₦airaland Forum

Accept my salutation for your maturity and that very articulate comment. Dalu, nwanne. Jokwa

[quote author=$£yi]You haven't seen doesn't mean there are no indegene of Abuja.



I wasn't saying Elechi nor their former governor are responsible, just saying that having a N10m agro machines in Ebonyi is a good move.[/quote]I agree with you here, bro. And that is why I had to bring this news on here. I believe that our people know what they want and when they see it they'll certainly recognize it.

achi4u: "never heard of anyone from Ebonyi too on nairaland"?

Are u serious or are you just making a fun of urself?
Ok,Achi4u is from Ebonyi state.

Berem,I have met many of ur type who are ordinary a sales girls (we call them cashiers)
in most of the major markets of the South East like Onistha main mkt,Nnewi main mkt.etc who are always ready to castigate Ebonyi state and its ppl but at the end of the day begging them for friendship and marriage.
I have told you many times to always mind ur Imo state which are far better and more educated than Ebonyi state.

You have been asking this ur useless questions for many times here without finding an answer...why because nobody is ready for "my state is better than ur own " e.war syndrome.

Don't tell me ur living a frustrated life
and
You never tell us what ur doing for a living?

You took it too personal and overboard to attack her person and persona without considering a single thought for the topic. Dont let your anger spill pls, even when you disagree with people's opinion, nwannem. Jokwa oo

[quote author=maxwello.yg]Ebonyi state just need a young and able Governor with vision to lead them come 2015.
I wonder who that'll be.[/quote]I totally agree with you here, bro. However, whether old or young it should be a visionary achiever. Thinking about corruption, sometimes I wonder how and why an old person should engage in such an ignoble life when s/he's is already close to the grace. Where exactly do they want to go to with the money. I should think that younger people should have higher propensity to accumulate material wealth, but our Nigerian politics and politicians defy all known logical thinking!

[quote author=maxwello.yg]Elechi is working!!
But this thread like everytoher Ebonyi thread will be suppressed to the point that it won't get to front page.
Agriculture is the main thing now.
Oil is a curse to Nigeria.
It'd be great if Ebonyi focuses on Agriculture solely.
Inviting Foreign investors to invest in Ebonyi state would be a good task.
Till this moment, I still can't figure why Dangote isn't cultivating rice in that state.
I respect his decision tho.[/quote]Ebonyi is one of the biggest gainers in the FG's Rice Transformation Scheme. Ebonyi alone can produce enough food for the entire Southern Nigeria, and more for export!
As an expert in the field, and haven visited the state I can testify that Elechi and his predecessor Sam Egwu went to that govt sit and slept off- even snoring.
What it takes to build the Agric sector is so minimal, just good road, electricity, water and farmers incentives and extension services then the sector will jumpstart itself.

[quote author=$£yi]It's not just an Ebonyi thing, every state of the federation have their youths in thousands selling stuffs on highway.
You find youths from Ogun, Anambra, Akwa-ibom, Kaduna, even Abuja on highways hawking.
Our government(both state and federal) need to work collectively in providing meaningful and less risky jobs for our youth.

@ topic, a good plan from Ebonyi state government.[/quote]Pardon it if I've touched your sensitivity. I might sound extrapolative but I still believe Egwu and now Elechi have been terribly irresponsible and irresponsive in Ebonyi state. Yes there are youths from all states of the federation hawking on our highways, even youths from oilproducing communities in Imo, Abia, Bayelsa, Rivers, Edo, Delta, Oyo, Cross River, Akwa Ibom and indeed other parts of Nigeria!

Niggmatic: good development

Ebonyi is a state where most of its natural resources are in the agricultural sector. The state has the capacity to produce enough grains, tubers, vegetables and fruits for the whole of the Southern Nigeria, and even more for export but that state has been very unfortunate with bad leaders esp govs. Agriculture is one the largest employers of labour (if not the very highest), but yet most of the young boys you find trading on wares on our national highways are from Ebonyi! The state gov't just goes about stealing the monies that should be used to reform the economy of that state and give meaning to people's lives

homesteady: Let's wait for the real story to come out! I don't take sahara reporters news seriously!

SR is not the link from where I got the news. If you follow most of the news papers in the country on twitter you'll find the news all over.

[quote author=Baba_Eleko]See the way GEJ dey inspire all these pple. Since he refused to call those rouges in Rivers to order, he thereby inspired all these new breed of cows.[/quote]Whatever inspire these people and their cheer crowds must not be the focus of our national discourse, but the implication(s) of their actions to the wellbeing, or otherwise, of the populace.

Source: DailyPost Nigeria

Ebonyi State Governor, Chief Martin Elechi, says the state government had placed order for multi-million naira agro machines.

The machines, which according to him include trans-planters and combine harvesters, will be imported from China and Vietnam to boost rice production in the state.

Elechi, who announced this on Monday, received a rousing welcome back to the state after a 10-day economic mission to China and Vietnam.

Members of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), state executive Council members, prominent indigenes and traditional dancing troupes besieged the Akanu Ibiam International Airport Enugu to receive him and accompany him and his economic team, particularly farmers to Abakaliki, Ebonyi State capital.

The entourage trooped to the Governor’s Lodge, Government House Abakaliki.

In his remarks, the governor confirmed that a water pipe manufacturing plant valued at over N200 million would be established in the state by a Chinese firm to commence production before the end of the year.

He added that the pipe factory would reduce cost of procuring pipes for water reticulation from the two mega water schemes at Oferekpe and Ukawu to other parts of the state by 40 percent.

He said, “if you want to plant your rice in upland area, you don’t have to have a nursery; you drill the grains and wait for rain to fall. When the rain fails they will sprout and grow. That is not new here; we have been doing it for over 20 years. But the mystifying one was the trans-planter that moves like a crab picking seedlings and sowing in straight rows.


“And we made up our mind to buy that. They drill, they trans-plant and there is the combine harvester; as they cut, they thrash and in no time they have finished a whole field of rice farm. So that is in my own thinking a done deal because these are the areas that our farmers find not so pleasant; planting and harvesting and of course the farmers lose a lot of money because of high cost of labour. We are determined to cheapen the cost of labour so that more people will do more rice planting and make more profit”.

The Ebonyi Governor expressed gratitude to Nigeria’s Ambassador to Vietnam, Mathias Okafor, an indigene of the state, for facilitating the visit to Vietnam.

He further stated that his delegation returned with the full catalogue of all the different machines.

“What we are going to do in the next one week or so is that we bring together those we trained in Songhai, those we sent to Singapore and those who went to China and Vietnam; we sit down and review all the lessons we got from these centres and agree on our action plan so that it will not be a question of talking, talking, talking. We want to see it in action. The rice mills are already in place waiting for grains, the grains must come so that everybody has something doing.

“The second one reason for the trip is how to have in place here in Ebonyi state, a factory that would produce a water transmission pipe that we have on our agenda. You know, to transmit water from Oferekpe to Abakaliki is costing us more than N8 billion and if we have 360 kilometers of primary pipelines in all the 13 local government areas and an additional 230 kilometers of secondary pipeline to ensure that every community has water according to our design and plan it stands to reason that we should find a cheaper way of producing the pipes.

“That is the second reason why we went to China and by that arrangement; we will be producing the pipes at about 40 percent of the original cost. So we are going to put all hands on deck to ensure that before the end of this year the components are here in Ebonyi state”, he stressed.

homesteady: Source - www.saharareporters.com/news-page/kaduna-assembly-speaker-and-deputy-impeached-18-out-34-members

I've just been thinking if two-thirds of 34 is 18 and not about 20-something!

Lagos – Resident doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, on Tuesday suspended their three-week-old strike over non-payment of their backlog of salary.
Dr Emeka Ugwu, the President of the doctors’ association, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the suspension of the action was informed by the doctors’ concern for the patients.
“We decided to suspend the strike in the interest of our patients which we consider paramount.
“It is also in line with our desires to forestall further loss of lives of innocent and well-meaning Nigerians.
“We, as resident doctors, constitute a major workforce of the hospital, and if we continue this strike, work will not go on and we want to avoid further loss of lives,” he said.
NAN reports that the doctors, under the aegis of Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), had on Sept. 6 begun an indefinite strike to press home their demand — payment of about five months’ salary.
Ugwu said the doctors had been paid one month out of the several months owed them.
The ARD boss recalled that the hospital management was earlier given a week ultimatum to settle the outstanding salaries before the commencement of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information Service (IPPIS) in June.
According to him, some doctors are being owed March, April and May salaries before IPPIS.
“Most doctors could not be at their duty posts because they are financially incapacitated.’’
Prof. Akin Osibogun, LUTH’s Chief Medical Director, had told newsmen that the management was working with the Federal Government to clear the salary arrears.(NAN)
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/luth-doctors-suspend-strike/#sthash.2FLdfSYY.dpuf

malc619: Ibo gals and moni....

No be like that nah, bro

cuteprinz: It's a pity. But maybe members of the house know who they need

I have not known Kaduna House as one of the troubled Houses in recent times. Whether this is connect with the Southern Kaduna saga, am yet to ascertain.

princemmab: Which blessings again? Whether they like her or not, she's their step mom

I even wonder how this old hag got that gal pregnant. It's still possible that another man had helped him out and he does not know. And the gal is making enterprise of his folly lifestyle-trust Owerri gals.

osundu: De children can keep their blessing ooo,Baba wan change blood.

If you've seen that man face-to-face you'd agree with me that his action was irresponsible. The first time I saw that man was at a wedding feast of Justice friend of mine in Owerri with his beautiful late wife, Eudora sometime in 2009 or so. Even then he was looking spent.

I think that girl just came for the money. Oh, what money can do to our girls!

Source: dailypost.com.ng

DailyPost just learnt that the Kaduna State House of Assembly Speaker, has been impeached.


Report says 18 Assembly members of the house have elected Shehu Usman Tahir as the new Speaker in the afternoon.

Details shortly.

72 year old billionaire businessman and chairman of Champion newspaper, Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has given marriage a second shot and this time he married a 26 year old belle, Frances Chinonyerem Enwerem, the daughter of one of his late wife’s close friends.
You will recall that Chief Iwuanyanwu – founder of the Iwuanyanwu Football club now known as the Heartland FC – lost his wife of 40 years, Eudora, to cancer, in 2011 and he’s not paid attention to any lady since then.
Chief Iwuanyanwu and Frances had their traditional wedding on Saturday September 14th while the white wedding held on Saturday September 21st in Owerri, Imo State.
We gathered that the new bride is already expecting her first child with the extremely rich businessman cum politician, even though she doesn’t have the blessings of the Chief’s children.

Source: DailyPost Nigeria

I no know wetin dey even carry people dey go play that kalo-kalo sef. When you loss dem go don use your own cash pay for the papers of the chikiri few wey dem go give visa. That money wey you go use go do DV lottery make you go use am buy recharge card dey sell for junction soon you go fit add sweet, lacasera and gbogbo ti gbo. You go make am. E no dey easy for most people wey go Yankee oo! I never go am shah but I hear say you go just go see fine fine houses finish come back!

In other news, so even countries like UK, Canada and China dey play this kalo-kalo! Chai, Chineke mu eeh, this US don really use nations play Okoso!

berem: PDP at work! doing what they know best....

I dont belong to any of the divides, but am just wondering if the PDP you're referring to is the one that's even unable to find its footing on the Anambra battlefield for close to a decade now.

In real life situation, when you make such comments or believe in such you give your "enemy" a larger-than-life posturing. You make him believe and become omnipotent.

Let's hope this is also how the key actors are analysing the situation

ogugua88: Are vaccinations mandatory? No one should be arrested for refusing a vaccine. As silly as I/we think the choice is, they have rights.

this is like asking if it's mandatory to (breast)feed, send a child to school or house and clothe the child. I can bet you recieved immunization and vaccination. I can also swear that you gave or wll give same to your own kids.

[quote author=Sunny_bobo]Instead of Babangida Aliyu concerning himself with issues like these, he is busy fighting GEJ over 2015.[/quote]That Aliyu of a guy is just an ordinary gunmouth. He makes more talks than works and decieve his people with this "Chief Servant" rubbish.
This is an indictment on the whole of northern elites. All these politicians whose wives deliver of their babies abroad dont dear refuse immunization or vaccination whether it's made to "depopulate" or "reforestate".

christ is comin: ... He should leave them, afterall several cases have been read in dailies where the vaccine where something else. Plot by world leader to control population.

Why is that plot not working in the South? Friend, pls dont spread this illiterate propaganda on worldwide web!

@Onyegecha, is there actually any "more than meet the eyes" in this vaccination and immunization? It's this kind of very wrong and obnoxious belief system that has causes the avoidable death and deformation of many kids from the northern part of Nigeria. Have you ever seen these children on the street corners begging alms and the kind of deformations they carry? I rather think this refusal is costing the north a lot and should be stopped by all means. Live is too difficult for able-bodied people not to talk of people with disabilities!