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Codes151:
Sola powered Keke! It's not a big deal. We make it look like it's an innovation! Wen good universities even reject this kind of project topics! Sir it's nothing! Try magnetically induce motors or something ! That's worth my FP

What innovation have you ever crafted since you were born?

Arthur Okeyika! Ofcourse it's in the gene.
The spirit of innovation.
Igbo Amaka!

Oblang:
See this guy o. Is it those 2 by 2 pepper behind ur backyard that is sold in big baskets in ur market. There is no region in Nigeria that pepper can't the cultivated in Nigeria but the north produce it in commercial quantity. Those ones u buy in the market are not the little ones planted behind ur house. The same goes for tomato..

Pepper is grown in commercial quantities in Enugu North senatorial distric, aka Nsukka area.

Obviously, Ohaji/Egbema people not only feel cheated by FG, they feel cheated by Imo state too, as they feel that part of the oil money Imo state gets from the FG courtesy of Ohaji/ Egbema crude oil are spent building up Owerri while Egbema/Ohaji area lie in neglect.

Obviously the restructuring needed is not just at the FG level, but down to village level. The land and it's resources should be returned to the native owners, while the various levels of government collects tax only. That way, an Ohaji/ Egbema man will not feel cheated not just by Nigeria, but also by the rest of imo state people.

malton:
Maybe you should heed to your own advise, don't you think so?

Now water melon is mostly grown in the northern part of Nigeria.

Potatoes? You're a joke! Potatoes are grown majorly up north.

And as for garri, news was sometime in 2013 that Nasarawa State has overtaken many other states of the federation in the mass production of cassava.

As for maize/corn, don't even attempt to argue in the face of facts.

How much yam exactly is being farmed in Anambra? I live in Awka, and have covered almost every part of the state. And if you believe that a state of 1,870 sq mi of total area, 2/3rd of which isn't put to farm production can boss an entire region in yam production, then you're a beyond description.

Your yams ship in from Benue and Plateau States on a daily basis. Go to the market and ask those guys offloading marked yams where they brought them from. That you stage yam festivals doesn't exactly mean that you are self sufficient in its production.

Try leaving your region once, maybe, then you will have a better outlook to life.

You are not making any sense.

Here are the stats here, and I doubt they could have changed significantly: https://www.nairaland.com/2522113/omitted-truth-debunking-lies...nigeria-states


Even if for once, we accept the lie that the SE source most of her staple food from the North, how exactly does that translate to the North feeding SE? Do they give the food to SE for free?

If anything, it's the SE that feeds them, cos we buy the food from them from our hard earned money, and so have the option of buying from somewhere else other than the North, the North on the other hand won't be able to find another customer easily and so will be forced to waste their perishable produce due to poor storage system, their farmers will suffer, should Ndiigbo pull out from buying their produce.

So. It's the other way round. Igbo buyers feed Northern farmers.

woodcook:
The stats are there but the question remains are the North feeding the SEners? Given that there are viable lands in SE and all of the daily cusin of SEners are prepared mostly with produce that sourced locally.

The fact that these locally sourced item are not produced and exported does not mean that they are imported.

https://www.nairaland.com/2522113/omitted-truth-debunking-lies...nigeria-states

We have been here before.

Most of the stats for crop production in Nigeria can be found on that link.

redcap:
I wonder if they give us their food stuffs for free.The okorocha must be a fool.The north should be greatful the have ready buyers for their produce, even if we can't produce ugu leave we can always import from from Cameroon which is a stone throw away. When push comes to shove we'll know who depends on each other for survival. Can you imagine okorocha, what happens to the food up north if they don't have people to buy,most of the foodstuffs are perishable. I'm just too angry to write coherently now.

Gbam! Onye ji Garri ( Farm produce) na achu onye ji Ofe( Money) and not the other way round.

redcap:
I wonder if they give us their food stuffs for free.The okorocha must be a fool.The north should be greatful the have ready buyers for their produce, even if we can't produce ugu leave we can always import from from Cameroon which is a stone throw away. When push comes to shove we'll know who depends on each other for survival. Can you imagine okorocha, what happens to the food up north if they don't have people to buy,most of the foodstuffs are perishable. I'm just too angry to write coherently now.

Gbam!

And moreover, the Northern agriculture is exaggerated.

Nigeria still imports most of her food, despite billions of naira the Northern controlled FG had over the years spent on subsidizing northern farmers via free and subsidized fertilizer programmes, free/subsidized improved seed programs, Irrigation programs and the rest, all financed using petrodollars.

What happens to the Northern useless agriculture when petrodollars stops being accessible to them?

And by the way, Igboland already has a viable thriving agricultural system, all we will do in an Igbo nation is invest heavily on them to increase and improve their yields.

https://www.nairaland.com/2522113/omitted-truth-debunking-lies...nigeria-states

I maintain that Okorocha is mentally challenged, that's the only way the explain this his nonsense speech.

Rochas needs mental examination.

It's the North that needs Ndiigbo. They don't give the food free, we buy it with our money. If Nigeria breaks, we can decide to start buying from Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial guinea and them Rest, it's the hungry Northern farmers that will lose it and will be begging us to keep buying from them or hunger will finish them.

Bottom line: Northern farmers needs Igbo buyers more than Igbo buyers needs northern farmers.

Rochas needs mental examination.

It's the North that needs Ndiigbo. They don't give the food free, we buy it with our money. If Nigeria breaks, we can decide to start buying from Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial guinea and them Rest, it's the hungry Northern farmers that will lose it and will be begging us to keep buying from them or hunger will finish them.

Bottom line: Northern farmers need Igbo buyers more than Igbo buyers needs northern farmers.

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uckennety:
Tell that to nzeogwu who started it all!and ajuzie ewu

Pay him no attention, he is another Afonja frustrated being. Won't be surprised if he is same person as Deadlytruth.

Arrgh, economy is in recession? What to do is so easy. Just blame GEJ and all is forgiven.

Too bad.

Oby is educated but not enlightened. You will marvel at the number of Igbo elites that are as disillusioned as Oby.
She got herself caught up in the Nigerian tribal game, she forgot her roots when she went about parading herself as a patriotic Nigerian, but the people she is up against doesn't. Now any punch she throws at this government will be comfortablely labelled as a usual "Igbo" dissatisfaction with this government.
See the funny thing, one can never be out of sync with his people and expect to grow, soon or later, events will beat you into sync with them, Oby is officially now a wailer like the Rest of her Igbo people.

Her fate awaits every naive Igbo man or woman out there, who is too naive to understand the game being played out in Nigeria, but rather forms patriotic Nigerian.

Aigbofa:
Going by your logic there's nothing in the south east that suggests it will be better than any other struggling landlocked African country.
Drug pushing, kidnapping and senseless crimes are not the type of tenacity needed to build a nation.

And how exactly is it Yoruba business, if SE turned out to become a "struggling land locked African country" as you wish in your little fantasy?

Can you love SE more than SEners or know what's best for SE than Ndiigbo?
What exactly is wrong with this Yoruba people.

SW is the pride of Nigeria, which is exactly the more reason why Igbos want to leave Nigeria for you lots.

I mean, wouldn't our sophisticated Yoruba people be happy to part with a people( Ndiigbo) who according to them, only brings bad fame to their Nigeria?

Chiwude:
Marcelini, It's obvious you're a staunch PDP member and as such will always stand for your party. I talk meaningfully with pan Igbo guys and not political jobbers out to sell us their party mantra. Come back when you can list the political achievements Ndigbo gained in the past 16 years of PDP followership, only then will I take you serious.

Not a member of any party, unless Igbo nation is a party, then I'm a core member.

What I laid down to you were my own rational perspective of motive and reasons behind the current Yoruba led APC media vilification of Ndiigbo.

We didn't gain anything campaigning for and voting for non Igbos but mostly Yoruba and Northern PDP presidents for 16years, your solution to that is for us to dump PDP and join APC ASAP, because Yoruba media frenzy demanded we do so, and to what end? To start repeating the cycle of voting for Yoruba and Northern presidents of APC extraction for another 16 years, until the power in APC slips away from them, and they jump to a new party and start vilifying us again to join them in the New party?

Or Are you too blind to see that the Yorubas are already closing in to take over from Buhari in APC once Buhari is through? Are you that blind to see that Rochas led Igbo team in APC are sore losers who already lost out in the power play at APC?

There is nothing for Ndiigbo in APC, you might argue that there is nothing for us as well in PDP, of which I might agree with you.
But then, if there is nothing for us in both PDP and APC, what then is the motivation for us to move to APC?better we stick to familiar terrain, which PDP represents.

Personally, I don't care about Nigeria, as I don't consider myself one, I am just an Igbo. I only took time to analyze the Igbo and PDP story for you, because I felt that perhaps, other Igbos here could start seeing issues from that perspective I presented.

Why are you too blind to see that what we did in 2015 was exactly what we have been doing since 1999, which was to vote for any presidential candidate PDP presented.

Same Igbo PDP agents that campaigned in Igboland for OBJ in 1999 and 2003, for Yaradua in 2007, were same Igbo PDP agents that campaigned for GEJ in 2011 and 2015.

The only difference was that in 1999 and 2003, the Yorubas gained from their( Igbo PDP campaigners) efforts, and the North was happy to wait for the top spot as VP.

In 2007, the North was the top spot, and the Yorubas in their usual Igbo hatred were comfortable knowing that even though they( Yorubas) were not well ranked, Igbos themselves were not equally highly placed in the Yaradua order, it was an arrangement they could live with, and so no one remembered that Ndiigbo hated Buhari so much that even with an Igbo VP, Buhari could not secure Igbo votes.

But in 2015, the top of the chain was neither Yoruba nor Hausa, they didn't have any problem with that arrangement in 2011, since he was neither Igbo too, nevertheless, in 2015, they were convinced that even though he wasn't Igbo, he seemed to have embraced Igbos and Igbos seemed in their( North and Yorubas) mindset to be set to benefit most from the New order he might usher, so they acted swiftly and removed him and the rest as they say, is history.

Now, how about that for a perspective.

We allowed sentiments to becloud our sense of judgement from the post electoral campaign down to the election proper. We did all this to a man who not once but twice confided in us as a base for his presidential bid. By allowing our selfish leaders in alliance with the PDP to sell us the idea that Buhari was a ethno-religious bigot with rabid hatred towards Ndigbo. Where were you guyz, when this same bigot neglected other sections of the south to pick us twice as running mate to his flagship campaign.

You need to start acting like an Igbo for once. The Hallmark of the Igbo spirit is independence of thought process, you need to start thinking for yourself like all true Igbo do, and stop allowing the Yoruba and Northern media do the thinking for you.

Ndiigbo had a long history of voting for PDP. The Yorubas didn't cry blue murder when their son OBJwas the beneficiary of Igbo affinity to PDP, twice he won elections in a landslide victory in Igboland, no one vilified the Igbo then for not voting Buhari, even though Buhari presented an Igbo VP.

When Yaradua benefited from Igbo affinity to PDP and gained massive Igbo votes as Buhari was left in the cold, no one crucified Ndiigbo. No one blamed us for voting for Yaradua against Buhari. The North and their Yoruba brothers were cool with the arrangement, as it appeared their Son( for the North) and their muslim brother( for Yoruba Muslims) was the beneficiary of Igbo affinity to PDP, and it also appealed to them that the Igbo had little or no influence in the Yaradua order.
So no one blamed us for not voting Buhari, everyone was cool with that.

But fast forward to 2015, Ndiigbo again voted for PDP,but the beneficiary this time around wasn't a Northerner or a Yoruba, it was a neutral man, and to make matters worst, it appeared like the Igbo for the first time, are in pole position to gain, should PDP win.

So, suddenly, the Igbos became witches and Wizards, they became haters of Buhari, they became hateful beings, all sorts of insults are now hauled at the Igbos.
Igbos became devils for rejecting Buhari they had always rejected since 2003. Buhari must now be seen as an Angel and the Igbos must be demonized for rejecting him this time around.

PDP they( Yorubas and North) rode on to become presidents became the cause of Nigeria's ills all of a sudden and must be exorcised. Ndiigbo must buy into this PDP exorcism agenda of the Yorubas and North ASAP,like Zombies, no questions asked. We must drop a 16year old culture of voting for PDP as fast as lightening and join the APC the New horse in town, rode by the North and the Yorubas brothers, where we must again continue to contribute our votes to their endless supplies of non Igbo presidents as we did for them in PDP.

If you are too blind or naive to understand the game at play here, most of us ( Igbos) aren't.


If you have lost your Igbo spirit, most Igbos haven't, better stop embarrassing us here with your regurgitated Yoruba and Hausa line of thoughts.

It is true that Buhari campaigned in just few eastern cities during the last election and its also true that after emerging President, he (Buhari) made a 5% remark against his perceived enemies as well as went further to tilt federal appointments against our favour.


Look at how easy it was for you to relieve and dismiss Buhari of his sins of hatred against Ndiigbo. A president of a country made such an abominable statement against a section of the country, yet he is to be forgiven, it's Ndiigbo that must be vilified, crucified and made to be seen as guilty,so that your beloved Angel Buhari might walk blameless.

May God save Igboland from your kind. With sons like You, she( Igboland) needs no outside enemies, the enemies truly walk within and and not outside the gates.

Several times did he sought audience with Ohaneze Ndigbo and severally were his appeal discarded. We allowed sentiments to becloud our sense of judgement from the post electoral campaign down to the election proper.

Uncle tell us another story. Stop making up these lies.

It was in this forum that Yorubas and their Arewa brothers mocked Ohanaeze's attempt to reach out to Buhari, even though most of us Igbos were against Ohanaeze's move then.

www.nairaland.com/2970171/ohanaeze-visit-buhari-charter-demands

P0intBlank:
As requested

CC Marcelini Kaysalas

Nice job brother. I got caught up with work. Thanks for the assistance.

One thing I had come to understand about the Yorubas is that their hatred and burning jealousy towards the Igbo progress are irredeemeable.

That they are one Nigerian Apologists and would fight to death to co exist with Ndiigbo in same geopolitical space is the highest form of witchcraft ever known to the Igbo race, one which every well breastfed Igbo son or daughter must reject. Tufiakwa! Ala ekwekwala ngwere gbaa aji!

PentiumPro:
The way the Ijaws ( your newest overlords) dealt with you in Igweocha changing all your Umu to Rumu, try and remove the R and see Ijaws wiped you off

Poor comeback dude. Rumu is an Ikwerre thing, not Ijaw. Not even all Ikwerres subscribe to the Rumu stuff, someothers retained their Umu.

Either way, it's their land, they reserve the right to rename it Parlour, not just rumu if they so please. We can't say same for Ilorin people, they are under the Gambari Emir and must do his bidding.

PentiumPro:
You are not going anywhere until we say you are free, even after losing 3M and still counting to this day
Last time, it was hunger a Yoruba man used on you, this time, they will use something else.
When and if Nigeria break, we will handle the abookii in our usual ways of brain above brawn.

How are you going to to handle the abokis? Right, like you are handling them in Ilorin, on your belly, while prostrating to your Gambari overlords.

Stop kidding yourselves. No one else take you lots serious.

39xtr90r:
I can see that you're one of the Yoruba warmongers and propagandists.

Don't tell me you go to Redeem Church or any of the modern churches and yet expert in lies and falsehood. Satan must be your mentor!

I must tell you that I've got no Yoruba blood in me. I still insist, dare the streets of Lagos and test your rants.

Only naive Igbos take those Yoruba spiritual houses called mega churches serious.

All of them are tribalists with a deep seated hatred for the Igbo. Just mention Biaf*** and their primordial Yoruba atavistic hatred nature manifests.

39xtr90r:
There's an article written by Waheed B. on HOW YORUBA TRADITIONAL RULERS CONNIVED WITH ABACHA TO ROB MKO ABIOLA OF HIS MANDATE. That piece of information will expose to you the extent Yorubas can go to engage in evil and wickedness just because of money.

Here's a compendium of Yoruba criminals and their cohorts who ruined this countr

https://www.nairaland.com/1485096/history-armed-robbers-company-liquidators#18955417

http://thenigeriangazette.com/history-of-armed-robbers-company-liquidators-rapists-and-notoriours-official-criminals-in-nigeria-by-shama-maliga/

Nwanne, akam di n' elu. I can see your goodwork on this thread. Ife gi na amasi m, jide ka iji, I na eme ofuma.

Enuguboy4nsk:
yes we know...biggest contributor in militancy; arm robbery; witchcraft and in all things evil....'The big heart ailing heart indeed'

So you have finally taken this your antagonism towards Anambra to Delta state. You better stop this your deviant behavior nwanne.

InyinyaAgbaOku:
it is not a capital thing.
what does capital have to do with names?

Capital has everything to do with it.

Ritchiee:
Most of you Igbos are traders and mostly illiterates.So we 'lazy'ones are the ones who were and are more developed than you..even lent your real lazy people money two times dueing regional system....laziness has gotten another meaning from the hard drugging and in-drug-ious Igbos.. ah ah ah

Yorubas are far more developed than Igbos and far more intelligent.If you say you are good,you give reasons and not propaganda and we will attest to the facts enumerated.
Let us compare...
Before colonialism:
Yorubas built empires like Britain,Rome etc up to Dahomey,Ghana and Togo while Igbos were very primitive during this period and practising great primitivities that you are conversant with.
2.Yorubas were civilized and living in organised environment,used higher materials for building e.g what you call brown roof now as against palm tree leaves been used by Igbos.
3.Yorubas were never Unclad or half Unclad as against Igbos who were still half Unclad as near as1921...you can visit wikipedia and see pix of some of their women in 1921.
There are still more but let me go to when each region was controlling its destinies..
1.Yorubas were first in everything development-wise..
2.They built the first skyscraper in tropical Africa.
3.First Olympic swimning pool.
4.First Television in tropical Africa.
5.First newspaper etc
Had many firsts in almost everything and still having it till date.

20th and 21st centuries till date..
1.Yoruba has 2 Nobel Laureates Igbos have none.
2.Yoruba has several youngest phd holders in Nigeria and in the world Igbos have none
3.Yorubas have more than 10 gramny awards in their kitty from a couple of Yorubas.Igbos have none.
Yorubas are the only ones who have repeatedly broken the records of universities and polytechnics home and abroad by taking 5.0 and 4.0 CGP respectively.THE FUNNY THING IS IGBOS HAVE NONE.
Yoruba even controls 70% of the ICT world in Nigeria.As we speak,SW is the 3rd economy in Africa
The list is endless.
Anybody that says Igbos are anything near the Yorubas should compare and contrast...

Stats is in conflict with your Yoruba lies:

Paul Anber's essay "Modernization and Political Disintegration: Nigeria and the Ibos" published in the journal of Modern African Studies vol. 5, No 2 (Sep, 1967) 163-179. See pp 171-172 for excerpt:
" '' A system of Universal primary education was introduced in Eastern Nigeria in 1953, though the mission schools had already prospered in the Region long before then. Despite the fact that there was a requirement for limited contributory fees, education continued to be very much in demand. Even at the time when universal primary education was first introduced, the percentage of the population over seven years of age who were literate was higher in the East than in any other Region: East, 10.6 per cent; West 9.5 percent; North, 0.9 percent. Since 1959, the East has had more teachers and pupils than any other area of the country, with the heaviest emphasis on primary education. Figures for elementary and secondary education indicate that the approximate ratio of teachers to population in 1963 was 1 to every 1,500 in the East, 1 to every 2,500 in th West, and 1 for every 10,000 in the north. Other statistical data reveal how rapidly the standard of living rose among Ibos. The East had the most extensive hospital facilities in the country by 1965, the largest regional production of electricity in the country by 1954, and the greatest number of vehicle registrations by 1963. The economic orientation of the Ibos was also reflected through membership of credit associations:in 1963 the East had 68,220 individual members, the west 5,776, and the north a mere 2,407 ." ''... His source was the Annual Abstract of Statistics ( Federal Office of Statistics, Lagos, 1965)

Reyginus:
Lol. I still doubt a man of your spiritual exposure will say this. No problem is you say so but I don't believe you. I've got no energy to type or elaborate now.

That's for you gullible ones that keep trooping to all these Yoruba mega spiritual houses.

These people hatred for your kind and in terms and in turn you, can never be erased by spiritual scams they practice.

Once any Yoruba man hear's the word "Igbo", his reasoning capacity blanks out, his primordial hate nature takes over.

You are naive to think that sukkot is capable of rising above his Yoruba nature.