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PROUDIGBO:
Latest on Abakaliki super mall.

I daresay, i'm mightily impressed with how it's all coming together nicely. Wasn't initially a fan of all these multi-colours and lights that Umahi seems to like, but i guess it doesn't look bad they way they've done it here.

Clip courtesy Plausible Ken: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf6LOl0JyveuYxXtsqj8ng


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PePbvEFBmlM

Very beautiful and classy!!

Oyedepo is the only clergy that seems to understand what is going on. The rest are too fixated on tithe to see what is brewing.

Believe me, not a few Northerners are happy with the development in Afghanistan and most of them also wish same could happen to Nigeria. But unfortunately for them, they can only succeed in the North!

Ariani:
The guy you are replying is lacking in sense like most of them from those clime.
Their Igbophobia always make them talk without their brains.

The funny lots have not understood that Anambra basin and Dahomey basin are among the beneficiaries of this new PIB and that's the North strategically carrying the two legs of the tripod along .

The funny Clarke is calling for southern unity so that his Niger Delta can corner "Awa Oyel" . He is a joker.

The only unity that will happen will be Ndiigbo ensuring Anambra basin got enough allocation, while Yorubas ensure Dahomey basin gets enough allocation.

These lots don't seem to understand that the era Ndiigbo played the senseless "Our brother" politics is gone.
Charles Ogbu wrote an article condemning this PIB the other day on his Facebook page, you need to see how many Igbos descended on him, reminding him that it's none of our business, and that even though Abia and Imo will lose a bit, we will gain it all back through Anambra basin.
What happens to the Niger Deltans should be none of the Igbo man concern, if anything we should be using them to blackmail the North into assigning enough allocation to Anambra basin.
We should be like: Assign Enough allocation to Anambra basin or we join Niger Deltans to cry injustice over the PIB. Then we follow it up by joining Clarke and other clowns from those Region to condemn the bill and shout as loud as possible, and once the North feel the heat, they would come to us to negotiate, and on the negotiation table, our demand would be for them to increase our Anambra basin allocation in exchange to us leaving the Niger Deltans to carry their own cross. And once this is met, we leave Clarke and his clowns in the lurch and even ridicule their condemnation of the PIB as act of greediness from them , while praising the bill as best for one NIGERIA Unity.
These people never see anything.

It's about time Ndiigbo learn how to start playing ruthless politics in this country. About time we use the miseries of other groups to negotiate for our betterment like they have all done to us.
It's time emotional politics give way for ruthless pragmatic politics geared towards protecting and pursuing Igbo interests, even if it means other non Igbo groups bleed to death.
We are a majority and must start acting like one.

Ndiigbo, Taa bu kwa gbo!

Honestly, we have played enough big brother role to an undeserving group. The pattern of wicked politics you outlined is what they've been playing since against Igbos right from independence! How and why they see Igbos as their adversary whom they must should be at loggerheads with is what baffles me.

They see us challenging the status quo in Nigeria and feel it's because Igbos are suffering while they have it better. If they are reasonable enough, they would know that Niger Delta people are the ones suffering the most under "one Nigeria". They've been losing a lot without gaining anything in return!

To me, if not for the threats of islamization/fulanization and the killings it is causing as well as how it is regarding our collective growth, I would have preferred that Nigeria remains together! At least, we will be free to have access to a market of 200 million people and leveraging our comparative advantage, most of the proceeds will still be sent to our region!

The same old man without sense called Clark was recently attacking IPOB for no good reason. They always find it fashionable in using anti Igbo rhetorics to measure up and show the North how loyal they are. Now same unreasonable Clark is calling for Southern solidarity but he forgot that Igbos and Yorubas were actually carried along through Dahomey and Anambra basins. These people will cry blood someday, their future generations will curse on their graves in anguish. Aside Akwa Ibom that is seeing some development, the rest are stagnated at best or even retrogressing! P.H and Warri today are not significantly better today than years ago! It used to be Lagos, P.H, and Warri in terms of economic development but today it is now Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna etc while only oil exploration/exploitation activities that makes P.H to be heard.

In the coming years, they will look back at how Nigeria used and abused them, and cry bitterly but it would be too late then.

But he has been eating fura and chewing gworo all these while fulanis were killing others. We even saw a picture where he was picking his teeth after a delicious meal but now the people of Plateau decided to return the favor, he suddenly lost appetite.

Buhari is indeed trying to surpass Uthman Dan fodio

obehi247:
i we reply most of you guys that quote me with the same write-up so that you all get the notification together.
the same way ojukwu lead 3 millon igbo to their death and then ran away, is the same way most of you we end.

Ojukwu also thought he would win the war and ended up a loser.

Most of you just talk without thinking. Nnamdi Kanu today is the detention facility of the dss with all of his talking without thinking and all the Unknown gun men are now automatically mute or completely dead.

Where is ths American that want to help you fight for Biafra.

Incase you dont know benin republic have military pac with france so as the francophone africa country, Nigeria can not just invade them...

The way and manner some of you think, the imaginary independent state of Biafra and Oodua can never the achieved.

The tigra region of ethiopia have other regions in the same ethiopia supporting there struggle.

If you think you can get the independent you deserve from the Nigeria state because you are brave and all knowth, what are you still waiting for, get it now and stop coming to nairaland to say rubbish. Get it without involving the SS and ND people. Why wait for the SS and ND people to join you get your independent state when you have spine's and can get the job done alone. Mo.ron everywhere

You're obviously not just a semi iliterate, but also lacking in natural wisdom.

You're against IPOB that is trying to unite SE and SS while extending an olive branch to SW all in an effort to confront the North, yet at the same time asking for southern unity. What sort of confusion and foolishness is that? Some of you minorities find it fashionable to condemn IPOB and antagonize Igbos while giving the North the impression that you're with them. Yet they keep abusing and exploiting you guys. At least, Igbos have movements that are actively working to break up Nigeria, where are the movements from your own region fighting for your own rights? Your militants are nothing but a band of selfish men seeking to enrich their own pockets and that's why individuals like Tompolo or Asari will go to sleep each time they're giving some Ghana-must-go bags of money or some ridiculous pipeline protection contract.

Even if you don't like Igbos or don't want to share an independent country with them (I also personally want an only Igbo nation), the wise thing to do is it not to align with them, get what you want and be on your own? Smart people all over the world are known to unite with those they're not even friends with if it will help them to conquer a common enemy.

Look around you today in Niger Delta, does that region appear like one of the world's major oil regions? The ND has pumping out crude oil in excess of 2 million barrels per day for decades now yet all around you is poverty, decay, pollution and hopelessness! You watch helplessly as the proceeds of what is gotten from your backyard is taken away to benefit others in the North and even foreigners in Niger rep while you're stuck in terrible conditions.

FYI, Niger Delta people are the biggest losers in this "one Nigeria" but you guys don't even know it but I will explain to you. The glass ceiling placed on Igbos are also placed on you guys! However, while Yorubas are gaining from Nigeria through Lagos, Igbos are also gaining from Nigeria by having our people in every nook and cranny providing goods and services, and the bulk of the proceeds remmitted to our region. It has also helped us to have the highest concentration of middle class to rich people in Nigeria. But can you tell me exactly what you Niger Deltans are gaining from Nigeria? 87% of your wealth is taken away while you're given a miserable 13%! Now, they've taken another 30% while given you 3%! As if that wasn't enough insult, they also smuggled Kano and Kaduna to be part of oil producing states even when they don't produce a drop of oil Noe juju be that

In your myopic reasoning, you all assumed that Igbos are the ones suffering most in Nigeria because we are the ones challenging the status quo. However, that's fallacy! Igbos are not happy because they know that things can and should be better than what we have in Nigeria.

You condemn Igbos and condemn IPOB for using the wrong strategy, yet you don't even have a single movement working to save your asses talk more of having a strategy.

I bet you, you guys have 600 years of sufferness to pass through if you continue like this.

obehi247:
i know most of our brothers in the southern Nigeria want the SS or ND to be part of their struggle for secession but it can not happen because we believe in a better system. We don't want the nation state of either Biafra or Oodua we want a United States Of Southern Nigeria.

I have read most comment, especially from the biafra people wanting SS to be part of the Biafra struggle but in reality, it would not work.

If the southern states are divided into biafra and Oodua the north can still easy conquer the two state, one at a time. We in the SS know this and we are very careful not to be at the losing side.

But if collectively we are all united, we have a better fighting and winning chance.

Most of the comment i do read is just people say things without thinking it through and strategizing.

Give the SS or ND people a better proposal and see if Nigeria would not end within a short period. Don't get me wrong, we can not do it along and we can not do it sectionally. We need the collective unity of southern Nigeria with strategic cooperation from the north especially the midbelt and Nigeria would be a done deal...

There are certain things i can not say here, but we need a covert system to share ideas and information

I just hope people with such timid and coward mindset are in the minority in your zone or else it is finished for you guys. How you wrote this self deprecating and cowardly drivel with confidence is what baffles me more.

If your almighty Northern Nigeria was formidable, why did it have to rely on foreign powers to fight a Biafra that was blockaded and had no weapons yet the Nigerian side lost more combatants at the war front than Biafra did. Nigeria had to resort to bombing soft targets like schools, hospitals, markets and homes to get even! Why not pick history books about the civil war and read, black man?!

Right now, the Tigray region of Ethiopia that is actually a minority in that country just like Tiv, Ijaw or Ibibio are in Nigeria are currently pummeling Ethiopian federal army, with thousands of Ethiopian soldiers already held hostage by the Tigrayans!!

If the Tigrayans have your type of timid and cowardly mindset, they won't even imagine going into war against Ethiopia when they're just a minority. It is your type of mindset that will ensure you guys remain in slavery till thy kingdom come.

FYI, Yorubas and Igbos were tactically included through Dahomey and Anambra basins respectively, so it is the Niger Delta that are 100% losers here!

You're still fixated with Biafra and Oduduwa wanting you to be with them whether real or imagined yet you can't fight for yourself and worse still don't even believe in yourself while elevating your enemy as indomitable.

What a shame, tufiakwa!!!

Ndi eriri eri. So the old man is just realizing now or what?

SLAVES!!!

Abfinest007:
Afghanistan loading gradually

Northern Nigeria is already worse than Afghanistan. That's a fact!!

Crazychris:
It can't stand seeing a naked woman. After we discovered this, everytime ijaw people bring war to us some of our women will go naked and face them and bullets will be able to penetrate them.

Did you actually believe this concocted tales by moonlight fables? You want to send your naked women to go and fight

No be free pussy be that

I think this is a more balanced fight unlike the Itshekiri vs Ijaw fight.

If I am to place a bet, I will go for as sure odd

Bini people will bring cultists and Ijaw people will bring militants.

This is ridiculous and alarming!
The responses are even more tragic!!

"When the commissioner called and narrated what happened, the native source appologized....."

"The commissioner said he will speak at the appropriate time..."

Like seriously? An assassination attempt was made at a commissioner by agents of state who are too foolish, too stupid and too irresponsible yet these are the reactions we are getting?? No anger whatsoever??

This commissioner is not even reconciling the fact that he would have been in the morgue now, stone dead! From the look of things he will just wait for Sunday so he can donate a cow for Thanksgiving in church.

Irresponsible fools everywhere!

This is madness! I don't know who may be responsible for this, but it's madness to kill oil workers for no reason.

galaxylauncher:
[s]We are promoters but try to promote in Owerri. But truth be told Owerri is not just ugly but most of its roads are in bad shape. Okorocha was a failure. Igbos leaders are failures [/s]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtw2hiO0XW8

No time for fools

Juliusmalema:
[s]
Come and pack your people constituting nuisance in Anambra so they can return to beautiful Owerri. They are too much already.[/s]

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No time for fools!

Juliusmalema:
[s]
Come and pack your people constituting nuisance in Anambra so they can return to beautiful Owerri. They are too much already.[/s]

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sanctity454:
Nice postulation, I read somewhere that the state ministry of tourism is proposing Nworie Riverside park but I don't know the details of the project. I wish it incorporate what you just suggested.

Good to know they're proposing something in that direction, but it must be grand! Even if it means going in partnership with private investors or concessioning. No half measures!

galaxylauncher:
Owerri


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtw2hiO0XW8

You really must be sick and suffering from gross inferiority complex.

Imo people are civilized and has no time for fools but you guys must not take it for granted.

Owerri is the most beautiful city in Igboland, you can die if it pains you!

When I see all the potentials wasting away in Owerri, it always makes me want to go crazy.

Firstly, I want to appreciate the efforts of government in beautification of roads within Owerri and it is amazing how it is fast changing the outlook of the city. The interesting thing is that these are just remedial works yet its impact is far reaching!

Owerri is about the only city where outsiders always troop to yet it has very little or no tourism attractions with only the Nekede zoo available. The state government should do the following to augment the Owerri urban renewal and boost tourism:

1. Please and please, why can't that area around Akachi tower and Otamiri be turned into a massive botanical gardens? Restore that tower, bring all kinds of flowers and tree plants, build bamboo tents and create beautiful paths with White sands. Some of those bamboo tents can be rented out for restaurant and bars. With the entire area barricaded with entrance gate and car park.

2. If you're driving from Warehouse towards Control, and you see that wide Nworie river and its beauty wasting away, can make anyone feel bad. Plant coconut trees along the banks of that river and use white sands to cover the banks, you automatically have an exotic beach within the city! Then build bamboo tents behind it that can be rented out to food vendors, bars and other related services. Make sure it's well iluminated with colourful lights for night activities too. Bring a couple of boats that will be providing rides for a fee. Add children arena with all those play things. Make it accessible with a car park.

These things won't cost billions of naira but their impact on Owerri would be massive. Owerri already has probably the most vibrant night life in Nigeria. But that can't be the only viable tourism attraction!

Now that the roads are looking beautiful with its wideness and aesthetics, doing these 2 things I mentioned here will boost Owerri's appeal as a place to be for fun seekers and also help to attract more investments.

Grace001:
This is the result of using substandard materials to construct a bridge.

Abeg let’s call a spade a spade, Nigeria is a failed state.

Some mumu will still be deceiving themselves saying otherwise

A very failed state indeed and that's why Charles Darwin's theory is taking place with many people dying everyday.

Buckeyemedia1:
[s]Quite obvious your parents meeting each other was a mistake. [/s]

You're no different from other Boko Haram and fulani bandits terrorising the North, vermins!

The parents that gave birth to you and the others obviously caused serious damage to humanity. Spits.

EndNigeriaNoow:
the present condition of Afghanistan will happen to Nigeria very very soon if you all don't support the movement to end Nigeria now.

It will ultimately, but by then Biafra would have either broken away or would use the momentum to break free.

There is a renewed Islamic uprising in the North, with Kano as its epicenter. All these hisbah activities, sharia, attempts at stopping women from driving etc are its manifestations. Boko Haram is their militant wing and just like Taliban, they will eventually overrun the North East and North West and afterwards capture Abuja.

All these will happen in the next five years!

I'm asking this question out of curiosity. In the past, you can't stay a few days or a week at most without seeing fulani herdsmen moving their cattle, sometimes even within the city centre. It used to be a common site, however things seem to have changed. I can't remember the last time I saw fulani herdsmen either in the city or even in the surrounding rural areas.

Now, considering that SE governors once banned open grazing which we all thought was empty rhetoric. Likewise, IPOB and ESN have equally warned the Herdsmen to stay away from Igboland and were clamping down on them in the bushes before they had clashes with the police.

So, what could be the reason why fulani herdsmen appear to be avoiding Igboland?

This looks but fulani on fulani crime. However, if it potentials victims trying to be proactive then it's called self preservation.

Biased fools, until you compile the list of other men, women and children killed by fulani herdsmen in the most horrendous way, then you can shove your list where the sun doesn't shine.

No life is more important than the other!!

Where is the picture you talked about?

Nigeria is living its last years as a nation.

More global attention to secessionists

Political Factors:

When it rains, it pours and I can tell you it's about to pour cats and dogs in Nigeria. The cloud is gathering ominously and the heavens will open soon.
The fulani herdsmen question has not been answered and if you look at it critically, you will see that the federal government has no intention of stopping the marauders, the option they're obviously laying down on the table is for all Southerners and middle belt people to either hand over their lands in whatever guise, be it Ruga/water resources or continue being victims. Femi Adeshina even said it openly sometime ago that it was better to surrender your land than to die. However, everyone understand the implications of handing over their lands to a group like the fulanis. So, their is going to be a clash as a result. Amotekun and ESN is already operating casually as a counterforce but expect more of such groups in no distant time.

The North knows it is morally wrong for them to continue ruling after Buhari's 8 years in Aso rock but I doubt they would want an Igbo man rule and neither will they want another Yoruba man to rule. So, they may eventually want to risk having another Northerner succeed Buhari but that's where things will reach a critical mass. Remember, a hungry man is an angry man and most Nigerians will be hungry and hopeless at this point. Already, there is a growing sentiment across Southern Nigeria that North is leeching on us and the anger will eventually boil over. Already, I can tell you that most people have lost hope that Nigeria will get better and it's not just Igbos that are angry with Nigeria or North, the Yorubas too are frustrated. It's this frustration and tension in the SW that makes every little issue to snowball into ethnic crises. It happened in Ibadan and Ibeshe, in the latter lots of Dangote trucks were burnt down. These are signs of increasing anger and intolerance and there is going to be more of such spontaneous violent acts going forward.

The North knows it has benefitted so much from South and doesn't want break yet ironically, the same North is against any form of restructuring being canvassed by Southerners. However, it is their overconfidence that will eventually be their undoing. Nigeria is sitting on a Time bomb that is fast ticking away and their is no safe way of diffusing it.

Nigeria is the proverbial cat with nine lives, but unfortunately, we have used up all our lifeline. I'm not a prophet but I can tell you with certainty that Nigeria is about to hit the rocks! What is ahead of us is indeed very ominous and gut-wrenching.

All the indices points to a cul-de-sac, a dead end for the entity called Nigeria. Now let me point out the economic and political factors that are going to bring terrible consequences for this country.

Economic factors:
We are now living on borrowings, have accumulated debts we have no hope of paying back and worse still, we would continue to borrow more or else the country will collapse. The federal government has been desperately battling to contain the psunami that is hitting us on every side and it appears they're now almost at their wit's end. VAT on anything taxable, increase of fuel price to a possible 400/l, increase on cooking gas, increase on kerosene, return of toll gates on our highways, increase on electricity tarrif, and alarming increase on food and virtually so many others I can't list here due to space, then you know the irony? The people who are at the receiving end are facing an inversely proportional decrease in income!! People's savings are going down everyday i.e. for those that still have savings.

Now, if these terrifying situation is a passing phase, it would have been easy to endure but hello? This is a new normal that is going to get worse in the months and years to come! For the first time in living memory, people are finding food as a luxury they can hardly afford and famine is now looming dangerously.

Very soon, the government will short-circuit on itself, and it will find it impossible to service the massive loans it has accumulated, and lenders like China will either start seizing assets based on their loan terms/agreements with Nigeria. More workers both federal and state will be laid off to reduce recurrent expenditure. The middle class will become extinct and we may end up with 80% extreme poor, 15% poor and 5% rich. Kwashiorkor and marasmus ridden children will start appearing on television especially in the North and food aid programs will be airlifting food to Nigeria in an effort to save millions from starving to death.

Political Factors:

adadike:
[s]ihedioha, that short mbaise man is the culprit here and he better be warned to stop now. Innocent people are dying coz if we open his case, there will be no hiding place for him[/s]

This small girl is on her period again. You better be careful of what you say online, ignorance is never an excuse in the court of law.

SlayerForever:
I doubt the police killed any of them.

My sentiments exactly!
If they killed anyone, they would have been quick in showing their dead bodies with guns lying on them.

Walahi, you sabi this people

Jones4190:
All [s]things are possible under buhari administration.
God bless Buhari
God bless ibiom.[/s]

It seems you can't read and comprehend well, the bastard of Daura has no hand in this. It is a collaborative effort between the Akwa Ibom state government and Mr. Chukwu, the owner of Virgin Forest Energy LTD.