₦airaland Forum

cjrane:

I think you are missing the point about what self sufficiency entails.

~ Before the war, Igbos exported fish, Yam, Rice and other agricultural products from the East to other parts of the north.
~Today, the north exports agricultural products INCLUDING FISH, RICE, YAM & POULTRY to Igboland!

It didn't happen overnight. They used the FG to deliberately sabotaged every agricultural river basin projects in Igboland, while the same Federal Government invested heavily in dams to irrigate their arid land in the north.

Today, we must realize that it is too dangerous to continue to allow ourselves to depend on them for our food and livestock.
Ofcourse, expect Hausa/Fulani to sabotage your farms and efforts at raising your own livestock.

Igbochief001:
What's your issue with dominating ...u people are fixed on the word as if it's a bad thing ...

Don't hausa dominate suya industry , yam selling ( tho igbos are trying to break it ) ....there should be free market , dominate if u can ...that's how to develop

There is nothing wrong with dominating as long as it's fair

jimyjames:
We will destroy that afonja express news , that has waged war of propaganda against the Igbo's .










Too bad awolowo committed suicide , I bet he will be turning in his grave now, knowing the city he built is now brown roof slum city, and his free education was a waste

ElectroLyte:
The Justice Department of United States of America (USA) is relying on the extradition treaty between her and Nigeria to get a serving General, Brigadier Charles Nengite, back on her soil to face multiple criminal charges of conspiracy, money laundering and stealing of over $16m (N6,208,000,000.00). He is wanted in the USA on indictment already filed before the district court in the district of Maryland, on charges of conspiracy, money laundering and illegal transfer of over $16m to the USA to his wife's bank account in the USA.

Brigadier General Charles Nengite is renowned for his brilliance, one of the finest of them all, but he is presently cooling his heels in detention.

To those who knew him, he was a very brilliant officer who was the best overall at the Army War College, USA three years ago.

According to reports, he allegedly benefitted billions of naira in contracts while he was serving as a Chief Security Officer to NDDC. Continue reading here==https://thestreetjournal.org/2020/06/america-demands-extradition-of-nigerian-serving-general-who-embezzled-16m-nddc-funds/


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abbakacici:
The Federal government has withdrawn the nomination of the Deputy-Director General of World Trade Organisation (WTO), Amb. Dr. Fred Yonov Agah, a Christian Minority from Benue for the position of Director General of World Trade Organisation to pave way for Alhaji Abdulhameed Mamdouh, a Muslim from the Arab republic of Egypt.

Although Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was nominated to replace Dr. Amb. Fred Agah, the nomination was late as it contravenes rule 16 of the Rules of the Procedure of Executive Ministerial Committee, since nomination for candidates for DG WTO closed on 30th November, 2019. The announcement of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is to give Igbos a fake orgasm of what will not materialise since the appointment contravene the law abinitio.

Similar scenario played out between 1983 and 1985, Peter Onu, a Christian Igbo from Nigeria was Acting Secretary-General of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). At the 1985 Summit in Addis Ababa, statesmen like Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania, lobbied for his election as substantive Secretary-General. However, Nigeria under General Mohammadu Buhari voted Alhaji Ide Oumarou, Niger republic the country that buhari spend most of his weekend with instead of Mr. Peter Onu.

Josnac:
Good day Nairalanders.

To start, something happened some days ago, but before I go into it, let me say something most of us might have heard, like me.

Well, growing up in a typical Nigerian city (Aba) back in the days..I was privileged to listen to discussions or conversations about how someone based abroad (Ala-bekee) used to send in money for a building project in the village/city as the case may be; then after some years or over the duration of some months, would return to meet a practically empty plot of land. in some cases, the so-called land would even be nonexistent.

The type of wahala issues like this cause eh, to those who can bear it, they can simply let go since the culprits in most cases are always blood relatives/siblings/uncle's/in-laws etc.

In my line of work I've equally bumped into a couple of such projects..the most recent one being the reason for this thread.

So, some days ago, I was contacted to evaluate a building project; a supposed one storey building comprising of 4x3-bedroom flats. However, only the front flat had been done up to "their" supposed deck beam level.
The owner of this project is based in Philadelphia, U.S.A and is a woman well over the late 60's.
The project supervisor/executioner is an in-law (I think he married one of the woman's daughters based on the information I received)..

Now, the instruction was simple: "Build this house while I send in the funds, at completion you and your family would take one flat and stay as caretakers of the property".

In all honesty, what I saw at the site left me bewildered and I was just wondering the "version" of wickedness at work in the so-called in-law.. seriously!!

By the building regulation standards, a standard building height ought to be at least 3metres. To achieve this during construction (block work stage), we do what I called "4-5-1-3" for bungalow buildings and "4-5-1-2" for lower levels of multi-storey buildings above the D.P.C.
Breakdown:
Above the DPC.
4: the first 4-courses of block work leading up to the window sill.
5: the next 5courses of block works above the window sill leading up to the lintel.
1: the lintel, always having a depth of 225mm (9inches) which is the depth of all block sizes.
3: the final 3-course of block work above the lintel use to level up in readiness for roof work. In multi-storey buildings, this last 3-courses is replaced by 2-courses with the final block removed and a deck beam introduced in its stead.

For the structure under review, what I met was more like a "3-4-1-3" (as shown in the picture) kind of formation following the same format as explained above. Now me sef wey dey think say I short, I still dey bend to enter one of the rooms because the door opening will always hit my forehead, yes, that's how bad it was!
And this is supposed to be a storey building!!

Next, I equally noticed that the plinth beams (mostly referred to as "chaining" at the DPC level), were without stirrups; yes, more like the 3-12mm used were just laid round the areas they thought necessary with over-site concrete (German floor) laid directly on them. Wow! we too Sabi for this country!!!

Well, luckily for this woman in question, she happened to have returned during one of the ceremonies the Igbere people of Abia State is known for, The Igbotonma ceremony, as she was a participant in the 2017 edition, thereafter she was taken to see her project; rooms were too small, kitchen was too small, etc..the house just looked so unplanned. She was heartbroken thus ordered the job to be stopped.

Please our brothers/sisters in the obodo oyibo (abroad) try as much as possible to engage professionals to do these things for you and while at it, endeavour to come in at least once to see the project by yourself and note any peculiar landmarks or something you can use to identify your site from a photograph, before them go begin send photos of Mr Okonkwo's site go give Mr Clinton. Insist on photo updates every 2-days, if not daily or at worst every 3-days..these stories are painful and they don't just touch the heart, the touch the spinal cord too.

Well, for this particular project, discussions are ongoing and a redesign is on the way..by God's grace a follow up thread will be available to show the updates and progress made when the job starts.

Have you experienced anything like this before??
Talk to us so that others can learn.

Best wishes,
Josnac.

cc: Lawyer

Balenciagaokey:

Abdul Samad (Owner of BUA) is a smart Businessman.
After donating billions of Naira during coronavirus pamdemic to the Government.
The Government paved way for his plea and opened his Dockyard.
The silent billionaire. I am carefully following him because he may succeed Dangote.
The man behaves like Igbos.

kmariko:
Governor Ugwuanyi should turn the Orba specialist hospital into a full fledged School of Health Sciences... Not as an appendage to ESUT...

It's evolution will be a gradual process in order to contain costs. He does not have to pay for all the infrastructural development now..., just get it approved and functional as subsequent administrations will improve on it.

propynich123:

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






Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, the leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force, NDPSF, and one of the arrowheads in the struggle to redress perceived injustice in the Niger Delta has thrown his support on Nnamdi Kanu, saying he is not a Nigerian but a Biafran.

He said an Nkwere man naturally knows that he is an Igbo man and that the name Biafra was given by an Ijaw man, likewise the Biafran anthem. He also said that Lagos will not be what it is now if the Ijaw oil cut off.

#AlhajiMujahidDokuboAsari #NigerDeltaPeoplesSalvationForce #NDPSF #Biafra #NnamdiKanu

Ideke9000:
Gburugburu should try and do a nice finishing especially when it comes to landscaping..

mekaboy:
Just as we expect zoning to take places geographically, we should also expect religious zoning .

So who then qualifies to be the southern christian president in 2023?

Digitron:
ENUGU STATE SECRETARIAT ANNEX NSUKKA......When Completed will house all the State government workers whose offices are scattered around Nsukka town

AfricaUnited:
So who sold ''me''? Funny that you see me as ''the other person''. You are talking to a confirmed Nigerian? Okay

AfricaUnited:
Ghana is already doing that. Nigeria should follow suit. It does not mean they will come and leave here permanently. But having a second passport will be good for them, just in case. Ghana is already showing remorse.

LibertyRep:
....and we're about going for another loan.

Someone or something has to rescue the country.

obowo69:
Nigeria has taken billions of dollars in international loans under this current administration yet there is no tangible project from those loans coming to the south east.

But Igbo sweat and blood including natural resources will be used to to repay those loan.

If you are Igbo, Know this fact;

The loans that Nigeria is taking now with dwindling oil price and steadily reducing oil demand will take at least 3 generations to pay it back. The Federal and state government due to low oil revenues will have no choice but to start heavily taxing businesses including manufacturers and importers. They must do this to fill the oil money gap.

I wonder who will carry most of those burden since they are into business a lot.

With the amount of loans that Nigeria is taking now, If you are Igbo, know that it will take at least 3 generations to pay it off. Both interest and principal.

This means that you the Igbo man or woman, your children, your grandchildren and possibly your great grand children will contribute with their hard work, their blood and sweat to pay back those loans through taxation.


They will be paying back a loan that never benefited their land.

Ndiigbo, we have to seriously reconsider our future in this Nigeria. This is unsustainable.

cc: Pazienza,

proeast:
Enough of this nonsense of showing the same picture of AIIA Enugu when they are still supposedly working on it.

We didn't see anybody showing pictures of Aminu Kano airport until we suddenly saw it waiting for commission!

You fix one bulb at Akanu Ibiam Airport, you rush online to showcase it and thank Buhari yet it is taking forever for the bigot to complete it.

hornyofife:
This is a very big revelation by Comrade Jones ufot member of the Renewed Ibibio National Union...Omo Benjamin Adekunle get mind oooo....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dB4-h_3ffc

AmericanQuarter:
Covid-19 Response: Julius Berger Plc Donates Medical Equipment To Anambra State Government

By Joseph Egbeocha (ABS NEWS)

Julius Berger Plc has donated four hundred pieces of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) to Anambra State Government to help it’s fight against the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Presenting the items, the Project Director for Second Niger Bridge, Mr. Friedrich Josef Wieser, said the gesture was in response to the call by the Anambra State Government for assistance in fighting the spread of the virus in the state, noting that Governor Willie Obiano has shown seriousness in the fight against the pandemic.

Describing the Second Niger Bridge as a priority project for Anambra, Delta and the entire country, Mr. Wieser said the bridge and many other ongoing projects in the State will continue to receive needed attention as normalcy returns in the nation.

Receiving the items, the Secretary to the State Government, Professor Solo Chukwulobelu said the State Government will judiciously utilize all donations in containing the spread of the virus and improving health facilities in the state, thanking the company for quality jobs and interventions being done on State roads.

The State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Vincent Okpala, who described the donation as thoughtful, said the PPEs will be of great help, especially now that community search for COVID-19 is being vigorously pursued.

Public Relations Officer of the company, Mr. Ferdinand Ugbomah, and other staff of Julius Berger were present during the donation.

Unnecessary hyperbole with this post!

"Medical Equipment' refers to:
1. Respirators
2. Surgical equipment
3. Autoclave machines
4. incubators etc.


Instead, I saw: Gloves, and plastic gowns (Personal Protective equipment)

Please re-title the heading and say Julius Berger donates Gloves, Face masks, and personal protective equipment to Anambra!

shadeyinka:
You own children will pay out of this debt without knowing what they are paying for!

Kwantinu!

gariepinus:
Anambra state Government in the person of Governor Willie Obiano should please dualize roads in Anambra state....it will bring city expansion... easy traffic... And make the state to wear a new look...Obiano dualize 3-3 to Aguleri...Oba-Nnewi- Okija Road....Nnewi to Ekwuluobia road..link the two towns with dual lane....we are sick and tired of all this single lanes....let's plan for better development in the nearest future...Anambra is rapidly growing in population... People are building houses illegally near by the roads without given space of 10metre away from the road, do to lack of urban/rural master plan which was supposed to be provided by Anambra state Government.... Is high time our Government begin to dualize our major roads now or else it will be very difficult to do in the nearest future, because a lot of structures occupied space for roads network.... Anambra state is full of beautiful house's...we need roads realization, expansion and more planting of flower trees in order to bring out the beauty's of all this edifice scattered all over the State...or else our lovely state will turn to concrete war zone with single lanes scattered all over the town's.... Nnewi need roads dualization and good Master plan..same thing goes to all the urban towns in Anambra... For instance, look at the way oba is rapidly growing in population without Government intervention to creat dual lane and mater plan for the builders to follow....the individuals began to build wrongly everywhere without urban city plan,let alone providing space for standard roads and other infrastructures..... this is very bad and exactly the way all the upcoming towns in our lovely State is growing unplanned without provision for dual lane...this same mistake occurred in Onitsha... God pls give us a Governor that will dualize roads and creat working master plan in our urban towns.... A man who will first alter a good plan by providing access for dual lanes and others infrastructures in all the metropolitan towns in our major cities before the individual developer's storms the town...plz someone should send this write up to Obiano...