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akike:
And you think giving plots of lands is recognition.

Like I had written, you are a disgrace to humanity.

Stop making a fool of yourself already! If recieving plots of land from the president of a country due to your talent is not recognition then I bet you dont know what recognition means. Go get a life dude & stop hating on those that are progressing.

chukwudi44:
Dont mind them!! They will keep on hailing Fashola whose crime is even worse than that of Oduah!! Boreholes for N139million,websites for N78million and bullet proof cars for N300million which amongst this is more outrageous?

I have not even mentioned Fayemi who used N50million for an ordinary bed smh

Thats the height of hypocrisy bro, they wont remove the log in their eyes but will want to remove a speck in someone else's eye! spits on them!! They want to protect known thieves like fashola & fayemi while casting aspersion on others. Fuuls thats what they are.

This ugly midget has lost every atom of credibility, its such a shame that someone as morally depraved as Oshiomole is occupying a dignified position as governor of a state. He has officially been inducted into the hall of shame as a persona non grata!!

This ugly midget has lost every atom of credibility, its such a shame that someone as morally depraved as Oshiomole is occupying a dignified position as governor of a state. He has officially been inducted in the hall of shame as a persona non grata!!

what nonsence, after the long wait this is what we got?? Buhari is not serious!

HappyJoe:
If you don't understand how the financial sector operates, please stop clogging the Internet with ignorance. Wema Bank and Bank of the North are not serious banks. Every serious bank has its HQ in Lagos - the same way US financial sector is largely New York based.

Having said that, anyone who says Pascal Dozie hasn't helped Ndigbo in Diamond Bank is talking nonsense. Out of the new generation banks, Diamond Bank has the most branches in Enugu - you can go ahead and do a survey. And having worked in Diamond Bank, I can tell you that Pascal prefers to employ Igbos, and he is NOT ashamed of it.

In many cases, the fault lies with state governors. A prominent Igbo oil and gas magnate wanted to establish an office in Awka, but he's constantly being frustrated by mid-level workers, and the governor is there, blowing his trumpet, doing nothing.

The shameful thing is that it is easier for an Igbo businessman to establish a factory in Lagos than in many Igbo states. That is when you hear "Enugu doesn't want to give land to Nnewi people to establish factories at Emene (a code word for Anambra people)". You also heard about how Ebonyi frustrated Ibeto for 8 solid years under Elechi, for what? (Ebonyi has more than 600 million tons of limestone, so you can establish as many cement factories there as you want).

We need to tell ourselves the truth.

You are just haughty and full of hot air without substance. Nobody said that Pascal Dozie have not helped Igbos, he and other prominent Igbos have helped in one way or the other. What we were talking about before you jumped in with your emotional tantrums was ways through which the economy of the S.East could be enhanced, if you had taken your time to go through the thread, you would have seen different opinions from well meaning Igbos. Now you claimed to have worked in Diamond bank, yet you don't appear to have a grasp of how the sector works. For starters, don't you know that Diamond bank and the other Igbo banks can have their head office in Enugu while still maintaining a corporate head office in Lagos What you said about Pascal Dozie preference of Igbos is nonsense, UBA, Fidelity, Diamond etc have a high percentage of Igbo staff simply because the Chairmen and board of directors are dominated by Igbos the same way GT bank, wema bank etc are dominated by Yorubas, it is not a Pascal Dozie unique character, he is a thorough bred professional Dude bring up your own ideas and stop criticizing others from your high-horse without contributing meaningfully.

Antivirus92:
so there is nothing we can do about it?
can't all those things be put in place in d east?
remember it adds much to d economy

Ofcourse something can be done about it, the commissioner of tourism, Enugu state can simply travel to Onitsha,Idumota & pound/park road Aba to liase with the union members. We should rather bother ourselves on why our rich folks are investing in Lagos/ogun region instead of the S.East. Diamond bank,Fidelity bank,UBA & Zenit bank are owned by Igbos yet non of them have their head office in Igboland unlike wema bank & bank of the north that have their offices in ibadan & kano respectively while maintaining corporate head offices in Lagos & Abuja. Do you know the impact a diamond bank or fidelity bank head office will have on the economy of Enugu?? The same goes for industries, that is were I see a big problem!

Antivirus92:
I beg to deviate a little.... what is happening to music industry in d east?
why would our brothers who are into music move to d west to make it?
I thought there is something of that nature in enugwu?

In as much as I see that as a problem and not also holding forth for the musicians, I believe its all about trying to maximize optimal business profit. If you say our musician brothers are moving to Lagos then I will agree with you but to say they are moving to the west is a bit uncharitable to them. I don't think their is any known Igbo musician who is based in Ibadan, Akure, Ijebu ode, Ekiti or whatever aside Lagos. To ask why they are moving to Lagos is like asking why American actors are moving to Hollywood instead of staying in Iowa or why Indian actors are moving to Mumbai instead of staying in Punjab region Its all about market strategy, synergy,business prospects,market forces et al. With all the headquarters of Banks, telecommunications, Oil companies and several other business domiciled in Lagos do you think it will be easy for them to get endorsement deals or become brand ambassadors if they are not physically available in a dog-eat-dog industry On the relocation of the movie industry out of Enugu, you have to blame movie producers and marketers who incidentally are dominated by Igbos and some blame also goes to the Enugu state government because it was the Delta state government through R.M.D as the commissioner of Tourism that brought Nollywood to Asaba(which I'm not against since Asaba is equally an Igbo city) and also because Asaba is now more or less a suburb of Onitsha where majority of the marketers are domiciled.

allanphash7:
The power of money

Abeg don't make me laugh, is it the same sweet Ice prince of chocolate city you are talking about here?? Like seriously, that dude on the picture looks like someone suffering from full blown AIDS!!!

Btruth:
Now that this has happened. I command, let motor spare parts spring forth in all angles in Lagos and environs. Sometimes, we need to decentralised our markets to widen the prospect of that particular business. I'm thinking of having a mini-auto spare parts market @ Atan Ota in Ado-Odo/Ota local govt.

Do you know that people travel from as far as the D.R Congo,Gabon, Ghana & Cameroun to buy motor parts at Nnewi? The earlier people like you start thinking of East the better for us all.

flokii:
i think it is east and south after north.. cos all they do is learn a trade, do business, engage in criminal activities and then to top it all.. prostitution in other pples land..

the west are d most educated.. no doubt

I bet you must be among the 65 million illiterates, since you have access to the internet, I implore you to do the following 1, Google the states/region in Nigeria with the highest enrollment rates into the universities in Nigeria. 2, Google the states with the highest jamb "cut off" marks for universities across Nigeria. 3, Google the states/region with the least out of school children in Nigeria. 4, Google the states/region that are required to score very high before they are admitted into the unity schools in Nigeria(you will see states like Anambra, Imo, Abia, Delta and Enugu). Google the state with the highest number of professors in Nigeria. Ignorance kills faster than boko haram. Since decades ago till date, the North has always been at the lowest ebb in every development index while S-west closely follows behind. If the South-east and South-south were to be a country, they would occupy the zenith of any development index in sub-Saharan Africa.

lurther:
This people don't know that igbos are wise.

I can still vividly remember how fashola demolished tejuosho market at yaba to build a shopping mall all in the name of Reconstruction.

It is almost 2years they have finished building and commisioned that tejuosho market. Infact, they have commisioned it 3 times, yet the place is empty, desolate and rottening. Make yoruba traders go collect the shop na. I always laugh anytime I pass there, you will see girls dancing while music is being played, begging igbo men to come collect shop.

Hahahahahahah!!! They should continue to demolish all the markets, no problem. They will demolish and demolish and demolish till they realize that there is no more revenue to collect.

I implore my igbo brothers to go start a huge motor parts market in the south-east were the whole of africa can come an patronise them, like how innoson located his motor plant in Nnewi. All this petty actions by the yorubas could turn out to be a blessing to Ndigbo at the long run, while they loose out totally.

Please, my people go to tejuosho market today... they are just paying security there for nothing, over 2years now. We don get sense.

lol, I know the new Tejuose market but kept wondering why the place remained desolate despite the money that was invested there but never knew that Igbos placed an embargo on the market!!! lwkmd, cunny man die, cunny man bury am. Make Fashola and his yoruba folks go and occupy it then. !diats. Modified, This is another wake-up call for Igbos in Nigeria. Gradually divest from Lagos, especially productive ventures that pay heavy taxes to government and employ peole in large numbers like industries, markets etc and invest more in the East. Innocent Chukuwma that built the first indigenous car plant(IVM) in Nnewi, Barth Nnaji that built geometric at Aba or Charles Ugwu that built Ebony rice at Ebonyi are not fools rather they are wise men that understand what is going on. If Ladipo is transferred to Nnewi or Aba or Onitsha it would not cease to make profit rather people will come from far and near to patronize them. I saw one Igboman advertising his newly built Tomato paste factory called Erisco in Lagos with CBN officials that came to inspect the place and I was disappointed, I asked myself why in this present global village will this man choose to build this factory in Lagos were Igbos are now being envied and vilified while Onitsha, Aba, NNewi and Enugu etc are there looking for investors

There is nothing to celebrate about the zoo called Nigeria. I am always depressed whenever I think of Nigeria. Lets be truthful to ourself, Nigeria is not meant to be one. we will never get it right. Other nations keeps moving forward while we have remained stagnant. The faster we dissolve this so called nation or atleast practice true federalism the better for us all & the blackman. Lip service or lying to ourselves will never help. We should rather be in sober reflection at our sorry state rather than celebrating. What is there for us to celebrate?

I am not in the least surprised. In fact, PDP zoning its presidential ticket to the north is the only viable option they have!! I don't blame PDP rather I blame Lord Lugard who fused us with those savages up north. I blame Igbos and Yorubas who have eternally refused to smell the coffee but have tactlessly ended up in this M.A.D(mutually assured destruction) game while the Hausa/Fulani in collaboration with northern minorities keeps calling the shot. So far the north remains 19 states as against south's 17, so far the Yorubas and Igbos keeps engaging in this d!ck measuring exercise, so far the north-west remains 7 states while South-east remains 5 states, the north will keep determining who rules till either Biafra is achieved, Niger-delta oil finishes or Christ comes I have studied Nigeria in my own personal capacity and I have come to the conclusion that 1, We will never be one. 2, we will never achieve our optimal potential or growth. 3, Infrastructure like roads and other basic amenities will always remain deplorable. 4, Insurgency and ethno-religious strife as well cattle rustling will always remain an issue. 5, The north will always be a clog in the wheel of Nigeria's progress. Finally, I believe that the way out is 1, Let us go back to regionalism and make the centre less attractive. 2, Let there be total resource control for the states or regions thereof and royalties paid to the centre. 3, in case the two aforementioned fails then we must go the way of the Soviet Union, there is no point being a paper giant with only impoverished population as bargaining chip! There is no point holding Mr A and B down so that imbecilic C will not be left behind!!!

Kudos to the people of Abia. They should sustain this trend of humiliating that midget anytime he steps into Abia state. Posterity is already judging him. I'm also happy that the new governor, Okezie Ikpeazu is already clearing the mess T.A Orji left behind. I discovered that in most parts of Aba refuse disposal is now a bit efficient, he has also de-silted & cleared the drainages while also constructing roads both single & dual carriage ways. Suffix it to add that I personally campained against him & traveled from my base to Aba simply to mobilize people in voting against him due to the fact the midget nominated him & despite the fact he lost woefully in Aba, he has been doing his best to pacify the people.

Pesuzok:
These biafra agitators are not being realistic. Maybe they live in onitsha and enugu and think south south will join them. If you live in Rivers or akwa ibom, you will see that the igbos are not accepted. Do you know that an igbo man cannot buy a piece of land in omuku. An Ikwerre man will say he is not igbo. Even if the south south decides to join, do you think you will see their oil, they will control that and the igbos will begin to shout marginalization again.

I am an igbo, but I don't think biafra is the way, neither do I think that the Nigerians will close a blind eye and allow an igbo presidency, so we need to fight for it politically by making allies and not enemies.

You are disgusting! Do you think that igbos are interested in SS oil? What happened to the oil in Abia,Imo & Anambra states & even Anioma part of Delta?? Why should our oil resources be used in developing kano,abuja,sokoto, & not owerri,aba,onitsha?? If really you Igbo then u are efulefu

Buhari and his agencies better be guided, there is a limit to which one can accept oppression. Igbos are not fools, that we have endured such government sanctioned subjugation for so long should not be misconstrued for cowardice. The call for secession keeps gaining traction everyday and these !diotic elements are busy fueling it. I have stopped supporting a united Nigeria because it only serves the interest of the Hausa/Fulani section while other progressive parts are subjugated. I have studied Nigeria and come to the conclusion that Nigeria will never develop, will never be one, will always constitute nuisance to the civilized world and will always embarrass the black-man. Why are we deceiving ourselves pretending that all is well when everything has gone to the dogs. This ZOO called Nigeria should be dissolved asap so we can move on.

These lazy fuuls, id!ots & psychos should have channeled their energy in demanding for resource control or atleast 50% rather than killing themselves & constituting nuisance, arrant nonsense!

TIMEISWISDOM:
How can someone tell me Nigeria is not a banana republic when from east to west, north to south lawlessness is the order of the day.
what nonsense 4am - 12 noon and left unchallenged?
Someone please tell this Government that Nigeria is crumbling and needs serious action!

When the Biafrans call it a ZOO REPUBLIC you think its mere propaganda. My bro Nigeria is worse than a banana republic period. Countries like Togo, Benin, Ghana et al are sometimes called banana republics but I doubt that such hooliganism goes on there & mind you, this is not an isolated case, it happens even in Lagos & the north!! Nigeria is more like a failed country.

DeeTus:
Aba is damn dirty. PH is overrated.

Aba is dirty no doubt but P.H & Ibadan are dirty too. Only Abuja, Enugu, Calaber & Uyo has some semblance of sanity in Nigeria today, Owerri used to be very neat too until Rochas became governor & abandoned clean & green.

I think one of the reasons why Igbos invested in Lagos was because it was a former federal capital and amenities were readily available unlike other areas in Nigeria but today Lagos is no longer the Federal capital, has become extremely congested and unlivable while other cities can now boast of modest advancement in infrastructure. Again, I have noticed that Igbos are increasingly investing at home more than ever before. the likes of Charles Ugwu's Ebony rice at Ebonyi state, Barth Nnaji's Geometric at Abia state. Innocent Chukwuma's IVM automobiles at Anambra state. Ibeto's cement plant at Ebonyi state. Neimeth at Anambra and numerous other ones both small and medium that were recently built which I can't list here. I believe that two things made it possible, one is that communication, with the advent of GSM and relatively cheap internet as well as the insecurity in the North. I also believe that with the increased hostility towards Igbos in Lagos, the trend will increase eastwards. S.East is not doing badly at present because aside Lagos/Ogun region, the S.E probably has the highest investment rates in recent times. Having said that, the S.East governors have done badly in making S.east attractive and conducive to investors and T.A Orji was a disaster, Aba is the industrial capital of Igboland but go to Aba and see the state T.A Orji left the place. I like what Sullivan Chime did to Enugu city because Igbo elites used to complain that one of the reasons why they have stayed put in Lagos and Abuja is because no where in the S.E is up to standard but today Enugu can be compared to Abuja to an extent and is now attracting Igbo elites. People like Barth Nnaji did great by building geometric in Aba to at-least give Aba an edge over others but a fellow Igboman in the person of Emeka Offor is trying to frustrate him while nobody, not even our governors, Ohanaeze or Igbo journalists/intellectuals could call him to order If we can enhance our cities especially Aba, Onitsha, Enugu, Nnewi, Owerri etc it will help a great deal.

Spiff20:
but you know rivers state is way bigger than Abia state and PH is a combo of about 5 L.G.A so i doubt your claims.

P.harcourt is a combo of 5 LGA's while Aba is a Combo of about 5 LGA's two namely Aba north, Aba south, Osisioma, Ugwunagbo and Obingwa.

anonimi:
Is this why the useless Oni Gbese has refused to clear the salary & pension DEBTS owed to DYING workers & old pensioners despite the N35 billion bailout from BrainlessBuubu

Instead of paying workers & old pensioners, the SHAMELESS fridge repairer fixed the money for his personal interest while he kicks the head of our people around.




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OMG, is that Aregberascals dauther?? Why are people from that part of the country always so ugly Dangggg, this is so irritating and disgusting ptui!!!

DedeNkem:
Igbos were far more advanced during the war, but had very limited resource.

They produced many sophisticated things including but not only armored vehicle, guns, bombs, mini war planes, etc. none of which Nigeria has ever produced today.

Biafra would have been a great country today if we had succeeded. I marvel whenever I read history books about the war. Igbos are indeed a great race & everybody knows this fact including the envious & diabolical yorubas. Whenever these folks hear anything about Biafra they will immediately arrive in drooves to obfuscate issues, smh at them. They are so scared that Igbos & the SS might seccede oneday & leave only them with their Hausa/fulani masters. There is a saying that nothing can stop an action whose time has come!!! Nigeria is an aberation, a celebration of mediocrity!!!

all4naija:
I am not impressed by what I see of Enugu environment. People make it look as though it is a great place here.

Nna gerrarehia meen, lol, though I must commend your effort at providing comic relief in this thread, at-least it spices up things somehow If you are residing in Manhattan, London, Paris and you feel that Enugu must be like those places before we should be proud of it then I can't help you but if you residing anywhere in the zoo republic and making such insinuations they you a........................

Ok but Buhari is still quite while innocent Nigerians are being slaughtered daily. We are watching!!

I stopped taking sharia reporters serious long ago. It is obvious that they were established purposely for hatchet jobs like blackmail, intimidation, conspiracy & propaganda. We unbiased Nigerians love you aunty Ngozi & appreciate all your efforts in repositioning Nigeria though the ungrateful ones & haters will say all sorts of nonsense but they will never come close in acheiving a fraction of what you have done. God will continue to bless & your house-hold.

This is something I have observed on my own!! In my business, I observed between 50% to 70% drop in both total revenue & profits for the past couple of months & I was alarmed. I heard similar complaint from a friend who is an estate agent, he told me that people hardly buy properties these days & many other example I cant state here. If a conservative body like the CBN can give such scary verdict with a rather short time frame, then I believe that Nigeria is already in recession!!! Lets stop playing blind politics because it is the Nigerian masses that would bear the brunt. Finally, Buhari's body language has done more harm than good.

The kidnap of Olu Falae, aguebly the most respected yoruba leader today by fulani headsmen, throws up some questions. (1)why would yorubas keep calm & pretend as if nothing happened in the face of such humiliating provocation? (2)If this scenario is to be reversed & it was announced that some yorubas kidnapped say Maitama Sule in his home in Zaria, what do you think would be happening now in the north? (3) Are the yorubas actually cowards? (4)do the yorubas really understand this war of attrition currently being waged by the fulani against the rest of the middle belt & the south? (5) does it mean that the hausa/fulani actually own Nigeria therefore fulani herdsmen has the right to carry arms about & molest other Nigerian while the police & army look the other way? This master-slave relationship must stop!!!

This thread reeks of ethnic bias, sentimental and emotional appeal to obfuscate facts and the reality on ground. If not that some unsuspecting members of the public might see this as a research document, I wont have bothered myself in commenting about this ridiculous, laughable, myopic and bigoted roll call of yorubas operating in Ghana, while the op or whoever selected the names mischievously sprinkled a few Igbo and S-S names to it and then branded it as list of Nigerian business tycoons in Ghana!! WTF!!! Any unbiased person could easily see that big corporations that are owned by Igbos like Zenith bank, UBA, ABC transport, The young etc were tactically omitted just to arrive at a predetermined conclusion The more I see such unwarranted, needless and baseless propaganda by our supposed brothers from the west, the more I conclude that the bitter rivalry and envy against Igbos by Yorubas is a truism. Researchers from different parts of the world, after extensive research and survey in different times concluded that Igbos of Nigeria along with the Germans, Chinese and the Jews possess inherent talents that enable them to succeed in all sphere of life. Even to any unbiased Nigerian, the Igbos have at-least since 1950 been at the zenith when it comes to entrepreneurship, education, science and technology in Nigeria. The more people envy the Igbos, the more Igbos excel and the more they get frustrated. If the Igbos could not stopped in 1966(with the northern pogrom), or the three year civil war were over two million Igbos were killed or even the emasculation of their wealth by government decrees like the Awo 20 pounds and the seizure of their properties in Rivers state then I don't think they could ever be stopped because it is inherent in them!!!

asha80:
Just imagine the idiocy of these group of traders..i feel like shooting these fools on the scrotum..idiots

http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/news/s-east-traders-threaten-to-shut-down-markets-over-proposed-sale-of-aba-power-firm/111490.html

The FG should hand over to afrigem let me see them do their worst fools!

I am sure interstate led by offor is the one behind this..of course the traders don't know any better

MrEverest come see nonsense

This is despicable and idiotic to say the least, it is obvious that those fools masquerading as market leaders are being instigated by powers behind the scene, that judas called okwudili Ezenwankwo would sell his mother for a pot of porridge. This saboteurs are the ones trying to kill the S.east economy for very selfish reasons but Chukwu Abiama will not let them succeed. I believe there are many educated and enlightened people among the traders so hopefully they would not allow this Judas called Okwudili Ezenwankwo and his fellow selfish and greedy excos who must have collected bribe to disturb public peace over something that would benefit the people of Aba. The government of Abia state must step in now and educate the people of Abia on what they stand to benefit if Geometric is allowed to operate in Aba. It is apparent that Emeka Offor now wants to use these so called market leaders to disrupt the handover of Aba zone to Geometric but he has failed. Aba must develop! South East must develop and Ndi Igbo must take their pride of place!!!

Bishop42:
She's actually the Minority Leader, Ebonyi State House of Assembly.
Hope someone quickly gets her on our threads

Is it the same very slim Afikpo chick we met back then at her restaurant in Afikpo sometime around 2008?? Then we went for a field trip as final year FUTO students of Geology, she used to drive some exotic cars with customized plate number!!!