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[size=20pt]Asaba indigenes want airport named after Osadebay[/size]


FROM ISAAC ANUMIHE, ABUJA

A group known as ASDEV ’81 Club, Asaba, has called on the Delta State Government to immortalise the pioneer premier of the defunct Mid Western Region and former President of the Senate, Chief Dennis Osadebay, by naming the Asaba Airport after him.

Speaking to newsmen, the Abuja Coordinator, Osadebay Lecture Organising Committee, Ogbueshi Fred Okonta, regretted that all contemporaries of the former premier of Mid-Western State have been recognised one way or another.

To this end, he said Asaba indigenes are organising a lecture in honour of the former premier. The indigenes, under the auspices of ASDEV ‘81 Club, Asaba, appealed to the authorities on the need to immortalise Osadebay to encourage other selfless leaders like him.

According to him, Osadebay who also acted as president of Nigeria, was selfless, detribalised and a stabiliser because he had the power to site the capital of Mid-Western State in Asaba but he chose to site it in Benin.

“We are fighting injustice and marginalisation and equity demands that you give equal treatment to all,” he said.

Osadebay, who was born on June 29, 1911 and died on December 26, 1994, was premier of Mid-Western State from 1964 to 1966 and acted as president in 1960.


SOURCE: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=66215

[size=13pt]Chief Dennis Osadebay is the ONLY Premier of a region that had not been immortalized.

All Dennis Osadebay's peers from Samuel Akintola,Obafemi Awolowo, Michael Okpara,Akanu Ibiam, Ahmadu Bello, Kassim Ibrahim have all been immortalized.
Dennis Osadebey deserves something named after him,especially in his hometown.[/size]

Jonathan!
That is the magic name that made the difference between Buhari's fear and what Nigeria's fate became. Any other Nigerian would have used the army he commanded to deal with ' law breakers'

crocodile tears or is it called medicine after death

We attained the 200 pages mark!

Whether some of it were as a result of madness, its an achievement nonetheless .

Mods abeg clean this and Anambra thread and ban the MOFOs

InternalAuditor:
The worst habitats can be found in Owerre- Douglasdale

Please help this thread reach 200 pages landmark.

ArodeTsolaye:
Another gaffe- the Daura President today called the President of Kenya, President Julius Nyerebe.

But why can't he get people's name right.
He is a true dullard not to remember even names.

lol to USSR?

Alzheimer is an incurable memory disorder disease of the elderly. i hope the Daura President hasn't developed it.

Na today?
Money for the boys.

kayo80:
Yea, I'd give a million dollars to know what Professor Osinbajo's wife told Aisha Buhari to make her laugh this hard.

Anything ko,Give me ya wife for one night and when she returns, she'll tell you.

spyder880:
These grounds contain a large deposit of coal. It could even be seen on the surface in some places......

Nigeria is indeed a land of waste opportunities.
Imagine how much industrial generation and progress Nigeria could have derived if these wasting coal had been used to generate power to industrialize Nigeria. But because it is in Enugu, Nigeria elected to rather stay undeveloped and poor than use Enugu coal to develop!

Poorer African countries with unclean coal have managed to secure loan to build coal fired plans to support their industrialization and progress. See Zambian coal fired power plant under construction. Tomorrow when Zambia Industrial growth begins to progress and benefit from cheap coal electricity, Nigerians will flock to Zambia to look for work, while God gave them even better resource than Zambia!

Anyhow, Gov. Ugwuanyi should explore ways of partnering with a company to build power plants near Onyeama miles and sell power to recoup their investment. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=123913389#post123913389

ROSSIKE:
It seems we need to adopt an official African lingua franca. It was a bit shameful to see the various leaders making their speeches in French, English, Portuguese etc. When does that stop?

Should they have been speaking Igbo and Hausa there?
I guess Kenyans now understand Ashanti and Ibibio

FreeGlobe:
same way the useless obi did all the little, narrow, worthless, unmarked, substandard roads and non economic viable hotel at his sleepy agulu town towards the tail end of his failed administration .

I am not a Peter Obi fan and searching my previous posts will prove it. However, I will always beg to differ when i hear the word "Fail" used to describe Peter Obi's era.
No matter how much that lie is told, it will continue to be what it is. A LIE.
I don't know if siting the hotel in Agulu was a sound decision, i also don't know if having the Park and Habour roads as the only dual carriage roads he did was a smart idea so that he would build more kilometers of road elsewhere. What i know is that Peter Obi did not fail in Anambra.

Thankfully, i am old enough to recall what used to be known as Anambra state and what it has become. I remember when Anambra people were the ONLY south east people flooding Delta State university Abraka begging for even toilet courses and giving millions of naira just to be admitted to any rubbish course because Anambra was the ONLY SE state without a university.I know when Anambra civil servants were squatting in too many dilapidated private buildings in Awka because there was nothing like a workers secretariat in Anambra. I also know when the BEST public hospital in Anambra was the Onitsha general hospital and no state hospital was accredited.I know when in the whole city of Onitsha, ONLY Holy Ghost Hospital (Waterside) could perform safe c-sections and you are sure the woman won't die in the process or shortly after.I know when all public schools in Anambra were a disgrace to what primary or secondary schools were in neighboring Imo state. I know when Anambra people never dreamt about agriculture development because they expected everything they ate to be grown and fed to them by northerners.I know when driving on any state road in Anambra was a monumental bad idea because not only will your car breakdown, the kidnappers were ubiquitous and would grab you immediately to extract ransom from your family.

A lot still needs to be done and i know Peter Obi probably didn't have great dreams for what was possible in Anambra as much as Obiano has already demonstrated. But it will be the greatest deliberate misrepresentation of facts we all witnessed over the years to say he failed.

petokey:
I don't know if am the only one noticing this. Whats with the choice of BLACK colour President Buhari normally puts on when travelling outside the country?

My imaginations......

1. In my culture, BLACK clothes signifies a period of mourning.

Maybe he is mourning Nigeria in the face of other countries, so that they can have pity on him.

2. Diabolical.

Maybe he belong to a confraternity that told him to always put on black when traveling out, to serve as protection and fortification.

3. Taste.

Maybe that is his favorite color. lmao... but i wonder why someone will decide to pick BLACK of all colors as his favorite. White cloths in the country and black cloths outside the country.

Please it is just an imagination ohhhh. But come to think of it, probably you might have other thoughts as i had.

That is what ogboni confraternity which he belongs asked him to wear until further notice or he will die.

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TRIBALISM & pettiness is the problem of an ethnic group in Nigeria.

They have aggregated themselves in the APC and exactly that poor attitude and approach to the national discuss is what they will use to ruin the APC.[/size]

ChimaAdeoye:
I have come to disregard the jealousy inspired comments of Igbo haters.
Just as i disregard many so called oily people's comments because i know they are coming from a default position of unjustified Igbo jealousy and hatred. It burns their heart to see progress in the SE. So they will naturally insult,oppose, deride, or underplay the significance of anything positive in SE.

The very same buildings here are "obodo oyibo" buildings once it's not built in Igboland,
but once our people copy the design and build it on our land, they attempt to deride or give it scornful names to belittle it.

As a matter of fact, once we have stable electricity to enable use of elevators, we can actually begin making our apartment buildings to reach 11 or 12 floors as in the picture.It will save land and enable people have decent cheap housing.

Kcinho:
The government has not really considered developing tourist sites like the Ngwo pine forest, ezeagu water falls , akwuke beach etc. I love visiting these sites but the road to the beach was so bad I considered turning around the last time I went there. I bet there are other interesting sites out there to tap into if the right people manage the tourism board coupled with adequate government support. Some cultural festivals and carnivals can be promoted too. With adequate investment and management,those villagers who harass individuals that visit these sites can be employed while revenue from these sites and festivals increase our IGR.

I very much like your contribution. i just like to add to your contribution a little more.
One thing i have gained by traveling to some few tourist sites abroad myself is that if the site isn't a true wonder of the world, such as Niagra falls or Zambezi/ victoria falls, it would be almost impossible for anyone to leave their country of origin in Europe or America to head to Ogbunike cave or Ngwo pine forest. However, you can attract them to Enugu first by a proven partnership between (International Airline to Enugu + Hotels where they would lodge and to pick them up from the airport and the travel agency in their home countries).This is the tripod for successful tourism in any country doing it. Thus, working with fine hotels here and Ethiopian airline to package a subsidized vacation. Once they know one week vacation will cost $2,000 dollars including airfares and hotel, then they are likely to pay for the package. Ofcourse when they are here, the participating hotel can take them to local tourist sites like Ngwo pine forest, Ogbunike cave, ezeagu waterfall etc, if those were developed. They will typically buy souvenirs in Nigeria, they will pay for the transportation of using the hotel's air-conditioned mini-buses to travel around, food, local clothing, local art work etc. These will then add to funds coming into the economy.

Kenya and South Africa are able to maintain a reasonably high amount of tourists visits from western countries in spite of fear about terrorism and crime in those countries because they organize packaged vacations through travel agencies in the West, Japan and China.
Coming to Nigeria isn't an easy task at all, even for Nigerian citizens living abroad with their spouse and children. If you go to our embassies for your children visa because they are born abroad, they will be dribbling you from pillar to post, until you pay someone bribe. For foreigners who aren't used to that type of "settlement" behavior from government offices, they simply skip going to Nigeria and choose Kenya, Tanzania or South Africa. That is why i always laugh when our Nigerian tourism ministers naively say building up a cultural carnival or festival is just enough to bring anyone to come to Nigeria without fixing the massive hurdles involved in actually coming to Nigeria.If we fix the hurdles involved in coming to Nigeria, even without ministry of tourism, tourists from all parts of the world will flood Nigeria.

Think about it and put yourself in a tourist's position. If there were a travel agency at the Shoprite Mall, Enugu who is speaking Igbo or English and promoting a packaged one week vacation trip to Brazil for $2,000 or $3,000 dollars (airfare, hotels,visa), if you have money, you may want to pay and the travel agency will sort out everything. If you had to seek out Brazil embassy yourself and find airlines flying to Rio de janeiro, and also to find hotels in Rio where you will stay for 1 week, to learn how to communicate in Portuguese or learn the language so that you can take taxis there and move around, it will be too daunting and you will probably never visit there. Unless, we simplify these and make the tourist just pay a lump-some specified amount upfront and everything else involved is taken care of, they will never come here.

Buhari has Alzheimers memory disease.
He probably told the pilot to fly to South Korea before he remembered that he actually wanted to go to South Africa and turned around.
Hence, the very long delay of his arrival since he left Abuja for South Africa.

bofoy:
PLEASE MY APPEAL TO ALL NIGERIANS IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR TRIBEs TO please JOIN HAND WITH AKS GOVT TO FACILITED THIS PROJECT . Na for everybody abeg . HAUSAS GO WORK THERE, IGBOS GO WORK THERE, YORUBAS THE SAME. Abeg

[size=14pt]Unfortunately, those Nigerians are so tribalistically blind to see your point at all. Anything in other parts of Nigeria not cited in their village, they will do all in their power to cajole, deride or frustrate .

However, you are right, all Nigerians will benefit from this project. It will also help develop Nigeria and improve the ease of doing business rating of the country.[/size]

asha80:
you went off topic in the first when you Brough in a totally irrelevant issue of Kano and skyline to what I initially posted about industrialization and commercial prowess

Engaging Abagworo to be objective in Igbo concerned issue is a complete waste of one's time. Just let Chino take care of his nuisance.

Soon those praying for another President Obasanjo sorry Osibanjo will rejoice in vain.

Ramnon2:
Jonah Otunla

The Accountant General of the Federation Mr. Jonah Otunla was yesterday removed from office.

The source, according to an online publication, The Will said Otunla was removed from office because he allegedly misappropriated N2.5 billion of security agencies’ funds.

The source said Mohammed Dikwa, from Borno State, has been appointed as his replacement, but in acting capacity.

Dikwa until his appointment was a Director in Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation.

The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (AGF) confirmed the removal of Otunla as Accountant and the appointment of Dikwa as Acting Accountant General.

In a statement late Friday, the Office of the AGF said President Muhammadu Buhari approved the change, which takes effect immediately.

The statement said Dikwa would hold the position until a substantive replacement was announced.

Until his appointment as the Acting Accountant-General, Mr. Dikwa was the Director, Funds Department in the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, the statement said.

Mr. Dikwa has Bachelor of Science Degree in Accountancy and Master in Business Administration and Finance.

He had attended the Senior Executive Course 34, 2014 at the National Institute of for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru.  He was awarded Certificates in Public Finance Management Reforms, Leadership and Governance, High Performance Leadership Programme and Treasury Management at the Harvard University USA, University of Cambridge, Oxford University UK and Thames Valley University UK respectively.  Mr. Dikwa is a   Fellow Certified National Accountant and Fellow Charted Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, among others.


He has facilitated and attended many Courses, Workshops and Seminars, the statement said.

Anywhere a Yoruba man touches public fund, there is FRAUD
Those are just recurring decimals......

Macelliot:
NICE ONE!
70% of Importers are Igbos Alone...
My Igbo brothers can now leave Lagos port and order their Containers from Akwa-Ibom Seaport...

Truth be told?
Igbos will never leave Lagos, unless Nigeria disintegrates.

We need to work on tourist attracting activities and structures in Enugu.We need to make sure that is easy for people to visit from far places and there are activities or places to visit and the city will be safe for them to enjoy. So that they can go back and bring their friends.
Tourism and agriculture with agro-allied factories are the two pronged strategies to develop the economy of Enugu state.Building decent markets for the city residents will also have some limited impact in the state or city's development. However, the bottomline is that we need people coming into the state to spend money which will generate jobs and economic activities more than merely circulating the money in the state in the form of local markets.

I am glad oakland has been set up. We need more amusement parks and fun things in the city. Someone talked about building water parks behind hotel presidential and Igbo history museum beside the international conference center. A hotel with many fun amenities such as Grand Hotel Asaba complimented with the type of water park at Tinapa (Calabar) is needed in Enugu. These things should be pursued seriously.

biafrandream:
They are using the case as a smokescreen to destroy the businesses in Igboland. In as much as I detest corruption in public offices, I am not deceived into thinking that EFCC is fighting corruption, nay, they are fighting Igbo businesses. How come they are not closing businesses built through corrupt enrichment in other regions. How many Nigerians made money by personal effort, if not embezzlement of public funds and government patronage. Talk of Atiku and co. Tinubu owns the entire Lagos yet no one is talking about it. This should teach a very big lesson to every Igbo sons and daughters, that united we stand divided we fall. I remember that Chimaroke organised a party to celebrate the closure of Jim's Savanna Bank by Obasanjo. He forgot then that every Igbo person has a common enemy in Nigeria and once they are done with your brother, they are coming after you.

The overall objective is to make sure no big business survives in Igboland so that all of you will migrate to Lagos, Kano Abuja and Maiduguri. It will then be easier for them to control your destiny, kill you whenever they want and take over your land.

Exactly!

He should have called the lady the fuher of East Germany. I am sure if Osibanjo had not represented Nigeria at Bashir's swearing in, Buhari would have referred to the country as South Sudan or better as northern Sudan
On a serious note, Oga Buhari please your handlers should tell you basic things like how each world leader is addressed as well as what their countries are called.

Soon they will ban them from marching. As if that is our most pressing problem. They type of crisp we used to see under military rule.

soe:
This OP na original Mumu

No Baba is a disgrace to call Germany, western Germany
Even elementary 2 pupil knows better

Nigerians have elected a tourist president.

helinues:
Nigerians were shocked when President Buhari was referring the German Chancellor, Merkel as President Michelle.
Sadly Buhari is not aware that the Western Germany do not exist again as a country since the 1985 he was Nigerian Head of State, as it was merged to be known as Germany in 1990.

For those Nigerians that said that Buhari should produce NEPA bill instead of certificate, this is the shame you people brought to the country.


Source: https://www.facebook.com/hopefornigeria/videos/938773839514072/?comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22O%22%7D

Abeg, make them leave Baba alone. So what if anyone refer to Nigeria as Biafra or even Western Nigeria republic as Musiwa calls it?

Big deal?
The man got tired and entered a bus.

I am awaiting the next trekker to take his place.