Alpharey:
Anytime any of you come to Anambra for one function or the other. I mean our villages, they always go back being so surprised at what we achieved. Travel and see, Mba! Travelling is part of education. That's why Oyibo people travel a lot. You have only one life to live. Don't be rooted to a spot like a tree because finally graveyard is an immobile abode for humans for ages. Personally I have traveled to other regions and beyond NIGERIA and still aspiring to travel more. You people may not understand this thing am saying

That is why you see them always asking people to leave lagos and making comment like, you left your villages to come to lagos. To them, lagos is the alpha and omega.

I dont even know how to talk to them again. Lagos is developing, but so are other states.

Nice2023:




There is a local govt in Ogun state whose communities have never seen electricity for the past 100years. It is called Yewa North local govt.

The community is about 50 in numbers and that should concern u more than anything else.

I show u evidence and u can fact check if in doubt.

D only evidence needed is d name of the village in question....
D last communities to be electrified in Yewa generally was done by Gen Abacha more than 20yrs ago..
Any village without light is probably regarded to be a Benin rep area

SOSinNigeria:


Yorubas are too slow and dull in accepting positive changes. Imagine a local government that is only few kilometers from Lagos being so backward. Some places in SW appear even more remote and underdeveloped than places in NE.

Missionaries came to their place before other parts of Nigeria. Awolowo also gave them free education yet Igbos overtook them in one fantastic burst of energy!

If Lagos was close to Igboland the way it is close to Yorubaland, I bet you, no ethnicity in Africa would have come close.

is that another display of hubris? Go and tame urself. Get more education and exposure .

helinues:


Give you port? Who gave Lagos the new Lekki deep port?

Only a failure blamed others for his woes

Asin ehn

Workch:
Give us a functioning port close to us, then watch what happens. Leave all these politics or monopolizing ports

You have functional ports in Warri, PH, Bonny and Calabar. They work till this day, shut up and import through these port and stop making foolish excuses with the loudest noise.

Let me tell you the truth, your people do not have the economic power to buy those things… na the same Yorubas you hate dey consume your products.

Because you make sales in Lagos, na ghost dey buy your goods? Those your poor village dwellers no get shishsi.

Workch:
Give us a functioning port close to us, then watch what happens. Leave all these politics or monopolizing ports

How will the Southeast have a seaport? No state there borders the sea. The best possible option is a port at Onitsha and that now has its shortcomings due to Climate Change as some rivers may dry up or become shallow making movements of ships a challenge.

I have nothing against Igbos. My half siblings are half Igbos from their mother side.

No one is driving you from Lagos. Do business where it pays you best.

helinues:


Give you port? Who gave Lagos the new Lekki deep port?

Only a failure blamed others for his woes

lol my God! Man just read what you just typed.
its either you are not really smart or your intelligence got crowded with tribalism somewhere along the way.

Workch:
Give us a functioning port close to us, then watch what happens. Leave all these politics or monopolizing ports

how do you put port in land locked country?

Workch:
they generated the revenue because federal government gave the apapa and tincam monopoly for years. Which brought businesses hence revenue.

It's simple

you have ports in Warri and port harcourt

Nice2023:




There is a local govt in Ogun state whose communities have never seen electricity for the past 100years. It is called Yewa North local govt.

The community is about 50 in numbers and that should concern u more than anything else.

I show u evidence and u can fact check if in doubt.

they don't claim Lagos

Workch:
Really, GEJ? That one na person?

So why hasn't other ports been functioning optimally if it's a deliberate?

Can Lagos generate revenue if business don't move to lagos because of the ports?

yep

Nice2023:



We are travellers and we shall keep digging out places for adventure and for the good of humanity.

I schooled in Lagos primary and secondary,graduated in the east and currently in the north and I am still on the move.

That is our nature.

that should tell you something
Your home is not conducive to education

Then don't call it village

helinues:


Give you port? Who gave Lagos the new Lekki deep port?

Only a failure blamed others for his woes

Please, be objective in your arguments. I'm not from the east but I understand the dirty politics played here. Let the FG create an environment that will allow for healthy competition and let's see who sabi. Easterners are not dummies. Come to think of it, why does Nigeria not want them to go their separate ways if not for the exploitation?

Even Makoko slum has a section that looks like that, it all depends on the effort of the photography. Stay in your jungle and make it great.

Workch:
The picture below is a drone picture of where my family house is located in Ibeku, Umuahia.
We came to Lagos to do business, it does not mean that we go back to trees when we say we are going to the village.

Workch:
they generated the revenue because federal government gave the apapa and tincam monopoly for years. Which brought businesses hence revenue.

It's simple

What happens to the state governors in the SE and SS building on the existing ports in the regions ?

Workch:
The picture below is a drone picture of where my family house is located in Ibeku, Umuahia.
We came to Lagos to do business, it does not mean that we go back to trees when we say we are going to the village.

stop lying.i once lived at Ibeku when I was serving at Osisioma.Ibeku is a typical village.though,they are very accommodating.a politician housed us when I was sharing voters card at Ikeapara village.the man used to be a former bank manager in Ondo state.stop lying.

Hmmm..... your village looks more organized and better planned than many much larger communities people be proudly calling cities.

Workch:
The picture below is a drone picture of where my family house is located in Ibeku, Umuahia.
We came to Lagos to do business, it does not mean that we go back to trees when we say we are going to the village.

You are my brother. I am from ameke ibeku

Workch:
Give us a functioning port close to us, then watch what happens. Leave all these politics or monopolizing ports

Why can’t the 5/36 Igbo senators and representatives in Abuja give you a functioning port?

Why have they FAILED to do this simple thing since 1999

helinues:


Give you port? Who gave Lagos the new Lekki deep port?

Only a failure blamed others for his woes

At least no brown roof everywhere

Workch:
The picture below is a drone picture of where my family house is located in Ibeku, Umuahia.
We came to Lagos to do business, it does not mean that we go back to trees when we say we are going to the village.

why not stay in your so called village and do your so called business there?

Southwestidiot:

At least no brown roof everywhere

we are fokn proud of our brown roofs. It's our heritage.

helinues:
Imagine, leaving this Eldorado and be living in a slum in Obodo Lagos

Chai

This is Eldorado? SMH.

enemyofprogress:
we are fokn proud of our brown roofs. It's our heritage.

You are proud of your poverty infested community, but talk down on others with better structures. Nor be hypocrisy be that.

helinues:


Give you port? Who gave Lagos the new Lekki deep port?

Only a failure blamed others for his woes

Afraid of competition, because they know they can't compete.

beejay85:

D only evidence needed is d name of the village in question....
D last communities to be electrified in Yewa generally was done by Gen Abacha more than 20yrs ago..
Any village without light is probably regarded to be a Benin rep area

The affected communities include Alagbada, Fayoyi, Ajegunle, Erinpa 1, Erinpa 2, Abule Babalana, Sunwa Ajegunle, Mokoya/ Ogbungiri, Abule Anila, Abule Alata, Aruku, Pakoyi, Lashilo, Oloje, Idi Iroko, Abotokio, Kajola, Kajola- Alaga, Ijaka-Isale, and Ijaka– Oke.

Others are Ile – Ijoun, Eeja, Ile-Ika, Ijale – Ketu, Iyana Agbede, Oke Odo Tobolo, Tobolo, Ibiyan, Agbefa, Okuta Gogoro, Lafenwa, Anga, Akeru agbo Ogede, Ageru Abeobi, Akeru llukan, Akeru Ajiode, Oke Igbala / Ijege, Ikotun, Ologiri, Ojumo, Igbeme, Isagba, Orile Oke Igbooro, Orile Igbooro, Abule Kuse, Iselu, Iselu-Orile, Egbeda, Ibeku, Agbon Ojodu, Kodera and Asa.

leisuretym:


Trash , you people are the one killing Nigeria Economy , you import Oyibo dustbin with drug proceed at the detriment of local industry rather than setting up industries to create employment here , do you think unknown gunmen will buy those things from you or rob you at gun point?
Lagos markets are for the entire west Africans, those of you that carried your containers to east still returned the goods back to Lagos to sell

Do you think south east have southwest population or market potential , we need to ban the importation of oyinbo dustbin, second hand clothes if we must revive our textiles industry, do you know how many Nigerians are working in the textile industry booming in Kano, kaduna before you people killed the industry with okrika clothes , we need a proactive government to stop importations and get companies to start producing here to generate employment , Nigeria is not your dumping ground, enough is enough

I love your side of argument. Nigeria needs to move from just being a consuming nation to a productive nation, that is from consumption to production.


But no matter which, the supply chain end of business remains one of the biggest and most lucrative all over the world, and Igbos have mastered and taken over this sector, so whether Nigeria bans importation and capitalizes on manufacturing or not, the supply end will continue, that is why one of the most important departments in every company is "the marketing and sales" department because if you produce and unable to sell, you will shutdown with time.



Buying and selling will never die till the world ends and what Igbos have mastered is the art of buying and selling.


You think Igbos sell only imported goods? Then you are completely wrong. They are at the biggest end of marketing and selling agricultural products from even far away North cos they have this traveling spirit to explore anywhere on earth without fear, which was why it seemed like the Igbos dominated importation business (it is because they travel to where others are scared to travel to, and they are always the first to discover opportunities in those places they migrate to). Its because as they love traveling to just anywhere, they discover opportunities, they discover cheaper goods and products that can sell cheaper back home, so they import them in, if its within Nigeria, they buy them from the remote areas and bring to the cities to sell in their supermarkets, shops, etc as ordinary traders but the koko is their source.



People accuse Peter Obi of being just an importer but they don't know that Peter Obi is one of the biggest sellers of Naija made agro products from far North using his Next Supermarket stores scattered all over Nigeria.



Due to Igbo peoples traveling and touring nature, they dominate transport and logistics industry in Nigeria, so its beyond importation like most of you think.



The only thing that makes Igbos stand out is their entrepreneurial spirit; a typical Igbo person if given a good paying white collar job and a good business opportunity would take business opportunity, this was how their dominance in business started; while the Yorubas were busy going to school to obtain formal educational certificate to secure a job in the organized sector, the Igbos were busy focusing on servicing people by providing goods and services they needed through opening shops to sell things, etc, and many looked down on them as ordinary traders.

It was of recent with advent of internet and social media that other Nigerians began to embrace business and entrepreneurship, buying and selling like the Igbos, before it was seen as petty business for uneducated people and their income was highly underrated.



So its beyond importation, its an entrepreneurship cultural thing in Igbos, and due to failures of successive Nigerian governments of many years that failed to industrialize Nigeria, it made Igbos to capitalize on importation like its their major trade.



Even most Igbos that started as importers today are into local production and manufacturing, including Aliko Dangote.


Belloxy Industries and many more are example of Igbo business owners that started as importers but today are fully into local manufacturing. Me with some group of Igbo childhood friends wanted to start local manufacturing of a certain product in Nigeria, we were almost set and was in the process of bringing in the machines and production equipment when the professionals we hired to do a thorough business research gave us a shocking report that without a constant electricity supply of at least 18hrs a day, that we won't break even in the business.


That if we operate on generator as planned, that we will shutdown business in at most 5 years time. And the location we wanted to site the plant due to availability of the raw material lacked constant electricity. We had to quit and refocused in other businesses.



This is one of the major reasons many Igbos including myself haven't ventured into full scale local manufacturing and production, so its not as if we enjoy the importation more than local production.


In fact, as a result of the lack of functional seaport in the Southeast, most Igbos would prefer local manufacturing and production to importation if given the opportunity to choose.



In summary, what I am trying to let you know is that Igbos are not just importers, nope, Igbos are seasoned entrepreneurs. Forget the few bad news of some unscrupulous Igbo guys trafficking drugs in different countries and tarnishing the image of the great Igbos, they are just a few unscrupulous individuals.


To tell you that Igbos are not just known for importation, if you have traveled around different countries of the world or know anybody that have, ask them, there is no country you would go to and not find an Igbo person doing excellently well in one local business there and flying the image of the blacks or foreigners high there. Go to South Korea, China, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, etc, I am intentionally naming none western or African nations, go and find out. If they are not running the biggest foreign restaurant, they own the biggest local logistics businesses or agro processing business. In Korea they own the biggest African-owned textile repackaging and rebranding businesses, same in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, etc.



So its beyond Nigerian importation, they only capitalize on importation into Nigeria because they are the most traveled tribe in Nigeria and as they travel around the world looking for opportunities, once they see something cheap that they feel will be needed by Nigerians in Nigeria, they find ways to create opportunity to start sending those stuff to Nigeria to sell for profit, and that is how they start the importation and I don't see anything bad there because most of those things they bring in from other countries, Nigeria will never be able to produce them even in 1million years even if we turn Nigeria to an industrialized nation.



USA being one of the biggest industrialized nations in the world, still remains the biggest importer of goods and services in the world, so lets not paint importation as a very bad business cos no matter how much we move into local production and manufacturing as a country, we must continue to import, if not finished goods, we will import raw materials and machineries needed for the local industries and we must also export our excess finished products to other countries and Igbos still dominate the export business just as they dominate the import sector too, so its a cultural thing for Igbos when it comes to business, and one of the biggest leverage they have over other Nigerian tribes when it comes to importation and exportation is their travel-nature which makes them have a strong business presence in virtually all countries of the world.



So as people de mock Igbos that they don't like staying in their region in Nigeria, it also comes with great advantages when it comes to international business contact and spread; Igbos are everywhere, which makes Igbos the backbone of Nigeria's import and export sector.

Obaaderemi2:
There are many communities in Anambra that have never seen electricity in over 100 years. Ogun has better electricity access than Anambra. Do you want evidence?

I dare you to name one. Stop being sense abeg

Workch:
Give us a functioning port close to us, then watch what happens. Leave all these politics or monopolizing ports

Igbo people's breakthrough is not hinged on seaport please, stop making such disastrous assertion.


With or without seaport, people ought to prosper, a region should prosper too.


Not all USA states have seaport, yet they are prosperous in their own pace. And we must also learn to stop measuring prick with Lagos, Lagos is far ahead of every other Nigerian state, and it is not the making of any Yoruba man or woman dead or alive, it is as a result of many factors, firstly, Lagos geographical location/natural blessings, secondly the privilege of being Nigeria's longest capital city.



Most US States move their things to Texas to export outside US, same applies to their import and they don't complain that their state is not progressing because they don't have seaport, its not a good thing to say please.



And you guys must understand that Lagos success owes tribute to Lagos geographical location and natural blessings that is beyond human factor.



Every nation on earth have their financial or commercial center that is mostly not their capital city.


Lagos is Nigeria's commercial center and nothing anybody can do about it until Nigeria seizes to exist.


India is Mumbai.

UAE is Dubai

China is Shanghai and Guangzhou

Japan is Tokyo

US is New York City

Australia is Sydney

Canada is Toronto


South Africa is Johannesburg

etc, etc.



But the only place I have issue with most Yorubas is that they always abandon their state of origin to claim Lagosian, thereby making other Yoruba states to be abandoned and underdeveloped despite how close they are to Lagos the commerical center of Nigeria.



Aside Lagos, and some parts of Ogun that are interwoven into Lagos, and Ibadan, the rest of Yoruba states are nothing to write home about and cant be compared to Southeast states like Imo, Anambra, and Enugu. I expected Southwest states to tap into Lagos enormous blessings to turn their states into mini Lagos, but due to Yoruba peoples culture and lifestyle of abandoning their ancestral hometowns for big cities, they always shy away from going back to their indigenous states to develop them using Lagos as a template, if Yorubas learn to do this, the whole Southwest will be a massive city unlike what it is now; Yorubas need to remove pride and learn this great aspect of Igbos who always go back to develop their indigenous hometowns, if Yorubas learn this, Southwest as a whole will become a paradise.

Ttalk:


It's not about port, it's about the people, the culture and the character of the people.

You are hostile, dubious and very aggressive and want people to bring their investment to your region.

How can you be destroying Dangote tankers and except others to come there?

Improve your relationship with other Nigerians and see your region experience massive investment.

Oh I forgot you have no market, not your physical market but the people that could buy your products because of your massive emigration away from home

Another stupid talk. How I'd destroying dangote trailers in a protest scaring investment. Didn't they not destroy worse in end sars? Didn't Yorubas steal the staff of the Oba of Lagos?

Obaaderemi2:
Lazy people that can pay for your services?

They have no choice