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humblenature:

WHEN SARS AND ARMY WAS DISTURBING IN SOUTHEAST AND SOUTHSOUTH, YORUBA WERE LAUGHING AND SAYING IT CAN NEVER HAPPEN IN LAGOS BUT WHEN SARS HAVE REMEMBERED THEM NOW, THEY ARE WRITTING ABOUT IT AND CRYING FOUL BEGGING EVERYBODY TO JOIN IN THE TREND.. I HAVE ALWAYS SAID THAT YORUBA ONLY COMPLAIN WHEN IT AFFECTS THEM.. . AFTER THEY WILL BE CRYING #ENDSARS AND FORCING EVERYBODY TO JOIN . .
IF THIS TRAVAILS OF INNOSON WAS HAPPENING TO THEIR KIN , THEY WILL BE ALLOVER SOCIAL MEDIA TAGGING AND HASH TAGGING. NOW THEY ARE SILENT. THIS IS EXACTLY THEIR CHARACTER. . WE ARE WATCHING

ChimaAgbalajob:
I thank God there are Igbos who still reason.
it is so hard to articulate these things and telling ourselves the hard truth often does not go down well with many. Yet, we must find a way to articulate it and speak the hard truths to ourselves.

To begin with, I have no idea why Igbos think Lagos is superior to the SE. I can understand the huge economic advantages of Lagos and Abuja has excellent infrastructure and decent environment like Enugu, but i cannot fathom the fixation on Lagos.
Port harcourt to Aba axis has the same potential of Lagos to Ogun axis, so why aren't our people fixated in Port-Harcourt - Aba axis? It has same international airport, seaport and huge manufacturing in Aba. Oil industry in port Harcourt, so why not agitate to let more airlines ply the PH axis and reduce the risk and serious controversy generated by heavy dependence of southeasterners on Lagos?
You need to see where some of our people live in Lagos. I think the same think each time i see Nigerians in Libya and wonder what will make a Nigerian choose such a place. The way some of our people think because they live in Lagos is exactly like someone in Libya feeling superior to someone in Aba, Asaba or Abakaliki. For what? When they are being sold for pennies, sodomized and live in camps like animals in that Libya.In like manner, I tire for our people and their warped mentality about Lagos.

Most of our people are thoughtless noise makers. They will be shouting...
1. Build 2nd Niger Bridge
2. build Onitsha seaport
3. Give us international airport. blah blah blah...

Meanwhile, they would rather use airport in Lagos,Kano or Abuja than the one in their own region EVEN WHEN THEY ARE PAYING MORE! Even when you build the so called seaport, they still won't use it and they will spread rumor that it is local or used by local people or something. Although we will be quick to deny it, there is severe inferiority complex which we have to deal with to begin appreciating our own things and stop feeling anything in Lagos is superior to anything in Enugu, Onitsha or Aba. Many igbos simply cannot see beyond today. Everything is all about now , now, now and no thoughts about how to make sure his children and community are gainfully employed in their region instead of always being economic refugee to other regions to be exploited, killed and dispossessed.

Now the northerners are quietly using all sorts of strategies to get Kaduna airport to operate as international. They first used the excuse of closing Abuja airport for repairs to funnel federal funds into upgrading Kaduna airport. Then they started combining international flights coming into Kano to also land in Kaduna to pick up 10 passengers, yet nobody is complaining that it is killing local airlines. If you advise combination of flights for 2 southern airports, the fake theorists of it killing local airlines will be writing national headlines of it for one full year. But nobody sees what is going on between Kano and Kaduna airports now.

Most Igbos are just dumb hardworkers. They work so hard like donkeys to make money, while others use some sleazy way to quietly dispossess them of their wealth and prevent them from building a viable economy in their land. Imagine if most of these construction in Enugu patronize Ibeto as the northerners would definitely do. They will enable Ibeto and compete, as well as employing some of their cousins who would have attempted to cross the desert into Libya in search of work.

The same goes for INNOSON where Nigerian regime has used all sorts of subterfuge like denial of forex, taxation, extortion from security agencies to keep the company from truly taking off. Meanwhile all sorts of illegal government concessions are granted to Dangote, even when they don't need it. The problem with the Igbo is lack of strategic thinking. The average igbo is concerned about gathering enough for the next meal and providing for his family that he simply cannot think how what he spends his money on could mean a better future for his children and community.

I remember when Nigerians gleefully ate Thailand rice and then turned around to travel to Thailand and become maids, street sweepers or sex objects after spending Nigeria's wealth to Thailand through importation of rice which is produced in Abakaliki. I also remember when they ate foreign chicken and turkey saying if you ate Nigerian chicken, you were eating okuko igbo. Now folks have realized that if you spend on anything you can produce, you are helping to create insecurity, unemployment and poverty in Nigeria. It is the same principle in supporting Made in Aba or other industries based in the southeast.

Strategic economic thinking is simply to figure out how to spend your money in a way that it ultimately benefits you or benefits businesses that you will ultimately benefit from their survival.

BabaRamota1980:
Of course, the towns are stone throw from each other. I can walk through and cover entire SE on foot in 24hrs.

eaglechild:
Is this why they closed the airport at the busiest time of the year
For 5 men in reflective jackets to rake asphalt unto the runway.

It thought they wanted to do a more comprehensive overhaul.
What a shame.

Ever8054:
video of the attack pls....iam waiting....

Abagworo:
I have just finished my new house in Owerri. I already planned moving my family out of Port Harcourt because of insecurity. My businesses are mostly in Port Harcourt now but in less than 10 years I will move all to Igboland and sell off my properties in Rivers State.

NgeneUkwenu:
Gob Bless Jonathan!

Ikengawo:
PLease, I live in the US. Avoid building government ordered suburbs, they always become ghettos and it's a concept that city planners are regretting.

The government will never match our people's capacity to build. People will build their own suburbs and estates, you only need to open the land up. Not everything done in the west works. PLus the suburb you posted is ugly

uglyafonja:
Who are this consultant

Who own all this money

The refund no da finish

This Nigerian govt is really a complete fraud

Abagworo:
You are not informed. New Owerri was created by Ndubuisi Kanu who equally commenced constrhction of 2 roads later completed by Mbakwe and then Concorde Hotel. Achike Udenwa boosted it with the construction of Area H Nekede housing and Akanchawa road while Ohakim added Yar'adua drive on the other side linking Onitsha road and linked Concorde road to 40-40 roundabout. Much of what you see today were done by Okorocha and there has been more build up under him because he opened up so many roads within New Owerri and 4 inland roads to link it with the old part. So the credit of planning belongs to Ndubuisi Kanu while all past and present governors contributed in implementation.

Can you believe this photo was taken in 2012 at 40-40 roundabout?

Day169:
Noo joke bro! You seem to know them all too well .
243 billion is almost a billion dollars on it's own.
If our suspicion is anything to go by of these thieving statesmen, why not just channel a chunk of it to fight the (technically defeated) insurgents?
This culture of waste and gluttony is what has kept us permanently underdeveloped!
..and one governor will tgen allow his sidechick to disappear with some millions of this slush!
SMH!!

BiafraIShere:
Have you been to new Owerri to see the large green spaces provided? I believe you saw that picture someone snapped from Concord hotel balcony, is the background any different from the pictures of abroad you showed? I've been to Enugu on several occasions, and if there is any city in dire need of greenery then it's Enugu because of its lateritic soils that is not appealing and always churns out dust. Even Abuja does not have more greens than new Owerri except maybe Maitama area. You're becoming a little too critical about Owerri, you don't except the trees that were planted to grow that same instant.

realjoker:
The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) distributed N609.95 billion to Federal, States and Local Governments as revenue generated in November.
This is N77.25 billion more than what it shared in October, Ahmed Idris, the Accountant-General of the Federation said.
Mr. Idris said that after the cost of collection deductions by FIRS, Customs and DPR, the Federal Government received N248.2 billion, representing 52.68 per cent; the states got N125.9 billion, representing 26.72 per cent and the 774 local councils received N97.06 billion, amounting to 20.60 per cent.
According to Mr. Idris, oil producing states got N54.48 billion, which represents the derivation share of 13 per cent.
He said the country generated N356.07 billion as mineral revenue and N193.46 billion as non-mineral revenue in November, both showing improvements over the earnings in October.
Mineral revenue increased by N38.78 billion, while non-oil mineral revenue also jumped by N68.65 billion.
Mr. Idris said oil revenue continues to be negatively impacted by low production due to poor maintenance, sabotage and the Force Majeure declared at Bonny Terminal.
He said the balance in the Excess Crude Account (ECA) as at Dec. 15 remained $2.317 billion. He also put the balance in the Excess Petroleum Profit Tax account, at $133 million.
Mr. Idris said the Federation Account has received instruction from the National Economic Council that $1 billion be removed from ECA to fight Boko Haram.
“The instruction has been given. But there is a process before money is taken out of an account. So unless that withdrawal is made, the balance remains the same.
“On what the money will be used for, the appropriate institution will have to give you that, namely the military, who are the ones that will utilise the money, and they know their needs,” he said.
On why the money is being taken from the ECA, Mr. Idris said everyone should know that it is a savings account and ordinarily should have been distributed to the three tiers of government.
“So if the same owners decide that part of it should be utilised to secure the country, to secure the system, to make the system work and provide security for life and property, I don’t think it should be an issue.
“If the Governor of Ekiti has a problem with that, he should have made his position known to his forum, which is the Governor’s Forum.
“His dissension should not come to me on the pages of newspapers. He is entitled to whatever, but it should be directed to the appropriate place,” he said.
Meanwhile, Mahmoud Yunusa, the Chairman, Commissioners of Finance Forum, said the distribution was timely, as it would enable states and local councils to pay workers ahead of Christmas. (NAN)

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/252670-faac-fg-states-lgs-share-n609-95-billion-november-revenue.html
Lalasticlala

BiafraIShere:
Majority of Igbo rich men and women abandoned the SE for Lagos, Abuja and P.Harcourt because no where was befitting enough for them to reside but with what is happening in Owerri now courtesy of Rochas, I foresee many of them relocating to Owerri for good. Calabar, P Harcourt and Enugu have been overtaking while Owerri now has its sights on Abuja and would soon be running neck and neck with the FCT!!

RemedyLab:
More money to share

biacan:
Obiano will make a better prisedent.......but his Kinsmen won't support him smh

lovere:
Always available to come and masturbate on any igbo issues. Why choose the busiest time of the year to make the repairs? The timing is suspicious and riddled with ulterior motives.

lazygal:
Rilwayne I don't like how you are talking over there .have you been to the north ?why not visit first before talking .yes we lack the media to show case what we have but isn't it also the job of federal government to show case each and every one of the. States in Nigeria ?
Why not ask a lot of Yoruba's that have visited the north about the north and why a lot of them have refused to leave ?
That aside am trully happy for you over the admission and pray you get first class.Also be careful you know you are handsome ( if that pic on profile is you) devils come in form of women.


By the way. That comment in northerners not been seen on am is a joke ...please don't say that outside ..you sound tribalistic.

nedu666:
cry cry baby, always on lgbo matter, lgbo chance me, collect my business, collect my gf, eye my mama, collobi my sista, torment me, cry cry baby

profmiganigal:
The minister of information has said that there has been no single bomb explosion since the All Progressives Congress took over power.


Lai Mohammed accused the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of rebranding itself with stolen arms money

- The minister said the PDP never understood the need for adequate security in a country



The minister of information, culture and tourism, Lai Mohammed has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is re-branding itself with stolen arms money.


Mohammed speaking in an interview with Vanguard said the PDP under the President Goodluck Jonathan's administration distributed $269 million cash and N100 billion which was supposed to be money meant to fight
Boko Haram terrorists.

Mohammed reacting to PDP's allegation that the $1 billion recently approved for the fight against terrorism is for the 2019 general election said the party does not know when to keep quiet.


He said: "The sad thing about PDP is that they do not know when not to talk. If they were smart they would know when not to talk." “If not for their rapacious corruption Boko Haram would not have metamorphosed into the monster that it became before we came in. If only they had approached governance with honesty transparency, and
sense of purpose Boko Haram would not have raged between 2009 and 2015, it was their inept handling of Boko Haram and their corruption that put us in this mess," Mohammed said. “They seem not to understand that the biggest challenge to any government and the primary responsibility of any government is law and order and security. It is because of the fact that we have been able to
contain Boko Haram that they were able to hold their national convention in Abuja.

“During their time they were not able to celebrate the National Day openly. Under their watch, Boko Haram not only occupied 27 local governments in Borno State, but was also active in almost ten states.

Not that alone, they used to stroll to the federal capital, and three times they went to bomb the United Nations, the Police headquarters and under their watch, the Thisday newspaper was bombed and under their watch, about 200 Chibok girls were abducted," Mohammed added.



The minister also said that since the All progressives Congress (APC) came into power there has been no single bomb explosion in the Federal Capital Territory.
"And that is not a mean feat! It is because they don’t understand what security means, they don’t even understand what terrorism means,” he said. “It does not lie in the mouth of the PDP to even criticise the government,
and it was their corruption that led us to where we are today.

They are spending the same money which they stole, and they are using the money to rebrand themselves, they have no moral justification whatsoever,” the minister fumed yesterday," Mohammed noted.





https://www.naija.ng/1140959-pdp-rebranding-stolen-arms-money-lai-mohammed-fumes.html