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Abia is neither open for business nor business friendly

Questions: For those citizens most comfortable with the stifling stagnation, filth and gross lack of infrastructural development in Abia state alongside the other flank staunchly defending the crass incompetence, inefficiency and gross absence of visionary leadership there since its creation in 1991, please do well to answer the following questions: 1. Have many businesses not […]

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Twin Plagues of Mis-governance and Underdevelopment in Abia

Tribute to a great man of courage: Dr. Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo

Dr Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo died on February 1st, 2020.By that sad event, Nd’Igbo lost one of her illustrious leaders of thought. He was one of the few rare breeds of progressives that truly walked the talk of their high ideals. He lived out his philosophy and his core beliefs as an intellectual giant, political activist,

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Twin Plagues of Mis-governance and Underdevelopment in Abia

Harnessing Diaspora Funds As Part of Local Developmental Solutions in Arochukwu

Israel has always been a shining example of how diaspora funding can been effectively and judiciously harnessed as solutions to local challenges and problems. Prior to 1948, Israel was not a nation state, had no territory or infrastructure that could be called their own. Most of Israelis were scattered in Europe and North America.But through

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Twin Plagues of Mis-governance and Underdevelopment in Abia

Eze Ogos: Their welfare and sustenance in Aro traditional and cultural values

The Aro traditional system has its underpinnings in basic democratic values. The architects of Aro traditional institutions were at best democrats. At the helm are simultaneously the triumvirates: Eze Aro-the King and the overall head of government of the Kingdom; Eze Ibom Isii and Eze EzeAgwu. Each of these offices complement each other in the

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Twin Plagues of Mis-governance and Underdevelopment in Abia

New model for fast-track and integrated infrastructural development in the South East

Introduction: Provision of infrastructure is at the heart of modern development .Without basic infrastructure socio-economic development is impeded and to a large extent truncated. A cursory look at the parlous state of infrastructural development in the entire South East geo-political zone, especially roads leaves one disconcerted, and with no choice but to think of the

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Combating Rural Poverty & Hunger in a Recession: The Changes That Must Be made in Arochukwu

Background: Nigeria is in dire straits. Anybody who thinks otherwise at this point is either being mischievous, self- delusional or perhaps just arrived from a lunar voyage. For one, all the economic indices concerning Nigeria presently are negative. Standard and Poor(S&P) in the first quarter of 2016 revised Nigeria’s sovereign outlook to B+ Negative. It

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Twin Plagues of Mis-governance and Underdevelopment in Abia

Resetting Nzuko Arochukwu Meetings for Efficiency and Service

Arochukwu people’s concept of meeting is rigidly conservative, archaic and inconsistent with the 21st century business ideals. The essence of meeting in the African sense is within the wider sense of society, community and socialization, but meetings need not hold if it’s just for the sake of meeting. Meeting must be purposeful or it becomes

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Twin Plagues of Mis-governance and Underdevelopment in Abia

Sustainable Management of Water Resources in Arochukwu

Arochukwu is blessed with many rivers and streams. Also there is more than enough rainfall each year which in turn enriches the underground water table making other sources of water such as well and borehole sustainable. However, when looked critically most of the “Iyi-varas” that run through some of the villages which border the Nkana/Itu

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