What a shame,Nigeria is a huge joke....the worst form of deception is that of oneself.

Onyiiobi7735:
Congratulations to Funke Akindele for making such a high rising movie.That is how it should be -making Nollywood movies with beautiful and sound theme, unpredictable storyline, excellent actors, settings, captivating and intriguing actions and suspense.
Not all these useless, sloppy crappy films that are only talk talk in bedrooms and parlour and walking about, with no intrigue and suspense.
Though most Asaba movies are very wonderful including Sylvester Madu action movies, some there need to learn to produce quality movies, not just going into movie making to feed and pay bills.

You are very much on point....kudos to Funke Akindele and her team.

It is long overdue,this constant genocide against the minority christian ethnic groups of middlebelt has to stop. How long are our leaders going to turn a blind eye and pretend that all is well. This massacre of the innocent christian is a well planned and systematic operation with the consent of certain powers and this is geared towards taking over those places and planting they nomadic terrorists herdsmen from Futa Jalon in those lands.

Can't you see that the only reason the op created this thread is to massage their ego. If he mentions any movie he goes ahead to write the name of the director,why not go ahead and also give us the name of the actors and actresses involved in each.....inferiority complex explained.

I hope this is not the usual APC Audio...we will cross our fingers and watch,God bless the good people of Nigeria.

guobe:
A colleague of mine have been kidnapped since last week Saturday as he is still in the kidnappers den till now.
A huge ransom was demanded and the person that went to give the kidnappers the ransom was also kidnapped and they are asking for more money.
Who will be bold to deliver another ransom when the earlier person that went to deliver the ransom was kidnapped.
God will surely punish these kidnappers in Nigeria as they will meet their waterloo very soon.

Amen！

They police are on top of the case as usual....my heart goes out to the people of Plateau. We the good people of South East stands with you in your most difficult times. Never mind,the blood of saints waters the trees of freedom.
The enemies of the great people of middlebelt will be put to shame.

Ada di oranma....ride on,the sky is your limit.

Roving1:
Tinubu’s New Year Speech Is More or Less A Native Doctor’s Words Of Hope To Sick Man – Shehu Sani

A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani, has described President Bola Tinubu’s New Year speech as a native doctor’s words of hope to a sick person.

Addressing the nation on Monday, Tinubu among other things, announced plans to ensure a constant supply of affordable food to Nigerians.

He also announced plans to provide Nigerians with reliable power supply, as well as petroleum products.

According to him, his administration is working hard to alleviate the suffering of Nigerians.

Reacting to the speech, Sani, a former senator who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the 8th Assembly, noted that the President did not set any time for any of the promises to take effect.

Click Below Link To Read Full Details:

https://rovingupdates.com/tinubus-new-year-speech-is-more-or-less-a-native-doctors-words-of-hope-to-sick-man-shehu-sani/

.....just full of sound and rhetorics,signifying nothing. The kind of leaders a nation gets are they kind of leaders they deserve. we have allowed serial looters whom revels in impunity in the worst forms of corruption and misrule to take the seat of leadership in our country and we can never hope to blessed with the grace of light

Goodnewsforlife:
u igbos will cry more in d next election

Wotowoto for u cos dumb yorubas forming liberal have seen your madness

We are waiting for u igbos

People like you are so empty and full of hate...the more you keep making wrong choices of leaders,in your effort to spite Igbos,you forget that Igbos has cultural and historical advantage over your people to wangle this dying economy. The truth is that illiteracy is about our biggest problem,while fellows from the North were sold muslim muslim ticket and south west voted on tribe but the truth is that while these wrong choices were made,the future of your unborn children are mortgaged. Our politicians has since discovered our gullibility and hence,revels with impunity in the worst forms of corruption and misrule. Knowing that by the next elections,all you need is share stipends,sell tribe and religion to the masses and it is uhuru.
People like you are 'slaves that loves their chains'.

youngreva:
shut up and read before you comment.

Mr frustration,shey you voted Tinubu...una never see anything.Olodo！

I hope you didnt bet with your bonus account because it has expiration period and it has terms and conditions...wish you all the best.

Nice one！

Beautiful minds....one day our 1st eleven will rule this country. Only then can Nigeria be blessed with the grace of prosperity.

Over the years some Yorubas has made it a routine to spill out lies while trying so hard to re-write history. Before the onset of the infotech,the Lagos-Ibadan parapo brown envelope media boys were used as a tool for Yoruba propaganda,dishing out falsehood while trying so hard to present Yorubas as being ahead of others but now the bubble has bursted,you can access information anywhere anytime. They voices of others are now heard loud enough.
They Yorubas employed the Joseph goebbel's model 'When you tell a lie often enough it becomes truth'.

FEMI AND HIS SEVERELY IGNORANT LIES:

•Femi Lies About the Yorubas Being Nigeria’s Earliest Graduates:

From his myopic bubble Femi FaniKayode claims the Yoruba were the first to acquire Western education; the first ever known record of a literate Nigerian in the English Language is the narrative of an Ibo slave who regained his freedom and documented his life history as a slave from the time he was 11 years old in present day Ibo land till the time when he gained his freedom in the middle of the 18 th century. He later married an English woman and had 3 children. He died in 1795.

Femi, a basic Google-research will do you good here; check out the name, Equanoh OLAODAH. Further Femi claims that the Yoruba were the first lawyers and doctors in Nigeria. This is again a big falsehood. The first Nigeria doctor was an Effik man Silas G. Dove who obtained a medical degree from France and returned to practise medicine in 1840 in Calabar. This fact can also be verified from historical medical records in Paris.

I would also ask that you google the name BLYDEN – Edward Wilmot BLYDEN – an educated son of free Ibo slaves who by the mid-19th century had acquired sound theological education. He was born in Saint Thomas in 1832. He is one of the founding missionaries that established the Archbishop Vining church in Ikeja. Before the next time you succumb to your long-running battle with logorrhoea, Femi please do some research.

What about the third president of a free Liberia – President J JRoyle – again, a man of Ibo descent. Please take some time to do some research so that we can discuss constructively. It is wrong to peddle lies to your people. It is academic fraud to knowingly misrepresent facts just to score cheap points with people who do not have the discipline to do research and accept anything you pour out simply because they say you are well educated. To again quote the great Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Joseph Stiglitz; Femi fits into the category of third rate students from first rate universities with an inflated sense of self-importance. Let’s go on!

Who was the first Nigerian Professor of Mathematics – an Ibo man – Professor Chike Obi – the man who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem. He was followed by another Ibo man, Professor James Ezeilo, Professor of Differentail Calculus and the founder of the Ezeilo Constant. Please do some research on this great Ibo man. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka and one of the founders of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Who was Nigeria’s first Professor of Histroy – Professor Kenneth Dike who published the first account of trade in Nigeria in pre-colonial times. He was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan. Who was the first Professor of Microbiology – Professor Eni Njoku; he was also the first African Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. Anatomy and Physiology – Professor Chike Edozien is an Asaba man and current Obi of Asaba. Who was the first Professor of Anatomy at the University College Ibadan? Who was the first Professor of Physics? Professor Okoye, who became a Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960. He was followed by the likes of Professor Alexander Anumalu who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physics three times for his research in Intermediate Quantum Physics. He was also a founding member of the Nigerian Mathematical Centre. Nuclear Physics and Chemistry – again another Ibo man – Professor Frank Ndili who gained a Ph.D in his early ’20s at Cambridge Univesity in Nuclear Physics and Chemistry in the early ’60s. This young Asaba man had made a First Class in Physics and Mathematics at the then University College Ibadan in the early ’50s. First Professor of Statistics – Professor Adichie who’s research on Non-Parametric Statistics led to new areas in statistical research. What about the first Nigerian Professor of Medicine – Professor Kodilinye – he was appointed a Professor of Medicine at the University of London in 1952. He later became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria Nsukka after the war. What about Astronomy – again another Ibo man was the first Professor of Astronomy – please, look up Professor Ntukoju – he was the first to earn a double Ph.D in Astronomy and Mathematics.

Let’s go to the Social Sciences – Demography and statistical research into population studies – again another Ibo man – Professor Okonjo who set up the first Centre for Population Research in Ibadan in the early ’60s. A double Ph.D in Mathematics and Economics. Philosophy – Professor G D Okafor, who became a Professor of Philosophy at the Amherst College USA in 1953. Economics – Dr. Pius Okigbo who became a visiting scholar and Professor of Economics at the University of London in 1954. He is also the first Nigerian Ph.D in Economics. Theology and theological research – Professor Njoku who became the first Nigerian to earn a Ph.D in Theology from Queens University Belfast in Ireland. He was appointed a Professor of Theology at the University College Zambia in 1952.

I am still conducting research in areas such as Geography where it seems a Yoruba man, Professor Mabogunje, was the first Professor. I also am conducting research into who was the first Nigerian Professor of English, Theatre Arts, Languages, Business and Education, Law and Engineering, Computer Technology, etc. Nigerians need to be told the truth and not let the lies that Femi Fani-Kayode has been selling to some ignorant Yoruba who feel that to be the first to see the white man and interact with him means that you are way ahead of other groups. The Ibo as The great Achebe said had within a span of 40 years bridged the gap and even surpassed the Yoruba in education by the ’60s. Many a Yoruba people perpetually indulge in self-deceit: that they were the first to go to school; to be exposed to Western education; that they are academically ahead of other Nigerian cultures of peoples. Another ignorant lie.

As far back as 1495 the Benin Empire maintained a diplomatic presence in Portugal. This strategic relationship did not just stop at a mere mission but extended to areas such as education. Scores of young Benin men were sent out to Portugal to study and lots of them came back with advanced degrees in Medicine, Law and Portuguese Language, to name a few.

Indeed, some went with their Yoruba and Ibo slaves who served the sons of the Benin nobility while they studied in Portugal. These are facts that can be verified by the logs kept by ship owners in Portugal from 1494 to 1830. It is kept at the Portuguese Museum of Geographic History in Lisbon.

Why then would several Yoruba people peddle all these falsehoods to show that they are ahead educationally in Nigeria? The true facts from the Federal Office of Statistics on education tell otherwise, showing that 3 Ibo states for the past 12 years have constantly had the largest number of graduates in the country, producing more graduates than Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo states. These eastern states are Imo, Anambra and Abia. Yet he calls Ibos traders. Indeed, the Igbos dominate because excellence dominates mediocrity – truth.

Let me enlighten this falsehood’s mouthpiece even further: before the civil war Ibos controlled and dominated all institutions in the formal sector in Nigeria from the universities to the police to the military to politics:

•The first Black Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan was an Ibo man

•The first Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos was an Ibo man

•The first Nigerian Rector of the then Yaba College of Technology was also an Ibo man

•The police was run by an Ibo IG

•The military as a professional institution was also run by elite-ilk Ibos.

Facts can never be hidden. To be first does not mean you would win the race; let us open up all our institutions and may the best man win. Let us not depend on handouts or privileges but on heard work. Let us compete and give the best positions to our brightest – be it Ibo, Yourba or Fulani, and then we shall see who is the most successful Nigerian.

I find it difficult not to respond to some of these long-held lies that are constantly being peddled by Yorubas. One is that the Yoruba have the largest number of professors in the country. I would again ask that we stick to facts and statistical records. The Nigerian Universities Commission has a record of the state with the largest number of professors on their records and as at 2010 that state is Imo State followed by Ondo State and then Anambra State; the next state is Ekiti and then Delta before Kwara State. I am sure you Yorubas are surprised. When you sit in the South-West do not think others are sleeping but I wish to address another historical fact and that is who were the first Nigerians to receive Western education. It is important that these issues be examined in their historical context and evidence through research be presented for all to examine.

I have continued my research for as the great sociologist and father of modern sociology – Emile Durkheim – put it, the definition of a situation is real in its consequence . What this simply means is that one must never allow a perceived falsehood to become one’s reality and by extension individuals who accept a defined position act as though the situation is real and apply themselves in that narrowly defined perspective.

Why is this important to state it is because for long the Yoruba have peddled lies that have almost become accepted as the truth by other Nigerians but it is important that we lay down the facts for others to examine and come to their own conclusion for facts are facts. Let’s go back to education. Historically, Western education resulted as a product of indigenous ethnic groups interacting with the whites through trade. The dominant groups sold slaves, ivory gold and a host of other products to their European counterparts in exchange for finished goods – wine, tobacco, mirrors, etc.

The Bini who were the dominant military force from the 15th to the 19th century raided and sold other ethnicities to the Europeans. Top on the list of those they sold were the Yoruba, Ibo and Igala. Various other ethnicities suffered as a result of the Bini military expansion. And the Benin Kingdom stretched from present-day Benin up to what is now geographically referred to as Republic of Togo. Indeed, the influence of the Benin Empire extended to the banks of the river Niger to present-day Onistha. There are huge Yoruba settlements in the Anioma part of Delta State who fled Yoruba land as a result of these attacks and constant raids. Yes, there are Yoruba people who are currently living with Ibos in the Ibo-speaking part of Delta and they are full citizens of the place no one refers to them as strangers and there is no talk about the Ibos being the host community like we hear from the Governor of Lagos State. But let me return to research. Slaves were moved from the hinterland to the coast and many were sold through Eko to the New World. These slaves were the first to encounter the Europeans and by extension their way of life – this included education in a Western sense. The Bini King had taken pains to establish a diplomatic presence in Portugal and the relationship developed into areas that extended beyond trade in the late 15th century and lasted well into the early 19th century. Scores of young Bpni youth were sent to Portugal and studied there, coming back with advanced degrees in various disciplines. The next set of people to receive Western education were the slaves themselves. Some of them managed to buy their freedom and develop themselves further.

For the Ibo it does not matter who your father is; the question is: Who are you? Who was Obasanjo’s father? Was he the most educated Nigerian? I am sure the answer is no. Yet this Great Nigeria led this nation two times as a military Head of State and as a civilian President. What about GEJ? Who was his own father? Was he the first Nigerian to go to London? The answer is no. In fact, he had no shoes, yet he is fully in charge. So it does not matter if your father was the first Lawyer or first Doctor in Nigeria but rather what matters is what an individual does with the talents the Almighty has given to him. Let us open up Nigeria for competition. That is the solution to our problems. Those who want privileges keep reminding us that their fathers were the first to go to school in London. Every generation produces its own leaders and champions. Like Dangote who is the biggest employer of labour in Nigeria today and the richest man in Africa. Was his father the first to go to study in London? Yet he is the master of people whose parents gave them the best. My brothers, the answer to the Nigerian problem is that we should establish a merit-driven society. “I get am before” no be property.

Goodnewsforlife:
igbos just can’t get over d election defeat

The author is a Yoruba man....you see igbos in all your problems. Lets discuss the issue raised by the author and not calling out Igbos,what happened in Lagos was a national disgrace,even while Buhari was president we didnt see disgraceful scene like this whenever he visits Daura.

'i freed a thousand slaves,i could have freed a thousand more,if only they knew they were slaves'-Tubman Harriet.

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*BOURDILLON, ALMAJIRIS AND POVERTY IN YORUBALAND*

*The Politics of Collective Immiseration*

by

Moses Oludele Idowu

"There are only two families in the world, the Haves and Have-Nots."
- Miguel de Cervantes

"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true".
- Isaac Newton

The large Crowd I saw at Bourdillon, in front of the house of Bola Tinubu, President of Nigeria and one of the leading politicians who have heavily profited from politics in this political dispensation, made me sad and caused my heart to sink. The long line of Crowds of multitudes waiting for crumbs from one of the biggest political profiteers of this era is a reality to what I have been saying for a long time. Poverty is real in the land. But this is not the issue; the real issue is, if nothing is done to arrest this drift, if nothing is done to redirect the economic program and policies in more progressive and practical ways, poverty will envelope everyone soon, - except the very rich.
I have been told and have seen it firsthand myself the truth of what many are saying that this is the worst Christmas in living memory. There is poverty everywhere.
"But there has always been poverty in Nigeria and Jesus said, 'The poor you will always have with you', "some wiseacre who are poor in theology would say. Yes, there has always been poverty in Nigeria; but it is poverty that can be managed. Poverty that most often could be hidden. But now poverty is visible and no one can hide it.
Some well- dressed men gatecrashed to a Christening Ceremony of a Child and begged the woman in charge of food to just give them soup, out of the leftovers. She should not even bother with meat but just only soup which they would take home to make garri. This is not in Hausa or Igboland, it happens here in Yorubaland, and they are Yorubas - land of culture and honour, now under siege of poverty, extreme poverty as a result of gross misrule by pseudo- progressives of APC.
A Northern politician once said something that Yorubas ought to ponder seriously about if we are still a thinking people. He said if Bola Ahmed Tinubu had come before Obafemi Awolowo, most Yorubas would be almajiris today.
Did you hear that? I never heard a word so true from the mouth of a politician of the Fourth Republic. If destiny had pushed this man ahead and he was the first then most people in this Yoruba land will be beggars by now. Because everything will be priced out of the reach of the poor: Housing, Market, Schools, Colleges, Universities... With Scholarships only for Children of those who are ready to 'ranka dede' him and lick the boot of his aides and foot Soldiers.
All over Yoruba land and even Nigeria the reports coming are not good. Poverty, institutional, multi-level, multi- dimensional poverty is on the march and Nigerians are shrinking and shrinking into their holes and shells.
That poverty is on the march is not the issue. That is not the problem. Even as bad as things are they can be turned around. Poverty is not the issue. The real issue, the real trouble that I see now is that there is no political will and no intellectual capacity and moral sagacity to understand the real trouble bedeviling the economy, to arrest and address what Professor Eskor Toyo calls "Nigeria's basic economic deformities" and set this nation on the path of progress. And unless this is done, unless the economic War is won poverty will continue to spread and deepen.
It is not about prayer or confessing positive things. Often times we muddle these things because we neither understand true Religion or Theology and Logic. Theology is compatible with Reason, in point of fact, it is built on it. This is why the more Nigerians pray the poorer they become; because both leaders and followers are operating outside of Reason.
Can I be honest with you? Poverty will be worse in 2024 than even 2023 that people are crying about. Because there is nothing in place to avert recurrence, to arrest the march of poverty, to put people back to jobs, to put industries back in motion. Now Nigeria is on fast pace to de-industrialization. As the Currency continues to weaken and more money required to purchase raw materials the prospect of survival will become narrower and foreign investors will begin to leave amidst other uncertainties.
The same ruinous policies that Buhari pursued for 8 years - borrowing, printing money [Ways and Means], doling out N20,000 to imaginary beneficiaries and numbers and party members..., these are the same policies being pursued by this dumb government. Poverty will continue. Poverty does not end because someone wishes it or prays about it. This is where Nigerians miss it and why they suffer so much. Poverty is arrested by deliberate programs of attack, calculated schemes of intellectual, industrial, moral and financial empowerment, social stability and collective engagement. It requires an assortment of weapons to kill and defeat this hydra- headed enemy of man.
It is War. Poverty must be fought and defeated. Else, we will all lose. I shall come to this at the end.
The more debts increase the lower the quality of currency will be and the more will be required to service existing debts that are matured. Governors who are largely economic illiterates have mapped out strategies to borrow another 2-3 trillions in the new year. They have lost it. The Federal government now shells out billions to states on palliative and the States too shell out to those they wish. That is what the largest Community of black in the world has become: from hand to mouth. Just borrowing and sharing. An economy based on such transaction is an economy of doom for everyone. It is collective Immiseration.
In a way it serves the political class for people to be poor because it gives them leverage. An economically- empowered and liberated person cannot be told who to vote for. He cannot be pushed to do the bidding of politicians. Because he doesn't need them. Politicians fear and hate such category of persons. They are dangerous, too dangerous to their survival. They possess independent minds and Nigerian politicians don't like people with independent minds.
That is why Democracy is actually designed and can only function best among people who are economically empowered and politically literate. Those two things: economic empowerment and political literacy are crucial.
Poverty serves the interest of Nigerian politicians. The Crowds of have- nots thronging their houses and queueing on their streets gives them a sense of empowerment and self - assurance. It boosts their ego, that these "Slaves" depend on them for survival and need their favour.
That is why they prefer to dole out Cash, Crumbs to Crowds rather than govern well and wipe out poverty among the masses.
We have known cases where as Crowds struggle to collect pittance lives were lost. It happened a couple of time in Kwara State during the era of Bukola Saraki where on each occasion as many as 30 people died. Over pittance.
I ask the man who shared the Bourdillon video whether the Crowds got anything? Nothing, he told me. They got nothing.
They would trek back the long distance home on empty stomachs.
They have no need of them now. Elections are over and no election is in sight or coming till another four years. This people are Cruel. They have no mercy. They don't care about people as they pretend to be.
Nigerians deserve their fate. Everyone gets what he deserves with leadership.
However, there is something dangerous about this which everyone needs to watch out for. If poverty is not tamed or arrested everyone will lose at the end. Even the rich will also cry. If nothing is done to arrest this rampaging poverty that is spreading all over the land; then there could be a boomerang effect. I don't know what it would be. When a River's course is blocked and it is not allowed its natural flow, it will cut out another Channel elsewhere and return with vengeance.
These Children who are crying to sleep now because of hunger will grow up one day and may join the army or somewhere else. The teenager who is dropping out of University today because his parents could not afford the new fees won't forget and will not forgive. Nigeria is taking a big risk.
Who knows where a Jehu or Hitler or Rawlings may spring or come from?
Now there is hunger in the land. That much is certain. Soon hunger will turn to anger and anger will crystallize into popular action, and action to...

It is really amazing that Nigerians have to come to this sorry state under Civilians. What excuse will politicians give now for the state of things? That the Military spoiled everything and destroyed everything... And 25 years are not enough to undo what the military "destroyed"? Everything of value today that Nigeria has was built by the Military - National Hospital, Third Mainland Bridge, Aso Rock, Alscon etc. And they never sold Oil for the fraction that is now selling today or in the last 24 years.
What is the excuse that poverty has deepened in the same period when oil sold for a hundred Dollars per barrel under the politicians for a substantial period of time?
Pay day does come. Yes, there shall be a payday. I don't know how but I know eternal principles that cannot fail. Seedtime and harvest won't cease. The one who sows must also reap. Politicians will reap in full and with compound interest what they have sown in the last 25 years to Nigeria.

©️ Moses Oludele Idowu
December 26, 2023
All Rights Reserved

The pre and post elections situation in Nigeria has opened up some hidden secrets in Nigeria,first some men like Soyinka,Bode George, Tinubu et al would die some day and be thought to be activists or humanitarians or great politicians or distinguished elder statemen but events unfolded and the truth about certain characters were unveiled to the chagrin of the masses.

we are now Living in hobbesian state of nature,where everyone lives for himself and gets away with any form of crime. I cant believe the number of deaths from the two military bombings and everyone sees it as one of those things. For real,we are in for a long thing in this country.

SSFeedsNigeria:
I once saw data from the 1960’s that showed how the old Eastern region (comprising the entire SE with Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Cross River) was the fastest growing economy in Nigeria, and among the fastest in the world. The region was registering new businesses far more than Western and northern regions combined! Then the civil war happened in 1967-70 and that momentum was lost. The region turned into a sorry state. New centers of growth and investments shifted to Lagos/Oyo and Kano/Kaduna axis.

Infrastructure in the East decayed. Investments fled the region. Even Igbos themselves abandoned their region and instead chose to invest in the new centers of growth outside their region. Onitsha deterioted. Aba decayed. Enugu, Owerri, Nnewi, Awka, Umuahia, Abakilike etc. became glorified villages. People looked down on those that choose to remain in the East as unambitious people who don’t want to make it big in life.

From the 1980’s, 1990’s and up to early 2000’s there were constant religious riots in the North, and each time it occurred, Igbos and their investments became targets. As a result, calls for “aku ruo ulo” which loosely means “bring your investments home” became rife but unfortunately, the East was still in a very bad shape. This pushed Igbos to start making demands from their governors on infrastructure improvements. Having realized that North was no longer safe for them and their investments, Igbos began to move massively into Lagos & Abuja in the interim, along with their investments. Not long after, the aku ruo ulo calls began to yield dividends as Igbo investments began to trickle into their region.

As Igbo population & assets in Lagos spiked, Yorubas began to get uncomfortable. Then 2023 election happened & they weaponized tribalism. Several Igbo dominated markets got burnt. It was followed by the demolition of houses and plazas in Igbo dominated areas too. Just like North in the previous years, Igbos also realized that Lagos isn’t safe for them and their investments too.

Almost same situation that occurred in the North in the years prior to 2000, is now occurring in the West. The period Igbos began to abandon North coincided with its economic collapse. I’m not saying that North collapsed economically because Igbos abandoned it but several other factors added to it.

Now, calls for Igbos to divest away from Lagos region is happening at a period foreign investors are also abandoning the region. Lagos/SW loss now becomes SE gain as investments are now pouring into the East in an unprecedented manner. What makes it more remarkable is that SE is rising when other regions are stagnating or even regressing.

Just like in the 1960’s when the civil war truncated the rise of the East, Igbos should avoid history repeating itself. You can make IPOB or ESN your pressure group but never escalate things to unmanageable crises level.

Another good thing is that Nigeria is finally being restructured without many being aware. The North may or may not be aware that Nigeria is being restructured against their age long hindrance to it. However, there is little or nothing they can do to stop it. Fuel subsidy removal, unbundling of power generation and distribution, removal of certain things from the exclusive list etc are restructuring that will make regions grow at their own pace. This is the opportunity Igbos need to roar back like the Asian Tigers and it is gratifying to note that the prognosis indicate positive signs. Aba, Onitsha and Nnewi are back on track. SME’s and manufacturing in the SE is thriving once again.

Unfortunately for the northern region, they failed to invest in Human Resources. If Tinubu sustains the covert restructuring, the region is likely to collapse further without new investments and rising insecurity. With foreign investors also fleeing Lagos region & Igbos doing same, the SE is now poised to become the new axis of growth in Nigeria. Also, with AFTCA now in place, Lagos no longer has locational advantage like in the past, when ECOWAS was the trading region. Now, the entire Africa is, and SE is well positioned between West and Central Africa.

Igbos can truly achieve their mission even within a dysfunctional BUT DECENTRALIZED Nigeria.

Truer words have never been used.....wonderful exposition,God bless you.

Anambra the state of billionaires,philanthropy is engrained in Igboman's DNA....this is the way we roll.

Some local champions thinks the world starts and end in Lagos. There are communities from all of parts of Nigeria and as far as China,cameroun,Ghana,Togo,Gabon etc having huge presence in Onitsha,carrying out their businesses successfully. The Igbo man is capitalist by nature and welcomes competition very well,non Igbos doing businesses in the East enjoys wonderful hospitality,as thats cultural with Igbos. Outsiders living in South East can attest to the wonderful hospitality they get. little wonder why so many industries are coming up in Onitsha,Aba,Nnewi,Enugu and other South Eastern states.

Brendaniel:
If God has made you minister, it is to help the people and not suffer them, so far so good I'm yet to see that help from you to the people....

Let's watch and see,i guess she may make a difference. When righteous people are on the throne,they will certainly work for the people.

Bros south East too sweet...you dont have a choice but to love it. It is the most developed Rural area in Africa,it is in thesame cadre with the rest of the Free world.

ricson11:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOjwUfIrI-k?si=06opwacPZqiC_hcU

I decided to change my religion because of the love I have for my husband. I am a 45 years old woman”. Love came calling, I loved what we shared as friends, and I could feel it in my guts that this was the right person to be with. I changed my religion because I love my husband.

money is a bitch....you changed your religion because of money.

There is power in prayers....Some of us are products of testimony,i and my family will always clinge to the old rugged cross. When you are making a prayer request and it seems not to be forthcoming,just bear in your mind that,delayed gratification is a sign of maturity in christ.

HappyPagan:
Cos y'all Southern Christians are annoying. It's your way or no one else's way. Y'all know very little about other religions. Combine that with your belief the Holy Spirit lives in you, you create some kind of arrogant ignorance that can be impossible to bear.

So for this your childish reason,muslims should be allowed to air their opinion on threads about other religions but are so special and sacred that others cannot post on islamic threads.....some people are just so insecured that they need to be pampered in Public discuss. Are we not by all means saying that Islam is delicate and volatile and must be protected.

Nice one from Emeka Ofor....'be good to all the people you can while you can',it makes the world a better place.