Everybody knows the hit was carried out by APC Imo state! How many times has any APC national offcial been attacked in Imo state? Why didn't the police provide security for a high-ranking PDP official?
Only a f00l can be deceived by what APC is doing and their childish denials that IPOB is somehow pro APC and anti-PDP. Mad people everywhere.
walejax: IPOB Press " DSS Murdered Former PDP Chairman Ahmed Ali Gulak To Blame IPOB." If you remember IPOB intelligence M-Branch warned few days ago that DSS was planning to kill a prominent northerner in the East as a way to incite violence and scuttle the May 31st Remembrance day and as a pretext to further militarize the region.
Even a f00l knows that DSS killed this PDP politician to blame it on IPOB!
We know that DSS is trying to destroy PDP that they feel is sympathetic to Igbos. Why have none of the APC politicians that have flooded Owerri been safe?
CilicMarin: This is Eberechukwu Emereuwa from Obizi, Ezinihitte, Mbaise in Imo state. He was one of the military men killed in owerri yesterday by UGM.
The Fulani FG paid the money into the account of Katsina state and tried to deceive everyone that Delta people had been given back their money stolen by their former governor.
Fulani is playing a joke with everyone. They know they cannot drop the silly military decree called 1999 constitution that they have used to confiscate every asset and position in Nigeria. They are only doing the joke called "constitutional review" to buy time for the inevitable disintegration of Nigeria.
Fulani would NEVER agree to the true national constitution of 1963 which all sections of the country agreed to as a basis for unity in one country. They know the fact that they managed to write their own decrees and use them as "1999 constitution" would return the assets to the owners of the assets if they drop the evil 1999 constitution.
fenibak: You see How Malami The Attorney General of Nigeria just targeted Igbo business in The North Because Governors from The South banned open Grazing.
I was born in Lagos and I can boldly say the Yorubas are not as heartless as the people in the North I always say this I can never live in the North because I don't understand how people can be savages and turn to animals in seconds, we all read of how a Christian in the university was killed on the orders of now terrorist minister in the cabinet of Buhari and this same Buhari refused to remove the said minister what does that tell you? remember the preacher woman that was beheaded, you know Nigerians always like to pretend and forget
Yorubas are free and accommodating and we share the same interest and ideas and I don't see the Yorubas as the enemies of the Igbos just that you are still regarded as an Igbo man if you are not Yoruba, If your investment is in Yoruba land I can sleep with my 2 eyes closed because I know the Yorubas they are bigger than taking or destroying Igbo properties unlike the ones up north that have no regard for human life.
I know we as Igbos love business and we are truly Nigerians if there is anything called Nigerians, we are everywhere we like to assimilate and even after the war it did not stop us from going to the north to start life again we truly believe in one Nigeria, but my brothers read the handwriting on the wall.
I know it is hard and I know it is not easy to just pack up and leave but we must do it gradually because don't pretend like you don't know what is going on now, I know you read the news, do not allow those people to Slaughter you before you leave.
If you want to come back to the north later you can with your own passport and visa and then you can be protected under international law because if you are touched it would be a declaration of war.
So use your tongue to count your teeth and leave the North now, is it better to start now than when it would all be in chaos that is when you will start running, I need not remind you that as long as you are Igbo you are still Biafran boys and they might be nice to you now but when it happens they would Slaughter you like animals, history already taught us this.
Stop pretending like Nigeria won't break because it will, a word is enough for the wise
They will not listen to the voice of reason because those Igbos in the north are half nama! I don't know the type of brain they have. But in a very short time, those that disregarded your wise counsel will be full of regrets. Na dem sabi!
fenibak: As they say, it is only a fool that does not learn from his history and only a foolish man learns from his own mistake.
This might sound like a prophecy or prediction and as much as we want to pretend Nigeria is going to break up and we must face the truth, if not now after 2023 it would die a natural death, so we must be smart and plan ahead of time.
Remember how you were given 20pounds? let me ask you if Nigeria breaks up which I know that it would, What will happen to the naira you all have in the banks? By the way, the naira is already getting worthless and we might be like Zimbabwe soon
I say to you invest in gold and dollars, buy gold and store it and put your dollars in your dom account, those abroad open dollar account and save it. even your politicians have money abroad.
Open an offshore account in tax-free countries and keep your dollars because Nigeria is heading for the rocks and nothing can stop it.
I say to you my brothers and sisters do not take this message as a joke just ask yourself what happens to my naira once Nigeria breaks up. Shalom
Only a f00L will be saving their money in naira now! Even if Nigeria does not break up, the worth of N100,000 naira last year is now worth only N30,000 naira today. Meaning if you kept your N100,000 naira savings in naira last year, it might yield an interest of N5,000 and now a total of N105,000 naira. But its true worth is just N30,500 of the money you saved last year! That means, what you could have bought for N100,000 naira last year but instead, you opted to put your money in the bank, the same thing now costs N300,000 naira today!
Meaning if you have money, invest your money in assets like land, real estate or buy hard currency and save it in your domiciliary account. However, because banks can also become distressed, always think of landed assets to invest your money so that it is immune to Nigeria's galloping inflation.
Meanwhile, since FG is now printing naira like toilet paper, its only a question of time before even buying hard currencies with naira will become so difficult.
When the states were funding the Federal Police, The Army. The Navy, The FRSC, etc with billions upon billions of naira from their state budget, year upon year, while NEGLECTING community vigilante services, I knew they were very SILLY!
The northern state governors don't waste their funds on the already funded Federal institutions. They concentrate on helping their own local security systems.
How do you fund a FEDERAL force that you can't deploy, yet you neglect those who protect the communities that depend on you for funding??
It was totally silly! Now I hope they have finally got the point we have been trying so hard to point out to them all these years.
ChimaAdeoye: Rebuilding and expansion of the roads are just 25% of the problem. 75% of the problem is that the people don't understand the rules and regulations around the prohibition of parking on state roads, stopping vehicles in unapproved locations, and building illegal street shops/kiosks/shanties over drainage channels to quite literally trade on the street! This thing must be enforced so that people learn that it is actually illegal to block the road with their wares or vehicle.
Illegal street parking is more of Anambra's urgent road traffic and road safety problem! The culture of parking on major roads is part of the huge road problem in Anambra state. There is no enforcement of the law prohibiting the parking of vehicles on all Trunk A and Trunk B roads (i.e State and federal highways). In other countries of the world, you can only park vehicles on Local Government roads (Side streets). Even at that, it has to be within a defined space and a certain distance from the curb so that you don't impede the flow of traffic on such streets. These laws are not enforced in Nigeria particularly in Onitsha, Nnewi, and Aba. Even the expressway was used as a truck and disused caterpillar park until Obiano started towing their broken-down trucks and caterpillars away at Nkpor and making them pay huge fines before they are released. Thus, the huge traffic at the Nkpor area of the expressway disappeared.
While I totally agree with you that Anambra needs wider roads (Which may be impossible now without widespread demolitions), we must first enforce the parking laws as a normal country. Then deal with street traders who display their wares on the road. Unless the right of way rules are enforced, even if you build a 10 lane expressway, people will still block them eventually with markets and parked broken down vehicles because nobody stops them from breaking the law.
In the past, most governors didn't even care if you blocked a street and built a market or 4 story building. It's a mentality issue.
It will take a very very very very very very serious governor to bring about sanity. It's truly beyond merely expanding streets.
It will take a lot of willpower to enforce these laws because almost no governor had bothered with seriously enforcing the town planning laws, traffic laws, and laws against street trading.
Looks like they printed out these pictures and displayed on billboards? So that the workers will get an idea of how the final product should look like?
I think it's an excellent idea to display the images so that the workers will have a picture of what their work should look like when completed.
Another silly Fulani post. They can never come out and proudly say they are Fulani. They have to hide themselves as Igbo or Yoruba.
So by the way, who is afraid of mocking Attahiru? Was he a good man? If he was, nobody would mock him. If he was an agent of death, who did not believe in a peaceful or fair Nigeria, then it serves him right to eat the same dish that he served other human beings.
That is how Allah has planned this life. In case you didn't know it yet.
The only way these loudmouths can command any type of respect at all is for them to show something they asked for that the FG did for them. From terrible federal roads to suffocating marginalization and now even killing of Igbos in IGBOLAND!
How can these Govanors justify why they were against their people and for the Fulani Government? Yet, they are neither trusted by their people nor Fulanis.
I feel sorry for them because Fulani is using them and not giving them security so that their people can kill them out of anger.
ChimaAdeoye: The problem with the mentality of a typical Nigerian above of killing or be killed is due to many years of living under Fulani engineered feudal system. A system that does not believe in coexistence. It's either you die and I live, or I die and you'll live. It never even crosses their mind that there is steady population growth in Asaba, in Nnewi, In Ihiala, Awka, Aguleri etc! This new population will need quick access to air services in airports that are not chaotically jam-packed and inefficient like the current Lagos airport. Nigeria is projected to reach about 450 million by 2050, which is less than 29 years away! That will be one and half times greater than the present US population.
The US even at 300 million people, you cannot compare even their least busy international airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Lagos or Abuja airports. This airport is still busier than Lagos or Abuja!Not to mention that it has 3 active runways. Between West Palm Beach - Fort Lauderdale -Miami, there are more than 5 international airports and each of these has more than 3 runways to cope. I have said all these so that you guys can understand that the tiny international airports we have in Nigeria are in fact insufficient to support economic growth in a country of more than 200 million people. Talk more when our population hits 450 million people.
Now apart from huge airports like New York's JFK, Los Angeles, Miami, Boston international airports, a typical American international hub has between 4 -8 active runways. Nigeria can never build such types of airports. Nor do we have the landmass or technology to run them.
In our clime, the best approach is to build one or two-runway international airports and manage them by the flights that go to each. One day, the fake Nigerian federal structure used to stifle economic development in Nigeria will fall apart and people will develop their own region based on need. You simply don't have the land for that type of massive airport facility seen abroad. So we have to build small manageable international airports at Asaba, Umueri, Enugu, etc, and manage the flights that go to each location. Of course, some will be busier than others depending on how large they are able to take many flights and planes at the same time.
Besides, the way our people see land, if you say the total landmass of Anambra state should be used for just one airport with 5 runways, everybody will scream. Even one runway was difficult to find enough land to make sure it was comfortably up to 3.7 KM runway and 1KM RESA at both ends!
That is why there will eventually be another international airport in Orlu in the future and another one at Elele or Isiokpo. That is the only way we can eventually meet the aviation needs of an economy serving even 80 million people living in a tight high-density area where land is a very scarce resource. A model of having multiple medium international airports is the only way it can be done to meet the aviation needs of our people. Those huge aviation hubs we see abroad like in the pictures below, require such vast amounts of land and very high technology to operate that we simply lack both.
Oga,
Thank you very much for illustrating this point so clearly. This is what I have tried so hard to explain to people who think that if only 100 people used flights to Enugu airport in 1980, only 100 people will continue to use flights in the whole region in 2021, 2050, or even forever! Even if we use ourselves as examples, in the year 2000 many of us had never entered an airplane before. Today, many of us have been using airplanes for routine travels between Lagos - Abuja or Lagos to Asaba. In the year 2000, my village didn't have a tarred road and not a single house was owned by a foreigner. Today, the entire place is built up like Lagos with 95% of the houses owned by foreigners! It is called growth and economic development which these people find so hard to realize that it exists. Asaba airport did not cause the closure of Owerri and Enugu airport as they emphatically said would happen then.
Again, those saying the country needs only one MEGA airport without an adequate high-speed train, bridges, and generally fantastic road network to make transportation to that airport efficient and safe from great distances, only say so from jaundiced ethnic consideration.
Moreso, it takes a significant investment in infrastructure to build those types of massive MEGA airports seen abroad. Many of them have their own internal light rail system to take passengers from one terminal to another. They have enough apron (tarmac) that spreads out for miles upon miles for planes to park! In Nigeria, building a tarmac of 200M by 200M is a mega feat! In short, the cost of such mega airports seen abroad is beyond the reach of 3rd world countries like Nigeria. Even rich 3rd world countries like South Africa cannot afford it, not to mention the poor 3rd world countries like Nigeria. The technology and electricity to run such mini-city airports are also non-existent in Nigeria.
By the way, let us appreciate this guy's documentary on Obiano's legacy projects.
mktinsight: There are far bigger projects in SE than that poultry shed of an airport.
Since you never finished primary school let me help you and your mental patient friend Desmond Alaegbu:
1) 2005-present Geometric Aba Power Plant, Aba - $500 million 2) 2012-2014 - Intafact Brewery, Onitsha - $210 million 3) 2020 - Shell Aba City Gate Power, Shell - 4) 2010-16 - Alaoji Power Plant, Abia - $900 million 5) 2014-18 - 50km Total Gas Pipeline, Abia - $900 million 6) 2020 - Seplat Anoh Gas Power Plant, Imo ,- $700 million 7) 2015 - present Second Niger Bridge, Delta/Anambra - $800 million
If the purported cost of Nigerian projects are used to place the real worth of the project, even the federal government road from Okoko-Item to Abriba would be the costliest project in the Southeast.
There should be an outright ban on the sale of beef and livestock in the south. The beef is often poisoned with chemicals leading to the spike in cancer cases in the south today.
The ban on livestock sales and beef will immediately stop all those benefiting from the sale of these animals to fund terrorism.
For an IG of Police to ask policemen to shoot civilians is beyond asking for anarchy. If he thinks ordering the killing of ordinary citizens because they are not Fulani people will stop attacks against the police, he is totally mistaken. It will only make more people lose sympathy for the police and in fact, won't cooperate with the police. Only innocent people will be victims of this order and not the heavily armed UGM that police or army dare not confront.
Anyhow, it is clear that Fulani have an ethnic agenda. They should not begin crying when reprisals on their own civilian populations begin.
I think what this Madam Laign should be concerned with is how to help Nigerians create a fair and just constitution to guarantee the unity of the country. Not issuing empty threats that unless you agree to elect people on the disputed and rejected 1999 military decree nicknamed "constitution", you won't get a UK visa.
She is aware that 75% of the country has already rejected the 1999 constitution as the basis for new elections. So why is she pretending not to know what is going on in Nigeria?
Some of these unthoughtful comments are why the UK has lost credibility among so many Nigerians today.
Whether they respect our governors or not. If they continue with their Fulani agenda, we will ban the slaughtering of livestock in our abbatoirs and the sale of beef in all our community markets.
You cannot continue to kill people just because you want to sell cows and goats to them.
Oluwamarc: I have just read the press statement credited to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Shehu Malami SAN on the resolution of the Southern Governors Forum to ban open grazing in their respective States. The AGF is quoted to have said that this reasoned decision, among others, is akin to banning all spare parts dealers in the Northern parts of the country and is unconstitutional.
It is most unfortunate that the AGF is unable to distill issues as expected of a Senior Advocate. Nothing can be more disconcerting. This outburst should, ordinarily, not elicit response from reasonable people who know the distinction between a legitimate business that is not in anyway injurious and a certain predilection for anarchy. Clinging to an anachronistic model of animal husbandry, which is evidently injurious to harmonious relationship between the herders and the farmers as well as the local populace, is wicked and arrogant.
Comparing this anachronism, which has led to loss of lives, farmlands and property, and engendered untold hardship on the host communities, with buying and selling of auto parts is not only strange. It, annoyingly, betrays a terrible mindset.
Mr Malami is advised to approach the court to challenge the legality of the Laws of the respective States baning open grazing and decision of the Southern Governor Forum taken in the interest of their people. We shall be most willing to meet him in Court.
The decision to ban open grazing stays. It will be enforced with vigour.
SIGNED
ARAKUNRIN OLUWAROTIMI O AKEREDOLU, SAN GOVERNOR, ONDO STATE
Chatflick: According to Twitter Users including renowned Journalist, David Hundeyin, the policeforce has declared war on Igbos and are attacking people's houses, shooting unprovoked.
A student was killed by the Army last night in Owerri.
Chikeluba25: More pictures from the shoe makers market.
This is great!
I pray they also finish the Tailoring cluster they are building beside the shoemakers. In many ways, Obiano has transformed Anambra. We see only the big things like building the longest bridges in the SE, roads to new areas, the airport, flyovers and international conference center, etc.
But the real Obiano genius in the transformation of Anambra economy are little things like this shoemakers and tailoring hub, new Agu Awka International market, agricultural transformation agenda, small business support loans etc.
potbelly: So which summit is Buhari going to attend?
It's his usual way of sneaking out of the country whenever he gives instructions for grave criminal offenses to be committed against citizens of Nigeria.
He wants the blame to always fall on the commanders while he claims to be abroad and was not contacted. The way he has ruined Burutai's life and made him a candidate for war crimes tribunal if he dares to visit certain western countries as a private citizen.
ANSMEDIA: These are pictures of the ongoing work inside the terminal building as of yesterday. They are covering the steel structures/pillars. Excellent finishing works
It is clear they have plans to cover the steel pillars. The covering of the pillars on the ramp shows they don't intend to leave them bare.