₦airaland Forum

IGBO-SON:
^^^You're right. I have posted on numerous occasions the need for the economic revival of the south east to be private driven; led by our high networth sons and daughters in partnership with the 5 south east governors. Our major problem as you've noted is lack of a centralized and focused leadership to co-ordinate and lead this initiative. You see 'republicanism' can either be good or bad depending on how you look at it.

We don't seem to realize just how critical things are, and we're acting like we can afford to procrastinate and drag our feet while our people are being slaughtered in the north and our region is yet to reach its full potential. Right now the Igbo 'leaders' we have, the likes of the governors, members of the national assembly, ministers, businessmen and industrialists, chiefs,.....all these are more interested in their pockets and maintaining the status quo for selfish reasons; for them 'Nigeria' seems to be more important than Igboland and its peoples welfare.

My brother honestly poor leadership has put us where we are today. Do you know that if an economic plan is put in place for the development of south east that Igbo diasporans alone can fund it. The Igbos alone in north America and Europe alone can comfortably contribute a big stake in this development plan because the economic potental of this group is big.

Look around Africa tell me one black nation that can be said to be economically strong? none, or is it Nigeria that is still sleeping and wasting away resources, if we Igbos focus on our region to develop it economic wise, I can assure you that with time we will be economic giant of sub saharan Africa. We must begin to focus on quality education, on science and technology because this will be the foundaton to build on, we must forget about oil or all other resources but focus on production/massive industrialisation. Countries of Asian tigers like Japan, south korea, singapore, tawiwan, china, malaysia etc all became economic giant not by natural resources but by putting their brain and energy to work and develop their place, so let's copy from these nations.

And I will advise most Igbo youths on this forum to find ways which we can add our contribution to the development of our homeland, we can criticise but if we fail to add our contribution, then we have failed woefully, ask yourself what can I do to make a difference, if we fold our hands and do nothing, it is our own children that will suffer it. Thanks

I keep on saying it we have no leaders in the south east, if we had, they should have made conscious effort to see that majority of our people up north relocate home.

Those saying where they should go, it is home of course. What is the population of Igbos that South east can't contain them. Lagos has small land mass but contains the highest population for a state, the land mass of east is 20 times or even more than Lagos, so there is no reason the east will not the entire Igbo population.

Our problem is more of leadership problem, there is the need for a new breed of visionary leaders to emerge from the east, all these other guys: obi, ekwueme, chime, orji, rochas, nnamani, anyim etc have failed we Igbos. We need visionary leaders that will bring out an exhaustive economc plan for the east, plan that will focus on industrialisation, infrastructure development to transform the east and attract our people back home and discourage going to the other regions.
Developing new cities in the east with collaboration with diaspora Igbos, new cities can be built in: Nsukka/Abakalki axis, ugwuoba/Awka axis, umuahia/okigwe/Awgu axis. All these axis I mentioned have huge land mass to develop new cities, we need to start working out these things, to make our home better.

Mr Afolabi God bless you so much for being a man that speaks the truth without fear or favour, if this country have more of people like you I believe we will not be in this mess we found ourselves.

All those northern leaders you mentioned are not honest, humane, truthful and without any form of integrity. Since these blood suckers called boko haram were spilling innocent blood how many of them have come out to condemn it in strong terms? None. But I want to let them no that boko haram has caused irrepairable damage to the core north as far as Nigeria is concerned, because the innocent blood that have been spilled will cry out for vengeance from the creator and vengeance they must get. I am Igbo and they said it will be hard for us to rule this nation but with this boko haram issue it will be harder for the core north to rule this country, becoming this countrys president will favour south south then middle belt before any other group.

kettykin: \
This Goat a product of Awolowo's cheap and unfortunate Dysfunctional policy does not know the difference between Terrorist and rebels rebelling against the exploitation of their resources and pollution of the environment , why not rather ask for amnesty for kidnappers and armed robbers. Vultures !!!

Mr kettykin are u not yet tired with all this unneccesary curse, it's becoming childish. I am Igbo but we need to stop all these insult on Awo and his free education, its childish, sign of immaturity. Let's just make contribution without all these tribal bashing.

Concerning the topic giving bokoharam amnesty is a very bad precedence, you cannot compare niger delta militants to these bk haram pple. The militants never took to killing people rather they were blowing up pipelines while bk haram have been spilling innocent blood. The human life is so sacred and anybody to spills innocent blood for no just reason cannot be given a pat in the back, no it can't be. If we do such it will justify the notion that we blacks don't have value for human life.

I mean from $7k upward

manny4life:
US economy is driven in part by LARGE BUSINESS but you fail to tell us how so..lol My question to you, and you've been unable to answer. Let's try this again, another example, you have a Walmart store (Corp.) that makes revenues of $40million annually and 40small business with revenue of $1million annually. Same size of revenue, equate their economic contribution - Jobs, Wage, Tax revenues, Social and Community benefits, encouraging local production and what have you. A Walmart store has tops 60 to 80 employees and small businesses that have at least 3 employees, which do you think contribute more to the economy? Don't forget to add small business pay about 15% more than their corporate counterparts like Walmart (source US DOL), I'll let you figure out the rest... That statement exposes your ignorance further, more reasons why few states in the U.S. have rejected large companies like Walmart in their cities, or even state in general...

Perhaps, my advice is you consult the Dept of Commerce, they should have some good archive of number of Small Business Owners that have commenced business (thx to the Obama Administration). Next is Dept of Labor, I mean they have records Registered Small Business Hiring vs Large Corporate, and finally Dept of Treasury - IRS. This is tax season, several millions of SBO's AND MBO's will be filling taxes now, I'm sure they won't surprise us with details - how many million of businesses + tax brackets paid to the FG vs their corporate counterpart...LOL

Why do you think the talk of American Economy revolves around SBO's ?

You talk about China, have you EVER traveled to China? Lol at "that it opened Mass factories" this just shows you have no clue or idea on China or it's business...Talk about ignorance at it's peak, or should I say HIGH CLASS IGNORANCE. Anyone who's been to China or involved in China trade knows that Small and Midsize businesses are the one that take up LARGE, and I mean LARGE chunks of China's economy. If I want to order say a TV, there are more than 300 suppliers of same or similar products, hence competitive pricing, I guess China govt opened more than 10million SBO's in China, the govt opened them all LOL at MASS FACTORIES..


Goodness gracious, you're staggeringly ignorant...LOL, There's a difference between Middle class and Working class, don't get it twisted... A major determinant of ALL classes is INCOME LEVELS. For you to claim that SBO or Small Business Owners in America are Working Class when a LARGE portion of them make within the income bracket of Middle Class earners is not ONLY ignorant but foolissh.

My sincere advice for you is, rather than come online and spew hate, GO BACK and read harder. They sell Spare Parts, so what? In an organized society, they would have had an accountant, a retained attorney, consultant, few employees doing several stuff. Was it Negro_ntns who claimed that Yoruba Oil companies made more than the entire Ladipo, and when I told him to chill for a second, if we're to go by the N100billion claim by Ladipo traders vs Yoruba Oil companies, Ladipo traders (150 of them) made 5x their their corporate counterpart. I will find the post shortly and post it. Lol, I guess the Ladipo, ASPAMDA, all of them are all "PETTY TRADERS", lol, yet CBN released that Anambra and Abia (two of of five states) are the top five money movers. I guess if they move such monies and they are petty trading, GOD BLESS THEIR HUSTLE when they turn to be large super sized business...

Oh btw, let me put it that I've not claimed Large businesses are not contributing, that will be entirely false to say so, but Small and Medium enterprises, in a sane society are the ones who drives the economy because they encourage local distribution of WEALTH and resources.

Dude you know your onions wella. I keep on saying it majority of so called educated folks here in naija are not smart and unintelligent. We hear of the emerging economies like china, india, brazil, singapore, mexico, malaysia etc the secret of their economic rise is simply Small scale and medium enterprise SME, not multinationals even the same with US.

Do they know that anybody earning 75k a month in naija has falled into the lowest segment of the middle. I remeber mckinsey a world reputable resarch group brought out a report on Africa tageed Africa on the rise, that report stated that Africa has 200million middle class which is an indicator that shows that a large number of people with income to be served that is why so many companies that did nt want anything to do with Africa are rushing to establish here. And from that report middle class is anyone that earns $ 7000 equivalent anually

krendo: We need to evolve from Buying and selling to manufacturing and site the manufacturing plants in the east

we got the spirit of commerce and industry to see it through

that is the only way the next generation of Igbos will avoid man's inhumanity to man

Now you are making the most important point, my Igbo brothers should reduce their focus on trading and begin to look on manufacturing and production in the east. They must change their bussiness model because the way of doing bussines has so much changed around the globe, look at the Chinese and Indians in every nook and cranny of Nigeria and Africa bringing their products and services they produce in their different country. What stops the Igbos to copy from these people produce in east and export to other parts of Africa first and then to other parts of the world. I remeber as a kid taiwan was new into manufacturing and their products were sub standard but with time they gained expertise, today taiwan is a global player in technologies boasting of big global companies like HTC, Acer and many other companies, this is what Igbos should be doing start manufacturing and sell outside, even though the products may not be up to world standard but with time the expertise will improve, that's why I like people like Innoson car manufacturing, people will crticize the product but with time he will produce better motors.

I think the northerners have shot themselves on the foot with this PIB bill. Only they were opposing the extra 10 percent for community fund, because of this opposition the south south are now opening the can of worms on the gross injustices and nepotism they unleashed on those that were not in control of power. Now issues of ownership of oil blocks, lopsided local council where kano has 44 and bayeLsa has only 8 and many more injustices the north did.

That's why I ll keep on saying that when u do evil, you will definitely get your reward, that is the common law governing this earth, looks like all the wickedness that cries up to heaven that the northerners did to other regions, is coming back for payback and reaping of what they sowed all this years. Nigeria of today is not like during the military and Obj period, Nigeria has changed so much and the northerners did not even help themselves, with all their rulership they did not better their regon rather they impoverished it, they cornered every juicy thing to themselves while other regions was toiling by their sweat trying to survive now the chicks has come home to roost.

The lesson for all to learn from what is happening now: if God give you priviledge of leadership where others are submitted to you, never use that your authority to do injustice to those you have power over, rather do good, for what you have done will come back as payback to you inform of either good or bad done.

alj harem: I find this very very comical I mean, just because you bought a land does not mean it is your forever. Hmmmm I think we have repeated this over and over and over again. Nigeria does not have agencies that renew leased lands that is why I think you all are facing this problem of understanding

What are you on about that my landed property I have in Lagos is not mine you must be kiding big time. Sir louis Ojukwu as far back as in the 1940's bought up a lot of landed properties in Lagos, like the queens drive ikoyi the Ojukwus are fighting for, also in Apapa off liverpool road he has a lot of properties there, up till today his 3rd generation are still owners of the land up till today, so don't come and quote what you don't know.
The reason why most Igbos buy up land is more of investment opportunity, like landed property is a good colateral for raising fund, one of my very close friend his dad was just was nothin much in the 1990's till when he came to Abuja, he bought off a lot of lands then in abj today the man is a multi billonare he sold just one of his properties to one of the children of a past Nigerian leaders for over 1 billion, that's the Igbo spirit, in Banana island, parkview, other parts of ikoyi, lekki phase one, maitama, asokoro etc I know many Igbo bussiness moguls that own properties worth billions, tomorrow you say it no longer theirs, not like that my friend.

Prof Corruption: Critical thinking my a$$. Your problem is lack of comprehension skills. Clearly, you can read but pathetically you can't understand not to talk of extrapolating from the message. I am not interested in your buried corpse but nevertheless salute the folks that pulled the triggered. You get it? You have been defeated and shared as spoils. Take heart.

Defeated and shared as spoils my foot, true few of northern oligarchs have cornered the oil but the average core northerner is not better than the so called defeated people. The so called defeated people are still living good standard of living, there are millions of them doing very fine, living comfortable life anyway they find themselves in Nigeria.
It is typical black man mentality of not reasoning well. The so called defeated people have plenty amingst them billonares, uncountable mllonaires, people lving good standard of living so my dear we full ground and those defeated people are the catalyst that will take your country from underdevelopment to sucess neglect them at your own peril.

The bane of black nations is lack of planing and doing the right thng, other black African countries are bad but they are better than Nigeria, Nigeria is worse than those other African countries because those countries at least are more organised than Nigeria. Every one want to be like developed countries in the west and east, they did not arrive their by mere wishful thinking, rather it was by proper planing and by doing the right thing. If nigeria keep on doing the wrong things only failure she will know no jupiter will stop that simple.

Haha I laugh in Swahili, this oil soon will not be as lucrative as before: diversion to alternative source of energy, US reduction in purchase of Nigerias oil by 50percent and many more factors in place. Soonest the golden goose that lays the golden egg will be no more then all those that have been sowing bad seed will reap the reward of the evil done. With all the 80percent of so called oil northerners control they are so terribly impoverished, backward educationally and now ravaged by terrorism, this example shows that no evil we go unpunished.

As for Nigeria as a nation, one law about life is that if you do good you will get good and if you do bad you will get bad, countries like singapore, malaysia, UAE, Qatar, Brazil, China all sowed good seeds in past decades and today they are organised, prosperous, advanced and are at par with developed. Countries in every sphere but Nigeria that has been doing bad embezling and wasting resources and has not changed will never be well, because it has chosen evil instead of good the only thing is that the country will be revolving around circle without any progress. If you think its a lie since 1999 inception of demoicracy Nigeria has made close to $ 1 trillion from oil sales, but with all these money it has not bettered Nigeria rather the country has become worse. Until this nation is restructured and put on the path of justice and doing thing rightly I say it Nigeria will continue to move around circle while other nations progress and if the right thing is not done terror worse than bokoiharam will be seen because boko haram has set a precedence and will Nigeria survive then?

bigcycs: Well der you have it. Stuff we have always known now presented in printed facts.

Come down south to calabar depot and you find northerners buying up to 30 - 50 trucks worth of petroleum products heck! Sometimes they bring a whole ten ton barge. And I wonder are these guys such entrepreneurial geniuses are they such fine business men or is it just that we southerners are such dunces and hence cannot muster cash to finance such capital intensive ventures.

So I think further and there's my answer. if my dad owned an oil block that rakes in N4bn daily then I'll be damned if the world doesn't hear about me.

A monopoly propagated and sustained over decades through the existence of one northern president after another and of cuz the resultant positioning of their sons and daughters in key positions all through the country. They have all the connections all the contacts. anyone of them that dares to go to school is more likely to get a good job. go to abuja all over the damned place you see tiny hausa girls driving huge cars they even look like toys in. and u'll think they wer such blue blooded geniuses.
This has given their younger generations an air of superiority and invincibility..they actually consider themselves above the rest of us nigerians.


So you wonder why they are so desperate to clinch the presidency,by contrast you wonder why there are still so many poor and illiterate northerners in spite of the domineering presence of extremely rich sons of northern extract.

Most of these wealthy northerners can only thrive with a monopoly. Take away that government reach and you have feather weights left

In as much as I am no tribalist one cannot help but feel rage and hate towards this greedy northern elite.I only wish president GEJ would just fix one thing convincingly just ONE sector.

My brother you are on point while studying abroad I had a first hand encounter with children of these northern elites, the way they spend money like water, one of my hausa friend spends more than $ 10 000 as monthly allowance without including accomodation expenses, they had this kind too important air and looked down on those of us from the south in the same school. getting job is not a problem for them msot of them came back and are working in all these oil companies, one that we shared the same apartment with in college was taken up by LNG immediately while me getting job was hard if not for the support of my family now running succesful internatonal bussiness.
The issue is that we are in the same country but not equal, they are the ones that run everything in this country, but those in the south are still blind to this.

Sorry for some grammatical mistakes with my post I was typing with my mobile and also did nt have time to proof read after composing because I was rushing home to watch madrid vs man u game.

Big ups to rhino, jarus, mba, ajelenko, dayo kanu, coogar, etc for this educative tread I was really impressed to see u all discussing intelligently not all those tribal cursing out done before, more of this.

As for me had a bussiness degree from oversea, it was very tough for me, worked in a financial service company on the island, the experience was terrible, at the end got a lifeline from a relation to run his bussiness for him, it was very profitable and not up to a year has gotten turnover of over 30mil, now know my way around and bussiness links to even oil and gas, IT related field and other stuffs.
I am just starting with the drive and push I have this is just the begining, my ambition of building up a world class reputable African firm is in the making, were I will have access to pool of talents, brains that this continent has ever known all working together. I know it is not a bed of roses but I know that it is possible, am equiping myself, improving everyday, with the required resources needed. Jack welch fomer ceo of general said the secret of his success in taking GE from small to a global company was simply having the best brains around him while Richard Branson said the secret of his succeess was that he has be smart to surround himself with people smarter than him and given them the free hand to make their own deciscions.


I think the op should not just have the mindset of job seeker but rather to create his own job, degree foriegn or local cannot lift this nation to great heights rather knowledge that those degrees present. The problem we have in black africa as a whole is that there is no hunger for knowledge, even when we have the knowledge we lack the ability of applying, imputing and puting that knowledge into practice to yield result which is wisdom. That's were the caucascians, asians etc have the edge over us, they are not better than us, while studying abroad I used myself to know that they were not better than me, some of them in my class will consult me for clarification in topics I have better understanding.

My advice to both graduates both home and abroad, think outside the box, be creative, don't just fold your hands waiting for white collar jobs, create ur own, I know its not easy who said that life is easy, never so my dear, so no excuse.

mosquitoNet: Thank you very much sir! Food for thought. More enlightening than what the fake MOG said. Spot on bro...!

Enlightening really? You guys don't even have a clue. True the whites came with slavery to Africa but it was in the 17th century, it was more of business for them, those slave dealers did not bring any christianity rather they came with guns, gun powder, mirror, hot drinks to trade in exchange our ancestors sold off our brothers to them. Then in the early 18th century God raised up a british man who was a devout christian started fighting slavery the british were the first to abolish slavery then later the north part of US but the south did not agree, then during the time of lincoln the US fought civil war to abolish slavery btw the north and south of US. So don't come here claiming it was christianity that brought slavery.

And mind you before the white man came to Africa to engage in trans atlantic slave trade, slavery has been going on through the Sahara desert for more than 1000 years by the Arabs before the whites came. Infact millions of black sub saharan Africans were sold off during this era before the white came.

Happy bday Daddy G O, may God keep you on this side of eternity many more years to come. Happy bday Daddy once more!!!!!!

geeez: BRF should demolish the entire market without wasting one second and ensure there are standards for auto parts vendors and also standard diagnostic and car repair centers. We can do it and let them go and set up the junkyard in their backward backyard. I'll like to see educated sales men and women and also auto vendors with websites where you can order car parts online and even get them delivered with guarantees on them and not the gang of criminals and ritualists currently gathered at Ladipo

And who told you there are not international standard auto centres in Lagos I can count more than 7 and 5 in lekki axis. Mercedes has, there is germine auto centre owned by one Imo state man, Coscharis has one with latest german tech and like 4 more I don't know there name but from experience their cost is excessievely high demanding like 1 to 2 mill as total to do range rover

[quote author=kingoflag]You really dont expect me to read this whole diatribe, do you?

I asked two straight forward questions so I could understand what you meant, all you had to do was gimme two straightforward answers. Im not gonna read your novel.[/quote

If you cannot read these then I have nothin in common with you, knowledge is power they say and there is no way to acquire knowledge by reading and I am one that hunger for more knowldge everyday to improve my self everyday, I am one that hunger for us to have one black country in the world where it can be said this is indeed a prosperous, developed nation being run by blacks and it will only come by sound, uncorrupted knowledge. so if you can't read that few paragraph then we have nothin to talk about again, cos I don't waste my time on people whom my level of reasoning with them is not at par.

EMMAUGOH: ,,What u wrote is well said and Understood..Let Goodluck Jonathan,,at least Finish Anambra port terminal for us.....We will Congratulate Him in a every Big Way...Come to Nnewi in Anambra state,u will see How Motocycle and it spare part is been Offloaded and distributed,sold to Costumers around africa..Nown i see why Inoson decided to leave his Motorcompany at his Hometown..If our Brother will understand The Power of Unity and settlement,then they would understand what they can do and what they are made of.....Imagine popular A-Z oil is produced mostly at east and transported to othere part of Nigeria,Imagine coscharis of the whole world withdraws from Lagos,imagine Emma Bishop withdraws from Lagos,so many of them,Imagine all new and Toyota part dealer goes down to South East.Imagine Ogbuawa 100 containers that comes in Almost 6 months through Lagos terminal,goes to Onitsha terminal......I dont think Lagosians has anything to be proud Of..Unless what Igbos has manage to create for them....

My brother you are on point I am from that Nnewi axis, i grew up there did my primary/secondary there did part of my uni in the east b4 going abroad to study more so I know this people personally. Nnewi people have always believed in setting up their buisness at home and they have produced some excelent buisnessmen this country has ever know and what I liked about them is that they started from nothing, no governmwnt patronage to beconme big buisness moguls someone like innoson I knew when he was just an ordinary buisness man in the 90's to today having a car manufacturing plant in umudim nnewi or is it cletus ibeto( omekannaya) a man who from nothing today is among the big players in cement industry, or is it chika( A_Z oil) and others the unique thing I admire about these men was that they got to where they are not by government patronage but simply by their sweat and business acumen not someone you tell me he is a billionaire because he was patronised by goverment or by frolicking with those in power, they are the ones you will call real billionaiures just like people like bill gates, warren buffet, mittal, steve jobs(rip), mack zuckberg, micheal dell etc who became world renowned billionaires simply by their initiative, sweat and God given creativity

ba7man: You guys keep saying you will leave but have you attempted it?? No!!!. Why?? because the State with the largest purchasing power is Lagos so you have to be close to your customers. If you leave, thousands will gladly fill the void you leave behind. Coscharis's buildings would have being paid for before he relocates and all the shops you guys will leave behind. Shopping complexes will be constructed and the only difference is that its different Nationalities that will own them this time. Gone will be the days of traders chasing and harassing you to patronize them in the streets (Since that's your idea of being competitive)

The main thing that you don't have a grasp of economy and its concept, markets in Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi people come from all across the country and other parts of Africa, if many more markets are down east people will still come to these markets. And mind you with industrilisation you produce your goods and export it to different markets even in oyibo countries. Why do you think you see Asians like chinesen indians in huge numbers in Nigerian, Across Africa and around the gloibe? They are simply taking their products and services to different markets around the globe, likewise Igbos who are the most migratory race in Nigeria will now take their goods around Africa and the globe, so Lagos will not be their destination again. I remeber sometime last year or there about robert mugabe was thanking Igbo buisness men for the role they played and conribution in stimulating commerce in Zimbabwe during all these times of economic crash of Zimbabwe, they helped in minimising the harsh economic effect on Zimbabweans, this is someone that appreciated the value Igbo business men added to his country.

Mind you why am so optimistic about the drama that will unfold is for more than 40 years Nigeria has been depending mainly on revenue from oil but there is a big need for diversification because there is a gradual shift from oil to renewable source of energy and this US Nigerias biggest buyer of her crude oil has reduced their purchase of Nigerias oil by 50 percent so there will no more be free oil money to spend it will now be strictly on how productive they are, that is when the moment of truth will dawn on this country and then we will differentiate btw those who were busy wasting the nations resources, who have never been productive, who have been depending on government patronage and free handouts and those who have been toiling through hard work and their own sweat not government patronage and were productive.

ba7man: The Igbos are resourceful but you overestimate their importance. There are millions of people (Nigerians in diaspora/fresh investors) in line waiting to take over whatever positions you leave behind, me included. They'll give whatever business you guys were into a far more modern approach. Your absence will only provide opportunities for fresh investors that you swamped out before.....Leave and watch it happen. You think its by the Igbo's presence that has made Lagos top destination in Nigeria for the past 100years?? Its by the accomodating nature of its citizens.

Hahaha I laugh in Swahili my friend never you look down on the importance of Igbo buisness men in Lagos which people contribute the highest revenue to Lagos sea port? It is still these Igbo men, which people move large chunk of money for commerce in Lagos?... Diaspora my foot and of those Nigerians in diaspora huge portion of them are still Igbos distinguished. In their professions in science and technology

You will understand when the drama begins to unfold.

kingoflag: Your post doesnt make sense. You talked out of both sides of your mouth.

1. Are Igbos gonna remain in Lagos or are they gonna move back to the East?

2.Are there gonna be industries in Lagos or they gonna be located in the East?

Articulate better so we can get the point youre trying to make. I get a feeling you know the "truth", but your pride wont let you tell it.

Let me break it down:

Lagos has very little land mass and it is already overpopulated. With steady electricity heavy industrialisation will rise up within the country and the East will have a large chunk of industries spring up because Igbos play a major role in the economy of Nigeria because of they are the heartbeat of commerce in Nigeria. As industrialisation takes up Lagos with less land mass and over population will not be a conducive environment for the industries that will spring up therefore the Igbos who are primarily commerce driven will have no other option than to set up those Industries back in the East,Lagos is the only place that attracts the Igbos in the south west so Lagos with less land mass and over population will now be unfavourable and unattractive for these Igbo build industries so the only option left is to relocate these industries home in the east which has enough land space to accomodate industries.

A clear example I will use to compare Lagos was Hongkong during the economic rise of China to global economic power. Hongkong is an Island with less land mass but what it had was a very strong global financial centre, after new york, london, you have hongkong, tokyo, singapore and top global finacial centres. Hongkong did not have the land mass but it had financial might so it played an important role in setting up industries in mainland China which led to the growth and emergence of China as a global economic power. But Lagos cannot be compared to hongkong because though it is a financial centre in the west african region it does not possess a huge financial might, the stock exchange in Lagos is bellow par and other financial institutions economic might are not up there.

These Igbo men doing commerce in Lagos have economic potential but they have not yet realised it but their economic potential will play a massive role in industrialisation down east, but they have not realised it yet. When el rufai sometime last year in his weekly colunm on thisday was analysing Nigerias economy it was the real sector that had the largest chunk in Nigerias GDP and these real sector is comprised of commerce, Importatn etc. It is the amount of importation done by Igbo traders into Lagos port that is the highest contributor in the revenue that incurs to that port, if you think is a lie consult the custom and they will tell you the same thing. Sometime early this when CBN were analsying the money in circulation they stated that 90 percent of money in circulation in the country are in these places Lagos, Abuja, port harcourt, Kano, Onitsha and Aba, Onitsha and Aba are predominatly Igbos there while in other places mentioned a substantial portion of money in circulation is still in the hands of these Igbo men because many of them are in all these cities mentioned doing buisness.

That's why I stated that all these closing of markets is a blessing in disguise because it will make theseIgbo buisness men to wake up from sleep, open their eyes and channel the huge resources they have hhomeward not investing it in and help develop other lands, While at the same time receive insults.

They should learn from the jews. The jews are very smart, industrious and well organised, they control almost half of the global economy, that's why the jewish political group AIPAAC is the most powerful lobby group in Washington and they play a key role in determining politics in US. The Igbos are very industrious with a strong economic might if they pool their resources together and become wiser in Nigeria but when I look they have these potential but they have not realised it that's why I am in favour of all these adversity being unleashed on them from some parts of Nigeria because it will make them open their eyes wella.

I think this is a very big wake up call to all Igbos in general to start thinking homeward and less of Lagos. Anyway I know that only time will tell, that with time there won't be much flocking to Lagos by our people.

What most folks don't understand is that with steady electricity in the country Lagos will see less of Igbo people cos staedy electricity will give rise to industrialisation and because Lagos has small land mass and over populated there won't be much land for industries that will be springing up
in Lagos so most of the industries will be located down east.

So let Igbos not worry I think this closure is a blessing in disguise, it will make the traders begin to look out for other options and alternatives we can't keep on developing peoples land and in the end all we get is insult and ungratitude, our people should wake up and shine their eyes wella

Its simple PHCN were the cancerworm that opposed power delivery in nija, whether they produced power or not they still got their salary but when it is in the hands of private sector it becomes a viable business of which if they don't deliver power no income for them and when they deliver steady power that's steady and better income for them. QED

baby_123: Ok, even if they are all the same. We see what cpc, and ACN has done in their respective states vs pdp. Sir, I ask you, what has pdp done. At the state level these parties have performed better than pdp since they held power in 2003. I will take my chances with APC. The odds are better. I don't think you can win the election with this type of strategy. PDP was given a last chance, and they f*#ked it up. What has PDP done for the down trodden? They stole their pensions. Now the down trodden are dying everyday. No food to eat. If they complain, they get killed. What PDP again? No salary for the people who work for PDP led states.

now lets go into analysis, the only acn governor that has greatly impacted on his people is oshiomole of edo, fashola of lagos has not touched the lives of ordinary lagosians his policies has favoured the rich and upper class, for other southwest governor mimiko is effecting changes a bit and fayemi of ekiti, other acn govs are bellow par. akpabio the best in south south is pdp, amechi is trying a bit and also peter obi has effected changes a bit. for the north suffice me to say there is no governor that has performed any bit in the whole of north, none.

i said before what Nigeria needs is a leader in the mold of castro, hugo chavez who will totally overhaul the status quo whose only concern will be hw to change the lives of the common down troden man on the street so that when the say that Nigerias economic growth is 8% or that nigeria has made $100 billion from oil the common man will nod in agreement because he has seen it affect his living condition.

i will also like to use this medium to appeal to fellow young people, let us not fold our hands, like before, we can by doing our little in ensuring change comes to this nation, we must take our destiny in our hands not sitting idlly while evil, wicked and gluttinous men run the state apparatus and waste our commonwealth. we must aspire, desire and act to bring about positive changes, and i trully believe yes we can.....

pdp, apc, acn, cpc, etc are all the same thing, there is no difference. after FG lagos state government controls the highest resources and capital, but can one in sincerity say that the so called development we see in Lagos equates to the capital resources that the state has generates since 1999, hell no.
the real issue is that no matter what u want to insinate acn, cpc is not different from pdp

the scenario i see is that since it is still 2 yrs to next election, they may play into the hand of the president, he may decide against runing and bring out a radical, mean, steel no nonsense candidate someone with ( ribadu type of attitude during obj era) and use the incumbency power to make him president. Nigeria needs a leader in the mold of castro, chavezwho will be for the down troden masses of Nigeria not all these evil politicians we have around. name meone of these polticians with the pple concern at heart, the only one i see is someone like oshiomole, maybe akpabio, mimiko all the others dont care for the suffering masses. take for example tinubu/fashola policy has never meant well for the down troden man only 4 the rich and powerful.

sometime ask urself what is the popultion of all the countries surrounding us: Ghana, Benin, Niger, Cameroun, Togo, Ivory coast, Senegal, Liberia etc and compare it to Nigerias. this country is too big to manage.

thats my thought...

hahahaha i laugh in swahili, he who fails to plan has planned to fail.

when i began to notice the issue with oil was in college, when i did mini research assgnment in global supply chain, i discovered that all the global car manufacturers from toyota, to honda, to american car producer like gm to other western companies invested heavily in alternative source of energy which will be less dependent or non depeendent on oil. today there are more than 10 million hybrid cars in us alone which run on ethanol, almost half of cars in brazil run on bio fuel made by sugarcane

also i knew that there were serious issues in global oil supply was when last year, saudi arabia the worlds highest oil producer overhauled there entire oil ministry, and now set up ministry on alternative source of energy as its main ministry with billions of $ budgeted to this ministry, i asked myself 4 saudi arabia puting a lot of resources on this alternative source shows that the end of oil is at hand.

in all these what are nigerian leaders doing, absolutely nothing until they will soon realise that no body needs their oil then they will drink the oil.

look at the arabs diversifying their economies, dubai diversified from oil to service related industry, emirates airline has moved to be one of the best airline in the world beating western airline hands likewise qatar airline and etihad are coming up too, some weeks ago emiratesnow has the biggest terminal for airbus 380 the bigest plane in the world, the abhudabi soverign wealth fund with over $1 trillion is buying up many asset across the globe, likewise qatar is investing in different assets globally.
why i am mentioning the arabs is because God blessed nigeria with the same oil he blessed the arabs but instead of investing our leaders have stolen away the money, sometimes i weep 4 black man, God gave us resources, we are the most endowed with natural resources, we have no reason to be poor, but look around and u will see level of poverty in the country caused by us.

why I am giving this long description is because the average nigerian is being ripped off by the political class and govt be it pdp, acn, etc. take for instance the toll gate in lekki axis the area I reside hw much did that road cost that warrant 150 naira 4 suv and 120 naira 4 sedan, that is almost $1 per car, calculate the no of cars that pass that toll to and fro a day, the estimate is over 1 million cars a day and I heard the concession is 4 30 years then u will realise the kind of rip off by the govt in Lagos. I am not against toll but it shld have had a human face say 50 naira to 30 naira for each class of vehicle. and there is another toll at chevron on the same axis, to collect another double toll for those living down ajah. also I heard that the new bridge linking lekki with Ikoyi will be tolled at the rate of 350 4 sedan and 500 4 suv this is in excess of $2 per car, how much did that bridge cost to warrant such high price.
many lagosians are blind they dont know that they have sold themselves and their children for to slavery to the political class in lagos for years to come, likewise same goes for all over the country. take 4 example concerning the toll gat where in the world will u toll $1 or $2 equivalent for these tolls in lagos, i quote no where for such short distance, it is the highest rip off I ve ever seen.but some will come here to support such rip off because most of them are blind, have gone to other climes where civilised people live their life. I say it again the rip off by the political class is evil, wicked. with all these money their lives are still miserable. like the wonderful femi kuti I say I sorry 4 nigeria