₦airaland Forum

fashionale:
This is the highest decept I've seen so far, these are not the real state of the roads in Aba. I reside in Aba and I can can authentically state here that 98% of the roads in Aba are in deplorable state. Okezie led govt is a scam

which area do you live in Aba?
Pls stop this childishness

Abagworo:
Please leave Igbo matters for us to discuss. Some of us are respected titled men in real life that actually know Igbo and live Igbo. All of Igbo except Onitsha is nasal and this includes Ika and Ikwerre but central Igbo is a mix of Onitsha and Umuahia with the nasal aspects removed. Go back to your Igala and stop claiming Igbo when you know nothing about Igbo.

Pls we need to be checking these touts that come on NL forums with divisive tendencies to cause harm to Igbo unity. This thing is becoming too much. I'm sure these must be binis and Yorubas.

OMANBALA1:
Umuahia free of nasal sound? Wonders shall never end. Why do you guys derive joy in telling lies?
IMO state and Abia state dialects have the most nasalized dialects in Igbo land. Igbo Izugbe structure was based on Onicha axis Igbo while the vocabulary was based on central Igbo. Stop misleading people, you old man.

Hmmmm, see rubbish. Oga are you from where sef? what is Igbo izugbe if I may ask

ehikwe22:
Igbos doing what they know how to do best. This is an Ika thread. You guys should run out of this thread. You sniff for any Ika thread to besiege and disrupt it. You guys should desist from this nonsense

How sure are you that they are Igbo at the 1st place?

OMANBALA1:
I have laid down the rules but it is obvious your skull is impenetrable. Throwing tantrums and trying to disrespect me and my fatherland just to rile me up will not work.
Giving one or two examples is immaterial and does not mean similarity. I judged you based on your uninformed and ignorant statements and as a man you should suck it up and eat the humble pie.
I don't have problem with uniting ndị Igbo for economic advancement but don't attach yourself to other people who have already formed a unit,especially when they are content.
You guys should pay more attention to the image of your state. Omanbala is one indivisible unit and it will remain so.

Look at this one, what are you saying? must you put a dot under your I to make it looks more Igbo. From your comments and writing I can tell you that you are not Igbo. You don't know anything about Igboland so desist from this rubbish you are saying here. O wuru na I jighi okwu gi echere ka ndi nwe ala kpa ihe diri ha.

ruggedized1:
The thunder that will destroy you is still doing press-up. Stop distorting history here this i.diot. Go and focus on your Abia state. Stop coming here to tell us our history. I will turn this thread into what you will not like if you cannot mind your Abia state. You are warned.


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lol, already you are a dead man that's waiting for his burial, the thunder has already struke you.

Just swear that you are Igbo you are resorting to cursing. Pls, allow the sons of the soil to discuss their heritage Amadioha strikes you.

ruggedized1:
Ogb, why not focus on your Abia state for once. All you do here is to discuss others particularly Anambra. Are you now the on to tell us our history? Anambra does not have anything in common with Imo state not in culture nor language and still do not want to have anything in common with them even now. Why not respect that. If a people so desire to be on their own why not respect that? Focus on your Abia state and discuss how they are related to IMo state and leave us alone.


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Look at this bini man, Chino. Swear with your scrotum that you are from Anambra. I did history in my 2nd degree and I am sure of what I am saying. Desist from the harm you are causing to Igbo unity before the gods of our ancestors strike you with heavy thunder.

ruggedized1:
Ogb, why not focus on your Abia state for once. All you do here is to discuss others particularly Anambra. Are you now the on to tell us our history? Anambra does not have anything in common with Imo state not in culture nor language and still do not want to have anything in common with them even now. Why not respect that. If a people so desire to be on their own why not respect that? Focus on your Abia state and discuss how they are related to IMo state and leave us alone.


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Look at this bini man, Chino. Swear with your scrotum that you are from Anambra. I did history in my 2nd degree and I am sure of what I am saying. Desist from the harm you are causing to Igbo unity before the gods of our ancestors strike you with heavy thunder.

Chysler:
See the kind of rubbish division you are causing among same Pple... U simply don't know how to debate an issue... U r full of urself and very irrespectful... Am telling u about the place I come from and u want to school me about that simply because u bear Omanbala in nairaland ... In ur bid to sound credible u have only succeeded in being not difference from that ignoramus calling himself Lasgidiowner... We Anambrarians and IMO are one Pple especially us that wea formerly under old orlu zone , as geograph widens our dialect pronunciation and intonations may deviate slightly but does not garner much percentage to be said to he different from each other!

He might be a kid of yesterday or those Benin and Yoruba guys that hide under Omanbala to cause division in Igboland. larger area of Orlu division/province was carved out of Onitsha province. The areas initially mentioned were under Orlu division including Nnewi north and south in the old eastern region. If truly he is from the place he claims let him go and ask his father who were the Orsu ala mili and where is their location in this present Anambra and Imo state.

The first two states created from the east central state was strictly on population equilibrium. That's why many local governments fall where they are today.

We should be careful of these divisive agents. I've stayed in Orlu, there's no much difference between Orlu zone people and their counterpart in Anambra south senatorial district.

Some people who are disguising to be Igbo will come here and tell you that Anambra is a monolithic state while Nnewi and Awka do not speak the same thing, Umunze and Nzam speak totally different things.

gerg:
Talking with you is a waste of time. here another nutcase

Because you don't have fact to back up your argument that's why you've resorted to insult. Pls stopping dividing Igboland before the gods of our ancestors strike you with heavy thunder.

gerg:
The problem with you guys is you Igbonise everything. You see everything from Igbo perspective. You do not care what people's name or place name means in another people's language and culture. Igbos that do not know their history can confidently tell someone that his history is fake? Most of those names you listed also exist in Edo State. same pronunciation with the Edo but different pronunciation with the ones in the East. So the meaning, history and pronunciation doesn't matter? You base everything on similarity in spellings? SMH

You are not well, how do we igbonise everyhing or are you not the one trying to edonise our communities west of Niger because Biafran proponents refused to include Edo in the map. We are not one and do not share same values, you claimed that all the names I mentioned also exist in Edo. Good and fine, list the communities where we can find them and also say the meanings.

Any Edo Ika is a stranger to Ika, how can Ika that is very close to Edo dropped Edo language and culture only to adopte a language similar to that of Owerri faraway east of the Niger.

Oga pls drop this argument, you are already a loser.

OMANBALA1:
Just look at this Nigga telling me I don't know anywhere in my own srate. Are you kidding me. I bet you don't know what pure Orumba, Nnewi and Aguata sound like. For your own education I must let you know Ekwulobia, Ezinifite are in Aguata while Umunze and Awgbu are in Orumba and these towns and Nnewi has nothing and absolutely nothing in common with any IMO state towns in areas of dialects. The only group in Anambra that has dialectical similarities with Orsu of IMO are Ihiala, Uli and co due to their closeness. Finally, there is nothing like Isu dialects because they are scattered all over Igbo land but they originated from Anambra.

OK your point is considerable because even in those local governments mentioned in Imo state there are little dialectical differences. Nkwerre and Amaigbo are not speaking completely the same thing likewise Osina and Okporo. But Akokwa and Uga are almost the same thing. And most communities in Nnewi south speak something close to Orsu dialect.

OMANBALA1:
Ideator and Orlu don't speak like those Anambra groups you mentioned I know those places very well.

You don't know anywhere. If you don't have a good contribution to make Pls just back off. Those places he mentioned including Ihiala speak dialects similar to that of Orlu, Oru, and Ideato (ie Orsu and Isu dialects).

Abagworo:
agbor di nma owa
umunede di nma
owa di nma
akumazi di nma
emuhu di nma
mbiri di nma
ya di ni anyi ncha nma.alua ni umunnem.puta ni ebea ka anyi mara onwe anyi.

sorry dear.just had to centralise it for all to understand without stress.

But this Ika is almost the same as Owerri dialect . 'puha' and 'ri' are common verbs used in Owerri which mean the same thing in the two languages .

They also have a clan called Mbiri, same in Owerri [mbiri]. The emuhu in Ika is it not the same thing as Umuhu scattered allover communities in SE.

people should source for their ancestry based on ancient community names not on imaginary folklores.

Mbiri is found in Ika and Owerri
Owerri is also found in ika
Igbodo is found in Ika and Etche
Obibi is found in Etche, Ngor okpala, and Orlu
Emuhu same as Umuhu is found in Ibeku Ndume, Oboro, Orlu and Ngwa.
there is Owa in Ika and Orlu(Umu Owa)
Aboh is found in Ndokwa, Mbaise, Orlu etc
Onicha communities scattered allover Igboland starting from Ika to Ebonyi, from Etche to Nsukka.

So let's try and make our ancestral history to be more logical by connecting ancient communities with same name not these imaginary forktales of how a bini prince or warrior with Igbo name left bini and found a community with Igbo name similar to other Igbo community names not a bini name. Meaning that before the imaginary prince or warrior settled in those igbo communities there must had been Igbos who were living in these lands who must have come from Owerri, Isu, Ibeku, Nri, Etche, Ishiagu, Asaba, Ogwashi, Igbo-uzo etc and due to expansion of Benin kingdom have little bini influence in their cultures.

How can people who we claim to have migrated from bini and reside in a place close to bini, traded with bini, intermarried with them since time immemorial dropped bini language and culture and take a language similar to Owerri language in faraway eastern heartland? Hmmmm, we need check our brains thoroughly.

bigfrancis21:
@bold...this is very wrong because you are taking current circumstances and applying it to what happened centuries ago. The concept of Igbos being travelers to distant lands started only since the coming of the british. Before then, Igbos existed in well-delineated clans of their own with no central authority. Second, there is no proof of you that you can furnish about Igbos going anywhere and renaming the place or wiping off the existing people's town name or language. That's absurd. You are trying to come up with this reason to 'buttress' ika being different but ask yourself twice if that is really true? Do you really believe that? Have you forgotten that there was no 'collective' Igbo people 400 years ago who all called themselves Igbos and were out on a mission to go colonize other lands? The ethnic consciousness of the people called Igbo started with British civilization. 100 years ago an Nnewi man would tell you he is Nnewi not Igbo, an Awka man would tell you the same too, etcetera. Also between the 1400s to 1700s, many Igbo-speaking slaves arriving the new world were shocked to get there and were called 'ebo'. Many of them admitted that they had never heard of such name back home and that their identity was the village or town which they came from. There was no 'collective Igbo' ethnic group or tribe existing several centuries ago out on a mission to colonize Ika land or non-Igbo speaking areas. That of Bonny happened by chance and the natives were also part of the reason Igbo is the mother tongue in the area (after the abolishment of slavery, thousands of Igbo slaves destined for slavery were stuck in the island, as bonny was one of the major ports from which Igbo slaves were sold. The natives felt Ibani language was sacred and made it secret language spoken only within themselves and did not teach outsiders their language but instead learned Igbo to communicate with the teeming population of Igbo slaves and settlers in the town, which led to the gradual displacement of Ibani in the town for Igbo instead. Remember that at this time, there was no ethnic consciousness or allegiance paid to any ethnic group but instead what people knew then were just languages without the concept of belonging ethnically to the people of that language) and Opobo was an outstretch of Bonny.

As for that of the missionaries bringing Igbo-speaking priests to Ika land to 'Igbonize' Ikas, it is not as simple as abc as you think. First of all, the missionaries, who happened to be whites, not Igbo, thank God, brought Igbo-speaking priests to Ika land because despite being outsiders they recognized that the people spoke and understood a speech form or dialect similar to other Igbo speakers. Recognize here that the missionaries did not care about ethnicity nor paid allegiance to any, their mission was to spread their message to everyone the fastest and easiest way that they could. However, they were faced with a daunting task being that the people under the 'Igbo-speaking' umbrella spoke way too many different dialects, many which were often unintelligible to the other and they had to come up with one dialect which they felt everyone should be able to understand. It started with the Anglican missionaries importing an Igbo dialect called 'isuama', spoken by liberated Igbo slaves in sierra leone to Igboland which failed because the 'isuama' spoken in SL happened to be a mixture of several Igbo dialects given that these liberated Igbo slaves came from different areas in Igboland. In fact, the earliest evangelical mission to Igboland in 'Isuama' dialect (resembling southern Igbo dialects, more like owerri-etche dialects etc.) failed at Aboh because the people of Aboh (Ndokwa) could not understand what was being said in 'Isuama' at first attempt (which would not be so today when Igbo speakers are more exposed to other Igbo dialects). Thus the ultimate search for a unifying Igbo dialect ensued and it is a long story from there onwards. My point is, recognize that as of 100 to 180 years ago or more when the missionaries landed in Ika land, they must have identified that the Ika people were Igbo-speaking to begin with, and thus brought Igbo-speaking priests trained in the gospel to spread the word. That's all they cared about - spreading the gospel. Anything to facilitate that, they did. This was happening at a time when Igbos were not as well travelled as today to be exposed to other dialects and speakers of Igbo dialects at opposite extremes of the Igbo language continuum were worst hit at understanding each other. If you claim Ika was only 20% Igbo as of then and probably 80% Bini, why then did the white missionaries not bring Edo-speaking priests to Ika land to preach the gospel to them? Till today I am amazed at how accurate descriptions of southern Nigerian tribes written by foreigners 400 years ago or more are even till today. Pick up any book of yore of southern Nigeria written by foreigners and you'd be amazed at how accurate they were. These foreigners were able to tell accurately which language was which and where speakers of each language started and ended (or their boundaries). So you cannot tell me that these missionaries 'made a mistake' at assuming Ika people were Igbo speakers because their accuracy as of 200 to 500 years back stand outs clearly. These missionaries did not bring Yoruba priests to Igboland did they? Why? Because they clearly knew Igboland was not Yoruba speaking. Thus, they should have brought Bini-speaking priests to Ika land if Ika was 'originally' Bini to begin with or 80% Edoid as you claimed, which history has shown severally to be false.

In every language worldwide due to the natural occurrence of several dialects, there is often a standard form which is spoken and understood by everyone and the dialects spoken locally by their speakers. Standard Igbo being spoken or used in official levels in Ika land or in other areas of Igbo land is no different from standard English spoken in the US (with so many dialects and accents spanning across north to south), or standard English spoken in the UK (with different dialects such as Manchester, Chelsea, etc.) or standard Spanish spoken in Mexico (with so many dialects and even native american languages) etc.

For what is is, Ika is simply an Igbo dialect with Bini loan words and sometimes Bini inflections. Let's not make things more complex than they really are. Do yourself a favour, tear a sheet of paper and write out 10 sentences in Ika dialect and compare it with Bini and Igbo and tell us which it closely resembles. The Ohafia people who live close to the Ibibio-speaking areas sometimes speak Igbo with sort of an Ibibio accent, which is expected or normal due to assimilation and inter-marriage with Ibibio people which may have occurred several centuries ago, yet Ohafia is an Igbo dialect and not Ibibio.

correct

Abagworo:
Get a brain. I wrote Ikot Abasi means "people of God" which is obviously in reference to Arochukwu. There is equally an Ikot Chukwu in case you didn't know. Chukwu and Abasi both mean God . Arochukwu are everywhere in Eastern Niger Delta and is a hybrid of Igbo and Ibibio peoples.

And this man forget that most tribes in Akwa ibom and cross river state have many things in common with Aros of Abia, some clans in Aro migrated from them while many of them migrated from Aro.

Abagworo:
Actually Igwe nga is Ikot Abasi also 2nd Opobo sometimes outside the Rivers Opobo. Ikot Abasi means People of God in reference to Arochukwu while Igwe nga means slave/prison abode. It's likely that Aro slave traders were using Ikot Abasi waterside for export of slaves via Bonny and had a cell there.

you are close to what I told him, the word Igwe in Igwenga is pronounced as the word igwe(king) not igwe(iron). Nga undisputedly means prison in Igbo language while slave is ohu.

I am not here to drag any land with any person but truth was be told. He can interpret Igwenga to mean another thing in his language but history holds it that Igbos are 1st settlers on these lands and were the 1st to name the lands before Ijaws came from Sierra Leone to settle on river banks.

nengibo:
Lol, an exile land for whom? igwenga doesn't mean exile,. In our Ibani Kingdoms Igwenga or Egwenga means wealth or affluence. therefore in our early historic times, all assets including manillas, houses and even human belonging to any chief or war canoe House were refered to as Igwenga. This gave rise to present Ikot-Abasi in our former Opobo to be called Egwenga by us, as King Jaja ,his chiefs,and European trade partners colonized,conquered and dominated that axis for their numerous trading activities across the Opobo main city state. thus Egwenga of the Akwas became Opobo territory uptill after the Nigeria civil war. "IGWENGA BERE KIKI, FI KIKIAGHA means IF YOU CAN STRUGGLE OR BLOCK WEALTH ISSUES, YOU CAN NOT DO SAME TO DEATH" T.M.O

Hmmmm, are you sure? because of the effect of civil war people are now claiming Igboland and interpreting igbo word to mean another thing.

Who were the 1st settlers in Opobo and what forced them to moved to Opobo before the ijaws came from Sierra Leone to join them?
When the Igbos 1st settled there what was the name they gave the land and what's the meaning?
when king jaja was leaving Bonny for Opobo was it not on an exile mission? not because you were allowed to settle there with them because they wanted to create a kingdom and needed population you named some of the areas in your words and start claiming them today.

One word can mean different things in different language, ENE means antelope in Igbo but mother in Idoma, attah means dryness in Igbo but a head in Igala. The word Aro in Igbo is it the same with the English arrow, the word oligo used by ancient igbo traders to express large wealth is it the same used as prefix in English language.
I won't dispute your Ibani context about the word Igwenga which might be what you interpreted it to be in your language, but who was the first to give the name?

History holds it that ijaw dwellers in Bonny and Opobo came many years after Igbos settled in the land. But come to think of it, why is it that Ijaw and Edo are claiming our rivers and western Igbos while nobody cares to claim Agbo clans in cross river, Igbos in Akwa ibom and Benue states hope it's not because of oil found in western and rivers Igboland?

nengibo:
Smh biafra people, what do u even think igwenga (now ikot abasi even means

Igwenga is not Ikot abasi it's Opobo. it's an Igbo word for exile and Igbo name for Opobo. In ancient time Opobo was considered an exile land

agadez007:
Too much ignorance in this thread,somebody who dosent knw dat all parts of Igboland have their own dialects acting like an authority on igbo language,I am from ANAMBRA based in OWERRI,there is a mountain of difference btw what i speak nd what they speak in IMO
Let me gve some examples
To laugh is ichi ochi in Owerri but in my side its 'Imu Amuu',an Imolite who av never interacted with my side of Ndi anambra can never understand that

We will say gini,some nnewi will say gunu,while owerri is NINI

We say kitaa for now,an owerri will say ugbulaka
We say iteghete for nine,they will say itolu

We say EBEA For here,they say NGA

These are few of the diff btw idemili and owerri,we also have diff in FOOD
If u dont knw asj and stop making mockery of urself

I am following them and can't withstand the laughter. Ngwa man in Abia state cannot understand up to 10% of Abiriba man's dialect in the same Abia state. 'now' in Ngwa is gbo waa while other Igbos use ugbu a. 'here' in Some Ngwa is ngala while in Ibeku umuahia it's 'Ofe e' and 'ebe a' for central Igbo, 'ibe e' in Orlu. 'like' in Ngwa is dika but 'elege' in Abiriba. what is nini in Owerri as you've said gini in Abia and nge e in Orlu.

when an Abiriba man or Iberre man speaks I don't think that any man from Anambra state can understand up to 5%. He made mention of ki do forgetting that Enuani still use ki bu ifo o which every igbo can understand, so I don't know the point he was trying to make. There must be dialectical difference in every language. Igbo not exceptional

FriendChoice:
See the pics below.

this is nice. I said it before that kwankwanso also tried in the area of housing. One of this must be the estate located along Kano-Zaria road if you are just entering Kano city from Zaria maybe in kumbotso or kura lga.

furrr:
This is exactly what I am talking about having cities in different locations does not mean that the cities are bigger than kano. kano municipal is the capital of kano but kano has expanded into so many local government that you can't actually tell which local government you are in within the city

Now he said anambara have 5 cities no one is arguing that except that all the 5 five cities put together are not as big as kano metropolitan area


Ps.. Kano is a continuous city expanding into local government close to the city

Now if we should agree on his logic then Kaduna city is bigger tha kano because of zaria....

Pls I am not here for argument. I've made my point based on my observation. And I can't continue with this. Your reference here is misleading, Zaria and Kaduna are two different cities separated by a very long distance. I am occupied with so many important things and cannot fall for the area you are heading to. Must Nigerians turn everything into tribal arguments.

I am a Nigerian and I love all Nigerian cities, Pls Kano is bigger than all southeastern cities put together since it's what you want to hear.

FriendChoice:
I don't agree with the above colored.

No Nigerian state with the exception of Lagos can compare itself with Kano. Kano metropolitan area is made of 8 LGA. We have other cites apart from those 8 LGA. Example Amana city, Bandirawo, kwankwasiya cities.

I've not been to those ones you mentioned. Hope they are not like normal Hausa clustered settlement?
If I want to go to these cities mentioned where will I take if I am in Kano city

FriendChoice:
Yeah I do. Have you ever been to Kano before? From which state are you? or region?


I hope you will go to all these places you see on internet. Don't forget to send the pictures online for verification.


Should I help you with some places you need to visit?

Who is this?

furrr:
Look nobody is comparing kano to any state in the north. Kano is probably the smallest state in the north what I am saying is that someone was comparing kano to onitsha and abakiliki, etc when kano is roughly the size of the entire southeastern states combined and if you still think I am lying do your research about the size of kano vs southeast.....

He was comparing Kano metropolis not the entire state. I am happy with the level of development I can see in Kano, Kaduna, Zamfara, Katsina and Sokoto more especially Zamfara being one of the youngest states in Nigeria. But federal government should also improve allocation of Southeast or better still site some federal projects in the zone. Development in southeast is strictly individual/private induced. We say we are one and should also help each other. Almost all the states in southeast have more than 3 cities compared to their counterparts in the north , Abia alone has 5 cities with so many commercial activities which also contribute to Nigerian overall GDP but lacks amenities which can help her local production. There is local car production in Anambra state, how is federal government helping that?

Let's be truthful to ourselves, what Southeast needs is little empowerment. we should not leave them because of Civil War that was fought many decades ago of which we can not hold this present generation responsible. They can't be suffering the sins of others.

Nigerian policies are not helping her citizens, no encouragement in the area of production and research. Economists all over the country are conducting researches which the findings are useful in future planning and policy formulation and the implications are economically helpful to the economy but there's no encouragement. Go to western world like Germany and Canada and see how they are supporting researches, in Nigeria you are on your own and that's why researches are very expensive.

Pls, I can't conduct research on size or landmass of a state or zone, it's not my field. Google to Nigerian bureau of statistics I believe they should have data on that.

FriendChoice:
@bolded. Are you serious?

yes. Do you reside in Kano?
I will go to Kano metropolis and Wudil before embarking on my study.

furrr:
Mumu... just because Nigeria does not draw line on our roads does not mean that the roads are small

Now 6 lane means the road can accommodate 3 vehicles each on either side of the road making it six......

Pls don't insult someone you don't know. we are here to learn from each other. so can you mention the name of the road, I am conducting a research on economic analysis of groundnut production with Kano being the case study, it will be published as a journal. I intend going to Kano in two weeks time I will like to snap the road.

furrr:
And who told you the one in kano is in the state capital...... Kano metropolitan area comprises of more than 10 LGAS each of which is bigger than all the cities you keep presenting here....

This underpass is in kumbotso LGA

And ps... Kano underpass is a state government project while the one in onitsha is a fedral government project....

Hmmmm, I wonder where you get this your information. most lgas in Kano city are very small if not the smallest in Nigeria. Kano is not bigger than portharcourt in terms of land area covered. Which local government is big in Kano metropolis?

Is it dala, fagga, gezawa, gwale, Kano, kumbotso, tarauni, nasarawa or gariko? I so much cherish Kano but can't keep quiet when someone is lying in favour of Kano. no LG in Kano is as large Gudu and Tangaza in Sokoto state or Maru in Zamfara.

furrr:
Don't say things you don't know my guy....
First kano city [metro] is made up of almost ten LGAS..... eg kano municipal, gwale, dala,tarauni, kumbotso, fagge etc each of which is bigger than all those cities you mentioned combined

Second about high ways... kano to zaria road [of which 80% is in kano] is a 6 lane highway tha covers more than 100km which extends to kaduna to Abuja for another 150km
Kano to maiduguri 326km
Kano to katsina 85km.... etc you catch my drift

And to recap this interchange project is a state government project what you keep showing us in onitsha is a fedral government project similar to the one we have here in kano along Zaria road.......

CHECK YOUR FACTS BEFORE COMING HERE TO COMMENT

Lie of the century. Which road is 6lane? mind you some of us are living in the North. Nairaland with bunch of liars. most roads in Kano city are just double lane but much wider. I don't live in Kano but I enter Kano steady, the state has much development but not as much as you think. federal government is rubbing many states to pay Kano.

furrr:
Don't say things you don't know my guy....
First kano city [metro] is made up of almost ten LGAS..... eg kano municipal, gwale, dala,tarauni, kumbotso, fagge etc each of which is bigger than all those cities you mentioned combined

Second about high ways... kano to zaria road [of which 80% is in kano] is a 6 lane highway tha covers more than 100km which extends to kaduna to Abuja for another 150km
Kano to maiduguri 326km
Kano to katsina 85km.... etc you catch my drift

And to recap this interchange project is a state government project what you keep showing us in onitsha is a fedral government project similar to the one we have here in kano along Zaria road.......

CHECK YOUR FACTS BEFORE COMING HERE TO COMMENT

Lie of the century. Which road is 6lane? mind you some of us are living in the North. Nairaland with bunch of liars

basilo102:
Are you Ok by asking that?? please go back to the IGR data you posted and get the explanation. Lol, because of kano uncompleted flyover other states are sleeping abi?? Look at ordinary Abakaliki building massive three at once. With the length of these flyovers, it is obvious it cost far more than that of Kano

upon Ebonyi being one of the least in terms of federal allocation. May God help Southeast.

Babalegba:
Too many thieving leaders in that region.You like thieves as leaders and encourage them even after conviction and prison sentences, so what do you expect

Your people are not allowing much to go to that zone. Tell yourself the truth. Their leaders are even more better than yours. Upon the little they're receiving they're still better than your zones that receive much and have produced president for countless time.