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It will happen earlier than that. Another investment Bank, Goldman Sachs put their own prediction of Nigeria being in the N-11 by 2020 as well as Egypt. SA was not included there by them. N-11 is the next eleven largest economies after the BRIC states( Brazil, Russia, India and China.)

Great ideas.

The Church needs to be pro-active in putting forth correct alternatives and that persuasively. New philosophies daily give the church sucker punches to the jaw and are gradually defining the global order that are clearly anti-christian. Do not Christians have rights that must also be respected? Where are the true Christian philosophers and apologists? Rise and save the society from the destruction that will happen sooner than later if these satanic philosophies are allowed to hold sway.

Clearly, Al Qaeda is here already.

@Onlytruth. You made some solid points but I will disagree with some. APGA did not make Rochas and so I do not see why leaving APGA will destroy him. Both parties were midwived by Igbos so why should we abandon PDP for others instead of regaining control of it. What did Zik do? He came back to Nigeria joined NCNC and performed so well there that he was made the party leader after Lugard. We still have many Ziks that can take over PDP leadership by mere dynamism and Rochas is one of them. You keep talking about PDP as evil. Lol. I have said over and over again that I do n ot buy that propaganda. All these parties in Nigeria are just vehicles for politicians to win elections. None of them has clear-cut ideologies to identify them as leftist or rightist. Even at that, the global trend is a move towards the centre from both the left and the right. Chime, Amechi, Duke,etc are all PDP products. Are they also evil? No matter the party he joins, an evil man will produce evil so the issue is the man and not the party, ceteris paribus.

APGA should have been the main party in the SE by now but it self- destructed. Was it PDP that plotted APGA's self destruction. APGA needs to rediscover itself to recover full Igbo confidence in her that was seriously shaken. This is one point. The second point is that Rochas body language in both PDP and ANPP is that of a shot at the presidency. Has joining APGA just abouit 6 months ago taken away that ambition. And if he cannot realise it in APGA as you said that is not APGA's dream, should he not go were he can realise it? No need being sentimental there.

As for Obi keeping Anambra in APGA. Sorry. I think not. It was Ikemba's doing not Obi. and it was a close fight in his second tenure. I wager that without Ikembas influence, it could have gone to either Soludo or Ngige. 2014 will show if APGA continues winning Anambra or not. Meanwhile the legislatIve elections did not reveal anything about Obi's clout. Ikemba's presence will not have allowed such losses of APGA in Anambra but he is not getting younger or stronger you know.

Your strongest point was that the winners of the war are keeping everybody down and now you say we should leave the Country for them. That is deafeatist. Why can we not take Country from them. 2011 elections showed it can be done. So why go back when you are almost there. The cabal is getting weaker and weaker and fortunately the Igbo generation that lost the war are almost out leaving the battlefront to the young ones who do not have a defeated mentality and who are ready to trick and treat in the  Nigerian political jungle,  Ekweremadu and his HOR colleague can attest to that. They showed that you do not expect anything to be handed to you through zoning but through politicking, alliances and horse trading. Igbos just need a new generation leader whop like Zik broke barriers and formed alliances to get things done. He did not fully succeed but we can take it to the next level instead of withdrawing back to regionalism. I stand with Ikemba on the Biafra of the mind but Nigeria of territory. At least for now.  Let's get the things that rightfully belong to us on as long as we are still in one entity called Nigeria. Even if we are planning for the rainy day, let that be option B.

An intellectual like sanusi should have to do better than that. Using name dropping in an argument is too pedestrian. Hiding the religion of d subject on a religious-tending argument makes it deception. Sanusi seems to be notching up points on half truths and deception. Signs of an agenda.

Sahara reporters. Well we shall see.

Onlytruth:
Posted by: houvest
The idea behind moving into APGA or voting PDP out of Igboland goes FAR BEYOND national political positions now. That bus has since left the station. PDP had the opportunity to prove that they are fair to SE for 12 years of loyalty, instead they felt that SE is an old harlot that can be screwed anyhow without caring for her feelings.

We practiced your idea for 12 years. All we got was cheating; from state creation to denying us the presidency. As things stand now, we may NEVER produce a Nigerian president under PDP. So, let us chart a different course for the benefit of our children unborn. They've had their chance, and they proved that SE is not important to them.

After 12 years at the saddle, SE remains the only zone with 5 states in Nigeria, and we have steadily moved down the power ladder, from Senate president to deputy everything to SGF. The trend will continue in 2015.

Obasanjo is only one man, and I feel insulted to think that only he is dictating the PDP course of action.
There is an anti-Igbo mafia at the heart of the PDP.

It is time to abandon that evil ship.

Why blame PDP for all the evis suffered by the SE. 12 years you say? Which state did PDP create in 12 years and for which zone? All the states were created by the military. nGowon started with 12 giving Ndigbo one state while balkanising Igbo communities into neigbhouring states because of the civil war. Nasir balkanised Ndigbo further by putting most Igbo-communities that had oil out of predominantly Igbo states. Murtala added one more state for Ndigbo in 1976 while 1bb added 2 and Abacha 1. PDP almost did state creation but for the evil plans of OBJ in 2007 for third term. He wanted state creation to be in the poisoned chalice of his third term agenda and the NAS rejected the chalice. If you do not realise how power has been controlled in Nigeria , I will be surprised. The military psychology of power being concentrated on one perspon has been very much around. That is why OBJ has been dictating what happens in PDP. Is it it now that the autocracy is being broken as exemplified in the NASS rebellion that SE should abandon PDP? I think SE can regain control of PDP if they try or at least be an eqaul power broker.

The North can also use that logic by saying that there is a mafia that is working against them in PDP because of the Jonathan phenomenom and leave PDP. but CPC tried it but could not get the power at the centre. I do not see any regional party controlling the centre soon enough . In fact all previous enemies will unite to stop it because it is a recipe for disaster. However as I said before, if we are no more interested in the centre, we can go regional. But why dont we get our own share of ther power at the centre before doing that. W

Eko Ile:
Stop spewing your warped understanding of Yoruba idiosyncrasies. The same Yoruba line you just traced frowns at adult insulting other people and disrespecting themselves.

lol @ Moderators call these folks to order. Abeg leave crack alone. lol

. Chicken and egg vicious cycle then. Some  balanced understanding. SMH.

For what? Do the SE need to go regional to achieve her agenda? Can APGA deliver Igbo presidency or are we saying byebye to it? SW has had her share of power at the centre and can go regional, ( Even that is a controversy there) has SE had hers or is she passing to focus on regionallism as the SW? Is APGA tried and tested enough for SE to enthrust all her eggs in her basket? Is PDP intrisically evil or just being demonised for political reasons? Don't all parties have ex-PDP members or did they manufacture new Nigerians as their members? The same way PDP that fought the military through G34 and was praised but now is being villified might be the same way that APGA might receive the cries of 'Hosanna' today only to hear 'crucify him' four days later.

Those who say PDP insulted the SE should go and read up on 'the Prince' and about power play. The day IBB sprung OBJ from Jail and wrested PDP from Ekwueme and handed it over to him, he created a monster that has swallowed even himself and the entire party. Please differentiate between PDP and OBJ. Why should the SE abandon a party Ekwueme midwived to OBJ and his hawks instead of finding a way of taking it back from them. Ekwueme does not have the grit for that but I think Rochas has and I would not be upset if he goes back there with the aim of taking over PDP from the OBJs, Ekwuemes and Ciromas who are actually aging and retiring.

Why this fixation that PDP is a cancer that must be excised instead of a party with a malady that can be cured? Why are folks folding to that propaganda. Show me the party that came from heaven? APGA?ACN?CPC? Oh Please. If Ndigbo say they are no longer interested in the presidency but in Regionalism then will I agree to throw away PDP for APGA. But Till then, let the kite perch and let the eagle perch . That is what the other regions did and are doing.

OMG ,
so sad. SMH at some folks.

No matter on whose side anyone is I really take exception to the insults to our elders and especially the matriach. Even in politics it is unAfrican and quite repulsive. Can anyone insult his or her grandmother and use such unprintable language on her even if they disagree? Why this quick recourse to insults on NL? Speaks volumes of people's upbringing. Please Moderators call these folks to order. I need to throw up.

Good initiative. If the story about Imhotep is true, man, he was really awesome and I wonder why he was not venerated like the pharoahs he built the pyramids for. IMO he was a great man but all those things attributed to him need more facts for proof. But indeed Africa has produced titans that the western world have tried much to hide. Africa must ensure they regain their rightful places in history and celebrated like the platos, aristotles and the corpernicuses of this world.

Some of the folks mentioned are shrouded in myth and mystery and the myths need be seperated from the historical facts.Good job.

Sack this sack that. Can the presidency do better research before appointing an IGP. So many sacks show that the appointment was faulty ab initio. Where is Marvel Apkoyibo- the edo man that brought sanity to lagos when he was CP? We need such guys in that IGP office.

Onlytruth:
Anioma state to be added to SE zone, plus one extra state for EVERY zone = Equitable zonal configuration of Nigeria.

I'm not sure that solves all the problems, but it would help.

If not that, then all zones should have only ONE state each, with minor adjustments to include split tribes into homogenous zones.

Best option on the thread.

So who inserted the '20 bodies' angle? What a mess? Which story do we believe?

Cry my beloved Country. The bloodshed of many Innocents is one of the problems and curses affecting Nigeria and pulling it back from glory despite so much effort. A lot of penitence, restitution, reconciliation, cleansing, re-education and re-orientation among other things need be done to set Nigeria free to attain her potentials. OBJ started something like that but it fizzled out. So help us God.

In the 80s it was suicide to be out at Onitsha at night but the Bakassi era stopped that. Is Onitsha sliding back to those gory days?

henry101:
Hey OP, Eko Ile the balls and Bottom licking servant is coming to whoop your silly arse////.
Just dont run when He starts spaming the whole page with pictures and curses,

ROTFLMAO

Good job, Sullivan?

Beaf was given an appointment in GEJ's kitchen cabinet. He is on a training . He will be back after he has fully commenced his job.

Truth plus half truth plus falsehood or ignorance produce an alchemy of nonsense. Is Balarabe Musa still in the 1970s?

Does anyone know what happened to Marvel Akpoyibo the former CP that brought sanity to Lagos State. Why was he removed? Why should Nigeria keep celebrating mediocrity when there are are able hands to do the job?

Welcome on board OAM4J. Your coming has done so much good for now. I hope you do not slack after your 100 days in office. . Please keep it up.

The 419 Don just placed banana peels on ARO's path. ARO will have to thread carefully not to slip on them. This is only one of the peels.

PDP allowed themselves to be led astray by OBJ. now it is time for reckoning. Good that SE has accepted the SGF and moved on knowing that the speakership zoned to the SW with only few HOR members was a banana peel for PDP and waiting for the fireworks to start. The fireworks have started. Will PDP be bold enough to know that OBJ era is over by stripping him of the BOT chairmanship? That is the only way to alter the zoning arrangement ie NE gets BOT chairmanship and SW gets party chairmanship. Both cannot go to one zone. If they are not bold enough to do this, let NE have the chairmanship and the SW the BOT chairmanship. Let them stop saying that SW and NW are missing in the power equation. When did BOT chairmanship and party chairmanship become nothing? Let them just say that SW and NE got nothing extra not that they got nothing then next time take into cognizance the dynamics on the ground especially in the National Assembly before doing their zoning.