₦airaland Forum

[size=14pt]Control of a puppet regime has already started.
Let us see how Buhari can keep ANY of his promises when old corrupt politicians as Obasanjo are already positioning their own hidden agenda. [/size]

Unemadu:
Enugu amaka!!

I wonder if property owners pay taxes in Enugu. Also more formal retail trade should be encouraged to generate more sales tax.

We have discussed this issue in this thread.There has to be property taxes in Enugu and indeed Nigeria to help the state government meet her financial obligation.

Property taxes should not be made exorbitant that it will be better to bribe the state officials than pay the taxes. A bungalow can pay N1000 naira per year and a Duplex perhaps N2,000 naira per year. A commercial two storey about N5,000 per year. Also the property taxes should be paid into select banks and a photocopy of the receipt pasted where it is visible to state tax agents going round to pick out tax evaders. Enugu can generate billions of naira every year just on property taxes if they make it affordable for people to pay easily.

Kini??

Obasanjo already controlling his puppet.

[size=18pt]Igbos need to learn Tribalism from Yoruba.[/size]
[size=13pt]I completely agree with that.

Average Igbo man is concerned how to make Nigeria great, while an average Yoruba man is unconcerned about the fate of Nigeria, but focussed on how Yoruba can benefit from the chaos of a dysfunctional state.[/size]

Okay Sir,

But if your aim was truly just to defeat Ojukwu, why did you bomb civilian centers like churches and markets? Why did you starve the civilians in the zone, knowing that the army would eat first before civilians?

Oga Gowon, all your actions to kill the Igbo population hardened the peoples support for Ojukwu to resist by every means necessary, thus prolonged that war and is responsible for some of the anger still persisting in Nigeria. To be fair, it was the target of key players in your administration to kill Igbos NOT OJUKWU. You may personally not like that mission, but you were too weak to stop Awolowo and the other hawks.

Abeg, who does Baba mean by "Nigerians" ??
Does "Nigerians" apply to only Fulanis or perhaps a little yoruba added? Or does "Nigerians" refer to every Nigerian regardless of tribe and religion?

neither should we forget these kids.

centje:
I really don't know why you rate PH so high. Ph was once a garden city but not anymore. Recently, I compared Ph and Enugu in terms of size, the difference is marginal in favour of Ph. And Ph doesn't have the pattern of house zoning you find in Enugu. In Ph what you see are disordered mixture of bungalow, duplex, storey building...even plenty of your so called igbotic building.
You can't find this type of layout in Ph, developed by individuals...the houses are almost at the same level.

https://artsymoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-06-11.47.24-1.jpg
Enugu

The only place you can find such pattern in PH are in very few government layout, developed by government. Am quite certain you don't know Enugu very well, you can't erect such storey houses in places like trans Ekulu, or erect duplex in Achara layout, that's the zoning pattern in Enugu, you can't find in Ph. Ph is Economical more advanced than Enugu, more congested and more populated, but these factors coupled with poor planning made Ph chaotic and it eventually lost its garden city theme.


Now to your usually 'igbotic building' and 'solid office block looking houses' as you put it ...I also advocate for such houses you desire, but there are factors that that bring about such houses or make developers go for lower storey houses with corrugated roofing sheets...on several occasions I discussed with my cousin, an architect, he will always tell me that such style of roofing you usually describe is very costly to maintain. Secondly, considering scarcity of water in most part of the east especially Enugu, the need to collect rain water requires such roof. Thirdly, taking the storey building to 16-20 levels will require elevators, to be powered and maintained by how many residents, how may people can afford it. I think developers will begin to make such investment for middle class when we have stable power, otherwise such buildings in nigeria are mainly for bussiness and government purposes. Fourthly, most of those buildings you see in Lagos, and Abuja are government houses or private companies, don't tell me you want to similar architectural design of the new Enugu secretariat or that of Golden Royale replicated in every part of Enugu Fiftly, have you taken a look at other cities, big Countries like France has cities with similar pattern...

https://joinusinfrance.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Marseille-France-1.jpg
Marseille, France

london has similar building pattern...

https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9231345.ece/alternates/w620/web-suburbs-alamy.jpg
North London

You probably don't understand Urban planning, and how cities evolve. Those houses you're seeing will either be redesigned or destroyed to build a more contemporary architecture as the city evovle...below is beginning part of Ogui Road Enugu, this area was once lined by archaic low houses with brown roofings, some can still be found there. But at a rapid rate, these houses are being replaced by more modern houses, in future it's probably skyscrapers that will replace these ones being built now...

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2388147_20150507160415_jpege3e8f72339db735e5b19a4f1917572b9

Here's a new house replacing those low houses, flanking the house under construction are those old houses,...that's the evolution...and it's a gradual process. As the economy improves so will our architecture and other aspects of our cities.

[img]http://4.bp..com/-3UtU4OQ_bqw/VUuUcnDadVI/AAAAAAAACWU/dMJdt3ctnqM/s640/20150507_160133.jpg[/img]

My brother, I always enjoy your highly cerebral write ups.
Please don't mind abagworo or abagoro whatever he calls himself.

The so called city in the picture they were bragging about was Cairo, Egypt. Egypt and Lebanon are the only two Arab countries that build many storey building resembling what Abagoro calls "igbotic" buildings. These countries have high populations concentrated only in Cairo and Beirut.

In Nigeria, we want the American pattern of uniform development where you must not go to only Washington DC or New York to see live-able cities. There are great cities in every state in USA. In the same vein we'd like to have great cities in every state of Nigeria. Not just only Lagos and Abuja.

Shebi i saw an airforce pilot making movie about BH fleeing in sambisa forest instead of attacking the terrorists?

Now they have allowed BH to flee with their weapons intact and re-organized themselves to start their attacks again.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMXqkXrMVRQ

Northern Nigeria surely has the most beautiful cities in Nigeria. But that is well expected since they have been ruling Nigeria for the longest period and concentrated Federal projects in the north and apart from the few oil producing states and Lagos, northern states on the average have bigger federal allocations than southern or middle belt states.

cramjones:
Let us all give a round of applause to Mr. Ben Murray-Bruce, Senator-Elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria an founding Chairman of the Silverbird Group. I have read his tweets and watched his speech. I must say it was heart warming to begin to see Nigerian public figures speak out on the real issues plaguing the country. That being said, and while we agree and applaud Mr Murray-Bruce, we must be very weary, lest we take this messenger as an epitome of the message he preaches. Who is Mr. Bruce? Well, I have known Mr. Bruce for over 20 years now. I am not close to him, but I know him loosely.

This man managed NTA for 8 years. NTA was basically ran to the ground during this time. Mr. Murray was never wealthy before NTA. He lived in a modest house in Lagos. We all know that it was after he left NTA that he became rich despite his salary as DG being N200,000 per month on average while he ran the institution. He then went to establish the Silverbird group which has been fairly successful. I am not against being rich and successful. However, I am against those who steal public money and invest it in the businesses to make it look like they are wealthy from the business, and then turn around and say Nigerians public officials are corrupt. When your son is in the safety of LA playing around with all sorts of Los Angeles women. That is certainly not acceptable!

He received part payment for a 33billion naira contract from Akwa Ibom without executing the job, not even a land excavation!

Silverbird group received nothing less than $20 million from GEJ during the campaign. Our tax money went to this man called Murray-Bruce.

Well congrats to him on his election. But Mr. Bruce we are not buying it. Only gullible Nigerians will buy it.

In the meantime, enjoy views of his son "playing" in his $5million mansion in Los Angeles!

-CramJones

Even if Ben Bruce has $23 billion dollars like Dangote, he was never a government official. So he can spend his money they way he likes. It is when thieves like Obasanjo, Alameseigha, Ibori etc live like kings simply because they were former public servants that you already know they stole your money

Obascoetubi:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/182906-breaking-boko-haram-launches-fresh-attack-on-maiduguri.html

Shebi i saw an airforce pilot making movie about BH fleeing in sambisa forest instead of attacking the terrorists?

Now they have allowed BH to flee with their weapons intact and re-organized themselves to start their attacks again. Nigeria armed forces lack discipline and commitment to eradicating terrorism.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMXqkXrMVRQ

shachris01:
See photos of Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria's president elect and Anne Welsh, the former CEO of Olusegun Obasanjo foundation who was recently accused of money laundering.

http://.com/discussion/2180/photos-buhari-pictured-with-obasanjo-s-alleged-money-launderer-anne-welsh/p1

Well, GMB is already in Obasanjo's pocket. He just can't do a thing about that.
That's just how things are gonna be.

investnow2013:
More Investments Coming To Anambra-State As Industrist Mr. Ezeemo Plans His Farm Extention in Umuchu-Aguata Lga of Anambra-State>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>The President-Elect Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to focus more on agriculture to boost food production and diversified the oil to create more jobs for the teeming youths in the country.

The Publisher of Orient Dailies newspaper and a politician Chief Godwin Ezeemo made the call yesterday when he visited the management of Sam Egwu’s farm at Ezamgbo in Ohaukwu LGA of Ebonyi State.

According to him, over dependence on the oil encourages mono economy and this place economy in jeopardy and needs to be redressed by the incoming administration.

He said he was at farm to acquint himself with the type of farm equipment in the place to enable him expand and improve on the scope of his farm.

“I want to embark on a full scale agriculture now that the world is facing serious recession due to the oil glut that id why I decided to visit Sam Egwu’s farm to widen my experiences.

“A first hand information of the workings and management of the farm would go along way in assisting me to go into big time agriculture in order to contribute to the war against hunger.

“I operate a farm in my country home Umuchu Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State and currently farms crops such as lecttus , corn ,okoro, mazie. Various vegetables, poultry, piggery among others.

‘You know that nobody has a monopoly of knowledge or ideas , farming is one of my hobbies and I wish to go into very big farming enough to create good jobs for my people that is to say am looking at having a very big mechanized farming.So I decided to make every necessary feasibility studies to add to the existing system of operation in our farm settlement.

“I therefore enjoin Nigerians especially politicians to go into agriculture to create job opportunities for our teeming unemployed youths and at the same time help boost the nation’s economy,”he said.

Ezeemo regretted that lots of farm produce were lying waste and not well handled or utilised and therefore needed to be properly channeled to address the issue of farm waste and underuse of our agricultural produce.

Ezeemo is the publisher of Anambra base newspaper Orient Dailies ,state leader of PPA and its governorship candidates in the Nov.16,2013 governorship election in Anambra.

[size=14pt]I pray many, many Igbo business men focus on commercial farming and allied agro-based factories . Including poultry,fish and animal husbandry than importation and petty trading.

The niche in the agro business isn't just to farm and produce raw corn or chicken to sell in the local market. It is more importantly about setting up agro-industries to PACKAGE the foods and go up the value chain to create wealth. Therefore, corn farms will also set up a small corn flakes making factory or process their corn into corn powder and bagged for local markets or export. While the poultry farms not only produce crates of eggs, which is refrigerated to make them last longer to be supplied to sores and markets around Nigeria. But also produce frozen chicken which is sealed in portable bags of chicken parts, and can be sold in meat markets or super markets.

In this way, these 'farms" will gainfully employ people not just as laborers to plant and harvest on the farm, but also semi and skilled workers in their agro-industries which the farms support.A good example is the commercial farms run by white farmers in Kwara which massively produce cassava and has agro-factories which converts these to starch for pharmaceutical use and export. Or their dairy farms which have special milk producing cows in which the milk produced in converted to yogurt in the same farm and then the yogurt is packaged in small cups, frozen and sent to supermarkets around Nigeria. Without planning how to build these agro-based factories to process your produce and add value to the farm products, farming will be an unattractive, labor intensive, unprofitable venture to many business men. [/size]

FKO81:
More from government house

All this Ford cars i am seeing in government house, while INNOSON is there, ....dia ris god oo!

[size=18pt]How can he?
Birds of the same feather...[/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]

[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]

[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]

ketekete:
https://ketekete.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Buhari-farm-vs.-Obasanjo-Farm-1024x253.png...

How many of you thinks Buhari's Gov will be far more better than OBJ's own. Help me caption this photo I beg.

Learn More: http://ketekete.com/buharis-modest-farmhouses-vs-obasanjo-farm/

Obasanjo's farm was like Buhari's farm in 1999 before OBJ became President of Nigeria.

Save this thread and come back in 4 years and see how "Presidential money" would have transformed Buhari's farm beyond recognition.

Talk about fighting corruption? OBJ is on record as the only president serious about fighting corruption. Having set up the toothless EFCC and ICPC

Tribalism removed Jonathan. GEJ himself under-estimated the role of tribalism in Nigerian politics and believing he could just get northern votes by concentrating the bulk of his projects and goodies there and neglecting his stronghold regions.

PDP better learn how to choose their next aspirants to ensure they benefit from the tribalism equation.

ketekete:
https://ketekete.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Buhari-farm-vs.-Obasanjo-Farm-1024x253.png

How many of you thinks Buhari's Gov will be far more better than OBJ's own. Help me caption this photo I beg.

Learn More: http://ketekete.com/buharis-modest-farmhouses-vs-obasanjo-farm/

Obasanjo's farm was like Buhari's farm in 1999 before OBJ became President of Nigeria.

Save this thread and come back in 4 years and see how "Presidential money" would have transformed Buhari's farm beyond recognition.

Talk about fighting corruption? OBJ is on record as the only president serious about fighting corruption. Having set up the toothless EFCC and ICPC

[size=15pt]The so called "Chibok Girls" is a SCAM![/size]

[size=13pt]It was hatched by the same fellas that started BH, but became concerned Nigeria alone cannot handle the monster they created. Thus "Chibok Girls" phony kidnap was hatched to hoodwink the world attention on Boko haram.[/size]

Angelou:
"When it goes bad, they are igbos but when it turns good they are Nigerians. See the headlines..... FOUR IGBOS EXECUTED IN INDONESIA, EIGHT IGBOS WAITING EXECUTION IN THAILAND, TWO IGBOS SCAMMED A BRITISH WOMAN OF $23,500, IGBOS VOTE JONATHAN BECAUSE OF GREED, but when it turns good see the headlines, FOUR NIGERIANS WINS IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT, A NIGERIAN HAS BEEN CONFIRM HARVARD PROFESSOR,A NIGERIAN HAS BEEN APPOINTMENT AS THE HEAD OF MICROSOFT INC. Madness of a failed state, that is what I call it."
Qris Ebeatu
source: m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=930146883702948&id=139195132798131&refid=17

[size=15pt]I don't think any Igbo person cares about what a Yoruba or Hausa will think of them.

Personally, I am more concerned about the views of a Ghanaian or Liberian about me because it is born out of facts than the jaundiced tribal view of the so called "fellow Nigerians".[/size]

tablu:
I recently listened to a documentary by a white supremacy movement, and a movie 'Dear white people'and this clips defined Racism to contain two major elements which are Prejudice and Power.White caucasians have the power and can as well be prejudice enough to be racist, while blacks can only be prejudice because they dont have the power.I tend to streamline my train of thought in this direction to a reasonble extent.What about you? What do you think?can a black man be racist? Matured comments only please.

Negroes are the MOST racist!
White people are at least cordial and avoid you when they're uncomfortable. Negroes approach you then attack you for being different!

ibkgab001:
Lollll baba and ----------

For a minute i thought these were pics of OBJ's brothers lolzzz!

Yoruba mo wipe Nigeria ni iro. Nitorina, ko ba si nilo lati sise fun awọn ilọsiwaju ti nkankan iro.

[size=18pt]Mbaka why Part II[/size]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGwc4Kj4oM