₦airaland Forum

proeast:
Over the years, there has been arguments and politicization on the need to build viable seaports in the SE. However, it has become an urgent need now. With the removal of fuel subsidy, any region that is capable of landing fuel directly will become more viable than others. Fuel is cheapest in Lagos and most expensive in NE because of this factor. Also, Lagos needs to breath instead of the current suffocation there. Once there is a viable competition to Lagos, tension in that city will reduce. NC and NE will also benefit because it will make fuel and other imports cheaper in those regions.

Abia, Imo and Anambra States all have the potentials to build deep seaports that can berth large vessels comfortably! [/b]Before anyone decides to argue blindly, here are the facts on ground about ports in Nigeria and their positions:

[b]1. Ibaka, Akwa Ibom state; 30 miles to Atlantic.
2. Lagos State; 50 miles to Atlantic.
3. P.H, Rivers State; 50 miles to Atlantic.
4. Onne, Rivers State; 60 miles to Atlantic.

Now compare all these ports to those in SE:
1. Osemoto, Imo State; 18 miles to Atlantic.
2. Oseakwa, Anambra state; 18 miles to Atlantic.
3. Obuaku, Abia State; 25 miles to Atlantic.

The most intriguing part is that the designated ports in Osemoto/Oseakwa axis offer the deepest natural ports as well as the closest to Atlantic, thereby making them potentially the most viable and easiest to maintain in Nigeria!

Any state in the SE that first builds a viable port will automatically become the richest in the region, but also one of the richest states in Nigeria.

There is something fundamentally wrong with you people and it must be a deep and ancestral curse for you to claim states sharing boarders with the sea are further inland than states behind them to the sea. Imagine placing any point in anambra state nearer than port Harcourt to the Atlantic because you want caress your own ego.
Pls share the map to back up your post before you try to insult people that are sane again.

T8ksy:
So, what the heck? Anyway, its too late for all that shenanigan, just break the flippin' sleeping giant -nay- mouse of Africa up.

Let everyone returns to his father's land. We were never one Nigeria and extantly, we are too polarised to even attempt to utter the words , "one Nigeria".

Nigeria is never gonna be One, so why not return it to factory settings where everyone was managing his region as best as they could.

T8sky, o gbasky. Let the liars keep deceiving themselves.

Jesus existed with 90% probability because pontius pilate described events of disturbance in jerusalem which matched how the bible described it in his reports to tiberius ceasar.
In one of his reports, he described how jews went into uproar over the arrest of common criminals and most historians agree that it is the same thing that the bible described and i agree.
To an outside observer, if a thief is arrested and people started riot over it, what he will feel like is why the fuss over judging criminals abd that was exactly how pilate felt and he doesn't have to remember the name of jesus as he sentenced him like he did hundreds of others

Yoruba don suffer o! eh! Who bring us and these people together sef? Abeg make everybody separate o and hold him papa land

See how he dey talk sef, you go know he no get brain
Wetin biafran army fit do for lagos, abi dem go invade again, this time there will be no pity

Paretomaster1:
Hausa, and Swahili are the 2 most spoken languages in Africa , with many claiming Swahili to take the lead, but I disagree because of all the African countries I have been to, am yet to see people speaking Swahili the way HAUSA is being spoken.

Last country I was is Niger Republic, and I tell you I only blend in because I can speak Hausa, and the people don't speak English but French...

There is hardly any African country you go, and don't find Hausa speakers.

World renown media Houses in US, Britain, French, Germany etc have been transmitting in Hausa since before Nigeria Independence .

Why did you think the Hausas are usually vast in current affairs, and politics even with little education?? They are always glued to their transistor radio where they listen to world news, and events broadcasted in their mother tongue...

Yoruba is the most spoken African language outside Africa. There are more non African that can speak Yoruba than any other African language.
Ask Russia if you doubt me

Truthday:
If we find it difficult as Africans to live freely and peacefully amongst ourselves, them I wonder where on earth we can live.

When we see IPOB and YORUBA nation calling for succession as if their country will be cited outside Nigeria or Africa, There's nothing they're seeking for other than Change of Name. We as Nigerians are same people with same bad acts. When we see easterners killing each other and westerners killing kidnapping and ritualling they aren't alien they are people who're part if us. If we find it difficult as Africans to live freely and peacefully amongst ourselves, them I wonder where on earth we can live. .

We have to put these nonsense differences and tribal nonsense aside and see our growth as Africans. What exactly is our problem that we just look for flimsy excuses for our failures. Those agitating for nonsense today, when they get the position, it's embezzlement that'll scatter the table of agitation. Looting the money to Europe and america.

I'm sure if the YORUBA nation abd IPOB fail in next 50yrs, people will call for Anambra or Ondo nation. Throwing themselves into endless conflict.

If I should start with history, fir Europe to grow after the collapse of solviet Union, western European nations, brought themselves together with eastern counterparts to have single currency, remove borders and form a security alliance for their protection. They were also weary if cultural and ethnic whatever, but they found out that if EU. Gave them fortune of security and economy, their respective government can handle whatever ethnic nonsense they want to deal with. And today Europe is greatly successful.

Hungary that seceded from Austrian empire is sited on the moon or Romania that came out of turkey and separation of Yugoslavia did not happen on this earth. At least have a tiny knowledge of what you are talking about before coming out to look stupid

Demonic Psalms. That's a new one from his Bible

XerXers:
By the time you make enemies with the north you will be a lonely man, is it minority that will save you from igbo / northern realignment? You think Obasanjo was a fool?

Which north? Which of of them? All the minorities in the north combined beat hausa-Fulani in numbers and which mouth Igbo get for south. Abg pack aside

donbachi:
Some regions no go see food chop

Shey the ones wey see ocean or the ones wey dey landlocked

enemybulldozer:
Comprehension problem does not include accusing Gods tribe wrongly.

God's tribe that is always crying marginalization. Funny

nairalanda1:
Nukes are meant to scare the other guy into not using his nukes...based on the priniciple of mutually assured destruction, or MAD.

They are not meant for actual battlefield use.

Especially not in Ukriane.

The problem with nukes...with a normal bomb, the damage is limited to point X. With nuclear weapons, the damage spreads from point X to point Y. Friends and foes are all affected.

Remember, today's nukes are not like the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They are more powerful, with higher yield and higher potential for fallout.

Don't mind the ideeyot

barbstee:
It's better you quit this wailing of a thing . The man has always triumphed against you people and he'll continue to as far as it's because of hatred.

Meanwhile Tinubu was in opposition for 16 years and EFCC was never on his neck even in their glorious days and neither was he convicted of any crime so he's as "clean" as your Peter Obi and even more

Let efcc growl at Peter obi, you will see as all his last coin stolen will start to drop

Penguin2:
With every passing day, things continue to look more and more bleak for Tinubu at the Presidential Election Petition Court.

And today, the candidate of the PDP in the last general elections, Atiku Abubakar, seemed to have saved the best for last as he presented what can be tagged a bombshell in court as he closed his case.

Few takeaway points for quick considerations:-

The Certified Copies of Certificates from Chicago State University in America returned with the name Bola Adekunle Tinubu (Female). Same name and gender was in the Certified True Copies of NYSC certificate.

This is worlds apart with Bola Ahmed Tinubu (Male), the candidate who stood for election under the APC.

Over to APC boys and their lawyers. Do you still think Atiku doesn’t have a case?


https://www.channelstv.com/2023/06/23/tribunal-admits-chicago-university-nysc-mobil-certificates-against-tinubu/

You wey be jugde, why not go and sentence am

If you are in Yoruba land, you are mandated to speak Yoruba, and as nairaland is own by a Yoruba man, then lati Oni lo, Yoruba ni nma so. Awon alaye baje gbogbo

cmikel:
Peter obi is democratic activist

They said he dint have structure but he rallied people as his structure


Nigerians should appriciate peter obi and support him because he is the reason why government are on their toes.

For Nigerians to get the best out of the present day government they must support leaders with vision like obi directly or indirectly.

Buhari had nobody chasing him so he spent a whopping 3 months to inogorate his cabinet

Everything was so slow the reason why we are were we are bc nobody was on his toe.


Weather you are Apc or lp or pdp you need to support democratic activist with vision if you want a better life and for your present government to deliver


Some paid political supporters will jump here to castigate everything about others, they are doing what they are paid for.





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Who is obi?

ruggedtimi:
But what do people expect....that Tinubu will work with buhari's people ??...If he has the power to remove the civil servants he will do same . This is the only way he can totally remove the influence of the previous govt and this how to reduce the influence of godfatherism. Bt tinubu just dey act like a newly appointed football coach bringing players frm his former club. Most of his appointees are men he worked with as a governor.

A former coach that won a league with the former club with top notch former players. Every coach will so that to revive a new failing club

Don't worry, in the next hundred years, you will have a chance to achieve your igbonization that zik and ironsi planned for

Zxcvbnmghtr:
You mean they should be fashion conscious like the current Nigeria super eagles who are more after the beauty of their hair style, jersey, boot and photo shoot than going for goals?

See how you interpret a sensible point, do you think it's only gun they shoot on the front? Bullets are the least of the problems for Frontline soldiers

lexy2014:
i dont get you. what has dele alake being a civilian got to do with his releasing the names of security officers at aso villa?

if the names of service chiefs were made public, wetin de brigade of guards commanders names that wont be made public?

It doesn't matter, brigade of guards commanders are purely personal appointment, if you like you can choose your son to be their commander, it's about who you trust.

Akalia:
These appointments do not reflect the idea of inclusiveness owing to the fact that the SS and SE regions were not part of the appointments. This is clearly the case of nepotism.

Greedy people, have you seen any north Central there? Why is nobody talking about north Central

Elanqy:
I wonder if there is no Igbo Snr officer.
I can mostly see Yoruba and Hausa names.

You blind

AntiMarxist:
What was the basis Ojukwu invaded Mid West and unanimously declared it an independent nation and from there launched an attack on the Western region if not an igbo expansionist agenda to colonize their betters.

He even installed an ibo dictator for the Midwest

AntiMarxist:
Operation Araba was the major motive by the Murtala led mutineers composed mainly of northern officers.

The mutineers wanted to avenge on behalf of the north on the Ironsi Igbo led dictatorship that had supplanted itself following the Jan 15 coup.

Their main agenda was to leave Nigeria .

This was opposed by the northern Christian officers who were rightly weary of being overwhelmed in a future Arewa Islamic state.

Gowon prevailed on Murtala and told him there was no money in the north to support an independent northern Nigerian state. The icing that made Murtala rescind his seccesionist bid was when Gowon told Murtala and his co mutineers that it will be better if the north remains in the new centrist Nigeria fashioned by the Igbo coupists as there was now a bright future with the discovery of oil in the Niger Delta.

Now ,imagine if Murtala and his co northern officers had gone ahead with Operation Araba .

For one, there was a political vacuum in both the current SW and SS owing to the execution of their leaders by the Igbo coupists in 1966. Awolowo was serving a prison sentence for treason and the Yoruba nation was in total dissaray following both the lack of leadership and almost zero presence in the new military setup.

The Yorubas were mute through these turbulent times because there was no way they could challenge either the Igbo dictatorship or the Northern one that succeeded it.

With a scenario that Murtala left with the north, I can bet Ojukwu would have rolled over both the Midwest and western region and southern Nigeria would have been a totally different place with Igbos ruling over the SW and SS people.

The Igbos planned for that coup decades prior as they were silently enlisting in the Military and Zik was packing the officer cadre with his Zikist students .

The north found out very late in 1959 about this lopsided domination of the military by the Igbo and the Sarduna began recruiting young secondary school students in the north to enlist into the military college.

The likes of IBB and Abacha were inspired by Sarduna visiting their schools with a young sharp looking Gowon in his smart officer suit.

While the north was playing catch up with the Igbo , the SW and SS people were oblivious on the future shift in our political landscape from that of an intelligenstia led democratic leadership to brute military rule .

This is one reason why I believe that the unfortunate Jan 15 coup was no accident but the outcome of a long standing ambition by the Igbo Marxist to infiltrate the military and seize power from there on.

In summary, if not for Gowon ,the Igbo would have entrenched themselves as rulers above their betters in both the SS and SW.

Thank God, Gowon intervened.

This is the clearest summary of history

Osaremwantaelvi:
ATTENTION TO ALL OUR PRESIDENTIAL AND GOVERNORSHIP ASPIRANTS.

In case you don't know the root cause of our problems today, please take time out and read below:

As of 29/03/2022, the exchange rates were:

£1 = ₦783
$1 = ₦560
€1 = ₦670

42 years ago, precisely on 01/03/1980 the exchange rate was:
$1 = 0.78k

Are you surprised?

Well, we were far more productive in 1980 than we are today.

In 1980 the key reasons for economic growth were as follows:

1. We were a net exporter of refined petroleum products. Today we import all our refined petroleum products.

2. We rode in locally assembled cars, buses and trucks. Peugeot cars in Kaduna and Volkswagen cars in Lagos.

3. Leyland produced trucks/buses in Ibadan and ANAMCO in Enugu also produced buses and trucks.

4. Steyr in Bauchi produced our Agricultural tractors. And it was not just Assembly, we were producing many of the components:

5. Vono products in Lagos produced the vehicle seats.

6. Exide in Ibadan produced the batteries, not just for Nigeria but for the entire West Africa.

7. IsoGlass and TSG in Ibadan produced the windshields.

8. Ferrodo in Ibadan produced the brake pads and discs

9. Dunlop produced Tyres in Lagos and Mitchelin Tyres were produced in Port Harcourt. And I mean tyres produced from rubber plantations located in Ogun, Bendel and Rivers State.

10. We were listening to Radio and watching television sets assembled in Ibadan by Sanyo.

11. We were using refrigerators, freezers and Airconditioners produced by Thermocool and Debo.

12. We were putting on clothes produced from the UNTL Textile Mills in Kaduna and Chellarams in Lagos. They were Not from imported cotton but from cotton grown in Nigeria.

13. Our water was running through pipes produced by Kwalipipe in Kano and Duraplast in Lagos .

14. Our toilets were fitted with WC produced in Kano and Abeokuta.

15 We were cooking with LPG gas stored inside gas cylinders produced at the NGC factory in Ibadan.

16. Our electricity was flowing through cables produced by the Nigerian Wire and Cable, Ibadan; NOCACO in Kaduna and Kablemetal in Lagos and Port Harcourt.

17. We had Bata and Lennards Stores producing the shoes we were putting on. The shoes were not from imported leather but from locally tanned leather in Kaduna.

18. We were mainly flying our Airways, (the Nigeria Airways), to most places in the world. The Nigeria Airways was about the biggest in Africa at the time.

19. Most of the foods we ate were grown or produced in Nigeria.

We were producing all of the above and many more in 1980

Today, we import almost everything. Isn't that alarming?

There lies the source of the terrible exchange rate we are experiencing today and everyone reading this has a critical role to play in reversing this very UGLY trend.

We have been talking about these problems and more for ages.

It is not enough for us to complain about the exchange rate or point out what others are not doing or are failing to do. The key questions are:

1. What are we producing now?
2. What role are our so- called Leaders/ Politicians of today playing?

We are forever shying away from responsibility whereas it is a stack reality and if we don't deal with it, it won't go away. In fact it will get worse.

To our dear Politician, if you don't have the capacity to RESET Nigeria to what it was at least back in 1980 then please stay in your house and don't waste our time.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!!

Although I sympathize with your post, but you the not give the accurate reasons why we are not producing.
The reason is the presidential/feudalist system we are running now.
You see, in the 60's after independence, every region was competing to develop at it's own pace with its own resources and the only economic factor joining us together was the currency and that only a percentage of each region earnings was given to the federal.
And what do you do with your resources? You try to grow it, which was what each region earnestly did by bringing in investment in technology productions.
But after the federal government took over every one's resources both natural and technical, for example, the so called nationalisation policy enacted by obasanjo late 70's, the inevitable is the regression of our industries and the rest is history.
The only question is that how do we revive those forms and industries you mentioned as they are dead now.
How?
We go back to the way we were. Regionalism, that's how because everybody will face his holdings instead of looking for what to steal from someone else

Noel19:
Rule 2 and 3 Seun Nlfpmod dominique Obinoscopy.

Using ethnic slurs against people

Point at a word that is a slur here, negro means black. And if you are really Yoruba, you will never say this "kwara man" you people can never change what you are

This op thinks everybody is as brainless as he is, 500k Yoruba and they moved from Lagos to anambra 20yrs ago, imagine! Your immoral fixation with with Lagos is something else

ganisucks:
Kikiki... 😆😅🤣😂

Keep living in denial. While you are here talking qwa, your principal is preparing to announce that he will allow a fresh election.

Seriously? Wow! You people are really mental

T9ksy:
Of course, you're yoruba.....in ur dreams!

Am yoruba and am not voting for Tinubu because
I know no one can save Nigeria, not even Peter Obi china. None of yhose parading as our presidential candidates can save us from fulani herdsmen menace, so therefore I will save myself the unnecessary wahala.

Yoruba nation on my mind...........

Gbaski

adebayo987:
The Northern cabals era is gone. The only person who would have made it remain so was Atiku Abubakar and the only people who can remove it are Peter Obi and Tinubu

Obi don't have the balls, he will go there to do yes daddy for the cabals

MXrep:
While praising Tinubu for any little thing some shallow brain will start mocking Igbos. Most of these policies have been advocated by Igbos long ago. It's the North that has been resisting these things. Tinubu scammed the North with religion, after claiming to continue from where Buhari stopped he has reversed everything. We Igbos are enjoying these policies but that will not stop Tinubu from being kicked out by the courts

The same igbos that stand against regional government abi?