₦airaland Forum

leanfarmer:
Lagos has been where it is, in part, and I mean, in part, because of its contacts with the British in 1861, when it became a colony.Also, its strategic place on the Atlantic Ocean.Seas and oceans open up the economies of where they are.E.g.London, Tokyo, New York etc.
I don't want to believe there is a calculated attempt to deny the South East development.People are naturally pulled by economic and infrastructural opportunities to certain cities.According to reports Last year, Lagos attracted about 98% of investments into Nigeria.And Nigeria since 1999 has been attracting the chunck of Foreign Direct Investments in Africa.
What will turn around the fortunes of SE is massive industrialization, correcting infrastructural deficit-this is nationwide-; and the sheer guts of people in that area to stay put and invest.If they stick around long enough, growth will come, foreign investors will seek investment opportunities and development will come.
As for Lagos getting decongested, I don't see that happening, because, the city isn't sleeping.If not that government overtime has been teetering on mediocrity, Lagos should have flown away in terms of development.Because considering, the resources accruing to the state, it baffles one why it is still crawling.
For the SE, a deliberate effort on industrialization has to be taken amongst all the governors from there.The central government can't help in this regard.

Love this reply. . .For the bold.ed, it beats me why the governors down SE keep paying petty politics instead of coming together irrespective of party.

Then again, do you think massive industrialization is possible without support from the central government?

Nairaland has helped me in being open minded especially in issues pertaining to politics and religion. It has also made me realise how diverse we are and how we should try to channel it to something positive, it has also helped in shaping my views in fields I was ignorant about. . .and how you can learn from someone directly without attending a classroom.

datalossvictim1:
Thanks Do you know if there is any developed port or any at all in Enugu? I think it is plausible to assume that a functioning port somewhere in the SE will bring the cosmopolitan dream to fulfilment..

From my knowledge, there is currently no port in the SE. There was supposed to be one but what happened, I do not know. One thing I am amazed at is to know why the wealthy ones from the SE cannot put resources together to develop a private port to help with the development of the SE.

datalossvictim1:
Dear beautiful Nigerians,
These conundrums are really disturbing my analysis on several issues facing Nigeria as a whole.
They are all in form of questions, and will be asked accordingly.
Firstly, what exactly is hindering the development of cosmopolitan cities/states in the SE?
Secondly, will Lagos become decongested if more states, at least one in the SE becomes cosmopolitan?
Thirdly, is it a politically motivated intent or are people from the SE simply reluctant to developing their geographical location? If the latter is true, why is that the case?
Please fill me in with your answers/ ideas. I will appreciate them all, thanks.
Seun please help my amateur inquisition get answers. I am curious...

1. Well, I think one of the reasons is that our people travel too much. Anywhere the Igbo man finds himself, he tries to make it home (even though he travels to his state of origin almost every end of the year). Then again, there are some people I am sorry to say, with the mentality that nothing good is going to come from the SE. Back then, I asked a friend of mine who should be in his mid 20s why he hasn't travelled home more than twice; he said "His pastor said his star will be stolen should he travel". I was WTF?!?!?! With that mentality, how will he come to the SE to develop the region if at a young age then, this fear of the unknown has been planted in him?

2. I do not really see Lagos becoming decongested because even if Igbos should go back to the SE, other ethnic groups and foreigners will fill Lagos up.

3. Me thinks both are involved. Political in the sense that the SE after the war has not benefitted anything from the FG even till now. I cannot point to a definite reason why our people from the SE are reluctant to develop our region - maybe it stems from the fact of what I said earlier, wherever our people find themselves, they try to make it home.

CC: asha80, please, your contribution is needed. . .

UjSizzle:
App-wise they're just messing up. You can imagine my shock when I saw LinkedIn working superbly on my brother's Htc. These app developers make me want to go droid instead.
I checked the 830 on amazon. Turns out it's way cheaper to buy from the US than here What's the cost of shipping btw? Or having someone send via dhl from the US?

My LinkedIn was ok oh. . . Worked well. . . Try using this guy called Mikkyangel. Visit this link. He's trusted. Bought my two Lumia phones for me.

Lindx93:
It's not new...girls are always molested in hall 1 nd 2 by male porters. it's one of the reasons I left sch
hostel. can't cope with such nonsense

Are you for real? Never heard of such throughout my stay. BTW, why didn't those girls scream?

kayceerilyn:
Then you were misinformed...would you advice your sister to bathe in a bathing room with brown tiles,sometimes used pads and tissues are dumped there and even some others defacate there......the halls of residence have nott been renovated for a long time...Maybe you guys should start speaking for us

Even though it has not been renovated, the best students can do is to help keep their environment clean after the cleaners have done the basic work of cleaning every morning; I mean, why in Hades name will someone drop used pads/defecate where people have their baths? That is so . . . . No wonder the passage to June 12 from the hostel area stinks like arrggghhhhhh!!!!

Na so one throw nylon wee shit full inside (shot put) for the passage area around 9pm, the thing land ontop one guy wee dey jejely pass. . .

Just like back then in Hall 3 where after using the toilet, some guys will not clean themselves up and go to their rooms like that. . .

We are not even helping ourselves. . . .

UjSizzle:
Lol No prob.

Love your siggy. Been reading it everytime I see your post.

Daalu!!

UjSizzle:
Used to till l forgot my password after uninstalling it one time. Now they're giving me a hard time with registration. I think it's still on my phone though.


So I'm thinking of buying a Lumia 830. Didn't know MS now has a number of branded phones in the market they've been pushing their 535 so bad you'd think that was all they've made so far. I saw phones eh....but nothing mid-range and flagship

Uju stepping up. . .

Make sense. . .just tell us your experience later. . .

Elxandre:
Just ship the screen from ebay and fix it yourself with DIY tutorials from YouTube.
Or just sell the phone.

if you try shipping the phone back and forth, the expenses will almost buy you a 830

The phone has more than one problem. . .enough problems. . . I doubt the screen has issues. . .

Elxandre:
It's just the technical preview, not the real deal.
It's still filled with bugs.
Dont't try that with your main phone.

You haven't tried it? Please, who knows how much it costs to ship a phone and back? Any reliable shipping firm? Please, help a brother out.

Haha!!! This write-up is very hilarious. The part that made me laugh without control was that of the preacher. . .

Reminds me of when my friends were talking, I butted in without knowing what they were discussing. I stopped after realising my folly and pleaded with them not to say a word.

Nice one OP!

ycmdng:
Bro, such phone (like 928, 640 etc) are not for Nigerian market, so you can only the spare from a dealer in china or online. I never saw one.

How I wan take fix this phone eh kwa? Which kain wahala be this? Thanks all the same.

People, I think WP10 tech preview for other phones just came out today. Read before installing oh so you will not complain they crashed your phone for you. (annoying I can't try installing it now after waiting for long). Visit this link to check if yours is eligible - WP10

ycmdng:
For your Phone repair with genuine spares and firmware update for your Lumua phones, contact via: 08156924841 or 7c6a10ff

To fix a Lumia 928 screen, how much will it cost? Thank you.

I am so so happy this guy has been rejected like the disease that he is. . . .

subbieD:
Not sure Dat will Eva appn

We will soon get there. . . .

henryskywalker2003:
Sequel to the above. I sent an unlock request to AT&T this afternoon for the unlock code and was told it was gonna take at least 2 business days for the request to be processed only for me to check my mail this evening and found that the request have been processed and the unlock code mailed to me. ALL FREE OF CHARGE. So, time to go do a little unboxing and setting up.

Are you serious? How did you do that?

UjSizzle:
Thanks
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 looks good. Next na money palava hehe
I still want a new phone sha, this one has tried biko.

Na money people dey find to go pro. . . I follow this guy called HONY (not real name though) and was inspired to do something here in Nigeria. . .

tonididdy:
There was a public audittion by NASA for 100 "willing to die" volunteers willing to take a trip to mars and live there if conditions allow. They say its a 50-50 chance of survival.


Funny enough 200,000+ applied lol...

I think there was a thread on that. . .

And we are trying to go tribal with this thread. . . .

Besides OP, why does it show May 8, 2010 as the last updated date and to think a MOD brought this to the front page. . .

UjSizzle:
Checked out the MS DOS Feraz. Funny


Can't believe Lumia 930 wasn't included in the Win 10 devices. I think I'll put off buying another phone till I understand what's going on.

Haven't tried it though but it feels like living in the '80s when they first started. . . .

As for the Lumia 930, it is among the next set to be updated, in fact, there are about 18 Lumia devices or so to have the update; prolly April ending. . .

dorox:
The fact that you still have doubt about the existence of of other planets within our solar system says a lot about the quality of education we have in nigeria.

Abeg, bros, while I agree that our quality of education is poor, no be the quality of Nigerian education cause am. The guy no just wan believe.

Maybe/Maybe not. Some will tap into the opportunity to utilize the electricity creating jobs while others may just watch it and not utilize it. I will use steel companies as example - it will be cheaper to run companies like these on electricity than using alternate sources which will be very expensive thereby employing more work force than using that amount to power the firm.

D9ty7:
Mars is habitable just like the earth.
I was listening to a radio station around February and they said a news like some whitemen are preparing to go into the mars by 2025 and they have no plans of coming back, prolly they wanna start something over there. To make it look like the earth, have babies nd all that.

I do not think they can make it look like Earth for now. There are so many factors involved if I am not mistaken. What if there is another civilization in Mars?

I hope they do not take roaches along with them before they mutate and become bigger and stronger than man so when man visit in the next 500 years, he will start battling hideous monsters. . .

Dolemite:
While the rest of the world is inventing the future, Nigeria's greatest invention? Shoki dance!!

DonDiego:
The dubious link is not opening from here either.

The mods need to check people who post wrong information. I wonder why we also are bitter. We post an article and take only the ones that suit us while discarding the rest. Before you know it now, another person will copy and paste and it becomes the norm in the forum.

lygn19:
y dont u rank it too, on financial worth of d federal govt in each geo political zones... from federal ministries, to ports built by fg, to housing to roads etc... let's see if really the igbos are cheating anybody...

Bro, the link is not working. I clicked on it to see things for myself but was disappointed. . .

Dannidom:
marsians in the building

Martians bro!!! BTW, hope you can read minds and shapeshift?

DonDiego:
The South East contributes a paltry N10 billion? Yea, 10 billion NAIRA? When Imo and Abia States are significant oil producing states? Come on. This data must be a figment of somebody's fertile imagination. Try something smarter. This lie would not fly.

Click on the link, it is not working. Try it and tell me if it works. . .

Kennywills7:
Honestly i don't know when things will change in this state!

Honestly, when I visited Delta state and compared the allocation the state gets, I asked my coursemates from there what their governor does with it and they couldn't say much.

asala1:
In 2013

1] South-South -N285 Billion.
2] North-West -N157 Billion.
3] South-West -N127 Billion.
4] North-East -N109 Billion.
5] North-Central -N105 Billion.
6] South-East -N85 Billion.
7] FCT Abuja -N3.2 Billion.
8] Federal Government -N730 Billion.
9] NCS/FIR -N6 Billion.

10 ] TOTAL ALLOCATION: N1.6 Trillion.

The Igbos have completely ignored the argument of how much each geopolitical zones of Nigeria contributed to the Federation Account. I present you the details of how much was contributed by each geopolitical zones to the Federation Account:

1] South-South -N479 Billion.
2] North-West -N20 Billion.
3] South-West -N339 Billion.
4] North-East -N5 Billion.
5] North-Central -N15 Billion.
6] South-East - N10 Billion.
7] FCT Abuja -N 0 Billion.
8] Federal Government -N 0 Billion.
9] NCS/FIR -N 0 Billion.

10] TOTAL CONTRIBUTION:

http://nigerdeltastandard.com/Post-federation_account_allocation__who_is_short_changing_who_#sthash.710oaz1z.dpuf

I checked your link, it is not working.

Kennywills7:
Honestly Delta state is in big bondage, i wish ogboru will b allow to rule to see if we will experience good governance here. I weep for my state! so undeveloped yet receiving so much though less than what it contributes but amount we receive is enough to transform d state and lives of all deltans

At times, I do not pity Delta state for what they go through. Many of the youths only think of the now and not what they can get in the future. It is amazing that a state with technocrats, the state is still like that.

goofyone:
Let them at least try Mars first. It's closer and cheaper.

We shall get there. . .

Ishilove:
When they're bashing each other's tribes

No be lie sha. . .coupled with the fact say we carry religion for head!! BTW Ishilove, did you hide my post concerning FP?

Tandullceblog:
Nope. There are somethings that are impossible. This is one of them

My dear, if someone as at 1954 in the person of Vladimir P. Demikhov could perform a head transfer experiment on dogs using about 12 hours, what about now that science and tech. have advanced?