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Trill2b:
10 positive things that would quickly happen if Nigeria restructures...

I had never been a fan of the restructuring debate mainly because I had not really thought much about it. However, the more I ruminate on it the more excited I get (since I choose to see the good in every situation).

Going back to the national structure of 1960 before the military did their work might not be a bad idea o. Stay with me...

If Nigeria restructures into regions/provinces (i.e Northern, Middle Belt, Western, Eastern and South-South) and the FCT, I see (predict?) 10 positive things that would happen in quick succession (primarily due to inter-province competition)...

1. The first province to experience economic explosion would obviously be the Western Province. The Odudua Master plan will be revealed. There would be trans-regional 4g internet fiber connection/rail/subways/highways/power grids etc. Yoruba will become the 2nd official language. They are relatively united. They have oil. They own academia. They have mega corporations. The WP would be the first to have stable 24/7 power supply! Foreign money will flood the province. More Forbes recognised billionaires will arise. Some of them will be internet billionaires. Lagos will be relieved a little from overpopulation as railway lines from other states will make living elsewhere and working in Lagos a breeze.

2. The Northern Province will have stronger islamic laws. Sharia will be entrenched and this will make the NP become the least corrupt province. The middle east (Arab) nations will move in to partner with them, bringing major development. Jaiz bank and Unity Bank will become mega banks. Arabic and Hausa will compete with English for dominance in schools. This province will generate more solar power than any other province. After the west, this province will be the 2nd to have 24/7 electricity. They will start exporting food as a major revenue generator.

3. The Middle Belt Province will have a development conference. Focus will be given to solid minerals development/exports, tourism development and food production/exports. This will become a food hub in West Africa. They will export more food than any other province. Mega mining and food corporations will arise. This province will have foreign inflows through tourism development greater than any other province. It will host the most beautiful places to live in Nigeria.

4. The Eastern Province will transform into the Auto Industry Hub of Africa. Indigenous manufacturing of vehicles that will start competing with foreign vehicles will commence in earnest. This will grow to manufacturing of aeroplanes, helicopters, tractors, cranes, heavy duty construction equipment etc. Forbes recognised billionaires living in Anambra will arise. The Biafra agitation will fizzle out since formation of the EP will be seen as a Biafra success in another form. There would be so much development that villages (as we currently know them) will quickly cease to exist. This province will be the first to semi-urbanize all their rural areas as all the Igbos living abroad will rush back to take advantage of the changes.

5. The South-South Province will take the Uyo blueprint and run with it. An abundance of oil wealth and opening up of major sea ports at Rivers and Uyo will enable this region to revamp their infrastructure quickly. There will be more monorails here than anywhere else. This will be the 3rd province to achieve 24/7 electricity generation in Nigeria (mainly from gas turbine technology).

6. With provincial security forces in control, kidnapping, Armed robbery, Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen and the Niger delta militancy attacks will all fizzle out. Nigeria will become the most secure and peaceful African nation; thus attracting more foreigners.

7. Each Province will have their own airline professionally managed. And with better roads/rail, air and land transport costs will crash.

8. With the rapid development occurring all over, Nigerias GDP will shoot up. Obtaining visas to travel out will become easy as more people will want to come in than go out. A worldwide immigration into Nigeria will commence, as Nigerians living abroad will be struggling with foreigners to enter the country. ''Nigeria will become the most desirable Nation to live in"

9. The central government at the FCT will become smaller and less powerful. There will be a mini-exodus from Abuja to the provinces as the action is now elsewhere. The outskirts of Abuja will no longer be heavily overpopulated. Abuja will become awesome again.

10. The 10th positive thing that would quickly happen is?...

Sharing/Comments are welcome...

What a beautiful and fore sighted analysis.
If this political restructuring is done, Boko Haram will disappear.


Biafra agitation will disappear.

Militancy in the Niger delta will disappear.

Badoo in the SW will disappear.


Kidnapping and armed robbery and 419 shall be effectively policed.


But will the eaters from the present rotten political system from the east, west, north and south of Nigeria, with their international collaborators who also benefit from the chaos in Nigeria, agree to this restructuring?

.NB: I am a staunch believer in the agitation for restoration of Biafra.

Him, him, him. He, he, he. I saw him, spoke with him, him him. He, he, he.......


VP Osinbajo never mentioned President Muhammadu Buhari all his interview.

Mr VP Sir, who was this he and him you spoke about?

malware:
WHO BROUGHT SHERIFF IN THE FIRST PLACE

The Buhari cabal brought in Sheriff's PDP

PDP of Sheriff was like another branch of APC.

Sheriff's PDP was meant to leave Nigeria as a one party APC controlled by Fulani/Hausa/Kanuri for so many decades to come.

koladebrainiac:
you think getting cof o in lagos is bread and beans abi even when u have dollars

Because you knew right from the beginning that one Nigeria shall be impossible.
That's why Biafrans say: take your Lagos, let Biafra be.

Even in London or Los Angeles, foreigners easily get CofO to build houses.

koladebrainiac:
https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/general/-70-of-plateau-s-new-certificates-of-occupancy-for-igbo/204799.html

Tricksters.

This was how then Minister El-Rufai told Igbos to take Abuja as Igbo's sixth state, as Igbo politicians were asking for sixth state in the SE then.
Only a most selfish Igbo who has no regard for the future of his offspring and unborn generation in One Nigeria can allow his Landed properties outside Igbo land to blind him against Biafra restoration.

Specialspesh:
Read below the press statement released by Sam Onwuemeodo, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rochas Okorocha.

Governor Rochas Okorocha has banned traditional rulers in the State from speaking English at functions and in conducting affairs at their palaces and directed that they must talk in Igbo at functions and Conduct activities in their palaces in Igbo, adding that they Could employ the services of interpreters if the need arises.

Governor Okorocha gave the directive while handing over letters of recognition and staff of office to Nineteen (19) newly recognized traditional rulers in the State, adding that Igbo language must not be allowed to die as been predicted in some quarters.

The governor also told the traditional rulers in the State to be agents of peace, progress, and prosperity in their respective domain instead of being tools of disunity and destabilization, warning that any traditional ruler who could not show genuine leadership in his autonomous Community stands the risk of having his Certificate of Recognition and Staff of Office withdrawn.

His words “Today, history is made that light has come and darkness would not comprehend at all. The truth has surfaced and the right people have finally become the Custodian of the traditional right of their people. You are not permitted to speak English at functions. This will help keep our Culture and Igbo language alive”.

He continued “For many years now, most of you have been looking for a day like this. Some of you were victims of injustice and never believed that this could be possible and most of you have been waiting without knowing your fate. But today, it is a manifest of truth that your people have chosen you, and the government of Imo State has approved”.

He further stated “I took the bold step of reconciling people, took the step to ensure that truth came to be and voided the rancour that has existed in our various communities over ezeship title. This has equally affected the Community Government Council (CGC) negatively because every community requires an Eze to function effectively as the head of the Community Government Council. Today, that responsibility has fallen on you, I urge you not to fail as failure is not an option. I encourage you to help the government in developing the resources of our land as posterity will only remember you for your positive contributions in the development of your community and not in how much wealth you enmassed as an eze”.

He added “Remember that to whom much is given much is expected. This whole exercise you must understand is not an election or appointment to enable you distinguish between those who love you and those who hate you. Today, you are an Eze, and you must be the Eze for everyone both those against you and those who were for you. I advise you to take all of them along and embrace peace. Your first assignment should be to invite those who were against you to make peace in your land as no Eze can function effectively if there is no peace in your land”.

He continued “Today, you join several Ezes in the Communities of Imo State. You are now addressed as royal fathers and members of Imo State Traditional Council which its right is given to you until death, unless you act in such a manner that you are found wanting before the members of this society”.

He explained that “The essence of Ezeship is not in the title of being called HRM or HRH, it’s in what you have been able to do to change your society for good. You have to understand that you have enormous responsibilities, Ezeship is not an easy job, it attracts enmity and takes all your time”.

In his vote of thanks, Eze Lucky Ajoku of Ihiagwa Autonomous Community, described the governor as an apostle of good conscience and equity and promised that they will embrace peace and help the government attain the lofty ideals of the Community Government Councils in their various communities.

The Ezes given their Staff of Office and letters of recognition are:
HRH D.E.C Onyebuagu - (Ibiasuegbe Autonomous (Oru West), HRH Ifeanyi Kenneth Aguneto - (Umueze/Abaza Ogwa (Mbaitolu), HRH Charles Anyakudo - (Ekwe (Isu LGA), HRH Ugo Ndubueze Donatus - (Umunokwu, Okwuato Aboh Mbaise), HRH Athanasius Ezekwe - (Enyiogugu), HRH James Nnamdi - (Ngurunweke Aboh Mbaise), HRH Francis Anukwu - (Avuvu Ancient Kingdom, Ikeduru), HRH J.C. Ebii - (Umunama-ala Ezinihitte), HRH Jude Alozie - (Onicha Nworie Ezinihitte), HRH Val Nwoke - (Ejemekwuru Oguta), HRH Boniface Uzoma - (Abba Nwangele), HRH Ukachukwu Nnanna - (Dioka Nzerem Mbano), HRH Pius Onyekwere - (Nnarambia Ahiazu Mbara), HRH Lucky Ajoku - (Ihiagwa Owerri West), HRH Christopher Amadi - (Okolochi Owerri West), HRH James Ezerioha - (Ihite Owerre, Orlu), HRH Basil Anyanwu - (Umuhu Ngor-Okpala), HRH Leonard Aguocha - (Umuohiagu Ngor-Okpala), HRH Eze Frankline A. Dabirinze – (Uzoagba).

http://www.cambellsblog.com/2017/07/governor-okorocha-bans-igbo-traditional.html

In the last fours years, except during the 2015 elections, Okorocha has not stepped out from Owerri to any other local govt area in Imo state to perform any official development function.


Google it.
Imagine Okorocha talking about speaking Igbo, when he does not even care for the Igbos entrusted to his care, except the ones living in Owerri.

Last week, Okorocha told the heads of his Owerri City Schools to use cut-off marks to admit students..
Does that not mean that those students who can't make the cut-off marks be sent back to rest of Imo state which Okorocha officially declared as rural villages?

Okorocha works as Mayor of Owerri, not as governor of Imo state, since 2013.

Dumaknesset:
The days they force Lagos salty beach water down your throat, you will also realise that IPod's that contribute least to federal till are thieves for wanting to hamstrung Nigerian into giving them presidency of Nigeria by there sudden found Zionism.

I bet you have heard of reverse zoo, You iPod's are the wild animals and we are watching you cannibalis the remainder of your wretched self worths.

Lol.

Just after one little push, you now condescend to the level of a semi-literate and nagging house wife. Before now, you paraded yourself here as an anti-Biafra intellectual powerhouse.

Go and sleep.
Agitation for restoration of Biafra is a subject beyond the understanding of those of you who believe that crude oil is all there is for a country to survive. Unity beggars.

Dumaknesset:
WS only stated obvious, Biafran is based on a brash and deadly foundation. It is a concept steep ed in blood, needless deaths on both side of the divide.Biafra has been further denatured and sullied with opportunistic upstart and mentally marauded morons. Biafra is concept and philosophy screwed up to self-stultify. Igbo's can give a pristine version of Biafra, one created with essentials replete with respect for others, respect for the rule of law, other dissenting views with rendition of cerebral superior arguments not lumpen laden travesty of intelligence been propagated by dim witted iPods. Are there no deep and robust intellectuals in Igbo nation that can take the gauntlet.

The day they force crude oil down your throat in the Nigerdelta, all these your false entitlement to intellectual prowess shall disappear. You then start to face the reality of the present, which is: you or those whose interest you represent have taken about 50 years of booty from the Niger delta region. Now is time to stop.

Dumaknesset:
With the what you have just typed. the typos, syntax and grammatical shellings, judge yourself who needs a Doctor between the two us.

Breaking it down, the present day version of Biafra is flawed and will fail, present a better version galvanized with superior Intellectual fervour. I hope you get it now. Omotegwu

With person of pseudo-intellect of your sort, nothing really can ever be done through.

successinlife:
Kettle calling pots black!!!, China Achebe and Nnamdi Azikiwe the greats did not do more than Soyinka to support biafra secession.Till date high ranked politicians of igbo extract are still supporting one Nigeria.Charity begins at home.If igbo people trully want to be go their elders must unite and support it.Goodluck Jonathan left power two years ago,why didn't the igbos push for breakup when he was the president,2010 - 2015.

The "high rank Igbos" still supporting one Nigeria?


Tell your self the truth: are the Igbo leaders in politics of Nigeria representing the interest of the majority Igbo? No. They represent only their personal political interest. Just like Wike, Okowa, and Dickson represent their personal political interest.

lilytender:
The Muslim woman is too sluggish. I am a Muslim, if you are bold enough to come and spit on my face, then I will also be bold enough to send you to the hospital with my fist. I pray for those who pray for me and curse those who curse me. I am not Jesus, only Jesus prayed for his enemies. If any animal in human skin try that nonsense with me, that idiot will open his/her eyes after about a week in hospital. We are used to the tag, he is a Muslim and a terrorist, so I wont think one before teaching the idiot a lesson of his/her life.

Prison candidate in a normal country. Loool.

Somebody spat on your face, you beat the person to land in hospital. Prison then is your destination. The person who spat on your face goes home a free person.

Fanaticism doesn't pay. You hear

lilytender:
Like your Catholic sisters below.

White men of today are better than black Africans.

At some point, white people saw that colonising other countries is not good.

They left.


But in black Africa, some groups not only colonize others, they shoot and kill those colonized.


Sudan and Ethiopia are not black Africans. That's where after a fight with little casualties, a referendum was agreed upon to settle.

But in black Nigeria, two million people have been killed over what could have been settled with simple referendum. Blackened Minds in Nigeria seem to be willing to kill more, instead of referendum.


The white woman spitting must have been irritated. Oyibo no de react like that without provocation.

etzskillz:
may London bridge fall on d racist

But wearing hijab and burqa in ever busy London streets. You risk brushing someone unknowingly, the person gets angry and spits at you. Or you get knocked down by bicycles, or even motor vehicle.

London and Mecca are not the same.

taylor88:
BIAFRA 70% loading






proudly rivers man

Biafra loading? Lol.

Abuja shall soon dish out huge sums of money to bribe the SS governors away from any cooperation with the SE.


In the last two months, many SS leaders have been bribed heavily to openly denounce Biafra.

If one complains about Okorocha's strange way of Owerri only is Imo state, his aides shall show the photos of the three kilometer roads which Okorocha government asphalted in 2012 and divided into two with bricks in Orlu and Okigwe.

Malawian:
Truth be told, I dont know if Rochas is a charlatan or the real deal. Owerri will be a first class city if this continues, just that the rest of Imo suffers.

Owerri cannot be a first class city as rest of Imo state suffers. At best, Owerri shall become an overcrowded city with all sorts of crimes, social vices, urban ghettos.

Americans, Europeans, Asians, even Nigeria's federal government and other 35 state governors in Nigeria didn't face development of one city, but abandon their other cities - as it's in today's Imo state.

CROWNWEALTH019:
The fear of the Lion from the east

Wow. stay awake for their Resolution which shall be: {we are not in support of Biafra agitation}

There are seven or eight of them, but people agitating for Biafra are in tens of millions. The seven or eight of them still believe they are representing the tens of millions of people asking for Biafra.

x240:
You dey mind her?

It is people like her that have not left their villages and visited places that make mouth and just talk rubbish. Nothing even warranted such statement. I have been to nothing less than 24 states in Nigeria and aside Prolly Enugu, some parts of Onitsha, Owerri before you get to those FUTO side. Most parts of the east are just localised areas with poverty ravaged streets and undevelopment. Pass theough Orlu and see poverty with adjoining villages looking like ghost towns with old women on bicycles tying their kids legs to the spoke so they don't fall off while returning from the farm or is it market. I had a fellow corper also make mouth back then about their place being like London and i passed through the village once on my way to Calabar and the best building there was a market square built by Maryam Babaginda' Family support programme some 2 decades back. Umuahia with keke overrunning everywhere even the narrow roads leading to the Governor house is not spared with overlooking slums and whatnot.

So what point is she exactly trying to make?

U said pass through Orlu and see poverty with adjoining villages abandoned, old people tying children.....



That's is APC legacy in Imo State.


Before 2011, Orlu used to be a highly populated city with new banks opening nearly every six months since 2004.


APC came and built three dual carriage roads in Orlu totaling about 4km and said Orlu is now like a state capital. APC demolished existing infrastructure in Orlu, including , stadium, roads, etc. Large population emigrated to the state capital.

No more development infrastructure. No new banks, some banks even closed shop in Orlu since APC.

I thought GEJ would be beside her.

conductor10:
Paid minions. Tell China to merge with Pakistan if their citizens support this shithole called Nigeria.

.... let them merge China to Indonesia.

Let's see how such a merger of different value systems and religious beliefs can ever work as a country.

The merger/amalgamation in Nigeria was known to be a potential failure, even before the amalgamation.

sunnyb0b0:
Boko Haram number 1, Fulani herdsmen number 4.

Any easterner who wants to continue to share one country containing the northern Nigeria where these two terrorist groups originate, that easterner needs a psychiatrist test.

ERockson:
When Arewa youth speak, Igbo tremble

How many Igbo even remain in north after the Boko Haram caused exodus of southerners from north? Very tiny.

Who is afraid of northern almajiris?

Today's set-up is not like that of 1967.

Yerima must be leading his Arewa youths back to farm groundnuts.

0b10010011:
Kanu that has been injected in Kuje

He has few time to leave

He will die in his very own comfort

Arewa shud save themselves the stress and let the toxin finish it's work

Massage your self. Biafra needs to be restored in life time

These Arewa people reason like they live in the 18th Century.

Now they say the stand of the "selected" south east governors for restructuring is commendable.


Where were the Arewa people during the last twenty years people were yearning for restructuring?


On restoration of Biafra is what millions of Biafrans stand. No shake.

LionDeLeo:
Afonjas aren't complaining, so fold ur opinion properly and shove it up ur a$$, at least that shouldn't be strange to you.

How can Afonjas find their voices to complain?

Afonjas are nearly equally divided between Muslim and non-Muslim groups.

The Muslim Afonja group which leads Afonja politically looks forward to the descendants of Othman Dan Fodio in northern Nigeria for directions.


Afonja Muslims can't imagine Afonja having another country without the descendants of Othman Dan Fodio.

So how can Afonjas get together like the Biafrans to complain about failed Nigeria, talk less, Afonjas ever having the opportunity to plan to leave Nigeria?

LionDeLeo:
Ipobs - we want biafla, nothing more nothing less.

Ohanaeze - we want restructuring not break up.

Chairman SE gov Forum - we are not ready for restructuring

SE senators - We stand with one Nigeria.

Ndigbo - Arewa youths cannot "drive" us from the north.

Just imagine the cacophony emanating from people who want to be taken serious.

Dude, you are on blackmail mission.

The stand of a huge majority of Ndigbo is for Biafra.


Ohaneze and governors and legislators from Igbo do not add up to 200 persons.


Dude, believe in democracy.

Doctuur:
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja

The President-General of Ndigbo apex organisation, Ohanaeze, Chief John Nwodo, on Friday, said despite the relentless agitation of youths from the South-East, the Igbo preferred restructuring of the country to total break-up.

A statement made available to journalists in Abuja quoted Nwodo as saying this while addressing a cross-section of Ndigbo leaders in Abuja on Thursday.



Nwodo reportedly told them that no ethnic group had more stakes in the Nigerian project than the Igbo and as such could not consider disintegration as a viable option.

The Ohanaeze leader said there was no part of the country where Ndigbo had not invested their resources, even without corresponding investment in Igboland.

He said while Ohanaeze understood and appreciated the circumstances that prompted the agitations for secession by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra and the Indigenous People of Biafra, Igbo leaders did not consider secession as a reasonable option.

The statement read, “He (Nwodo) said that restructuring will bring Nigeria to a level where every person of any tribe, religion or class, would have a sense of belonging and in return, give their best for the development of the country.”

According to the statement, Nwodo was in Abuja to meet with critical stakeholders in the Igbo project to have their understanding and be on the same page with them.

Nwodo also announced that steps were being taken by the body to carry the youth of the region along and ensure that Igbo people have a common and unified position on the way forward.

He insisted that equal partnership, ownership and a level playing ground for all was the right way to go to getting the best out of people and setting the country on the path of growth and development.


http://punchng.com/we-prefer-restructuring-not-break-up-ohanaeze/

Nwodo prefers restructuring to break-up of Nigeria.

......the above should have been the title of the story.

Nwodo needs to wait for another 100 years before Nigeria is politically restructured.

Truth is that millions of Igbos don't know Nwodo and his Ohaneze group.

MrDonfranko:
Hon. Dr. Ifeanyi Nwachukwu, the National Coordinator of Rochas People's Movement (RPM) paid a condolence visit to the family of Late Sir Columba Odidiaso M. Agunenye KSM.

The burial ceremony held on the 7th of July 2017 at Late Sir Columba's residence in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo state.

Hon. Nwachukwu led a delegation of the RPM South East coordinators and LGA coordinators from Imo state for the condolence visit. Members of Rochas People's Movement (RPM) came in their numbers as the wife of Late Sir Columba is the state woman leader of RPM.

Inukwa!! Rochas People Movement in Orlu kwa!!!

Look at the dusty road they march on. About 98% of roads in Orlu urban are like that.

But Rochas has been building Inland roads in Owerri, no body lives along the roads.

Rochas deliberately subjected thousands of people living along the dusty roads in Orlu to dust, and possible lung disease for six years running.

In the last five years, Rochas Okorocha has not set foot in Orlu for any official function, except during the election of 2015.

Kondomatic:
Why are you this wicked?


People exposed their breast for the public to see and you're censoring it. Is it your breast?



I am giving you 2 minutes to give us a link to this video or the anger of the gods will fall on you.

The other woman thrown under was sucking both breasts, nothing for you.

No be prick de cause the fight? Prick causes this type of fight between two women like these neighbours.

But not even one of the watchers of the fight, including family members, could know the cause of the fight.

Oil money is there to buy another one.
Instead of restructuring Nigeria or dissolve the union so that Boko Haram will stop.... we keep acquiring fighters and bombers to kill Nigerians.

jejemanito:
Which Asaba is in South East

May the spirit of attachment fall off you

Okay. Asaba in SW. Are you okay now? Every discuss must be drawn down by your lot to Biafra this and Biafra that.

Mtchew....