survemeka: Please let's come together to save our fellow Nigerians passing through this difficulty. Kindly share this video till it gets to the right authority and God will bless you.
Wow. Like Aba like Ideato-Orlu in Imo state. It's on record that the federal government of Nigeria takes charge of addressing the menace of gully erosion.
Chino of Igala, continue instead to use your dozens of monikers on Nl to upvote any one who says "we don't want part of Anambra State cut out," stop replying to my comment.
Odibembem: You are beating your chest for fiscal federalism as if d SE is ready for it. Talk is cheap, how many SE states joined Rivers State in d suit before d Supreme Court to cede VAT collections to states as it's a sales tax and not covered in d exclusive list? Only Lagos was bold enough, no SE states joined d suit. Infact Ebonyi openly pleaded that VAT should remain as it is because she would suffer immensely should VAT go to states. The SE is as parasitic to the Niger Delta and Lagos as Zamfara and Yobe are, let's be honest here. BTW am Edo, Anambra or Imo doesn't contribute to d federation account from oil as much as we do, no state in d entire SE has IGR even close to us so chill, talk is cheap. It's good to know ur place in the Nigerian federation so that butterflies don't start thinkingof themselves as birds just cos they can fly. Kind regards
Nothing when you don't even understand the difference between IGR and GDP. Human Development index must have been your blindspot. You be Edo? Unarguably from Auchi far north of Edo state, you get share of 13% from derivation by mere association. You come here to exclude the oil producing states- Imo, Anambra and Abia - from your own map of Niger delta region to suit your purpose. You don't even know where Niger delta region began and ended. In your poor mindset, Niger delta region is the oil producing states in the Southsouth.
Do you fully understand what VAT stands for? It's Valued Added Tax. Tax after sales, sort of. Much of the VAT derived from sales are from businesses by easterners in shops all over Nigeria. How much VAT is generated in your own side of Nigeria? Tiny. The SE does not normally join those suits it knows that the judges appointed by the ruling party must influence their judgment. Ebonyi is not a business state, therefore no surprises with the side it took on VAT.
In 2024
Lagos State — GDP: ₦41.17 trillion. ... Rivers State — GDP: ₦7.96 trillion. ... Akwa Ibom State — GDP: ₦7.77 trillion. ... Imo State — GDP: ₦7.68 trillion. ... Delta State — GDP: ₦6.19 trillion. ... Anambra State — GDP: ₦5.14 trillion. ... Ondo State — GDP: ₦5.10 trillion.
Parasite like you should not participate when matters of revenue generation in Nigeria is on the table.
I've heard that Governor Hope Uzodinma and other promoters of "Orlu State" have deceitfully included my hometown and many other Anambra towns and communities into their plan without consulting us. For clarity, I am not against the creation of your Orlu State from the Orlu zone of Imo State. However, they must not include other people who would later be discriminated against for not being from the "Orlu zone" once their dubious state is established.
How can you expect to annex us into your dubious state without consulting us and we gain absolutely NOTHING? The capital of the state isn't in Okija, Ihiala, or Ukpor, the name of the state is your hometown (Orlu) and most constituency representation and zones will be owned by Orlu people. So why are you forcefully annexing our lands into your dubious state agenda when we won't even get the state capital territory or anything at all from it?
It's outrageous and evil for Hope Uzodinma and his associates to plot the secret annexation of large parts of Anambra State—towns like Ihiala, Uga, Amaeshi, Umuchu, Achina, Oneh, Nkpologwu, Uli, Akpo, Azia, Umunze, Ihembosi, Okija, Lilu, and communities in Nnewi South LGA including Ukpor, Ebenator, Ezinifite, Unubi, and Ekwulumili—into their fiefdom of "Orlu State" without our consent.
They should create your Orlu State with your Orlu people! Trying to secretly annex us and other Anambra communities into your fiefdom only to later marginalize us as "non-Orlu zone people" is a plan doomed to fail. We are Anambra people and NOT interested in your "Orlu State". Please promote your Orlu State for your Orlu and Owerri people!
Enuf said!
Take break. We are not in the military era when states were created arbitrarily without consultations. Before creating Anambra State, parts of present Anambra south senatorial district belonged to Orlu Division. Even today, parts of Anambra south are in Orlu Dioceses. Some of you wear the name Anambra as if it's a golden crown, and in the process you show discrimination by Igbos against Igbos; the same Igbos who shared the same East Central State in the past. Don't worry, more informed leaders in Anambra south who don't see differences among Igbos, came together in 2005 and joined leaders from Imo West (Orlu) senatorial district and asked for Njaba state to be created as the 6th state in the Southeast. They are on it this time also. It's the same Njaba state proposal which is renamed Orlu state proposal today. Orlu was in the same divisional status like Awka and Abakaliki before the old East Central State was created. Even before the emergence of East Central State. Some of you who wear the name Anambra like it's a golden crown and talk "no part of Anambra must be taken to join any part of Orlu zone for a sixth state in the Southeast zone" are misguided. Anambra is a misrep by military dictators for Omambala. Omambala River does not pass through Anambra South. From Uzo-Uwani, Omambala River flows into the River Niger near Onitsha. Persons without inferiority complex don't attach any importance to this latter-day Anambra State is one and cannot have a part of Anambra south joined to Imo West Senatorial district for a 6th state in the SE.
Venezuela 🇻🇪 which has the World's largest oil reserves is the poorest country in South America. Lessons for those who believe that crude oil is all it needs to sustain Nigeria.
To erase banditry which is an offshoot of Boko Haram insurgents, ask the National Assembly to continue to cooperate with the President to return True and Fiscal federalism to Nigeria. Boko Haram emerged after the far north states of Nigeria adopted Islamic sharia criminal laws. Boko Haram says that it's fighting for a country to be governed with Sharia criminal laws. After all, you, now President of Nigeria once campaigned for about 12 years for political restructuring of Nigeria.
ariesbull: Stop being clannish and petty that's the problem ....no intelligent Igbo wants ORLU state
ANAMBRA community doesn't want to be associated with the madness
Abia community detest that Orlu region
Imo is in a mess cos of Orlu politicians...so they are pariah
Chino Onye ara with his multiple monikers.
Orlu is known in history as the most peaceful area of Igbo land because of the political docility of Orlu people.
Those who initiated violence in Orsu-Orlu area are your ogas in high political spaces in Nigeria. You are now using your multiple monikers in Nl to tell your ogas that Igbos are disunited, even to the point of disputing over what location merits a 6th state in the SE.
In other words, former president Obasanjo who looked away and said it's "political sharia" instead of stopping the political and religious leaders of the 12 far north states from adopting unconstitutional sharia crimimal laws, caused Boko Haram by not stopping the far north political and religious leaders then. Boko Haram quickly emerged thereafter and says that it's fighting for a country to be governed with Sharia criminal laws.
Odibembem: You are talking as if no state has been created from d Eastern Region. It has grown from one to 9 today. Western region grew from one to 8 today. So Eastern Region has actually cheated d old Western region. Cos d old Western region is SW plus Edo and Delta while old Eastern Region is SE plus Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Rivers and Bayelsa. And remember it was d Eastern Region that rejected any idea on independence for d Eastern minorities in their region, even when d Wilinks commission recommended creation of Calabar Ogoja Rivers state, d Eastern regiin leadership rejected it while d western region allowed d creation of Midwestern region. But today old Eastern Region still has more states than old Western region yet u are still complaining. Why do u guys complain over everything? As for use of landmass or otherwise to create states, let's leave landmass, what about population? That's d main criteria anywhere in d world. In terms of population does d SE which is by far d least deserve more states than d other zones? Capital No, they are already over represented, d number of lawmakers they have in d NASS per person is by far d most. On d north having d most states and their military rulers using their position to favour them, that's d price we in d South paid for our lack of unity. In 1959 before independence, d South had d chance to lock in d new nation in our favour. NCNC under Zik and AG under Awo could had united to form a coalition govt and taken over Nigeria. Awo even offered Zik d Premiership during negotiations but while discussions were still on, Zik went to NPC and surrendered premiership to them and took d figurehead Governor General/Ceremonial President. That's how d north took over Nigeria. It was d fault of Zik and NCNC led by Igbos. The 1966 coup was an attempt by mainly Igbo military officers to remedy that anomaly but it failed resulting in d unfortunate civil war where d Igbos were again on d loosing side. So bro in life, u can't get on d negotiating table what u lost in war. The north now has d controlling numbers and sealed it with d 1999 constitution. Can u go to war again with them to take it by force? You will again lose cos they are very much entrenched in d military. Best bet is to continue to use persuasion and stealth, and hard diplomacy cos bravado will not take u any where. Assuming d SE was like d Niger Delta which has oil deep in her region, a form of blackmail would had worked but none of that. That's why u have been doing sit at home for four years and no one really give a hoot about u. I tell u if Niger Delta states declare sit at home and d people are complying, d Nigerian state will panic and find some resolution. Such is life, all fingers are not equal, know ypur strengths and weaknesses and dont over reach yourself. Kind regards
The mentaity of use sharing as parameter to create states is what you have; share the resources in the oli and gas producing areas of the Niger delta region which also includes the Imo, Anambra and Abia states. Use that mentality to proliferate states in regions with higher population, that is all in your mindset. Why don't you sign up for true and fiscal federalism in zonal or regional government system now? This way, every zone or region determines its own administrative units to share its resources? During the Obasanjo administration National Political Reforms Conference, the SW team joined hands with the northern team to refuse the minimal increase in percentage allocation to oil producing areas for derivation. The Conference ended at that point of refusal.
ariesbull: Lord bless you for seeing the bigger picture and it's the stupid ORLU,IMO PEOPLE are distracting us with their stupid ORLU state that everyone has rejected ...from Anambra to Abia
When Anioma is trying to join Igbo these idiots are bent on fragmentation of Igbo land
Every sensible Igbo should stop this Orlu state madness and ensure Anioma and other Igbo speaking areas outside South East comes under one umbrella
Igbo land is huge ! We can't allow them to destroy our people
Tell your leaders and politicians.
Every senseless Igbo is proposing for Anioma to be removed from the southsouth and become part of the SE zone.
Every parochial Igbo is not interested in carving a 6th state in the SE where it's merited; whereas no brilliant Igbo will ask for Anioma to be part of the SE. And more number of brilliant Igbos are in Parliament asking for a sixth state in the SE; they never asked, and will NEVER ask, for Anioma to be transferred to the SE as 6th state. Because that's being stupeed. Senseless Igbos are online with Facebook demand for Anioma to be made a state and transferred to the SE. Perhaps there are as many Igbos as much as non Igbos in Anioma area. One time Chinedu Nwoko who changed his name to Ned Nwoko to avoid identification as Igbo, went to his Facebook to wish Anioma to be relocated to the SE. An Anioma state in the Southsouth serves the interests of Nd'Igbo better.
MrEverest: You were making sense before until you tried to reduce your argument by saying it’s Imo people that are against Anioma state. That’s fallacy.
You people don’t even understand what they’re trying to do to with that devilish proposal. It’s worse than what they did after the civil war by removing Obigbo from Abia and carving out oil communities from Imo into Rivers State. Look at that map again. They’re planning to remove Ohaji, Egbema and Oguta from Imo state/SE and put them in SS. These areas have the largest gas deposits in Africa! The same wicked Yoruba man contracted by Tinubu to do this proposal added parts of Kwara and Edo into SW but they refused to add Anioma and parts of Rivers into SE, instead they decided to reduce us further and even remove our most important oil and gas bearing areas like they did after the war.
This evil proposal is enough to cause outrage but Igbos are even keeping quiet. If we keep quiet, they will carry it out and in a few years time, people in those areas will tell you they’re not Igbos but SS.
Let’s fight this evil and stop chasing shadows. Ohanaeze, SE senators and representatives should immediately condemn that proposal and demand for Anioms state. Yorubas have proven they’re our worse enemies than even North.
Because people like you in Igboland hide under parochial interest to propose fallacy is reason why Yoruba and North will succeed in further removing oil and gas areas in Igboland and join them to southdouth.
You refuse to accept the FACT that a 6th state for the southeast must be located between Imo and Anambra States, or be created for the 12 local government areas in Orlu senatorial zone, judging from the history of states creation in the SE. Kwontinue to hide in the non existent "bring Igbos outside the SE to join the SE," instead of telling people that you don't want Orlu senatorial zone with the largest reserve of gas deposits in Nigeria, to be carved out from present Imo State. You feign ignorance of the fact that Igbos in outside the SE are still Igbos, irrespective of the zone they are in. You feign ignorance of the fact that having Anioma ond other Igbos in other zones is at a strategic interest of the Igbos everywhere.
Remind her that her husband campaigned for about 12 years for political restructuring of Nigeria.
What is Tinubu as president waiting for before he sets the committee to return zonal orregional governance system with true and fiscal federalism to Nigeria?
SoNature: Nigerians can still correct this mistake of a president we have today by voting for Peter Obi in 2027 if we genuinely want this country to work.
cjrane: All Igbo-speaking people, especially the Anioma, should be united in the same region as their Southeast kinsmen, just as efforts are made to bring all Yoruba-speaking people into the new Southwest region.
Labeling Delta Igbos as Yoruba-Igbos or Ijaw-Igbos is unjust, similar to how Yorubas in Kwara and Kogi are not called Fulani-Yorubas; the proposed new regions unfairly divide Igbo-speaking areas while cleverly consolidating Yoruba areas.
Anioma people, though not historically part of the Southeast, are still seen and treated as Igbos by Nigerians, as evidenced by their treatment during the Civil War. Denying Anioma's Igbo identity is ineffective and weakens our position; unity among all Igbo people is essential for collective recognition, and allowing people to be with their kinsmen. Similar to how Yorubas in Kwara and Kogi are being united with their kith and kin into the new Southwest region.
Let us return Owerri to East Central State. You will refuse vehemently. Be careful. This is not 2006. You can easily be identified in 2024. Owerri stripped Orlu naked in Imo state because of long time belief by Owerri that Orlu will not be in Imo state for too long. Orlu zone is suffering from that. Enuf said.
Ezewuzie01: Anioma state is moving majestically to the permanent site while Orlu state has been vehemently resisted and rejected by all people of goodwill
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Stop this creating Anioma threads upandan. No miracle can make Anioma a state before Orlu state.
Ned Nwoko denied Igbo by changing name to Ned. He has never been a politician. He is now trying to build his political base by acting on the sentiments of few uninitiated people in Anioma. Igbos ask for additional state in the southeast, not in the Southsouth.
Love ❤️ to Igbos in Anioma, love ❤️ to non Igbos in Anioma.
AbujaCitiBlog: Will you shut up? Some of you idiots reason from your anus! What have you done to Delta Igbos to give them confidence that they are Igbos? Foolish fool! It's idiots like you that they manipulate to constantly show hatred to our brothers and sisters in other states outside South East region!
Tell me, what does your nonsensical Orlu State add to South East? What does it add? Fool!
Does Orlu State add any extra land space or economical viability to South East? What of political viability?
Look I don't suffer fools gladly. I dislike people who reason from their anus! The brain exists for a reason. Stop being silly!
Try and understand strategy. Anioma State will add economically, politically and extra land space for South East! Your stupidity Orlu State will not add any of those.
When the time comes, the chicken will come to roost! Let the state be created first.
You were born and brought up in the gutters. Sharap. No normal persons indulge in argument with your sort.
cjrane: Governor Hope Uzodinma and other self-serving politicians from Orlu LGA are pushing the "Orlu State" agenda for their own gain.
Their scheme aims to create a personal fiefdom to plunder and establish themselves as warlords. The most outrageous part is their plan to forcibly annex huge parts of Anambra State (Ihiala, Uga, Amaeshi, Umuchu, Achina, Oneh, Nkpologwu, Uli, Akpo, Azia, Umunze, Ihembosi, Okija, Lilu, Nnewi South LGA communities Ukpor, Ebenator, Ezinifite, Unubi, Ekwulumili, etc) into their corrupt agenda. This move would marginalize these communities and permanently brand them as "Ndi-Anambra of Orlu State."
It's a blatant power grab with no regard for the people's will or welfare. This madness must be stopped!
In order not to be identified as Igbo, Chinedu Nwoko changed his name to Ned Nwoko and gathered favour from rest of Nigeria beginning after the civil war till today.
A lot of the other ethnic groups in Anioma don't accept that they are Igbos. How do you want to deny the southeast area what it deserves and has been asking for since 1996 when Abacha created the last states, took the sixth state that was supposed to be Njaba state proposal (same as this Orlu state proposal) to make the 7th state in the NW area?
A saner person would not want to call you people mad, people who are saying Anioma should be the 6th state in the southeast. It's poor education that makes you people believe that the level of insult you dish out to your opponents in an argument, wins you the argument.
There is no thinking Igbo in the southeast area who cannot see that making Anioma become the 6th state in the southeast area actually reduces political representation in Abuja for Nd'Igbo. Has Chinedu Nwoko, alias NED Nwoko, ever identified with the Igbo in the southeast? What has Ned Nwoko done in the southeast to identify with Nd'Igbo in the southeast?
Bulldozer90: How is Anioma "in charge" of sharing derivatives in Delta? Enemies within of Ndigbo like you are quickly unraveling themselves because of petty selfish interest. Both the national political reform conference and the 2014 confab recommended an additional state for the south east and not an additional state in the south east. The proponent of orlu state is an over ambitious young man who wants a little empire that'll afford him the opportunity of occupying juicy political position and assigning political patronage to cronies, That's all. Greed and selfishness has blinded him from seeing the overall Igbo interest which Anioma state represents. It is much more than sharing derivative or getting FG as there'll soon be resource control, and the Anioma is blessed with oil and gas too. It's about increasing Igbo influence which will lead to greater prosperity for the region. Igboland remain Igboland whichever region they fall but that argument is deceptive considering that "divide and rule" changes the interests of non-south east Igbos and weakens the general Igbo political and economic clout needed to bargain for a better position in the federation. An expanded Southeast will make the region stronger to attract other non south east Igbos into the region for integration and faster development.
You can see your likes are the ones deceiving our people. To think you even call people with contrary opinion "apolitical" makes it funnier.
The 2014 CONFAB you referenced recommended up to 4 new states in the southeast and in other zones. You invented the "for" and "in" to suit your parochial interest. States are created for even development and political representation. Asaba was a mere little urban town when Delta state was created. Agbor was a mere roadside rural town when Delta state was created. Today, Asaba is chasing Enugu in modern development and urban expansion. Agbor is chasing Awka in level of urban development and urban expansion. Nkwere or Umuaka in Orlu senatorial district of Imo state was nearly of similar level of modern develooment with Agbor then. Orlu was of similar Divisional headquarters like Asaba when Delta state was created. The differences in the levels of modern development between Asaba and Orlu were slight when Delta state was created. But today, Nkwere and Umuaka have hardly added any modern development since then. Today, Agbor has expanded with modern development infrastructures many times more than Orlu.
So why would anyone who says he loves Igbo hide under "let's bring all Igbos (Anioma State) to the southeast," knowing full well that it's to make Imo West (Orlu) senatorial zone remain under developed? Who wants Asaba, Agbor and other fast developing towns in Anioma to stop their benefits in resources rich Delta state, and come to struggle for survival in the southeast area? Think.
Creating Anioma State in place of the deserved 6th state in the southeast area doesn’t make sense. It’s like Anioma which is in charge of sharing the plenty 13% derivative for Delta state from federal allocations, but wants to abandon the sharer role to join a place where it will become starved; it's like using a trick of "take us Anioma to the southeast zone" to diminish political representation for Nd'Igbo in the National Assembly, FEC, and in distribution of federal government development projects. Federal development projects are mostly shared according to zones. Anioma as 6th southeast state to share federal projects with the other states in the Southeast area is a great cheating to the existing states of the southeast area. Only the most apolitical Igbos in the southeast area can be deceived with the slogan of "join us Anioma to our kit and kin in the southeast." Ala Igbo is Ala Igbo whether in Anioma or in Rivers state or in other states. We cannot expand Ala Igbo through making Anioma a 6th state in the southeast area. Presidential Election results are not decided according to zones, but according to states. A presidential candidate must win 25% of votes in 24 of the 36 states of Nigeria before declared winner. Not decided according to zones. Anioma state can come after a sixth state is created in the Southeast area. It's like lowering political representation in Abuja for Nd'Igbo if Anioma State is made to be a sixth state in the southeast area.
"During Goodluck Jonathan, your voice was so loud"
Eedris Abdulkareem 'drags'Pastor Adeboye.
Lol. They want to use Nnamdi Kalu continued detention to drag Igbos to another civil war to complete the obliteration of Igbos. But Igbos are not playing into their hands. A country at war against itself. What their desire for total control of oil and gas deposits in the Niger delta region cannot cause in Nigeria is yet to unfold.
Melagros: COMRADES, as long as tinubu remains incompetent, the military under his leadership cannot solve the challenges of insecurity in Nigeria
That's now President Tinubu who for more than 12 years campaigned all over the SW region for political restructuring of Nigeria.
Bandis are offshoots of Boko Haram in war campaign for a country to be governed with Sharia criminal laws, the same laws adopted by the political and religious leaders in the sharia states of northern Nigeria. Separationists in the SE and SW don't want a country to be governed with Sharia criminal laws.
Even a dimwt must tell that restructuring Nigeria to regional or zonal government system with fiscal federalism in practice, shall end the drive for a country to be governed with Sharia criminal laws, as well as end the secessionist groups intentions.
".... fight secessionist agitation and ... in the South-east." ---- Army Chief.
Army General must have been educated. You don't fight unarmed secessionist agitators. The only way civilised persons and countries fight secessionist agitators is through Restructuring the country's politics. Even Great Britain is still Restructuring its politics but doesn't send the army to fight secessionist Scotland. Nigeria army first started to kill secessionist agitators who were praying in a church in Aba, and followed by Operation Python Dance. The conflicts that followed have been how Nigeria army under Buhari administration wanted it. Hopefully, Tinubu government will not exacerbate the conflict. situation in the southeast.
"By this time, all 19 maintenance boys (the majority of whom are northerners who left home because of terror experiences) were already present at the office." Well, there are too many more northerns now in the south since the adoption of sharia criminal laws and subsequent Boko Haram and bandits emergence. That is another way to form a nation for Nigeria through mixture of all the groups that earlier formed Nigeria in 1960.
ariesbull: Stop being myopic we have lots of things to gain bring anioma...as an Igbo man the thing I noticed is that the problem with many of I especially those in South East is that of stupidity...nwanne Abu m onye Igbo ...from Anambra ndi Igbo Na ezuzu ezuzu...trust me and You are number one
River Nigeria isn't the natural boundary demarcating South East
Why isn't River Niger in Niger State stop Niger State from being in North ....why isn't they not in South west
Why don't River Benue stop Benue from being in North Central with Adamawa and Nasarawa above the river
But when it comes to Igbo...you limit it to river Niger....why do we have lots of stupid Igbo that have refused to understand the need to bring Igbo in other regions back to one fold which is Igbo land...Igbo land extends more than South East
So why don't you use your brain and stop limiting yourselves...read this map...I am sorry if you didn't do geography but read this map and know the coordinates
Kwusi nzuzu everyday
Igala man Chino with hundred handles here. I told you earlier that I have started to ignore your comments.
Unbiased1: Let's look at it from an unbiased point of view. The only benefit Orlu state gives the Igbo people is equal representatives in the Senate and house of representatives. On the flip side, Anioma state has far more benefits:
1) It brings together the Igbo communities that were separated from the Igbo heartland in 1939.
2) Just like Orlu state, it gives the Igbo people equal representatives in the Senate and House of Representatives.
3) It adds about 2 million people to the population of the South East thereby giving us a huge boost during elections.
4) It will also increase the landmass of the South East.
5) 6 out of 9 local government areas in Anioma have Oil and Gas, Anioma state will add more wealth to the South East unlike Orlu state that has always been part of the East.
There is nothing like govt of the southeast. So what do you want to achieve by bringing Igbo people in Anioma together with the Southeast? Or are we to shift River Niger from its current position towards Benin?
What do you mean by getting more 2 million votes for the Southeast by bringing Anioma into the southeast? Votes are counted in presidential election according to states. A presidential candidate needs to win 25% of votes in 2/3 of 36 states; not zones. It's like actually reducing Igbo representation in the NASS if Anioma State is made the 6th state in the southeast.
People in the southeast don't have to spite themselves as they are apparently spiteful on the name Orlu state.
Make una continue to use abstract reasons to deny the Imo West Senatorial district which merits the 6th state in the southeast.
Before long, Nigeria will tell you people that Igbos want to kill themselves because of 6th state, therefore, nothing like creating new state. Una go begin shout Igbo marginalisation, no Lefelendum, no Biafla.