Abia ThinkTank

NBCC AND THE OTTI ECONOMIC PROPOSITION: REPOSITIONING ABIA FROM INFRASTRUCTURAL RECOVERY TO INDUSTRIAL GROWTH From Roads and Urban Renewal to Manufacturing, Agro-Processing, Digital Enterprise and Investment — Examining Whether Abia’s Emerging Economic Architecture Can Translate Infrastructure into Jobs, Productivity and Sustainable Prosperity There is something symbolically important about an Abia State Governor standing before the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce and presenting not merely a catalogue of completed projects, but an economic proposition. For years, much of the national conversation around Abia was painfully elementary. Bad roads. Urban decay. Weak public infrastructure. Unpaid obligations. Commercial frustration. Aba’s enormous entrepreneurial energy operating…