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Korrection: UNA SURE SAY SEUN THE NAIRALAND OWNER NO DEY pHUCK THIS TONTO DIKE?....IF TONTO DIKE SH1T..NAIRALAND GO SEE AM..IF SHE MESS..WE GO SEE AM...IF SHE PHUCK WE GO SEE AM...WETIN DEY WORRY NL MODS SELF??

Will you shut the phuck up and quit hating, why dont you become a celebrity since it comes cheap, so that nairaland will celebrate you! BTW you saw tens of different headlines and left them to cliq on this one only to start vituperating balderdash, are a psycho or what?

ebamma: after tonto dike's family picture was uploaded on nairaland's frontpage,i was suprised that the garri i bought for 30 naira was now selling for 10 naira

little wonder why over 70% of us are living below poverty line **SMH**

Chinom: I have never been to Aba before. Looking at those pictures, i don't think i would be going there anytime in the future. Enugu, the coal-city is it for me.

Then its either you are a kid or unambitious. I was born in Aba, were i grew up and have lived in port Harcourt, Lagos, Owerri, Lokoja and Abuja but believe me Aba has a lot of opportunities waiting to be tapped, so if you dont visit Aba then its your loss!

otokx: @op

the average Nigerian is very dirty and yet they forget that cleanliness is next to godliness; talk from today till tomorrow they simply are clueless when it comes to disposing of waste. Build an enclosure to receive waste and they will be too tired to put it in the enclosure but prefer to block the drainage, the road and everything in between. Another characteristics is to expect Government to come and give them a bath in their own home - very terrible mentality.

Are you alright?

papaejima1: One of the paid hatchet men of the deluded TA Orji.
So the govt cannot take decisive steps to cleanse aba and alleviate the sufferings of the people?
Go to Port Harcourt and see what Amaechi is doing.
Tell TA Orji that his attempt to pass the blame unto the people has failed and will continue to fail.

A LAZY WORKER ALWAYS QUARREL WITH HIS TOOLS!

dont mind the op, probably the gov bought him a keke napep, that is why he is being economical with the truth!

@ op, in as much as i do not absolve the citizens of being culpable to the rot in the city, but i still lay the blame for the sorry state of the town squarely on the incompetent T.A Orji, that gov is an apology, it appears that you are subtly doing a hatchet job for that wicked man. Is it not the job of the gov to arrest and prosecute defaulters and economic saboteurs? Where is the town planing authority? Why is the refuse containers so dilapidated to the extent that whenever the asepa ppl comes to evacuate refuse, they will end up distributing it across the whole town? Why would a 21st century gov tax citizens specifically to excavate silt from gutter only to live the sand/dirt by the gutter side for rain to wash it back into the gutter? Of the hundreds of bad roads in Aba, how many has he repaired since five years of being in power? Pls that man is a disgrace, he is a tragedy on Abia!

Its obvious that there is a renaisance on the Igbos, for a long time, there had been a clamour for us to invest at home instead of developing other climes who are not even gratefull, this could probably be attributed to the political/security issues across the country; this is a welcome development!

ifeci: Is that the picture of a Giant factory or a secretariat?

Detractors are free to hug the nearest transformer, if you cant see that the building is just the admin block, a part of the factory complex!

[quote author=PROUD-IGBO]^^^So how come no pics/videos of the main factory are available? It's very annoying how we don't seem to like taking pics to sell ourselves better; esp' projects and developments in Anambra .[/quote]Nna kedu ihe ina ajudi ese maka onyonyo, biko hapu Lord Naya aka.

phermonyx: D tin we lack ryt now in Nigeria ar good n courageos leaders like Zik. Awo, Ojukwu, Ahmadu Bello etc. Dey wia leaders dat had forsight n wia all abt d well-being of dia pple.
Tho, they had diff approach n philosophies towards a common objective wch is d welfare of dia pple, d good tin is dat dey had mutual respect for one anoda wch is somtin we grossly lack in our generation. Ojukwu respected Awo for who he wuz n d decisions he took and vice versa.
They wia pple of action n nt just talk talk like us and d funny tin is dat they did most of wht they did wen dey wia youths like us, Ojukwu wuz only 33 yrs of age wen he led d Biafrans(younger dan some of us dat cn only talk n engage in e-tribal war), he fought d real war.
Instead of just bragging n making mouth abt wch ethnic grp did dis or dat, y cant we emulate dis pple and do wht is right?
Dia ar tymz I read wht we say abt dis pple n feel like we are unworthy of talking abt dem?
We d southerners are hia doing nutin while d north disguised as boko haram kill our pple like fowls and we do nothing, cn we just sitdown n think wht wld av happened if our dear Ojukwu n Awolowo wia to be alive, d simple thing is dat dey wouldn't av taken d death of dia pple lightly.
My igbo n yoruba pple, is it dat we dont av leaders now like d pple of d 1960s? Be it igbo, ogoni or yoruba, we av a common enemy and dat enemy ar those at d elm of power (our leaders). Wch one of our present leaders is worth writing abt in our history for somtin good n memorable?
Why wld an average igbo man hate his yoruba counterpart n vice versa wen u cant actually hurt or harm each oda? We shld live in harmony and get wht rightly belong to us frm those selfish leaders.
Yoruba, Igbo n Ogoni leaders only think abt demselfs and dia family, nt u and I.
Am yoruba and I av friends frm SE, SS and SS dat I wld gladly fight for wen d need arises......be ur brother's keeper.

Thank you my brother, i for one believe in southern unity and solidarity, at least to keep the abokis in check but i must confess that nairaland ethnocentrists are making it difficult, honestly i have nothing against the yorubas, but they should stop picking on Igbos and express mutual love for ourselves. Igbos are not trouble makers, BTW i like your courage, thats some whiff of fresh air!

Abagworo: Contrary to what most of you are saying, I seem to understand and support him on this. Every part of Nigeria deserves to be funded well to avoid future catastrophe. There is so much money flowing in Port-Harcourt while most other parts of Nigeria are in abject poverty. The gap is too wide in terms of economic empowerment.

Nwanne i beg to disagree on this, rather the south south states are not getting adequate compensation for the gross environmental degradation and pollution, these northerners have remained perpetual parasites, so lazy that they always want the FG to spoon feed them. Why is the SE and SW not complaining? WE NEED FISCAL FEDERALISM, every state has comparative advantage in one product or the other, be it agriculture, solid minerals or industry. This is what obtains in USA; states like Texas and Alaska does not share oil revenue with Ohio or Nevada. Every state should control his resources so that everyone would develope at its own pace!

I laugh at the Yorubas making jest at Igbos, who told you guys that Yorubas have had a better deal in Nigeria? Since the end of the civil war, Yorubas have suffered the worst humiliation than any other tribe in Nigeria, Abiola won an election but the hausas said for were? They arrested him, disgraced him in prison and letter killed him! Diya was accussed of plotting a phantom coup, he was arrested, haranged, disgraced and condemned to death. Awolowo died a frustrated man, after he tried all he could to rule Nigeria. In the current dispensation, the Yorubas, a supposed major tribe, is not represented in the first six positions in Nigeria today, Igbos has 2 as well as the SGF and co-ordinating minister. The fact is Yorubas are suffering the worst humiliation and as cowards, they cant do nothing about it!

[quote author=sucre!!]Ojuwu was a greedy and a selfish man, He has no feelings for the Igbo people and it was his greed that led to the Civil war after all if Gowon had renounced his post as the Head of State the war would not have broke out.
OP..Read WHY WE STRUCK by Ademoyega Adewale..[/quote]Are you a kid? Even if you are, it does not give you the right to ignorance because we live in an information age. That sh!t you wrote was fabricated by mischeif makers!

CyberG: Good you weighed-in but you missed the mark. Banjo had an agreement with ojukwu, for some reasons he didn't miss the mark, so he betrayed ojukwu.

Now, Chief Awolowo NEVER had any agreement with ojukwu and in fact gave him a contrary advice earlier, how is it betrayal when he protected his people? Does it mean only ibos are always betrayed, and they must have it both ways? To whom was the loyalty of Chief Awolowo, was it to his people and country or BIAFRA? Give us an answer.

Yes Awolowo betrayed Igbos( though i dont blame him because man is a selfish animal and he wanted to protect the interest of his ppl) for the following reasons
1.Before the war, he said that if Biafra goes, he would declare Oduduwa rep but when Biafra secceded, he faltered and balked on that agreement.
2. During the war, he formulated a policy of starvation as the minister of finance and said that starvation is a weopon of warfare! Biafra was blockaded and millions died.
3. After the war, as the minister of finance, he formulated another policy of pauperization by giving a few pounds to Igbos, irrespective of the millions or billions he/she had ab initio. Soon this was followed by indignisation decree, whereby multinational corp were privatised and Igbos that controlled the economy ab initio were turned to spectators while Yorubas bought over the economy, this is the reason why Yorubas constitute the bulk of company executives in Nigeria till today, though Igbos are gradually coming on board again. Now you know why Igbos insist that Awolowo betrayed them.

Madawaki01: Don't know why either,but in d peak of d battle,he was killed by ojukwu for selfish reasons,they said he called his army the liberation instead of the biafran army,does this concern ojukwu?what he wanted was the sovereign state of biafra and banjo was fighting d nigerian army,but he wanted people to say the biafran army conquered the mid west,i think he wanted d whole of nigeria(to b the president)and not only biafra,when he knows dat he didn't hav experienced officers in his army,why didn't he wait for a little time before plunging into a war,maybe he thinks a war is a childs play,he only led his pple into misfortune and igbos are licking that wound till today

Banjo was a tragedy on Biafra, one of the biggest mistake Ojukwu made was to appoint Col Banjo, at the last minute to, spearhead the western invasion instead of Maj Nwawo, hope am right, who was initialy in command. Though i understand the sentiment, which was to appeal to the Yorubas, that Biafra was not coming to destroy them but to capture Lagos and force Nigeria to renounce the war but Banjo had ulterior motive, he decided to pacify Nigeria at the expense of Biafra, since he was a fugitive. He captured Midwest, invaded Western Nigeria but stopped @ Ore while trying to communicate with Lagos! What a disaster, Ojukwu was stupified, Nigeria recovered and forced them into total retreat. A missed opportunity that was and another Yoruba betrayal!

Eko Ile: Coward son of ojuku the deserter. Slow down and preserve your anger for the hausa people wey dey slaughter you clowns like chicken.

You people just need to confine your kidnapping business to your ibo people because hausa people no dey play.

ssshhhh stop vituperating gibberish, the civil war you are talking about, was between Igbos and 279 ethnic groups put together as well as the full support of Britain, USSR and Egypt. That said, Igbos unlike the Yorubas, are never cowards, Fulanis have killed many yorubas in Lagos(including mile 12), Oyo, Ibeshe in Ogun etc and nothing happened but when they killed Igbos in Kaduna in 2OO1, hundreds of them were killed in retaliation in Aba, i witnessed it then. ITS IN OUR BLOOD, IGBOS ARE NEVER COWARDs! Watch and see!

I smell rat here, for all intent and purpose, it appears that the feudal northern elites are the ones sponsoring this fulani cattle rearers, to terrorise middle belt and southerners, how come they are alwz armed with sophisticated weopons? Nimbo community must never allow this to end this way, the youths should mobilise(through vigilante group) and the LGA and community should give them covert support to annihilate any fulani that is found in the area. This is a very bad precedence!

Daybeecee: Super Stars in the making

Super stars already!

Tearing out our match box just to use it to play dice.
Sticking a knife to the ground when two cocks are fighting, so they wont stop!
Scavenging dustbins of beer palours, looking for lucky promo cocks to go and redeem!
Building castles on wet sand.
Rolling wheel with a spoke along the streets.
Scraping ice from the fridge wall and licking it.
Shouting up NEPA whenever they brought light.
Pouring groundnut into mineral

Lol, did most of them and others like;
playing soccer with crown cocks.
Using empty milk cans as safe box.
Staying awake at night, just to watch films on NTA.
Smoking cigarettes with carton paper.
Eating along the road etc

I am not a prophet of doom but neither do i live in a fool's paradise. This article is not predisposed on the prediction of CIA about the violent break up of Nigeria, nor is it based on rocket science, rather, this is a survey conducted by a concerned Nigerian. We all know about the history of Nigeria; how the british came and exploited us. In 1914, they amalgamated the north and south mainly for selfish economic reasons, without even consulting the constituent aborigens. Then came the 1950's and their empire began to crumble, India got independence and many African countries began emancipation struggles including Nigeria but while Ghana got theirs in 1957, the North through Ahmadu Bello, sabotaged ours. Zik and Awolowo kept on, and in 1960, their struggle paid off but alas the most intellectually bereft amongst the trio, who equally sabotaged the struggle, was mandated to rule! Which he passed to his brother Tafawa Balewa and BORN TO RULE mantra began! 1966 coup and counter coup took place, the most senior millitary officer, Ogundipe, was shoved aside because he was not born to rule and Gowon ruled. Apart from Obasanjo's interregnum, the 'born to rule northerners' were in successive dominion over the 'born to serve southerners until democrasy in 1999. Yar'adua, a born to rule, died in office and GEJ, was almost stopped, since he was not from the born to rule enclave! 2011 polls came and GEJ defeated Buhari, a born to rule candidate and hell was let loose and with it hundreds of Nigerians including corps members perished. Now again, they have warned GEJ to steer clear of 2015 or baboons and monkeys would be soaked in blood! And for all intent and purpose GEJ would contest and history would repeat itself! If you are a southerner and you are still leaving in the North, now is the time to make hay. They will try to either assassinate GEJ or stage a coup but both will fail and GEJ will contest again and win, then........,

christemmbassey: there is nothing like psychotic degeneration in psychiatry/psychology, u r disgracing d entire Igbo in public. Ariaria market stuff abi?

you must be an illiterate!

dolpaz: You will have to stand up and fight for yourself..
I served here in 2010 and this states is backward day by day
*SMH* for ebonyi and its people
Dat's why a certain lady in afikpo, (she calls herself afikpo chicks), whenever she enters lagos, she snap pictures of shoprite as if she's in london..a lagos kid goes to shoprite almost once in a month..mtcheeeewwww

I know that bitch, while we were in the university, our department went on a field trip to Afikpo and Amasiri, we heard a lot about the woman and i think she happened to be the biggest lady in town. When we arrived her joint to flex, we saw her hummer jeep with customised plate number, were she wrote Afikpo chick, but when i saw her, i almost threw up, she looked like one who has advanced type 2 HIV!

God bless you Emmy and others sharing it, pls i will need the pack as well, my email ad is nwankwotg@yahoo.com. Thank you in advance.

[quote author=Mr. Globe]^
I dey laugh.
Commercial
Onitsha
Aba
Nnewi

Industrialized
Onitsha
Aba
Nnewi
Its not just about reeling out companies have you been to onitsha? Aba is mostly known for making clothes and shoes. Onistha is more industrial and commercial[/quote]it is apparent that you know very little about Aba.

Proxytalk: Lagos would have taken it if not for the clause 'non state capital' cos industry and commercial activities going on in lagos is equal or more than the entire country in capacity.
Then the lot goes to onitsha and aba. It may be a very big task to decide btw the 2. Aba is a bit higher in manufacturing ind. yet onitsha is far more commercialised than aba

GBAM! GBAM!! GBAM!!!