And ironically they all seem to be coming from Rivers State

But I would prefer they go discreetly and waybill all their Biafra paraphernalia to Abuja. Knowing how barbaric Nigerian police and army can be, won't they try to stop them on the way?

Ekpeitit:
Igbos have been talking about Biafra since I was born and they will continue to talk about it for the next 200 years.
Why don't you put that energy into developing your zone which is the least developed zone in Nigeria?

Ignorance is your biggest challenge. What do you call development and which zone in the strict sense of development is more developed than the SE? Can you name them and list the areas they are more developed than SE?

Gworo man claiming Akwa Ibom, tufiakwa!

johnmartus:
What do you want to call Anambra or owerri.

Illiteracy is your problem. First know the difference between a state and a city so you don't disgrace yourself.

Meanwhile, Owerri is more beautiful than whatever part of the shithole you live in.

This is the best that I have read so far in argument against one Nigeria!

Prof (Amb)George Obiozor wrote this:

Most of the Diasporans here live in Europe; Can you show me one multi-ethnic state in *Europe* where one group is positioned to dominate the rest that hasn't broken up?

For those who may not know, what you call *ethnic groups* in *Nigeria* are called *nations* in *Europe*.

There's nowhere in the world where the *white man* accepts domination from another *white man* in *perpetuity.*

It used to be so under the *Roman* empire and the like. *Not anymore*. The *Communists* tried it, dividing society into capitalists and proletariats, deluding themselves that ethnicity is effectively swept under the carpet, but what followed? The Communist edifices in *Czechoslovakia,* *Yugoslavia,* and the big brother, *USSR,* all collapsed, while the two *Germans* that are ethnically the same but split by *communism* vs *capitalism* were reunited. Such is the power of *ethnic nationalism.*

*Czechoslovakia* was made up of *two ethnic groups*, the *Czechs* and the *Slovakians*. Both separated peacefully on *1st January 1993.* The former is today *10.6 million* people and the latter *5.4 million.* Added together, they're not up to *Lagos*. Yet, they split for *peace.* Two masters can't be in the same house.

*Yugoslavia* in *1991* was *23.2 million*, barely more than *Lagos* population. It broke into *six countries* same year - all along ethnic lines, namely: *Bosnia* and *Herzegovina*, *Croatia,*
*Macedonia*, *Montenegro,* *Serbia* , and *Slovenia*.

Then the big brother, *USSR*. It had, at least, the following ethnic groups identified by their languages:

*Regional languages:*
*Ukrainian

*Belarusian

*Uzbek

*Kazakh

*Georgian

*Azerbaijani

*Lithuanian

*Moldavian

*Latvian

*Kyrgyz

*Tajik

*Armenian

*Turkmen

*Estonian

*Minority languages:*

*Abkhaz

*Bashkir

*Buryat

*Chechen

*Finnish

*Volga German

*Korean

*Ossetian

*Tatar

&

*various others.

Today, your fingers will not be enough to count the *number of countries* that have emerged from the *USSR.*

Sit down there and be preaching unity in Nigeria as if you're the kindest gentleman on earth while you have no solution to the genocide in *Southern Kaduna,* the illegal but officially condoned arms in the hands of killer herdsmen roaming the country, and be condemning those better informed about the fact that the country is undergoing the strains of a *forced union* and should be *peacefully restructured* or let people go their separate ways.

In *Europe,* the two best examples of fairly stable *multi-ethnic states* are the *UK* and the *Switzerland*. The former is led by reasonable men who permitted regional autonomy to the *Irish*, the *Scots* and the *Welsh*, while the *English* dominate *Westminster*. That's something some of us are asking for, but you're fighting against it in your own country wracked by *ethnic crisis*. Your own people are better off under oppression of fellow black men because your people have bad leaders who can't do better than their new *internal colonisers.*

The latter country, *Switzerland*, has *four ethnic groups*. Each of them *rotates the presidency* through seven cantons that constitute the *federating units*. All the four languages of the four ethnic groups are recognized as official languages and school languages to boot, namely, *German, French, Italian*, and *Romansch* that has just a few thousand speakers!

There's nowhere in the world where the *Caucasians* allow the domination of their group by another.

In *Canada*, *Quebec* is the only full *French-speaking province*, aside a little section of *New Brunswick.* The other *seven provinces* are *English-speaking.* Yet, *Canada* is *bilingual* for the sake of *Quebec*! And each of the provinces is largely *self-governing.*

Here we are in *Nigeria,* you have people arguing vehemently that a *decrepit, structurally-flawed, and crisis-prone artificial contraption* badly configured by the *British* only needs good people to survive. Why not centralise the powers of the *British regions* to *London* and see what happens?

I once believed in Nigeria but not in oppressive contraption saddled with brutality of fellow Nigerians. I think it’s time to
‘let my people go’ or change the status quo of governance.

#copied

ItsTutsi:
These are the frontline basin states according to the recently passed PIB bill

Chad basin
-gombe
-borno
Anambra
Sokoto
Niger
Benue

You're only decieving yourself. Anambra already have proven oil reserves but instead of granting them oil producing state status, they allow Indians to be drilling it illegally till this day!

The 30% is a daylight robbery the North is using to fleece the oil producing states. Don't try to twist it!!

Abeg who resurrected this thread
Oh my God, the first page is something else, I haven't laughed like this in a long while, jeez the savagery is out of this world

I'm guessing a fulani man resurrected this thread for ulterior motive

Interesting!!
I can't wait to see the outcome. Reno is a loud mouth who craves for attention 24/7. I'm happy he has finally accepted Mazi Ogbonnaya challenge after trying to dodge him severally.

I like the way Mazi Ogbonnaya took a gentle swipe at him

The title of the debate should be "how the cookie crumbles"

amc:


Stop lying. The 30% is for “frontier basins” and there are 3 in the North, 2 in the middle belt, and 2 in the South.

Trash!!!
Who in his right senses will be searching for crude oil in Nigeria that would cost billions of dollars, at a time oil is increasingly becoming worthless, even when we already have reserves in excess of 30 billion barrels

Do you even think we will be able to use up our reserves before oil totally becomes useless?

A wretched country that is now a global begger for loans it can't pay back is busy wasting it yet you don't see it as outrageous??

Such a bastard with no iota of shame!
Since you want to be a slave forever, why drag the entire SS into it? If you think you're speaking for your constituency, why not limit it there? The old ugly fool is blaming SE and SW for not supporting their earlier request for 10% derivation and used it as a basis for not supporting the two regions or Southern unity but the same person is supporting North that implemented it. Same old and irresponsible fool is supporting North that just seized 30% of derivation earnings only to give them 3%!

He is claiming that Igbos in the MW were minority, then I wonder who are the majority?

A house nigger who is openly showing everyone how loyal he is to his gambari masters. These re.tards and dimwits are the ones parading as SS leaders.

Shame on you and whatever you represent!!

Igbos should please start bringing their investments home. This country will soon collapse, the signs are already visible to the blind and audible to the deaf.

mrvitalis:

Why do u people talk about resources n agriculture ...the only way a nation or state can survive is similar... providing enabling environment for private persons to do business then tax them ...tax is the surest way to grow

You're not being realistic. There is a difference between advanced countries with high purchasing power and GDP and poor underdeveloped countries. A country like UK can tax itself and survive on it and similarly, a state like Lagos that houses virtually almost the entire Nigeria economy can also survive on tax but the rest of Nigeria can't.

Providing enabling environment is important but it's not the only way to grow and neither will tax do that in an underdeveloped country. Every state in Nigeria has comparative advantage in one area or another they can harness. It can be in agriculture (mechanized), it can be in solid minerals, it can be in industrial production. However, the key will be to produce enough for not just the local market but for exports because we do not have the sort of local purchasing power that can trigger self reliance and optimal growth.

Jerryherd:
26 out of 36 states won't be able to pay salary or complete any project without Niger Delta Oyel money

Poverty would chase many back to villages to begin farming like their ancestors

Is poverty not crushing Nigeria already? We reduced ourselves to a wretched country when we all started relying on crude oil sales without any form of value. How can 200 million people be relying on crude oil sales of less than 2mbpd even when most of the proceeds are stolen at source. Countries of just 6 million people sell more crude oil than us!

It's only in Nigeria that you will see thousands of so-called workers in ministries and local governments who do nothing except to watch television and gossip all day only to wait for salary at month end. The Chinese didn't become great by being so lazy and corrupt like Nigeria. Every damn person out of their 1 billion plus population is doing something, that's why their GDP and GNP is staggering!!

Of what use is the overbloated civil servants, many of whom rarely do anything and thus adds very little value to the GDP yet only to take up most of the revenue in terms of salary payments?

The government of Nigeria is very useless. Otherwise, cities like Aba, Lagos, Onitsha, Kano, Nnewi ought to have dedicated power plants built for industrial clusters. If a city like Aba should have such power supply at affordable rates, it would be able to produce enough consumer goods that will serve the entire SSA instead of exporting our jobs to China.

Nonsense!
If they can't improvise and survive then let them die. Even the Bible admonishes us to always work hard so we can eat and there is no food for a lazy man.

Ebonyi State has vast solid mineral resources it can always rely on as well as agricultural potentials, so I don't see how they can't survive with ease if they're focused.

Enough of all these nonsense feeding bottle and parasitic form of governance.

Afam4eva:

The problem is not just you but people that are liking your comment. People can no longer critique constructively without you people hounding them and calling them haters. This happens most often on this particular thread. What is wrong with some of you. The braggadocio is becoming too much. You will not be the first to build and airport and you will definitely not be the last. Come down from your high horse and smell the freaking coffee. Anything and everything is open to critiquing and that includes the Anambra airport, so just let people be. Oginidi?

That guy is a village man who has monopolized the thread and reduced it to a cursing and insulting match. But don't be decieved, he uses his countless other monikers to like his own comments, other times he uses them quoting himself up and down. His actions is so disgusting to any sane mind.

The only reason I follow this thread is to see updates about development in Anambra. Otherwise, coming here to see the posts of a psychiatrist patient can be very disturbing.

SMH.

Nackzy:
The guy is indeed a well informed scholar

I was following him on Twitter and his deep knowledge about Igbo history was top notch. He said a lot about how he is open to a debate with Reno and exposed all the lies Reno passed to his gullible audience as facts.

Reno is just a rabble rouser, he has discovered that this Igbo man is far more informed about Igbo history and will put him to shame which made him to run away.

Foolish Reno

Monogamy:
When they could have gone to FIFA headquarters to make this protest..

FIFA is in the best position to help Kanu out

You must be the most confused troll ever. A typical afonja character in all its disgusting shame.

attackgat:
The Indigenous People Of Biafra(IPOB) have stormed the city of Nottingham, East England, UK, in protest for IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

Pictures below

Biafrans are just everywhere in this world

Mad country!
You can't provide power yet have the guts to levy outrageous fees on businesses that are already spending a lot on fuel.

Useless country!!!

seunmsg:
Very funny anti-Reno threads all over Nairaland since yesterday




This one even said Igbos made Wike and they’ve now cut him to obscurity. Is it the same Wike that controls PDP or which one?
Since you guys are now very powerful and can cut people to size, tell Peter Obi to challenge Wike’s authority in PDP and let’s see who wins.

You're just naive. Using Rivers money to throw about and bribe people doesn't mean anything in the long run. If you're observant, you will notice that his popularity has waned in recent times because his support base is now his worst critics.

chrisxxx:

Your outright lack of civility and public decorum has made you to open an academic debate with insults. Like we always say the difference between the Igbos and the Fulani the like to criticize is lack of opportunity.

"He who must come to equity, must come with clean hands"

You wrote lies, slander and false accusations yet expect me to path you on the back?!

Why would you try to use lies to distort the truth?

Again, you've drawn a parallel comparison between Igbos and Fulanis even when we have nothing in common. If I hit you now with verifiable facts you will say it's insults.

Military super power kee you there, Anu mpama!

You're a military super power yet bandits, Fulani herdsmen and Boko Haram are dancing azonto all over the North. Bandits even shot down a military aircraft few days ago yet your so-called military super power can't do shlt.

RUBBISH!!!

chrisxxx:
Oyigbo aborigines will never agree with you that they are Igbos. Though a good percentage of people living there are Igbos who acquired landed property from the land owners. Show me an Oyigbo person that claims to be Igbo.
Wike has nothing against the Igbos. His grouse is with IPOb unless you are saying that IPOB is synonymous with Igbo.
Another contention with him is when you try to say he is Igbo. He said he is not like all Ikwerre people.

Your just wrote like an itiboribo with zero comprehension. Where did I say that wike or his ikwerre people are Igbos in the write-up? You see how you fail exam?

I stated clearly that he is ikwerre and THEY are a minority.

As for Obigbo, you're quite ignorant. The indigenous Asa people that own Obigbo have their brothers in Ukwa East and Ukwa West local government areas of Abia State. Just like the way Egbema has its people in both Imo and Rivers States. It may also interest you to note that Obigbo used to be under East Central state. They've never hidden their Igbo identity! If you think that the IPOB people that operate there are outsiders then it also shows how ignorant you are.

post=103994702:
Igboland is the future of Nigeria for Gas


Assa North/Ohaji South (AN-OH) Project

The project seeks to develop 4.3Tcf of NAG resource and 215 MMbbls of Condensates from Shell's Assa North field (OML 21) and Seplat's JV's Ohaji South field (OML 53). It involves the installation of a 2 x 300MMscfd gas processing facility and a 120 Mbpd liquid handling facility to deliver 500 MMscfd to the Domestic Market by 2019. The gas will be supplied through the OB/OB - Oben (OB-3) pipeline.
The Assa North / Ohaji South is a Unit Asset that straddles between two concessions – OML-21 owned by SPDC Joint Venture and OML53 owned by the Seplat Joint Venture. The asset Unitization is based on a 50% - 50% Tract Participation.


Odigbo Node Gas Project :
The [b]objective of this project is to gather about 113mmscf/d of AG from about Six flow stations in the NNPC/Shell Eastern Nigeria Fields, for supply (about 92mmscf/d) to ALSCON (Aluminum Smelting Company of Nigeria) [/b]as feed gas and for gas lifting.
Odidi AGG Project: This project is also being executed by the NNPC/Shell JV in the South Western part of Nigeria. The objective of the project is to gather gas and inject into the ELP (Escravos to Lagos Pipeline), which will eventually form part of the West African Gas Pipeline that will supply gas to some West African Countries.

Igboland is flowing with excess gas. Look at the part in bold, even the facility they're building in the SW will rely on gas from Igboland

Hahahaha, laugh wan kill me die

We are all getting there finally, when everyone will resort to self-help.

Pierocash:
Some dingbats and scallywags won't say pewm on this.


But the moment gunmen starts to attack them because they've had enough,those idiots will suddenly find their useless voice. The governors of the region won't address this,but when those guys starts to attack them,they reinforce to starts genocide against them.

This is one of the reasons gunmen attacks them

You've said it all.

I have studied the political climate of Nigeria and I discovered something interesting. Politicians from Southern minorities will ride on Igbo support to gain fame and then turn around to attack those that helped them rise because they feel it's the only way they will become accepted nationally. However, they always end up back to square one, in obscurity!

Wike became very popular on the support of IPOB in particular and Igbos in general. As a minority, he had no significant support base from his ikwerre people who are not enough to project him, so he relied on Igbo support to gain prominence. Alas, when he assumed he had arrived and was commanding the attention of all Nigerians, he thought he no longer needed Igbos, in fact he errorneously felt he could attack them so he could entrench his new found fame and acceptance nationally. He started by publicly making anti Igbo rhetorics openly and later attacked Obigbo people in Rivers which led to serious loss of lives and properties.

What was the result?

He faced severe and unrelenting Igbo criticisms, and since the Hausas or Yorubas never liked him in the first place, he had no one to defend him and today he is back to obscurity. His larger than life image has been cut down to size!

Another person that has made same mistake is Reno. He also rode on Igbo support to national limelight and when he thought he has arrived, he decided to burn the bridge that brought him so far, now he is about to crash mightily and return to obscurity. Just like Wike, he has no support base elsewhere except Igbos, and now he has lost it, he is about to be unmasked and made irrelevant.

When will these people learn that in Nigeria, outside the East, others only tolerate them at best and hate their guts same way they do to Igbos. But unlike Igbos that have the numbers to counter the hate they receive, they on their own can't!!

KillMNKnow:
His name is Emma chidozie Ferdinand

He worked with Julius berger and was sacked in 2004

He was granted LGBTQ asylum in Austria 2006

His Hausa is not fluent , he can't even differentiate gender mixing he with she and nothing special about what he said other than cursing which any one can speak

Anuohia, he did a good job by protesting in his own way. If he is IPOB then we are proud of him

SeeThisLoser:
What do you think ?

God bless her for being so thoughtful. Maybe we will eventually get there since some smart people are already thinking in that direction.

Jostoman:
Israe should please face the people that offended them o because we in southern part of the Nigeria are not happy with the arrest of your people o.

Increase the volume please. They need to know who to attack

Coronabirus:

Ignorance is a disease. What is the Tech in the south that fetches Nigeria anything reasonable, haven't u see the figures I quoted from our GDP?
Dangote was born in a very rich family, his grandfather was the richest man in West Africa before his demise. All the allegations of monopoly are born out of envy; a lot of you just throw the word "monopoly" around without properly understanding what it entails.
Every businessman operating in a capitalist economy aspires to gain as much market share as possible so as to maximize returns, in order to do this, he deploys various strategies all derived from his business environment. One of the tools used is a PESTEL analysis which analyses the political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal environments to see where one can gain competitive advantages which they can use to achieve his objective of maximizing market share.
A monopoly would arise from the effective deployment of such strategies developed, in a market where other players are unable to compete due to the lack or insufficiency of the identified advantage - for example - Dangote aligns with practically any government in power so that he gains competitive advantages in the political environment, which come in the form of favourable policies, waivers, concessions etc. which enable him to dominate the industry/market to the point that other players are relegated or forced out. This is not in anyway wrong in the world of business, it is capitalism at its finest and it is the same across the world. Microsoft were so savage in this sense that anti-trust laws had to be enacted to protect other software companies. If you think Dangote's advantages are due to his ethnicity and not sheer brilliance and tact, how come he is replicating his success in several other African countries with various governments?
Therefore neither Dangote nor the government is doing anything wrong because what they have is a mutually beneficial strategic relationship. Dangote is simply a brilliant businessman that consistently outplays his competition.
What of BUA?
Many southern business tycoon got there money from CBN and Bank of industry, during GEJ's administration they used to collect billions with intention of building modular refineries but ended up building nothing. Now about 300 Nigerians defaulted loans of more than N3trillion from CBN and BOI.
Let me school U abt the self deception of many Southerners, a Northern shoe maker make abt 3 times the earning of southern graduate teaching in private school, that wheel barrow pusher make average of N60k/month, okada rider make average of 80k/month. So, pls stop living in delusion and deceit. I mate a Northerner doing okada in one SS state and asked him the average income of his daily ride, he said, he often makes abt 5k daily and settle his master 2k daily balance.
For ur information, the only Northerners going to south are people with no conventional education. The educated few only work with either govt or private organisations. Even if u employ a Northerner in the south, he will find his way to go back to North that is why we're very few in FG Secretariats in southern states, only security personnels stay and work in the south comfortably.
Why are u trying to cover the poverty, hardship, illiteracy, and social vices of ur communities. I've been to the nooks and crannies of Nigerian states, I saw a lot of things and learnt that those Nairalanders calling North derogatory names are living in cities like Lagos, PHC or major towns and don't know the sufferings of their people in villages. Many young boys/girls are not going to School in many southern villages, the level of illiteracy is relatively high, child prostitution is common, incestuous relationships are rampant but their religious leaders and Politicians are telling u Northern problems only.
Pls stop pretending and face reality, all those making ethno-religious bias comments are people suffering from poverty, hate and envy. If u're living good life u won't come here ranting abt things that u neither see nor have facts abt. Why dwelling on social media for information that will ridicule ur assertions on public domain? Step ur foot out of ur hiding place, go round the country and bar witness of facts. Every month I travel more than 2k within this nation, I pass through atleast 3 zones, I see how people are living all forms of life in cities and villages but u people only know how to report abt others by covering ur mayhem!

I'm really for you guys if other Northerners are wallowing in self deception like you.

The fact that federal government goes out of its way to have way for Dangote to dominate and monopolize certain sectors of the economy does not mean he is a good businessman. In a level playing field, he won't be anywhere near the top. We all know how people from particular areas of Nigeria are frustrated and hurdles placed in their way.

The North is currently one of the world's most miserable places today. If North should be a country now, it would be in the league of failed nations like Yemen and Somalia or even worse. Every indices of development is in the negative for the North, and to worsen it all, your population continues to explode due to irresponsibility and misplaced priority. Now, your region is about to collapse totally to anarchy. You can't travel from Kano to Kaduna and Abuja without risking being killed or kidnapped.

Your people have started eating grass despite 90% being farmers according to you. Even years back, Sanusi Lamido stated that poverty is a Northern phenomenon.

Lol, I laugh at you because you're still covering your head in the sands of ignorance. But FYI, North is finished, your future is extremely gloomy. It is mindsets such as yours that contributed in destroying North because you guys failed to act and allowed the rot to fester and become cancerous.

Ultimately, we would definitely have to cut you guys loose to avoid being dragged into the abyss alongside. I shudder whenever I try to imagine what North will be like in the coming years, it will be terrible!

Ojiofor:
Reno have gone mad.That you owned some few slaves of Igbo origin does not mean that you enslaved the Igbo nation.No tribe ever conquered Igboland or enslaved ndi Igbo in their homeland.

That fool has totally lost his mind. His unbridled ego will be his worst undoing.

We know of Benin empire so I wonder why he keeps attaching his itshekiri people to Bini, when did they become one?

Igbos kept slaves just like every other tribes back then and when the slave trade started, some of those slaves were sold to the coastal tribes who acted as middle men to the whites who docked at the coastline. This idiot called Reno knows this was how they ended up with the so-called Igbo slaves, but due to his overbloated ego, he twisted it to suit his narrative. Such a bastard!!

theTranscriber:
he meant in ratio to your population

And I'm still asking you, do you know the factors that led to our huge population?

Igboland was largely peaceful and the soil was very fertile which led to a boom in population. Same couldn't be said of other areas in the South and Middle belt that faced continues wars, killings and attacks that made settlements for extended periods very difficult.

I still repeat that Igbos still have the largest landmass in Southern Nigeria after Yorubas. If you look at the SW geography, you will observe that Oyo state and the surrounding areas have similar geography with the middle belt, with lots of hills and grasslands unlike Igboland that is densely vegetated and must have been difficult to expand. Also, when you consider that Igboland used to have very fertile soils, then you will understand there wasn't need or the motivation to seek for further lands afield.