Malawian: So that you Ijaw will not "Adaka Boro" them right? Ijaw might go extinct the day Igbo regains their strenght.
IGBO PEOPLE HAVE MILLION REASON TO COMPLETELY MILITARISE IGBOLAND.
OUR ENEMIES ARE EVERYWHERE.
EVERY TOM, DICK AND HARRY, JUST THINK THEY CAN USE US TO DO ANYHOW.
THEY WILL LEARN THE HARD WAY, BECAUSE THE MILITARY WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER WILL ONLY GET STRONGER AND THEY HAVE COME TO DEFEND EVERY INCH OF IGBOLAND. HABA!
THEY WILL BEG IPOB AND ESN BIAFRA MILITARY TO DISARM AND GET TIRED.
THEY HAVE COME TO STAY BECAUSE OF ALL THESE CRIMINALS AROUND OUR LAND, WHICH INCLUDES FULANI ETC
3exe3: Great u won the debate. Nw you and ur goons can come forward and install an eze then we knw how serious u are. No make me remind attah of igala to take his lands and subjects too.
CapitalBank: It this those that do not know what they saying and just want to follow bandwagon, neither do they care to at least read up to know that it is not the entire Rivers State that is Igbo but a section, especially those that share boundary with Imo and Abia.
IJAW ARE SQUATTERS PETCHING LIKE FLIES ON TOP WATER.
Malawian: There is no single Ijaw community in all of Rivers State, just drunken Fishermen that came to "Township" in Rivers State and has refused to return to their Bayelsa swamp creeks.
Coldspice: You were one of those calling Yorubas slave last time. Now, Yorubas are President but your only destiny in life is to engage in political servitude to Atiku. You are slaves. Dirty slaves
WHATEVER YOU LIKE SAY.
YORUBA VOTE IS NOT THE DECIDER HERE.
IF AND WHEN THE MERGER HAPPEN, JUST GET A BUCKET AND CRY TILL IT IS FULL.
OBI IS A MAN OF PRINCIPLE WHO GEUINELY BELIEVED IT WAS THE SOUTH TURN, NOW IT CAN GO NORTH.
IF HARRY MOTHER WAS STILL MARRIED TO CHARLES, HE WILL BE THINKING RIGHT BUT RIGHT NOW THAT UGLY WOMAN CAMILLA IS DICTATING HIS ACTIONS AND MISLEADING HIM.
AS A MAN, YOU ARE ONLY A GOOD FATHER AS LONG AS THEIR MOTHER IS THERE.
U NO GET BRAIN OTHERWISE, IF CHARLES GET BRAIN, THEN WHAT IS HE DOING TO HIS LAST BORN SON PUBLICLY?
What I want to tell you Igbos now is that whether you arrive first or arrive last, one thing is certain, u will eventually arrive there because you will sniff out every opportunity eventually, it is in your DNA as an Igbo man.
Arriving late after others have taken up residence puts you at a disadvantage and open for assault and the usual area tout treatment.
We are making proposal of how to get ahead and talk to those that matter to put things in place.
Nobody told you to leave your cities, go and read my post.
Aside Aviation, Banking, Movie, Automobile and Spareparts, we can add Tourism.
Tourism gives more money than all the aforementioned combined in Dollars.
Oga, You really need to understand that not everyone here is a child. Also, I can already tell you have NEVER bought land anywhere in Nigeria. Otherwise, you would know that land has a maximum of 100 years leases. After which you or your descendants must renew the land lease if the state and the original owners of the land have no objections to renewing another 100 years lease.
You can NEVER own any land PERMANENTLY through land purchase unless you owned it by inheritance.
My brother, if you sell your ancestral land, it is gone.
If you want to be waiting 100 years to collect it back then I will say to you that you know nothing about Land law.
Do you know that if a person occupy land for a continued and uninterrupted period of time less than 100 years the land now belongs to them?
Do you know that the law is vast and many loophole.
Guy if you sell land, it is gone, unless the State Government want to be lawless as we witness in Lagos with Tinubu.
The land they are demolishing have not reach 30 years,.
SEE ANYHOW U YORUBA LIKE TO CARRY YOUR PROPAGANDA PLEASE DO SO, EVEN THE DEVIL IS IMPRESSED BY YOUR LIES.
IN DELTA STATE, THEY ARE DEMOLISHING PROPERTIES BUILT ON GOVERNMENT LAND.
THEY CANNOT JUST GO ABOUT DEMOLISHING PEOPLE HOUSES BOTH IN WARRI OR ASABA, THEY WILL CAUSE INSURGENCE AS IGBOS WONT TOLERATE IT, NEITHER WILL IJAW, URHOBO OR ITSEKIRI.
SO, LET THEM DEMOLISH PROPERTIES BUILT ON GOVERNMENT LAND IN PEACE.
IT IS NOT TARGETING ANY PARTICULAR TRIBE, DONT PRESENT IT AS SUCH.
IF IT IS TRIBAL, WE WILL KNOW AND THEY KNOW WHAT THAT NORMALLY LOOKS LIKE FOR A STATE LIKE DELTA WITH TRIBAL WARS.
Unbiased1: Landmark na small thing. I feel no pity for any Igbo man whose industry gets demolished in any other part of Nigeria. The reason Igbo land is not one of the top destinations in Nigeria today is because of the Igbo people themselves. In Nigeria, there is no ethnic group that dispise their home land like the Igbo people. Imagine an Igbo man saying he can't return to the East because of village people but that same Igbo man is building a Factory in Ogun that is the headquarter of ritual killings in Nigeria. I have lived in Ota for 2 years and I have never seen a society as diabolical as what I witnessed in Ogun state yet Igbo people are still going there to invest. Do you know why? The Yoruba people love their land and see their place as the best place to live in Nigeria. To the Yoruba people, Yoruba land is where you should live year in, year out, but to the Igbo people, Igbo land is only good for living in December. The Yorubas have invested so much in media to portray themselves in good light hence, the positive views everyone has about their place.
I picked up a magazine from AirPeace when they started flights from Lagos to Dubai. Could you believe that the magazine showcased tourist destinations in Liberia, Ghana, UAE and London, and for Nigeria, they showcased, Bonny in Bayelsa, Ikogosi in Ekiti, Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Kaduna but nothing from the East. I was so shocked and disappointed at the same time. Despite all the hotels, casinos, restaurants, and clubs that litter Owerri and Awka, Airpeace could not advertise even one city in the East to at least create awareness about the good things in Igbo land. Do you know how many people booked that Airpeace flight and got to read those magazines? That was a very good chance to showcase some Igbo cities to some foreigners.
I told a fellow Igbo guy that I consider the Aku lue uno mantra a shameful one and he was shocked at my conclusion. I have spent a good part of my life in Lagos and I have interacted with people of different ethnicities. I discovered that the average Yoruba investor is always thinking about investing in Lagos, Ogun or Oyo. Go to Lekki and meet some of the Yoruba real estate developers. Once they cover Lagos, Ogun and Oyo, their next point of interest is usually UK or UAE. The average Hausa man is not even interested in building a bungalow in your land talkless of a mansion, they all send their investments back home. Its only the Igbo people that derive joy in their governors going from Lagos to Abuja to beg Ndigbo to invest at home. It is a big shame. I have never seen Yoruba governors begging Yorubas to invest at home, same with the Hausa but the Igbos think in an alternate direction. Soludo had to leave Anambra to Lagos to speak to Igbo business men to invest in Anambra.
Outsiders are viewing these things, foreign investors are viewing these things. How will they invest in Igbo land if the owners of the land are avoiding their own land. We need to start serious marketing in Igbo land. We have to create an Igbo brand and make Igbo and Igbo land popular. There is no crime happening in Igbo land that does not take place in other parts of Nigeria. The only difference is that, others frequently release good news from their land while Igbos are poor at releasing good news from Igbo land. If 3 people die in Ogun, the news gets 10 thousand interactions, if 1 person dies in Igbo land, the news gets 60 thousand interactions. This is a strategic approach by God-knows-who to always ensure the East is portrayed in bad light and keep the much needed investments away and it's up to us to counter this bad narrative.
We can do that by strictly investing at home. We don't need the traders to relocate, infact we need them to remain in Lagos, Abuja and other Nigerian cities because they will be useful in distributing products made in Igbo land across Nigeria. We also need our media houses to do more in showcasing Igbo land. I am slightly impressed with Afia TV that is doing the promotion already. They are on GoTV and DSTV. We too that have access to social media can do our bit. It's not every time we have to wait for someone to do it, we can also do some of these promotions ourselves on social media. We just have to start.
I will finish by saying this.
There is individual development which Igbos are known for all over the world.
There is group development, when the fish is impossible for one person.
There is state developmnt at local, state and federal level.
There is community development.
There is regional development.
There is interegional development.
There is partnership.
We need to know which format to adopt and where applicable and when.
Why are Igbo people in Lagos because of the coast.
Let us show them the coast in SE, we did not tell them to start individually investing in Akwa Ibom, they can do that in their villages because we are now in our neighbourhood and made adequate provision to enable them to stay in Igboland. We still have Igbo cities to develop.
However that is not to say those whose industry or lifestyle is on the coast not to invest when the opportunity arise to do so on the coast.
We are trying to move away from Nigeria and move back home, a soft-landing if you like.
God bless you! God bless Igbo people like you who still reason and are not copycats "follow the bandwagon mentality" like most of our people today.
The generation of Igbos immediately after Nigeria's independence in 1960s thought exactly like the generation of Igbos today. Everything in their own region is undesirable and the only thing they'd like to do is either go up north to drag northern jobs with them or go to Port Harcourt and Lagos to build palatial mansions with absolutely NOTHING in their hometown and places of origin. Then Nigeria happened to them and their properties in the north and other places were either destroyed or confiscated.
After the painful civil war in the 1970s, there emerged a generation of wise Igbo people. Who understood that charity begins at home. Just imagine for a minute if our leaders in the 1970s after the civil war reasoned like this present generation and also abandoned Igboland because the Federal Government and other Nigerians called Igboland "Rebel Territory" Just imagine if there would have been Imo airport, all the industries in Aba, Onitsha and Nnewi. Imagine if we would have secondary schools and universities that enabled most people in this forum now to read and write.
Just imagine what Igboland would have been if the Igbos themselves copied the attitude of the Federal Government and other Nigerians to refuse investing in their own region! That is why i believe that any generation that refused to learn from their history are bound to repeat the same mistakes and suffer the painful consequences of their folly.
Again, i have come to understand that some people must suffer bitter lessons to learn. That is why a feel no pity for the Landmark guy and other Igbos like him dragging other peoples land, while their own remains undeveloped.
Point of correction, the minute you sell a plot of land and collect money legally it is no longer your land until you return the money you were paid and pay the additiona fee for any property erected on the land.
Second;y, Ndiigbo are not prisoners confined to the inland.
The Igboland has need for deep seaport, seaport and even homeport for cruise ships. The fact that we have the seaports dont mean we cannot have the Riverports.
If well organised, our goods can be loaded from a deep seaport in Akwa Ibom automatically and sent to Riverport somewhere in Abia or Ebonyi and moved by rail to Enugu, Anambra and Imo, to a Dryland port for collection.
The logistics business run by Ndiigbo. A relationship that is fruitful and symbiotic not parasitic.
With the right partnership we can have it all. We need to have an understanding.
Marraige is a contract and partnership. The Akwa Ibom might just be Igbo soulmate and we dont know.
I did not say occupy Uyo, but rather through a well structured investment portfolio we can jointly develop the coast and mutually benefit from our investment. (Joint Venture)
Nothing small, we are talking billions of dollars, well planned coastal resort along the unoccupied length of Ibeno coastal front.
Akwa Ibom State and Ndiigbo via Landmark agreement.
We need options and Lagos need to understand that reclaiming sea to erect towers that we will erect in Ibeno is nothing special, people have them all over the place in other countries. If they are doing Eko Atlantic, we be on the coast in Ibeno.