₦airaland Forum

christejames:
It's not everyone here is Onye Igbo, get this and have a great peace of mind.

Most people quoting you and asking you to face your state and obviously none Igbos parambulating every Igbo threads to cause disharmony.

NwekereNdoki:
SO Igbos should not talk about the progress of other states again? So If you run a company the junior staff should not speak in the board room?

What kind of mindset is that?

I remember one time here in Nairaland Anambra guy floated a website called Omambala . com (The website is not active no), the website has visitors from all Igbos states. They contributed and gave ideas about development and many stuff. If you are privileged to get access to that website now, you will be amazed at the kind of ideas that were shared there. It was very educational.

For example, if SOludo build a road now and the road does not have closed gutters, u can't say someone here can't call them out eve though they are not from Anambra. And even if you want to go by this ur logic that other states should not call out wrong things, let me ask you is it only Anambra people that live in Anambra? Or are we now being hostile to Igbos from other states? Is this how it has been denigrated to?

SMH

ayodejisalauu:
This is the spot Fulani ppl are kidnappings travelers at the end of Abia.
Ebubeagu is doing nothing but when ESN comes out.Lai Mohammed and Niherian Army will cry foul.

Their Chicken will come home to roost one day.The storm is gathering

Skyfornia:
People are just evil.. what still beats my imagination is that a lot of these criminals are living with us and we don't know them.

That your neighbour you think is a bank staff might be one of them, what about that fine boy in your area that has a big supermarket? He might be a criminal in disguise..

OreMI22:
I observed in total dismay that all internal township roads in onitsha, Nnewi and Awka had totally collapsed with huge swimming pools called potholes!

Gov. Soludo must understand that N100 billion naira will scratch the surface of massive infrastructural decay in Onitsha and Nnewi. Not to mention Awka, Ekwulobia, and Aguleri. Unless he uses DIRECT LABOUR!

For Direct Labour to work, he has to plan it differently from the traditional direct labour utilizing ministry of works. He should employ qualified civil engineers from reputable construction companies to design and supervise the direct labourers. He should also invest in road construction equipment to make their work of high quality.

Also, i was shocked that Anambra government was stressing itself on how to raise taxes to generate IGR when there was ample vehicles breaking traffic laws. When Soludo could easily create a Lagos Mass transit authority (LASMA) organization using OCHA brigade. Anyone breaking traffick rule is apprehended and fined 10k or 20k on the spot. They MUST pay via POS into the state account. No cash is accepted for traffic offenses.

Also big vehicles causing obstruction by parking on the road or abandoning broken down vehicles on the road are towed and fined 100k or 200k for trucks with goods. Soludo has lived abroad and knows that many local and city governments get their entire funding through issues of tickets against traffic offenders. So this idea should be quite obvious to him.

On just sanitizing Anambra roads and enforcing traffic laws, Soludo will get enough IGR to execute any project he wants. Moreso, people will praise the sanity and law of heavy traffic from blocked road junctions. Gov. Soludo must think outside the box to increase IGR and not merely the easy option of raising taxes.

Soludo must see the abundant financial opportunity in enforcing traffic rules and fining the abundant offenders according to their offenses. Enforcing traffic rules alone can double Anambra's IGR without even raising taxes on the already impoverished citizens.

NwekereNdoki:
When reasonable Igbos are thinking of how to link Alaigbo with rails like Eastern Europe some of you are here talking nonsense.

In SE I can't be proud of any state for now. They are all performing poorly. Maybe u should do a google search of what a city should look like and see if any SE state have such. Lagos is not an ideal city yet but then it's very close to what u can call a city..

Does it not bother you guys that any investment that comes to Nigeria ends up in other states and we only attract few? if it doesn't it bothers me.

It does because we will all give birth to children and they will grow to become adult who will need to woek. How many corporate companies can employ them in SE? How many companies in SE can pay up to 100k junior role or fresh graduates?

It's high time we stop being silly and think of how to savage AlaIgbo from this situation. It's not as if we are poor that's my annoyance. The money is there, but because we are divided by petty political boundaries we haven't been able to mobilize Ndigbo for economic success and growth like Michael Opkara and Sam Mbakwe did.

Now we are here online disgracing ourselves in a public platform over non--essential things and two horrible states stocking their ego. Let me break it to u again, no SE state have a proper city. U can argue this all u want but this is a fact. Anambra is trying to come close but it's very far when it comes to infrastructure and livability. Let's not shy away from the truth.

Yes SE is better than most regions, but we can't be dragging last with Nigerian states. We can be better and greater.

When I look at Anambra I look at a state that has the potential of being the metropolitan area of SE as Lagos is to the West (of course better). When I look at Imo I see a state that has the potential to be the tourism and entertainment hub of SE. When I see Enugu I see a Pretoria SE and even better. When I look at Ebonyi I see the state that'll provide SE with industrial solid mineral resources while Aba processes and manufactures these resources, when I see look at Anioma and Igbos in Rivers I see them being a marine/maritime power house.

I'm from Ndoki, in rivers state. It's shameful visiting this thread out of curiosity to find out how my brothers on the other Igbo states are faring only to find them hurling insult on themselves in the bid to stroke their ego. Its pathetic. Most annoying is the fact that what we use to boast and insult ourselves is not even something that's worth it.

What we just need is unity of purpose and brotherly love. Imagine a SE that's connected with rail. Imagine a SE wit uninterrupted power supply. Imagine a SE with 5 CBD with proper standard building. Imagine a SE with cities that have pipe-borne water, pliable roads and high speed internet connection.

There are about 4 major SEZ and Cities/large townships being developed in SE and they are;
-Lion Park, Enugu
-Awka Millinium City, Anambra
-Centinary City, Abakiliki
-Enyimba Economic City, Abia

What I expect us to do as Ndigbos is to rally round our who is who in the society to contribute and invest i these cities so that we would start the process of building a new future as soon as possible.

Also we need to rally round investors from SE and outside SE to invest in agriculture in SE to ensure food sufficiency. If after the war we still don't have food sufficiency then I wonder what we learnt after the war.

We need business, we need industrialization and we need peace and security which is the chief reason I am heavily against what Kanu did to SE because of his agitation. I as a person believe that you don't demand from the place of Weakness, if SE don't have food sufficiency and cities that make at least $10 billion yearly, we shouldn't be talking of any secession. It'll just be another suicide mission.

SEREDEC have started something, but like they lamented, they can't do it alone. There challenge so far is the individuality of Igbos.

But thak God they have been working with Barth Nnajia and Enyimba Economic City Developers to deliver the project. I believe Lion park and other projects in SE will be success story too.

We ca do this. We can be great again. We can build an Ala Igbo where our sons and daughters don't need to migrate to hostile regions to get jobs thereby being exposed to insults and threats.

BIKO, NWANEM/NDE WEM, LET'S HOLD OUR FIRE.

ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE IGBO NATION AND ITS DEVELPMENT IS NON-ESSENTIAL.

STATES WERE CREATED 30 YEARS AGO, OUR FIRST IDENTITY IS BEING IGBOS. WE HAVE BEEN IGBOS FOR HOUSAND OF YEARS AND NOW, THE UNITY OF ALAIGBO IS KEY TO OUR SURVIVAL AS A PEOPLE

CHUKWU GOZIRI ALAIGBO.

UDO!


*Attached is a pics of how major cities should be looking like in 10-20 years time and even better. That is Accra. A good example. It's in West Africa and ofcourse its economy is not bigger than SE economy, neither do they have richer people than Igbos. For a start, let us build cities like this "one town at a time" until then can we come back here and start arguing which city is better than the other.



NOTE: My use of SE does not just mean SE as per Nigeria's definition. I mean AlaIgbo in general (SE/SS)

Pacesetterz:
Imo is greater and richer than Anambra. When it comes to intellectuals we have them. Hardworking popular business men and women? We have them.
Anambra only have dirty touts parading the whole of Onitsha and upper iweka. Unrefined people

jrusky:
So Ebubewhatever should go but ipig and ugm should remain baa?

Ok naa, nice one.

Eastlink:
Stupid fools. These clowns never protested the activities of Umuoma Saint Unknown Gunmen, na Ebubeagu dem dey protest against. Gov. Ikpeazu and the Abia state Police commissioner did well by dispersing the rented crowd with tear gas. Any stupid protest not approved by the Police in a volatile region as the South-East may be used by urchins to instigating looting and murder.

Inasmuch as Ebubeagu needs to be called to order, they are still a work in progress. Rather than disband them as being pushed by the ESN/IPOB terrorists, people should ask that officials found culpable in extra judicial crimes be prosecuted.

Ebubeagu has come to stay. Any terrorist or terrorist sympathizer that doesn’t like it should relocate to Sambisa.

Mazisimonekpa:
efulefu

Mazi Simon Ekpa

Ndibunna:
Marriage has nothing to do with this your gibberish. That our women do well in anambra is because of the Anambra culture, training and spirit imbibed in them from child hood. Moreover we are now frowning on external marriages. It erodes culture.

Hope should simply pay up his debt and stop blackmailing Chief Chukwuma. Be guided.

rdokoye:
Send us a link to this video, thanks.

jmoore:
Tinubu newspaper powered by journalist high on cocaine.



Tinubu and IPOB members don't believe in one Nigeria at some point in their lives.

Do you even know the history of Tinubu? Tinubu once said he doesn't believe in one Nigeria. If Tinubu can turn around to be interested in Nigeria, why should that of IPOB shock you?

hammer567:
ANY LATEST UPDATE ON THIS HOTEL BEING CONSTRUCTED IN ENUGU BY IHEJIRIKA UNDER GEJ?

Kingsbuchi:
You are a mad man, If you see me in reality can you talk to me? 8 of your boys are under me in apprenticeship, nobody is envious of you bro, stop spreading fallacious narrative..Na who no Dy do well Dy envy person...

Kingsbuchi:
It's unfortunate that you deliberately chose to be useless and senile. You exhibit all the xtics of inferiority complex. Nobody is envious of Anambra. Imo has a lot of bragging rights but are silent about it. Out every 100 married women in my Vila in Orlu, 30are from Anambra but no noise about it. I don't know why you always choose to use divisive statements to score cheap supremacist points..
You must be an efulefu planted in Igboland to cause division amongst Igbos..
You are indeed senseless..