OgaSeun: See as the igbo man gentle.. He no fit talk anything make his senior brother from the north no finish am even for his own region
Igbo hatred no even gree you watch the video well! Kindly go back to your favorite Iyoro past time......you know the industry that you ppl excel in na! That mining things....
abuzz33: The kind of crime committed points out to well coordinated weapons distribution. There are only three sources of military grade weaponry in Anambra:
1) The Nigerian police. Interestingly over 2,000 guns have disappeared over the years from police formations in Anambra which suggests a level of complicity between police officers and criminals something that needs to be investigated by special forces.
2) Gunrunners. There has been little investigation to identify and arrest gun salesmen in trading towns like Onitsha and Nnewi. The trucks that ply the state sometimes carry contraband items like guns and bullets.
3) ESN - The igbos continue to underplay the dangers of an armed paramilitary group claiming to fight for liberation. From Liberia to Sudan such groups usually morph into monsters competing with the state for power. The gangs claiming to be ipob armed faction is directly responsible for the increasing insecurity in the state.
Solutions:
1) Cameras. The armed gangs that conduct car snatching, kidnapping often ply the expressways of the state. Yet the state cannot even conduct simple intelligence of identifying suspicious vehicles on the road. There are no cameras monitoring major roads or arteries or reading vehicle license plates.
2) Hand held XRay Scanners- Armed military officers tactically experienced should man checkpoints on the roads not to restrict flow but to identify suspicious drivers and vehicles for further surveillance. Xray Scanners can quickly find vehicles transporting hidden guns.
3) Criminal profiling. Govt should recruit special investigators to build profiles of criminals in the state and to monitor their communication and social networks. From this intelligence profiles of gun runners, kidnap gangs and financiers can be built for prosecution.
4) Police probe. Police should be investigated for gun running and ties with cultists, kidnap gangs with bad eggs identified and prosecuted. The state must act quickly on this.
5) Military action - the military must be engaged to flush out the camps of kidnap gangs in forests around the state in a concerted action. It must operate in Anambra, Imo and Enugu.
A much better analysis but aside from all the "kinetic' measures you listed .......I am also a firm believer in the criminology concept of " The broken window theory"......the theory states that "visible signs of disorder, like a broken window left unrepaired, can signal a lack of social control and encourage further crime and disorder in a neighborhood, suggesting that addressing minor offenses can prevent more serious crimes from occurring"....The kidnap kingpins started their career in crime from small hustles like touting and pickpocketing..........The Onitsha/Nnewi axis is chaotic and largely ungoverned spaces that breed crime! It is not about the high volume of business alone, the Anambra state government has to put law and order in place in Onitsha and deny petty criminals the room to warp into kidnap and robbery kingpins! Chinese cities do far more street business than we do ...yet there is order everywhere!
People no longer fear government nor do they regard its laws and regulations! From sanitation laws to parking laws, to even curb the menace of women selling vegetables and fruits along woliwo is proving to be mission impossible for government...most laws are unenforced! Soludo is trying but he really needs czars in key sectors of the state........I know he has appointed an SSA on security............he needs to appoint a czar to decongest Onitsha/nnewi commercial centers................there is a need to build a new interstate and Intrastate bus terminal in the second niger bridge axis....................I like the way Patrick Mbah approach.......damn the consequences and move ahead!
SmartPolician: Nothing dey Ghana. I have never seen a Nigerian who became a billionaire in Ghana. The day America announces visa-free entry for Nigerians, trust me, we will empty our shithole into America.
In fact, agbadorians, who always claim that Escobar was the best thing that happened to them, will be the first batch of "refugees" to borrow money and fly to America!
ndi-ofe get mouth die, the only thing we dey challenge dia arrogance na dia cowardice.... lily-livered ppl !!
and you still comment...I do not know why yorubas feel pained whenever Igbos rise to challenge injustice ...Why derive joy in seeing people suffer? skull mining mentality
OfficialAPCNig: The recently released Multidimensional Poverty Rate across the 36 states shows that Ogun has a higher Multidimensional Poverty Rate than Kano.
There is no way you can tax (IGR) your people to death and don't expect them to be poor.
For context, IMO state GDP is nearly twice bigger than that of Ogun state, yet the latter (Ogun) generate more GDP than the entire SE.
Also, the average daily trade volume in Kano is around N20 billion, that over N7 trillion yearly, but Ogun generates far bigger IGR.
These show that Ogun state is over taxing their citizens to massage their ego as the second largest IGR generator.
At the end where does it lead them?
Over 68% Multidimensional Poverty Rate, about 2% more than Kano.
Ogun Multidimensional Poverty Rate means that 7 in every 10 persons living in Ogun state are not just poor, but multidimensionally poor.
Our Yoruba brothers can do better
Skull mining will dim your destiny........you can take that one to the bank! Nigeria's star Will never shine until she purges herself of the blood guilt of murdering 1000s of 1000s of innocent Igbo people for a coup they had absolutely nothing to do with and thereafter starving and killing more during the civil war! Evil does not pay..........naija strong head notwithstanding!
Glimpsetv: A mild drama was captured on video involving a civilian whose car was stuck in traffic and a soldier trying to intimidate him.
In the footage, the soldier angrily approached the civilian, displaying authority and warning him to return to his car. He even threatened to hit the man if he didn’t comply. The confrontation appeared to add to the traffic congestion, possibly prompting the soldier’s aggressive approach.
The highlight of the scene, however, was the unexpected involvement of a hawker, popularly referred to as aboki (a term for Northerners in Nigeria). He was seen cheering on the soldier, seemingly in solidarity with a fellow Northerner.
This didn’t sit well with a lady in a car behind them. She confronted the hawker, rebuking him for supporting the soldier’s actions. Their heated exchange turned out to be the funniest part of the incident.
That fine Igbo woman has the heart of 3 men.........she 'man' pass Enugu governor Patrick mbah sef! You can be all you can be without selling your own people short!
kettykin: I am not the only one surprised. But does this mean he has fully embraced the people he once tried to exclude from his government? Could this mark the beginning of a new approach to the Igbos, or will my man Shettima be handed this arduous task?
Patrick Mbah is well on his way to APC.....southeast politicians are something else!
Let's see which major political party in Lagos state would give you their party ticket in 2027
Black Africans are so uncouth and hypocritical ...no wonder God allowed the white man and Arab to emasculate and enslave your dumb behind! Tommorrow dis online miscreant will carry Bible up and down! This is your so called democracy....!!
RevDesm0ndJuju: Trump is not going to cause WW3 but he sure as hell going to see to another American civil war all courtesy of his stupidity in appointments.
Already the MAGA crowd are having serious buyers remorse following the Twitter rants and meltdown of Elon Musk calling for mass immigration for cheap Indian slave labour and the likes of Vivek doubling down on the same bullshit.
All Trump's appointees other than RFK are all not what MAGA ordered . They are all Zionist globalist scumbags. this is totally in opposite of what MAGA is all about but Zion Don has been eviscerated by Mossad blackmail that the idiot is even going to be worse than the mannequin dementia Joe.
The 1% are getting really scared since the Insurance CEO assassination. Add disgruntled vets and you are going to see real terror targeting the political and business elite.
Very simplistic analysis that caresses your own point of view! The factors at play in American politics are way more complex!
The world had become multi polar with power indices spread among global powers like China, Russia ........even Turkey, India, Pakistan, Iran and N Korea are no push overseas now!
I daresay that even the cooperation of EU is not guaranteed for USA now.......in essence what will happen in America will be heavily influenced by International geo politics!
IGBOPROMISE1: I watched that interview too! He said EXACTLY what i've been saying about how the Nigerian political-economy has shortchanged and cheated the east in general and Ndigbo in particular! It's been structured to primarily power and benefit the (south-west) and Fulani (north-west) economies, politicians and and entrepreneurs, while the scraps are left for the rest of us to fight over! Our useless, appeasing and daft political elite were also indicted and complicit, either by omission or commission, in allowing this injustice to persist! I can understand small had it been we were still in a despotic northern military dispensation! But in a supposed 'democractic' dispensation....and our useless political elite are keeping quiet and allowing the Yoruba and Fulani get away with and sustain the unlevel playing field they insituted in the late 60s!? C'mon!
OUR political elite, Igbo civil servants, and even Igbos in the organized private sector are all in need of urgent mental and emotional rehabilitation from acute mental trauma .............. Igbos must never shy away from asking for what is rightfully ours from the biased Nigerian system! We cannot be Nigerians yet have our rights abridged and encumbered with reckless indifference! Oginidi !!
whilst we fight for our rights from the center as we should........Let us not forget that we also have a homeland that needs massive investments.....soludo must take care of our home-based business elite residing in Onitsha and Nnewi............... If we cannot tar Onitsha GRA , where else can we tar then! we must retain our business elite already based in the state!
abuzz33: The insecurity started with proliferation of military grade weapons through IPOB sympathizers who financed the group. That group has now gone rogue and have turned their bush camps into kidnap camps.
Anambra needs a military operation to sweep the state and Imo to clear all these paramilitary camps. It's not just blocking expressways but they need helicopters, satellite imagery and phone trackers to identify and arrest criminal gangs.
Soludo likes to talk. Time for actio .
Again . ...a simplistic view! How many sweeps has your military, dss and Asari Dokubo's special forces carried out? All to no avail! It's like a man with heart disease electing to subject himself to rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy...........I am more than an insider........in fact do not discount politics and politicians from certain aspects of the violence!!!
From the days of boys oyee to Bakassi boys...Anambra has always had issues with violent crime since the civil war ended.....the agitation has not helped but your fixation with agitatiors suggests you do not know Anambra well!
The agitation violence can be geolocated within the Anambra border with Imo around that Orlu, Lilu, Orsu, Ihiala axis..............even the attack on the US embassy was narrowed to some Ogbaru youth / oil militancy issues........we are all educated here......our actions must be backed with unimpeachable evidence! No point shooting in the dark!
- 1 house of assembly member murdered and beheaded - 1 house of assembly member kidnapped - Retired Arch bishop kidnapped - 1 catholic priest killed - Several Catholic and Anglican priests abducted - US Convoy attacked with several killed in Anambra - Multichoice Supersport Team kidnapped in Anambra - Ex Commissioner kidnapped in Anambra - Secretary of Idemili Branch of NBA kidnapped while Ihiala NBA Principal State Counsel murdered
Insecurity is the bane of Soludo administration!! I have always believed that attributing 100% of security challenges to Biafran agitation is simplistic and naive......a couple of salient societal negatives are at play in Anambra....maybe a security conference needs to be organized to identify these issues!
ESN/ BLA agitators
Cultism fuelled by drug abuse
Touts/ Tax collectors powered by shadowy bizmen
New Age Odinala idol worshippers doing their own power grab!
The most insidious factor is the breakdown of Nwaboi apprenticeship system in Anambra!
This list is not exhaustive but Soludo needs to tackle these issues with tact and also be ready to go kinetic if need be!
A Happy 2025 to us all.........2024 was not perfect but 2025 will be better! 2024 was a mixed bag for Ndigbo but the performance of a select southeast governors gave us some hope for the future ! I do not want to start the year with news of gloom and doom but Ndigbo and our governors must become very strategic in terms of what our ultimate socioeconomic and political goals are............after all the roads and bridges have been built ...WHAT NEXT ?
I am looking at all this from a purely economic benefit point of view! A functional seaport in the east will grow the economy by at least 5% ..........reducing inflation all the way! I find it difficult to understand the way the minds of black Africans work especially Nigerians.
It is like our southeast politicians are suffering massive post civil war PTSD........our politicians are traumatized, they cannot even begin to meet to complain about these systemic gaps in infrastructure in the east!
why cant dis ronu people mind their business for once...notice how they come up with provocative threads to create ethnic tensions that they will milk for political gain etc Ndigbo should be wary of their antics this new year! Ndigbo are busy winding down and enjoying xmas and new year festivities in OUR LAND....who has time to check if Lagos is empty or not! PLEASE this is a new year!
Ojiofor: Wike is a man of yesterday in Rivers state politics.Fubara the governor himself is a nice guy to every ethnic group in Rivers state. He himself is Igbo by ancestry Ijaw by political association.
Fubara is 100% Igbo you slimeball.......ever ready to throw Igbo interests under the bus!!
Leobankx: Well FFK is right on this, what will be Nigeria's gain in destabilising Niger, not like they have anything we want, it will just cause massive immigration into Nigeria which we don't want.
The same Niger that Buhari was building roads, houses and railways for is now carrying shoulder.
Why will they not carry shoulder? When Nigeria behaves like an irresponsible adult ....see how tribal our leaders are...........Buhari will carry his fulani bros pack every where....Tinubu has started his own too......any strategic adversary knows we are weak internally forget the pretense............why will Ndigbo defend Nigeria...on what basis? Maybe we should on the basis of relentless exclusion and marginalization!!! Ndi ala
Did your Godfather Buhari not ask CBN to grant the Lagos State government 70 billion naira to complete the Blue Line 3 years ago?? Meanwhile, Enugu Airport's International Terminal, which has been more than 90% complete since 2020, is begging for funding.......Nigeria is a nightmare for Ndigbo......!
Go and tell the parents who lost their children that this war is meaningless.....you shameless Africans never fail to exhibit your foolishness anywhere you go!
GistMedia0: Nigerian businesswoman Oluwatofarati has stirred up conversations online with her strong opinion on DNA tests after childbirth. In a recent statement, she made it clear that if she found out her husband had secretly conducted a DNA test on their newborn, she would not hesitate to take drastic action.
“If I find out my husband had a DNA test done after I just pushed a baby out, immediately I leave the hospital, I’m leaving with my child and serving divorce papers,” Oluwatofarati boldly stated. Her remarks highlight the deep sense of betrayal and lack of trust she would feel in such a situation.
The businesswoman's comments have sparked a heated debate online, with many supporting her view that trust should be paramount in marriage, while others question whether DNA tests are justified in today’s world.
Leaving with "your" baby! Nigeria is not America! Na papa get piking in Nigeria o!