₦airaland Forum

Ilovemystate:
Orlu has four commercial banks and they want to compare Orlu and Nnewi that boast of 26 commercial banks what a joke

Banks in Orlu
Zenith Bank - Orlu
No 6, Amaigbo road. Orlu. Imo.

GTBank - Orlu
Plot 5 Asika Ilobi Street. Orlu. Imo.

Union Bank - Orlu
1, ABA NKWERRE. Orlu. Imo.

Fidelity Bank - Orlu
7, Amaigbo Road, Amaifeke. Orlu. Imo

blackberlin:
Great move by my brothers from the South-East. This is the only way we can stop criminal acts, not by laughing at each others' woes.

The Fulani Herdsmen (rebranded Boko Haram) have shown us all that what befalls one person may end up befalling another.

When Olu Falae was attacked by Fulani Herdsmen (aka Boko Haram), the Igbos on Nairaland were laughing and calling Yorubas cowards, as if we've not beaten each other mercilessly in secondary school. Either ways, these animals must be curbed, otherwise a break up would be imminent.

I have nothing against the Hausas/Fulanis, but the same North has produced the worst crop of people in Nigeria, from bad military heads of state to deadly insurgencies, they all came from the north. If their elders have any shame, let them say the truth and stop promoting evil, or betterstill, let the Hausas and Fulanis join their brothers in Niger and Mali and leave us in peace.

nortcentrallord:
The Hutus and Tutsis's were brothers too but when it was time for blood cleansing...besides, you have to get your history right. Benue's and Fulani's are not mixed blood. Omenka please throw some light on this.

Brugo:
The stupidity of some people baffles me.

You mock the deaths of the Benue people because of one man - Jonathan? Where does David Mark, strong man of the PDP come from? Is he APC? Did they not vote for PDP in that state?

Have you forgotten the countless deaths at the hands of herdsmen in plateau state during Jonathan's tenure? Was Plateau not a PDP enclave at that time? Why single out the people of Benue for your list?

Only one region can produce senselessness on this abysmal level... Your guess is as good as mine. The conmen of Africa.

I am not surprised that such base clannishness graces the front page of Nairaland. We know where the supermodel hails from. Land of the sunset or something.

Coldfeet:
Benue people are the worst hit! So sad the man they gave their 100% can't tell his people to stop the annihilation.

The person below me is so on point lolz.

Abagworo:
Imo State is a one city State but Orlu is urban and has better infrastructure than other non-State capital urban areas apart from Aba and Onitsha. Okorocha has really given Orlu an uplift.

As for Oguta, the tourism potential needs to be harnessed as we already have the most organised indigenous settlement in Igboland in particular and Nigeria in general.

Acidosis:
Get well soon

In the interest of the people, you all should return the money you siphoned from Nigeria. From Buhari to IBB to Atiku, to Obasanjo, and many more.

Mafangelz:
Stop commenting out of context. how does owing of salary affect geographical location of an institution

Buharism:
Dreamers are liable to dream long.

pheliciti:
Unfortunately, fiscal federalism does not mean a State controls all it generates, taxes would always be due to the center. Need i say, total control by federating units does not exist in a federalism. Perhaps you want us to go the way of confederalism?
Before then, note that the areas with resources get 13% of resources from their areas as a 1st line charge on the earnings from their areas and the littoral offshore abutting. This is different from the statutory share with other states and local government areas. At the end of the day, a state like Bayelsa would have earned close to 20% of revenue from its region. What have they done with it so far? A comparison is the fact that Western Region made all it's strides in the 1st Republic based on 50% retention of agric earnings, not nearly as much compared with what Bayelsa earns today.
You claim the President is divisive and you are entitled to your opinion. However, at times we should look at the man in the mirror. Do you hate him because he's Fulani? Then you are equally divisive. As a parallel, there's a 2009 judgement for the clean up of the Niger Delta which GEJ didn't compel the oil companies to obey in his years in office. Yet the man you termed divisive has started the clean up process. Check the man in the mirror again.
I don't see him as divisive and i have implicit trust that if any set of Nigerians can turn this country around, then Buhari & Osinbajo would be among them. I will support them and I'm sure it won't be just 2 rail projects we'll get.
Even at that, don't despise the power of multipliers e.g. the economic activities that Lagos-Kano/Lagos-Calabar rail line will bring. Just look historically about how a rail line to Jos created whole new cities. On your contemporary level, come to Lekki and see how a 1.1km bridge has multiplied prosperity in the area.
As to your comment about getting fuel for my generator, i can only say our needs are different; i don't play at the level of lining up at the filling station for fuel so i can't engage with you on that.

honourhim:
Nigeria signed a major deal with China this week as President Buhari made an important trip to visit its leader, Xi Ji Ping. Nigeria’s Foreign Minister, Godfrey Onyema, who accompanied Buhari on the trip to China, announced that the orient nation offered a $6 billion loan to Nigeria to fund infrastructure projects, one of the key areas Buhari promised to address with Nigeria’s 2016 Budget. This came as good news to many Nigerians as it now appears that Buhari has a clear economic policy. On the other hand, some Nigerians have expressed their reservations concerning this new development, claiming China was “scamming” Nigeria, a phrase that became an hashtag on social media this morning. However, what Nigerians can do is look at precedents i.e. China’s similar investment in other African countries, particularly Ethiopia.

Ethiopia has recently gained continent-wide fame for its development and achievements in the past few years. The country is one of the world’s fastest growing economies now, Africa’s fastest growing economy, thanks to government spending (tax driven) and Chinese investment. Ethiopia launched the first light rail system, in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2015 which links its capital, Addis-Ababa, to the neighbouring country, Djibouti. Africa’s current biggest economy and second biggest, Nigeria and South Africa respectively, cannot boast of one.

The responsibility for this light rail, which cost $3bn to build, was taken up by China after the World Bank and other Western donors had shown a reluctance to fund the project, to the surprise of Getachew Betru, the head of Ethiopia’s Railway Corporation. China not only constructed it, but provided most of the funding for it. The train, which was initially built to counter the challenges that Ethiopia’s drought this year would pose, has received an expanded vision. It has now acquired a Pan-African vision; it will expand to run through South Sudan, Sudan, Kenya and other East African countries. This move will surely see Ethiopia emerge as an economic hub in East Africa.

Nigeria seems to be taking a cue from Ethiopia and China. It plans to build a similar one which will run from its southern states to Lagos, its commercial hub. This project is going to be financed by China and is set to help the economic development of the country’s marginalised southern region greatly. However, projects like this need to be supplied with adequate power, something Nigeria does not yet have, but this is not so for Ethiopia. It recently announced that it made $123 million dollars as profit from the sale of electricity both at home and abroad to Djibouti, Kenya and Sudan, while also establishing links to five other East African countries. These have been done all through the help of Chinese electrical transformers.

Ethiopia also recently announced that its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam will be completed in 2017. This dam will supply 6,000 megawatts of electricity, even larger than the whole of Nigeria’s present power capacity of about 5,000 megawatts. That number would make the dam Africa’s largest hydroelectric project and Nigeria could surely do with something like this.

Buhari, during his visit, promised China that all projects started by Nigeria’s former administrations will be completed under his tenure. Though this deal could see the influx of Chinese expatriates into the nation, it seems there is no cause for alarm about China ‘stealing Nigerian jobs.’ According to China’s ambassador to Ethiopia and the African Union, La Yifan, in 2015, “the best way to contribute to human rights is creating jobs and alleviating poverty,” The rate of Chinese expatriates to jobs created for Ethiopians is 1 to 20. And this has seen unemployment rate in the country decrease from 20.4 percent in 2009 to 16.8 percent in 2015, and is set to further reduce with the job potentials of the completed rail system and electricity grid.

Though, Nigeria’s inclusion of the Chinese Yuan in its foreign exchange currencies may not “crash the dollar” as some Nigerian media houses have reported, it would go a long way in creating a path for Chinese-built infrastructure in Nigeria, without the cumbersomeness of dollar rates. Ethiopia is Africa’s second largest population and land-locked too. Nigeria which has the highest population and is not land locked should definitely not be doing worse than Ethiopia if it wants to live up to its title as “Africa’s largest economy.” If Nigeria wants to truly diversify its economy, building its infrastructures is essential and it seems China is the best to partner with.



http://venturesafrica.com/why-ethiopias-
rise-in-the-past-few-years-should-give-hope-to-nigeria/

icewinz:
God bless the nigerian army.

Even with our "go-slow minister of tourism"{waka waka president},I equally think the nigerian army has recently gained guts to fight this cowards called boko haram.
#upbrutia.
#upjonathan.
#upbuhari.
#letpeacereigninnigeria.

banio:
Buhary. Fuel is still selling at #230

boman2014:
wetin we no go see


The last chick butt can give someone ASS-THMA!!!!!!

theshadyexpress:
same way lie mohammed told us Buhari maiden previdential visit to the US yielded #5trn investment commitments and till today we are still using microscope to view the investors.

This government will say anything to justify its waste of scarce resources, only time will tell if nigerians will choose to live with a lie or begin a journey in search of truth

For me i'd rather take this report with a pinch of salt

ArchiPelago1:
When I heard about Fayose's purpoted letter to the Chinese government, I dismissed it as a Rumour. But today, pictures have been going round social media of a copy of the letter telling the Chinese government not to loan us the money we are asking for... This clearly shows that Fayose is working against the interest of Nigeria.

In Law, Treason is the crime that covers some of the EXTREME acts against ones Nation or Sovereign. In my opinion Fayose's letter is treasonable and to be fair he must be given the "Nnamdi Kanu treatment" (Immunity or no Immunity).


Click to read the letter if you missed it https://www.nairaland.com/3049293/fayoses-letter-chinese-government-stop

Ojayk:
The buildings hurriedly built for the relocation of imsu by Rochas at ogboko his village and was later renamed imo-European university finally ended as Imo palm university owed by Imo state and stakeholders.
What percentage is Imo state stake? Who are the other stakeholders? At what point did the stakeholders join the venture?
Also what are the prevailing administrative and academic conditions existing in state owed institutions like Imo poly umuagwo and Imo state university, are they now model institutions that Imo state now has to invest in creating a new university umuagwo?
That the new licensed institution is a PALM university naturally makes it a palm produce research institute. Was there no existing agricultural departments in already existing state owned institutions to handle such area of interest.
We know of Rochas love for lands and palm produce, let's all believe this was not done to promote that personal interest of his. Being that he is getting the state into another huge liability by engaging in the venture at the last lap of his administration.
Certainly Imo must get better someday. Till that day comes, we all should continue in prayers and not slumber. It's well.

SamuelAnyawu:
SouthSouth senators see una life?

A Project that will forever benefit you all you waived it off just because of Hatred and to bring smiles to Saraki a North central Senator...

Amaechi, Saraki and you all will come and go.. but that project will benefit the Southsouth forever. ..


FEAR GOD NA