₦airaland Forum

My 2 cents that Ghana won't try anything.
I know that Nigeria has MANY issues, but we can survive Ghana deportations. The question is CAN GHANA SURVIVE NIGERIA CUTTING OFF DIPLOMATIC LINKS WITH GHANA?
You may think this is a tea party kind of tussle; it is not.
No sane West African country should engage Nigeria in a diplomatic tussle. Nigerian market/economy is about 70% of the West African market/economy.
There is a lot Nigeria can do with that internationally and diplomatically.

Eziachi: Unfortunately people like Lamido are your real enemies that had kept Nigeria in darkness by manipulating your emotion at every given chance. Northern elite like Lamido is scared stiff about Buhari's personality.

Their very existence depended on keeping one Nigeria going because they knew that anything called Arewa republic tomorrow of which will isolate them with a possibleand easily leadership of Buhari and co will easily spell doom for his like. Lamido and co will no longer has the south as a pedistle to lash on to settle northern fight between the likes of conservative establishment Lamido against Buhari and co populist group.

If he claimed that existence of anyone in the north depended on the person's support for Buhari, how come he won the election on the platform of PDP instead Buhari's party? Which means he election was fraudulent . If Buhari is that powerful in the north as he claimed and holds them hostage, how come PDP controls most states in the north?, How come Jonathan got such a high volume of vote in the north, even in Katsina?

Suddenly Lamido is calling Buhari a Fulani and himself Hausa? Since when did he recognised the separation? When they were sharing Nigeria in last 35 years, what we use to hear is one undivided north, but now he knew about Idoma and others.

But fortunately for people like Lamido, their audience (gullible Nigerians) will buy his nonsense and swallow without reading between the lines and even looked at his past record as a politician. Some has already started calling him brave, astute and so on, for one of the architect of selling June 12 election 1993 in exchange for personal gain.

My brother we should embrace (though not blindly) what Sule Lamido is achieving - separation of Hausa and Fulani.
Why should an Igbo person not want that separation for heaven's sake or even mention it at all? Do we want them to stay united in their evil brotherhood to keep destroying the chance of peace in Nigeria? When they were cutting and dicing Eastern Nigeria and isolating the Igbo from all their neighbors, how many Fulanis did you see even mention it? Heck the cutting and dicing was inspired by Fulani elements who are masters of divide and rule/conquer, and who have been ruling Nigeria since the counter coup of July 1966. They still have not forgiven "Igbo" for the death of Sarduana, the grandson of Uthman dan fodio of the Fulani owned Sokoto Caliphate.

Let Hausa be, let Fulani be - SEPARATE. Maybe when this happens, we may learn that the Fulani are not more than 1 million in Nigeria, and we would consign them to their rightful position where they belong: WAY UNDER EVERYBODY ELSE.
The PDP's "win at all cost" strategy may be inadvertently achieving something positive that may lead to a peaceful Nigeria for once. Everybody knows that the Fulani are the most violent and chauvinistic group in northern Nigeria. They need to be reined in. FAST.

We need an international airport fully functioning. I will give one more example.
After the last plane crash at Lagos, a Lufthansa crew was to go to Abuja for a briefing/training. The Lufthansa airline does not fly locally in Nigeria, but guess what, they could NOT trust any other local airline to fly their crew from Lagos to Abuja. They had to send their crew from Lagos to Frankfurt using one of their international flights, and then flew then back again from Frankfurt to Abuja.

A 2 hour journey became a 2 DAYS journey. They are Germans; they are meticulous with the lives of their workers.

Anyone smart enough would not fly local flights in Nigeria; therefore we need our own international airport fully functioning. The lives of our people are at stake with them always flying local airlines to get to Enugu.

afam4eva: The major problem we have in Igboland is a leadership problem. A leader is supposed to love his people and find every means possible to cater fore their needs. But the crop of leaders we have in the east arer opportunist and efulefus who were picked by the Hausa/ Fulani oligarchy after the civil war to serve their masters and neverr rebel even if there people are been slaughtered like chickens. That's why you notice that Igbo leaders rarely comment on issues affecting Igboland. I remember when Ken Nnamani was asked about the agitation of Igbos for an Igbo president prior to the 2007 polls, guess what the 1diot said? "I don't belong to a party known as IGBO party", so that's not my concern. This is a popular trait that's evident in our representatives.They only speak up when they need to advance their selfish goals. If we keep waiting for these efulefus to deliver Igboland then we should be ready to wait forever because these people don't have our best interest at heart. That's why I want to commend the initiative taken by Onlytruth and other Igbo youths on nairaland to snatch the mantle of leadership from this sellouts.

Thank you my brother.
I am ever confident in the ability of the Igbo man to adjust to new "culture and realities". When the missionaries came to Igboland and presented a case against killing of twins, we promptly stopped the practices and all similar fetish practices. Some other tribes in Nigeria never dropped theirs till date. We are an advancing tribe.
The thieves masquerading as leaders in Igboland will not be allowed to continue their stock in trade. The more our youths graduate and not find jobs, the more the ranks of future militant youths swell. Soon they will start taking concrete action to retake their future. Most of these thieves simply stack money in banks (local and foreign) and refuse to invest in Igboland to create jobs for the youths. They also ignore our need for an international airport. They simply live in Abuja and hardly come home, yet they claim to represent us.

Umunna, let us start to chase them away ahead of time. If APGA has been hijacked by same folks (which I doubt) we should form another party. We can call the party -[b]Eastern Nigeria Youth Initiative (ENYI)[/b]and the logo can be an elephant -Enyi mba. We can start organizing now.

All it takes for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing.

noiseless: I hope that we become very careful with the new version of the JIM NWOBODOS which keep propping up, whether they come as women,learners or having the interest "one nigeria" or whatever. Just because they keep mentioning their parents for reference should not make us so naive to trust them with any responsibility, lets becareful here.HOW I WISH WE CAN DO THINGS OF THIS NATURE OUTSIDE NAIRALAND.

My brother, we have this website where we hope to "congregate" by email and newsletters.

http://igbolist.tk/

The council decided to set it up to collect our peoples emails and use it to spread information and organize ourselves for elections/pressure on issues that concern us. It is an evolving process, and we definitely plan to improve on that before the end of our term in December this year.
I personally vowed that no efulefu will infiltrate us or hold any position in our council because "agha anyi na anu bu agha uche" -the battle ahead is for smart folks. Our constitution will ensure that only PASSIONATE and Igbo-focused people will hold positions in our council. We have no other choice about that. Nigeria gives us no other choice.

Dudu_Negro: Odumchi,

You are preaching to the choir! North always have at minimum two parties - one for Fulani, the other for Kanuri. . . but both congregate against interests in the South.

My point is this, you cannot loose the center and also loose your homeland. ACN, as a opposition, is in the legacy of AG. Nationally, CPC is confrontational. Opposition parties function as a mirror for the ruling party. It is the sounding board from which the ruling party formulates ideas and proposals for policies and bills. ACN remains that sounding board. CPC is promising bloodshed between baboon and dogs and you jubilantly call that a viable opoosition. Where is your head?

If APGA is what works for you, then take examples from what ACN is doing and take your land back from Senators that drink Abuja koolaid and still disrespect your land, leaving you with losses nationally and locally.

APGA is supposed to be doing that in the East, but APGA is unfortunate to have pacifists as leaders. Ojukwu's death dealt a serious blow to the APGA bite. What APGA needs is for militant Igbo youths to take over and sack the coward old guard. We need a party that speaks to our needs in Nigeria.
APGA's fight will not be easy because PDP is busy spending money to keep causing confusion in APGA. However, Imo state citizens proved that PDP can be defeated and they did so by share militancy. If it happened in Imo, it can happen in ALL parts of Igboland.

odumchi: @ Eze Onlytruth,

Anam acho ka m deachiri gi imeelu kama o di ka telephonu mi achoghi ibanye hushmeelu. Chi ututu bo echi, m elee kwa ozo oburu o ma ekwe.

Nsogbu adighi nwanne. Jisie ike lee ma o ga ekwe echi.

Dudu_Negro: The political conscience of Yorubaland is far more important to us in ACN than is skyscrapers and bridges and airports and seaports in Lagos. The political capital of Yorubaland is in Oyo and the spiritual capital is in Osun, while the economic capital is Lagos. Our political leaders take marching orders from Oyo, not from Lagos. Tinubu is in synch with dictates from Oyo. Individual Senators drinking koolaid in Abuja is irrelevant to us, as long such Senator does not disobey the dictates from Oyo. We are an integral political body that operate within a disjointed political system. Attempts to disturb that integrity always almost result in bloodshed. We will sacrifice an unconforming individual to Ogun before we allow disunity on our land. Abuja koolaid is good reward for those that conform.

Get your house in order first, shape and direct the consciense. . . the developments you crave will come.

ACN know how to bring order out of chaos.

Touche. How can I argue against the bolded? What do you think we have been trying to do here?
We only hope that the idea catches on in Igboland. Once it catches on, it is downhill from there.
Your points stick.

odumchi: Let's not talk of enemies here, we aren't in a war (at least not one of the conventional setting).
The problem with some Igbo leaders is that they like to pretend that all is well web it really isn't. There are many issues that need to be addressed and resolved, yet they sit idly.

Odum my brother, there is an Igbo proverb (Nnewi proverb specifically) that says that "adighi agwa onye dara ibi ya amana aja" - a man with scrotal elephantiasis should not be told to avoid jumping over fences!

We Igbo have a particular problem - we love fairness, even at expenses to ourselves. Unfortunately for us, Nigeria is the antitheses of fairness. In Nigeria, you SHOULD or MUST protect your own interest first, else, your people will be dying in Boko Haram bombings like we are dying in Kaduna and other Northern states without much choice about leaving.

We are a business minded tribe, therefore, we should invest in infrastructure that enable us to advance. To do that, we must understand the need to join a LOCAL PARTY that is PASSIONATE about our needs, not a "national party" that throws our needs under the bus. Couple that "national party" with those "fair minded Igbos", what you get is a disaster for our people.

Hausa can afford to be PDP, Yoruba can afford it too, apparently the minorities can afford that too; IGBO NATION CANNOT AFFORD TO BE IN PDP. We need things that PDP would not give us.

Ivynwa: @Onlytruth
I'm so so proud of the bravity/resourcefulness of some of your Nnewi people like Innoson and Cento and others(What happened to Cento's company?). I onced worked with him in Lagos when he took on some machine business. I hope his motorcycle plant at Nnewi is still active?
I so like the resourcefulness/hardwork of the Nnewi people, I am from a neighbouring town and being a Nwadiani makes it all homey.

(Nwadi) My sister, my townsmen don't joke when it comes to business, or even anything they set their minds on.
That is just how we are. We are the spirit of the Igbo nation.
Those companies are still there, and more are springing up. If we have an international airport in SE, we would change Nigeria overnight.

Dudu_Negro: Well, it is the main opposition power and that is significant for injecting strategies into the polity. Strategies that shape policies at the center and bring the ruling party into compromises. You know the history of PDP in the West. . . we have shaved off their influences.

For good or bad, Yoruba has its own destiny in its hand. Our land, our people, our vision, our politics. . . united under one umbrella. We may not rule the policies in the center but we rule the temperaments that guide consequences for the center.

ACN can help you. We see what you or no one else see.

lol, what can ACN see that we cannot see? BTW it is not as if there is no ACN in SE. We have Chris Ngige and he is an ACN senator. What is he doing in the senate, except sipping Cool Aid with the rest of the powerless ACN crew in the senate. In Nigeria, once you are not the ruling party, you have NO POWER. Simple.
That is why I wanted to know if there is an ingenious way by which ACN governors are funding BIG projects that we need to know about. I am looking at SW under ACN. With the exception of Fashola who is awash with LAGOS funds, I can't see any other ACN governor performing what APGA governors are unable to do in SE.
For our people to join ACN en masse, you have to show us something revolutionary. Can you see that happening?

naijaking1: Don't forget the former min of aviation--Mrs Njaeze. She was one minister we have ever produced who was 100% for the internationalization of the Enugu airport. Unfortunately, she fell victim to the power struggle between Chime and Dep Senate president Ekweremadu who push for the retention of Njaeze for the sole purpose of completting the process. Chime would have none of that!

Another reason why I don't like PDP.
Just imagine, Chime could not connect the woman's position with collective Igbo needs/interest. The Chime guy is the least Igbo focused governor I know in SE. If he has any Igbo interest at all, that airport would have been completed since; instead he was busy pulling down a woman that was doing something to give Igboland a direct connection with outside world.
The more I get to know Chime, the more I suspect his intentions. Quote sad.

@Dudu_negro,

If there is something that ACN is doing that is ingenious, like funding projects using smart tactics without fed support, we would like to know. Please tell us.

Dudu_Negro: Eze,

How can ACN help you?

ACN is not in a position to help anybody, honestly.
What power does it control at the center?

PointB: Indeed Eze, the article is a very sad commentary of performance of Igbo public officers.

What harm will it cause them or the county to use the office to channel federal resources to the development of SE Zone. Or is SE no longer part of Nigeria?

However, I am not really going to pile the blame on PDP. PDP for all it flaws has appointed several Igbo men and women into influential positions, as you have rightly noted, the question is what have they done and what are they doing to help develop their zones - SE/SS?

We need to rile and deride this fellows, until they shape up or ship out.

Any Igbo public officer who will not lift a finger to help develop SE should not have our support whether s/he is in APGA, PDP, AC.N or CPC!

My brother, you and I know that only PDP folks are in strategic positions in federal government, so only they can really expressly make a BIG difference in the things we need urgently like international airports.

Ngige is in ACN; what power does ACN control at the center? APGA is even less powerful with the feds, and Peter Obi's romance with Jonathan has not attracted much. If APGA has a strong showing at the national elections, and control some power at the center, only then can we reasonably expect them to deliver such projects from the center. So, for now it is PDP that we must hold responsible.
I still agree with you that we should also hold the APGA governors Obi and Okorocha responsible for not starting a state/private sector funded international airport first. If they started it, the devilish forces at the center would be forced to recognize them and take them over. That is how Sam Mbakwe airport, Nnamdi Azikiwe University (former Anambra state university of technology -ASUTECH) and Fed Poly Nekede (if I'm not mistaken) came to be federal government funded institutions. So, APGA is not blame free in that sense.

It is good that we are talking about this in a public forum like Nairaland because it will help expose these people who are there for themselves. I got the article in my email and decided to post it here.

ndu_chucks: If you are ignorant and do not have an answer to my questions, then say so. Stop trying to join unrelated issues. The issue here is not about Kano or Lagos, olodo.

It is prudent to support your case with facts and cogent marketing research since noboby will build you an international airport simply because you want one. The least you should be willing to do is support your interests with verifiable facts. Have you seen any feasibility study or financial justification report which supports locating an international airport in those towns?

Since we are in Nigeria (where only the feds can build it by law per se), and since the federal government of Nigeria treats the whole thing like a zero sum game where only the most qualified (in terms of need or business) gets it, hence Kano got it; why did kano get it ahead of Enugu which handles more air traffic? The federal government funds used to develop Kano airport cannot be used to develop Enugu international, can it?

I'm sorry for being too fast for you. Let me slow down a little.

ndu_chucks: Can you make the business case for loacting an international airport in any of those places? There is nothing wrong with having airports which can handle 747 e.t.c, but I'm yet to see a viable business case for locating a profit making airport in any of those towns. Do you know of any business research or feasibility studies to support your case?

What feasibility study was conducted before making Kano an international airport, though statistics show that Enugu is the busier airport?
Is Kano a busier business city than Onitsha?
If you are honest, you would answer fairly.

PhysicsQED: Well there are revolutionary tech companies that have been founded where the CEO or founder of the company is someone who has made significant contributions to his field before/while founding the company. George Westinghouse, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Edwin Land, Robert Noyce, and Steve Jobs come to mind, and there are probably several others. But your approach might work as well - found the company first, go into multiple areas and then introduce the revolutionary idea later on (if it hasn't been superseded and made obsolete by then).

There are much more companies founded by non-techs and non-scientists, just businessmen. I refer to what H. J. Kaiser did for the US during second world war. Read about the "ugly dockling" warships he made that helped the US defeat Japan in world war 2.

But if Professor Ogunnaike (or some other Nigerian academic) suddenly wins some highly prestigious award in a particular scientific field - let's ignore the more obvious ones and instead say it was the Charles Stark Draper Prize or the Lasker Award or Wolf Prize - would your attitude really be the same toward that academic? Would that academic still be just a "paper" scientist/engineer to you?

Honestly bro, I am not belittling the man's achievement. I respect that guy more than a whole lot of other Nigerians. I am only saying that we should celebrate the engineers that make things that put us on world map. How many Japanese did you know that won Nobel Prize for Physics as of 1980? But guess what, Japan was already a world renowned country in product design and development by that year.

Since we're talking hypothetically, which do you think would improve the prestige of a country more - gradually producing several high achievers in theoretical sciences or gradually producing several innovative/revolutionary businessmen? Which of the two sets of people do you think will be remembered longer by other countries?

lol, this is a no-brainer to me. Those who make products that others can't make, even if they stole the tech, will get more respect. If I develop a main battle tank that is impervious to any anti-tank shell, all from a copied or stolen tech; what would save me in the day of war? Nobel prize or my tank? lol

And not all of these Nigerian academics in the West may really be focused on Nigeria because they're focused on their careers. I know for sure that some are very concerned with Nigeria's progress because I've read of their specific efforts/attempts to contribute to the development of science/technology back in Nigeria, but not everyone is going to be the same. Ogunnaike has started doing his own small part, though I've come across others who are doing more: http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/may/nigeria053008.html

Touche

I didn't say it was the fault of outsiders. My theory is (as I said earlier) that Nigerians don't really have high enough standards so they're not screening people out well enough. It's not clear to me how one would introduce these standards and deter less impressive or unimpressive candidates from contesting and winning though.


Dividing the country probably would accelerate development for most peoples of Nigeria. No argument from me there.





Well you seem to be criticizing him for not inventing great practical things when his areas of research seem to necessarily lean more toward producing "products" that are really ideas rather than big or small gadgets.

I am criticizing the fact that we churn out engineers BUT churn out ZERO products.

There were multiple top Pakistani scientists involved in successfully developing Pakistan's atomic bomb. I don't know where you're getting this "single professor" stuff from, but it's false.
This is a lot easier said than done. I asked you why you weren't initiating an electricity generation revolution and you said you never abandoned what you were working on and the project is ongoing. So this criticism even applies to you, right?

And the things you're talking about (nuclear programs, spaceflight, high tech defensive weaponry) are even more complex than power generation which Nigeria can't seem to overcome yet and I don't see these things coming about without a drastic increase in the amount of money available to fund research in these areas and to improve education and educational institutions/facilities in Nigeria.

I never said he has to do it all by himself.
Another scientist I respect is one guy called Robert J. Oppenheimer who was the project manager of the Manhattan project. A pure genuis who was credited with "having all the designs locked in his head". Only he could remember the whole damn thing. Others simply followed him. Why can't the Ogunnaikes of Nigeria lead a comparable, not necessarily SAME project in Nigeria. BTW I don't believe that ALL Nigerian best engineers are overseas. That is a red herring to me because younger ones are being born DAILY and they mature DAILY.
Talent is the key, not age.

ndu_chucks: There is a different between airports who can handle big airplanes such as a 747 and others used for international travels, and true international airports.

I agree that you need an airport that can handle the kinds of planes I mentioned in Enugu, but I am not sure that you can make a business case for locating a true international airport in Enugu.

Okay, what of Onitsha or Owerri(to serve Aba, Onitsha and Nnewi)? I know you would argue that Enugu is a "civil servant city". Is Kano airport busier than Enugu? Your hypocrisy is getting too much.

Umunna, I hope y'all see why I hate PDP and its members.

Do you see a pattern? Even Edwin Clark supported due process and MERIT; guess who shot it down?
I rest my case.
We really need to start a whole new movement to chase these people out of our land by 2015, else we are in deep trouble.

I hope you also see why I was angry at our sister who appeared more Nigerian than others in the parliamentary office.
This is an OLD sickness that keeps reincarnating.

I almost posted this on the "Ezendigbo Parliamentary Office" thread, but decided that it deserves its own thread.
Umunna, please read and reflect.

[size=16pt]Sanusi, Ohanaeze and Timidity of Igbo Public Servants[/size]

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Dan Maje of Kano has become the most controversial Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria. This grandson of the deposed Emir of Kano was reported to be among the masterminds of the 1994 Kano riot in which Gideon Akaluka was beheaded and thousands of Igbos slaughtered like fowl on the unsubstantiated allegation that Akaluka desecrated the Koran. He was also suspected to have met with Osama Bin Laden during the period he was in Sudan where he obtained a degree in Sharia and Islamic studies from African International University in 1997.


Sanusi, through the help of close family friend, Dr Umaru Abdul Mutallab, former Chairman of First Bank for close to ten years and father of the Christmas shoe bomber, joined the board of First Bank as an executive director in charge of Risk Management in 2005, and later became the CEO of the bank in 2009.


During Sanusi’s tenure as CEO of First Bank, he exhibited a level of fiscal discipline and helped restructure bad loans for debtors in a manner beneficial to the bank. He reduced incidences of sharp practices within First Bank which pitched him in conflict with MD’S of other Banks who derided his toga of a structural reformer. Sanusi reportedly instituted some level of sanity in the corporate governance of the bank and ensured effective risk management strategy.


Sanusi was recommended for the Governorship of Central Bank when the northern oligarchy convinced late president Yaradua that the South cannot control both the banks and the regulatory body at the same time. Sanusi, being a risk management expert, understood all the manipulations of accounting books to produce a determined favourable financial statement and cash flow statements used to hoodwink shareholders, investors and evade regulatory scrutiny. He equally understood the negative impact of massive unsecured loans towards liquidity management in the banking system. Sanusi took the banking industry by storm, by the time he finished the first stanza of his own transformational agenda, a list of monarchical bank MD’S were sent to their villages while others became perennial customers of the EFCC, Nigeria’s anti graft body.


Sanusi’s introduction of Islamic Banking has brought him in conflict with the majority of Christians and Southerners of Nigeria who are suspicious of his intentions. His sympathy for Boko Haram and his position that poverty was responsible for the bloodletting drew flaks from informed sources who believe that Sanusi is deliberately distorting facts to suit the north. When Sanusi donated the sum of N100 million naira of CBN money to his home state of Kano in the aftermath of the dastardly Kano Boko Haram attacks, he drew a lot of criticism from Christians, Southerners and other well meaning Nigerians who believe that Sanusi should have been fair enough to extend the same largesse to other non muslim states.


Ohaneze Ndigbo criticised Sanusi for the selective donation. According to Ohaneze publicity secretary, Ralph Ndigwe, ‘’We want Sanusi to tell us what he has done for the hundreds of Igbos who were victims of Boko Haram attacks in various parts of the north’’ The criticisms by Ohaneze Ndigbo is reasonably to some extent, but inadequate to redress the constant marginalization of Ndigbo. The fact is that Sanusi dared where his colleagues of Igbo extraction trembled. Sanusi, as CBN helmsman, is loquaciously protecting his people with his influence, position and power. He has succeeded in convincing the Europe and the United States of America with his theory of poverty being responsible for Boko Haram terrorism. He has also succeeded in drawing the attention of the entire world to the fact that Akwa Ibom State gets more federal allocation than all the six states of North East put together. How culpable is Sanusi of bias. Sanusi is guilty of bias while fellow public servants of Igbo extraction are guilty of indifference, petty jealousy and timidity in matters relating to their people.


Andy Uba was presidential aide and the most influential person in Olusegun Obasanjo’s cabinet for close to eight years and yet there is no single project that was cited in Igboland as a result of his influence. The Niger Bridge could not get any federal allocation, Onitsha Seaport and Oba Airport couldn’t get federal attention. Enugu-Onitsha expressway was in a deplorable state of disrepair while some other federal roads were getting attention in other parts of the country especially the north. The only federal presence in Anambra State was the security forces who massacred thousands of people at Onitsha while claiming to be looking for MASSOB members.


Chukwuma Soludo was Governor of Central Bank; he discharged his duties professionally for Nigeria but there is no CBN policy of his that is beneficial to the commerce and cottage industry disposition of his Igbo kinsmen. He probably propagated Igbo cause by changing his name from Charles to Chukwuma.


Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala served Obasanjo and Nigeria to the best of her professional ability and she was another influential cabinet member yet she did nothing to draw the attention of the federal government to the fact that Delta Igbos is the most marginalized in Nigeria. There is no fiscal policy of hers that was favourable to the Igbo race.


Ojo Maduekwe was influential throughout Obasanjo tenure and yet he was never known to have defended any Igbo cause. Oby Ezekwesili was another influential figure during the Obasanjo era and yet none of her policies was of assistance to the Igbo traders and businessmen. While in office it was a taboo to speak Igbo to these women and most of their male counterparts while their colleagues from the north and south west regale in using their native tongue as second official languages in their respective government offices.


When the presidency decided to replace Ringim as the IG of police, they settled for Azubuko Udah, the DIG Admininistration, the most senior public official of Igbo extraction in Jonathan’s cabinet brought a strong counter recommendation in his reply memo to the president which rubbished both Ivy Okoronkwo, 2nd in Command and Azubuko Udah, 3rd in command. The attempt by Elder statesman Edwin Clarke to convince the president to follow seniority and appoint Udah was shot down by his fellow Igbo and former church member. Anyim Pius Anyim, Ike Ekweremmadu and Emeka Ihedioha are senior Igbo public servants in the Jonathan presidency and they have considerable measure of influence. They should remember the South East now that budgetary cake is being shared because nobody knows the fate of Nigeria tomorrow.


Sanusi is implementing policies to help his people especially the masses through his position on revenue allocation, Boko Haram, appointments and donations. What are Igbo public officers doing? They are playing safe in order not to stir the hornets’ nest. They want to be in the good books of everybody in the North, West and South- South. These Igbo public servants should not hesitate to constantly draw the attention of the entire world to the lack of federal presence in Igbo land. They should also donate funds to victims of injustice and Boko Haram attacks from the South East. President Jonathan is channelling over 40 percent of all federal allocations to the Niger Delta region with about 15% of it going to Bayelsa State. He is also ensuring that ex- militants are given adequate professional training by allocating massive funds to the Amnesty Programme. He has handed over Nigeria’s waterways to former militant Tompolo. His people are enjoying unprecedented government patronage. This suggests that Nigerian public officials constantly use state privileges to enhance the progress of their regions. This is not so for Igbo public servants, they are more Nigerian than Nigerians yet the same establishment views them with suspicion.


Igbo public servants should wake up from civil war hangover. The war is over and the position of Biafrans for which over three million people lost their lives is now being revisited by other ethnic nationalities who sold the Igbos during the war. Therefore, instead of focusing on Sanusi, they should focus on themselves and use their offices to redress the constant marginalization and humiliation of Ndigbo in the scheme of affairs of Nigeria.


Obinna Akukwe

http://nigeriamasterweb.com/Masterweb/sanusi-ohaneze-and-timidity-igbo-public-servants

mens dept: Well it's not less than that of Owerri nor Kano, and is older than both of them. The minister is correct by saying that the Enugu Airport is the 4th busiest airport in the nation. Lagos airport is busiest, followed by Abuja, and then PHC. Lagos and Abuja have significant International and Domestic operations, where as PHC has a significant domestic figure. Afterwards, Enugu's domestic traffic follows.

Furthermore, the minister's speech is all POLITICS.

OBJ said the same dammm thang as far back as 1999, and again in 2003. Even Ken Nnamani as senate President revealed this info during his boring tenure. Its as if Enugu aiport has been approved 6 times to be an "INTERNATIONAL" airport, yet no KLM, Air France, nor South African Air has landed or contract been negotiated.

Until those from that state or region have a serious mechanism to follow thru with the looooong wait for the airport to actually join the world ranks of JFK and MMIA, then it's a wait and see game.

[size=14pt]No city/region can be considered world class without an international airport[/size]

Spot on.

I am still watching Rochas to assess his COURAGE. We are a deprived tribe in Nigeria. We should not be p00sy-footing around. We are the aggrieved party. We should be angry and get what we want. Period.

Only the Ezekwesiri and Akunyilis of Igboland would stare down the devil to give us those airports because it is only fair. I can't believe that our woman are more courageous than our men, except that I remember the great Ikemba, and others before us, including some of us here.
The cowards we have representing us MUST LEAVE.

PROUD-IGBO:
^^^Bruh, i think it's b'cos the ones elected/appointed mainly got to their present positions through man-know-man, rigging, and being rewarded for party loyalty. Rochas of Imo state is one of the few people i still have a bit of faith in as you can see he has the 'fire-in-the-belly' and vision to get things done....all he needs is the kind of budget to match his ambitions, and he could take Imo places.

I used to feel the same way about Chime of Enugu state, but the dude seems to have fallen asleep in his second term: Enugu city is looking unkempt and not as clean as it was during his first two years in office; you don't hear of any new projects being planned/launched; no talk of new investors/investments in any sector/field since Polo Park mall; and he should be the one to champion the full utilization of Enugu airports int'l status. Let me not hear anyone mention Chime and 2015 in the same sentence .

My brother, you touched key points! I also think that they need COURAGE.
I have an email from Oby Ezekwesiri which I will share with my council members about what she did when she was there, and I know that only her type could do something. She pursues truth and justice and does so fearlessly.
Our reps and politicians are thieves and cowards.

ekt_bear: How did this thread get hijacked by Onlytruth's agenda? Abeg, make your own thread for this new direction you want to take the discussion.

hehe. Onlytruth agenda is the TRUTH agenda. It hurts, but remains truth.

PhysicsQED: 1. Onlytruth, since you said you had a background in electronics/electrical engineering originally when you were an undergrad, why not take it up again and see if you can't play a major part in resolving at least the local (if not state) electricity crisis affecting your community through your own research? If the line of thinking or the idea you had was so potentially revolutionary for electricity generation, then it would make sense to stick with it or return to it and try to actualize it.

I never said I've abandoned what I was working on. The point I'm really making is that I can now do MUCH MUCH MORE BY STARTING A PRIVATE COMPANY THAT DO A WHOLE LOT OF THAT KIND OF STUFF.

You said white people in the same situation would not wait on an inefficient government and would instead generate sufficient electricity privately through small scale efforts. Perhaps some of them would, but what's really stopping you from emulating or imitating what you think they would do independent of the state or federal government?

Incidentally, have you heard of the "Great Stink" of London in the 1850s? That's a good example of a group of white people literally waiting until most of their capital city smelled like sh1t to fix up the sewers and change their filthy living conditions - and even then they deferred to the government (people they elected because they were perceived as the some of the best individuals in their society) to come up with a plan to resolve the problem. It's not as if small groups of people just decided to engage in individual small scale cleaning and sanitation of the city - even though the whole place literally smelled like sh1t - they deferred to the government to recruit the necessary experts to fix the problem.

The problem I see in Nigeria is that there is almost ZERO effort on the part of Nigerians to even think that way, talk more of organizing their businesses to invest in such companies. My fear is that Nigeria will remain the same way 1000 years from now. There is just no hunger for science/tech/innovation in Nigeria. The dominant mindset is to IMPORT everything, and those who make effort to produce/invent at home are mocked and called "Aba made".
I respect "Aba mades" more that some patent that have zero impact on the people of Nigeria and the image of the nation.
Once Innoson vehicles starts shipping to other African countries, watch as my prestige skyrockets. How many Africans would respect me because of Prof Ogunnaike? That's my point.

Perhaps Nigeria's problem lies with the quality of the people Nigeirans elect compared to people in white and east Asian countries - there don't seem to be any unwritten rules or standards in place about the level of prior achievement or education necessary to hold any political position.

Again, whose fault is it that we "elect" half witted people? Why not elect the Ogunnaikes?
You see, when some of us call for Nigeria's disintegration, it is precisely because we see no hope in the country supporting the right humans to take charge of things. As I right this, a section of the country known to be least educationally developed is baying for blood because one of their own is not the president. I wanted to see if ordinary Nigerians can actually take charge of the future rather than continue on current recidivistic mindset setting us back and keeping us in stone age.

2. On an unrelated note, I think you don't seem to understand the role of a researcher like Ogunnaike in the advancement of his specific field of science. A few of his many publications may end up having more lasting significance as a contribution to that field or in aiding a future researcher's contributions to that field or others than an invention from him may have in the present day. And anyway, to produce a really outstanding invention (not a minor one) is something that's much easier said than done.

The irony of selecting Ogunnaike as an example to make your point (and you do have a point, but I think your criticism is a little misdirected here) is that Ogunnaike worked as a researcher at DuPont for 13 years according to every bio available of him. So he was actually working at one of the most important technological companies in the world for more than a decade - a company that introduces real and very important new products to the world. His role may not have been to invent new products, but if you look at and try to get a grasp of the actual areas of his research it should be obvious why that's the case. And the "paper engineering" is apparently important enough that people win major fellowships, prestigious awards, salary increases, and promotions on the basis of "paper engineering". Go figure.

Believe me, I thoroughly understand what the man has done. My point is that a single professor of engineering in Pakistan created the Pakistani nuclear program and developed it up to the bomb stage. I want to see Nigerian engineers achieving similar feat - A COMPELTE engineering feat.
I won't really respect any of them until I start seeing these things.
Nigeria should be sending men to space and building things that make other countries stay off when we tell them to.
The fate of 160 million people is at stake.

PROUD-IGBO:
^^^ODB, can you throw more light on your bolded assertion above? You've heard of stories of this happening or you're saying it based on what you THINK may happen?

You do know armed robbery is a nationwide problem, and that stories of new arrivals being trailed and robbed aboud even in Lagos? So i'd like to know if you have any special reason for mentioning Akanu Ibiam Airport in particular.

Thanks!

PS- and close to two years after its status had been upgraded, and after numerous shut-downs for renovations and upgrades, i think it's safe to say Akanu Ibiam is an Int'l Airport on paper only. The fact the Enugu State Gov't; other South East Governors; Igbo Industrialists and Businessmen; Igbo sons and daughters holding elected/appointed positions at the federal level, the fact all these individuals are carrying on like this is not number one priority for now is a [b]BLOODY DISGRACE!!! [/b]Let us continue to wait for a Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani, Ijaw, or someone from any other ethnic group to come and do what we ought to do ourselves. Nonsense!

My brother that airport is telling me in no uncertain terms how our people think; I mean our politicians.
Either they are all cowards or they are just dimwitted. SMH.
The fact that SE lacks a fully functioning International Airport speaks volumes!

I hardly comment on threads moved out of the politics section, so I take it my idea is not accepted.
Moving on and leaving the usual oafs behind. . .

To ensure that you don't lose traffic (lol I know you value traffic like mad! ) it does not have to be compulsory. Just make it to be part of the option available in user profile setup. Folks can choose to avoid those without stars if they like.

I am thinking that the easiest way might be through an external source/site using Nairaland users' email addresses. Your site will simply call the results from the IQ site (if you reach such agreement with the site owners ahead of time), to create stars against usernames here. It should be a one time event to avoid bandwidth guzzling.

I repeat, it does not have to be compulsory. It should be there though.

One_Naira: I see what sisi kill was saying.
Attacking women is his specialty.
Only got mouth to talk when it's women.
Innocent little daisy that's all about posting pictures that's like attacking londoner, nnenna and onila. SMH

@ Onlytruth

How do I contact you or you should at least email me. Go to by profile, I think my email address is there

I tried to contact you by clicking the "send email" link.
Well, you can contact me at ezendigbo_nl@hushmail.com
Thanks bro.