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Eko Ile abi na Deomelon you dey answer now. So na motor park not better than God is Good Motors, Jibowu wey you dey describe as achievement for Lagos?? Not pipeborne water? What about the lightrail na? Still in voicemail after 20 years

Tinubu don sell him people

Na this same tribe wey Ogedengbe Gbogungboro from comot Unbelievable

Sprumbabafather:
"When you go to Rome, behave like the Romans" is a popular saying, and until the Igbos of Nigeria understand how to behave like their neighbours, how to play the Nigerian brand of politics, they cannot dominate the political space like they have done in other fields. The Igbos are a very ambitious, very talented and industrious set of people who have proven to themselves how efficient their positive drive can be.

But Nigerian politics is dirty, filled with the scums of society rather than the best of achievers. That is why the Igbos need to change their tactics. The most popular attraction to Nigerian politics is not a desire to solve societal problems, but a way to worsen it, as long as you benefit from the chaos, while you drop crumbs to your cronies who help you loot. Nigeria is practising lootocracy as a system of government.

It will be better if the Igbos throw reason out of the window and start voting with their greed, rather than rational reasoning. Afterall, every other person does it.

For the love of Mike, how did the Igbos end up voting a better and more educated Jonathan, rather than a Buahri who we all know is no good. The best thing was for the Igbos to abandon Jonathan when it seems clear he will lose, jump into the doomed wagon of Buahri and vote like all the other mad men. And if the governors of the SE are all PDP, they can hold a meeting and change to APC overnight, all five states!

We should play amala and ewedu politics, jump onto the bandwagon and scream sai baba so loud that the original chanters will be afraid, and drop their microphones for us to take over, arrive APC meeting before others and flow with the tide, even if the tide is sweeping the whole country into the sea, don't worry, we won't die first.

We should start praising all the mistakes of APC, tell them they are the best and massage their bloated ego till the whole country falls into where its destined to fall into. Igbos should await the next election with greed in their eyes, vote for the worst candidates, as long as you think he will win, damn the consequences, and if the shiitt hits the ceiling fan, don't bother to duck. We cannot lose more than others.

Remember, "When you go to Rome, behave like the Romans"

OP- I know you are just being sarcastic.

I know you can't expect my Igwe to start dressing like an Emir the way Obas are beginning to dress in the South West. No Igwe can try it without Ndi Ichie revolting or our youths embarrassing him in public. We can never play this type of politics nnam

[quote author= post=66199502]Oil and Gas, Imo, Abia and Anambra

Agriculture: Ebonyi, Anambra and Enugu these are commercial agro states

Import/Export duty tax
40 percent, about 45 percent of the cargoes that come to Nigeria end up in the south eastern markets-Boss Mustapha NIM Boss
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/11/billions-spent-dredging-river-niger-havent-yielded-no-fruits-boss-mustapha/

Commerce and industries : Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi are leading commercial, and industrial cities the also pay huge taxes to FG

Aviation industries: southeast airports Enugu airport, Imo airport are topping

Movie industry: Southeast control Nigeria movie industry

Transportation companies: southeast are leading[/quote]Every SE state is heavily into commercial agriculture. Imo Palm Plantation at Ohaji Egbema alone produces 30 Tonnes of Palm Oil per hour!!

Is this for real These herdsman like joke seem to have moved deeper and deeper into the south and have been showing more presence

The house of representatives has raised the alarm over the reported criminal activities perpetrated by insurgents in some communities in Oyo state.

At plenary on Tuesday, the lawmakers said some violent groups — “sometimes consisting of insurgents and foreigners from neighbouring countries” — have been camping in over 200 villages in the state for about three weeks.

They said while some of the insurgents rob and kidnap people for ransom, some of their counterparts “storm villages to maim, loot and even kill in search of food, money and shelter”.

The deliberations were sequel to a motion of urgent public importance raised by Bosun Oladele, from Oyo state.

Oladele said villagers and farmers living in the affected villages have fled the area and taken cover in neighbouring communities.

He said eight persons have died from the attacks while “more than 15 persons have been kidnapped for ransom, some resulting in fatalities and gunshot injuries”.

https://www.thecable.ng/reps-raise-alarm-insurgent-attacks-oyo-communities/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Obi1kenobi:
Any region that receives far more in allocation that it generates internally is "parasitic".

In line with this logic then EVERY region and EVERY State (except Lagos) is parasitic. Lagos is practically eating itself and it's future

Lagos is up to its ears in debt yet still has a huge infrastructure deficit (no pipe borne water, shitty roads, no railway) and is taxing it's residents like crazy. Lagos has a 900% difference between its debt and it's IGR

The SE has received the least Federal Govt investment while the SW and North have received the most and are still getting.

Lot13:
Nonsense.

Show me one competitive advantage that Ogun State has besides being next to Lagos geographically. Just one

BlowBack:
"I come from a small tribe - the Tarok tribe in Langtang. It is a small tribe from a small group. If the north secures independence from the rest of the country the Hausa/Fulani will be so dominant and will lord over us whether we like it or not. A bigger Nigeria will check such excesses. So the bigger Nigeria, the freer my tribe and myself will be". - Domkat Bali

The above quote credited to Domkat Bali is not synonymous to him alone but to virtually all the Middle-belt Christians that fought an aggressive, brutal and uncivil war to keep Nigeria one and united.

Gowon's hesitation to Murtala's Operation Araba was because he(Gowon) knew what awaits him and his people living under the shadow of the Islamic beast. The civil war was fought by the Middle-Belt to postpone doomsday and as we can discern from what is going on in that part of Nigeria and in the core-north, where christian minorities are targeted in places like Numan, Southern Kaduna and Kebbi - that day of reckoning has finally arrived.

I will not dwell on Danjuma's critical role in ensuring a successful mutiny in 1967 which saw the execution of Ironsi as you are all privy to this but rather I will bring to the fore how Danjuma as one of the most senior Military commanders during the Gowon era saw to the Military being taken over by the Huasa/Fulani.

At independence, the Nigerian Army had a force of just slightly above 10,000 officers and men with just 2% of the Federal annual budget going to her upkeep. Fast-forward to 1970 - just after the civil war - the Nigerian army had swelled to a total of over 250,000 men and accounted for 40% of the National budget.

This was obviously not sustainable from an economic point and the fact that majority of the men who made up the military were war time recruits and draftees who had participated in the most uncivil war, led to a situation of a very highly undisciplined force. The Nigerian army veterans of the civil war were engaged in gun-running, armed robbery and extortion of the general populace because the govt was finding it very difficult to house and pay salaries of the soldiers despite the huge revenue from oil.

The likes of Danjuma were at the forefront demanding that Gowon should purge the army. Gowon was a little hesitant as most of the bulk of NCOs at that time were drawn from the christian middle-belt. Gowon's assertions were that if he de-commissioned most of his ilk from the army, the Hausa/Fulani officers could easily seize power from him. He was right.

Gowon never reduced the seize of the army over fears of the Huasa/Fulani officers staging a coup. To show how popular Gowon was among the NCOs, it was only after Gowon went to attend an AU Congress in Ethiopia that Murtala through Yaradua struck!

Immediately Murtala became Head-of-State, the purge began and most of the middle-belt NCOs and some officers got sacked from the army. The Murtala regime also bypassed most middle-belt officers for promotion and command positions in place of Muslim Hausa/Fulani officers. Banbangida was promoted to Lt-Colonel and was appointed to Murtala's Supreme Military Council. This did not go down well with officers like Dimka who felt cheated out.

The Dimka Coup of 1977 was meant to stop the Fulanization of the military. The Coup plotters were overwhelmingly from the Middle-belt and christian as well. One of the demands by Dimka was that Gowon will return as Head-of State and that all dismissed NCOs will be re-instated.
It should be noted that as Murtala began his purge of NCOs from the middle-belt, there were parallel recruitment of Hausa/Fulani Muslims into the army as well. Dimka was very aware of this northernization and Islamization of the Army by Murtala.

Danjuma still had the opportunity of stopping the northernization and Islamization process after Obasanjo sent word of his resignation from his hiding place that he was not interested in being Head-of State that Danjuma "is free to take over the reigns of power".

Danjuma will have none of that and reminded Obasanjo of what transpired in Jan 15, 1966 after a group of mainly Igbo officers had staged a coup which later saw Ironsi in power and how the north (inclusive of him) saw the coup as an Igbo conspiracy to seize power for themselves.

Danjuma's greatest fear in taking over was that the Huasa/Fulani north will perceive his ascension to Head-of-State after the coup as a repeat of what transpired in 1966. When Obasanjo stated categorically that he will not be part of an organization that can not guarantee his safety, Danjuma told Obasanjo point blank "we will protect you".

Dimka's trial and execution were fast-forwarded and to placate the Hausa/Fulani Muslim north over Murtala's demise, a young officer by the name Shehu Yaradua who was instrumental in orchestrating the coup that saw Murtala into power, was promoted from Lt-Colonel to Lt.General and appointed deputy Chairman of the Supreme Military Council of the Federal Military Govt of Nigeria.

At that time there were only two high ranking Fulani Muslims in the army- Yaradua and Buhari - with Buhari being the senior. Danjuma did not trust Buhari over his radical tendencies and so he was bypassed and his junior Yaradua promoted to Lt-General. Danjuma will keep the position of Chief of Army Staff for himself and from there he completed the purge of Middle-Belt NCOs and Officers from the army.

In 1979, the Obasanjo-Yaradua regime handed over to the democratically elected civilian govt of Shehu Shagari who continued the recruitment of Hausa/Fulani Muslims into the Army in-order to bolster his power base. But Shagari was no Soldier or General and it was those same troops that guarded him at state house that Buhari was able to use to stage a coup to ouster him.

Buhari will then continue the purge of Middle-Belt officers from ranking positions and from the NCO cadre and this will continue under subsequent Military regimes with an Okar coup reminding us of the Huasa/Fulani plan. It wasn't up till 1999 when Obasanjo returned as Civilian Head-Of-State and tried successfully to balance the ethno-religious makeup of the Army.

But with the advent of Buhari in 2015, all that gain made by Obasanjo in trying to balance the army was shoved aside with massive sack of non-Hausa/Fulani muslim officers from the force.


Danjuma did not have the foresight to understand the extent at which the Fulani will go to secure every means of power or maybe he never knew that Nigerians will be stupid enough to elect a known bigot to the highest office.

Interesting

FG used oil money to build this. Pls show me what you people built with IGR biko

Na una be the chief parasites

0monnak0da:
Go and bring Onitsha and put it next to Lagos naa. What is stopping you.

It is like saying Bill Gates son is nothing without his father. Go and become his son naa

Stupid talk

Lagos has been everything for ever

https://www.nairaland.com/4144976/lagos-1898before-nigeria-not-oil/1#61883209

What a desperate analogy. Bill Gates son is nothing without his father but Lagos is not father to Ogun. Lagos is the money miss road senior brother to Ogun State.

Why are you referencing a thread detailing how much British colonialists were making off crops from Lagos? You are only reinforcing the point that Lagos owes it's success to non-indigenous actors. Show me pre-colonial figures then we can discuss.

When oyibo came you people were at each other's throats and had been for centuries until Kosoko (wisely) yielded to the British, ushering in foreign rule and investments that gave you a head start. Just be humble nigga...

Sebi I talk am. When people were saying ghen-ghen! ! I said Buhari is not Goodluck Jonathan. If Danjuma, Obasanjo and co overstep their boundaries na DSS go invite them. Their can not be any self defence because the Buhari government is soaking up all weapons in the country. All we can do is pray...

When Danjuma happily joined in the genocide against Igbos 51 years ago he never knew a day would come when his people in Taraba would be victims of genocide. May God help us make the right decisions while we are young because it must be heart breaking for people like Gowon and Danjuma to realise they sold their people and that all they thought they achieved was a LIE

0monnak0da:
Why don't you move Anambra to the front gate.

When our ancestors were settling in Ogun what were your ancestors doing?

Leave all this awada kerikeri. Ogun State is nothing without Lagos, Lagos is NOTHING without diversity

0monnak0da:
Ogun IGR is more than 5 SE states combined

Besides providing talking points for penis measurement, IGR is basically a worthless achievement when you are wallowing in debt and taxing the life out of residents.

0monnak0da:
Ogun State

If Lagos was a house, Ogun State would be the cheap BQ. Ogun owes EVERYTHING to being next to Lagos.

0monnak0da:
The SE people are always quick to label the North as "parasites" depending on oil for existence but is this nt true for the SE as well?

Recently released figures of IGR show the SE performance to be very low when it comes to IGR with the most significant paart of its budget based of federal allocations.
Infact Ogun state has nore IGR than every single one of the SE states COMBINED.

1. Lagos and Ogun IGR has NOTHING to do with the indigenes and is not a decent measurement of success. Especially when IGR comes from taxing the living daylights out of Lagosians. Lagos Land Use Act, Lagos Driving license, Lekki Tollgate etc etc The ethnic diversity of Lagos and the stimulus by non-indigenous investors is the saving grace. Besides Lagos owes its success to infrastructure that it did not build.

2. Owerri airport was a gift to Nigeria from the people of old Imo State. But all the infrastructure like Third Mainland Bridge, MMIA, Apapa Ports were gifts from Nigeria to Lagos. Nigga be humble y'all haven't achieved jack-shit by yourselves

3. For all the humongous debt what does Lagos have to show for it. The SE is carrying on with among the lowest allocation from Abuja and can boast of being among States with highest quality of life. In short IGR na wash

GoroTango:
How can you call the north parasitic when we practically feed this country?

Feed who? If the rest of the country doesn't buy food from your farmers who hunger go catch

Good morning TY Danjuma.

Anytime wey day break for man na him morning be that. Danjuma thought it would never reach his doorstep. He thought that the Fulani somehow respected the idea of "one north" or that his support for them over the years would count?

The Federal Government has asked everybody to hand in their guns. The Buhari that Danjuma, Obasanjo and co helped to win in 2015 is not Goodluck Jonathan. There will be no self defence absolutely nothing of the sort. He should just pray

imhotep:
https://www.nigerianews.net/igbo-should-support-buhari-amaechi/

The Minister of Transport, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, has said the Igbo cannot become the president of Nigeria without the support for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019.

He said the best thing the Igbo would do was to rally round Buhari’s re-election bid to facilitate the Igbo presidency.

He called on the Igbo to vote for President Buhari’s second term as a way of giving him the chance to serve out the term of the North and make way for the Igbo.

Amaechi stated this in a lecture at the 12th convocation of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.

He spoke on the topic: “The Igbo in the politics of Nigeria.”

He said, “You (Igbo) did not vote for Buhari, true or false? You voted for the PDP and what did they do for you? The PDP abandoned the Enugu-Onitsha expressway since 1999, but Buhari is working on it with dispatch, true or false?

“Buhari is working on the second Niger Bridge; he is working on the Otuocha-Ibaji-Abuja Road; he is working on the Abakaliki-Onueke Road; he is working on the Oji-Achi-Naku Road in Enugu State; he is working on the Ozalla-Akpugo-Amagunze Road. He is also working on Aba-Ikot Ekpene Road.

“Under Buhari, all major cities of the South-East are captured in the existing railway project. Name one government that has done up to this within two years. Our problem is that we are just being emotional.”

He said part of the solutions to Igbo problem in Nigeria was for the Igbo to move into a national political party after what the disappointments they had encountered in sectional parties.

He described the PDP and the All Progressives Grand Alliance as regional parties that would not take the Igbo to anywhere.

The President General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo, who spoke as a guest lecturer said the trouble with Nigeria was ethnic suspicion and fear of marginalisation.

He said Nigeria was not run as a federation , adding that pockets of marginalisation agitations were still being meted out to the Igbo.

He said, “I am yet to see a federation in which the security apparatus is domiciled in one section of the country. Doing so has not also solved the security problems of the country.

“Our country is in a state of war, with no one declaring it. I refuse to agree with you (Amaechi) that people should join a federal movement as you said. If our constitution is not revisited for people to live and feel safe, then we are wasting our time.”

cc lzaa onyeoga

This Amaechi of a thing. After promising Ogonis that they would succeed him him governor he brought his houseboy Dakuku to run for governor. Na Igbo he wan deceive to vote for Buhari now. Animal!

If Amaechi's masters in the north don't want to restructure this country down to regional federating units they should allow us look at a referendum or just stfu make we dey manage the yeye country as e dey

sunsewa16:
when u bring ant infested wood into ur house, then expect the visit of multitudes of ants,but then wetin concern me.

Shikena

A prominent and First Class Yoruba traditional ruler in Osun State, The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi has adopted full Emir regalia and jettisoned his regular Yoruba dress.
The monarch also banished some idols, particular the popular one that has been in the palace since time immemorial.

Oba Akanbi relocated the palace popular idol to another strine in the town and resettled it there.

In a chat with Daily Trust, the traditional ruler said Iwo is the home of Islamic scholars and that he could be regarded as an Emir.

https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/oluwo-adopts-emir-regalia-banishes-idols.html

Cooly100:
You are most foolish to think they do less in their region...

Have you wondered how Lekki, Ajah, Surulere, Okota, Festac Satelite town would have been without the Igbos?

E.g., remove the the tall structure from the skyline in this picture...and you can see what I mean...

Igbos are peaceful and God's gift to Nigeria...but you cannot see it..

Igbos have been a big blessing to Lagos

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/living-death-lagos/amp/

"In 1954, Dr. K. O. Mbadiwe, then Minister in the Balewa government charged with responsibility for lands in Lagos convinced the Federal Executive Council to undertake the slum clearance scheme in central Lagos. There was an uproar from Lagosians who derided, abused and called K.O. names, including ‘Slum Minister’. He was undaunted and persisted and the slums were cleared to create a new housing estate on the mainland called SURULERE. In the words of Dr. Mbadiwe, “the slum clearance was undertaken to make Lagos worthy of its pre-eminent position in Nigeria”.

OP- any Igbo man still pouring money into acquiring landed property in Lagos under APC is not engaging wisdom. ACN was a very wicked party and it's members were notable tribalists before they merged with northerners to form APC. Now they have confidence to showcase their hate. If you are an Igbo man try to have sense and take your wealth home.

We should go back to our old ways when igbo businessmen would have houses in the east but live in a humble apartment in lagos to cut their costs. At most get a long lease, stop bankrolling Tinubu's stealing machine by buying land up and down and paying discriminatory , exorbitant charges

Today those who shed blood are witnessing the repercussions in their own homelands, every single place... We must always be careful of the seeds we sow in this life. God is not a man.

This is what happens when a Tinubu corners an entire state. All these years the man and his touts have been shouting eko oni baje o! while sucking the life out of lagosians with taxes and corruption we knew we would see a day like this. Instead the priority of the APC govt in Lagos is to focus on enforcing Yoruba language in schools ;

Very shameful. Ambo-ode is just a Rauf Aregbesola without a beard

ecosanders:
because they have no choice, he had the backing of Nnamdi Azikiwe .

Besides That is like one in a billion.....

Mayor of the capital of our region (like FCT minister today) is one in a billion?? You are just trying to shift the goalpost.

An election is a choice....besides Igbos have been republican in their politics since the beginning of their history nobody orders us to vote like sheep. While Ahmadu Bello was proudly giving hate speeches against Igbos and talking about "northerner first" , Azikiwe was extending hands of friendship and nationhood...We did not say "fulani are trying to dominate us, yen yen yen". That is sophistication

Before you label people try and do some research

ecosanders:
How did they hate Igbo? This is a Man that practically raised Nzeogwu, before he discover the Igbo dominitary tendencies.

The Man simply say the truth, while the Igbos were heading top positions even in the North,how many Northerners enjoys the same privilege?

Give an Igbo an inch, and he will take a Mile, is that not what they are still doing now? Claiming Lagos as no man's land?

Even as we speak, Igbos are given appointments in other states, Lagos, Kaduna etc, how many Igbo states replicate the same gesture?

The last time a postal of a northerner Contesting for a position in Ebonyi goes round, we all know how the Igbos were cursing, and insulting all over the web....

You have swallowed too much wrong information and propaganda.

This man Umaru Altine was the first Mayor of Enugu our regional capital. He was from Sokoto and a descendant of Usman Dan Fodio. He ran for election in 1956 and 1958 and won both times against sons of the soil.

gidgiddy:
The so called "newly found oil wealth" was in the Eastern Region. There was no 'SS' back then and the 'Niger Delta' of then was mainly present day Bayelsa.

But the main thing is that back then, there 50% derivation resourse control plus another percentage for general and national.

Today, the so called 'SS' are getting 13% derivation. So if the SS were getting 50% in the old Eastern Region that later became Biafra, but today get 13% in Nigeria, who lost out?

The SS lost out big time

The SS has not enjoyed the level of development it saw under Michael Okpara in the Eastern Region. Since then it has been downhill for them

Two feared killed as Yoruba, Hausa clash in Lagos

ABDULFATAI AYOBAMI IBRAHIM
17 MAR 2018
Samson Folarin and Afeez Hanafi

Two persons were feared killed after Yoruba and Hausa youths clashed at Gida Panli, Kotomola, in the New Garage area of Ojota, Lagos State.

It was learnt that the clash broke out on Thursday after a Hausa youth reportedly beat up his Yoruba counterpart over a misunderstanding.

READ ALSO: Wanted criminal dies after jumping storey-building to evade arrest

Some hoodlums in the area were said to have avenged the assault on the Yoruba youth, leading to the clash, which spilt over to Friday.

Our correspondents learnt that many motorcycles were destroyed in the affray, while commercial activities in the neighbourhood were paralysed.

“There was a misunderstanding yesterday (Thursday) between two youths, one Yoruba, the other Hausa. The Hausa boy reported the other guy to some area boys in the area and they settled the issue.

“Afterwards, he went to attack the Yoruba man and beat him up. That infuriated the hoodlums popularly called area boys who then attacked the Hausa man and the clash broke out. Traders had to vacate the area and many Hausa people had been chased away.


“I learnt some people were killed, but I am not sure of the number yet,” a commercial driver in the area, Wale Ajayi, said.

Another resident, who did not want to be identified, said two persons died.

“The Hausa man had killed the Yoruba boy. He actually stabbed him to death. In a reprisal that followed on Friday, a Hausa man was killed,” he said.

Our correspondents were told that many frightened parents ran to their children’s schools to pick them around 1 pm as there was tension in the community.

Saturday PUNCH learnt that scores of policemen from different area commands, including operatives of the Rapid Response Squad, responded to the clash. A chopper belonging to the RRS reportedly hovered around the area to monitor the situation.

http://punchng.com/two-feared-killed-as-yoruba-hausa-clash-in-lagos/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

LIFEisSIMPLE:
This is 2018, and Nigeria is still facing alot of challenges, the Nigeria of our dreams has still not manifested.

We are currently experiencing depreciation in sectors like Education, employment and agriculture.

This makes me wonder, did slow pace national progression play any role in the quest for Biafra in 1967?

Else, what triggered the demand for Biafra?

The realisation that Nigeria was:

1. A bloodthirsty, unworkable, wicked country that despite all its potential did not respect human life

2. The knowledge that Nigeria was capable of stifling the progress of our coming generations

3. The fact that the north was given a political advantage by the British over the south and that Nigeria was designed to be a marriage of the rich bride (south) and the poor husband (north)

4. Simply put Igbos saw today 50 years ago