₦airaland Forum

Ikengawo: I DESPISE the single city idea for the SE

1. Bigger is not always better: Just because a city is bigger doesn't make it better. Example Abuja and Lagos. A Single city for what will be 50 million people by 2020 is madness, though I understand the incentives. Think about pollution, traffic, amenities, cost of living etc.

2. Germany: Germany follows a model where there are several cities that can sustain and support themselves and are almost essentially on equal standing. All of them offer what the other offers and because of this the next step for them economically is to export to the rest of the world. This is why Germany per capita leads the world in exports, and this is the model of Igbo land. an Igbo man from Owerri has no loyalty to Enugu. This is a strength not a weakness because he will strive to develop his home even if it's a village and not abandon it to start claiming something else like we see with Yorubas and hausa. This is the same as a German.

3. We're already moving in a multi city direction: There's no reason to reverse the natural tide of development we're already taking. People aren't abandoning Onitcha for Awka; they're both moving. Same with Umuahia and Aba, Owerri and Orlu, Enugu and Nsukka etc. In times of war and for general economic productivity, this is the best model to follow because we're safer with multiple heads as opposed to one. Besides, it's already our nature.







I'm also against unchecked outward sprawl. I live in a US city that sprawls almost endlessly. It makes for 45 minutes to get to work, almost an hour with traffic. As the city expands, the older parts are abandoned and rotted. Would you want to live in an 'older' part of town when a newer shinier part is added monthly? Property prices keep plummeting for the people that already own a home and increasing for those looking to buy one so owning a home is a bad investment now. Plus you can't convince investors to buy the old properties at the center of town and rebuild them or add something new when all of the economic activity is sprawling outwards.

Sprawl is horrible We don't want that in the SE nor do we have enough land. I believe that every village and city should have an urban planning blueprint because all of our communities will be urban or semi-urban centers by 2050. This plan should heed land conservation by encouraging home and business builders to build at no less that 3 stories, 4 stories in CBD.

This will allow government and investors to buy businesses in the center of town that can afford renovation, and build something more deserving of a CBD.

I like your model .
Enugu state should have more viable places other than Enugu capital, same goes to other Igbo states.
I will deliberate on this later.

IGBOSON1: Has anyone noticed how similar public and gov't buildings built by the Orji gov't look? They're boring, uninspiring, always have 4 corners, and look cheap!

The architects responsible for designing these 'boxes' lack imagination!......That's if architects were ever used in the first place!

The ugly roads are another story all together! That man has brought his low standards and 'local' mentality to bear in governance!

lol

Keneking: Photoshopped

The bridge is real but digitally enhanced.
@ those with contrasting views, just send pix like backtosender is doing. if u think, abakiliki is finer, give us pix, don't come here to abuse or argue

hod898: Chemical engineering obviously. ChemEng graduates, especially those with Masters can work almost anywhere: in the oil/gas industry; in the Pharmaceutical industry; in the banking industry; in law sector; in the breweries industry; in energy sector; in the environmental safety sector; in the semi-conductor industry; cement factories; paint producing industry, etc.

Are these not for those in industrial chemistry?

gmaribel: My brother have you heard of the hospitality industry?

Do you know how many jobs a big hotel creates?

I once worked in a hotel at Abuja ( Chelsea Hotel) we had tailors, electricians, plumbers, ICT staff, gardeners, pool and gym attendants, security staff, drivers, waiters, laundry men, house keepers, stewards, concierges, receptionist etc.

We had registered car hire service a bookshop, a boutique, an eye clinic etc.

The purchasing department got supplies from local sources for eggs, goat meat, poultry, fish, vegetables and also chemicals for laundry, diesel for generators....

Just to name a few.

And the hotel had only about 60 rooms

This hotel will directly or indirectly provide job opportunities for a lot of young people

let's try to be optimistic when criticizing

well, most of the services you listed up here can be offered by non graduates and SSCE holders.

viewing this thread chinology.
Biko, u and abagworo should abstain. thanks.

Billyonaire: Nigerian

just tell me. nothing like nigerian

MayorofLagos: bullshyyte! Yoruba man marries multiple wives and does not complain about tbeir expenses...Ibo marries one wife and he is wailing about burden and expenses.

Thank God for IGR....Yorubaland O ni Baje oo.

Tax money no go dry o....

An Igboman is far more responsible than a Yoruba man.
with only one wife, an Igbo man spends lavishly on her n kids.
A Yoruba marries many wives to satisfy him, period. they are to fend for themselves and children hawking pepper, akara, ewedu, agege, etc

Billyonaire: Lets not become emotional about this issue. I am a strong proponent of the Igbo renaissance, and as a matter of fact 2 of my younger brothers are married to Igbo ladies, and I have 2 Igbo native names. We are one people, and my Dad lost everything to the needless Biafran war. I am simply pained by the fact that the Igbo decide to migrate enmasse to some distant country, built by the sweat and tears of other race instead of sitting tight at home and creating comfort for generations of Igbo unborn. Today, the average Igbo man has a pedestrian and nomadic DNA, always searching for Greener pastures abroad. Lets not praise these exile meetings, lets not idolize away-match mentality. Lets come home to Aba, Enugu, Owerri and rebuild the master-plan of our heroes past. So help us Gods.

What's your ethnicity?

emiye: Nice development, i guess there would still be sizable enough quantity for local consumption within the state though.

I will also prefer a pineapple fruit juice company(ies) be set up in the state, to prevent a situation where the pineapple exported from enugu is later imported as pineapple juice in to Enugu.

first time u said sth am liking.
keep it up

Nwa 042

Useless man

ROSSIKE, I couldn't have pur it better.
I don't know why it peppers some people that one of their own is doing sth.

jaydave: They claim to be good and like 7 unis in south west are among top 10 unis in nigeria....lol...no need to shout...we automatically justified ..gbam!...
http://lindaikeji..nl/2012/06/nigerian-man-emerges-as-top-graduating.html?m=1

He's student from ifako ijaiye in lag thou had pri n secondary edu in north...omo oduduwa r blessed...lol

nuc disowned that list of uni compiled by Yoruba.
Is rating of uni based on IQ of students?

jaydave: How many scholars have anambra produced sef..lol...wen last have we heard of a student there dat wins any educational contest?even cheap cowbell national mathematics competition has any1 ova there won it of recent?..don't be deceived by d waec tin,make una head no con dey swell up ooo..lol...y'al have forgotten that one cud go to any state to reg as an external student..peepz from west bin registerin as an external in east like mahd cos of d way exam is conducted there..waec officials are so lax wen conducting exam in ya region cos of how hoodlum u ppl are..always threatening to kill any official that proves stubborn and strict during the exam..exam malpractice is done with ease in dat region.remember wen I served @one govt sch in Enugu..after long break 50% of d students r gone!!...lol...u wuld find dem in d market that time helping their parents

in one breath, you don't go to the east. in another, u go there to register for exams like mad.
Hello!
So, y do u come to register here if u claim we di malpractice?
I have pasted links that place SW as having more special centers than SE .
globally, Anambra has more technocrats and academically renowned people , than any SW state.

wristwatch: am not being tribalist as I knw its common 2 all tribes but it's more rampant among d igbos. Pls y are u dupin urselves? We are approachin amber period now, d thieves will resume expressroad 2 rob frm their people comin frm lag who earn dir money thru hardwork. Most robbery attack @ d island is igbos boiz.. Pls igbos talk 2 urslves what has gone wrong. No wonder ur leaving ur land 4 anoda man's land.

Yorubas are even the worst scammers and fraudsters in Nigeria.
Blame igbos for your robbery cases like we don't read papers.
blame Igbo for soka and Ogun rituals.
Mtchew

Fulaman198: Sounds like a worthy car to buy then. Are the engines as reliable as Toyota? Or does Toyota short change Innoson?

ask the various govts and individuals that have been using the cars since inception

Fulaman198: Mitsubishi engines? I don't know if this brand can be trusted

Sorry, checked it up, its toyota

macof: Is it that you jst naturally daft or what??

Lagos state was never FG capital

U don't even know current affairs.

AlfaSeltzer: No it's not the first of its kind. Peugeot used to manufacture cars in Kaduna. They could have stamped it alfa cars and put a mallam in charge and claimed it was a Nigerian car.

Check out hyundai fleet and look closely again at IVM vehicles.

Innoson was commissioned as the first indigenous black car plant.
Dignitaries attending the inauguration didn't question it cos they were in the plant and saw it themselves.
He sources 60% of his products locally.
He has four industries, one of which is car parts production, he buys some products from ibeto, imports toyota engine.

AlfaSeltzer: production is creating something. manufacuring is assembling someone else's product.

You people shouldn't start this useless assembly-manufacture dichotomy.
Its called ivm -innoson vehicle manufacturing and that is what it is, whatever manufacturing means to you, he is doing it.
The first of its kind in black Africa.
The Cars cost around #1.5 million

This is a meeting of diasporans, so, the meeting was held there.
Am still in Nigeria but if I get the opportunity to travel abroad, You know what will happen.

50calibre: And why should they return to the cesspit called Nigeria, where human lives worth nothing? Many of these men built their lives in America, you're asking them to abandon the sane and functioning society they're used to for an impoverished/dysfunctional one, is there any sense in that? Can you do it?

What you're suggesting is like asking someone to trade a cake for faeces.

If they return, can you guarantee their safety? I'm pretty sure most of these men suffer from one health problem or the other, can you guarantee their medical needs would be met?

Some of you guys bleat like sheeps yet given the slightest opportunity most of you will flee that country without looking back. You can't rebuild Nigeria with bare hands, and say what you will of these men, they are cowards, they're in exile, bla bla bla it doesn't matter, what matters is they're in safer place.

You should have left them to wallow in their ignorance.
Imagine asking what people are doing abroad, as if the aged ones in Nigeria are given any chance to plan with their recycled leaders.
Mtchew.
The problems Nigeria are accumulating now are even enough to keep people away .

macof: Wat Ports, is it ports that develop a State? Ports which FG exclusively controls with their various parastatals?? you must be crazy to even think Lagosians owe Nigerians anything by Ports

Lagos is strictly Yorubaland, all you are is a man looking for greener pastures in Oduduwa's land

Of course na u go control am?
Na you build am?
Nigeria is a net importer and we have all 3 ports in one place, what do you expect?
U know the tribe that generate 70% of port revenue, dont you?
Yes, the ports brought investments and people to Lagos, a former FG capital too.
Now scram

Lagos state swelled the pass rate of SW sef.
If we are to take djangos theory of no percentages , u will see that even more people passed in anambra, abia, Enugu, Imo than Oyo, Ogun, ekiti, ondo and osun states.
No matter where you take the argument to, SE get am.
So, of >77000 candidates in Oyo, only 14000 passed, while in anambra 34 000 passed.
I hate to say this but this is Even worse for you than the percentage theory . Iti /olodo redefined.
Ur stubbornness brought you to these facts.

ukukaegbu: He just wants to make some people feel happy. Even the Yoruba peeps know the truth. More like trying to balance it up after acknowledging that Igbo girls are prettier.

Lolz.

macof: You are a big idiotic and uneducated individual

FG never built Lagos state, Lagos state was built by the grace of Olokun

FG has no running project in Lagos state
FG isn't of the same party as LASG
in the whole Lagos only ikoyi, Victoria island and Lagos Island were Nigeria's capital...this is only about 30% of the entire state as it is today

Go get some education you fool

the rest of Lagos developed based on the infrastructures in the said 30%.
Where are the ports located?

django1: What theory? What is theoretical about a statement of fact?

It was your 'I TOO KNOW' that caused you to misunderstand my earlier statement.

'More students passed the exams in the south west than they did in the south east'.

This is an inference that can be deduced from the statistical table provided by the Op, or is it all that favors your bigotry we all should talk about?

Your bigotry won't let y'all see that, your number of students writing exams are dwindling and a great percentage of those who does are engaging in malpractices.

more students failed in your hood too, how is that?
I mean, the proportion of fail to pass in your hood is magnanimous. ie u are full of dullards.
How do I get it into your self denial skull again?
You are not ashamed .
U have special centers in SW like tomorrow no dey, u still failed more than u passed.
We closed the ones we had before the exam, you nurture yours.
Haters

TabletMan: Ok Bro,
We are sorry on her behalf.

But next time try and calculate what's on ground before u launch an attack. Cos one of your kinsmen made use of anambra and imo but i or any other person from anambra didn't go on offensive becos its just a harmless comment.

Anyways, sorry for any inconveniences

U are a mature person

babyosisi: That is so correct
The number of registrants has no bearing on the population but rather a testament to the failure rate in the locality
Southwest registered 400k candidates and only a mere 130K scaled through
So next year there are already 270K candidates in wait before you add the new SS3 school leavers

While the SE only has a fraction of that number carried over from this year

I would have said u should pity these people but they don't deserve pity.

redsun: Wow o!This seem current with all those little vehicles on the scene.

How dare they compare this place to japan?Not even a sunami stricken japan will be as deprived and depraved.

the whole place doesn't look like this.
Where were u peepz when they were showing the good parts the other day?