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RURAL DEV. IN ONICHA LGA CONTD.

2011-05-25T10:27:00.000+01:00

CLAW-BACKS IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Despite the aforementioned achievements in Onicha local Government Area stated in the previous chapter there still abound factors militating against the development of rural areas which includes:
 Lack of co-operation among communities
 Incessant outbreak of inter community war
 Lack of infrastructure n some rural areas.
 Corruption by the leaders etc.
In Onicha Local Government Area, some Communities
do not relate or co-operate with each other, because no one can foster in development with others, rural development in this council had been hampered by this societal vice.
There had been so many cases of inter community war and conflicts caused mostly by boundary conflicts. During these wars people are killed and injured, made homeless, infrastructures are destroyed, properties are destroyed. This kind of unrest makes it difficult for development to strife because development cannot be done in a chaos environment.
Some communities are completely marginalized in the local government area as regards infrastructure development. As at the time of writing this, communities like Mgbaleze, Mgbalaukwu, Obeagu, etc do not have good motor able roads, no good pipe water, and no electricity. How can a community develop without these social infrastructures?
Some leaders in the Local Government Area are so corrupt that they care less about their local government. I consider this as the main cause of the lack of widespread of rural development in the LGA. Even at the development centres level – some are given funds to develop their area, but mismanaged the funds. As a result of these, they leave the people of my LGA to whallow in abject poverty.
It should be noted that most projects carried out in the rural areas were done during the two tenures of the first democratically elected chairman – Hon Donatus Odii Njoku. What the subsequent ones have been doing, I do not know.

CONCLUSION
All hope is not lost in the quest of achieving rural development in Onicha Local Government Area despite the hurdles that seem unsummantable.
The following recommendation will be of great help;
 The state government should make funds available for the development of the rural areas.
 Democracy as a system of government should be sustained, since it is considered as bringing development to the grassroot.
 The inhabitants of the council area should be law abiding, honest and corporative in order to attract more development projects in their various rural areas.
 The leaders of the council area should ensure that peace exist in their rural area because no meaningful development can take place in dispute and crisis struck areas.
 Citizens should protect the already existing infrastructure ongoing ones from vandals.
 More boreholes should be sent to reduce water born diseases outbreak.
 More primary and post-primary schools should be established to curb illiteracy.
 The leaders should be focused and avoid corrupt practices.
Indigenes of the local government outside, the local government, state or even country should try and help in the development of the rural areas in the local government council.

RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ONICHA LGA OF EBONYI STATE

2011-05-25T10:07:00.000+01:00

INTRODUCTION
Onicha is a local government area in Ebonyi state, Nigeria and situated in Ebonyi South Senatorial Zone. Onicha LGA is made up of six component towns which includes Oshiri, Abaomege, Onicha Igbeze, Ukawu, Ugwulangwu and Isu being the headquarters of the local government area. It has an area of 476Km2 and a population of 236,828 at the 2006 census.
The Onicha area is
considered to be one of the areas of Ebonyi state with high capacity to produce much of the food needed in the state because of the fertility of the soil.
Brief history of Onicha LGA
By 1960 when Nigerian gained political independence, the present Onicha local government area existed as a part of the Afikpo Country council.In 1961, Ohaozara (comprising the present Ohaozara and Onicha LGAs) became a separate administrative unit, but the Nigerian Civil war disrupted its separate existence. However, when Imo state was created in 1976, Ihaozara Local Government area became fully autonomous until the carving out of Onicha Local Government area in 1991. In 1996, Ebonyi was carved out from Enugu and Abia states and Onicha Local Government Area was embedded in the new Ebonyi state.
Development centres
In her bid to bring government closer to the people of the council area, Onicha local Government Areas instituted development centres. These development centres are located in:
1. Onicha Development Centre
2. Oshiri Development Centre
3. Eziokwua Development Centre
4. Onicha Latest Development Centre
5. Ukaba Development Centre
These centres are saddled with the responsibility of developing the areas assigned to them. Funds are made available to these centres and they are been used to make the people feel the dividends of democracy. Developmental projects are the embarked by the development centres.

RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ONICHA LGA
Projects had been embarked upon in the council area as regard development. These projects can be examined under the following perspectives;
 Education
 Health
 Infrastructure
 Sports
Agriculture
 Peaceful co-existence and maintenance of peace in the rural areas.

Education
Onicha local government area supported the state government on the state policy of free and compulsory primary school education down to junior secondary school in Ebonyi state. Nursery/primary schools were established at the headquarters and some other remote parts of the council area. Though the state still ranks high in the list of educational backward state, progress had been made in addressing it. The LGA engaged their workers in service training exercise ad approved study leave with pay for the staff who gained admission into institution of higher learning. Adult education centers were established in the rural area. The government of the Onicha LGA also distributed instructional materials, recruited teachers who are paid as and when due.

Health
Health care delivery services also received some attention Recommendation was given to the popular adage that “health is wealth” and “a health nation is a wealthy nation”. Health centers were built in villages where it were lacking and reconstructed the Onicha Igbeze General Hospital, which was formally in a bad shape for a very long time so as to improve the health situation of the inhabitants of the area. Equally the Health Centers were stocked with drugs and enough staff to administer the drugs. This tier of government intensified effort in the contral of epidermis diseases such as cholera, measles, chicken pox and guinea worm. Vaccines were administered against diseases like poliomyritis, cerebrospinal minigitis, yellow fever etc. The local government council instituted the local government Action Committee on Aids to complement the efforts of the state government to tackle the Acquired Immune deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the grass root.

Infrastructural development
Roads and Bridges were constructed in rural areas to bring the dividends of democracy closer to the people. The road connecting Nteyi, Agba to Nkwo Agu Isu was constructed. The road hat joined Onicha Community with the neigbouring community of Okposi in Ohaozara Local Government Area was also constructed. Some roads that were not motorable were constructed such as the Ide River bridge. Ngeneoma Bridge at Agbaor, Ofokpu Bridge at Amanator Isu, Umuchima River bridge at Mgbaleze Isu, Gborigbo Bridge at Onicha, Amankwo bridge at Oshiri, Ochege bridge at Abaomege, Isinkwo bridge at Ukawu. The local government constructed about 750 culverts around the local government area including remote areas.

Sports
Sporting events also received a boost in Onicha Local government area. Inter-primary and post-primary school sports competitions were organized to enhance the performance of pupils and students who have developed interest in various sporting activities. Prizes were also awarded to those who performed creditably. This competition takes place annually.

Agriculture
The local government through the help of e Ministry of Agriculture distributed fertilizers to rural farmers to enhance food production and high yields. Recently, tractors were purchased and hired out to some farmers at subsidized rates to also aid in the production of food.

Settlement of dispute and maintenance of peace
Onicha Local Government maintained peaceful co-existence among rural communities and intervened in communal crisis and conflicts. The council settled case of boundary disputes between Mgbalankwu and Ojiegbe, Oshiri and Ezzama, Mgbaleze and Nkerefi, Agba and Agbarashe also recently helped to quench the unrest in Obeagu Anioma Isu among the inhabitants.

Next post will be on the Claw backs to rural development in ONICHA LGA.

Nigerian Scholarships: Addax Petroleum/NNPC Scholarship 2010/2011

2011-03-23T06:35:00.001+01:00

Nigerian Scholarships: Addax Petroleum/NNPC Scholarship 2010/2011 Addax Petroleum Development (Nig) Limited invites qualified candidates for its 2010/2011 National Tertiary Institutions Scholarship Awards Scheme in Nigeria.
GENERAL ELIGIBILITY All Candidates must:
i) be a Nigerian
ii) be a registered, full time 100 level undergraduate in any Nigerian Tertiary Institution
iii) have 5 ’0′ level
credit passes in one sitting including English Language and Mathematics. NOTE: Any candidate currently a beneficiary of a scholarship of any kind is not eligible to apply Dependants of employees of Addax Petroleum are not eligible to apply.

METHOD OF APPLICATION To qualify for consideration, applicants MUST submit an application with ALL the following information.
A. Surname
B. Other Names
C. Sex
D. Functional Email address and phone number And attach scanned copies of the original:
i. Admission letter into institution with information on course of study, year of entry and duration.
ii. SSCE/GCE O ’level certificate
iii. Evidence of state of origin/local government
iv. School ID card or National ID or Driver ’s license or international passport.

Applications without all these credentials will be rejected.
APTITUDE TEST An aptitude test for all applicants will be conducted at the following centres on a later date that shall be communicated to successful applicants through their email addresses. Applicants should therefore indicate their preferred centre for the test on their applications:
1. ABUJA
2. LAGOS
3. OWERRI
SUBMISSION All applications should be submitted with scanned copies of credentials through the following email addresses not later than Friday, April 8, 2010
Applications from North East geographical zone - Email address: CRL1@ addaxpetroleum.com

Applications from North West geographical zone - Email address: CRL2@ addaxpetroleum.com

Applications from North Central geographical zone - Email address: CRL3@ addaxpetroleum.com

Applications from South West geographical zone - Email address: CRL4@ addaxpetroleum.com

Applications from South East geographical zone - Email address: CRL5@addaxpetroleum.com

Applications from South South geographical zone - Email address: CRL6@ addaxpetroleum.com

How to get zip or postal codes of cities in Nigeria

2010-12-08T13:38:00.001+01:00

Some opportunities in the internet may require you to give your postal code for registration or contact. Most Nigeria find it difficult to get the zip codes of various areas where they reside.

I want to share with us the sites I use for this purpose.

This is my prefered site www.nigeriapostcodes.com
input state,
town,
area,
street,
submit and you get the code

SCAM : LR - PM (exchange-plus.page.tl) Don't fall [Part 2]

2010-11-26T12:30:00.003+01:00

In my last post I told us how www.exchange-plus.page.tl scammed me. I complained and they sent me this mail

We received your complain on our contact page. We sincerely apologies for the delay in transaction processing, it was due to PTTL upgrade. We are glad to inform you that the PTTL serving is working perfectly fine now. On this note, the minimum exchange is now $50, all transaction exchange less than this will be pending until payment is made in full. Our automated database have taken note of your initial exchange and we wait for your completion after which your real money will be forwarded to your account with 12 hours

Can they get more $40 from me? Be careful!

Birthday Texts

2010-11-26T08:44:00.001+01:00

Birthday texts

it was raining the day you were born, but it wasn't really rain, the angels were crying cos they lost the most cherished angel; happy birthday.

wind up, smoothened up, shake ur body, run around, smile around, be filled wit happiness, its ur day; happy birthday

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Learn How To Do It Yourself - html and others

2010-11-25T16:06:00.009+01:00

I stumbled on this particular site where you can own your own website by designing it yourself; this is strictly dependent on your dedication to the tutorials on the site. What captivated me to share this information on this blog is the knowledge I gained from my first lecture on the website partaining "html". The tutorial was superb and educative. My knowlegde on html - I owe to http://w3schools.com Their step-by-step tutorial method makes them unique. Give it a trial and you will be glad you did.

Scam : LR - PM (exchange-plus.page.tl) DON'T FALL

2010-11-25T14:52:00.009+01:00

This offer has being flying around in some forums as a money making program. It comes with topics like "How to make money with your libertyreserve acccount" etc. I didn't do research on the site http://exchange-plus.page.tl (unlike me), before going in for it. It looked so real and unfortunately, I was scammed (first of its kind). Though I did it to have a prove of their functionality and confidence as they claim, before sharing it on this blog, but my $10 was gone. The post on forums goes like this:
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When you send the money to their LR acct from your LR acct, it will not be transfered to your PM account. Don't fall a victim - Be Wise.

Predict football matches and win cash prizes

2010-11-20T21:25:00.009+01:00

The English premier league is one of the most watched leagues in the world. You can capitalise on its popularity to win great prizes . So go to http://supersport.com or http://mobi.supersport.com to predict the scorelines of different matches. At the end of each month and season, the first five members with the highest points get cash prizes.

How to receive your facebook notifications via text in Nigeria

2010-10-22T11:07:00.010+01:00

You can receive your messages, wall post, notifications via text in Nigeria (only Zain and Mtn) Text fb to 40405 to on zain or fb to 631 on mtn to get a code. Go to http://m.faceboook.com. Scroll down and click on:

>settings
>sms
>choose ur country
>network provider
>enter code sent to your phone
>activate.

OR http://facebook.com on your computer
>account >
account settings
>send notification to your mobile via sms
>choose ur country
>network provider
>enter code sent to your phone
>confirm.