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| What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by Armaggedon: 8:42am On Jan 18, 2022 |
It used to be called Igweocha meaning "white hill or pure hill". In the Eastern region it was called " Garden city" . A city that was to combine beauty and industry. The Eastern region created Industrial layouts and agric settlement throughout the region like Trans Amadi in PH. The major cities of the eastern region like Enugu, Portharcourt, Onitsha , Aba and Calabar were among the most planned in the country. After the civil war the FG took over the city under the guise of rivers state capital. To make the idea of Rivers state plausible, the utopia of an easy life for the natives in an "oil city" was promoted in order to lure the Igbo natives of Portharcourt and ahoada divisions into a supposedly non Igbo rivers state. Hardwork and industry were systematically discouraged while luxury and sense of entitlement were inadvertently promoted. The once beautiful garden city turned into a model of everything evil. Cultism, militancy, waterfront ethnic clashes, dualistic economy, pollution and sluming. Today, Portharcourt is known for everything bad an oil city gets but lacks everything good. It can neither compare favourable with Lagos and Abuja nor it's fellow Igbo cities. Onitsha and Aba are creative and market hubs, PH is not. Nnewi is a technology hub, PH is not. Enugu and Asaba (of yesterday) are music and nollywood hubs respectively but PH is not. Have you seen nollywood movie shot in PH? Beside Duncan mighty and mercy Chinwo who are natives, is there any major porthacourt based music star since 1970? Owerri and Awka are turning into Hospitality and educational tourism centers but PH is not. Even Abakaliki of yesterday is racing to join the league. The good things in portharcourt such as its planning, industrial layout, Uniport etc are those inherited from the eastern region, while the the bad things such as economic inequality, laziness, ethnic strife, lack of creativity, culture of violence and pugnacity, sense of entitlement and above all, environmental pollution(soots) are all a fallout of the city's detachment from it's Igbo soul and identity. For those who do not know, an average resident of PH suffers the same risk a smoker does and other respiratory health risk because of the soots. A relation of mine who run a big eye clinic in the city is moving to owerri and a lot of people are considering that. Do not be fooled to think only illegal refinery that causes it. If Such happens in the north, environmental audit would have taken place and approximate action taken. For those who think I am jealous, I am from one of the SE states that has gas in abundance. Here comes the big question, what has the city of Portharcourt gained since it's detachment from it's Igbo motherland? |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by Armaggedon: 8:43am On Jan 18, 2022 |
Mods please stop hiding my post. I did not break any rule ; I only asked a question. |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by Kosoco(m): 8:46am On Jan 18, 2022 |
You lied about PH.... You can critic but don't lie. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by Armaggedon: 8:47am On Jan 18, 2022 |
Portharcourt used to have stars like Harcourt white, Rex Lawson etc but since 1970 the city slided into "dark ages" The only thing putting it presently on the world map is soots 1 Like |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by Armaggedon: 8:48am On Jan 18, 2022 |
Kosoco:kindly state where I lied |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by Kosoco(m): 9:12am On Jan 18, 2022 |
Armaggedon:How can you say no movie was shot in PH... like why are you deceiving gullible people. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by alhassanyusuf29(m): 10:20am On Jan 18, 2022 |
Nyamuri flat.heads!! I knew they were happy about all this soot stuffs so they could have something to gloat about 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by AwkaFinest: 10:39am On Jan 18, 2022 |
Yet all the towns you mentioned put together can not match PH in anything. Yet people from those places you mentioned rather die in PH than those places. Yet PH is 100 times more developed than those places Yet PH is more cosmopolitan than those places Yet PH attracts more people moving to the south than those places. Yet PH is more important to Nigeria than those places. Is it musicians? Gospel : Mercy Chinwo, Preye Odede, GUC, Samsong, Sensational Bamidele etc all started in PH and are PH based. Secular music: Duncan mighty, Harrysong, Burna Boy, Omah Lay, Ajebo Hustlers, Rex Lawson, Timaya etc all started in PH Is it Nollywood? Rivers people are just too numerous to mention in nollywood. Ask yourself why movies are shot in Onitsha, Enugu and Asaba? Because those places have too many villages, so they move the local, low budget movies there. PH is too developed for the kind of movies shot in those places. And Eduacate yourself about Nollywood, there are so many Nollywood movies shot in PH. As Igbos let's calm down, as it stands today PH is bigger than any other place in the SE. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by Armaggedon: 11:04am On Jan 18, 2022 |
Kosoco:pls name such popular movie |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by Armaggedon: 11:54am On Jan 18, 2022 |
AwkaFinest:PH is big no doubt but the simple question is, what good thing is PH known for? AwkaFinest:seems you didn't see where I wrote 'based'. Nevertheless, even Duncan mighty didn't start in Portharcourt. I already wrote Chinwo and Rex Lawson was pre 1970. PH is big and it's people like luxury. It should easily be the home of big names in music and a fertile ground for talented upcoming ones who are instead headed to lagos. What is happening? AwkaFinest:Neither epic nor urban movies are done in PH. If Asaba, Enugu and Lagos are villages, why not Urban movies? The truth is that far away Abuja by far more has movies shot there than PH located in the East, a nollywood hub. That should be strange to you. AwkaFinest:You are the one to calm down. Nobody is doubting its size.. But it appears the city is big for nothing. |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by Armaggedon: 11:58am On Jan 18, 2022 |
alhassanyusuf29:Answer my question |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by AwkaFinest: 12:29pm On Jan 18, 2022 |
Armaggedon: No village movie is done in Lagos rather Asaba, Onitsha and Enugu. Tell me how many musicians who made it into mainstream Nigerian music industry remain in their states without moving to Lagos? You just open your mouth wahhhh to yan nonsense this morning The east is never nollywood hub, but village movie hub. How many standard Nigerian movie is shot in the east? 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by oyatz(m): 1:28pm On Jan 18, 2022 |
Armaggedon:But Port Harcourt is more developed than Enugu, Awka, Aba or Nnewi 1 Like 1 Share |
| Re: What Is Wrong With Portharcourt? by AwkaFinest: 4:56pm On Jan 18, 2022 |
But what is wrong with we Igbos? Why can't we face our business? |
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