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OP,

I thank you very much for bringing this matter to light. It has been forwarded to other Igbo sites. Let the world know who the enemies are.

Egift and other Igbos in APC can you kindly give your opinion in this thread? Thanks

https://www.nairaland.com/1804300/arrests-boko-haramites-some-igbos

GPA, stop being childish and get serious even for a second.

Can you please tell us why you Yorubas are accusing the Igbos of arresting northerners in Igboland when clearly it is the national security agencies doing so?

Can you tell us why you guys do not complain when northerners are arrested by security agents in Lagos and other SW states?

GPA5: YOU MEAN, YOU WERE THE ONE THAT BROUGHT 200 IBO TO LAGOS AND BUILT HOUSE FOR THEM. KEEP MAKING ASSERTIONS TO MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY.

And hey! An Igbo man is the commissioner of Planning in Lagos. Even Joe Igbokwe an unknown Igboman in Igboland, is running things in Lagos APC.





THAT SHOWS THAT YORUBA DOESN'T HOLD ANY GRUDGE AGAINST YOUR TRIBE.
HAS THE IBO COMMISSIONER DONE ANYTHING IN LAGOS TO BENEFIT HIS KINSMEN IN LAGOS? WHY CAN'T HE STOP FASHOLA NOT TO DEPORT THE IBO?

EVEN NGIGE, ROCHAS DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A SAY IN APC LET ALONE OF IBOKWE

The Igbo commissioner is there because Lagos and Yoruba cannot get anyone else quite like him. Interpretation: Igbos are smarter than you

Joe Igbokwe is running things in Lagos APC which I agree is different from the national APC. We are interested in running things in Yorubaland (Lagos). Interpretation, you are smart enough to know that Igbos are smarter than you.

GPA5: YOU MEAN ALL THE IBO FASHOLA DEPORTED .


YOU MEAN BRO CHUKWUDI SELLING SPARE PARTS, SUBSTANDARD GOODS, PIRATED DISC IS A LANDLORD IN AJEGUNLE

YOU EMEKA IKE IS A LANDLORD IN LAGOS AND HE WAS SENT PACKING OUT OF HIS APARTMENT

Fasola deported 12 Igbos, since then 200 Igbos have returned, built houses in Lagos and rented to Yorubas at double the asking rent.

And hey! An Igbo man is the commissioner of Planning in Lagos. Even Joe Igbokwe an unknown Igboman in Igboland, is running things in Lagos APC. You too dundy.

Don't forget that Fasola also deported other Yorubas. Those ones could not raise money to come back to Lagos. Poor Yorubas

Akwa Ibom also deported Yorubas from their state.

Bunch of unyielding baboons in SW. I hope they kill themselves before the police arrive

Even now, the Yoruba craftily plan to instigate the North against the Igbos by orchestrating falsehood regarding who is actually making the arrests of Boko guys in Igboland. This thread has busted that plan. Who is smarter?

A Few years ago, the government of Kano under Shekarau was looking for a southerner to make a commissioner for non-indigenes affairs (or something like that). An Igbo and a Yoruba contested for the post and the Igbo beat the Yoruba man hands down and became the commissioner in Kano.

In any open, unrigged contest we always beat you.

GPA5: IN WHAT WAY ARE THE IBO SMARTER THAN YORUBA?

Stop being an heediot

Arthur Nzeribe single handedly truncated Yoruba presidency
Igbos come to Lagos, build houses and rent back to Yaribas
Igbos own 65% of Lagos
I can go on and on, but take those three for a start.

customized07: that was why I was vexed @ op for being too blind to make such comment, yorubas are grounded as far as nigeria is concerned.

You are letting that Yoruba guy derail this thread; please ignore him. The quote below addresses your concern. There is no doubt that Yorubas are smart people, but Igbos are always smarter than them.

This ‘’brain’’, you Igbos have shown time and time again, that you have in abundance and can outmatch the Yoruba ‘’brain’’ any day.

GPA5: I AM NOT THE ONE THAT WROTE. IT'S THE OP(IBO) THAT WROTE IT. HE ACKNOWLEDGED THE POWER OF YORUBA.
PEN(YORUBA ) IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD.
#DON'T TELL ME THAT YOU'RE AT PAIN BECAUSE OP POINTED OUT THE TRUTH

Blind bat:

This ‘’brain’’, you Igbos have shown time and time again, that you have in abundance and can outmatch the Yoruba ‘’brain’’ any day.

Francis has just outmatched your brain with this article.

This one na real good news

Bump it up

Abi sharia no dey for wine again?

So who are those buying up expensive wines

Certainly not the poor
Certainly not Muslims (no alcohol for them)
That means certainly not 90% of the North
That means certainly not 60% of SW

That means 70 (well to do enough to but wines) % of SE
That means same % of SS minus Edo where 20% are Muslims

So who are those helping the economy per wine consumption?
Answer?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/09/nigeria-promise-for-investors

Nigeria offers promise for investors looking for the next growth story
Country can no longer be ignored, say economists, but grinding poverty and corruption persist

• Meet the Mints: Mexico | Indonesia | Turkey

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Monica Mark in Lagos
The Guardian, Thursday 9 January 2014 10.53 EST

Champagne in Lagos
Champagne bottles displayed at a roadside shop in Lagos. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images

If you want an idea of what Nigeria can offer the world's more fearless investors, raise a glass to South African supermarket chain Shoprite. Last year, its seven Nigerian branches sold more Moët & Chandon champagne than its 600 South African stores combined.

Nigeria may be best known for Islamist militants, bomb attacks, advance fee fraud and large-scale oil theft, but with a population of 170 million and a decade of annual growth rates around 7%, it also offers some outsized returns for investors willing to take the risk.

Just ask FTSE-listed Afren, whose share price shot up 9% in November when it discovered a "giant" oilfield in Nigeria, which is already the continent's biggest energy producer.

But it is not just the traditional, grubby business of oil extraction that stands to make a mint. A youthful population is showing glimmers of a consumer boom: last year Nigeria overtook Ireland to become the biggest market for Guinness, while brands from Porsche to men's luxury clothes brand Ermenegildo Zegna have scrambled to open shops recently.

"It's caught on with investors. They recognise that there's a resemblance to what we saw in Asia [in the 1980s] and those who missed the incredible growth story [there] now have the opportunity to invest in the next growth story," said Charles Robertson, global chief economist at Renaissance Capital.

The group forecasts that Nigeria's GDP will hit $5tn (£3tn) by 2050, which would be on a par with Japan today as the world's third-biggest economy. A statistical rebasing exercise next month – in which the base year for calculating GDP will be changed from 1990 to 2008 – could lead Nigeria to rival South Africa for the spot of the continent's largest economy, with a value of close to $400bn. That would mean the economic output of Lagos, the vibrant commercial hub, alone overtaking Ghana.

Despite a decade of breakneck growth, two-thirds of Nigerians still endure crushing poverty.

After decades of false starts, Nigeria is slowly addressing its feeble electricity generation. It still produces only enough to power one vacuum cleaner for every 25 inhabitants.

"Nigeria cannot be ignored any more as an investment destination, but I'm not convinced [the Mint group – four countries identified as emerging economic giants, the other members being Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey – is] where it fits in," said Samir Gadio, an emerging markets strategist at Standard Bank.

"If you take a closer look, Nigeria is the least developed, trails in terms of manufacturing base and displays limited economic diversification."

Gadio said that the government relies on oil for up to 80% of its income. Shocking education levels – especially in the north, where one report found only a fraction of 16-year-olds could add up two numbers – have provided a way in for the Boko Haram Islamists. The attacks have sometimes shut down swaths of the north, prevented truck drivers from delivering goods there and prompted traders to flee south.

Along the southern shores, too, where 2m barrels of oil are pumped each day, militancy has increased amid anger as decades of oil wealth have failed to trickle down to people living in the heart of the oil industry in the Niger Delta.

Corruption and lack of transparency pushed Nigeria down nine places to 147 out of 189 countries on the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business index this year. Business people say local oligarchs have such a stranglehold on most sectors of the economy that it is impossible to operate unless you "know someone".

"If you don't have the right person holding your hand in this country, you're going to get your fingers burnt," said the director of a multinational food brand.

But some see potential progress from a low base.

"The challenges we have here, if you look at them differently, they're actually opportunities," said former bank chief executive officer and business magnate Tony Elumelu. "For example, infrastructure is a limiting factor but it's also an opportunity for investors."

His gleaming glass and chrome office overlooks the leafy Lagos suburb of Ikoyi, which nicely sums up how Nigeria's economic growth has failed to radiate. Tucked behind high walls, there are more millionaires living in this part of Lagos than anywhere in Africa, and most cities in the world. But the potholes are some of the city's worst and flooding caused by blocked drains quickly turns roads into rivers, where sometimes barefooted fruit-sellers can be seen wading through with baskets on their heads.

Clearly, there's a lot that needs doing – and no doubt plenty of money to be made doing it.

Ki (ka) Olodumare (Chukwu) fo (gba) eti awon (ha aka nti bu) South West press for gross tribalism.

Obanikoro: ''Fashola’s Official Car Costs More Than Oduah’s Bulletproof Cars''.

SW media is so biased. Fashola bought two bullet-proof tinted Range Rover SUV's for 300m Naira each.

Our South West media refused to report it but instead concentrated solely on Oduah, expecting her kinsmen in South East to keep quiet. Tribalism is SW's biggest problem.

Mayor_of_Lagos: Chris, if i were you i will not bother reporting this. Did you read the entire article and understood what they are saying?

How else will you Yorubas go to Gabon and Equatorial Guinea without passing through the south Eastern part of Nigeria? You be winch

Evil pipu

Silinu Sogbonsi was five years old when unknown men seized him as he walked home from school in Selinu, a little town in the southeast of Benin, near the Nigerian border. Blindfolded, he was pushed him into a waiting car which sped away.

For several days, Sogbonsi was hustled along by his captors on motorbikes through bush paths and on buses along highways.

Finally he arrived in a little village he was to identify as Alamutu, near Abeokuta city in southwest Nigeria. Here Sogbonsi joined other children, aged five to 15 on a daily routine to dig up stones for their masters from the quarries that litter the area.

The children, who earned 50 naira (US $0.38) a week, each worked 12-16 hours, crushing enough gravel to generate 35,000 naira ($269). Every evening a lorry delivered the gravel to construction sites in Nigeria’s southwest region.

"We often slept in the forest where we dug," Sogbonsi, now eight, told the police and officials of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that recently rescued him. "We were always tortured and beaten, at times until we fainted."

He was one of the 194 children rescued by the police from various work sites around Abeokuta between September and October this year and returned to Benin under a renewed crackdown on human traffickers.

All the children had the tell-tale signs of malnutrition – yellowing hair, skinny limbs and distended stomachs – in addition to palms calloused by two to six years of digging granite.

Police said at least 13 children from Benin were found dead and buried around the sites where they had worked before the racket was cracked, following a tip-off by local people and non-governmental organisations.

Thousands of children in Nigeria

Security agencies and human rights workers blame traffickers operating an international network that covers most of West and Central Africa and several European cities, for the plight of tens of thousands of children exploited for their labour and women bonded into prostitution.

Some of the children returned to Benin said they were taken willingly from their impoverished parents in remote villages with promises that they would be taught useful skills in the cities. Others were obtained in exchange for token gifts (such as bicycles, radio and television sets) and promises of monthly payments that never came.

Yet there were several, like Sogbonsi, who were kidnapped – indicating a new level of desperation among the criminals.

Nigerian police said its intelligence reports indicate that 6,000-15,000 children trafficked from Benin were being used as child labourers in Nigeria. The largest concentration is believed to be in the southwest states of Ogun, Lagos, Oyo, Ondo and Osun. Most of them work in cocoa farms.

"We are still expecting more recoveries and more handovers of children to their home country," Chris Olakpe, Nigerian police spokesman, told IRIN.

Yet the movement of children between Benin and Nigeria forms only one part of an increasingly sophisticated regional trend in human trafficking.

Other children from Benin and Togo are brought to Nigeria in transit to destinations like Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea – where the boys are often used as farm labourers and girls as domestic hands or prostitutes.

The trafficking routes

The children destined for Central African countries are usually moved from the southwest to southeast Nigeria - on the Atlantic coast bordering Cameroon - from where they are put in sea vessels that transport them to these countries.
seems the ijaw are collaborating in this evil act undecided undecided

The journey is often hazardous, the vessels locally built without navigational equipment and the children invariably overloaded along with goods. In the last decade, hundreds of children have perished in the Atlantic waters in accidents in which vessels carrying them, sank.


In recent years hundreds of such children have been returned from Gabon and Equatorial Guinea with the assistance of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Nigerian embassies there.

Traffickers are also active in Burkina Faso and Mali, where children are recruited and taken to Cote d'Ivoire to work in the cocoa farms of the world's leading producer. Most of the children originate from Mali and are boys from the areas of Ségou, Sikasso and Mopti.

Activists say trafficking networks to Côte d'Ivoire were established in Mali in the early 1990s due to a demand for cheap labour on its cotton plantations. Most of the children are recruited by intermediaries who sell them to plantation owners.

Others were promised work by relatives or friends and arrived on the plantations, mines, construction sites passing through family networks.

In Ghana children have for decades been bonded to fishermen in the Volta Lake region where they worked long hours for little or no pay. In September hundreds of these children were freed from the employment of these fishermen. A draft Trafficking In Persons Prevention Bill has been prepared by the Ghanaian authorities to check the practice.

Women trafficked to Europe

Equally worrying are the activities of human traffickers in West Africa which operate criminal rings that specialise in obtaining women and sending them to Europe to work as prostitutes.

Activists estimate that 60 percent of prostitutes walking the streets of Italy are from Nigeria. Spain, France, Belgium and The Netherlands also have significant populations of prostitutes from West Africa.

Titi Abubakar, wife of Nigeria’s Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who runs the Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation (WOTCLEF), said 19,774 Nigerians have been deported from Europe since 1999 for offences related to trafficking and prostitution.

Between March and August 2003 alone 4,835 Nigerians, mostly women, were either arrested in Europe or deported to Nigeria for similar reasons.

Traffickers who specialise in taking young women to Europe, where they are held in debt bondage and forced into prostitution, have established networks all over West Africa, according to police and NGO sources.

From bases scattered all over the region the women are taken on the tortuous journey across the Sahara Desert to destinations in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, from where attempts are made to smuggle them to Europe.

"Every year scores of young men and women die either from dehydration during the Sahara crossing or by drowning in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to reach Europe," an Interpol official told IRIN in Lagos.

Security agencies, local NGOs and UNICEF and the International Labour Organisation (ILO), who have been involved in battling human trafficking in West Africa in the past decade, believe the trend is growing despite their efforts.


http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=47205

Congrats Bro.

A won Omo ole representing Oduduwa

10/10

Data from:

http://theafricaneconomist.com/ranking-of-african-countries-by-literacy-rate-zimbabwe-no-1/#.UrehyrQli_L


Apparently, our low level of literacy is due to the North and to a lesser extent the SW

See also BBC literacy map of Nigeria here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12893448

Who speaks from both sides of their mouth like APC people?

Also, remember El Rufai said in 2007 or so that Buhari should retire, and that IBB was not fit to lead Nigeria. Today they are all romancing in their selfish bid to lead Nigeria.

In December 2011. Tinubu to Obasanjo:: "OBJ should go away and retire in shame politically. “What integrity has Obasanjo in terms of his legacies for Nigeria to speak on elections? Apart from his aborted third term ambition, he brought about and left a legacy of electoral corruption in the country. What is Obasanjo talking about? He should go away and retire in shame politically. He should leave the political landscape of this country alone. He brought a whole salad of corruption, manipulation and failures.” - Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (APC Leader).

On 21 December, 2013. Tinubu to Obasanjo:: "Obasanjo Should Lead APC Mission To Rescue Nigeria". "You have come out of tribulation and held the highest position in this country. We are here because of your courage and salient points. Nobody can say he has information more than you. - Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (APC Leader).

Courtesy of HopeForNigeria

nnenna.1:
Wasn't Ngige voted into the senate despite his party platform?

There was more to APC losing those elections than just it being a "Yoruba" or "Hausa" party.

People who have been active on Naija social media in the past year will clue in on the other things that make APC stand out negatively among Easterners.

I think he won under P.D.P and then moved to Apc

Oh men!!