As a veritable Igbo man, I am not ashamed to be labelled a tribalist if my tribalism is about advocating for Igbos to invest first in Igboland before doing so elsewhere outside Igboland. There are only few Yoruba and virtually no Hausa-owned companies in igboland. Why should Igbos invest masively in those places?

Kudos to all Igbos who invest their wealth more in Igboland than outside Igboland. That is the way to self-develop your region. I really give no damn about anything non-Igbo in Nigeria. I nether hate nor love them. I am indifferent to them. Call me a tribalist, who cares?

modath:


This right here is what kill me about SE folks, you are wailing about marginalization while right within yourselves there exists caste & intra ethnic strife !!!

Wish they could get that utopia & we watch from the sidelines. No playa hating necessary, they will do themselves bad, all by themselves..

The Ezza ibo and Ezilo ibo in Ebonyi state slaughters themselves at the slightest provocation

The Aguleri ibo and Umuleri ibo in Anambra state use to kill each other for fun

The Ngwa ibo in Abia state are human flesh eating cannibals

The Mbaise ibo in Imo state have the highest number of witches in the whole world

The Arochukwu ibo in Abia state are fake ibo

The Osu ibo are Amadioha's food

GstringAngela:
The Ezza ibo and Ezilo ibo in Ebonyi state slaughters themselves at the slightest provocation

The Ngwa ibo in Abia state are human flesh eating cannibals

The Mbaise ibo in Imo state have the highest number of witches in the whole world

The Arochukwu ibo in Abia state are fake ibo

The Osu ibo are Amadioha's food

Ife and modakeke comes to mind. You are a simpleton

astrodome:


Ife and modakeke comes to mind. You are a simpleton

missed call
I am not from Ife nor Modakeke neither am I a Yoruba .............. Eric Umeofia does not want to invest in the SE because he is an Osu ibo. He is afraid of going back to iboland. He does not want the evil ibo gods to feed on his flesh

GstringAngela:
missed call
I am not from Ife nor Modakeke neither am I a Yoruba .............. Eric Umeofia does not want to invest in the SE because he is an Osu ibo. He is afraid of going back to iboland. He does not want the evil ibo gods to feed on his flesh

Urhobo versus Ijaw
Urhobo versus Itshekiri
Ibibio versus Annang
Fulani versus Plateau people
Fulani versus Tiv
Boko Haram versus other northerners including fellow muslims

These are all love stories, yes?

You sound very foolish.

astrodome:


Here him, himself

what you pointed out didn't prove that he started his business abroad as u claim earlier. But let me help u with a link to prove that he first made it in sokoto before anywhere.
Interestingly, Eric started business in Sokoto state, around 1982, specialising in spare parts. He was a World Bank’s consultant, receiving supplies for projects supported by the bank. Later, he started dealing in fire extinguishers
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/the-tomato-king/217121/
This guy speaks hausa fluently and even from his attire above is similar with what pmb wears. The sokoto governor have to go to his plant in lagos for visit.

astrodome:


Urhobo versus Ijaw
Urhobo versus Itshekiri
Ibibio versus Annang
Fulani versus Plateau people
Fulani versus Tiv
Boko Haram versus other northerners including fellow muslims

These are all love stories, yes?

You sound very foolish.

Lol at the TKO you delivered! Please add the latest love between Share (Yoruba) and Tsaragi (Nupe) peoples

https://www.nairaland.com/2840107/war-kwara-between-yoruba-nupe#41619719

caprini1:
The genesis of this mans wealth started from sokoto,in fact he speaks Hausa better than Igbo.....he has invested in all geo political region in Nigeria.Pls let him be.

people go just dey one corner dey yarn rubbish..who told you he speaks better Hausa than Igbo? Have you heard him speaking english before? What accent do you hear when he speaks it?

asha80:
people go just dey one corner dey yarn rubbish..who told you he speaks better Hausa than Igbo? Have you heard him speaking english before? What accent do you hear when he speaks it?

I tell you because he is my " nwadi ana" ask someone to translate it for you,if you are not Igbo.

astrodome:


You lie. He was abroad before returning to Nigeria. Read that article with an open mind

Guy park well....His name is Eric Umeofia from ebenator Amichi ,NNEWI south local government Anambra state,cones from a family of 10,...9 boys and a girl,their grand pa brought Christianity to Amichi all his siblings are very rich whatever they touch,turns to gold,even pure water, his senior brother,is Emma Umeofia (Emmab plaza... Eric started life in sokoto,drove the now g wagon at age 23...,later invested in Angola (where he actually hammered),,,and also Dubai......this is not blogging just,but live gist....so cool down.

caprini1:
I tell you because he is my " nwadi ana" ask someone to translate it for you,if you are not Igbo.

I have heard him speak English and the accent I pick whenever he speaks is typical Igbo accent..if his Hausa is more fluent then I don't expect the typical Igbo accent to surface when he speaks English...i dont doubt your relationship with him

asha80:
I have heard him speak English and the accent I pick whenever he speaks is typical Igbo accent..if his Hausa is more fluent then I don't expect the typical Igbo accent to surface when he speaks English...i dont doubt your relationship with him

I get you...the Igbo accent thing is in built...watch Soludo speak,sometimes the thick Igbo accent shows up

Yorubas are confused ppl. They say igbos own only 2x2 shops but when a ownership of a big company is unveiled and he is igbo, they change tune and start asking why did he not invest in SE, but they will never ask such if it was one yeye white man. they are yet to wake up to the era of global competition.

astrodome:


Urhobo versus Ijaw
Urhobo versus Itshekiri
Ibibio versus Annang
Fulani versus Plateau people
Fulani versus Tiv
Boko Haram versus other northerners including fellow muslims

These are all love stories, yes?

You sound very foolish.

kwara is on a killing spree as we speak.

astrodome:
As a veritable Igbo man, I am not ashamed to be labelled a tribalist if my tribalism is about advocating for Igbos to invest first in Igboland before doing so elsewhere outside Igboland. There are only few Yoruba and virtually no Hausa-owned companies in igboland. Why should Igbos invest masively in those places?

Kudos to all Igbos who invest their wealth more in Igboland than outside Igboland. That is the way to self-develop your region. I really give no damn about anything non-Igbo in Nigeria. I nether hate nor love them. I am indifferent to them. Call me a tribalist, who cares?

I concur with this.

They complain of high taxes and ridiculous levies yet they won't invest at least a portion of the businesses at home. Everyday they are taunted and told to go home yet they won't think. That's why I love Innoson. God bless that man.

If we all run away, what happens to the east? Who invests here? What will stimulate our economy down here? You create jobs in other areas forgeting ur home, with our teeming unemployed youths. Govt can't do it all.

Those saying that the east isn't viable forget that where there's a will there's always a way. If we put our minds to it, we can build the east to economic greatness.

ANYWHERE but the East. That's the rallying cry of YEEBOOS

kayfra:
What a great business man. I admire him.

The government needs to do everything to protect our local manufacturers. For those criticizing the man for not going to Anambra, business isn't done on sentiments. You locate your business where there is access to raw materials and access to a ready market. Why incur unnecessary costs just for tribal sentiments?

Things don't work that way.

.
word!

astrodome:


Urhobo versus Ijaw
Urhobo versus Itshekiri
Ibibio versus Annang
Fulani versus Plateau people
Fulani versus Tiv
Boko Haram versus other northerners including fellow muslims

These are all love stories, yes?

You sound very foolish.

You do realise none of your examples speak the same language? unlike Ibos who do & are unable to find any a meeting ground despite speaking the same language!!!who now is the simpleton ..

Stop hurling rocks from your glass abode!!

I don't get into all these tribal debates as a rule but I know for a fact that my family friends who are Anambra talk about Enugu folks with derision cos according to them " they are uncultured & have too many slangs!!

I don't get that argument, wish someone will expatiate.

.

Manufacturers are respected anywhere in the world ,except Nigeria because we have not realized the importance of the real sector to grow the economy.


. Before the advent of this government, some of us manufacturers felt we made the greatest mistakes of our lives by being investors. If not for President Buhari, I would have shut down this business by now or take it elsewhere.

The previous governments,allowed importation, to the detriment of manufacturers. They were interested in making more money than paying attention to quality by allowing substandard goods to come into the country.

We found out the Chinese tricks, we reported to NAFDAC, but NAFDAC has not done anything about it.

If not that CBN came to help us with the foreign exchange policy that triggered our sales, we would have gone under. . Nigeria is not a manufacturing nation.

little did I know that it was a risky venture doing business here in Nigeria. It is riskier than going to fight Boko Haram in Maiduguri to be an indigenous manufacturer here. . Here, in Nigeria who will do it?

NAFDAC boss will not do it, because he says all is well, but we know it is not.

How can investors come when you can’t issue ordinary C of O?

The CBN governor is doing well now. I have come to realise that not that they don’t know what is good, it is because the person at the helm of affairs was not interested then. By the action of the CBN governor now, you will realize that he was interested in performing but didn’t get the support and so he is performing now. I can tell you now that they are listening to advise and by the time they follow the advice step by step, you will see how the government will be praised by those making noise.

I want to draw your attention to this again, before now they will create an intervention fund but after six weeks, the whole fund is in India or Lebanon as these people manipulate documents to take the money out of the system. They frustrate Nigerians.


Our commercial banks are opportunistic, they don’t have conscience. They will tell you their board wants them to make profits, but must they kill to make profit?They steal people’s money through agreement, but when you discover they will tell you it was a mistake. It will take them over 90 days to correct the mistake, but if you owe them a dime, they will put all kind of pressure on you to recover their money. The commercial banks are killing the economy because of their selfish interest, none of them is interested in supporting industries. I wanted to build a tomato concentrate plant in Kano in 2009, but a big bank in this country advised me to import instead of investing in the country. They are not interested in committing to development all they are after is buying and selling.

I want to impact my society and this informed my building churches and mosques, I don’t want people to use religion to deceive the people all in the name of tithe. I am a Christian, but I don’t support this idea of tithe. I give what I have to people who need them. I will rather pay my staff well than give tithe to pastor and and also those that come my way.

I have the capacity to produce, but the substandard products from China have taken over the market. Smuggled products have taken a large chunk of our market share .

But, I have the confidence that with this new government things will turn around.

....my take-aways

modath:


You do realise none of your examples speak the same language? unlike Ibos who do & are unable to find any a meeting ground despite speaking the same language!!!who now is the simpleton ..

Stop hurling rocks from your glass abode!!

I don't get into all these tribal debates as a rule but I know for a fact that my family friends who are Anambra talk about Enugu folks with derision cos according to them " they are uncultured & have too many slangs!!

I don't get that argument, wish someone will expatiate.

Ife-modakeke, oyo-ibadan, alafin-oni, yoruba agberos and yoruba omo oniles. ******

astrodome:
Igbo businessmen, especially those from Anambra, are very funny set of people. Imagine moving from Lagos to Sokoto when you should invest in Ebonyi (if large expanse of arable land is not readily available in Anambra)

I don't think you read his article, if you did, I'm sure you won't write this nonsense. And if I may ask what have you achieved in your life?

astrodome:


And your SW and Northern brothers are the customs officers who collect bribes to let them import every thing on earth into Nigeria. Shame on the customs and exercise authorities. It takes two to tango, remember?

Your Aunt NOI was the Minister of Finance and Economy who issued the waivers for importation and flooded market with substandard prpducts and thereby destroyed his business, in addition to bringing food poison onto our dinner tables.

GstringAngela:
missed call
I am not from Ife nor Modakeke neither am I a Yoruba .............. Eric Umeofia does not want to invest in the SE because he is an Osu ibo. He is afraid of going back to iboland. He does not want the evil ibo gods to feed on his flesh

You badt! Look at you!

GstringAngela:
The Ezza ibo and Ezilo ibo in Ebonyi state slaughters themselves at the slightest provocation

The Aguleri ibo and Umuleri ibo in Anambra state use to kill each other for fun

The Ngwa ibo in Abia state are human flesh eating cannibals

The Mbaise ibo in Imo state have the highest number of witches in the whole world

The Arochukwu ibo in Abia state are fake ibo

The Osu ibo are Amadioha's food

Why allow tribalism eat deep into you this much?

I bear no grudges against the Hausas or Yorubas, neither am I in support of Biafra...

An average Yoruba and Hausa screams "One-Nigeria" than an Igbo man, but an average Igbo man pratices "One-Nigeria" than an Hausa nor Yoruba man...

Believe me, tribalism will do you no good...

GOD bless Nigeria...

but how can God bless a nation where "love" doesn't exist?

GstringAngela:
The Ezza ibo and Ezilo ibo in Ebonyi state slaughters themselves at the slightest provocation

The Aguleri ibo and Umuleri ibo in Anambra state use to kill each other for fun

The Ngwa ibo in Abia state are human flesh eating cannibals

The Mbaise ibo in Imo state have the highest number of witches in the whole world

The Arochukwu ibo in Abia state are fake ibo

The Osu ibo are Amadioha's food

I guess the ife and the modakeke. dey romance dey kiss. nice try.

Look at the map the entire SE is the size of Half a state in the North and have of it is erosion red soil

Can you name his SE brothers who are the major culprits?

YoruBanger:


Ironically, it's his SE brothers who are the major culprit with respect to the importation of the substandard tomato paste into the market.

astrodome:
Igbo businessmen, especially those from Anambra, are very funny set of people. Imagine moving from Lagos to Sokoto when you should invest in Ebonyi (if large expanse of arable land is not readily available in Anambra)

Idxxt.
What is the managerial economics of that move to the East. A man should move his business to where labour costs are higher and raw materials scarcer?. What rubbish

Adminisher:


Idxxt.
What is the managerial economics of that move to the East. A man should move his business to where labour costs are higher and raw materials scarcer?. What rubbish

I was going to post the exact same thing a few hours ago, but decided to let the OP continue to wallow in bigotry based self-induced darkness.

Some of 'em aren't worth the trouble, their delusion is cross-generational.

I long to see a rich man being tribalistic and I see not one, but I have seen more tribalism amongst the poor and the hopeless. In essence, the finest method to detect a poverty-stricken nematode is by the manner they parade their poverty-stricken tribalistic tendencies.

Dear OP, do you belong to the I-never-chop classic echelon ?

astrodome:


And your SW and Northern brothers are the customs officers who collect bribes to let them import every thing on earth into Nigeria. Shame on the customs and exercise authorities. It takes two to tango, remember?

lol @ blaming other people when in fact you imported the rubbish to spoil market for your own brother to start with.


You people are grossly too allergic to accountability..