ngozievergreen:

They are talking of hotels and u are talking of restaurant.
When i was in Lagos I started eating outside only when I discovered igbo kitchens .
Ur akara is usu half done.
The women selling agege were dirty.
went to buy food once and everybody: the customers and woman seller were talking into d food.
No sense of hygiene.
come, dey even swear for Una?
smh

Chino.Elects:
You are really not making any point. I asked what is the condition of yorobass today compare to their neighbors in SE and SS? If you guys are using red earth mud to build in the 21st century that means in the last 200years ago you people were living inside holes.

Do you know that you will not find a single mud house in entire Igboland today, in our villages, in our communities, talk more of our cities? The same mud houses that are still very commonly in use in your state capitals.

superstar1:

why will you not build storey building? where is the land to build before. Your building of store buildings is borne out of necessity and there is nothing aesthetic in those dirty looking cramped and jampacked dungeons without space or breathing air, that you are celebrating.

have better taste in life, omo y1bo.

ngozievergreen:
its better u have mansions crammed together than slums jam packed like these.

ngozievergreen:
its better u have mansions crammed together than slums jam packed like these.

superstar1:

To your tasteless eyes and mind, they are slums.

To us and the rest of developed world, they are artifacts. No wonders, it is a tourist attraction for oyinbos.

A well arranged, same height buildings dating back to ages, clearly shows the level of urban planning sophistication even before the arrival of the British.
I am sure, if you are given Mona Lisa painting and 1mm, you will prefer the 1mm.

It will cost your govt nothing less than 500bn to replicate such a beautiful scenery. That is the worth of the artifacts you are seeing . That is what unesco will pay over decades.

ibn akogun:

If you are in Ibadan get to Ibadan house and get this book. Ibadan in the 21st century by Lola tomori to understand why we have to do everything to preserve this heritage.

superstar1:

do you know what that tells the world?


1. You never had an enduring and good building technology before the advent of the british on your soil. No wonder, your buildings then were palm fronds. hausas even had better building technology that are standing till today. How are we sure you were not actually staying on trees? - just asking, because there is no proof to suggest otherwise.

2. You do not have land. As a result of gully erosion and landslide, you have to use the remaining ones for your ever surging population. therefore, the old houses must give way.

3. You do not cherish artifacts. That is while you have to destroy historical artifacts to build new ones.

Cities like London, Beijing, Mecca, Istanbul, Baghdad, New York, Washington, Cairo, Alexandria, Athens, Kano etc all have buildings dating back to 200 - 300 years ago. Those are cities that have heritage and are protecting them like ours. All these aforementioned cities have the old and the new parts. UNESCO is about making those buildings world heritage centre, protected under UN. That can only mean, nothing but, more money for our govt.

ngozievergreen:

For where? Taaaa, culture my foot. At least u have agreed ur capitals are shanties but are left that way because of culture bah?
How many of ur politicians live in those shit holes called houses? that shows poverty is speaking abi ur politicians no set follow Una do culture?
.
Don't ever compare what is happening abroad to the halt of civilization occurring in ur lands. In overseas, the houses will look good but ancient, urs are just slums. Dont go there at all, igbos must be super humans to live in mud and thatch houses in the olden days only to build presentable cities in 2013, u have been building cities since early days only to have Ibadan, ado ekiti, Oshogbo, akure in 2013
Smh.

superstar1:

No bro. Living in Lagos. Had my undergraduate at UI, so I know Ibadan very well. They are too blind to see Akobo, Ashi, Bodija, Challenge, Ring road.

Seems Ajimobi is doing a good work. Was impressed with the road networks he is working on. Was in IB last month.

superstar1:
That is where you seem to reason a little bit. If 95% of the population are not living in those world heritage centers of unquantifiable value, where are they living? They are staying in other modern part of the city.

Where you missed it again and you brought out the igbotic nature in you again is when you said, Oyinbo houses will look good. When oyinbos start defining what is good to you, then your inferiority complex knows no bound. We told them they are good for us and they believed it and they are ready to name it a protected world heritage. That is confidence.


If Onitsha Owerri, nnewi and Aba are your cities built by super humans, then, those super humans must be midgets and what a shallow mind they have.

ibn akogun:

Ikolaba, ologueru, akobo, oluyole why won't Igbos miss it. Selective amnesia is so common in their land. Where do you stay in Lagos I might hook you up with my own copy when am in town.

ibn akogun:

Ikolaba, ologueru, akobo, oluyole why won't Igbos miss it. Selective amnesia is so common in their land. Where do you stay in Lagos I might hook you up with my own copy when am in town.

ngozievergreen:

As far as they look better than ur abodes, u don't have any morality to point at them.
U even dared to mention owerri, u no get shame o.Kano, Kaduna are ancient but u know nah ...hahahahahaha
Abeg u ppl shd go and sleep.
At least, u guys have agreed u don't have a city full stop.

ngozievergreen:

U know we are still at Onitsha, we have not even gotten to owerri and Enugu.
next time, don't start this type of argument again.
unproductive lots

ngozievergreen:

As far as they look better than ur abodes, u don't have any morality to point at them.
U even dared to mention owerri, u no get shame o.Kano, Kaduna are ancient but u know nah ...hahahahahaha
Abeg u ppl shd go and sleep.
At least, u guys have agreed u don't have a city full stop.

ngozievergreen:

U know we are still at Onitsha, we have not even gotten to owerri and Enugu.
next time, don't start this type of argument again.
unproductive lots

superstar1:

What is in Enugu apart from the mall the Yoruba man built.

Owerri, that ghostly students town. It is always empty once students are on vacation. Nothing worthy to be called developments In those places.

doc sholz: I actually just read somewhere that d southwest has d lowest poverty level in Nigeria

P. S; I'm a man of facts not sentiment i no be tribalist

Ikengawo: Oshogbo Osun (spiritual capital of the yoruba)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpsjH3G2rfM



Umuahia, Abia (twice bombed to the ground in the civil war)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tm7CuR2gRU

ibn akogun:


You are sick in the head. Showing us your best and presenting how worst says what about your deeper life faith.

Ikengawo: You should even be grateful that I didn't post the likes of Enugu here because that would be over kill. Eastern Nigeria is more developed than western Nigeria, nobody is going to argue about it. The only thing that keeps Igbos going to the west is they have no competition in business. If they want to buy the region the have and they can.

ibn akogun:

You are clearly insane after enugu metropolis the rest place an hellhole. Ninth mile nothing to write home about and from the enugu airport onward abakaliki road.

ibn akogun:

You are clearly insane after enugu metropolis the rest place an hellhole. Ninth mile nothing to write home about and from the enugu airport onward abakaliki road.

ngozievergreen:

ninth mile is a road thru a village called UDI.
is there any village road in it place like 9th mile? stop saying what u can't defend.
@ikenagwo, what an exposition!

ngozievergreen:

show us the pictures and videos
of ur own places nah, talk is cheap.
Aregbesola was showing pix of the roads hr built in osogbo but if ur attention moves from the roads, all u see will be shanty looking houses everywhere.
it didn't even occur to him ppl might be judging him thru the socioeconomic standard of the populace.
U have lower standards if living, simple