Putinofrussia: Even if you truly are doing something,let people appreciate you.Adjust your leaking mouths.. Which other people in the world have you seen indulging in this gross stupidity?
This is the Igbo problem and it is endemic: This poster put it succinctly... @davovia said, "Igbos are their own undoing. There is something typically wrong with the way you are all wired mentally. Arrogating what belongs to others and finding yourself always interfering in people's affairs is why you are hated everywhere."
Ofunaofu: It's funny how you're more rattled by Peter Obi's son's cozy picture than by the fact that Tinubu has sent more Nigerians into poverty than any president in our history. While you're obsessing over pictures, people can't eat, the naira is in freefall, and insecurity is at an all-time high. If poverty were a legacy project, Tinubu would’ve earned a Nobel Prize by now. Worry less about Obi's son and more about your Tinubu disastrous leadership
2022: According to a report by Nigeria's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), approximately 133 million Nigerians were multidimensionally poor as of 2022, representing about 63% of the population. This means these individuals lack more than one basic necessity for survival, including adequate access to healthcare, food, sanitation, and clean energy for cooking.
2024:
An estimated population of 88.4 million people in Nigeria is living in extreme poverty. ”The number of men living on less than 1.90 U.S. dollars a day in the country reached around 44.7 million, while the count was at 43.7 million for women.
Things will get better,sir.
In just a few years,just 100 people will remain in poverty with a lot of chances of exiting poverty at their disposal,which they will eventually make use of. Very bright light ahead.
Proudlyomonna: Not just the Igbos,every normal human being should stand against a TERRORIST GOVT that has only but completely overwhelmed and destroyed the economy of the Country.
We are business people,in recent years how many Igbos dey vote? Just do well to provide an enabling environment for business and commercial flow. APC is the greatest threat to the survival of SMEs in Nigeria, anyone who likes Apc is dead in zombism. FACT!!
So you are business people,the Hausas who control trades and commerce in Agriculture that sustains your life are not business people,the Yorubas who control the building materials and fuel/petroleum/ICT/Fashion/Entertainment and a whole lot of sectors are not business people,abi? Continue your ranting as Nigeria improves daily after going through the pains of the removal of subsidies. Just yesterday,a Derica of garri was sold for #300 and beans #900.They were up in the sky before after the removal.This shows that things are still going to come down more and more. We give thanks to the Merciful.
owobokiri: Ndi "hosts" on on rampage.. Person wey never feed bellefull go wake up early morning and be claiming to be hosting someone who feeds better him simply because you found yourself in their ethnic enclave. Lol No be Juju Be that?
It would be the miracle of the century for Igbos to vote for a Yoruba in a party they hate so much. Put up a rat in a party they support and you will write a book on how to be perfect zombies.
Feintline: Suicide thoughts on the Increase as Peter obi Educational strides hit the internet.
Agbadorians have thrown into the sea and electric poles since the Monumental educational strides of Peter obi hit the air ways
We appeal that all rivers and sea be on 24hrs police lockdown to ensure nobody jumps into them. From 3rd mainland bridge and others. Pls be your brothers keeper.
Enjoy PO monumental education strides
I Did Not Promise To Build New Schools. I Promised To Improve Existing Schools-
tctrills: The point is, Reno has posted for Tinubu and someone else has posted for Obi, from the two, who did a better job? Obi built the Anambra university teaching hospital. That alone is far beyond the four schools Reno posted .
Obi has debunked your lie,sir
I Did Not Promise To Build New Schools. I Promised To Improve Existing Schools-
Are you are aware there has been a coordinated campaign to depict SE as unproductive, poor, and backward for a longtime as part of psychological warfare against Biafra agitation.
And several of our people are falling for that.
Our job as Ndi Igbo is to counter their Propaganda and properly inform our people and future generations that all those things are lies.
Nigeria media is making people to believe that SE is the unsafest region in the South, but stats show otherwise.
They it seems that Ogun is doing better economically than all SE states, but Imo GDP is over 1.5x bigger than Ogun GDP.
They make it look like SE is bush, yet stat show that SE is even more urbanized than SW.
If we have given in to their Propaganda, would our people have known that Imo alone controls 2/3 of Nigerian onshore gas reserve and it's $4.2 billion two ANOH gas plants is worth more then the GDP of Ogun.
Due to Nigeria media misinformation, people always believe that SW is more educated than SE, that's only trade our people know, but the latest stat shows that SE leads in literacy rate while SW come distant third.
Tell your stories or people will do that for you, and they won't be nice when they do.
So you will believe fake stats than original stats and reality? Is it the Yorubas that are fleeing SW to the SE in millions because of poverty?
predictor1: I look forward to the day when each region will be on its own. Enough of these insults. The Ibos are all over Southwest. Their homeland is populated almost entirely by Ibos. In the SW you have some states having just about 80% indigenous people. That means the SW has too many Ibos and other tribes than any other regions. But these fools will translate that data wrongly that the Yorubas have moved to Lagos.
Leave them. They are ingrates but Yorubas should just manage them. They are our "sugbon". That is why we are continually successful in what we do both in Nigeria and abroad. It is the magnanimity of God not by Yorubas' power.
Ok.Asides Lagos,have you seen any other place where Igbos are successful?
FatherOfJesus: There's has never been a time in history after the white people came that Ibadan has bee more developed than Lagos.
Lagos in 1960 is still more developed than Ibadan of today
Are you 7 of what?
The 21 storet building thing is jargons, Port harcourt does not have a 21 storey building yet but port Harcourt is still more developed than Ibadan today.
The fact that Ibadan had a 21 storey building long before any city but still cannot compete with some Nigerian city in terms of economy and aesthetics should be a cause of concern for you. It still justifies my initial point, if Ibadan is getting the type of money Lagos and Abuja is getting via their status, do you think that Ibadan will till be this shitty?
Did Lagos have all those things Ibadan have in those days? I mentioned infrastructures that Lagos never had then but you cunningly mentioned only 21 storey building which no other place except Lagos has been able to replicate. Use your head a little now. Infrastructures,education,human resources etc make up development and Ibadan has these more than anywhere in Nigeria at that time.
I am just using this to show that laziness and incompetence are the things affecting you Igbos. As you have not been able to grow anywhere in the world other than Lagos which people allow you and your infractions,separation of Nigeria,which I fervently pray for,will make Igboland worse than the poorest nation in the world. Or you are thinking about using illicit drugs?
predictor1: If Nigeria divides Lagos will still thrive. It's the financial hub of West Africa. A lot of investment has been planted there. In fact, even Ibos will find it very difficult to leave Lagos if Nigeria divides. I wonder which kind of schools you go to in the East.
Not Igbos won't be able to leave,Igbos will find it difficult to live without SW,Lagos. Just look all over the world,where do you see Igbos making it? No other place will wholly take the infractions of the Igbos as Yorubas have. They are benefitting a great deal from one Nigeria.
FatherOfJesus: If you ask me, for a region that is so close to Lagos, a place that has been the capital for over 20 years and you guys didn't take enough advantage of it to develop more than this. It's embarrassing. Visit Oyo, Osun, and other southwest state, you will realize what I am saying.
There's no way you can judge if Southwest will be the fastest developing until you put the resource of every region in the control. Because Lagos today, developer by virtue of collective resource and not with the resources 9f people of southwest alone. Majority of the oil money in southsouth ends up in Lagos, if you split, you won't get that money anymore and trust me when I say that it's the reason why your elites won't want a split.
Cocoa cannot give corrupt politicians enough money to loot, only oyel can do that now and even Tinubu knows this
What is this one saying? Ibadan was more developed than Lagos at that time even with the Nigerian capital situated in Lagos. (The Whites just provided for themselves what they needed to milk Nigeria dry.) All of the above and more due to the ingenuity and hardwork of the Yorubas.
Ibadan not Lagos has the first skyscraper 21 storey building in West Africa. First newspaper with its building. First television with its buildings and infrastructures. First radio with all its paraphernalia. First Olympic stadium. The first high commission building in UK. First industrial estates which Lagos State and Nigerians are benefiting from now. The list seems endless. All of these were done mostly within 5-6 years. A lot of your people were fleeing to Ibadan then.
As for diaspora,name just one company owned by an Igbo man either dead or alive abroad. I can name 10 Yoruba companies in Europe and USA.
Yorubas have companies established more than 120,100,90 etc years ago and still kicking..
.Please,name one Igbo company in Nigeria that has been able to stand up to just 35 years.
Whatever Laos and SWest have as economic advantage over others is because of the skewed nature of the Nigeria system. If Nigeria divides, that is when you will understand the Economic parlance, "follow the money".
Niger Delta, mostly Rivers and PHC becomes the new king of the block.
Only lazy people give excuses. Was there Lagos or your skewed theory during regionalism too? You were in govt with the Hausas but SW still did better than Nigeria and even loaned Nigeria money twice.
No matter how you skew or unskew Nigeria,Yorubas will always come successful. Igbos are the only people that always say they will do this or that but fail at the end.
There is nothing 'skewed'abroad,why are Igbos not making it there like the Yorubas? Laziness and incompetence as usual.
jamesversion: Where will you get the finance to run your country, as no more free oil money.
Immediately Nigeria divides, you guys will learn.
Just like Azikiwe asked where Awolowo will get the finance to do free education. The problems with Igbos are 2. Laziness and incompetence. Awolowo did free education and free medical care. Some Igbos even fled Igboland just as they are doing today to enjoy what they could not do. Igbos really enjoyed one Nigeria.
OfficialAPCNig: Explain how the SW will do better than other region? Remember that if Nigeria divides today, the economic monopoly SW enjoys as Nigerian commercial city will be broken.
First, you'll depend on the ND for crude, SE for processes gas, and North for food and agricultural products. The bulk of Nigerians non-oil revenues come from custom, 70% of imported cargoes in Nigeria terminates in the East, so that revenue source will be seriously affected.
Already, SE has the highest percentage of richest household population, the most literate population, lowest number of out of school children, and urbanization. Again, Lagos is a trading powerhouse and people from the eastern part of the country dominate that sector.
If you remove Lagos, SE has the largest regional economy (Imo is the largest state economy after Lagos and Anambra is the largest non-oil state economy) and if you add Igbo lands in Rivers (the third largest state economy) and Delta (the fourth largest state economy), the economy will be far bigger than SW's.
For me, I don't think SW will do better than SE.
If SE that survived a bloody war and still catch up and leapfrog SW despite all the monopolies the region enjoys, I don't see an independent SW doing better than an independent SE. The only people that will even rival SE is an independent North, if they put their acts together.
Kano alone does #20 billion daily trade volume and key to controlling trade in the sub-sahara.
Not how will Yoruba do it but how did they do it during regionalism. Yorubas have done it before,still doing it even with all drawbacks and will even do the most without Nigeria.
Without Lagos port or whatever lie Igbos spin today because of their laziness,Ibadan(western region) became the richest and most progressive region in Nigeria and West Africa.
They did everything to frustrate the Yorubas but they still continue to emerge as the richest,most progressive people in Nigeria and West Africa.
They still sulked,argued that it is because of Lagos Lazy people will always have escuses.
we all went abroad to a level playing ground and Yorubas still outshone and still outshining them,breaking all expectations that even they occupy lofty positions abroad in their national govts,in sports,music,businesses etc. It is all the doings of the Omniscient. The Omnipresent. The Omnipotent.
Never4getU: Use formal region system 2e once practiced as a yardstick, the southwest was at pace far developed than any other region
That exactly was what Aguiyi Ironsi and his envious people didn't want. Without Lagos port or whatever lie they spin today because of their laziness,Ibadan(western region) became the richest and most progressive region in Nigeria and West Africa.
They did everything to frustrate the Yorubas but they still continue to emerge as the richest,most progressive people in Nigeria and West Africa.
They still sulked,argued that it is because of Lagos Lazy people will always have escuses.
we all went abroad to a level playing ground and Yorubas still outshone and still outshining them,breaking all expectations that Yorubas even occupy lofty positions abroad in those nations' national govts,in sports,music,businesses etc. It is all the doings of the Omniscient. The Omnipresent. The Omnipotent.