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El-Rufai is living proof of why the north despite consuming the lionshare of Nigeria's oil wealth for almost 60 years is still first in negative news like poor academic results, disease, terrorism and poverty.

Northern leaders are failures no be today. They cant imagine life without lining up to abuja to collect stipends every month. What a shame! A whole north with all the endowments and landmass yet el-rufai is whining about oil. See parasite thinking

GavelSlam:
What statistics did you use in making such a sweeping statement?

Stats are everywhere. Take WAEC for example. Kaduna leads all other northern states in 2017 coming in 11th place

niceprof:
It will take time for Buhari to understand what deploying soldiers to the east has done to the psyche of the easterners.Nigeria has lost the Igbo nation forever.

Hmmm

Chai this OP don high this early morning

Yet the demons who are benefitting from this injustice called Nigeria will say we should not agitate for our own country?

One thing I am sure of is that SE will not join in the repayment of the loans borrowed to fund the building of the railways. We will take it all the way to the supreme court and beyond if we have to. Let those regions that will benefit carry the burden.

Olisa Agbakoba is already in court for something else. This is just the beginning

Aufbauh:
This is how to fight a 'Just Cause '.
Challenge a perceived injustice on a just grounds.

Sadly Agbakoba as been talking for more than 25 years and no one has listening to him. That is what emboldened the secessionist groups we see today

SHAKABOOM:
I have the song..My uncle sent me the song.

"Ibata ba n'obodo oma
ebe mmiri oma di,
ebe ifunanya di o"

Abeg upload it to youtube and paste the link here. Thanks

But seriously the Nigeria of then and today are totally unrecognisable. very unfortunate

Buhari all day every day. Obasanjo would have won but Buhari's lack of WAEC certificate, sheer incompetence and bigotry just edges it.

The only president to get opportunity to crash our economy twice.

The most corrupt admin so far

The president with highest number of sacred cows (Grasscutting Scandal, $26BN NNPC scandal, Ikoyigate, Buratai dubai houses, MTN bribe scandal, etc)

The first openly bigoted president

The president with worst human rights record with clamping down on the press, shiites and ipob massacres etc Yesterday an interview on radio was shut down with a phone call....

The crudest president after idi amin of Uganda

etc etc etc etc i don tire to type...

#shameonbuhari

APC can NEVER win in Anambra. Even if China and Russia armies come to help them rig.

Deep down they know they are just wasting their time

This life eh...lies and propaganda can only last for a while. Today Southern Cameroonians are fighting to leave the repression they were deceived into signing up for because of "Igbo domination".

Things are happening...

OP you shouldn't be too hard on Lagos based Igbos. It is not easy to be at the headquarters of all the propaganda and still keep your thoughts flowing normally. When I lived in Lagos I had very different political outlook from the one I have now.

The typical Lagosian no matter the tribe spends hardly knows anything about any other place besides Lagos so they are generally limited in their exposure and world view

bayelsaowei:
I got a first hand information that the just concluded NLNG recruitment had to lower the bar for northern graduates to about half the proposed recruitment cut off.

..I am as angry as mad MAX..

Any Niger deltan who keeps on supporting one nigeria or against true federalism is a compound fool who should be thrown out the door..

Can you imagine many qualified candidates were rejected because of the quota system crap and more so in exchange For candidates who scored lower than required by the company

"Nigeria's unity is non-negotiable"
"To keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done"

One great indivisible giant of Africa

Shikena!!!

OP- if we start listing yoruba hate for Igbos this thread will never end

"The new nation called Nigeria should be an
estate of our great grandfather Othman Dan
Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of
power. We use the minorities in the north as
willing tools and the south as a conquered
territory and never allow them to rule over us and
never allow them to have control over their
future." – Parrot Newspaper October 12, 1960.

They are scared of losing their estate abi? The quit notice has backfired and they now realise that they used their own legs to enter one chance

YoungDaNaval:
President of Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, Alhaji Shetima Yerima has described leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nmamdi Kanu as a ‘noise maker’ for rejecting the withdrawal of quit notice earlier issued on Igbos residing in northern Nigeria.
He called on the relevant authorities to deal with anybody who violates the suspension of the quit notice to the Igbos residing in the northern parts of the country.
Kanu and his pro-Biafra group had rejected the withdrawal of the quit notice, describing it as “inconsequential.”
Yerima told Daily Sun that the quit order belonged to the past as the objective had been achieved by Arewa youths.
His words, “Did I do it for him or in the interest of the country? His rejection of the suspension of the quit notice is not important to me. What we did was to demonstrate that we have a culture. We give respect to our elders and it was to ensure that the country remains together. The country is above anybody.
“On that basis, his acceptance or not is not important but I know that he also is not speaking for the Igbo. It is a minority view of few people making all sorts of noise. It is not really important to me and I do not want to join issues with them. Nigeria is above everybody and I stand on the path of one united country. We have to build a nation that we can call our own.”
On his greatest fear about Nigeria, the Arewa youth leader said, “My greatest fear is to wake up one morning and find out that there is no country called Nigeria. That was why we took steps toward the right direction; we are ready to make sacrifice so that Nigeria remains together.
“I am sure that our founding fathers who fought tooth and nail to sustain the unity of the country, wherever they are even in their graves, they would not be comfortable. They would be saying that this is not what they bargained for the country. So, we are going to ensure that the unity of the country they fought for is being sustained.”

lalasticlala Mynd44

The title of this topic is skewed for mischief and to provoke Igbo bashing. There is NO basis to say IPOB a separatist group likes a political party. The OP is implying that IPOB is synonymous with all Igbos and the anti-Igbo comments are evidence he has succeeded.

hngprincess:
Hiya [at] joeyfire. Have you gotten a chance to come and check out Lekki Conservation Centre recently? It's really amazing now.
The place has really opened up as a tourist destination. Both the IJGB (I just got back, rich men's children visiting home from the abroad) and the oyibo expat are writing blog post review of the place nearly every weekend.

I'm also writing an article on it (and all the buzz it's getting these days), that's why I'm in the nairaland archives. Just so your comment and thought to let you know the place is doing great now.

Thanks a lot for the update

I will make sure I visit when next I am around. Its my favourite spot in that city to hang out. Please mention me when you post that article. Thanks

Markfemi2:
Whether you like it or not
kanu has made everyone discuss nigeria especially the structure that is modern day slavery
whether you like it or not kanu has done a great job in mobilizing his people to state their frustrations
something niger delta and south west has not done
truth is we are all not happy with status quo and kanu has the guts to say the truth

half of my people saying no to biafra or one nigeria will be the first to want out should biafra be a reality cause i can bet my ass yoruba wont stay in a nation where north is absolute majority infact if we could turn back the hands of time we would have declared our own republic 1968.

i may find some of his contents annoying
but he has said the bitter truth
i also want to congratulate the ibo nation on the succesful mobilization for what they believe in
i see the women agititating for freedom and i am impressed
yoruba nation has not gotten someone to do such a thing since the days of awolowo

congrats to kanu who is not afraid to say the truth
congrats to ibo nation for staying resolute

yorubas have led the fight to end democracy
ibo should lead the fight to disintegrate or restructure

una well done
that does not mean i will not still abuse una here o

It's just now I have you confirmed you are really a Yoruba person. I always thought you were one of those northerners who claim yoruba to instigate igbo bashing and keep the south divided from attaining freedom. Kudos for removing the padlocks from your mind. You have liver o because your own ppl will attack you

I always say that the people that allow Fulani people mess up in Nigeria are Yoruba people. The north was scared of how the yoruba ppl reacted when they annulled MKO Abiola's election in 1993 and have since made sure the yoruba ppl never think clearly. Anti-Igbo sentiment is a weapon in the hands of the north. Best of luck in waking your people up.

Just see how these arewa clowns are bringing shame to themselves and their region. Barbaric, backward things are what they are always in the news for.

No hiding place for them. If this useless, failure of a buhari regime thinks it can shield these animals then they will understand that this isn't 1967 when the U.N. machinery starts to move against them

StOla:
Because you are Igbo and you must have it all to satisfy your insatiable greed.

You had already cornered the top federal civil service jobs that your Northern political partners could not compete for, while the Yorubas were in opposition government in the parliament.

But you still wanted to exert your influence on the Northern Region Civil Service, but were checkmated by the Northern Premier Ahmadu Bello. You hated him for having the effrontery to want to ensure Northerners got jobs in their own region - job you felt you were entitled to, while not sparing any leftovers in your own Eastern Region.

You hated Akintola for daring to draw attention to the fact the the University of Ibadan, then headed by the Igboman Kenneth Dike over the more senior and qualified Oladele Ajose, conducted an employment exercise that recruited 105 Easterners and only 3 Yorubas. Akintola had to die for that revelation.

Makes absolutely no sense. So we would destroy a government that was in our pocket so some igbos can get some northern region civil service jobs and Vc of Unilag job that we had already rocked

Do you know a fulani prince was Mayor of Enugu? Our regional capital? Abeg park well. Try harder

BlakKluKluxKlan:
When Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria;

Chief of Army Staff was from SE
Chief of Naval Staff was from SE
IG of Police was from SE
Chief of Defence staff was fron SE
Internal Affairs Minister SE
External Affairs Minister SE
Education Minister South SE
Many other key ministries to SE
Parliament President SE
Unilag VC from SE
University of Ibadan VC from SE
North resisted same at ABU!

Still there was dissatisfaction by SE, the officers from the region killed this same Balewa!!!!

Out of all the most senior officers in Nigeria, SE has 37, none was killed. 8 from the north, all of them were killed. 10 from the west, 2 were killed.

Then Ironsi imposed a unitary system of government on the country so that everything can belong to a region who snatched it!

We must know our history so that when we want to make corrections, we will not end up concealing the truth. This has nothing to do with tribalism but everything to do with the truth.....at times when lies litter the streets.

These are documented facts!

Thou shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

Copied.

What you have posted is not logical. Why would we want to overthrow a government that was in our pocket already?? The Eastern region was enjoying projects like the Niger Bridge, Okpara was on fire commissioning likes of Obudu Cattle Ranch, Trans-amadi industrial layout and Nkalagu Cement etc

Try harder

Jobless scallywags! Elders that have failed them and impoverished their region since before they were born still sending them on errand like mumu up and down to give declarations they can not back up. Many of the "youth" over 50 Mature men wey no get handwork.

If God forbid anything happens to any Igbo on October 1 the International Criminal Court will try the arewa youth for hate/ethnic cleansing and the elders will not be able to do a thing about it. They don enter one chance but dem no know understand

omohayek:
No doubt you were talking about your own low-IQ self here, as you seem to have done such a superb job of describing your own intellectual limitations. You are indeed a being of extremely low intelligence, and very probably a bottom crawler scurrying about in the darkness.

Go ahead and show us where the FG "promised a 30% discount to the concessionaire which it reneged on", I dare you, point us to a single official document or reputable newspaper report asserting as such. Because if you think the following supports such a claim, you need to go back and finish primary school, as your reading comprehension ain't worth sh**!

If you had a working brain, rather than being a walking illustration of the Dunning-Kruger effect, you'd have realized she was saying that the FG gave such discounts to shipping vessels, not that the FG promised her company the same. To think a slowpoke who can't understand a simple sentence has the temerity to accuse anyone else of being unintelligent! Will you presume to lecture us on Joyce's Ulysses as an encore to this splendid performance?

Quit this desperate crying for relevance. Have a little dignity this thing.

The FG was giving a 30% discount to shipping companies and stopped it AFTER the concession came into operation and agreements had been signed. So you and your chinco phone are more knowledgeable than the MD?

Joker

Blue3k:
Yawn lame conspiracy theory yet again. Did you expect the price to stay the same after concessions? Both Eastern and Western ports are concessioned with standard fee schedule if you read the tariff report for 2017.

Read your own article instead of clowning. They already corrected mistakes you listed. Like we already covered on NPA website the ports in Lagos and port Harcourt have nearly same depths. Port Harcourt deeper in Some sections. Then your allowed to bring in what ever you want.

Try borrow small shame na

You can not seperate the pricing to the size of vessels that can berth and large vessels can not berth if the place is not dredged. Is that you honestly cannot comprehend or you are just trying to hide your shame. Where in the article did you read that the problem had been solved?

You concession an un-dredged dilapidated port that is automatically expensive to run and expect it to be competitive? Smh

“They complain about channels but I want to
say that even though ships have grown bigger
and they want to take comparative advantage
of bigger vessels because your cost on a bigger
vessel is the same as your cost on a smaller
vessel. If you have a bigger vessel that will
bring much cargo, you will spread your cost
and it becomes lower than when you take a
smaller vessel that will bring small cargo, small
tonnage; your cost goes higher when you
spread it on small tonnage cargo."

"That is an issue, the non-dredging of the
channels, the non-dredging of the ports. That
is why I said from the beginning that I may not
be able to tell you all the constraints because I
will talk from the perspective of a port operator
but freight forwarders will have their own issue.
If you go into the terminal, you will see the
extensions we did to be able to achieve a
deeper draught to allow for at least moderately
sized vessels to come..
At a point, the facilities became very
dilapidated and operations went down. We have
also been marketing, telling our clients that the
port is no longer what it used to be. We have
made it operational once again. When the
facilities went down, there were no plants.
Today, we have bought kalmar container
handling equipment and so the equipment to
operate efficiently are there."

omohayek:
Do you really understand what it means for a facility to be under private management? Are you expecting the FG to violate signed contracts, by jumping in to force private operators to give you a 30% discount, even if it means driving them into bankruptcy? Do you have any experience working with any businesses requiring balance sheets, investor reports and cash-flow projections, or are you writing from the cramped perspective of a petty trader? It has to be the latter, otherwise you'd already know all the things I've pointed out to you.

You are probably the least intelligent person that has crawled into my mentions on this site

The government concessioned the badly run down, poorly maintained ports and promised a 30% discount to the concessionaire which it reneged on. Is that in itself not a breach of agreement? The MD has spoken and you who has never seen a PPP agreement in your life is yapping because you can afford 10MB to troll online. No be your fault

Blue3k:
Perpetual wailer you want to focus on stupid policy that happened decades ago. When PDP was in power for 16 years the didn't correct it yet you skip over that. Lol you guys are excuse makers. I didn't switch my statements I said dredging shallow ports is waste of time in hopes of making deep seaports is waste. Its better to pick optimal location with deeper narural depth like Ibakka.

Simple question you will dodge for the rest of your life. Why won't you use deeper port in Rivers.

Lol I do agree you guys have no facts to back up your claim. At you didn't say Igbos made the port a success.

This is pathetic! Argue with your phone

The Managing Director
of Ports & Terminal Operators (Nigeria)
Limited, the concessionaire to the premier
seaport in Port-Harcourt, Mrs Lizzie Ovbude
enumerated some of the constraints the
concessionaires are grappling with. She said, “I
know that when NPA was still the master sea
dock, to improve traffic in the eastern flank,
NPA had to give about 30 percent discount.
That was some years back, before the
concessioning.
They gave about 30 percent discount to vessels
that are willing to come to the eastern ports.
That was a kind of encouragement to enable
vessels to come to this part of the country. But
after the concessioning, there has been no such
encouragement.”

Although Mrs Ovbude agreed that the channels
in Port-Harcourt Port 1 are not big enough for
containerized vessels to berth, he listed efforts
made by her company to expand the draught
to enable moderately bi vessels to come in. He
was pissed by the fact that the Federal
Government is not doing anything to dredge
the port to pave the way for containerized
vessels to come to the oldest seaport in the
eastern part of the country.

www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/eastern-ports-lying-fallow/

Blue3k:
What fact did I avoid child. You said Britished dredied shallow port OK so what. It's stupid for us to dredge shallow port when location with naturally deeper depth exist in Ibakka. Dredging simply making port deeper.

By trying to avoid looking silly you end up looking even more silly. Abi you smoke something this evening?

So you have finally agreed that the British made Apapa port what it is today? GOOD!

But one minute you switch to asking why "you should dredge shallow port" Then you say it is better to build Ibaka when I have overwhelmed you with facts of how you people killed it... sigh!

Okay I agree with you

OAUTemitayo:
Give us facts that verify the sabotage wailing you have been doing all these days.
You can't whip up any sympathy with your jankara cries here.

So all the facts here are you much for your brain to carry....

Your people have done dirt, used policies to sabotage others and you call it policy. Wicked and devilish lot

See Apapa port express road today upon all una scheming, betrayal and port monopoly. Kwakwakwakwa.