₦airaland Forum

OdenigboAroli:
I hate lofty dreams.
Lets provide basic infrastructures and social services firstly,before we start dreaming of building a New York in Onicha. Schit makes me sick! Ife dilu nwaologbo nma olaba tea.

I have typically noticed that it is our people in USA that understand that building basic infrastructure is more important than trying to replicate new York city. This realization often comes with traveling and living abroad especially in a place like USA that has multiple levels of great cities.

I have the same pain when people talk about replicating Lagos in the SE or replicating Onitsha in Nnewi or Awka. it all goes to show they have missed the whole lesson on sustainable cities.

Many average American cities that are not the huge ones such as (Atlanta,New york,Boston,Los Angeles,Miami, Houston, Dallas, Chicago,Washington DC,Baltimore) have just every amenity, working public utilities and ability to support business than the mega cities. Therefore, there is no need to replicate Miami in Jacksonville because whatever is obtainable in Miami is also obtainable in Jacksonville. Therefore, replicating flawed mega cities is just the worst type of mindset.

As Odenigbo said, putting in the BASIC infrastructure in a planned conducive city is all you need. ofcourse, the idea of building business parks which Obi started in Onitsha then stopped is an excellent tool used by small American cities to provide standard office spaces within designated areas of the city to enable businesses to easily find lettable office space to set up.Some may want to use central business district, it's fine. but it mustn't be a term always associated with skyscrapers and sorts.

We can talk about providing business parks for many SE cities to enable business lettable office spaces within the city to set up easily, but aiming to build empty skyscrapers just to compete with elsewhere betrays one's vain mindset.

[size=15pt]Abeg, which country in the world is WEST Germany??
Buhari go kill person oo! lol....[/size]

So how exactly is this a bullet for Igbos?
Okay, only Igbos buy the goods in the Nigerian market?

Nigeria is indeed a ZOO!

shachris:
Sourece: http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/index.php/city-news/56971-video-showing-zamfara-former-commissioner-in-sex-scandal-goes-viral

Allahu Akabar!!!

Another Boko Haram Kwomissioner!

Revolution:
Good to see our president on the world stage.

Hear their conversation recorded by a secret tape. https://twiter.com/leaktapes

Obama: "Hey General buhari, you had military training in our military institution, i was surprised that Nigerians said you did not have high school diploma?"

Buhari: "I did graduate prom high school. My frincipal gave me that high school result. I did not porge that result, I am not Kworrupt .

Obama: Huh? say what??

Buharifan:
Hmmm

Okay, He should live in a hut to satisfy your sadistic desire?
How about Buhari's wife wrist watch that cost more than that house?
Start by showing us buhari's houses in Daura, Abuja and dubai. then you'll see that Mark is truly a very poor man in comparison.

SpaceTour:
Main market is actually evolving into malls/plazas. Good one!

One hopes they are able to replace all the old buildings in main market with modern buildings. Also, making space for eateries or relaxation places in those buildings. The absence of abundant eateries or decent restaurants inside decent buildings with cleanliness of the restaurant environment to the level of at least Mr. Biggs, makes visiting main market an unpleasant event even for the locals. Visiting Onitsha main market should actually be developed into a tourist level activity that should be pleasurable to do by visitors to the city.

While i am one of the advocates for a United Africa and a very big country called "United States of Africa", the people of those territories must be given a fair chance to discuss their association and rights under a big country. It is unacceptable to simply assume that once we are in a big country, the majority now has a god given right of tyranny over the minority peoples.

Nigeria must be renegotiated or it should be allowed to dissolve.
Our fathers were not consulted before they were added into the contraption. Since then, it has all been a free for all looting like a zoo. People simply took what belonged to others and often conspired to kill the real owners of the resource in order to steal it unchallenged.

We must negotiate how to live in one country and how everyone's concerns can be addressed or we can very well go our separate ways.

asha80:
question is though why should half of chicason profit be lost on siting that factory in nnewi than if it was sited in Kano?

He paid a lot of money on transport fares to haul groundnuts from the north to Nnewi for his factory.
The other fast dude made the "economic decision" to stay in the north and cut cost of haulage, then paid for his cost cutting decisions by losing his entire factory to irate hoodlums in the year 2000.

Say what you wish about Mugabe.
...in this issue, he spoke the undiluted truth and got it 100% RIGHT!!!

BuddahMonk:
My brother outsiders always wish they have billionaires like us but they don't know our so called billionaires are nothing but pains in the asss to us.

Emeka Offor has no investment in Anambra after destroying the state.

The only thing Arthur Eze did for his people was attracting LG headquaters at Ukpo after running down Premier Brewery Onitsha.

Chris Uba has no bungalow in Anambra after destroying the state.

Andy Uba has nothing after destroying the state.

Ifeanyi Uba can only boast of one filling station in Nnewi and a poorly run football club.

Obijackson is trying shaa but enough of his philanthropy but more of investments and job creations.

Look at Uche Oga of Masters Energy is building Energy City at Isikwuato.

If Atiku were to be an Anambra man he will prolly tell you that there is no seaport in Anambra so no need to site University and feedmill there.

Cecilia Ibru and hubby took their Univ in their city of Warri.


Nobody has ever build anything in Igboland except Igbos, this is a very disturbing reality

Its only Nnewi people that always remember home, they believe that a tenant doesn't plant flower.

Buddah my brother,please continue speaking up. Don't be deterred by the numerous yoruba monikers that hate and would want to ridicule objective and strategic thinking Igbos like you. In Nigeria, everyone thinks about how to site things within their region and state EXCEPT Igbos. Then they cry loudest when such is burned to the ground by irate mobs especially in the north. I remember in one of Chikason's speaches, he mentioned that he lost half of his profit by siting his groundnut oil factory in Nnewi than Kano. Luckily for him, his factory is still survivng today while another Igboman that had a vegetable oil factory in Kaduna was destroyed and burnt to the ground in 2000! Now who was smarter? Chikason that took lower profit margin but safeguarded his investment for his children or the Igbo industrialist in Kaduna that made a lot of money,but today his factory no longer exist?

Like Aguiyi Ironsi that refused to acknowledge that a coup could happen to him, many Igbos simply cannot learn until it is too late.Those that want to invest in Yoruba and hausaland without anything to fall back on in their state can continue to do so. Yorubas and even the Oba of Lagos have told them that they will end up in the Lagoon, but they'd rather laugh it off. i am watching them in 3D goggles. i just don't want anyone coming back to cry "had i known" to me.
[size=14pt]This is the time to READ the hand writing on the wall and act wisely.[/size]

So what if her watch cost N10 million naira?
Did she steal from anybody??

Amaechi should be prosecuted for this.
The property of Rivers state isn't his private personal property and therefore should not be vandalized simply because his opponent has won elections. This is just untenable

geoworldedu:
Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces

.[4] He is a retired Nigerian Army Major General and was Head of State of Nigeria from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d'état.[5][6] The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.[7][8]

He ran unsuccessfully for the office of President in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 elections. Buhari won the 2015 general election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. When he took office on 29 May 2015 -during which the abbreviation of his name was symbolically changed from 'GMB' (General Muhammadu Buhari) to 'PMB' (President Muhammadu Buhari)- marked the first time in Nigeria's history that an incumbent elected President peacefully transferred power to an elected leader of the opposition.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for whatever happened under his watch during his military rule, saying that he cannot change the past. He also describes himself as a "converted democrat".[9]

Source: http://ebiag.com/index.php/topic,6307.msg11502/topicseen.html#msg11502

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, BNER, GCON (born 20 November 1957)[1] is a Nigerian politician and the President of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He re-contested and lost the recently concluded Presidential election, upon which he conceded defeat in the competitive election, the first sitting Nigerian president to do so.[2] Prior to his role as President, he served as Governor of Bayelsa State from 2005 to 2007 and as Vice-President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010.

Jonathan's term as President of Nigeria ended on 29 May 2015, he handed over to President Elect Muhammadu Buhari.


Source: http://ebiag.com/index.php/topic,6308.0.html

eeediot,
Shebi na you just write am, dey form ignorance of who wrote it for us

dridowu:
http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2015/05/28/Jacob-Zuma-to-attend-inauguration-of-Nigerian-president

Why did he step on our soil as a foreigner from south africa?
Isn't everyone supposed to remain in their own countries? Why is he here?? ??

We should corner him around the airport and do our own xenophobia attacks.

samueld0:
Rivers State governor, Chibuike Amaechi said his party, All Progressives Congress, APC, will get justice and retrieve the River State’s governorship mandate from his successor, Nyesom Wike at the election tribunal.

Wike and Amaechi
Amaechi made the remarks at a special thanksgiving service to mark his 50th birthday organised by his friends at Corpus Christi Cathedral in Port Harcourt on Wednesday while responding to an appeal from the Catholic Bishop of Port Harcourt Diocese, Most Rev. Dr. Camillus Etukudor  to settle  the row between him and Wike.
The Catholic Bishop had congratulated the governor- elect, Wike, for his electoral victory and urged both former politicians to settle their differences.
He said: “As for the outgoing governor and the in-coming governor, I urge them to work together so that there will be peace. We need peace in Rivers State.
“There can be no reconciliation without forgiveness. There will be no peace without reconciliation. So, it is time for the out-going governor and the in-coming governor to reconcile so that peace will return to Rivers State.
“No matter their differences they should reconcile in the interest of peace.”
But Amaechi insisted that justice must be seen to have been done before he can think of forgiving and settling with Wike, who was his former Chief of Staff, Government House, from 2007 to 2011.
Wike, who Governor Amaechi recommended for a ministerial appointment was later appointed Minister of State for Education, a position from which he resigned to contest for the governorship of the state.
Amaechi said: “My Lordship talked about forgiveness. In the Catholic Church, you don’t oppose the views of your bishop. His words represent an order. If you oppose him you may be barred from taking Holy Communion.
“You are not a true Catholic if you don’t receive the Holy Communion. But Your Lordship, the same Catholic doctrine also states that justice comes before forgiveness.”
He added: “All those that were killed during the last general elections must get justice. Their families must get justice. Our party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, must get justice first at the petition election tribunal. Our mandate must be retrieved at the tribunal.
“I am surprised that My Lordship congratulated Wike here today. I am using this opportunity to call on the Church to join the APC in praying to God so that we can reclaim our mandate. Reclaiming our mandate at the petition election tribunal will represent a measure of justice. We must seek justice before reconciliation.
In attendance at the event were APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun; Governor Adams Oshiomole of Edo State; former governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi; former governor of Rivers State, Chief Rufus Ada-George; Alabo Graham-Douglas; retired Adolphous Justice Karibi- Whyte, Senator Ararume, among others.


http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/apcs-mandate-must-be-reclaimed-from-wike-amaechi/

Okay Sir.
Just deport all the people living in Rivers state to Abia state and import people from Katsina to take their place. That is the ONLY way APC will win in Rivers.

BTW, I'm glad Rochas was returned in IMO, but we know he truly did not win.

Congrats Dr. Adesina!
You deserve it! I am so proud of you and had prayed that you get selected for the good of Nigeria and Africa.

I am not a tribalist that will start an online application against you simply because you are Yoruba and served under GEJ.

Nigerians like you make me proud even though i am not originally a yoruba.
Some Nigerians with tribalistic mindset like those in saharareporter make one to literally hate fellow Nigerians.

justi4jesu:
lala is that your hand on the steering?

All sorts of people are now driving into Aso rock.

To hell with the Otuoke fisherman that tried to grow the economy into the biggest in Africa. It is chopison time for the boys!

Only an incurably insane man will care about the opinion of a tribalist.
I am sure GEJ isn't that insane.

lexy2014:
I don't no what these oil magnates have contributed 2 nigeria but then I don't xpect them 2. But when niger deltans sit down cross their legs and point accusing fingers at others 4 their problems, then it makes a lot of sense 2 ask, what have their own people done 4 them. If d rich from d region can't help their kin, what do u xpect from an outsider? Social justice is d issue not sharing oil blocks. Sharing oil blocks amongs ND indigenes isn't social justice cos d real victims of social injustice i.e. D poor and downtrodden wouldn't get anything. Social justice is about ensuring that d wealth in d hands of d leaders and elected reps in d ND is distributed equitably. Social justice is about ensuring that d poor and their children are given access 2 more priviledges and opportunities. With d amount of money pumped into d region since 1999 thru 13percent, monthly allocations,ecological fund,pipeline protection contracts,NDDC,min of ND, taxes collected by states and LGs,and allocation 2 legislators, are u saying that d poor people in d region can't have social justice?

Sir,
I have been following your arguments. You would have made a lot of sense if you were talking about Americans and not Nigerians. But because the subject is about Nigeria & Nigerians, then you are either very naive or deliberately mischievous. In America, one may be born in Florida or Iowa, then he ends up as Senator or Governor of Texas or New York! Thus, where you live is your state! Which is the opposite in Nigeria. Even the so called Federal capital territory is claimed by ethnic groups and people from other parts of Nigeria are discriminated against.
I agree that social justice isn't about giving oil wells to ND citizens, but it is surely one way to give justice. Niger Delta has been given the fake argument of "One Nigeria" to rob them blind. Part of the reason why there is so much corruption and inefficiency in Nigeria is because we have learnt to see oil as the ONLY resource in Nigeria. Many countries have prospered by mining solid minerals and large scale agriculture. If we had sincerely developed these two sectors across all states of the federation, you will see that many states will prefer to mine their solid minerals or export their agricultural products than to try to cheat Niger deltans of their oil.

Someone mentioned that if the oil belong to the north, no Niger Deltan or other Nigerians will have any of it, and it is true. Let me rephrase your argument and put the north in the position of the Niger Deltans so you can see it from their perspective. If for example, Nigeria depends upon solid minerals and agriculture for foreign exchange, and since the north has vast agricultural lands and solid minerals, Yoruba or Igbo men will flood the north and allocate themselves all that fertile northern lands filled with solid minerals and claim they are doing so because it is one Nigeria! The worst part is that they will do so by fiat because the control the federal government. then, if any northerner dares to ask questions why the Igbos and yorubas own the most lands in their region, the Igbos and Yorubas will retort with their own question of " what they have done with the remaining land northerners control?" Such behavior will be deemed as the height of insensitivity.

If you cannot fathom the south treating the north like that, then it is highly unfair to treat Niger Deltans in that manner.

xmich:
Ahead of the May 29 handover of the Federal
Government administration to Muhammadu
Buhari following his victory at the March 28
polls, friendly countries have continued to show
renewed interest in who occupies some key
posts in the incoming administration.

Already US had expressed concern over series of
issues including human rights abuses by the
Nigerian military in its prosecution of the war in
the North-east, and the manner top officials of
the Nigerian government have managed the oil
and gas sector of the economy citing several acts
of corruption.

A source in the Foreign Ministry which pleaded
anonymity said the US is now eager to assist
Buhari turn the situation around, as it has always
considered Nigeria an important ally on the
African continent.

This was as Daily Sun learnt
that several highly placed persons and
multinational companies who attended a recent
US State Department briefing cited corruption as
the main reason for low investment in Nigeria’s
oil sector. Against this background, a source said
the US is backing a senior official of a multi-
national oil company from the Niger Delta who
is conversant with transparency rules to emerge
as the Petroleum Minister.

The source said, “in fact, the multinationals have
discussed with the US State Department and
have already agreed on a credible candidate,
who they believe will be able to restore
confidence and attract the necessary investment
into the critical sector.
Meanwhile sources say
the US has already made this position known to
the incoming administration cautioning the
president-elect against making a wrong choice in
the appointment to the office.

It urged the President to appoint people of
integrity and proven track record into his
cabinet to make the job easier for him.

Already,
top oil and gas industry operators have indicated
their support for the candidate, who they believe
will bring his vast experience to bear in the
turnaround of the Ministry and give credibility
to the sector and the Buhari’s “Change” mantra.
In 2014, Transparency International ranked
Nigeria as the 136th most corrupt country in
the world.

In addition, a US report in March last
year said that in Nigeria, “massive, widespread
and pervasive corruption affected all levels of
government and the security forces,” while
alleging that judges were not left out of the
massive corruption ring, the report accused the
government of not implementing laws on
corruption effectively, thus deliberately allowing
“officials (to) frequently engage in corrupt
practices with impunity.”

These are, possibly, part of what the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal,
saw when he cried out that the current
administration’s “body language” encouraged
corruption. The US government had also
condemned the pardon granted some ex-
convicts by the National Council of States
headed by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2013.

Recall that former Governor of Bayelsa State,
Diepreiye Alamieyeseigha, the former head of the
Bank of the North, Shettima Bulama and some
other Nigerians were granted a presidential
pardon. The US had roundly condemned the act,
saying, “this decision undermines anti-corruption
efforts in Nigeria and encourages impunity.
If
the government is serious about uprooting
public corruption, sanctions against those who
betray the public trust should be strengthened,
not relaxed,” said Akere Muna, Vice-chair of
Transparency International.

And now the US has sounded a note of caution
to President-elect, Buhari, not to bow to
pressure by allowing politicians foster any
candidate for the Petroleum Ministry whose
records are stained or for purpose of satisfying
political patronage.

According to the US, it will send the wrong signal
that business is going to continue as usual, in
which case, the incoming president might not
get the much needed assistance from the US or
any European country for that matter.


www.sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=120431

Shebi they will also stop drilling more shale oil which has eliminated Nigeria's oil exports to US and created our economic troubles.
American advise is like your competitor in a soccer match telling you who to use in your team? Can this be considered a well intentioned advise?

Nigeria better plan to diversify into solid minerals and agriculture.
The $60 per barrel of oil is way too optimistic for today's world. Many countries are discovering oil and looking for who to sell to. Prices must come down.

abagoro:
I define it as the regular 4 storey building frequently seen in most Igbo towns and cities or sometimes equally built by Igbos in Lagos, Kano and other major cities. I will give samples from some Igbo towns.

The worst thing any Igboman can do is to take any "Nigerian" seriously, especially when he is Yoruba or some other hypocritical groups

I am glad Abagworo does not refer to mud thatched houses as 'Igbotic'. Any good thing Igbos achieve is derided and somehow attempt Is made to cast it in bad light. If Igbo man works hard, it is a bad thing because he loves money? While the I.diot saying that is a robber and his sister a prostitute. So who is the indecent slave for money?
I am proud of many Igbo people that work hard to better themselves and completely disregard the disparaging jealous comments coming from our enemies.

Na wa o!
First, we voted for Change and a good life.
Then God answers our prayers and suddenly, we are told not to expect any real Change.

Na real wa for politicians. We've been duped again!

Why did murtala Mohammed murder all Anioma people even when the area was not geographically part of Biafra?

TopGee:
Am Igbo and I was really angry when I read that Wole Soyinka made such inciting and annoying comments but I never commented as the insults went on. I wanted to come against Soyinka if I fail to hear his position on such allegation after 4 days. Now that he had cleared himself, it's also proper for my people to retract their insults here.

On behalf of Igbos and other Nigerians that received Soyinka's alleged comment against Igbos voting convictions and became highly offended at the Professor - I say, we regret the error in judgment and all the insults meted on your person, and we apologize for the hurt our poor judgment might have caused you.

Now, this not about Soyinka, the elections are over but Nigerians are still blaming themselves for voting base on their convictions. To question anyone for voting base on his conviction is retrogressive. This was the only Presidential Election in the history of Nigeria where people castigate themselves for voting who they wanted. There is no love among Nigerians of all tribes, and it has nothing to do with one tribe and this must stop.

I understand that some Yorubas {not all} supported Soyinka's alleged comment and it's wrong, but we only apologized to an innocent Prof {Soyinka} and not Yorubas as a whole.

Kitikpa lachaa ike gi na your mother!
Ewure!

Kitikpa lachaa ike gi na your mother!

Jaycool18:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/182722-temper-your-expectations-with-justice-buhari-tells-nigerians.html

Always Oil. Oil, Oyel!!!
What happened to AGRICULTURE and MANUFACTURING what we consume??

What happened to stopping the billions stolen via petroleum products importation and refining our own oil here in Nigetia?

Must we always depend on selling crude oil? Japan, Germany, USA, China, SA , Australia etc etc etc ALL developed without OIL !

businessline:
Read More>>>> http://nigeriacamera.net/okorochas-n1billion-mansion-shocks-buhari/

Changii!

Unless GMB sincerely uphold the tenets of good governance for a better Nigeria, some of his lieutenants and associates will bring him down with their corruption and opulence.