NewStats: 3,261,363 , 8,173,796 topics. Date: Thursday, 29 May 2025 at 01:57 AM 6r152y

lexylaw40kuti:
Start thinking home....that's the only way.
The deal is done. A word is enough for the wise

Even if they ‘start thinking home’, they should not bring this haphazard style of development, where structural and building regulations are utterly disregarded all in the name of building shops. This’s a modern era, and as a governor in any Eastern states, l will also demolish any unplanned layout, detachment or building causing any form of chaotic urbanization

Only non-Nigerians will believe this thrash.

NwaforIgbo:

Urban development is Nigeria is best characterized as chaos. Well, most people in the rural areas have no idea what a well paved road looks like. So when their leaders rub mediocrity on them in the form of road construction, they can’t differentiate, instead sing praises to them.

Sometimes when I see people commenting here praising this nonsense we call cities in SE I just shake my head. We never ready to develop.

Lagos is becoming a better city by the day.

No SE state even have CBD

sanctity454:


A cluster mid-highrise building of 10 floors can't be a bad investment in Owerri economically speaking, the campaign is for moderate high rise building not 15floors and above kinda buildings

Like Igboson1 stated, the growth, demand should be organic. Take for example, l wouldn’t build a 10-floor high rise in Owerri for office lease because the demand is not there, except it’s a personal hotel. The only viable market for high rise in Nigeria is Lagos, ABJ, and Rivers coming distant third. investment is influenced by ROI, which Owerri can’t provide.

Another angle to look at this is high rise building for luxurious apartments, which we see on the island in Lagos. The average income level in Imo state can’t that. Even the few who can afford it would rather stay in their mansion in New Owerri. Plus, Imo, and the East in general, do not boast of substantial skilled immigrants like Lagos who live in such service apartments. An industrialized Imo state will make this happen, but the state is not there yet, so this high rise buildings, for now, is not economical; l would prefer an organic growth

PROUDIGBO:


IPOB got wind of the thievery going on and went to pay the fuckers a visit!

They should make them stop ALL drilling until all the necessary approvals and paperwork from the state gov't and the community are gotten.

Courtesy Monday Chizuru: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjHVOySY-eoWWEl7gegr6sQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cczLesyoG3E

If anyone in this forum thinks that the Anambra government does not know about this mining activity going on in this location, that individual is not intelligent..

sanctity454:

You forgot exclusive store, I held they gone far with it

The city needs to add health and ICT hubs to the list.

Owerri and Enugu are the finest Igbo cities, while Anambra is the most developed state in SE by Nigerian standard.

Now, this is what I’m talking about, a state-of the-art college of medicine! Damn, Umahi Dey vex!!

Cjrane2:
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.....and how does all these crap about Addis Ababa rail or Ghana airport in these African capital cities concern Anambra state?

To begin with, Anambra isn't the capital of Nigeria. So you are preaching to the choir. Please exit the thread and go to Nigerian threads where such would be appropriate to plead that Abuja or Lagos airport should come to par with Kotoka Intl. airport.

It is also hilarious that you are posting the Addis Ababa rail here. To begin with, railways are in the "exclusive list" in Nigeria's constitution where state governments are banned to build railways. Again, if you were sincere, you would be agitating that the silly 1999 constitution that bans states from building critical infrastructure be taken town. But you would not do that because the truth is that you truly don't want to see development in Anambra. You just want to hide under irrational excuses that does not make sense to justify why you would never applaud the state for truly punching above its weight.

Even rich states like mine took more that 8 years under Uduaghan to build an airport! Obiano is well on track to repeat the feat in less than 2 years! Mind you Anambra does not even see up to 50% of the revenue available to Delta state. Not to mention others such as Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, katsina, Rivers, Akwa Ibom etc that enjoy gigantic federal allocation. The only state that is punching above its weight like Anambra is Ebonyi.

Your bitterness and wicked heart towards Anambra and her people will continue to bring you frustration in life because you truly can't do a thing against anyone God has blessed. That is why Nigeria is in such tattered state because instead of ing Igbos to build a strong Nigeria, they have concentrated on how to marginalize Igbos and under develop Nigeria in the process. What i love about that situation is that in the end, they will all wake up someday and realize that as they spent precious time meeting to develop a wicked plans & policies against Igbos, the Igbos themselves did not waste their own time on planning evil for them. Instead the Igbos busied themselves with how to develop themselves. In the end, when they are jealous and call Igbos names for their achievements, they forget they spent their own time thinking and plotting evil while the Igboman spent his own time on how to better himself. Just like you right now, i would advise you to use your time better on what is beneficial for your state. Osun state needs your power of research to tell them who to copy in order to come out of their financial mess. Than coming here with all sorts of half clever deceit that end up fooling nobody. You are wasting your time and using your talent for evil.

BTW, i hope you have see the picture showing the asphalting of the airport in progress. So keep eating out your heart.

The dude only presented a perspective of contemporary urban development, which is something most African cities (Nigeria for example) lack- proper city planning. Like you argued about critical infrastructure facilities residing in the exclusive list, say, rail, power and some of the big shots; but urban city development(planing) and aesthetic are being influenced by state and local governments.

The Anambra govt and her residents are doing well on key public/private investments, but these efforts should be well planned in a structural way to avoid a chaotic development. Try to embrace the import of his post. His submission is not peculiar to Anambra, but a country-wide problem.

mktinsight:
Nigeria, Africa is ing you by. This is Kakamega Town in western kenya the 10th largest town in Kenya. Not 1, 2, or 3 TENTH. Look at the roads and planning.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCXEJYb64DM

This is Kisumu, Western Kenya the THIRD largest city in Kenya. Again look at the planning. No dirty markets or 10x10 shops litering the sides of the roads. Parking lanes, pavements, trees, marked roads, no pot holes.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK1I3zbMuBk

Nice post, Ore. This is what real urban planing should be at the minimum, yet we keep seeing dirty and unplanned streets and cities in Nigeria. I saw a thread about Orlu the other day and was disappointed on how filthy the roads were. Local and State governments need to rise up to the occasion of planning their cities...this is the 21st century, pls!

Amah70:
Office of the First Lady can initiate tree planting beginning from towns in her native Ideato nation, to state capital, to Oru East LGA, and to other places in Imo state that need afforestation.
Charity begins at home.

Bros, your rants are now annoying. Charity begins at home; so, how many trees have you planted in your village? This initiative does not require laborious paper work, least do something for this Orlu zone you have been ranting since the inception of this thread. Come on, bro! Let’s enjoy this space without your cliche on orlu, joor!

A failure debriefing another failure on situation of a near-failed state like the one the current failure is overseeing.

OruExpress:


The government isn't building these hotels. It's ordinary people, so as an ordinary person, start thinking of how you can start your own tech park. It's a business idea, not a government project.

You just poured out my opinion in your post. These are private capital. If anyone thinks of something profitable and viable in a clime, he/she should go ahead and invest his/her fund into it, and stop attacking others investing in other sectors by asserting it’s saturated. These investors are putting in their funds into hospitality because they feel it’s still profitable...

The place has a face uplift, wow!! I was a customer, and l enjoyed every day l went in there!

And one mofo wrote: ‘only in the north.....why not Lagos’....If you get money, build your own for where concern you. Musa has picked Kaduna, na him money and no one should question that decision

ebenezer202l:
you're so right

Marriage has nothing to do with age. If both of them are happy and the parents approved of the union, what anyone thinks does not hold!

Before you click on that link, copy and paste it on any reliable url scanning software to check for malicious content/malware. The post doesn’t look real.

Biden does not need Penn State to win. While he has every right to seek clarification, his tenure as the POTUS will come to end next Feb!

I believe most imolites here have read about the new istration of Criminal Bill Law signed by your governor. This law is un-democratic, violates some sections of our constitution and human rights, and doesn’t promote an enabling environment for real investment. This is tyrannical and must be repealed!

I would rather get approval from the FG to build new mid-size refineries close to the source of input than buy off FG stakes in those moribund refineries.....

Ofodirinwa is empirically intelligent and thoughtful with his opinion. He is among the few persons l look towards his opinion on issues being discussed on NA, however he’s terse with posts.

Arguing slightly with his view on airport infrastructure in SE, l feel the SE s should focus on improving road infrastructure, security and improving the ease of doing business in the region rather than the race for each state to have an airport. Improving health, education, per capita income and security are weighted more than airport infrastructure on the HDI model. There is always time for everything!

Obviously, he is!

And you guys just stood still and watch him did this, because he claimed to be a policeman? Until we rise to occasions like this, this country belongs to the few privileged!

ScotMisile:
IMO AIRPORT COULD BECOME NGERIA'S PREMIER AIR TRAFFICK DESTINATION.


…but facilities standardization is terminal’s undoing

FAAN MD says Imo Airport could become Nigeria's premier air traffic destination


Ben Eguzozie, in Port Harcourt

Rabiu Yadudu, the managing director and chief executive of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the terminal regulatory body, says the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport (SMICA), otherwise called Imo Airport, Owerri, could conveniently emerge the nation’s premier air traffic destination, going by its all-year round surging enger traffic.

“The Owerri airport has been maintaining a lead market and traffic for five years now in Nigeria; and that the airport can move to the first or second position in the country if the necessary infrastructure are put in place to make the airport more competitive,” Yadudu said while on a fact-finding visit to visiting the airport.

However, the airport’s biggest undoing are its facilities that are less than required standard. For example, though dreamed up as a cargo airport, yet its cargo operations terminal is yet to be completed after many years. It is still operating with a 2,700-metre (2.7 km) runway, whereas this needs to be increased to a minimum of 3,000 metres (3 km). The runway width is another snag. It currently has a width of 45 metres against a minimum runway width of 60 metres. Meanwhile, the terminal is yet to have a good taxing way as well as attain full perimeter fencing and a water-tight security.

All this Yadudu has asked Governor Hope Uzondimma to help facilitate the completion of the cargo operations terminal by ensuring that the runway length is increased to 3,000 metres (3 km) and 60 metres of width respectively.

Construction of the Imo Airport, near Owerri, began in the early 1980s under late civilian governor, Sam Mbakwe, but operation began in 1994. The state government built the air terminal and handed it over to the federal government to be managed by FAAN.

Meanwhile, Governor Uzodimma has promised to assist the FAAN leadership to get the Owerri airport attain standardisation, to enhance economic activity of the state. He assured FAAN managing director he had always believed that the aviation sector must be encouraged to be run professionally, noting that as former chairman of the senate committee on aviation, he was key to the development of a roap on the reform of the aviation industry.

“I have always believed that FAAN must be encouraged to run the sector professionally. The industry is not what people think in of funding, the reason for government intervention,” Uzodimma said, adding that many people think that a good airport is having good terminal building, but it goes beyond stressing that. “The issue of runway, perimeter fencing, aircraft parking lot, taxing way, security and insurance are indices that those who frequently fly take into consideration before buying ticket.

The Imo governor said the Sam Mbakwe cargo airport was commercially viable, and attracts traffic, and has the potentials of doing better if more attention was paid in standardising the existing infrastructure, including the insurance policy around the airport. He said since FAAN subscribes to hip of all world bodies, and was committed to submitting to the ethics of the industry in line with global practices, the leadership should also hope to reap the benefit.

Uzodimma told Yadudu that he was much willing to get the airport fully off the ground in of facilities standardization and upgrade. “We both have job to do,” he said, urging the FAAN boss to oblige him with the status report on the cargo airport that ought to define where the place is now in of what has been done; so that he can be properly guided.

“You have a willing partner. We have to just succeed,” the governor said, adding that visible and invisible partnership with government was key to survival of airports.

He regretted that it has become very difficult for the aviation sector to survive today, noting that post Covid-19 flying requires strategic thinking and that all hands must be on deck to pull out of the wools.

The FAAN boss appealed to the Governor to help facilitate the completion of the cargo operations terminal by ensuring that the runway length was increased from its current 2,700 metres and width 45 metres, to 3,000 metres of length of 60 metres of width.

Yadudu said, Governor Uzodinma by assisting FAAN to bring the runway, taxing way, parking bay, and other challenges like security at the Sam Mbakwe Airport to standard, chances were the airport will become Nigeria number 1 or 2 in enger traffic; and the implication will be increased revenue, more employment opportunities for the people, more economic activities and better national and international recognition for the airport and the host state.

Believe Nigerian politicians when they ‘do’ or complete a project with its required standard and specifications, not when they say ‘ l will do it’......

Digitron:
NIKE LAKE UNDERGOING MASSIVE REHABILITATION

They should just sell this place

Irrespective of the states, l don’t like the idea of govt. building hospitals and running schools in Nigeria. Let discuss on hospitals, Imolites have rich dudes that can invest in the health sector same way they are pumping millions into hotels. The government should identify these individuals and encourage them to invest in the sector. Take for example, Ezenna of Orange drugs, why can’t he build a start-of-the-art, mid size hospital in Owerri, he is into pharmaceutical, right? same goes for Maurice Iwu and the big names in Imo. The Mbaise community in the States has a good number of health practitioners; why not tap from their pocket to enable them invest in sector rather than just owing fancy homes in Nigeria?

Same way the govt was a major player in the hotel biz in the 80s and earlier 90s before private capital took over, what can we say about the magt of big hotels like concord, hotel presidential, federal palace hotel and their likes? Govt should face its biz of being an effective regulator, while it’s encourage private capitals in most sectors of the economy

SmartPolician:

I just watched the video. Owerri is indeed expanding, but Rochas was a scam. If Imo had say, an Umahi, as Gov in his period, the state could have fared better!

Abagworo, isn't it better that Okorocha didn't construct a flyover instead of building an elevated deathtrap for Imolites to use?

Yampotatocarrot:


Please, where exactly is Gregory University then? I'm asking because someone posted a picture of their teaching hospital being built in Imo state.

All these ones you listed are "proposed", and might not even see the light of the day. That'll mean we have just three "functional" universities in the state

Abia State

B2mario:


Why demolishing it instead of reinforcing it.

For you to reinforce that structure, it’s more likely you bring it down. That culvert called tunnel is a joke to structural engineering. It will be nice if a new and better structure is put up in place of it; but having it like that is a structural hazard and a risk to life!

sanctity454:
News flash: NNPC to build a specialist hospital for the SE region in Owerri.

Well suited for the project!

riches4me:
These people are fools. They are only driving the inflation higher, creating so much gap between d rich and poor. What happen to all the wastages in this system of Government. Cut down on the cost of governance and block leakages, u will see how funds will be available for government to lots for its citizens. A time will come d goat turn and face its chasers.

Bros, this initiative is sound! Even if you cut/block government wastage, we still need private capital to drive public infrastructures in Nigeria. Here in the US, Federal highways are tolled and the yield is used to maintain the facilities.

One good thing about this initiative is its private istrative handle, which will ensure that the resource is well utilized, unlike when the FG was managing toll gates before OBJ demolished those corrupt spots that failed to remit the appropriate amount to the FG.

Both parties are wrong: it’s a poor PR for the carrier to address her customers as ‘bunch of useless...’ in an official letter; Naira, too, has been known to be a menace. However, reading through some replies to this post, the Nigerian mentality is visibly present: the fact you have some millions does not mean you should misbehave or get praised/shielded whenever you broke a law.