₦airaland Forum

TonyeBarcanista:
Buhari didn't mention South South na, he only mentioned people of Delta north that are partly Igbo that is Kachukwu and Emefiele. If you say Delta North ar Igbos, well I don't think any Urhoboman or Ijawman will bother to contest with you. But going beyond that is moving beyond boundary






BTW: Happy New Year 2016

gemale:
Oga stop being a pessimist. A baby doesn't start walking on d day it's born. Let's encourage him as he has started assembling in 9ja. Wt good local patronage, wholesome government policy & available skilled workforce , he can then ascend 2 manufacturing d parts in 9ja.

WaffenSS:
Keep consoling yourselves with propaganda. You're not fooling anyone but yourselves.

mulattoclaro:
see this goat. Ondo and Edo produces more oil than the whole of SE. Why would I want to attach myself by force unlike you and your worthless tribes. Who's your brother? You must be very stupid to call ijaws, Ogonis, Efiks and Ibibios your brother. These people don't even like you. The only people you're closer to are ikwerres and aniomas who have over the years denied you. Go and bother about the ikwerres and aniomas that have openly rejected you over the years and stop forming familiarity here. Tonyebarcanista is only trying to give hope to the hopeless (Igbos) but for me I'll never do that. I'll always put you where you and your fellow tribesmen belong. A baboon is a better friend and brother than an igbo man.

biafranqueen:
I dey tire
Lie lie with all da money allocated for propaganda tried to push this rubbish out.
But was busted immediately.

Demburrows:
At the end of the war, the Ukpabi Asika regime brought
together these Biafran scientists and set up PRODA. The
initiative led, in the first five years between 1970-1975
under the late Prof. Gordian Ezekwe and Mang Ndukwe,
to designs of industrial machinery models and
prototypes for the East Central State Industrial
Masterplan, which remain undeveloped even today. The
Murtala/Obasanjo regime took over PRODA in 1975 by
decree, starved it of funds, and basically destroyed its
aims.
Secondly, Federal government policies centralized all
potentials for innovation and entrepreneurship. Before
1983, states had their Ministries of Trade and Industry.
These were charged with local business registration,
trade, and investment promotion, and so on. But today
in Nigeria, if you wish to do any business, you'd have to
go to Abuja (it used to be Lagos) to register under the
Corporate Affairs Commission. It used t be that local
business registration were state and municipal functions.
The concentration of the leverage for trade utterly limited
Igbo entrepreneurs, particularly in the era of import
licensing, once your quota was exhausted, you could not
do business. This affected the old Igbo money in Aba
and Onitsha, who were the arrow-heads of innovation
and traditional partners in the advance of Igbo industrial
economy. It is remarkable that as at 1985, a least by a
book published by the Oxford Economist Tom Forrest in
1980, The Advance of African Capital, the Igbo had the
highest investment in machine tools industries in all of
Africa, and the highest depth of investment in Rural,
cottage industries. In his prediction in 1980, if that rate
of investment continued, according to Forrest in 1980,
the Igbo part of Africa would accomplish an industrial
revolution by 1987. Now, by 1983/85, Federal government
policies helped to dismantle the growth of indigenous
Igbo Industry through its targeted national economic
policies. As I have said, there is a corollary between
industrial development and innovation.
Thirdly, the severe, strategic staunching of huge capital
in-flow into the East starved Igbo businesses and
institutions of the capacity to utilize or even expand their
capacities. There were no strategic Federal Capital
projects in the East. There were no huge infrastructural
investments in the East. The last major Federal
government investment in Igbo land was the Niger Bridge
which was commissioned in 1966. Any region starved of
government funds experiences catatony and attrition.
Private capital is often not enough to create the kind of
synergy necessary for innovation. Rather than invest in
the East, from 1970 to date, the Federal government has
strategically closed down every capacity for technological
advancement in the East and stripped that region of its
capacity. By 1966, the Eastern Nigerian Gas masterplan
had been completed under Okpara. But in its review of a
Nigeria gas masterplan, the Federal government
strategically circumvented the East. Oil and Gas are
under Federal oversight.

The Trans-Amadi to Aba
Industrial Gas network/linkage had been completed in
1966, to pipe gas from Port-Harcourt to Aba. The Federal
government let that go into abeyance and uprooted the
already reticulated pipes. The East was denied access to
energy with the destruction of the Power stations during
the war. The Mbakwe government sought to remedy this
by embarking on two highly critical area of investment
necessary for industrial life: the 5 Zonal water projects,
which were 75 completed by 1983, and set for
commissioning in 1984, which was to supply clean water
for domestic and industrial use to all parts of the old
Imo state, and the Amaraku and Izombe Power stations,
under the Imo Rural Electrification Project. These were
the first ever massive independent power projects ever
carried out by any state government in Nigeria which
would have made significant part of Igbo land energy
independent today. The supply of daily electricity was
possible in Imo as at 1984. [b] The Amaraku station had
come on stream, and the Izombe Gas station was
underway, when Buhari and his men struck. Ground had
already been acquired and cleared on the Umuahia-
Okigwe road to commence work by the South Korean
Auto firm, Hyundai, under a partnership with Imo for the
Hyundai Assembly plant in Umuahia, to cater to a West
African market. The first order of business under the
Buhari government in January 1984, was to declare all
that investment by Mbakwe "white elephant projects."
They were abandoned, and left to decay. The equipment
at the Amaraku power station was later sold in parts by
Joe Aneke during Abacha's government. Some of the
industries like the Paint and Resins company, and the
Aluminium Extrusion plant in Inyishi were privatized, and
sold. Projects like the massive Ezinachi Clay & Brick
works at Okigwe are at various stages of decay, as
memorial to all that effort.
4thly, You may not remember but Odumegwu Ojukwu
founded and opened the first Nigerian University of
Technology - the University of Technology Port-Harcourt
in 1967, under the leadership of prof. Kenneth Dike. He
had also compelled Shell to establish the First Petroleum
Technology Training Institute in Port-Harcourt in 1966. All
these were dismantled. The PTI was take from Port-
Harcourt to Warri, while University of Tech, P/H was
reduced to a campus of UNN, until 1975, when it became
Uniport. You will recall that for years, up till 1981, the
only institutions of higher learning in Central Eastern
Nigeria were the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, IMT
Enugu and Alvan Ikoku College of Ed, in Owerri. There is
no innovation without centers of strategic research.
Mbakwe and Jim Nwobodo changed all that in 1981,
when they pushed through their various states
Assembly, the bills establishing the old Anambra State
Univ. of Tech (ASUTHECH), under the presidency of
Kenneth Dike, and the IMOSU with its five campuses
under the presidency of Prof MJC Echeruo. The
masterplan for these universities as epicenters of
research and innovation in the East were effectively
grounded with the second coming of the military in 1984,
and the dimunition of their mission through
underfunding, etc.

As I have said, I have given you the
very short version. After a brief glimpse of light between
1979-83, Igbo land witnessed the highest form of attrition
from 1983- date, and the destruction of the efforts of its
public leadership to restore it to its feet has been
strategic. Some have been intimidated, and the Igbo
themselves have grown very cynical from that experience
of deep alienation from Nigeria. I think you should be a
little less cynical of Igbo attempts to re-situate
themselves in the Nigerian federation: starved of funds,
starved of investments, subjected to regulatory strictures
from a powerful central government which sees the East
in adversarial terms, and often threatened, the Igbo
themselves grew cynical of it all. You may recall, the first
move by the governors of the former Eastern Region to
meet under the aegis of the old Eastern Region's
Governors Conference in 1999, was basically checkmated
by Obasanjo who threatened them after they called for
confederation in response to the Sharia issue in the
North. Their attempts to establish liaison offices in Enugu
and create a regional partnership was considered very
threatening by the federal government under Obasanjo,
that not too long after, they abandoned that move, and
that was it. If people cannot be allowed to organize for
the good of their constituents, then it only means one
thing: it is not in the interest of certain vested interests
in Nigeria for a return of a common ground in the
Eastern part of Nigeria because establishing that kind of
common ground threatens the balance of power. It is
even immaterial if such a common ground leads to
Nigeria's ultimate benefit. There are people who just find
the idea of a common, progressive partnership of the old
Eastern Region threatening to their own long term
interests. This is precisely what is going on - its
undercurrent. This of course cannot be permitted to go
on forever. A generation arises which often says, "No! in
Thunder."
Igbo population is quite huge, and people who truly know
understand that the Igbo constitute the single largest
ethnic nation in Nigeria. Much has been made about how
this so-called "small" Igbo land space could
accommodate the vast Igbo population. But People also
forget that Igbo land accommodated Igbo who fled from
everywhere else in 1967. So, the question of whether
Igbo land is large enough to contain the Igbo is a non-
issue. In any case, Biafra is not only the land of the Igbo.
It goes far beyond Igbo land. But even for the sake of
building scenarios, we stick to Igbo land alone - the great
Igbo cities of Enugu, Port-Harcourt, Owerri, Aba,
Onitsha, Asaba, Abakiliki, Umuahia, Awka and Onitsha
are yet to be reach even 30% of their capacities. New
arteries can be built, facilities expanded; there are
innovative ways of moving populations through new
transportation platforms -underneath, above, on the
surface, and by waterways.
The East of Nigeria has one
of the most complex and connected, and largely disused
system of natural river waterways in the world. New,
ecologically habitable towns can be expanded to form
new cities from the Grade A Townships - Agbor,
Obiaruku, Aboh, Oguta, Mgbidi, Orlu, Ihiala, Amawbia/
Ekwuluobia, Elele/Ahoada, Owerrinta, Bonny, Asa,
Arochukwu, Afikpo, Okigwe, and so on. The Igbo will be
fine. The Japanese and the Dutch, for example, have
proved that there are innovative ways of using
constricted space.
As for the economy: it is supply and demand. New
economic policies will integrated Igbo economy to the
central west African and West African Markets. The Igbo
will create a new vast export network, unhindered by
idiotic economic and foreign policies. The re-activation of
the PH port systems will for e.g. open the closed
economic corridor once and for all to global trade. As
anybody knows, it might take a fast train no more than
45 minutes to move goods from the Warri or Sapele
ports to Aba and even in less time to Onitsha. As Diette
Spiff once observed while playing golf at Oguta, all it
would take to connect Warri and Oguta is just a long
bridge, and the vast economic movement will commence
between Warri and its traditional trading areas of Onitsha
and the rest of the East. The quantum of economic
activity will see the growth of that corridor between Aba-
Oguta- Obiaruku down to Warri as the crow flies. The
impact of trade between the Calabar ports and Aba will
explode. In fact, the old trading stations along the Qua-
Iboe River (the Cross River) at Arochukwu, Afikpo, down
to Oron and Mamfe in the Cameroons will explode and
create new prosperity and new opportunities. I am giving
the short version. So, the Igbo will be alright. They would
simply be just able to define their own development
strategies, deploy their highly trained manpower
currently wasting unutilized, and the basis of its vast
middle class will create new consumers, and generate an
internal energy that will thrive on Igbo innovation,
industry, and know-how, which Nigeria currently
suppresses. This is exactly one very possible scenario.

nwadiuko1:
if you don't know what people do at the Supreme Court at you age then u r on long thing

odogwu125:
so who decides where ppl are born??

nwadiuko1:
rest assured that you have not heard the last of this case because okezie will definitely go to the Supreme Court

mayor2013:
I like your restriction of exportation to only Afrcian countries. Europe, America and others would never allow this car enter their respective countries. You wana know why?

Emission law can be passed; never would this so called innoson ride have a catalytic converter, lambda sensor as well would be missing

Safety precaution is pure zero percent. No SRS (supplementary restrain system) which ranges from airbag, antilock braking system which is also important is missing this prevents your car from skidding. Fixed a kia cerato Nigeria spec version and I can tell you all theae mentioned above where missing. Incase you wana know a catalytic converter reduces / prevents harmful gases released during combustion process from being harmful to the ecosystem. All in one innoson has tried but I personally would not buy a car from them

WaffenSS:
Baboon. Primate. Goat. Pig. Dirty animal.

The engine, drivetrain, differentials, electronics, lights, wheels, tires, wipers, instrument cluster, seats, fascia, brakes, levers....that's 95% of the car.

All from China.

But since you're a brainless, senseless, jobless, spineless, penniless goat, you can keep on deceiving yourself.

A fool fooling himself is no harm done.

Ioannes:
I will be waiting for that link from you.

Maybe you can also post links of where the iron and aluminium are mined from.

I know ajaokuta isn't working as we speak, so am interested in knowing that which you know sir...

Ioannes:
I will be waiting for that link from you.

Maybe you can also post links of where the iron and aluminium are mined from.

I know ajaokuta isn't working as we speak, so am interested in knowing that which you know sir...

nnamdibig:
But why is he refusing to admit or deny that he was aware of the bill?

Tolatutu:
Very soon the multinationals and big businesses will pull out and your poverty will increase. See the dirty environment, silly people let them go and and see what some parts of the North are like now. Continue to destroy your cities

Otes26:
I am actually on my way to Enugu. .From the beginning of the bridge from Asaba to upper iweka is locked down. Our driver have to go through the old road to come out at Awka. Just got to Awka since morning. Witness somebody been killed. That's all I will say.

obailala:
The worst form of ignoramus is the one who doesnt even know he's ignorant. It gets even worse than the worst when after being informed, the ignoramus still adamantly refuses to learn because he thinks he's trying to win an argument.

cremedelacreme:
Spoken like the yeriba that you are. Biafra cannot stand, Somalia will be paradise compared to Biafra, Biafran oil is worthless, then allow Biafrans to go and suffer, No. It's only God that knows what you ugly looking yeriba monkeys want.

Alikote:
How would u ipob reasoning how many yoruba hausa kanuri tiv idoma have shops in bridge head market .how many yoruba or hausas locked their shops in bafria today how many ibo do the maths and reason ibo are in perpertual movement to lagos abuja kano