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Now u see the brown rustic roofs and mud houses as insult no wonder u are now posting dirt from Lagos.lol

EvilMetahuman:
onome I'm 100% sure you are Igbo and a flat headed one at that. I would rather live under a brown roof than live in filth like pigs

Listen i am not posting filth in ibadan yet but i am just posting the usual outlook of ur shith.ole cities. U guys should do something abt this disaster

I served in ibadan. I still don't know why yorubas think that mud house and brown dirty rustic roof is development. This is supposed to be d regional capital of sw. Poo

EvilMetahuman:
although I don't agree that osun is more developed than some South south states especially porth Harcourt or akwa ibom... But osun is definitely more developed than all 5 ibo states put together and that's a fact

I am from delta but i think sw is millions of years behind se. Just look at sw for goodness sake. Even d North is alot better.

The Igbo as a Blessing to Nigeria

Written by Reno Omokri

On the 15th of August 1945, the axis nations fighting in the Pacific theater defeated imperial Japan and two weeks later, Japan formally surrendered to allied forces led by the U.S. General, Douglas McArthur, who formally accepted the signed articles of surrender.
But though the U.S. defeated Japan, they never decimated Japan's great technological and industrial complex. They were visionary enough to distinguish these from Japan's military industrial complex, which they scrapped.
Realizing that Japan was decades ahead of the West in many technologies, the allied powers, led by the US, allowed those industries to remain as a going concern and took the unique step of enacting legislation and policies to enable them flourish.

What they did in Japan, they also did in Europe. In Europe, the US, acting unilaterally, even went a step further by introducing the Marshall Plan through which America sent financial and other types of aid to help Europe (and especially Germany) recover from the ravages of the Second World War.

The point of the allied and American actions in Japan and Europe is that technological advancement belongs to the human race and should not be allowed to suffer because of a quarrel or war amongst humans.

This lesson was thoroughly established in 642 AD when the Library of Alexandria was burnt to the ground during the Muslim conquest of Egypt.

It has been argued that that act set the world several centuries back in technological advancement and has become something to watch out for during the prosecution of a war.

A war is a quarrel between or amongst people that is settled by means of violence. It is not a quarrel between or amongst technology, so civilized nations have pursued the policy of fighting wars while preserving technology.

Gone should be the days of the scorched earth policy which is why despite the bestiality of the apartheid regime, President Nelson Mandela did not do a Mugabe, but rather left intact White owned farms, industry and universities and only insisted that they be opened to Blacks and other races.

This brings me to Nigeria. I would like to state a fact that will be argued against, but still a fact that even those who would argue against it know to be true.

The Igbo (or Ibo) ethnic nationality of Nigeria are the most technologically advanced Black race on planet earth, bar none!

This is a fact. A fact that was proven to be true for 30 months while they were landlocked in their constantly shrinking enclave known as Biafra.

Cut off from the rest of the world, the ingenuity of the Igbo came to the fore during the civil war as they constructed the Uli airstrip and when that airstrip was bombed, they repaired it in record time and under the most trying circumstances. They would go on to repair Uli not once and not twice.

The Igbos refined petrol from a variety of non fossil fuels, including from but not limited to palm products (from which they also produced diesel) and manufactured surface to air missiles which they also adapted to surface to surface missiles (the Ogbunigwe).

They converted commercial planes to fighter jets and weaponized them. That was no mean feat in 1967.

In fact, when in 2012, the Nigerian Army rolled out the igirigi and promoted it as the first indigenous armored personnel carrier, they were wrong. I am not a Biafran. I am proudly Nigerian. And beyond that, I am a proud dark skinned Black African yet I make bold to say that the igirigi is not the first indigenous APC.

In fact, the first indigenous armored personnel carrier in Black Africa is the Red Devil, built by the Igbos during the Nigerian Civil War.

The Nigerian Civil War ended in January 1970 and the Nigerian Army unveiled the igirigi in July of 2012. If they had converted the Red Devil to their own use, they would probably be talking about a greater feat in the year 2012.

My question is what happened in the intervening 42 years between 1970 and 2012? Why didn't the Nigerian Army integrate the military industrial complex of Biafra into its Defence Industry Corporation of Nigeria, DICON?

Why did we have to reinvent the wheel at great cost in terms of time and money?

The Nigerian Civil War ended on a note of 'no victor no vanquished'. That was a watershed moment inspired by the Christlike mind of General Yakubu Gowon. That gesture is to be applauded.

But why did we as a nation not go the whole hog and take advantage of Biafra's technological advances and integrate her scientists into our Research and Development sector much like the US did with German and Japanese scientists?

That is where we failed as a nation.

I remember growing up as a child and how other Nigerians scoffed at 'Igbo made' electronic products. There was hardly anything including electronics, pharmaceuticals, spirits and wines that the Igbos could not counterfeit.

And rather than our leaders seeing the potential in those products, we all scoffed at them. Igbo made products were a pariah.

Did it ever occur to any of our leaders that if government had supported these technological advancement, Nigeria could have become an industrialized nation today and Igbo made products would have been exported abroad as made in Nigeria products?

It would surprise many that a number of the greatest technological advancement and products that came out of America after the Second World War were the work of German or Japanese scientists!

In an operation code named Operation Paperclip, 1500 German scientists, engineers and technicians were airlifted to the United States and given US permanent US residency and citizenship immediately after the defeat of Germany in 1945. The primary aim of Operation Paperclip was to prevent these skilled men and women from falling into Soviet Russian hands.

Hans Erich (Eric) Hollmann who was one of the fathers of radar technology was one of such scientists airlifted to America.

Kurt Lehovec the pioneer of the integrated circuit systems in electrical engineering is another. He was airlifted to America in 1945 where he became a Professor at the University of Southern California and passed on his knowledge to America's next generation of scientists.

The allies had been having issues with the jet engine and were not able to develop planes like the German Messerschmitt Me 262. But after the defeat of Germany, US forces gave safe passage to Rudi Beichel who went to the US and became an adviser to the US army on liquid propulsion. Other German scientists such as Magnus "Mac" Freiherr von Braun and his brother, Wernher Von Braun helped reverse engineer German jets which led to the development of the US American F-86 Sabres, a plane that helped the US dominate the air during the Korean War.

More importantly, Wernher Von Braun provided much of the know how that helped America build the Apollo spacecraft which allowed America beat Russia as the first nation to get to the moon.

Methamphetamine was invented by Japanese a Japanese chemist, Nagai Nagayoshi and the drug was shared with their German allies and helped their soldiers stay awake and focus. After the war, German scientists helped American scientist synthesize the drug which revolutionized the US health industry.

Why can't we do the same in Nigeria? Can you imagine what our technological base would have been if we as a nation had a policy of patronizing the so called Igbo made products right from the end of the war till today? What if we had absorbed the the Research and Production Organisation of Biafra (RAP as it was then known) into the Nigerian Army Corps of Engineers?

By now, we may have been manufacturing jets and we would not be dependent on foreign nations for weapons to fight terrorists.

This is why I was so disgusted with the minister of science and technology, Ogbonnaya Onu for aspiring, on Nigeria's behalf, to produce pencils by 2018!

I mean this man is the first civilian governor of the old Abia state which today encompasses both Abia and Ebonyi states.

Right there, under his own nose, Nigerians of Igbo extraction, without ANY governmental support, are manufacturing electronics and heavy machinery components and Onu is caught up on pencils!

Onu should visit Nnewi if he knows where it is. Right there he would see a city that does not wait for government. Nnewi people are so industrious that after years of waiting endlessly for government to provide basic amenities, they have built their own roads, have their own power stations and their own water works.

Just like Japan, Nnewi has manufacturers of such things like batteries, pistons, automobiles and other products. These Nnewi manufacturers have built schools for the kids of their workers on site, just like in Japan.

You just need to visit Nnewi or Aba to see what is going on in Nigeria. These guys are Nigeria's most guarded secret because even the federal government is not aware of them.

And the reason why this is so is because these people are Igbos!

It is time for Nigeria to forgive the Igbos for being Igbo and accept them as full partners and equal partners in the Nigerian project and use the entire strength of the Nigerian federal government to provide them the support to fulfill their destiny as the Black African people that are nucleus of the technological advancement of Africa.

Notice I say Africa, not just Nigeria. I don't say this lightly. All over West and Central Africa, Nigerians of Igbo extraction are the backbone of the commercial and technological sectors.

I can say what I have said above without any accusation of self or group interest promotion because I am not Igbo neither am I married to one. I have said the truth as my conscience sees it because I am committed to advancement of the Black Race because as a proud Black man, I know that no black African tribe is as great as the Black Race when it is united.

EwuOjota:
This is not Onitsha.

In 1977 Onitsha was developed.

It is Onitsha. That's Trans-Nkisi by the River Niger.

Shame on PDP

Kingsley1000:
Oga there is no sit at home in asaba,u can post pictures lets verify...even in enugu it's nt well observed

how you take know? i am from oko in oshimili lga

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ONITSHA..unfortunately the sit at home is working at 50%. Onitsha mall is open, banks at Awka road and New Market road are open.

Show them your house to shame the devil na waoo

It is a lie, they didn't burn the building look at the full picture of the APC Secretariat at Owerri. Peace has returned to APC imo state. The media is against Rochas, this is a media gang up.

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- The list of most indebted stated in Nigeria has been released - A document obtained from the DMO revealed that the total foreign debts of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, as well as the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN, was $11.406 billion as at December 31, 2016 - The DMO also noted that the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN, was indebted to the tune of $7.838 billion as at December 2016 A document obtained from the DMO revealed that the total foreign debts of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, as well as the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN, was $11.406 billion as at December 31, 2016. Premium Times Lagos state, which has the highest domestic debt among all 36 states, also has the highest foreign debt as at December 31, 2016, according to official figures. Other states with high foreign debts include Kaduna, Edo, Cross River and Ogun, the Debt Management Office, DMO, said.



NAIJ.com gathered that a breakdown of the figures showed that Lagos state topped the list of foreign indebted states with a total of $1.380 billion foreign debt. Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun It was followed by Kaduna with $222.8 million debt and Edo with $183.6 million foreign debt. Similarly, Cross River and Ogun states were among the top debtors with $114.9 million and $103.4million foreign debt, respectively. The debt record, which had three components – Multilateral, Bilateral ND Eurobond – showed that Borno, Taraba, Yobe and Plateau are the least indebted states in foreign debts. Borno, according to the figures, was indebted to the tune of $22.068 million; Taraba with $21.9 million; Yobe with $28.5 million and Plateau with $29.1 million in foreign debts. Check out the list of most indebted states in Nigeria - Number one will surprise you The DMO also noted that the Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN, was indebted to the tune of $7.838 billion as at December 2016.



The DMO, therefore, put the total debts owed by the States and the federal government as at December 2016 at $11.406 billion. Premium Times also reported the domestic debts owed by the states, with Lagos State incurring the largest local debt stock of N311.7 billion. The state, the DMO said, had the highest local debt stock in the country, followed by Akwa Ibom. Despite incurring the highest debt, Lagos also has the highest internal revenue among the states with an internal revenue of N436 billion in 2016.

https://www.naij.com/1101794-check-list-indebted-states-nigeria-number-surprise-you.html

EzeAnambra:
I'm not sure u've been to anambra,pls don't listen to what all dis paid agent from my state are saying..how come onitsha was named the most polluted in the world..come down to osha and see wat people are saying abt dis administration,do u know the amount peter obi left for willie when e left office,yet noting to show.My state is a mess...
Abians have always complained of bad Govt by past administration,they don't do propaganda like my brothers..
thank God dey have a working Governor now.soon der story will Change, why foolish Omambala on nairaland keep deceiving demself dat all is well.
Yes, I had to open dis account now,for reasons best known to me..

Anybody could notice that you are the same person but in a new handle. I told you that I am a regular visitor to the SE. I know Anambra, Enugu, Imo, Ebonyi and Abia very well. Like as I said before Abia has the least development. There is hardly a stretch good road in Abia. If you enter Aba-Owerri road it is bad, if you enter Aba-Ikot Ekpene it is very bad, if you enter Aba-Umuahia road it is bad. If you enter the express heading to Aba it is a disaster. If you venture into Aba itself it is a total mess. The problem of Aba is bad roads, filth and disorderliness. The government should fix roads in Aba and environs. I repeat Abia is the least in the SE when it comes to roads/development. I heard Ebonyi is even doing 3 flyovers. The whole of Abia state there is no form of infrastructure that will attract someone. I repeat Abia state is the least. No apologies!

EzeAnambra:
My guy, u are not being sincere,My people are suffering..oh my beloved onitsha was named the most polluted city in the [b] world [/b]not even nigeria no road network,house and industries scattered every wer,..
Let's face the fact and leave propaganda,willie first tenure is a waste..
Too many propaganda...our mother are suffering instead,we are busy exporting Ugu and yam...I can go on and on,but let me stop here for now...Omambala will be great once again...we Need prayers and not internet propaganda..

You are the same person I was quoting before. You just opened this handle but you can choose to deceive yourself all you want but I have said the truth. Abia is the least in the SE when it comes to roads/development. Anambra, Enugu, Imo and even Ebonyi of yesterday are all doing far better. Any other person will still tell you this truth am telling you now. Abia has not had a steady good governance since 1999. The two Orjis wasted 16yrs and now Okezie is quite overwhelmed. I wish Abia get it right but from what am seeing so far am shaken.

betterABIAstate:
I'm sis, anambra needs help, I'm dedicated to helping out.

You can choose to keep running in circle but I am being sincere with what I know and what I have seen personally. Every other SE is on the right track except Abia state. There is so much distraction going on in Abia state. There is little governance. The new governor has not settled down to accomplish one project. He has been in and out of court houses. I am sorry there is very little or virtually nothing I have seen in Abia state. The most important thing are roads- but there is hardly any good road in the state. The FG is not helping matters either. I wish Abia well but there is nothing I can do personally to help the state except the truth I am saying here.