A BURNING DESIRE A Poetic Chronicle of Abia’s Rebirth
Aba is rising again—
not by accident,
but through a leadership whose vision burns like dawn breaking through a long night.
Chinedu Ikedieze (Aki) captures it best:
Aba has never witnessed this kind of determined, deliberate leadership.
His words echo the heartbeat of every Aba-born creative returning home to launch the Aba-Made Film Project—
a renaissance that reclaims the city’s ancient genius for storytelling and reinvents it for a new generation.
But this awakening is deeper than cinema.
Through Project Ekwueme, 947 primary healthcare centres are being revived—
turning shame into dignity,
turning ₦500 maternity tragedies into world-class community health access.
Here, healthcare is not policy;
it is philosophy:
every life deserves honour.
And the land itself is shifting.
The once-forgotten 30km Arochukwu–Ndi Okereke–Ozuabam Road—
a wound carved by decades of neglect—
is now a lifeline knitting communities back into belonging.
To fix a road is engineering;
to restore a people is justice.
Then comes the dream that touches
AProf Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke
