₦airaland Forum

owobokiri:
You can't put the cart before the horse. You just don't wake up and close down the borders because you want to sell Nigerian rice. You have to first develop enough capacity to take care of demands here. That's where that policy get k-leg. No prior warning, no planning, just woke up one day and closed the borders because he could. Immediately, the price of rice went soaring off the roof because supply can't catch up with demands. It's that simple...

First, liase with local and friendly international institutions conversant with the best methods of growing the best species of rice for the Nigerian market. Allow these schools to work with serious farmers in this area to develop enough seedlings and have those distributed. Support them with funding and relevant new information, logistics and structures. Measure the quality and quantity of the harvest, vis a vis the population of the country and the demands for rice, taking into consideration the fact that rice is a staple.. If data proves that what you have harvested can feed the whole Nigeria, then start a targeted phase by phase increment of duties on imported rice so that those who still prefer such will be forced to pay more, thereby making the prices of rice produced locally to be cheaper...

That's it! A reasonable dent on rice importation using this tactic can be done in 3 years if the government is serious. .. That way everyone is taken care of. By that I mean the rice growers, the middle men, the former importers who will have enough time to change business, thereby still being gainfully employed, and ofcourse the consumers! Not the Buhari way of starving Nigerians as a bag of rice chases 50k. All because his cousins started rice farms..

Where did I ever talk of closure of borders? Was there a closure of the borders in 1970 when Nigeria was feeding itself and had surplus to export?

If there's strategic planning and investment in our local industries (including Agricultural sectors) the flow of trade will naturally tilt in favour of local industries.

Nigeria don't import Yam, Cassava or Soya beans because there are investment (though not modern enough) in the local production of these food items.

owobokiri:
Every state can't produce all the food stuffs we need. In the east, we have to prioritize. I might decide to turn my land into a game reserve for instance and make money from visitors, enough to buy my Thai rice! It's none of your business since you can't produce quality rice locally. If you can, I will surely buy from you since unfortunately, I share the same hellhole with you..There's a problem tho, if for instance i lazy about Monday to Friday with endless hedonistic owambe, not caring to put the work needed to raise enough income to buy what I need.

If I lack productivity but insist on imported food, then I'm trying to subsidize my luxurious preferences with other people's labor. That's not the case here. An average guy at Onitsha main market deserves quality food at reasonable prices since he works his behind off daily to earn a living.. You can't deny him such right with all sorts of obnoxious policies crafted to balloon the pockets of a very tiny anti-societal few, who masquerade under the fanciful tag of "farmers/herders" to unleash terror on innocent communities around a bemused country without contributing absolutely nothing to the revenue purse...

This is not what I am saying.

In 1970, Nigeria was a net exporter of foods eventhough certain foods in limited quantities were still being imported but this was largely for those who want this particular brand e.g Uncle Ben's rice which was imported in Sachet-like 1kg pack.

Before 1975, frozen fish wasn't a common food item in Nigeria.


Nigeria has what it takes to produce enough foods for her citizens. Those who want exotic foods can import them in small quantities (they can even buy them online through Jumia, AliBaba etc)

Nigeriabiafra80:
Nawaooo
Another nonsense
Ikwere are benin
Benin are Yoruba
Can we now rest
Biko
You can choose to be sudanese
No problem

Thanks sir, after all Jubril from Sudan is now ruling the country.

owobokiri:
The fulani herdsmen are the main reason Nigerians are underfed! Their cattles are very costly here and are bred in ways that makes it hard for the meat to be cheap. Then they have a monopoly because the government banned the importation of beef even if we have a shortfall while concentrating enabling structures for farming solely in the north. What it means is that if there is a bad harvest in the north. , We will go hungry in this country rather than to import! No country is run like this! Food bought down south is costly and ordinary folks have to overwork just to eat. It's wrong.

Every State should look inward and start massive production of rice, maize ,Soya beans and most especially animal husbandry.

Running to foreign countries to import everything we need is like importing poverty

Raydos:
I thought Nigeria soldiers said he has been killed?

Una go just wake up dey feed us with different lies!!

It's true ,Shekau has been killed many years ago.

The present Shekau is an impostor because 'Shekau' is now like an official title which can be occupied by several very similar Jihardists to give the impression that Shekau can not be killed.

greymiles:
If this Aisha pussy grip person dick... d dick go won cut comot cuz the muscle wey go don build around her pussy go strong pass weight lifters own

But this is very wrong you know?

She is somebody's wife and somebody's mother.

Okoroawusa:
Bia Ojiofor, isi na nwanne gi nwokea ji aru?

Let me try to interpret what you said.

'Come here Ojiofor, are black men &women cursed'?

obiekunie2:
IF HE CANT ARM THEM WITH THE LATEST COMBAT WEAPONS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES WHEN CONFRONTED BY OTHER FORCES, THEN HE SHOULD STOP DECEIVING AND WASTING THEIR LIVES.

NIGERIA ONLY UNDERSTANDS VIOLENCE - IF YOU ARE IN DOUBT GO ASK BOKOHARAM, HERDSMEN AND BANDITS.

Is it illegal to manufacture AK-47, hand grenade and Armoured Tanks in Nigeria?

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is really trying his best for his people.


He established Biafran Secret Service (BSS) and Eastern Security Service ,both of which provide round the clock security for the S/East and also employee thousands of old & young men.

XANDERBOY85:
He's right!!!

If you guys are such wizards in business, why don't you go form a country of your own and leave us to our 'audio oyel'?

Sourcing of raw materials is just part of running and sustaining a business! A lot has to do with gov't policies and gov't support....especially if you're trying to be monopolistic and run your competitors out of town!

You are talking out of points.

Abdulsamad Rabiu and Dangote made their billions from mining limestones , turning it into cement and trading in commodities like rice, sugar, flour etc.

These have nothing to do with Niger Delta crude oil.

Kingscee:
We don't need that, but we're comfortable OK with the little we have, check the names of the billonians and the level of poverty in their regions you'll know what I'm saying

But the 2020 NBS poverty rates in Ebonyi and Enugu States were about 80% and 57% respectively.

Xclusiveme:
We have many Nigeria rich men that dangote's networth is nothing compared to theirs. Forbes only recognize legal assets. Same with Jeff bezoz. We have lots of Arab rich men worth more than $200billion, but Forbes chose not to include them

You obviously don't know what you are saying.

You can't have $1Billion without being in one business or the other and people knowing that business.

grandstar:


There are actually actions he takes that shows he has some serious money not just cheap.

He's married to a Moroccan (exotic taste. Usually associated with people with mad money)

He loves trophy wives.

He has an outsized foundation. He went to Antarctica. He owns a private jet. He isn't loudish like small boys with small cash.

So marrying a Moroccan, going to Antarctica and owing a private jet automatically make one a Billionaire in Dollars?

GamalNasser:
He was the Lawyer that was paid 350 million dollars in the Paris refund deal na and he gave out over a 100 million dollars to top govt officials and chilling with the rest

Beer Parlour gist.

olaboy33:
Baba God, Wetin dey billionate?..

Show us the way



By the way,

Dangote allowed his nothern brother to share and enjoy from his cement monopoly and his wealth skyrocketed.

Where is otedola?., blood is thicker than water.

The truth is that Dangote does NOT have any monopoly in any business.

Magnoliaa:
I second this.

For where e wan happen? Inside Hollywood abi Nollywood?

It's possible.

I think they have started dating since she was very young (possibly first love).

Kinematics:
Its an issue fabricated by SE people. Yes the Asa Ndoki people are split into 2 states which is Rivers and Abia. Just like most states where you have some clans split into different states due to state creation.

Oyigbo is in Rivers, whereas Asa people in Abia call it obigbo. So the ibos in Abia are forcing the name they call it in Abia as the original name, they want Rivers people to take their ibo naming and drop the Rivers name.
This is very laughable even to a lunatic.

Note that majority of nonindigenes in oyigbo are from the SE especially Abia and Imo. Oyigbo is a boundary LGA and share some similarities with SE people due to proximity.

These ibos are the ones calling it obigbo and are going further to drag the lga into Abia.
Leave the ipoo story on nairaland flying everywhere, they'll never say the truth.


When Rivers was created in 1967 being one of the first 12 states created, the boundary was carefully drawn, however after Imo and Later Abia was created they want to drag part of Rivers into their new states, but the NBC had to disprove their claims.

Okay, I now understand the issue very well.

The name has always been Oyigbo but Igbo migrants in the Town call it Obigbo.

MyGeneration:
Shutup talk what u know.

Do u think people go to places because they give a damn abt the indegenes as far as there's opportunities people would always endure.

North that has almost all Nigerian security assets and infrastructures is the region u are comparing to southeast a region that doesn't even have federal roads...

Tell us another story

The problems with obviously biased and uninformed people is that they keep shifting the goal posts.


My assertion is not about roads or security apparatus but orientation of peoples in different parts of Nigeria towards outsiders (non-indigenes).

My observations;

1) Most Nigerians have reservations and sometimes resentments towards other Nigerians that are not from their ethnic groups to different degrees.

2) The Yorubas are liberal towards outsiders possibly due to longer periods of mixing with other ethnic groups which make up the present Nigeria long before 1914.
The Oyo Empire, the transatlantic slave trade and later British Colonialism brought the Yorubas into contacts with so many other ethnic groups from far and near for centuries.

3) The Hausa-Fulani are religious and conservative people. The Sokoto Caliphate was already an amalgamation of so many different peoples united under the banner of Islam.
In as much as Islamic cultures are not threatened by the outsiders or better still if the outsiders also practice the Islamic cultures, they embrace the outsiders well.

3) The Igbos seems to understand and trust their neighbours like Efik, Ibibio, Anang, Ijaw,Ogoni more than other Nigerians.

They however have reservations about non-Igbos especially if these non-Igbos stand to share certain resources or privileges with them.

This doesn't necessarily mean they hate the non-Igbos.

Eriokanmi:
Did CNN say otherwise? Was it not the video evidence which revealed those killed? Why are you guys behaving like this? Didn't you hear the parents of the victims grant press interviews? Google is your friend. Was it not CNN who unravelled all the lies told by the govt, from...ooh, I didn't send military to lekki, as claimed by liar sanwoolu to, we didn't go to lekki as claimed by the military, to we didn't shoot them we only shot in the air, we didn't go with live ammunition, we only went with 15% of live ammunition and the rear was rubber bullets, to it was hoodlums in military uniform invaded kekki as mentioned by malami the Attorney-General despite the military's revelation, etc.

They've started their lies again. They said those killed in zabamari were boko haram informants and not farmers. The killing along kaduna abuja expressway in which scores were killed by bandits last week had been called a hoax already. The same liar govt said it was caused by burst tyres and not by bandits. Yesterday, I read in the newspapers that the over 400 students abducted in katsina was a lie, as alleged by the police. No wonder Nigeria isn't moving forward
God isn't happy. Our govt are liars, playing with human lives. Judgement awaits all of them.

Please stick to one issue at a time.

There was nothing new in the CNN documentary. All what were shown were just a collection of videos already circulating in the social media and no where did they show corpses being carried by D.J Swith and others to the Army Trucks or the Military taking away the corpses.
In any case, I think the CNN can help to substantiate their claims by testifying at the Tribunal.

Kinematics:
There was never a time.

So where did the issue of Obigbo come from?

gidgiddy:
Yes Rivers state was created in 1967, but from what was it created? This area you are today calling Rivers State was land taken from 5 provinces, Portharcourt province, Yenagoa province, Degema province, Owerri province and Aba province

Places like Egbema and Etche used to be in Owerri province. Obigbo was in Aba province which eventually became part of Imo state. In 1976, there was a boundary adjustment which saw Obigbo removed from Imo state and put in Rivers state then renamed "Oyigbo"

Some people think Rivers state just dropped out of the sky but the reality is that Rivers state was was created out of land stolen from 5 provinces and two of those provinces, Owerri and Aba, are Igbo provinces.

Someday, we Igbos are going to ask for our land back and that means that Egbema, Obigbo, Etche, Omuma amongst others are returning back to us.

Provinces, just like modern States are NOT ethnic homelands but units of administrations created by the British Colonial Government.

Owerri Province didn't mean that all the lands in the province belonged to Owerri or that all the people in the Province were Owerri people.
This is very similar to Enugu State where all the lands in the State are not necessarily Enugu lands.


However if IPOB and their sympathizers feel that the boundaries of Rivers State have been tampered with or there is encroachment into Imo or Abia States,

1) they can approach the National Boundaries Commission to look into it by urging the affected STATES to lodge complaints.

2) If some communities in Rivers State want to leave Rivers and be merged with Imo, they can petition the National Assembly through their Representatives.

It should however be noted that IPOB which is neither a State nor elected Representatives of the people concerned lack the locus standing to institute these changes.

Kinematics:
States are created from places. When Rivers was created, east central state and south east state were created as well. All the boundaries were carefully marked.

Lands were taken from several provinces to make several states not only in then Eastern region, but same was done in other regions as well.

Why are ibos still crying and wailing over this? When land was being demarcated everyone was in the know of what it is. Years later Imo was created and thieves from their wanted to lump Rivers land to their phantom Imo state, only for NBC to step in and settle matter.

Note that there was never a time that Oyigbo was in Abia/Imo state. Never. Oyigbo was from 1967 in Rivers, just a portion of the area was in contest until the place was given a natural body as the boundary which is Imo River.

Thanks for shedding light on this matter.

Was there any time that the name of the town was changed from Obigbo to Oyigbo?

Burruchaga71:
u won't understand what I mean

Make it plain for all to understand sir.

Vanzcharles:
That was then I'm talking about 10-15 years ago. Stop arguing what you font know. My cousin was denied by his dept. This he ran for Sug presido in uniuyo because he was non indigine.
Mist schools in the southern Nigeria presents indigines as sug presido.

They were criterias used then to be a presido them in Zaria. We had not so many northerners in the 80s when Melaye gained admission. The northerners then were few and not so interested in school politics. The few who were interested weren't all that sound academically.

My friend stop shifting goal posts.

There are so many more non-indigenes in the North, from Academia to Traders to Civil servants than in the S/East and their societies bare more welcoming bto outsiders than Igbo societies.

Their major problem is Islamic Extremism!


I am NOT abusing the Igbos but stating my clear observations about different parts of Nigeria.

I am a very liberal person who believes that we can NOT all think and act alike, so I welcome differences in our receptions to outsiders.

However I strongly object to your insinuations that all parts of Nigeria view and respond to non-indigenes in the same ways.

Eriokanmi:
Iranu! What an impudence on the part of these yeye people? What do they take CNN for? Sanwoolu who speaks from both sides of his mouth?...or our military who killed the police team that arrested wadume the terrorist and letting him go after cutting off his handcuffs at the barracks? Or the same military who claimed they've killed shekau more than 4 times now but same shekau keeps mocking them on dated videos? Or does our government think cnn was Malami, the shameless Attorney-General who said those who invaded lekki and shot at those innocent, unarmed and peaceful protesters were hoodlums in military uniform, despite the gory scenes and military confession that they invaded lekki?

The greatest mistake our government made was that, they put people who are relics of a lost age like lai Muhammed in such key positions in government, someone who can't operate an ordinary laptop. The CNN, BBC and Aljazeera who covered the lekki protests from the beginning were using drones to cover the events whilst the reporters covertly stayed aside, gathering information. They're still wondering why and how they got those video proofs on lekki shooting . This is why we must join hands in sacking all of them come 2023. They've overstayed their welcome already. We need to take our country back and move her forward. Enough is enough

And the drones could not record the bodies of 38 Protesters which CNN initially tweeted were allegedly killed by the Army?
Their drone recording couldn't record the corpses being carried away by DJ Switch and others to the Military trucks?

gidgiddy:
When we talk about Rivers state, lets not forget that Igbos are indigenous to at least 4 LGA's in that state. Obigbo indigenes are Igbos and Obigbo used to be in Imo state before it was carved into Rivers state in 1976 and renamed 'Oyigbo'

Etches of Etche LGA are Igbos

Egbema people of Egbema Ndoni LGA are Igbos, infact, half of Egbema is in Imo state in Ohaji- Egbema LGA

Omuma are Igbos.

What many people dont seem to understand is that the population of Rivers was not that big, so they carved areas of old Aba and Owerri provinces such as Egbema, Obigbo and Etche out to create Rivers state

It is very unfortunate that Wike chose to display hus stupidity for the world by no knowing that at least 4 Local Governments in Rivers are home to indigenous Igbos

Okay, you are right.


My question is : How will Igbos who have been threatening to ensure Wike goes down truly punish Gov (O)Nyesom Wike?

Burruchaga71:
Wike must surely go down

He has won second term ,so how will you make him go down sir?

Nwadiuto247:
With the way things are going, Wike may face disgrace if he follows any candidate to come and campaign in the South east states..

This will be bad market for the candidate he will accompany to the campaign.

What annoys the Igbo in this WIke is that it was because Amaechi was fighting him and Jonathan in 2015 that they hated Amaechi and massiively voted for him.

What if the candidate is Atiku, the PDP presidential candidate?

History555:
Imagine the nonsense coming from you. How can a diocese reject a bishop. Do you even know who a bishop is in the Catholic church
Dull yoots

Bros, leave the insults.

Except few Federal Government workers and Northerners in Ama Awusa, how many Kanuri, Nupe, Yorubas, Fulanis or Tiv people live in Igboland?

How many Non-Igbos do you see speaking Igbo Language (i have only seen just two Non-Igbo that can speak Igbo language)?

What's the percentage of non-Igbos in Anambra State, Imo or Ebonyi States?

The S/Eastern States are about 98% homogeneous.

History555:
Imagine the nonsense coming from you. How can a diocese reject a bishop. Do you even know who a bishop is in the Catholic church
Dull yoots

Bros, leave the insults.

Except few Federal Government workers and Northerners in Ama Awusa, how many Kanuri, Nupe, Yorubas, Fulanis or Tiv people live in Igboland?

What's the percentage of non-Igbos in Anambra State, Imo or Ebonyi States?

The S/Eastern States are about 98% homogeneous.