₦airaland Forum

Cabalgeneral:
Go and tell asari dokubo that port Harcourt is Igbo land

But asari is from kalabari, the riverine side not portharcourth.

mrvitalis:
Onitsha? Nope there is no Much potential

But down that river close to the [b]tripod between Rivers, IMO and Anambr[/b]a it's a wonderful spot for a port

The 3 states can come together and build a river port that would take container from Bonny

Rivers state need a deep sea port in either Bonny or opobo...

The best place for port on South East remain Abia

It's strategically located

Negotiate we akwa ibom... Their aluminium smelting company on ikot abasi closed because of lack of dredging of that River

So dredging would benefit Abia, river and akwa ibom

What's exactly location?..the community I mean

Secondly a port in onitsha mustn't be at the current location.

Somewhere before the 2nd Niger bridge is idle for me.

djseanjohn77:
I hope they realise it is not just about building shops, part of it is, do they have the market base to supply to. Lagos is such positioned that nearly all industries bosses are positioned (finance, oil, gas, production, etc). And these are the real market force that buys these product.

Talking about Lagod positioning..... i find this quite funny

Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi has geo-economic advantages over Lagos especially calculating cost and distance.

A Manufacturer/Merchant in Aba Nnewi Onitsha has advantage to reach a customer in Edo ,Warri,portharcourth,Calabar, Abuja, North Central, and Core North faster.

I know distributors in A.N.O who send goods to Chad, Niger, Cameroon(where I base),Equatorial Guinea ,Gabon and Central Africa Republic and Congo....mainly in luxurious in buses.

Advantage of Lagos mainly in SW,Benin Republic.


Lagos is very vital due to her developed port systems not its location

Ebubu2:
What happened to Ajaokuta steel company?

Well, where are they gonna source iron ore from ? Anambra does not have iron ore in mining capacity; I think that belongs priorly to Kogi state.

So who supplies their iron ore?

The company greatly positioned

Iron ore is present in a couple of South East states.....

I heard that the Soviets preferred the ajakouta steel to be sited in onitsha due to its market potentials.
The company might consider importing raw material. ....

Lifestone:
I don't get your problems with mud houses. These were built years back when your people were sleeping under the tree. The issue is that traditionally, Yoruba hardly demolish family houses since its most probably that their parents were buried there, so the houses becomes monument. And usually, younger generations goes to new areas for development. Secondly there are a lot of farm settlement that have grown in nos, these settlements have main towns to which they are attached.
By the way where in Ondo did you visit, Ondo town or Ondo State, if Ondo State, which town?

Bros you dey make me laugh.


The major reason brown roofs and mud houses exist in my areas is due to low social mobility.

I remember when some young men from my area started doing business in Aba and Onitsha....today villages are having new looks.

When I pass through Ibo areas with modern houses and roof.....I smile and keep encouraging my people to emulate them.

There are ongoing plans to rebuild mud houses, brown roofs and thatch roof in my own community.

xpressionx:
Am not sure Those onitsha main market people that are are millionaires already will want to even near there to come and do a program,when they know they are are richer than some professors 😄

This narrative isn't true anymore.

Ibo markets are getting filled up with university graduates with some having MBAs.

Sons are taking over there father's business and moving it to the next level.

Again....when properly examined , Onitsha has academic potentials.. high school students from the city are always winning nternational awards or making inventions

OAkanni001:
Sentiment aside, I felt under a good working government, Nigeria has all its takes to succeed provided we are ready to put aside ethnical differences. Nigeria is God's own plan. We have the human and material resources to control the world.

The Igbos are extremely talented and business oriented.

The Yorubas are known to produce academicians

The Hausas feed the nation.


All that's is left is a good government and a good mindset from we the governed.

We have to appreciate our uniqueness and diversity. Let's remember that our beauty lies in our diversity.


I come in peace.

I remain Opeyemi 'Chukwuma' Akanni - a typical Yoruba

You're mixing up so many wrong notions especially contemporary events.

1) Hausa doesn't feed the Nation.
Non Hausa middle belt States produce more food than any zone.



2) Yoruba aren't leading Nigeria in education.....alteast in the last 10-15years .

Check the academic records.

From school enrollment,to child education to female literacy, Jamb ,WAEC .....I don't see typical Yoruba States leading.

Lagos is the best academic performing state in SW despite the fact Lagos is heavily cosmopolitan.

States like Anambra. Edo, Delta , Imo,Abia in the last 10years shown more educational strides.

The notion of Yoruba being academic and education ahead is in the 70s ....and of course ,post Biafra events affected SS and SE growth.



I think the days we relegated Ibos to business is over....they aggressively invested in education and now they are reaping it and SS is second

MSGAMBLE9:
Only an illitrate would believe that IGR can be hyped in era of EFCC and ICPC.. I laff at chest-beating Okoro.


Anambra is dependent on FG allocation and Grant what can #8.7 B annually in revenue solve not even their state workers and pensioners wages.


A region with four working days of a week want generate #50 B from #8.7 B ... isn't that a joke.

https://guardian.ng/news/anambra-state-targets-n50-billion-igr-in-2022/


For you to even have access to loans you must have collaterals who go borrow #8.7 B annuall state #30B... na 30 years Dem use pay back.


Yeye be like Deveropers chest-beating on endemic poverty.

really has a point. Anambra and ebonyi built nice airports without their governors borrowing.....Anambra was like a magic. But SW are borrowing and begging for money.


I saw a terminal section of an ongoing airport in SW... It was laughable.
Comparing it to what's in Anambra and ebonyi would be insult

Mubiola360:
God bless Governor soludo, I once said this ,despite the huge deposition of gas in Anambra, Obi in his 8 years can't tap into it, the only investment is beer .I have said it and I will say it again, if Soludo is to contest for presidency against Obi ,Dapo Abiodun (my state Governor), Atiku (Muslim) I will vote Soludo again and again. I served in Anambra and happen to work with the Local government as the cds president. Obi is a failure.

But history has that Peter Obi played VERY crucial role In Anambra Oil and natural gas success.
I remember when Goodluck Jonathan commissioned some oil projects there in 2012, I'm not telling you to believe.....you can search the internet for.


Lastly, Nigerians should stop shifting the goal Post when it comes to president of Igbo extraction...the narrative was that , igbos can't together and pick a candidate......now Obi is here and different talks are coming up...
Soludo is a governor,let's allow him to do his job

Zooposki:
So you have to be hateful about it? I can bet my ass you are Igbo and not any SS person.

Make the west chop their Lagos and see if it will progress with out the Igbos and other tribes

But there are Ibos in SS, I personally know a couple of them here in Cameroon

Iamgrey5:
This a false information.

All the Eastern transportation companies are mainly targeted at travelers going to west and Northern parts of Nigeria.

Most Westerns hardly ever travel outside their own region, hence a transportation company from west will not survive the test of time, just like the Ondo state transportation company.

This Another propaganda,
The truth is that those Ibo discovered something their contemporaries didn't see in service sector of transportation and logistics.
They invested heavily in it

here in Cameroon, Igbos are at the forefront of transborder road transportation with nice lovely buses across Central African countries and same thing is West Africa subregion like Benin, Togo, Ghana and Senegal....I know these because I have toured these areas.

Many of their buses here that travel to Gabon, central Africa republic, Congo are AC tight and brand new.

There's no much flight here, so their road buses are filling the gaps.

Some of the long distance bus has TVs too and their bus terminal looks like mini airport with cargo services

Jogs1900:
The insecurity of roads in the south east due to activities of kidnappers and Unknown gunmen increased air traffic in that region. Nothing more.
I know the sensible ones among them will agree with me.

I wonder why insecurity hasn't increased air traffic in States like Kaduna, Benue,plateau,zamfara.


Oga air traffic simply boils down to economic strength and purchasing power

Iamgrey5:
They have not had airport all this while because it's going to be useless.

People will rather take a cab to Lagos and fly from Lagos where it's much cheaper.

Flying from Lagos can save you 50k because airlines know their planes will be filled in Lagos.

Bro, it's not about saving cost.
The truth is that lack of viability of the airport .due to low traffic


Anambra, Asaba,Enugu, Owerri and PH are within Igbo spaces yet these airports are running.... soon ebonyi will join the party.


Nobody hears about bayelsa airport again because there's no air traffic in the state

leksite120:
lemme ask you.
Firstly, do you actually believe 65% of containers goes to SE?

You stylishly remove Lagos out of your calculation. Lagos GDP alone is more than the SE. And Lagos is part of the 35%? Even PH is more commercialized than Onitsha or Aba

PH more commercial than Onitsha or Aba?
Its obvious you don't know what commerce means. Don't mix up oil and gas fields for commerce.
Mention two markets in PH that houses international merchants.
Yet Anambra boasts of tens of it.

I lived in Portharcourth in childhood days before leaving for Cameroon,
Most big traders in PH are Ibo guys who get their stocks from Aba and Onitsha.
How many international

post=122581806:
Lagos
FCT
Rivers
Akwa Ibom
Delta
Bayelsa
Anambra
Kano
Ondo
Ogun

Honestly, Anambra is quite underreported.

To see Anambra sitting comfortably among heavy oil production & exporting states marvels me.

Take away oil and gas, Anambra will likely to be third behind Lagos, Abuja

LikeAking:
It's a big crime... It a sign of tribalism and division... You Igbos are fond of this, you work in companies owned by other tribes, but will not allow other tribes work in your company..

In a long run you guys are shooting your selves in the foot, it's one of the reasons an Igbo man will never be entrusted with the presidential position in Nigeria..

You guys alhave failed to act as big brothers in Nigeria, instead the small Niger Delta tribes even play the role of big brothers better than you guys..

In a long run tribalism has never favoured Igbo dominated companies check our Diamond bank.. Even Innoson shud have been bigger buy now..

Honestly what people chose to do in their private ventures is none of my business.


I'm more worried about people who exhibit tribalism and ethnic jingoism in Public and government owned institutions.

Bro I admire Igbow for helping their people but If they bring it to government agencies then that's over for me.

Please don't get me wrong.

Gajagojo:
Sounds Ndokwa to me

Last time I checked people like Uti nwachukwu,popular highlife Ali Chukwuma,emeka ossai are ndokwa folks and these names don't appear Yoruba, Hausa or kanuri

LikeAking:
It's a big crime... It a sign of tribalism and division... You Igbos are fond of this, you work in companies owned by other tribes, but will not allow other tribes work in your company..

In a long run you guys are shooting your selves in the foot, it's one of the reasons an Igbo man will never be entrusted with the presidential position in Nigeria..

You guys alhave failed to act as big brothers in Nigeria, instead the small Niger Delta tribes even play the role of big brothers better than you guys..

In a long run tribalism has never favoured Igbo dominated companies check our Diamond bank.. Even Innoson shud have been bigger buy now..

Bros I'm not Igbo.

When it comes to economic integration in Nigeria,Igbos aren't doing bad at all.

I know the level of Igbo investments in my state capital....and I know the number of my people who works in these establishment.

How can you say Igbo don't integrate other ethnicities in their business when majority of their investment are outside Igbo land...
Igbos are truly nigerian oriented unless you can show me other ethnicities that have most of their investment outside their ethnic region.



Coming to banking, Igbos aren't doing bad in the banking sector, there are many collapsed banks in Nigeria today that weren't owned by Ibos.


I'm from SS.... please how does Niger Delta play bigger brother role to Igbos?

Ibos have more investments across Niger Delta than any other ethnicities,is it ijaw, bini,urhobo, Efik, Ibibio or ogoni that have more investments in the SS region and also carry other people along?


Baba please forgive innoson line of argument..

Innoson remains an African pride exporting cars to Mali, Liberia, sierra leone, Mozambique, Ghana recently Jamaica.



Why are you bringing Nigeria's presidential issues here

Is Fulani/Hausa or Yoruba the guys are more nationalistic in their private ventures.

Outside Lagos or SW you barely find a Yoruba man's heavy investment.
How has Fulani/Hausa impacted the communities they reside in via investment, a people who barely build anything aside shanty town.



It's even surprising that you didn't mention how people are showing ethnic bias in public and government owned institutions rather you're obsessed with individual's wealth


Bro set up a venture and provide jobs for your community,it's not a crime

renderme:
Like fidelity Bank too. All their employees are igbos.

When has it become a crime to employ people of certain background in a private venture?

Does Seplat and Fidelity appear like government institutions?

What do you have to say about those who fill almost every government institutions and agencies with Hausa Fulani..na government owned o, to make it they're very incompetent and inefficient

sorosoke101:
mind you Austin Avuru is not an Igbo man he is from delta state

So when has Delta state become an ethnic identity,?
I know that there are over 100 Igbo towns in Delta state particular in the Delta north senatorial district.

Does Ojunekwu Avuru appear Hausa or Yoruba to you

Despacito1:
Just imagine if that place is Lagos or Portharcourt, you will see massive infrastructures, beautiful environs like that of shell well tared ground. Now because it's in Anyamelum see how s gas plant is looking like. Anambra man build things according the mentality of here is village, let's do it anyhow, take the money and build headquarters in Lagos. I have seen how other huge projects they have looks like, this one looks like a joke

Firstly there's no gas field in Lagos.

Secondly,what I'm seeing here is in of the neatest and serene gas field I've seen.

Come to SS communities and see how oil companies degrade the environment.

Ibeto coming from Anambra will surely give this project a sense of home stakeholdership .and nobody wants to destroy his home.

Shell won't mess up ogoni Land if ogoni was in UK and Netherlands

OkoYibo:
And you think all that trade is in Anambra?
No wonder you are busy hawking Usb cord in Onitsha.

Kano does far more trade than you worthless petty traders. Go and verify.

It baffles me how you rate Kano ahead of Anambra in trade and commerce?
I know merchants who from here in Cameroon, Gabon,equitoral Guinea and Congo that has trade links with Onitsha and Nnewi... especially Auto parts for Nnewi

OkoYibo:
That Oyo Empire was built by Yorubas while your ancestors were still running around naked, jumping from tree to tree and eating bananas.

Go to Ibadan and see houses built in the 18th century with metal roofs. Can you show us a single house built by your fathers as at the early 19th century?


Are you not ashamed that you are the only ones in Nigeria without an ancient civilization?

Old rustic looking buildings littered around are mainly because lack of financial strength.
Ideally,old buildings are renovated or reinforced but that is not the case in Ibadan brown roofs houses.

I've been to Anambra I can tell that financial strength in hands of indigenes is great thing.

I encourage my people to emulate such

Are you not ashamed that you are the only ones in Nigeria without an ancient civilization?

Dsalvo:
Not interested in getting anyone to hate anyone. Never forget SW are not famzing anyone today.

We want no alliance with SS. Rather we are the ones fighting for you to control your resources and gain autonomy over your oil wealth and how it is used.

My point is that it should not even be about that.

If SS, Yoruba or Fulani man is about progress then he can make objective choices about his own progress.

If you feel your progress and future as a man will be secured seeking alliance with others then good for you.

You don't have to hate or reject Igbos but you do not need to defend their terrible actions against others and you should not take partisan action like a child in a primary school playground supporting his crew and friends blindly.

You're a man. Be about integrity always regardless of those involved. If you love Igbos naturally then fine. Draw the line at defending their wrongdoing if you are a proper and upstanding man.

SW fighting for SS ?
Bro abeg make I hear word.


Last time I checked,the land use act that officially confiscated SS crude oil was a Yoruba man's doing.

The propaganda was that Ibos wanted to steal SS crude oil,that's the lie sold to our parents back in the day but today northerners and SW lots are the people who are doing the exact thing .......it was so bad that a SW State demanded for oil blocs . Is that how you're fighting for SS?

Days of propaganda has ended

Dsalvo:
You don't get it. No one should be seeking alliance with anyone in this day and age. Restructuring, resource control and regional autonomy is the way forward and the language on everyone's lips today from Wole Soyinka to Asari Dokubo.

Yorubas are not looking to famz, fight or harm anyone. We have simply concluded that people being able to independently decide their own pace and scale of development in their own geographical space should be sacrosanct today.

If in this era you still want to be talking about SS aligning with Igbos rather than Yorubas, who are actually not interested in any alliance with anyone, then you are one of the unambitious and mentally lazy sons of the SS your wealthy region, with huge potentials, should reject.

Your talk shows , like Igbos, your mentality is backwards and about fighting and getting even with others rather than working for beautiful progress your generations unborn will be blessed to have.

Support the Yoruba idea of how to end all toxicity and hate in Nigeria. If we all have independent regions to lead and develop then hate and sabotage dies because we will all have vested interest in ensuring our region succeeds unlike what obtainss today where 'one Nigeria' is an unwanted orphan no one cares about,
.

You ended up saying nothing...


I just want you to perish the idea of hoodwinking SS into hating Ibos .
SW have nothing to offer SS

XerXers:
This weakman always begging for friendship. You are an orphan in the south. Go and seek friendship in zamfara and kebbi. The person you quoted even told igbos to make sure the company is igbo owned and not behave like his foolish Niger Delta people (in his own words). You have been desperately looking for validation of Tinubu's electoral fraud by trying to isolate Igbos, a strategy well known by south and always fail.

That dude is a despicable fellow.

2023 exposed SW lots

Dsalvo:
No wahala at all but SS people are wonderful [/b]and you should not carry the problems of Igbos on your head because they are unrepentant and irredeemably insensitive people who enjoy going everywhere and trying to subjugate and dominate those they found on the ground.

Is it so difficult to respect boundaries if an innately decent human being? Yorubas are not innocent or without fault but I believe every fair person will adjudge Igbos have overstepped their boundaries horribly in the SW with their Yoruba hosts.

If you have time, check the post of every Igbo Biafra supremacist here and see if they have ever drawn their stupid Biafra map without including SS territory and folks in their secession agenda without giving you a choice in the matter.

That is the arrogant and domineering demeanour of the average Igbo towards others that has gotten them problems [b]worldwide.

It is their way and the reason many SS folks like Wike make it a point of duty to reject Igbos and put them in their place without holding back.

As an example, Wike told them blatantly he is not Igbo and put down their Obigbo-Oyigbo insurrection decisely and ruthlessly.

Till today they cannot look Wike in the face yet they will insult and drag Sanwo Olu over a fake Lekki Massacre that Igbos deliberately imported many terrorists, including the 21 years old jobless Chinasa Michael who burnt a BRT Park in Lagos, to use as an excuse to destroy Lagos and kill Yoruba leaders as Kanu, Mefor and other IPOB bosses pleaded with them to do.

Kanu was shouting that they must burn Lagos and not let Tinubu, Sanwo Olu "escape" while insisting no inch of Igboland must be destroyed. The audio recording of his evil rant have been presented here several times.

Have Igbos not done enough to us for us to ask them, and them alone, to leave? Especially with the developments seen over Tinubu's candidacy and win?

At the bolded..... please quite the fake Love.
Where SW keep Ibos is exactly where they SS

Events of 2023 elections exposed y'all the more.
Many of our people in Lagos were prevented from voting in Lagos despite not being Ibos.


Don't bring the of Biafra here because it's now clearer that Nigeria has no business being together.
Lagos is for Yoruba alone but Niger Delta is for all Nigerians.

I was amazed that this company is Igbo founded and owned.

It will be difficult to rob Igbos of their rich natural gas resources like how most of us in Niger Delta were robbed of our crude oil.

It's not a secret hinterland of Igbo areas holds one of Africa's biggest gas reserve with imo and Anambra basin leading the pack

Dsalvo:
You're from the SS right? Then fight for your people and their interests because lately you seem to be confused and working yourself up over what is not your business.

You have mentioned this "Lagos screaming go back to your region" issue several times but you need to look within yourself and tell us when this has ever applied to anyone other than Igbos who deliberately take it upon themselves to fight, demean and alienate their host with divisive antics knowing such behaviour will only gain negative responses alone.

Have you ever screamed "Yoruba Moslem" to divide Yorubas as Igbos love doing? If not, why are you so bothered about the reaction such repellent behaviour from Igbos is gaining today from the Yorubas?

Are we Yorubas alone in our behaviour or have Ghanaians, South Africans, Indians, Indonesians, Kenyans, Zimbabweans etal , after far less provocation, not dished out worse to Igbos?

If in Ghana on holiday or for work/business in future then begin beefing Ghanaians, as you seem obsessed to do against Yorubas, for bouncing Igbos from their market rather than jejeli enjoying yourself safe in the knowledge that Igbos alone should deal with whatever repercussion arises from their covetous arrogance, disrespect and hate towards other in their own land.

No Yoruba has any problem with SS, Middle belt or even Northerners today and currently. We have no problem with them living with us in the SW.

Our problem is with Igbos and how they wish to drag with us in our land as if they can defeat us.. This is because, fundamentally, Igbos want to dominate everyone everywhere.

They do not and will never respect boundaries as other Nigerians, including SS folks, do. In Yorubas they have met their match and even superior.

The quickest way to be unfortunate in life is to carry another man's wahala on your own head rather than let them answer for their misdeeds alone.

Show me where Yorubas have ever threatened SS folks to justify your stance today. Also, prove how just and fair-minded you are as a person if you cannot see Igbo wrongdoing and the consequent negative reaction such gains worldwide today.

You wrote something nice but strangely Yorubas don't see SS as friends or treated better than Igbos.
An average person in SW sees anyone beyond Ore as omo-ibo.
The treatment given to Ibos will be given to us, and elsewhere in Nigeria.
Do you guys even know the different between Ibos and SS people?
Bro forget the damage control narrative you're Playing on SS minds.... Lagos elections exposed a lot....let me not even try to bring up how SW messes up our son in 2015 ..


See eh, as it stands....it has proven viable and fruitful especially in economics,trade and commerce for SS to draw closer to Ibos...it will pays us more.

What Lagos ports(Apapa,tin can island, lekki port and soon badagry) are benefiting from ibo patronage can be enjoyed by ports in ph,Calabar, akwa-ibom and warri.


SS stands to gain little or nothing with alliance with SW... imagine oil HQ companies meant to SS were pushed out.

forgiveness:
Ogun state is the 3rd most urbanized state in Nigeria behind Lagos and FCT.

It appears that you don't know what Urbanized means, Ogun is industrialized ,thanks to Lagos but it's not urbanized to level of Anambra. Where remote rural areas are looking like mini city estates.

Don't sweat it bro, I'm not Igbo but I've stayed in both States and Ogun is behind Anambra in Urbanization

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After Lagos, Abuja, Rivers 4th urbanized state is Anambra

In Urbanization,I will rate Anambra ahead of Rivers state.

You can't compare rural development in Anambra to rivers state.
Aside Ph city Rivers is not really Urban,not to mention of the riverine side
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