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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 9:20pm On Sep 01

Jcoleworld911:
If you don’t know what to type, you better keep quiet, what’s Bua foods revenue a year??
Nnewi trade volume alone dwarfs both Bua and Nigeria breweries combined not to talk about almighty Onitsha.

Nnewi alone produce more than 50,000 millionaires yearly with trade volume running into billions of dollars, the problem is that traders/businessmen don’t like paying taxes together with high corruption in government

All the industries/hotels etc scattered around Anambra state are all owned by Anambra businessmen/traders operating in Anambra state

Please don’t be unfortunate next time, don’t ever talk down on our traders/businessmen, there’s a reason Anambra is the third most developed state in Nigeria after Lagos and Abuja

I saw this on Soludo's X page. I think it'll be great to use Anambra's significant gas resources to drive industrialization. Imo state is already doing that at ANOH Gas Processing Plant located in the Ohaji/Egbema.

The ANOH Energy Hub / ANOH CNG Park.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 8:59pm On Aug 17

OreMI22:
The central impediment facing this generation is, an inability to think beyond the economic models we inherited. After independence, our forefathers were predominantly farmers, but they understood that as the population grew, agriculture alone would not be sufficient; they therefore expanded into commerce and built major trading centres such as Onitsha Main Market, Ogbete Market and, later, Ariaria International Market. These markets became engines of commerce and created entirely new sources of income beyond farming. Ariaria, for example, evolved into a major manufacturing and trading centre, particularly for shoes and leather goods, while Onitsha Main Market became a major regional distribution hub.

The opportunity before the Igbo today is to make the next economic leap: develop reliable and affordable electricity for industrialisation, efficient road, rail and air transportation for logistics and trade, and world-class tourism and hospitality infrastructure. Fortunately, we have abundant coal and gas in the region, and Governors Peter Mbah and Alex Otti appear to understand this broader economic equation. Mbah's economic strategy explicitly identifies energy, transportation and logistics, ICT, tourism and hospitality as priority sectors, while his administration is developing an independent electricity market and major road, rail and transport infrastructure. Otti has similarly linked reliable electricity, road infrastructure, industrial parks, market modernisation and hospitality to Abia's investment strategy; his administration reports near-24-hour electricity in the Aba ring-fenced area and is modernising Ariaria Market, while a five-star Radisson Blu-linked Enyimba Hotel is being developed in Aba. This is the kind of strategic thinking that can transform the Southeast from a region of traders into a region that manufactures, distributes, hosts, transports, innovates and exports.

To be fair, Governor Soludo also appears to have a clear economic strategy for Anambra. His efforts to connect the state's major cities with modern dual-carriage roads, modernise Onitsha Main Market and promote digital innovation can potentially strengthen Anambra's position as a commercial and investment destination. The next logical step is to ensure that Awka and Onitsha have world-class hotels and conference facilities capable of accommodating investors, executives and tourists. This is why the Anambra International Conference Centre (ICC) Hotel is important: infrastructure that brings investors and major events into the state must be complemented by quality accommodation and hospitality. Enugu is already pursuing this model, including a planned 300-plus-room five-star hotel adjacent to its ICC.

My only major disagreement with Soludo is therefore the scale and sequencing of priorities, particularly the decision to pursue a second airport before completing other infrastructure that could generate economic returns much sooner. I would strongly support acquiring and banking the land for a future second airport so that it remains available when the existing airport eventually reaches capacity. But building the airport decades before the demand exists risks tying up scarce capital that could instead be invested today in electricity, roads, markets modernization, logistics, hotels, tourism and industrial infrastructure. The question is not whether Anambra will eventually need another airport; it is whether building it now is the best use of the state's limited resources.

Oga m, I always enjoy reading your submissions, but let us be honest: Alex Otti, Peter Mbah and even Hope Uzodimma appear to have a more coherent economic and infrastructure agenda than our “confused professor.” For example, Otti has completed the Umuahia Central Bus Terminal and is developing a similar, even bigger facility in Aba, while Mbah has commissioned modern transport terminals in Enugu and Nsukka as part of a broader mass-transit strategy.

Even Governor Uzodimma recognizes the importance of modernising public transportation in Owerri, with his administration launching a digitised mass-transit programme and developing modern terminals at locations including Naze Junction, Egbu and along Onitsha Road. The irony is that Onitsha, one of the Southeast’s biggest commercial and transportation hubs, arguably has an even stronger case for modern, centralised transport infrastructure. If Umuahia, Aba, Enugu and Owerri are investing in modern terminals despite their smaller passenger and commercial volumes, one would expect a visionary administration in Anambra to be thinking about how to develop at least two major multimodal transport hubs in Onitsha to support the city’s enormous trading, logistics and passenger traffic.

Owerri Central Bus terminal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e8JyILqLrg
Umuahia Central bus terminal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urzz1KkvAPA
Aba Central bus terminal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it8syy21Edw&t=14s
Enugu Central bus terminal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaPhQZnYfKU
Nsukka Central bus terminal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwmcefcPR6g

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 3:28am On Aug 03*

Eboofa:
I think your assessment of Soludo is rather harsh! He has been able to complete over 95% of projects he embarks on! Maybe even higher..............for me, my pet peeve where Soludo is concerns his inability to establish lasting institutions.......... It's rather annoying that we still do not have an active waste evacuation agency,,,,,,, where are the tax agency........signage agency..........even Ansippa has been buried alive!

However, as far as completion of projects, he has done well!

I agree that Soludo has done well on roads development.

I thought it was due to the financial burden of the roads that he could not complete the other projects he started in his first term such as the Anambra ICC hotel.

What is annoying is that everything is about what is reigning and not what is crucial for the state’s development. For instance Anambra’s airport in Oba was abandoned since 1982. Anambra’s economic and industrial growth was stunted due to lack of airport until Asaba and later Umueri airports were built recently. All of a sudden the reigning thing now is airport, airport, airport! While we still have so many other highly critical areas where we are lagging behind.

Part of the reason I supported Soludo was because I hoped he would reason like a well-seasoned professor and not a local trader. How is it possible that a whole professsor of economics would reason that even if Anambra needs 5 airports by 2070, we must build all of them all at once, without first developing our industrial base that would make the economy which requires 5 airports possible? It is simply called the “Theory of Comparative Cost” which Soludo himself must have taught his students. It simply means, use your advantages to develop your economy.

Now Anambra sits on vast deposit of natural gas that can easily be used to produce electricity, petrochemical companies, fertilizer companies to boost agricultural production to power that future which would require 5 Airports. When Soludo spoke about stopping Anambra being a “departure lounge” and creating jobs in Anambra to keep its youths from running abroad, I thought he must have figured a good strategy to use the massive gas deposits in the state to support petrochemical companies setting up in Anambra.

Globally, countries are plotting how to pipe Nigerian gas to Europe or elsewhere so they can build more power plants, fertilizer plants and petrochemical factories to support their industrialization and economic growth. Anambra sits on a massive gas deposit, does not need to pipe anybody’s gas to Anambra to support industrial growth. But instead of thinking how we can bring in companies to set up in Anambra and use our gas to fuel prosperity, we are fixated on building airports that we neither need nor really even have enough funds to build very good ones that airlines would prefer to use the new airport compared to the currrently existing ones. It is a case of putting the cart before the horse that I didn’t expect a sound mind like Soludo would end up reasoning like the usual dumb politicians in Nigeria and Africa that made Africa the richest continent in resources, yet has the poorest people.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 2:34am On Aug 03*

AsomughaChuks02:
The new airport is a done deal, I assure you. Work on the site will resume in earnest immediately the dry season sets in. Your wailing ends with you or at best, here on nairaland.

It will be a good thing if Soludo will complete the airport as Obiano did, otherwise a lot of questions must be answered. Obiano knew airport construction was not a tea party so he went there every week with teams of invited people including traditional rulers, the clergy and even Burutai and showed videos proving he was serious about completing the project. Soludo has not shown any of that level of seriousness or transparency with his own audio airport project

It is very very clear that Soludo and his urchins want to use the airport as a smokescreen to loot. If work were indeed going on, he would have been sharing the pictures the way he did during the Awka to Ekwulobia road. But aside from showing caterpillars clearing a small piece of land that isn’t up to 100 meters squared, there is no picture of anything.

Making long speeches with very little achievement is Soludo’s style. If Soludo had completed all his key projects he started 4 years ago, like the Awka ICC hotel, then there would be no current fears that he also plans to abandon this airfield after purportedly squandering billions in it. Even the Enugu ICC hotel is already nearing completion, yet it started many months after Soludo’s Awka ICC hotel foundation piling was completed. Even the jinxed Presidential Hotel Enugu has since been completed. Unlike Soludo, Peter Mbah has a quiet discipline of focusing, giving less empty talks and completing his projects to show he has a strategic vision of where he is taking his state. Unlike Soludo’s trial and error style of starting one big talk about a project today, hype it to high heaven’s, and quietly abandoning it tomorrow. Then quickly jumps into another empty talk about something else.

Soludo’s style of talk talk talk with very little real achievement is very very worrisome. After a lot of talk, he quietly abandons the project and shifts to another one. When people raise concern about this lack of focus, he calls on jobless hoodlums like Chino to insult them. Well the jobless Chino knows from my history here that I neither respond to him nor change my opinion due to his insults. I am glad that Soludo has recently gone back to reconstructing main market after months that we feared he had abandoned that one too, after all the long talk talk talk and 3D pictures. We are fervently praying that the final structure of the Onitsha main market resembles the 3D drawings he boasted would be the new Onitsha main market.

All I can say is that if it is an airport in Aguata that Soludo thinks is the most strategic developmental project he could do, then he should do it and ensure it is at least of Obiano’s airport standard, with at least 3.5km runway to accommodate wide bodied cargo planes. If he abandons that project after spending state resources there as he abandoned the Anambra ICC 5-star hotel, my lawyers will personally submit an EFCC petition for a full investigation into this strange airport project, and proper punishment to be dished for wholesale financial indiscipline.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 10:55pm On Aug 02*

Beyond road construction, Governor Alex Otti continues to invest in strategic infrastructure projects aimed at transforming Abia State's economy and improving public services.

Following the completion of the Prof. Nnenna Oti Bus Terminal in Umuahia, work has commenced on a larger, world-class bus terminal in Aba. The administration is also pursuing the development of a seaport at Obuaku to facilitate the import and export of goods, enhance trade, and support businesses operating in Abia State.

Yet, Abia receives lower federal allocation than Anambra. Official FAAC allocation records for the first half of 2026 show that both Anambra and Imo received higher allocations than Abia.

The real difference in Abia's performance lies not only in the amount of revenue available but in how those resources are managed. Effective leadership, prudent financial management, and a strong commitment to transparency and accountability are essential for translating public funds into visible development projects.

I particularly feel disappointed in Soludo because I massively campaigned for him believing that he was a prudent person. So if he stubbornly wastes Anambra's resources in building 1 or 2 abandoned "airports", he should remember that after 17 March 2030, our people will use the Freedom of Information Act to demand for how much was wasted on those smokescreen projects used for looting.

The era when people stubbornly looted state resources and called it "by-gones" when they left office is over. If Soludo prefers to build 2 or even 3 more mushroom airstrips instead of helping Anambra to develop industrially and create good-paying jobs through building railway line to connect Onitsha, Awka, Nnewi, Ekwulobia and Aguleri, or building gas-power plants and refineries he should go ahead.

We shall also do what must be done to enthrone good and transparent leaders who treat the state's money the way they wouldn't waste their own personal money. Our Governors no longer view impeachment as an impossible outcome because we have instances where it happened in Nigeria. Similarly, that example of ensuring a former Southeast governor goes to jail for corruption and misappropriated public funds is a critical example for our democratic journey, that must happen for our people to also learn that a breach of trust in misappropriating public money entrusted unto them is indeed a punishable crime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yT8TUWpmWY

FAAC Allocation Data Sources:
1. Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (OAGF): https://oagf.gov.ng/publications/faac-report/

2. Federal Ministry of Finance – February 2026 FAAC Allocation: https://finance.gov.ng/fg-states-lgcs-share-n1-894-trillion-from-a-gross-total-of-n2-230-trillion-for-the-month-of-february-2026/

3. Federal Ministry of Information – March 2026 FAAC Allocation: https://fmino.gov.ng/fg-states-lgcs-share-n2-036-trillion-from-n2-364-trillion-march-2026-revenue/

4. Federal Ministry of Information – May 2026 FAAC Allocation: https://fmino.gov.ng/faac-shares-n2-300-trillion-may-2026-revenue-to-federal-state-and-local-governments/

5. Federal Ministry of Information – June 2026 FAAC Allocation: https://fmino.gov.ng/fg-states-and-local-governments-share-%E2%82%A62-551-trillion-as-june-2026-revenue/

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 5:41pm On Jul 30

Gbogboski:
Anambra state sits on a gas basin, which is the critical fuel for electricity generation. A power plant the size of Geometric Aba will have a steady source of gas to power it, which will be definitely,a game changer for for the massive industrialization if Anambra state.

If I were the governor of Anambra state,a 250 MW power plant will be by far more of a priority for me than a second airport. Especially now that electricity generation have been removed from the federal exclusive list.

If a professor of economics don't know that a power project is far more beneficial to Anambra state at this point in time than a so called dubious aerotropolise,we should seriously question his professorship.

Reputable Sources show that Soludo can very well afford to build a 250MW power plant and a 5,000 bpd refinery even without partnering with the private sector.

So why wouldn't he rather focus on these game-changing projects rather than waste money on what is no longer needed by ndigbo?

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 5:25pm On Jul 30

abuzz33:
Every critic is bitter, frustrated and not from Anambra abi?

Clap for yourself. Its almost end of month. You have earned your paycheck for your fake propaganda.

It is very clear that this project is intended primarily to facilitate the looting of public funds. Otherwise, why can't Governor Soludo upgrade the already completed and functional Chinua Achebe International Airport?

Apart from the airports in Lagos and Abuja, no airport in Nigeria currently meets the standards of a truly world-class airport. Anybody who has traveled to Europe, Asia or South America will attest to this fact. Recognizing that even Lagos and Abuja airports are still substandard compared to airports globally, the Federal Government has continued to invest in upgrading the Lagos and Abuja airport facilities rather than spending scarce resources on building additional mushroom airports in Abuja or Lagos.

Why, then, can't Governor Soludo upgrade Chinua Achebe International Airport to the same standard as even the airports in Lagos, Abuja, Port harcourt or Kano instead of constructing another mushroom airstrip that may never be completed? He has about 3+ years left in office.

For someone with Governor Soludo's academic credentials to pursue this course of action raises serious questions about the project's true motivation. It is difficult to understand this decision as anything other than one driven by personal greed.

For this reason, many concerned and well-meaning Anambrarians, including myself, have taken note of the following website:

https://efcc.gov.ng/

We shall carefully document and gather evidence of any public funds wasted on this project, particularly if it is eventually abandoned. Given the information already available, it should be possible to determine whether this expenditure was justified, especially when the existing Chinua Achebe International Airport that is under-performing due to lack of adequate facilities could have been upgraded for the benefit of the state with much less funds.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 1:29am On Jul 27

Eboofa:
I do not agree with you 100%.............I may not like Soludo and his politics at times but he won the election to govern Anambra twice........let us cut him some slack bikonu! You do not become Aworld bank consultant, Nigeria economic adviser and CBN governor by being foolish and ignorant!
There is something he has seen that has prompted his desire to build a second airport!

Soludo is far more strategic than we give him credit for! He is playing Nigerian and national politics with the same strategic thinking! As for the second airport ......its not all about the aerotopolis and Amic........there is another hidden reason for that airport! I will not reveal the reason but any student of strategy will know the reason without much mental effort!

Hint 1..........pick up a map and chart the location of the airport

Hint 2..........@dot in a circle !

Hint 3..........APC restructuring in Abuja

Hint 4..........current prevailing geo political tension between the world powers!

Soludo is thinking of the future.................he has said it and I agree with him 100000%

Governor Soludo’s long-term vision is tied to the muted proposed Etiti State, with Ekwulobia as its capital. The problem with that line of thinking is that Etiti State remains highly speculative and may never become a reality.

Among the various proposed new states in the Southeast, Etiti is generally not considered one of the leading proposals. Proposals such as Anioma, Adada, Orlu, and Orashi have typically attracted greater attention, with Etiti often mentioned after them to merely cut off a little bit of the current 5 Southeast states to make a new state.

However, basing a major state investment decision on the hope of a proposed state that may never be created is a very risky strategy. Rather than committing scarce public resources into such uncertain prospects, Soludo could prioritize projects with clear and immediate economic benefits, such as investments in power generation, refining, manufacturing, agro-processing, and other industries that would increase employment, strengthen the state’s economy, and expand Anambra’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR).

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 11:57pm On Jul 26*

OreMI22:

Governor Charles Soludo’s proposal to build a second airport in Anambra State deserves serious public scrutiny. With approximately three years and eight months remaining in his administration, the question is not whether Anambra needs development, but whether another airport is the most urgent and financially responsible priority for the state at this time.

The historical evidence from airport development across Nigeria raises important concerns about the feasibility of completing such a major project within the remaining lifespan of the current administration. Large airport projects, even in states with significantly larger revenues and financial capacity than Anambra, have often taken many years to complete.

For example, Delta State’s Asaba International Airport took about four years from commencement to opening, despite Delta being one of Nigeria’s wealthier states with significant oil-derived revenues. Bayelsa International Airport took approximately seven to eight years before reaching operational milestones. The Chinua Achebe International Airport in Anambra itself took several years from launch to commissioning. Even major federal airport projects such as the Lagos International Airport development and other national airport infrastructure projects have historically required many years of planning, adequate land acquisition, and compensation, project funding, and execution.

These examples demonstrate that airports are not simple projects that can be rushed through political timelines. They require extensive planning, land preparation, engineering studies, financing, regulatory approvals, construction, certification, and the attraction of airlines willing to operate commercially. Even when an airport is the government’s major infrastructure priority, completion within a single political term is not guaranteed.

This raises a fundamental question: why is Anambra pursuing a second airport when the existing Chinua Achebe International Airport has not yet reached its full commercial potential?

Governor Soludo’s administration has suggested that the proposed airport would serve the wider Southeast region. However, this argument requires closer examination. The Southeast already has multiple functional airports:

Imo State has the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport in Owerri.
Enugu State has the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, which serves as the region’s major international airport.
Abia State is developing an airport at Nsulu, located between Umuahia and Aba.
Ebonyi State has an airport in Abakaliki, although it continues to face challenges attracting regular airline operations.
Anambra has the Chinua Achebe International airport, Umueri

Given these existing and planned airports, the question becomes: what specific regional gap is this new Anambra airport solving that cannot be addressed by improving and expanding existing Chinua Achebe International airport?

A more difficult question must also be asked: does Anambra realistically have the financial strength and passenger demand required to build an airport that can compete with established facilities such as Asaba International Airport or even its own Chinua Achebe International Airport?

Airlines do not choose airports because of political announcements. They choose airports based on passenger demand, profitability, operational efficiency, infrastructure quality, and convenience. If a new airport cannot attract airlines away from existing airports, then taxpayers may be left funding another expensive infrastructure project with limited practical value.

There is also a painful historical precedent within Anambra itself. The state previously pursued an airport project at Oba, which was eventually abandoned and later became associated with severe environmental problems, including erosion challenges. This history should encourage caution. A government must not begin another ambitious airport project without a clear, sustainable plan for completion and operation.

The deeper concern is whether large infrastructure projects are being prioritized because they genuinely serve the public interest or because they create opportunities for political visibility, financial expenditure and even opportunity for treasury looting. Across Nigeria’s history, poorly planned “white elephant” projects have consumed public resources while providing limited benefits to citizens. Indeed, many are abandoned after massive resources have been wasted on them.

Public officials who misuse government resources must remember that accountability can extend beyond their time in office. Nigeria’s anti-corruption agencies, including the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have previously investigated and recovered assets linked to former public officials accused of corruption. The case of former Attorney General of the Federation Malami, whose assets were targeted in corruption recovery efforts, serves as a reminder that questionable government transactions can continue to face scrutiny long after administrations leave office.

Anambra deserves development, but development must be guided by evidence, economic reality, and long-term sustainability. Anambra deserves light railway systems linking the major cities, Modular refineries and use of its massive gas resources for a power generation to make the state self-sufficient in electricity and support massive industrialization. Before committing billions of naira to another airport project, the government should first maximize the potential of Chinua Achebe International Airport, invest in roads, healthcare, education, industrial development, and improve existing infrastructure that directly affects millions of citizens.

The central question is not whether Anambra can build another airport. The question is whether Anambra can afford to build another airport that may never achieve the economic justification required to sustain it. While so many critical projects that will boost industrialization of the state, support stable electricity in the state, improve IGR & good-paying job creation through modular refineries and light rail projects are overlooked due to "lack of funds".

A responsible government must not measure success by the number of projects started, but by the number of projects completed, utilized, and delivering measurable economic benefits to the people and the state.

You mentioned several legacy projects that Governor Soludo could undertake to leave a lasting impact on Anambra State.

Despite the criticisms of former Governor Willie Obiano, he increased the state’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) by ensuring that Anambra became an oil-producing state, enabling it to receive the 13% oil derivation fund. He also promoted agricultural development by supporting the production of Anambra Rice.

Similarly, former Governor Peter Obi invested in SABMiller, creating a long-term source of revenue for the state’s IGR. He also established a state university and a teaching hospital, while carrying out a comprehensive renovation of public schools across the state.

If Governor Soludo does not wish to continue the legacies of Peter Obi or Willie Obiano, why not pursue a transformative project of his own? He could follow the example of Governor Alex Otti by encouraging companies such as Nestoil or Seplat to partner with Orient Petroleum Resources Ltd. to complete the long-abandoned refinery project at Igbariam. He could also harness Anambra’s natural gas resources to build a gas-fired power plant, similar to the Geometric Power project in Aba. Even a modest gas-powered plant supplying electricity to the industrial hubs of Onitsha, Nnewi, and Awka would significantly improve power reliability, stimulate industrial growth, create jobs, and expand the state’s economy.

If Governor Soludo wants to leave behind a landmark project that will always be associated with his administration, completing the refinery or developing a power plant would be a far greater legacy than abandoning another major project or constructing another airport whose economic value remains uncertain.

The experience of Ebonyi State should also serve as a lesson. The resources spent on building Ebonyi airport could instead have been invested in expanding agro-processing industries and reviving the Nkaliki Poultry Farm, once regarded as one of Nigeria’s largest poultry farms. Revitalizing such industries could have created thousands of jobs, reduced poverty, strengthened food production, and generated sustainable increases in the state’s Internally Generated Revenue.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 11:21pm On Jul 26*

The same problem that has bedeviled development in Nigeria has become so intractable that unless wastage of public funds is severely punished, our politicians will continue to trap us in perpetual poverty and underdevelopment through wasteful expenditure.

Since independence, not a single hospital or university in Nigeria is of even South African standard because one government will start a university or general hospital, then the next government will abandon them and build their own equally substandard hospital without bothering to equip the already existing ones to basic standards. So we end up having multiple substandard facilities everywhere.

Why can’t Soludo focus on ensuring international cargo flights begin at the Chinua Achebe international airport by building standard cargo sheds and bringing in specialized heavy duty equipment and establishing a state agency to coordinate with Onitsha and Nnewi based importers to use chartered airfreight flights to cheaply bring cargo from China and Dubai even if it is a weekly freight flight? Many small African countries have such arrangements with Ethiopian airlines.

I think Soludo is likely looking for avenues to massively loot the state to build a war chest of funds for his presidential ambition after his tenure ends. Unfortunately for him, in Nigeria, when Igbo politicians steal, the full weight of the law will fall upon them.

One point about South Africans expelling Nigerians from their country is that they asked us to go back home and fight for your country. It is so accurate because we leave these politicians to waste our common resources that could be used to build good refineries, power plants and other good paying jobs at home using our God-given oil and other resources- to run to other countries to drag their own jobs and resources with them.

I have always been a Soludo supporter but I also know that he is frustratingly stubborn and always likes to prove a point even when he is clearly missing the point. So Soludo must be ready to forfeit all his Abuja and Isuofia properties as well as spend a long time in jail if he thinks he can merely waste resources and abandon some cleared bush paths somewhere and claim those were the billions of naira he spent on Anambra 2nd airfield. Personally I will ensure I submit multiple petitions to EFCC to investigate the veracity of claims made in reference of to this project if he abandoned it after claiming to spend billions of state funds on a clearly white elephant project

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 2:19pm On Jul 03

OreMI22:
I came across claims on social media that Governor Soludo is planning to build another airport in Anambra State. Can anyone with credible information confirm whether this is true or simply misinformation?

If there are indeed plans for another airport, I believe the proposal deserves careful public scrutiny.

Building an airport is far more than constructing a runway. Aviation infrastructure must meet stringent safety and regulatory standards, while attracting airline operators depends on commercial viability, passenger demand, and supporting infrastructure. Governments cannot compel private airlines to operate routes that are not economically sustainable.

Anambra already has the Chinua Achebe International Airport at Umueri, while Asaba International Airport is roughly one to two hours away by road for many parts of the state. Rather than building another airport in such close proximity, it may be more prudent to continue developing the existing airport into a fully competitive passenger and cargo hub with modern cargo terminals, maintenance facilities, logistics infrastructure, and better transport connections.

Major Nigerian commercial centres illustrate this approach. Lagos, Kano, Abuja, and Port Harcourt each rely primarily on one major international airport that has received continuous investment over the years, rather than building multiple airports within short driving distances of one another.

If the Anambra State Government has substantial resources available for infrastructure, there are arguably many higher-priority projects that could deliver broader economic benefits.

For example, Lagos has invested heavily in urban mass transit through the Lagos Rail Mass Transit system, including the Blue Line and Red Line, to reduce congestion and improve mobility. Addis Ababa transformed urban transportation by building the Addis Ababa Light Rail—the first modern light rail system in sub-Saharan Africa—which now serves hundreds of thousands of commuters. Abuja has also developed the Abuja Rail Mass Transit, connecting the city centre with the airport corridor and laying the foundation for future expansion. These examples demonstrate how strategic rail investments can stimulate economic growth, reduce traffic congestion, and improve the quality of urban life.

Anambra could similarly explore developing an urban rail or light rail network linking Awka, Onitsha, Nnewi, and neighbouring commercial centres. Such a system could significantly reduce road congestion while supporting commerce and industrial development.

Beyond rail transport, several other infrastructure priorities could have a transformative impact on the state's economy:

Dualize major highways and construct additional flyovers to eliminate traffic bottlenecks.
Develop independent power plants that utilize the state's natural gas resources to improve electricity supply for industries and households.
Encourage investment in modular refineries and downstream petroleum industries where commercially and environmentally viable.
Redevelop commercial districts by constructing modern shopping centres with adequate parking, sanitation, fire safety systems, and recreational facilities, reducing pressure on aging markets such as Onitsha Main Market.
Collaborate with neighbouring states and the Federal Government to improve rail connectivity between Onitsha, Enugu, and the Onne Port corridor, making it easier for imported goods to reach commercial markets.
Build modern intercity bus terminals in Awka, Onitsha, and Nnewi similar to those recently developed in cities such as Umuahia and Enugu.
Invest in world-class universities, teaching hospitals, research centres, and specialist medical facilities that can attract professionals and reduce medical tourism.
Upgrade Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University with modern laboratories, lecture halls, student accommodation, and research infrastructure.
Encourage private investment in internationally rated hotels, convention centres, and tourism infrastructure to support business travel and conferences.

Anambra remains one of Nigeria's most commercially vibrant states, but significant investments are still needed in transportation, healthcare, education, energy, urban planning, and industrial infrastructure.

For these reasons, if another airport is indeed being proposed, I believe the government should clearly explain the economic justification, projected passenger demand, financing model, expected return on investment, and how the project compares with other pressing infrastructure priorities. Transparent public engagement would help citizens understand why another airport should take precedence over projects that many may consider more urgent.

It shocked me that Soludo would indeed be so wasteful to plan another substandard so called “airport” without sustaining and improving the existing Chinua Achebe International Airport.

Nigerian governors come up with frivolous projects just to loot the treasury and this second airport story is purely for looting. Even in huge America cities whose GDP dwarfs the GDP of entire southern Nigerian have ONE airport that they have continued to improve. Cities such as Washington DC, San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Charlotte, Denver etc have been developing their airport into world class facilities. In South Africa, their major airports in Cape Town, Joberg, Bloemfontein, Limpopo, etc are continuously improved annually into world class facilities. It’s only in Nigeria that a capital intensive project such as an airport is left in its initial shoddy state while new and even shoddier airports are built.

Soludo should emulate Peter Mbah and Alex Otto who have been systematically improving their states through strategic development of infrastructure including modern bus terminals, and supporting the establishment of independent power plants to boost their economy.

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Politics › Re: FOREX: FG Gives 9 Month Grace To Those Keeping Dollars Outside Banking System by Cjrane2: 12:17pm On Nov 01, 2024

If giving orders and making empty threats could raise the value of a currency, the Russian Ruble would be the world’s strongest currency by now.

The truth is that this government needs to stop printing too much money and focus on building up manufacturing, agriculture, and bringing in foreign investment. Saying things like, "Bring your dollars to the bank now, or tomorrow we’ll stop trading them," is just silly and unhelpful.

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Politics › Re: Gowon Didn't Fight For Nigeria's Unity, He Fought For Oil - Omirhobo by Cjrane2: 7:46pm On Oct 22, 2024

gidgiddy:
Well known human rights Lawyer, activist and social commentator, Malcom Omirhobo, has taken to his X account to reveal his thoughts on Gowon as He turns 90. He said:

THE TRUE OBJECTIVE OF THE NIGERIAN CIVIL
WAR WAS NOT TO UNITE NIGERIA BUT THE
CRUDE OIL. BY CHIEF MALCOLM
EMOKINIOVO OMIRHOBO .

The true objective of the Nigerian Civil War was
not to unite Nigeria but to subjugate the Igbos
steal the crude oil under their control in the
then Eastern Region dominated by the lgbos
and put it in control of the North and pleasure of Britain

To hell with unity ! Are we united today 54 years
after fighting the Oil war called the Nigerian/
Biafra war ? The answer is NO, as you can see
we are at each others throat all the time.We are divided more than ever .

Gowon was a coward and clueless opportunist ,
after he and other Northern military men have
killed their lgbo colleagues in the barracks and
several lgbo civilians for no just cause across
the country, in fear, Gowon moved the Central
bank to the North and he and his co travellers
were set to flee to the North under the Code
Araba with which the North was ready to
secede

Guess what ? Britain our colonial master ,
called Gown back and asked him " you have all
loaf why settle for half " then Gowon started
talking about unity when in actual fact it was
the crude oil that was his objective. Today all
the Oil well in Nigeria are owned by the North
who do not have a single drop of crude oil, they
occupy all top and plum positions in NNPC
while the rest struggle for the crumb.

So true!

if Gowon truly wanted the unity of Nigeria and not OIL, he would have ensured that the victims of the violence were rehabilitated and integrated into Nigeria.
Instead what he did was to stigmatize the people and rolled out all sorts of decrees to ensure the Fulanis decided the fate of the Igbo.
All the decrees that have today been used by Fulani coupists to lord it over the people of Plateau and against the people of the middle belt in general. it is so sad how a potentially great Nigeria became such a mess.

Politics › Re: Osama Bin Laden’s Son, Omar Ordered To Leave France by Cjrane2: 6:42pm On Oct 08, 2024

You would think that someone like bin laden would keep his family in Afghanistan as he advised others.

One day, the children of African politicians that ruined their countries would also be sent back to their countries their fathers ruined.

Mind you, they will not be allowed to take their father's loot in the bank when they are deported.

Politics › Re: Final Showdown by Cjrane2: 5:13pm On Oct 04, 2024

Empiree:
The State of Palestine Shall Be Restored

Free Palestine

It has always been the wish of very evil men to 'depopulate" Jews. Each time, they always failed catastrophically.

While i don't totally agree with BB Netanyahu's approach, it must be clear that what Hamas did on October 7th, 2023, was wicked and foolish! No country in the world would have kept quiet, except perhaps Nigeria where foreign bandits kill our citizens and the government pretends, they didn't know.

The issue today in the Middle east isn't exactly about finding a solution for the Palestinian state, but the sworn declaration of the several Iran-backed terrorist groups that Israel must be destroyed. it is one thing to demand for the Palestinian state. Which a just and reasonable demand. it is another thing to demand for the destruction of Israel and take over the territory known as Israel today.

Whenever I hear people talking about destruction of Israel as their goal, it makes it so difficult to call on Israel to show restraint. Since it would amount to double standards not asking the extremists to show restraint in encouraging violence to destroy Israel but asking Israel to show restraint in defending itself.

Foreign Affairs › Re: South African Farmer Kills Two Women, Feeds Them To Pigs by Cjrane2: 9:37pm On Oct 03, 2024

Shomek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc4mSJQOF4w?si=8JFJWjf_OcLJspR9

Source: https://punchng.com/outrage-as-south-african-farmer-kills-two-women-feeds-them-to-pigs/?amp

The truth is that black South Africans are problematic. They have the worst inferiority complex when they see White people.

The worst part is that they have agreed that White people are superior to them and won't even bother if a white person abuses them. But their big problem is their fellow black Africans.

Nobody should take black South Africans seriously! If you fight Oyibo because of these black south Africans, they will continue to laugh at your crass stupidity forever. Let them stop the embarrassing inferiority complex with white people and stop luring Nigerians to come and fight oyibo for them.

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Politics › Re: Why Is Our Currency Weak?’ Tinubu’s Supporter, Igbokwe, Rants Again Amid Hardshi by Cjrane2: 3:53pm On Sep 30, 2024

So because of the price of rice, we finally have little sense in the head of these Ronu guys?
I am sure he will lament more when the daughter tells him the price of beans today. grin

May more sense will come to Joe and company even if it takes the prices of foodstuff for them to get some sense. grin

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Politics › Re: SA Is The Real African Giant by Cjrane2: 3:46pm On Sep 30, 2024

babasolution:
Looking at the picture of Gowon and BUHARI in London, you can easily tell all that is so wrong with Nigeria.It can be summarised as SLAVERY.

Two former rulers of Nigeria, both have ruled the longest ,both of them about 9 years.yet they can't spend a second in the country they ruled.They are permanently based in their slave MASTER country.These are old men that are like suckling babies,they can't live without whitemans sustenance. Pls in the name of God how can such a country be better or great.A country with babies as rulers, Just forget it,it's simply not happening.

Compare to SA,imagine their former president spending their retirement in Netherlands or Britain.

Nigeria should snap out of that notion that south Africa is white dependent. It's not true.

Nigeria is a million times more white dependent than SA.

Nigerias can't survive on earth without the whiteman, compare the japa rates of both countries.

Nigeria just no be am

Nigeria is just full of white dependent tribes thinking highly of themselves when in reality,they are nothing to write home about

Nigeria may be a shadow of itself, but the crime ridden South Africa is waaay worse than Nigeria.

Nigeria isn't even competing with South Africa, but South Africa competes with Nigeria. That tells you who is bigger grin

Without whitemen running the show in South Africa, the blacks there would make it waaay worse than Zimbabwe.

Politics › Re: Buhari’s Govt Didn't Stop At Nigerian Air Scam, They Sold Helicopters FG Bought by Cjrane2: 9:15pm On Jul 02, 2024

Please, I am urging Tinubu and the APC leaders to stop blaming Buhari and take meaningful action for Nigerians. We are aware that Buhari's tenure was problematic, but we expected that by now, Jagaban would be more focused on making positive changes rather than continuing to blame Buhari, whom he helped bring to power. This behavior mirrors how Buhari wasted eight years blaming Jonathan while overseeing unprecedented theft and corruption by government officials.

I am pleading with Jagaban to address the extremely high cost of food and stop shifting the blame to Buhari. It is unacceptable to expect people to simply ignore their hunger and the soaring cost of living because of constant finger-pointing. Nigerians need real solutions, not excuses.

Business › Re: Govt Must Act Fast To Stop Investors From Leaving In Droves — Dangote by Cjrane2: 9:13pm On Jul 02, 2024

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Politics › Re: Buhari’s Govt Didn't Stop At Nigerian Air Scam, They Sold Helicopters FG Bought by Cjrane2: 9:10pm On Jul 02, 2024

Politics › Re: Atiku In Unusual Sallah Homage, Visits Ex-president Buhari In Katsina Home by Cjrane2: 10:10pm On Jun 22, 2024

Richtaiwo:

Why not show us the picture of the "visit"? Instead of showing the 2009 Buhari and Atiku picture?

Everything na propaganda for APC.

Politics › Re: Binance: Federal Government Replies US Lawmakers On Tigran Gambaryan by Cjrane2: 10:05pm On Jun 22, 2024

Abeg, Wetin councern us?

Barack Obama misused American power to enthrone a known Jihadist called Buhari for whatever sinister reason behind the urge to destroy Nigeria's economic rise and emergence as a true middle income country in the world.

Buhari then enthroned Tinubu who said US citizens in Binance be thief. So wetin concern us with their quarrel?

Science/Technology › Re: Whale Butchered At Okpoama Seaside In Brass, Bayelsa (Pictures) by Cjrane2: 1:21pm On Jun 19, 2024

Justiceganduje:
Food

Ebilokan !

Politics › Re: Few Pics From Imo State by Cjrane2: 7:46pm On Jun 18, 2024

Nchenches:
Igbos need representation of Igbo in the SS zone. It's to the advantage of the Igbos in the SE to have a stake in the SS zone.
Engineer Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu from Owerri zone was not stupeed when he STRONGLY backed the proposal for creation of Njaba/Orlu state in 2006.
It's only minions who don't see the advantages for all in present Imo State.

Nobody is against a 6th State for the Southeast region. Nobody is even against your Orlu state from Orlu zone of Imo state. But you must learn to stop acting like you are smarter than everybody else in the world when indeed you are not. Orlu people always consider everyone else to be stupid except themselves! One thing the Owerri zone often complains about the Orlu people is that they are very sneaky, always trying to cheat, and always thinking that they are faster than their shadow.

So you truly want to put illustrious Igbo cities like Nnewi, Ozubulu, and Ihiala under Orlu but you wouldn't even consult them or offer any of them the capital of the new state as something in the whole deal for them? You just want to use them to achieve your dubious Orlu state and then maltreat them later inside the so-called "Orlu" state where they will always be reminded that they are Ndi-Ijekebe?

Watch the video of the Federal Representative from Nnewi and Ozubulu blasting the sneaky promoters of "Orlu" state for trying to include Nnewi and other major towns in Anambra under Orlu without even consulting them!

Start Watching video from 4.00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXnbfGqUZ-k

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 7:11pm On Jun 18, 2024

ChimaAdeoye:
Bia, this man,

I've heard that Governor Hope Uzodinma and other promoters of "Orlu State" have deceitfully included my hometown and many other Anambra towns and communities into their plan without consulting us. For clarity, I am not against the creation of your Orlu State from the Orlu zone of Imo State. However, they must not include other people who would later be discriminated against for not being from the "Orlu zone" once their dubious state is established.

How can you expect to annex us into your dubious state without consulting us and we gain absolutely NOTHING? The capital of the state isn't in Okija, Ihiala, or Ukpor, the name of the state is your hometown (Orlu) and most constituency representation and zones will be owned by Orlu people. So why are you forcefully annexing our lands into your dubious state agenda when we won't even get the state capital territory or anything at all from it?

It's outrageous and evil for Hope Uzodinma and his associates to plot the secret annexation of large parts of Anambra State—towns like Ihiala, Uga, Amaeshi, Umuchu, Achina, Oneh, Nkpologwu, Uli, Akpo, Azia, Umunze, Ihembosi, Okija, Lilu, and communities in Nnewi South LGA including Ukpor, Ebenator, Ezinifite, Unubi, and Ekwulumili—into their fiefdom of "Orlu State" without our consent.

They should create your Orlu State with your Orlu people! Trying to secretly annex us and other Anambra communities into your fiefdom only to later marginalize us as "non-Orlu zone people" is a plan doomed to fail. We are Anambra people and NOT interested in your "Orlu State". Please promote your Orlu State for your Orlu and Owerri people!

Enuf said!

One thing the Owerri zone often complains about the Orlu people is that they are very sneaky, always trying to cheat, and always thinking that they are faster than their shadow. You perfectly captured how Anambra people feel about Gov. Hope Uzodinma and the Orlu people's attempt to include Nnewi and other Anambra towns under Orlu peoples' control. Nobody is against their Orlu state, but if you must include other people's territory, then you have to give them something they don't currently have. Such as making Nnewi or Ihiala the capital of the new state. How can the name of the state be Orlu, all the major constituencies belong to Orlu people and even the state capital city will be in Orlu! Yet you add Nnewi and others as your subjects in the silly plot without even telling them what you are planning for them?

Watch the video of the Federal Representative from Nnewi and Ozubulu blasting the sneaky promoters of "Orlu" state for trying to include Nnewi and other major towns in Anambra under Orlu without even consulting them!

Start Watching video from 4.00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXnbfGqUZ-k

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 12:55pm On May 15, 2024

GerogeI:
Nice discussion.
Are you guys aware that Emzor is planning to sink some 28 million USD somewhere in Ogun state, tomorrow she will start a media campaign to involve the rest of us when the usual perfect a sophisticated reason to either take it from her or destroy it.

Governor Soludo should please call that woman and give her free land and a serious advice.

Nothing to advise anyone. They are usually blind to reason and arrogantly believe that everyone else in the world is very stupid except them. Let them do as they please with their money. They look at profit-margin alone, and NOTHING else matters to them.

Just like you said, when the inevitable fate of what happened to her grandfathers and other silly Igbomen starts happening to her, she should just quietly bear the loss rather than do silly media campaigns to drag us into coming to defend their senseless decisions.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 12:40pm On May 15, 2024

Unbiased1:
I repeat my previous stance. Forget about Akwa Ibom and focus on Igbo land. If Akwa Ibom wants to build a seaport, that's their business.
Johannesburg is the city with largest economy in Africa but it is landlocked. Igbo land currently does not have a seaport but it is possible to build one in Abia in the future, all we need is money to fund the project. Let our people start looking inwards. If one gaint company builds its headquarter in Onitsha, a 15 or 18-floor structure, other big businesses will start thinking about doing same. All it takes it one person to start. Look at what is happening in Nnewi. Its indigenes are always proud to invest at home. If landmark builds one resort in Oguta and turns Oguta to a major tourism hub, someone like Obi Jackson will move to turn Okija to tourism hub, other business men will also start doing similar things in their respective communities. You can look up "Sun city resort" near Johannesburg. Sun City generates far more money than Landmark in Lagos. Thousands of tourists visit South Africa every year just to enjoy themselves in Sun City. Guess what? Sun City does not have a coast line or beach yet it attracts people from all over the world. So you see, forget about Lagos, Akwa Ibom, Port Harcourt and Calabar, Ndigbo have invested in other parts of Nigeria enough, it's time to think home and home alone.

You are so correct that I wish i could buy you a bottle of Hero! Yes, Igbo people are always drawn to trending things.

So if the first person who is popular in the community (typically the wealthiest in the village) makes a mistake in investing in Sambisa forest, his entire Umunna and state will follow him to Sambisa forest to do EXACTLY the same trend. Sadly, we have had near idiots as trendsetters in Igboland who did the wrong things and kickstarted a crazy trend of going to drag other peoples land to develop it for them rather than their own Igboland. We must also give kudos to the trend setters in towns like Nnewi and Abriba that kickstarted the trend of building mansions in their villages. A good trend that Igbo people have keyed into.

In fact, the ONLY reason our cities look the way they do is that our 'trend setters" have always gone into other people's villages in Daura to drag their land and develop it for them by force. Thus, the average Igboman would rather just follow a trend than pause to think if it makes sense or not before copying. That is why we have a people with the mindset that prefers to go into a village in Cameroon to drag their land with the people rather than invest in their own state capital.

However, if by some stroke of luck, somebody of importance does the right thing and invests in the type of infrastructure you mentioned, then it would become a positive trend that will catapult the entire region's development.

Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 12:22pm On May 15, 2024

ebufa:
It is left for the government to do the needful by building world class cities and "forming" the huge corporation you are talking about? I am not sure which Igbo economist that worked as a world bank consultant in southeast Asia ( idika kalu or Soludo?) Anyway I am sure Soludo knows about Chaebol corporation like Daewoo and LG and Samsung ,companies that were essentially conceived and birthed by government..........What I am saying is that we business men are like sheep left to graze blindly in the bush...it is left for Soludo to point the way forward! He has the yam and he also has the knife!

The work that man has on his hands is daunting........he is still building gutters and roads , nobody remembers his automobile and pharmaceutical production hubs.................Soludo needs a lot of help to hurry things along but I am not sure he has done enuff to galvanise that much needed help in terms of investment and human capital! Why will Soludo allow Stella okoli to carry the new Emzor factory to otta Ogun state? Give it to Peter Obi sha for getting SAB miller to invest.........though he had some leg with the company prior to him becoming Governor!
Its not all bad but a lot of work needs to be done!

What you said made a lot of sense.

The only thing is that you made it sound so simple. If the truth is told, this is the FIRST time in Anambra's history that any attempt has been made by the government to organize Onitsha. I lived in Onitsha all my life, so I know for a fact that the government simply abandoned the city to touts, crazy landlords building on top of gutters, crazy land speculators converting every open space into markets, and the uncontrolled influx of poor youths from all over Nigeria. All these factors combined into a perfect storm that turned Onitsha into a hell hole, a dirty, disorganized, and crime-ridden city. All of us quickly left Onitsha and migrated to Asaba where the presence of governance made it possible for the city to be a lawful habitable place.

You are right that Soludo has a lot of work to do. But at least he has started developing the state with a strategic vision. Most importantly he is keenly aware of the horrible impact of lawlessness, touting and indiscriminate building of illegal markets in stunting the development of a city and indeed the state.

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Politics › Re: Update on developments in Anambra state-photos by Cjrane2: 10:04pm On May 14, 2024

ChimaAdeoye:
Nwanne,

God bless you! God bless Igbo people like you who still reason and are not copycats "follow the bandwagon mentality" like most of our people today.

The generation of Igbos immediately after Nigeria's independence in 1960s thought exactly like the generation of Igbos today. Everything in their own region is undesirable and the only thing they'd like to do is either go up north to drag northern jobs with them or go to Port Harcourt and Lagos to build palatial mansions with absolutely NOTHING in their hometown and places of origin. Then Nigeria happened to them and their properties in the north and other places were either destroyed or confiscated.

After the painful civil war in the 1970s, there emerged a generation of wise Igbo people. Who understood that charity begins at home. Just imagine for a minute if our leaders in the 1970s after the civil war reasoned like this present generation and also abandoned Igboland because the Federal Government and other Nigerians called Igboland "Rebel Territory" Just imagine if there would have been Imo airport, all the industries in Aba, Onitsha and Nnewi. Imagine if we would have secondary schools and universities that enabled most people in this forum now to read and write.

Just imagine what Igboland would have been if the Igbos themselves copied the attitude of the Federal Government and other Nigerians to refuse investing in their own region! That is why i believe that any generation that refused to learn from their history are bound to repeat the same mistakes and suffer the painful consequences of their folly.

Again, i have come to understand that some people must suffer bitter lessons to learn. That is why a feel no pity for the Landmark guy and other Igbos like him dragging other peoples land, while their own remains undeveloped.

You totally nailed it. Today's Igboman is precisely like the immediate post-independence Igboman. Over-confident and unwise.

Who were careless and tactless about everything. The didn't care how others felt when they went into their villages and bought up vast lands for agriculture or housing. As long as they blindly pursued "Profits" and it was profitable to buy their "cheap" lands and build on it. They don't have a care in the world if one tells them about caution and what could be in a country like Nigeria. Like Ojukwu's father who used his Limousine to carry Queen of England free on behalf of Nigeria, you have Air Peace using his planes today to fly Prince harry and Megan around Nigeria for free.

You should expect that unless they retrace their steps very soon, the same deep feelings of jealousy would cause them to face the same backlash as the Igbos in the early 1960s did. Who carried "One Nigeria" for head while others are just laughing at their utter stupidity.

The Landmark thing and what sanwo-Olu is doing in Lagos is just testing the water. Like in the 1960s when they gradually revealed their real plan, their real plan today is also gradually being hatched and it will be manifesting clearly soon for those doubting Thomases to cry like the Igbos of the 1960s that lost everything due to sheer stupidity and over-confidence. Nothing mega as they would stupidly say when everything mega. Just that its kept away from them to maximize the impact. I have also grown tired of crying for them. Anyone who deliberately goes into a pit full of venomous snakes should not be mourned if he is killed by snake bite.

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Politics › Re: Taiwan To FG: Attract Home Your Talents Abroad by Cjrane2: 9:28pm On May 14, 2024

Lol.... somebody finally told them the secret to success!

Let them keep junketting the globe asking oyibo to come and invest in such a country without rule of law and where a soldier can open fire on you, yet nothing happens! Let them keep lying to oyibos until it is clear to them that oyibos ain't fools.

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