Orlu is the home of enterprise in Nigeria.Many successful Nigerian businessmen were born in the town.Orlu is the third largest town in Imo State.Orlu is a principal historic town in the southeast of Nigeria.It also played a critcal role as the headquaters of the humanitarian relief agencies during the Nigerian civil war.The city hosts the permanent site for the Imo State University Teaching Hospital. Imo is a state in Nigeria. ... The Nigerian Civil War, 1967 – 1970, was an ethnic and political conflict caused by the attempted secession of the South-eastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed republic of Biafra. ...
Several citizens of Orlu have made numerous contributions towards the Educational and political growth of Nigeria.The present Governor of Imo state Chief Achike Udenwa hails from the town. Achike Udenwa (born 1948) is the governor of Imo State, Nigeria. ...
Orlu is the third largest town in Southeast Nigeria's Imo State.
The town is in the Local Government of Orlu which consists of other towns like Amaifeke, Ihioma, Ogberuru, Obibi and Ihiteoweri, but Orlu town is one of the most advanced city areas of the towns in Orlu Local Government Area.
Among the numerous landmarks lending credence to the status of Orlu as an old colonial zonal administrative headquarter is the huge, near-Romanesque administrative edifice built by the colonial masters at Orlu and then used as zonal administrative offices.
The story of the absence of an articulated water scheme in Orlu inspite of its teeming population is heart-wrenching.
The federal road that was supposed to link Owerri, Orlu and Awka and toward the federal capital Abuja was completely asphalted during the 2nd republic, but for a water diverting tunnel at the small Urashi river which was never built, the stretch of the road from Orlu to Uga has remained unusable till date.
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