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Odingo1:
How can a slave dominate his master, I laugh at Afonjas, Ijaws that did not have one single state is the one Asari is talking of been a master to a majority tribe. Imagine one Egun man saying that Yorubas are Egun slaves, is it not laughable.

You plan to form a government with ijaws ,so they have to be treated equally.

Odingo1:
How can a slave dominate his master, I laugh at Afonjas, Ijaws that did not have one single state is the one Asari is talking of been a master to a majority tribe. Imagine one Egun man saying that Yorubas are Egun slaves, is it not laughable.

Before the crreation of states ,which region were the ijaws?

Odingo1:
How can a slave dominate his master, I laugh at Afonjas, Ijaws that did not have one single state is the one Asari is talking of been a master to a majority tribe. Imagine one Egun man saying that Yorubas are Egun slaves, is it not laughable.

So having a state makes you superior to ijaws?

wingmanII:
Asari can even call the British, ijaw slaves. Does it make any sense or meaning?
Trash talk like this is only taken seriously by degraded brains.

But really this guy was honest,why kill each other ,and why are you trying to dominate ijaws

iammo:
Every state agreed to the Allocation sharing formular, while akwa ibom builds stadium and five star hotels, Lagos wants a mega metro transport system beffiting of world class city, and Kano and Bayelsa wants life pension for political class.... Since its not reducing my state allocation... abeg its their own priority

Every state agreed ?lol!don't be a mugun ,they drafted ait for us ,not every state ,Lagos collects less than the money it earns,ogun state the same.it is 419.

What is he going there to learn at this hour,all those theories that don't work on African soil.tbey should develop the executive programme of the state univerisity.

iammo:
Every state agreed to the Allocation sharing formular, while akwa ibom builds stadium and five star hotels, Lagos wants a mega metro transport system beffiting of world class city, and Kano and Bayelsa wants life pension for political class.... Since its not reducing my state allocation... abeg its their own priority

You have gotten it wrong Sha.

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I’ll tell Niger to use Kaduna port, not Lagos – El-Rufai
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May 8, 2019
Okechukwu Nnodim and Godwin Isenyo

The Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, plans to send a delegation to the Republic of Niger to tell it to start receiving goods at the Kaduna Inland Dry Port instead of using the seaports in Lagos State.

El-Rufai disclosed this on Tuesday while speaking on the sidelines of the ceremony for the commencement of cargo delivery by rail to the Kaduna Inland Dry Port.


He said, “We are very grateful today’s event has opened a new vista of commercial opportunities, not only for northern businessmen but even for our neighbouring countries.

“I intend to send a delegation to the Republic of Niger to sensitise the government of that country on the opportunities of receiving their goods in Kaduna instead of Lagos and having to truck them, as well as any of their exports from Kaduna port to any part of the world.”


According to the governor, the transportation of goods from the dry port and containers from the seaport in Lagos to Kaduna by rail has confirmed that the inland dry port is functioning.

El-Rufai said, “You can ship your goods directly from Kaduna to any part of the world and you can also import goods from any part of the world directly to Kaduna without your containers or any of your goods being opened up for inspection in Lagos.”

The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers Council, Hassan Bello, said the commencement of cargo delivery by rail at the port would address the challenges faced by importers and exporters and guarantee the seamless movement of cargoes from the seaports in Lagos to Kaduna Inland Dry Port.

On efforts taken to attract investors to use the facility, Bello said, “We are in preliminary discussion with the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council in London and we want to bring them to Kaduna so that they will know what value they can add to the dry port.


“We are talking with the Nigerian Railway Corporation to create more space for associated industries, for it is an industrial hub where things are also processed. We don’t want to be exporting raw materials without having them processed. So, there is also a need to improve on our packaging.”

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He said, “About 24,000 direct jobs will be created from this project. If we are able to connect the Niger Republic and Chad to use the port as the destination port for their cargoes, it will have a multiplier effect for Kaduna and its environs.

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“We can then be able to decongest the ports in Apapa and Tincan Island and we won’t be having the gridlock we are experiencing now. It will take two days for the train to arrive from Lagos to Kaduna because we are using the old track, but we are improving and the movement must improve.”



According to Bello, the rail cargo delivery service currently has about 24 wagons and will bring in about 24 containers on each trip, and this will cut down cargo delivery cost by about 50 per cent.

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The Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, Prof Ango Abdullahi, has lamented the growing security challenges facing the country, saying President Muhammadu Buhari is not doing enough to salvage the situation.

The former Vice-Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, was reacting to the Presidency’s assertion that the kidnap of the district head of Daura, Buhari’s hometown in Katsina State, had shown the security agencies were not giving any town preferential treatment.

Speaking on the abduction of Alhaji Musa Uba, Buhari’s brother-in-law, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said on Kakaaki, a breakfast television programme on AIT, “because the President comes from Daura, that is not to say there cannot be crime in Daura or Daura will be specially treated”.

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iammo:


If their decission in far away kano doesnt affect my dear southwest, i will watch this as a spectator, its season of Opreation Mind your Bloody Region, and thats the principle of true federalism.

But they don't make the money they are about to share.

anochuko01:
I was pondering about life a couple of days ago, and all i could see about africa and nigeria was selfishness in the heart of humans.

Very hard to see selfless people... Just "Me alone syndrome" everywhere

Your mind was thinking in the right direction,it is called individualism ,which have happened because of the capitalist economic system or poverty .because people from poor homes tend to be so greedy when they come into position of power,while people from rich home also steal some more to continue to be at that level.

Globetroter:
But Kaduna dry land is deep enough. Warri sea port is not deep enough too. Calabar sea port is not deep enough too. Port Harcourt sea port is not deep enough too. LOL, what an irony of a country. Una weldoneoo

But the traffic is low at those ports ,you are just being emotional without checking facts,all those sea ports are functioning.they are not able to compete with neighboring ports of douala etc.the deepest port in Nigeria is onne port.

bigfish3k:
oil is not significant and u refuse to allow biafra go

we have seen how significant the "oil in maiduguri" is

Am not defending northerners please,the ruined this country.am not from there .

bigfish3k:
we are saying the same thing, is it not the same ship?
ships that carry oil are even bigger, so why the discrimination. this is just one of the reasons i support that the country be divided
is it state govt that did the kaduna dry port?

people dont have water at all and u are building port for them.
and people that have water have no port. and who told u that narrow channels cannot be dredged and expanded

have u heard of " ibom deep water port"?

A dry port (sometimes inland port) is an inland intermodal terminal directly connected by road or rail to a seaport and operating as a centre for the transshipment of sea cargo to inland destinations

bigfish3k:
"not deep enough"
but its deep enough to export crude oil

And narrow channels also,but this is a dry port,you state govt can do this one easily.

rdokoye:
Arochukwu was founded by Ibibio people.

So you mean they are efiks

bigfish3k:
"not deep enough"
but its deep enough to export crude oil

your oil is not significant !there is onne port

rdokoye:
How exactly are they important to me? What exactly do they do for me? Ijaw people are important to Ijaw people. If any Ijaw person is looking for some unbridled respect, they're not going to get it. Igbo people only respect hard work.

So how do you plan to come habitate with them in the biafra you are planning with them?just look at your attitude,it is suspect.

countryfive:
and dem dey blow grammar for Onitsha port
,one Nigeria indeed

You sea is not deep enough

Italy attracted the worst set of Nigerians.

MondayOsunbor:
Northerns design Nigeria like that. so everybody go live.have you heard of any northern leaving Nigeria if not to mecca !

But they have taken the all the jobs in government and they have few people contesting for few spots.

did you see their tax papers?to know which state get their taxes.you pay taxes where you do business and reside.

rdokoye:
Poverty is defined by the living conditions of the people, not how much money a state gives to the national government in an inefficient and ineffective government system.

As I said before, Nigeria has an undeveloped taxation system, which means, much of the Igbo economy is informal. Yorubaland on the other hand has a bloated public sector, which is why their IGR is higher. Just look at the capital of Ogun, does it look like a city on the rise to you?

United Nations Definition of Poverty. “Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic. capacity to participate effectively in society.

rdokoye:
Poverty is defined by the living conditions of the people, not how much money a state gives to the national government in an inefficient and ineffective government system.

As I said before, Nigeria has an undeveloped taxation system, which means, much of the Igbo economy is informal. Yorubaland on the other hand has a bloated public sector, which is why their IGR is higher. Just look at the capital of Ogun, does it look like a city on the rise to you?

The World Bank defines poverty in absolute terms. The bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than US$1.90 per day> (PPP), and moderate poverty as less than $3.10 a day. It has been estimated that in 2008, 1.4 billion people had consumption levels below US$1.25 a day and 2.7 billion lived on less than $2 a day.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ganduje moves to remove Sanusi as emir of Kano
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Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, governor of Kano state, has relaunched moves to remove Muhammad Sanusi II as the emir of Kano, TheCable report.

On Monday, the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission reopened investigation into the expenditure of the state emirate council under Sanusi II.

Also at Monday’s plenary of the house of assembly, Kabiru Alhassan Rurum, the speaker, read a letter from one Ibrahim Salisu and others, seeking the creation of new Kano emirates in Karaye, Bichi, Rano and Gaya.

“The governor is determined to remove the emir, and if this does not succeed, he will break the emirate into pieces to whittle down Sanusi’s power,” an official of the state government, who asked not to be named, told TheCable on Monday evening.

Ironically, Ganjude’s move to break the emirate into smaller units will mirror what Abiola Ajimobi, the outgoing governor of Oyo state, did to the olubadan of Ibadan, Saliu Adetunji, whose authority Ajimobi sought to decimate by approving 21 beaded kings for Ibadan.

Ganjude and Ajimobi are in-laws.

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Sanusi II’s problem with Ganduje is usually traced to his critical comments in 2017 on the award of contracts to Chinese companies by the state government and on the governor’s foreign trips.

Shortly after the comment, the Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission alleged the misappropriation of N6billion by the Kano emirate council “without the approval of the state government”.

The probe was halted then but it has now been revived.

Sanusi II is believed to have opposed the re-election of Ganjude, who needed a disputed supplementary election to be returned to office in the March 2019 governorship election.

In a letter dated May 2, 2019 seen by TheCable, the state anti-graft commission invited one Isa Bayero to appear before it to shed more light on the payment vouchers from 2013 to 2017 in his name.

EMIRATE’S FUNDS

Other officers in the emirate council to be quizzed, according to TheCable sources, include Mohammad Sani Kwaru, the accountant, Mannir Sanusi, the chief of staff, Danburan Mujittafa and Falakin Kano.

The letter said the commission was inviting the staff over alleged violation of section 26 of its enabling law in the management of the emirate’s funds.

The letter also stated that the invitation was sequel to the power conferred to it under “section 9 and 15 of Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-corruption Commission Law 2008 (as amended).”

Sanusi II was appointed the 14th emir in 2014 after his suspension from office as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) by former president Goodluck Jonathan.

Ganduje was the deputy governor to Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso when Sanusi II was appointed, but the former governor is no longer on good terms with his successor.

Kwankwaso supported his son-in-law, Abba Kabiru Yusuf, to challenge Ganduje, but the incumbent was returned with a score of 1,033,695 — a narrow difference of 8,982 votes.

Ganjude lost the Kano municipal heavily, leading to rumours that he would come after the emir after the election.

Sanusi II is the grandson of Muhammadu Sanusi I, the 11th emir of Kano who was deposed in 1963 after a disagreement with Ahmadu Bello, the sardauna of Sokoto and premier of northern region at the time.
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rdokoye:
Igboland is not landlocked, Igboland has access to the sea from Anambra, Abia, Imo and Rivers State.

Slavery was illegal in most parts of Igboland during that time period, unlike in Yorubaland, where it formed an integral part of your economies.

Ijaws are important to you and must be respected,you cannot Lord over them

rdokoye:
Igboland is not landlocked, Igboland has access to the sea from Anambra, Abia, Imo and Rivers State.

Slavery was illegal in most parts of Igboland during that time period, unlike in Yorubaland, where it formed an integral part of your economies.

If you are not land locked how come there are no ports in igboland .(abia,anambra,ebonyi,enugu,aniocha,ikweree ,imo state) how come?

rdokoye:
Igboland is not landlocked, Igboland has access to the sea from Anambra, Abia, Imo and Rivers State.

Slavery was illegal in most parts of Igboland during that time period, unlike in Yorubaland, where it formed an integral part of your economies.

Arochukwu people we're slave merchants

rdokoye:
Igboland is not landlocked, Igboland has access to the sea from Anambra, Abia, Imo and Rivers State.

Slavery was illegal in most parts of Igboland during that time period, unlike in Yorubaland, where it formed an integral part of your economies.

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rdokoye:
Is that really what you see? I see slum dwellings, insufficient infrastructure, haphazard development, and disorganisation. If that's what you call 'rich', I'd love to see what you call poor.

China is rich and has shanties,India has the biggest slums in the world and yet it a rich country,you have been trying to define poor interms of environment and architecture,but that is not how it is measured in economics.i thought you will change you arguments,but you are concentrating on architecture and environment,.the people are educated,they have access to health care and are civilized and all the development index they mange and average.

rdokoye:
Igboland is not landlocked, Igboland has access to the sea from Anambra, Abia, Imo and Rivers State.

Slavery was illegal in most parts of Igboland during that time period, unlike in Yorubaland, where it formed an integral part of your economies.

So how come of have the caste system?how come some people are OSU.igbo land is land locked,nonaccesss to any sea and land boder, ikeweere you can claim but not rivers.tne reason why you want does ijaws, ibibios,kalabaris,isokos, is because of the sea.they are not igbos.asari said they are ijaws and baifra belongs to them and not you,the bait of baifra is just next to them and not you.

rdokoye:
Poverty is defined by the living conditions of the people, not how much money a state gives to the national government in an inefficient and ineffective government system.

As I said before, Nigeria has an undeveloped taxation system, which means, much of the Igbo economy is informal. Yorubaland on the other hand has a bloated public sector, which is why their IGR is higher. Just look at the capital of Ogun, does it look like a city on the rise to you?

From GDP ,you get per capitalism,so it's a rich state when measured ,interms of how much they have.they will improve infastructure.the taxation system is developed and and computerized with new innovation and professional tax professionals,you don't have the capacity to replicate same in the east if you were really industrious you pay taxes to your state.

rdokoye:
If so many Igbo slaves were sold to Europeans, why is there very little Igbo influence in the West? Yoruba influence exists, because many Yoruba peolpe were taken as slaves. The slave routes still exist, along with verifiable histories of slave traders, like Madam Efunroye Tinubu.

You are landlocked ,so you don't have access to sea or land boder ,so slaves were shipped to other places.they did not ship people according to ethnic group,but on how strong you are and built.so most African Americans comw from west africa