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Skodiswayze:
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I didn't see any difference

There is nothing beautiful about these pictures I'm seeing here.

I've been to Bayelsa and I'm most disappointed with the standard of living and the living conditions there. Bayelsa no fine like this. Once you leave their main expressway, potopoto full everywhere. Their waste pipe from bathroom was channeled into the street road. Sometimes, you'll see faeces flushed into the road. My girlfriend's father built mansion but the road is flooded with black dirty water. And it was not rainy season them. I left there immediately after her marriage ceremony.
The residents are living in squalor, which indicates a poor governance.

jamesversion:
The issue with Bayelsa, nay Ijaw areas in the Niger Delta is the absence of proper habitable land. The terrain is mostly swamps and mangroves which without intensive capital expenditure will be largely uninhabitable. For example, take the East West Road, see the sections that passes through Ikwerreland, Ogoni land, Akwa Ibom etc and check the section that pass through bayelsa. The Bayelsa section is deplorable due to terrain.

Almost everywhere in Ijawland need serious sandfilling, which is capital intensive before reasonable work can be carried out. So don't expect serious development there.

Use Google map and zoom into Bayelsa and Ijaw parts of Rivers state and see how scanty there villages are. No amount of online revisionism can change what they are. It has never been about the size of bayelsa but the liveability.

If the Netherlands and Singapore can build new regions/cities on reclaimed lands, Bayesla can do it. The problem is the mentality, economic growth and political will.

Hong Kong and Kansai Airports are built on reclaimed lands. In fact, as I write, the new site for the WORLD EXPO 2025 is built on a newly created island in Japan. Singapore is building a new business district on reclaimed land. Dubai is a world leader in building cities and zones on sand-filled lands. Does it mean the Dutch, Japanese, Chinese and Emiratis have two or three heads compared to our people?

MrEverest:
Finer than this is an understatement. These pictures are slums. Only one road with trees looks a bit decent, the rest are shanties. What sort of abysmal standards are we operating that someone will post these shanties and be proud of it? Even villages in many third world countries look better than this!

How Bayelsa looks is really depressing and shows they can’t achieve anything great even if they control their oil resources 100%.

It seems only Igbos have presentable cities and villages in Nigeria, the rest are an eyesore.

Entirely untrue.

Paystack:
Funny thing is they'll ignore their main problems and be fighting those who don't see them as enemies or who aren't even a threat to them.


People sucking their oils are faraway in the North why they're here in the south fighting their brothers for absolutely nothing 😂😂😂

Chaii!! Just look at this foolish epistle from this nyamuri flat. head!! So Igbos are not socking the oil in Niger Delta?

What about the Ifeanyi Ubah, Tony Elumelu, Emeka Offor, Okey Nzenwa, Tony Ezenna, Nicholas Okoye, Ndi Onyiuke Okereke, F.A. Njoku, J.O. Amaefule, A.C. Uzoigwe, A.B.C. Orjiako, Ikechukwu Joseph, Arthur Eze, Emmanuel Ojei, Oscar P. Udoji, P.E Udoji, and E.E. Nwosu, AMONG MANY MANY OTHER IGBO OIL WELL OWNERS?

Are they not also Igbos exploiting the Niger Delta region? Why are you operating double standards? You think Igbos are absolved from the Niger Delta exploitation because you want you want to do attachee by force so that you alone will dominate thier oil?

oyatz:
Your reasoning shows how typical Nigerians think.

1) All States aren't meant to be doing the same things .

2) Airports shouldn't just be built for the sake of building Airports.
Most Airports in Nigeria are under utilized and the money for building unnecessary new Airports should have been channeled into addressing economic developments of these States.
Why did Ekiti State build that Airport when there already existing Airports close to the State like Akure Airport, Ibadan Airport and Murtalar Muhammed Airport Lagos?

The Millions spent by Ex-Gov Aregbesola to build a non-viable Airport at Ido-Osun, Osun State could have been spent on purchase of modern Agriculture Tractors and Harvesters.

Excuses upon excuse, there's no where in the world that a blooming city/state doesn't have a standard airport, that thing in Ibadan is not an airport.

You're right, EKITI Osun and ondo shouldn't have any business with airport cos there's nothing very serious going on their aside their respective state capitals.

Anambra airport is 15mins drive from Asaba airport yet it records traffic and amongst top 10 in Nigeria...intact the 3 airports in SE are. Yet se landmass is slightly bigger than Oyo state, what does that tell you??

Nailly:
These places that Media don't show you.

Capital of Bayelsa.

Na the same Yenagoa wey I dey Abi Na Anoda One? Yenagoa Na Glorified Local Goverment Headquarter.
Small State capital That, If Developed Will Be The Best State Capital In Nigeria.

Unbiased1:
Bayelsa tiny? Bayelsa is larger than all the Eastern states just that they have a large number of unproductive residents.

When in land mass? Bros stop that nonsense you are drinking and smoking.

Kei144:
The apprenticeship system has always existed among Igbos. It has Jewish origin. Jews that came to Igboland came with it. Long before Nigeria's independence,

So Jews left Israel came to Nigeria, didn't interact with any tribe along the coastline but went straight to some forest dwelling butt naked people and taught them apprenticeship system and they went back to Israel without encountering other tribe along the way.

Chai... these people with I must attachee myself by force. They create their own lies, spread it and they start believing in the same lies they created.

GoodLife4live:
naa Ibadan be this....
You think say Ibadan dey underdeveloped like alaigbo ?

IBADAN BELOW

Once again you typically don't have sense.

slowice:
Nigerians you people are funny and extremely shallow and backward. See the mess in the CS.....youth hyping mediocrity in the name of tribalism.

When will yall realize that no part of Nigeria is developed.... Not Lagos, not anywhere. That is why someone with a functional brain will suspend common sense and support a known failure and criminal just because he’s his tribesman.

Oga no one gets out of this shithole alive Y'all should wake up and wise up... The world has left us donkey years behind.

Don't mind them. From my observation so far across various social media platforms, most Nigerian youths reason so illogically and stoopidly. If not for this recent japa, most wouldn't have used their eyes to witness functioning societies and how they operate. With the presence and spread of the Internet, one would have thought that most of our young folks would use it to read about cities in different parts of the world and ask themselves hard questions:

- How did these people build this stuff?
- How is it maintained?
- What was the process involved?

When I was young, I watched "Megafactories" on National Geographic, browsed "Howstuffworks" and read about various cities and their infrastructures. I recalled being mesmerised by Hong Kong's skyscrapers and wondering, how do they maintain these buildings? I fell in love with civil engineering. While very young, I questioned roads without pedestrian walkways which are fully covered. In fact, I consider a road well constructed when there are appropriate markings and covered gutters. Passersby aren't supposed to see what is inside.

The truth be say. there is a very odd way in which the average Nigerian reasons/thinks: brash, illogical, braggadocio, loud and dogmatic. Nigerians in general hate fact-based debates. They prefer "I no fit lie give you" and "dem tell me say".

GeneralOjukwu:
Ultimate IPOB Neck Presser.

They are so afraid of you, they have to claim you're Yoruba.

Why is that if you whisper " aboki", they just start to shiver and 💩 themselves?

You are not smart try and have sense.

Marisujuaku:
I've been to Bayelsa and I'm most disappointed with the standard of living and the living conditions there. Bayelsa no fine like this. Once you leave their main expressway, potopoto full everywhere. Their waste pipe from bathroom was channeled into the street road. Sometimes, you'll see faeces flushed into the road. My girlfriend's father built mansion but the road is flooded with black dirty water. And it was not rainy season them. I left there immediately after her marriage ceremony.
The residents are living in squalor, which indicates a poor governance.

To be fair, the topology does not help matters. But other places have conquered water in building very developed cities. So, Bayelsa cannot be different. There was a video I watched on visiting Bonny Island, the poster showed the environment: so so dirty up and down. Untarred roads and poto-poto. I was shocked o. An oil producing island?

Only the NLNG area is well developed. Elsewhere is a literal sh!thole. Like Gabon, like Bonny Island.

Black man no try at all. If na to dangle smelly preek, we sabi do that one.

Unbiased1:
Bayelsa tiny? Bayelsa is larger than all the Eastern states just that they have a large number of unproductive residents.

larger in square meters with only 8 lga.

Hmmm.. It is well. God can do all things though.

Ofodirinwa:
It is doomed forever. There's no logical reason for someone to live in or do business there other than being a native. They land is low value and infertile, weather is bad, worst pollution in w/Africa, high poverty, high illiteracy, kidnapping, etc

nesphil:
Another hater from the Yeast.

Yenagoa is finer than Umuahia, Awka, etc.

I don't know why you Igbos are so full of hate for others.

Show me the capital of oil producing states in Igboland let me see how better they are compare to Yenagoa.

I mean show me Owerri, Umuahia and Awka..

Oga to school, you should not be here doing kid comments on adult topics.

nesphil:
You Igbos are always here on NL to attack and talk down on others
While over-hyping una selves.

Wise people prefer greenery of the Niger Delta to slump jungles of the Yeast.

Once again go to school and stop commenting on adult topics. You are still a kid if not youbwill be flogged for not going to school, now run along child.

Paystack:
You guys are really slow.

Let me educate you... size of state or place doesn't =development or progress of the state or place.


Do you know Lagos is the smallest state in Nigeria yet the most developed?

Do you know Niger state is 30 times bigger than London but London is 50000 times richer than Niger?


Size of place doesn't matter if the people living there are not productive.

North has the largest states yet produce the largest beggars and poor people.

Why can't they use all of that plenty land to grow agriculture products?

Answer: o[b]nly 1% of the land in fertile and only 0.5 of their population is productive

[/b] please share where u got this info from.

Very valid point .

Angel55555:
You're arguing off topic. He made a valid point.

Ondo has airport too nah . Akure airport is up and running smoothly. Carriers like the prestigious Air Peace, Green Africa, etc, and privates are very frequent there. Currently, Akure airport serves Ondo and Ekiti state. The cargo airport in Ekiti is still a monument

Appletek:
At least Oyo has an airport, show us Abia airport.
Ondo has shores for a seaport. Your entire region put together can never have half plot with direct access to the sea.

nesphil:
Throughout this post its you Southeasterners spewing trash, attacking this state, why are guys always full of bitterness and hate for others

Is your Igboland free from these things that you've listed here

Today, one of the insecured part of Nigeria is your region. The other day Cubana Chief Priest was lamenting of how hungry your people are.

The other day in news it was Igbos killing Igbos and eating their flesh, the list is endless.

If you guys can not say something good about other people and regions in Nigeria apart una Eldorado Igboland you guys should learn to keep quite cos this una behavior dey make other hate una de more.

Where isbyour proof that this guy is igbo? You are so filled with ethnic hatred. You are saying Cubana Chief priest said igbos are hungry abi. But is it igbos in Lagos that shouted "Ebi n pa wa ooooo" better remove the tree growing in your eyes before talking about igbos.

Zafsy75:
So Jews left Israel came to Nigeria, didn't interact with any tribe along the coastline but went straight to some forest dwelling butt naked people and taught them apprenticeship system and they went back to Israel without encountering other tribe along the way.

Chai... these people with I must attachee myself by force. They create their own lies, spread it and they start believing in the same lies they created.

Oga can you just shut up and stop being stupid. The igbo apprenticeship system is it not similar to the Jewish system of circulating wealth?

There are old (older than the creation of Bayelsa State) and running airports in Ibadan (Oyo in 1982) and Akure (Ondo in 1986) nah. Abi you dey whine ni?

BossGerald:
Atleast I can see an airport, show us ondo and Oyo state airports.

Nailly:
Bayelsa is bigger than 10 Nigerian States

See this Map.

Oya tell me what you mean by tiny.

Despite the fact that Bayelsa is a very new State doesn't make it small all because it's among the newest States.

Bayelsa is upto 28 years old.
She has grown up already.
Her mates have married husband, does she want to become evening newspaper 😄
- (in nairaland male voices)

Sapeleboy911:
Oh, Bob I tire, the only noticeable infrastructure in that whole of Yenagoa is the Tombia roundabout and Julius Berger flyover, and that same Yenagoa remains the most developed city in the state. From the government house to Swali, down to local content are all slums. Inside these same Yenagoa men still fetch dirty water from the river for cooking and bathing. Still, they will come and ridicule this state by uploading useless aerial view pictures. Don't you guys travel? As dilapidated as Warri it is still more developed than Yenagoa a state capital receiving billions of allocations monthly.

Warri dilapidated ke. Please say what you know.

Unbiased1:
Bayelsa tiny? Bayelsa is larger than all the Eastern states just that they have a large number of unproductive residents.

you are deceiving yourself.

Coming here to make an ass of yourself about the size of Bayelsa shows your level of education. This is how to spot an uneducated man or gay, not even your Governor can make this ass-like claim.

Bayelsa is tiny state with about 8 or 9 LGA's, the resources and oil money they get monthly are humongous, Bayelsa is supposed to be more developed than Dubai.

Bayelsa is a rich state, bless with oil and gas, fewer population, smaller land mass.

Yet the masses remain poor because their corrupt leaders and corrupt politicians prefer looting of the state coffers than working for their people.

Personally, I won't blame their leaders entirely, because the citizens of Bayelsa like selling votes during elections.

So after taking my money to vote for me, won't I recover my money?

Slimdan360:
Warri dilapidated ke. Please say what you know.

Yes Warri is dilapidated, travel and see.

Sapeleboy911:
Yes Warri is dilapidated, travel and see.

Where are you from? Let’s start from there.

Ofodirinwa:
It is doomed forever. There's no logical reason for someone to live in or do business there other than being a native. They land is low value and infertile, weather is bad, worst pollution in w/Africa, high poverty, high illiteracy, kidnapping, etc

Ode

nesphil:
Another hater from the Yeast.

Yenagoa is finer than Umuahia, Awka, etc.

I don't know why you Igbos are so full of hate for others.

Show me the capital of oil producing states in Igboland let me see how better they are compare to Yenagoa.

I mean show me Owerri, Umuahia and Awka..

You really must be a capital dunce to compare these shanty with Eastern cities.

The only city in the entire SS that can compare with Owerri is P.H. Olodo, travel and see so you won’t be disgracing yourself.

Igbos are not your mates in anything. Learn from them and grow, instead of hating on them.

BossGerald:
Atleast I can see an airport, show us ondo and Oyo state airports.

Foool! Akure airport don dey operate before dem born your mama