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dayokanu: You mean it was some people who pushed Oyo Ogun, Ondo Osun to top of the list and cant help their hometowns in Enugu, Anambra and Ebonyi?

How pathetic

my friend why do you really like strife. Do you really think that without other ethnic nationalities that your so called region will be what she is? And let me remind you that it is only a matter of time a region can overtake another region for example Akwa ibom last 5 years was nothing to write home about fast forward to presently infratructure is springing up massively, if it continues like this in the next 5 yrs ur lagos will be with outdated infrastructure wise compared with that place. far back 2000 chinas economy was not even a match with Italy but under a decade it has surpased both Germany, Europes economic power house and Japan, showing that even giants can be overtaken talkless of ur regions economy which u so much brag about which is even insignifcant compared to global super economies. Ur region is still dependent on Nigeria to wax strong, u dont produce anything, u dont export anything out of ur region that adda value to the economy of the nation, so my dear until your region begin to do things that will add to Nigerias foriegn exchange account, just shut ur trap u got nothing to offer the country as a whole only depend on the Niger delta oil as only means of foreign exchange revenue nothing else and I am a firm believer for economic diversification not only dependence on Niger delta oil.

I will never forget nov 2008 while following US election when the breaking news came in on CNN that Barack Obama has been elected, tears were rollng down my eyes because who will believe that blacks who were 3rd classs citizens will get a black man in white house, a black woman as 1st lady. That day I came to believe that anything is possible under the sun. As for Nigeria breaking up is possible because there is so much bagage in this country, after the war the Northerners took other people as spoils of war, they marginalised and treated other parts as 3rd class citizens but the irony in all this is that they are still the most impoverished, they are reaping the seeds they sowed by their traetment of others. The lesson is dont malreat others or make life difficult for them when power is in your hands. If Nigeria breaks up If the middle belt/Se/Ss+(SW :if they want) to form a country where there will be equity, justice and no cheating, I tell u in few years they will rival the western world in advacement: although I will still want and prefer a united Nigeria but there is so much bagage and past hurts and injustices that must be addressed first for us to move forward.

anybody that knows how to pray, make him pray 4 naija because 2015 will make or mar this country. When mend was fighting govt in 2007 one of my military friend then told me that the ammunition these militant had, Nigerian military no get am, fast forward to now, these militants are so rich, someone like tompolo alone can match dangote dollar 4 dollar, he is the one manning Nigerias waterway, so u can imagine what he can do. And the northerners did not help the matter they used bokoharam to distabilise GEJ regime, so if a core northerner wins in 2015 he may not have a Nigeria to govern again; and this is the true fact on ground.

nagoma: " Out of School a man is not judged by his grades ; but by the changes he brings and the promises he keeps". We know how much of mess the banking system was in when Soludo left the CBN and we don't know how many promises he kept as a public servant. Soludo's response to El - Rufa'i is ungentlemanly and extremely unsatisfactory for the intellectual he claims to be and it all sounds like sour grapes. People who can write do so all their lives and if Soludo is waiting for the end of his career to start writing , tell him that he is late by 4 years now when his career ended shamefully.

El-rufai cannot even clean Soludos shoes dnt even go there they are not mates nor match. As for Soludos acheivement his bank consolidatioin still stands out, Nigerian banks were not even in Africas top 20 but today look at their position, he made his mistakes but still his achievements surpases his mistakes. Saniusi tried in his risk reforms but today there is nothing stimulating the banking sector, they are asleep, a vibrant banking sector is the blood of a vibrant economy, how are Nigerian banks today vis a vis the Nigerian economy?

if we sincerely want change in this country, people like fashola, oshiomole, akpabio who are the best performing governors should be those to be choosen by their respective parties as flagbearers, not people that will set us back or play ethnic/religious card.

the main issue is that APC is a marriage of strange bedellows, infact there are many battles that will be fought, especially about who controls the party btw Asiwaju and the Northern wing represented by Buhari, infact this will be the main battle and my instinct tells me Asiwaju being a very smart politician will win the battle and maybe someone like fashola or oshiomole will emerge as presiden. With this scenario APC can win the presidency but if they put any aboki as flagbearer, they will not win because of what their bokoharam has done to this country.

this huge foreign reserve will be of benefit to Nigeria, it will encourage more FDI into the economy, infact Nigeria has the highest inflow of FDI into sub saharan Africa. I give a pass mark to the present govt on this area and pray they improve on other areas that is hurting the masses.

most people here dont have understanding of economics, high foreign reserve is good for the economy of a nation. Having it shows investors, lenders that you have a strong and reliable economy, that their money is secured therefore FDI will flow in. Countries mostly in Asia like Singapore, China, Malaysia, South Korea have very high foreign reserve, stable economy and they are where majority of high portfolio investors flock to.

django1: Another fallacy, yorubas don't leave their region.

Buses are moving from SW to SE daily do you think its only easterners that travel in those buses?

Ibadan is only dirty and disorganised in your prejudiced mind!

Point out one vicinity is Ibadan that is dirty, I know you idiots will like to show me pictures of brown roofs.

simple question have u been to Enugu and Kaduna b4? Dont come here and be talking crap, how many yoruba folks have gone outside their region very few unlike northerners and Igbos, I have been to Ibadan not once and its got nothin on Enugu. Most of u guys are ignorant simple, one Yoruba babe told of how her perception changed about East changed when she served in Enugu, that she was surprised with what she saw than what she heard b4 about the east.

django1: This is what I don't like! What do you know about Ibadan?

Tell me what makes enugu or kaduna better than Ib! Is it infrasture or what?

dont go there, I ve been to the three cities and Ibadan is very disorganised and dirty. Kaduna is ok but Enugu is just neat, well planned and organised and with good infrastructure. Most of these folks have never moved out of their region b4, thats why they will say that East is not developed, but all na because of ignorance

there might be truth in the news, cancer is no respecter of person especially when it relapse. Many big men in naija have be taken by the cold hands of cancer like: alex ibru, tayo former gtb bank md and many others. Cancer is a terrible killer and many big men fall for it because of lack of discipline in what they consume not knowing they are taking in poisons, toxins and cancer,

The typing mistake was because I was typing with my phone.

You can say whatever u like, Lagos was simply developed by the colonial masters and then later by the federal government, Lagos belongs to the whole nation. Apart from Lagos name one other SW state with development to match east, I have been to some areas b4 in ur region and they are glorified villages called state, which city in Sw can match the beauty of Enugu, compare Ibadan and Onitsha, Ibadan is not organized, dirty buildings but Onitsha is much more organised with neat buildings.

Why I mentioned Ibaka port is because of the strategic benefit it will derive from the bussiness in the aest, at least they are doing it but they are not blowing trumpet.

My friend we have heard all those cock and bull story u guys talk about east, but at least we still have something tangible we achieved by our sweat no government help, unlike ur Lagos which is what it is today not by u guys effort but simply by the Federal Government, so don't come here pointing to Lagos cos it belongs to the whole nation just like Abuja.

You guys launder too much propaganda filled with lies, claiming false figures about the lekki sea port and mind u Akwa Ibom state are also constructing a big sea port also which will cater for goods coming to SS Se middle belt and northern states and there own is not lies and propaganda, they have the finacial means to do that coupled with having a highly ambitious governor.

So stop coming here and blowing lies, u were caught and then u claimed it was no longer 200billion now. 20 billioin all lies, so stop all these ur lies and propaganda we can see through it.

Today I found out the Intelligence level of eko ile is sub standard, infact he is a stark illiterate, am really dissapointed. This news shows the level of intelligence of these guys laundring this propaganda, nothing upstairs and these are the people ruling us, ah its a very big shame.

They should know that the academic and exposure level of some of us on this forum is top notch, world class and that we can see through their lies, because brainwise they be serious olodo

If they are honest about all these reforms then they wll start from themselves, people like tinubu, ikimi, okorocha, and so many others in there midst should be brought to justice first before they can now come and cleanse nigeria, you cannot be sick and claim u have a cure when u have not first cured urself. The only men with a bit integrity in that Apc are Buhari, Oshiomole, Ribadu, Fashola but other deeply and corrupt indiividuals in the group has defiled the integrity of those few men I mentoned up there. Therefore they are not different from PDP. All I know is that b4 2015 many more political movement will rise up and maybe a true party for the masses will emerge, a party without men that has messed us up these 40years then I can believe them not this Apc.

I travelled on that road on sat 13 April when I went for a wedding in benin. I was so impressed especially from ore to benin was so smooth and the road of high quality. Kudos to this gej govt, they have to be comended for areas well done, not people that will not see anything good abt this govt.

Mr iyfe enough of these cursing, no body is saying that medical practice in naija is up there no, there a lot of improvemnt needed, but as far as heart surgery is concerned UNTH is renowned for that pioneered by Prof Martin Aghaji. He is a world renowned heart surgeon infact among the best in the world. He has been doing this surgery as far back as late 1990's cos I knew about it back then in Enugu. Concerning your friends relation dying, people can die durng the course of surgery even in westeren health centres example stella obasanjo, Kanye west mum and many others have died during the course of surgery it does happen, surgery is a very big risk talkless of heart surgery.

India offers cheaper and effective medical service but it is a good thing for govt to encourage health instutions in the counbtry to improve like they are doing with UNTH it is a good omen so that Nigerians need not go overseas again. This news is a good one, if we improve our health system, many Nigerian trained doctors doing well in western countries can help even by little contribution turn our health system into world class, and these doctors are in their thousands.

esere826: Another excellent presentation
Digging deeper, we'll find that this a chicken and egg situation
Corrupt and ineffectual leaders come from corrupt and ineffectual people
Corrupt and ineffectual leaders create corrupt and ineffectual people
..a viscious cycle

But interestinly, its easier to change one person than a group of 10
in the same vain demanding accountability from a small leadership class making up not more than .5% of the population
should be easier than converting the entire Nigerians

All we need in Nigeria right now is for one person at the top (the president) to be a fast striking change agent
With our present political structure, he can only get there by mistake
..similar kind of mistake that brought Jonathan, a minority, to power

True bro we need just one honest, truthful, selfless leader with impecable integrity. Sometimes I ask myself whether we offended our creator too much, Lew Quan Yew shaped Singapore that today it is one of the most prosperous nations on earth, Mohammed Mahati shaped Malaysia into a successful nation, Mao shaped China, many succesful countries today were shaped by selfless men that had love for their peoples plight and fashioned out great0 policies and vision which changed their nation. But come to Africa and then Nigeria not even one or maybe the first republic had just a little bit of visionary leaders but since then all we ever had were beasts in form of men.

Africa's/Nigeria's problems are hydra headed. In Nigeria especally it is not even about carving up the country. What we are going through connects across all the ethnic group in Nigeria, it cuts across relgous groups.
What we are facing are evil/selfish leaders, leaders I am talking about are not just political leaders but, religious, buisness and ethnic leaders. These our leaders don't give a bit damn about Nigerians, all they care about is money, proft, amassing so much. That's why foregn companies will come in rip Nigerians off and get away with it, as long as our so called leaders hands are greased well. Many youths don't understand what we are up against, it is a behemoth. They corner every resources and income it brings and drop peanuts for a few that are slaves working for them while the rest, strugle to survive, when it is meant to be for all of us.

We can state great ideas in this post but the end result nothing will be achieved, we must get practcal, we must contribute wisely and intelligently by action, by doing not just cerebral excercise. Even try as much to set up our own poltical group/ platform to stand against the status quo.

These health tips on nutrition makes sense, though it is more non nija food, tofu is made from soya mostly used by vegetarans to replace meat because of its high source of protein. But on another note if we want to be really healthy we must eat right, and most of the food we eat in nija are heavy carbs based and these kind of food are meant to be taken in minute quantty like white rice, potato, cassava, garri, yam etc.

Zubby abeg ignore that guy, all the rivalry and bitterness that has been gong on for long what has it achieved for us? I state it again, the Yorubas may have their faults but they respect we Igbos more than any other group in this country, quote me any where. Look at during the Ladipo issue, many other markets were closed for longer time than ladpo because our people were raising alarm and Fashola even invited Rochas and then he opened the market, I tell u it was out of respect that these guys have for us that he handled the issue that way.

I think the problem we have had has been our leaders who have ill advised us and not doing the right thing. Some of us are saying divide, break up but the truth is that it is more favourable to us for Nigeria to remain one, but rather power at centre is diluted and focusing more on region.

Let us respect and have regard for one another.

You know hating some one because of his color or tribe to me is meaningless. Why spend so much energy being tribalistic when life is too short maximum u live to 85 and then u die and leave this earth and u will be no more, so why will I waste my short time on earth detesting someone because he is from different tribe, its a waste of energy and time, I should rather use my time to enjoy the uniqueness of different tribes and races .

Gbawe: Thank you. Truth is that with the way humanity is integrating, races would be homogeneous in future let alone alone ethnic groups consisting of people of the same colour intermarrying at a rapid rate. Throwing around stereotypes and peddling falsehood about hatred that is non-existent on the ground is just shameful. Especially when found in young people who should be busy living productive lives and forging progressive bonds for the sake of their Nation.

My brother we should be united, most especially we black africans. Actually my living abroad for study made me like anything black African, I have very close friends from kenya, tanzania, botswana, francophone Africa etc, infact I had a tanzanian babe, wonderful girl who I would have marred but it wasn't to be. I am working towards settling down and of a truth I don't really want to marry from my tribe its like boring for me and girls around me the one top on my list is a yoruba babe then a SS girl but I am still trying to make up my mind and be ready to stand opposition that may come from my umunna (kinsmen) cos my parents and siblings will respect my decision

Gbawe: You are a despicable character and, unlike the OP, an example of the problematic folks never interested in giving peace a chance because of personal egocentric complexes you are not able to move on from. Nothing typifies cowardice more than using superior number to gang-up against a minority group.

Everyone, into the historical science and logic of humanity, will know you are a deluded and vacuously hateful loser. When the Yorubas have the numbers, then nothing more would bear out the hate you claim they have for you than for their "cowardice" to lead them into attempts at murderous cleansing, in all corners of the SW, of those they "hate" and "want to exterminate" as deluded lost soul and ingrates like you postulate daily here.

As things stand, and with the reality on the ground, the Yorubas are nothing but the embodiment of tolerance, hospitality and relative sophistication in a totally mad nation. I really wonder why people like you are such evil liars and demonic ingrates. It is almost as if you must taunt even saints to hate you by continuously and falsely insisting they are demons after your blood.

Nothing confirms that you are a loser in life , and a big failure, more than your rabidly false hateful pontifications you deliver here. Your mates are thriving and finding love, success, fulfillment and happiness where and with who they find it , be that in Yorubaland or Igboland, while a frustrated loser like you remain here lying and showing how paranoid delusional you are.

This is what I hate about this forum. Not enough brave and principled people able to stand for what is right so we can heal and move on as a Nation . Can the many decent Igbos living peacefully in the SW - and I know you are here - not simply stand for what is right by coming out and denounce this clown who is a divisive embarrassment to you all and the sort obsessed with stoking division and creating problems for you where there is non?

The Yorubas are not the enemies of the Igbos as the OP correctly asserts. If they were, as deluded and bitter souls claim here daily, then events on the ground will bear this out 100% as is severally documented throughout history when real and toxic animosity existing between groups of people has led to continuous and unabated blood-letting. Even the Hausas/Fulanis are not your enemies if one is wise to know the real problems of Nigeria and how they have mingled to create the sad feudalism we are all forced to live with today.

I am Igbo but to be honest, the Yorubas may have their fault but to me they respect the Igbos more than any other ethnic group in Nigeria, even more than our neighbors SS, example an Igbo man has been a commissioner in Lagos for a long time, they know the value we have added to development of Lagos, they do respect us. I think we Igbos should forget about the past and relate more with the Yorubas, they are the best allies we can have. They have their faults, but we Igbos have our own faults too. And they are peaceful, not violent, when have u heard that they fight against us killng us like it is done in the north, I say t again they are our closest allies in this nation, a word is enough for the. Wise.

These men Soyinka, Achebe, JP Clarke were rare of a kind ever to walk the face of this continent. Its a pity rather abominable men without any iota of character have been runing the affairs of this country for the past 4 decades and we do we expect anything good to come out of this country? No

I pray that the legacies of these men last for generations while the abominable men reap their reward.

ROSSIKE: You are WRONG. And you need to go and READ and LEARN before typing blatant inaccuracies. The growth in GDP is largely accounted for by the growth in the NON OIL SECTOR - Telecoms, banking, retail, construction, agriculture, and services to mention a few.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/non-oil-sector-drives-nigerias-gdp-growth-in-q4-cbn/



Please spare us your ''thieving elites'' GARBAGE. You need to get off your LAZY ASSS and join in the transformation of the country like your peers, instead of attributing all privately acquired wealth to ''thieving elites''. That is an ignorant and intellectually LAZY approach to the nation's development. Nigerians are setting up factories and businesses across the country that are making them rich through their own labour. Get with the program and stop being ignorant.



Those Nigerians shopping in London and New York are mostly ORDINARY PEOPLE LIKE YOU who have made it in their various fields of endeavour. You obviously have NOT made it so you cannot see how they succeeded without ''oil''. Go get some advice in business development, entrepreneurship, or perhaps get a masters degree and specialize in something, and maybe you can get to be like them. They are not spending 'YOUR' resources, but THEIRS which they worked and hustled for.

Dude you must be buffon to think everybody is poor like you, go get a life cos I am not poor and not from a poor background, try and read my past post before to know me more. I have been priviledged in life, did my uni education abroad, infact there were 3 Ngerian govs kids where in the same school with me, even a close relation of the present vice president shared school apartment with me b4 everybody moved on, socialised with mimister and Abuja based kids in the course of my studies, now back in Nigeria running bussiness with high annual turn over, so dude am priviledged. But the truth be told we are focusing on the wrong things in naija, so much fake niggz abound here lving fake life.
And mind u was a bussiness major in college knows more about bussiness, entreprenurship than u and am not kidding, you are talking about the real economy but the source of majority income that this country is run is oil, why is the budget always done pegging it based on price of barrel of oil, foregn currency that cbn sells every week majority comes from oil majors operating in the country. What the federal and state government use to run is simply oil money shared by the FG, the banks you are talkng about during the soludo years when the oil price was high there was a boom in Nigerian banks but after the 2008 global financial oil fell and sanusi came how has Nigerian banks been doing, there have been mass retrenchment, and all this was because of oil. The truth is Nigeras economy is sustained smply by oil nothing more and unless we diversfy, we will have ourselves to blame.

ROSSIKE: You are WRONG. And you need to go and READ and LEARN before typing blatant inaccuracies. The growth in GDP is largely accounted for by the growth in the NON OIL SECTOR - Telecoms, banking, retail, construction, agriculture, and services to mention a few.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/02/non-oil-sector-drives-nigerias-gdp-growth-in-q4-cbn/



Please spare us your ''thieving elites'' GARBAGE. You need to get off your LAZY ASSS and join in the transformation of the country like your peers, instead of attributing all privately acquired wealth to ''thieving elites''. That is an ignorant and intellectually LAZY approach to the nation's development. Nigerians are setting up factories and businesses across the country that are making them rich through their own labour. Get with the program and stop being ignorant.



Those Nigerians shopping in London and New York are mostly ORDINARY PEOPLE LIKE YOU who have made it in their various fields of endeavour. You obviously have NOT made it so you cannot see how they succeeded without ''oil''. Go get some advice in business development, entrepreneurship, or perhaps get a masters degree and specialize in something, and maybe you can get to be like them. They are not spending 'YOUR' resources, but THEIRS which they worked and hustled for.

Dude you must be buffon to think everybody is poor like you, go get a life cos I am not poor and not from a poor background, try and read my past post before to know me more. I have been priviledged in life, did my uni education abroad, infact there were 3 Ngerian govs kids where in the same school with me, even a close relation of the present vice president shared school apartment with me b4 everybody moved on, socialised with mimister and Abuja based kids in the course of my studies, now back in Nigeria running bussiness with high annual turn over, so dude am priviledged. But the truth be told we are focusing on the wrong things in naija, so much fake niggz abound here lving fake life.
And mind u was a bussiness major in college knows more about bussiness, entreprenurship than u and am not kidding, you are talking about the real economy but the source of majority income that this country is run is oil, why is the budget always done pegging it based on price of barrel of oil, foregn currency that cbn sells every week majority comes from oil majors operating in the country. What the federal and state government use to run is simply oil money shared by the FG, the banks you are talkng about during the soludo years when the oil price was high there was a boom in Nigerian banks but after the 2008 global financial oil fell and sanusi came how has Nigerian banks been doing, there have been mass retrenchment, and all this was because of oil. The truth is Nigeras economy is sustained smply by oil nothing more and unless we diversfy, we will have ourselves to blame.

rusher14: So a company prior to investing carry out a survey and then go ahead and disregard it? (I guess that's why it called taking a punt).

Granted, Nigerians have acquired the taste of the bubbly i would only say that this is for a select few.

Believe me, poverty abounds in this country, marry that with few people that wouldn't even touch alcohol (for religious and personal reasons), and you find that the number of people drinking champagne are most likely repeat customers.

Air travel in Nigeria for 2010 published in 2012: a little above 1.5 million (domestic & international).

Source: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/nigeria/air-transport-passengers-carried-wb-data.html

2007 figures for number of cars per capita places Nigeria as the 141st with 31 cars for every thousand people

source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita

These figures can be adjusted upwards if one desires but it would be unfair to double them.

I know someone says our GDP is 400 billion Dollars but everywhere i check i see it in the region of 250 billion Dollars. yet, even if we do say it is 400 billion dollars that translates to 2484 dollars for the entire year per capita.

Everyone knows that wealth is not evenly distributed which makes the figure even more pathetic if you were at the bottom of that scale.

This all means that this drinking is done by just a few who one might say do it regularly.


If we truly want to be great we should be an export nation not an import dependent one.

We can go ahead and say it is a sign of wealth to indulge in high-end, luxury products but the irony is not lost on the masses.

Don't mind them, how can you a $250 billion economy compare yourself with US a $15 trillion economy or China a $3 trillion economy on purchase of private jet or compare yourself with European countres who are trillion dollar economies in purchase of champagnes and other luxury goods, it is madness or stupidity. We focus on the wrong things comparing ourselves with countries that are miles ahead of us, while we don't even have the basic things. They even laugh at our stupidty, they know our theving elites are stupid and fools because they will take the money which should be used for our development to foreign banks, buy expensive properties and other luxurious stuffs

Ahhh black man, you get high statistics only on the wrong things, spending that much only on champagne is a big indictment on a country were majority are below the poverty line. The same way the other day there was news that after US and China, Nigeria is the third highest demand for private jet. When we hear all this news we deceive ourselves thinking all is well but all is not well, what is fueling Ngerias income is oil and nothing else,it has not bothered Nigeria's thieving elites to diversify rather they are spending our resources buying private jets, champagne, shoping spree in london, new york etc. Soon the bubble will burst.

All other countries that sell oil like us are busy developing their countries with latest state of the art infrastructure while we lack even basic ones, countries like Saudi, UAE, Qatar that sell oil like us have over 1 trillion dollars sovering wealth fund stashed away, while Nigera cannot maintain ordinary foreign reserve. No wahala, they should continue excessive wastage but. I know that he who has failed to plan has planned to fail.

The main problem is that majority of black folks lack basic analytical skill. Nigeria is lost completely and by the way things are going she may never recover.
Nigeria was destroyed by successive visionless leadership for decades non stop, Ngerias failure was never GEJ's fault, infact the country was already finished b4 GEJ took over.

The decay started after the civil war during Gowons time in the early 70s when there was the first oil boom so much money was made and was squandered, the boom was on through Obasanjos first time till. Shagaris time but it was all squandered by the time military came in the boom has bust then because of less money to squander IBB borrowed from IMF for SAP and all went down the drain. After the locust years of mlitary then entered civilian regime and then came 2nd oil boom but the political class went into squandering again and nothing to show for it. Stop calling GEJ, Ngeria has long bben gone.

Why am stating those above it s because all the resources this country wasted will come bvack and hunt her because u can never plant weed and expect to harvest corn, never. Analyst are stating that in the next 5 years price of oil will be bw 5 to 10 dollars, infact oil will be irrelevant in the next decade, then Nigeria will reap the full reward of her wasteful spending. It has been signed and sealed.