how come the same DSS cannot extend nthe same sting operation when it comes to dealing with herdsmen , is the money recovered more important than lives

So the DSS is now invading the houses of judges , there is nothing someone will not see in Nigeria

All because she built an international Airport in Enugu the vultures in Nigeria will not allow this woman to rest ,a court case for buying bullet proof cars , as if she is the only minister or government official that bought a bullet proof car . no wonder some poeple want to opt out of this eivl of a country by any means humanly possible

tayooluwole:


As fool as he is, non of ur family can near his achievement...

please what are his achievements ?

at least let me obey rule of law and insure that elections are not riggged at any level , Edo and Bayelsa Elections are worst in the history of Nigeria

Adminisher:
This MAN is very intelligent. We have a democracy. Let Biafra be attempted within that space. All forms of restructuring should also be actualized within that space of democratic institutions and the constitution ammendments that follow can be used to legalize it.
Congrats guys, you people can even bring back Goodluck as your head of state and Patience as fez lady when everything is achieved in the year 2276.

some of you people spew out ignorance , what shows that he is intelligent , do you at all know the meaning of intelligence ?

This sit at home order wll not achieve anything , i detest it , the south east has lost more than $1Billion transactions , eventhough there is nothing like recession in the south east except for those who need to buy dollars from the nigerian controlled banks and financial house .

The sit at home is total waste of time , energy, intelligence and opportunity

mrvitalis:
The truth is this.. We igbos have not demanded Biafra... if we actually did.. We would have had referendum since

What u have is a man who claimed he was sent by God to librate Biafra (well doctors in the house know this is a medical condition)

If all the five governors, senators, representatives collectively feel the people they represent want BIAFRA do u think they wont demand for it??

Only a fool will shout Biafra and still vote in the Nigerian election

i dont really think the problem is the biafrans but Nigeria that has consitently and continously abused the rights , priviledges and well being of biafrans.

i took a passive look on the biafran issue until i saw the devilish , evil , usless soliders shooting at unramed protesters . not even ISIS or Alqeada troubles unramed protesters . this was where the usless military drew my ire and anger.

This same military looked the other way ehn bakassi took cameroon. and was only good in starvation of childdren and women in the war . the same inept military has not done anything about herdsmen killings .e.t.c

any place you clusters of 3 storey , 4 storey bulding cannot be any other place but in the south east

Yorubamafia:
The Igbo's need to realize that unity is the key to obtaining development. America instead of breaking up decided to Unite and form a powerful and developed country. Nigeria is the next big power to emerge from Africa. We need all regions of the country to contribute it's qouta to hasten development. The British Empire merged us because of the diversity and potentials we have which shows we have a promising future. Biafra is not what the Igbo's should demand but presidency so they can have a sense of inclusion in the Nigerian project

pure hypocritcal lies coming from the worst historical turn coats

Despite all the effort of the APC pigs to pull this woman down she is still soaring , where is Osibanjo, Oshiomole and kemi adeosun

oyinkinola:
I've said it several times that Nigerian problems is Nigerian Elites, bearing Nigerian Identity and terrorizing Nigeria nation is wicked!
Godson Nnaka, do all with in his power to rob Nigeria nation of the Abacha looted fund! he blocked the repatriation of the fund and claimed $320million out of $550million! what a criminal!
his counterparts here on NAIRALAND open thread of famine in kaduna and that there were nothing left for eating in Kaduna beside frogs, lizard, leaves, cat..etc
hooo! Nigerian are you still in doubt that wailers and their bothers around the world were your enemies Number one?
Read more:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/09/u-s-court-clears-legal-hurdle-repatriation-550-abacha-loot/

If these people are the problem of Nigeria then Nigeria has no problem , all Nigeria needs to is to conduct a referendum and Nigeria's problem will be solved overnight

DozieInc:


Ikpeazu =Defender/Judge

could it be why he is having a lot of travails with the judiciary and he has resorted to the last bastion of legal process which is supreme court

nextprince:
@Op, I wonder when being wealthy has become a basis for prosecution even without evidence of embezzlement. Was Tinubu a poor man b4 he became the governor of Lagos state? U really need brain surgery/transplant.

That is the more reason why EFCC should probe him to ascertain the source of the money he used to establish the hotel , airline , newpaper house, TV station etc

feldido:
Same fears we had about the last elections.
my dear, we are wiser now... Nothing is going to happen, you think APC are dumb?

Did you just ask if APC is dumb ?

aresa:
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1. Nigeria doesn't have ICT minister and that is your Number 1 ignorance about your own country.

2. We have an agency in charge of ICT and Bunmi okunowo is the head of that agency in charge of our ICT regardless under what ministry.

3. Bunmi Okunowo is who Nigeria gave our ICT task to, he is who we are paying to lead our ICT efforts, he has the skills and ICT background to do the job hence our leading role in ICT all over Africa.



You can swim in your ignorance all you want, the person we gave our ICT agency to and who we are paying for that Job is Bunmi Okunowo..

check the website of the federal ministry of communications

pazienza:
How exactly can Ibadan have more consumer spending power than Enugu and Onitsha, when both cities have more money flowing in them than Ibadan, even though they both have lesser populations?

The woman that made the Euromonitor analysis needs a brain transplant Surgery ASAP.

Spending in this case is likely spending via electronic means which might have been monitored via south west bank or even a monitoring agent in the mentioned cities as against the raw cash spending which the Lagos , Abuja Port Harcout, Kano, Onitsha and Aba top according to the CBN

NewsPoacher:
http://blog.euromonitor.com/2016/08/top-10-sub-saharan-cities-consumer-spending-growth-2030.html


An extensive overview of 24 first- and second-tier cities in Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa in a recently published white paper reveals particularly dynamic growth shifting from the region’s mature consumer markets in South African metropolises to the urban areas in other Sub-Saharan countries. Indeed, out of the top 10 fastest growing cities in the region for consumer spending in 2015-2030, only two come from South Africa. Soaring population growth and improving purchasing power will strengthen the consumer market potential in the cities across the region.

TOP 10 FASTEST GROWING SUB-SAHARAN CITIES FOR CONSUMER SPENDING IN 2015-2030



Source: Euromonitor International

Note: The size of the bubble represents total consumer expenditure in a city in 2030 (in US$ bn).

POPULATION EXPANSION AND INCOME GROWTH DRIVE CONSUMER SPENDING IN SUB-SAHARAN CITIES

South Africa’s cities, i.e. Johannesburg and Pretoria, will remain the region’s heavyweights in consumer expenditure in 2030. South Africa has been a long-term favourite entry point into the region for many multinational companies, and so the country’s flagship cities have over time developed consumer markets of a relatively extensive depth and breadth. However, the market saturation of Johannesburg and Pretoria is evident and greatly contrasts with the dynamism of Nairobi, Abuja, Yaoundé and Douala. Second-tier cities in countries such as Kenya are picking up an especially impressive growth momentum.

Population surge is a predominant driver of the consumer spending boom in the top 10 cities under review. In fact, Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to see the highest increase in the urban population among the developing regions globally from 2015 to 2030 (+74% or 268 million). Another important boost to the Sub-Saharan cities’ consumer markets is that the region’s urban households are growing richer. Indeed, in Kenya’s leading cities of Nairobi and Mombasa, improving purchasing power of households is forecast to be a prevailing factor behind soaring consumer spending in them.

POPULATION EXPANSION AND INCOME GROWTH STAND BEHIND A CONSUMER BOOM IN SUB-SAHARAN CITIES



Source: Euromonitor International

WHERE WILL A RISING CONSUMER CLASS IN SUB-SAHARAN CITIES CHANNEL ITS SPENDING?

Reflecting the population surge, consumer expenditure in the top 10 Sub-Saharan cities under review (with the exception of Johannesburg and Pretoria) will still be largely allocated to basic necessities such as food and non-alcoholic drinks. In fact, as of 2030, the share in total city consumer spending captured by food will range from a third in Nairobi to more than half in Nigerian cities: Abuja, Ibadan and Port Harcourt. However, in line with growing household incomes, the proportion that food occupies in consumer expenditure will decrease in the top 10 Sub-Saharan cities under review by 2030, leaving more room for spending on discretionary items. Consumer categories such as transport, household goods and services, health goods and medical services, as well as hotels and catering will be particularly thriving in the top 10 Sub-Saharan cities under review by 2030.

Iryna Sychyk is a City Analyst at Euromonitor International, contributing to analysis of industrial, economic and urban developments since 2011. Iryna draws on educational experiences at universities in Lithuania, the UK and Belgium and holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from KU Leuven (Belgium). Her professional background involves industry and urban economic analysis as well as logistics.


http://blog.euromonitor.com/2016/08/top-10-sub-saharan-cities-consumer-spending-growth-2030.html

Nigeria is finished , if anyone notice the 3 cities in Kenya now have a faster growth rate in expenditure than Nigeria some people still busy mentioning igbos as if that is where the issue stops

elsewhere Mark Zukerberg with no single qualifications or certifications is controlling the world of social networks, only God will help this country.
If Mark Zuckerberg was Igbo the same people would have painted Nigeria Media with news of Zuckerberg being fake and a fraud .

God delive his people from the Spirit of hypocrisy troubling Nigeria

uwazurike and his low IQ

Ritchiee:
I Above Others

Achebe, like Enugu Radio, suppressed this information and goes on to pivot the “pogrom” on the fact that the Igbo were resented because they were the most superior, most successful nationality in the country. He claims (on pg 233) that they were “the dominant tribe,” “led the nation in virtually every sector – politics, education, commerce, and the arts (pg 66),” which included having two vice-chancellors in Yorubaland; they the Igbo are the folkloric “leopard, the wise and peaceful king of the animals (pg177),” they “spearheaded (pg 97) the struggle to free Nigeria from colonial rule.” “This group, the Igbo, that gave the colonising British so many headaches and then literally drove them out of Nigeria was now an open target, scapegoats for the failings and grievances of colonial and post-independent Nigeria (pg 67).” An Igboman, Achebe writes, has “an unquestioned advantage over his compatriots…Unlike the Hausa/Fulani he was unhindered by a wary religion, and unlike the Yoruba he was unhampered by traditional hierarchies…Although the Yoruba had a huge historical headstart, the Igbo wiped out their handicap in one fantastic burst of energy in the twenty years between 1930 and 1950 (pg74).” Besides the fact that this has a language consistent with white supremacist literature, Achebe, to demonstrate he is not partial or a chauvinist, based himself on a 17-page report in Journal of Modern African Studies, titled Modernisation and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos by Paul Anber.

I looked up the 1967 journal. Curiously this “scholar” was designated as “a member of staff of one of the Nigerian universities.” Why would a scholar hide his place of work in a journal? I checked the essays and book reviews in all the 196 issues of Journal of Modern African Studies, from Volume 1 Issue 1 of January 1963 to the last issue Volume 49 November 2011, there was nowhere a piece was published and the designation of the scholar vague or hidden. Also, this Anber never published any piece before and after this article in this or any other journal. I wanted to start checking the academic staff list of the five universities in Nigeria then until I realised again that it says “he is a staff of a Nigerian university.” The truth is: Paul Anber is a fake name under which someone else or a group of people, possibly Igbo, is masquerading. And he/they never used this name again for any other piece or books. So that this ruse would not be found out was the reason he/they hid his/their university. And this piece, like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, has been the cornerstone of books and widely quoted by other journals over a period of 45 years. It is the cornerstone of the chapter, A History Of Ethnic Tension And Resentment, which Achebe used to skew the motive for Igbo people’s maltreatment from the fallout of January1966 coup and the inflammatory provocations they published to resentment for being allegedly the most successful and dominant tribe in Nigeria.

Had Achebe not overdosed on Igbo nationalism, he would have had his chest-beating ethnic bombasts inflected with a deeper and more sober analysis of the Nigerian situation in the next essay in the journal: The Inevitability of Instability by a real and existing Professor James O’Connell, an Irish priest and professor of Government, in a real and existing institution: Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. O’Connell argues that the lack of constitutionalism and disregard for rule of law fuelled psychology of insecurities in all ethnic groups. He fingers as an inevitable cause of our national instability, Nigerians’ “failure to find an identity and loyalty beyond their primordial communities that lead them constantly to choose their fellow workers, political and administrative, from the same community, ignoring considerations of merit.”

The symbolism of the Igbo heading University of Ibadan and University of Lagos, both in Yorubaland, was a positive image to assist Tiv, Hausa, Ijaw, Urhobo, Yoruba, Ibibio, Igbo, Efik etc students shed their over-loyalty to their respective primordial communities and to fashion a higher sense of identity that is national in character and federal in outlook. To Achebe, the symbolism was an example of the dominance and superiority of the Igbo. “It would appear that the God of Africa has created the Ibo nation to lead the children of Africa from the bondage of ages,” Paul Anber quotes Azikiwe saying in his West African Pilot: “History has enabled them not only to conquer others but also to adapt themselves to the role of preserver… The Ibo nation cannot shirk its responsibility.” Anber says in his/their essay: “The Ibo reaction to the British was not typically one of complete rejection and resistance, though Ibos were militantly anti-colonial. Since modernisation is in many respects basically a process of imitation, the Ibos modelled themselves after their masters, seeing, as Simon Ottenberg put it, that ‘the task was not merely to control the British influence but to capture it.’

To some degree, it may be said that this is precisely what they proceeded to do. Faced with internal problems of land, hunger, impoverished soil, and population pressure, the Igbo migrated in large numbers to urban areas, both in their own region and in the North and West…”

The spirit of inclusive humanism, the Martin Luther King Ideal, the Mandela Example, the conscience of a writer should necessitate that if a child in Sokoto goes to bed hungry, someone in Umuahia should get angry. If a pregnant woman in Kontagora needs justice, someone in Patani should be able to stand up and fight for her. If an Osu group is being maltreated in Igboland, someone in Zaria should stand up and defend them. But to Achebe, there should be no mercy for the weak in so far as he or she is unfortunate enough to belong to the other side. Take for instance the butchering of the lone shell-shocked “Mali-Chad mercenary” wandering around “dazed and aimless” in the bush Achebe witnessed. To show the fight-to-finish courage of his people in the face of overwhelming force, he describes how Major Jonathan Uchendu’s Abagana Ambush succeeded in destroying Colonel Murtala Muhammed’s convoy of 96 vehicles, four armoured vehicles, killing 500 Nigerians in one and a half hours. “There were widespread reports of atrocities perpetrated by angry Igbo villagers, who captured wandering soldiers. I was an eyewitness to one such angry bloody frenzy of retaliation after a particularly tall and lanky soldier–clearly a mercenary from Chad or Mali–wandered into an ambush of young men with machetes. His lifeless body was found mutilated on the roadside in a matter of seconds (pg 173).”

Achebe does not tell us if he tried to prevent this cold-blooded butchering, though there was an episode where he intervened to save the life and chastity of a Biafran woman, arguing with some wandering Nigerian soldiers who wanted to requisition her goat for food (pg 201). If Achebe could not intervene in the butchering, what did he think of the killing then or now that he is writing the book with the benefit of hindsight? Should the man not have been handed over as a prisoner of war? Was his killing not a violation of Geneva Convention, which he so much accused the Nigerian side of disrespecting (pg 212)? Did villagers behaving this way not blur the lines between soldiers and civilians hence making themselves fair game in war? Also notice how Achebe starts the narration with an active first person voice: “I was an eye witness to…” and how he quickly switches to a passive third person voice in the next sentence: “His body was found…”Achebe quickly goes AWOL “in a matter of seconds”, leaving a moral vacuum for the Igbo writer to emerge and the conscientious writer to go under.

When atrocities are being committed against Biafrans, Achebe deploys strong active voice (subject + verb), isolates the aggressive phrases of military bravado with italics or quotation marks. But when Biafra is caught committing the atrocity, he employs passive sentence structures, euphemisms and never isolates pledges of murder in italics or quotation marks. Take the “Kwale Incident (pg 218)” that eventually became an international embarrassment for Biafra. Based on an unsubstantiated source, he writes: “Biafran military intelligence allegedly obtained information that foreign oilmen…were allegedly providing sensitive military information to federal forces – about Biafran troop positions, strategic military manoeuvres, and training.” So they decided to invade. “At the end of the ‘exercise’,” Achebe writes: “Eleven workers had been killed.”

Also compare these two accounts: the background is Biafran invasion of Midwest. Despite Ojukwu’s assurance to them before the secession that he would absolutely respect their choice of belonging to neither side, he invaded them, occupied their land, foisted his government on them, took charge of their resources, looted the Central Bank of Nigeria in Benin, set up military checkpoints in many places to regulate the flow of goods and human beings, imposed dawn-to-dusk curfews, flooded the airwaves with pro-Ojukwu propaganda, imprisoned and executed dissidents on a daily basis, according to accounts of Nowa Omoigui and the recollections of Sam Ogbemudia. In fact, “The Hausa community in the Lagos Street area of Benin and other parts of the state were targeted for particularly savage treatment, in part a reprisal for the pogroms of 1966, but also out of security concerns that they would naturally harbour sympathies for the regime in Lagos,” Omoigui writes. The Midwesterners regarded Biafrans as traitors. And the Nigerian Army came to the rescue.

Achebe writes: “The retreating Biafran forces, according to several accounts, allegedly beat up a number of Midwesterners, who they believed had served as saboteurs. Nigerian radio reports claimed that the Biafrans shot a number of innocent civilians, as they fled the advancing federal forces. As disturbing as these allegations are, I have found no credible corroboration of them (pg 133).” Yes, he cannot find it; they were not his people. Also note his euphemisms: “allegedly beat up”… “shot a number of innocent civilians” (shot not killed). He writes: “a number of innocents” to disguise the fact that massacres took place. He also writes: “saboteurs.” Midwesterners collaborated with federal forces to liberate their lands from Biafra, Achebe calls them “saboteurs.” Now, note in the next paragraph how he describes what happened to his people, when the federal army in hot pursuit of the Biafran soldiers, reached the Igbo side of the Midwest. It is noisily headlined: The Asaba Massacre (pg 133).

“Armed with direct orders to retake the occupied areas at all costs, this division rounded up and shot as many defenceless Igbo men as they could find. Some reports place the death toll at five hundred, others as high as one thousand. The Asaba Massacre, as it would be known, was only one of many such post-pogrom atrocities committed by Nigerian soldiers during the war. It became particular abomination for Asaba residents, as many of those killed were titled Igbo chiefs and common folk alike, and their bodies were disposed of with reckless abandon in mass graves, without regard to the wishes of the families of the victims or the town’s ancient traditions.” Then he goes on to quote lengthily from books and what the Pope’s emissary said about it in a French newspaper, what Gowon said, what was said at Oputa Panel e.t.c. He found time to research. They were his people unlike other Midwestern tribes’ sufferings he could not find “credible corroboration of.”

why not open a new thread for this , this thread is for Biafran technology and Inventions and not stories of Achebe and Oputal panel

elsewhere in the world some governements are busy pumping billions of dollars in futile oil exploration

Oblang:
Useless CAN. Christians are the worst hypocrites I ve seen. Jst like igbos always feeling like victim...I'm a Christian but the truth is I don't envy their ways...

you are an Antichrist

mrvitalis:
I hope these people k ow what they are asking for??

Igbos have the largest investment outside our region as far as am concerned we should be fighting for one Nigeria...

fighting for one Nigeria!!!! some times i pity the level of degeneration that some nigerians have degenerated to , Nigerians now reason like dogs , no wonder someone called his dog buhari, Nigerians are now worse than dogs

rubbish

ChinonsoDike2:
Disgusting.

bro why do you find it disgusting. i hope it is not because these people dont find ladies from their tribe attractive anymore

that is why the blame game will never end

if you want to pass a message accross to the president , you should od so using cartoons because that is the only thing he reads in the Newspapers

omenka:
The presidency's media and publicity team is a total disgrace!!

Tufiakwa!

They are not a disgrace the whole government is a joke , it if it was only the media team then one can imagine how the joke of the economic team headed by a lawyer will perform.

lollmaolol:


Rip son

Madam should also return stolen fund, idp head might be fighting back.

what stolen fund , soem people and propagnda , the woman's only sin is that she actualised the Enugu international Airport