nedu666:


Your region did not witness a single bomb yet Ibadan, ogun, ekiti, osun refuse to move forward. All looking like war zones. No road, no water, no health care, no jobs.

PressMyButton:

What is Aba?, you guys should stop clowning. Otti is about to borrow 400billion to finance the budget, projected revenue is a mere 160billion for a year. Pls, stop clowning.

nedu666:


Your region did not witness a single bomb yet Ibadan, ogun, ekiti, osun refuse to move forward. All looking like war zones. No road, no water, no health care, no jobs.

PressMyButton:
Pretty much everybody is back home having a blast, there are lots of fun, catching up with friends and families, different kinds of ceremonies all lined up at this festive period. However thrilling it might feel, it's nothing compared to making your home a home and not a guest house. The prevaling economic, social, territorial and regional realities throws a huge challenge to igbos to build a commercial center in the southeast. Almost 90% of the wealth transfered back home this December comes from outside. The fact remains that wealth is not distributed through crumbs sprinkling but by proper deliberate investments. The crumbs you take back home every year ending is unstainable to the development of the region. Several decades after, Igbos should be aggressive in replicating a Lagos, PH, Delta, or Kano in the southeast to boost sustainability. Would igbos ever challenge themselves to build home and attract investors than rushing down to catch the next bus going to other regions at the begining of a new year.

Nigercity:


Oga shut the Bleep up
Lagos is owing in trillions

Now tell me
What's the meaning of cosmopolitan let's start from there?
Abeokuta Akure and ado Ekiti
Can't even lace the shoes of Nnewi In being cosmopolitan!

Ofodirinwa:


The grass is always greener. You want Lagos, but you don't want makoko. Igboland has the most even distribution of development nearly anywhere in the world. No where is Lagos, but nowhere to Makoko, and all of the villages are steadily climbing with each other. We have the best region in Nigeria specifically because of the way we do things, and there's no point in switching because...idk, you still haven't named the benefit of being any other way.

Also, even if we had New York in the east, people will still travel out. Nothing will change that. It's not as if we're specifically going to places to be more comfortable. Many are going to worst places than where they left because it's our nature to reach a certain age and travel out and has been so for hundreds of years.

PressMyButton:

Show me one financial institution in the world that won't gladly give loan to Lagos, simply put, Lagos has huge revenue power to draw finances, Abia is at the bottom of the chain.

PressMyButton:

You don't want anyone to wake you up from your dream. I can tell you there are many communities in SE looking like 1920 incarnate. Soludo visited one of those communities recently.

gidgiddy:


Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi were never capital of anywhere. Tell us anywhere in your Region that developed without being capital

Christistruth00:



Onitsha happened because of the Capital at Asaba
Asaba and Onitsha are only separated by the River Niger

Bulldozer90:
You have to know what a city means before talking about a cosmopolitan one.

For your envious ronu mind Igbos should replicate PH because it's an Hausa or ronu city abi?

PH is Igboland, no need replicating it, but it is very unproductive and oil reliant under Nigerian control just like Lagos which benefits from infrastructure monopoly and structural privileges yet has a GDP less than half of Tel Aviv, despite Tel Aviv having less than 5% of Lagos population.

Igboland is the most urbanized ethnic homeland in Nigeria and perhaps Africa.

Nnewi, Onitsha and Aba have taught you what we can do in Biafra. Until you show me any other prominent city which is neither an oil hub or capital city, you will win the bragging right.

Christistruth00:



Onitsha happened because of the Capital at Asaba
Asaba and Onitsha are only separated by the River Niger

Nigercity:

Oga stop shifting the goal posts here!
We are talking about cosmopolitan here
Go to Cameroon Barracks in Aba, alot of Cameroonians who fled the ambazobia war are residing in ABA, not just them but other Africa countries citizens from niger, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana Burkina Faso e.t.c
Go and verify the have warehouses there unlike your Yoruba people that's only selling agbo there!

In Ibadan except Lebanese and Chinese, citizens of other countries are not residing in Ibadan, meaning ABA and onistha are more cosmopolitan than south west expect Lagos axis
Because even the Chinese and Lebanese are also found in onistha and Aba!
Remember south Africa firm where the ones who wanted to remodel Ariaria before the Chinese started doing it!
. focus on the subject
Don't shift the goal posts
Except Lagos axis
South West is by far less cosmopolitan

BeautifulMind2:

You guys keep fooling yourself Fayose saw this problem and advice you guys to come to east to be trained you guys were insulting him, you guys waste so much time on social media

PressMyButton:
Pretty much everybody is back home having a blast, there are lots of fun, catching up with friends and families, different kinds of ceremonies all lined up at this festive period. However thrilling it might feel, it's nothing compared to making your home a home and not a guest house. The prevaling economic, social, territorial and regional realities throws a huge challenge to igbos to build a commercial center in the southeast. Almost 90% of the wealth transfered back home this December comes from outside. The fact remains that wealth is not distributed through crumbs sprinkling but by proper deliberate investments. The crumbs you take back home every year ending is unstainable to the development of the region. Several decades after, Igbos should be aggressive in replicating a Lagos, PH, Delta, or Kano in the southeast to boost sustainability. Would igbos ever challenge themselves to build home and attract investors than rushing down to catch the next bus going to other regions at the begining of a new year.

BeautifulMind2:
you are very si.ll.y you seat in your backward state and think others are stagnant, today Anambra and Imo are top 5 on GDP these are states that faced brutal war, Anu come to Onitsha, Nnewi and Abia to see high concentration of indigenous industries, useless guys before the arguments was Southeast wasn't developed now you guys are changing the narrative

Ireportlive:
Unfuntunately... Ibos are marketers of other people's product to other people

They make money from middle man trading

Trading can't drive economy except Production, and Services

Southwest has Sango Ota Industrial estate, Agbara Industrial estate, Lagos Ibadan express way Industries and factory, Oluyole industrial estate ibadan

BeautifulMind2:


Business friendly state in Nigeria
Anambra surpassed all the states in Southwest

Bmaster:
op,is like craze dey worry you guys oo.
Igbos this,igbos that.If E sure for you !diots,grant Nnamdi KANU the referendum and the parting away from the sh!t holes hes been clamoring for.
Okay,I know that's too much to ask for,
I meant you guys can't do without igbos,na we dey pay una government the tax wey Dem dey take dey buga
Here is a challenge,call on the government of Tinubu to dredge Niger and make it accessible to ferry goods directly to eastern Nigeria,let us now see how much business iQ you guys have over us

engrchykae:
same way Yorubas make room for foreign firms like pz etc to come and produce and sell to Nigerians.
Now that foreign firms are leaving the country,how market?
Igbos are more than capable to run a production driven economy,don't use Anambra as a yardstick as if Aba is not in igboland .
Aba shoes are exported to Cameroon,
Is there anything Southwest produce that is exported outside Nigeria?
We are very complete in igboland, Anambra maybe marketers but Aba are producers.
We have gone beyond media manipulations where people are socially engineered into self doubt

jogojogo:

You are full of excuses because your creativity ends in fake products
The lamentations yiu pour here us akin to a boy accusing his paremt of nir sending him to School is the reason he is poor. The kind of noise you make, it appears you don't even need Tinubu or any body to drive development...very shameful excuses....is the reason you are backward is because you don't have a Port Harcourt or Delta or Kano. You even have comprehension challenge
I don't what River was dredged to have Kano more developed than your osu land
You are creative, yet yiu want to be spoonfed

PressMyButton:

You can imagine their level of delusion. Kano does not cry over a sea or river port yet the volume of trade in Kano is massive, none in SE can come come to Kano.
When you mention Lagos, they will jump up foaming in the mouth crying Lagos is former capital....May be Kano is former capital too.

PressMyButton:

You can imagine their level of delusion. Kano does not cry over a sea or river port yet the volume of trade in Kano is massive, none in SE can come come to Kano.

When you mention Lagos, they will jump up foaming in the mouth crying Lagos is former capital....May be Kano is former capital too.

BeautifulMind2:


Yoruba are something else imagine reasoning, ewedu has really dealt with you guys brain, Onitsha the commercial hub and industrial hub developed because of Asaba please tell me how

Quintessence44:


So why have 30 million Igbos fled their region to live in Hausa - Fulani and Yoruba land?

PressMyButton:

Dude, try and understand English, i'm not talking about individual state rather SE in general. There's no melting pot, no commercial nerve center.

PressMyButton:

You can imagine their level of delusion. Kano does not cry over a sea or river port yet the volume of trade in Kano is massive, none in SE can come close to Kano.

PressMyButton:

A place does not have to be a capital to become urban. In every states, they are both rural and urban areas. However a few states has cosmopolitan cities, Aba is not, neither Onitsha or Nnewi. Those are pretty much market places with limited services, those ain't commercial cities.

Christistruth00:



Onitsha happened because of the Capital at Asaba
Asaba and Onitsha are only separated by the River Niger

jogojogo:

You are full of excuses because your creativity ends in fake products
The lamentations you pour here is akin to a boy accusing his parents for not sending him to School is the reason he is poor. The kind of noise you make, it appears you don't even need Tinubu or any body to drive development...very shameful excuses....Is the reason you are backward ibecause you don't have a Port Harcourt or Delta or Kano? You even have comprehension challenge
I don't ķnow what River was dredged to have Kano more developed than your osu land
You are creative, yet you want to be spoonfed

gidgiddy:


You should brush up on Nigerian history, Asaba only became capital in the 90's

Yet in your area, you cannot point to one single place you developed without it being a capital