₦airaland Forum

Cuche:
The road is bad, you can take the old road which is very good just that it is longer and single lane
Even the old is available all the way to Limca junction Nkpor /Onitsha. From Enugu to Onisha the Express is best avoided

Tranquill:
So where does it say that Chad and Cameroun pulled out because of Nigeria's unseriousness? Besides the major impact of these countries involvement is that it closed their escape route apart from stoping them from using their soil as a sanctuary and safe haven where they run to and remobilize after operating and wrecking havoc in Nigeria. There is nothing wrong if Nigeria seeks and get help from neighbouring countries or any country for that matter. Even world powers like the UK, US etc do same. What you may not even know is that these countries are being funded and equiped by Nigeria via a third party.

Tranquill:
So where does it say that Chad and Cameroun pulled out due to unseriousness of Nigeria?

The Libyan catastrophe came to my mind when email leaks by some foreign firms revealed the active involvement of opposition elements in the refusal of the United states Government to sell weapons to Nigeria, this unpatriotic, self serving and blind politicking was what led to the destruction of many Arab states !

Tranquill:
It is not just because he was trying to appease the northern leadership who acused him of genocide and refused to coporate with him, Buhari who specifically decleard that an attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the North, the fact is that what actually changed the momentum now apart from the acquisition of new weapons which was made difficult in the past by the genocide allegation against the government but also the involvement of mutinational force comprising the neighbouring countries and most of them refused to get involved initially unless they got approval from the African Union which was recently granted. So Jonathan has never been unwilling to deal with BH but many obstacles on the road.

President Jonathan and his host will discuss the further actualization of agreements for greater cooperation against insurgents and terrorists reached by Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon at a meeting in Paris earlier this year. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/president-jonathan-chadian-leader-forge-stronger-alliance-terrorism/#sthash.foj2s28K.dpuf

He said of troops from Chad, Niger and Cameroon that were supposed to be stationed there at the time of the attack: "That wasn’t that much of a multinational task force, it was by name (only), because they were all supposed to be physically there," when in fact most were not.
http://news.yahoo.com/nigerias-campaign-vs-boko-haram-hampered-cowards-top-151553533.html

Seun:
His official story is that they didn't have the cooperation of the neighbours which required African Union approval and that they didn't have the weapons they needed because western countries didn't want to get to them, but they have now gotten weapons from alternative sources.

The official story is not necessarily correct, though. I think they could have gotten everything ready earlier if they were really really serious.

rapthugx:
OP is Abia not part of South East anymore?

The South Eastern states in focus is made up of Imo, Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi states,

jobinto:
When I visited Ibadan, there’s a Yoruba lamentation that I found quite amusing. It’s usually a retort to a victimization of some description that they can’t explain: ki ni mo se fun yin? In the Nigerian parlance, it translates to “wetin I do for you?” In case there are non-Nigerians reading this, it means “what have I done to deserve this persecution?” Chief Kola Aderemi wrote in The Nation of December 23 that President Jonathan must have something against the Yoruba to allow for such sustained ill-treatment. “Nothing illustrates President Jonathan’s hatred for Yoruba,” he said, “better than the way he removed some Yoruba people from key positions on allegation of being too close to the former President Olusegun Obasanjo. To buttress my point, I recalled how he removed Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola as People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Secretary. Mr. Yomi Bolarinwa was removed as DG of Nigeria Broadcasting Commission, Otunba Segun Runsewe was removed as DG of Nigerian Tourism Development Commission (NTDC) and they were replaced with Igbo people.” Here is a selection of other Yoruba people that Jonathan sacked: Mr. Olu Oluleye, Executive Secretary, the Petroleum Trust Development Fund (PTDF) was sacked by Jonathan. CEO of the Accident Investigation Bureau, Dr. Samuel Oduselu was also sacked. Stella Oduah, sacked eight general managers at the FAAN in 2014, six of whom were Yoruba. The same minister employed 75 workers, 40 of whom were from the Southeast, her geo-political zone. The minister sacked the Rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria, Captain Adebayo Araba and replaced him with Captain Chinyere Kalu from the Southeast. The Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, Mrs. Ola Onagoruwa, was sacked for “undisclosed reasons”. In fact, immediately after Yar’adua died, Jonathan went on Yoruba sacking spree. The result being, other than appointment that are constitutionally required, Yorubas are nowhere in his government. The Yorubas moved from the number one (position of President Obasanjo) to number 22. I’m not exactly sure how this reckoning was done, but it serves my purposes to use it. Whatever Jonathan has been told however, Yorubas don’t deserve this neglect. Many of them voted for him in 2011, but he’s got this weird conviction that those who voted him in the Southwest and the North are the Igbos resident in those areas. I sometimes do my morning jog with a Yoruba woman, a Muslim, who told me that in 2011 she voted Jonathan because she thought that was justice – because Niger Delta produces a chunk of the government income; however, she wouldn’t repeat that mistake again not because Jonathan dislikes the Yoruba people, but because the guy is useless to everybody, including the long suffering people of the Niger Delta. My own friend for many years, also a Yoruba Muslim, gave me the same reason for supporting Jonathan in 2011. I keep getting this “sense of justice” reason from the Yoruba people that I’m beginning to think that must something embedded in their culture. During our time in the diaspora, I had many Nigerian friends. The most religious of us and one of my closest neighbours is a Yoruba Muslim. Obviously, from the stories he told, his old father in Nigeria was also religious; in 2011, however, he told us his father was preparing to vote for Goodluck Jonathan. Make of that what you will but, the northern Yoruba and their southern brethren – Muslim and Christian – supported the president four years ago. It’s the reason why the Yoruba people shouldn’t let this betrayal go unpunished. The fortunate thing for Nigerians and particularly my party, is that many of them have long resolved to do this. That sense of justice will be used to shoot down Jonathan this month. You are an intelligent set of people. Do us all a favour, I call upon you in supplication, don’t vote Jonathan. As of this moment, the only Yoruba group which supports Jonathan is Afenifere. However, even Afenifere is divided. Afenifere Renewal Organization, ARG, said they didn’t support the endorsement of Jonathan enacted by Yinka Odumankin’s group. So the authentic Afenifere doesn’t support the president. The Oodua organization based in the US also distanced itself from the self-serving endorsement of Odumankin’s group. Civil rights activist, Moshood Erubami, summed it up: “No real Yoruba man or woman who supports a pan-Yoruba political and developmental agenda will vote for Jonathan in the coming election, because the Southwest has not gained anything from his administration. So let’s have a bloc vote from this intelligent and enterprising race. Jonathan shouldn’t continue, Yorubas must not allow him!

omonnakoda:
Your mother is ode and will die from snake bite

xpac01:
To short the long story cut, GEJ should go home.
Long live the president, Federal republic of Nigeria, General Mohammadu Buhari, long live the good people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
#Sai Change
#Sai Buhari.

angelsing:
Are u not here to convince them so they can see reason with ur point?

omonnakoda:
Your mother is ode and will die from snake bite

angelsing:
Do u have to insult him to pass ur information...even though u made a lot of sense with ur post but u are spoiling it with ur insult...Just argue with him without the banters and names calling...Keep ur cool and continue the argument

Ikengawo:
Otutu Oma,

Wanted to make this thread to discuss how we can make our eastern cities more livable. I believe livability, a long side with economic development is key to eastern cities as to curb the lose of our human resources to other cities.



So what are some ideas to make eastern cities the choice places to live?

Scholes007:
yara dua indeed
Jonathan approves N25bn for dredging of River
Benue ...
www​.vanguardngr.com/.../jonathan-

omonnakoda:
Are Eboes forbidden from manufacturing? Is importing the only business they can do.Where wil the foreign exchange to pay for all these imports come from?

Scholes007:
sorry i meant to say Ala oji power station which is 504MW... yea obj proposed too and nothing was done but This administration has chances of having another tenure( extra 4 years)... i didn't digest well last night i most accept but you write up is just filled with flaws

Scholes007:
I understand you but i don't like your choice of words ...like you said onitcha and nnewi all in anambra state are the viable industrial hobs in the south east right?!
Then I tried explaining to you that you don't really know the economic and industrial hobs in south east though i accept my shortcomings in my mode of expression...you Should have also consider that this same administration dredged river Niger, what you will be considering is how do we(south east) have alternative seaport since port Harcourt is just nearer than you great Apapa in Lagos. As for the air port in Enugu the international terminal is yet to be completed. ***we should also consider constrains like financial,time,political & and regional constrains.***

The leader of the Community Relations Committee on dredging of River Niger, Otunba Folarin, who disclosed this in Awka, Anambra State, when he led his committee members on a courtesy call on Governor Peter Obi at the Governor’s Lodge, said the project would be flagged off by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua as soon as possible.
http://www.nigerianbestforum.com/generaltopics/fg-awards-n33bn-contract-for-dredging-of-river-niger/

CRAP!

GEJ may not have done much, principally because anti-Igbo bigots like you refused that any tangible federal project should be in the SE.

Since you want to convince us GEJ isn't better than the long list of northerners that simply ignored the zone as if it were not part of Nigeria, You should have listed Buhari's projects or at least "promises" to do any in the SE when he is voted in.

You want Buhari to make you promises? at your age you are defining your political future with promises from politicians? , were you suffering from cancer of the scrotum when all opposition parties merged and became stake holders in the new APC, why was your APGA left out despite GOV okorocha's efforts? You really want to reap from where you did not sow, lol.

GEJ did not promise much, but at least he kept his main promise to make Enugu airport international in order to enable people from the zone have intl. airport like others. Did your long list of northern leaders even consider it fair to let the zone have one Intl. airport? You only remember Igbo is part of Nigeria during elections. Apart from GEJ, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Ibrahim Babangida and Late Umaru Yar'Adua, every other so called Nigerian President had a venomous anti-Igbo sentiment and did all they could to disadvantage the Igbo nation, to Nigeria's peril and stunted development.

APC itself takes immense pride in marginalizing the SE zone in their distribution of offices and there is every evidence they intend to run the federal government with the same anti-Igbo agenda. Which is fine, but don't expect those you hate so much to help you grab power. Not to mention the religious bigotry promoted by the islamist APC.

Please don't add insult to injury by having the gut to even compare yourselves with GEJ.

Please spare us your shameless crap!

You want Buhari to make you promises? at your age you are defining your political future with promises from politicians? , were you suffering from cancer of the scrotum when all opposition parties merged and became stake holders in the new APC, why was your APGA left out despite GOV okorocha's efforts? You really want to reap from where you did not sow, lol.

Scholes007:
Lolzzzz they have to bear it because that's the sad part of it

Scholes007:
No because of pipeline vandalism