₦airaland Forum

Ekinematics:
You should know these are doctored figures from the west.

Imagine Rivers has been 80 something since 2014 and Ogun that was around 17 or there about has all of a suden moved to 72.
Does that make sense to you?

Quit being mischievous. Ogun is the defacto industrial hub of the country

https://www.businessdayonline.com/ogun-ikeja-top-manufacturers-investment-destinations-in-2014/

The state also attracts as much as 75% of FDI that finds its way into the country

http://punchng.com/ogun-attracts-75-fdi-into-nigeria-uk-envoy/

It's also the mining capital of the country

Fifthcolumnist:
I stay in Agbado and the nature of my work takes to areas such as Olambe, Akute, Ijoko.These places and beyond are hell. Ask anyone that lives there.

And all the roads in Rivers state are in pristine condition?

Ebonyi finally released her numbers this time around. That state had refused to release her IGR figures for the past 2-years or so. I guess it's coz they're so low.

seniorkachion:
There is little or no wealth opportunity in the south west. The only Igbo there are corporate and FG workers. Igbo live in millions in Lagos outside the south west and dominate it. From 1988 my village always holds a football tournament every xmas period and is competed for by the village development union branches all over Nigeria who could raise a football team. Kaduna branch won the first edition. We have had Kaduna Kano Jos Enugu Aba Ph Owerri and Lagos competing. We have never had Ibadan Abeokuta Akure etc registering for the competition.
Don't go on deluding your self with the notion that Igbo are flocking to the SW. Lagos is NOT SW.

Yinmu. That's why three separate factions were dragging Eze Ndigbo title in Oyo not long ago, right? Abi the one where una eze ndigbo was flogged silly by the Deji of Akure for disrespecting the crown? If Lagos is not SW then pray tell where it's situated/located? Biafra? The way some of una dey reason at times sef. Smh.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/three-factions-contesting-eze-ndigbo-title-in-oyo/

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/191989-ndigbo-in-akure-eats-humble-pie-begs-deji-over-misconduct-of-eze.html

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/10/mixed-reactions-trail-eze-ndigbo-title-in-ogun/

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Enchanting Afikpo.

Afikpooooooooooooooo. Here we love to keep it simple and in-tune with nature.

The beauty of Afi.k.p.o. Made In S.E skyline/skyscrapers.

More of that Obinagu backyard, Afikpo. We are at one with nature. Kumbaya!

Afikpo's landscape is so similar to that of Abiriba (Abia)

Photo 1: Abiriba, Abia
Photo 2: Afikpo, Ebonyi
Photo 3: Afikpo
Photo 4: Afikpo

Typical 'backyard' in Obinagu, Afikpo Ebonyi. We love our mud-houses as they are. So serene and lovely.

Beautiful afikpoo

This Afikpo stream right here is where we wash our clothes, fetch drinking water, defecate, and bath. I guess we're just inlove with nature.

Afikpo chic having fun in Afikpo.

A typical compound in Ishiagu, Afikpo. Even our parents love to keep it local and simple while chilling in their compound.

more afikpo wonder..

Celebrating new yam festival in afikpo and environs.

Afikpo chic catching fun in Afikpo

Good luck to him.

slash112:
why igbo live east because there is much competition in south east

Call it whatever you like. It all boils down to the fact that those that are leaving do so for climes where there are more opportunities and prospects for making better/more money than they would if they stayed back in the SE. Why would any right thinking and ambitious igbo youth choose to stay back when the only viable vocation is trading, and even that sef is so competitive that the margin of profit keeps declining by the day as the market isn't that big anyway. Little wonder an increasing number of traders are embracing drug-trafficking lately. Bottomline is, if your ambition in life is to be more than a trader, then you have no other choice than to leave the SE. #Fact.

@nisai: Add the source of the report to give it more credibility, please.

If that's the case, then some bini impostor/wannabe land-grabber must have been responsible for the said report.

ariesbull:
All we ask is name just a city or place

Who are the 'we'? Guy, commot my mention right away. Your people are the ones moving en masse to our 'brown roof' cities for economic survival, coz obviously your supposed eldorados are nothing but hype, lack a big enough market, and are generally not economically viable. #Fact. Who wouldn't? Afterall, you lots only visit home during festivities, while spending the remainder of your time in our brown-roof region, which is home to the highest concentration of industries in the entire country (Lagos and Ogun especially: https://www.businessdayonline.com/ogun-ikeja-top-manufacturers-investment-destinations-in-2014/ ).

We still attract the bulk of the FDI that comes into the country: http://punchng.com/ogun-attracts-75-fdi-into-nigeria-uk-envoy/

Euromonitor rated Ibadan to be amongst the top 10 fastest growing cities in Africa: http://blog.euromonitor.com/2016/08/top-10-sub-saharan-cities-consumer-spending-growth-2030.html -- no single SE city featured on the list.

The same Ibadan is a more developed, versatile and complete city than any city in the entire SE. It has 3 Cinemaplexes at three separate locations, countless shopping malls and hotels (was adjuded by hotels coy Jovago as having the 3rd highest number of hotels in Nigeria, behind Lagos and Abuja, and fourth highest number of 5-star hotels in Nigeria, behind Lagos, Abuja, and PH), and a host of other renowned international brands like Dominos, ColdStone, KFC, (these can only be found in Lagos and ABJ), e.t.c. Till today, no single SE and SS hosts a skyscraper the height of Cocoa house. Up till today!

We are home to the highest number of and the most vibrant Higher institutions (both private and public) in the entire country. #Fact

Ogun is home to more ultra-modern architectures than anywhere in the entire SE, and is home to Africa's largest housing estate of 15,000 housing units at Canaan-city. #Fact

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5815/22504849422_72bff2b1bf_b.jpg

We still retain the highest enrollment figures AND acceptance rates for JAMB in the country (https://www.nairaland.com/3709501/see-jamb-applications-geopolitical-regions ). #Fact.

It's not our fault that your collective bitterness and inferiority complex as a people drives you to highlight the old settlement parts of some of our cities as a way of deluding yourselves into some false sense of superiority . But alas, it's not up to you to decide who's the more developed between our peoples, and you certainly won't achieve that by continually displaying pictures of brown-roofs every chance you get on these pages. The indices and factors (some of which I mentioned above) will be the judge of that, thank you. In a nutshell, we'll always be your bosses . The difference between us is just that it's not in our nature to toot our own horns. Besides, like they say, 'empty vessels make the loudest noise'.

Below are sample aerial shots YOU REFUSE TO SEE, of our own cities. This is not in anyway meant to counter your jaundiced and hateful propaganda about us and our cities (you're free to see and believe what you want), no, rather it's meant to buttress my earlier point that you are a dishonest and evil lot whose false propaganda to disparage us will always be dead on arrival in the face of facts. Now choke on that.

1. Aerial shots of Park Inn by Radisson Hotels Abeokuta and environs
2. An Abeokuta surburb
3. Aerial shot of another part of Ibadan
4. Another aerial shots of other parts of Ibadan

ariesbull:
You do not need to travel to our region because you will take a slice off the economy which we don't want but we will be in your region. Pay you 10% ax that's if we declare the true proceeds and bring others home


We don't want you to travel to our region...We need to have a grasp of the economy in the east

LMAO. You are the one TRYING SO HARD to convince me that you're 'developed', when I actually don't give a flipping fvck. You guys bleat, shout, and make deafening noises daily about how developed you are than everybody else in the world, yet your people are moving en-masse to Ogun, Oyo, and other parts in increasing numbers to seek economic sustenance, to live under our 'brown roofs'. Una leave una 'Rondon' for our brown-roofs. Like seriously? Shyt don't make no sense.