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Mayor_of_Lagos: I saw "oil tank farm and steel rolling mill located in..." and I instinctively knew this Ibo guy has left something out.

Then I got to "OUK is also building the largest...", I said yep..that's it, adejoro has corrected himself and branded it Ibo style.

Two industries in his town and one in a neighbouring friendly state with sea access (the reason he did it). Better than investing in and enriching Lagos.

waternogetenemy: Abi oooooo

Inter-marriage with them must flourish, less with the yorubas.

If one Igbo marries a Yoruba, 20 Igbos marry Calabar (= Ibibio, Annang, Cross River) people. It may not be in the news because it is so common and just a backyard thing that has been happening since time immemorial. Many people from Abia state have one parent from Akwa Ibom.

Moreover, marriage between Igbo and Calabar is of no interest to the Lagos press.

ujoinme: OP we need a source for your news cos ur post is contrdictory. How many tank farms is OUK building? your post suggest 2 one in his village and another At Ikot Abasi?

The short news says he is building two: one in his home town and a larger one in Ikot Abasi for obvious reason: access to sea.

No pictures no show. We do not want to see designs but true photos. Fasola is a liar

geeez: BAT who developed a prosperous state which you're all flocking into

One example of BAT's development being?

geeez: Is Akwa Ibom his state?

Dr Kalu went with 4 sets of foreign business partners, some of whom are working on his oil tank farm and Steel Rolling Mill located in his home town of Igbere, Abia state, which will employ over 4000 workers at completion. OUK is also building the largest oil tank farm in Africa, stationed at Ikot Abasi, Akwaibom state, the state of his host, Gov Akapbio. 160 thousand metric tons.

Orji Uzor Kalu's multi billion dollar STEEL MILL Igbere

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

Kalu visits India to conclude deal on steel rolling mill

http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/news/item/10434-kalu-visits-india-to-conclude-deal-on-steel-rolling-mill

More photos here
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151776598983409.1073741866.127503268408&type=3

The East must get its swag back

REDISCOVERING THEMSELVES AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS?

FRIDAY OCTOBER 5 2013: His Excellency, The Former Governor of Abia state, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, paid a courtesy/business visit to Governor Akpabio at Akwaibom Govt state house. Dr Kalu went with 4 sets of foreign business partners, some of whom are working on his oil tank farm and Steel Rolling Mill located in his home town of Igbere, Abia state, which will employ over 4000 workers at completion. OUK is also building the largest oil tank farm in Africa, stationed at Ikot Abasi, Akwaibom state, the state of his host, Gov Akapbio. 160 thousand metric tons.

Bensonn: reveal you real self. This is anoda smockscreen handle. I think i know u. But i will expose u soon. Let me research on sometin first

Have you revealed your own real self. You must be a fake magician to know me

bushwailo: And you are an APGA-brainwashed Village Igbo man

Dreamer. I give no hoot about PDP, APGA, or ACN. I careless what you all do with your lives. You can sell it to Tinubu. Your loss not mine.

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egift: Lies deposited in the vault of Fidelity Bank.

See this APC-brainwashed Lagos Igbo man

berem: Asiri gba ku te!! Lies upon lies!!

You stay there until soapy water enters your blind eyes. Then you will be itchy

BTW, Annie is on his way back to his former position which lends credence to the story (rumor).

And if you believe Fasola just woke up and apologized to Igbos without an Igbo man persuading him to do so, then you must be naive. That Igbo man cannot be anyone else other than Ngige who has a big stake in the entire saga.

Ngige orders Fasola to apologize
Then Ngige turns around to take orders from Tinubu
These Anambra people are toying with their future. If Ngige wins, supported by Anambra brainwashed voters and financed by Tinubu, other Igbos will expel Anambra to Odualand

Please is there any truth in the rumor flying around that Senator Ngige was in Lagos yesterday to take orders from Bola Tinubu on how to proceed?

Is it also true that Tinubu insisted that Annie Okonkwo be restored as Campaign Chairman before he will agree to support Ngige financially?

If the rumors are true, my advice is that Anambra people should think before they vote. Another Godfather politics in Anambra?


On a different note

Are we for sale?


Dr. Chris Ngige today met with senior Igbo
Journalists in Lagos.
Answering questions on deportation, he said he
was the one who asked Fashola to apologize to
the Igbos. This is contradictory, because Ngige
has all along justified the deportation of 74 of
his brothers and sisters saying they were mad
people.
Meanwhile the reason why APC of Ngige kept
postponing the flag-off of their campaign has
been revealed.
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinube ordered that the
campaign should not be flagged off until he
returned to the country (he returned yesterday),
and personally scrutinize the agreement Ngige
signed with APC Governors on how the money
(over 8 Billion Naira), they will contribute to
him will be paid back.
In another developement the ASIWAJU of
APC ,ALHAJI BOLA TINUBU who came back to
Nigeria after a successful knee operation in
USa ,has summoned Rochas Okorocha and Ngige
and mandate them to bring SENATOR ANNIE
OKONKWO back into NGIGE'S camp with
immediate effect,meanwhile Gov Rochas
Okorocha who abandoned his Imo state base
and relocate to Awka at the command of
APC ,met with Annie Okonkwo and offered to pay
him 600 million as peace offering and pledge
unbehalf of Ngige to pay another 1.4 Billion to
ANNIE after the election ,which was agreed will
be spaced out into monthly allocation .
Under the command of Asiwaju Tinubu ,APC has
redeemed the pledge they made to Ngige and his
camapign,TINUBU AND FASHOLA 2.5 BILLION
EACH,GOV ROCHAS 2 BILLION all the APC
GOVERNORS 500 MILLION NAIRA EACH

Igbo people 2much

Imagine producing such great musical instrument with disused tins and other stuff

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=512285715532803&set=vb.100002541383095&type=2&theater

Yoruba again? From killing Oyibo to killing their mother in London. Perpetual image tarnishers

More on Oma Bongo, with some in Gabon insinuating he himself is actually an Igbo man
https://www.nairaland.com/1231761/president-gabon-igboman

How come reconstruction started in the West when the war was actually fought in the East? They started the Third Mainland Bridge, the National Theatre, the international airport, and so on, in the West, while the war was fought in the eastern region. And if we really wanted to ensure total reconciliation, how come every account holder in the eastern region was given only £20?

A non Igbo is asking Gowon and Awolowo.

There were children who were shipped away to Gabon, and they can never come back to Nigeria again because they were small. How would two-year-olds and three-year-olds ever know where they came from? They are now proud Gabonese and I don’t think Nigerians are even asking questions.

Gabon was one of the few countries who supported Biafra during the war

Today, there are millions of Igbos in Gabon, many of whom are not recent immigrants, but those taken away by humanitarian Gabonese people during the war

One of the daughters of the late Gabonese leader (Oma Bongo) is an adopted Igbo lady. I read somewhere that she came back to Igboland to marry some years ago.

GOVERNOR GODSWILL AKPABIO SPEAKS ON BIAFRA AND GOWON WITH THEWILL NEWS
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THEWILL: You have been very vocal lately in dismissing and trashing the then federal military government’s post-civil war efforts at the 3 Rs: Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation. What don’t you agree with?


AKPABIO: As a young man, you definitely will not understand me. But I was a victim of the Civil War. I was one of those who suffered the pains of the war. I was born sometime in 1962; the civil war came really into our area in 1967. So, I was probably five or six years old during the war; and if I had been around nine years, I would probably have been conscripted.

I saw parents throw their children into pit toilets because they did not want their positions to be made known to the enemy. I saw devastation; I saw kwashiorkor; I saw hunger; I saw thousands of people and bodies littered everywhere and smelling while vultures had a field day every day. I saw houses destroyed; I saw families scattered such that till the end of the world, they can never gather themselves together again. There were children who were shipped away to Gabon, and they can never come back to Nigeria again because they were small. How would two-year-olds and three-year-olds ever know where they came from? They are now proud Gabonese and I don’t think Nigerians are even asking questions.

So, during the Silverbird Man of the Year Award, there were pictures that were shown of the Civil War. Somebody, sitting by me, who is from the West, was asking if those things were acted: the Kwashiorkor-ridden children with their swollen tummies, ugly shapes and bony structures because of hunger and starvation.

The then Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon attempted to explain that he tried everything to avoid the scenes that were being shown on the screen, that he did not want the war. The other person who could have answered him, unfortunately, that is Emeka Ojukwu, is dead. He said he tried everything to stop the war from breaking out but it’s only Ojukwu who could have answered whether he equally did his part in avoiding the war.

But something struck me: it was said that Gowon should be commended for initiating the three Rs: reconciliation, rehabilitation and reconstruction. And I asked a very simple question, that I came with a written text but I wasn’t going to read it. I thanked Silverbird for the award; and I said I did not want to criticise my leaders because I am also now a leader. But I asked to be allowed to ask a question: how come reconstruction started in the West when the war was actually fought in the East? They started the Third Mainland Bridge, the National Theatre, the international airport, and so on, in the West, while the war was fought in the eastern region. And if we really wanted to ensure total reconciliation, how come every account holder in the eastern region was given only £20? It did not matter whether your father had £10,000,000 or £50,000,000 before the war; you were given just £20. It was a take it or leave it situation. If your family survived and there was an account holder alive, he/she went to the bank, and collected just £20.

Could £20 pounds solve the Kwashiorkor that we were seeing? Could it reconstruct the houses that were burnt? Could it produce food? A lot of other things happened that I did not mention on that occasion. Don’t forget that it was shortly after the war in 1971 that the policy of indigenisation started, where most of the foreign industries and companies were sold to Nigerians, and the war-ravaged eastern regions, which include the entire South-South and the rest of them, could not buy, because no one who did not have money to even feed or clothe himself would have had money to buy any industry. So, I was just wondering, as a young man, if that was true reconciliation, because one would have thought that the government would have gone to any extent to give them more money so that they could truly rehabilitate themselves.

They needed money from reconstruction, and I would have thought that reconstruction would have also started from the East. I just asked because we were lucky to have the persona dramatis of the war right in front of us: General T. Y. Danjuma, General Yakubu Gowon, General Buhari and others. It is very rare to see three former heads of state in just one place, so I had to ask.

I said also that it is important, even for the current-day leaders, that we continue to take actions that will unite Nigeria. And we should purge ourselves of actions that tend to cause pains to Nigerians. For me, I believe that because of certain policies of the federal government after the war, the war did not cease in the eastern region until about 30 years after the war.


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