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PhockPhockMan:
Thank God for APGA, otherwise APC would have been the alternative in igboland.
APC is rejected in Igbo land since 1759.

Even Olaudah Equiano wrote: APC was the chief party of the people which the Eboes vehemently opposed.

Up APGA

quickly, I'll answer you here.

OperationIgrigi:
**grins** ezeagu well done.

Thumbs up.

Abagworo:
Why not declare war against Nigeria to test Buhari's strength.

There's already a war against Nigeria, and he said we shouldn't expect miracles from him.

Mariory:
Nope. It's not on the front page because after 2 posts you've turned it into an Igbo thread because Nigerians (who happen to be Igbo) are featured in the video. That basically killed any incentive for further discussion outside of your nairaland click. You know yourselves.

Well this is awkward.

[size=14pt]2014 Igbo Person of the Year emerges in China[/size]

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Festus Mbisiogu has emerged the 2014 Igbo Person of the Year. A China-based businessman, Mbisiogu clenched the award, defeating 10 other distinguished Igbo indigenes slated for the prestigious award.

The Igbo Person of the Year Award, a thought seed of Igbo Amaka, an Igbo socio-cultural organization committed to promoting excellence in the nation’s interest in concert with various Pan Igbo organisations, is conceptualised to stimulate the spirit of industry and to acknowledge sterling achievements by Igbo sons and daughters across the globe.

A native of Ideato South in Imo State, Mbisiogu got the honour in recognition of his pivotal role in the establishment of the Nigerian Consulate in the city of Gwanzhou, China, which has the largest population of Nigerians resident in China. More importantly, the Assessment/Advisory Board for the awards also considered his far reaching measures towards providing portable water in his place, Ideato South, Imo State.
The Tusk presentation ceremony of the 2014 Igbo Person of the Year Award is scheduled to hold on January 23, 2015, at Golden Gate Restaurant, Ikoyi, Lagos State.

Continued: http://newtelegraphonline.com/2014-igbo-person-of-the-year-emerges-in-china/

Lazy one:

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[size=14pt]US,China, South Korea Woo Igbo Entrepreneurs In Lagos[/size]

The governments of the United States, China and South Korea today in Lagos canvassed Igbo business men and women to do business with their respective countries.
The foreign countries representatives who laboured to convince the traders assured them of fair treatment and unmatched support services in the course of transacting businesses.

They made the call at the 2015 South East Business Investment Summit held at the National Theatre in Lagos. The summit was organized by the Imo State Government Liaison Office Lagos.

The theme of this year’s summit is “Building Wealth Through Sustainable Business Development and Best Trading Practices”.

Brian McCleary, Commercial Counselor at the US Mission to Nigeria who represented the United States at the summit informed the hundreds of Igbo traders of enormous opportunities to explored in America adding that the doors of the Government of America were always open to support genuine business in Nigeria.

In the same vein, Liu Kan, the Consul-General of China boasted of the growth of China in recent decades. He stressed that the China remained the best economic world power to do business with. Kan urged the businessmen to visit China embassy to find out the support services available.

The chairman of the occasion, Prof Pat Utomi charged the businessmen to place huge premium on learning. He observed that the global business environment is fast changing adding that constant learning is key to survival in the global business arena.

Also buttressing the points made by the chairman, the guest speaker, Dr. Cosmas Maduka told the business people to always have delayed gratification in order for their business to grow.

He told a story of how he grew a conglomerate with just to N200 in 1976 to an empire worth N50billion in shareholders’capital today.

According to the founder of Coscharis Group of Companies, integrity and vision are part of his secret of success.

http://www.completenewsng.com/uschina-south-korea-woo-igbo-entrepteneurs-lagos/

[size=14pt]Weaving the world together - The Economist[/size]

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Chike Obidigbo, for example, runs a factory in Enugu, Nigeria, making soap and other household goods. He needs machines to churn palm oil and chemicals into soap, stamp it into bars and package it in plastic. He buys Chinese equipment, he says, because although it is not as good as European stuff, it is much cheaper. But it is difficult for a Nigerian firm to do business in China. Mr Obidigbo does not speak Chinese, and he cannot fly halfway around the world every time he wants to buy a new soap machine. Worse, if something goes wrong neither the Chinese government nor the Nigerian one is likely to be much help.

Yet Mr Obidigbo's firm, Hardis and Dromedas, manages quite well with the help of middlemen in the African diaspora. When he wants to inspect a machine he has seen on the internet, he asks an agent from his tribe, the Igbo, who lives in China to go and look at it. He has met several such people at trade fairs. “When you hear people speaking Igbo outside Nigeria, you must go and greet them,” he laughs.

He trusts them partly because they are his ethnic kin, but mostly because an Igbo middleman in Guangdong needs to maintain a good reputation. If a middleman cheats one Igbo, all the others who buy machinery in Guangdong will soon know about it. News travels fast on the diaspora grapevine.

Thanks in part to Mr Obidigbo's diaspora connections, Hardis and Dromedas is thriving. It employs 300 workers and sells about 300m naira-worth ($2m) of products each year. And it is just one of many African firms that use migrants as their eyes and ears in distant lands. The number of Africans living in China has exploded from hardly any two decades ago to tens of thousands today. One area of Guangzhou is now home to so many African traders that the locals call it Qiao-ke-li Cheng (Chocolate City).

Continued: http://www.economist.com/node/21538700

REINVENTING THE IGBO SPIRIT OF INDUSTRY

EMEKA OSONDU GOES BACK IN TIME TO LOOK AT THE ONCE MORIBUND SPIRIT OF INDUSTRY AMONG THE IGBOS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR AND CONCLUDES WITH THE RECENT RECOGNITION OF SOME IGBO INDUSTRIALISTS IN ENUGU THE ONCE COMATOSE SPIRIT IS STRONGLY BEING REINVENTED


The numerous exploits by Igbo indigenes in nation building since the pre-independence and post independence era in Nigeria are clear testimonies that the people are indeed ingenious and great entrepreneurs. And in fact, there are no tribe in Nigeria where you go without seeing an Igbo indigene engaged in one type of business or another and contributing effectively to the growth of the economy. But the tide suddenly changed for the Igbo entrepreneurs at the end of the Nigerian civil war in 1970. Although the war ended on a “no-victor, no vanquished” note, the Igbo as a tribe was displaced in the Nigerian equation, economically and politically, just as the psyche was reduced to the rubble for losing the war.


Then began the automatic decline in their fortunes, especially as those of them that had huge amount of money in the banks before the outbreak of the war were give only twenty pounds after the war. And with such paltry sum, they gradually went back to begin new businesses to eke out a living, since there was no alternative. Surprisingly today, many years after, succeeding generation of the Igbo were able to scale through the hurdle and have made their marks felt in different fields of endeavour, especially in the areas of commerce and industry.

Continued: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/reinventing-the-igbo-spirit-of-industry/131527/

Diaspora Nigerians contribute over 70% in growing China economy

By Vera Anyagafu, Prisca Sam-Duru & Njoku Saintjerry (Beijing)
Coordinator of Good Governance Initiative (GGI) and CEO, Blue Diamond Logistics, China, Mr. Festus Uzoma Mbisiogu has disclosed that Nigerian businessmen in China contribute over 70 per cent of China’s growing economy.

economyHe also said that the Nigerian businessmen in China are the backbone of the Nation’s foreign policy with China.
Mbisiogu said this during a town hall meeting with Nigerian business community in Beijing China, urging all responsible Nigerian authorities, especially the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to ensure that the efforts made to establish a new consulate in Guangzhou to satisfy the increasing number of Nigerian-China based businessmen and women in China was not futile.

He applauded the efforts of President Goodluck Jonathan in ensuring that Nigerian-China based businessmen go about their various businesses in China in a much suitable environment. He pointed out that the building of a new consulate in Guangzhou, China has eliminated all the hurdles of having to travel as far as Beijing to process as little as business registration, thereby, dampening business progression.
He said “Before the establishment of the consulate in Guangzhou there was a long gap between Nigerians in China and their home country. The connectivity between Guangzhou and Beijing, where the Nigeria embassy was first situated was such a herculean experience.
“In many situations, we would commute about 21 hours journey by train from Guangzhou to Beijing and or 3 hours by flight, just to get embassy authorities consents for cases ranging from business registrations to minor consular services.”
He also acknowledged the fact that the establishment of the new consulate in Guangzhou, has enabled better business transaction between Nigerians and the Chinese.

Continued: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/06/diaspora-nigerians-contribute-70-growing-china-economy/#sthash.vSqljHcn.dpuf