₦airaland Forum

igbodefender:
Why is this bridge that can save lives being politicized.

arinzeejikonye:
See how the Nass Orchestrated the depropriatition and deduction of funds from the infrastructural budget prepared by the ministry in the name of fantom canonization of deception they christianed "constituency projects"

navyseal2220:
Onitsha River Niger Second Bridge Project Remains Suspended Since 2015 while the bigot is awarding and approving millions of dollars in the North. Tomorrow, you ask Igbos...why do you want out of Nigeria? May Amadioha strike you there in the neck. Wicked evil country. Using Niger Delta oil money and tax money paid largely by southern businesses to fund projects in the North. It will never be well with these country...the suffering will intensify.

macjive01:
Deluded Yorubas on it again. Tomorrow Nupe, or who ever are indigenes of abuja area will beat their chest and announce that Abuja was built with Abuja money. we dont need industrious igbos. land developers.

They will ask what was the revenue when it was Federal capital - (if the Capital was moved) ? forgetting the massive infrastructure laydown by FG.

They will say Abuja is blessed, its location in the heart, Igbos are simply jealous.

Abuja was built with tin money. money made from tin extraction by our very midbelt awoloowoe.


why is ibadan not like lagos ?
ibadan is the traditional capital of the yorubas and western Nigeria?



This is getting comical. Lagos is what it is today because of its position as a formal Federal capital terroritory. All the embassies were soley located in lagos.
(dont tell me its the embassies choice, FG decides where an embassy can station)

It had the only Functional Airport Federal airport in Nigeria for a long time before Abuja came on. Kano and the other are 2nd tier airports.

Every Nigeria needing to travel had to visit Lagos first to get a visa. most times would have to wait for 3 weeks to get a response. Many a times, people stay in lagos to wait out the process.
Hereby spending money in lagos
. spend money on hotels
. Money spent on food , shopping.

same as well, when getting into the country. Lagos became a sort of Mecca. Its inevitable . you must come to Lagos if you have to get into Nigeria.


Banks.

Federal policy of having the central bank in Lagos
Bank tend to HQ where the bank of the country is.
hence the rise of Marina. Every bank head quarter is in Lagos.
Banks corporate taxes are recorded as Lagos's depite their operation being across the country.
take example of unity bank- a northern focus bank, with its operation mainly in the north, its revenues are mostly from the north, yet their corporate taxes are paid in lagos.


Seaport: will come to this later.

Oil and gas companies.: Majority of lagos taxes are generated from oil company and banks corporate taxes.

Oil companies despite their operations being in the Niger delta record their massive corporate taxes as Lagos's.



Markets- why, This trade despite dominated by Igbos are still majority based in Lagos ?

This is effect of the seaport.

I will expand on this later when i have time.
to be continued.

Companies: over 75% of Igbo owned companies are based in Lagos. Taxes are recorded as Lagos's , yet one afonja person will announce it was our awoloowors that builts these companies.


Foreign trade/investment: will come to this too.


Nigerian stockExchange. :

wep87:
who dey fund them million dollar question

Develpeast:
y 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.



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

Husty:
Na dem headwarmer gang dey bear that kind name like sentence e.g Testimony of God, Thank God, God don win, God's development etc

Fineman87:
Afonjas show me your product.

Realman87:
Gosh. How stewpid are you. Manufacture your own, simple.

coolebux:
He needs encouragement
Remember when he visited the National Assembly, up until now its only BM Bruce that patronised his suv
If it were other investors from other regions, PMB will mandate all 36 state govts to make it their official vehicles.
Don't feign ignorance of this.

StarPlayer:
IPOB una see una life?

raker300:
90% of goods used in Nigeria is manufactured by igbos

Victornezzar:
Will u shut up
Ow will u insult a whole tribe
someone is carrying out a movement peacefully
ur insulting him
y don't u insult Shekau and his people

Awolowo001:
The joke is still on you

Gomeks irons manufacturing.... Onitsha

ChiefSweetus:
280MW addition to the grid in THREE YEARS.

LMAO!

Fashola is a smello who couldn't fix Ago Palace Way in 8yrs. 280MW in 4yrs is what a province in Beinjin or Tianjin will achieve in 6-months I put that on my ex's life!!

Bloody jokers. I bet they don't even have a viable pipeline or GSPA in place. The Discos are moribund. Ikeja Disco hasn't given anyone power in EIGHT FUCĶING DAYS! And Fashola is forming technocrat in Abuja after leaving a 4km stretch of road for 8yrs because it's not Alimosho or because they are predominantly 5-percenters. But if na to follow nack Matharoo sisters.......

bounty007:
Empty head..

igbo's should learn from Yoruba.. imagine.

very ridiculous write up.
Afonja forming sophisticated.. aboki dey dia they threaten your tribe..you no fit yarn.

na ontop igbo, you the gather strength. na so your brain reach.

Imagine Abiola and Awolowo..come be yardstick..even included tinubu.

this fat man is a fat joke..

thrash..

pazienza:
And how exactly is the above piece of trash supposed to be a rebuttal to the issues I raised?

Choke on the truth :
By the way, the 1966 coup was an Awolowo( Yoruba) masterminded coup and here is why:

1. Fajuyi, a Yoruba, was a mentor to the likes of Nzeogwu and not only supported their coup, but also made inputs on how they should go about it. This was why he was marked for death by the counter coup northern junta. To conceal this and sell their Igbo coup propaganda, the Yoruba print media launched the falsehood of Fajuyi begging for IronsI life being the reason for his death, but we know better.

2. Up until 1967, Awolowo was the only Nigerian who had once plotted to usurp a seating government, ala civilian coup, he had antecedents. He would also attempt a second civilian coup later against IBB which culminated to his death.

3. The coup plotters listed Awolowo as the man they had in mind to install as the president should the coup have been successful.

4. The coup plotters carefully eliminated Awolowo main rival, Akintola, who had already emasculated Awolowo and rendered him powerless in Yorubaland, alongside his accomplices in Saraduna and Balewa. This was needed to create a vacancy that Awolowo could fill right after the coup.

It's as simple as it is, without the coup plotters striking and eliminating Akintola, Balewa and Saraduna, Awo would have rot in prison and if he managed to come out, would have seen Akintola completely consolidate on his powers in Yorubaland with active help of Balewa and Saraduna.
The rate Akintola was spreading his wings in SW, with active connivance of Balewa and Saraduna, Awo knew that he had to get out of prison as fast as possible or slip into political oblivion forever.
The Biggest winner from the coup was Awolowo, co incidence?
I don't think so.

seanet01:
May your days be long and prosperous.
God Almighty will bless you.
Please can I get some of the CIA files you talked about?

pazienza:
1. If Ojukwu was planning for an Igbo coup, common sense dictates that he wouldn't involve Igbo phobic non Igbos like Ejoor and Gowon, don't you think so?


2. Gowon didn't take power by force, military protocol of seniority required Ogundipe took over from Ironsi, why didn't Ogundipe do that, why did he flee.
If you be sincere, then answer to the above question would explain to you why Orizu handed over to Ironsi.
Already, you fellow Spin doctors and harbingers of Igbophobic propaganda had already spinned one of your many " facts" where Orizu was asked to hand over to Ironsi by a government council, now you have come up with your own "fact", you lots just can't keep record of your lies to avoid conflicting accounts.

3. It was evidently a Yoruba coup, ( Awolowo coup), at least until Ironsi foiled it. Fajuyi groomed Nzeogwu and co for the coup, Awolowo main political opponents all died in the coup, and the coup plotters had plans of enthroning Awolowo.

4. Fajuyi was amongst those who kept pleading on behalf of Nzeogwu and co before Ironsi, to spare them.
They were kept in Eastern prison rather than Northern prison for the same reason Awolowo was kept in Eastern region prison, Eastern region was the most peaceful and stable region in the country in that era.

The entire Nigerian country rejoiced when the news of the coup filtered in firstly, it's demonic from Yoruba press narrowing down the national Euphoria down to just Ndiigbo.
The Ewu Na ebe akwa and bread propaganda demonic SW press had been propagating had all proved to be lies and mere fabrication, you lots should fear God.

5. Igbo officers dominated the military Corp as of the period in discuss, It's only normal that without quota system, they were always going to dominate proceedings, the regional military administors were all indigenous, but however, Ironsi surrounded himself with Northerners to prove his sincerity to them, his ADC, security Chief, etc were all Northerners, wrong move on his part. If Ironsi was a bit Tribalistic, he would have survived, his desire to prove his non detribalized nature played into the hands of his killers.

6. This is a blatant lie, and you have no facts to prove it. Biafra never started hostilities on Nigerian soil until Nigeria invaded Biafra at Gakem border.


Thank God that Awolowo and Gowon had proven their incompetence to the whole world. Igbos are the problem of Nigeria, Yoruba and Arewa tribalists shouted in the 60s, yet when the mantle of political ( the North), and Economic / Bureaucracy ( Yoruba) leadership fell on Arewa and Odua.
Awolowo through his greed Instituted the indigenization policy, handed the private and public sectors to Yorubas, which through sheer incompetence, they ran to the ground, killing the Nigerian economy,as they couldn't nurture any of those companies into world class ones capable of employing Nigerians, Awolowo poor economic models that formed the basis of Gowon economic agenda killed Nigeria.
Gowon and his successive Northern rulers, subservient nature to imperialists that helped them win the war, ensured that Nigeria was crippled by them and wicked exploitative policies from sharks like IMF and co forced down Nigeria throat.

We are all witness to the failure Arewa-0duanistanis had turned Nigeria into, and we had refused to be part of that failure.

pazienza:
No one made Ironsi the head of state, Ironsi took power by force, stop twisting historical accounts.

Ironsi was the one who was naively too trusting of Northerners and he surrounded himself with too many of them, against Ojukwu better judgement, making his death at their hands rather too easy.

Well, written records had it that men like Fajuyi were among those pleading with Ironsi to free Nzeogwu and co. They were his boys and Fajuyi did lend them advice during the coup planning stage, moreover there were accounts of Ironsi reaching agreements with Nzeogwu and co to spare their lives in exchange to them handing over peacefully to Ironsi.
Either way, Nzeogwu and co were jailed.
Only Igbophobic entities read tribalism in Ironsi handling of the case, historical accounts from many sources proved otherwise.
I also noticed how you ignored Ademoyega involvement in the coup conveniently.


Ironsi met Nigeria as a country of 4 regions, with four premiers, by the time he died, Nigeria had 4 regions with 4 military governors of which Ojukwu was one of.
So pray tell how Ironsi dissolved Nigeria regional system?
It was Gowon with active support of Awolowo and men like Akenzua and Enahoro that dissolved the Nigerian regions and created dysfunctional entities called states.

No, the bloodshed started in the North in 1945, then 1953 and the SW in 1964.
It was the wild wild west caused by political immaturity and greed of Awolowo and Akintola that created the vacuum and turmoil that resulted to the Jan Nzeogwu coup.
Get your facts right.

Zik wanted one Nigeria and went on to diplomatically persuade the North and west to buy his concept, he also conceded power to the North to make prospects of one Nigeria palatable to them.
He wasn't threatening war on any who wanted out of Nigeria.
See the difference between Zik idea of one Nigeria and those of Arewa-Oduanistanis that is all about threats of war and zero diplomacy nor willingness to concede power to make the prospect of One Nigeria palatable to those who want out.

Nzeogwu actually was from present day SS, yes he was Igbo, but Fajuyi and Ademoyega were Yorubas.

Yes, Ironsi did centralize power, as is norm for all military dictators, but the regions were still intact, structurally by the time he died.
It was rather Awolowo and other Hawks like him, who maintained that Gowon should centralize power, encouraged the tampering of the territorial integrity of the regions by creation of states and standing firmly against Ojukwu demand for decentralization of power.

Awolowo and his fellow hawks, helped Gowon create the very failure that Nigeria is today. Accept your responsibility and deal with it. Cos either way, Ndiigbo won't share in this failure called Nigeria with you, Biafra we want, Biafra we will get.

The Nigerian unity Ndiigbo created was a progressive one, built on diplomacy and persuasion of component groups and not on threat of war and forceful union, and shedding of blood.

Nigeria is already reaping the fruits of the seed Awolowo and Gowon planted between 1967-70. The war and blood of Igbo they had to shed to keep the British colonial estate intact will always ensure that Ndiigbo will never ever come to accept unity with you lots, forever making Nigeria an unstable state.
The poor economic policies, Awolowo made immediate post 1970 had truly set Nigeria on a path of failure, and nothing can reverse that.
The Northern USA inherited a fragmented New country after the civil war, with the Southern USA weakened, the North went on to build a great nation that both the South and North are proud of today.
Arewa-Oduanistanis as represented by Gowon-Awolowo inherited a fragmented Nigeria, where the so called national problem( Igbos) had been politically and economically devastated, and still they( Arewa-Oduanistanis) driven by Igbophobia, incompetence and greed created a failed colonial entity that even they themselves are ashamed of today, but rather than accept responsibility for their failures are looking to push it to Igbos.

The earlier Arewa-Oduanistanis take responsiblity for Nigeria failure, the better for them and their failed colonial entity.

TheUmbra:
I saw the list of some basic federal infrastructure you listed up there to back your claim that the South East isn't marginalized.

You did brilliantly capitalising on my "no visible Federal presence" when the average mind knows exactly what I was trying to say. So listing schools and hospitals is a laughable attempt and an insult to a honest evaluation of critical federal projects and infrastructure distribution on region to region basis.

The state of the federal roads in the South east is deplorable

The South East deserves an international airport

The South east deserves an inland port

The current railway projet never passed through any South East city, not even cities like Onitsha, Aba or Nnewi. But one is stretching hundreds of kilometres from lagos to kano, Portharcourt to kano.

The link below is one of many examples of the deliberate marginalisation of the south east, from budget allocation to federal appointments and to critical federal Infrastructure.
https://www.nairaland.com/3434857/federal-government-leaves-out-south#50592982


The list you put out there draws a parallel between dishonesty and your personal judgement.

TheUmbra:
I totally disagree with you here. There's a grave and evil injustice deliberately perpetuated against Igbos by the northern political elites. There's no visible federal presence in the whole of the south east. The south east is the only region that was cut out from the current railway project.

So much marginalisation. Somebody got to takd serious measures against these northern vultures. Nnamdi Kanu is that someone. He has my full blessing.

Believe me, until the north stares a real breakup of Nigeria in the face, they'd hold on to the status quo perpetually.