₦airaland Forum

sreamsense:
Always remember to pray for south west that is giving you food and hosting you too. How can Holy Ghost to Nzukka within the same state with CNG be N2500. You are making things harder for yourself? Without CNG to Nzukka will now be how much? He suppose to designate two or three buses to tertiary institutions like ESUT,UNEC,IMT,UNN Nzukka etc and lower the price a bit for them. Anyway, we also thank Tinubu that make states to now have enough money to embark on meaningful projects and we also thank him for conquering ipob and ekpa that liberate people from Monday Monday sit at home imprisonment

Lest I forget, please also update me about how many ADC and LP candidates have won so far in this bye elections

bigpicture001:
Prices are too high.. and moroever.. the buses are too long... And will take time to fill up . Thereby wasting passengers time

Peakdesign23:
Good day my fellow nairalanders, can you swallow eba in the morning? Yes or No?

iwaeda:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/08/balance-federal-appointments-for-unity-cso-urges-tinubu/

iwaeda:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/08/benue-plateau-leaders-to-tinubu-your-marching-orders-not-effective/

Stolen:
WHAT TYPE OF GOV IS SOLUDO.



SINCE HE TOOK OVER MAKING IRRELEVANT COMMENTS THINGS HAVBE JUST GOTTEN WORST IN ANAMBRA.



KIDNAPPERS EVERYWHERE AND CRIME IS OUT OF CONTROL.



THIS IS NOT OUR ANAMBRA UNDER OBI OR OBIANO.



OBI CLEANED UP ANAMBRA AND OBIANO MAINTAINED THE ZERO CRIME TOLERANCE.


SOLUDO A GOSSIPER IS TOO BUSY CALLING IGBO CRIMINALS TO DO ANYTHING.


IF THINGS CONTINUE LIKE THIS THEN, NO 2ND TERM, GOING TO SEE TINUBU IS FURTHER INVITING PROBLEM OF RIGGING TO ANAMBRA STATE.

Baxilexi:
I strongly doubt there would be a second meeting.

Weeks before this meeting the US had sent an envoy to Russia to meet with the president.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/11/russia-witkoff-putin-meeting-ukraine-trump

His demands were put forward and communicated to Mr. Trump.
With the stakes of this meeting, it was expected that both sides would just meet and shake hands, Trump had even touted a second meeting involving the Ukrainian president, that must have come from a place of certain levels of reassurances.

It’s not Trump’s war, Putin doesn’t need him to visit to end the war.

My analysis, I see an escalation in the war and an alright American support for NATO/Ukraine. Trump just learned that certain levels of madness cannot be cured by ‘cutting a deal’.

Mrchippychappy:
But seriously, jokes apart , Kwara never had this problem until about the start of this year. How do these bandits move into new territory without the security operatives noticing?


Clearly this is a gradual push down south.

This is no joke, Kwara shares boundaries with numerous peaceful South Western States.

Must Nigeria be plunged into total chaos and anarchy before the Government uses brute force and an iron fist to destroy these terrorists? What would it take?

peaceful southwest states? okay o


Kwara that was very peaceful as recent as last year don enter their own crisis now.

What must be done to call a spade a spade in Nigeria? How much lives must be lost before we tell people an inconvenient truth that they have been turning a blind eye towards?

Jakumo:
A couple of years ago, an American missionary working as a volunteer with his wife in Niger, West Africa, was kidnapped, and taken across the border into northern Nigeria. This brilliantly reenacted video clip chronicles the preparation and execution of a highly choreographed hostage rescue mission that kicked off when special forces operatives breathing from oxygen tanks jumped out of an aircraft cruising 25 thousand feet up in the night sky, and silently steered their parachutes to within striking range of the encampment where the American citizen was being held by armed terrorists.

With American military assistance, Nigeria's terrorist problem would be consigned to the history books in a matter of months as drones operating with AI target acquisition capability would be launched to neutralize kidnap/herder/bandit gangs with surgical precision from the air, until there are no further targets left to annihilate.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQOQt4vdGJg

YesDaddyTill203:
Lagos deserves all the favour that it can get. You people are all leaving your region and coming to Lagos daily.
Lagos deserves more than what it's getting now with the way people are trooping into Lagos from everywhere, especially from the SE.
We need our land back. I will be glad if people can go back to wherever they are coming from.
I don't consider overpopulation as development. That's why I left Lagos city and now reside in the town in Lagos State.

wolesmile:
But seriously, I think most people make use of ChatGPT for educative information more than more than other AI apps. I like gemini too, and meta AI (WhatsApp and Facebook) and Perplexity (WhatsApp)
The only thing i like most about Grok is its sense of humour.

MrHyde:
The airline should be sanctioned, there is a procedure for demobilizing an individual, there are tools for that. A tazer can come in handy but exposing and dragging that lady like that for the whole world to see even if she is a mad woman is barbaric!

RealLordZeus:
This is what will likely happen to Nigeria if we allow secession of any kind..
We are going to split into as much as 20 nations which will attract several civil wars and a lot of humanitarian crises.

I was just thinking this morning about the possibility of having a monarchial system like the king of malaysia in Western Nigeria in the event of a successful split.
The Yorubas are kind of like the only largest tribe with a bit of homogeneity yet, in such a scenario, there is likely going to be a civil war between the Oni of Ife and Alaafin of Oyo, in the past, there may be some arrangement that keeps the power in check but these current set of monarch will never agree to such arrangement

UpaIweka:
This will will make many obidient n ipob sad. Make God help Nigeria from enemies within.

Their mentor Obi keep shouting from consimption to production yet he keep importing from toothpick to anything unimaginable.

DeLaRue:
Fantastic news.

I was with a state government official recently when he said that Akwa Ibom is on the coat tail of his state (Ondo) and may likely surpass Ondo as the highest producer of cocoa in a few years.

Interestingly, I also heard that many of the farm hands and workers in Ondo cocoa farms are from Akwa Ibom. Many of the original owner families were stopped showing much interest in the farms when cocoa prices was depressed for so many years. Now that prices have shot through the roof, they are returning to reclaim their farms.

Nigeria should certainly take advantage of the current international market situation.

kettykin:
I read this and I weep for Nigeria. I read where soldiers were shooting at markets and innocent traders and I reserve my comments. It seems Hitler was a saint. Why is heaven still allowing a useless entity to still exist.

I have been wondering why despite the numbers of church goers why Nigeria has been drifting endlessly like a de orbited planet. Now I have a clue. I wish Nigeria all the shreds of luck

abuzz33:
Thanks for your insights. However, to me a gas pipeline to Anambra is needed because it allows you to do many things with the gas supply. You can pipe it to industrial estates, build a power plant. Long run it's more valuable than just running a transmission line.

Indeed, why even go all the way to Aba for power when producing gas fields and power plants are next door in Imo. The Egbema power plant rated at 350MW is almost double that of Geometrics 188MW power plant. It is connected to the far more reliable Shell gas pipeline system. What stops the Anambra and Imo govts from creating an SPV and buying that power plant from the NDPHC and splitting its output 50:50? Or even the ANSG could buy it outright by floating a mix of bonds and equity.

We need to be bolder, think deeper, bigger and be more innovative.

Big economies are built on big projects and planning that change the dynamics of economies not easy solutions. Look at the difference between China and India. The Chinese have planned cities with buses, wide avenues, bridges. India has dysfunctional ones with narrow roads with tricycles. Where are investors flocking? Theres a reason China GDP is 10x India.

Anambra already looks like India with all the Keke, shuttle and barrows clogging it's street. Why not when the majority of businesses are primitive buy and sell.

Islie:
‘Nigeria House in deteriorating condition in US, staff owed several months’ salaries’




https://dailytrust.com/nigeria-house-in-deteriorating-condition-in-us-staff-owed-several-months-salaries/

helinues:
Hahaha, honestly I never expected Peter Obi to have reacted to this

If you want to be responding to all the dogs that barks at you, you will never get to your destination

abuzz33:
Go and see what Chinese industrial layouts did for Ethiopia. Over 200,000 jobs created by factories built for export. Google Hawassa Industrial Layout.

We can learn from the Chinese instead of believing we can do it and creating badly planned spaces like our primitive markets.

Industrial layouts require power, water, security and access to good roads. The one thing Anambra lacks is power. The entire East lives off 350MW allocation from the National Grid. This means Anambra at best gets 80MW. For perspective, Nigerian Breweries alone generates 41MW in Nigeria at its factories.

To get industrial scale power gas pipelines are the best option. The Nigerian government is building the over 600km Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano pipeline to take gas to the north from which will generate 3,600MW of power for the three Northern cities. It cost about $2.8b and will be completed in November of this year. Onitsha and Nnewi is less than 100km from Shell gas pipelines in Ohaji North and this should be the priority.

Let me remind you that The West African Gas pipeline was built by Chevron to take Nigerian gas to Tema in Ghana. Through Obasanjos nepotism he connected it to Ogun State and that singular action has made Ogun state today the industrial powerhouse of Nigeria with over 70 large factories basing there including Nestlé, Proctor and Gamble.

SEDC should drop the fascination with railway and focus on power. You can't do anything with 80MW imported power and diesel generator. Togo with the same size population as Anambra has 280MW of INSTALLED capacity. Let that sink in. Or for better comparison take Tunisia with slightly larger population that has power generation capacity of 5,800MW. This is why Tunisias GDP per capita is 6x places like Togo and Nigeria.

Power is everything and a gas pipeline to Onitsha area should be a priority. If Sedc cannot fund it then the state government should pressure the FGN to get a loan to build it. It would be the single biggest economic multiplier for the state.

As for competing projects like railway. You need to produce before needing a heavy duty railway otherwise it will be a white elephant like the Abuja-Kaduna rail line built for $800m and which barely does $5m a year in revenue. Soludos proposal for a railway is nice but he needs to prioritize limited revenue. His single biggest achievement is the roads being built, although the way he is using local contractors guarantees that many will not last to spec.

But let him focus on roads, power and industrial layouts.

IgboProgress:
Simply partner with the best, not necessarily the Chinese. They can search for the best who are from Anambra, if no one is found, they try South East, if not in South then try other igbo states, if not in igbo states, try other friendly places.

In regards to focusing on pipelines before railway, I think it should be well researched or thought about so that the state or investor get reasonable return on investment or high value return for what is invested.
If you ask me, I would suggest they go for something with multiple uses and not just a single-purpose product or infrastructure for the transportation of gas. Railway could be use to transport alot of things, and is typically very profitable if you consider the fact the heavy goods such as certain raw materials can be easily transported for export and attract reasonable amount of fees.
If you want to buy something, it's better to go for those with multiple uses so you don't have to spend more money on more products to solve the problems that can be handled by the multi-purpose ones you bought. You may only go for the single purpose ones if you highly depend on them, if they are better or if you can't find the multipurpose alternatives.

Not saying the gas pipelines aren't important, but more concerned about cost and profitability. The state could simply build the pipelines where they are necessary (sort of local distribution hubs), like around industrial areas, then transport the gas from the source/sources via trains to the hubs for delivery to the industrial areas, homes etc. This should cost less to build and wouldn't require too much pipes or spaces which are likely very limited