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Malawian:
We are talking about using lagos port or not. By the way, have they cleared the sand fill they used for the construction of second Niger bridge, cos i dont see how barges will circumvent it on their way to the port in Onitsha.

This is a temporary issue that will be fixed in due time. Using Onne port is good but ultimately we will need ships to be berthing at Onitsha for our own good.

UdechiHD:
You made a point. We are not landlocked. But please, Igboland is not Biafra. Biafra was a name given out of necessity by the old Eastern region that broke away from Nigeria. It never included Igbos in Benue, Kogi, Delta and Edo. The republic of Igboland/Ikenga/Alaigbo etc are names that connects with us. And this time, to be a wholly Igbo ethnic country. Biafra was never an Igbo nation and will never be. This was why it failed the last time in 1970, because you cannot form a country with people of different ideologies and way of life, else you open a window for grievance, complains and sabotage. Yet, stubborn clowns refused to understand this.

If the worst happens to Nigeria and we go our separate ways we'll go with a new name and new identity. Scammers and their servants should continue shouting Biafra for their narcissistic aims, but I and my family refuse to be part of it.

Well, I understand your concerns and they're quite genuine. However, there are issues we really need to consider critically.

Firstly, the only way Nigeria can ever disintegrate is through foreign intervention. This is because the North will never accept it except they're forced to. Thus, when international bodies like the UN gets involved, they will only do so through the instrument of referendum. It is the referendum that will decide how the new nations will emerge. It is during such time that Igbos in Benue, Delta, Edo etc. will fight to join us or to remain where they're. That will be their choice to make.

Secondly, the UN does not endorse the creation of countries based on ethnicity alone. Other factors like geography, culture, historical affiliations etc. are also considered. When the British took over Nigeria, they considered most parts of SE and SS as same region. For instance, do you consider the logistical problems that will be created should Onitsha and Asaba be in different countries? What about areas around the borders of Abia, Imo and Rivers states? Considering that villages there are intertwined. Also, the UN is likely not going to endorse a proliferation of countries to emerge from Nigeria for obvious reasons, instead they will not want more than four countries to emerge from Nigeria.

Thirdly, whatever name we chose to go with shouldn't be a problem. Whether we go with Biafra or any other name is something that could be deliberated upon. I do not belong to any separatist group, rather my points are based on my opinion from deep thinking.

Lastly, in asmuch as our fates may be tied together in the SE and SS to an extent, we should never negotiate from a point of weakness. No part should feel like they are being railroaded to belong. Some people are trying to take advantage of that advocacy to make it look like we will depend on them for survival when in reality, it is not so.

Guestlander:
No ocean going vessel will navigate any river to Onitsha, stop deceiving yourself.

Who told you so? If ocean going vessels can navigate the Danube then why do you think they can't navigate the Niger?

There is something you guys are not understanding. The shipping companies have different sizes of ships that go long distances for international trade. What determines the route they ply is the viability of such route. If there is a huge demand by importers for Onitsha as a final destination, the shipping companies will have no choice than to go to Onitsha. The shipping companies also face competition and if Company A fails to use a particular lucrative route then company B will take advantage of it and cash out.

Disgusting!!
Smart people globally are advocating for lower population so that resources can easily go round, but here in the dark and primitive country, a lawmaker is proud to display 27 children and 4 wives.

If a lawmaker in the North, who is supposed to be educated and enlightened can have such primitive mindset, then imagine how worse it will be at the grassroots over there.

If they continue like this, they will soon increase their poverty rate from the present 87% to 99.9%.

Poverty capital of the world

Gabkosh:
[s]Oga ade go and tell that to international body and stop being stupid here. Which direct access, do you know the meaning of direct access. When do you put your brain, under your feet or inside pit.

Are you trying telling me Lesotho is not landlocked, or what is the difference between Lesotho and Igboland.

Spit.

I don't know the kind of dead brain you bring to earth.

And yet, keep swimming in your stupidity.[/s]

If I were to be your parents, I will request for total refund of money because whatever education you're supposed to have attained was absolutely a waste of time and money.

You used Lesotho to compare to Igboland and you were educated that Orange River has sand bars and rapids at its mouth with the Atlantic ocean, which makes it unfit for vessels navigation.

Secondly, you were told that Igboland has Onitsha that is by the River Niger that has no sand bars nor rapids, and is navigable all year round. Also, Obuaku is just a few killometers to the Atlantic ocean (actually closer than P.H), two viable places through which we can import and export yet this Ishi okpupku that has red oil and saw dust as brain has continued to argue so unintelligently.

I won't respond to you again because I'm allergic to dull people.

Malawian:
Does it even matter? Maersk can direct them to Onne to go and clear their goods there, whether or not they used Onne. I understand Onne is now their regional hub.

Why do they have to go to Onne when it can be brought to Onitsha port?

NGpatriot:
Landlocked villages are now more strategic than Lagos?

I think this thread don descend to entertainment level.

WTF are you talking about? Onitsha is closer to the North, East and South than Lagos that is located at the fringes of Nigeria. Even Chad and Niger will easily access their goods from Onitsha than Lagos.

Is it that you don't understand what being strategically located means or what?

I pray that imports into Onitsha would become expedited soon so you will understand what we are talking about.

Gabkosh:
Shut up oga. Is Igboland not completely sorrounded by Nigeria or you are just being daft.

Talk of distance, who that one epp, as long as you will still pass through another nation before you can smell Atlantic. Ocean makes you completely landlocked.

Who is now being ignorant here.

Funny people, the ignorance these afonja people always display can be a comic relief. You guys heard landlock and started making noise about it without understanding the true meaning when they say that a country is landlocked and economically disadvantaged.

Any country that has direct access to the ocean through big Rivers is technically not landlocked! When economists talk about a country being landlocked, they mean that such a country has no means of importing or exporting goods directly through the ocean. An example of such country is Ethiopia, they lost Eritrea and automatically became landlocked because there is virtually no way to access the Red sea except through Djibouti or Eritrea (had it been Ethiopia has a river like the Niger the way we do in Igboland, they won't be needing Djibouti or Eritrea for international trade). However, in the case of Igboland/Biafra, we have direct access to the ocean! Vessels can easily navigate to Onitsha or Obuaku and drop or pick goods! Then how are we landlocked when we have access to the ocean??

Are you guys this thick and dense in the head to assimilate intelligent facts??

Tufiakwa!!

Gabkosh:
Hahaha, zombie at it again hahaha. This is how they disgrace their parents online. Come back here, are you running away , does that your random picture look like river . You must think you are dealing with your fellow dummies Hehehe.

Down here is orange river.


Weather you like it or not , or whether all of you change narrative or not, fact will always remain that Igboland is completely landlocked. And nothing can change that

Orange River can never be compared to River Niger because Orange river is shallow, filled with sand bars and rapids towards its mouth with Atlantic ocean, River Niger on its part is deep and can be made navigable all year round without rapids or sand bars blocking its channel between Onitsha and the Atlantic.

Even by the time Nigeria divides, Biafra will have up to two viable ports for imports and exports, at Onitsha and Obuaku.

Hahaha, I can feel your pains. Your last wish for us to be landlocked has been completely quashed

Gabkosh:
Hahahaha. Dumbo, go and read about Orange river. The longest river in southern AfricaThis one is asking if Lesotho has any water body that connect to the ocean. Hahahahaha.

Lesotho and Igboland are same, the must navigate before getting into ocean. Both of you are land locked

Your ignorance stinks to high heavens.
You posted a map yet you can't even read the map and interpret it.

Firstly, both sides of River Niger is surrounded by Igboland, Onitsha to East and Asaba to the West. Unlike Lesotho that is completely surrounded by SA, and far inland.

Secondly, I can assure you that Nigeria will be broken into pieces once Biafra leaves, the country can never remain the same again.

Thirdly, nobody or country can stop vessels from passing through the Niger to Onitsha. Even if the Niger Delta becomes a different country, they can never stop vessels from passing through. Doing so would be a declaration of war. There are several river ports in Europe that passes through other countries before getting to their final destination.

Finally, aside Onitsha port, Igboland also has another strategic place to build a port at Obuaku in Abia state. It may interest you to note that Obuaku is even closer to the Atlantic ocean in nautical miles than P.H.

All these nonsense talks about Igboland being landlock is something you guys use to console yourselves. Even Northern Nigeria will be praying for Onitsha port to become viable because that will help them too.

horsepower102:
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The importance of Onitsha port to Igboland can never be overemphasized. Once it becomes viable, Anambra will easily be in the first three most industrialized state. Economic activities in the state skyrocket and investments will flood the state. Onitsha is more strategically located in Nigeria than even Lagos, and would easily cater for the South East, South South, NC, and NE as well as parts of NW and SW. Even goods going to Chad and Niger will find it more economical and strategic to use the Onitsha port than any other port.

Igbos control the Import trade and freight logistics both in Nigeria and China, so it is now left for us to expedite the process.

The implications of this development is numerous because it will truly prove that we can stand 100% on our own without needing any other region and that will be our major step towards greatness.

horsepower102:
This is future of Onitsha whether the enemies of Igbo progress like it or not.

This future can be brought forward to the present if our people want it to be so. Now that Lagos as a final destination for our imports is no longer attractive to the shipping companies, Igbo importers and freight forwarders should hold a meeting and unanimously use Onitsha and Onne as our ports of delivery!

We must do that now if we really want to make our region very viable.

mauchiz:
They don't want Nigerians over there,
Even if the acquire a mall, they will bring out another policy to witchunt them, they feel Nigerians are making so much money than Ghanians, that is why they don't want them in there country.

Is only Nigerians that knows what they are looking for in Ghana and African countries.

Nigeria remains the giant of Africa, for all I care.

Nigeria is a land filled with honey and milk,
Nigeria is the promised land.
We have almost all the natural resources in the whole world.
We have everything.

Ghana should not insult us,
It has not gotten to that extent.

No country is an island onto itself. No matter how much they hate our guts, their is a limit to what they can do. They can't put a policy for Nigeria alone, it can't work, except they want to cut their nose to spite their face.

Ghana is still benefiting a lot from Nigeria in many ways. Had it been we have intelligent rulers who are smart, all these banana republics won't be humiliating us.

Ilaumoh:
I like the way igbos are now investing in South South / East instead to go invest where don go later burn the chops..

Igbos are now investing in the East more than ever before. Once Ibaka deep seaport, Onne port and Onitsha port as well as Enugu international airport becomes fully functional, Igbo investments in the East will skyrocket.

The bastards ruling Nigeria are so clueless to understand the implications of what Ghana is doing on our image. The previous time they demolished our embassy and nothing happened?!

Nigeria is exposed and we have lots of investments across Africa, both in the formal and informal sectors. When we allow a country like Ghana to humiliate us and get away with it successfully, we will only be sending a wrong message to the rest of Africa that they can do whatever they like to Nigerians and Nigerian owned businesses and still get away with it.

Teach Ghana a bitter lessen as a deterrent to others! That's how smart countries with pride and dignity to protect acts!!

What kind of country is Nigeria? Is Nigeria this useless??

ajailer:
Ghana is indirectly telling Nigerian citizens to leave their country otherwise why will you put a fee of $1mil to operate even a small shop there, even to own a business in America is around $400,000 or thereabout.

There is the option of reciprocity for us but with no data or whatever, how do we know a business that is owned by a Ghanaian man operating in Nigeria?

The conclusion of the matter is that, no matter the steps Nigerian govt. takes, Ghana will always win as more Nigerians in Ghana will be hurt by any policy that comes up than Ghanaian in Nigeria. Naija na past glory.

Believe me, Nigeria can actually hit Ghana hard if only we can put our acts together. The problem is that we have leaders that are neither smart nor intelligent.

Are you aware that Nigeria's economy is bigger than the rest of West Africa put together? How big is Ghana's economy??

Our population is about half of West Africa's population!

If Nigeria should cut all ties with Ghana and place total embargo on trade with them, they will go into recession.

If Nigerians should pull out of Ghana en mass, their economy will be devastated. Forget all the hype, Ghana is still a very poor country, it's just that they have better leaders than the apologies we have in Nigeria.

Ghana has been owing Nigeria perennially for gas supplies to date!

Nigeria can easily do without Ghana but Ghana will suffer if cut ties with them. Nigerian traders and business men could decide to divest from there and go elsewhere in the Subregion and in return, we stop all Ghana products from accessing Nigeria's large market. Stop our gas supplies to them and force them to pay the millions of dollars they're owing us.

If Nigeria has a smart and intelligent leader, Ghana will have their president coming to Aso rock to beg.

stonemasonn:
Nigerian traders in Ghana should come together to form a conglomerate. Get a massive plaza near the market to sell the various goods, register it with a name, bank account and directors.

You're smart! Nigerians in Ghana should come together, contribute money and float a huge company or mall like ShopRite and sell its shares to members. Afterwards, they can open branches under the corporate name they registered the company and thus disperse their members accordingly to all these branches.

Resemblance246:
That is just a misconception about the Yoruba tribe your people are the most dirtiest especially here in Lagos. I have seen some of your brothers in different occasions throwing their thrash in the gutters especially when it is raining. Is like you guys are very fun of it you constitute nuisance every where you go. Osiza and Akpu pikin tueh.

Lol, afonja dirtiness is legendary. Other Nigerians are well informed about their extreme levels of unhygienic living conditions.

I will tell you a story. When we were growing up in the early 90's, my family often buys moimoi from an afonja woman in our neighborhood. Her name was Iyawo. To her credit, her moimoi was always hot and tasty. However, my mother returned home one day and warned us all never to buy moimoi from Iyawo again. We were all flabagasted and asked her why we should stop buying her moimoi. She then told us that why she was passing through Iyawo's house (her house was by the roadside) she saw her packing her child's poo and even cleaned the baby's bumbum, only to return to the moimoi she was preparing without washing her hands thoroughly

It is standard practice for afonja women to have plastic container in their shops for defecation purposes. They will even be audacious to be pooing right inside their shop while covering it with their wrapper, only to tell you to pick what you want to buy and drop your money on the table

Tying feaces in nylon and flinging it away is a very popular act in afonjaland

I fear who no fear afonja people. World class dirty people!

God bless this man for saying the gospel truth. Most of what he said here is what I enumerated in a thread I created earlier.https://www.nairaland.com/6051501/why-igbo-economic-model-best#92770402

Igbos are Nigeria's greatest assets and contributed the most towards its development only for some demons to destroy everything.

Even today, the East is far better than other areas that never experienced the war.

Bkayyy:
Honestly, these "south south" people have a funny way of reasoning, the man has literally said it at the highest level and some south southerners are waiting for him to go village by village in delta and say it again .
South Southerners can brag for non existing power

Lol, the funny thing is that some of those whose backyards the oil flows, and whose streams and farmlands are polluted are daring the man to come and collect it. However, the forget that the man and his people are already collecting it since 1970.

NNPC has been reduced to Northern Nigeria Petroleum Corporation yet they can't smell the coffee. Ndi eriri

Ngorbungor:
Ok you said Ibadan to lagos is 1hr, what about

Ibadan to Abuja?
Ibadan to PH?
Ibadan to Kano or Kaduna?
Since your Oyo state is the best and has a viable economy, what stops them topping those rout? Or you think you are talking to a year old boy.

Even come to land transportation they are no where to be found, very poor people, what you guys do is to stand on the high way flying down cars and buses for cheap fear, go to GIRI junction by 6am in the morning, along Abuja - Kaduna express road, and see them shouting oshogbo, Ibadan, Ife with their bags on their heads. You can never see them in a bus terminal like GIGM, ABC etc , very poor set of people.

Ngorbungor:
That's is not necessary @bolded
Viability have levels of am to take your point, Owerri, Enugu airport are more more viable than Ibadan, Kaduna, Ondo airport. Take a look at the table below

From your table, you can see that Owerri airport is the 4th busiest in Nigeria after Lagos, Abuja and P.H. in that order. While Enugu is the 6th busiest after Kano.

The interesting thing to note is that Enugu, Owerri and P.H airports are close to each other yet they attract lots of passengers.

It is an indicator of a region with a large middle class unlike other parts of Nigeria outside the SE, SS, Lagos and Abuja.

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
Does my country look normal just look at the special forces in Nigeria. Something is definitely wrong I think Somalia special forces are better

Lol, funny guy
Well, as a Biafran, I will remain neutral here

techmo:



Ndi Marginalisation no longer have excuse

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Ndi landlock and padlock has been put to shame

Good one!

The only reason I'm supporting an Igbo president is for him to at least dredge the River Niger and truly make AIIA Enugu fully standardized.

Fighting for Biafra and fighting for Igbo presidency shouldn't be mutually exclusive.

Exegesis19:
Maserk announced in January this year that they will offering direct service to Onne port without stopping at any port in Lagos. The stoppage at Lagos has been the cause in increase of freight experienced by people who patronize Onne port. In March Maserk berthed their first direct shipment from Asia to Onne. Some of this consignment were allocated to Clarion Terminal Onitsha, by means of barge which was cleared at the Onitsha port. On Maserk website you can choose Onitsha as the destination for your goods.

https://guardian.ng/business-services/onne-port-receives-maersk-lines-first-direct-service-ship/#click=https:///kFJRPcwJr5

Wow, this is an amazing news!
Common guys, let's use Onitsha port for our imports and Enugu airport for our international travels once it's completed.

Once these two vital infrastructures become fully functional, then we can successfully implement our move away from over reliance on Lagos.

NGpatriot:
Hell on earth, anambra,

What exactly is your point by posting these pictures random pictures?

Your towns are the worst in the whole of Nigeria. If I start uploading pictures of your slum settlements, it will take up many pages.

BrownLondon:
[s]Baba say dey attract the best FDI outside Lagos and Abuja LMAO

When Ogun state alone beats your your five potopoto republic combined X 10.

South South came third.

Igboland can only compete with Boko Haram ravaged North East... hahaha.

Again, the fool is claiming Deltans and Rivers, shameless land grabbers.... little wonder they've become a thing of joke in the old eastern region....no one rates the economy refugees....

Lmao baba claiming Imaginary wealth when none of his olori pelepe makes Forbes list of Billionaires.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_billionaires_by_net_worth

NBS stats, igboland is the poorest in the South, no thanks to huge beggars colony in Ebonyi and Enugu.

Baba dey compare Igbo refugees with China which is the second best economy in the world, India is the 7th best economy in the world.

Igboland has the second least economy in Nigeria, it's a blasphemy to compare the poor Igbos with Great Chinese, Indians.

Igbos can be liken to Zimbabweans, who are all over South Africa seeking refugees because their Country, Zimbabwe is a failed state.

Just like igboland, a failed nation, the least in almost everything.

Least in the igr generation.
Second lowest in FDI.
Least in contribution into economy.

Infact I doubt if the number of non Indigenous people living in igboland is up to 1k, why would a sane man relocate to igboland in the first ?

The above attributes is what one never do well fellow is comparing with the great Chinese, Indians, LMAO.


They have the dirtiest cities in the country, despite the low population and the land mass.

Pigs.
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It's obvious you're a child and that is why you've resorted to insulting your generation after suffering humiliation with the facts I'm dropping about the decay in afonja land.

Afonjas are naturally ugly.

Afonjas are naturally dirty, the only people in the whole world that use toilet broom to cook algae soup, tueh!

Afonjas like living in slums. All their cities are nothing short of glorified slums.

BrownLondon:
The Hausas are miles better than these pigs.

Proeast come and carry your brothers ooo

Like Almajiris like Ndi Ayiyos.

You really do have a low IQ. Igbos are never beggers like you afonjas, any Igbo you see begging would definitely have one form of deformity or another unlike your zone where able bodied men and women beg for a living in large numbers.

Check Igbo cities and their living conditions and check afonja cities and their living conditions then come back and tell me if afonjas are not the real pigs.