₦airaland Forum

i still find it difficult reconciling existence of dinosaurs with the bible.

Onlytruth: I agree o. I had to swallow my words when I saw what is happening in my own village.
I have relations who live and work in Nnewi now. Before, they would all be heading to Lagos or elsewhere.
Heck I can live in Nnewi now and work in Awka.

i wish it would happen in other se states.i have never believed in focusing infrastructural developement only on one or two cities or towns esp in se because of the way we socialized.

noblezone: My villa has got a touch of Obi's road constructions.

i drive better in my villa than in Port Harcourt.

which is your villa?

ilugunboy: Am sure Awka will always be a ghost town during weekends

why do you say so?


on a different note i have a funny feeling that the population of anambra is certainly not less than 6 million peeps.

enugu people should pray that chime gets well soon as i see him as the only person for now capable of keeping the political hawks in the state in check.

Onlytruth: I have since concluded that Anambra people are not into photographing of roads and other developments in Anambra state.
I came to that conclusion after seeing what I saw in Anambra.
Maybe if we have someone like Spyder880 in Anambra, he may take it upon himself to showcase Anambra in pictures.

Having said these, no reasonable person should expect Anambra state to become like states with OLD capitals anytime soon.
Rural road development in Anambra is a GREAT move to stem heavy rural-urban migration.

I believe that Anambra may soon have the same accessibility as Lagos state going by how the governor is building rural roads.

hehe enyi i can remember our arguments of the past about 'obi's village roads constructions'and your opposition to it saying it was unnecessary and waste of funds and that instead he should focus on awka,nnewi and onitsha alone.at least you can now see the importance of those 'village roads' vis a vis connectivity and accessiblity of communities in the state.

ndu_chucks: If I reveal to you at the appropriate time that the said importer has a Yoruba last name, I bet many of the comments on this thread will change though the fundamental facts would not have changed.

There is a name for this phenomenon. SMH

kind of reminds me of the 'my pikin' episode.

some of those traders no dey here word.they are lucky obi is not me if not na soldiers i go take chase them from there.

PROUD-IGBO:
I've just about had it with all these Obi 'otimpkus' ......it's very annoying!

I'm yet to see news-stories, pics or videos that would give me the confidence that anything besides 'local gov't grade' stuff is happening in that state; which is a shame b'cos Anambra by rights should be amongst the top 5 richest states in Nigeria, and have a conducive welcoming environment to attract businesses and people from all over Africa and the world.

If any Igbo is HAPPY with the present state of Onitsha, Awka and Nnewi, then such a person doesn't have a great vision for where they want us and our cities to be in the 21st century.

I'll let you in on a secret: contrary to what anyone may think of my feelings towards the Obi gov't (based on my previous posts), i actually think -all things considered- that he's done fairly ok these past 3 years (60% ok); but if we all start praising his gov't, with no one 'holding their feet to the fire', then they may slacken and think the job is done. Anyone notice that lately Orji has started to perform a bit better?; it's all down to criticism and the power of the internet.

Ka Chineke meziokwu!

what do you mean by the bolded?

PROUD-IGBO:
Spyder, nice pics. I almost thought the first one was photoshopped.

So this should be the estate we saw from the google pics last week that we were wondering where it was.

As they are building and selling, they should also maintain the environment within the estate as well; i would expect there would be some kind of service charge for maintaining the place.

Nice one.

PS- this is why i'm hoping the governor gets well soon and returns from his sick leave, as he's the only governor in the south east that i'm pleased with; Rochas is starting to annoy me!

when it comes to human capital development though i think he is doing almost nada.

i wonder where they get this constant supply of bushmeat from.

spyder880: I dont know if I have shown this housing estate on this thread before, but in case I have not, this is the estate built by Sullivan Chime at the back of the CBN in GRA Enugu.

i wish there can be houses or estates built for low income earners.

citizenisb: Eyewitness account stated that the explosion came after an argument erupted between two of the vandals who were struggling to siphon fuel from the pipeline and it resulted into a heated argument that made one of them who was armed with a rifle to shoot indiscriminately into the air.Vanguard learnt that bullets from the rifle hit the ruptured pipeline and led to an explosion

classic

PROUD-IGBO:
So what's the benefits these schools stand to gain from being returned to the missionaries, that is besides improved morality. I ask b'cos the state gov't is still funding them.

Though his interest in the schools is commendable.

day to day running and management of the schools and work plans for the students which state governmnets especially the one we have in nigeria are almost incapable of doing.


the funds are actually for the rehabilitation of the structures that the government ran down in the first instance when it took them over in early seventies.most other states the returned their own missionary schools did not seem to bother giving these schools money to rehabilitate them.

Sincere 9gerian: Are you sure? I'm in Enugu but I never heard such? The present governor of Enugu, Sullivan Chime, is doing VERY well in re-constructing Enugu city road networks and street lights but education and health are receiving ZERO attention.

As for Edo, the last I heard was that the governor was working out modalities to return the schools.

I consider the forceful take over of missionary schools as one of the most silly, SHORT-SIGHTED and SENSELESS decisions of govt in the history of Nigeria.

I give kudos to any governor that is courageous enough to return these schools, while still finding a way to continue funding them.

We need beautiful schools but beautiful schools with rotten teachers is equal to ZERO.

i know education in enugu recently has been receiving low bugdet for education but i always thought that the mission schools there have been returned to their previous owners.as for edo still working out modalities?really?i thought he was through with it.

the government in the early seventies when they took over these schools made a worst possible blunder.if they wanted to make education cheaper then(as that was their excuse)why did they build more public schools and make them cheaper instead taking over the ones the churches were running efffectively?

NRI PRIEST: But they did so after Peter Obi started it. Basicly,the learned from him.

NRI PRIEST: But they did so after Peter Obi started it. Basicly,the learned from him.

not sure who did first although i know obi started with secondary ones first before primary.

Sincere 9gerian: In my opinion, Peter Obi remains the best governor in Nigeria for the sole reason that he returned ALL (over 800 in number) the missionary schools back to their original owners. In addition, the state govt continues to pay teacher's salaries and give subventions for infrastructural upgrade in these schools despite the fact that the state govt no longer owns them.

This singular action will guarantee moral rejuvenation and improved quality of education in Anambra for many years to come.

The winner in all of these is the FUTURE of Anambra and by extension, Nigeria.

he is not the only one that did that.Ogun,Edo,Delta,Enugu and others did so too.it is just that there seemed to be higher concetration of then mission schools in the present day geogarphical anambra area.

afam4eva: You can't say a governor is working after alluding that it's mainly roads that he has built and those roads are roads connecting the country side.

I also want to believe that Peter Obi has done well in building rural roads even though these roads are camera shy. But that's not a reason whyy we should give him a pass mark. He's left other things unattended to. If Peter Obi was ruling an Ebonyi, i would have given him a pass mark but this is Anambra we're talking about and Anambra is not a state where you build roads and we'll see he has performed.

Really, i can't wait for Obi's tenure to be over so that a more ambitious governor will take over.

funny you are saying this because that is what ngige fans are hinging on for his return.

Katsumoto: It is all too well talking about missed opportunities. The question is, where does Onabule stand vis-a-vis his association with one of Nigeria's worst presidents, IBB? Onabule was not only IBB's press secretary, he was also part of the IBB's campaign.

It is all too well being forthright when it doesn't interfere with your earnings/contracts/egunje.

it is a general nigerian disease.probably not more than 3% of nigerians are exempted from that.

it is not the first time duro onabule has written from this perspective.i still remember his piece on the quest for federalism vis a vis 'missed opportunity' of the aburi accord.

ilugunboy: Sorry but you are not making any iota of sense this night...I won't indulge you in this your folly.

Like i said earlier, when and if you guys decide again on the way to perdition ..we will surely bring you to your complete kneels this time around...so we decide this issue once and for all.

very funny statement.

op so you dey look face to know if someone fit steal or not/if that is the case then anini was not a thief.

felifeli: Because they know Hausa do not take nonsense, they just bring out their suya knife. Game over.
But Yorubas are the tolerant Christian. Abuse them insult them and they will continue to smile and still feed them. Because we are highly cultured - thanks to people like Papa Awo.

funny some guys do not know that there people are also game in the north.

mehn una get strenght for all these una argurements.

pres-elect:
Perhaps. But with the fatal combination of corruption, ineptitude and nepotism that rules in Nigeria, we have corrupt leaders impose poorly educated wives and children on the next generation.
Imagine Our latest English professor (dame jonathan) becoming a governor sometime in the future. Or if babangida or abachas kids rise up in the future with their fathers stolen wealth to dominate our politics, and they are poorly educated, as well as corrupt. America has corrupt leaders too. But they are educated and patriotic. It makes a lot of difference.

what you are forgetting is he psyche of the these children.they do not give a danm about doing the right things as the situation as it is favours them and their businesses.believe me i have mixed with some of them and do not give a rat ass about doing the right thing.

below are examples of your rich or politicians kids


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdq2KlQvyN4


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHQcnSqFb7Y

pres-elect:
This is stupid. The corruption in the NASS is not the fault of the children. Anyway I'll even advocate they send thier children abroad bc these children will inherit their fathers corruption empire and hopefully one of them will realize how things work abroad and try to implement the same at home.
But the stupid senators will do well to fight corruption through proper means.

you must be in dreamland.

Sky Blue: There is a difference between 'knowing about it' and just hearing him speak about it so lackadaisically, it was just unnerving. It was like watching and listening to Abacha disolve all civil societies with the utterance of the word. When I watch that clip again from time to time after all these years, there is just something eerie about it. There seemed nothing nationally idealistic about any of the founding fathers even though they sounded more educated than all the people to come after them combined. It was all about power and the only constant that has remained through it all has been the culpability of the Nigerian people, always happy to be divided to be conquered. I guess why I was a tad shocked was because it was like I just saw the future. Nothing has changed and that country might just be doomed to repeat that same cycle.

hehe na so now.as per repeating the same cycle i am just a bit unnerved by this 2015 of a thing.

lagcity: The Igbo race is destined to perish because they carry a defective gene which thrusts them towards self-destruction and shields them from any rational thought. If the great sage Obafemi Awolowo could not prevent Igbos from massive self-destruction (which Igbos falsely call genocide), then anybody who thinks (s)he can convince Igbos is on a futile journey.
Through malicious lies passed on through miserable Igbo generations, Awo who tried to save the Igbo from themselves has now been labelled a war criminal, a devil. The only crime Awo committed is treason against the Yoruba nation. Yes! Awo committed treason against Yoruba because he tried to save the enemies of the Yoruba from mass suicide. How could he!?
But Awo can be forgiven because the Eastern enemy of the Yoruba has suicidal tendencies; he is the kind of enemy one doesn't need to lift a finger against because in due time the enemy self-destructs anyway. I am absolutely sure of this: Igbo will self-destruct again very soon.

*yawn*

let us be honest there is never going to be any confrontation or war btw igbos and yorubas.not sure if igbos are ready for another war and from what i have seen yorubas are generally not interested in armed conflict.highest than can happen is lagos leadership throwing sublimal signals of discontent.

mehn it seems lots of yorubas are really riled up by what achebe wrote.newspaper forums,blogs man everywhere .abeg make una relax before una go burst una viens oooo