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spyder880:This school can compete with any school in this country. I only hope the quality of education is as beautiful as the edifice. |
Owerri is getting it right in aesthetics. The structures springing up and down there are of high quality value. Those places are too beautiful. |
We as individuals are trying our best to live as comfortably as possible no matter the situation we find ourselves. But as a people we are living in total denial of what makes us a people. We tend not to agree much on a singular pursuit and it has made us a laughing stock. The whole country and the politics therein, we can see that we are not playing any singular role in either getting favour from the centre or coming together and making ourselves better than what the center can offer. As we can see, the country keeps leaving big holes that needs only a people who plan to get it right to fill and make so much money from it. We are not fighting to be president, we are not fighting for infrastructure in our region, we are not fighting for a better economic space for our people, we are not still fighting for the security of our people all over the country. The question is, what is the igbo people fighting for in this country apart from breaking away (which has died down in recent times). If we choose to exempt ourselves from the federal power play in this country, we can still channel those energy to making the region better and an envy of all. We all know that times are changing and making a strong point at this point is the solution to the impending danger we might find ourselves if the country resources go south. With a high percentage of our people living outside it shores and the increase of hate against our people, the reduction in the resources in the country will only make the state governments adjust themselves to favour the locals at the expense of the other people. We need as a matter of urgency work on the tourism, education, commerce, entertainment, agriculture, industrialization, health care and pharmaceuticals in our region. We are blessed with an immediate 70 million market strong which we can utilize for ourselves. We can change the tide only if we are serious about this. |
I met an igbo man in Gwanara area of kwara state close to the border town of Oyo (forgotten the name of that popular area). He was an exporter of agricultural products using the land borders there and shipping it through the neighbouring country of benin republic. He exports yam, charcoal and some other agricultural products. He told me that he exports these products every two weeks and makes alot of money from it. The funniest part is that he gets those products at a very low price e.g, he buys a tuber of yam from the local yam farms at the rate of 100naira per big tuber and when he exports them, he sells them like 900 to a thousand naira each putting the export duty and transportation into consideration. He thought me how to do the business that time but I was so young and broke then that I couldn't delve into the business at the time. What am I driving at, we can get to any extent in agricultural fulfillment without going into intensive agriculture like they do. We can crash the prices of agricultural products in the east if we make them re-channel those products from the north to the east. |
Handsomegod:I spoke about many of these things as far back as 2015 in this forum but many people thought I was going colonial. We cannot have everything done in igboland because there is no space to do everything. We need to capitalize on the ignorance of the people in those region and turn it to our advantage. If eventually these people get it right, it will be difficult for us to penetrate them. Many of these fruits go straight to the north who in turn send it down to the south and many of the fruits perish on the way and the rest sold at exorbitant prices. If we can channel those products in kogi, benue, nassarawa, taraba and jos to the east, we will control the food in the country. We can buy these things at a relatively very low prices and make bigger things with it. But like we are seeing it today, we dont have the economic and political will to colonize these things and its not going to favour us in the future. |
Why are all these people shallow in thinking? I am only commenting because I feel some young people will be seeing reasons with whatever jargons this man is spewing. The bone of contention is land. If the herders want grass, they can ask the government to subsidize the price of grasses for them so that the cost of feeding the cows will reduce. The government cannot provide land for farmers but can only reduce the cost of production through subsidy. Stop making people look like fools with your false analogy. |
Ofuzo:Is that not madness? When I was telling someone on this thread, they just hit me with a big stick. There a countless plazas around the country that are bigger than that but they still maintain the normal name without any form of hyperbole. They did not say they recorded lesser sales than the ones with the hyperbole. Keep it simple and let your services speak for you. |
I was in imo state in 2012. I had a project at awaza flow station before my dad died that year. Because i was shuttling awaza and anambra state, I was always passing through imo state before going to my state. The state had many bad roads and I am telling you the truth. I have not been to the state since then but from what I have seen, I think many of those areas would have been touched. I know he has many lapses which makes him incompetent but the one he has done, the guy tried. At least turning a mere town to a city is not really easy. |
kikake:The guy will not contest in the coming elections and whatever you say or do will hold nothing against him. I know he needs to spread his focal points but that doesnt negate the fact that the owerri he focused on made so much sense to me. The only problem i have with these governors is their inability to commercialize their states. I find it heartbreaking that they only build to beautify instead to enable the environment to attract investors more. Please do not label him only as a failure but as person who has also looked at other parts of the state. Maybe someone else can just look at orlu and other environs and develop it. To be fair, he is the only governor that is working. He is actually building something. That to me is something. |
SoNature:I am not a resident of the state but from the news I get from this page, I believe he is the one doing more than other states in my opinion. The other states are just sampling private investments in their pages. I know the orlu people are complaining about him but his roads are neat and well paved in my opinion than many states I have been to. Moreover, I don't know about his projects not lasting more than a year. I think that also applies to other states too in this country because of their shoddy works. The guy has a mindset which is beautiful to me. I mean the guy is actually building structures and not only roads. The rest are just building roads and nothing more. Rochas is building structures like stadium, schools and the rest. Please you guys should not just crucify the guy as if he is just moving left and had never moved right. |
I am not hating on the development, in fact it is a welcome development but I am just saying that the use of the plaza will not diminish if the name is still simple as coal city pavilion. |
DawatNama:I mean in all aspects of life, there is no one in my family that you come close to both in education and achievement. I am not saying it for the sake of boasting. People like you just come online and be insulting people because you have mouth. Now if they build a plaza bigger than that, what will they name it? Super plaza? supernatural plaza? A plaza is a plaza and stop using mega, ultra modern and the rest. As big as dubai mall is, they never named it dubai ultra modern mall. Its simple, dubai mall and its still bigger than all the malls in Nigeria. So why the use of hyperbole? |
spyder880:If they just write coal city pavilion instead of inserting the mega, will it stop the structure from being beautiful? All these fake names we keep giving our structures is really annoying. If they open one shop, they will name it "Ultra modern shop". Its just very sad that we do things and make it look like we have done something that has not been done before and make look larger than it is. Keep names simple and stop making look local with too many names. |
You all can insult him all you want but I think okorocha is the best governor you have had since 1999. In fact, he is the best governor in the southeast. The recent beauty of imo state and the calibre of infrastructure he has built so far can dwarf any governor in the east in recent times. The only problem he has is that he doesn't know how to commercialize his state to be economically viable. In the next couple of years, if they continue what he has put on ground, imo state will have the highest malls in the country. I have seen close to 6 malls under construction. This better than the ones built by other states at the moment. |
Na my boss be this oh, lol. |
asha80:I am a telecom engineer. I travel round this country on almost on a daily basis. The funniest part is that, the villages you don't go, I go. The extremes you have not reached, I have reached in this country. When I think my people are more educated and civilized than many of these people, I still find them building bigger projects than we do. With lots of dependants from their axis, you still find them getting things done. We can be first in a whack educational system that breeds dependants but that doesn't mean our educational system makes sense. You see, igbo people still go to the backward north to still live in their ghetto and you we are better of? oh please. |
asha80:Can you kindly come let me take you round. You will think I am joking. |
melodyogonna:So you think we've not had any minister of works and housing from the region since Independence? |
melodyogonna:I am not defending Nigeria. in fact, I careless what happens to it. But we are moving too slow than the entity we chose to chastise. We should making it look like there are people stationed in the region that destroy the roads if we build them or destroy structures too. nothing |
melodyogonna:What do you want me to prove. list it? The best orthopaedic hospital in Nigeria is in Katsina. The best equipped hospital in Nigeria is in Edo and akwa ibom state. Kano is building one of the biggest economic zone in Nigeria. Lagos, Ogun are getting noticed for something. we are only sharing average in all indices. stop clapping over things. I know there was a setback but that's not the reason why we won't have a template. If this is what u plan to achieve, then chase it. Stop calling on other people as the cause of your problems. Sometimes I feel you guys are comfortable when u blame others. it gives u the soothing feeling to make u relax. |
Oga080666419419:In your mind you know how to run your mouth but you don't know how stupid you sound. A region where over 60% of its population do not base in the state. A region where 90% of the wealthy men did not make money in the region. 90% of the houses in the region are not owned by people doing businesses in the region. You keep dishing out numbers like you are smart but you don't know that your governors govern the least landmass in the entire country and the least population in the country but no substantial development coming from your end. You always insult the north and you don't know them. You insult them but most of the powerful people you have in the east grew up there or did business there. The real Fulanis and Hausas are not poor. It's the imported ones. From the fringes of the region. You think Anambra have more schools than Kano or Katsina? you guys just stay in the east and feel you know everywhere. Igboland and igbo people do not have a thing. Just one thing. Our brothers are systematically sent out of the state in Lagos, the Hausas are buying properties of igbos in Kano. The whole economic epicenter of igbo businesses are being rounded up through policies but you keep talking. You don't know one thing. You dishing out info from bodies outside the country. How much has your education system helped in growing the economy of the region? How many graduates in the region stay there after 3months. A lady from Imo state served in Kano, and now she has remained there. Why didn't she return to Imo state? You are really an idiotic fellow if you think igboland is getting it right because you see houses. I have been to many places in this country. For a people with so much education and exposure, igboland and igbo people are the most underdeveloped and under-utilized people in the world. FYI, what do they treat in Nigeria that Eastern region is the best place to treat it? Which hospital in the east is more equipped than other hospitals in the country. Make I no slap you now |
Ofodirinwa:Someone is thinking. We attach too much of our shortcomings to outsiders. We can never blame ourselves. We can never blame the igbos who say they can never go back to the village. We can never blame igbos who have sunday meetings without any real achievement from those meetings after 40years. The only thing they contribute is "end of the year party", "anambra day", etc. They do nothing. We love so much of self aggrandizement that we fail to realize that the future is really not interesting for both the rich and poor in the region. |
Handsomegod:You know one thing i like about my people? Its their way of thinking and not the manifestation of their thoughts. One would think that the frankdoz has a development template in his computer before writing the beautiful piece up there alas, the guys just used his keyboard to type for his friends to see. To be frank with you, the eastern region has one of the worst economic design in the world when you look at how educated they are. Economic development template - 0 health sector development template - 0 commerce development template - 0 Industrialization development template - 0 housing development template - 0 environment development template - 0 tourism development template - 0 All indices, the eastern region has failed and it is not the cause of the hausa nor the yorubas have a hand in it. The igbos are clueless about development. They dont know how to go about it. They dont like to come together to get things done and they feel they are the best. Why cant we eat the humble pie and tell ourselves the truth that we have failed in liberating our people out of the corners of rejection and dejection. We keep applauding so much mediocrity and think so big about ourselves that we have refused to see the impending doom coming our way if we continue to move this same direction. Keep cheering yourselves until you guys set hate aside and think for yourselves independently. |
I am typing incoherently because I keep seeing comments that annoys me. Its like you guys are just in one place sniffing the same emotional cigar. What is wrong with all of you? You give these northerners so much power and when I stayed with them, they have none. When i stayed in yorubaland, they had none. Who exactly in the north is stopping you from developing? I grew up in the south, I did politics in the south west before my job took me to the north. The truth is, none of these people have the powers that you guys are making them have. Nnamdi kanu became powerful because mainstream media started carrying his news. If you have one person that will push the igbo course and we bring him to limelight, other ethnic group will respect him like we respect buhari and tinubu. But what do I know? We first kill our politicians with bad mouth, then the outsiders see them as nothing because they do not even have the backing of the people. Today, no igbo politician can on his own gather crowd and people dying to vote for him. None!!! All are paid crowds and bystanders. This country still favours igbos until we start building our own local economy and our own market. We should building our own image devoid of the stains of Nigeria. It is easier for Lagos to gain independence than yorubas to gain it. That is just the beautiful truth. Lagos is relevant but the other five southwestern states are irrelevant. Why? they are not important to anyone in the world. so if hausas decide to bomb it today, no one will do anything about but it will just be a great news coming from africa. Igbos should think like those people who ruled the world and not those who left captivity. |
Which position has any of you held in recent times? What do you plan to offer to the G7 except your tears and your rallies? Which multinational company will have your case been pursued in the international court of justice. Seriously, you guys should start from reality and grow your dreams. Its becoming very disheartening seeing emotional comments in this forum without realistic approach. Catalonia you guys were chanting last year, where are they now? You all think the world gives a damn about you guys. The only people who hype us are ourselves. No one knows us and we are not important to anyone in the world. Take it or leave it. You guys better sit and tell yourselves the truth. |
![]() Bunch of emotional youths thinking running a country is by chanting it online. I thought the leaders are the problem, but looking at all your comments, I think the people themselves are the bigger problems. Igbos are part of the Nigerian problem, why are you trying to run from it? |
NonsoWow:No wonder you grew up in the village. Very slow thinker. |
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if 60% of women do not love their husbands, then the fallacy that women will only sleep with guys that they love is pure lies. |
post=67447550:Please dont go there, kano has more filling stations than anywhere in Nigeria. I think they might even have more than lagos. No jokes It is good we promote our businesses but lets not spoil it with unfounded statements devoid of facts. People learn things on this thread. |
TonyeBarcanista:Stop deceiving yourself Mr, Makarfi will not win kaduna state in the next election. |
Handsomegod:It was rejected in the lower house but it was allowed to go for the second reading in the upper chamber. |