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The Abia seat of power has become the property of the kalus.What is going on in that state is very shameful.

It seems that the people of Abia state have nobody to challenge or question Orji Kalu so he is free to impose anybody to the people and they will accept them.

That is a pity!

Abia 2011: Kalu backs brother for governorship

A former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor, has commenced moves to have his younger brother, Mascot, become the governor of the state in 2011.

Sources said that Kalu has started preparations to ensure that Mascot replaces the incumbent, Chief Theodore Orji, next year.

Mascot is at present the Chief of Staff to Orji. Sources told the Nigerian Compass that Kalu has started consultations with the leadership of the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) to have Mascot as one of the party’s governorship aspirants, believing that he should emerge easily as the candidate.

Kalu is the party’s Chairman, Board of Trustees while Orji emerged governor using the party’s platform in 2007. Sources also said that Kalu has positioned Orji’s deputy, Mr. Chris Akomas, as Mascot’s running mate for the election. It is not only Mascot that might benefit from Kalu’s generosity.

Another of Kalu’s younger brother, Hon. Nnanna Uzor Kalu, who is serving his second term in the House of Representatives, will run for the Senate in Abia South Senatorial District, sources have told the Nigerian Compass. And he has Kalu’s backing.


Nnanna will be seeking to unseat a former Governor of the state, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

God forbid Nigeria being on Craigslist! 

All those 419ers, I will never get the goods I paid for from a Nigerian.

Enyeama really played well.

The same cannot be said of his defenders!

Very disappointing loss! And why the hell is Ghana leading the way?

It should be Nigeria or South Africa, not Ghana!

Do or die politics of the SW!

kildran:
@Ezeuche
What did you just say? How on earth can you say the freest and fairest election in Nigeria's history is overrated? Do you know that we are still struggling to get it right, after 17 years. June12 has nothing to do with ethnicity, Nigerians came out en-mass and voted unanimously for M.K.O Abiola. Please I will advise that you guard your comments in future.

Yoruba people threatened secession but they still did nothing. Pathetic.

Only one tribe in Nigeria has the tenacity to challenge the status quo and that is the Igbo.

babapupa:
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June 12th is overrated.

All the hoopla and the Yorubas did not do anything.
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I wonder why they don't talk about or name any Igbo man or woman in the grand scheme of things inside and outside Nigeria.

You're marginal and inconsequential. Yoruba folks should really be the least of your worries.

You are smokin some strong Igbo with that statement of yours. Igbos are known far and wide. Even under the moniker, the "Jews" of Africa.

What are you Yorubas known for? Let me see kleptomaniacs among other things. . .

June 12th is overrated.

June 12th is overrated.

All the hoopla and the Yorubas did not do anything.

cnario:
Please summarise

Use those God given eyes to read this.

A recent study by the World Bank Group, in conjunction with the United Kingdom Department for

International Development (DFID), has unravelled the issues conspiring to sustain the prevailing difficult operating business environment in most states of Nigeria. The 176-page report, titled, ‘Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times’ launched on Thursday in Abuja, as part of the Nigeria Sub-national Investment Climate Programme, focused on key areas of regulations affecting four stages of business life cycle in the country, covering starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property, and enforcing contracts.

The initial study in 2008 dwelled on quantitative indicators on business regulations in 10 states, including Kano, Anambra, Ogun, Enugu, Kaduna, Sokoto, Abia, Bauchi, Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

The 2010 edition not only documented the progress in the previous study, but also expanded the scope to all the 36 states and Abuja, comparing their performances with 183 economies worldwide. The thrust of the report was to investigate the conditions that enhance business activity, as well as the constraining factors to the growth of small and medium scale liability companies. The overriding objective was to provide the basis for understanding and improving the regulatory environment for business.

Study findings

Findings from the study, according to the World Bank Group Vice President, Financial and Private Sector Development, Janamitra Devan, showed that though there exist wide variations in business regulations nationwide, eight of the 11 states measured in 2008 recorded improvements in at least one of the four areas above, as a result of various reforms initiated to change the business environment.

The variations were attributed to different performance levels of state branches of federal agencies involved in the different stages in the business registration process, such as Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), stamp duty offices, federal and state inland revenue services, as well as state licensing authorities for business premises.

While it takes only five procedures, 22 days and about 58.5 per cent of per capita income to complete the cycle of starting a business, it takes almost an extra month to complete a similar incorporation process in Bayelsa State, owing to the high number of processes required to be met. Across the 36 states, starting a limited liability company, the study shows, requires an average of nine different procedures, 36 days and about 77.7 per cent of Nigeria’s per capita income of $1,161 (about N174,150).


On dealing with construction permits, the report says it is easier to obtain all construction-related permits and utility connections in Jigawa, Sokoto, Kano and Adamawa States than in Abuja, Lagos, and Ogun. In 32 of the states, requirements for construction permits include: environmental impact assessment (EIA), land use clearance, site analysis report and fire safety report, while Jigawa, Kwara, Kano, Benue, and Sokoto States do not require such permits for the construction of structures with low environmental impact.

Completion of the all procedures for the permits could be as fast as within 47 days in Jigawa, 52 in Kwara or as long as 148 days in Rivers State or 350 in Lagos, as a result of the bottlenecks of obtaining building permit and getting permanent electricity connection, the report shows.

Registering property, according to the study, has continued to be a slow, expensive and burdensome process, with entrepreneurs having to go through an average of 12 procedures over 82 days and having to pay over 16 per cent of the value of the property to have it registered in the Land Registry. The involvement of lawyers to register property is a big impediment to the property transfer process, though not as much as the requirement to secure the state governor’s consent.

Rating by states

On enforcing contracts, the study shows that it takes an average of 511 days and about 36.3 per cent of the claim value in all the states to enforce a contract, as a result of clumsy court processes. Overall, Jigawa, Gombe and Borno were adjudged the easiest states in the country to do business, while Imo and Ogun states were considered the most difficult.

By Bassey Udo
June 14, 2010
www.234Next.com

The old ways are still strong o!

Do not blame the author.

This defeatist attitude is present throughout our society. If it wasn't we would have already had a revolution in this cursed country.

Ghana should pray!

This goal keeper for the Aussies needs to be replaced.

I fear GERMANY!

milehigh06:
African just love to bicker
can we see that we are all black for once?
Nigerians(Naija here) rem ghanaians used to be our shoee makers,house boys and co and we were laughing at them,now the country is on the up and basically it is not their fault that we do not seem to take pride in our Nation Nigeria.ghana is going places and all we come here to do is abuse them
lets put our housse in order

Ghanaians are talking rubbish. Naija all the way or no way.

I would not be laughing though.

Whenever these people start "praying" then blood is spilled.

I am wary of these northern radio stations. We Igbos have not forgotten the role they played during the Pogroms in the north. This is not a laughing matter.

FL Gators:
Is it not the same Igboland where women are expected to hand over their husband's property to his brother after he dies?

Or were you not the same egoistical boy that made a sexist remark about how Igbo women cannot be a leader to your tribe?

Abeg, we're just starting

This reminds me of a Funmi Aragbaye song
_{"We have arrived, women have arrived (2x).
Oh yes, we have arrived, oh we have arrived.
Nigerian women, we have arrived".}

No, it is to the first born son. They are the ones who decide what happens to their father's inheritance.

And I was just joking, an Igbo woman could lead my people as long as she was qualified to do so.

FL Gators:
Was it not the same old tradition that gave him the power and audacity to go and pour hot coal on his wife?

My friend, things are changing, gradually. Nigerian women are smartening up, no more physical abuse from you men.

And I am happy for Nigerian women. I really am. I think if a nation is to advance, there is a need for more equality amongst men and women.

As you can see, in Igboland, many women hold powerful positions or control the power within states. An example is from my home state is that Orji Uzor Kalu's mother is the true power within my state.

FL Gators:
Some old ways are foolish.

You're suggesting taking a man's life. . . . or pressuring him to take his life which is the same as you holding the gun.

Since when does two wrongs make a right?

The is not a foolish tradition. It helps rid a society of all the rubbish. I wish I was around in the past. I would have loved that time instead of the crime filled world we lived in.

He should have already taken his own life. If he was true Oba quality he would have done so. But maybe someone should pressure him to do so.

He already disgraced his people with his barbarous acts. The only solution would be his death.

FL Gators:
And you call yourself a Christian.

Why should we force a man to take his own life? It is not our right to take a life. . . . we have the humane rights to take power and priviledge from him. But the God that created him is the only one that has the power to remove him.

He has disgraced his position and he has been severely punished. . . . I think permanently exiling him from Ondo is good enough.

Sometimes the old ways is the best ways. The white man gave us the Bible and we have forsaken our culture and traditions.

This man disgraced his authority and only deserves death. Why do people run away from their culture and traditions for the white man's customs?

Politicians need to be held to this standard as well.

Let him commit suicide.

Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.

He has disgraced his position and he should commit suicide. Nothing wrong with that. Many leaders throughout history who dishonored themselves and their nation have committed suicide.

Beaf:
Tell me about it! Oil is pumped all the way from Warri to be refined in Kaduna, wasting money that could be better utilised elsewhere. How much sense does it make?
I get your point about peace in the ND, but the oil companies are better off facing up to their responsibilities and accepting any consequences shoddiness or oppression might bring (like BP is doing in the US). No point allowing them create problems, ruin lives and then run off elsewhere.

That is true, the oil companies are a major factor in why there is so much instability in the region. The degradation of the environment needs to be stopped.

The oil companies need to be held accountable but too bad the Nigerian government is in bed with these crooks. You see how BP is coming under fire in the states. The same thing needs to happen with Shell.

Pumping oil to Kaduna is quite crazy. Why not refine oil in the Niger Delta? It is not like that refined oil cannot be distributed around the country.

Time to go back to the old ways. Good ol juju.

Ikenga grant them strength!

^^^^^^^^

Resource poor Western Nigeria?

Ghana is more like Eastern Nigeria. We have the nation's wealth but it is being exploited by the people in the North and West.

Who has the oil? The East does. . . Who has the coal. . . the East does. . . who has the copper? the East does. . . Do you see the trend?

If peace and stability comes to the Niger Delta, then there should not be any problem with forcing the oil companies to relocate to the Niger Delta.

But there is no peace and security.

And the refinery in Kaduna is quite crazy. Most oil is refined near the source of oil. Look at Saudi Arabia.

God bless the USA!

A draw for the U.S. is very good!

To hell with Sergio!  

Messing up our chances!  

FL Gators:
Hey sexy,

Just to let you know. . . . Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

If it's not curbed in Abia, trust me, it'll spread.

Hopefully it wont spread.

Igbos will soon be fleeing in droves to the West. People in the West are afraid to go back home. It is disgraceful.

FL Gators:
Because the police are in on it.

I mean, how can the headquarters know what WILL happen, and yet do nothing to stop it? Did they send cops to patrol the area after receiving the letter?

Abia State is going down the drain. Glad my family left for Port Harcourt.