₦airaland Forum

Wickedfact:
When Lagos was using Molue, I'm sure they must have been using wheelbarrows as means of transport in Abia.

when molue and bolekaja were the in thing in Lagos............Eastern passengers were already travelling between lagos and east with ekene dili chukwu luxury coaches and buses with female attendants ...............Nigeria has dumbed everyone down!

Obaaderemi2:
Those two scammers Kanu and Ekpa are using the Biafra movement to make money and power. It's just like the terrorist leaders up north who are making money out of the chaos up north.

But one would expect the average ibo to be wiser than the mostly illiterate northerners. It's not even about Biafra being dead or not but how a progressive tribe like the ibos could fall for the lies of these cheap swindlers is what I don't understand. Concerning Nigeria's politics, there's nothing I like more than my Yoruba region to be on its own. We've got all we need. The others need us more than we need them considering the massive immigration into Yoruba land by the others. But I will never be foolish enough to listen to an idiot like Ighoho or whatever he calls himself, a thief and an illiterate who knows nothing about nation building.

You are the daft one! which one is more powerful.....seeing the disemboweled corpse of your sister/wife murdered by fulani herdsmen or trying to read the mind and intent of an Nnamdi Kanu ...who has spent 4 years of the past 8 years in detention and prison ( while you were sitting comfortably on your wife's laps tugging at her bosom)........I do not blame you, after all you are poor,foolish and as smart as a blundering baboon in an African jungle!

christistruth01:
The father’s of the Yorubas were renowned as war hungry Rogues who

learnt to appreciate and embrace Peace the hard Way after Yorubas

were at War with themselves for 100 years Straight

It achieved almost nothing and instead sent hundreds of thousands into Transatlantic Slavery

And if not that Yorubas through God Almighty’s divine providence managed to get their hands

on European Fire Arms at just the right time, war battered Yorubas were almost overrun by Jihadists


Peace is far better than War

war is better than to be "peaceful" and be slaughtered like an ileya ram by fulanis................the last time I checked Ndigbo were not sheep!

rollandi:
Old soldier never dies

A very strong man..........a true nationalist! Had he been Head of state of Nigeria perhaps the reconciliation moves will have been a resounding success but a naive Gowon was overwhelmed by hawkish fulani officers and slimy civil servants from southern Nigeria! Today another Biafra struggle is brewing!

PureFace1:
I like the fact she is black and shining not one of those bitches that already bleached away their black skin

you sound so obnoxious,

AbujaCitiBlog:
Please how can I get this book by Hillary Njoku?

Murtala was served wella by one of his former foot soldiers Dimka.............maga had half his head blown out by a drunken Dimka( himself a fellow july 29 1966 coupists}. Morale of the story , do not shed innocent blood especially when it is not necessary. Funny most of the actors who murdered their victims ..met the same violent end! Nzeogwu, ifeajuna,Murtala,ibrahim Taiwo, Bisalla,etc.

Fortruth:
More like the SABO state…


You have resources but your people and leaders sabotage themselves and the resources become properties of others. Is that what Kwenu is all about….of course there is no kwenu for Igbo in politics… No wonder PDP and APC both bypassed the East… How can you trust people who sabotage their people, from Amaechi to Umahi to Wike to Okorocha to Orji Kalu….and others “running” to be President LOL.
Only to see Cubana dancing up and down on red dirt roads LOL…. And Kanu Nwankwo telling una he be Tinubu boy boy LOL.


Foolish people that NEVER LEARN….. Now BBC is partnering up with a Yoruba guy to bring you series on Biafra when the common Igbo geh and “businessman” will vex when you mention Biafra LOL

FOOLS

No be idiocy dey worry dis one! crawl back to your mushin sewer abode...oponu!

Superwave16320:
This is a lamentation by oloriburuku cursed Igbo. So if I want to learn history na from foolish Igbo mouth like you I go learn am.

You de mad

see dis useless mushin agbero talking rubbish after smoking ganja and drinking agbo from your dirty girlfriend risikat, you come on nairaland to display your tribalism.......bloody afonja urchin! cannot wait to see the backs of you creeps! ndi iberibe

Ofodirinwa:
I would disgree with the point that Nigerian cities aren't well administered. Not that this isn't true, but it's not the source of our challenges. The source of our challenges comes from many places, but one that plays a way bigger role that governance is taste.

The citizens and the government have bad taste. When given a chance they build something with bad taste. Once 100 things of bad taste accumulate you suddenly have an ugly city.

What ppl don't know is that European cities aren't 'planned'. They're administered well compared to Nigerian cities, but they don't follow a plan. They developed organically over centuries and later rules and ordinances were imposed on them.

We celebrate things today that will become a problem tomorrow. So if someone is tasteless enough to throw their trash on the floor, if you make them governor what will make them set up a refuse system? Sentiment? If you tell Nigerians to wrap their goods with leaves they will laugh at you because in their mind plastic is modern. Meanwhile everyone in the world is trying to start wrapping their goods with leaves because plastic was a mistake. Rwanda has even ban plastic.

But you have a society that celebrates the presence of plastic, throws their refuse infront of their own house, then complains that the government isn't getting rid of their trash. Meanwhile, the government is made up of people like them.

I tell people now that 'flyovers' will be a serious problem in the future because the societies that started it are regretting it. But we are tacky and we want tacky things.

Let me respectfully disagree to an extent!..........I am yet to see a beautiful city that is not well run and administered: with very strong town planning authorities both national and sub-national directing affairs....NONE! is is like saying a well dressed and beautiful woman does not take the time to discipline her eating habits ,carefully pick her clothes and generally take care of herself ! Barcelona and Paris are arguably the best planned cities in Europe, the planning started centuries ago and the promoters were very intentional about their goals. We cannot wish sanity and organisation unto Onitsha...........it has be a deliberate process o! That is why Obi as a manager had to go to UN habitat to get a masterplan for Awka.....the misfits that followed him jettisoned the plan...today we are back to square 1. The thing is that , the chaotic nature of our cities poses a substantial and practical problem! Solving the problem usually comes with both substantive and styling components !

tinsel:
This crowd is better than Obi's own in Ekiti

afonjas the closet tribalists...................dem no go comout for other candidates except their own tribe! we are watching !!

Lalar27:
Kwara state is fully batified. Anything less than 70% vote for jagaban there should be investigated he will sweep a very large margin there

you mean the boko haram incubator ..........sometimes I wonder what Ndigbo are doing in the same nation with these fundamentalists..........Naija may never work!

abuzz33:
There are road codes, building codes, well known ways of doing public transport systems, waste managemement systems, there are guidelines for urban planning. Nigerian officials deliberately choose not to follow or enforce most of these. The consequence of this failure in duty is chaos, filth and congestion.

The second is a failure in investment. Onitsha, Awka, Nnewi have been growing by 10% each and every year since the 1970s. Onitsha core has over 100,000 buildings built in 40 years or roughly 2,500 buildings per year. Awka probably around 500 buildings are built every year. If you assume that the average road contains around 40 buildings and you assume that 30% of this is built on virgin land then there is a requirement for around 15 new roads per year in Onitsha and around 3 roads per year in Awka. NONE of the governors has built 1/10th of this. They will tell you that there is no money yet do the math. The average urban road of less than 1 km costs around 50 million. They cant bring out 750 million for Onitsha and 150 million for Awka roads a year? Who are they fooling? Every year the backlog of unpaved roads becomes bigger and bigger. Onitsha is supposed to have around 5000+ roads. How many are paved? Same with Awka that should have at least 1,000 roads. Less than 5% of each city is paved.

Many small African countries with less money than Anambra have far better cities and the reason is that their government officials at least attempt to follow conventional urban planning and reinvest in those cities. Nigerian government officials showcase their stupidity in doing as little as possible while boasting about themselves.

I witnessed in December Soludo with his 20 vehicle convoy of police siren and what not flying on the express. They got to Unizik junction in awka where buses have taken part of one lane of an expressway to "load", where miscreants have broken the fence separating both sides of the expressway to carry luggages from one side of the other despite there being a footbridge. A sensible governor would have seen all these and sacked the Commissioner for Transport immediately.

The same Soludo visited Eke Awka which makes the capital look like a slum and blocks a key transport artery. Where wheelbarrows have parked in front of the market seizing one lane while ATMA and other "Solution" people pretend to be directing traffic while collecting money from them. He lectured the people on keeping the place clean. How silly can you be? Someone with sense would sack whoever is in charge of ATMA and sack the Commissioner of Markets.

These people are just not serious.

100% truth! too many scoundrels in the corridors of power in Nigeria..........The only thing they are serious about is in padding budgets and inflating contracts..................something will eventually give,that is if its not "giving" already! It is gonna be an interesting 2023!

APCnaPDP:
To be honest, I was impressed too but you have to build alliances to win presidential election in Nigeria. Use the next 8 years to build alliances with other parts of Nigeria first.

Nigeria will not be around by then sir!!! alliance of thievery and lootery! una no see as eye and nose be Nigeria!

OreMI22:
@bolded. That is the crux of the matter!

The type of houses in Nigerian cities such as Onitsha are way better than houses in many European capitals. However, because the whole place is unplanned, with lots of bad roads and overflowing trash everywhere, no sane person would like to live in a Nigerian city.

Thus, a total lack of town planning code and appalling bad roads with overflowing trash everywhere is what turned Nigerian cities into slums. If you look at the quality of buildings, you will agree that Nigerian cities have better buildings than many European cities. Only that the European cities have paved streets, without trash all over the place and of course the buildings are better organized.

This is why I feel throwing money at urban renewal projects will be tantamount to pouring water into a basket! without strong institutions to make and enforce town planning laws........no matter the number of dual carriageways you build bedlam and chaos will sooner than later overwhelm your efforts! we can actually get as much as 6 feet of extra road width by taking our drains and gutters underground!

ruggedtimi:
calm down no1 us billboard and asia...300m views on utube both the remix and original song

Both original and remix of calm down is 560 million views on YouTube alone........what are we arguing about sef!

charlesdinho7:
the remix of calm down made it a global song

Rubbish ...calm down had over 100 million views on YouTube b4 the remix!

Zeezy81:
Anything for Daniel.. nigger kills it back2back

Urchins!!!

Iamicekid:
Buga is Africa based with no promo but calm down is global with massive promo money spent in other to make it reach that peak

Which promo? Every song has to be pushed!

abuzz33:
The likes of London and New York City are dense but do not rely on primitive transport and business in their urban core like Indian or Nigerian cities. The technology and organization is the difference between organized countries and backward ones because those countries invest heavily in cities.

Anambra should realise that people invest in correlation to organisation. Provide a modern environment modern companies will flood the state. China gets 20x the investment of India because they are organized and modern.

I agree absolutely, however Anambra has to start from somewhere no matter how small...................The kind of modernization you envisage will be quite invasive......a lot of demolition and relocation of infrastructure ( something we can ill afford now). Let me assure you that whatever infrastructure you put in place will be swarmed and overwhelmed in no time!

I drove all the way from Enugu to Igbuzor.....then all the way to Port harcourt via Ughelli last summer!( a trip I did thrice) ! Nigerian cities are not well run and administered.............Activities and transactions that ought to be done in designated facilities and complexes are carried out right on the roads or walkways. Even those who own stores carry out all their wares unto the road in the name of sampling..........welders,carpenters,funeral homes,block industries all have their showrooms on the roadway and walkways.........it is exponentially worse in Alaigbo! From headbridge in onitsha to the old toll gate ,it is bedlam all the way.....keke,wheelbarrows,container semis,commuter buses all on top of each other!

I remember when Amaechi implemented his policy of frontal fences not being no higher than 6feet and fences had to be see through as well,the whole GRAs outlook changed overnight for the better! We are saying the same thing o but we differ on the ways to get to our target goal! Onitsha metro is built up and hardly any room to expand......bulk of the money for urban renewal should be saved for developing new towns in and around Awka.....................Decongest Onitsha,maintain existing infrastructure,expand where possible and improve municipal services........let the private sector modernise and introduce new services and businesses!

abuzz33:
Government has enough allocation to do the basics. Anambra is just 4,000sq km. Onitsha, Awka and Nnewi are less than 100 sq km in total. If you actually build 100 km of road in each city that will cost 100 billion or less. No state governor has dedicated just 10 billion a year in roads to the three cities each. Obiano built just the flyovers in Awka and one or two urban roads and that was it.

If you organise proper large bus services and routing and get rid of the chaos of kekes in dense urban areas that will cost you around 50 billion. You will decongest roads, make fares affordable and increase sanity and accessibility.

If you relocate markets out of major roads and enforce requirement of parking, water supply, toilets, security then you set a standard and people will not flood the state and see it as a place you can sell anyhow and anywhere without control.

Anambra state has an annual budget struggling to reach 200 billion naira , unless Anambra significantly increases its IGR, i do not see how the state can afford the urban renewal projects we so desire! Yet without changing the vibes of our cities we will not be able to attract local home investment talk less of foreign investment! A 100 billion naira urban renewal budget is not basic o! The basics is maintaining the infrastructure on ground, getting a handle on refuse collection and disposal, adequate traffic management , enforcement of basic city and zoning laws......and of course security.

In my humble opinion the first step to any urban renewal is to decongest our major towns..........we tend to over build our so called downtowns! The core of the inter state transport hub,should be relocated from headbridge,upper iweka ,tarzan to the second Niger bridage / obosi interchange axis........there is sufficient land to build a world class, luxury bus,commuter bus,trailer and container park there....but witout sensitizing the stakeholders the plan will be sabotaged!

Cjrane2:
The big problem with Anambra today is that it has attracted all the jobless people and low-end individuals from all over the southeast and indeed Nigeria to come and hustle by setting up illegal shacks all over the state. The sad aspect is that these people also refuse to pay taxes to help the state grow its IGR. Meanwhile, the high-end individuals continue to leave the state either due to every Monday sit at home or the increasing practicality of living in Asaba while working in the state.

Generally, we know there are state capital cities created in 1967, 1976, 1987, 1991, and 1996! The earlier cities created as state capitals are generally more developed than the younger state capitals. Soludo's attention to Anambra cities is commendable. But, it does not take away the fact that subsequent regimes totally abandoned Anambra cities to the dogs. Even the youngest state capital cities in Nigeria such as Yenagoa, Gombe, Abakaliki etc that were created on October 1, 1996, have since surpassed some that were created 5 years earlier on August 21, 1991! Hopefully, Soludo will continue his urban renewal to get the Anambra capital city and other key cities to what they should be.

Oburo onye kwo, motor ya efuo


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1rIsPi9h6I


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM-c1l_c0w0&t=734s

I feel you may have unknowingly touched on one critical factor that dogs all Anambra state governments.......... Revenue Generation! It is all well to criticise administrations endlessly but how does Anambra state generate enuff revenue to finance all the urban renewal projects we dream about! let me apologise ahead of time but once again I am forced to berate soludo for nearly squandering all his political goodwill by dipping his feet into the unnecessary IPOB/sit at home melodrama ! He has begin to retrace his footsteps.............................Rule #1 always stand with your people PUBLICALLY !!! Soludo must learn to flatter their dreams and aspirations like your life depends on it!

Now this brings me to the topic of revenue generation, i am always amazed that a corterie of little educated Igbo traders are able to navigate stringent,corrupt and biased town planning laws in other states like Lagos,come together,concieve,TAX,construct and commission massive trading complexes yet so called egg heads and intellectuals and elite with trappings of political and administrative powers are unable to finance project that are impactful on the general population!

As a child and an adult growing up in Lagos island within a trading family, I witnessed first hand the conception and construction of Alaba in the 1970s and Aspamda in the late 1990s...................If Soludo is desirous of making any progress with stiff necked republicans like Ndigbo he has to cultivate their TRUST and learn the 3 Cs..........COMMUNICATE, CONSULT and COLLABORATE! If he wants to generate money from ndi anambra he had better get off his high horse and start to visit every autonomous community..HOME and ABROAD...........Peter Obi was quite good at this kind of strategy............can you imagine the kind of revenue he can generate from property tax from mansions in our various villages but We go Discuss am! That one is a must!

Ekpeitit:
Point of correction, there is no tribe in Delta State known as Igbos.

see dis cameroonian mmogho pigmy! if i tear you slap nah......bloody misfit!

nonip:


Make Nigerian police see the money inside your pocket

Naija police were dry pick race at the sight of the Biafran flag..........the inordinate fear of fulani violence has been buried in the east......FOREVER!!!

lhordspy:
"In his own country" ... You say.
Same country they called zoo?

The indian never at any time called britain a zoo. With due respect, your instances, references and yardsticks are as useless as your opinion and the subject matter.

My friend go and sit your dirty bum down! You people have run the country down and made it the poverty capital of the world! Nobody wants to live in a nation where the Government opens her borders to savages to terrorize the indigenous population.......by conducting mass murder on an industrial scale........Nigeria as it is constituted is worse than a zoo....Nigeria is a JUNGLE....ogbeni owomida !

Nigeria must repent of her sins and restructure or the whole contraption collapses! The place is a friggin asylum! a shambolic psycho yard!

IGBOSON1:
Exactly!

Had we been using indigenous contractors for our projects from the early 70s to date, by now they would have improved to the level of the Julius Bergers of this world! The country should have built on that Biafran ingenuity, self-belief and never-say-never-again spirit (apologies to Ian Flemming) that saw a look inwards instead of going to oyibo for everything!

Awarding multi-billion/million dollar contracts to foreign construction coys was just one way politicians milked the system through inflation of contract costs and kickbacks! This led to foreign contractors quoting ridiculous prices for their services knowing they’d be approved on a scratch-my-back-i-scratch-yours basis!

I’m damn impressed with the kind of gigantic projects Umahi delivers with local contractors and on a shoestring budget! All i’d add is they could improve a bit on the final finishing. For this, they may need to buy some sophisticated and high-end machines/tools to give the job a better finish, as well as contract one or two experienced engineers from one of those big multi-national construction coys, to help train local contractors.

Another bugbear i have with delivered mega projects in the state is Umahis’ penchant for covering them in a colour riot and too many flashing multi-coloured lights! The flyovers looked nice as they were initially before Umahi gave them that his unique touch!

You could say he’s got the Midas touch….with a 21st century twist!

Maybe Umahi is color blind........it can be sprayed over later!

IGBOSON1:
I posted this on the Ebonyi thread and felt it would be good to repost it on other south-east state threads as well so we can have a constructive discussion on how to improve on our cities and make them world-class.

God Bless you for steering this thread back to what it used to be in its hey days! As far as town planning in south east is concerned I have almost lost hope in the ability of our governors to do right! Aside Sullivan chime, most of the recent south east governors have abysmal records in terms of urban renewal projects. Obi would have come round to doing the needful if he had more time, Umahi also tried.....Ikpeazu woke up in the dying minutes.......the rest are just awful!

i have identified 2 clear reasons for the dirty and ungoverned ambience of our towns, first is grand corruption among our elected leaders and secondly,the sorry state of south east civil services............aside the medical and education sectors the remaining parts of the Anambra civil service reeks of mediocrity and ignorance! obiano tried sha by establishing Ansippa but soludo seems to have buried that agency........this soludo sef!!! I liked the way Ansippa was run by guys from the organised private sector !

For now I have little hope that anything is gonna change any time soon!

plaindealer:
lmao.,. You reap what you sow..


Make una enjoy and self destruction till eternity..


E dey sweet me..

afonja demon! what will you say of the 550,000 American union soldiers who fought to free African slaves in the American civil war........what about the 26 million soviet and russian who gave their lives to liberate mother Russia from Hitler in WW2, what about the 100 plus Ukrainian young women who have paid the supreme sacrifice fighting Russia since january 2022..................the problem with a buffoon like you is that you do not know what liberty is and liberty will continue to elude your afonja bumbum till you purge yourself of crass stupidity and incipient cowardice! The noble Igbo race are in the process of liberating themselves from the evil Lugardian cage..........Fulani and their side chicks (afonja urchins)will leave our land by fire by force! una neva see anytin sef!