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Mod, cud u move this post to the front please. |
^^^ and since then what have you done to resuscitate and revive those culture and artifacts ? do we even have a national museum in that country ? we get big problem man! |
mens dept:An least setting up a commission to repair and manage our cultural and heritage wouldnt and shudnt cost Billions. IMO i think it is of great importance to preserve these monument for posterity. They are priceless. |
Ezeuche abeg dont derail this thread with such attitude. (by the way who is comparing and counting scores? ) i will repeat again; This shud be a national project. shud be included in the next supplementary budge that is more than sure to pop up sometime in Aug/Sept. If only dame. if only DR dame was artistic, a lover of art and historic artifacts. . . . . |
could someone please attach the write up below in Wikipedia The location of the pyramids were sacred, devoted and dedicated to a deity called Uto Nsude in Ugwu (hill) Uto village, one among the ten villages that made up of the (My) town called Nsude. The pyramid still exist till date, Its important to note that Nsude were noted for their victorious wars with their enemies of which other neighbouring town do hire them to fight for them when the needs occurs and in such cases ultimate victory is assured. The pyramids and its environ also serve meeting points when sensitive issue were to be discussed due to is location and obscurity during the reign of Eze Okwuluogha (EZE ONYE AMA NEKE) of Eke. |
This is a Nigerian Project! not igbo just same way zuma rock is not for niger state people. |
[img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/arunsi11.JPG[/img] Now I am shocked that in all my years of existence I never knew that Igbo people built pyramids, nothing like the gigantic Egyptian pyramids but pyramids nonetheless. The picture above shows the late G.I Jones in front of a pyramid. He was was a Welsh photographer and anthropologist. His photographs of life in Nigeria in the 1930s, taken whilst serving as a colonial civil servant, led to an interest in ethnology and a second career as an academic at the University of Cambridge. I am just so shocked that if i hadn't found G.I Jones archives then I would never had found out this amazing piece of out history. I wonder if these pyramids still exist, very unlikely. Knowing Nigerians and their utter disregard for preservation of anything, they have leveled the pyramids and erected some vulgarity on it. Me I love the white man o!I love the fact that they would come to an unknown land and fall in love with the people and culture even in the most treacherous conditions. People like Mary Slessor who risked her life for strangers. Most of the pictures I have seen which show my people in the 30's and 1900's were taken by some colonial guy. G.I Jones your are my hero of the month for giving me a glimpse into the past. http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/ |
NAIRALANDERS COULD WE ALL WRITE TO OUR CONSTITUENCY REPs TO URGE GEJ TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO RECONSTRUCT NIGERIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PYRAMIDs. ''The Nsude pyramids in 1935. These ten circular stepped pyramids were associated with the Uto deity and were made of mud. Their reconstruction is needed.'' - Bournemouth University Archaeological team. https://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/africanlegacy/images/nsude_pyramids.jpg [img]http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/jmccall/jones/igbo/arunsi10.JPG[/img] Source: http://csweb.bournemouth.ac.uk/africanlegacy/culture.htm [img][/img] |
My friend's father-in-law recently sold his house in warri to move to Enugu. |
^^^^ see ur mouth u dash them Abuja! So if (hope not when) the Muslims in lagos begin throw bomb u go also dash them Lagos,abi ? Bloody coward! |
EzeUche!:Its a shame u dont understand the ingenuity of Ekwueme. no doubt the creation of SS has some bad. it breaks up the bond. however, with many minorities and a larger main tribe slugging it out always on political positions, development infrastructures etc, it was always bringing bad belle between us. Back then, even in Rivers, other minorities became hesitant to sell land or do business with igbos; ijaws always raging over anything , position etc against the igbos. This rage against the Federal Government over oil allocations and revenue were back then heaped on Igbos. they erroneously accused the igbos for the lack of development in their land, thinking the majority igbo led leadership was shortchanging them. Now, since Ekwueme created out SS, Igbos are held at high esteem in these places. A bayelsa ijaw man yearns to date and marry Igbo girls. They even strive to have igbos live within them. They engage in true friendship partnership with Igbos. Igbo traders are welcomed even better than the Federal Government. asari dokubu even said they re best attached with the Igbos. All these only happened becos we dont fight over same thing , same position, same allocation, location of same projects . Also, look igbos and her close relatives- (ibibos, efik anyans and rivers minorities n ijaws) now have two regions. SE N SS. owing to the way things are doled out in this country we will forever be getting twos. could u imagine the whole south west including lagos is classified as one zone. SW + lagos (43% igbos, +6 % SS) - SE/SS international airport one - two abi three Federal university- four - nine etc infact, as long as the government keep sharing things based on geopolitical zone- which i believe will be for ever , THE SE/SS wud always enjoy two rations. |
The answer to those is simply , NOs. The one singular catalyst that is chiefly responsible for the devastation in these area has been lack of . . . . . not keeping up with trend. Nkwo nnewi was built in . . . God knows when, was initially a collection of shoddy market stalls , then it graduate to lock-up stalls, then finally it came to rest as market shops. This scenario plays itself out in every market in the east including portharcourt and ikot ekpene. From Ariara to upper iweka, From Onitsha main market to Eke ukwu. From pound street to st Micheal. Every one of these markets has stalled in growth, and now on the decline. millions are being lost daily, investments are going belle-up, profit margin is as low as ever and worst of all, even the outlook is as grime as an Aboki's excrement. Of course its easy to put the blames squarely on the federal Government or the state government, however as Nigerian who know their govt and her antecedent , to keep blaming her or waiting on her to spun growth in these area is shear silliness. outcome As society opens up, a middle class emerges then expands, people's taste and swagger steps up, The banker or MTN staff decides to stop entertaining okada (unless its emergency). The shell and chervon staff decides to step up from Aba tailored to TM lewin. The new special advisers steps up from plasma to 1080I 120,000:1 contrast ratio Hd ready TV. Now, no doubt these markets has always kept at pace with people's demands and sure enuff, every single material thing one can aspire or desire is sure bound to be in these markets. But the problem is, as people step up, so do their tolerance bar go up as well, as such, these people - whom previously shopped in these markets, will no longer want to walk into these "filth" called Arieara or Onitsha Main market to shop. Persons wanting to buy a generator of upto N100,000 now are prefering to spend N10,000 more to go to lagos and shop there than buy same generator in Arieara. not minding the hassle and risk. same replicates itsef for anything expensive ; music band set to home theater, kitchen utensils to even clothing. This emerging trend is really really bad for the East because soon the big businesses would grow tired of marginal profit and what next ? THEY WILL RELOCATE, of course to Lagos or Abuja. This Relocate means moving away jobs, taxable revenue, and actual liquidity. when he moves, that's another BIG man out of a housing area, soon, the housing price for the area falls as "small" boys become the new occupant. peoples investment in housing gets wiped out. standard of living symbiotically drops. poverty expands. crime rises. death become eminent . what is the remedy ?. . . . to be continued shortly. |
^^^ guy take am way Na one Naija |
Wonders shall never cease. I Just saw one aboki wrapping his fone wit a hanky, out of curiosity, I asked him what he was doing and he replied saying:" (walahi I wan call my broda e dey owe me money so I wan hide my number make e no know say na me because if he see my number he no g☺ pick the call), =))=))" |
It is of grievous shame the state Aba n Onitsha has been left to, a shame of genocidal proportion that has decimated the accomplishment and efforts of the people. Wealth n fortune laid to waste. A waste so big, that it had to be icinged with filth n grime crock. What is wrong with us? As late as 30 years ago, the only place one could buy unit motor spare parts in amble quantity in the whole of West Africa +Central Africa + southern Africa -(can't say of north) was in nnewi, anambra state, Nigeria. Lagos and Kano bought from her, Malabo, Gabon, Congo- kinsasha, Congo -brazaville, Uganda, Namibia, an even south Africa- a man I know was among the first pioneers in SA. Don't get me wrong, in some these countries including in Lagos one could directly buy from a company representative -which meant if one of your head lamp was broken u would have to buy a new PAIR, as unit parts weren't sold as nnewi trader came to popularised. Now, imagine the fortune and potential that presented to Anambra as a state. Imagine how rich Anambra could have been ? Why wasn't this fortune sustained ? What dissipated this fortune? Why did the people allow such opportunity slip away? Or, could it be igbos leader are inherently incompetent in sustaining development? Or could it be a federal govt economic sabotage ? Abi, are yorubas also the cause? To be continued shortly . . . . . |
Folks, lambasting me is ineffectual, could none of you point out JUST two credible initiatives Fashola has done in the past four years. look, no doubt there is transformation in lagos, . NEW SHOPPING MALLS . LOTS OF CINEMAS SPRINGING UP CHANGING THE LANDSCAPE . LOTS OF MEGA HOTELS . LOTS OF CLASSIC, EXQUISITE RESTAURANTS . LOTS OF HOUSING ESTATES . EVEN SOME EXPANSIVE STRETCHES OF ROAD. sounds nice, marvelous, even "eko ni ba je" , but the resounding problem with the above is that, [size=18pt]THE ARE ALL PRIVATE[/size]. even the roads, the are now being built by persons wud turn around to milk the living day light out of Lagosians via tolls. The big question is , SINCE MOST DEVELOPMENTS WE SEE IN THE STATE ARE MOSTLY PRIVATE WHAT IS FASHOLA AND ACN DOING WITH UNPRECEDENTED HEFTY TAX THEY ARE COERCING FROM THE INNOCENT CITIZENRY, FEDERAL ALLOCATION ? Don't forget the world bank has been actively involve in lots of big projects in that state, then what project can fashola point to as a state, his pet project ? |
the only reason i hv been taking my time to reply every of your comments is becos of the maturity u hv exhibited in commenting,so pls don't go that lane of insults. If country X has 1000 apples to share among 100 people, is it better off than country Y that has 100 apples to share amongst 2 people?why do u keep bringing up this analogy, in what way does it relate to the Lagos economy analysis ? the 1000 apples, where is it coming from ? and who said there is a sharing to be done ? using your apple analogy, imagine a house hold of 100 people (lagos population) farming on a community land (Nigerian economy) and pulling their harvest together. if the average effort of a person in this analogy is $1000, their harvest wud be about $1000 x 100 = $100,000 . agreed 2nd scenario , on that same community land, a house hold of 10 people ( say, enugu) farming on same community land (Nigerian economy) and pulling their harvest together as well, with same average effort as scenario 1, their harvest wud b $1000 x 10 = $10,000. {taking out the feeding factor, since no state in Nigeria pays any form of benefit} Now, which of these farms shd have the resources for expansion into say mechanized farming (development). tractor = 20,000 harvester = 10,000 sprinkler = 12,000 combine harvester = 15,000 storage = 20,000 farm produce processing m/c= 21,000. Farm A could easily within a year muster the resources to move into mechanized farming (being developed) while Farm B, even as she desires to match farm A it wud take her about TEN YEARS to go mechanized. do u get it now? |
Simply put, you are wrong. A country with a GDP/capita of $10k is almost always better developed/advanced than one with one of $1K. I doubt you'll be able to find any sort of counterexample (once you get your #s fixed).presenting my facts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India india has a GDP of $1.5 trillion but a per capital of a mere $1265 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_Guinea while equatorial guinea has a GDP of $10.4 billion but a whooping $15401 per capital . Hence in essence an Equatorial Guinea is 10 times richer than an India, and hence from ur flawed theory , Equatorial G. shd be 10 times more developed/advanced than India ? but its not. because that's not what counts. So, bringing the argument to our Lagos n other states situation. Lagos might have even a lower per capital but it clearly does have far larger bigger largest gross of any state and therefore does have more available resources to develop the state comprehensively. Unfortunately our Gawking, sheepishly-smiling FASHOLA still has his fingers in his arse. |
I do have my facts, im typing on my phone ATM wud flourish u with them when I get home to my lap top. On it flawed per cap bench Mark, check this out , equatorial Guinea is one of the richest countries in this world per capital, little oil revenue but far less population, yet the country is miserably poor. Despite the large per cap, the actual money is way too small for meaningful development . 2 Ex. India economy might be worth 1.trillion $, and population 1.2 billion, which gives us below $ 900 per capital. while, Solomon island of 10,000 people and economy of misely $10million wud have a per capital of $1000. higher than indian! Now does that means Solomon island is richer, shd b more developed? Absolutely no, their 10 million economy, despite turning out to give them high per capital might not be enough to build a decent stretch of road, let alone a university. Do u now get my drift ekt-bear ? So per capital doesn't matter, what matter is the actual gross. The available money for development . Back to your argument, hence Lagos has by far the highest revenue n potential yet our mediocre Fashala is gawking, nothing much to show for it. Since he has, more or less, been gawking, doing nothing substantial, where is the money? (abi, do we need to ask tinubu first ?) |
@ekt, that's a very wrong n flawed yard stick in determining who is working? Becos, Lagos state as a formal fct has always had higher HDI than most states, why not, when as an fct federal government built the existing housing schemes, built massive secondary n primary school, built the top federal hospitals n health Centers, and other federal investments. The Fed didnt relocate those structure n foundations to Abuja. The question shd b in wat way has Fashola improved on it! On HDI Nigerians are richer n better off than chinese ! But that does translate to infrastructure, society n development. Lagos clearly has the most cash at hand to work. your flawed per cap, it not as if the government Is handing out money to her residents, so it doesnt count. What counts is availability of cash n revenue to develop the state. On that Lagos is way richer, yet on the back pedal on development. Take a minute to analyse it, over the past four years what project or projects could one point to as what could have decimated Lagos state stack of revenue ? On most basic indexes, highlighting over the past 4 years, Lagos is no where to compare to either river, akwa ibom, calabar, Enugu. On total km of road built On number of houses/housing scheme built On new hospitals n health centres On education. On town planning. Lagos Is still in filth n chaos. So how is he performing? |
@ekt_bear, in wat way do u relate Lagos state with other states? No other state has financial potentials of Lagos No other state has investment potentials of Lagos No other state taxes their people. No other state has the magnitude of laid down infrastructural investments as Lagos (all thanks to being formal capital territory) @Egbe nak, it shdnt b wat other marginally poor states or infrastructural devoid states has done but WAT HAS FASHOLA done in four years? Mmmm. . . Cleared people n kiosk from oshodi road side ? Abi Na one, one story old people's home he built? I forgot he repainted some secondary school. Is that it? Rivers n Enugu states has built totally new massive, over 2000 housing schemes with, ESP Enugu, marginal resources. Building totally new amusement and shopping malls. Providing good roads, laying massive stretches of asphalt, marking and providing road traffic, pedestrian walk-ways, greatly beautifing their cities. Yes, a number of spanking new malls has sprang up in Lagos but is wasn't from the government. There re all private. The question is what is he doi g with all the internally generated revenue, all the massive federal allocation, all the hefty taxes on on residents ? since he is taxing us, we re strongly, n rightfully demanding wat he is doing with our money since we are now meant to believe the FED n internally generated revenue is not our Buiz. |
On town planning, housing/ building code, road repair, simply marking of road, rowdiness n agbero, indiscriminate touting: Brb. |
Ok. On social infrastructure , provision of potable pipe borne water, sanitation/waste management,let forget electricity ooh, road management/ repairs and drainage? On these, fashola 's actions is, to be polite, very abysmal n scatty. Does he not care? People are still drinking well water, stream water. What wud it cost him to have a think of this basic demands of a human, our human right? What wud it take to hv a contract for the building and management of a water scheme, with water purification n comprehensive network of pipebore water delivered to every home? When will a lagosian kid playing football in the field, on exhaustion run to a near by tap and dispense water for drinking ? Does Fashola not care? Or does he not have the fore-sight? How long wud lagosians drink salty well water for? Does Fashola not know that this issue results to over 17,000 deaths in Lagos state yearly? He is happy seeing people die? If not, why is he not tackling the issue to mk residents seal up the wells once an for all ? Lagos state is one of the few states in Nigeria which was actually planned, though the current residence has clearly overwhelmed the infrastructures available. However many people are now in the middle class and hence are paying tax steadily. Lagos is rich and there shd b no reason why Lagos state should not b providing services, services the tax is meant for. . How much wud it cost Fashola to dredge or dislodge the canal system that was incorporated in the master plan, a canal the federal government build for her citizenry ? . Must tax paying residents live in squalor n filth, Over-flowing canals, rat infestation and total degradation becos of FASHOLA's incompetence ? .over flowing central suck-away septic Underground tank in festac out pouring unto the road, flooded lekki- an area Fashola sanctioned for her resident to live, is there a sinister, sadistic reason behind all these epidermic liable complacency or is it a shameless incompetency ? Legally is FRAUD, isn't it? (taking money for a service and not rendering that service without returning the money) Does that mean FASHOLA is a Chameleonous, gawking, sheepishly-smiling FRAUD? (I need answers,pls) Fashola u re almost a failure. |
On the BRT . Sorry, but how much was spent on this project? And still begin spent in maintenance n payment of salary on a loss making service ? Was the service needed ? Absolutely . Did the state government paying for it a nice move? Absolutely Not. It clearly show hind-sightedness. How about, if Fashola had instead, sold out four to five licences to different companies to service those n other unserviced route in Lagos . Imagine how much money Lagos cud hv made from it? Imagine how much gov cud hv saved from wat it currently spends on maintenance n payment of salaries with provision of pension plan for her employees. Gov, cud have only being at the side running inspections n i ensuring good service. N cud hv plough the money wasted on those buses into road repairs, marking, lighting, traffic lighting, pedestrian walkway n bridge. |
Fashola has failed n exposed his lack of vision for the state with his proposed financial district on same note attesting to the lekki free zone. These two conflicting economic formulas within a few miles of one another. Now, every city defines itself by wat it wants to be. An industrial state? Like goudjuon ( I bet I got the spelling wrong, the Chinese top Industrial city), Birmingham, detroit, hamburg, nashawa( nt too sure I got the name, but Japan sha). Or u hv the neat n tidy financial state, shanghai, London, New York, Frankfurt, Tokyo etc. Now, how does Lagos n Fashola intend to reconcile these two divergent economic templates ? The new lekki trade zone, yes wud bring needed revenue but its location and wud be position in the state wud only strifle any form of liberation from Lagos's current squalor status. Outcome: ? Lagos becomes very in-conducive for the financial industry. They migrate. The foreign companies, to Ghana. Local, to Abuja. (after, 100 bomb blast might consider Enugu ) |
Alright, the term failure might be stretching it in Nigerians definitive term, but no doubt, fashola is absolutely at best, mediocre. Sincerely what has Fashola done as the governor of LAGOS STATE that deserves thought-out applauds ? A state so inundated with investment opportunities n potentials yet only minimal development, dirt, filth, n chaos is abound. Now, what is the job of a state governor (in Nigeria) ? 1. protection of life and properties. 2. provision of effective n affordable health services. 3. provision of sound n competitive education and educational services. 4. Provision of social infractures like road building n repairs, potable pipebore water, sanitary disposal, transport. 5. Structuring Town planning, provision of housing, and housing/ building codes for privates, and likely its beautification associates etc . 6. Establishing a sound economic policy for development. This policy in essence shd n wub become the definitive attribute of d state. Jobs? State governments aren't necessary responsibly for providing jobs rather they provide enabling environment to provide jobs via companies and industries setting up in the state. (says capitalism) . If I'm not mistaking and forgetting any point, I think these are the major job n duty of a governor. Now, without BS how has fashola fare against these listed points ? |
IMO I think fashola is at best mediocre. |
@ ekt_bear, hahaha ![]() |
Na so they don dey dash the first class ![]() |
Sincerely Muslims or rather northerner are pretty more upright n less corrupt (when dealing with their state) than most southern nigerians. However, How on earth is kastina, a desert, of marginal population be getting 3.2 billion from fed while IMO state, a densely n highly populated, highly educated, peace-loving non-terrorist state that is part of the country's oil producing community gets a mere 2.1 ? Abeg GEJ use some sense here, that freaking revenue formula needs and has to b revived! No wonder they have the time n liberty to be naugghty! |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUP9U2Gj3-Q&feature=player_embedded#at=608 im not from Enugu but mehn this is lovely |
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