OPCNAIRALAND:
To the rhesus comparing regions, Southeast is the least valued region anywhere in Nigeria.

Here is how to compare development in real economic terms. The Nigerian currency, Naira, is a common denominator and so holds value whether you are in Enugu or Ibadan. But we know, based on migration and investment numbers that Ibos are the ones migrating and investing in other regions because the quality of social living in these other regions is superior to that obtainable in Iboland. Therefore assuming we have individual and different currency based on the distinct economies of each region....so that Yorubaland has its own currency, lets call it Alare pound, Ibo has its own currency, lets call it Biafran pound, .....it will take a million Biafran pound to buy one Alare pound at exchange.

What this means is that an Ibo in Yorubaland is far much valuable than an Ibo in alaibo by a million. This is so because security, commodity market, social justice, liberty, entertainment....and everything else instituted in West by Yorubas is a million times better when scaled against same criterias in East. This explains the migration and also the mindset to accept being a lower class untitled citizens in Yorubaland than the privilege of pedigree status back home in Alaibo.

This is a true measure of class in Nigeria.

If the abysmal thinking of the op that assembled the garbage above holds any water why are the Yorubas most vocal against Biafra

Recall that in the heat of their numerous nightmares frustrated Yorubas have created numerous threads on Nairaland in their desperate attempts to stop Biafra agitation. Due to the resounding responses they received on such threads Yorubas had to quickly call for such threads to be deactivated! Fact#

If at all Yoruba economy is better than the Igbo economy why are it's people worse hit by the dwindling crude oil prices

OPCNAIRALAND:
By Clement Udegbe
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have more degrees but less sense, more titles but less respect, more knowledge but less judgment, more experts yet more problems, more medicine but less wellness.” —– George Carlin.
THE demand for autonomous communities will never stop, especially in Imo State, the more they create the more attractive it becomes for the agitators to ask for more and we are gradually atomicized into such tiny pieces of people, that do not qualify for an autonomous  community properly so called.
In the South East geo-political zone, the estimated population of the states are Imo, 4.8 Million; Anambra, 3.8 Million; Enugu, 3.8 Million; Abia 3.5 Million, and Ebonyi, 3.5 Million, and these should be higher for the respective states  when we receive the up-dated figures from the National Population Commission.
Ebonyi and Anambra has modest autonomous communities of 139, and 177 respectively, Enugu, 203; Abia 300, while Imo has the highest number of 670 Autonomous Communities, and Traditional Rulers. The result is confusion, as politics, greed, and unbridled desire for power lead to all kinds of squabbles over who becomes the Eze when one dies, or who will be able to fund the creation of an autonomous community, thus,  the people unwittingly, played into the hands of politicians, and their rich cronies.
Today, we have many who want to first receive the staff of office as Traditional Rulers, before they start looking around to find a community they will rule. They plant intrigues, deceptions, dissensions, rebellions, and disunity in the old kingdom,in order to achieve their purposes-to break the kingdom and become Eze.
Respect for culture and tradition, in older kingdoms are thrown over board, character and integrity of those who want to become Eze, matter only but a little, no pedigree, no conscience, as corruption in the government offices and the legislature climb on top themselves , dividing the whole place into tiny structures that will not be able to stand any pressure from politicians or criminals.
What is happening in Imo and Abia States in the name of creation of Autonomous Communities is becoming a travesty. While Abia has worked on it as it seems, by pegging the creation of autonomous communities, Imo is struggling with it, because of politics of a new innovation of His Excellency, called the Community Development Council, CDC, followed by Community Government Council or CGC, complicated by his new foray with the APC, with its many implications.
In Imo, we have the four tiers of government, namely, the Federal, State, Local Government, and Community Development Centre.
Ordinarily, this innovation is plausible, as it  should bring governance to the real grass roots, but the questions of funding, and budgeting for such structures not provided for in the constitution, the pressure it foists on the dwindling funds and fortunes of the state in the face of low price of oil, and fall in revenue from the Federal Government, its negative impacts on the constitutionally backed Local Government Administration, make it necessary that Imo should revisit and reconsider pegging the creation of Autonomous Communities.
I sympathise with those who want to be High Chief, Low Chief, Double Chiefs, JPs, etc, but I do not agree that every titled person, or friend of the Governor, must become an Eze  or Traditional Ruler . If that is allowed, very soon, all the hamlets, streets, and roads in Imo will become Autonomous Communities.
Those who have succeeded to build good houses, and own a few cars, will convert their kindreds into Autonomous Communities, and install themselves as Eze, or Igwe of their fathers houses ! This is why decimation of Imo with the current abuse of the creation of Autonomous Communities must stop.
IMO  State Autonomous Community Law NO 1 of 2012 Volume 36, gazette officially on the in,2012, prescribes the conditions for the approval of Autonomous Communities. Some of the requirements include that “the EZE has been educated up to at least the School Certificate level or its equivalent”; The recognition of a person as the EZE or the withdrawal of such recognition shall be published in the Government Official Gazette;
The Governor  at any time after the date of publication in the Official Gazette of the recognition of an EZE of an autonomous community shall issue a certificate of recognition to the EZE. Furthermore, under the law establishing  the CGC, a community must have the following minimum requirements to be recognized as an autonomous community:Five thousand population or more; Administrative block of not less than 10 rooms;
Community hall; Market; School(at least primary school;Church/Churches. Fact is many of the Autonomous Communities created from 1999, do not qualify, but politics, and corruption, will not let them be merged, for a better structure and administration of the state.
In order to harmonise some of the anomalies in the creation of Autonomous Communities, government set up a Panel on autonomous communities and traditional rulers headed by Hon Justice T.E.Chuemeka Chikeka  in 2013, to ascertain whether all the autonomous communities in IMO State were ab initio qualified to be given autonomous status in accordance with the law that was in force when they were created.
The Panel was further charged by the Governor to identify all traditional rulers who have been recognised but were not qualified to be recognised in accordance with the relevant law, as well as identify all traditional rulers who have been involved in or committed acts which are incompatible with their status as monarchs.
Governor Okorocha also charged the Panel to make recommendations which in the opinion of the Panel will enhance the effectiveness of the autonomous communities and the traditional institution in IMO State. The Panels were asked to submit their findings within three months.
The panel has since submitted its report, but we are yet to read or hear about the White paper on their findings and recommendations, perhaps in order to allow  the use of that report for political gains and nothing more. Now that he has secured his second term, let the panel report be released, and implemented to stop the continued decimation of Imo State.

coolitempa:
The iboes must have Biafra.....it truly will be fun to watch.......

patmaine:


A lie may travel for a thousand miles, but it takes just one
step of truth to catch up with it.
The voodoo analysis above can only exist in the phantasy
world of ewedu eaters. It's no longer news that Yorubas
thrive mainly on an atmosphere of lies, falsehood and
propaganda.
If the abysmal thinking of the op that assembled the
garbage above holds any water why are the Yorubas most
vocal against Biafra
Yorubas have used every known tricks to attempt to
quench the call for a separate state of Biafra. Many
mischievous Yorubas have taken to the internet
camouflaging as South-South people and South-East
people, feigning undying fake love like never before and
putting forth baseless theories why the idea of Biafra
should not be allowed to fly.
Recall that in the heat of their numerous nightmares
frustrated Yorubas have created numerous threads on
Nairaland in their desperate attempts to stop Biafra
agitation. Due to the resounding responses they received
on such threads Yorubas had to quickly call for such
threads to be deactivated! Fact#
If at all Yoruba economy is better than the Igbo economy
why are it's people worse hit by the dwindling crude oil
prices
If Yoruba economy was in any way superior to Igbo
economy Ekiti State will not deem it wise to send its
citizens to Aba in Abia State for vocational training, to
equip them to be able to create wealth for themselves and
improve the economy of the State just like Eastern region.
If Yoruba economy was superior to that of Igbos why is
hunger ravaging its people to the extent that concerned
individuals from other parts of Nigeria had to come to
their rescue, donating cash and food to ensure that they
survive the economic crunch occasioned by low crude oil
revenue?
And through all this period there was no cause for alarm
amongst the Igbos in Igboland. Not even in Abia State
where the civil servants were being owed their salaries,
courtesy of the State's strong informal sector unlike Osun
State where the phantom internally generated revenue
(IGR) was a lie of fabricated figures
to massage the egos of Yoruba Kingdom.
T.A Orji of Abia State was labelled as the worst governor
in the last dispensation by Igbos on NL and even in the
outside world. Nobody criticized TA Orji and his failure in
Abia than Igbos. Yet mischievous Yorubas kept lying to
themselves of the sterling performance of Rauf
Aregbesola of Osun State who was as bad as T.A.
Yoruba media propagandists churned out statistics of how
Osun State has blossomed to being able to do without the
free handouts from federal government (courtesy of the
crude oil wealth from another man's backyard) and yet
before you could say JACK the State became comatose
and bankrupt.
Of what good is the big size of Oyo State when Ebonyi
State is more developed than it? For the myopic Yorubas
with poor geography of a place they call their 'country' the
smallest State in size in Igbo land is about 3 times the
size of Lagos State.
Find below the desperate attempts in the past by
mischievous Yoruba voodooists to portray Yoruba
economy as good:
1. "I don't need federal allocation to pay workers" - Rauf
Aregbesola (ThisDay Newspaper, Nov 28, 2011)
2. Osun's Monthly IGR Jumps from N300million to
N1.6billion in 3 years.
3. www.nairaland.com/2353607/osun-earned-n204-
billion-four
4. www.nairaland.com/1439842/osun-state-gdp-higher-
than
5. www.nairaland.com/1454198/ict-lifts-osuns-monthly-
generated-revenue
6. www.nairaland.com/1311395/opon-imo-launched-
osun-today
7. www.nairaland.com/1277864/osun-names-airport-
after-abiola
Yorubas accuse Igbos of being too smart in business and
therefore should not be trusted. The implication is that
they unconsciously accept the Igbos as having superior IQ
and business sense.
And when credible institutions publish the results of their
studies showing Igbos as chart-toppers Yorubas begin to
search for straws to hold onto to fault the research. You
wonder why they become so rattled and agitated at such
results.
Business is all about smartness and no dullard or book-
theory person can do better in a business than a person
with native intelligence.
Mental superiority makes you want to find your own
space.
Mentally dull people hate radical changes and want to just
keep doing the same thing.
There is a correlation between Igbo achievements and 21
billion dollars remittances back into Nigerian economy on
yearly basis as evidenced by statistics from Western
Union. A less backward or less enterprising group of
treasury looters cannot achieve such feat.
The Igbo youths are born into a society where they always
have to think fast else they will be like Yorubas who live
on free handouts from Abuja. Igbos always try as much as
possible to excel in their various pursuits in life. Little
wonder you see many Igbos competing on the world-
stage.
Without government connections and patronage, Wale
Tinubu, Jimoh Ibrahim, Femi Otedola, Mike Adenuga etc.
of Yoruba tribe will be nowhere today, and that's why
every now and then you would hear them being linked
with one financial crime or the other.
Nigeria economy assumed a downward trend when the
Yorubas and their Northern co-travellers acquired all
Nigerian companies by virtue of indigenization decree of
1972. But they could not manage the companies instead
they ruined, defrauded, liquidated, bankrupted and
destroyed all the companies - that was the mother of
destruction of Nigerian economy! The swindlers indeed
bastardized the Nigerian economy.
And to divert attention from their ineptitude and crass
looting of the treasury Yorubas would use illogical
reasoning to attempt to bamboozle other people while
pointing accusing fingers elsewhere!
After more than 40 years, despite the stolen wealth, the
Yoruba land cannot be said to be transformed and be one
of the enviest in the world. None of their cities could be
likened to, say the least, Johannesburg!
Inspite of the tortuous journey the Igbo man passed/
passes through to achieve success the criminal system in
place and the Yoruba gang will not allow the Igbo man be.
Yorubas are bitter and angry at the success of the Igbos,
that they use any given opportunity at their disposal to
remind Igbos that they are the ones who accommodated
them and therefore they should abide by their dictates,
whims and caprices, including being coerced to vote the
candidate of the host's choice in election.
With all the disadvantages Igbos faced and still face after
the 1967-70 they rose from grass to grace and Yorubas
are not even ashamed to compare Igbos with treasury
looters.
There is no law on this earth that prohibits free movement
of people and participation in government. It takes a man
of courage to venture into an unknown terrain and conquer
it. The Chinese are doing it. The British, Portuguese,
French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese etc. did it. If the great
Roman Empire hadn't ventured no one would have known
they were great. Today many American businesses are
located offshores in China, Saudi Arabia, Tokyo, United
Arab Emirate and they are still venturing out to conquer
unknown terrains.
For you to be great you have to venture out of your
comfort zone. This is the true character of the ever
industrious and peace-loving Great Igbo Nation. As of
today it would be an understatement to aver that Igbos
control 50% of the economy of Lagos and its environs.
You see, it pays to venture out instead of lazing around
touting and disturbing the peace of the society.

coolitempa:
@patmaine.......continue writing meaningless epistles laden with lies.... ...that is ur problem......

FreeGlobe:
Mr. Falae said he was kidnapped by six Fulani herdsmen last Monday at his Ilado farm in Akure. The 77-year-old warned that such attack should not be allowed to happen again as it could result to even graver consequences.

“It is not because of me. As for me, I am a very humble person, but by virtue of what God has made me and the status God has given me, it is an insult to our race that a man like me could be abducted by a bunch of hoodlums,” he said.

“By the way, one of them told me, he said, ‘Baba, if after you leave us you talk nonsense I will come and catch you again’. That is the kind of insult I received.”

Asked if the kidnappers were illiterates, he replied: “Only two of them could speak some English. They were between the ages of 25 and 35. They were Fulani, they spoke Hausa.”

Mr. Falae however said it was plausible that his ordeal was closely connected to his conflict with Fulani herdsmen who consistently grazed at his farm.

“The cattle rearers have been giving me a hard time for the past two or three years. Because I have a dam on the farm, so they like to bring their cattle there to drink water, then they eat other people’s crops,” he stated.

“This time they ate up my maize farm, two hectares. We took pictures, and it was videoed, the police went there. They were asked to pay compensation, they begged and paid half of what we claimed and we accepted it.

“That was about two months ago. Whether it was one of them who went to bring his brothers to come and deal ‘with this wicked man’, I don’t know. It is plausible. Absolutely plausible.

“My view is that this is my home. I have not gone to farm in any other person’s territory. This is my home where I was born. I have every right to farm here and live in peace here. So, this is totally unacceptable.

“I once told the Commissioner of Police that if he cannot protect us and protect my farm, that I will protect myself. There will be self-help if government fails to protect its citizens.

“It would have been unfortunate if that were to happen. The IG met me and gave me assurances that they will give us protection. I hope that we as a community in Ondo State and in Yoruba land as a whole must go into consultation to ensure that we enhance our protection. We cannot be slaves in our own territory.”

Mr. Falae said he was not surprised that the police could not trace and arrest the kidnappers because of the manner of their movement and operation.

“These fellows were permanently on the move. Day and night they were walking. Through farm lands, through water, through swamps…they were scared, they knew they could be traced with GPRS, that was why they were running around all the time,” he said.

“I was not surprised at all that the police could not trace them before they decided to let me go.”

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/190728-how-i-was-abducted-tortured-released-olu-falae.html