₦airaland Forum

abuzz33:
The solution to Igbo resurgence is to build world class cities that have strong service and industrial bases. There are three core cities in igboland. Enugu, Onitsha and Aba. None is inspiring. Go past the space shipped Secretariat building Sullivan built and it's already wearing a forlorn look. Onitsha with it's majestic Niger Bridges and wide expressway then you enter the city and primitive trading everywhere.

The greatness of cities is accumulation of capital both physical and human. Not one Igbo city can boast up to 10 corporations with over 50m in revenue. Not one Igbo city can boast three 10 storey buildings or iconic architecture. This is what happens when you don't have scale and rely on emigration as a strategy.

Soludo understands the importance of cities as an organizational force. Primitivity has to be weeded out. Organized public transport not Keke, organized business districts not out of control street trading. Big businesses form in organized settings not chaos.

I think Igbos finally have decent governors who understand that Igboland cannot continue to be a filthy space where governance barely exists.

If you carefully examine the reconstruction of Aba and Onitsha taking place now, you will see a true desire to do away with the culture of chaos, filth, general lawlessness brought about by street trading, Agberos and lawless traffic.

Strict law enforcement and ensuring that criminals do not get away with these little offenses by paying a huge fine is what makes other societies in Europe lawful and habitable. Even when the towns are poor.

Dede1:
Anthony Enahoro had a choice but chose to play stupidity as indicated in the post. When he was confronted in Washington, DC with the same speeches while he was on exile and seemingly a member of NEDECO or whatever it was called or known, the old man wept and begged every Igbo son in the hall at Howard University to forgive him.

I went up to him right in his ugly face and told him I shall take my grudge against him to my grave. The moronic halfwit was the first exponent of starvation as a weapon of war.

Hindsight is 20-20.

Enahoro and even Gowon have finally seen the light. Imagine Gowon refusing to speak Hausa as his final token of asserting his rebellion to his masters! Wonders shall never end!

“Worrisome ’, yet you are printing so much money and calling it “ways and means “

Yeye hypocrisy!

ebufa:
you are the one yapping rubbish! I spent 10 years in Onitsha and nnewi and the level of lawlessness was quite challenging! Soludo is trying but he has a lot of work to do to clean out the stables of dung! I call it franchised criminality,this is the reason why criminals find their way to political power easily in the southeast,,,,,,,,we know the past of billionaires like ifeanyi uba( a returnee fugitive from Dr Congo) is it Governor Uzodimma and his 419 past.........or is it Patrick Mbah of Enugu ( who is owing CBN) ....................money is not everything abeg!

I knew that mentioning the previous lawlessness and rampant criminality called Agberos will hurt my people’s sensibilities. But to solve a problem it must be accurately diagnosed and shamelessly pronounced. That was my goal to underscore that Soludo accurately understood that apart from infrastructure and environmental cleanliness, addressing the menace of agberos was key to building a habitable homeland and attracting our people of high quality living elsewhere to consider investing at home.

ChimaAdeoye:
An Igbo proverb wisely states, "Those who fetch ants-infested firewood should expect a feast of lizards." These Igbo people investing their life's work in troubled parts of Nigeria with heavy anti-Igbo sentiments believe they are wiser than everyone else pointing these things out.

It's important to urge our fellow brothers and sisters to remember their roots, but they must also understand that actions have consequences. Personally, I've grown tired of pleading with our people to change their mindset. They seem solely focused on maximizing profits without considering the risks, diversifying their ventures, or contributing to their home state's development. Let them continue on this path, but they must be prepared to face the consequences of their actions. Like the owner of the Landmark Beach Resort now facing repercussions of ignoring warnings of caution and pursuing unchecked greed which ultimately leads to inevitable losses. Today, he has suddenly remembered that he is Igbo with NOTHING to show anywhere in Igboland for his stupendous wealth.

Yet, it's still crucial to continue reminding them to seize opportunities available in Igboland to invest and diversify wisely. Life isn't just about profit and loss. Chinese businessmen once chose to invest in China over Japan, understanding the importance of developing their homeland. Similarly, Igbo individuals fixated solely on profit margins should recognize the pitfalls of blind greed.

I believe that part of the reason why our people run away from the southeast as a place meant for uneducated, lawless people was the way the previous governors turned a blind eye to the slumming of our cities. Especially in Anambra and Abia states.

That is why Soludo’s efforts to regenerate our cities, and tackle lawlessness must be applauded.

We had indeed lost so much due to the hitherto lawlessness, criminality mildly referred to as “touting” and indiscriminate building of markets all over the place.

Thank you to Anambra First Son TV for shedding light on these long-standing issues within our community. Personally, I've grown weary of pleading with our people to change their ways. Let them persist in their folly, but they must also accept the consequences that may arise from their greed and shortsightedness in the future.

Recently, I've been troubled by individuals who are overly distraught about the proposed demolition of the Landmark mall in Lagos? My question to them is simple: how can one expect to be an Igbo person and own the largest mall in another community without considering the feelings and perspectives of the ancestral owners of that land? Are we really that daft to see everything strictly from the lens of profit and loss considerations?

Those who make such miscalculations must be prepared to bear the losses themselves when things inevitably go awry. Those who live in a rainforest but fail to have a fall-back plan in case it rains should be prepared to become drenched when it inevitably rains. It is a proverb and advice for those who fail to reason while living in a tribalist and divided country such as Nigeria.

However, it's important to remind these individuals that they have a home state that they've neglected in pursuit of their ambitions to dominate others in foreign territories. They only seem to remember their roots when the consequences of their actions catch up to them. That's all I have to say on the matter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1t_nDMlxtI&pp=ygUnVGVuIHRvcCBpbmR1c3RyaWVzIG93bmVkIGJ5IG5kaSBhbmFtYnJh

I have been looking for who to ponder this issue with me.

I’m so uncomfortable with Peter Obi’s policy of focusing on only the northern poor people to provide them with water. In my own hometown of Aboh, we don’t have boreholes and would gladly love to get water courtesy of Peter Obi’s benevolence.

The idea that if one could only be a “nationalist” if one prioritized and solved only the problems of the northern poor. Both northern or southern Presidents except perhaps Tinubu prioritized northern Nigeria to their profound miscalculation and folly. Goodluck Johnathan tried the same strategy and also failed woefully like Zik before him. Peter Obi must understand that Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in Zungeru in northern Nigeria. He spoke Hausa better than he spoke Igbo. He prioritized the welfare of northern Nigerians and willingly gave the Prime Ministerial position to the north and took a ceremonial President role. After all that, it didn’t make any northerner not to see Zik as Igbo and still supported even the least competent northerner instead of Zik.

Someone should point out to Peter Obi that many communities in Ekwusigo,Ogboji, Achina, Umunze, Ogbunka also have severe challenges with portable water and would be happy to benefit from his boreholes benevolence. Not to mention some communities in Opi, Ede-Oballa, Ehamufu, Ezzamgbo, Okpanku, in northern Igboland where portable water has been a challenge for more than 60 years. These people are frustrated that they are neither remembered by the FG nor our own Peter Obi. Instead it is the same northerners favoured in every Federal government project in the Nigeria that again are the benefactors of every good thing offered by even non-northerners like Peter Obi! Please we should stop taking the southern communities for granted!

Meanwhile it is clear that Peter Obi won the 2023 presidential elections. Till date, the tallied votes on Rivers State IREV portal shows Peter Obi won in Rivers State. Yet his mandate was stolen by INEC and given to those who the Godfathers of Nigeria wanted. What guarantee is there that in 2027, even if Peter Obi wins by a bigger landslide than in 2023, INEC would not do the same thing and the Supreme Court of Injustice would cement the heist.

What I expected was a concerted effort to ensure that INEC only conducted elections but cannot declare winners because that role is outside their legal role as an election umpire.

nobaga:
No African currency has appreciated or depreciated as fast as Naira.

When the Government means business and clamp down on their cronies and distractors equally, Naira appreciates. Imagine, just by enforcing existing laws and regulations.

Politicians and their cronies have nothing else or productive investment at home to do with Naira. So they keep it and upload it whenever they feel like.

Get serious, American dollars is not our currency. Ban most transactions from the Central Bank to the Bureau du Change like we had in the 80s.

What do they buy with dollars? Junk, used goods, luxurious cars and humongous houses abroad while paying taxes on them to fund schools, police and essential services abroad.

You know the problem. Temporary Crack downs will not solve it. Step on the toes of those who command allocation into their pockets.

Officials of this government that are just printing naira anyhow and using their printed naira to buy the cheap dollars in the market deserve Nigerian army punishment

If the IMTOs keep changing #1,098 naira to $1 dollar for Nigerians, it will force many to seek alternative ways of sending money. Which will drastically reduce the dollars access to CBN.

I hope the CBN forces the IMTOs to give Nigerians a fair exchange rate to keep alternative competitors from offering very good rates to Nigerians as it happened in the past.

Birdbyrde440:
Last week it was trading at N1100/$, this morning it was trading at N1370/$, this evening it is trading at N1240/$.
Even small countries like Ghana don't experience such volatility and I'm beginning to think that truly there are forces in high places orchestrating this volatility because both official and black market rates keep moving up and down, A big nation like Nigeria is not supposed be going through this kind of volatility.
Let CBN open up the previously closed card channels so that people can buy usd and other cryptocurrencies with their cards, put the necessary cap on the amount that can be purchased per day and at the official rate of #1100 instead of using p2p channels whose price is determined by the platform in which trading occurs. Why is this too hard to do?

I think Tinubu should just devote at least $50 billion dollars to defend the naira and keep its value at about #1200 to #1500 to the dollar for at least 4 years.

The off and on defense of the naira makes it to fluctuate wildly and thus lose confidence of investors.

Only God knows the truth.

If this is a true recovery then the new rate will persist at least until December.

If the CBN is using scarce foreign exchange to defend the naira and hide their incompetence, then let us see HOW LONG we can defend naira with scarce foreign exchange.

In a few months, the truth will be known to everyone.

LOVEALAIGBO:
Good points! I think the likes of Air Peace and INNOSON should go public and sell say 30 to 40 percent shares of their coys while still maintaining majority control. The money raised can be reinvested into the business!

They still need A LOT of consolidation and capacity building before selling shares. Else that would be putting the cart before the horse.

Buying or leasing the plane is typically the last leg of starting a new route. You have to build internal staff capacity, secure pilots, ground crews and other logistics required to go into the new airport or country. Getting powerful Nigerians and politicians now as Air Peace major investors with their usual demands of who you must hire or fire, could end up being the death blow that created another Nigeria Airways for the airline.

Chikeluba25:
Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines Celebrates Air Peace's Landmark Inaugural Flight to London

... Says United Nigeria Airlines Is Next

Air Peace will be making history with its inaugural flight from Lagos, Nigeria, to Gatwick, London, signaling a momentous leap forward for the Nigerian aviation industry. The significance of this milestone will be highlighted by the presence of the Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, Professor Obiora Okonkwo, OFR, who will be aboard the flight to show support and solidarity for his brother, Barr. Allen Onyema, the visionary behind Air Peace.

In a statement reflecting the spirit of unity and triumph, the Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines declared, "Today is our day of victory, our success, our Airpeace inaugural flight to London. London, here I come on board Airpeace. Congratulations to us. To God be the glory."

The launch of the Lagos-Gatwick route not only enhances connectivity between Nigeria and the United Kingdom but also sets the stage for the Nigerian aviation industry. This momentous occasion symbolizes Nigeria's growing presence in the global aviation arena and signals a promising future for the nation's aviation industry.

As Air Peace blazes a trail to Gatwick, London, it paves the way for other Nigerian airlines to follow suit, fostering economic growth, job creation, and international partnerships. The success of this inaugural flight is a testament to the vision and determination of Nigerian aviation leaders, propelling the industry towards new heights of excellence and opportunity.

With Air Peace's inaugural flight to London, United Nigeria Airlines is next to hit the international routes.

The business relationship between Chief Allen Onyema of Air Peace and Professor Obiora Okonkwo, OFR, of United Nigeria Airlines has remained the trending topic across platforms, with many expressing admiration for their partnership and support for each other. Both have continued to redefine friendly competition and put into practice the popular Igbo maxim, "Onye aghana Nwanne ya".

Congratulations to Air Peace, United Nigeria Airlines Is Next.

Air Peace should make it possible for its passengers to schedule international flights to begin and end at their local airport just like many American airlines. This will be a great step forward in easing the stress of traveling for Nigerians. If Air Peace will first put you on a local flight to Lagos airport where you will then join the international flight to your destination, air travel in Nigeria would be at par with what is done abroad.

if Air Peace reduces the stress of international trips for Nigerians by ensuring that they can book one ticket that encompasses their local flight and international flight beginning from their local airport, that convenience alone will win so many Nigerian travelers to use Air Peace no matter the plots hatched by the powerful foreign airlines against Nigerians.

I was in Onitsha yesterday and I can tell you that Soludo is gradually transforming that city to become the pride of Igbo nation. You cannot imagine how fegge and federal housing areas look now.

Incidentally I asked the man that I was buying a pumping machine from his shop along PH road, if he was so happy about the progress . As soon as he started praising Soludo, the touts standing there bitterly argued that they preferred the old order when they freely attacked people and extorted money from them! Which was now difficult under Soludo. I argued with them that it was because of good roads and absence of touts that I dared to travel from Asaba to Onitsha to buy a good pumping machine. But they argued even more vehemently against the improvements and progress brought by Soludo! The owner of the store looked on but remained quiet. Apparently scared of the touts. At that point I realized that some entrenched dark forces were indeed saddened by the progress in Anambra state because it denied them the cover to commit crimes. It is important to also note that most of these touts were criminals from other Southeastern states that flocked into Onitsha to help make the lives of the city residents a living hell.

Bobloco:
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/south-south-regional/678710-updated-nigerian-military-denies-responsibility-for-retaliatory-attack-on-delta-community.html

Unknown soldiers....na dem do am ~in Fela's voice.....

When are we going to have a professional army?

Afenifere is 100% correct!

No Yoruba should join the northern elites plot to launch their Anti-Tinubu protests under the smokescreen of “hardship protests”!

The same Fulani elites maintained criminal silence for 8 years as Buhari mismanaged and looted the Nigerian economy. Now they have suddenly found their voices to call for anti-Tinubu protests and veiled threats of military coup because the current President is not their kinsman! Manipulation and deceit at its highest!

It is clear now to everyone that the double standards of citizenship rights in Nigeria is behind the entitlement mindset of the Fulani elites that Buhari can destroy the economy of Nigeria for 8 years and nobody will be called to protest or destabilize his government. But if a Yoruba man or any non-Fulani does not perform miracles in 6 months, northerners will be called to hit the streets and chase them out of power.

What a sick mindset! Especially when the current problems were caused by a Fulani President !

Iamanoited:
THE PROTEST IS HOOLIGANISM.

The biggest question is WHY protest against Tinubu who inherited a wrecked economy from Buhari.

Yet the same Hausa/Fulani elders who are now pushing for protests against Tinubu just after 8 months in office kept criminally silent for 8 years as their son looted and pillaged the Nigerian economy.

Tinubu may be a corrupt politician, but it is very unfair for the same northern elders who kept silent and watched Buhari wreck and loot Nigeria’s economy for 8 years, only to now turn around and blame Tinubu for Nigeria’s economic woes just after only 8 months in office.

None of the northern leaders even mention Buhari at all in their criticisms! For them, all the loans and looting under Buhari never happened. It is Tinubu that depleted the foreign reserves and took all the massive foreign debts that we now use 98% of our revenue to service the interests on the loans.

I am glad that Igbos have already declared that they are not joining any silly protests against Tinubu. No right thinking Yoruba should join in this manipulation of northern elders to destabilize Tinubu. The same people that won’t even give Tinubu a year before calling for military intervention gave their own son Buhari 8 years to loot the economy and recklessly print 30 trillion naira that has contributed in making the currency worthless.

Nigeria does not deserve a good leader or an incorruptible leader.

Nigeria deserves to have greedy corrupt men to continue stealing and making the country poorer through siphoning all our foreign currency into their personal bank accounts abroad and continue printing useless naira notes internally . While distracting the people by telling them about tribes and religious bigotry as their only contribution to society.

Dem go dey pose….
Dem go denge denge dem go dey pose.

Abeg wake me when cement price reach 20k for one bag. Na who need house dey buy cement

Jcoleworld911:
All that guy do is to criticize Soludo projects, ndi Anambra have stop watching his videos

He’s so bitter, the last time on his YouTube video someone praised Soludo project and he deleted that comment and ndi Anambra bounced on him

We told him that we will praise Soludo when he did well and we will also criticize him when he didn’t do so well, the park he has been criticizing is private own and yet not complete, let him wait till they complete the project before running around with his nonsense

Soludo is really trying in Anambra state, so many projects are ongoing. Endeavor to watch other YouTubers based in Anambra and see/hear their honest opinion about Anambra

If you judge base on yangalife tv, you will always make mistakes because he’s somehow bias.

Explore other platforms too, good morning umu Anambra, May Chi bless your day

GBAM!

I always used to ask myself why he was not making videos of the heaps of trash and muddy roads all over Onitsha, Nnewi etc when Obiano was ruling. Were those roads good and trash free then? Only for the roads to become bad as soon as Soludo became governor? After all the yanga boy lived in Asaba and traded in Onitsha! So he definitely saw all those places everyday while Obiano and even Obi were there. Did he not know that scarcity of resources and the difficulty involved in demolishing shanties were the primary reasons why many governors simply ignored urban renewal?

Yet now that Soludo started urban renewal after more than 50 years of abandoning these cities infrastructure, he is in a hurry to have the place transformed into Abuja overnight! He never gives credit for anything, all his silly videos are about how to blame Soludo for open defecation and other atrocities committed by touts in Onitsha.

Part of the reason I started supporting Chino is that it is no longer hidden that people from some of these neighboring southeast states actually wish Anambra the worst. The amazing thing is that most of them were born in Anambra and speak Anambra dialect of Igbo language. Yet they still hate the place! Unlike when you see Anambra kids born in Aba, they are fiercely pro-Abia! Even when their parents state of origin in Anambra. I have tried hard to understand this phenomenon without success. Why do many of them despise the state of their birth even though you would never know their parents are not from Anambra if they didn’t tell you.

Abufo:
I do not want to come off as being pessimistic but there is something amiss in this Soludo administration, I am yet to put my finger on it but I am still not feeling his administration style. I feel that his zeal to take Anambra to greater heights may have been tempered by lack of funds....i do not see nor feel his passion to make a sustainable difference! Just look at what a library looks like in a state governed by a professor!


Now watch the state of Onitsha commercial district courtesy of Yangalife tv.........I dunno! I am not happy at all!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weijPffAOpE

I just knew silly punks will try to blame Soludo for the state of Onitsha library.

FYI, this library has not been rehabilitated in more than 40 years! There have been several governors that spent 8 years in that time frame and did Nothing! If it was not that Soludo has demonstrated his desire to upgrade Anambra state, nobody would be appealing to him to paint a library because you know it would not happen.

Stop your silly blame game. Nigeria is BROKE! Yet Soludo finds money to somehow continue modernizing Anambra. As for the silly Chinedu behind your yanga channel, his only contribution is to film the state and just continue trying to blame government for the sorry attitude of people. Even getting people to stop trading on the streets and trashing the environment is such a difficult and politically dangerous move by Soludo. Since you will need to enforce it. Which could make one unpopular trying to do the right thing. That is exactly the reason why successive Anambra governors did not bother themselves with trying to create a decent state. They knew it was politically dangerous and would rather leave Onitsha, Awka and Nnewi in squalor than risk their political future.

Soludo must be appreciated for the difficult steps he is taking to transform Anambra and make it one of the decent place one can live within Nigeria again.

ChimaAdeoye:
Please Repaint abd Equip the Anambra State Library, Onitsha Division!

I am moved to make this public appeal to Anambra State government under the able leadership of Prof. Charles Soludo (Charlie Nwa Mgbafor) on the sorry condition of the state library, Onitsha division.

As someone who studied for his SSCE, Jamb, Second MBBS medical examination, and finally my United States Medical Licensing Examination in this building, I cannot overstate its importance to the promotion of educational excellence in Anambra state. I am sure that thousands of professionals INCLUDING Prof. Charles Soludo himself must have studied at one point or another in this library building.

Biko nu, let this building be repainted and upgraded with computers, internet, and new desks so that the upcoming generation will have at least a serene place to study for their exams the way we did in our time.

Anyone with Soludo's contact should send him this appeal so that this iconic library will be re-painted and upgraded to continue supporting educational excellence as it previously did.

Even with the current inflation, repainting this building should not cost more than 7 to 10 million. But it would be so much worth it for such an iconic building.
What has been going through my mind is why all the previous governors neglected this building? Yet they mindlessly dashed jeeps to all sorts of people and traditional rulers.

Anambra associations abroad should link this library to sister libraries abroad which can donate books to them to keep it well stocked with modern books.

This video summarized everything about the impact of street trading and the lack of good waste management.

We must address the issue of street trading and proper waste management that complicates the street trading phenomenon. Even new roads are already covered with sand and pure water sachets? Before the rains begin, they will fill the new drainage channels with refuse to guarantee that the drainage channels will not work. This street trading menace and refuse disposal onto the streets and gutters have to be addressed before we can have a decent environment.


Video Credit to Yanga Life Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3tZw5pwym0

Kepukepu:
Anambra1stSonTV with another moniker 😂
What a shame.

One hopes that this isn't kepukepu TV. Otherwise, one is truly shocked why a potentially progressive-minded person praising the good governance of Dr. Alex Otti would suddenly do the opposite in Anambra! That has got to be impossible unless the dude is an animal without any sense whatsoever to realize that just as good governance in Abia and the development of Aba positively improves the business climate and the standard of living in the eastern region, the same is true about the indirect impact of good governance in Anambra or the development of Onitsha to the wider region. How difficult is that to see except if you are dealing with wild animals?

How difficult is it for some of these touts to realize that the businesses in Onitsha and Aba are mainly owned by Igbo people from all over and not just by Onitsha or Ngwa people? The same people troop like refugees into Lagos due to its conducive business environment and good infrastructure to do business. Then they shout when their businesses are destroyed in Lagos or the north because they are targeted as people from the eastern region who are not welcome in those Nigerian regions. Yet the same people oppose the creation of an enabling environment in their own region if it is not their state. Yet, the same people will be wasting their time shouting "Biafra"! Biko, you and WHO will be in that sort of "Biafra" where you don't even wish them well while suffering together in Nigeria?

Tufiakwa! God forbid me and such people being in the same country again! If Nigeria must break up, I don't want to share the same country or anything at all with such people who are truly almost animals in reasoning.

Gov. Alex Otti and Gov. Charles Soludo are actually performing extremely well. The fight in NL notwithstanding.
The people we should focus on what they are doing are Pter Mbah, Francis Nwifure and Hope Ozodingba.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzIuksYexCE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyMn-2apKM4

Umueme:
Quality of drainage along ph road

Wow, GOD BLESS GOV. ALEX OTTI!

I wonder where he got all the funds for the massive transformations going on in Aba and Umuahia!