₦airaland Forum

Celestialsword:
Some Yoruba people have bragged about Igbo people being in Lagos, but they never knew that had it the Yoruba had not monopolised the seaport in Nigeria, no Igbo man would be in Lagos as Lagos would have turned into a graveyard.

Nigeria is a country where more than 200 million people make use of the Lagos seaport when it can be distributed among regions. There are seas with proximity to the ocean in Bayelsa, Calabar, Akwa Ibom, Warri, Anambra, Abia, and Imo, yet the Nigerian government has denied the East seaport.

Ndi Igbo being in Lagos is a plus to the Yoruba people. These Igbo people were denied seaports and forced to be in Lagos. As the highest importers in Nigeria, Ndị́ Igbo were forced to travel miles away from their homes to clear their goods. Many had lost these goods to bad federal roads in the East while bringing them down to Ịgbo land. Instead of losing goods all the time, they decided to lock up their shops in Onitsha and relocate to Lagos. Since then they are not only contributing to the IGR of Lagos, they are also developing Lagos.

Imagine a situation where Anambra or Warri, or even Abia or Akwa Ibom, have a working Seaport. Do you think our people will be trooping into Lagos? They will stay in their land and develop it.

If you take away the monopoly of seaports from Lagos, Lagos will lose its taste. That's because Igbo people will head home and replicate what you see in Lagos back home.

As an Igbo man, you must stop feeling that Yoruba people are doing you a favour because you are in Lagos. It is the other way around. You are the one doing them a favour. They connived with the Fulani to have the seaports to themselves.

When you say this they say don't you have seaport in Warri and Calabar. Funny people. This is how they do it. They will make sure you pay more if you decide to use Calabar or Warri seaports. They will also use their men in charge of those places to frustrate your goods. By the time your goods spend 6 months without clearing it, you will learn to use Lagos seaport. If you are from Warri or Calabar and you claim you have a seaport, then you are a clọ́wn.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist, 2024.

Ikaeniyan0:
What are you talking about?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nairametrics.com/2024/04/29/nigeria-customs-service-records-n498-billion-in-revenue-in-march-2024/%3famp=1

MadPolitician:
What Are we debating here exactly?

That it's cheqper to clear your goods in Lagos and that this was/is as a result of federal government policies post 1979?

That almost 70% of the containers cleared in different Nigerian ports in Nigeria, end up in the south east?

That if it was cheaper to clear in the eastern ports, these south-east businesses would have utilised these ports?

Or are you trying to say that these eastern businesses come to clear their good in Lagos because they want to snatch your Lagos from you?

ArigatothankU:
Another google yanyanpo


Have you been there yourself?


I have been to tin can in Lagos

Have you been to any of the port you are showing me on this article yourself

Funny people

Ikaeniyan0:
Please stop spilling propaganda you heard from Ekpa. It's only you that knows it's not working all over Nigeria

https://punchng.com/onne-receives-300-metre-container-ship/?amp

GeneralPula:
Did you read me right at all? You claimed Government been sidelining eastern ports since 1970… So I asked, was Jonathan also along that sideline eastern ports when he was a government?

Your eastern politician wey dey into affairs of the country for more than 20 years under Pdp couldn’t for once reason this una eastern ports matter - dem swear for them ni?

Then aside from that, what’s currently stopping your state governor’s from establishing a port?

Celestialsword:
Some Yoruba people have bragged about Igbo people being in Lagos, but they never knew that had it the Yoruba had not monopolised the seaport in Nigeria, no Igbo man would be in Lagos as Lagos would have turned into a graveyard.

Nigeria is a country where more than 200 million people make use of the Lagos seaport when it can be distributed among regions. There are seas with proximity to the ocean in Bayelsa, Calabar, Akwa Ibom, Warri, Anambra, Abia, and Imo, yet the Nigerian government has denied the East seaport.

Ndi Igbo being in Lagos is a plus to the Yoruba people. These Igbo people were denied seaports and forced to be in Lagos. As the highest importers in Nigeria, Ndị́ Igbo were forced to travel miles away from their homes to clear their goods. Many had lost these goods to bad federal roads in the East while bringing them down to Ịgbo land. Instead of losing goods all the time, they decided to lock up their shops in Onitsha and relocate to Lagos. Since then they are not only contributing to the IGR of Lagos, they are also developing Lagos.

Imagine a situation where Anambra or Warri, or even Abia or Akwa Ibom, have a working Seaport. Do you think our people will be trooping into Lagos? They will stay in their land and develop it.

If you take away the monopoly of seaports from Lagos, Lagos will lose its taste. That's because Igbo people will head home and replicate what you see in Lagos back home.

As an Igbo man, you must stop feeling that Yoruba people are doing you a favour because you are in Lagos. It is the other way around. You are the one doing them a favour. They connived with the Fulani to have the seaports to themselves.

When you say this they say don't you have seaport in Warri and Calabar. Funny people. This is how they do it. They will make sure you pay more if you decide to use Calabar or Warri seaports. They will also use their men in charge of those places to frustrate your goods. By the time your goods spend 6 months without clearing it, you will learn to use Lagos seaport. If you are from Warri or Calabar and you claim you have a seaport, then you are a clọ́wn.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist, 2024.

flokii:
See lazy people who sit at home every Mondays, at times they lock themselves inside house for a week, claiming seaport made Lagos what it is.. Lagos will always be the centre of excellence because of the hardworking and entrepreneurial nature of Yorubas, not because of seaport or anything.

FYI, Yorubaland would have developed far more than what we have today if not for greed of Zik, Ironsi and likes who wanted to control all regions resources at the centre, after eliminating leaders of thought from other ethnic groups except Igbos. You can fo0l those who wish to be fo0led, not us.

Godfullsam:
I thought they said they are multi billionaires. Why are they waiting some govt to give them a sea port when the poorest among them can single handedly build 10 world class sea ports.

Celestialsword:
Some Yoruba people have bragged about Igbo people being in Lagos, but they never knew that had it the Yoruba had not monopolised the seaport in Nigeria, no Igbo man would be in Lagos as Lagos would have turned into a graveyard.

Nigeria is a country where more than 200 million people make use of the Lagos seaport when it can be distributed among regions. There are seas with proximity to the ocean in Bayelsa, Calabar, Akwa Ibom, Warri, Anambra, Abia, and Imo, yet the Nigerian government has denied the East seaport.

Ndi Igbo being in Lagos is a plus to the Yoruba people. These Igbo people were denied seaports and forced to be in Lagos. As the highest importers in Nigeria, Ndị́ Igbo were forced to travel miles away from their homes to clear their goods. Many had lost these goods to bad federal roads in the East while bringing them down to Ịgbo land. Instead of losing goods all the time, they decided to lock up their shops in Onitsha and relocate to Lagos. Since then they are not only contributing to the IGR of Lagos, they are also developing Lagos.

Imagine a situation where Anambra or Warri, or even Abia or Akwa Ibom, have a working Seaport. Do you think our people will be trooping into Lagos? They will stay in their land and develop it.

If you take away the monopoly of seaports from Lagos, Lagos will lose its taste. That's because Igbo people will head home and replicate what you see in Lagos back home.

As an Igbo man, you must stop feeling that Yoruba people are doing you a favour because you are in Lagos. It is the other way around. You are the one doing them a favour. They connived with the Fulani to have the seaports to themselves.

When you say this they say don't you have seaport in Warri and Calabar. Funny people. This is how they do it. They will make sure you pay more if you decide to use Calabar or Warri seaports. They will also use their men in charge of those places to frustrate your goods. By the time your goods spend 6 months without clearing it, you will learn to use Lagos seaport. If you are from Warri or Calabar and you claim you have a seaport, then you are a clọ́wn.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist, 2024.

Celestialsword:
who will give it to them

GeneralPula:
When Pandorah Hoe was a governor, he built 10 seaports in the east..

Go & velify..

Owontime:
I think you need to have a sea in order to have a seaport
A DOT NATION CANNOT HAVE A SEAPORT.

Celestialsword:
Some Yoruba people have bragged about Igbo people being in Lagos, but they never knew that had it the Yoruba had not monopolised the seaport in Nigeria, no Igbo man would be in Lagos as Lagos would have turned into a graveyard.

Nigeria is a country where more than 200 million people make use of the Lagos seaport when it can be distributed among regions. There are seas with proximity to the ocean in Bayelsa, Calabar, Akwa Ibom, Warri, Anambra, Abia, and Imo, yet the Nigerian government has denied the East seaport.

Ndi Igbo being in Lagos is a plus to the Yoruba people. These Igbo people were denied seaports and forced to be in Lagos. As the highest importers in Nigeria, Ndị́ Igbo were forced to travel miles away from their homes to clear their goods. Many had lost these goods to bad federal roads in the East while bringing them down to Ịgbo land. Instead of losing goods all the time, they decided to lock up their shops in Onitsha and relocate to Lagos. Since then they are not only contributing to the IGR of Lagos, they are also developing Lagos.

Imagine a situation where Anambra or Warri, or even Abia or Akwa Ibom, have a working Seaport. Do you think our people will be trooping into Lagos? They will stay in their land and develop it.

If you take away the monopoly of seaports from Lagos, Lagos will lose its taste. That's because Igbo people will head home and replicate what you see in Lagos back home.

As an Igbo man, you must stop feeling that Yoruba people are doing you a favour because you are in Lagos. It is the other way around. You are the one doing them a favour. They connived with the Fulani to have the seaports to themselves.

When you say this they say don't you have seaport in Warri and Calabar. Funny people. This is how they do it. They will make sure you pay more if you decide to use Calabar or Warri seaports. They will also use their men in charge of those places to frustrate your goods. By the time your goods spend 6 months without clearing it, you will learn to use Lagos seaport. If you are from Warri or Calabar and you claim you have a seaport, then you are a clọ́wn.

Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist, 2024.

rampage101:
was it the govt that built the one in lagos?

MadPolitician:
It has nothing to do with arms importation. Its nothing but an apartheid policy. It is not the easterners that appoint the custom officers at the seaports whose job it is to check imported consignments. It is the federal government that does that, and you and i know who dominates that agency. The noise the other day about arms importation through the Onne port, was one of those scare tactics used to render eastern ports comatose anytime they start picking up serious activities.

I mean the arms confiscated are the normal double barrel guns used by almost everyone in Nigeria. Such has been confiacted endless times at Lagos, but it wasn't used as an excuse to maling the Lagos ports. As per your jibe about another project like the second Niger bridge after 50 years, i will reply you when Oshogbo or your Abeokuta starts to trash Onitsha and Aba .

Mgbu!

Ikaeniyan0:
Jonathan built a river port at Onitsha, there's Onne port at Rivers state and there's calabar port at Cross River state.

honeyB2018:
One of the most idiotic post I have ever seen on this platform. So useless.

Nice2023:
Not just a grave yard but desolate area.

honeyB2018:
One of the most idiotic post I have ever seen on this platform. So useless.