₦airaland Forum

Throwback:
He remains an unfortunate fellow.

A Yoruba hating IPOB loving enemy of the state.

Chinedu Rhodes-Viviour isn’t Yoruba by blood. His family just got Yorubanised along the line after they settled in Lagos.

Also, his family wasn’t part of the Yoruba Saro contingent that came back to Lagos/Abeokuta - they were Igbo Saro that settled in Opobo.

His great great grandfather was William Allen Vivour, the son of an Igbo slave taken from Bight of Bonny, who was born in Sierra Leone. However, when he returned to Nigeria like the other Saros - he settled in Opobo and started palm oil plantation. Subsequently, he had problems with Jaja of Opobo and had to move his business to Fernando Po. His business flourished in Fernando Po and he became one of the biggest/wealthiest palm oil exporters.

I think it was one of his sons that married a Yoruba Saro woman and they ended up settling down in Lagos.

So, Chinedu is neither Yoruba nor part of the original Lagos/Abeokuta Yoruba-Saro lineage. His lineage is Igbo-Saro of Opobo and Fernando Po.

naptu2:
“A team of police and DSS went to his palace but he had already fled. He was later traced to a hotel in Ejigbo where he was arrested,” the source said.

LMAOOO. After brazenly making terrorist threats by inviting a proscribed terrorist group whilst saying, ‘let it go viral’ - he fled. Fccking coward!

Inherent cowardice and these people are like bread and butter. But they’re always the loudest about their phantom bravery. Next stage is denial and victimhood. They should be back to UN, ICC and begging UK/US/EU (that are the verge of financial meltdown) for visa ban - to solidify their phantom bravery.

Regardless, the onus is still on Yoruba leaders to stop being naive. These people have shown that they don’t understand diplomacy and their existence since they arrived in Lagos in the 1930s/1940s has always been to usurp the natural order and displace the indigenous people of the place. So, they have to be treated as an existential threat.

I won’t be surprised if they have IPOB sleeper cells all over Lagos. If they could transfer over 200k PVCs from their region to Lagos freely without being checked - thousands of IPOB terrorists are most likely in the state right now waiting patiently for orders to strike.

Isn’t IPOB a proscribed terrorist group?

The brazen way this dirty fat pig made the provocative statement, whilst sitting comfortably in Yorubaland, made my skin itch. What the Bleep is wrong with Yoruba people? Why do these people have Eze or whatever the idiotic title is, in Yorubaland?

Lagos state governor is also too meek/weak and slow. And more time whenever I see his video/pictures, he looks like he’s dealing with some chronic illness whilst trying to show off his Colgate fresh teeth. The man has no backbone.

In a sane world: the Eze crap would’ve been banned time ago. You can’t have two kings in one kingdom and there shouldn’t be anything, apart from Yoruba kings.

This is the result of years of docility and faux-liberalism. And now, illiterate non-entities are openly inviting terrorists to Yorubaland. It’s pretty sad.

Yorubas need to retrace their steps and embrace the conservative socialism that Awolowo embodied - for self-preservation and the upliftment of Yoruba people. This new group of Yoruba leaders/elites are utterly useless.

[quote author= post=122181556]800 billion domestic debt Lagos still maintain more than 700 billion foreign debt and this is all you can show, when majority of the projects were funded by private sectors[/quote]Lagos state’s debt profile is a mere 2% of its GDP and that’s very impressive.

The debt profile you posted shows Lagos and Rivers are the healthiest states in Nigeria - while Abia, Ekiti, Imo and most Northern states aren’t viable.

2mch:
That’s correct. But he understands the administration, operation and regulation aspect of it. Which can be of great help in an advisory capacity. To help us with some standards and even bringing our airports up to international standard.

Yes, he’ll be helpful in that regard and perhaps in recommendation when it comes to people with expertise in the field.

Also, I’d like to see him work as an adviser when it comes to the economy. He was briefly on Trump’s economic team before he left.

These people have been given too much freedom in Lagos hence they brazenly flout all the rules of engagement when it comes to mutual respect.

I want to see the response of Yoruba leaders/elites to this madness.

2mch:
We need him badly. Lmao. Especially in aviation. He has done wonderfully well with Gatwick. Nigeria aviation sector need to wake up and have the right regulation.

I doubt he’d be able to do much. He’s just an investor who deals with numbers. Those who do the day-to-day running of Gatwick are experts in the field albeit they work under him.

ferhyntorlah:
Please we don't need another banker, now a former banker in CBN please.

The seat of the CBN governor should be for an economist or a financial expert and NOT A BANKER!

In most developed countries, the Central Bank governor is usually an economist or a financial expert and we have them in Nigeria.

An example is Mr Bismarck Rewane. If you watch Channels TV, you should be familiar with his financial and economic expert analysis.

And no just a lousy economist or some Bretton Woods slave - it should be someone similar to Elvira Nabiullina of Russia.

2mch:
We also need to go and lie down flat to beg Ogunlesi to come and help us with our ports and aviation. Even if it is advisory or board capacity.

Adebayo Ogunlesi is an economist. He’d better better served as an adviser when it comes to the Nigerian economy.

I was just reading an article on William Allen Viviour on JSTOR and he was indeed the son of an Igbo slave taken from Bight of Bonny. But he was born in Sierra Leone and got rich in Fernando Po.

So, this article is right. Chinedu is 100% Igbo and he has no Yoruba blood.

Trojan8:
Did you just say ports and airports make more money than oil? Some of you loots are irredeemably stupid. Just come online and type nonsense without any basis.

Do well to educate yourself before you even try quoting me. Mumu man

Your uncircumcised dad is irredeemably stupid, you dirty illiterate scrounger.

The audacity of a dirty peasant like you to quote me with nonsense. You’re extremely lucky it’s the internet, else I’ll break all the fvcking bones in your frail and starving body, you insolent and starving pauper.

And don’t quote me back, else I’ll nuke your existence.

SpartaOfLagos:
Just pray that the situation don't go south in this Lagos, The outcome will be hot for you over-Lovers of Lagos

Trust me, Igbos are a walk in the park. There’s a reason why they used switches on you like kids.

Too small.

SpartaOfLagos:
Where was onanuga coward when the Endsars swept everywhere in Lagos ?

Cowards

He was preparing/planning how to flog you and your ilk with switches.

Angry people don’t win wars - you have to plan, strategise and execute.

gimakon:
The same way Ouatarra did not see himself getting arrested and he eventually got arrested!

Quattara, the French puppet, is still the president of Ivory Coast.

Or are you alluding to Gbagbo?

Also, Gbagbo fuelled a civil war with use of armed forces and he was fighting against the French and EU. So, the kangaroo court had more than enough ammunition to nail him for fighting against their interests. No correlation whatsoever.

sreamsense:
This professor is not as wise as expected, now that he has submitted to ICC; he nows opens more door for division and segregation. Instead of Igbos to be grateful to their hosts, they are displaying arrogance in ignorance. Igbos are the ones that have started teaching yorubas how not to benefit them with key positions meant for yorubas again in the south west.

If Igbos didn't cross their boundary to call Lagos no man's land and United to install GRV-proxy Igbo candidate, yorubas woundn't have checkmated them. Igbos have shown now publicly they are ungrateful sets of people towards their hosts. Submission of that petition will be thrown out of window by ICC by the time Nigeria government make her position known on the matter by ICC. Many Igbos have damaged and bad reputation at international levels through ipob/esn, illegal drug activities and kanu hate speeches about Lagos during endsars which can defense team at ICC can easily use to convince the ICC.

Aside this, this is not a market square case where Igbos get authority, yorubas get more academically sound influential people and lawyers that can easily convince ICC but what this Prof does will spoil more than repair. This is may be another opportunity hausa/Fulani has been waiting for to back yorubas at ICC since Igbos through their arrogances and hate speeches don't get permanent friends among Nigeria tribes.

Opening this case will soil and spoil integrity of Igbos the more at international levels because all most all tribes in Nigeria have good things to say about yorubas in Nigeria while many of them have bad things to say about igbos which will paint Igbos in more bad light that drugs and Ipob/esn already exposed.

It doesn’t need to get that far - they didn’t do/say anything egregious.

And in as much as ICC is a kangaroo court - it only deals with cases that involve use of armed forces or arms at a genocidal rate. And both men didn’t do that.

This trash can petition is just the typical educated illiterate Igbo tears and victimhood. ICC acknowledging it is basically just normal protocol - it doesn’t mean they will look into the trash.

wirinet:
You guys are yet to explain how igbos as an ethnic group interfered in Lagos or any other Yoruba State's politics.

Why are your Itsekiri people so problematic in Warri, which is a cosmopolitan city? And why is your Itsekiri king hell bent in “Olu of Warri” title when he should be contented with “Olu of Itsekiri” since there are other indigenous ethnic groups in Warri?

The answer(s) to these questions should answer your questions.

I like this.

My pops was born and raised on Lagos Island (we still have a family house around Campos area).

SmartPolician:
That money is nothing when you convert it to dollars. Remember, Nigeria is an import-dependent country and states have to procure things for fixing infrastructure in USD.

That's why it is said that many states will collapse if the federal government doesn't give them monthly allocation. Nigeria practically runs on Niger Delta petrodollars.

By the way, looking at the list, Enugu left and Kaduna crept in within 8 years. It just goes to show that while Ugwuanyi was a bad governor, El-Rufai did a relatively good job in Kaduna State.

Jaundiced way to look at it since it’s relative to Nigeria - not the US. So, relatively, it’s huge when you also look at the cost of living in Nigeria and the bulk of it coming from just PAYE tax.

Niger Delta petrodollars? That meagre amount is primarily the reason why Nigeria is in the doldrums. I’d even wager that remittances from Nigerian diaspora is more valuable than “Niger Delta petrodollars” hence Nigeria needs a leader than can diversify the economy and get away from “Niger Delta petrodollars” - to survive a bit. And also restructuring, so it can maximise its potentials to an extent.

That said, I don’t think Nigeria as a country can ever be great - its ceiling is South Africa, Brazil and Indonesia. But it can be way better than it’s currently.

LegendHero:
I guess that was why Lagos government facilitated the new Lekki seaport. Now from that port, they will be able to generate some revenue from it and the FG will take their normal cut.

Yea, Lagos is cheated coz even the VAT generated from Lagos is shared among all states in Nigeria. But that is the disadvantage of one Nigeria and the oil producing states can also make the same argument of other states taking from their oil proceeds.



Lol you are taking Ibo people serious? People that can’t generate IGR for their states shey na them go generate am for Lagos? They are just loud mouthed braggarts and nothing else. If na their shop dey contribute IGR, what have they not improved Anambra IGR with Onitsha main market?

Trade also contribute to Lagos economy in general but not only those kind of trade in 2by 2 shops. you have some mega industries that deal in trading in Lagos which contribute to the economy and you have lot of other trading activities like food, clothing both lace and normal English wears, cements, and etc. Those are component of trading.

Correct.

Thanks.

LegendHero:
Lagos seaport and airport revenue is for the federal government. So count Lagos out of that.

Also, most of Lagos IGR comes from the formal sector in form of PAYE. It was over 45-50% in 2015 for example. I haven’t seen the data for 2021 yet.

Below is 2015 Budgit report on that.

Thanks a lot.

It shows Lagos is the most cheated state in Nigeria. This should end the chirping/bickering about FG and South South oil building Lagos. The ports and airport make more money than oil.

And if the IGR is primarily from PAYE tax (which is the formal sector) , why are Igbos who thrive in chaos and the informal sector, as traders, always acting like they contribute significantly to the development of Lagos? These people are crazy.

Your breakdown also shows that the excessively huge population isn’t that beneficial in the grand scheme of things since only a small percentage would be in the formal sector. The rest (which is the bulk of the population) don’t really contribute much despite putting enormous pressure on amenities/infrastructures.

Lol, this is just laughable.

In as much as ICC is a kangaroo court for western imperialism - he didn’t say anything egregious that ICC would give any time of the day. Baseless petition and trash can material.

The man only re-affirmed the rights of indigenous Lagosians and Yorubas, which is protected by UN charter for indigenous people. There was no call to arms.

Nnadi Kanu and other Igbos say much more egregious things, including carnage and arm insurrection. This illiterate clown should be more worried about his kinfolks.

Wow!

So, basically, Lagos is richer than all the states in Nigeria combined.

I’ll like to see a complete breakdown of Lagos IGR. Is it just taxes/levies? Where does the bulk of the taxes come from since I’m sure most people don’t pay taxes? And does Lagos get any percentage of the revenue from the ports and airport?

I’d wager that Lagos seaports and airport generate more revenue than oil. So, it will be interesting to see what Lagos state benefits from having them on its land mass.

Ogun state made a decent leap from 2015 to 2021.

Anyway, it shows why some people are suicidal about trying to add a state that’s basically a cauldron in a next ethnic group’s territory - to their land mass, hundreds of miles away, in their quest to reap where they didn’t sow.

The lawyer asks CCB to take constitutional action within 30 days, or it will ask a court to compel it to do so.

A Lagos-based law firm, Lawflex, has asked the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) to prosecute the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 25 February election, Peter Obi, for failing to declare the assets he stashed in tax havens while serving as a state governor.

In the letter written on Thursday, signed by Olukoya Ogungbeje and received by the CBB the same day, the firm said its purpose is to bring to the CCB’s notice an investigation on the issue done by PREMIUM TIMES.

The PREMIUM TIMES 2021 investigation provides details of Mr Obi’s investments in some notorious tax havens which he did not disclose in his mandatory CCB filings before and after leaving office as governor of Anambra State.

The businesses were set up and operated overseas, including in notorious tax and secrecy havens in ways that breach Nigerian laws.

Other prominent Nigerians involved in similar offshore dealings include the former Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah; the acting Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Mohammed Bello-Koko; former governor of Osun, Gboyega Oyetola and his Kebbi State counterpart, Atiku Bagudu. They have all denied any wrongdoing.

The law firm said that Mr Obi flouted the code of conduct for Nigerian public officials and urged the CCB to “act appropriately” by arraigning the former governor before the “Code of Conduct Tribunal for contravention of the Code of Conduct for Nigerian Public Officers as spelt out in the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, (As Amended).”

Violation
Mr Peter Obi failed to declare his offshore holdings and their associated assets. As a governor, he also continued to operate and maintain foreign accounts including with Lloyds in the UK.

The former governor admitted that he did not declare these companies and the funds and properties they hold in his asset declaration filings with the Code of Conduct Bureau, the Nigerian government agency that deals with the issues of corruption, conflict of interest, and abuse of office by public servants.

He said he was unaware that the law expected him to declare assets or companies he jointly owns with his family members or anyone else.

After becoming the governor, he continued to be a director of Next International (UK) Limited for 14 months.

Ultimatum
Mr Ogungbeje urged the CCB to immediately investigate the violation and invite Mr Obi for questioning.

The lawyer warned that if the CCB refuses to take constitutional action within 30 days, his firm would seek a “judicial review by way of an Order of Mandamus in a court of competent jurisdiction in a bid to compel performance of public duty.”

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/590307-pandora-papers-law-firm-writes-ccb-demands-prosecution-of-peter-obi.html

This is an interesting piece, however, Obi is more of a populist than a messiah. Both words aren’t interchangeable.

Two people that were somewhat similar to a messiah in Nigeria’s political landscape were Obafemi Awolowo and Ahmadu Bello. And they achieved that status based on their deeds.

Obi on the other hand is very similar to Trump. He’s an opportunist who just preyed on the emotions of disenfranchised people who already had a movement whilst exploiting existing tribal/religion fault-lines.

Regardless, it’s an interesting piece.

mich2012:
Someone's father and probably grandpa behaving like a toddler. No decorum whatsoever.

Indeed, age is not wisdom.

Being someone’s father doesn’t mean you’re barred from verbally lashing uncouth village idiots. Decorum is an overrated word when the gloves are off.

One of the greatest and most revered leaders ever, Winston Churchill, said this - “You’re ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly” - to a female MP, after she said Winston Churchill was disgustingly drunk.

Can you see what I did there?

favor914:
Peter Gringory Obi a very Useless Man.

Gringory Obi of Agulu is the most useless leper ever. Nigeria dodged a massive bullet by rejecting the market trader.

Afonjanawerey:
You have low self esteem

Igbotic logic (definition): projecting ones flaw on the next person.

Web2020:
Let Tinubu add all these your points to his defence in court. We want him to defend himself. Why is he running for court service? Let him also sue Obi, for the 6b as you claimed. Obi is waiting.

He has nothing to defend. Any judge that knows his onions would throw the trash in the bin where it belongs.

No felony conviction and out of his jurisdiction. Trash can material.

swaggerjack:
The godfather/boss of drug rings launder the money on behalf of their gangs and are not on the streets.

Lol, you have an extremely low IQ.

If that’s the case, a lot of bankers on Wall Street would be drug dealers. You need brain transplant.

Igbotic logic, lol.

Damn!

He ain’t lying.

You just have to be intolerant with intolerant people and use violence against violent people.

Diplomacy doesn’t work with everyone hence you always have to treat every case as an isolated case and use the appropriate method/approach to deal with it.

eagleu:
Is it better for the US to invade and attack a nation with a drug lord as president, like Noriega of Panama, or just prevent him from assuming office in the 1st place?

Think about it, and you will understand why Tinubu is going nowhere.

What makes him a drug dealer?

Even from the exaggerated case being thrown around with uneducated propaganda - the only thing he probably can be accused of is laundering money for a drug dealer. So, how does that make him a drug dealer (emphasis on drug dealer)?

And from that case - he wasn’t convicted for anything, apart from asset forfeiture, which showed they didn’t have any solid evidence to convict/charge him for a felony.

A lot of you poorly educated propagandists just throw words around aimlessly - without a basic understanding of the words.

Peter Obi actually has a brother who was convicted for drugs trafficking. And Peter Obi was the head of Fidelity Bank when about $6billion of looted Nigerian money was laundered via the bank during GEJ’s tenure as president.

Keep crying - Tinubu will be your president for 8 years. And Peter Obi will NEVER rule Nigeria.