₦airaland Forum

gregg2:
All haters can simply go and die. Whom God has blessed no man curse

Okay, Let us wait for the next yoruba man that will start their online petition for forbes to renounce their statement.
Yeye dey smell.

Zuma and Zulu king should stay away from Nigeria or we shall stone them if they come here.

This is the reason why serious nations have a MIX of power generating sources.

If we had enough power from coal and other sources, we wouldn't be in such sorry situation. But OBJ wanted only gas because building coal plants will mean building power plants in Enugu and Benue, which were not preferred destinations. This is what tribal consideration does to a nation.
Even Zambia with very little coal and not as clean as Nigeria's coal, have completed their 3rd coal power station.

FreeGlobe:
Although I'm concerned about their next source of livelihood if okada is banned but hey should know the banning of okada is unavoidable in this day and age. I hope the government will find a way to create an alternative for these people, like giving them priority considerations in the mass transit vehicles. I'm all for banning of okada in Awka and onitsha especially

Well, in that mindset, we can very well allow rickshaws on our streets since it will create livelihood for some or better still allow importation of substandard drugs or kidnapping since removing them will affect the livelihood of some and make them unemployed. The point i am making is that government makes laws for the good of the overwhelming majority of the citizens . Using motorcycles as a form of mass transit is archaic and a pointer to the governments complete lack of care for her citizens. Suffice to say that ANAMBRA is the ONLY SE and SS state still using okada for mass transit! Even many northern states and SW states have improved their system to at least keke napep!

If you have visited the orthopedic ward of Genral Hospital or Borromeo, you will see thousands of youths maimed for life due to the careless use of Okada. Not to mention the crime it promotes by giving criminals a quick getaway.
Now Okada riders should be given a grace period to acquire keke napep. Using tricycles aka "keke napep" will allow an average okada man to carry 4 passengers where an okada carries one. Not just that the passengers pay 50% of what Okada charges (i.e N50 naira where okada charges N100 naira), the Keke napep man gains N200 naira for the same distance and same fuel where an okada man would have had just N100 naira. So it is a win-win for all.

[size=14pt]Just wait for the federal debts in the next 4 years.
Nigeria under APC will owe $100, Billion dollars to IMF/ Paris club which will take us back to the 1990s situation where our entire budget is just enough to service the debts and not even payback a dime.

APC has no intention of developing Nigerian economy and generating more income or investment. They are ONLY focused on how to share and squander what is available.Even borrowing money just to share it amongst themselves as political booty.[/size]

[quote author= post=34089359]According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Sokoto is the poorest state in Nigeria with an 81.2% poverty rate.

Furthermore, a 2012 information posted on the bureau’s website listed the top 10 poorest states in the country:


10. Zamfara – 70.8%

Formed from the Old Sokoto state in 1996 and located in northwestern Nigeria, Zamfara is governed by Abdul'aziz Abubakar Yari, a member of the All Nigeria Peoples Party.

Agriculture is the most important occupation of the people of the state, hence its slogan "farming is our pride"

Recently the governor was blasted for the “alarming scope of economic dangers and its potential threat to the economic development of the state,” by the Zamfara Budget Working Group.

9. Kebbi – 72%

Kebbi State is a north-western Nigeria state formed from part of Sokoto State in 1991. It is bordered by Sokoto State,Niger State,Dosso Regionin the Republic of Niger and the nation of Benin.

There isn’t much to be written about the state’s economy but things are looking up. The recently concluded Sir Ahmadu Bello International Airport (SABIA), stands out as one of Nigeria's most sophisticated airports and is expected to boost the state’s economy.

8. Bauchi – 73%

Bauchi is a Northern Nigerian state formed in 1976 when the former North-Eastern Stat ewas broken up.

In Hausa the word Bauchi meansthe land of freedom and tourism. However recent Boko Haram adventures in the area, though few, have driven tourists away from the area.

Last year Gov. Isa Juguda told Arewa that economies of Northern states is finished due to the Boko Haram insurgency.

7. Ebonyi – 73.6%

Created by Gen. Sanni Abacha in 1996, Ebonyi is the only south eastern state among the top 9 poorest country. It is governed by Martin Elechi who currently claims his enemies have set aside N3bn for his impeachment.

The state is besieged by corrupt office holders and the EFCC recently froze accounts of the state’s local governments.

6. Plateau - 74.1%

Plateau State is the twelfth largest state of Nigeria, and is roughly located in the center of the country. Governored by Jonah Jang of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Plateau has naturally col climate and a wide range of tourist attractions and boasts of a bubbling state capital, Jos.

The state is haunted by some terrorist attacks and tribal clashes from time to time, especially clashes between Fulani herdsmen and its inhabitants.

5. Jigawa – 74.1%

Jigawa, carved out of the old Kano state is located in North central Nigeria and is under the leadership of Alhaji Sule lamido.

Kano State and Katsina State border Jigawa to the west, Bauchi State to the east and Yobe State to the northeast. To the north, Jigawa shares an international border with Zinder Region in The Republic of Niger, which is a unique opportunity for cross-border trading activities. Government readily took advantage of this by initiating and establishing a Free-Trade Zone at the Border town of Maigatari of country of Niger.

4. Gombe – 74.2%

Gombe is another North eastern state which shares common borders with the states of Borno, Yobe, Taraba, Adamawa and Bauchi. It suffers sporadic attacks from terrorists and is governed by rIbrahim Hassan Dankwambo of the Peoples’ Democratic Party.

3. Adamawa – 74.2%

Formed in 1991 from the extinct Gongola state, Adamawa has of late been terrorized by the islamist Boko Haram terrorist group, disrupting it’s economic development and growth.

However Yola, the state capital under its current governor Bala Ngillari is fast being transformed with new roads, street lights, traffic lights and other prerequisites of a modern city being built. However things are far from being rosy as other parts of the state remain underdeveloped.

2. Katsina – 74.5%

Katsina is a state in North central Nigeria and is governed by Ibrahim Shettima of the Peoples’ Democratic Party.

The state has the highest poverty prevalence amongst all states in the region.

Under the economic sector there is a paltry capital allocation of only N276 million (0.2%) to manufacturing, a paltry N214,019,000 (0.1%) capital provision for Women Empowerment under the Ministry of Women Affairs and only N100 million (0.08%) under the Ministry of Youth and Sports for the states Youth Empowerment Program (Youth Action Plan).

1. Sokoto – 81.2%

Sokoto is located in the extreme Northwest of Nigeria. It has unfriendly climate conditions with temperature going as high as 45C on a normal day.

Most part of the state are rural areas and over eighty percent (80%) of the inhabitants of Sokoto practice one form of agriculture or another.

http://naijapip.com/discussion/8833/list-of-10-poorest-states-in-nigeria#latest

http://www.naij.com/401470-see-the-10-poorest-states-in-nigeria.html

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GOVERNORS are responsible for poverty by looting their states or wasting the money on frivolity such as building endless flyovers instead of investing in poverty alleviation measures as agriculture or small scale businesses. States such as Katsina or Jigawa that corner the top 15 lion share of allocations in Nigeria have no business being amongst the 10 poorest states.

PLEASE, SHOW US WHERE THESE STATES STAND IN FEDERAL ALLOCATION.
That clearly shows GOVERNORS are responsible for poverty in their states.[/size]

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@ OP,
Stop making the false reference classifying everyone as "Nigerians"
Be specific, it's Yoruba men running wild in their tribal nature to try and rubbish the woman's sterling achievements to no avail.

I have said it before that just as Obafemi Awolowo introduced tribalism into Nigerian politics for his own political ends and today it is a cancer in Nigeria, yoruba people should be mindful of the tactics they introduce. Other peoples of Nigeria will simply adopt the strategy in due course.

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BuddahMonk:
Welcome bros.
Investors don't need much luring, what we need is having visionary leaders and our people leading first.
Sometimes I ask whether Igbos hate their home, you see igbos investing in places without social and economic amenities but when you remind them of the need to take their investments home they will be telling you incompetent our leaders are.

Last year I went to one medical diagnostic center at Oshodi called Mecure, I love what I saw there, the professionalism and the corporate outlook of the company. Igbos have such firms but they are located outside Igboland and the worst part is that they don't as a matter of charity open a branch in their state, only Nnewi people can never do that in Igboland.

What we need is opening up our economic frontiers.
There is no ISP firm in East except the rickety services being rendered by mobile service providers. East used to be sweet when Rainbownet was working, I shed tears with the demise of that coy.

In Lagos there is Swift, Spectranet,Smile,MainOne,

All these ISP firms janpacked in Lagos, Smile is owned by an Igboman, why is he went to take the coy down East and make his money instead of being in Lagos where Swift is dominating the already saturated market.

Fidelity, Diamond, Zenith, UBA, Keystone, are all Igbo banks with useless offices in East while building skyscrapers in Lagos, Unity Bank has head office in Lagos but skyscraper is in Kano.

The biggest thing Arthur Eze did in Anambra was making his hometown LG headquarters though his family built Toronto but he ran down Premier Brewery down.

Igbos need to think East because the heart of Nigerians are no longer happy with their success, nobody believes they will rise again after the war which they did and attracted jealousy and envy.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket is a very good and intelligent economic decision.

I am glad there are still strategic thinking Igbos like you alive in my generation. I hope you know it is a gift, especially at the bolded last lines. Many of our people know how to work very hard and succeed in life, but lack strategic reasoning like you to keep their wealth in a safe environment once it's made. As much as i protest Dangote's dearth of investment in the SE, I know he is just being a smart/strategic northerner in thinking.
It used to hurt me deeply when someone is killed or his property burnt in Nigeria simply because he is Igbo. But, i have learnt that the only way Igbo reason strategically is when the awful event actually happen to them. To tell them about what may happen when it has not happened is day dreaming to them.

Having said that, we must agitate that the SE capitals create industrial layouts with good road net works and easily acquired land for these people to build branches. Many SE governors simply DON"T CARE or have no vision in helping our people invest at home.it is very difficult to obtain land or C of O in many SE capitals while these peoples' villages may not have as much infrastructure as Nnewi to allow them create branches at home.

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Unless President Mohammed Buhari implements the agreements of Nigerians at the CONFAB, there will be crisis in Nigeria.

Buhari has said he will dump the CONFAB agreements into the dustbin.

As for me and my own corner of Nigeria, CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel until the agreement is implemented.[/size]

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Unless President Mohammed Buhari implements the agreements of Nigerians at the CONFAB, there will be crisis in Nigeria.

Buhari has said he will dump the CONFAB agreements into the dustbin.

As for me and my own corner of Nigeria, CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel until the agreement is implemented.[/size]

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Unless President Mohammed Buhari implements the agreements of Nigerians at the CONFAB, there will be crisis in Nigeria.

Buhari has said he will dump the CONFAB agreements into the dustbin.

As for me and my own corner of Nigeria, CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel until the agreement is implemented.[/size]

[size=17pt]

Unless President Mohammed Buhari implements the agreements of Nigerians at the CONFAB, there will be crisis in Nigeria.

Buhari has said he will dump the CONFAB agreements into the dustbin.

As for me and my own corner of Nigeria, CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel until the agreement is implemented.[/size]

[size=17pt]

Unless President Mohammed Buhari implements the agreements of Nigerians at the CONFAB, there will be crisis in Nigeria.

Buhari has said he will dump the CONFAB agreements into the dustbin.

As for me and my own corner of Nigeria, CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel until the agreement is implemented.[/size]

[size=17pt]

Unless President Mohammed Buhari implements the agreements of Nigerians at the CONFAB, there will be crisis in Nigeria.

Buhari has said he will dump the CONFAB agreements into the dustbin.

As for me and my own corner of Nigeria, CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel until the agreement is implemented.[/size]

[size=17pt]

Unless President Mohammed Buhari implements the agreements of Nigerians at the CONFAB, there will be crisis in Nigeria.

Buhari has said he will dump the CONFAB agreements into the dustbin.

As for me and my own corner of Nigeria, CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel until the agreement is implemented.[/size]

starlight101:
Hmmmm smell something fishy

Ethnic cleansing and ethnic domination of Nigerian Army officers corp has started before our eyes.

who cares.....

Zonacom:
No investment in the health sector is ENOUGH. Don't easily get carried away by the structures you see from outside. Most of the above health centres are ill equipped. The state university teaching hospital is still far from standard, though i must admit it's getting better gradually.
I hope more people will invest in the health sector in the state to prevent people from seeking medical services outside the state. Some time ago, i saw a beautiful hospital structure around the secreteriat area in Awka. I hope to see more of such.
If you visit places like Jos, you will realise Anambra don't have much health facilities like you think.

You took it from my mouth!

No amount of health facilities is enough. Especially when they have not reached the minimum level of specialization in manpower and equipment acceptable worldwide. The day you will realize this fact is the day you or your loved ones will come down with a serious ailment such as cancer or stroke etc. Then you will be shocked that none of the hospital you have showed is equipped to save their lives or your life.We can only begin to rest in investing into health when all the surgeries or operations or treatments that can be done in India or South Africa can be done in at least 2 hospitals in Anambra. Note that i said "India or SA" not even UK or USA.

mzilakazi:
Nigeria is trying to make a damage control about the
restaurant selling a human flesh. Surely, the authorities
received the order from above to deny flatly the
incident ever occurred, so as to remove it from
international platform that may result into a serious
damage in the integrity of Nigeria's fast food outlets
especially to prospective international patrons. The
saga had to be manipulated and pushed under the
carpet, so that it does not ruin the business of other
competitors who are involved in the same business of
selling fast food. I understand that the move was to
save the face of those who are honest in the business,
those who sell the real beef, pork and mutton to the
public. Their image would have been unfairly
compromised if the authorities would have let the story
confirmed. However, I hope the authorities will now
have to deal with this scandal clandestinely. However,
I don't think I would ever eat any meat if I by mistake
find myself in Nigeria.

Actually, there was NO restaurant selling human meat in Nigeria.
About 2 years ago, a restaurant owner was accused of witchcraft and burying a corpse in his compound. That restaurant was pulled down.
Sahara-lie-porters in their quest to find silly things to write, reincarnated that story with a different twist. Unfortunately,their quest to write crap about a section of Nigeria will now taint the restaurant business in the entire country.

If i were you, i would NEVER visit Nigeria because your flesh may end up in a pot of soup in a restaurant in Lagos.

OdenigboAroli:
Our people need to be sensitized on the importance of paying their tax as when do. I was having a conversation with a Nigerian who came visiting and he complained we pay too much tax and I said you wonder why this land is so developed. These people pay their taxes and in return the funds are used prudently to develop and maintain the system. Anambrarians pay your taxes and let the government do their job.


The Head, Human Resources and Administration, Anambra Property and Land Use Charge, Mrs Chinenye Okafor, on Wednesday said Anambra had 80, 000 tax defaulters.

Speaking in Awka, she said this class of people owed the state government over N2.5bn, adding that about 550 of such cases were pending in courts.

Okafor added that over 4,000 summons had been prepared by the agency against tax defaulters but were yet to be filed in court.

To this end, the state government had sealed-off seven buildings in Awka, including a school and a hotel over the refusal of the owners to pay property rate.

The Anambra Property and Land Use Charge said it carried out the sealing off of the buildings following judgments it obtained from an Awka Magistrate court against the tax evaders.

The affected buildings are Choice Hotel Ltd., Netherland International School, Chris Moore Lodge and residential buildings belonging to Mr Emeka Akaigwe, Mrs Peace Okeke and Mr Joachim Acho all in Awka.

Speaking after the exercise, Okafor said the affected buildings owed the state government a total of N 1.6m.

“In ensuring that we boost the Internally Generated Revenue of the state, there is the need for property and land owners to pay their rates,” Okafor said.

She maintained that the organisation in 2014 carried out such enforcement in Awka and Onitsha in about 45 buildings, noting that 20 more judgments would soon be executed in the state.

‘We are looking forward to enforcing judgments by next week in 14 communities in Obosi urban and places like Akpaka, Omoba phases I and II, GRA, Okpoko, Iyiowa, Nkwelle and 3-3, near Onitsha.

‘We are advising property owners in those areas as well as in Awka, Ogidi and Nnewi to go and pay their property rates before next week or face the wrath of the law,” he said.

This is a good development as long as the taxes demanded are fair and affordable.If you ask someone to pay N500,000 naira as tax, you are clearly being unreasonable unless it is a well known company you are taxing. Our judiciary should be sharpened to expedite action of tax cases so that they can mandate the seizure of assets or even the jailing of tax defaulters.

My fear with our people is the tendency to be extremists in implementing things differently from how it is practiced in sane societies. We would like to go from a situation of zero tax to being the heaviest taxing authority in the world. I think it was Igboson that gave an excellent idea that if the cost of bribing the tax collectors is 3-5 times the taxes demanded, our people will choose to bribe the tax collectors than pay taxes to government. This is a critical art that must be addressed if you want people to develop the habit of willingly paying taxes.

In America, i pay sales taxes on everything i buy in the supermarket, but it is usually small & affordable and never more than 10% of the cost of the item. I also pay income taxes and i get tax returns each year. Since we cannot hope to give our people tax returns,we should temper the taxes demanded to make sure they are humane, reasonable and affordable. If not our people will hate paying taxes and resist it at all costs.

ikoloanambra:
BBC,Dailymail apologize over human meat restaurant story in Anambra !!!


The BBC and the Dailymail have apologised for wrongly publishing a story about a restaurant in Anambra State, Nigeria, where human flesh is served as meat,saying the story was false and inappropriate.

BBC said it had already begun investigations to confirm what led to such publication and will take necessary steps to ensure the mistake does not occur again.

Full text :
BBC




“The story about the Nigerian restaurant which we published here was a mistake and we apologise. It was incorrect and published without the proper BBC checks. We have removed the story and have launched an urgent investigation into how this happened.
The BBC Swahili service’s reputation for accuracy and balance remains of paramount importance to us and we are taking the appropriate steps to insure that mistakes like this do not happen again.”



Clarifications and corrections

By MAILONLINE

An article on 16 May reported that a Nigerian restaurant was shut down for serving human flesh, based on a BBC Swahili report. BBC Swahili has now confirmed that the story was incorrect and the article has now been removed from our website.

They allowed themselves to buy into Sahara lie porters lies against the SE and Ndigbo.

When Sahara-lie porters first reported that story, i laughed and ignored it because I knew it was just another propaganda by faceless yoruba people against Igbo people. Unfortunately, many respected news media fell for the lies!

See how they have embarrassed themselves for wholeheartedly swallowing yoruba lies on the internet.

I thought they said Shina Rambo was from Ghana?
Look at his real name, [size=18pt]Shina Rambo now Mathew Oluwanifemi[/size].
He is Yoruba and not from Ghana as claimed!

North has now become German world power!

Yoruba people should stop this incitement. They will regret it!

biafrandream:
The houses in Trans-Ekulu are pre-colonial? British people have been using bricks for more than 500 years and I am not sure erosion has sacked them. The problem with us is that we have little or no regard for our environment. We excavate soil and abandon the place to the vagaries of the elements. Places that are erosion-prone should not be not mined until a proper environmental impact assessment is carried out.

Mining of sand in our rivers, presents it's own problem as well. I visited one of the rivers sometime ago and I spoke to one of the sand miners, he told me that sand is becoming scarce these days and I asked him what he thought would happen in 50 years time, he told me that honestly the future of our environment is bleak. Please if live in Enugu, visit the bridges there, you will realize that the base of most of the bridges have been washed off due to indiscriminate mining of sand. One day there will be no sand to mine in those rivers.

Whether we are mining clay or sandy soil, every mining activity should be regulated to save our environment, that's the bottom line.

As at the time the brick factory in my village closed, a lot of people who placed orders were waiting for their deliveries but they never received them, so it's not as if people were not buying the bricks and that is why I alleged economic sabotage. One of my uncles had to use blocks to complete his house fencing because the factory shot down.

You deserve an award for the bolded statement.
Sometimes we act as though our environment is someone else's business.

In my childhood days, the elders chastised one for not sweeping the compound in the morning or indiscriminately urinating anywhere or cutting trees, especially palm trees. Today, such simple elements to respect our environment has disappeared. We excavate hill sides and abandon it to the mercy of erosion.

Using red bricks will be a good addition to our architectural design of buildings.

IGBOSON1:
^^^I'm starting to feel that way about Imo State and Rochas as well! About 3 to 4 years ago i was optimistic and had a good feeling about Rochas and Imo.....but now i'm left a bit deflated as nothing substantial is happening over there! Yes, beautifying Owerri and building a couple of roads (the quality of which i have issues with) is all well and good.....but i want to see foreign-direct-Investments (FDIs), substantial increase in IGR, world-class engineering and other positive news stories in Imo like we see with other states like Akwa Ibom, Enugu and Anambra! I know Imo receives much less allocation, but 4 years+ into the Rochas administration we should be seeing at least one world class structure being built! By now Oguta Lake should have attracted at least a 300 million dollar investment which would include a 5-star Hotel Resort, a rail link or Autobahn-type highway to Owerri or Port Harcourt airports, conferencing facilities and a River Port at the Lake!

There's just too much talk and raising of expectations with little end results!

Imo receives the highest allocation in SE - FACT.
While Enugu & Ebonyi get the smallest.

In terms of federal allocation, Imo is to SE what Akwa Ibom is to SS, Kano is to NW and Lagos is to SW.

nationwide1:
Trekker for GMB was hailed, praised and celebrated even when no one knew when and where he started with associated poor coverage unlike the trekker for GEJ who made it known when and where he would commence and updates the public daily on the progress of the mission.


If the the trekker for GEJ was a European or an American, the same people who condemn him would have been extolling him.


If you doubt me, why do our girls dress half naked like a schizophrenic patient because they watch it in a foreign movie? Why do our boys dress with torn jean trousers like a newly mentally deranged fellow to appear modern as a result of imitating the whites?

I see hatred in the recent upsurge of condemnation of the trekker for GEJ; hatred for GEJ. The man who embarks on trekking is adult and certainly sane so he knows what he is doing.


He celebrates GEJ's handling of elections his own way and there's nothing wrong with that. I am sure it does not adversely affect his job or he has a way of covering up for his absence.


Most of the people who condemn him say he would have trekked to protest poor electricity supply and unemployment as if they have ever attempted any protest in their lives; as if unemployment and poor electricity supply in Nigeria began with GEJ regime.



For the sake of those who have never seen anything good in GEJ, I wish Nigeria would experience a political crisis that would affect every part of the country so that some people will learn to appreciate architects of peace.

Don't worry, unless GMB changes, he will find that Nigeria has been made ungovernable for him too.
What goes around, comes around.

This thread is gradually being rubbished by Chino vs. Abagworo style quarrels being re-enacted by copycat actors.

Each time i see the thread had been updated,it is always about some unsavory jabs from same people.
I am begging you guys to save the thread by posting encouraging things. These quarrels about peter obi sef!

[size=17pt]CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel.[/size]

[size=17pt]CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel.[/size]

[size=17pt]CONFAB approved a 50% derivation principle.What needs to happen now is a guerrilla warfare against oil pipelines, installations and personnel.[/size]