IPOB is a most useless organization. If you knew you would cancel it when you see heavy military and police presence, why did you make the threat in the first instance??
IPOB will gradually be chased back to Imo and Abia states where they started. Mark my words!
Some Top-notch facilities! Runway center lights completed! Only Lagos, Abuja and Anambra intl. airport runways have Runway Center Lights and Runway Edge Lights!!
OreMI22: It's a nice vlog with lots of inaccurate and obsolete information that was not updated. Like Eboh Media's excellent vlog on the airport which also had the same obsolete information.
The airport project was not financed by the Chinese in any sort of partnership. Yes, the airport was initially planned and launched in 2017 as a $2 Billion dollars airport-city project on Build-Operate-Manage-and-Transfer with Chinese external partners (Sino-King Enterprises Ltd). That arrangement was later reneged upon by the Chinese Consortium in 2019. Following the pullout of the Chinese company, Gov. Obiano who already committed to the project instructed a phased approach towards delivery of the project BASED ON THE STATE'S FINANCIAL CAPACITY.
In January 2020, Gov. Obiano quietly broke grounds at the site and re-launched the new plan to build the airport in phases based on the state's revenue financing ability. The first phase to allow daylight flights landing was completed within 15 months and tested on April 30, 2021.
Gov. Obiano has continued the phased development of the airport installing ILS CAT 2 System, airfield landing, runway lighting, CAT 9 Airport Firestation, internal access roads around the airport, total perimeter fencing, approach main highway, gatehouse, terminal building, parking lots, powerhouse, self-sustaining water treatment plant, etc. These are to allow the safe and seamless operation of international flights from the airport as it begins to serve the public.
The Cargo storage sheds are being planned, with aviation fuel tank farms, as well as parallel taxiways to the end of the runway etc. Thus, in 2022, about N10 billion will be spent on the strategic development of the airport even as it continues to operate. Thus, the information that the airport alone (as is) already costs $2 billion Dollars makes such journalists sound very mischievous or misinformed. Once the total projected cost of $2 billion dollars is mentioned to sound as though it was the cost of the airport so far, without mentioning that was this was the total projected cost in 2017 was for everything (i.e; airport & airport city & International convention center & airport hotels) that the Chinese partners were expected to invest, make the information sound deliberately mischievous. Since we all know that N5.6 billion was budgeted in 2020 budget and N6 billion in 2021. So, nobody has claimed that $2 Billion dollars have already been invested into the airport. The plan is to gradually and strategically continue the investment of up to $2 billion dollars over a period of years based on the state's financial capacity. Why can't they report the later statement which is accurate than the former which suggests that the airport already costs $2 billion dollars?
We know $2 billion dollars is a little over N1 trillion naira. We also know that the entire Anambra's ACTUAL budget performance since 2010 is less than N900 Billion naira! So even if Anambra did not pay any salaries, or build roads/schools, or anything else since 2010, it would still be unable to afford a whopping N1 trillion naira to invest in this airport project alone for a whole 11 years! Not to mention that this project was only discussed with the Chinese in Obiano's second term in 2017 and actual construction started in January 2020! Which makes that claim by opposition agents of $2 billion already spent even more ludicrous!
What shocks them is that Gov. Obiano turned what would have been his greatest failure when the Chinese company suddenly pulled out, into his greatest achievement! Personally, I'm still shocked at the very high-quality international airport he delivered! How did he do it?? Where did he get the money??
One must hail Obiano as a man with steel nerves to dare to build this state-of-the-art airport even in 2020 after the Chinese disappointed him! Knowing that he would have less than 2 years to complete it, many ordinary people would feel defeated and not dare to start the project or would just build a small aerodrome and call it a day. His can-do attitude is truly legendary to dare to build this with state funds alone and refused to cut corners to build a substandard third-world airport!
It is exactly the type of tenacity you see among legendary football players who may be 4 goals down in the second half of a match, yet they fight on fiercely and still end up winning the match that would have been their greatest defeat! That is exactly what Obiano did with this airport.
I am glad that Prof. Chukwuma Charles Soludo (The SOLUTION) will likely take over from Obiano and utilize this airport to successfully implement Anambra's Vision 2070.
Wow! The check-in counters have carousels behind them for those who want to check-in their luggage. i hope they also have the weighing scale so that folks can easily weigh their luggage.
I am simply blown away by how much international standard they have imbibed in this airport. Everything is built to global best practices found at international airports abroad!
jamjo: He never said that what he said was satellite universities in 21 LGA there is a difference, that is campuses. I'm from Imo state I wish Maduka will turn to an Imolite to rescue my dead state.
There are lots of Madukas who are Imo indigenes. Folks need to encourage them to come to save Imo state. Maduka is good, but compared to Soludo, he suddenly looks like a charlatan with money! I don't know why Imo governors specialize in bring their worst citizens to be governors and sin-ators. The same thing has continuously happened in Abia state for nearly 19 years now. Making the once leading state in the southeast to be undoubtedly the worst!
PROUDIGBO: This reminds me....they’re yet to pick a name for the airport!
The Governor shouldn’t be tempted to name it after himself...that appears too conceited. Either choose a outstanding son of the state like Prof Chinua Achebe, or leave it for the next incoming Governor, who could even name it after him if he so wishes!
The International Convention Center or other edifices can be named after Prof. Achebe. The airport's current name "Anambra International Passenger & Cargo Airport (ANIPCA), Umueri" is good enough. Of course, if it's eventually named "Chief Willie Obiano International Passenger & Cargo Airport (WOIPC), Umueri" it is still a deserving "thank you" to the man that labored hard and sacrificed so much to build it.
Many airports in Nigeria have been so named after the governors that built them. Just as Akwa Ibom named Uyo Intl. Airport = Obong Victor Attah Intl. airport, Katsina airport was named Umaru Yar'Adua Airport, Imo Airport was named = Sam Mbakwe International Airport, etc.
In all these instances where an airport was named after its builder, none of these governors completed the airport to the extent that flights could land there. They only started the airport project! Obiano started and completed this Anambra international airport project. So if its eventually named after him to say Thank YOU for your hardwork & determination in giving Anambra a befitting intl. airport, it is very well deserved.
Nwanyiogwashi: This is not news ,we the people of ogwashi ukwu kingdom in Delta north are Igbo
GBAM!
I frequently get very angry when Igbos in Rivers State try to act as though their identity crisis issue is as severe as Anioma people. No! We, the Anioma people know WE ARE IGBOS! Of course some communities at the fringes of Ika land such as Agbor have some Bini kingdom influences. But they know who they truly are.
Anioma people paid the single biggest price of anti-Igbo genocide in Asaba during the Biafran war. Despite the fact that Asaba was not even included in Biafran territory! Anioma's sons were some of the finest and fiercest Biafran army warriors.
Again, those who want to deny their identity are free to do so. However, even the Fulani man from far away Daura isn't fooled by your denials. They know EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE! Remember when Buhari was asked why he didn't include Igbos in his cabinet and he asked "what tribe is Godwin Emefiele from?" I am sure that Godwin Emefiele himself will say he isn't Igbo. Yet, his Oga that appointed him knew very well he had appointed an Igboman as his CBN governor!
In many Anioma families, the issue today is how to retrace and integrate with our kith & kin. I rarely see Anioma people today who deny their ancestry and tribe. From Pat Utomi to Asagba of Asaba to Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and too many others! I only see that existing today among some "Rivers" Igbos. Perhaps their manipulation by Ijaws and fear of them could be responsible.
Nigerian security agents are just attacking people to blame it on ipob. The ipob themselves are too dumb to realize the plot against them and distance themselves from it.
I guess in the end it really doesn't matter as too much water has only crossed the bridge. Tbis house has already fallen..
Ogbuefi2020: Its not envy, I am a geotechnical engineer
The reason i hate some of you calling yourselves the real Igbos and why i totally reject the notion of an independent Biafra is because you guys are too short sighted for even a goat.
Your region has been denied a standard international airport. Something that every other region in Nigeria has. You have been told to build it because the FG does not have resources to build a truly international standard airport in your region . Since they know that the cost will scare any state government from attempting it. They know that if none of your airports achieve true international standard, no American or European airline can ever serve any airport in your region.
Yet u see your people here being so shortsighted in seeing this airport as an Anambra thing instead of rejoicing that soon there will be an airport in your region that can attract international airlines from Asia., Europe and America . The jobs that this airport will create will be filled by every Nigerian including Yoruba, Tiv, Fulani, Hausa, Igala or Efik. Not to mention Enugu and Imo. Today, the Asaba airport taxi services are dominated by Yoruba and Ibibio people. Go and check it and verify.
Orient petroleum should better begin their modular refinery now. Else SEEPCO or some dubious company operating oil wells in Anambra will realize they have a higher profit margin if they build a modular refinery and pipe their Aviation fuel to the airport for sales.
What marvel's me is how they have insisted on the very best quality equipment and global practices! I am shocked that they are indeed installing the runway center lights! It is an extra cost that most people who are addicted to shoddy jobs would easily do without. But, Obiano does not like to cut corners! Anything he does, he wants it to be the same standard that you would find in civilized countries where public safety is placed above cutting corners in everything.
When Obiano said in 2020 that Anambra had money for this project to be executed at the highest international standards of a true international airport, i doubted him.
Now i know that he meant every word. To install these top notch navigational equipment is expensive and rare in even international airports of most African countries.
I salute the vision of Obiano in not cutting corners at all in this project. Anambra , south-east and even the Igala nation will totally benefit from a truly safe international airport in their doorstep.
Kudos for this excellent execution and service to humanity.
Techvillz: (Video) American Man Reveals How he Was Paid to Dress as Nigerian and Protest That Buhari Government is Good
News and developments like this are what makes many Nigerians wish that they're not Nigerians, as funny as it might sound, it is clear now that the failed regime of rtd Gen Buhari as succumbed to the level of paying poverty stricken Americans to protest Placard for them.
The funny part of this whole situation that these blacks (African American) and even some whites where paid tens of thousands of dollars just to wear a white shirt with green inscriptions carrying a placard with out of context inscriptions written on them without having any single idea of what they're protesting about.
When approached by our news agents, some denied our humble request to have them speak on the camera, while the one person that agreed to talk to one of our correspondence said openly that he has no idea why they're protesting, or what they're protesting for.
gordonbarrett: You won't see those people that were hailing him earlier. That is what pure ignorance can cause. That one is an engineer doesn't make one an expert in every field of construction. That is a pure white elephant project, even if it becomes completed. Someone just said he is only asking for help to equip the airport, as if that is not the main component of airport construction. I don't know Obiano and he doesn't know me either, but the man is a pure genius. Economics of scale was on point.
I just pity other airports around when ours is completed. All man to your tent!!!
I remember once on Njenje Media TV where one person raised the concern about an oversized, mega-sized Ebonyi airport and the concern that it may end up being abandoned for planning such a massive project without any real means to fund it. Mazi Ezeoke tongue-lashed the guy and said he agreed with Umahi to build something outlandishly mighty than the modest airport being built by Anambra and preventing media teams from visiting it. It turned out that Anambra airport indeed had a much longer runway and tower made entirely of concrete when media people were allowed there.
I think Umahi is a politician that just loves to be in the limelight by fronting super-mega projects. Even without planning how he would get the funds to complete them. Well, perhaps he knew all along that he would beg the FG at some point to complete the airport as his funding strategy to complete it. I never quite understood why Abakaliki needed the largest airport terminal in Nigeria. It never made any sense to me.
Since you have data to argue pointlessly, why don't you just use it to research answers to your question?
Auto landing, a function of autopilot is a feature in ALL modern planes to utilize ILS Categories 2 or 3 in an airport to safely land the plane in the touchdown zone of the runway without any input from the pilot. The visual orientation of the correct glide path by the pilot using the PAPI lights is what ILS CAT2 OR 3 will automatically orient the plane computers in the correct glide path to the touchdown zone without any input from the pilot in auto landing procedures.
In fact most pilots love to use the auto landing feature of the ILS CAT 2 OR CAT 3 airports in good, daylight weather because it helps them to test the calibration of the system and be sure it guides the plane computers to the safe touchdown zone of the runway. Incase they have to use auto landing feature of their plane in that airport in very bad weather with poor visibility.
Just google how ILS CATEGORIES 2 and 3 work and what are PAPI lights and get the information yourself on how the ILS systems work for both visual landing by the pilot or auto landing by plane computers using the ILS guidance .
If these landing lights were enforced in all airports, the plane that crashed in Emene in 1983 killing Onoh's daughters due to pilot not seeing the runway in bad weather and not having any electronic guidiance to the location of the runway would never have happened.
That is why Obiano is such a great leader because he hates to cut corners. Others would readily build this airport and cleverly omit to spend money on landing lights and ILS systems. Since nobody would even notice until a plane crashed due to bad weather and absence of instrument landing systems to assist the pilot in safely locating and landing on the runway
That's why there have been appeals to Nigerians and Igbos to enroll in aviation schools and not only reading engineering in local universities.
Hopefully the aviation school by Air Peace will attract more people instead of going to Ethiopia to learn civil aviation .
If i were younger, i would have enrolled in a school to become a certified civil aviation pilot . The pay us much better and tge chances of employment are much higher
pandax: Thank you for admitting that ICC is grossly over budget and behind schedule. Thank you for admitting that IDC is incompetent. I never mentioned that IDC is the contractor for ICC, but whomever they are, they are not better than IDC
As for Esther Obiakor Avenue and the greater Demonstration and Mmiri monkey axis, they formed my play ground growing up and i presently have a house there. You showed us cosmetics of the road on the commissioning day. Some areas around Esther Obiakor had water ingress issues or waterlogging issues and any road constructed without these 5 standard of road course, namely subgrade, sub- base, base course, binder course and wearing course, will fail in at most 1 year.
I am a chartered Engineer, quality road construction ended with Ngige. St Joseph Awka Etiti to Ihiala is still standing 10 years after Ngige, ditto Nnobi-Nkpor Road. Most of Obi and Obiano roads have failed because they used incompetent contractors.
Wing Commander Emmanuel Ukaegbu constructed Ifite Road at the cost of 158m in mid 90s and that road is still standing till date. Obi and Obiano had in 2000s extended the road from somewhere around former commissioners quarters to Amansea through Unizik back gate on at least 2 occasions and it has failed again. Ring road has failed, okpuno roads failed. Tell me any road that has not failed in Awka?
My brother, i am not even in opposition, but i want to see Awka with good quality road networks im particular and Anambra in general. I tell same to Obiano. He seems to have changed, albeit, very late
Please @ do not go the gutter method, as i hold you in high esteeem,except if you have MAD (Multiple Account Disorder) issues as well
With love from me
You have claimed so many professions here that i don't know what to think anymore. But i know for sure you ain't an engineer. As one, i know you have zero clue about engineering from most of your utterances and analysis.
RobbStark: Another online miscreant. Just tell me when you guys are coming to claim the lands you said are yours. Long grammar. Where did you copy it from.
Nobody needs to claim a polluted creek.
My plea is that you stay there and stop making spurious claims on Nigerian Kingdoms that were there before you migrated from the seashore of Sierra Leone.
globemoney01: Calm down. Let the airport begin local flights first before we start discussing international.
There is more than enough space in the arrival section of the airport to build a customs & Immigration booth. In the picture, I don't know if those are toilets. But customs and Immigration booths can be built along the wall so that when international passengers collect their luggage from the carousel, they will clear customs and immigration and be out of the airport.
ANSMEDIA: Five northern states, two south-western states, two south-south states, and one south-eastern state collected a total of N373.84bn of the N836.51bn Value Added Tax allocation available for states in 14 months.
This is according to the latest FAAC allocation data available from the National Bureau of Statistics for the months of January 2020 through to February 2021.
In the period under review, the thirty-six states of the federation and the Federal Government shared N1.09tn as VAT revenue from the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee.
The top 10 states were: Lagos (N153.94bn), Kano (N32.48bn), Oyo (N29.85bn), Rivers (N28.43bn), Kaduna (N24.75bn), Katsina (N22.72bn), Delta (N20.91bn), Bauchi (N20.49bn), Anambra (N20.14bn), and Jigawa (N20.13bn).
Lagos got the largest share of VAT revenue in the period under review (N153.94bn), while Nasarawa got the least allocation of N15.36bn.
Based on the regions, the South-West region received the highest VAT allocation (N256.21bn), followed by the North-West (N154.41bn), South-South (N119.88bn), North-East (107.43bn), North-Central (N106.58bn). The South-East received the least from the VAT allocations (N91.99bn).
The bottom 10 states were Nasarawa (N15.36bn), Bayelsa (N15.79bn), Taraba (N16.23bn), Gombe (N16.33bn), Kwara (N16.35bn), Ekiti (N16.46bn), Yobe (N16.90bn), Abia (N17.03bn), Ebonyi (N17.04bn), and Cross River (N17.17bn).
According to Investopedia, VAT is a consumption tax that is levied on a product repeatedly at every point of sale at which value has been added. In Nigeria, VAT is collected by the Federal Inland Revenue Service and shared by the Federal Government.
According to data from the NBS, VAT has a non-import VAT local, non-import VAT for foreign, and Nigerian Customs Service Import VAT components.
In 2020, N1.53tn was generated as VAT in the nation. Non-import VAT local accounted for N763bn, non-import VAT for foreign accounted for N420.43bn, and NCS-Import VAT accounted for N347.72.
Locally derived tax accounts for about 50 per cent of total VAT, while imported goods and foreign goods or services not imported account for the other half. Local VAT is imposed on goods and services consumed within each state of the federation.
Based on the country’s revenue sharing formula, the Federal Government gets 15 per cent of VAT, while states share 50 per cent, and local governments share 35 per cent based on the sharing formula. In the period under review, the Federal Government got N251.55bn from VAT.
In an August 10 ruling, the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, declared that it was the Rivers State Government, and not the Federal Inland Revenue Services, that should collect VAT and Personal Income Tax in the state.
In 2020, the total internally generated revenue of the 36 states in Nigeria was N1.21tn.
A former Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, had said 55 per cent of total local VAT was generated in Lagos.
Based on this indication, in 2020, Lagos may have contributed N419.65bn. in the same year, however, it received N130.97bn.
The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, said recently that Rivers State generated N15bn VAT revenue in June this year, but got only N4.7bn. He added that Kano generated N2.8bn in the same month and got the same N2.8bn back.
Wike also said that Lagos generated N46.4bn but received N9.3bn.
The Director-General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dr Chinyere Almona, on Sunday said the current sharing formula for the states and LGAs should be adjusted using the factors of equality 20 per cent, population 30 per cent, and derivation 50 per cent.
This is against the present system of equality 50 per cent, population 30 per cent, and derivation 20 per cent.
According to her, this arrangement should be agreeable to the concerned parties and can drive innovation on revenue generation in all the states towards increasing their internally generated revenue.
She added that it would also make the states more sensitive to the needs of businesses in their respective jurisdictions.
Almona said, “The first concern of the chamber is the confusion that businesses face as to who is in charge of VAT collection. This is not healthy for the business community and planning.
“We, however, hail the swift intervention of the Court of Appeal to reduce the uncertainties surrounding these controversies.
“Businesses should not be subjected to unnecessary hurdles and made to pay the same tax twice from different agencies.
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“The Federal Government should urgently establish an understanding with states on what is best for the nation and businesses.”
According to the Head of Economics Department, Pan-Atlantic University Lagos, Dr Lekan Aworinde, if state governments start to collect VAT, there would be some positive as well as negative outcomes.
He said, “On the positive side, states can boost their internally generated revenue, meaning that states that realise huge amounts of money from VAT will be able to generate more revenue to themselves.
“However, on the flip side, we do not know whether states will have the structure to be able to collect this tax. What I mean is that tax collection involves a lot of structures such as the policies and the tax planning; also, do these states have the manpower to collect these taxes. If they don’t, the process might not be that smooth and effective.
“Aside all of this, if the administration of VAT falls to the state, how sure are we that they will be able to remit what is due to the local governments.
“In many cases, even with the old systems when federation account allocations come in, state governments do not remit the share of local governments as expected.”
He added that there was the possibility of multiple taxations, especially on imports.
Aworinde added, “There is also the possibility of multiple taxation which can be caused when both the federal and state government charge VAT for certain items like imports. Multiple taxation will have a ripple effect on the economy.
“It will hamper ease of doing business in the country, erode investor’s confidence in the country and further decrease foreign investments, largely because investors don’t want to come into a country with too many taxes.
“With investments on the decrease, unemployment will spike, which will also pull more people below the poverty line.
“As income remains constant while cost of goods and services keep increasing, heightened poverty or a rapid increase in the poverty rate in the country is inevitable.”
Meanwhile, the Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader, PwC, Taiwo Oyedele, has said challenging any ambiguity or treatment the states consider inconsistent with the constitution in court, is a healthy development for the system.
Oyedele said this in an interview with one of our correspondents, in response to the states’ attorneys’ general’s prayer to the supreme court to determine whether or not the states have the sole authority to administer and collect stamp duties on all transactions involving individuals and persons within their respective states.
The PUNCH had reported that the Attorney-General of the 36 states of the federation had dragged the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, before the Supreme Court over the failure of the Federal Government to remit the funds generated from stamp duties into states’ accounts.
Oyedele said, “There is generally no ambiguity regarding the collection of stamp duties. States are entitled to collect stamp duty on any dutiable instruments between individuals. Where a corporate entity is involved, the Federal Government is empowered to collect the stamp duty.
“While each state gets to keep the stamp duty collected by them, any stamp duty collected by the Federal Government is to be shared to states at 100 per cent less cost of collection based on derivation.”
In another development, an economist and private sector advocate, Dr Muda Yusuf, has advised the National Assembly and the Federal Ministry of Finance to halt the proposed excise duties on a segment of the manufacturing sector.
Yusuf said this in a statement on Sunday in response to the announcement by the Nigerian Customs Service during the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework assessment in the National Assembly to reintroduce excise duties on the production of soft drinks in the country.
Yusuf described the move as ill-timed, inappropriate and detrimental to the growth of the manufacturing sector, saying that it negated the economic recovery and job creation objectives of the federal government
He said, “Many upcoming small businesses in the beverage sector would be hard hit by this proposal. The millions of micro enterprises in the soft drinks’ distribution chain will be adversely impacted by the imposition of the excise tax.”
Did Lagos and Rivers tell you that they didn't know they collected higher than Jigawa and Kano? The issue is WHY would the lion share of tax collected in one state be given to other states? ... and leaving the state whose citizens paid the taxes with only 20% of what they collected from them?
That is the issue and not who collected what. Some states are not even contributing a penny in taxes to the federation account!
RobbStark: Pls tell me which tribe developed Bonny, Opobo, kalabaris, Okrika, nembe, Bayelsa state, pls tell me
Another deluded Ijaw land grabber. So Bonny, Kalabari etc are Ijaw land ? Did the Ijaw fishermen in the creeks somehow manage to annex the Ibani tribe of Bonny Kingdom and impose an Ijaw as the King in Bonny Kingdom too?
You have answered my question. Ijaw is too lazy to develop their own towns and cities and depend on making ridiculous claims to other peoples homelands and towns.
Apart from Yenogoa developed by virtue of being a capital city of an oil-producing state, not even one town can be pointed to in Ijaw land where the Ijaws were known to have developed a town. The way Ibibio people developed Oron, Eket, Uyo, Ikot ekpene etc. Or the way the Tiv tribe has notable towns like Doma, Akondonyou, Markurdi, Aliade etc. It all goes to prove that the complaint of the other indigenous tribes in the region that Ijaw were originally fishermen migrants from Sierra Leone who invaded their creeks and set up fishing settlements. Else, there is no way Ijaw had lived in those creeks for a thousand years and don't even have a single traditional town or city. Until 1996 when Bayelsa state was created.
Robbstark,. Please come and explain what these Ijaws of Opobo are saying.
Pay close attention to what the lady mentioned in exactly 2 mins into the video
In Delta state, this is the problem we face. Ijaws claiming Warri, Sapele, Abraka, and Ughelli! When I saw their recent publication claiming Omoku and Oyigbo as Ijaw land, I was not surprised.
What is sooooooooo shocking to me is WHY Ijaws cannot develop a city of their own within Ijaw land? All they do is to go outside Ijaw land and suddenly try to claim other people's towns and cities as "Ijaw" land? It has never ceased to amaze me that even tribes Ijaw claim to be bigger than such as Tiv or Idoma, or Ibibio or Efik etc all built major cities within their own land without trying to claim other people's towns and cities as their own. The Ijaw strategy of suddenly claiming other people's towns & cities still amazes me. I wonder what they are really thinking.
Liebermantic: Opobo and Bonny will never go along with Ijaw if Nigeria divides along Ethnic lines.. Opobo and Bonny kings and People were originally Igbo..The fake History of Origin started by Prof Alagoa of Nembe around 1972...The old documented History of Opobo and Bonny showed they are Igbo.. Ijaws should just go with Bayelsa State alone..No Ijaw in Rivers State
I am still perplexed at the effrontery of Ijaws to be claiming other tribes into their dead on arrival Ijaw republic. Right now they claim from Ondo state to Sapele, Ughelli, Warri and Abraka. Even Omoku, Elele, Oyigbo and Ahoada are today being claimed by the crazy expansionist Ijaws! Soon, they will join Abuja in their claim of "Ijaw land"
The sad thing about Ijaws is that instead of concentrating on their own Ijaw republic in Ijaw land, they are fixated on the forced annexation of other people into their fisherman enclave!
Allen102: Who and you be thief? I don't really care where you are from or not,it is not of my business. My point is, Wakirike is an ijaw clan and will always be.
Even Omoku, Elele and Ahoada are today being claimed by the crazy expansionist Ijaws!
The sad thing about Ijaws is that instead of concentrating on their own Ijaw republic in Ijaw land, they are fixated on the forced annexation of other people into their fisherman enclave!
Vintagepipes: THE FAIR HISTORY ABOUT ORIGIN OF KALABARI PEOPLE (AWOME) ................ WHO ARE THE KALABARI'S... WHY SHOULD KALABARI PEOPLE BE ADDRESSED AND IDENTIFIED AS KALABARI'S AND SHOULDN'T BE SUBJECTED TO ANY OTHER ETHNICITY/TRIBE BUT AS KALABARI TRIBES AND KALABARI ETHNIC GROUPS ALONE? Kalabari World - From left direction across the present day Bayelsa State and right direction to the present day Calabar City was null and void until arrival of the allochthonous and autochthonous" “(about Seven (7) beings descended to the ancient Ke Land (present Ke Community in Kalabari Nation, located at the present day Degema Local Government Area, Rivers State, South South, Eastern Niger Delta, Nigeria)......................... Beings Exist in Ke BC (uncommon era)) and they did not ascend from the old Agadagba-Bou, as some historians frames up their stories. And purported stories that says Ke began at 500-800 AD are all lies, because no kind of archaeological samples can prove the case of Ke begining on earth, because her origins were not just migrants as others ....... The truth is that no living human can tell where the descendants of Ke came from because no one recorded such as a fact from the likes of Keni-Ala(Keni Opu Ala), Keni-Opusuo, Opu-Ogbu, Ombiyi, Opu-Jaja, Ogbokiya, and Opupiri (Opusiri), that was assumed seven founding ancestors descendants from sky. Centuries ago, it was from Ke that the Adumu Spiritual Initiation Society/Cult/Lodge commonly referred to as the water people or the mask spirit people (Owu-ame/Owu amapu) derived from. Inwhich all other neighboring lands or tribes in Niger Delta adopted as culture (tradition)......................... Around 1932 about sixty one (61) successors had ruled Ke Lands as Amayanabo starting from Omonie (Omoniye), narrated by Ke Historian Madam Kala-Dokku and published by Talbot 1932..... To cut short story, Ke can not be people that came from Ijo, or Ejo which are variations of Ujo or Ojo (i.e Ancestors of Kala-Okun, Ujo-Gbaran(Gbaran) - Gbaramatu, Arogbo, Tuomo, Kabo, etc), and Ke can not be addressed as people that came from the Niger-Congo Tribes, Kumoni-Oru, Otu-Ife (Ile-Ife)/Benin/Ijaw(Ejo or Ijo or Ujo alias Idekoseroake, etc,) even though some migrants came to join the Ke People from other parts of Ancient Africa e.i the Seven(7) ancient wards of Kalabari, Ilelema, Angulama, Kula, Bille, Tombia, Oproama, Ogoloma, Bonny, etc, BC-AD.. The fair fact is that Ke should instead be seen as a landlord to all Kalabari's, Ibani, Obgolo's(Andoni), Okirikan's, Nkoro & Opopo, including the Rivers State Igbo's, Nembe, Ogbia, Epie, Etc..................... If anyone sincerely wants to narrate or tell the myth of the origin or root of Kalabari People Ke should be considered as one of the geneuin origin of Kalabari's that is still locatable ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Because even when the first Seven(7) wards that formed Kalabari migrated to the Elem-Kalabari Ke has been in existence for more than ten(10) centuries and most of the Kalabari Clans were made up of Ke Offsprings just as it is to other Kingdoms like Kalaibiama in present day Bonny, Ekeni in Bayelsa State, Abame in Okirika, Okpoma in Nembe, etc, so therefore it is too wrong, bad and baseless to frame the entire Kalabari People as people that rooted (came from) Ijaw/Ijo/Ujo/Ejo or Ojo for any reason, because that is a fatal lie by some desperate or egotistical persons whom tries to paint all the Riverine Tribes or Fishermen tribes to a root.. Also, most persons confuses the term Oru (Horu or Oru's) as Ethnic Group, while some complicates Oru(Horu) as the source of Kumoni-Oru which some baseless historians stated as who settled the Niger Delta with the most ancient inhabitants known as the Oru (TOBU OTU) who gave birth to the Ijos; meanwhile the curious name “ORU” was applied by the early British explorers to Brass from the Nun enteranc to Taylor Creek, Dr Baikie said of them 1854. Just as some small minded historians classifies Ijaw as Ethnicity in Nigeria due to very few adopted, anglisized or corrupted similarities in some tribes even when the said similarities does not match or conclude beyond common imaginations............. Now, Same goes to individual clans/towns/communities that formed the previous and the present Kalabari World..................................... The overall and first capital(headquarter) of the Ancient Kalabari Nation was a virgin island which originally began the popularly known Kalabari race on planet earth. The name Torusirama-piri or Kalabari-kiri was given to the island after the first founders had settled there for centuries........ Along the way others joined to make up the first Seven (7) - first fourteen (14) Ward's at this very island that latter became the Torusrama-piri (Kalabari Polo, Kalabari Kiri or Kalabari-Ama).......... The first Seven(7) Wards were.. (1). Amabin-Ame, (2). Kuro-Ame, (3). Ende-Ame, (4). Igodo-Ame, (5). Akiala-Ame, (6). Ituru-Ame, (7) Buko-Ame. -Lila-Ame..... These names given to the Seven (7) founding wards are classification to identify each group. The reality is that, these groups all migrated from different parts of the Ancient Africa World, such as Binin Areas, Ile-fe, Ke, Akwa Akpa(Calabar), Igbo, Cameron, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Niger-Congo, Serialeon, Tribes that speaks the Niger-Congo Language such as Ijoid(Atlantic), and Defaka(Afakani) an endangered language. And Kalabari Lands is not just about the First Seven (7) Wards that settled at the New Calabar River because the likes of Ke, Ilelema, Angulama, Kula, Bille, Abise, Soku, Tombia, Obonoma, Idama, Oguruawo-Bakana, Krakrama, Ifoko, Bukuma, Udekeama(Dekema), Oproama, Sangama, Abalama, Ido, Tema, Sema, Obu-Ama(Harry's Town) and others joined to makeup the independent Kalabari Nation counting from the King Amakiri(Amachree) era as the Great King of All Kings. The language of the present Ibani, Okirika and some parts of Nembe was adopted from the Kalabari Language just as the Kalabari Language became the basics of the Berbice, a Dutch Creole Spoken in Eastern Guyana. Kalabari Language words have been proposed for some modern technical terms. And so what is now being paraded as the linguistics of the said Ijaw Ethnic Group is a Kalabari Language and never an Ijaw language. The Kalabari Language is a tongue of many forms from the ancient days, which undergone unidentifiable mix-ups, due to the need of establishing a unique world known a Kalabari Nation... The Kalabari Traditional attires, Songs, and dance steps, etc, has been adopted by too many tribes of Nigeria especially the Niger Deltans, and as of today it is very hard to claim Kalabari Tradition as a cultural practice which is originally native to the Kalabari Tribes, but only God and man knows that it was very few tribes in Nigeria that had traditional attire( exampling tradition) before Nigeria was amalgamated, and almost all the tribes in Nigeria did not interact directly with the whiteman (Portuguese especially) to get reach of beautiful dress codes such as original beads(Corals-Kilali,Ikuta,Illa,Stords), Cloths(Dawn, Wokor, Daminimbana, Frokor, Etibor, India-Bite, Lokor, Amasiri, Epe, Injiri, etc, ), walking sticks(Royal Staffs), Swords, etc. Most of the credits forged as or transfered to the said Ijaw were originally Kalabari's affairs. The present areas known as Kalabari is not Ijaw Land but Kalabari Lands, and only liars frames up Our world as Ijaw Lands or Ijaw Sub Groups in Eastern Niger Delta, meanwhile Kalabari is Independent Nation for Centuries now. Finally, none should mislead anyone by saying the term Kalabari was a name of a ancestor so therefore Kalabari's came from one place called Ijaw/Ijo/Ejo/Ujo/Ojo when there is no place on Earth agreed as the genuine Ijaw Kingdom or origin on earth, apart from some myth to some villages or ancestors who they now classified as persons or villages that originated from another ancestor named Ijo/Ejo or Ujo/Ojo who was a child to Adumu some says Oduduwa is the Adumu. This is brief but genuine history of who Kalabari's are. To stretching and analyze this history it can go as far as fifteen (15) times longer than this, but this is a brief yet better guidance to who we truly are. By Kalabari Indigenous Movement, Kalabari Agitators
Of course, Ijaw in my state have serious grandiose delusions of installing an Olu of Warri and taking over Warri from Itsekiris. Even claiming other Delta cities such as Ughelli and Sapele as Ijaw land!
Sergio101: Watch your mouth Fulani puppet. The era of divide and rule has gone
Fulani does not even know that an average Asaba man is more Igbo than any Igbo clan in the southeast geographical space. Even in my own family!
I am glad that Fulanis and Buhari have helped us to see the light. My own family members have shocked me recently with their actions and pronouncements.
vasel15: I told you slow people that this fight for freedom is against Nigeria and some world powers, now look at the Nigerian Algerian pipeline, they want to send our gas to Europe from Warri, do you think these countries will want Nigeria to break up. Just look at the screenshot
The "Our Oyel" gang will run away from this thread!
Is it not clear that the "Oyel & Gas" belongs to Fulani and how they will sell it and pocket the money? While the Niger Delta remains in misery, penury, and severe poverty?
Boudiccao: This man has started his Igbo this, igbo that. You already declared yourself an enemy of Igbos, to hell with you.
He only spoke the truth.
There are 2 laws in Nigeria for Fulanis and the rest! Everyone knows it. The good thing is that other respectable countries are also quietly taking note.
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