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...

Eze Aro palace is one of the most important institutions in Arochukwu kingdom. In terms of culture and tradition, the palace is indeed old and remains an embodiment of all that Aro people hold dear. The palace is a mecca of sorts-the focal point of all the confederating units that make up the kingdom. The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Arochukwu needs urgent help in all spheres. For a town that has been left to drift for years without requisite infrastructural development, skeptics might ask, of what need is the development of tourism? Truth is that tourism may be Aro’s saving grace now- fastest pathway to rapid and sustainable development. Poor State of Affairs: 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...