sity has been enlisted by JAMB and people will willingly apply, though, we don’t know the number yet.
There are some of these tradi­tional courses that are no longer highly subscribed for, courses like Botany, Mathematics, Physics, and Christian Religious Studies and so on. We have looked at them around and have rebranded these Cours­es so that we can have a greater pa­tronage.
For instance, we are looking at changing the department of Bota­ny to the department of Plant and Environmental Biology and when we do that, we will upgrade our scheme to cover areas not captured in our previous courses.
We also have plans to rebrand some of our Courses, we want our Physics to be with Electronics, so that we have real life application. Physics appears abstract the way it is today, but if they do Physics/Electronics, they will have practical application. We want our Physics graduates to play around with Elec­tronic Circuit as a practical knowl­edge and produce Mother Board. That is when they will have a feel of serious Industrial Application.
We also want to market our­selves. In most developed coun­tries like UK, US, you have to ad­vertise yourself because if you get to a place like London, within the London metropolis, you will find out you have more than 10 good universities and when you look at the ratio of the population, you will see the need to market yourself.
Here, the demand and supply pattern does not favour the ap­plicants. Every year, we have mil­lions of students who end up not getting admitted. The fact that we are contending with older univer­sities, we have to market ourselves to show our capability so that we can attract these students and that is why we want to introduce what is called an “Open Day” where pro­spective students and their parents can come around our university to look at our facilities to find out our capabilities which will help them to make their choice.
How many Courses have been accredited in your University?
We have not made any. What happens is that before accredita­tion, you have to meet certain cri­teria. The NUC will send an expert group to come and see the resourc­es we have and determined if it is sufficient to start a University. Of course we were okay and we were given a quota to take 500 students for now. The quota will increase when we expand and grow.
We have three facilitates for now; faculty of Natural and Applied Sci­ences, Faculty of Management and Social Sciences and faculty of Hu­manities. Within these three facul­ties, we have nine (9) departments and 11 programmes. We are look­ing forward to improving in our programmes and also the possibili­ty of making the department of Po­litical Sciences to become Depart­ment of Political Science and public Administration, because people are calling to know if we have these causes. We try to find out what people need and try to incorpo­rate them in our programmes.
Your employer, Daddy Hezeki­ah, is a Philanthropist and most students in the university are on scholarship. Is that why you are facing the challenge of finance to run the university?
You are right because our uni­versity is one of the cheapest pri­vate universities in the country for now. The school fee is N350,000 but the promoter, Daddy Hezekiah, a philanthropist, has granted partial scholarship to all the students. He promised to pay N100,000 to the first 500 students and he did exact­ly that to those already in the pro­gramme.
We are not-raising much from school fees. For now, we are relying heavily on his benevolence, hoping that with time, we will be there. We want to introduce Joint Universi­ty Preliminary Examination Board (JUPEB) founded by a Consortium of about 11 Federal Universities to­gether with JAMB and over 30 Ni­gerian Universities have affiliated with JUPEB programme.
JUPEB is a foundation course (a one-year programme) if one fin­ishes it and writes certified exam and passes, it qualifies the person to enter into any Nigerian University that subscribes to the programme. It means that one can come in as a 200 level student. We have applied to JUPEB. The first set of JUPEB graduates were admitted in direct entry in 2004 and it rotates. By the time it comes around, we will be joining. A team of JUPEB has al­ready visited the university and we are expecting a feedback from them and I am convinced they are satis­fied with what they saw.

http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/04/Hezekiah-University--The-only-Nigerian-University-where-the-Vice-Chancellor-lectures/

I appreciate what Hezekiah university has started in Imo state. More private universities should be encouraged to join the foray just like the ones we have in Ogun state.

Hopeless envious old man, why not face your useless and worthless imo state. Roads in owerri and imo state at large remains the worst in the SE but it never bothers you but you will spend time to comment on Anambra thread. I have warned you to stay away from us and face your broke useless state.

Your useless fat ugly gov is yet to achieve anything for 6yrs despite all the loans. State and federal roads in imo state remains worst ever in the SE but its not your problem. You are bitter and frustrated because you can never imagine this and your worthless state cannot do such world class infrastructure.

Stay away from us or I will flood this thread with the horrible pix of imo state.


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Abagworo:
He has been building 3 simultaneous flyovers not up to 1km apart as showmanship at the expense of necessary infrastrucure like roads and pipe borne water. The Road in itself which is Onitsha/Enugu expressway is probably the worst road in Nigeria today and the Awka part has no traffic challenges that necessitated 3 flyovers on a short distance.

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Good morning Imolites

Owerri section of PH road remains the worst road ever to seen in Nigeria but it does not bother you.

Imo state is broke to the point that it does not bother you.

Imo state is useless and worthless but it does not concern you.

Imo state has been owing its workers for 11months but you are worried but worried about a progressive state that is advancing.


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Abagworo:
What's the use of building flyover on a terribly bad road instead of fixing the road.


http://www.authorityngr.com/2016/03/Going-Going--Gone----Onitsha--Enugu-expressway-now-in-total-ruin/


The economy is at a standstill.
Anybody saying that the Enugu – Onitsha road is
bad is completely making an understatement. The
road is in a mess. It has gone out of what any
decent society should refer to as road. It is rather
‘human jungle’. For almost 85 per cent of the
stretch of the road, one would be operating on pot-
hole ridden earth road, with one meandering from
one side of the both lanes to the other so as to
avoid the vehicle completely tripping off. The road
is only comparable to Ugbokolo – Alliede - Oturkpo
federal highway, near the home town of the former
Senate President, David Alechenu Mark. That
stretch is another death trap!
On the Enugu – Onitsha express way, from
Odumodu junction near the NYSC Permanent
Orientation Camp at Umunya in Oyi Local
Government Area in Anambra state up to Amawbia
in Awka South Local Government Area, vehicles
find it extremely difficult to meander and crawl
along the terribly devastated road, even at snail
pace. If one exercises patience and moves through
the road, one would not count less than 100 articu­
lated and low-capacity vehicles that either tripped
off the road or were completely damaged and even
abandoned.
The AUTHORITY on Sunday witnessed that the road
is equally terribly bad from Amansea in Awka North
Local Government in Anambra State down to
Obinofia Ndiagu junction near Amansea in Ezeagu
Local Government Area of Enugu State axis up to
9th Mile Conner with vehicles diverting to single
lane.

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LOL! Envy and frustrated is what is eating you down while your imo state is in shambles. Over 98% of the roads in imo state are terribly bad. What okorocha done with loans and bailouts he took. LOL


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Abagworo:


Lol at the nonsense 200m road while 85% of the road is unmotorable. Such a useless waste. I think the money wasted on those ego massaging bridges could have gone a long way in saving lives and properties at Obosi.

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Chino, what happened to the Anambra thread? Was it deleted? Why is the thread no more trending?

Tell abagworo to stay away from anything that concerns Anambra and it's people on NL until then this thread will be seeing these. Look carefully, I copied him from where he was busy on Anambra threads. Why can't he focus on his useless state for once? I have consistently made it clear to him that we have nothing in common with him and his people but he won't listen!

Beremx:
Chino, what happened to the Anambra thread? Was it deleted? Why is the thread no more trending?

Beremx:
Chino, what happened to the Anambra thread? Was it deleted? Why is the thread no more trending?

It moved to a different website..
Now it is on ''Omambala . com''..

Schematics:
Tell abagworo to stay away from anything that concerns Anambra and it's people on NL until then this thread will be seeing these. Look carefully, I copied him from where he was busy on Anambra threads. Why can't he focus on his useless state for once? I have consistently made it clear to him that we have nothing in common with him and his people but he won't listen!

you didn't answer my question o! what happened to Anambra thread?

Schematics:
Tell abagworo to stay away from anything that concerns Anambra and it's people on NL until then this thread will be seeing these. Look carefully, I copied him from where he was busy on Anambra threads. Why can't he focus on his useless state for once? I have consistently made it clear to him that we have nothing in common with him and his people but he won't listen!

Why don't you stop painting other Igbo States in bad light while you try to project your own. Anambra is a dirty and useless state full of erosion and illiterate traders.

Hopeless dunce. Imo state is a very filthy state with 98% of its roads terribly bad while huge erosion is about to cut off half of your useless and worthless State. Despite all the loans and bailout your useless state is still owing several months of unpaid salary arrears. 2/3rd of imolites are resident in Anambra whereas there is no Anambran anywhere in your hopeless bankrupt state, what does that mean to you? we lead in education ahead of your worthless state as the light of the nation while your nonsense imo state is filled with brothels and prostitutes and illiterate jobless Uwazulike led MASSOB people. Imolites are generally bunch of poor people. Worthless set of paupers that carry baskets on their heads inside the shoprite. LOL


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Abagworo:


Why don't you stop painting other Igbo States in bad light while you try to project your own. Anambra is a dirty and useless state full of erosion and illiterate traders.

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Until your jobless and hopeless brother Abagworo stays away from anything that concerns Anambra we shall continue to camp here.

Beremx:
you didn't answer my question o! what happened to Anambra thread?

Obiobi8:


It moved to a different website..
Now it is on ''Omambala . com''..

Anything built on falsity will not last. The motive for creating that site was to propagate false superiority, chest beating and to denigrate others.

Chiwude:
Anything built on falsity will not last. The motive for creating that site was to propagate false superiority, chest beating and to denigrate others.

you spoke my mind nwanne. Odi egwu!

Beremx:
you spoke my mind nwanne. Odi egwu!

Owuhu ashi ka m kuru, nne! Anything or trait germane to the unity and togetherness of Alaigbo shall surely die a natural death : including that superiority site and other toxic thread here on nairaland.

Schematics:
Until your jobless and hopeless brother Abagworo stays away from anything that concerns Anambra we shall continue to camp here.

Is Abagworo from Imo state? From all indications, Abagworo is a political appointee for propaganda, but from Middlebelt.

Imo is indeed in one chance how can 1 bag of pure water be 250 Rochas is a fool only in Imo because when I called my bro in anambra he told me that it's cheap there Rochas deserve to be stoned to Death

chino or what ever they call u.ur misbehaving can't u respect Yourself,stop this madness of Yours,Ur acting like secondary school boy.

Vicboi1:
Imo is indeed in one chance how can 1 bag of pure water be 250 Rochas is a fool only in Imo because when I called my bro in anambra he told me that it's cheap there Rochas deserve to be stoned to Death

, did u take Oshogbo weed??am just asking because the weather is too hot for it.

amaco12:
, did u take Oshogbo weed??am just asking because the weather is too hot for it.

for once try to reason like a person not an animal

Vicboi1:
Imo is indeed in one chance how can 1 bag of pure water be 250 Rochas is a fool only in Imo because when I called my bro in anambra he told me that it's cheap there Rochas deserve to be stoned to Death

You are talking rubbish oga. How is it Rochas fault? Give the man some credit.

Vicboi1:
Imo is indeed in one chance how can 1 bag of pure water be 250 Rochas is a fool only in Imo because when I called my bro in anambra he told me that it's cheap there Rochas deserve to be stoned to Death

My parent lives in Onitcha and they called me to be frankly speaking that the TAX Gvernor Obino imposed on them is unbearable

Vicboi1:
Imo is indeed in one chance how can 1 bag of pure water be 250 Rochas is a fool only in Imo because when I called my bro in anambra he told me that it's cheap there Rochas deserve to be stoned to Death

I stay awka how can a bag of rice be sold for 20000 naira,Obiano is an idiot,because I called my friend in IMO and he told me that it's very cheap there,In fact Obiano deserve to be hacked to death.Rubbish.

Why are you always bitter with yourself? Can Owerri beat any picture already posted here? Why are you always frustrated and filled with inferiority complex.

It is clear that Awka has made Owerri to look like a rural town. The pictures speaks volume and contradicts everything you say all the time. Until your useless state gets infrastructures as this then your state capital will continue to be backward.


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Abagworo:


Digest this

https://www.nairaland.com/1930337/anambra-statelight-nationeconomic-political-power/514



You see the problem is the jealousy displayed by you guys against every other Igbo State and the tolerance of other Igbos which has made it seem like they are weak. I keep saying it without fear or favour that the rest of Igboland will be much more united if we remove Imo state from our meetings and issues of general Igbo interest. Only a brainless person will not read the writing on the wall and think falsely that you are his brother. For me Rivers people are even more of brothers to Southern Igbos in deeds and association.

Like Rochas Okorocha rightly said Anambra is the reason for political retardatiin of Igbo ethnic group.

As for Owerri it remains the least developed State Capital in the Southeast going by the appalling pictures posted so far on this thread.

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Schematics:
Why are you always bitter with yourself? Can Owerri beat any picture already posted here? Why are you always frustrated and filled with inferiority complex.

It is clear that Awka has made Owerri to look like a rural town. The pictures speaks volume and contradicts everything you say all the time. Until your useless state gets infrastructures as this then your state capital will continue to be backward.


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Comparing Awka to Owerri is like comparing Abuja with Paris. Owerri is on a different level. Awka will get to Owerri status in fifty(50)yrs time. Inugo. Now bounce off!

Chidi Njoku, you are right of course we all know that Awka has made Owerri look like a rural town.

Pchidexy:


Comparing Owerri to Awka is like comparing Abuja with Paris. Awka is on a different level. Owerri will get to Awka status in fifty(50)yrs time. Inugo. Now bounce off!