Jcoleworld911:


When we talk of good governance umahi shouldn’t come close to it

For almost eight years in office, there’s no employment of any form in Ebonyi state not to talk of promotions, he even cut salaries of civil workers and sack almost half of civil servants in Ebonyi state.

There’s no single investment attracted to Ebonyi state either by umahi or friends

The state prides itself as an agricultural state still yet nothing is done in that aspect

Some persons will argue that he concentrated on infrastructure but is only in abakaliki town, inside Ebonyi is a hell, and lest I forget the kind of hunger in that town is heart breaking.

I visited their mall, apart from everyday and few others, other outlets are empty, same thing with their so call international market, half of the market is empty

You guys need to visit Ebonyi to understand the suffering of the people. Almost half of ebonyians are not living in Ebonyi state, I just pity living there

Adaisback:
they said we have so many influential people that are disrupting their plans of achieving Biafra. Our gov should do something fast

Adaisback:
my dear, it's getting serious . Ogidi area command cane under serious attack yesterday and three people were killed. Soludo, pls do something, I kneel down dey beg o. Ndi Abakiliki biko leave us alone o. One man personally told me that it is ndi Anambra that is their stumbling block in getting Biafra. My people are under attack. Gov Soludo, biko you have to keep that Udo one side and put on the cloak of vawlence otherwise they won't let us be.

gidgiddy:


Look at who is claiming to be from Anambra but is angry that I celebrated the city of Onitsha with pictures from two years ago.

It shows that you are not Igbo, just another urchin from Ogbomosho who is angry at how developed Onitsha is

Adaisback:
It has been brought to our notice this current Simon Ekpa's unknown gunmen consists mostly of Abakiliki people and they have the guts to come to Anambra to torment us. Anybody close to Soludo should talk to him. I don't know why that man is not taking security serious. People were almost killed at Nnewi yesterday. We must do something and urgently too .

ebufa:



Nobody is 100% useless! If you are a student of history and strategy.....you will know this fact! Even prisoners and felons have their nuisance value! Russia after 1 calendar year of relentless bloodletting in Ukraine has released felons and criminals in her prisons to fight with Wagner mercenary army in a freedom for 6 months at the front deal!

The ESN you are disparaging today ......may yet be useful to us! Bros my eyes dey ground! FEBRUARY 25th is going to be pivotal and I smell an Abiola 1993 election debacle............we are not out of the woods yet..............by any stretch of imagination! You will do well not to heave a sigh of relief yet!

NwekereNdoki:
Igbos miscalculate and overhype Lagos sometimes.

I did the maths and i found out that investing in the east will give you access to bigger market than Lagos.

Here is how.

South South and South East has a population of 26 and 22 Milllion people respectively. If you combine them together that's 48 million people.

South West has a total population of 32.5 million people.

Now if you observe the attached map there are two circles I drew there. The yellow and the blue circle.

The yellow circle consist of what I call the economic catchment areas of Eastern Region. This catchment areas includes SS/SE and some parts of Cameroun and Equatorial Guinea.

As I mentioned, minus Cameroun and Equatorial Guinea, the total population of SS/SE alone is a market catchment area that's more populated than SW.

What this means is that citing an industry in SS/SE will give you access to more market than the market available in SW. Some of our Igbo brothers are always deceived that Lagos has the population hence the need for them to set up industry in Lagos/Ibadan axis. That's a big lie. Only Abia, Owerri and PH will give you whatever market you need to sell your product. And also, it is a known fact that most of these stuffs produced in Lagos/Ibadan axis finds their way into SS/SE. Example snacks and biscuits.

Now if these things still comes to SS/SE and gets consumed what is the sense in now going as far as Lagos to set up this factories when in actual sense if u set it in SS/SE you get access to more ready market and population. Now if I go further to add Equitorial Guinea and Cameroun you know what this means.

Now let's talk about the blue circle.
As you might have observed, Abuja is closer to SE/SS than Lagos/SW. Now if this is the case why do our people still think they should cite their bizness in SW/Lagos/Ibadan when they can cite it in SS/SE and get to the market in Easter NC, NE and Abuja faster?

I have contemplated on this and I honestly don't see the sense of setting up industries in this areas when at the end of the day your goods gets consumed more outside the region you set up factory.

Innoson is a good example that proves that setting up in SE/SS is more viable than SW. From Nnewi Innoson can easily sell to Abuja, NC, Cameroun, Equatorial Guinea, etc.

Let me reemphasize. SE/SS has more population and ready consumers than SW. SE/SS can easily distibute to Abuja, Eastern NC and NE easily cause of proximity than shipping from Lagos to these areas.

It is important Igbo industrialists lock down the economic zones and market of NE, Eastern NC, SS, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroun.

If we can successfully lock down this market, we can then scale up and compete to get other regions like NW, Western NC and even SW, then global markets.

Let's start with the market in this areas first (NE, Eastern NC, SS/SE, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroun).

It is important we build factories within SE/SS in order to stay close to these market and capture them. Proximally speaking, it makes more sense to build industries in SE/SS than building in Lagos/Ibadan. Most of the cities and states with higher Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) exist within our market region. LET'S BUILD INDUSTRIES CLOSE TO IT AND LOCK IT.

I know people will give me reasons like Seaport and the rest not functional in SS/sE that's why people set up there. Well i disagree.

We can still set up here and push thru our leaders that the available ports be functional, or even invest towards building and owning one. We need leaders in the SE to be more proactive in the next 4 years. it should not be about just building road and flyovers now. it is now an existential matter. They must push and float investment companies that will go round and see stuffs that hinders our productivity and see ways to invest in ensuring that stumbling block is removed. Akwa Ibom state is building a seaport, this investment front funded by all SE states can go and invest in it and secure the goodwill of the state and secure right of access instead of complaining and waiting for FG to wake up. FG is slow, waiting for them will make us waste precious time.

Thank God seaports are now in the legislative list. SE governors can work with states like Akwa Ibom (preferable to avoid Ijaw wahala) to get concession to build ports at their coastal line. This port must not even be funded from the state covers of SE. Funds can be sourced from investors while the front runners will be the investment company set up by SE Gov Forum. I know this is what SEREDEC was design to function as. I hope we get to the point where we start having the conversation. SW is doing it already, buying and owning OML thru their investment front (Odua investment group).

It is important we realize that this time around, the next four years should not be about roads and flyovers. State governors can not develop SE within the shortest possible time. They must work with private investors which we have in abundance, but the brick wall has been trust and lack of passion from government.

Only one gov in SE has started going this route, it may sound surprising but it's Abia. As it stands, Abia State via EEC has now taken over Enugu - PH expressway and Onitsha - Aba - Owerri expressway. They will toll it and make money from it in the coming years.

This is what I pray to start seeing in SE.


Attached
- Map
- Purchasing Power Parity Chart (Only available one I could find)

Jcoleworld911:




Dunno why you guys always camp here and be spitting rubbish in the name of freedom fighting

Igbos have distanced themselves from ipob and will never associate themselves with ipob again.

By now, you should have known that igbos don’t sympathize with terriosm in the name of freedom fighting, even if mnk regain his freedom, no one will take him serious again, as for ikpa and his fellow wawa miscreants , he’s fighting a loose battle because his fellow Ebonyians don’t take him serious except the criminal minded ones.

Please, stop disturbing us with ipob here, thank you

ebufa:





I have not seen you promote Peter Obi here o! all you do here is to quarrel like a spiteful first wife!

ebufa:




We have not been able to crush Campus cults and street cultism........even to take out motor park touts has proven to be impossible.........
.it is IPOB you want to take on..........it is time we all take a course in conflict resolution and management! Wishful thinking will not take us out of the mess our wishy washy politicians have landed us in.......my humble take!!!

ebufa:





Oga go and support peter Obi and stop minding other people's business! Biafran agitators have a particular point of view and are busy "walking their talk'..............the 'Igbo presidency' crew on the other hand have not lifted a finger to support Peter Obi in any way,instead it is a certain key section of the yoruba elite that are busy running around with peter obi campaigning with him ,even consoling him...........where are the key members of the near ineffectual Igbo elite? where are they! For IPOB ,this struggle is existential and it has to be sorted out now!
We are tired of begging fulani and yorubas for our fair portion in the federation, Those who are agitating for Biafra are not brainless nor daft, who says they are not amenable to a peaceful restructuring? He that seeks peace,should always be prepared for war' your pacifist naivety is the reason why IPOB/ESN is today fighting a costly rearguard action! Bros ! we live in a rough neighbourhood, you do not bring a dagger to a fight,where your adversaries are armed with Ak 47s! ..................May god help the corrupt Igbo elite if Peter Obi loses this election..................Ut is not ESN that will deal with them............the people will ostracize them finally!

oilykid:

Aptly written!
I'm tired of engaging most of them bruh!!
They are too empty and have been brainwashed to blame everyone but tneirselves. They keep blaming their failures on Fulani and government.

christejames:




Stop this nonsense talk Mr man...



Who is measuring dick with you?




I only asked a harmless questions to be clarified because I have always known Onitsha as the major distributor of Nollywood films till dates. Instead of being polite, your bellicose self jump out of your body to start your phantom comparation which I least care about.


I always want the best for AlaIgbo, so get that into your belligerent skull... Stop quoting me with such tones again.

ajailer:
I doubt it. I guess he is just doing it to catch cruise. we ain't deceived.

ChimaAdeoye:


What has made the mention of Biafra very very distasteful is the crude and authoritarian manner that some illiterates have pursued and hijacked it. I prefer not to mention it again. After all the sacrifices of people that died in the struggle, we watched mere criminals hijack the struggle just to use it as another money-making venture to scam people!

If Biafra were the Biafra of 1967 that exalted and prioritized innovation, technology, probity, and a general sense of deep patriotism for the progress of the Biafran state, many would still prefer it over Nigeria. The tragedy is that criminals like Simeon Ekpa saw it as a money-making opportunity to grab power and assassinate his perceived enemies. The display of primitiveness and criminality by the so-called "auto-piloters" killed the remaining hope of a successful Biafran state run by credible men of integrity. Which would not end up like another South Sudan run by criminals and warlords once we got our independence. That is why I have sadly observed that every Igboman of substance has distanced themselves from those crooks.

gidgiddy:


Lol, as a Nigerian, you are nothing but a British colonial product. Thats why you are claiming the country a British man called Frederick Lugard created, as your own, and also claiming the name "Nigerian", his wife created as your national identity

Your British colonial project called Nigeria is today tye poverty capital of the world and 6th most terrorised country on earth

Igbo land must become independent of such monumental failure, whether as Biafra or some other name Igbos collectively choose

gidgiddy:


Well it is a name that someone from Anambra called Ojukwu, along with others, deliberated and voted to choose


Unlike the name "Nigeria" that was chosen for you by a white woman in London, and "Anambra", that was chosen by one drunk Nigerian Army officer in his office

AmuDimpka:


You know the truth one idiot was saying that Anambra isn't an identity....i don't know why those people are having inferior complex in them


The monkey said that I shouldn't project Anambra... you can imagine the idiot


Anambra that has been putting igbo in global and national map

IDENNAA:


Anambra is a well defined identity because we are very different in many ways but still Igbo. We dance differently, speak different and look different.

Our drums sounds very different
Our chants sounds different
Our music also sounds different
Our food is equally different

Its numerous

For example, the red cap is only wore by titled Ozo men in Anambra but other Igbo think it's a fashion thing

Maazieze:


where can i find igbo platforms, nairaland is the closest i can find but its way too toxic

AmuDimpka:
i dont know why you have a problem with my state


I am An Anambra man...that is my identity and start dealing with that



We Anambra will defend that identity...it is a brand we have built and start aligning with this reality

gidgiddy:


Anambra is no identity. If tomorrow Nigeria is restructured and States are dissolved, there will be no where called Anambra

AmuDimpka:
Anambra today is an identity and we are okay with it .... The Same way

globemoney01:
VIPS welcome Tinubu at Anambra Airport. At this point, only Buhari, the president has not landed in Anambra Airport.

All the logistics that would have gone to other states now go directly to Anambra thanks to this Airport. God Bless Obiano!

investnow2013:
Onyeka Osakwe Mansion Nnewi. Ala Igbo Amaka.

marshman293:
Chest beaters

oilykid:

I'm still shocked that our SE haven't agreed for total military operations in the SE. SE governors are indirectly enabling this nonsense until it consumes everyone of them

oilykid:
I hope that out people will get sense and stop harbouring those criminals in their communities..

Any updates on the geneith factory expansion to Awka, I hope the idea haven't been abandoned?