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Juliusmalema:
OK dats all


Oyo has such fictitious GDP but still remain the poverty index of the world.

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Juliusmalema:
OK dats all


Oyo has such fictitious GDP but still remain the poverty index of the world.

http://nigeria.opendataforafrica.org/ysydsef/nigeria-unemploymnet-and-poverty-maps

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TundeBricklayer:
Useless bloggers will be dishing out fake news and gullible one like you will be salivating, just imagine source first link isn't opening, second link his job vacancies website, the Op is just trying to earn little traffic, and make money for today's meal

It is not fake,bros:

https://www.cgidd.com/

OreMI22:
Egypt's economy is officially bigger than Nigeria's by at least $10 billion dollars.

When Nigeria surpassed South Africa in 2014, it was sensational news carried in all Nigerian newspapers.

Today, when Egypt surpassed Nigeria, not even one newspaper house has bothered to inform Nigerians that our status has become #2 in Africa.

Why was this hidden from all of us?

I almost made a blunder calling Nigeria the biggest economy in Africa in a professional paper and everyone else in the room knew it was EGYPT except me, the Nigerian in the room? Why was this critical information hidden from Nigerians??


Data Source: World Factbook : https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html#ni

This I believe is the ranking:

SolutionMee:
If not for massive settlements and developments of the Igbo's in Lagos

Would Lagos have top the least?

Even before any other tribe came to Lagos,it had been the most progressive.Succintly,SW had been the most progressive and developed in Nigeria since time.Lagos made Igbos not the other way round.Thanks.

Anambrans will come will tales of falsehood soonest.
So Imo state is baba patapata for Anambra.Na wah o.
I can see my Lagos...1st and my Oyo...4th... coming out with splendour.
But wait,an analysis of what gave them these GDP would have been splendid.

NAF Officer Breaks 20-year-old Military Record at AFCSC

•Wins command and staff college top awards



A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) officer, Squadron Leader Fredrick Oyenusi, has broken a 20-year old Nigerian military record at the the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, Kaduna State.

Oyenusi won the prestigious “Tie of Merit”, which is only awarded to a distinguished student of AFCSC, who obtains a ‘B’ grade.


The Director of Public Relations and Information (DOPRI), Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, in a statement, said the officer’s feat, which had not been recorded for over 20 years, was recognised during the graduation ceremony of Senior Staff Course 40, which took place at AFCSC Jaji Friday.

He said that Oyenusi also won four additional awards, namely: the Best in Tri-Service Terms, Best Commandant’s Paper, Best Director’s Paper in the Directorate of Air Warfare (DAW) and the First in order of Merit in DAW.

He said the senior NAF officer, who is a C-130H aircraft pilot, holds 2 Masters degrees; one in Aerospace Vehicle Design and the other in Safety Engineering, both from two different universities in the United Kingdom – Cranfield University and University of Aberdeen, respectively.

“It is equally worthy of note that, in order of merit, 5 NAF officers were in the top 6 positions, ahead of their Army and Naval counterparts, at the end of the course. In addition to Squadron Leader Oyenusi, who came first, Squadron Leaders Austin Idoko, Hakeem Sarki and Chinedu Mbam occupied the second, third and fourth positions overall while Squadron Leader Fulus Kaze emerged sixth overall,” he stated.

AFCSC is a Joint Service institution established to produce operational-level military officers of the highest professional standard as well as to ensure standardisation of Staff Duties in the Nigerian Armed Forces.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/?nonamp=1

TundeBricklayer:
Deomelo are you this dumb to read before you post source world bank calculation based on NLSS 2003-2004 and GHS 2013-2015, my is recent survey that was carried out 2016/2017 by National bureau of statistics in collaboration with National primary healthcare development agency (NPHDA) National agency of the control of Aids (NACA) as part of the global MICS programme.

I am posting the very recent data from all dependable sources on poverty ratings but you have continuously posted a news article on malnutrition.Are you for real?

You and the North are on the same level of poverty.
Take this advice from NBS and the World bodies.

TundeBricklayer:

Same MPI ranked Osun as the richest state in Nigeria , my friend NBS is not part of the yeye survey, you guys are known for using fake agency to promote your regional interests, this is the same way you guys were using different online to rank universities in west as top universities in Nigeria until NUC asked people to disregard the yeye ranking, since you claimed NBS is part of the survey can you screenshot the report from NBS site, my report was surveyed 2016/2017 published 2018 with Nigeria Agencies: NBS, NPHDA, NACA, You are showing 2010/2014 survey

Stop hiding your head in the mud,Oga Ade.....
SW had always had the least poverty and highest number of middle class... Even the NBS,UNO and WORLD BANK confirmed this truism.

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WORLD BANK
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http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/nigeria/publication/nigeria-economic-report-improved-economic-outlook-in-2014-and-prospects-for-continued-growth-look-good
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UN
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http://www.ophi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Multidimensional-Poverty-Index-2015-2-March-2015.pdf?0a8fd7&13666f
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NBS
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http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/issues-in-the-new-poverty-report/137011/

Ojiofor:
Yoruba no spoil my prayer abeg.
Join me and say NO to skull mining.

NO TO SKULL MINING AND SE

Ojiofor:
May the good Lord locate this young girl and return her to her parents.
Skull miners make una repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.

May God save us from the skull miners exporting SE into Yorubaland.

PointZerom:
Cry me a lagoon.

I hope you take your BP medicants.....

But GIP’s success is also testament to the power of a deceptively simple idea: that infrastructure assets are to be treated as businesses ripe for operational improvements, instead of bond-like investments to be bought and left on the shelf.

THE A-TEAM “When we started GIP in 2006, our theory – and it was really just a theory at the time – was that if you applied industrial tools and techniques to the management of these assets, you ought to be able to make significant improvements to several areas,” Ogunlesi recalls. That was not the prevailing mentality at the time. The received wisdom was that infrastructure assets ran themselves; that they were immune to economic cycles; and that they generated strong cashflows and dividends. In short, it was the “buy it and it forget it” approach, as Ogunlesi remembers one competitor putting it. Some of the owners of these assets were also strikingly nonchalant about the people they served. UK waste management company Biffa, one of GIP I’s investments (and a rare failure, but more on that later), called its customers “debtors”. As Ogunlesi deadpans it:


“When you call your customers ‘debtors’, it’s unlikely you’re thinking of customer service.” So when GIP came on the scene with its bag of tricks and a team full of GE and Honeywell alumni, it made sure customer service was up there with improving operational efficiency, optimising capital spending and more banal things like better cash management. What it quickly found with its first investment – London City Airport (LCY), now exited – was that a focus on customer service went hand-in-hand with operational improvements. “One of the first issues we discovered at LCY was that they were losing bags – even though 80 percent of the people that use LCY are business travellers that don’t check in bags,” Ogunlesi explains.


Intrigued, GIP sent GE veteran and team member Scott Stanley, who previously ran an automobile parts manufacturing plant, to find out about LCY’s lost-and-found problem. LCY’s management was equally intrigued at what a “factory guy” could do to solve their lost baggage situation. The baggage handlers at LCY, however, were astounded when Stanley – a 6ft 2in (1.88 metres) American and the first member of their new owner they had ever seen – took off his jacket and jumped into the baggage haul. Not long after, Stanley called Ogunlesi to say he’d solved the problem. “I thought he’d found some fancy industrial tool – like Six Sigma – but he had done something much simpler. At the time, LCY had 14 gates and they had 12 baggage carts [serving them]. They were loading bags on two planes using one cart, which means bags meant for Geneva frequently ended up in Zurich. Scott’s solution was to spend £2,000 to buy two new carts so each plane had a dedicated cart and no longer lost its bags. And because you didn’t have to move the bags sequentially, now the turnaround time was actually faster. In the end, we improved both baggage performance and turnaround time,” Ogunlesi explains.




Another example was take-offs and landings. “When we bought Gatwick, it was the busiest single-runway airport in the world, processing 50 take-offs and landings an hour. We had two of our guys do a study of Gatwick’s air traffic control system and they told management they could increase that number to 55. Even though management at Gatwick is actually quite enlightened, they thought it couldn’t be done. We are now at 55 movements an hour and we think we can get to 58. And we got there simply by changing the...

http://global-infra.com/documents/20170505.pdf

OfficialAPCNig:
Illiteracy na mumu oh.

Ogunlesi is one of the founding partners. He is the Chairman because he is the only "human" partner, the rest are companies.

Pascal Dozie is a Founding Partner and Chairman of MTN Nigeria. He virtually brought MTN to Nigeria when Nigerian businessmen were afraid to invest.

You are a real Mumu.He started GIP as a company and a couple of companies with human controlling them joined him.Not 'companies' as your half cooked gray matter thinks.



GIP's Bayo: Run it like a great business Published: 05 May 2017 By: Bruno Alves & Philip Borel.


Adebayo Ogunlesi sat down with us at our Berlin Global Summit to talk about GIP III’s record fundraise, the firm’s operational focus, its one significant misstep and why everything it owns is for sale. In a way, we are all living in Adebayo Ogunlesi’s world. No, that is not because Global Infrastructure Partners ‘invented’ infrastructure investing (that distinction belongs to Macquarie), but rather because GIP has become the quintessential infrastructure GP. Founded by ‘Bayo’ – a 23-year Credit Suisse veteran who left as vice-chairman and chief client officer of its investment banking division – Matthew Harris (also exCredit Suisse) and GE expert William Woodburn in 2006, GIP is the manager all other infrastructure managers want to be: independent, industry-leading and able to raise phenomenal amounts of capital. It took the New York-based firm little more than a decade-old track record to raise $15.8 billion for what is now infrastructure’s largest-ever unlisted fund, closed this January. In comparison, the biggest fund in real estate, an older and much more established asset class, closed in late 2015, coincidentally also at $15.8 billion, but was raised by private equity behemoth Blackstone. That this relatively young, independent outfit managed to pull this off in a much shorter time frame is simultaneously testament to its reputation and the incredible investor appetite for infrastructure we are currently witnessing.


http://global-infra.com/documents/20170505.pdf

TundeBricklayer:
You are dumb, so making him the chairman he is now the own of GIP
Read below

You are the fool here.He is the only key person because he started the company and still has a very high stake in it.Even Trump knew that he is one of the greatest brains in business in the world.You are crying because no born Igbo can equate him.You can cry till eternity,you will still remain an Ojuku...saucer head

TundeBricklayer:
Try and update please stop disgracing yourself, GIP is not own by Yoruba man
Global Infrastructure Partners was established in May 2006. Two of GIP's founding investors in its first fund, GIP I, were Credit Suisse and General Electric. Each of these investors committed approximately 9% of the US$5.64 billion of GIP I's total committed capital.

The firm's first investment was announced in October 2006. It was a 50:50 joint venture between GIP and American International Group (AIG) to acquire London City Airport (LCY) for an undisclosed sum. GIP announced the sale of LCY in February 2016 for a significant multiple of its 2006 acquisition price.

Subsequently, GIP has made two additional airport investments: the October 2009 acquisition of Gatwick Airport, the second largest airport in the United Kingdom by passenger traffic, for £1.5 billion from BAA and the 2012 acquisition of Edinburgh Airport for £807 million.[5][6]

Additionally, GIP has made a cross section of investments in other areas of the transport sector as well as the natural resource and power generation areas of the energy sector. These assets include sea ports, freight rail facilities, midstream natural resources and power generation businesses.

Global Infrastructure Partners' first fund, GIP I, completed its fund raising in May 2008 with $5.64 billion in investor capital commitments. The fund became fully invested during 2012. In September 2012, GIP's second fund, GIP II, completed fund raising with US$8.25 billion in investor capital commitments, making it the largest independent infrastructure fund in the world at that time.[7] Exceeding what it had initially projected,[8] GIP's third fund—GIP III—completed fund raising in January 2017 with approximately $15.8 billion in investor capital commitments.

Do not be a permanent mumu and stop hallucinating.
Bayo Ogunlesi started GIP in 2006.This is why he is the only key person according to GIP website.
No born Igbo has massive businessesvlike the Yoruba's,home and abroad:

Global Infrastructure Partners
Global Infrastructure Partners

Type
Partnership
Industry
Private equity
Founded
May 2006
Headquarters
New York City, United States
(Head office)
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
(Operational headquarters)
Key people
Adebayo Ogunlesi (Managing Partner and Chairman) [1]
AUM
approx. US$40 billion (2016)[2]
Website
www.global-infra.com
Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) is an infrastructure investment fund making both equity and selected debt investments. GIP is headquartered in New York City and its equity investments are in infrastructure assets in the energy, transport and water/waste sectors. GIP employs approximately 150 investment and operational professionals and has offices in New York, London and Sydney and operational headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut. In the aggregate, its portfolio companies employ approximately 21,000 people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Infrastructure_Partners

TundeBricklayer:
Try and update please stop disgracing yourself, GIP is not own by Yoruba man
Global Infrastructure Partners was established in May 2006. Two of GIP's founding investors in its first fund, GIP I, were Credit Suisse and General Electric. Each of these investors committed approximately 9% of the US$5.64 billion of GIP I's total committed capital.

The firm's first investment was announced in October 2006. It was a 50:50 joint venture between GIP and American International Group (AIG) to acquire London City Airport (LCY) for an undisclosed sum. GIP announced the sale of LCY in February 2016 for a significant multiple of its 2006 acquisition price.

Subsequently, GIP has made two additional airport investments: the October 2009 acquisition of Gatwick Airport, the second largest airport in the United Kingdom by passenger traffic, for £1.5 billion from BAA and the 2012 acquisition of Edinburgh Airport for £807 million.[5][6]

Additionally, GIP has made a cross section of investments in other areas of the transport sector as well as the natural resource and power generation areas of the energy sector. These assets include sea ports, freight rail facilities, midstream natural resources and power generation businesses.

Global Infrastructure Partners' first fund, GIP I, completed its fund raising in May 2008 with $5.64 billion in investor capital commitments. The fund became fully invested during 2012. In September 2012, GIP's second fund, GIP II, completed fund raising with US$8.25 billion in investor capital commitments, making it the largest independent infrastructure fund in the world at that time.[7] Exceeding what it had initially projected,[8] GIP's third fund—GIP III—completed fund raising in January 2017 with approximately $15.8 billion in investor capital commitments.

You are really a clown.Bayo Ogunlesi started GIP in 2006 and there is no born Igbo that has big companies like the Yorubas ,home and abroad:

In July 2006, Ogunlesi started the private equity firm, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a joint venture whose initial investors included Credit Suisse and General Electric. He currently serves as Chairman and Managing Partner.[10]
He is the only key person according to GIP website because he founded it..


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Infrastructure_Partners


Global Infrastructure Partners
Global Infrastructure Partners

Type
Partnership
Industry
Private equity
Founded
May 2006
Headquarters
New York City, United States
(Head office)
Stamford, Connecticut, United States
(Operational headquarters)
Key people
Adebayo Ogunlesi (Managing Partner and Chairman) [1]
AUM
approx. US$40 billion (2016)[2]
Website
www.global-infra.com
Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP)


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Ogunlesi

TundeBricklayer:
persianas group shareholders

So also is GIP owned by A YORUBA.

OfficialAPCNig:
If you finish masturbating over your Oluwole thread.

Proforce that can't service Airforce yet when Nigeria was in dire need of that, is that one a military contractor?

Is GLO a name of person or animal? MTN Nigeria any time anyday.

Anyway, 60% of Nigerian bound cargoes are almost close to Onitsha. They will be offloading soon.

(Kee yaself)

Comedian Sukueku
Do not compare fake Innoson chinko to Proforce:


http://www.armyrecognition.com/aad_2016_online_show_daily_news_-_coverage_-_report/nigerian_company_proforce_limited_exhibits_for_the_first_time_at_aad_2016.html

Nigerian company Proforce Limited exhibits for the first time at AAD 2016
POSTED ON FRIDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 22:27





AAD 2016
Online Show Daily News
Africa Aerospace & Defence Exhibition
14 - 18 September 2016
Air Force Base Waterkloof, Centurion, South Africa

Proforce Ltd at AAD 2016


Nigerian company Proforce Limited exhibits for the first time at AAD 2016
Proforce Limited, a Defence Company from Nigeria specialised in design and manufacture of armoured vehicles (Tactical vehicles, SUVs and Armoured Personnal Carriers (APCs)) exhibits for the first time at Africa Aerospace and Defence 2016.


The Proforce's stand at AAD 2016 (Photo Army Recognition)

One of the latest project of Proforce is the ARA or THUNDER. It is a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle designed to provide ultimate protection for high degree threats. Combining an array of latest technology the ARA is a mission adaptive vehicle that provides superior crew protection and offensive ability.

The ARA is integrated with a fully independent suspension system. The ARA’s traction and small turning circle gives it superior manoeuvrability through tight areas. This capability combined with a powerful engine in four-wheel drive train provides the ARA MRAP to deal with extremely rough terrain effortlessly.

A variety of weapons including a 50 caliber machine gun can be mounted on the 360 roof turret. A wide range of optional extras available including electronic countermeasures, grenade launchers, C4IS systems, NBC protection systems.


The Proforce ARA MRAP (Photo Proforce)

That is the real picture of the economy.Third mainland bridge?


http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS7879.htm

Ategberoson:
pls don't cry here. after a Fulani man deal with you people sorry ass recently, are you not still licking their dicks for another election


thought you will shamed Hausa by quitting their land when they threatened your ancestors before you coward started running helter skelter, doing meeting like a fool. the so called Fulani soldier as you do call it made your heroes run on exiles twice and turn aba boys to erosion swimmers


pls who's the asslickers here if not you 21 century .....

THE ASS LICKING IS REAL.

THIS IS THE REAL PICTURE OF THE ECONOMY:

http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS7879.htm

Nigeria: One Country Four Economies Discussion Points

By

Falalu Bello, OFR

abumoha1978@yahoo.com



v I thank my friend and Junior brother, Mr. Sam Nda-Isiah, for inviting me to speak at this important forum on what to do to reverse de-industrialization in Northern Nigerian. When the invitation was extended to me, I asked of the topic I am to speak on and I was not given any. All my brother wanted me to do at this Conference is to set the tone for the experts invited to do justice to the topic under discussion. My role therefore is not to talk of how industrialists are to access funds from the banking system nor even to talk on such general issues as the importance of finance to industrialization:



v I have been invited to contextually put Northern Nigeria amongst other regions in Nigeria and could easily have compared Northern economy and its Southern Counterpart. I have chosen not to go this route because, I want us all to see that geography, history and the Obasanjo administration and its reform agenda have created four (4) fairly distinct economies in Nigerian. We as Northerners need to appreciate where our economy currently stands amongst other economies in Nigeria so as to appreciate the kind of race we have to run if we are to remain relevant in Nigeria.



v On the basis of ownership and/or control of resources that make for economic development, post-Obasanjo Nigeria in terms of strength could easily be categorized into 4 economies as follows:



a) South West Economy;

b) South East plus Delta Economy;

c) Northern Economy; and

d) South South minus Delta Economy



v The four economies mentioned above are fairly distinct with each growing at its own pace. The South Western economy is growing at a faster rate than all followed by South East plus Delta economy whilst those of the North and South South minus Delta could at best be described as stagnant. A simple analysis of these four economies is given below:-



a) South West Economy

South Western Nigeria with a Land Mass of 76,852 square kilometres and population of 25.2 million today owns and/or control 60% of the nation’s industrial capacity, 44% of banking assets, 67% of insurance assets and is house to the nation’s three deep sea ports of Apapa, Tin Can Island and Roro; the busiest international airport of Ikeja, three thermal stations of Egbin, Papalanto and Omotosho. Today, its three major industrial estates of Agbara, Ikeja and Otta are all linked to gas under the West African gas pipeline plan and piping of gas is ongoing from Otta to Abeokuta. Added to these, the South Western population today is the most educated as western education came through there and education as a resource was democratized since the early sixties. Geographical location, democratization of western education, availability of resources enhanced in last 9 years and some empowerment during the Obasanjo administration have collectively enabled the South Western economy to rank as first of the four economies in Nigeria. Today, the South West as a region can boast of having a defined growing middle class and is perceived to have at least 20,000 of its indigenes with net worth of over N100m each. Take it out of Nigeria, the South West economy with is defined growing middle class and resources, will be one of the fastest growing economies in the world.



b) The South-East plus Delta

The South Easterners plus their cousins across the Onitsha bridge control commerce in all parts of Nigeria and are thus largely employed. The region has clusters of small scale industries around Nnewi and Aba. The banking consolidation has assisted these people to now have ownership and or control of over 50% of Nigerian banking assets. It also controls 21% of the nation’s insurance assets and 20% of industrial assets. With this development, this region which has not had a commanding control over Nigerian economy will certainly begin to do that now. Commercial activities backed by finance can only grow the economy of South-East plus Delta. The growing strength of financial muscle of this region has been aptly demonstrated by the recent licensing of Micro Finance Banks. Of the over 600 MFBs recently licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Anambra State alone had 74 whilst Yobe State had 1, Sokoto 5, Zamfara 6, etc. There exists also in this economy a middle class which will now grow itself in number and financial muscle and will almost certainly grow its economy inclusive particularly of small and medium sized industrial base.



c) The Northern Economy

The North which geographically is 719,435 Square Kilometers or 79% of Nigeria’s landmass and has 75 million or 53.6% of Nigeria’s population has its economy as a consequence of various reforms introduced, been totally grounded. Today, the North has ownership and/or control of no more than 3% of banking assets and 2% of insurance assets and 10% of industrial assets. True, the North has a huge landmass but this has remained under exploited due to jettisoning of time tested policies of price support (as a result of abolishing of marketing boards without putting alternatives) and abandonment of extension services and quality control. Also, the North has a huge population but the population has remained largely uneducated and/or half educated because of near failure of governance in certain States and Local Governments. Currently its most distinguishing characteristic is grinding poverty. Recent poverty statistics indicate that the poverty level of States in the North has been on the increase in the last 9 years and reached over 80%. Its two commercial and industrial nerve centers (Kano and Kaduna) have seen industrial capacity utilization decline to an all time low of less than 10%. The textile, automobile and beverages companies that thrived so impressively in the 1970s and 1980s have collapsed rendering thousands jobless. Although hydroelectricity is generated at Kainji Dam and in lesser quantities at Shiroro Gorge and at several smaller sites, the entire mechanisms are run on very obsolete equipment and the performance is consequently very epileptic and unsuitable for meaningful economic activity.



d) The South South minus Delta

The South South is largely in the creeks of Niger Delta and has therefore a small land mass of only 48,321 square kilometers and is populated by 13.6 Million people. Notwithstanding the fact that it is house to Nigerian Oil wealth, this region exclusive of oil company activities like the North is also backward economically. It controls no more than 3% of banking assets, 10% of insurance assets and no more than 10% of industrial assets on account of oil related industries that the indigenes do not control. Furthermore, its overstretched land mass has suffered considerable degradation and its aquatic life destroyed. As a region, its people and economy are worst off than the North as it lacks fresh environment, water and even good air to breath.



v Geography, history and particularly the reform agenda of Obasanjo’s regime have created above very dangerous economic structure in Nigeria. By design or by accident Northerners and South Southerners as peoples and regions have been made third and fourth class citizens. We may well choose to ignore these happenings and pretend that they have not happened but doing so will be at the peril of the Nigerian Polity. It is indeed in the interest of the South Westerners and the South Easterners for some affirmative actions to be taken to redress the situation else there will be no real peace in this country moving forward. The so called “religious disturbances” in the Northern States and the Port Harcourt conundrum of kids of less than 15 years carrying guns and terrorizing the population will not stop until these imbalances are consciously addressed and redressed. As the saying goes “where the poor does not sleep because of hunger, the rich too will not sleep because of robbery”.



v To complement whatever redress may be agreed to by the polity to help the grinding poverty and unemployment in the North and South South economies we the peoples of these regions need to also help ourselves as nobody will develop our regions for us. I see this Conference as one of the avenues that my be used to chart a course for the North. Undoubtedly, reviving collapsed and collapsing industries and building new ones will help. To be able to achieve these and grow the Northern economy, we MUST:



a) Democratize education by making it available to all our brethren in both quantity and quality. The system we are to evolve must include the “almajirai” and urban poor that cannot be wished away. There is indeed a correlation between education and development and it is only by educating our youth that they can begin to be productive and by so doing, we shall grow the middle class needed to sustain economic growth;



b) Consciously fight corruption and theft of government resources at all levels. So long as thievery continues to be perpetrated by Northern elites in government unchecked, so long we shall continue to drift further from the promised land. Furthermore, continuous thievery as we are witnessing in our recent history is preventing the emergence of a credible leadership in the North. We have in recent past had enough resources in our States and Local Governments to revert the ugly social trends in our Northern Society but the resources were and are being stolen;



c) Demand of the Federal Government for the development of energy sector in other areas as done to South West. For the North, this could be achieved by fast tracking the construction of Gembu and Zungeru Hydro Power Stations and upgrading of Kainji Stations by putting more turbines as well as extending the gas pipeline from Ajaokuta to Kano via Kaduna with a tee off at Funtua and Gusau so as to service existing industries and encouraging the emergence of others;



d) Demand for the moderation of certain policies of previous administrations which ruined Northern economy as implementation of undiluted market oriented reforms as we have seen do not bring about human development. Furthermore, any policy by any Government which hurts majority of its people no matter how good need be reexamined. Government should all be about improvement of the welfare of its citizens and not pauperizing them.



e) Make agriculture an economically viable activity as it is the only way that we can use in making our people have purchasing power to support any industrial rebirth as whatever is produced must be sold and for it to be sold, it needs a population that has purchasing power. Agriculture need to be made viable within the shortest possible time by:



i) Supporting price of agricultural produce by reintroducing price and quality support as done by the defunct Marketing Boards; and

ii) Improving yield of farmers through extension services, use of good seeds and the research results lying on the shelves of our research institutes nationwide.





f) Erect on the gas pipelines to be laid jointly with our Governments and other Nigerians, at least three Urea plants in Kogi, Niger and Kaduna States as a means of making fertilizers available to our peasant farmers at affordable prices. Such a move will make available to our farmers fertilizers at no more than half of their current prices without any subsidy and the subsidy could go to its area of most need, price support.



g) To ameliorate the negative consequences of not having banking industry in our region, urgently work with our States and Local Governments to create in the next two years, 9 regional banks as follows which would ensure that all the Local Government headquarters in the North have bank branches in the next 4 years.



S/No. States to Cover Headquarters



1 Kaduna/Katsina Katsina

2 Kano/Jigawa Jigawa

3 Sokoto/Kebbi/Zamfara Sokoto

4 Borno/Yobe Damaturu

5 Yola/Taraba Yola

6 Bauchi/Gombe Bauchi

7 Benue/Plateau Makurdi

8 Nassarawa/Niger Lafia

9 Kogi/Kwara Ilorin



Additionally, our rich businessmen should be urged to set up as many unit banks as possible to complement the regional banks.



v Finally, distinguish ladies and gentlemen, one would want to humbly suggest on industrialization that our focus in the immediate future should be on small and medium sized industries that are to process for local or export markets, agro allied products. My choice for small and medium sized industries is informed by the fact that they require less capitalization to set up and also less energy and skill to run. Processing of agro allied products will impact positively on growth of agriculture, the mainstay of Northern economy. For now and until we move as a community from agriculture to industry, our growth economically is tied down to agriculture.



I do hope the above views and suggestions will help discussants and participants alike in analyzing the declension into which the entire Northern Region has been plunged over the last couple of decades. I hope this Conference will also set in motion a process of economic revival in the entire North and I sincerely commend Leadership for organizing this Confab.

TundeBricklayer:
Yorobers can't be compare to Igbos industrious other tribe know this, even in your domain Igbos control industries and commerce this is fact everybody knows except few bitter souls from west

List of cottage industries owned by Igbo industries

• Neimeth international pharmaceutical company

* Computer warehouse group

• Zinox IT firm biggest IT firm in Nigeria

* Afrihub ICT Center

* E-tranzact

* infosoft

* Socket

* Gigameet

* Hopspot

* Computer Warehouse group

* Clear essence cosmetics

* Middle point limited

* Blue Diamond logistics and shipping China, Dubia New jersey etc

* Baywood continental

* Global scan

* Knightburry

* Elcrest

* Woodpecker

* Nuel Ojei holding

* Denca service

* Omata holding

* Sea horse

* Crown energy

* Frazpo

* Viewsy limited

* Candel agrochemical plant

* Kaztec engineering and Fabrications

* Rimco Mining

* Beta computer

* Condata systems

• GBC Murphy Ltd

* Justeen Pharmaceuticals Limited

* Morison Industries Limited

• Emzor Pharmaceutical company

• Juhel pharmaceutical

• Greenlife pharm

* N.N.Fems Industries Ltd

• Nero pharm

* J. C. Udeozor Global Industries. produce and distribute Aboniki Balm

* Sims sole distributor of Samsung electrical products and Panasonic

* Ugolab Production Limited

* Gemini Pharmaceuticals Nigeria Limited

* Dizpharm (Nigeria) Limited

* Afrik Pharmaceuticals Limited

* Ebony pharmaceutical company first pharmaceutical company owned by a black in US

* Chemiron International Limited

* Frazoil

* WABECO Oil and Gas

* Emerald Oil and Gas

* Amexco Pharmaceutical Company Limited

• Embassy pharmaceutical

• Orange drugs

* Nestav

* OAS

* Quits Aviation Services Ltd

* Aiteo Oil exploration

• Chrisking pharmaceutical company

• Kingsize pharmaceutical

• Next international

• Ekulo group

* Giant Beverages

* Stanel group

* Heirs Holdings

* GUO transport

* Good is good

* Samco Haulage

* Ifex cargo

* 360Delivery

* Chisco transpot

* Young shall grow

* ABC tansport

* Ekene transport

* Dandalas Transport

* Ifeanyichukwu transport

* Okeyson transport

* Cross country transport

• Beloxxi food

• Erisco tomato paste biggest in tomato paste plant in Nigera

• Chikki food

• Teragro Benfruit juice concentrate plant

* Ovim tablet phones&Softwares

• Genesis group

• Jamek steel company

• Polystar group

* Sonia Industries

• Eastern steel company

* International Cement Company Ltd

• Witlux group

• Wichtech group

• Seplat oil and Gas largest private field operator in Nigeria

* Inter-Bau construction company

* Brawal Shipping (Nigeria) Limited

• Nestoil

• Century power

• Geometrics Power first independent power plant in Nigeria

• Capital oil and Gas

• Oilserv
•
Master energy

• Atlas petroleum

• Chrome energy

* Zebbra Energy

* He­bah Exploration and Production Com­pany Limited

• Brittania-U Nigeria Limited

• Tecno oil and Gas

• SPG Oil and Gas

• Tonimas group

• Airpeace

* Aghalieaku Airways

• Slok air

• Armak group


• Data Processing Maintenance And Services Limited

• Crunchies

• Tetrazine

• Peace assembling plant

• Richbon group

* N.N.Fems Industries Ltd

• Aqua Rapha

• Arise News international 24hrs cable news based in London

• Minaj TV

* Capital Tv

* IROKE TV

* Linda Ikeji TV
Top bloggers in Nigeria
https://www.ranksng.com/top-bloggers-in-nigeria/
* Linda ikeji

* BellaNaija

* Naija.com

* 360nobs.com

* Techloy.com

* Albatina

* ANAMCO

* Yudala is Nigeria's first true e-commerce and offline retail chain
• Fusion motor

• Dilly Motors

• Global motors

• Thisday newspaper

• Sun Newsper

• Authority newspaper

• Union Newspaper

• Daily Champion

• Gbc Murphy Ltd

• Zenith bank

• Diamond bank

* Access Bank

• UBA

• Fidelity bank

• Inter-bau Construction Ltd

• YSC Group

• Chisco group

• Efab Properties Limited is a foremost Estate Developer

• Pita GenesisReifen&Felgen Nidenz


• KDI Group


• Chaslit Chemical Industries Limited


• Korama Clover

• Udeofson Garment Factory Nigeria Plc
Textile, Factory, Garment, Industrial Products, Services Industry, Textile Manufacturers, Textile Industries

* Ibeto Group,

* Shipside dry dock

* Innoson vehicle & motor products

* Jamek steel industry

* Tummy tumny noodle

* Juhel pharmaceutical

* Eteleson group of industries

* Coscharies group

* Globe Motors Holdings

* Time energy

* HAMMAKOPP group

* B&Q Dredging

* Abbeycourt

* Glencore

* Trinity logistics

Ekcel tomatoes refining plant

Chickason group

Kutic Tiles

Home pride paint

Pokobros group

Efab Properties Limited is a foremost Estate Developer

Chealse group

Sun shine flour mill

Tonimas group

Cutix wire & cable plc

Nero pharmaceutical

Kp pharmaceutical industry

Zubix food and beverages

Life vegitable oil

Osaks food and beverages

Piko juice

Orange drugs

Premiere brewery

Best aluminum

Union Auto battery

Ogbuawa motor products

Jesco group compay

Dozzy group of company

Anambra rice mill

Alo Aluminum

Konga

Eastern Distilleries And Food Industries

Geoelis cable

Intafact beverages

Nexans kablemetal ltd

Anizon paper mill

Udesco manufacturing ltd

MacDon group

Kristoral & co ltd

Best Aliminum

Okeyson plastic

Awotolo industry ltd

Reliable still and plastic ltd

Ezenwa plastics

King vegetable oil

Tucas compay

Veno vegetable oil

Marks on chemical industrial ltd

Citizen paint

Synico group

Bentrco group

Adswitch plc

Louis carter group

Cento group of companies

First express aluminum

Uru industrial ltd

Poly foam

Hygi line chemical industry ltd

Chemtech chemical ltd

Winco foarm


Arimaco group

Lyden farm

Tiger food industry

Hardies and dromedas

Cometstar cable

Kate associates industries

Stain Rice mill

Cochad rice mill

Nugodili industries


Geomex industries

Ascon Oil lubricants industry

Maki Oh (Amaka Osakwe) - Fashion Designer.First African designer to be invited to the White House by Michelle Obama.Designs worn by Michelle Obama, Beyonce, Lupita Nyongo, Rihanna, Kerry Washington, among other celebrities.

William Okpo - Fashion Brand created by two.Nigerian sisters. Solange Knowles is a known fan. Critically acclaimed by Vogue, the New York Times.1. Darlene and Lizzy Okpo2. William Okpo boutique, New York.

KATES ASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES LTD.
Manufacturing & Marketing of Cosmetics and Toiletries

KINGSIZE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LTD.
Manufacturing and Marketing of Pharmaceutical Products

KRISORAL AND COMPANY LTD.
Manufacturing of PET Resin Based Products (PET Bottles PET Preforms, Drug Dispense Cups, Roll-Over Pilfer-Proof (ROPP) Caps, PVC Shrink Label, PVC Shrink Film Extrusion.)

NIGERIAN MINERAL WATER INDUSTRIES LTD.
Bottling of Carbonated Soft Drinks and Treated Water

EASTERN DISTILLERIES & FOOD INDUSTRIES LTD.
Manufacturing & Distilling of Spirits and wine

EKWENIBE & SONS TRADING COMPANY LTD.
Manufacturing and Assembling, Haulage, Agro-Allied Business

EMOS BEST INDUSTRIES LTD.
Manufacturers of Baby-Care, Body-Care and Hair-Care Products

ENVOY OIL INDUSTRIES LTD.
Processing of Palm Kernel, Refining of Palm Kernel Oil and Special Palm Oil, Production of Vegetable Oil, RBD Palm Oil, Bar & Tablet Soap, Plastic Cans

FRANOSON MANNYON INTERNATIONAL COMPANY LTD.
Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals

TOPAN ADVANCE AGRO PAPER LTD
Paper Converters, Manufacturer of Toilet papers and Plastic bags/waterproof

TRANSTELL VENTURES NIGERIA LTD.
Refining of Palm Kernel Oil into Vegetable Oil, Refining of Special Palm Oil (SPO) into RBD Oil for Food & Beverage Producers, Refining of Palm Oil into Olein and Stearine

L.L. NWADIKE & ASSOCIATES LTD.
Paper Converters, Manufacturing of Office Stationery

LOUIS CARTER GROUP OF COMPANIES
Manufacturing of Plastic Products, Auto Batteries etc

MARKSON CHEMICAL INDUSTRY (WEST AFRICA) LTD.
Manufacturing and Marketing of Industrial Chemicals

WIRE DRAW POWDER NIG LTD
Industrial Powders

MIC-MERAH GROUP LTD.
Transportation Services, Courier Services, Sales of Auto Spare Parts, Marketing of Petroleum Products, Real Estate Development, Agriculture,

SAFREED INTL NIG LTD
Industrial Raw Material Engineering

PETER E. VENTURES (NIGERIA) LTD.
Manufacturing of Light Hurricane Lantern, Plastic Hangers, Pharmaceutical Cups, Poly Bags, Fast-Food Packs and Allied Products

POKO OIL MILLS (WEST AFRICA) LTD. Production of Palm Oil, Palm Kernel Cake and Vegetable Oil

POKOBROS FOOD & CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD.
Flour Milling, Production of Livestock Feeds

AWUTOLO INDUSTRIES LTD. Manufacturing of Plastic Products, Toilet Papers, Stationery and Industrial Tapes, Importation and Marketing of Educational Materials and Food Commodities

DUEMAN CHEMICALS LTD.
Manufacturing of Colourants and Printing Inks

ONITSHA ALUMINIUM MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Onalumco)
Manufacturing of Aluminum Cooking Utensils, Corrugation of Long span Roofing Sheets

ORIENT PETROLEUM RESOURCES LTD.
Exploration & Production of Crude Oil, Petroleum Refinery

AFRICANA-FIRST PUBLISHERS LTD.
Publishing of Books

OZALLA PLASTICS ENTERPRISES LTD.
Manufacturing & Marketing of Plastic Domestic Wares and Containers

PESACO CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD.
Manufacturing of Hyma Foam Products

UGO GARMENTS INDUSTRIES LTD.
Manufacturing of Garments.

UNION AUTOPARTS MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
Manufacturing of Auto Batteries, Spare Parts & Accessories

URU INDUSTRIES LTD.
Manufacturing of Automobile Cables

CUTIX PLC
Manufacturing and Marketing of Electrical, Automobile & Telecommunication Wire, Cables and Related Products

DANCO MANNYON INDUSTRIES LTD.
Plastic Products Manufacturing, Technical Engineering Services, Printing of Labels, Calendars and Packaging,

WHIZ PRODUCTS (WEST AFRICA) LTD.
Blending & Marketing of Lubricants and Hydraulic Fluids, Production of Adhesives, motor gasket and other motor parts

UDESCO MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
Production and Marketing of Cosmetics

OBIKE INDUSTRIES (NIGERIA) LTD.
Manufacturing of Industrial Raw Materials & Allied Products, General Chemical Consultancy
ADSWITCH PLC

Manufacturing of Electric Switch-Gear & Fittings
A.N. EJEAGWU & SONS LTD.
Manufacturing and Marketing of Toilet Rolls, Jumbo Reels of Tissue Paper and Paper Napkins

GARBS ORGANISATION LTD.
Manufacturing of Rubber & Plastic Products, Production of Table Water and Yoghurt, General Merchandising, distribution of Automobile & Motorcycle Parts, Agro-Allied Business, Real Estate Development.

GINPAT ALUMINIUM PRODUCTS LTD.
Fabrication of Aluminium Roofing Sheets, Doors, Window

GOLDEN OIL INDUSTRIES LTD.
Manufacturers of Vegetable Oil, Margarine, Stearine and Bakery Fats

GOOD POLY NIG.
Polythene Manufacturing

GREATGATE INVESTMENT LTD.
Production of Longspan Aluminium Roofing Sheets, Doors & Windows, Real Estate Development, Building & Civil Engineering Construction
IJU INDUSTRIES LTD.
Manufacturing & Marketing of Rubber Products, Metal Fabrication and Works

JIMEX INDUSTRIES (NIGERIA) LTD.
Fabrication of Aluminium Products for Domestic and Construction Users


D.O. Echefuobi Paints & Chem

K.O. Wilfreds Int.Company

Devten Ltd
Devten Ltd are producers of interior and exterior paints, roofing sheet and roofing sheet accessories.

3Mikko Plastics Ltd
Mikko Plastics Industries Limited manufactures high quality flexible packaging products such as laminated rolls, plain bags, shrink films and printed shopping bags.


Starline Group
Starline Group engages in the production and distribution of cosmetics, toiletries, home care products, pharmaceuticals and plastics.



System Metal Industries Ltd
System Metal Industries Limited manufactures pre-coated, steel and aluminium roofing sheets, aluminium pots and pans and cooking utensils.

Tonimas Nig Ltd
A product manufacturing company in Aba for T5 brake fluid, Primus supper oil, low smoke and semi synthetic oil.



ABA Textile Mills PLC
This textile mill in Aba offers manufacturing and production of cotton yarn.
El-Nonaproda & Co.
Ventures are garment makers of all types.

Macvinz Industrial Services ltd
Macvinz Industrial Services Limited are involved in the production and marketing of industrial machin/equipment such as automatic packaging machine, ovens, continuous sealing machine, bottle washing, filling & capping machine.

Stemme Nigeria Ltd
Stemme Baby Care Nigeria Limited specialized in the production of baby care utility products like baby mats, face towel, breasts pad and baby sponge.

List of some English fashion designers of Igbo extractions....

Celebrity fashion academy

Dondav designers

City crown designers

Designers musk

Stanza fashion code design

Emma best xclusive fashion

Addurah creation

Taikih design

Dress code fashion design

Johnek brothers and company

First class creation ventures

Alex Spencer

peemark investment Nigeria

UC king tailors

Emenike ole fashion world

Great George fashion plaza

Darphee junh designers

Henry unisex fashion designers

Ibemummy fashion designers

Johnywax tailoring company

De world moss designers

Onyi limited

Riga and the masterpiece

Ezi designers

Sonland Exclusive designers

Emes fashion designers

Sammy pens designers

Hylook fashion international

Judes trading company

Bliss concept

Eve designers

Reward international media

Pure designers

poon clothiers

Self discovery designers

MBA fashion world

Emeco garment industry

sister Ann fashion design

John the designer

Mercy fashion and design

lilly fashion designers

pins west designers

Noyeck excel creative industry

Amarachi fashion and design

Stalls fashion

Sylvjunica fashion

Ify fashion and design

fashion option

Yeeo standard tailors

Queen fashion designers

bro Jonas fashion

Joe moore designers

Obi fashion house

mobile creations

Cj digital prints

Akanno Fashion designers

Gee classic concept

UK text Nigeria

Nkechinyere fashion design

Nelo creation Nigeria

Ray fashion republic

prince production

Destiny creation garment

Twins fashion designer

Chuks deaigners Nigeria

Obitex standard tailors

Nkeonyere fashion centre

Ifeanyi tailoring services

Anibros international tailors

Favour fashion designers


Reflex computerized

De crown garment

You have included okrika tailors to your trash

OfficialAPCNig:
You will keep shouting fake upandan till you kpai.

Aba is currently kitting Nigerian Army, Innoson services Nigerian Airforce Jet, Innoson exports cars to Mali, Engineer Kelechi built Nigerian Indigenous war ship (NNS Andoni), Emzor Paracetamol is Igbo owned product, Cutix one of the best electric cables in the world is owned by Ndi Igbo, Tiger spices is Igbo owned, Tonimas Lubricant is manufactured in Aba, you are probably wearing an Aba made cloth and by 3 PM today, another multi-million naira worths of products will leave Aba and Onitsha for the North and many of them will find their way into Niger from Kano.

Remove Aba and you are dead (Fact).

You are all mouth like your predecessors who later ran to Ivory coast and Ghana.All mouths and no substance.All your industries joined together will be swallowed by Glo or Honeywell etc owned by Yorubas.
Proforce,a more technologically advanced motor manufacturing entity that does not make noise and better than Innoson has been equipping our military long before your Innoson cry baby was noticed by the govt to facilitate the importation of some air force materials through his coy.
Proforce deals with UNO etc.

If anybody wants to know how towering the Yorubas are over the Igbos should go and check these 2 threads....
https://www.nairaland.com/3918290/yorubas-most-industriousrichest-educated-tribe....




https://www.nairaland.com/3926379/igbos-most-industrious-innovative-richest


There is nothing you are posting that have not been posted there and even more but all are way below the Yorubas.

DemonInSiege:
I'M YORUBA, CAN YOU PROVE THAT IT'S NOT TRUE?

PROVE IT OR GO TO HELL, USELESS PIG

Your mumu never do.A fake website was posted with lies and you are killing yourself to believe the falsehood.Where are the companies using those cargoes in the South East compared to the SW that is the most industrialised and have massive industries.Are you saying that Onitsha port is functioning more than the other ports?MUMU FLAT HEAD.

OfficialAPCNig:
1. Emzor Pharma (Stella Okoli)

2. ETranzact Nigeria (Val Obi)

3. Slok Group (Orji Uzor)

4. Slot System (Nnamdi Ezeigbo and Co-founder, Tecno)

5. Coscharis Motors (Cosmos Maduka)

6. Zinox Group (Stan Ekeh)

7. Konga (Stan Ekeh)

8. Yudala (Stan Ekeh)

9. Africa Capital Alliance (Okey Enelamah and Paschal Dozie, Chairman MTN Nigeria (Highest Investor), Owner Diamond Bank)

10. Iroko Partners (Jason Njoku)

These are 10 Igbo businesses in Lagos. I will name another 40, if you name 50 yoruba businesses in SW.

If you look at the list, you will discover I removed Igbo heavy weights from there except Orji Uzor Kalu.

TundeBricklayer

I said real companies not these trading shops you posted.I saw only 3 coys here.

TundeBricklayer:
Name industries own by Yorubas in Ogun,

Stain rice mill Anambra

Post info so we will know how viable those your small industries are.

I will post mine with information and pix not only pix.

OfficialAPCNig:
Your challenge is tempting but I prefer a bigger one.

List 50 yoruba companies in SW and I will list 50 Igbo companies in Lagos.

Tempting?

We all know you have only the moribund Ibeto that is down,Innoson almost in the same area ...down,Richbond,Emzor and your 2x2 shops

Name 10 real coys still operating and shame me,clown.

TundeBricklayer:
Igbos small scale industries in your little mind please I want you to list and post manufacturing industries own by Yorubas just in Ogun
Josan rice milling plant

He has started posting pix to gain pages.No,post the information of that very small scale firm and I will quickly give you 3 Yoruba companies that will swallow all the companies you will ever post.Post information,pls.

OfficialAPCNig:
Oluwole! Oluwole!! How many times did I called you.

List 50 of them here and let verify them and I will return with 50 Igbo companies in Lagos alone.

If you can name 10 real igbo industries in Lagos,I will give it up to you.

horsepower101:
Even if Nigeria manages to hold itself together, oil money will soon run out. That’s when you will truely know those that can survive without oil and those that have been making noise all these years

A verifiable sample is when every region was on their own and THE YORUBAS had to lend money to your lazy asses two times until Ironsi scuttled everything to put Nigeria in this mess with his jealousy and hatred...just to stop the Yorubas..

TundeBricklayer:
List manufacturing Yoruba owns not those lies on those threads we know you guys are really good with Oluwale, list it here let us compare with Igbos firms

Igbos have only few small scale industries which do not come near the numerous massive industries owned by the Yorubas home and abroad.That thread was an eye opener to even me with links for you to verify unlike Igbos' few industries with lots of lies imbedded therein with no links to verify or naming of some fake products as companies and even imaginary companies out of desperation to even come close to the Yorubas.

TundeBricklayer:
Can you list all manufacturing industries Yoruba owns lest us compare, not all this fake links you guys are posting here with no credible foundation

Why don't you post an original one that will contradict it,clown.
We have gone through this before and you did not come anywhere near the industrial prowess of the Yorubas.You sound just like your predecessors.....

OfficialAPCNig:
Skull mining is never importation.

Yoruba imports more, yet 60% of the cargoes are offloaded at Onitsha, not to talk of those offloaded at Aba.

Which school did you graduated from self?

Remove foreign companies and Igbo owned companies in SW and you won't believe what you will see. (Fact)

List 50 yoruba owned companies in SW and I will list 50 Igbo owned companies in Lagos alone, then another 50 in SE, 10 in the North and 5 in PH.

lol...Typical Ojuku loser.Nnamdi Azikiwe,the first graduate amongst the Igbos in 1930+ also deluded himself and his people that they had many educated people while the truth was he was the only and first Igbo graduate by which time Yorubas had produced doctors,lawyers,engineers etc while he was Igboland very 1st graduate
Ojuku too deluded himself and the gullible Igbos that he had the best army in Africa even with his sticks wielding and patch patch deadbeat old world war weapons gifted them by France.
It is not a surprise to see another Ojuku saying that they have even half of the businesses owned by the hardworking Yorubas.Even the world knows you do not come close to the Yorubas in businesses home and abroad and the Igbo' empty,steal urhobo and other people's businesses' thread ........ https://www.nairaland.com/3926379/igbos-most-industrious-innovative-richest/3
is an attestation of the ingenuity and versatile nature of the Yorubas.
Every index shows that you need a lot of catching up to do.

https://www.nairaland.com/3918290/yorubas-most-industriousrichest-educated-tribe