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Can they start integrating the economy of the region already.
While at it, start insulating against the madness in the country.
DAWN is moving too slowly for me.

I read this news a while ago. Are they simply going to release these people into the society like that?
No punishment for their crime, no mental examination of their sanity?
Seeing the way people happily part with their money every Sunday and continue to argue that they are not being scammed by their pastors, it is easier to rehabilitate a born kleptomaniac than a religiously brainwashed ideologue.

Watching them in 3d.

SMH

Ugly mofos and Thieves.
The zip code (address) is the money.
With those zip codes, blonde grade 10 stunners will be rolling in and out of your bed like water.
Those houses are not worth a dime,It is the address

pinceprinz:
This is not what we bargained for tho... Town looking when compared to some other cities in Africa. Go Tripoli, Go Cape town, Go Rabat, Go even Abidjan. Ibadan's my ancestral home; even royal , but this ain't worth showing off yet!

Considering the handicaps, SW is still holding on.
Do not forget that Ibadan used to be the capital of the western region and was the the cutting edge of development in sub-saharan Africa and is being held back by the diabolical and fraudulent federation / structure.
Tell me of anything that the FG has added to oyo state since 1966.
Just one thing which was not there.

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this is the level of finish and character that I expect new builds and new areas of ibadan.

Ibadan

DrDxtrz:
There is a palm shopping mall in Ibadan if I could recall correctly, I visited the city for the first time some months ago, to visit a professor friend in the University of Ibadan, it's a nice place, also played couple arcade games at that V building, it's on the top floor. I most appreciate the traffic flow, way better than lagos, I spent two nights.
I plan to visit again in a few weeks when am free, basically the ancient parts of the city.‎

A lot of places in Nigeria have something going for them.
They are simply badly governed.
What ibadan has going for it right now is the start-up mentality of yaba in lagos. The youths just want to do their own thing.
However, South Africa sh*ts all over Nigeria that it makes all this look like celebrating mediocrity but you have to appreciate what is possible under bad circumstances.

I criticised a footballer's pad today. This is what I meant when I did.
The house at the bottom is smaller but is all class.

More night shots from SSC.

I saw these pics two days ago on instagram.
Ibadan's future is bright.
Gives us light and let us shine.

Waiting for Alaafia ati tourism $$$$$$$$$$$$$

Photocredit : Naijaborn

mikolo80:
it's like you missed the class on growth and development and some reading and comprehension. largest economy yes. per capita and other indices no

Let us take Agriculture that they used to massage the GDP figures. What exactly does Nigeria produce that SA doesn't in larger quantities.
They actually export their excess?

Let us start with south Africa 25 steel mills.
Then we go to their 80,000MW power supply.
No of 5 star hotels and tourism.
South Africa has the second largest refinery capacity in Africa after Algeria.
Chemicals
Electrical

LRNZH:
Agitator or supporter? They mean the same thing to me.

I do not expect you to believe this: Splintering Nigeria along sectarian lines will not solve the issues of her people. Otherwise, countries like South-Sudan and Eritrea would have become the shining beacons of why secession in Africa is the solution to her problems.
In fact, South-Sudan and Eritrea are worse off than Sudan and Ethiopia, countries that they broke-away from.

State governors and local government chairmen of the South-South and South-East regions are as corrupt as those from any other part of Nigeria. Look at the state allocations shown in the OP, yet people in these states suffer daily.

Seceding is like running away from your problem. It won't leave unless you face it head on which is working towards a better Nigeria as a collective.

Why you carry another person matter put for head?
As long as every maintain their lane and keep their rubbish to their side, am down with it.
There are no benefits to this diabolical union.
The question we should be asking

What are yoruba leaders doing to "de-integrate" the land from the messy union .
Starting from power( eliminate the need for gas) and going forth to building a petroleum product ( petrol, diesel etc value chain with raw crude procured from Angola, Ghana and home.
The upside for an independent yoruba country is great.

This opinion piece ....... I do not know what to say about it.
First of all, the idea that militancy is in anyway related to any struggle is nothing but a joke.
Aniko Briggs - the mother of Niger delta struggle?
Anniko briggs is an activist in the same way odumakin is an activist.
A jobless hack and opportunist.
She obviously forgot about activism when she was residing within Aso Rock. She definitely is not a Democrat.
With that said, let me put certain facts out.

1 first of all, the Ijaw are responsible for only a fraction portion of oil production.

2 Grievances cut all across the Niger - Delta and Nigeria as a whole. Nigeria is being forced together by her greedy elites.

3 Every year, billion of dollars is invested in the oil industry in the region ( which the youths in the region always frustrate by demanding a cut before allowing investments).

4 the oil industry is not labour intensive and can only employ a few.shell who were at one point making profits of almost $40 billion( more than the Nigerian budget) employ less the 6000 people.

5 The oil does not benefit my region, neither does it benefit my people as a whole. Apart from 1 , all the magnates that I know have their oil blocks located within the territorial waters of Yorubaland( a concept these clowns will soon learn about in case of the eventuality.
I will happily take an autonomous western region government with full sovereign control over security, foreign policy, economy, resources and borders or an independent yoruba country.
6Main thing

The damage and the destruction which the whole oil thing has done and is still doing to the society( I do not care about others but I know it is causing damage everywhere.
It has resulted in a lack of initiative, creativity, mass poverty, a sense of entitlement, a useless and unpatriotic set of elites, materialistic country, a disdain for acquired ( not bought) knowledge, resistant to change, mediocrity, lack of civic consciousness.

Buhari has to choose whether to continue driving the battered car as it, or say oil be damned.The supremacy of the state is paramount.
The crude oil which is supposed to be the icing on the cake is actually poisoning the country and mortgaging the future of generations.
Tourism in Creeks would have actually benefitted the country more than this crude business.
Oil has run everyone mad

Someone should tell the "die -die" , "e be won " writer that this kind of country, a failed state, is not one I want to will to my children.
Let just keep the oil flowing.
Flowing to whom?

MrProducer:
Is that what you Call Ugly?
You need new eyedrops

You have houses, then you have homes.
Yes it is big,fugly and tasteless and most houses in Nigeria are like that.
Even the roofing lacks symmetry.
Nigerian architects, builders and aspiring home owners need to up their game meh.
Building boxes and relying on the roof to create style is old In a world where the use the natural landscape and natural light are very important .



Home.

The last one is made from shipping containers.

Whether or not his government was made ungovernable, what did he do with governable part.
What about rising to the occasion?
He was dispatched because of his cluelessness and corruption.
Leaders are made or confirmed when the going gets tough.
Jonathan had it easy with all the revenues flowing into the purse, an healthy economy and an insurgency at its infancy.
What did he do?
He messed everything up.

Beer parlour machos.
This is what you get when the tail wags the dog.
Illiterate and semi literate leading intellectuals.
Thugs leading the decent.
Will they be using their canoe against naval corvettes and frigates?

Newsflash
Paul Biya just left aso -rock and he does not like the separatists movement in his own country as well.
You do not win by posting off your next door neighbour.
The outcome is easy to predict.

public servants are a tiny 3% of the Nigerian population.
Yet they consume almost 90% of all resources.
Even with that humongous percentage, they are not providing value for money.
N50,000 is not feasible, neither is the bloated, inefficient,corruption infested civil service,national assembly and other institutions of state.
Apart medical, security ( at this time) and education personnels , every other person is expendable.

They probably know that Buhari is about to go ballistic.
The airforce recently got 1000 officers trained in Russia.

Where did the quacks go when the economy was being mismanaged?
Why should I listen to these quacks in a world where you have Paul Krugman, Robert Reich or journalist who can breakdown the society like Matt Taiibi and Naomi Klein. Or real activist with proper jobs like Prof Naom Chomsky.
Thank goodness for the Internet.
I get proper economic journalism from other lands, take and relate it to Nigeria.
Even then, you need to be wary of neo-liberal paid hacks.
Anyone who read this article 7 years ago knew that Nigeria was heading for trouble. Guess what, it had nothing to do with Nigeria but It was going to negatively impact Nigeria because of her thieving leaders.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-vampire-squid-strikes-again-the-mega-banks-most-devious-scam-yet-20140212


1 States are indebted
2 those states employ 2 millions people directly
3 even if the payroll is bloated, you cannot retrench during a depression because it will simply worsen the problem
4 Nigerian states are going to be assisted if they follow The FG lead in weeding out ghost workers, reduce political appointees and computerise their payroll.
5 payment due are restructured into smaller bits over a longer period of time so as to free up capital.

mrvitalis:
The truth is igbos have no leader doesn't mean they can't the United to fight a common goal
Look not far away, the case of Jonathan is a typical example, the yorubas voted whom there leaders requested, same with North

But igbos chose and supported who they wish...
Non igbos will never understand the igbo system but it's very easy.... Even nnamdi kanu knows his limit, there is one small thing he will do and his reputation will just drop

As for the fulanis, the igbo nation have seen them as an enemy.... Just watch what will happen, but my fear is if the army and police take sides with the fulanis... . Civil war will break out

55-45 voting ratio in almost all yoruba states says otherwise.
Just admit it, your politics,civic,understanding of building a democratic society and protection of right is primitive.

tbaba1234:
Link does not work.

Revived with not a single stone on the ground and they are still going to negotiate with the state government??... OBJ tried to revive it too.. GEJ tried too... Yet there is no stone on the ground..

This is not the only agreement that Nigeria failed to meet their side... It happened with rails as well..

In 2013, it was cancelled because of our failure to meet our side.

You are talking about stone. Where will you put the stone?
Not a plot of land acquired for their phantom dam by the corrupt Jonathan government.
You are talking to some of the most uninformed people in that country.
They believe the crap that they are constantly fed.

Opomulero88:
Egbe and Ero dams are in Ekiti State

Old Ondo state.
I have removed the state heading.

Cross river and Akwa ibom are not infested by those militant pests.
Cross river has position herself as a potential industrial hub and they will keep getting the bacon.

SamuelAnyawu:
NigerDelta is filled with miscreants/Jobless cultist.. By the time Southeast, SouthWest and North go into full exploration of oil/Gas the jobless militants will have no option than continue fishing activities, that's if there'll be any single fish after this environmental pollution

LOL.
They should go and watch the finance minister adeosun interview once again.

It reads like a script from sheecow

Billions.
Chicken change for these banking thieves.

Step in the right direction.
No more gas plants until other sources of gas are tapped.
All those gas Wells in the benue and Niger basin,that the government sealed off in the 70's,should be brought back to play.
Fashola said that Nigerian windspeed is not strong enough for win power. Maybe in Nigeria. Definitely not in yorubaland
Has he been to badagry?
Like 100 meters to the shoreline.
I've been close enough to windmills in Netherlands, United Kingdom and America. The windspeed in those locations have nothing on badagry.
Potential sites for hydro power in yorubaland.some are small and some are massive. They can supply between 10MW and 1000MW each. Supply the energy generated to local communities and feed the excess into the grid. Hopefully an autonomous or independent yoruba grid and country.


Some (not all of the potential hydro)



Eriwe Fish Farm Reservoir
Farm Complex Reservoir
Oyan River Dam
Texagari Dam
Awara Dam
Egbe Dam
Ero Dam
Erusu Dam
Ogbese Dam
Owena Dam
Asejire Reservoir
Ede/Oshogbo Reservoir
Eko-Ende Reservoir
Erelu Reservoir
Eruwa Reservoir
Esa-Odo Reservoir
Eni-Osa Ojoo Dam
I.I.T.A. Reservoir
Model Fish Farm Reservoir
Ogbomoso Reservoir
Ogunpa Reservoir
Otiki Reservoir
Shaki Dam
Jebba dam

Bayelsa no go killi person.
I have seen almost all Ijaw political leaders speak.
They all have the intellect of a gnat.
You can search YouTube and feed your own eyes.
People like Tam David West do not stay in that environment. They all leave for the places where they can find their contemporaries.
No metaphor is more apt than the hotel.
It represents all that is wrong with that state.
Special thanks to Obasanjo who thought we deserve to enjoy this level of governance at the federal level.
17 years and counting.

Remove itshekiris land from that crap.
Kuwait no dey join the Iraqi.
Internet warriors,Ipob and those militants buffoons are in for a surprise in case of the eventuality.
Maybe edo state state will like to follow oil but, as far as I know, itshekiris will be on their own in the future whether within Nigeria or without.
And Protected.

WeNigerDelta:
Again the blame game. Was it militancy that led to the systematic shut down of NPA Warri? See how karma is hunting Naija...Tompolo used to work for NPA....What about DSC Aladja? Militants that shut it down as well...
The creeks that has never had electricity is because of miltancy as well.

You know it as NPA warri.
omoluabis know it as the warri ports which used to be under the western regional government and was a secondary port uses to export cocoa, timber and palm oil from the region.
Benin, sapele and warri were all boom towns and whatever you find in ibadan, you will find in these towns.
By the way, What are you getting at?

What happened to oshogbo machine tool?
What happened to ajaokuta?
What happened to Iwopin paper mill?
Get brain.
The deve money we una collect Don finish.
Una eye don clear after the hangover