₦airaland Forum

we should give kudos to whom it's due, the man is working. if every governor in Nigeria would be like these great men( Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Babatunde Raji Fashola, Godswill Akpabio, Adams Oshiomole) then every Nigerian would have seen the dividends of democracy

This is great news for many reasons,1 Orient petroleum is owned by indigenous Anambra people with headquarters here, the money will flow within the state unlike shell,Mobil and other Multinationals that repatriate their profit to their home countries, 2 the multiplier effect can not be overemphasized because other allied industries will emerge and the fact that it is located in a state with high entrepreneurship, investors would not be a problem. As a geologist, it is a known fact to us that Anambra basin has commercial quantities of hydrocarbon reserves but politics of bitterness had been an impediment. finally for those pessimists that are mentioning niger delta, be informed that Anambra situated in a flat sedimentary rainforest terrain unlike the N.D that is located in an inhospitable mangrove vegetation with its attendant ecological problems. Thank God the oil blocks was not sold to the likes of evil genius IBB,OBJ or Danjuma, so turn the rig,open the pump head and let the oil flow on a lighter note for those claiming to have struck oil in kwara, Zamfara or Borno please take it easy because it does not work that way but hopefully in the next epoch when the bodies of people killed by boko haram must have fossilized, you might be able to discover oil

some people revel in crass ignorance, it beats my imagination on why a project that is stil at the foundation stage could be so judged with negativity, i'm a proud mbaiseman but i don't bother myself so much on were the universty is sited, so far it is world class, as our great governor has said. it would not reduce the status of mbaise as the most educationally advanced sub tribe in Nigeria if the university is built elsewhere. kudos to you my governor.

WTF is all this hullabaloo about? a banana rep in the west coast choose to nominate a white who is not even contesting against a qualified and experienced Nigerian i can deduce a few albeit parochial reasons for it, (1) Ghana recently struck 0il in commercial quantities and felt they would not need our aid anymore, (2)Ghana as a country suffers from low self esteem due to their charcoal pigmentation which makes them to prefer anybody who is light skinned, this is corroborated by their film industry were being light skinned is a criteria for acting and equally most Ghanaian girls in Accra can do anything to be impregnated by any whiteman even if he is a Lebanese (3)they felt it would be better to toe the line of Obama than to support an intimidating rival

olayinka1987: Common shut up. Stop talking nonsense. The ibos didn't win any war. They lost and they lost badly. A war that they started lol. They lost so bad that they started crying genocide. The Republic of Biafra doesn't exist. It's just a some utopia imagined up by Ibo fantasists and noise makers.

you must be a nutcase, imagine this barbaric and delusional Ogbomoso man who can not make a civilized comment, do you think that pouring invective with vituperative candor makes you intelligent?

bittyend: Please, leave Igbos out of it for now - the beef with them is about outsmarting them. We'll fight an intellectual war with them when the time comes; and they know they can never win in Lagos. Lagos is in the heart of SW, and they have to pass through some thorough breed Yoruba cities before getting there. We need to get them off their biafra revisionist tendencies; form an alliance with them and other Southerners; and put the Northerners in their place - for this Country to move forward. Once Igbos and Yorubas unite, based on INTERESTS - that will be the end of the almajiri domination in Nigeria.

you are making some bit of sense, it is this destructive rivalry with Igbos that makes the Hausa/Fulani appear larger than life Igbos and Yorubas are the most progressive tribes in Nigeria but it seemed that many Yorubas have ego problem and are warry of Igbo exploits, so at any giving opportunity they vent their frustration on the wrong people but the honest Yorubas know that Igbos are not their problem.

BaBa Mike:

It is the fault of

[s]Igbo

IBO to Die in the hand of Boko Haram group , I want Nigeria to understand that it is only lack of understanding that Leeds Ibo to foolish dead, the Ibo caused the death by their own hand, if the could remember how the Ibo's was [s]slaughtered in Biafra war by the so called Hausa, and this stupid ppl of Ibo still invest the live in north and southern part of Nigeria, WHY THEY WILL NOT BE KILLED BY THOSE PEOPLE, 95% of northern Nigeria do not love an Ibo man or woman and the Ibo's go to their state to do business.
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Oma se o, awon ode

[s][/s] i must confess that it was difficult to get your point,but that said, i want to clarify a fact to you, the Igbos are egalitarian capitalists, so by virtue of this they migrate in large numbers to all corners of the globe making money for themselves and equally develope their host, so from Alaska to Zimbabwe you see them. it is pure fallacy to say that Hausas defeated Biafra, we all know what happened in the war when the rest of Nigeria in connivance with Britain,Egypt,Russia etc fought against Biafra, yet Biafra with its home grown technology was able to withstand them for three years. have you wondered why some pundits said that Biafra won the war ideologically. that was the Biafran revolution, that is the Igbo spirit

kettykin: i once predicted in this forum that Lagos would metamorphosize into another Jos and some people looked the other way.
Jos people were once like the yorubas ,in one accorrd with the Hausa fulani so much that they joined themwhole heartedly to btucher easterners in the 1966 and also in the Civil war.
I knew the turn of Lagos would come one day , for those who think they can push out the Hausa Fulani in Lagos they should think again the South west is finished, it is just a question of time , Lagos might eventually be partitioned into Lagos north (for the Hausa Fulani ) and Lagos south (for the indigenes) the Hausa Fulani next step will be to win the Local Government that they control in Lagos like the Mile 12 .e.t.c

I remember how some people with the brain of a rat were going around to vaunt that provided Boko Hram does not get Lagos and the SW that Nigeria could go to Blazes. Now something worse is brewing in the SW and we are waiting to see what it will
turn into.

you are spot on bro, i believe that karma is at work and nemesis is about going full cycle

I'm gutted, is this for real? how can these God forsaken animals be killing southerners in the north and still have the gut to go on unwarranted rampage in YORUBAland please my yoruba brothers, you guys should stand up for once and fight how can the almajiris come to your place and poke their filthy hands into your eyes only for you guys to cower . that's why i like my Igbo brothers, these animals can't come to a place like Onitsha or Aba and try this shit, by now thousands of them would have been barbecued alive. please extend an olive branch to your more courageous Igbo brothers and seek their support to defeat these infidels and were is the OPC?

drnoel: I was raised in Lagos, but schooled and worked in most of the south -East, south-southern states. So I got 2 know most of these palces very well. I would recommend owerri cos of its peace and quiet and if its fun u want, the city rocks, the girls are fine and willing. U'd have a ball there if u got a nice car and some cash 2 burn. Aba was nice, but their nightlife can't be compared 2 owerri, besides Aba city has some crude things about it. I won't recommend u live in aba, but if u stay in Owerri u can always go 2 aba or PH to party (we used 2 do that a lot). Calabar and Uyo was where most of my friends while we where in the University a long time ago lost their Virginity. This places will take ur breathe away, life is very nice there but too dull and slow 4 a guy like me who grew-up in Lagos. Their party life is just nice, but the girls, men the girls. That was an experience.
Enugu, can be fun too, and I actually enjoyed a few moments there. If its drinking u want 2 do, then Enugu is the place. If its party and girls, em may be u try another place. Awka and Umuahia, really should not be in the map at all. Its depressing to go to those places. Nothing is happening there, u'd regret it if you go to live there (with all due respect 2 guys that are from there). Onitsha, is another drinking town, night life is not just there.
I don't know about Warri, Delta,or Benin.

they are not in the east

ndahbros1: @ OP:

PORT HARCOURT IS NOT AN EASTERN CITY.
IT IS IN THE SOUTH-SOUTH OF NIGERIA.

Are you a dumb ass? the poster said a city in the East, did you ATTEND GEOGRAPHY class at all, MUGU.

port Harcourt would have been it except that it is anything but quiet especially that Aba road that is chaotic as Lagos can be, i think its a close call between Owerri and Enugu. while Owerri is neat and beautiful and equally has an area called new Owerri which can be compared with any advanced country, the city equally boast of five star hotels and nice clubs. Enugu equally has most of these features and a brand new shoprite.

tigerleggs: East ke! It's already filled up. That why the Ibos are leaving their ancestral land en mass for space. Why not try Maiduguri, Bauchi, Kano or any of the Bokoland. It's lively with Xmas bangers(bombs) and Barca Boys(Bokoboys) I've made reservations for you.

you are a mad man lol

13volts: The only common features describing Owere is the abundance of Hotel. Jeez if that is the yardstick used to compare PHC and an Ashawo city then sorry for you guys. I ve not been to Owerri but I know PHC very well and I have to say PHC is really beautiful.

Will you shut your maggot infested mouth for once you said you have not stepped out of PH and yet you are condemning a beautiful city like Owerri is that not preposterous [color=#006600][/color]

Danigmatic: Considering †ђξ infrastructural development portharcourt is far better,,if I may ask Ђơ̴̴̴̴̴̴͡ω many bridges re in oowerri?,,is there an airport in owerri?,,portharcourt is business Ãήϑ financially extravagant than oweeri?,,in terms of national shows portharcourt is a must venue,,even †ђξ inhabitants in portharcourt is more oriented than †ђξ owerries,,
Portharcourt beat dem jawe

have you been to Owerri? then you should know that Owerri has an international cargo airport called Sam Mbakwe airport

we not talking population, we talking city planning, decorum and advancement. Which of you guys have even been in rumuomasi, choba and the rest? Take aba road out of ph and ph is dead! Everything in ph is centered around aba rd GBAM you said it all bro, PH almost starts and ends with Aba road which on its own is a continuation of Enugu-PH exp way

Honestly speaking both cities are beautiful and always endears visitors to them.it is always a huge contrast whenever i travel to Aba from any of these cities, its as if moving from first world country to a third world country. in terms of aesthetics, serenity and neatness, i give to Owerri but PH is more cosmopolitan and fast paced. Again when it comes to groove n flexing it appears that Owerri is fast leaving PH behind,to understand what i'm saying you can go to Portharcourt road on friday evening and see the huge volume of cars entering Owerri from PH.

the chicken has come home to roost and the clock has gone full cycle. how time flies! Go On With One Nigeria or is it Gowon they call you, whatever. nobody observed your absence on the day of the burial but yet you are busy apologizing, is your conscience disturbing you? you had appointments in US and UK sorry i never new that GEJ has made you the new minister of foreign affairs i pity you because i know how you must have felt seeing your adversary and supposed "rebel" being celebrated while you watch the proceeding on cable and at the same time be wondering if you will be accorded such encomiums. but honestly you will not because posterity always recognizes people with fore sight(Ojukwu)and not people with short site like you. nemesis has caught up with you in plateau state and i thank God that you are alive to reap the evil you sowed. sorry dude Ikemba Nnewi has had the last laugh

write step in the write direction.

Honestly speaking these two women are great patriots, courageous and dogged world class professionals who have distinguished themselves in different areas. you did not add Ezekwesili who should equally be in their class. Igbo women have really challenged the axiom that we live in mens world. it would be unfair to compare them because they have all excelled.

abeg na who dash aboki packet shirt? because i just observed that they are all wearing clean shirts, you will agree with me that an average aboki wears a dirty flowing robe but these guys look more like niger delta millitants and i equally observed that one of them has a pot belly na wao the same people championing sharia or am i missing something, please someone should enlighten me.

Nigerians need attitudinal change, WTF with GEJ writing to some foreign governments in a diplomatic issue? what is this obsession with GEJ?  

that would be a joke carried too far and i don't see that happening but if per adventure it does, then it would be there Waterloo. in 2001 when i was in Aba, igbos were being killed in the Kaduna and immediately the news got disseminated, the York columbia boys took up the gauntlet and before the abokis could mention Allah is great, hundreds of them lay barbecued on the road medians and junctions. i repeat south east is a ''no go area'' but they can try at their own peril, over and out!

whoever would castigate Femi-Fani Kayode, an intelligent and well educated legal luminary, because he was frank and honest to eulogize a great man in the person of Ojukwu, is nothing but a mischievous and myopic ethnic bigot who will appreciate a good thing only if it comes from their side! FFK is an honest man who has grown beyond petty tribalism. haters should go and hug transformer, you are the type Ghadafi used to call ''rats''

wow naija seems to be having diplomatic issues of late, from UK to SA and now Italy na wao, anyway what is good for the goose is equally good for the gander! if the EU can humiliate and deport Nigerians at the drop of a hat, i don't see why the ''giant of Africa'' would not treat Italy like a persona non Grata. RIP to the dead ones.

Another bulls eye for GEJ, first was the arik air London flight slot saga in which Nigeria humbled the UK and now this were SA has to tender an unreserved apology, i think we are finally getting our acts together in terms of international relations, so to those banana republics,and yes i mean the likes of these African countries Libya, Togo, Ghana etc and even Malaysia and China that treat our nationals like shit, be on your guard because we have enacted a new law called the doctrine of reciprocity

Atimes i wonder  what could be the problem with Nigerians, is it petty tribalism, mischief to score cheap points, crass ignorance, or poverty induced inferiority complex? GEJ has taken the bull by the horn in order to correct a diplomatic assault on the collective integrity of Nigerians and yet some people are talking trash, to start with South Africa has more to loose than Nigeria if the diplomatic impasse deteriorates eg how many Nigerian companies of repute are operating in their domain compared to Multichoice and the shylock MTN. secondly Nigeria has a huge market which no company or country can ignore easily, , i can go on and on but in the interest of sub saharan Africa i hope that Jacob Zuma would look into the situation and call his folks to order.

Atimes i wonder what could be the problem with Nigerians, is it petty tribalism, mischief to score cheap points, crass ignorance, or poverty induced inferiority complex? GEJ has taken the bull by the horn in order to correct a diplomatic assault on the collective integrity of Nigerians and yet some people are talking trash, to start with South Africa has more to loose than Nigeria if the diplomatic impasse deteriorates eg how many Nigerian companies of repute are operating in their domain compared to Multichoice and the shylock MTN. secondly Nigeria has a huge market which no company or country can ignore easily, , i can go on and on but in the interest of sub saharan Africa i hope that Jacob Zuma would look into the situation and call his folks to order.

what a phenomenal burial for a great man, i have never seen such in black Africa, even when a president died in office i.e Yaradua, his burial could not be compared to this ''upheaval'' multitudes of people like sand, men crying, memorials/vigils held across cities in Nigeria and beyond for the man who saw tomorrow. the mouth that poured invectives have turned around to profess encomiums, the Yorubas, Ijaws,Tivs,Nupes,Igalas, Binis etc that aligned themselves with the ''never do wells'' of Nigeria have realized their folly though belatedly and Karma has gone full cycle

I have been studying this new police chief with interest, despite the hullabaloo that greeted his unveiling bothering on incompetence, he is gradually proving critics wrong, though its not uhuru yet but i have this conviction that he means business. the south east in particular have lost billions of naira to those criminals in uniform, from porth harcourth-Enugu exp to Owerri-Onitsha highway the story is the same, infact someone actually joked that police extortion points are the only federal presence noticeable in Igboland! Bravo IG.