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Amen!

Make a note, Ibos are treacherous.

Look at Iboman supporting Northern candidate against GEJ. They claim they are behind Gej but in actuality and behind doors are supporting Northerner.

frosbel: Nigeria's ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has distanced itself from comments by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that the party’s presidential candidate can hail from any part of the country.

Party National Secretary Alhaji Abubakar Baraje says only candidates from the northern part of the country will be allowed to contest the presidency.Such a policy would effectively bar Acting President Goodluck Jonathan from contention.

Divergent views on the issue are deepening the crisis within the PDP, which last week suspended dozens of its influential members for alleged anti-party activities.

Emma Ezeazu is General Secretary of the pro-democracy group, Alliance for Credible Elections. He says the PDP is right to challenge Mr. Obasanjo’s position on the presidential candidacy issue.

“He benefitted from the zoning formula and by the time he was leaving he insisted that a northerner will take over from him and he forced Yar’Adua on Nigeria. So I think at this particular time, he has played some bad politics and he is trying to come back into popular light and no one takes him serious for his comments.”

Ezeazu says adhering to the zoning formula will force the present administration to give the country a free and fair poll that lives up to internationally accepted standards.

“I really think that Mr. Jonathan should not contest not because of the zoning formula of PDP, but because of   the fact that when he contests, he will bring to bear on the electoral system the pressures of his ambition.”

The democracy activist argues reforming the country’s electoral laws should be given precedence over the ongoing debate about the zoning formula.

He says a reformed electoral system best guarantees each candidate a fair chance regardless of party affiliation.

“The most important thing now in the history of our country is credible elections.It does not matter who wins the election or which tribe the person comes. I think the fight today is really to create a level playing field that would make it possible for people with potential   to rule the country properly to come up.”


http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Nigerian-Ruling-Party-Insists-On-Northern-Presidential-Candidate-92694439.html

toluxa1: If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of the stuff?

You cant do that dude.

You will kill the industry -
Airlines will not need to replace fleet
Insurance will loose subscribers

If any lawmaker is stupid enough to push legislation for that his dead body will float in the river next morning, courtesy of airline industry lobbyists.

Amaechi need to go sit his a..s s down and govern. So what if they kill am? Politics in Africa is about bloodshed, this is not Europe or America where they spit grammar on each other face. Baboon and dog are waiting in the wings for 2015. This is opportunity for him to resign if he is concerned about saving his neck. otuocha!

Gboliwe: I support you.

Jmaine is yoruba? I always thought he was Ibibio or Anang. He should make a good moderator.

Jmaine is not Yoruba, pointB is pulling a veil over your head.

talktimi: why not efik, tiv and berom while at it ? Obviously tribe is more important than capability to you.

Yes we can do that too. Here is how:

Remove one of the Ibo mods, create a new composition of

Ibo - 1
Yoruba - 1
Hausa - 1
Minority - 1

I like the idea.

To the judges,

Current composition of mods:

Hausa - 0
Yoruba - 1
Ibo - 2

A balance is needed. We hope you will do the right thing in this regard and choose an Hausa person and in absence of that, a Yoruba person.

We are not looking for a hausa speaking or yoruba speaking, but a true ethnic.

Thanks.

Guys, what did we not have, that through the amalgamation of 1914 we were blessed with?
Likewise, what did we lack, that through the independence of 1960 we have since acquired?

This is the bottom line when we think of our current and future situations.

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Where are you? I miss your biographies on Nigerian leaders. I was hoping you'd do one today to celebrate Independence.

Please come back soon, I miss ya.

Papabrowne,
There are moments when the Federal gov deserves to be criticized, demonized, ridiculed and attacked. There are other moments when its about the citizen amd not the Fed. Moments like this our humanity is awakened and we rise above that which we see as fraternal.

This killing is national tragedy. Has the President ordered that flags be flown at half mast yet? No! Thats typical GEJ and his creek incompetence.

zomby: Abeg, Oga Fashola stop wasting your time.

Nigeria has absolutely nothing to celebrate @ 20, 30, 40, 45, 50 or 53.

All our leaders (current or past) should be ashamed of themselves, in fact each of them should get 53 lashes for turning a great nation into a very large inexpensive latrine.

It makes no sense to even bother to figure out which history one should acknowledge; whether we should celebrate 1914 or 1960, it doesn't matter. The whole thing is f00lish.

As long as a very large percentage of Nigerian citizens continues to live in poverty, no jobs, no constant electric power, poor water supply, zero security, bad roads, corruption from the top to the bottom and weak education/medical system, Nigeria will continue to be a very large inexpensive latrine that is also full of human waste (sh1t).
And very very soon (even with flashy life style and range rovers) Nigerians will no longer be respected anywhere around the world.

Today is a sad day for Nigeria and Nigerians.

Shame on each and everyone of us.

Good point! It makes no fvkng difference whether you celebrate amalgamation or independence, our togetherness is a poison thats killing the individual parts....give self rule back to the regions and downsize the center, period! We are not interested in a continued union at the center. The people should find their union in ethnic independence, not in Nigerian independence, whether you call that 100yr old or 53yr old.

The circumstances might be different at the moment but I would like to end with words spoken by a great statesman, the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in 1967, at another time when our country was at a crossroads: ‘Only a peaceful solution must be found to arrest the present worsening stalemate and restore normalcy.”“I adopt those evergreen words as my own today and urge all those involved in any form of conflict or disagreement to pursue peaceful solutions,” he stated.

Even Awolowo, whose words mean so much to Fashola kept his distance from nationalism, preferring instead regional self rule. So why is my Governor such a strong advocate for national unity and community?

[quote author=IGBO-SON]^^^Being from the SS makes your case all the more pathetic!

Let me understand your reasoning a bit better: Ndigbo should not form their own country just b'cos Nigeria is one? I suppose Nigeria being one is an immutable law of physics that can never be undone abi?......and knowing all you know about what has happened and is happening in this country, you can still sit down wherever you are with a clear conscience and pontificate that Nigeria is one? Walahi, before we can make any headway in the south, we first need to get rid of slaves like you!

Die hard 'one naijariah' proponents like you should look on that 100 year mark with trepidation![/quote]Igbo Son,

Back in the 60s, your attempt to separate from Nigeria was premature and miscalculated on many fronts. The North was amalgamated woth South for a reason - resource and sustenance!

As at the time you went to war that condition still existed. The North of the 60s was like a little boy you bought a mechanical toy train.
His senses are suddenly aroused to many possibilities and he will be attached posessively to the train. He is intrigued by its colors, size, form, motion, sound, and most of all he owns it snd has the prerogative to share it or not. Some years later this child would not care anything about that train. So if you were planning to disposess him of this train you are advised to wait until he has outgrown posession and need for the train.

Right now, North is wary and tired of the burdens of Nigeria. They will create a new Arewa nation if it comes to it but they are not in that state yet. What they want is to exist as a separate land of one culture, one value and one system, tethered through a regional seat of representation to Abuja. They want to remain in Nigeria but remotely and invisible...in other words, a reclusive self governing land with shared resource fed through the center. Anyone that try to take that away will be in confrontation.

To the Yorubas, the 60s was seen as a curse. Pre independence, Awolowo was the only leader who constantly harrassed he colonialists and questioned their continued presence. He battled them until they finally yielded to him in 1957 and gave him self government of the Western region. So in reality there was a Government of Western Nigeria three years before there was a government of Nigeria. Western Nigeria should have celebrated its 50th yr Independence in 2007 but it didnt. This government of self rule gave room for Awo to deploy developments through the region - free primary education, free health care, WNTV, Produce marketing boards, and so on. In other regions people paid to get their children primary education or health care for their family. Awolowo instituted socialist welfare government in contradiction of the colonialist's capitalist government. Western government thrived and proved that left alone it will do for its citizens what Colonials failed to do in 100yrs. After Zik created policies favoring nationalism and Ironsi followed up and disbanded the regional powers, The Government of Western Nigeria went into decline. We have since not recovered from it. So in the West, Yorubas know what they want - self government. They dont care if it happens within or outside the sovereingty of Nigeria, afterall the Yoruba nation is a spread across West African coasts into four other countries.
What we clamor for is self rule, we are going back to the era of Awo doctrines for the West.

Awolowo, who had founded the Action Group to promote Yoruba interests, was a vocal opponent of colonial rule, arguing that British administration had been ‘carried out by incompetent, inferior officials’, and that the British never had ‘the true interests of the country at heart’. In 1955, referring to the government of the Western region, he stated that ‘in fourteen months under the present government, we have done more for Nigeria than the British did in 120 years’ (Gunther, 1955, 775).

To the Igbos, there was a self government in 1957 as well. There was political vacuum in Eastern region because the Igbos did not have a central political party that was Ibo made and Ibo directed. Igbo rise was championed by Zik who was permanently in West and tied to a party created by Westerners. This was the problem primarily why the Igbo self government in Enugu stagnated - its affairs was being directed from Lagos.

When Zik became President, instead of using his position to consolidate power in East, for policies and developments, he was focused plotting the disruption of Action Group and using political factions to create riots in West.
Then Ironsi got in power. Rather than to promote and uplift the self ruling government of East, he instead erased all self ruling governments and put Ibos in rulership of point positions in Federal government and empowered Federal over Regional.
Ojukwu had influence and enough support to return East to self rule but he wasn't patient and arrogance that he was Oxford educated and Gowon was not; and Gowon was junior officer to the rightful most senior officer; and his people were massacred in North...all the more important focus of returning to self rule was abandoned for emotions and pride.
Then came Ekwueme in Vice Presidency. Ibos were happy just to have their son as second in power, it didn't matter that the govt of Shagari was pro North and West. The Yoruba party stalwarts of NPN got more done for their land than the VP of the sitting government of the Nation got done for his homeland.

It should not take a space scientist to know that the coup of 1983 was a re-enactment of the one in Jan 66 with the same principal - Shagari.

Mbadiwe colluded with Ironsi to rob North the ascendancy to power.
Shagari colluded with Buhari to rob East the ascendancy to power.

Lets fast forward to NOW!

Ibo is the loudest in shouting marginalization and self rule. How will your self rule come about when the prerequisites to self rule are not even in place?

You are living the ONE NIGERIA doctrine faster and more convincing than any other ethnic group, majority or minority. Where every other group are proving by their action and steadily installing institutions of ethnic pride and pushing the mantra of self glory, Ibos are spreading away from their self glory and living the glories of other ethnicities. How do you hope to get self rule doing that? You are by your foot traffic and migratory pattern adding impetus to those who are adamantly resolved in returning to the doctrines of their political saints. Which saint exist in your political history that you would like to revive?

Your problem is not knowing if you want Nigeria or if you want self rule, stuck in between, you have failed to attain either one.

Ooh God!! My next door neighbor is going to be terribly upset. He suffers from some syndrome, he claims. He is married to American tribal Indian. Between the two of them, close to $12,000/month gratuity. They have not worked in 20yrs. If Govt shut down and they dont get their money this fall season is going to be hot.

liberty300: this goes to show how stupid u r bro (no offense) read Wat u wrote n tell me how it sounds to u. Lemme ask u dis; wats d job of d minister of aviation?

Hahaha, her job is to regulate the industry, no more, no less. She gives concession to airliners but she does not attract business to airports. Each airport liaisons to survive the competition.

Knowing now what the aviation minister does, separate from the business of running a successful airport, I ask again, shouldn't AIIA be marketing itself and not sitting waiting to be approached?

Why is airline begging you for business? That depicts the AIIA management in bad light. Whats wrong, do you not have a business operating unit or a liaison office?

B2 mario: Abia state already has a good fire service.

I cant believe your ignorant a.r.ss said this.

5000 stores selling assorted merchandise - spare parts, electronics, building materials, drugs, second hand clothes, etc - is prone, sooner or later, to have a fire incidence. When it happens you need a rapid response fire brigade within a mile or less, not one at 10miles away.

You are getting ready to build a world standard facility, first of its kind in SE, drop your village way of reasoning and start thinking like a world class citizen.

[quote author=nnenna.1]Just take a look yourself. Scum.

You all take turns saying rubbish about the SE and giving unwarranted advice to Igbos to "develop their regions" (whatever that means since all places outside Lagos and Abuja, maybe PH, are no better). When the opportunity comes you start giving reasons why this should not be allowed in the SE.

Ha! When the highest concentrations of cash in banks have been found to be in Aba and Onitsha, outside the major cities of Lagos, PH and Abuja, the investor has nothing to worry about.[/quote]Nenna, we wish you well but we have a stake in making sure money is invested well so a true development will happen to pull you out of our land. The billions that will go to scammers would end up forcing more migrants out of Abia into Lagos. So our interest, concern and critic is justified.

Abagworo: I believe that since Ariaria market has more than 50 to 100 thousand shops, then this one is possible. Its just a matter of moving few lines to the complex.

Thats true if the parties to the contract are genuine, not scammers.

These guys are building "the biggest mall in Africa"; have they ever built anything in their professional career that is worth referencing? What does their career portfolio look like?

spyroxy1: I would have loved to say happy independence... buh the killing of those innocent students that were killed won't let me.





God Please help us in this nation, Give us leaders that will be take the issues of their fatherland seriously and Reveal the perpetrators of all these Killings



So so sad


Sad!

I support you. Our flags should have lowered to half staff for 7day mourning. Unfortunately our President is more interested in Rivers politics than he is in national politics. May their souls rest in peace.

I truly believe that schools in NE should be closed.

Way to go SE..keep moving in this direction and you will reinvent your land.

Please, tell the developers to not forget a fire station for the mall. A mall that size will suffer huge loss if there is fire outbreak and no quick response on hand to control spread.

agbameta: That's not a mall, it's a regular market with stalls...

When you see them use words like MEGA, MASSIVE, HUGE, WORLD CLASS, just lmao or lol @ their comedy..

Horus,

I watched the media. Thats a concept, not a project.

You can create any concept and submit it to govt as a business model. Then you get it into media to push for marketing and subscription. Audience will see what is possible and subscription to the idea will grow. Its a gamble that the popularity will force govt to adopt the idea and therefore secure it for capital financing, more likely through bond offering considering its scale to the local market.

Its a beautiful piece and so far exist as a concept judging from the article. This will be a way forward for SE if they pull it off and a magnet to rally resettlement for the land.

Check out the concept owner.

http://www.paulobanua.com/profile.php