i like threads like , the division of nigeria is not far ahead, i also love the fact that these animosities are now being exported to naijaplas ,lindaikeji and co ,its time to stop pretending . for those calling for united southerne nigeria i hope you see it now, you people can go ahead and unite the south as lng as ijaw land is not included. smh.

Izuogu Z-600
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Izuogu Z-600

The Izuogu Z-600 prototype was the first indigenous Nigerian car, and the first automobile of indigenous all-African technology. It was the brainchild of engineer Ezekiel Izuogu. Launched in 1997, the car caused a stir in the Nigerian media, and was touted by the then Nigerian chief of Staff General Oladipo Diya.
[edit]Design and Specification

The prototype was equipped with a self made 1.8L four cylinder engine that got 18mpg and allowed the car to achieve a top speed of 140 km/h (86 mph). Front Wheel Drive (FWD) was chosen over Rear Wheel Drive (RWD) because a transmission tunnel, which RWD would require, would be more expensive to fabricate. 90% of the car's components were made locally.
The design of the car was very utilitarian resembling a Renault 4 with its upright stance and a front end that resembles the locally assembled Peugeot 504.
To be priced at $2000 it would have been the cheapest car in the world. Clever features like a door bell used in place of a horn ensure it achieves its low price target. Mass production was planned under Izuogu motors located in Naze, Imo state, but too many financial and political hurdles prevented the car from proceeding past the prototype stage.
[edit]Current progress

In 2005 interest from other African countries arose about the Z-600 and Dr. Izuogu was invited to South Africa to give a speech on science and technology. The South African government showed keen interest in the car and wanted Izuogu to build it in South Africa.
Optimism surrounded the car until March 11th, 2006, when armed robbers raided the factory of Izuogu Motors taking with them the molds for the engine blocks and crank shaft, mudguards and other components. This was a big setback for the project. Since then not much is known on the status of the car.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izuogu_Z-600


can anyone tell us if they are still trying to rebuild the engine or have they given up totaly on the project like soo many other nigerian projects.

i pity the owner after all the hard work, such a man would have been a world icon if only he took this technology to another country including south africa, there is no gain in trying to make nigeria proud instead you end up heart broken and broke.

what is wrong with lagos is what is wrong with nigeria and every other thing about it, no amount of pacthing up will help , we need to scrap the system totally and start all over again

what exactly is aljharem mission on nairaland nobody mentioned yoruba here, its strictly an eastern affair stop deviating the topic.

this is really bigger than we expected.

lol you people want to kill eko ile

its funny no past nigerian leader have every gotten this kind of attention , all those that have been carrying out character assasination on this man and what he stood for will feel really ashamed right now.

seems your a working class lady so abortions shouldnt be expensive for you

smh for yoruba people, na only mouth dey get

igbaodun:



How could you? The Yorubas in Portharcourt are highly educated and they are there to help you develop and become more civilized. In a way, they can be considered expats. They are some of the best educated young minds we have in the country. Most are Engineers, well educated in the latest technologies from some of the best universities in the country, mostly in the SW  ofcourse.  On the other hand, the Ibos and non-indigenes in the SW are there because the Yorubas are in a way trying to help their impoverished neighbors economically;  make some money they can send back to their families and develop their homeland.  Lagos, and the SW in general, is a  testament to the superior intellect of the Yorubas. It is a testament to what is possible with hardwork and passion  and commitment to excellence. Lagos/SW is a testament to what is possible when you stop whining and just bend down, concentrate, focus and get to work. Lagos/ SW is a testament to what is possible from a mind free of malice and defeatist mentality.  Lagos/SW is what is possible when you have confidence in yourself and move on from adversities with a warrior's mentality, vs. the Ibos victim mentality/outlook.

And No, the Yorubas in PH cant be considered refugees because they are upstanding members of their community; thanks to the mental toughness.

yorubas in portharcourt are the same with  other groups in ph  , they are traders, tailors, securtiy men etc , there is nothing special about them if there was we would know just as how niger delta sons are pulling strings in the southwest, theres no single single influential yorubaman in ph because they mostly do menial jobs, secondly nigerdeltans have more educated people than yorubas both in numbers, percentage etc thirdly niger deltans succed more than yorubas both in yorubaland and in ph even though we dash you oil money monthly, fourthly , lagos is not yorubaland show us a yoruba state that is doing well, well you cant cus there is non , and before i forget yorubas are actually the ones getting deported from lagos. so like i said yorubas in ph and other states in south south are refugees.

meanwhile stop trying to deviate from the topic, why is it that yorubas have allowed yorubaland to decay soo much even now that oil is still free, if they dont do something now what will they do and how will they feed and rebuid their towns and cities if nigeria splits with their high population.

babsjnr:

Bastards odechukwu making up false story. Go bk to ur own iboland and sort out the mess over there. Blood suckers unborn generation

am from ijawland and live in ijawland,born and breed in ijawland and God knows no where else is better for me , not even jand ,maybe you should leave the white mans country ,come back and save your yoruba villages and town from rotting away. pratice what your preach. its easy for you to discuss about mend, the north all day plus boko harem etc but get mad when yorubaland is mentioned, sorry am not buying it.

Dudu_Negro:

htajz,

There is a good reason we have left those towns undeveloped.  We have a blueprint for their development and it will be done in due course. . . .when Yorubaland become a sovereignty and we have our own constitution.  If we develop the land it will result in the same problem we face in one of our lands, Lagos, overswelled with ibo refugee population.  We dont want any more refugees. . . . .so its better left the way they are.   Your presense in those towns is minimal and so that plays perfectly well into our long term vision.  

When Nigeria is dissolved, we plan to put a tax code into place for Eastern refugees, you will still be welcomed on our land but at a cost.

what in esssence your justifying your governors pocketing the money?  that dont even make sense, how about the yorubas in portharcourt, warri ,yenogoa,asaba, calabar etc  are they not also refugees going from your reasoning.
there is no difference between portharcourt and lagos they both have lots of non indigens and non nigerians resideing there but you dont see those of us from there calling those people refugees including the yorubas working and living there or is not humans that are developing those cities even when it is our oil  that is feeding you now. nobody will buy this your story , sorry sir, and pls you can reply me without trying to turn this to another igboyoruba war. secondly lagos was a federal teritory until 1999 so it was developed with FG money= nigerdelta oil.

koruji:

I see where your problem lies now. So, do you feel a little better now?

Please don't let me stop you. Tell us about the Yoruba village next to that, and the one after, and then the one. . . .

That should increase your satisfaction 1000%.

Keep comparing sleep to death.

i dont have any problem , if i had i would have opened the thread long ago with my own experience , it just struck me after i read the guys comment today on facebook.

dayokanu:

the familiar cry, We are cheated we are marginalised

How come you didnt include the rapee of grandmas, kidnapping , Otokotoism, Cliford orjism as part of the problems of the east

every region is crying marginalisation and cheating including yorubas , the north are now officially asking for more money cus according to them they have a higher population to take care of, at least they stand for something, why do some yorubas cry marginalisation while some like you laugh at those that cry marginalisation? it just dont make sense and thats the problem we have with yorubas you mock people trying to solve an isue that is even worse in yorubaland. about rape but for sure we can discuss why oyo state have the highest rape cases in the country and why yoruba elders have to east humans before they are crowned.

koruji:

Why don't you guys just address your issues and let yorubas deal with their own issues?

What is the motivation behind silly statements such as "remove Lagos" & things like "Igbos control Lagos", and other asinie statements.

Lagos is working because Yorubas finally found a way to throw out the incompetent rulership that the rest of the country have being imposing through their surrogates down south. Yorubaland would have indeed developed beyond your imagination if the same surrogates did not destroy the work Awolowo started. The rest of Yorubaland is begining to join in the moving train of development again. Instead of doing the same in your regions you are here talking nonsense about how our villages have no water, no electricity and the like. If everybody in Nigeria would face their own business and let Yorubas implement their own developmental agenda even that village will be touched by the moving train of development in the not too distant future.

We know what our problems are and are developing strategies to address them. The questions is why can't you put out the fire that is burning down your villages and cities rather than concentrating on poverty in Yorubaland.

no we will all put the fire out together , the same way we all discuss about the north , boko harem and poverty, the east mend and oil politics the west should also be discussed.

igbaodun:

Really? I always thought the SW was the only problem - free zone in Nigeria. So we also have problems? WTF? I thought we were superhuman? Mehn, I have been brainwashed for far too long by all these Yoruba people on NL. This is a real eye-opener for me and other Yoruba 'fiffle.'



But why do they do that? And how come I didnt know about these denials until now? Youve really unearthed something profound here and if I were you, I would make it my personal mission to make all Yoruba people, wherever they may be, know about this groundbreaking information you just discovered.

Trust me, remove your head, there is nothing to write home about you. I lie?

Finally accepted? Were they forced to accept it? Why cant they be like the Yorubas and deny, deny, deny. And deny some more. Works for Yoruba people, it would probably work for them too. Reality is overrated my dear.


Wow I am really sorry for what the a east is going through as clearly articulated by your well thought-out line above. However, the question is who is the perpetrator of these crimes against the East? The North that just accepted that there is ' massive' poverty in their midst or the Yoruba people that cant stop denying everything. I assume the Yorubas inclination to deny is most likely at the root of Ndigbos problem?

Well, since we are at the top of the totem pole as far as Nigeria is concerned, this is positive thinking at work. Very simple! we just figure why whine about the bad situations in our villages when we can simply have Lagos and whatever we want by just DENYING everything. After all,  If you live in a bubble of perfect wish-fulfillment, coupled with a huge ego and the supernatural ability to just DENY anything like we do in the SW, how could you imagine that, for example, some poor fellow in the EAST might run up against unexpected kidnappers, otokotoists, fake medicine producers, expert 419ers and rap/i/s/ts,  or be just too lazy mentally and physically to work hard and make a better life for himself.


On a more serious note: Yoruba people did not start out as deluded optimists like you wrongly assume. The original ethos of my fore fathers and fore mothers, at least of Odua descendants, was a grim Yorubanism that offered wealth only through hard work and savings, and even then made no promises at all.  Meaning, you might work hard and still fail; you certainly wouldn't get anywhere by whining and sitting idly waiting for someone else to solve your problems for you. And definitely, your problems wouldn't get solved by shouting marginalization every opportunity you get and  making your abode uninhabitable for trade; re: kidnapping, otokotoism, Aba made, fake medicine etc. When it comes to how we think, we just dont  DENY, we also problem solve collectively and individually. As the case histories of depressives show, consistent pessimism and whining can be just as baseless and deluded as merely denying events on ground.  Contrary to what you stated in your opening post and unlike our ever-whining brothers from the crime prone zone in the East, Yoruba people are the most realistic of all the Nigerian groups -- seeing the risks, eschewing violence and other anti-social/anti-trade behaviors,  enthusiasm, having the courage to bear bad news, problem solving, and being prepared for famine as well as plenty.

this is what am talking about, yorubaland is soo backward you will wonder if yorubas actually care about their situation and your here writing grammar, keep deluding yourself. federal govt built lagos not yorubas, infact it was in 1999 that lagos actually becam part of southwest before that it was a federal territory. theres no other yoruba state or town that is worth mentioning thats my point ,they have all decayed you will think theres a war going on there.

sheyguy:

The OP must be an Anti-Igbo person, he mentioned just one problem for the North, South, but gave many problems facing the east.
One way u can make people take u serious is by giving us pictures to substantiate ur claims. Those who av been to Osun know there are decent settlements like Ejigbo, Iwo, Ikire, Ede, Ikirun, Ife, Gbangan, Awo, feesu, Ilesha, esa oke and many more in the state. When i say 'decent settlements', i mean with light, water, road, flowing gutters, and GSM coverage at least.

how am i anti -igbo i just brushed few problems confronting various regions am sure they are more.

i believe there are other groups apart from boko harem( just as there are other militant groups apart from mend) that is why we need SNC let everyone say what their roblem is and lets see how it can be resoved once and for all, if theres a group in the north that dont want southerners or christians let them announce it openly maybe we can just have regional states where u dont have to be posted to another people region. lets stop shying away from these problems.

koruji:

So, what is your point again?

my point every region have their own problems but the yorubas keep denying even when they suffer more in the south, remove lagos and you will see there"s nothing to write home about yorubaland. north have finally accepted theres massive overty theres ,south have accepted polution and high crime rate especially among youth , east have accepted they are being cheated ,state creation, reduction of population ,low alocation but yoruba no way na only bragging they dey. infact they always try to sabotage threads where people from other regions try to discuss their problems.

does it matter if they are christians pr not? it shows that the north are really against the south trying to bomb where southerners worship


The suspected bombers are Lamba Goma, Filibus Danasa, Joshua Ali, Danjuma Sabo, Joseph Audu, Simon Gabriel, Bulus Haruna, Yohanna Ishaya and Daniel Ayuba (who was the immediate past Secretary of PDP at Tilden Fulani Ward, Toro LGA, Bauchi State).

from the names we understand they are northerners and yoruba maybe from kwara,

almost the same experience i had during my nysc in ekiti, didnt want to share it in nairaland but it seems a nigerian had the same experience in another part of yorubaland. my point is yorubas should stop mistaking lagos as yorubaland cus the more they do that the more they neglect the core yoruba towns

from Suleiman Surajo ‎@Olashehinde: I lived in a village called Ora-Igbomina. In Ifedayo LGA in osun state a town bordering Omuaran in Kwara state, my brother the town has no light, not to talk of a tap water, poverty is what define there living standards, the land is choacked up with dense thick forest hence very little land to farm, the livestock are little dwafs that have little or no protien, infact there isn't one single toilet in d town, every one has to battle the snakes in the thick forest if he most pass his feaces . Povery to its fullest is what is experienced. All they eat is roasted plantain and KoKo(a roasted toad) The village is the den of bastards as most children are born without any marraige.

why is that anything that have to do with ojukwu pains yoruba people a lot, i just dont get it. ojukwu is a great man nobody can deny that ,yorubas on nairaland really need to stop shaming themselves.

Eziachi:

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I read your piece with great interest and you made so much sense and I salute you for that. But on the bolded and on the points I had made before about our neighbours, I stand by them. Because someone is your neighbour doesn't mean that you have to go into a marriage relationship with them.
So I rather stay with you as a good peaceful neighbour than a burning house as husband and wife with you. Remember what they said, over familiarity brings contempt.
Every good relationship doesn't have to end in a marriage and that is a big lesson the marriage called Nigeria has taught me.
Take it from me, any nation union that will involve Igbos with Ijaw or Yorubas is doomed. It will be from frying pan to fire, escaping the present Nigeria and ended up creating a new mini Old Nigeria is never part of the aspiration,

we dont have to form another marriage , we can be seperate nations politically while maybe sharing the same economic boundries , the most important thing is for both we ijaws and the igbos and other groups to get their resources and be able to control their destiny, there is no time we all made our mistakes in the past(even though some ijaws fought for biafra but this is not the time for that argument). the earlier the better, how long will it continue.

Ikengawo:

Lol here come teamomoenvy. Yoruba people repsond to everything with jealousy. Were talkingvabout a people who in 2012 have barely grasped the concept of hygiene. Congrats on writting the dictionary, its almost like when we invented a major portion of the internet. flat face Goats.

hehehehe

ChinenyeN:

Afam, you and co. are crying more than the bereaved. That is simply what you're doing. If you people knew anything about Osu then you would know that Osu and non-Osu interact, HEAVILY. You would also know that most Osu live their entire lives having no idea whatsoever that they are even Osu. YOUR BEST FRIEND could very well be Osu, and you would not even have the slightest clue. Why? Because even he most likely does not even know. The last Igbo girl you dated could very well be Osu and you wouldn't even know. Why? Because she herself probably has no idea.

Do you get the picture I'm painting here? You're shouting "Discrimination! Discrimination!", with no empirical evidence to show. You don't see Osu coming to talk about their plight. How could they, when the vast majority of them don't even have the slightest clue if they are or are not Osu? You're crying much much more than the bereaved. End of story.

thats what am trying to say , with such topics those that dont know might start asking when they could have lived their life not knowing or caring.