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InglishTeechar:I can vividly remember when Abacha family were singled out by Abdulsalami and Obasanjo between 1998 and 2001. Then the entire country focused on the Abacha regime. Jonathan refused to probe Yar'Adua for his own reasons. |
This is an open secret. |
shachris:The way these buses and taxi drivers deliberately block the entire lane of roads in Port Harcourt is extremely annoying. Mile 4 is even better than Rumuokoro. |
Xetima:I guess Americans, Europeans, Africans, Rivers people are equally Hausa-Fulani. Do you think only Igbos have this your perception (which of course is false)? Why not let Ogbia and Bayelsans cause the trouble and face the consequences than buy a case you have no hand in. The resultant war will still lead to Bayelsans conniving with the rest of Nigeria against you. Igbos really need to understand this my adage. Failure is denied by the parents but Igbos adopt failures as children in Nigerian politics. People like Pat Utomi are success and are solidly into Igboism but because he supports Buhari or is against rebellion, they will label him traitor. |
Godswillnwaoma:Same in Port Harcourt. Sai Buhari! |
Utomi is 100% right. Oya time to wail! |
AnambraDota:You guys are so incorporated in Igbo that you cannot see through the glasses. Igbos are generally self destructive and derive joy being victims of what they didn't do. When some Delta boys took up arms and assassinated leaders of other ethnic groups, the rest of the country condemned their acts but Igbos hailed them as heroes instead of condemning such. The resultant effect was massacre of Igbos to revenge killing by the uninformed youthful soldiers. Isn't it ironical that same Deltans condemned the coup and resisted Biafra to the last. Today the subject is Jonathan's recent destruction of Nigeria which the entire world including Europe, America and Niger Deltans condemned but alas only Igbos are causing trouble because Jonathan lost. Now I will still tell you that the rest of the country will still unite against Igbos including the Bayelsa where Jonathan comes from. |
shachris:Esogbue wrote this piece 3 years ago and we ironed it out decisively on Nairaland then. Anioma is not a clan or ethnic group but a coinage derived from various groups whose main unifying factor is common Igbo language and Benin influence. It is no different from Abia as a coinage whose main unifying factor is common Igbo language and Cross River influence. That said, Aniocha and Oshimili are Igbos while Ika, Aboh and Ukwuani are yet to figure out their own identity. Asaba, Ogwashi, Igbo Uzo etc are purely Igbo and nothing else. |
oluwalfa:You can ask those who lived then to give you undiluted story. Why has Nigerian army not started compulsory conscription since we are at war? You cannot win a war by forcing people to fight against their will and mind you that attitude is one of the act that made Rivers people and other minorities dislike Igbos. |
oluwalfa:Biafrans were tyranical. My grandfather had most of his male children hidden except the few that voluntarily went to war. At least 1 in 3 of Biafran soldiers were forcefully recruited and taken to war front while most of those that refused were killed. Any elder who held a contrary view to Ojukwu and his fellows were tagged "sabo" and killed by the Biafrans. This happened everywhere from Benin to Calabar to Rivers and even in the heart of Igboland. It is no different from the way the present day agitators are calling Okorocha, Amaechi and Kachikwu traitors for either supporting or working with Buhari. |
Afam4eva:There exists no clan like Owerri in Igboland. Owerri is but a town of 5 kindreds which is the seat of Government in Imo State. The town belongs to Uratta which comprises of several distinct towns like Orji, Nekede, Egbu, Emekuku, Awaka etc. Uratta is bounded by Ohuhu, Ngor, Isu, Ikwerre and Etche. I just felt the clarification needs to be made. Mbaise is equally not a clan as it is just a merger of Ngor, Uratta, Ohuhu (Ezilihi'e), Agbaja and Isu groups around 1940 for administrative convenience by colonialists. Some of these things are important for younger generation to know. |
MaziOmenuko:The poster did not make the necessary clarification. Owerri-Aba is an Ngwa speaking town in Ugwunagbo LGA of Abia State and is no where near any road that leads to Owerri in Imo State. I think it is somehow a conurbation of Aba city. The road should definitely be a State road. |
Igbonazy:That is exactly my belief but unfortunately many Igbos are pre-occupied with wrong orientation and radio biafra. To them everyone that was against Jonathan is their enemy while the said Jonathan killed the highest number of Massobites and disgraced BZM grandfathers. I wish the eyes of Igbos shall open to reality than fiction. Buhari's Government has not killed any single Massob or even IPOB members till date but Igbos have failed to see that simple truth. Why cant IPOB and others station in Kogi border to defend Igbo land instead of spreading hate messages that will further relegate the Igbo nation to background. |
There is nothing that can prove that Amaechi is not the best Governor ever in any South-South State. |
damosthottest:Jonathan got rid of everyone that refused to compromise. That is why people like Odimegwu, Ezekwesili, Nnaji, Soludo and Sanusi fell out with him. I keep loving Buhari's every move. |
Jonathan had opportunity to do all these but he chose not to. Nigeria is moving well now. |
Truckpusher:In as much as I concur with you on the handover part, I can never join in anything falsehood. I opened a thread earlier on when Port Harcourt was already worse than Aba but it has improved now as Wike is buckling up. You do not have to drag Amaechi into this or lie that the pictures were taken long ago. We are all Rivers people and I can as well go out to the various dumps to snap pictures as it is right now. However I give Wike credit for the gradual improvement in both traffic control and sanitation.I believe by September he will be fully on ground. |
Onitsha, Aba and Corlu
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FKO81:Most Igbo cities are okay. I have discovered a European city known as Corlu in Turkey which has Igbotic houses. The only difference is the environment and then maintenance culture. They repaint their houses regularly removing that unkept looks we have in Igbo houses. With little effort, Onitsha could be like Corlu at least.
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asha80:Are you saying that Owerri to Umuahia is a non-stop sprawl? I know Owerri to Egbu, Emekuku and Awaka is a sprawl and after a short forest of About 2km you enter another Mbaise sprawl but I do not know Mbaise to Umuahia. What this means is that there is land crisis. |
Video of driving in Amaigbo Imo State. Is Amaigbo a rural, urban or semi-urban town? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejn2SUvdKNI |
It has improved compared with last month. Wike is gradually buckling up but Amaechi's shoes are quite big. I noticed a new traffic control outfit today. Hopefully they won't go thuggy like TIMARIV. |
Aromas:His name sounds more Ikwerre. All the same we are one. |
http://www.punchng.com/news/governors-labour-at-war-over-minimum-wage/ AUGUST 4, 2012 : NIYI ODEBODE Organised labour is at war with governors after the state executives called for the abrogation of the National Minimum Wage Act. Northern governors, after their meeting in Abuja last week, had faulted the NMW law, saying each state should be allowed to fix its minimum wage Act. Their southern counterparts, in separate interviews with SATURDAY PUNCH on Thursday, backed the proposal, saying it was against the principle and practice of federalism. Their position is in line with the decision of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, which has repeatedly called for the amendment of the NMW law. But the leadership of the two labour centres in the country – the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress – described the governors’ position on the NMW as selfish. Calling for the abrogation of theNMW law, the Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, said each state should be allowed to pay its workers what it could afford. He stated, “Economic realities are different from one state to the other. States do not earn the same level of revenues both in internally generated revenue and funds coming to them from the Federation Account. Each state should be free to determine what best suits its situation.” Also supporting the call for the abrogation of the NMW law, the Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, said the law was against federalism. He said, “As long as Nigeria is called a federation, states should be allowed to fix the wages of their workers bearing in mind their objective realities. “Ekiti, for instance, is second from the rear in revenue allocation of an average of N2bn monthly and yet it is put under the same yoke of minimum wage with Akwa Ibom State that earns an average of N10bn allocation monthly. This is not only unjust, but oppressive to Ekiti.” Their Ondo State counterpart, Olusegun Mimiko, said minimum wage should not be the responsibility of the Federal Government. Mimiko, through the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade, said, “The indices of revenue accruable to each state should be adopted in fixing workers’ salaries and allowances. It should not be the responsibility of the FG.” Lagos State also supports the northern governors.The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Lateef Ibirogba, told SATURDAY PUNCH on the telephone that the lawmakers must look at every issue to be considered for amendment on its merit. Ibirogba said the state government had never hidden its displeasure on the forcing of the minimum wage on it by the FG. He said, “The reality is that the states are not blessed the same way. So, each state should be able to negotiate with its workers on how much it can afford to pay and other conditions of service. “A situation where the FG will announce a certain amount as the minimum wage will only put pressure on states that cannot afford it.” On his part, the Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed, said his opinion on minimum wage was the same with that of the Northern Governors’ Forum. He stated, “Our revenues are not equal. Our priorities are diverse. Our capacities vary. For instance, Kwara State, with just about N2.4bn federal revenue allocation and with about N800m IGR, currently pays close to N2bn as monthly salaries. “This is exclusive of other recurrent expenditure. What then is left for development? But if the state is allowed to fix its minimum wage, all stakeholders will sit down and agree on what is reasonable and sustainable. “The labour and other stakeholders in the state, including the traditional and religious leaders, will all be involved.” Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State argued that it was wrong to fix a uniform salary structure and minimum wage for states. Every state, he had insisted during the last minimum wage crisis, should be allowed to negotiate its own wage with its workers according to its resource base. NLC president, Abdulwahed Omar, and his counterpart in the TUC, Peter Esele, however, insisted that there was no country without an NMW.According to them, such a law is necessary to protect Nigerian workers. Omar maintained that the FG had a responsibility to fix a minimum wage to prevent workers from undue exploitation by employers of labour. He said, “That is their selfish reasoning. Even advanced countries peg a minimum wage. Minimum wage simply means the lowest level of wage that can be paid a worker. “Employers are, however, free to negotiate higher pay with employees but not below. It is simply a safeguard against undue exploitation of workers by mean employers. That is why the responsibility of pegging the minimum wage lies with the FG.” The TUC president said the governors did not have any option but to obey the existing Minimum Wage Act. He said the tendency to violate existing laws in the country was partly responsible for the drift to anarchy and the culture of impunity in the society. Esele said the organised labour might be compelled to drag governors found to be acting in contravention of the Minimum Wage Act to court. He said, “We will consider the minimum wage issue in our next NEC meeting. “There is no part of the world you don’t have a minimum wage. Even in the United States, there is minimum wage, that irreducible minimum that must be paid to workers. “For instance, while we have the N18,000 minimum wage to be paid by all employers in the country, any employer who wants to pay more is free to do that. “Ondo, for instance, pays 22,000; Edo pays 20,000. “We might have to take the governors to court on this issue of minimum wage. They have no respect for the law and that partly contributes to anarchy; if governors can take the laws into their hands, it is unfortunate.” Similarly, the Secretary-General of the TUC, Chief John Kolawole, said the governors were crying wolf over nothing. He challenged them to focus on good governance rather than dwelling on issues that could aggravate the poverty in the land. He said Nigerians were looking forward to a constitution amendment that would be of beneficial to the citizenry. He accused the governors of going against a law of the land that went through the stipulated legislative processes. He said, “It is inconsiderate of the governors to be proposing such a clause; I believe they must be reacting to the reality on ground. “Their reaction is much ado over nothing. Before the N18,000 minimum wage, our committee discovered that a lot of organisations were already paying it; so, what is this demand for? “We want an amendment that will be beneficial to all Nigerians. “They should focus on good governance and not issues that would make the people poorer and the wealthy richer. “These people are going against a law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria duly passed by the National Assembly and signed by the President.” |
Intrepidone:This is an old news from 2011. I did research on the minimum and its impact on States and stumbled upon a lot of information that needs to be shared. Many States never implemented minimum wage and many Governors tried to explain issues. |
ABDULLAHI & DANIEL ETEGHE LAGOS – INDUSTRIAL crisis appears imminent across the country as Governor Bukola Saraki of Kwara State who is also the chairman of Governors’Forum declared, Tuesday, that many states will not be able to pay the N18,000 minimum wage for workers as passed by the National Assembly recently. This was just as the organised Labour warned the governors to avoid war with workers by their refusal to pay the minimum wage Governor Saraki, who spoke with airport correspondents on arrival in Lagos for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, campaign in the state with the Vice President, Arc. Namadi Sambo, said politics apart, many states will have problems implementing the N18, 000 minimum wage as passed by the National Assembly Saraki said: “Some states are going to have a lot of challenges with implementing it, not because they don’t want to implement it, not because they don’t believe that workers should have the minimum wage but you know the realities that we are facing, so there will be some states that will have challenges actually.” While explaining that he is worried like every other Nigerians about the implementation of the minimum wage, Saraki said “I think that very soon there will be a forum that will allow us look at the issue of implementation, but there is no doubt about it except we want to play politics with it.” He added “Look I have two more months to go but I really have to put myself in the shoes and I think that all of us as stakeholders we need to think of the workers and don’t play politics with it. that is my own opinion.” Organised labour, in its reaction warned state governors against refusing to implement the N18.000 new Minimum wage, to avoid war with organised labour. It said “for social justice, for peace and industrial harmony and to avoid what is happening in North Africa and other parts of the Arab world from happening in Nigeria, the governor must pay”. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/govs-cant-pay-minimum-wage-saraki/ |
businessdayonline.com/2015/08/south-east-co-operatives-to-float-regional-bank-with-n10-billion-capital/ Thousands of cooperative groups in the five South East states under the aegis of South East States Cooperative Financing and Investment Limited (SESCOOP) are set to revive the moribund regional Cooperative Bank Limited, with an initial N10 billion as take-off capital, to drive deeper operations of micro and small businesses (MSMEs) in the region, BusinessDay can report. Authoritative information made available to our correspondent indicate that SESCOOP top officials have already got favourable dispositions from the nation’s banking regulatory body, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to float the cooperative bank. It was reliably gathered that the CBN, while largely supporting the move; has advised the movers of the regional cooperative bank idea, SESCOOP, to fly fast with the idea, and get it established; saying that such institution clearly falls in line with CBN’s aim of promoting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), for which it has since set up a funding agency – the micro, small and medium enterprises development fund (MSMEDF). In an interview with BusinessDay, in Owerri, Imo State, a top member of the SESCOOP and one of the brains behind the establishment of the Cooperative Bank, Peter Erika Okoye said, cooperative groups constitute the greatest change agents in empowering rural dwellers and the urban poor people, through the establishment of micro businesses; adding that it is these MSMEs that generate jobs for the unemployed. “Only a Cooperative Bank understands the positions of a little pig farmer, a ground-nut seller, and fish farmer cooperatives and promotes them through advancement of micro-credits to the individual cooperative societies at little interest rates that would make it possible for them to pay back their loans. The deposit money banks (otherwise called commercial banks) would ask for collaterals, higher interest rates, which would discourage cooperative bodies from coming up to ask for loans. So, that’s why we are setting up the Cooperative Bank,” Okoye said. Okoye, who is also the chief executive officer (CEO) of Rhino Energy Limited in Anambra State, informed that the Cooperative Bank, when established would be typically a regional bank, devoted to promoting cooperative development in the South East by advancing cheap micro loan facilities at very minimal interest rates to cooperative societies. “We have about 10,000 cooperative societies in Imo State alone. In Anambra there may be nearly twice that number. When you take these numbers across the five states of the South East zone, you can only imagine how many cooperatives I am talking about here. But the sad thing is that almost all of these cooperative groups lack access to micro-credits. As a result, most of them are only struggling,” he stated. He recalled how the late Obafemi Awolowo, as premier of the Western Region had provided then about £25 million to promote the establishment of hundreds of farmers cooperative groups in the region – the result of this was the massive growth of cooperative societies – leading up to the building of the Cocoa House in Ibadan. Today, he said the South West zone leads the rest of the country in cooperative movement and micro-businesses. “In the East, we had the Eastern Region Cooperative Bank, which later metamorphosed into the Cooperative and Commerce Bank, which helped a lot in promoting micro and small businesses then. We want to bring up again this Bank, especially at this time that all over the world, nations are developing faster through their cooperative groups which run micro, small and medium businesses. Besides, our own Central Bank of Nigeria is interested in promoting micro, small and medium businesses.” the SESCOOP boss said. He spoke of how SESCOOP in recent time, has been sensitizing people through massive cooperative education in the zone, on the benefits of forming a cooperative or belonging to one. Meanwhile, Geoffrey Samuel, the president of SESCOOP, said there is an urgent need for the South East zone to catch up with other parts of Nigeria, as well as other developing countries in Africa that have made great achievements with cooperative movement. Such countries are: Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Namibia, among many others. Okoye informed that in order to whet the environment for cooperative culture and take-off of the regional Cooperative Bank, SESCOOP has concluded arrangements to hold an international cooperative investment forum in the South East later in the year. The conference which would also include exhibition of cooperative products, would showcase some of latest successes made by some developing countries through cooperative society. BEN EGUZOZIE |
asha80:Aba that was given to Barth Nnaji, was it not same Igbos that tried to frustrate its take off? Our problem is lying to ourselves about simple issues. |
RareDiamond:There was a change of purpose clause. You can see its wearing a different look. http://dailyindependentnig.com/2014/07/okorocha-dedicates-ahiajoku-convention-centre-imo-chamber-commerce/ Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has re - modified the Ahiajoku convention centre in the state to serve as the Imo Chamber of Commerce , Trade and Industry. Briefing newsmen while on inspection of the project , Okorocha said the decision followed the growing need to harness the rich economic potentials of the State in the areas of commerce , trade and industry as well as to provide a more condusive business environment for both local and foreign investors in the State . |
I miss the Khaki Comrade.
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rozayx5:If the aim of this is to blame Buhari, Sorry Mr Poster you indicted Jonathan instead. Let us wait for quater 3 reports. Jonathan did January 1st to May 29th meaning quater 1 and 2/3rd of quater 2. |
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