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Political statistics. The type that made trump to fire US statistician general.

Pythagoras001:
it is completely irrelavant now as there are envidence she disobeyed lawfull instruction from the flight crew and assualted/battered staff of the airline and airport.

it is not irrelevant. The minister acted in a haste and unprofessional without thorough investigation. Ordering people to put off their phones goes beyond the standard safety practice. There is a video of her fully dressed and being prevented from leaving the plane by the crew and that is totally unacceptable.

If Jonathan contests, tinubu stands no chance.

It's Rivers internal matter. When woke was perpetuating killings in Obigbo, there was complicit silence among the general rivers populace.

surgical:
you too much for this your analysis ,it's only a party no ready to win that will present Jonathan in an election that is not going to be fairly contested ,he will accept faith as usual
But above all any vote casted in his favour this time around will regarded as wasted votes,all these noise are just distractions they don't mean it

you would've said so about trump in 2020 if he didn't bounce back in 2024. Truth is if Jonathan contests, tinubu stands no chance.

T9ksy:
Op, so zik advocated for the minorities, ba? So, what then happened to the Eastern minorities when the Mid-west region was carved out of the Old Western region?

Midwest was never created willingly. If awolowo was not in jail for treason and coupled with the fact there are Igbo speaking minorities in the western region who eastern region went extra mile to support, there wouldn't have been mid west state.

That's because you've been promoting Yoruba over others. Many times, AIs use your query history to tailor responses.

I wonder how anybody will find this surprising. This is just part of a larger trend. Abuja with better plan, better road network, smooth traffic, busier airport and most importantly, peaceful coexistence among the ethnic groups who dominate it ie Igbos, middle belt and South South guys etc Abuja is poised to overtake Lagos. The surprising thing is that it's not only happening faster than expected but it's happening in several ways at Lagos expense. This shows that investors are sensitive to the increasing volatility of Lagos in the past few years, as predicted.

Influential indeed. People who have no influence in their families want to have a say beyond their votes.

Softmirror:
Of course!

so vamuse from my mention.

Softmirror:
I read all that you wrote up there but the truth is you didn't point to that inherent defect which always makes you the target of ambush. It is a fact that others are not being ambush despite their enormous success in business and life endeavors in any where the live around the world. Why is it always you?

The comment wrote is not for you. It's for Igbo people.

Next shopping mall in Abuja was burnt to aches without accountability. He lost years of profit in a single morning.

Ebeano mall was burnt in Abuja and nothing was said about it.

'Shoprite malls' were looted in Lagos and Ibadan in response to South African violence and those who invested in the franchise bore the loss.

There has never been record of arson talk more of looting of any mall in the East. Roban stores has his stores only in the East and he has expanded more than those whose land are pursuing without fear. Will roban have any course to fear for his business for the simple reason that he is Igbo?

There is something about business our people always fail to understand and that makes them always think short term. Building a business into a brand is not same as making short term profit to sustain the life of the owner. If you understand business in long term sense, you'll also understand that a place that guarantees you long term security, offers better opportunity even if there is no guarantee of immediate profit than a hostile place that offer immediate opportunity. If your business is not vanguished by deliberate government policy, it sabotaged by the hostile natives who feel threatened by your prosperity. If you are in good terms with them now like emzor, with time their hate and envy won't spare you like landmark. Begging to live and do business is not normal. Only a f**l gambles with his hard earned money on an environment where they can't stand his guts.

You can live in Lagos and Abuja and have businesses in the East, almost all the eastern states now have functional airports. Landmark has divested, coscharis has done it, Stanel has done it too.

If you relocate abroad from Lagos or Abuja, you can still make those places your base but find your home state or anywhere in the East to invest. Investing little where you belong is safer than gambling hugely in a place with better immediate reward but highly volatile. Nothing good comes easy. If you go abroad, you'll find family owned businesses that have lasted over 200 years as medium scale businesses and are highly valuable. Long-term stability is sure for profit and growth but short term profit is amids high environmental volatility is sure for failure.

MufasaLion:
Irrespective of the ethnicity, people will go where they can make impact and money. People are still going to the north to set-up businesses.

And to enlighten you, this is even the best time some businesses would thrive in the north. Insecurity provides opportunity for some people to make more money. You just have to be ready go through with the challenges.

Some people are making millions of dollars due to the Israel-Palestine war. Same as Russia and Ukraine. Residents and citizens will flee but that's an avenue for some people to make money. It's all about choice.

If only delusion can help you guys. It's the costly assumption in bold that kept the north in the current situation. And heh! The only business that thrives in conflict is gun running, drug and substance smuggling and humanitarian aids that come with condition. These are what are currently sustaining the north. I think you should do more to enlighten your people that me who know way more than you.

MufasaLion:
This is a nice development. More states listen to do this. They shouldn't go and claim the place as theirs afterwards.

Nobody who values his capital will take him serious. Once beaten; twice shy. Igbos divested from the north from 2010 and if you think that any Igbo will return his investment in such an environment and after decades of religious and ethnic tension, you should think again.

Interesting? I thought Igbos are supposed to be the ones who dominate people and don't respect their host? Why this?

Well the North has gone the route of Igbophobia and their economy has completely collapsed. They act as though they learnt their lessons but trust once broken can never be repaired. Most Igbo businesses in the north are now small scale. Igbos are learning that home investment is the most secure.

It's the west that is taking over the mantle of Igbophobia from them and, Lagos will pay for it.

The write up was garnished with errors just to give it political balance. Even though the Ghanaian so called Eze ndi Igbo might seem uncharitable, he never broke any law, reason he is being defended by the government. Its also funny how he claims that the crisis in Lagos is caused by deliberate misinformation while also spreading the misinformation by claiming the Eze ndi Igbo bought land and also trying to demonize Eze ndi Igbo practice. There is no crisis against Igbos in Ghana. We have seen evidence of Yorubas inciting Ghanaians to attack Igbos. Very soon there cup will be full.

Kay17:
The call for "true" federalism is shallow and without content. There are a thousand ways to organize a federation, and there is no blue print from the heavens that dictate how it should look like in a super-multicultural society like ours.

It is amazing that we do not, or rather refuse, to learn the lessons of Nigerian history and overglamourize the 1960s. The so-called regionalism was not as appealing as most people make it out. First, the regions were not working because all the minorities within those regions felt overshadowed. The North was an amalgamation of hundreds of ethno-cultural identities which was more than just Hausa-Fulani; just as the Western and Eastern regions were. The 36 states directly came out of these agitations. The so-called true federalism was unable to withstand the very first challenge to its legitimacy. The country was more divided then than now.

If the so-called federalists read the final report of the Constitution Drafting Committee, they would have known that there was a deliberate step-away from the Westminster system and the confederated federalism because a fragile country like Nigeria requires a strong centre to hold the entire country together.

It is a joke to create a system where the regions or states collect revenue and distribute to the centre - the centre that has massive bills to pay in form of the maintaining a standing military, customs and big public service. if the states fail to pay what will happen? An invasion by the centre? The Constitution of 1960 created the Consolidated Revenue Fund where all the monies of the federation were pooled. Section 140 of the same constitution directed the Federation to pay each region a sum of 50% of proceeds of mining proceeds and rents collected in the region. Section 141 has a sharing formula which is much maligned today for the Federation to pay to each region. Back then, the Federation charged the regions for the costs of administration for collecting customs and excise duties which it set off from their share.

I think the real problem is the poor revenue generation of the states. The states have immense ambitions but no purse to pursue it. The taxes they collect are meagre not as juicy as the income taxes. Maybe, it is high time states be given full tax powers concurrent with the Federation.

Please note that the revenue from raw materials cannot beat the tax to be collected from 200m strong productive economy.

Minority agitation is not necessarily a parameter for accessing the development and success of a system. Every index shows the country developed more under the regional system. However, ethnic and religious minorities have valid agitations on the basis of self determination alone, even when they were not really marginalized, as confirmed by willinks comission of 1958. But instead of this, the minorities were lured by their politicians into utopian states full natural resources where there exist absolute comfort, which discouraged hardwork and encouraged corruption. Hence, most minority states fared worst than they fared under their respective regions after creation.

I'm no longer advocating for return of 1963 constitution but a somewhat reorganization of culturally homogeneous states into functional regions with far greater fiscal autonomy.

madridguy:
This is interesting. I hope someone will not twist the narrative tomorrow.

nobody is twisting any narrative. He is just endorsing ethnic patronage the has gone on long with businesses like Redeemed, winners, deeper life etc
But I think there won't be need .Igbo businessmen know how to outcompete their mates across tribes and will naturally attract Igbo consumers.

WizardOfNG:
Lol. You never fail to amuse with how your attempt to show intellectual capacity is always ridiculed by how you don't even appreciate the most basic things.

Such as the fact that asking AI questions that may have multiple answers, because the parameters are not mathematically definitive, can produce nuanced and subjectively incorrect answers.

AI, for non-mathematical or non-computational questions, remains a glorified database that collates aggregated answers from human input that is subjective and not absolute.

You cannot make AI a supreme arbiter over an issue that Nigerians themselves have the best answer for because of on-ground experience.

See below AI contradiction of another AI platform i.e GROK. Fact is that even the simplest test, such as the region accomodating the highest number of non-indigenes, directly confirms the SW as the most developed region of Nigeria by far before we even go into.many other socio-economic consideration the SW is champion of.

The SE is a sad joke dude. You know it but it is not in your nature to be truthful.

the grok AI quoted a report with empirical evidence and statistical data but the nonsen*nse you quoted with suspicious query says "generally believed"
That sounds like research to you huh?

Can we see the so called mockers first? I am sure it the same person that mocked them that created this post to seek attention.

Afrojuju2017:
You don't know it is ! , when you dam the water you create a resource from which you generate water or irrigate farmland, however dams are built to last for decades not hold forever. One day it would fail the intention is always to either extend that day or decommission the dam before then. And a old unused dam is eve worse than a working dam.

Or maybe I should have used the term depreciating asset.

you are confusing yourself. water is a resource whether dammed or not. Dam is not a resource; it is a federal government infrastructure. A hydroelectric dam is non depreciating, that's why it's called renewable energy. Aside this, water bodies upon which dams are built traverse several states. While a dam may be build in a particular state, the consequences affect other states where the water body traverse. That's why dam is majorly federal project. Asking for derivation on federal government infrastructure is the height of idleness and greed. Learn!

Afrojuju2017:
A dam is a depreciating resource, it's only ever a matter of time before it breaks and caused destruction.

a dam is a resource?

You want derivation from a non depreciating resource. That's height of greed. Only a changed VAT formula can help them.

You are the ones renaming streets, you are the one crying and you're still the one lying that Igbos are hurt. We want your frustration -aggression to reach boiling point. We want to check something. Until then, you can continue barki*g at the Lion.

It's always been about inferiority complex.

Softmirror:
Can this be Photoshop too?

yes it can. It can also be inferiority complex.

Nndokwa neku union supports Anioma state. Public hearing has been concluded. All should prepare for referendum. https://www.ndokwareporters.com/ndokwa-neku-backs-anioma-state-creation-applauds-senator-nwokos-leadership/

Anioma state creation is a concluded matter. They appended their signature.