₦airaland Forum

Somebody was talking about lending problems, which is strange because the east is crammed with economic centers, including Onitsha, Aba, Port Harcourt (or Ugwu Ocha), Nnewi and some other lesser economic centers like Enugu, Uyo, Calabar, Owere. The problem with Greece was people not paying tax, and they hardly have any natural resources. The east has oil, gas, coal, bauxite, and there's potential to expand agriculture including palm oil (used in everything now) and other agricultural products the east is not lacking. People on the coasts and delta areas have hardly been given a chance to create proper fishing industries which is why foreigners from Europe, Japan and other regions come and steal fish of West African shores.

Many of the natural resources have scarcely been touched and there are even other places that haven't been officially noted. Other countries that have failed to stand on their did not have this potential. The human potential I haven't even touched on, with the most densely populated area in Africa after Egypt and a young population, giving proper policing and incentive to get into 'nation building', the area could be a haven for telecommunication company's and call centers, especially with English being a widely used language, and there's other potential for different manufacturing industries, some that are just budding in the area, like car assembly/manufacturing, computer manufacturing, textiles and co.

Talking about manufacturing industries, just stabilising electricity alone, properly dredging the Niger and adding a proper port to Onitsha (and Asaba) would boost the already great manufacturing industries in Nnewi and the general area. Aba would improve with a proper link to Opobo and the Ibaka port. But just thinking about this, I can't really see how any of these places can be separated, it's my view that they need to be in the same country. I recently posted an article about Tinapa, and even the local Cross River people were enthusiastic about Igbo businessmen patronising the place.

Anyway. There's massive tourism potential in places like Bonny and Calabar and the whole Bight of Biafra coast in general because of it's clear sandy beaches and its history/culture/welcoming people.

Lastly, the people themselves are not lacking in innovation, these were the guys who sustained a country under fire from all sides for three years while creating their own armoured cars, arms, assembling tanks, building shelter, refining crude oil and so on. I don't think there's trouble on that side. What I think may be tricky would be to tax them and to create a climate that becomes stable so that borrowing would be reduced (because, yes a lot of borrowing may be needed) and investment, including the billions in the diaspora, can feel confident.

It mainly has to do with the execution of projects and the general trajectory of the country. I'm not absolute, but I think if there were a referendum at least some parts of Rivers State would be part of a breakaway state.

It's funny because there was somebody claiming to be Ijaw here and even had Ijaw in their name and were openly anti-Igbo. I replied the person in a little Ijaw, and I haven't seen the person posting since. Looking at movements like the Lower Niger Congress or something like that, there's at least some kind of reception to secession in the Niger Delta and Cross River communities.

I've seen this map around and I believe it would be in the best interest of the communities to have their own countries in a federation:

https://s16.postimg.org/ofhuiheb9/Ajana_location_map_01.png

There are a host of other things that can keep a country afloat which I'll go into in the next post.

scholes0:
It gives a rough idea..... because I don't think a whooping one Quarter of Africans in London are Somali.
Do you have any such similar breakdown for the USA?
What do you think the ratio of Igbos to Yorubas in the USA and Canada would be like?

I haven't seen any.

lepasharon:
The Igbo language situation is worse than I thought

What do you mean?

scholes0:
While Yorubas are more than Igbos in the UK
Maybe the yorubas simply speak their language more too.

What do you think?
I am sure a large percentage of those Africans who speak English as home language are Nigerians too.

Yeah maybe, and especially with fact that there's more of a community for Yoruba speakers than Igbo so they'll be able to meet more that speak it. But the sample should serve as some insight as to the amount of the ethnic groups in London.

I don't really see the big deal, but at the same time I don't know why people are insulting each other over something so petty. The initiative is clearly aimed at the largest migrant communities in London and the police is trying to diversify their policing, just like the United States Army required a possibility of Igbo. A large amount of the Africans in the UK are Yoruba, and they're the majority of Nigerians. I think certain languages like Somali isn't there maybe because they have enough people who speak it. If you look at the table below you see Yoruba language speakers at school are four times the sample of Igbo speakers, the next largest population from Nigeria. From here: http://www.naldic.org.uk/Resources/NALDIC/Research%20and%20Information/Documents/eal-and-educational-achievement-prof-s-strand.pdf

jnrbayano:
I used "Taiwan" there in a figurative way.

Okay, but my point is that I see African cities constantly being called 'the so and so of Africa' and I just think it can be demeaning.

jnrbayano:
Aba the Taiwan of Africa.

Great in creativity and innovation.

Aba is the Aba of Africa, no second to anybody. Taiwan does not call itself anything but Taiwan. We need to stop this please. Can you imagine Tokyo calling itself the New York of Asia? Just a thought.

360frolic:
A train this afternoon was involved in an accident in Jaji, Kaduna. Thankfully, no one was hurt.

More photos after the cut...



http://www..net/2015/07/photos-train-derails-in-kaduna.html

cc lalasticlala, ishilove

Reasons why I'm weary to ride these trains.

GudluckIBB:
God's greatest gift to Nigeria is not allowing the clueless one to come back. It would have been hell for Nigerians, corouption would have been at his peak!

Like the hundreds dying in Yobe, right?

Exactly what I said in the other thread, Obama's trying to unnerve him and it's working.

samuel900:
Why the tight handshake?

Obama is trying to unnerve him, boy-boy him. Notice the face and body language. Obama no dey smile again? Obama believes he's superior in this meeting and it looks like Buhari believes it.

This is a stupid question.

tpiadotcom:
seems you refuse to get it.

The statue is hundreds if not thousands of years old.

As you can see, the dressing is what Benin copied from.

First of all they look nothing alike, second of all coral beads hadn't even been imported to the Guinea coast by then let alone attain the reigning status it later had in the area so Benin couldn't have copied something from thin air since the man in that statue was wearing absolutely no coral beads, and third of all you have no proof that Benin's monarchy copied their dressing from the monarchy represented in that statue, that's evident in the fact that no other kings west of Benin dress like that apart from Benin vassals.

tpiadotcom:
this nko?



who is the fool now?

So in your mind those two outfits look identical? Owo was a Benin vassal for hundreds of years, the Olus dressing is from Benin along with the swords.

Babatundetinubu:
I am sure you can see....the traditional chiefs in the palace are dressed just like the Benins.

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M7898-mo1_Y" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

In that same vein Owo are Bini people because the Olowo dresses like this:

https://www.retoxmagazine.com/assets/images/articles/other-life-forms/daniel-laine-african-kings/african-king-oba-joseph-adekola-ogunoye-nigeria.jpg

Very big fool.

abagoro:
Sometimes I get amazed at the way some Igbos blame Northerners for everything. Tinapa's problem is accessibility as a result of bad road connecting Calabar and the rest of Nigeria. The South has ruled from 1999 to 2015 and Tinapa was completed around 2006. When I was complaining that Jonathan should help us in road infrastructure like Enugu/Onitsha highway or Nnewi to Okigwe whuch transverses through Igbo hinterland or even the 2nd Niger bridge most Igbos were unconcerned.

Jonathan is from South south but was busy fighting his people who demanded for the needed attention. Under Buhari a lot of things will work in Nigeria and especially in the Southeast. It is just unfortunate he came in when the last Government has lavished oil boom proceeds.

Ask yourselves who built the 1st Niger bridge, the 1st East-West road, The 4 refineries and the seaports and how many years it took.

I don't want to make this about Tinapa, I've been through this before:

"The managing director of the resort, Bassey Ego Ndem, said Tinapa was designed to provide Nigerian businesspeople with a local alternative to Dubai and to retain some of the large amounts of money which have been flowing out of Nigeria. Ndem blamed Tinapa’s problems on the failure of Nigeria’s federal government to provide legal backing to the resort’s operations.Such legal backing, he said, was expected to include conferring on Tinapa the status of a free trade zone.

Former governor Duke’s administration reportedly received assurances from former president Obasanjo’s office that Tinapa would enjoy free trade status, but there is no paperwork to prove that the former president made the commitment.

The Tinapa project is still being considered by the federal government but the Customs Service has so far refused to give its approval. Ndem said the presence of customs officials at the resort – who carry out orders from head office not to allow the duty free zone to operate – had been a stumbling block to its operations."

http://www.forumfed.org/en/products/magazine/vol7_num3/nigeria-duty-free-status.php

Nigeria: Country Loses N219b Yearly On Tinapa - This Day
"Calabar — Nigeria may be losing more than N219 billion annually to Dubai due to the failure of the Federal Government to approve the procedures and guidelines for the take-off of the Tinapa Business and Leisure Resort in Calabar, Cross River State."

http://allafrica.com/stories/200802090011.html

If you want to continue sleeping, that's up to you.

Babatundetinubu:
Very soon....u will claim Asaba n Onitsha are iboe

Very big fool.

How can someone allow their 15 year old daughter be married off? Is there even any kind of governance anymore? Horrible.

Kastonkastroll:
I know you ibos are not ready for any war with Nigeria. Any pim from you ibos will be resisted with highly sophisticated weapons that were supposed to be used on boko boys

So why are Boko Haram still massacring thousands then? And how is Radio Biafra still on?

I think it's more than just the system, I think ordinarily Igbo society is very autonomous and independent. I don't see Nigeria changing.

Plenty plenty madnesses dey.
What a fail at trolling.

Give these guys proper infrastructure, that's all.

If Nigeria is the last hope of Africa then Africa is completely hopeless.

podosci:
When are you gonna mobilize for war, all this noise is getting too much . Its time for Biafran war part2. Kanu would be watching the death and destruction from Uk on CNN while I would be watching on NTA in Abuja

Finish Boko Haram first.

Radoillo:
The German story is probably apocryphal.

Note the abundance of Bi and Ba place-names among the villages of the Bafia people.

True, and there's although similar town names around Cameroon, I think Biafra probably came from these Bafia people though.

We've been talking about it here: https://www.nairaland.com/520493/what-does-word-biafra-mean/2

laidesmen217:
In 50s voice......

GET RICH OR DIE TRYING


On the other news, some oyibo's still dey appreciate our culture so Nigerians and African should be proud of themselves

Stop worshipping oyibos, that's why your people are trekking over deserts.

DikeOha882:
We still have this shade in my home town where we relax, kudos for doing a good job

Thanks, what do they call it in your town?