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naptu2:
BBC Africa.



https://www.instagram.com/p/C8uSdkSt_sm/?igsh=bXF1ZnFjejRhcjJ0

Huge disappointment for those who intended to come to bash the celebrities, #Chividoo.

Papparassi:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.channelstv.com/2024/06/25/rivers-crisis-edwin-clark-seeks-tinubus-intervention/amp/

Area that produces cheap cash from crude oyel and gas is the area Clark wants them to end crisis in. Who has been instigating the crisis? Historically, people of Rivers State are not known to war against themselves. It's divide and conquer and rule and exploit philosophy.

Nigeria is a country where some groups instigate or initiate wars against other groups. A country at war with itself.

Morbeta11:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/06/niger-delta-communities-threaten-to-cripple-oil-production-over-kanus-continued-detention/

Wow. They expected the Igbo to enter into a civil war against Nigeria because of Nnamdi Kalu. But Igbos are wiser.
They used their terrorists to free their fellow terrorists from Kuje maximum security prison during the Buhari administration.

DevilsEqual:
There are 100m people more who are ready to help them ,excluding those from your region cause you guys dont know anything about humanity

Cheers, as there are alot of people ready to render your stinginess as being inconsequential

Do you see British people on the streets begging? Britain is a developed country.
That's the level of development the essterners in Nigeria want to achieve in a country they belong to. But because of crude oil and gas deposits in the Niger delta region, you get easterners trapped in one Nigeria with your sort.

Melagros:
COMRADES, please this is an appeal, whenever you see these beggars help them with the little you can, the N50, N100, we give them goes a long way in their lives

I am aware of the ongoing hardship in our land, but these are people who are incapacitated in almost all ramifications of living

Please, endeavour to do so, your pot of oil will never run dry.

MODIFIED
This is PORT HARCOURT CITY, and not a Northern part Nigeria, as some of the posters below are insinuating

I see them. Next presidential election, they will still support the same APC which made Nigeria become the POVERTY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD AND THE MOST TERRORISED COUNTRY ON EARTH.

efighter:
IPOB, ESN, UGM, KGM (Known Gun Men) oya, do your thing. She is serving in the military of your enemies.

First of all, IPOB do not, and never killed Igbo officers in Nigeria armed forces.
We know how your terrorists gunning for a Nigeria to be governed with Sharia criminal justice system stealthily gun down Igbos in efforts to establish before the international community that IPOB is truly a terrorist organisation. No country outside Nigeria is yet to see the secessionist IPOB group with Motto of No Violence, as a terrorist organisation.

Parasite always going on overdrive.

irisher:
In 1976 when Imo state was created, there's much differences in the level of urban development between Orlu and Owerri (Owerri was capital of old Imo state).
It matters where who governs Imo state is from, Orlu has already been given a chance to
change the bad narrative of Imo state.

Unfortunately, Nigerian governments don't make a city viable, they only provide some basic amenities for us to strive on...I believe the present governor has provided the necessary actions needed to support Orlu city.
You can stand firmly to make your city great and viable regardless of the region that's more developed, you've to start that by loving yourselves.
Orlu state economy maybe worser than Imo state if the state is finally created.
Apart from Nnewi and Abuja, the most prosperous cities in Nigeria are the ones that were being planned by the British, this is a hard pill to swallow.
Don't trust these Nigerian politicians, they're so incompetent and greedy, avoid Orlu state like a plaque.

Bolded on the bad narratives of Imo state. It is most important you understood that.
The worst of the bad narratives of Imo state is about Imo becoming a state with only one modern city - Owerri - with only Owerri zone developing into one modern city, because all federal and state institutions and parastatals that are supposed to be spread all over the state to induce human and economic development to all over Imo state, were grabbed by Oru-Owerri people hiding under Owerri is state capital, and located all only in Owerri senatorial district during the military era.

Na cheap cash from oyel naa.
Environmental disaster and gully erosion devastating the SS and the SE due to oil exploitation. They are told "go back to your erosion ravaged sad east."

Destabilise any area where natural resources abound, let there be no peace there possibly forever..
It was started from the tenure of Amaechi Rotimi.

Wole Soyinka ran an errand for Tinubu and got Amaechi in. The wahala in Rivers state followed.

Lol. It's winner takes it all affairs in APC as begun by Buhari.

Orabi:
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, has described as unacceptable a proposal to create Orlu State out of the present Imo State.

It could be recalled that the bill, sponsored by Hon. Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu, member representing Ideato Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, has already passed first reading.

National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, in a statement, urged the National Assembly to jettison any plan to create Orlu State.

Okwu, who described it as an invitation to chaos in the South-East, said it negates the spirit of equity and justice.

He said whereas the South-East was desirous of an additional state to be at par with other regions, the proponents of Orlu State were championing a selfish and divisive agenda, which would only worsen the cries of marginalization in the zone.

He said: “The National Confab report, which was endorsed by Nigerians from across the country remains a guide towards the total reform of Nigeria, including state creation.

“In that report, there was a clear mention of Etiti State, which has a representation of every part of the South-East. There is nothing like the Orlu State in the Confab report.

“The proposed Etiti State encompasses parts of all the 5 existing states of the South East. They include: Orumba South, Orumba North (Anambra); Awgu, Aninri, Oji River (Enugu); Afikpo North, Afikpo South, Ivo (Ebonyi), Ehime Mbano, Okigwe, Onuimo (Imo), as well as Umunneochi and Isuikwuato (Abia).

“It is, therefore, unthinkable for anyone to wake up one day and plot to thwart the general interest of the South-East in pursuit of a selfish agenda.”

Okwu cautioned that the rejection the said Orlu State had already received was a clear indication that “it is self-serving, lacks inclusivity, and proper consultation.

“We urge the National Assembly not drag itself into such a legislation that is capable of setting the South-East on fire. It should rather channel its energy towards the creation of Etiti State, which is long overdue, and in doing so, posterity will judge them fairly.

“The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide equally calls on the sponsor of the bill to withdraw it from further legislative action as it is not only provocative but incendiary.”

is capable of setting the South-East on fire

See this one threatening.
Your Ekiti dream is most unjust and is more capable of causing a rucus if any one in the NASS mentions it.
East Central State gave rise to Anambra and Imo States.
Anambra State was divided into Enugu and Anambra States; the same time Imo state was divided into Abia and Imo States.
The 5th state in the SE zone, Ebonyi, was created from Enugu state and Abia state where Afikpo and Isuikwuato in then Abia state were taken to join Abakaliki zone to form Ebonyi state.

Why will any just person not seek to get a 6th state in the SE zone from Orlu senatorial zone and probably parts of Anambra south? Why would any one go for tinkering in Okigwe area again for state creation?

Orabi:
Apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, has described as unacceptable a proposal to create Orlu State out of the present Imo State.

It could be recalled that the bill, sponsored by Hon. Ugochinyere Ikeagwuonu, member representing Ideato Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, has already passed first reading.

National President of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, Mazi Okwu Nnabuike, in a statement, urged the National Assembly to jettison any plan to create Orlu State.

Okwu, who described it as an invitation to chaos in the South-East, said it negates the spirit of equity and justice.

He said whereas the South-East was desirous of an additional state to be at par with other regions, the proponents of Orlu State were championing a selfish and divisive agenda, which would only worsen the cries of marginalization in the zone.

He said: “The National Confab report, which was endorsed by Nigerians from across the country remains a guide towards the total reform of Nigeria, including state creation.

“In that report, there was a clear mention of Etiti State, which has a representation of every part of the South-East. There is nothing like the Orlu State in the Confab report.

“The proposed Etiti State encompasses parts of all the 5 existing states of the South East. They include: Orumba South, Orumba North (Anambra); Awgu, Aninri, Oji River (Enugu); Afikpo North, Afikpo South, Ivo (Ebonyi), Ehime Mbano, Okigwe, Onuimo (Imo), as well as Umunneochi and Isuikwuato (Abia).

“It is, therefore, unthinkable for anyone to wake up one day and plot to thwart the general interest of the South-East in pursuit of a selfish agenda.”

Okwu cautioned that the rejection the said Orlu State had already received was a clear indication that “it is self-serving, lacks inclusivity, and proper consultation.

“We urge the National Assembly not drag itself into such a legislation that is capable of setting the South-East on fire. It should rather channel its energy towards the creation of Etiti State, which is long overdue, and in doing so, posterity will judge them fairly.

“The Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide equally calls on the sponsor of the bill to withdraw it from further legislative action as it is not only provocative but incendiary.”

Bunkum. You want us to base on Okigwe for the 3rd time again to create new state while Orlu zone and Anambra south have remained untouched since East Central State was divided into Anambra and Imo States? Do you have two heads in Okigwe?

Etiti state with your Okigwe as capital; that is all that has been driving Okwu here.

Afikpo in Ebonyi state has fared better since it was taken out of Okigwe senatorial zone. All the conglomeration of local government Councils you want for Ekiti state just to have your Okigwe as capital have been in different states since East Central State was split into two.

Akwamkpuruamu:
You know nothing. You didn't talk of Abakaliki being carved out from old enugu, you are talking of distant Anambra. Ebonyi is carved out from Imo, Abia and Enugu. Nothing concern Anambra with a plot of land in Ebonyi

Old Anambra State and old Imo state were my parameters. Most of Ebonyi state was caught out from old Anambra State that included Enugu and Nsukka.

Abia in old Imo state contributed two to three LGAs to Ebonyi state. So 6th state in the SE zone must be carved with Imo contributing the major part.

JagabanB:
Clearly shows more will happen in advent of Biafra.

Oduduwa Republic agitation. Have you stopped? If you have stopped after May 29, 2023, what about the Oduduwa Republic agitators who stormed Oyo State govtv secretariat last two months?
Don't hide the log in your eye to talk about the speck in another's eye.

JagabanB:
Because of a state, they have been rejecting and arguing for days, they think Biafra will any different.

In the SW region, similar arguments, even worse arguments, will also emerge if they are proposing one state to be created in the SW region.

JagabanB:
Because of a state, they have been rejecting and arguing for days, they think Biafra will any different.

Military leaders created the 36 states through military fiat.
In a democracy, everyone wants to be heard, but the majority carries it at last.
Even in 2006 when this same state was about to be created, there were still some persons like this man. But superior intelligence from others in Ohaji-Egbema prevailed.

Bobloco:
Ohaji is in Orlu senatorial zone as we speak and someone with some access to the media is ranting about being forcefully subsuming in into Orlu state, How?

Ohaji-Egbema has never been part of Ikwerre in Rivers state.
One Egbema part conscripted into Rivers state has remained a minority and marginalized. Who wants to be a minority in his/her state?
The man sponsored to write this has pocketed his money from his sponsors.

"Our allegiance lies with our brethren in Rivers State, not with the state that has systematically marginalized us." ----- not truthful

13% from oil to Imo state was deployed to urban development of Owerri zone. Ohaji-Egbema remains rural.

Even the magnificent ISOPADEC headquarters was built in Owerri but sidelined Ohaji-Egbema section where the oil cones from.

So who has been marginalising Ohaji-Egbema?

One of the essences of Njaba state proposal since 2005, now renamed Orlu state, is to halt the Rob Peter to pay Paul situation in Imo state.

Kwontinue with publication of nonsense from anyone paid to deny Ndigbo a merited 6th state in the SE zone.
Did the military consult him before creating the old states?

Extorting millions of people in Nigeria through providing TV services is a sin.
Don't extort people because there are fewer television stations in Nigeria sponsored and subsidised by government for people to watch TV.

irisher:
Orlu is a new emerging city in Imo state, you can't compare it with Owerri in terms of development.
Have you forgotten that Owerri was the capital of the old Imo state which includes the Abia?
When this federal and state institutions were being built in Owerri, the so called Orlu was a typical bush, so Imo state government can't set up such institutions in that region.
There is no huge fraud by Owerri, after all, Orlu are the ruling class in the present Imo state.

There's hardly any differences in the levels of urban deevelopment between Owerri and Orlu in 1976 when Imo state was created.
But the unjust location in Owerri zone all federal and state institutions and establishments that induce modern develooment wherever located, made Owerri populate and expanding in modern developnent, such that any visitor to Owerri and Orlu today will not believe that the two areas belong to the same state. It does not matter where who governs Imo state is from. Because developnent does not come from a vacuum. More than
95% of institutions and parastatals in Imo state to induce human and economic development are located in Owerri area before 1999.

Joy2dworldxyz:
Quick recovery man.
That's one of the issues with sports, injury is ever expected.

But why is the video trending?
Is the wheel bed that bad??
I obviously see nothing wrong with it?

Or is because it's used by an African club side?

I wanted to ask the same questions you asked.
Must they drive an Ambulance van into the pitch to remove the injured player?
I don't understand what makes the video trend.

onumadu:
Am I the only one thinking that the idea of an “Orlu state” with Anambra LGAs like Ihiala, Orumba and towns like Ozubulu is, to put it mildly, highly controversial?
BTW why Ozubulu from Ekwusigo LGA, but not others from that same LGA?
Do those flying this kite actually know Ozubulu people well?
Does anyone actually think that they can separate Ihiala from the rest of the “Orsu people” in places like Ukpor, Utu, and others in Nnewi South LGA?
Similarly, how does one separate Orumba people from their Aguata LGA kins?
But the most egregious mistake is to not recognize that the LGAs mentioned above are

TYPICAL ANAMBRA people.

If anyone would excise Ihiala, Orumba and towns like Ozubulu into an Orlu state, why not take Nnewi North, and Idemili LGAs, too?
If I were advising those sponsoring this Orlu state, I would advise them to first change the name of the state to something else, because the LGAs from Abambra would find subsuming them under Orlu unpalatable.
You can name the state Ojukwu state, and include Nnewi North and Idenmili LGAs too.
Overall, I think that the sixth state that South East really needs is ANIOMA state.
All these fractious people trying to split hairs in current South East region should take a chill pill.
QED.

Racism is foolish - Tony Blair, former PM of the UK.


The term "Typical Anambra people" is a foolish figment of immaginations of inferior persons, like racism is a figment of immaginations of normally the downtrodden.
The well-to-dos from Anambra and Imo States don't segregate among Igbos, be they from Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi.
You are not brilliant is the reason why you can't understand that creating Anioma state you suggested and making it the 6th state in the SE actually lowers the political representation of the Igbos in the National Assembly and the Federal Executive Council.

Orlu state proposal is the richest in natural gas in Nigeria, and an oil producing area.
Any saner person from Anambra south will happily join the Orlu state proposal.

Ofodirinwa:
There is nothing controversial happening. An Ihiala and Orumba man knows that Orlu people are his immediate brothers over Onitsha and Akwa people. The issue is you people learn that you're Igbo from the internet and social media. If I asked you whether you can have this conversation with any of your elders you will say no.

All of the communities you listed are members of the Orlu organizations outside of Igboland. They know themselves and they know who they are. Orlu/Oru culture is real like
Anioma, or Umueri culture is real. You people are not googling well enough since you refuse to talk to people who know better

In bold.

Travelling abroad, in Old Orlu Divisional Union branches abroad, people from these Anambra south communities are members of Old Orlu Divisional Unions.

onumadu:
Suddenly I Onumadu the GREAT have acquired a title of "anti-Igbo" just because you disagree with my points.
Chai.
You didn't even address the points I raised, instead you resorted to ad hominem.
You don't realize that Ndigbo are not your average Joe in Nigeria in EVERY FIELD.
It is an insult to refer me to "Sokoto" to learn politics, because Nigeria has been reduced to a hell-hole by people from that side.
So, no I would rather choose "Igbo made" way of addressing issues.
It is that "Igbo made way" that made current South East the most politically stable and the fastest growing region in terms of socioeconomic development.
We got there by being VERY REALISTIC about ourselves.

Are you from Ozubulu?
Or Umunze?
Or their neighbor?

If not, then you really aren't qualified to comment on this.
Ihiala sef is questionable because they have the Okijas (a very diehard Anambra people).
You cannot have these people as currently proposed. That is why I suggested adding Nnewi North and Idemili and changing the name of the state. For POLITICAL REALITY AND STABILITY.
Though I doubt that current Anambra state would ever release Nnewi to anybody any time soon, but if the deal is right, maybe...
But as far as I know today, I am yet to see any town or LGA that wants to be carved out of Anambra state.
And it is not for one reason: It is for a collective or composite of reasons.
What matters is that we retain the political stability which the South East region enjoys.
That is why I believe that if Anioma qualifies to join South East (note the term "qualifies" because they need some serious vetting first) then it should be a better option for South east.

The 12 local government areas in Orlu zone qualify for State status. If those in Abambra South have recently changed their minds over joining Orlu state, let them remain in Anambra State. Abi na by force?
Luckily, Orlu state proposal which houses the largest reserve of natural gas in Nigeria, is the most viable option among all the proposals for a 6th state in the SE zone. In the midst of the Nazist-like arguments of people like you; foolish argument like no part of Anambra State will join parts of Imo for a new state, have you read how one Yoruba man carved out the gas and oil areas of Orlu zone into his new southsouth zone proposal? They are already building a coastal highway to connect this new southsouth to Lagos.
The rabble-rouser lady legislator from Umunze does not wish her people and Ndigbo well. Imo and Anambra States were in one East Central State. What has changed between Igbo in Anambra and Igbo in Imo state?

georgeakins:
Ibos should ask for their country.
No need for all the your grammar .

I am tired of sharing the same country with the ibos

Will you agree? Why is Nnamdi Kalu still held captive if not that his Biafra agitation if actualized, will remove proceeds from crude oil from your purse?

Putindbutt:
You be buzo, a retard. In Anioma, ibos are majority but in the whole of delta state, ibos are minority, na only delta north una dey and Urobo/isoko are the majority in delta north, followed by ibos and other minority tribes. that anioma state una no go get am because you cannot take the minority tribes in anioma and put them into southeast. take your orlu state and leave delta state alone.

Bolded.
In Anioma, Igbos are in majority, you wrote above.

Why then do they want Anioma State for the SE when they know that the non Igbos in Anioma will not agree to be in the SE zone where those non Igbos will become extra minority?

lauzun:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/two-women-beat-man-death-33000818

Hmm. Which kain kai kai story be this?

Was the man also drunk to stupor that two women killed him with their bare hands- no weapons - he was unable to run away from the women who were also drunk?

XY23:
You and the 11 folks that liked/shared this post have let hatred dull your intellect, if you had any. Check Atiku's response to this issue, and you'll find that he re-posted the VIDEO. Let that sink in for a while. A former VP and serial presidential aspirant with huge followership and social network, disseminating the ' video of the Fall', to a wider audience. Now, here's PO who simply didn't dishonour your BAT by reposting the video, yet being slandered. Borrow data and compare both responses on X before replying me. After that, if you still think AA responded better, then you're simply irredeemable. It is the likes of you that drink poison because it's served with your tribal glass, the very reason Nigeria is in a mess today.

PS. Infact AA's response presents as sarcasm by posting the video. Hatred has made you mentally slow.

Did they even understand the sacarsm of AA who posted the video of Tinubu's fall? All they are after is Obi is Igbo man.

viccy12:
Have you wondered why it's only elements from Imo want to split Anambra state into halves to achieve their pipe dream. No Anambra man will allow such nonsense

East Central State was split, it was okay for you.
Old Anambra State was split, it was okay for you.
Now, it's not okay for parts of Anambra south which mostly share common ancestry with Orlu zone to be rejoined to where most of the communities share a lot in common? Do you know that a lot of church parishes in Anambra south are in Orlu Dioceses?

Are you sure you are an Igbo from the SE zone? Anioma State in for the SE diminishes political representation for Nd'Igbo. Develop more sense! Adequate political representation for Nd'Igbo is majorly behind the demand by knowledgeable Igbos for a 6th state in the SE zone. Or are you preparing to launch a war to get Biafra for your asking for all Igbos to be in one SE zone? This is what a lot of you with that mindset drive for.