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The worst thing that would happen to Nigeria is for APC to win the election in 2015. I have watched with dismay how this people celebrate any seemingly negative news about Nigeria, be it security, economy etc. They play politics with so much hatred, bitterness & desperation. This is not the way opposition politics of patriotic leftist should be.I'm sorry to say this, but this people are plain evil & are only desperate for power at the centre. Any honest Nigerian & non Nigerian alike who used our airports few years back & now knows their has been a huge improvement, time was when we used to be at the base of any ranking. The truth is that Nigeria is gradually becoming great again after years of the locust. Any discerning & patriotic Nigerian knows that Jonathan is trying despite the great conspiracy & unmitigated blackmail against his government.

koolg:
and then they will slash their salaries accordingly.
no free lunch in bank

Slash which salary abeg? Is the 35000 slave wage they pay that would be slashed. Rubbish.

God have mercy on us! Is it rocket science to build and maintain roads in the SE and in indeed the entire south. This is an assault to the sensibility of any modern day man.

enigmaotr:
The road is at 85% completion

pure and undiluted sarcasm

Sibabasibaba1:
Na today Buhari begin pull crowd? Since he openly supported the the Sharia movement in 2000/2001 he has been pulling crowd. So, Buhari's crowd cannot be a problem for Jonathan and cannot cause him to change his VP. If he wants to, he will do that Buhari or no Buhari.

Do you mind sharia reporters, since 1999 Buhari has been pulling crowd of those with born to rule mentality, 10 million almajiris and the muslim fanatics who share his ideology and certainly not the crowd of real progressives and digitally minded Nigerians of the 21ist century, little wonder the jihadist has remained a serial looser and come Feb 14 2015, he will still do knows how to do best. I only pray he will not use innocent Christians and southerners resident in the north to vent his frustration. To me, a "clueless" and "corrupt" GEJ is still far better than a senile, analog, democracy truncator and retarded zealot being packaged as the messiah to the unsuspecting public.

[quote author=5.00GP]YORUBA LANGUAGE IS THE EASIEST NIGERIA LANGUAGE TO LEARN.

MAJORITY OF NIGERIA ARTISTES USES YORUBA LANGUAGE IN THEIR LYRICS

NOLLYWOOD MOVIES (ENGLISH ) USES YORUBA LANGUAGE SOMETIMES IN THEIR SCRIPT .....

YORUBA LANGUAGE IS ALSO SPOKEN IN EDO, DELTA......... ..[/quote]This is fallacy! 1.Yoruba is not d easiest Nigerian lang rather it is Hausa.

2. Due to Lagos factor, musicians used 2 add Yoryba phrases in their lyrics in order 2 appeal 2 d grassroots but 2day Igbo is used as much as the Yoruba, if not more in contemporary Nigerian songs but u may not observe it because of ur biased mindset.

3. U must b high on some cheap drugs 2 have said this, except on very rare cases when a character in Nollywood is told 2 act like a persona from the SW, it would be very difficult 2 hear actors speak Yoruba rather Igbo is mostly used intermittantly with English, this is why common Igbo phrases like chineke, o gini, biko, bia, nwanyi oma, igwe, etc etc are well known across Sub saharan Africa & beyond wherever they watch nollywood.

4. Aside Akoko area of Edo state where a dissimilar variant of Yoruba is spoken, where else? U even mentioned Delta state!! R u freaking kidding me? I knw of Uhrobo, Igbo, Itsekiri,Ijaw as indeginous 2 Delta state, pls prove me wrong!

Finally, ur type is the problem wit Nigeria because u see everything 2ru d prism of ethnocentrism even when d facts are glaringly on d contrary!

Sagytarius: House rent of 84k (x4 occupants)= N336000 for 3-bedroom apartment Na bulletproof house?

I don't even know why you are amazed at the amount they payed for house rent, if anything, that house(3 bedroom flat) is cheap, at-least by Lagos standard. I paid more than that for a one bedroom flat at Onipanu here in Lagos mainland for one year! May be you are probably living in the North or in a semi urban civil service town. People pay far more than that in places like Lagos, Abuja or P.harcourt !

[quote author=ROSSIKE]What is 'mad' about despising UNCLE TOMS, COCONUTS, SELLOUTS and SELF-HATERS like P 'we wish we were white' - Square?? The real surprise is THEY haven't started bleaching their own skins... for now at least..... Miseducated fcks. It's not like this is a one-off. You see the same rubbish in all their videos - elevating white/light skin over blacks. Bloody disgrace to humanity (Spit).[/q

WHAT IS THIS ONE SAYING?!

This must be Holland then, cos my oyibo girl friend in Rotterdam told me that P square is in Holland, I need confirmation please

massmedia: If you believe "MY OGA AT THE TOP " should be the number(1) quote for year 2013 click Like.....

No! No way!! It should rather be the number two faux pas quote of the year, nothing displaces the infamous quote of Adams Oshiomole, YOU ARE A WIDOW, GO AND DIE! takes the cake, in fact it should be the most insensitive statement of the century by a public official anywhere in the whole universe!

snuupzilla: Now whats the essence of having a BB

By the way, you can configure your sim to a US/UK number that Make/Receive Call and Sms displaying a US number.
Get the set up at http://usacallsms.com or call 08124042953 , +1 347 565 4938

Why would one configure his/her phone to display US/UK code when he is in Nigeria?
Why are u promoting fraud?
You must be a yahoo boy!

Although lack of awareness might be a cause of the less than optimal patronage of AIIA, other reasons abound eg when I was traveling from Lagos to the East, I met one man in the bus who told me he has been on transit since three days and he was stressed out, I was curious so I asked him were he was coming from and he told me he flew in from Colombo, Sri-lanka. I asked him why he did not use AIIA and save himself such needless hassle, he told me that he does not like Ethiopian airline(for safety reasons) that when airlines like Emirates or Lufthansa begins to fly the route then he would consider it!
My uncle who equally flew in from the states for a burial ceremony also came in from MMAI and I said I will ask him why he did not go through AIIA but I forgot, so what I'm saying is that a lot of our folks are still ignoring AIIA for reasons ranging from the mundane to trivial and we need a radical change of attitude and have a pan Igbo worldview!

There is no basis for comparison, 2face is far far better than Dbanj. talk about apples and oranges!!

Shit, such an old ugly white woman, I would rather die in Nigeria than straff this woman, cant even imagine how she would look when fully undressed!! Oh my people are eating shit because of poverty!!!

tippyboy: Mtcheeeeeew, after all dis long story of gud economy in Nigeria, 1 US dollar = 159.3000 Nigerian naira, abeg how does dis gud economy rilly affect us gan gan, I won no?

You quoted the whole article just to write this nonsense? So pathetic if you ask me.

jfking2005: One guy fabricated the story, another guy in the publisher printed it and the others quoted it for Nairaland and media purposes.
this is what you see when there is no job for the youth.
In reality it does not tranlate to anything from an average nigerian persperctive because the last time i check dollar has not come down below 160, price of foodstuff is still high, looter and corruption has increase with impunity in the highest rate so far.
If you have not been to SA then continue to let them be fooling you,
pls ask those who have been there. What i am reading here is not what is actually on ground in SA,
Ask your self why is SA preventin Naija from entry these day??
God will help us to know the truth and 1 day it will set us free.

When you don't know and do not know that you don't know and yet think that you knows makes you a sick re.ter.d!
South Africa may have better infrastructure and a higher number of blue chip companies than Nigeria but that does not mean they must have a higher GDP, the world bank discovered that small and medium scale enterprises is the most influential factor in GDP growth, simply because it creates far more number of jobs and a multiplier effect across board unlike blue chip companies and that is why they have kept preaching for its enhancement in Nigeria. Already, Nigeria has a very vibrant and enterprising populace coupled with our huge population and this is the advantage we have over SA.
India is not more developed than so many European and even other Asian countries yet they rank higher than these countries in terms of overall GDP, this is simply due to India's huge population. Now let me explain to you in lay man's parlance; if 5 men has 100 naira each, it will amount to 500 naira but on the other hand, if 20 men has 50 naira each, it will amount to 1000 naira, so even when the 20 men are individually poorer, they are collectively richer than the 5 men in gross total!
I hope this explains it to you and other nay Sayers.

During my service year, i did both odd and even jobs!

I served in Lokoja, Kogi state and my PPA was in a government directorate and it afforded me the opportunity to traverse the state to inspect projects once in a while, you know ministry things with time flexibility so I decided to go to a government sec school were I thought Geography for SS1(a,b,c,d), 2(a and b) and 3, all the classes had more than 50 students and stress almost killed me when I was marking there test and exam scripts, funny enough the salary was 3500 but the principal later increased mine to 6000 naira when he saw my effort! (Though it was the passion rather financial benefit that motivated me).
Ab initio, I worked briefly as a sales man for one consumer goods company( it was really degrading and I had to stop).

I also worked as ad hoc staff for inec during the state's gubernatorial election( it was indeed a nightmare as we had to run into the bush later in the evening when some gun totting APC thugs arrived and started shooting sporadically due to mere rumour they heard that PDP members were conniving with corpers to rig the election)

Finally, I did what all corpers, sorry most did, which is the fact that I drilled some holes! No thanks to the fact that I studied Geology but this time I was not prospecting for Oil or water but the pleasures of chemistry.

IT WAS INDEED FUN!!!



I also doubled as president for my CDS group and before I passed out, I launched my book and it turned out to be success!

eaglechild: Enjoying the new pics,
Thanks oilykid and Obum042, pls keep them coming.

Just a little off topic, in Owerri the Wetheral round about at govt house received a big uplift with some christmas decorations, water fountains and stone works, they look very nice.

I wonder if Sullivan has any plans of putting up some Christmas decorations, at least on major streets.
It helps lighten the mood and encourages leisure activities and visitors.

Thanks, but it would have made a lot of sense if you had taken pictures of the Wetheral roundabout, or better still open a thread on Owerri just as Spyder did for Enugu, Owerri is another beautiful city in the East and we need to hype it as well!

Rudebwoy: if you want the one programmed not to go beyond 100km/h, it's ABC Transport. Then other companies' benchmark is 120km/h. I entered okeson motors.

Nice one my brother, I also traveled that route on monday 9/12/2013, the roads are much better now, but you have got guts o, the first and last time I entered Okeyson was way back in 2007 on my way back to the East, the driver of the Okeyson bus was virtually flying, his average speed was then was about 140km/hour, the passengers pleaded, threatened, cajoled and even cried for him to reduce speed but all pleas fell on deaf ears. It was as if he was on drugs! I kept praying throughout the journey and I vowed never to enter Okeyson again in my life.

fkaz: Which atlas, it's your brother who said onitsha port will server middle-belt and north-east with their market. I don't know how onitsha port will function if all the river channel on these axis are not dredge properly. I just hope FG is sincere with that project, because those river channel needs another dredging after last year flooding. That is why i say onitsha port will remain a mirage.

Its apparent that you've not taken my candid advice but I will admonish you for the umpteenth time to either make informed comments or quietly read what the technocrats are saying here. Now in lay man's parlance, let me try to explain to you what they are saying;
1. Nigeria is a huge country of 160 million people (this is about half the total population of West Africa sub region) yet Ironically it is served by only the Lagos ports, others only exist in paper or at best are underutilized.
2. The bulk of the importers in Nigeria are either domiciled in the Onitsha region or have operational outlets there.
3. Lagos ports are already seriously congested, leading to lost man hours, losses to importers in the form of accumulated demurrage and other logistic problems.
4. The recurring damage to the long stretch of Lagos-Ibadan, Ore-Benin-Asaba is mainly due to the heavy tonnes of goods that is daily passing through it.
5. Within Lagos itself, one half of creek road has been turned into a virtual park for heavy utility vehicles which leads to serious traffic gridlocks.
6. Nigeria is an import oriented country and having just one functional port for the whole country is risky and unwise.
7. The population of Lagos is already bursting at the seams and other economic centres need to be enhanced to discourage the current mad rush to Lagos.
8. Making Onitsha port viable will lead to increased efficiency of Lagos port and increased revenue to the FG since those Nigerin importers making use of Cotonue and Tema due to the bottlenecks at Lagos will now use the Onitsha port and pay customs duties to FG.
The aforementioned reasons are a few of the benefits Nigeria stand to gain by making Onitsha port viable.

Finally, Onitsha is the commercial capital of Nigeria and is strategically located on the banks of river Niger, goods are moved from Onitsha to the south east, south south and north, so if the Onitsha port could receive goods directly from ships or barges, it would lead to reduction in prices to the final consumer since cost of; transportation on roads, warehouses in Lagos and general logistics would be drastically cut down.

fkaz: I know most ibo import through lagos from atlantic ocean and onitsha importers has to load it into barges for onward delivery to ontsha port, but it has to go through koko port in benin and lokoja port before getting to onitsha. So if those two port are not functioning how will onitsha port function? Also how would you supply the north-east you claim onitsha market do supply, if baro port in niger state is not function. All this port are link together through the plan of FG and onitsha port can't be single out. I think, one thing standing against those river port is the maintenance of the river channel, which FG can never sustain, so i see onitsha port as a mirage. I stand to be corrected sha.

This part alone renders your article useless, please pick up an atlas and know where Lokoja port is located viz a viz Onitsha port, until you do that please don't comment again, thank you!

ngozievergreen: the point is not the war, it is what happened after the war

Ngozi please ignore that buffoon, its obvious he is trying to distract us from finding a panacea to the present idle Onitsha port, already they are scared of that. Kudos to kengali et al with their informed research. We Igbos have never lacked intellectuals and Onitsha port must be put to optimal use!

TRASH!

spyder880: lolllll

Calm down bro

I think I know where you got confused. Just this week, I lifted a recent picture of this mansion and placed on my old thread about the business and profitability of rental business. I did it because this mansion describes the post I was making about duplexes on that particular thread. So I added this new picture to the old post by using the modify button on this forum.

The first thread you referred to was created by me in 2011, this house was started sometimes in July this year and now completed, no confusion there. I dont do shady things, never ever!


But it would have been better if you had asked me how come the picture is there before you start talking fraud?

ITS NOT ALL NIGERIANS THAT ENGAGE IN FRAUD. LET US CHANGE THE COUNTRY BY DOING GOOD, AND WORKING HARD.

PROUDLY NIGERIAN
Thank you.

I respect your maturity Mr Spyder, aside your high competence in your career, you also have a humane character and these are very rare traits in Nigeria today.
Just imagine how this dude jumped in and attacked you aggressively over something he was not even sure of and started calling you names, many people would have lashed back at him with equal venom but you kept your cool and admonished him the way a father would admonish a juvenile. Kudos!!

next excel: Gee that should be pace,it was an error but u guys are harsh.

I did not mean to ridicule the comment but I tried thrice to understand it all to no avail and I had to complain out of frustration, now I know it was the printers devil.

next excel: I am overwhelmed at the pess enugu cum east is developing

What language is this bro? French? Spanish?? Portuguese or Swahili?

Do you mind translating to English pls!

OMG, the op really played a fast one on unsuspecting Nigerians, but for anyone to really believe this joke, speaks volumes about his IQ.
I can't stop laughing about the passionate comments people are making about this unfounded issue. Come to think of it, why is APC being embarrassed, humiliated, demonized from left, right and centre, all at same period, is it that people has finally seen through their hypocrisy and lies? Nigerian politics is becoming more interesting by the day. Honestly, I do not think that PDP or even GEJ is the problem with Nigeria rather the problem is endemic and cuts across; all parties, all sectors of the economy, our way of life, across tribes, across religions and all age groups. We Nigerians(including you and I) have a very weird and extreme world view and for us to come out of this mess, we need a radical change and reorientation!

I can see Tinubu and the other pretenders of APC cursing under their breath once more, this has shone that APC party stalwarts are not smart at all, first it was Fashola who goofed with his ill conceived and ill timed deportation debacle that messed up Ngige's chance of wining the election, even when it was his for the taking(going by his popularity) Peter Obi capitalized on it and played a fast one on them. Now it is Adams Oshiomole involving himself in such a disgraceful conduct and once again another party, this time PDP has profited from it.
I keep telling people that these APC pretenders are by no means better than the party, in fact if anything they are worse off because they are hypocrites and lack internal democracy yet they use the press to forcefully impress it on us that they are the best thing to happen to us since 1999.

GOD WILL CONTINUE TO EXPOSE THEM!

rahazaqa: Moreso,80% of all your igbos actist,actress,artist and artiste are SW base!! They too know SW is good,they don't want to stay in the village!!! And majority of them sings with yoruba except p square and some gay waist twister fellows like Flavour even 2face don turn 2BABA (yoruba lang)!!!!

I don't know why you people will choose ignorance over enlightenment, what do you mean by the senseless trash you wrote above?
Now allow me to educate you for free, you will never see any Igbo artist, actress or celebrity that would ever choose to reside in your mega slums called cities, be it Ibadan, Oshobgo, Abeokuta or whatever, you can only see them in Lagos and that is for good reasons as I will list below.
1. Lagos was the former capital of Nigeria.
2. Almost every ethnic group in Nigeria are represented in Lagos(though the Igbos are far more prominent) by virtue of the no 1 reason.
3. As with most African countries, governments of the day concentrated development in the capital cities and as such attracted both locals and foreigners to it.
4. Ivory coast did the same thing Nigeria did by moving its capital from Abidjan(coast) to Yamousoukro (a more central area) yet Abidjan still remains the economic and commercial capital of Ivory coast and their elite and celebrities still make it their home even till today.
5. Nairobi is the capital of Kenya, so are you telling me that if Kenya decides to create a new FCT in a more centralized area, then Nairobi will become an exclusive preserve of the indigenous tribe or that Nairobi will no longer be the economic and commercial capital of Kenya?
6. I don't know why the Yorubas are so mischievous or is it inherent daftness, okay if you people made Lagos what it is today then why is it that the rest of your slums cities have remained in such a sorry state?
7. Going by your myopic reasoning, the gwaris, Nupes and other Abuja indigenous people will wake up, lets say in 2060 AD and claim that they developed Abuja, even when Suleja, Minna, Lafia etc that are theirs have remained in sorry states?

I know your type, you belong to those lazy groups that would never work hard to themselves and Nigeria but will be wishing others to abandon their hard earned investments so they would go and loot, so pathetic.

Go get a life dude and stop being a pest!

ilugunboy: How is he finished politically? Because Ibos that hate him for poking into their eyes are the only ones that will vote in Nigeria?.

The intensity of your hate towards him...is the same intensity of the love of his people towards him.

The entire SE voting population is just a little over 7M from a total voting population of about 73.5M ( you have less than 10% of the votes in your region) while the SW boast more than double that your own figure according to 2011 voters register.

Your highest state is Anambra state...and it's still far behind that of Ogun state...while you will need to combine Anambra and Ebonyi to come close to Oyo. Your entire SE voters is the same with Lagos alone ... If we remove just Ebonyi that have the least in your region of less than a million ....so FFK is finished politically only in your warped and hate-filled mind.

Your hating affect his electoral value minimally..if there should be any at all.

Stop deceiving yourself with phantom figures that flies in the face of reasoning, the Lagos you mentioned still have Igbos in the majority, ditto Abuja and several other states across Nigeria, when ethnicity is added to the census data, then you will know those that are actually in the majority.

As for the fuulish and senseless !diot called Fani Kayode, I tell you he is FINISHED politically and morally, except he will context for councilor or LG chairman in his village or at best become a commissioner in one of the SW states, no politician at the national level will want to have anything to do with him and being so fuulhardy, he does not seem to know the extent of damage he has done to his useless personae, at least not with his childish comments that assaults the sensibility of real adults and the fact that he divulged his nairaland handle, if only he is intelligent, he would have remained discreet, after-all there are many important personalities here in nairaland but you will never get to know.
Finally if you think its only Igbos that declared him persona non grata, then you are wrong because Hon Obaihiagbon et al are not Igbo!

doncaster: Exactly, the attributes of Good APC govs. Clap for him and tell him to go and carry his trophy at the national stadium.

Don't mind the APC hypocrites, they claim to be saints yet they are worse than PDP, at least PDP politricians are not pretending that they are good unlike those APC goons that eat their corrupt cake and still want to have it back. I have lost any atom of regard for this ugly midget called Oshiomole, he is as wicked as he looks.