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franchasofficia:
Aside Lagos state, Ibadan and maybe some parts of Ogun state due to industrialization made possible by its proximity to Lagos, there is no other Yoruba state that witness influx of none indigenes of the state more than Onitsha and Aba.

The problem most of you have is you hate traveling around Nigeria (especially to Southeast even if for nothing else but for information and enlightenment purpose like I have done to other regions just to know what's on ground in other regions) and you stay in your region and assume things in Southeast. Why not plan a physical visit to Onitsha, Aba, Owerri and Enugu and have a first hand experience even though the FG induced insecurity in Southeast have reduced economic activities in Southeast since end of Buhari's second tenure that he used wickedness and hatred to disrupt the peace of Southeast through unnecessary clampdown on IPOB and Biafra agitators.



Igbos relocate to Lagos state because Lagos state is Nigeria's commercial center, all thanks to Colonial masters and Nigeria's Federal Government and it's policies even before independence.


Nigeria's number one seaport is in Lagos state. And Nigeria is an importation dependent nation. So what do you expect Igbo people that are business oriented people to do; remain in Southeast that federal government intentionally ignored/abandoned it's infrastructures to punish Igbos after the end of the civil war in 1970?


Nigeria's number one international airport is in Lagos.

Nigeria's Central Bank headquarters used to be in Lagos until some time ago that it was relocated to Abuja.


Nigeria's Customs head office was also in Lagos until some years back that it was moved to Abuja but main control office still remain in Lagos.

Nigeria's FAAN, and other aviation regulatory bodies were all in Lagos until Buhari moved them to Abuja few years ago.


All the commercial, mortgage, etc bank head offices are all in Lagos till today.


All foreign country embassies and mission offices are either in Lagos or Abuja. So before any Igbo man travels out of Nigeria for his business or study or tourism/vacation, etc, he must visit Lagos to obtain visa, etc, so what do you expect; Igbos remain in Southeast when you refused them from having their own country with these offices in their country, so that you can then know if they would remain in Lagos or return to their new country?


Virtually all International Oil Companies' head offices are in Lagos state. And lots more.


All these are in Lagos because Lagos was Nigeria's former capital city and the only city to have held that status for decades.


All these make federal government of Nigeria to make policies to favor Lagos state, and also build infrastructures to support Lagos state's status.


So it is natural for all Nigerians, including foreigners to prefer Lagos state more than any other state in Nigeria for economic survival, job hunting, business establishment and whatnot because Nigeria's Federal Government policies already favored Lagos to succeed more than any other state in Nigeria.


This is why it seems like Igbos relocate to Lagos a lot, it is not rocket science, it is natural based on the facts and indices I already gave.


Another issue is the civil war and culture.

Just like Fulanis who are mostly nomads by culture and nature, Igbos are another economic/business nomad tribe in Nigeria. An average Igbo man can relocate to a remote community he spots an opportunity to establish a thriving business/trade without minding the lack of modern amenities and harshness of that community. He would sit tight doing his trade judiciously, serving the people of that community until modernization comes to that place and by then he will become the shining star or the owner of the most thriving business in that once forgotten community. This is Igbo people's lifestyle. He may come from Onitsha with electricity, paved road, modern healthcare, etc but still relocate to a remote community in far away North where he believes he would thrive faster with less competition, and you may think his community is a forest for him to come to such remote community to reside.


He must have weighed his chances of surviving in his more developed Onitsha town with lots of competition with other big business owners and decided to relocate to where he would survive faster. This is why most Igbos relocate to different parts of Nigeria and abroad. Igbos by nature are economic nomads or trade/business nomads.


Again like I said, Biafra civil war also played a role. Southeast and Igbos survived the civil war and bounced back without government officially rebuilding Southeast after the war like other countries that fought such war did mostly because of Igbo people's business/trade Nomadic lifestyle. So how can you be comparing Southeast with Lagos or Kano, Kaduna, etc in development when they didn't witness any war like Southeast? Are you aware that virtually all major infrastructure in Southeast built by the colonial masters were all destroyed during the civil war whereas those built in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, etc are all in tact, so how can any sane human being even compare Southeast development with other Nigerian regions that didn't witness war in their region? Southeast ought to be getting kudos and also used as example of a region that rose from fall on its own without federal government help.


Lastly, you asked why Peter Obi didn't transform Anambra to be a developed city comparable to Europe, etc or even Lagos?

I already answered why you shouldn't compare Lagos with any Southeast state in the first place. Lagos is Nigeria's commercial capital built by Nigeria's Federal government and all Nigerians plus foreigners due to its status since colonial era.


Next, I hope you understand the system of government Nigeria operates which makes the President the all and all that determines how any region or state develops in Nigeria which is why progressive Nigerians are clamoring for restructuring? No Nigerian state can develop and remain secured if the incumbent President of Nigeria doesn't want it to happen. I hope you aware that no State Governor in Nigeria controls the security of his or her state? The President controls everything.


I hope you know how federal allocation is shared among the 36 states in Nigeria? It's based on:

1.) population
2.) natural resources revenue derivation

Because of the factors I earlier pointed out, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, etc get the largest share of allocation based on population, while Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom get the highest allocation based on crude oil revenue.

So where do you expect an Anambra state Governor to get the trillions to turn Anambra state to Lagos or Kano? Anambra is a very young state carved out of Enugu not long ago, Anambra doesn't have the population of Lagos or Kano because of lack of federal government presence compared to Lagos, Kano, Rivers, Delta, etc since the end of the civil war. So the little development Anambra witnessed is self made through indigenous people of Anambra and few none indigenous investors, and then the Onitsha main market.


So you cannot compare the opportunities, resources and revenue available to a Lagos or Kano or Rivers or Delta or Kaduna or Akwa Ibom Governor to that available to an Anambra Governor. This you must take note of.


So if Peter Obi says he is going to do this and this as a President of Nigeria, you should not antagonize him by comparatively asking why didn't he do them in Anambra which is a smaller, young state with lesser resources and opportunities compared to Lagos, etc. With the little Obi did with the small resources and opportunities available to him as an Anambra Governor, then it means he is more than capable to do more with larger resources, opportunities and power to back it up as the President.


Why people like me say Tinubu did not perform as a Lagos state Governor is because Lagos state Governor have the world at his tip. Lagos state alone is richer than so many countries and it is no singular person's making, but owes tribute to Colonial masters, Nigeria's Federal Government, Nigeria's crude oil resources, and then all Nigerians.


And like I said, why I say Tinubu did not perform as Lagos state Governor is because I know that without his grip on Lagos state treasury, if Lagos were to be governed by a whiteman, believe me, Lagos will be competing with top global cities like London, Tokyo, Adelaide, etc because Lagos state have all that it takes to develop more than it is today.

Lol
You don't even know me and you assume i don't travel ?
I spent 9 years in the South East and i know the area fairly well.
Your believe that Tinubu did not perform is subjective.
I was born in Lagos and i know how it was before Tinubu became governor.

franchasofficia:
Tell the world bro.

Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas have vehemently fought against full electronic voting and collation in Nigeria so that they can continue to use thugs, almajiri and INEC manipulation of election result during manual collation to win Nigeria's elections and claim they know how to play Nigerian politics more than Igbos. Whereas it is all about politics of gangup, thuggery, killing, result manipulation and voter suppression that they are using to brag of being good in politics in this 21st century.


Because of their fear for a competent Igbo person to emerge President, they have refused to do things that will make Nigeria grow and become better for all Nigerians.


Tell me why Nigeria should be relying on manual collation of election results in 2023 when we have more efficient, secured electronic systems to handle it fairly, transparently and faster?


Hausa-Fulanis and Yorubas have been ruling Nigeria since 1969 and refused to do the right things to change Nigeria. These two heartless tribes have been rotating Nigeria's Presidency amongst them and achieved nothing but total destruction of Nigeria to what it is today and whenever you make effort to change things for better they use their majority at the national assembly to fight it but to them it is Igbos that is the problem. Igbos that are tired of how they have destroyed and ruined Nigeria and looking for a way to leave them to enjoy their Nigeria and start afresh to build their own dream nation from scratch.



God will definitely disgrace all the people holding Nigeria down from progressing beyond where it is today.

Lol the way you guys reason is just so laughable.
So it is only Ibo man that is competent?
Obi who was governor for 8 years, how did he positively influence Anambra?
Doctors were on strike for 13 whooping months, your messiah could not find solution to that.
You think Nigeria is Anambra?
Dey play

After 5 random guys have destroyed your pekus depositing nonsense inside.
No way.
You must continue with your free life
By the time you are 50, you go wise up

Not trying to scare you.
But what you described looks like seroconversion illness.
That occurs when HIV. is contracted and the few weeks of rapidly viral multiplication in the lymphoid tissues.
Wait till 6 months and test for HIV
Meanwhile please avoid unprotected sexual intercourse with your wife. she does not deserve to suffer for your foolishness

Kingnelson9:
Check out the new Zenith Bank CEO , Is there any yoruba woman prettier than her?

Our ladies (Igbos) are the most pretty in this world .
No bragging, pure facts .
Take a look at Chimamanda Adichie too...

Make I pause here

That you honestly believe the new zenith CEO is beautiful means your definition of beautiful is questionable.
With all her wealth and filter, she still looks at best below average

Friend22:
So,some colleagues begged you it now means all Muslims beg?
Man,get a hold on yourself.

Stop living in fool's paradise.
If anyone begged you narrow it down to those who begged you stop using something specific as general.
Your colleagues for reasons best known to them begged you,but you're generalising it as if Muslims beg and it's very childish.

Moreover,some of the richest folks around today are Muslims.
The richest man in Africa is a Muslim-Aliko Dangote.
So,I don't know what's making you feel so important.

Most likely the guy dey lie self

CareerBegger:
Christians have been fasting without begging or enforcing their colleague to gift them gift for fasting.
They work with dignity and not see fasting as a means to be lazy.

My Muslim colleagues on the other hand has been on my throat with different request that I should give them gift for fasting. Naa me send you to fast? Abi naa me you dey fast for?

What kind of mentality is that, why hold people to ransome to give you gift for fasting by force. That's rubbish.

Please this is 2024 and that attitude should die off abeg

It is because they like you that they jokingly requested Ramadan gift from you not knowing you are a despicable jerk .
Come to think of it, what can you offer someone fasting for 30 whole days?
My advice to your friends is that they should know who they joke with!

Unilorin better by far university.
As a student from 100 level to 600 level, I always made it a point to check my pocket twice before entering examination hall. You can't dare forget exhibit in your pocket, it is expulsion straight.
So many people in final year have had their ambition terminated because of this mistake

matthew080:
Hmm
Astagfirulahil Azeem
My greatest prob,
I used to be a good Muslim before I got married,but things changed for me when my wife could not in any way meet my demand for sex(not everyday sex)
I finally ran into my sale girl, giving me sex exactly how I need it,I HV tried to stop but I couldn't, thinking of marrying her because she as no hubby,but I am still thinking about her various body count and her behin a Christian,, I don't just know what to do
I plan to marry a second wife to stop me from this grave sin but I am still watching my pocket,
ALLAH
I know this sin has destroyed me but pls help me stay away from it,
Peeps see me as an Alfa but I see myself and cry inside
I need help

May Allah help you and us overcome all evil

Most likely pelvic inflammatory disease PID.
let her see a gynecologist ASAP

AqualinaXYZ:
The crumbler squanderer destroyer of Nigerian economy is home



A decayed teeth maggot that hasn’t achieved one single thing since May 29th rather than inflate poverty hunger tears and death to Nigerians



A man that broke Buharis record of incompetency


We welcome you home our honorable Chicago certificate forger


A mysterious man who graduated four years before school was established



On your shrinked manhood I stand with my timberland boots gidigba

Lmao.
This wan go develop heart attack over Tinubu matter

ottersberger:
Guy, you be "poor boy".
I know, the truth hurts.
But, it is what it is.

No be your fault sha.
Na dat M0ron wey for ejaculate you inside toilet tissue cause dis nonsense that I'm now confronting.

In your next life, learn a little respect and humility.
People like me may just help you out of your misery.

Lol
The fault is not yours really.
Those 2 animals who after drunken orgy had you are to blame.
They should have use protection so as not to bring another animal to this world.
For your info, i am doing better than you will ever aspire to be.
Just get out .
You are a low life gutter bred. Enjoying the acrimonious exchange. That is the only thing giving meaningful meaning to your pathetic existence.

ottersberger:
Guy, you be "poor boy".
I know, the truth hurts.
But, it is what it is.

No be your fault sha.
Na dat M0ron wey for ejaculate you inside toilet tissue cause dis nonsense that I'm now confronting.

In your next life, learn a little respect and humility.
People like me may just help you out of your misery.

I thank God, I am doing fantastically well financially and otherwise.
The fault is not yours really.
Those 2 imbeciles who after drunken night stand did not have the sense to use protection so as not to have another misfit are to blame

djwealth:
What of those house officer guys/ fresh male doctors that passed urinary catheter for females patients.
That must first wipe the t*to with savlon 3times and use gloves hand to locate/palpate the t*to urethral orifice B4 inserting it nko, jealousy people :

As a practicing doctor, that is the standard.
You thoroughly clean the perineum before inserting catheter.
See, an average doctor has seen enough vagina that looking at one is like looking at the face.
We have some perverts no doubt, but those are very minute percentage

ottersberger:
I know that exchanging with an underachieving nuisance like you is a privilege you are beginning to relish. N’Sync said it best, “BYE, BYE, BYE!”.

Ode!

Under achieving you said!?
Lmao.
It shows the nonentity i have been exchanging banters with.
Trust me, in 20 life time, you will struggle hard to achieve quarter of what i have achieved. You are just a scumbug.
Boisterous but very empty

ottersberger:
Wow!. That took some time, didn't it?. Looks like you finally found someone who purchased a little data for your broke ass. Please do the world a favor and off yourself. The useless person who produced you should have saved us this nuisance by simply wanking you off on a tissue paper, as I already told you.

It is not everyone that is jobless like you.
Seems you are keen to compete in who knows how to spew foul language most.
Won't give the the honour
You are a worthless despicable piece of shit
.the unfortunate slowpoke who sired you should have done the world lots of good by dumping your sorry ass in the dustbin the day you were born.
Stop exhibiting your poor upbringing on social media.

ottersberger:
Spoken like the illegitimate offspring of the slowpoke who unfortunately sired you, while you should have landed on a piece of toilet tissue.

Ode!

The dimwit who has the misfortune of raising you should be executed by firing squad for doing extremely shoddy job .
Baba e lode. Alaileko omo ale

ukaface:
Na girl wey no wan forget her ex na
Why will I want to accommodate the thoughts of my ex in my brain, I can’t even remember his name or what he looks like

Na every night I Dey curse and swear for am

Lmao,
And yet claim you are over him already

ottersberger:
You just described your papa

And your papa is the ode you earlier called him.
Omo irankiran
If you had modicum of respect for the slowpoke that fathered you, you will not be disrespectful to other's father

ottersberger:
Ode!

Eranko. Werey

drmuri:
Thank you my brother.
Wetin bring Tinubu matter here now?
It is like the hatred IPOBS have for Buhari will bd child's play when Tinubu eventually becomes president

It happened exactly as predicted

drmuri:
E go shock you.
You don't understand politics.
PDP is going nowhere.
Undersground effort is seriously in place to placate all aggrieved APC members.
The rift will be settled before the general election.
And don't be too sure about the PDP having south East South South. If the PDP makes the mistake of not giving the presidency slot to South East despite years of loyal support, things can change.
Moreover, even if PDP gets 100% votes from the south East South South, the votes from Kano Kaduna alone will largely neutralize that.
So, PDP'S chances is not as bright as you postulated

It happened as predicted

ottersberger:
I'm satisfied you feel spoken to by the submission. My words are valid. Are yours?.

A sensible group of people by now would have started process of retrospection.
Why are you hated all over the world?
It will be lanacy to ascribe your worldwide rejection as jealousy.
You people are just lousy empty lots who commit crime every where you go.
We will not miss you in the Southwest.
Your arrogance and hubris will be your greatest undoing.
It is matter of time

Jennyclay:
Why recording and posting it online?? Is not as if he’s faithful either . Nigerian Men are really childish . The idiot even said he’s feeling like God . Mumu!

You don’t give your girlfriend money, you don’t take her out on a romantic date, you nonsense men don’t even care about her well being and you want to experience faithfulness and true love . You foolish men must be joking!!

I’ve said it, if I can’t get enough money, sex and true love from my man, I’ll look else where. No time!!

Shior!!

Another potential olosho spotted

outoftheworld:
It's obvious, most of the Yorubas are intimidated by the Igbos

Delusions of grandeur Yi naa ni.
What is there to be intimidated about the average Igbo man?
Apart from money which are largely proceeds of crime, what real virtue does he possess?
It is only in Igbo land that money is everything.
When you have real omoluabi ethos, you are worthy of respect, but a money bag criminal is just another criminal

Ghostagain:
I'm not Igbo and not yoruba, tell me, when war came to "yorubas" in the form of the British, did the "yorubas" put up a fight ?
Everybody can be Jacki Chan on social media.

The Igbos are not supermen either. And they should not overestimate themselves. Wars are won with the brain, not with the muscle. That is why the one thing all empires have in common is civilisation, be it Benin empire, Malian empire, Ethiopian empire...

Lmao.
Just dey play
You go learn new things

ottersberger:
Pa George is correct. Igbos played their hands to those who now think they have held them by the balls.

Yes, they are up against a very treacherous, vindictive, ego-mongering, and envious tribe, who appreciates nothing and will do anything to showboat when their obvious weakness is laid bare.

Now is the time for the Igbo to once again, like their hated kin in the Orient, show why they, like them, did not drown in the war waged against them. Go back home systematically, build, and prosper.

Play their Lagos and remit to the homestead. When you leave, take your ingenuity with you. Come, they will. They must!.

Your chest beating is disgusting.
Which ingenuity?
So the giant strides by successive Lagos government is due to igbos ingenuity?
Leave Lagos today and see it prosper by leaps and bounds.
You only contribute to chaos, overpopulation in Lagos.
Your fake and substandard goods which 99.9% of you people sell contribute little or nothing to Lagos economy

walefresh3:
naa sonone your stupid brother talk say una igbos plenty pass yorubas for north ?

I come tall sey because una dey park una sele for one market make una think so...

Igbo no even reach half 9f yorubas in the north..

Exactly!
Yorubas are generally more accepted in the north, hence the reside amongst the local populace.unlike Igbos who lump themselves into Sabongari.
Moreover, most Yorubas dress like Hausas, peak the language fluently. You may mistake them for indigenes

When you hate others unduly, when you wish evil for your fatherland, when you spend the best part of your life scheming how to take over what was never yours, it undoubtedly will have heavy toil on your well being.
An average southeaster is unduly aggressive, rude hateful.
They should learn from our southwestern brothers, chillax love and accomodate others do owanbe once in a while. Things will be fine.
Hate does too much damage to the bearer

43Ronin:
bros looks at this way. you and your paddy are working in the same company but at dft location. your paddy is working at SE and earning 400k a month but you are working in Abuja and earning 1m a month. on paper you look richer than your paddy making 400k in SE. However your rent in abj, cost of transportation, food stuff if you have children, school fees and transport can bring your expenses of that to 800k leaving you with 200k as savings. now ur paddy in SE has his own expenses at 150k meaning he has 250k savings.... are you now better or richer than him? For you to know the success of IGR, you must breakdown to know how much was spent on recurring debts & expenditure, and how much was spent on capital projects or infrastructure. That is why you see a state like Ogun generating what the Entire SE generated but no developments to show for it. bad roads, owed salaries, gratuity & pension...

Tell me a state that is performing better than Ogun state in the southeast
Is it Abia that until recently owed doctors 30 months salary or Anambra that doctors had to go on 13 months strike over poor pay!

Igbos with hypocrisy.
If the highest IGR recorded were to be from the southeast, we won't rest
You will hear things like the Igbos are the financial life-line of Nigeria.
But now that the IGR of the whole southeast is not up to Ogun state, IGR is useless and of no importance

taylor88:
If Tinubu had a clean record then he shouldn’t be afraid to make his files public



But no the urinating crippled thief has a million cockroaches in his cupboard



International disgrace

You no get sense.
Even if i am as clean as whistle, that does not mean every tom dick and Harry can be assessing my privileged private information