₦airaland Forum

123yes:
Tinubu no doubts is a strategist. Our current is recovering every day. If the naira continued this trend it will be back to where it was at ₦700 before Tinubu took over. Kudos to the government for staying focus to achieve their set goals

Let us even hope that Tinubu's best recovers to Buhari's worst.
That is progress.

From 2027, hopefully a more competent Peter Obi will emerge to steer this Nigerian ship more competently

Chinjo2:
Congratulations to them.
But fact on ground shows that the Igbos control majority of the small and medium scale businesses in Lagos which forms about 80% of the revenue base of Lagos.

Don't forget to add the fact that 70% of containers arriving in Lagos, are Igbo-ordered.

This is a very useful hammer in destroying all these audio Lagos ownership moves

Richtaiwo:
So increasing Anambra poverty by 75% is the "did well"? Well, that kind of "did well" should remain in Anambra, Nigeria jump dat one pass.

That 75% jump in Anambra poverty level, was exactly what was required to make Nigeria the largest economy in Africa. It means his worst is better than Tinubu's best.

Soludo that has been trying his best to tarnish the image of Obi has done far worse. Soludo was in Buhari's economic team, chaired by one Yoruba guy.
Soludo is currently a part of Tinubu's economic team. Both presidencies have been the worse in Nigeria's history.

Meanwhile, Tinubu advised Buhari to print more naira, which is largely why we are in the current economic doldrum.

Richtaiwo:
So what was his contribution in that team? What stopped from applying his economic prowess in Anambra?

It was because he did well economically in Anambra that he became an invaluable member of the GEJ team, even before his term as the governor of Anambra state ran out. Eventually on leaving the Anambra government house, at some point he was appointed the DG of SEC

Richtaiwo:
You mean the father of ipobidients? Because how a fraudster who increased the poverty level of a state by 75% suddenly became the only godsent economic messiah still beats me.

Well, he was a part of the economic team led by Okonjo Iweala, that made Nigeria the largest economy in Africa.

That definitely deserves kudos.

In the current Nigerian political space, the fear of Peter Obi is the beginning of wisdom.

Tinubu is shaking, at the looming and overbearing image of Peter Obi. That's why he cancelled his birthday celebrations, coupled with the fact that he is way above 72 years of age. He doesn't want to cause Obidients to dig into his past again

Richtaiwo:
Similarly, cursed enemies of Nigeria who want Dollar to be 3000 at the end of March are foolish dreamers.

Tinubu even encouraged Buhari to print more naira. This shows that the economic illiteracy is at the head of the current regime.

Anyway, no wonder Obi claimed he could get the naira to the 500 - 1 dollar level. He obviously knew it may be a tough ask to get it to the 400 - 1 dollar level.

Obi is their father.

9jatriot:
An ex governor with no legacy project na em u de hype like this?

He is in the same league as Ortom of Benue and Belo of Kogi.

If lamba king was president, the only tweets we would have been getting will be things like:

"Today, I followed the Aso Rock Kitchen staff to the market to ensure they do not overpay for food, hunder my government, no cook will buy maggi cube wen we can use salt" _ Lamba King

Anambra made it from twenty-something to the first position in the education table during Peter Obi's tenure. That alone, is a huge legacy.
He was a part of GEJ's economic team that made Nigeria the biggest economy in Africa, after many years of Yorubas and fulanis, not being able to achieve even the second largest economy in Africa.
He was the DG of Securities and Exchange Commission when Nigeria beat the crap out of South Africa and Egypt in the economy table.

Today, the tweets we are getting from Tinubu and his minions is
"All praises to Tinubu for doing so well such that the naira is now 1600 to 1 dollar. Peter Obi must be mad"--certificate forger/drug-dealer peepoos president

seunowa:
Tinubu will even go beyond that of 2015 because he is determined to make 1$--#150--200 before expiration of his eight years tenure...Mumu man I know that u are sad and depressed as a result of naira gradual recovery in the recent weeks. Naira shall continue to grow and gain ground to the shame of all obi rodents at home and abroad. Amen

Tinubu only has 4 years to bring the naira back to the 600 - 700 to 1 dollar area.

Obi already promised to bring naira to the 500 to 1 dollar rate, if he had been given the mandate he won.

Tinubu just has to bring it back to the Buhari levels in the next 3 years. In other words, Tinubu is only really competing with Buhari. Peter Obi is way out of his league

Tinubu will never get 8 years. Mark my words. No empty promises.
That is what Buhari and Tinubu have been doing since 2015, always promising that things will get better, meanwhile things have gotten much worse than how things were, when GEJ was the president, and Igbos were managing the economy.
Igbos made the Nigerian economy the largest in Africa. A feat both Fulanis and Yorubas were unable to accomplish in all the decades that they led Nigeria incompetently

DevilsEqual:
Things that will excite Obididents

I just know say BAT no be coward, like that Miyetti Allah guy, dem go soon arrest am too


BAT get balls

BAT that was running around like a rat during ENDSARS.

What saved BAT was that Igbos refused to join northerners in the hunger demonstration.
Northerners needed those riots to carry out their usual coups.

During the campaign, Obi said he will bring the naira to about 500 - 1 dollar.

Tinubu has a long way to go.

Secondly, Tinubu met naira at around 700 - 1 dollar.
Nearly 9 months after Tinubu illegally snatched the presidency, the Nigerian naira is in the 1600-1 levels and people even talking.

Tinubu is really only competing with Buhari.
If Tinubu fails to get the naira to the 700-1 level that he met it, it will mean that Buhari is even better than Tinubu.

Peter Obi is head and shoulders above the two illiterates

That's very commendable.

She deserves a befitting award by Nigerian men, to show appreciation for her virtues, kindness, loyalty and love for her man

helinues:
Sorry who is POO? Shit you meant?

PO is PeePoos president's master. Question answered

Real own goal

Legenhero come and see una brother with una typical head

Christlike01:
Lagos and Igbo shouldn't be in the same sentence,they have nothing in common! Ndi igbo should be proud of who they are,where they come from,and stop their very shameful obsession with Lagos!

@Op,trust me,nobody sees Igbo the way you guys imagine it in your oblong heads! Lol! You don't want to know what comes to the minds of some of us when we see or have any form of interactions with you Igbo! Bunch of empty chestbeating village dwelling morons,go and build your Eldorado in Alaigbo nah,nobody is holding you guys down here! Some of us will actually throw a big carnival to celebrate your departure from our land....bunch of irritants!

I don't even blame you,it is the constitution of Nigeria which grants every Nigerian the right to live freely in any part of the country that is your saving grace! Trust me,no one,outside of your tiny erosion ravaged land of primitive bushmen,would have allowed you highly irritating, loudmouthed villagers from hell to settle and live in their midst!

Tell your drug-dealing ugly president brother to stop blocking the construction of a seaport in Igboland.

At least when Igbos leave Lagos, we will leave with our beautiful daughters, thus leaving you guys hustling for the ugly left-over locals with scratched faces.

Just choke on the news that 70% of containers making it to Lagos, are eastbound. When Igbos relocate, Lagos goes down. Visualise that

Judgementa1:
Drug dealing tribe haba.

A case of pot calling kettle black. Shame no dey catch u people.

You got me there. I totally forgot hushpuppy is an Igbo man. Ooops, I've just been reminded that he is a Yorubaman just like Tinubu the drug-dealing president

chopnaira:
Why did your Ebelechukwu aka GEJ not build the seaport. Why do you want a drug lord to do the work for you.

Why should we ask GEJ to build us a seaport? Did we ask Tinubu to build us a seaport?

Ask your ugly drug-dealer president to stop blocking the Igbo efforts at building a seaport, and test this your chest-beating hypothesis.

Iceberg3:
Wait o...see them o,them wan pretend now say you read the thread?! Baaaaaahahahahahahahahaaaaa 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The painment the article is causing them is real

Christlike01:
Chestbeating gibberish as expected!

Tell Tinubu your drug-dealing president to stop blocking the construction of a seaport in Igboland, and see whether this is chest-beating

Igbos are real talk-na-do people.

NIGERIAN REGIONS WILL DRIFT APART

Basil Okoh

We all watched the address of the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and heard the speeches delivered by other Igbo dignitaries at the launch of the 188 megawatt electricity generating plant of Dr. Barth Nnaji's Geometric Power Limited, Osisioma, near Aba. What leaves a lasting impression is not what the Igbo elite and prospective investors said at the launch but what they tacitly left unsaid.

What they said in whispers and many convoluted parables is that Igbo have resolved to grow the economy of their own land, bucking the historical failures of Nigeria.

For our true understanding of the Igbo perception of the emerging sociopolitical dynamics in Nigeria, we must index a sulking Igbo land to the search for a new Igbo resolve, in the light of the denial of Peter Obi, to escape from the entrapment within a dissonant Nigeria, to which cauldron they have been yoked. To achieve this requires giving Igbo land the investment and economic power to free itself from a disharmonious nation, without losing its present investments in Nigeria.

Since after the 2023 election and following from the swearing in of Bola Tinubu as president, (the man who became president without winning an election), the Igbo are self isolating from Nigeria, partly as a reaction to the injustice of the election outcome and also because of Bola Tinubu’s profiling of the Igbo in his strategic refusal to engage them in his government in any worthwhile position. Mostly, they feel done with the historical struggle to integrate into the failing Nigerian project since the civil war. The Igbo themselves have taken on many provocations and are now determined to face the challenge of developing their land and people through self effort, private sector driven and without involvement of the federal Government.

There is no doubt that the Tinubu faction of the Yoruba, along with the traditional northern establishment feel threatened by Igbo disengagement from the federal government. They know this is ominous. For the fifty four years of the end of the civil war, Igbo elite has been yearning and crying for inclusion in the national establishment. But the Fulani and Yoruba have excluded them, both in military and civil governments that have ruled the country.

For the excuse of waging a civil war, the ruling Nigerian establishment have considered the Igbo a threat to national cohesion, choosing to hold the region in thrall, plundering accruing petrodollars from the deep south, seizing all federal powers and capping everyone’s development to their glass ceilings.

The Igbo endured. In these fifty years, they plunged into private enterprise, moving from the open tin sheds to the commercial city Alaba has become today, from the rented shops on Otigba street, Ikeja to the sprawling Computer village it is today.

Unapologetic and in fact menacing, the Igbo have moved from riding Honda 175 motorcycles back home to the east for Christmas to driving now in quiet V8 SUV’s.

Above everything else, the Igbo have acquired capital. Enough capital and professional capacity to transform Igbo land in the next ten years, they know now that the development of their homeland to the levels of Malaysia and Indonesia of today depends entirely on their self effort, not on any government patronage. And they are growing the collective will to take that challenge. The grounds of the launch of Geometric Power Limited provided a platform for the gathering of the clan for stoking that resolve.

This fact, known to both the Fulani and Yoruba elite who hitherto held the Igbo hostage, is forcing a new dynamic into the Nigerian political economy: how to contain the Igbo and stop them from breaking free of the Nigerian enclave without ceding political power to an Igbo man.

The fear has always been that if you let Igbo go, the rest of the regions will also seek freedom from a captive Nigeria. This fear has been deepened by the emergent truths from the 2023 presidential election. The monolithic north that the Fulani preached so passionately about and by which they ruled Nigeria, does not exist. It was a myth, a falsity exposed by the Peter Obi phenomenon.

These shifts in paradigm within the Nigerian enclave portends many novel possibilities, one of which can be a clash of civilizations arising from the schism between regions or religions. This can be triggered by a real possibility of the loss of power by the present ruling faction as the country is now actually held together by the threat of violence from the military and the other state agencies of coercion.

Wherever the raging hunger and poverty leads Nigeria, the Igbo man is too powerful now to be held down, particularly as the powers of the Nigerian state has been whittled down by internal strife in the north, decline in military power and meltdown in the national economy.

The now evident awareness and frustration that Igboland cannot be allowed to grow economically within the present Nigerian arrangement, even by private effort, has made the sense of exasperation among the Igbo palpable. Governor Alex Otti has just laid a suit at the ICC, accusing the Yoruba led federal government of treacherously sabotaging private initiative and effort to build a port on the River Opobo that will open up a direct seaborne trade route to Igboland. Denied or not, the confrontation will definitely come in a matter of time.

The successful completion of a seaport in Igboland will spell the fall of the Lagos ports. 70% of indigenous import trade in all classes of goods in Nigeria are by Igbo. A functional port built on the Opobo River will more than halve the level of commerce in Lagos because the driving force for all the growth in commerce in Lagos is the monopoly of Lagos ports in Apapa, Tin Can, Lillypond, Ikorodu and now joined by the Lekki port.

So the Bola Tinubu government in order to maintain that monopoly is working assiduously to sabotage the construction of an operational port in Igboland. Now the Tinubu government is caught in a dilemma, an ambiguous adventure of sorts. If he allows the commercially driven Igbo to remain in Lagos, they will eventually grow to dominate its economy as they are already doing and assert themselves enough to own Lagos politics.

On the reverse, if the Igbo are sent away for fear of their dogged hard work and growing economic power, they will return home and Igbo land will be economically transformed. The base of commerce in Nigeria will move there and the commercial primacy of place of Lagos will be lost to Igbo land and their people. Lagos will be rendered a secondary place of business.

The prognosis is therefore that the Igbo will force their wish over the whimpers of a weak government that lacks legitimacy. World opinion, the justness of their cause and the power of the presence of their person Ngozi Okonjo Iweala at the WTO will help achieve that cause. And when that happens, the gradual loss of commercial primacy, the regional loss of economic power by the Fulani/Yoruba ruling elite, will start a cataclysmic development that will force Nigeria to peaceably drift apart. @basilokoh.

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Toeyota:
*SIMILARITIES BETWEEN OGBA TRIBE AND IJAW*





Do you know that OGBA and Ijaw have so much in common than any other neighboring tribes ( apart from Ekpeye and Ikwere ). See these few examples in their languages


#OGBA* . #English*. #IJAW*

Didi. Father. Dada

Ona. Mother. Ina.

Inn. Yes. Inn

Ololo. Bottle. Ololo

Ere. Profit. Arere

Ologbo. Cat. Ologbo

Agbna. Jaw. Amgba

Okpo. Cheek. Ikpe

Agbobu. Chest. Agbobu

Mbana. Thanks. Mbana.

Arusu. Rice. Oroso.

Odoguma. Duck. Odoguma.

Apapa. Groundnut. Apapa/Isagwe.

Ababurnu. Cassava. Ababuru/okele.

Azuzu. Hand fan. Azuzu.

Ekpa. Bag. Akpa.

Mkpr’izozo. Garden egg. Izozo.

Aloy. Welcome. Alua
Etc

Basic question. How do you count from 1 to 10 in both Ogba and Ijaw?

No time for bullshitting.

The N200 million that Ndume got, was it captured in the budget as CONSTITUENTY PROJECT money?

Or is he trying to confuse us, seeing that the cat is now out of the bag and he is cunningly trying to label his own loot as constituency project money. If this 200 million is not captured as constituency project money, Ndume should be arrested for being a part of padding the budget.

Nigerians ought to be asking the right questions

seunmsg:
After the silly stunt pulled by Senator Ningi and some divisive element in the north, it is good to see southern senators come together to counter the unnecessary and divisive move by some of these disgruntled elements to impeach Senator Akpabio.

This is a bipartisan forum of all senators from the south. APC, PDP and LP. Every politics is local so everyone from the same locality must always come together irrespective of party differences when their collective interest is attacked. Kudos to them all.

If you want, you can flood your comment with one million generated LIKES.

Tinubu must not benefit from any southern solidarity groups. He was keen in undermining southern solidarity when he was angling for presidency.

Also, Nigerians must not support any group committing fraud against the nation.

I hope southerners are not taken in by this show of shame. Tinubu's people have been destroying Igbo properties in Lagos, and we are here trying to defend a drug dealer president, who is trying to cover up fraud in the budget.

Igbos should not support Tinubu. Igbos should also not support Ningi, because they are all in the group of people that saw no justice in allowing an Igbo man to be president. Their latest holier than thou tirade is just a smokescreen to clinch the presidency.
Igbos should learn to read this people like a book.

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Igboid

Well, he claimed that he will follow in the footsteps of Buhari.

I believe he has kept this promise, and even added the PROMAX element to it

Zxcvbnmghtr:
In Igbo land, of course. There is no argument. Ojukwu can never achieve what Obi has achieved.

I hope you know that the Southeasterners prefered to vote for Obasanjo than Ojukwu. Ojukwu and Obi no dey the same level.

And Nnamdi Kanu is greater than Awolowo and Oduduwa.

Zxcvbnmghtr:
In an Igbo gathering? This MC get mind o! Peter Obi that is greater than Ojukwu, Nnamdi Kanu and Azikiwe all combined.😱

I concur with you.

For completion sake, let me add that Kanu is greater than Awolowo, and Simon Ekpa is greater than Wole Soyinka.

At least the MC has learnt a valuable lesson. Peter Obi is a tsunami!!!!!

Bekermann:
Have you studied the Sections 1 and 2 of the Land Use Act I prescribed you should read about the powers conferred on the Governor of a State? If you haven’t pls do. You’re very arrogant and in the same vein, very ignorant too.

Furthermore, I have not, in the process of our exchange mentioned that the governor has a higher knowledge base than the Petroleum Minister. What I put forward is that being a minister is no biggie. He was appointed, not elected.

And thank God you told me about the other agencies under the Ministry. I never knew. You’re so brilliant.

In case you haven’t heard

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-08/billions-pour-into-nigeria-as-tinubu-s-reforms-start-to-pay-off

I did not vote Tinubu, but he’ll do well.

God bless the Republic of Nigeria

Whatever you have in the Land Use Act will never include a governor of a particular state, having expert knowledge of the gas resources in all the states of Nigeria. His powers will be limited to his state. Delta state does not possess 100% of Nigeria's gas resources, so Delta governor's opinions on the Nigerian gas resources is superbly inferior to that of the federal minister of state of the Petroleum ministry, whose sphere of influence, also includes all the gas deposits of Nigeria, including those in Delta state.

With regard to the bolded, you're welcome. At least my time with you has not entirely been in vain. You seem to be picking up a few lessons from me here and there.

Regarding the link you attached, I believe I saw it yesterday but I haven't gone through it. However, thank God billions are flowing into Nigeria. But the hungry masses on the streets of Nigeria will remain hungry and dangerous to this regime, if those billions fail to make their lives more livable.

MASS HUNGER/STARVATION IS NOT A RESPECTER OF AUDIO BILLION DOLLAR PROPAGANDA

Bekermann:
Why is there no synergy you ask me? I am not under the payroll of the Ministry or the Delta State Government.

You shouldn’t be emotional. But if you want to be emotional, I’m aggressively rooting for you in your latest wail-a-thon.

I gave you a source from the NUPRC, you’re giving me a source from Ezenwa. Who’s Ezenwa? I guess fellow manufacturers of false data from Aba. Lol…

For your information, the Minister of Petroleum Resources you quoted studied linguistics in the University so he doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to determine the quantity of natural gas reserves. That he is petroleum minister doesn’t mean anything. He has people grounded in that field working for him or at least procure the services of a geologist

Only trained geologists have that capacity.

I never knew I have ever since, been overestimating your knowledge base as regards topics like this.

The link you posted up there isn’t even opening. Lol

With regards to the bolded, you should supply me with information from the Delta state governor regarding Nigeria's gas reserves, after all according to you, Delta state government ought to know more about gas reserves than the federal ministry of petroleum resources.

And let me lecture you a little also, following your logic I can also prove to you that the Delta state governor, whom you wrote, knew more about gas reserves, studied medicine and surgery, but you tried to confuse illiterates that he knows more about gas deposits than the federal minister of state for petroleum resources.

Let me tell you something else you obviously don't seem to know. The federal ministry of petroleum resources has departments and parastatals attached to it, that house experts in various aspects of the gas sector, including geologists and all manner of experts.
The petroleum ministry has way more of such resources than a mere government of Delta state.
So while the ministerial positions are political, the ministry of petroleum resources is the best port of call, when one needs to know more about the petroleum/gas situation in Nigeria. If you haven't learnt anything from this exchanges with me, please be aware of the above paragraph

Bekermann:
Both parties should have a synergy when events like this occur. However, the state governor is more of an authority. This is because if he doesn’t grant the relevant bodies the right to enter such land for exploration or mining as the case may be, nothing will happen.

Also the State Governor isn’t answerable to the President of the Federation unlike the Minister. Furthermore, the President can fire the Minister if he/ she doesn’t get his/ her acts right.

In your spare time, go and read Sections 1 and 2 of the Land Use Act and educate yourself.

Furthermore, data from NUPRC shows that Nigeria’s gas deposit stands at 206.5TCF

https://www.nuprc.gov.ng/nigerias-gas-reserves-hit-206-53-trillion-standard-cubic-feet/

So where did you manufacture the 300TCF from?

From the shoemaking factories in Aba right? LOOL!

So why is there no synergy between the ministry of petroleum resources and the Delta state government?

You have also shown great illiteracy by insinuating that the Delta governor knows more about oil and gas resources in NIGERIA, than the federal ministry of Petroleum resources.

If Delta state has 40% of Nigeria's gas resources, how come both Shell BP and SEPLAT are individually constructing massive gas complexes in Imo state and not in Delta state? You think such companies will sink the those billions of dollars in a state that has minimal gas resources.

And btw, why will you think that a 2021 article will still be ENTIRELY very current today in 2024? I'm even wondering whether you are normal, as a matter of fact.

https://www./200-trillion-cubic-feet-gas-deposit-imo-set-economic-ezenwa/

Bottomline is that at the moment, Imo state has more than 60% of Nigeria's gas resources. This is fact that your inferior intellectual somersaulting can never obliterate. At least you now seem to accept Nigeria has up to 206 tcf of gas. Initially, you were skeptical Nigeria even had up to 200 tcf, which Imo alone can boast of.

Bekermann:
Lol

Slaughtered with facts with no sources whatsoever? Let me take you down memory lane. The past governor of Delta State, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa said 40% of the country’s gas deposits sits under the territory of Delta State.

Source
https://guardian.ng/business-services/okowa-rallies-investors-to-explore-delta-gas-reserves/

Have you come across any Deltan on this forum making a fuss from that statement?

Your submission up there cannot haunt me cuz I’m armed with facts. For your information, I am in the value chain in this industry so go and tell that crap you wrote up there to the other unlettered folks of your ilk.

So who is more of an authority on gas? The governor of one single state, Delta. Or a federal minister of state on Petroleum resources, of which gas is one major product.

Show me facts from a major official of the oil & gas sector, and we can talk. Don't just bring facts from someone who is not in that sector.

Anambra is even reputed to have five times the deposit in Imo state, but you don't see me bringing that information here, until it is verified and shared by an authority in the gas industry.
I am only hitting you with the Imo tsunami and you can't even counter it with proper data from a proper authority on gas matters.

Bayelsa and Delta can make any claim they like, but if it is not certified and verified by the ministry in charge of that sector, just consider it propaganda.
Once again, Igboland has the majority of Nigeria's gas deposits.

Bekermann:
Now you’re putting “maybe” into the discuss. I was right when I said you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Stop this gross ignorance you’re displaying in this public space.

It's obvious I have slaughtered you with facts.

You are obviously pained to learn from me that Igboland bears a vast majority of Nigeria's gas deposits.

Why should I concern myself with how many BCFs SW has, when Igboland has 100s of TCFs of gas.

Thank God the statement on Imo gas was made by a former Bayelsa governor, otherwise you would have claimed it's Igbo propaganda.

Once again, Igboland has the vast majority of Nigeria's gas reserves. I hope this beautiful news haunts you all weekend