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Kachisbarbie: Did you see any where I said Aba is all bad Sir?
I spent 16yrs of my life in Lagos
-6 in Umuahia/Abia
-1 in Aba.
I can categorically say Aba is messed up. End of discussion. The only thing that I love bout this town is it's industrial, the money that Ariaria generates in a day, I mean cash, I'm not sure Balogun/Alaba mkt can generate it...so they deserve better.
I'm not blaming it on the governor -no.
I blame it on its inhabitants because Aba people are dirty, but then I don't blame them.
When I served in Uyo, if u see the way the roads are neat, your mind no go gree you throw sumtyn for ground sef...

Its OK sha.
personally, I wl blame the governor too.
u said the sanitation of uyo won't make u drop dirt, but there is little govtal sanitation in Aba to start with .
And I don't know y the residents in those bad areas have not come together to do sth abt this .

Collynzo16: My problem is not the title of the thread or the OP, I was even ''liking'' some of the pictures until I started seeing comments suggesting that the dirty pictures of Aba are fake. There is no dirtier city in Nigeria than Aba.
This is not the time to relax or pretend, Aba must be made better.

And who is relaxing and pretending abt anything here?
And how was Aba made better with the bad pix some of u were posting?
And by saying its the dirtiest city and scaring away people n investment , it has been made better and TA orji has taken note?
U people should really stop this.
Some parts of Ojo LGA in Lagos made me cringe, I hated moving about then till it was very necessary.
I have not seen any lagosian who came here to showcase that swampy, dirty and smelly area.

Collynzo16: This is exactly what I don't want to hear ''every city has its own slum'', believe me, that of Aba cannot be compared to any of those places you mentioned, your skin begins to crawl the moment you step into the city, that is how bad it is.
I can't think of any other place as bad as that in Nigeria.
Pretending will not help anyone.

Read the title of the thread, u will see that you are making noise over nothing

Kachisbarbie: I stay in Aba. These pics are real -truetalk.
But please, Aba is messed up.
I can see Aba/owerri road
-Ekenna
-Azikwe/Asa road
-that Enitona/Tonimas side, that road leading to PZ (Eziama GRA), is good because, PZ is situated there, that's actually where I live and I know the streets that flank it to the left/right are messed up too
-the road leading to Ahia ohuru, can't rem what is called, smooth road but very small.
These pictures must have been taken during the dry season, because we all know how Aba is now. Lets not pretend about it
-you see that Abia poly side, I used the speed I used last 2weeks to pass it yesterday, my bumper never recover till now.

I'm not saying Aba doesn't have good sides, but the bad pass the good.

So u will rather we pretend Aba is all unsightly?
Some of the pix were taken after rains, look closely.
These pix are better than some of the good sides Lagos, abuja, Enugu, calabar, not to talk of their bad sides.
I was once in Umuahia but I couldn't go to Aba, the China of west Africa.
Why?
NL info and pix.
Thank God I know better, that's why I want to know the names so that I can always go there

Please, I will like to know the names of these places, am impressed.

Op, God bless u.
Shame to all them bad belle peeps who only focus on the bad sides of Aba and scare away investors n tourism.
I have told them several times TA orji doesn't care abt the pix of faulks road on NL.

ibedun: Understandably the concept of city is very new to our Eastern brothers.

thIbadan was named the second largest city in Africa for sometime behind Cairo.

Cairo is an old city like Ibadan. Just like Timbuktu and Kano in the century before last.

The concept of city is new to the east? Agreed.
But the east ended up building more planned n finer cities than the west ( except Lagos island).
Give them kudos

OdenigboAroli: How many factories did Abriba people build in their town?

other tnz like helping educate the masses, helping out in businesses count too

Unizik is the second most sought after fed university.
Imo state university is the nosy sought after state university

Jakpon: Who held you down? Why do you ibos like playing the victim card? Why do you like blaming others for your own self afflicted woes?

The last time we checked, the current minister of power is professor chinedu nebo, an ibo man. The former minister of power was professor barth nnaji, another ibo man. What did they do to resuscitate the coal and oji river power stations in the southeast?

The ibos arent the only victim of marginalisation. The few political class have marginalised the entire country.

Was it the ajaokuta indigenes that built ajaokuta plant

superstar1: What is the meaning of "competing" these y1bos always throw around.

Who will compete inside gully erosion that has nothing to offer? We only compete where the returns is commensurate with the endeavor. We compete in South South -- oil and Gas. Not in one desolate despicable and cursed region that is witnessing human desertification.

From what happens in ur land, u can't compete. others are taking over.
Whatever involvement u have in oil n gas was not due to competition but fraud, the only competition u do in SE /SS is taxi driving, patching clothes ., agbo selling

U gotta give it to nnewi.
There is nothing like industrializing n commercializing ur own village .
Better people

superstar1: Who begged y1bos to come back to Lagos?

They came back out of starvation that hit them in alaigbo. Have you forgotten?

Hunger is least prevalent in alaigbo.
We came to take over.
U are not in charge in Lagos and u are wondering y ur own ppl can't go and compete in other regions. Check ur ppl well,

tonychristopher: As a matter of serious conversation, shouldn't your first instinct be to answer to the substantive question about projects that Yorubas have embarked on and succeeded in Nigeria and out of the confidence that you derived from having responded properly to the inquiry at hand you can then proceed to asking any questions that you dim necessary. Your failure toaddress the question at hand before asking your question indicates that you are not a serious interlocutor like Ayo and I say that for the records.Notwithstanding your inability to rescue Ayo from his self-inflicted wound, again typical of a Yoruba man, I will not hesitate to take you to school if you chose to be babysitted for the record, although I will be repeating myself.

Now in respect to your specificquestion, what Igbo built that Yoruba destroyed, in a nutshell almost every institution that the white man handed over to Nigeria after our independence Igbos built but because of your sophomoric question I will endeavor to break down what I mean for you. Nigerian railway was built and managed under Igbo minister Dr. Onyiuke and Igbos ran most of the day to day operations and the railway worked, when Yorubas took over the railway after the war they destroyed it. Igbos ran the military and brought prestige to the Nigerian military because of the caliber of Igbos that joined the military and the military worked then, look at what the military has become. You can mention any ministry before the war that worked and you will see the hands of Igbo in it.During the British/Biafran war Igbos invented one of the most deadly explosives (IEDs-Ogbunigwe)the world have ever known in the 1960s, the Igbos built armored cars, air missiles, assault rifles, gun boats, rocket launcher, rocket propelled grenades and ambulance vehicles. Igbos not only built underground refineries they also built mobile refineries as they lost territories to the federal troops. After the war Awo and his tribal cabal representing the Yoruba conspired and went on a search and destroy mission and methodically combed all the south east and blew up and destroyed all thefactories that Igbo built instead of moving the factories and the Igbo scientists to a federally controlled areaand using their ingenuity to the benefitof the whole nation. For your information ask America and Russia what they did with German engineers after world war 11.

Today Nigeria is importing all these military equipments. That is destruction of what Igbos built. In 1972, Professor A. N. Njoku-Obi produced an anti-cholera vaccine recognized by the world health community, Yoruba elites who were running the Nigeria bureaucracy after the war did not want to hear of it, they undermined that project and today Nigeria is importing those drugs instead of being the manufacturer and exporter. That is destruction my friends. In 1974 two years after an Igbo invented the cholera vaccine, Professor F. A. Udekwu and his colleagues performedthe first ever open-heart surgery in Nigeria and Black Africa, did you think that Yoruba elites wanted to hear that, of course not, if I did not tell you now, would you know? Hell no! Today, forty years later Nigerians are going oversees for their heart surgery payinghard currency. That is destruction of Nigerian economy. In 1999 after Obasanjo took office, he destroyed every Igbo business that was importing Rice and Cement into Nigeria before he came into office by granting an unprecedented and probably the biggest sole monopoly ofthe importation of rice and cement to one man called Dangote who became a billionaire overnight. When Igbos where involved in the importation of these items like cement, the price of cement was around N300, now the price of cement is hovering around N1,500 a bag. Go figure that, that is destruction of not only Igbos businesses but Nigeria in general. After Dangote was grant the sole monopoly of importing cement, he complained to Obasanjo that Ibeto cement industry owned by an Igbo which was mostly a repackaging factory was creating an undue competition for his monopoly and overnight Obasanjo used an executive order to shutdown Ibeto cement factory with its 400 employees.

My friend that is destruction by any standard. Savannah Bank was established by Jim Nwobodo an Igbo man, Obasanjo closed down that bank and rendered all the employees jobless because he had some disagreements with Nwobodo not because the bank went bankrupt, not because the bank was running a fraudulent scheme, not because the bank was being mismanaged but because Obasanjo like most Yorubas have this visceral hate, wickedness, jealousy and the type of indifference that says why did God create an Igbo in the first place. Again Kunle that is destruction of a unique type. Engineer Ezekiel Izuogo created the V600 car and Yoruba press, politicians, lawyers even Yoruba engineers attacked him mercilessly and frustrated his effort to build the factory in Igbo land, that is one, second when he decided to build the factory in South Africa during Obasanjo’s regime, Obasanjo and his co-haters went and stole everything, the design manual, the engine block, everything necessary for him to carry on his work thereby destroying Izuogo motors for good. Kunle do you still need more examples? Wait I told Ayo that I have more than most of you could imagine. Do you remember Niger Dock Apapa, Dr. Nnamdi Ozobia, an Igbo built it, he built yachts for individuals and ferry boats for Lagos State that plied between Apapa to Mile2. He also did repairs for foreign ships that paid Nigeria hard currency, well here we go again, when Obasanjo came into office he removed Dr. Ozobia in the most ignominious way a pattern for Obasanjo and handed over Niger Dock Apapa to Yorubas. Today Niger Dock Apapa is in ruins, a shadow of its old self. That is destruction of what Igbos built. You have Nigerian Ports Authority, NigerianAirways, you have NITEL that Yorubas burnt down after they ruined it throughembezzlement. Lest I forget what about the mother of all destruction, theindigenization decree of 1972. What the decree did was to hand over Nigerian economy to the Yorubas and they destroyed the economy.

The list below is a partial list of mostly British and other foreign owned companies that Igbos were efficiently managing before the war, few of these companies were owned or partial owned by Yoruba. Some Yorubas in the past have quibbled about preciselywho owned what but not on the point of whether Yorubas ruined all the companies that they acquired by the force of the indigenization decree. My response is that the issue has never been about who owned what, the substantive issue was and is that Yorubas ruined, defrauded, liquidated and destroyed all the companies they took over after the war regardless of who owned them before the war even including their own companies that they started but could not manage.

For your information that single act of indigenization decree is largely responsible for our economic state of affair.
“Pharmaceutical Nigeria Plc ,
May and Baker Nigeria Plc,
Vitafoam Nigeria Plc,
Wahum Nigeria Limited ,
CAP Nigeria Plc ,
International Paints of West Africa [IPWA],
Berger Paints Nigeria Plc, Berec Nigeria Limited,
Kabelmetal,
Nigeria Bottling Company Plc,
Leventis Nigeria Plc ,
West African Portland Cement Company,[Lafarge],
Wema Bank Nigeria Plc, Scoa Nigeria Plc ,
CFAO Nigeria Plc, Cadbury Nigeria Plc,
Wemaboard Estates, Odua Group, Livestock Feeds Nigeria Plc ,
Nigerian Breweries Plc,
new nigerian Bank,
Batta, Kingsway Stores, Crittal Hope (Nigeria) Limited,
Mushin, Lagos State.Dunlop (Nig.) Industries Plc,
Ikeja, Lagos State. •
Galvanising Industries Limited, Ikeja, Lagos State. •
Nigeria Construction & Water Resources Development Company Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •
Nigerian Wire & Cable Plc, Ibadan, Oyo State •
Nigerite PLC, Ikeja, Lagos State •
Nipol Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •
Odu'a Textile Industries Limited, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State •
Soleh Boneh Overseas (Nigeria) Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •
Vono Products Plc, Mushin, Lagos State •
Wema Bank Plc,




lately the killed NITEL,NICOMSAT etc...

Chai.

EasternLeopard: Don't blame him

His reasoning is one fact why Yorubas fail in business

Imagine an Arewa(Dangote) transforming his opportunity into success and Odua(Adenuga) losing his opportunity to poorly managed debt

Am telling u.
They are very poor at mgt, look at the heap of national assets they squandered only for them to remain poor.
Tufiakwa, these are the real parasites in Nigeria, what have yorubas done for Nigeria?

superstar1: Were you looking for a divisive president like Jonah?

Lack of unity for an ethnic group that ensured the candidates are of their own? This is an absurd statement devoid of logic.

The fact remains OBJ was the president, which any y1bo man can never achieve. His achievements has been dwelt on NL on several threads.

he had dealt with Yoruba before and dealt with them during his time
He never liked u, frustrated awo, abiola, etc.
He was used to settle abiola election, in place of falae ur choice.
U have never produced any president of ur choice
The hatred for Yoruba is actually reciprocal as he didn't win in his ward or anywhere in sw .
Olu or olu indeed! hehe.
He hated ur guts .

Yorubas r not the largest grp in diaspora. I can't say for UK but elsewhere, we know who

Yungwizzzy: And our boss who keep hiding posts and banning people will not make the list? do you know why?

He is not business minded, I'm not trying to be 'tribalistic' but believe me if it were to be an igbo man that owns Nairaland it would be competing with the best forums in the world!!

Tho I don't know how this things work but I feel seun is not doing much for his business

How many of us here can write a page biography of Mr osewa? lailai!!

see yeye Linda of yesterday is going places with ordinary gossiping on Google's blogger


seun dey ogun state dey rear dog and hid and ban and create share button and remove the button the nxt day and...

Bros na joke oo



but seriously you need to step up, come off your closet and make money from your hardwork!!


Godbless you, Bless Nairaland and all Nairalanders!!

I hope u have another monicker?
lwkmd

superstar1: It will not. It has not killed America and Europe, it will not kill us too.

It will bring along good governance and accountability. With that, corruption is limited and progressive developments will continue to be witnessed.

it has kept many yorubas in poverty.

superstar1: It is the most fatal and it's still devoid of gully erosion.

You need to upgrade your medulla.

flood is worse than erosion, erosion is creeping but flood can be sudden.
U borrowed huge funds BT I can't build drainage, shame

atlwireles: I have no problem with your model, as long as you don't blame the federal government for the lack of investment in public infrastructures in the east. I wouldn't have said it any better than you, and I quote "The SE is not lagging behind any other part of Nigeria in infrastructural developments, as a matter of fact,i am yet to see any part of Nigeria with better infrastructures than the SE"

That settles a lot.

tell me the FG infrastructure in the SE

superstar1: Taxes are standardized and there is no govt in SW taxing heavily.

this guy doesn't even know SW.
Osun taxes bases on the size of the sign board and funny enough, most Yoruba biz there are petty.
Y exactly do ur people remain stagnant for years?

superstar1: And OBJ is an Nri descendant. In 1999, the slogan was it is either Olu or Olu, either way na we.

Achieve that first, where the 2 contestants are from your ethnic group.
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That shows lack of unity and distrust for obj.
the guy dealt with u. sorry.
All yorybaa I know call him wastage

omololu2020: were z ur source,who told u dat anambra has more beta road dan osun,oyo has more industry dan anambra

I have been to both states

pazienza: Slaves have prices, free borns are not for sale. Thanks for admitting that tiger faced ugly people are slaves in the Nigerian political market,up for grab for anyone with the bigger doe.


Never knew that slaves give conditions to their buyers? perhaps your cholesterol clogged brain cells have failed to make out the difference between promises and conditions, ehn? I guess this time around,you lots might have to protest naked,and lets hope you lots would be man enough to hit Abuja in your protests. *grins*

u just murdered that guy

omololu2020: we have notin,yet osun economy z bigger dan dat of imo state,u r d ignorant idiot rit hia,n jst bcox am tellin u d truth doesnt mean am from osun,am from ondo state,d economy of osun z bigger dan dat of imo.

osun GDP is bigger than anambra, yet the latter has more industries, less poverty, more educational index, population density, cash volume, road network.
Reconcile that for us

superstar1: Nyanmiri falt.head, you are a learner. The last time I checked, we left Aso Rock in 2007 and when was the last time one of the flat.heads did that, as part from being gate men of Aso Rock.

We do not have to be in power to stay relevant. Why is your y1bo president in proxy, an ijawman Ebele fighting tooth and nail to win states in SW? That is relevance and not the licking of a minority group a55 that your political bankrupt and naive ethnic group is doing.
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u are in the opposition and he needs to do that. its a game of numbers, not relevance.
Ur wish has never come to pass in Nigeria: olu falae, abiola, awolowo were never presidents, obj was used to punish u.
I rather not produce a president than produce an obj in igboland.

superstar1: I can choose to live anywhere on oduduwa's land, in as much as I'm not pressing for a stake in Arewa and Alaigbos' land.

I choose to live anywhere in Africa, in as much as am still an indigene of my own state.
Deal. with it

PassingShot: The Op is not wrong in his thrust because it's true that entertainment is too celebrated and accorded higher ranking in Nigeria.

Your assertion is not also wrong either but the fact is that the media and the society are not helping matters the way these celebrities from the entertainment industry are being celebrated and promoted at the detriment of engineering, science and technology.

the guy u quoted was wrong all through.
He neglected the vast majority of poor professionals to talk abt a certain 1%. Who told him celebrities don't engage in stock mkt n so on? they make more money.
As KANU nwankwo dey, which banker, lawyer, fit stand am both in fame n cash?

superstar1: State is artificial division, the people, the race, the thnicity remains yorubas -- from ore to saki, igbomina to lagos -- we are all oduduwa descendants.

As much as i do not have a stake in sambisa forest or red mud, likewise none has a stake in ours.

States are artificial creation, the people remain Nigerians.
Y is ur sorry ass not in ekiti,is it not yorubaland

omololu2020: we also hav femogey geo limited in oshogbo,solek company oshogbo,oshogbo steel rolling mills,nigerian machine tools etc.

producing what

omololu2020: i was d one dat first ask u to name jst 3 industry in owerri,não u havent given me a reply

imo is not heavily industrialized but there is eagle motors for keke napep assembly; Rico pharmaceuticals, the hospitality industry in owerri can only be paralleled by few states.