So there is still something like southern Nigeria, I thought the southern Nigeria ended during Goodluck Jonathan era, an era where the south west collaborated with the north to force jonathan out of office for the post of vice president and finance minister.

Now I am hearing about southern Nigeria, please who revived it and when was it revived. The same southern Nigeria where an oba vowed to drown his supposed fellow southerners for voting a particular party.

Other southerners should be wise

The worst of it all is that they are proposing to build the rail line by loan which by my guess since the rail line will not be sustainable will become a drain on the important resources from the Niger delta.


Niger delta should fight such a foolish proposal and insist that the loan should be taken to upgrade the sea port in Calabar to a deep sea port.

This will be worse than the 1970 scam where the oil companies headquarters were relocated to Lagos from port Harcourt and Niger deltans now became tenants over their resources.

Another huge scam would have been the olokola lng in ogun state which Jonathan ,Asari dokubo and tompolo blocked and prevented from coming to fruition. Guess where dangote is building his refinery and where the crude oil will be sourced from.

Amaechi has really betrayed Niger delta big time.

Ondo people may have taken a loan which they must repay at the right time

In 5 years from today there will be reverse migration of igbo brains from Abuja and Lagos to the east, these city planners should make provision for high rise residential areas that would accomdate the upsurge, Enugu and owerri should be primed to accommodate this upsurge while Aba and onitsha should be primed to handle congestion of businesses and people.

SirShymexx:


Marrying the prettiest ladies? Erm, FFK hit it first and her first seed was FFK's.

That alone should make FFK greater than Ojukwu lol.

Whenever you pay homage to ya hero, always remember FFK. Even Kanye always give credit to Ray J for hitting it first lol.

you talk as if your own wife was a virgin when you married her , does that make the numerous guys that dated your present wife and who might be dating her behind your back your hero .

life is all about acknowledging who is greater than you, FFK can never ever be compared to Ojukwu or even get the kind of respect or recognition Ojukwu got . Ojukwu had some other wives before Bianca, meanwhile if you care to know Ojukwu is more powerful than FFK and his father combined in every respect and ramifications of life

comradee1248:
after all this he became a loser

he became a loser to who?

kestolove95:
do me a favour pls..gerarahia mehn sh1t...but wollup wollup..what do we call a disgusting 3rd citizen who defend a coward?..I pity ur miserable life

Please how is your life, wife, education, living standard , occupation , residence , office , exposure , social status , acceptability , popularity better than Ojukwu . some of you are so annoying

I hope the Nigerian military and Police will not shoot at these unarmed protesters like they normally do others

emrain:


What about buhari?

And what about Buhari ?
Has he located his missing certificates.

In the same Nigeria an elected Speaker of the house of representatives was forced to resign when it was found out he had no valid certificates also some serving ministers were made to be sacked when it was found out that they had no MBA cerificates but a Retired soldier without a valid WAEC certificate was forced by party to become the presidential candidate and voted to be the president in a very controversial election where under-aged were allowed to vote in a section of the country as against the use of Card reader in other sections .

And when i asked people what this meant , they told me it was Change.

I thank God that the South East and Niger delta people are waking up from their slumber

Dahkogrin007:


See talk ooo... Ojukwu never ran away but he sha left d country

today there are Nigerian military officers who are abandoning barracks in the face of war from boko haram

wins18:

Unlike the unfortunate ones who were at the receiving ends of biafra brouhaha,

ok

sucess001:


Using the best things whilst the people you were leading were living like animals is not an act you should be celebrating.

you are right because right now the lives of most people in Nigeria is not worth more than a cow

If is to shoot unarmed protesters and to starve women and children to death by destruction of farm lands , you would see this same millitry officer in action in the battle field, but the same soldier when faced with a well armed insurgent group will start blaming equipment and his boss for sabotage.

Everything about Ojukwu was indeed first class, from attending the best primary school to the best secondary school in the world to the best university in the world to using the best cars, marrying the prettiest ladies, flying the best jets of his time, fighting for the best army (Biafran army ) leading the best country that the world did not want to see, to dying in the best hospitals and getting the best burials ever in Africa.

Please discuss with facts

Watch how the DSS will pretend as if nothing happened and that the news was fake

Obiagelli:

The second niger bridge is already captured in the budget. You argument illogical, how do you know they will not meet the schedule for the rail while you somehow know they will for the eastwest road

N60b is not enough to construct more than 800km of rail way line else where between Abuja and Kaduna they are proposing N140b ,if the second niger bridge was captured in the budget the federal government can as well use money to support and supplement the N17bn that is not enough to complete the bridge


However, aside having a major cut of about N8.8bn in the Presidency’s original figure with purchase of vehicles receiving the deepest cuts, the new version has provision of N17bn for capital expenditure allocated to Niger Bridge at Asaba-Onitsha in Delta and Anambra States. However, there was no such provision in the first version submitted to the National Assembly

http://thewillnigeria.com/news/national-assembly-gets-revised-2016-budget-as-buhari-budgets-n17bn-for-second-niger-bridge/

Obiagelli:

They are not spending apc money but nigeria's money. The Apc should not go the gej route that deliberatly staved lagos and rivers of projects over politics

But even if they had money they wanted to spend for the pdp states at least they could use the money to complete second Niger bridge and East west road before coming up with a project that they are not sure they can complete on schedule.

I am neither in APC or in PDP but i think APC should have concentrated efforts to link APC states and not struggling to PDP states with APC states

tonytony208:


You suddenky turned this thing to an ethnic fight?

You rheart must be dark and ruled by the deepest of darkness.

Wake up Mr.Mental-lilliputian.

You should be more reasonable than to see ethnicity in everything.

What do you suggest I do, start crying with ogundaisi or hope the include it in the budget . Since when did the section of the country that cried blue murder when the Akanu Ibiam international airport was being renovated now become Champions of Eastern Interest. The Lagos Calabar rail line is worse than ajaokuta steel project and will ultimately be of no benefits to Nigeria

Why yorubas are so hell bent on having this project included in the budget is really surprising why are they crying more than the South South and south east.

Even the South East and Niger delta who are supposed to benefit from the project are not batting an eyelid.

Could this project be the Savior of south west or east bikonu.

Also anybody with an idea of who signed the bilateral agreement with China should inform the forum

Please igbos let us join hands to patronize our own, let us insist on made in Aba shoe when we buy shoes

IT is not for nothing that Aba, the commercial city of Abia State, popularly known as Enyimba city is also referred to as the Japan of Africa. The ingenuity of its residents simply astounds. It ranges from the dexterity of the technicians who fabricate ma­chinery parts to those who can manufacture a long list of items.
In Aba, the shoemakers at Ari­aria International Market consti­tute one group of entrepreneurs whose activities have contributed in no small way to raise the eco­nomic profile of the city.
About 39 years ago, the shoe and allied products entrepre­neurs began forming clusters in Ariaria after Ekeoha market was razed by fire in 1977. The government consequently relo­cated the market to its present location.
Between 1980 and the 90s, when the shoe manufacturing business reached its peak, it had over 80,000 workers operating under nine clusters located in the following places: Imo Ave­nue, Shoe Plaza (where men’s shoes are produced), Bakassi (Umueghilegbu) Industrial Market, Old Site, and then you have the bag, belt, suitcase and powerline clusters. The last cluster that was formed was the one known as ‘Chief’ which has 10,000 members.
In fact, these men, and indeed a growing number of women, who populate the powerline cluster, which goes by the official name, Powerline Shoe Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria (POSMAN), churn out about 300,000 pairs of various types of shoes every week, as Sunday Sun learnt from Hon. Goodluck Joseph Nmeri, presi­dent of the association.
From Ariaria, the products are distributed across Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Togo, Benin Republic, Ivory Coast, Equato­rial Guinea and some parts of South Africa. In fact, Cameroo­nian markets receive the highest number of 144,000 pairs of shoes every week.
The interesting thing is that the shoes are of very good qual­ity. Nmeri explains it this way: “Our own shoes last up to three years if you are talking about quality. Any shoe purchased here in Powerline, we will give you a guarantee of two and half years or three years depending on usage. But if you buy a normal coupled shoe here in Powerline, we will give a guarantee of three years, unlike China shoes which last for about six months.”
Despite this assurance on quality, shoe manufacturers in Ariaria, Aba still find it difficult to label their products “Made in Nigeria.” What is the reason? Nmeri was prodded. And here’s his response: “In the early ‘80s through the middle 90’s, we were doing well and proudly labelling our products ‘Made in Aba.’ By then people were com­ing from various African coun­tries such as Gabon, Togo, Benin Republic, Ivory Coast, Equato­rial Guinea and some parts of South Africa (they are our major customers), to place orders for our products. After finishing the shoes, we would send the goods to them by waybill.
“So, we were doing absolute­ly well until Nigeria signed a bilateral trade agreement with China. It was a very unwise thing to do. You see, Chinese businesses were producing what we produce, but it was substan­dard and cheaper.
“Chinese were using ma­chines, modern technologies and cheap stable power supply to produce shoes. Soon they started flooding Nigeria with their sub­standard shoes which were also flashy. Nigerian women rushed for them and abandoned our own because we normally use leather and synthetic leather to produce footwear that last longer than the Chinese products. In China, they use lining to produce their shoes and that’s why the last only for three months.
It was when that agreement was signed that we started hav­ing problems here in terms of sales. If you go into the market today, you will see China-made shoes everywhere in the market where our products are supposed to dominate; that is the number one challenge we have.”
He explains further: “Initially, as I said earlier, in the early 80s, we were labelling our products as “Made-in-Aba” because we had no challenge then. When the Chinese flooded our markets with their shoes, we found it very difficult to sell and sustain our families. To be able to sell our products then, we were compelled by the attitude of Nigerians to label our products “Made-in-China” because our customers believed that the Chinese shoes were superior. Some of our people also took it further and labeled their products “Made-in-Italy,” so that they could get patronage. So we copied the labels, logos and other symbols of the imported Chinese products. Our products looked exactly like the Chinese shoes and when mixed with them, the customers could not differentiate the Chinese shoes from the ones we made in Aba.
“Indeed it was because of hunger that we did it. At that time, you could make 20 pairs of shoes in one day and it would take you one week to sell them unlike in the past when we could produce and sell 200 pairs within three days. Moreover, we were producing according to specified orders placed by our customers; therefore, we didn’t need to make different samples, but just to finish the shoes as ordered and freight to the customer. That was why we changed from branding them as ‘Made-in-Aba’ to ‘Made-in-Italy’ and ‘Made-in-China.’ and it would take you one week to sell
The cheery news is that shoe manu­facturers in Aba have now realized that though their action enabled them to earn some income and sustain operations, what they did was not good for either the Aba shoe industry particularly or Nigeria at large. To reverse this, the leadership of the various clusters have resolved to restore the pride of their craftsmen in shoe design and production by stamping their products “Made-in-Aba.”
Nmeri explains: “The present gov­ernment in Abia State promised to look into the plight of shoe makers in Aba; because of this, we have directed our members to brand their products ‘Made in Aba’ and they have started doing that. To support us in this regard, we want the Federal Government through the Ministry of Trade and Investment, the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Bank of Industry to help us create special in­tervention under the MSME Fund. This will help us so much as we will be able to acquire better machines at affordable cost and also secure long term repay­ment plan. The government should also try to provide stable power to Aba. What gives China an edge over us is stable, cheap power supply, cheap labour and modern production technology. Our peo­ple are gifted and very enterprising. We can make substantial contribution to the Gross Domestic Product of the country earns and foreign exchange from export of shoes made by our indigenous enter­prises. Please help us take this message to President Muhammadu Buhari.”
So, when next you are buying shoes, endeavour to look out for the ones stamped ‘Made-in-Aba’ because they have been confirmed to be more durable and in most cases cheaper than the foreign ones.

Isn't this a second class mentality, what stops Nigerians from electing him the president of the country, why must Nigeria remain cursed like this

I really fear for Nigeria. Some funny people think that it would be like 1967, my instinct tells me that if the option of peace is not followed strictly that what would start as normal shooting of unarmed protesters would escalate to Street fights and gradually migrate to extremely quick insurgent attacks that would be aimed at military, economic, police target with casualties.
More so given the fact that Nigeria economy is in big trouble, Nigeria would end buying more troubles with states failing and no bailout which would drive insurgency even in APC states in the northern states.

The foreign investors not still able to get their forex to run business and with declining value of Nigeria Naira which would decline to $1 to N25000 if you factor in that the only thing Nigeria exports is crude oil.



At the end of the day either a military take over with consequences or a UN mandated plebiscite.

Nigeria is falling, buhari should not add to the failure.

Iroh88:
And Okonjo "Iwuala" who is a bottle of Ace of Spades couldn't reign in the excesses of the saboteurs under her watch as forex were taken out of the apex bank like coins from a piggy bank.

Weldone.

Rubbish post from a mediocre

Please she should be forgiven and prayed for, any support to get Nigeria out of the woods should be encouraged.

simplycarro:


Which international circuit were you present and such discussion took place?
If you do anyhow in the SE, you will see anyhow.
We know you in the SE can do zilch to Nigeria, that is why you are dragging in the the thugs of the creeks in the delta for economic sabotage.

You can read http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/bloomberg-questions-buharis-ability-to-run-nigeria.167383/

Buhari is also pursuing tompolo and at the same time the militants from niger delta gave him ultimatum to release Nnamdi kanu by 22/02/2016 .

Buhari 's biggest mistake is to think that in the event that Nigeria slides into another armed conflict it would play out like 1967.

The warm would be fought inside and outside Nigeria with Ipob members blowing up Nigerian embassies in other countries.
While I am not supporting biafra or war, no neutral igbo would fold hands and watch soldiers attack his or her innocent family in the east. This is where my fear is.

AZeD1:

And who suffers?

When they sabotage oil facilities, who does the spill affect?

When they "cripple" the economy, who suffers the most?

If there is an attack on the oil industry $1 would exchange for N25000 buhari is not bothered because fulani are essentially cattle herders and farmers, the whole Nigeria will feel it, to rebuild the oil industry would take longer than expected as investors are all ready discussing about buhari's incompetence in international circuits.