₦airaland Forum

shymexx: You're flying the flag for biafra...

shymexx: Ak47mann just got busy, good right hook...

Ileke-IdI:
Thanks, grab any straw you can while losing a battle
No, thatz not me sha

Ileke-IdI:
Shattap dia jor. If not for Lagos, Ibhoes will be lost

MegaMan2020: I've seen Aba with my own two eyes. I've actually seen the East. There's a reason Yorubas and Northerners tend not to live in the East. There's also a reason why Igbos live in the North and SW in the millions. Ask yourself this question. if you grew up in the SW, why would you want to live in the East?

Ileke-IdI:
EASTERN REGION cant even feed its own ppl lol.

C'mon stop bullshoiting us.

MegaMan2020: Is that why Igbos would prefer to live in the North and SW? Common shut up your stupid mouth. The East is badly is badly underdeveloped. You and I both know this. Aba, Abia State resembles Somalia. Can the East really compare with the South West?

Biafra rep: I hate bland statements like the one above, please for the umpteenth time, what is Ibadan producing? petroleum? Manufacturing firms like PZ? Good i know about Ewedu, block industries, pure water industries, Gbegiri, Babalawo et al as Dhemmy listed but are they what makes Ibadan industrialized?

Biafra rep: 3 million people indeed, when you remove the 2.9 million slum dwellers, with very little purchasing power, actually around 50 cents a day, then you know that you have no market at all, except the investor wants to produce ewedu and gbegiri.

demmy: Investment destinations in Nigeria 2012

https://blog.frontierstrategygroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Nigeria.png

Nigeria is a tale of two regions as city-level opportunities in the south overshadow widespread insecurity in the north. Companies must overcome corporate HQ fears regarding operational risks to position for long-term success in Nigeria, which remains the most attractive long-term investment destination in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Last month ethnic conflict ravaged northern Nigeria, leaving 150 dead and 100 injured. This continues a troubling trend of violence in 2012. From an investment perspective, this has rattled foreign companies that are wondering if Nigeria is becoming too risky. However, halting or drastically scaling back investment plans would be a mistake for senior executives.

Much of the violence is isolated in the economically underdeveloped north. The total GDP of 7 attack locations between April 5 and May 4 is US$25 billion, which represents less than 10% of Nigeria’s economy. On the other hand, the total GDP of 7 top investment destinations in the south is US$80 billion. This represents more than 30% of Nigeria’s economy.

Nigeria’s five largest cities, all of which are located in the south, have a combined GDP exceeding US$75 billion. This is surpassed only by Angola and South Africa. City GDP in Nigeria’s south is set to expand significantly this quarter, even if only on paper, because the government is shifting the base year for real GDP to 2009 from 1990. The result will be an overnight gain of 40% that closes the overall economy size gap between Nigeria and South Africa to only 10%.

Southern cities represent great opportunities for companies targeting emerging consumer classes, public sector projects, and other private sector companies flocking to urban areas. Companies should establish good relationships with distributors that know the southern part of the country well. Much of your sales opportunities are likely to be concentrated in this region for the foreseeable future.


http://blog.frontierstrategygroup.com/2012/05/a-tale-of-two-regions-southern-investment-northern-insecurity-in-nigeria/

ODUA_NEGRO: rotflmao!!!

There is a corporate strategy based on the science of "flooding and damming" and I dont know what the theory is called but I understand the concept well. It is believed the US applied this strategy politically to dismember USSR and force capitalism on them. China is doing exactly the same thing to US now. Here is how it works:

You pump investment into your rival's market and economy (flooding) and generate high volume of money circulation which invokes a false sense of worth. Putting faith in their swollen discretionary money, citizens respond massively in increased consumption, which in turn produces more loans and debts. When the society is soaked in overlays of debts, you begin to use soft instruments of debts to rescue people out of their tangible and secured debts.......in other words escalate the burdens. People will soon learn, painfully, to conserve and live within their means. This action is bad for market and business and therefore business owners begin to conserve and shrink. When supply is more than demand of goods and services thhe currency devalues, worth and values shrink, the market implodes on itself (dam).

This strategy can be applied to various aspects of social living. Aplying it to the demographics, the Igbos who form the main target of hatred in the North, can "dam" their population volume and turn the hatred to Hausa-Fulani-Kanuri rivalry.

Israel continues to enjoy political relevance because of the Palestinian issue. If the conflict ends, Israel will not be an everyday topic in news and will soon be irrelevant in corridors of global power......so the war must continue.

The day Igbo depart core North their jihadist will loose cause against Christianity and turn the dagger and bombs against one another in a new rivalry that will depose the Emirs. Can Igbo do that, I doubt it.

......be sure to train desert jihadists how to swim before they embark on a journey to Isale Eko. We will use them as blood sacrifice to Olokun, fill Eko Atlantic with their drowned carcass.

shymexx: Finna buy some ak47 off you for the next war, bigman...

Shottaz shottaz!! Blammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Olaolufred: NOW I CAN CONCLUDE THAT THE IGBOS HAS NO CASE AGAINST ANYBODY.
BUT THEY CAN ALWAYS BLAME EVERYBODY FOR THEIR OWN ERRORS.
SINCE THERE WASN'T ANY CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY,
ACHEBE'S 300+ BOOK FILLED WITH EVIDENCES BUT LACKS POTENCY, IT IS NOT NOT TENABLE TO PROSECUTE ANY CASE IN A VILLAGE SQUARE NOT TO TALK OF THE WORLD FILLED WITH INTELLECTS.
THIS IS WELL KNOWN TO THEM THAT THEY LIVE MORE ON DECIET THAN TRUTH.
OF COURSE, YOU CAN NOT GET JUSTICE WITH FABRICATIONS AND LIES.

Real-Mccoy:
Nothing I said above was a lie. All I stated were witnessed by our generation. Fashola attended an intellectual discuss and daft like you is calling him clueless? He is a graduate of Uniben, he is not a tribalist but a progressive. If I could vote in Nigeria I will vote for him not cos he is Yoruba but his exposed way of thinking. Kid, I am done talking about this and if you don't have anything to do go climb a tree.
The said book has sold over 10 million copies and the sales were mostly outside Nigeria . Write your memoir if you felt he is not saying what everyone already knew. Achebe and Fashola were advising young generation and Nigerian government not to make similar mistakes as 1966, what is bad in that? You never read his book yet you are ranting? You trying to make been stupid cool or what?

uchenageme: From all i have read above it is clear that we do not have a country, no wonder Achebe titled his book 'THERE WAS A COUNTRY' whether referring to the short lived Biafra nation or the short lived Nigeria federation, it is very clear and obvious that Nigeria is a union of convenience and by its very foundation it is a union that was destroyed immediately the first bullet of the war was fired. Ethnically motivated killings are still going on in the North and other parts of the country even as I write, certain ethnic groups still feel marginalized and feel that they do not belong to the union, people still see themselves as Odua, Arewa or Biafra first before considering if they are Nigerians. Its only a matter of time, I sincerely wish the oil will dry up fast to accelerate the inevitable break up.