RESTORING THE GLORIES OF OGURUGU'S PAST

RESTORING THE GLORIES OF OGURUGU'S PAST

 OGURUGU WAS MORE PROSPEROUS THAN NSUKKA BEFORE 1960

One cannot but lament at the situation of Ogurugu after reading this, as I did when I read in a scholarly research paper. According to the paper, I quote: "Before 1960, Nsukka was a relatively unknown town, overshadowed by the then more prosperous Ogurugu, which became a major exporting centre (on account of its location along the River Niger coast) and Ibagwa, which had a flourishing horse market. After 1960, all these changed with the establishment of the University of Nigeria..." (Okoye, 1978 cited in Nweze, 2002 ). 

In: "SOCIAL CAPITAL (PILOT) SURVEY IN ENUGU STATE, NIGERIA BY NOBLE J. NWEZE, Centre for Rural Development and Cooperatives, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. To confirm this fact, click on this link and read pages 3 and 4 that talks about Nsukka: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/…/EnuguStatePilotRpt-Sho… 

This helps us to understand the reason why a major roads in Nsukka is called Ogurugu road although there are many communities along the Ogurugu road as one tours from Nsukka and heading to Onitsha in Anambra state. 

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