horsepower102:
The way these people talk about Aba, you will think their cities look better but in reality, Aba despite its challenges is more beautiful and developed then their so called cities. That’s why they cling so tightly to Lagos


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb4mMQe4p8A

Sango/Ota areas of Ogun state has worse roads than Aba. Even within their almighty Lagos, go to areas around Ojo, Ejigbo, and the rest, you will see terrible roads and filthy living conditions but these our hypocritical compatriots will rather suffer and die in silence than call out their governors.

It's on record that no non-state capital city in the SW can be comparable to non state capital cities in the SE or SS. For example, in the SE, you have Onitsha and Aba. In the SS, you have Warri, Bonny, or Ikot Ekpene. Now compare these cities to the ones in SW like Owo, Ogbomosho or Ore.

Most SW towns always have rustic and deadbeat outlook.

totit:



Well, where I bought mine is costs 1.2 million or there about now to get a plot of land. This shows you live in a rural area.


2. You claimed the SW youths are lazy and at the same time you said they most of them work as taxi drivers, civil servants, and what have you. What's your definition of laziness to start with?


3. Like you said above, you are a student which proves my assertion that you either live in a room apartment [b]or a ritual area of the state [/b]hence the lack of water and what have you.


4. The land you probably bought at the price is likely farmland and a very deep rural area. Lie again let me catch your tongue. You can argue with me or you provide the said location of the land?


5. No, Sw is not at all overhyped , doorh, your message states that you've only been to some areas in Ogun state, and Abeokuta not the whole of SW, and the facts are there to back every claim, not base on an oral assumption like yours borne out of envy.

No. You can't confirm anything, you are only an individual and you don't conduct stats neither have you been to the whole gun state talkless of SW.


Now and lastly, thunder fire that your nyash for claiming to be from SS and making assumptions base on your limited travel of Ogun state and SW.

Wow, so you guys now have designated areas in your towns set aside for skull miners

Wonders shall never end in this obodo Nigeria. So all these claims about skull mining being a lucrative venture in the SW is indeed real.

LWKMD @ ritual area of the state

Psalmy2cute:
I'm currently in the southwest though from the ss.. and I can confirm to you that... sw is very much over hyped here on nairaland.. they want to make you believe sw is the most developed region in Nigeria but I doubt if you exclude lagos.. if sw can really compare to SE in term of infrastructure and human resources... here in abeokuta the men have two major jobs.. taxi driving and civil servant.. I think FMC is the biggest employer here.. beggars and fraudster loitering in every corner ready to dupe you if you cant speak yoruba.. honestly I dont think any region has the right to make a joke of other regions in Nigeria... the sw is still a majority brown roof region.. they have lands and fertile soil good climate but are very lazy.. all they want is a white collar job.. they keep selling land unnecessarily thinking they have abundance of it.. here in abeokuta you can still get a plot of land for 50k ...

Some areas in Abeokuta no get water.. sometimes I buy a cage of water as high as 70naira per cage in a state capital for that matter.... you can imagine the kind of struggle students go through here.. but I like the sw when I comes to education.... on that area... I don't think any other region can compare

Case closed

AbijaJ:
Op, why your obsession with SW states? Going by your moniker it is obvious that you are igbo, so why not leave SW people to concern themselves with that. A Yoruba person won't come here to ask this about igbo/SE states. But we sabi your kind. Na rofo-rofo fight you dey find.

Development is going on in different degrees all over the country (both private and government-initiated), but it is not every state government that has agents and propagandists on Nairaland in search of cheap 'likes'. If you really care about development going on in the SW states it is actually not difficult to find out about that online or you can go to those states yourself, but your motive is not genuine because even on this same Nairaland there are occasional news reports of development from that corridor.

Lies from the pit of hell. Yorubas always invade threads about SE and SS only to throw tantrums but when a supposed good question is asked about SW you start convulsing.

I don't need to go to the SW states to find out because I already know virtually all the states there and the I can tell you categorically that nothing is happening except in Lagos.

YouAreFinished:
The SW like ordinary Ogun State that generates more IGR than the entire South East

If Ogun generates more IGR than the entire SE as you claim, then it is still due to Lagos which points to my assertions too.

AbijaJ:


No, neither you nor the Op are right. Every state grows at its pace and have different priorities. Some states have passed the level other states are currently at. E.g, while Ebonyi and Rivers mat be prioritizing building of flyovers, the current Ogun government may choose instead to focus on employment generation, human capital development, road maintenance, and agricultural development programs, which is a different focus compared to the previous Ogun state administration of Amosun that built 15 flyovers and bridges across the state and attracted over 300 new businesses and industries.

https://m.guardian.ng/business-services/ogun-state-attracts-304-industrial-firms-in-seven-years/amp/

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/232483-why-my-administration-is-focused-on-building-bridges-flyovers-amosun.html

But it is obvious that many of you guys here have jaundiced concept of development which is limited to only flyovers and road maintenance. Development is beyond building flyovers. And some states that are just building their own flyovers, bridges, and airports are merely playing catch-up compared to others that already have them.

So those of you making noise about flyovers should mechionu because other states have long passed that stage of development.

Lol, stop decieving yourself my bro. Last time I checked, only Lagos airport is viable in the entire SW region. Osun and some other states attempted to build some airports but abandoned the idea.

Ogun state you're talking about is living off Lagos State, which still supports my earlier assertion. Those firms you claim Ogun attracted was because Lagos is filled up and they decided to site their plants in the suburbs which happens to be within Ogun state. Same Ogun you're talking about has very terrible roads in Sango/Ota axis and other parts of the state.

Lol, you claim that SW states has gone beyond the provision of infrastructure to other higher areas and I wonder if you're not making this ridiculous claims because of Lagos. What infrastructure is on ground in other SW cities/towns that will make you say this? If your governors have gone beyond provision of roads, flyovers and other basic infrastructure then I ask you, are your governors now building nuclear plants, tunnels or high-speed railways?

Funny people

Alary:

That's more reason why APC cannot zone their ticket to South East if PDP zones their ticket to the south east. Because if APC zones it to southeast like PDP,then they already gives PDP the president on a platter of gold. Because PDP will flog APC in the east anytime anyday irrespective of the igbo candidate APC present.

That's a highly flawed logic. Is it the South East alone that will vote in the presidential election? Even if the entire SE votes for PDP and other regions vote for APC, won't APC win?

In 1999, Yorubas unanimously voted for Olu Falae who was the flag bearer of Alliance for Democracy AD, but other Nigerians voted for PDP's Obasanjo and PDP won.

Bottom line, no particular region can decide who becomes president, rather it is a collective decision.

Wow, Umahi is really very popular.
Check most social media sites and you will discover that his defection to APC has dominated discussions. Even here on nairaland, 70% of the threads in politics section is all about Umahi. If this does not show he is massively popular then I wonder what it indicates.

I see no hope for Nigeria

I ask this question because it seems like the other 5 SW states are now in coma without any significant news or developmental report coming from there. For instance, all over the South South, South East and even the North, we can see and hear reports of ongoing projects that are being executed there. However, when it comes to the South West, all we hear about is Lagos and nothing more. This got me wondering what happened to the other states like Oyo, Osun, Ogun, Ondo and Ekiti, have they all gone extinct or what?

Na now day break for una

SlayerForever:



It has been drilling illegally. Without EIA and without remitting duties to the government, hence Anambra has not being receiving benefits for years now. But Anambra has been calculating their debts since anyway. And now they must pay or leave.

Then it must have been paid to Delta State but that's gross lack of integrity. How can a corporate entity deliberately shortchange a state where they're operating? They should be made to pay in arrears to the last Kobo.

post=96128792:

I have added the source

below is another source
https://punchng.com/environmental-degradation-fg-warns-anambra-oil-drilling-firm/

@, why have they not started paying Anambra state their 13% derivation since it's obvious the oil in the state has started being drilled?

Bkayyy:
See as oil just resurface left, right and center in SE. And to think of the fact that oil is becoming useless, gas appeared of nowhere.
Nobody saw this coming, I'm shocked in behalf of the we the south south and real Niger Deltans crew.
Reason why I'm shocked is simple, the oil discovered in SE is treated differently because accompanying rifineries are built in the host community unlike in the region they practiced environmental pollution.
I guess it comes with the privilege of being one of the majority

Igboland has stability because of ethnic homogeneity unlike SS where hundreds of tribes are at each other's neck. I bet you, if Oyigbo area is in Abia State, it would have had a refinery being built there. Again, the terrain in Igboland is plain and not hidious like the mangrove swamps where oil workers can be kidnapped easily and hid somewhere in the grooves.

I don't understand, is the SEEPCO of a company still exploring for oil in the two oil fields or have they started exploitation? If they have started exploitation, then why is the state not receiving 13% derivation?

I like the way the state government is getting involved, it is very important to do in order to avoid the madness that went down in Niger Delta to reoccur again.

OfoIgbo:


When it comes to oil, the states with the most are Akwa ibom, Delta and Rivers state. The LGAs within the most oil are Oyigbo and ONELGA, both in Rivers state.
The states with the most gas reserves are Imo and Anambra

Akwa Ibom oil is mostly offshore, that is why their revenue from crude oil spiked after they won the offshore/onshore dichotomy case and the lose of Bakassi that removed Cross River as a litorial state and granted Akwa Ibom all the rights to the offshore oil within 200 miles from the shore.

The largest onshore oil reserves in Nigeria lies in Igboland. Calling some of us Niger Delta or SS through arbitrary boundary demarcation that was senselessly done doesn't mean we are no longer Igbos. Any future delineation or boundary adjustments will go way back and rely on facts that existed both prior and during colonial rule, and they all recognized all those areas as Igboland. Even if a referendum were to be conducted as well, majority will still go with Igbos nation as against going with the minorities that will automatically put everyone at the mercy of Ijaws. People don't know that why Wike and his ikwerre people are struggling to force Igbos in Rivers State to deny being Igbos is because they're afraid to be left alone with Ijaws. The fate of Ikwerres is already sealed because whatever happens, whether Nigeria remains or breaks, they will always have Ijaws to contend with since both groups can lay claim to P.H.

Instability has made P.H to remain stunted over the years, despite having a headstart, being a port city, being the capital of the oil region and a state with massive budget.

In the 1960's, the difference between Lagos and P.H was negligible in terms of development, but you can't compare the two now in any way. While Lagos has continued to develop massively, P.H on the hand remained stunted.

Hope Uzodingba should be arrested now. How can the bastard be destroying state properties?? Who gave him the right? Has he gone raving mad or something??

Nwaelohim:


Decieve your self. Do you know where Ogba is in Rivers State? Ask questions

Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni is contigous with the areas in Imo State that has huge gas reserves. So what's your point?

Bkayyy:

Those guys can just fool themselves for no reason. They will just make up fake statistics of resources in yoruba land and use it as basis for argument while in truth they know they have absolutely nothing

Lol, very myopic and dense people. They will lie to themselves, still believe the lies and and yet end up choking on it.

If there is any gas in commercial quantities anywhere close to the SW, will Shell be laying gas pipelines all the way from Imo and Delta States to Lagos??

Afonjas are so ridiculous.

PHijo:

[s]
Magnus Abe never said that, if he even said that, as an Ogoni man he has not right to talk about Ijaw issues.

Even Wike has told you he is not Igbo. Stay off Rivers Ijaw like Bonny etc. You don't know the history of Oyigbo. It was one of the Ijaw outposts Okrika and Bonny traders used as a transit point for Igbo slaves prior to moving them to Okrika and then Bonny before they are eventually sold for export.

I wonder why you guys can't respect your boundaries. We don't want you, accept your fate.

Tamuno help your children abeg![/s]

Trash in high definition display!
If you think you can bring any of your land grabbing stunts anywhere close to Igboland, then na extinction dey hungry you.

It is on record that Ijaws have only parts of Bayelsa as their indigenous lands, most other areas you are trying to claim in Rivers and Delta States are not yours, you guys were only fishermen that were allowed to fish along those fringes as recently as 19th century.

You've been trying to claim other people's lands in Gele-gele Edo state and Warri, Delta State but if you bring that nonsense anywhere close to Igboland, that is when you will know there is a difference between a minority group and a majority group.

Continue saying trash about other people's lands, your Waterloo is coming.

I don't know why afonjas are always bitter and envious whenever they see any development project going on in other areas. That's a witchcraft lifestyle. SMH.

Lol, almost every village in Southern Nigeria has long produced tens of SANs yet an entire state in Northern Nigeria is just having their first SAN in year 2020


Bunch of unserious people

So we should remain as mumu and be watching while our oil resources are drilled and shared equally to all, only for others to mine their gold and keep the proceeds.

Is that not the height of wickedness?!

Coldie:

Seriously stop this hate this refinery has been in construction far before hope came in?

U people are acting very foolish, you are against an investment in Igbo land that will bring jobs to our people but u all run to other regions to beg for same job

It is high time Igbos start calling some of these guys to order before they rubbish everything.
I don't understand why any reasonable Igbo person will be against such massive investments in Imo State.

Our graduates always leave for Lagos, Abuja and P.H once they're done with NYSC because of dearth of white collar jobs but now that we are getting investments that will help create white collar jobs and boost the local economy through increased IGR and creation of value added industries that will be built to utilize raw materials coming from the petrochemical plant, some people are here saying trash.

Imo State used to be among the least industrialized states in Nigeria yet it was among the biggest in terms of GDP due to other sectors, now that massive oil and gas investments are coming into the state, the GDP will receive a boost.

It doesn't matter where the investors came from, whether from China, Saudi Arabia, North or wherever, it wouldn't stop Imo State from getting its statutory 13% derivation. Waltersmith even went ahead to bring an Igbo man to be the face of the company and run it. If they had ulterior motives, they wouldn't do that because it's not mandatory to use a local as the CEO. Check all over Niger Delta and see how everything is bastardized, with outsiders doing any how they like.

It is investments like this and overall development in Igboland that will make some of our brothers who find it fashionable to deny their heritage because of oil politics to hide their faces in shame.

Igbos should allow any tribe that deny their Igbo heritage to be, whether they're Ikwerre or any other to go their way. Ignore them totally and do as if they don't exist, then let's focus on those areas that accept their Igbo heritage and wear it as a batch of honour. We should concentrate our investments in those areas be it in the SE or SS like the Anioma and Asa/Ndoki areas. By the time those areas develope faster than those places denying they're Igbo, shame will be their lot.

Wiseandtrue:

[b][s]Abdulrazaq Isa and Danjuma Saleh co-founded the oil company in the South East

Tomorrow now, they will claim the oil is theirs

That Supreme court governor's brain is now in their anus so he will do all their biddings

This is what IPOB is exposing and fighting against

We now know the exact reason they were proscribed

Can an Easterner own a gold company in the North[[/s]/b]

This is bulsiit and you know it. I hate unreasonable propaganda! Except you will provide evidence of Igbos that wanted to build a refinery and petrochemical plant in Ohaji, Imo State and Federal government refused to give them license, if not then stop spreading fake news. Investments like this is what develops communities, states or countries and even if we had Biafra and a Nigerian company wanted to bring such huge investments, the Biafran government won't say no.

Abia State also has oil and gas in commercial quantities, I'm waiting for Igbos to go there and build similar refinery and petrochemical plant, not tomorrow when an outsider builds it there, you will start another propaganda.

Mind you that Captain Iheanacho that contested for governor under APGA in Imo State refused to build a refinery in Imo State but went to Lagos to build his own yet you want to criticize those that brought such massive investments to Imo State. Are you okay? Do you know the massive job creation and boost to Imo State economy it will lead to?

Lastly, also have it in mind that it will not stop Imo State 13% oil and gas derivation from accruing to the state since the oil will be sold to the Waltersmith refinery at the normal rate.

God bless the investors!
God bless Imo State!!

LegendHero:


Exactly that’s what he tried to do.

Chikezie Nwosu Was appointed CEO last year by the founders Abdulrasaq and Danjuma so it’s a whole Northern affair.

https://africaoilgasreport.com/2019/09/petroleum-people/chikezie-nwosuto-take-charge-as-chief-executive-at-waltersmith/

Either way it’s nice that things like this is happening in Naija, it’s a welcome development and we commend Arewa for deeming it fit to invest in the SE and appointing an Ibo man as the CEO.

One Nigeria.

The part in bold is the summary. When Nigerians invest in every part of Nigeria, regardless of tribe and religion, it will foster unity and progress. Igbos have been investing in other regions of the country so it is also nice to see others investing in the SE.

The company should be supported by Imo State government and people regardless of who or where the investors come from.