₦airaland Forum

GMBuhari:
Never been to Abia


But seems to be in the news dor the wrong reasons

Abia is ever scarcely in the news for the wrong reasons. However, if you check the news you will see that most is due to state government failure.

Remimadrid1:
Op, show me the list were the Igbo's were classified as one of the top five ethnic group like you mentioned.

This is not a dick measuring exercise please. The list is all over the internet, and a simple Google search will give you the answer you need.

Thank you!

aristocrazzy:
lol, aba has been living on past glory of the 1960s. it no longer a viable place for investment anymore except something miraculous happens and there's a transparent government that is willing to serve its people

I cry each time I travel to Aba and see great potentials yet to be harnessed. Abia people are sitting on top of gold mine without knowing it. A forward thinking governor is what Abia state needs to become a great state.

It's even shocking that what is required is just the political will, responsibility and passion to turn the state around massively.

For God's sake this is not rocket science!!

Igbos are known to be capitalists and has often been classified as being among the world's 5 most advanced ethnicities alongside the Chinese, Indians, Jews and Germans. Just like these other aforementioned groups, Igbos now control or influence commerce in many areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Their cities of Aba and Onitsha have traditionally been regarded as home to some of the largest markets in Africa. However, the problem now is that these markets have largely remained the way they were decades ago.

Today, anyone who visits Ariaria will be disgusted at the filth, bad roads, flooding etc. that will assault them. Traders often lose lots of money each time the market gets flooded, and it happens quite often especially during the rainy season.

The world has evolved and commerce has become a huge money spinner, especially when it is combined with tourism. Dubai is a model example of this. However, the IGR of Aba has remained appallingly low, not necessarily because the people don't pay tax but but because of cartels that rip-off such monies due to irregularities in tax collection.

Abia state government should as a matter of urgency, go into partnership with developers to build the world's largest mall that will replace the sordid Ariaria market. This is a hugely bankable project and investors would be falling over themselves to be involved.

Recently, Shell built a dedicated gas pipeline to Ariaria and this would help to make the building of these malls significantly cheaper to maintain and thus make its rent affordable for most traders.

The benefits of having such very large malls in Aba will be enormous and it will change the fortunes of the state. Such benefits include:

1. Huge foriegn direct investments will flood into the state, especially from China, India, Japan, S.A, E.U and America. They will come in the form of companies opening assembly plants that will take advantage of such modernized large markets. This is what Dubai has done, and we have the capacity to replicate it here. Even if we are able to get 10% of the sort of investments that has gone to Dubai, Abia will automatically become a very rich state.

2. Increased patronage; Ariaria used to attract buyers from all over Nigeria and as far as Cameroun, Ghana, Senegal, Niger etc. Many of such people have stopped coming due to the disorganized nature of the market. However, not only will all these people return, Ariaria will now be able to attract buyers from all over Africa.

3. Increased government revenue; imagine when Aba has 10 very large malls that will contain an average of 20,000 shops each or 20 large malls of 10,000 shops each. The government will be able to ensure that 100% of the traders are captured in its tax drive and no cartel will defraud it since government knows the exact number of tax payers and can easily monitor compliance.

4. Increase in employment generation; lots of our graduates see trading as a vocation that is demeaning. This is due to the filthy environment where trading takes place. The market roads are muddy and flooded, gutters crisscross people's shops, leaky roofs etc. However, once these large malls are used to replace such dirty markets, many graduates will gladly go into trading and they will bring modern innovations too.

5. Aesthetics; Aba has gained a notoreity as a filty place and this is directly due to the proliferation of all these dingy markets that are found all over the city. Aba is a naturally well planned gridiron city. Once these unsightly markets are replaced with modern malls, the aesthetics of the city will be greatly enhanced and more people will desire to live in the city.

I can go on to list several other benefits but lack of space won't allow me. We Igbos don't know the gold we have in our hands by being in control of commerce in Nigeria because it has far greater potentials than crude oil and agriculture. Dubai has no oil but it is richer than the other Emirates in UAE that has oil as well as other oil rich countries.

Okezie Ikpeazu should muster the courage and political will to forever change the dynamics of Aba and he will always be remembered. Rochas was able to demolish the two biggest markets in Owerri and relocate the traders, and heaven did not fall. So, Ikpeazu too can demolish Ariaria as well as other dirty markets in Aba and replace them with massive malls.

Lalasticala please do Aba a favour by moving this piece to the front page so it can be brought to Okezie Ikpeazu's attention.

Igbo bu oke mba

So Orji Uzor is now a monk that all Nigerian politicians now go to his house on pilgrimage

Sensational headline. Ebonyi may be educational less developed relative to other SE states but it's not as bad as it is being portrayed.

I think the problem is structural and involves many years of being neglected which was worsened by the people largely being less ambitious in pursuing excellence in critical areas such as education, business, vocations etc. and equally a dearth of role models the people can look up to that will motivate them into becoming successful.

All SE states have areas of comparative advantage where they excel at but Ebonyi is lacking in that aspect. Agriculture and solid minerals is where they would have had an edge but it's still mostly practiced at subsistence level. Umahi is already doing a good job of providing infrastructure but he should do more by attracting high employment generating industries to harness its agriculture and solid minerals. Up till this moment, Ibeto cement that can employ thousands of Ebonyi people is still not functional.

winterfell007:
[s]I'm ashamed of you. It's folks like you that make people feel Igbo people are full of hate and envy. What is wrong with you? Why can't you let them enjoy their aerial views
When we post aerial pictures of Onitsha, Owerri and Porthacourt, you all begin to type 'wonderful', 'amazing' and later start rebuking people from the southwest calling them 'brown roof'. Now they are showing you pictures of coming developments and planned areas, instead of appreciating, you are throwing tantrums and stupid remarks up and down [/s]

Taa mechionu eze ure gi

Enyi, iwekwara ako n'uche? Kedu ebe amuru gi n'ala Igbo?

Look at how ewedu and gbegiri is smelling all over and you're claiming to be Igbo

Who are you trying to decieve? Go and tell your afonja brothers to stop spamming our threads and stop crying when you're responded to in kind.

iamloyalty:
Any cheap house for Asaba like 1m, if u get mention me.

House to buy at 1 million My friend is not by force to be a landlord but if you insist, you can use the 1 million to buy guns you will use to take other people's house for free

iPresh4s:
This is a part of Asaba, Camera View

What's your point exactly? If this is how the worst areas of Asaba is, then the city far above average, at least by Nigerian standard. Lagos and Abuja have places that are far worse than this, even Johannesburg has such places.

Rubbish and ingredients!

post=90885416:
Asaba make sense, na ignorant ones that doesn't know road to Asaba dey yan rubbish online.

One thing I like about Igbo cities is their serenity. See how peaceful Asaba looks with everywhere looking fresh and beautiful unlike those waste areas that is always looking dusty with brown roofs. I know call anybody name o

Akinboboz:
[s]you'll be pained to the end motherfucker, can't you be simple and be rational for once without tagging someone that doesn't know if you exist or not, at the hearing of tinubu, has if he's the one that rape your entire family, stupid mumu. [/s]

Another NFA on the beat. Your drug Lord is doing a great job or can't you see how he has reduced a former capital and a country's financial hub to a sh!thole, and people like this guy can't stop singing his praises.

Iwu ozu wuru awu

[quote author=Adiola post=91224083][/quote]SW has degenerated to the level of 1940's India. WTF, one cup of garri for each household!? Oh my God, the whole state should be declared an IDP camp already

gawu1:
Where in igboland get gas?

Are you that uninformed!? Shell recently built a gas pipeline all the way from Imo state to Lagos. Areas around Ohaji, Oguta, Asa, Obigbo etc. all in Igboland are where Nigeria has its largest onshore reserves of gas, not to talk of the ones in Delta North as well as Anambra that is yet to be exploited.

Look at the type of educated people we have in Nigeria today, asking questions a secondary school student wouldn't even ask.

SMH!

DenreleDave:
Guy I wan buy land for imo state
.

I be Yoruba but igbo by marriage.. Married to an igbo woman... Can u get me a land pls??

I can get you lands in any part of Owerri, anytime any day. Just tell me the area you want it and I will inform you of available ones, that's if you're serious anyway.

At least, this will help to disabuse the minds of your people who always ignorantly say that Igbos don't sell lands to Yorubas. I have never met any seller who had such mindset since all the years I have been selling lands in Owerri. So, put your money where your mouth is!

Igboid:
I don't think Yorubas need Ilorin or are interested in getting it back.
Ilorin in the hands of the caliphate is very important connection to the caliphate for the Yoruba Muslims. It serves like a cord between them and their Fulani Muslim brothers.
You take Ilorin away from the caliphate, you severe that cord and create a rift between them and their Fulani Muslim brothers.

I think Ojukwu didn't think these things through.


Either way, the aim of this thread is to show that there is no pleasing Igbophobic entities and that they would do or say anything to get our support when they need it.
Ijaw youths were saying all these here, because they needed Igbo support for GEJ. They know the truth but choose the comforting lies. The apology tendered here was not a genuine one. It was an opportunist one.

This is same path Ikwerres and Amaechi are hoping to take.
We must know when these by default Igbophobic groups are being opportunists and not fall for their emotional gimmicks.

Amaechi and Ikwerre have maintained they are not Igbos before now, they have never been apologetic to their roles in the war, in fact they robbed salt to injury when Wike named an Edifice in Ikwerreland after Gowon, it's akin to an edifice being named after Hitler in a supposedly Israeli territory. Amaechi and Ikwerre people supported Wike with their consenting silence.
We must never forget!

The Yorubas desire to have Illorin and the surrounding back but they are so afraid and has given up out of fear. Some of their Muslims wouldn't mind teaming up with the caliphate to sabotage them. If their own people can sabotage and frustrate their own well-being and progress, is it Igbos or other Southerners that they won't betray.

Yes, granted that the Ijaw appology wasn't sincere, in the sense that their motivating factor was GEJ's reelection, some of their people have realized the errors of their parents. I do encounter them on Facebook.

What Amaechi is trying to do is nonsense and should be resisted by all Igbos. Ikwerre people have not hidden their denial of being Igbo. They have always used every opportunity to show it to the world that they are not Igbos. Their Ogbakor Ikwerre is a group that makes Igbophobia an agenda. How can they now start pushing the narrative of Amaechi being Igbo? That rubbish should never be allowed to stand, if they've realized their folly and want to rejoin the Igbo nation, then they should publicize it, publish books, articles and newspaper adverts telling the world that they have rejoined their Igbo brothers. Then Ogbakor Ikwerre should inform Ohanaeze to fix a date when they will be coming to Enugu with massive awareness to meet with them and collapse Ogbakor Ikwerre as a subgroup of Ohanaeze, and afterwards offer a press release to that effect. Anything outside of that is nonsense.

Amaechi even used another Igboman to counter Joe Igbokwe's criticism of him, and making it look like it was an Igbo agenda. We would rather support someone from Delta North, at least majority of them accept being Igbo than have anything to do with Ikwerre that believes their origin is Benin.

omoilewa:
This is Gafaru street in Ikotun, Alimosho Local Govt, Lagos State, Nigeria.

There is a Councilor there, A Chairman, A member, HoA, House of Rep, A Senator and Governor.

This and many more streets have been like this for many decades and they are neglected with reckless abandon.

Go all around Lagos state.. all over the Country!!!! And you will understand why these Nigerian politicians need to die from corona virus or some more lethal plague...

Lolz, look at their almighty Lagos looking like a sh!thole, yet they always keep mentioning Aba even when Lagos is fast turning into the world's largest slum.

Lagos has cornered most of Nigeria's revenue yet nothing on ground to show for it. A drug Lord has kept it hostage.

SMH!

Igboid:
Forty-five years after the end of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, the Ijaw youths in Rivers State have publicly denounced the role their parents played in the war.

They, however, pleaded for forgiveness, saying that if the level of awareness and information available today were in the country then, that the Ijaw would have supported the Biafran cause.

Speaking at an Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) submit held in Owerri, the Imo State capital, the president of Ijaw Youth Council, Comrade Udengs Eradiri, stated that the Ijaw erred by not supporting the Biafran cause, citing lack of awareness and misinformation.

“If we had the type of awareness and information technology we have today then, we would have stood firmly with Biafra to win the war, but we are working hard to resolve the issue,” he stated.

He expressed joy that notwithstanding their role in the civil war, “Ndigbo voted overwhelmingly for President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in 2011 and since then the zone has been supporting his administration.”

According to him the Ijaw youth were pleased with the understanding and pledged that Niger Delta youths would support Ndigbo “when it is their turn to produce the next president of the country.”

He regretted, however, that the issue of injustice that led to the civil war “is still the same issue bedevilling the country today.”

Appealing to youth to work to return President Jonathan on March 28, he said the president has done well to uplift the lives of Nigerians, including the almajaris, who were neglected by leaders in the past.

Pointing at some of the things that the president had done in areas of local content, cabottage law, establishing of 12 new universities, rail system, fighting of Ebola virus, setting, among others, he said the nation had not had it so good in its history.

Speaking also at the summit, host president of Ohanaeze Youth Council, Mazi Okechukwu Isieguzo, said that the youths have resolved to vote for President Jonathan.

”We have decided to pitch our tenet with the re-election of President Jonathan. We are reaffirming that with our structures in the North, we will give the 25 per cent requirement to return the president to the seat, he said.

While calling on politicians who want to use the youth for their selfish ambition to desist from such act, he expressed disappointment in some ministers for not doing enough to support the President re-election bid and called on such ministers to resign.

Not just the Ijaw, every part of the South that joined forces with the North to fight Biafra, should all be ashamed of themselves for acting cowardly and being shortsighted. Fulani moves to subdue and control the rest of the country had already become evident to every Southerner. Awolowo was already frustrated at how the North was dictating the affairs of the Western region. Now, when Ojukwu declared Biafra, others in the South should have closed ranks with him knowing that Biafra is fighting for the emancipation of all Southerners. Ojukwu even pledged to help the Yorubas reclaim Illorin and all their towns and villages up to Jebba and the River Niger. That was a very selfless offer! Yet those he was hoping would join him now turned around to team up with the same oppressors to fight Ojukwu. Even the Aburi Accord that would have granted them semi autonomy, protection and an opportunity to grow at their own pace was trashed yet they kept mute like obedient slaves.

Look at Nigeria today, all the things Ojukwu fought for has come back to haunt them. RUGA, herdsmen killings, Northern control of everything etc. and all they could do is to whine and complain. Despite everything that is happening today, some of them are still willing to close ranks with the North and fight against the interest of the South.

The chances of Yorubas ever getting Illorin and the surrounding areas back is almost non-existent today, even if Nigeria up now.

The North is greedily taking everything to their region. $2.3 billion to be spent by the Federal government building pipelines all the way from the Niger Delta to the North, if this is a viable project, private companies would have been the ones building it. Airports, rails, roads, oil exploration,and appointmentsy establishments all going to the North. Billions of dollars too are being spent in the so-called fight against insurgency in the North. Billions of dollars are being spent on the NE commission. Every damn thing is being done in the North and for the Northerners yet those in whose lands the resources are gotten are abandoned.

Gold is being mined in the North by their elite and not a Kobo from it goes to the central purse but farmlands and streams in the South have all been destroyed.

I am bewildered at how timid, naive, irresponsible, cowardly and stvpid Southern leaders are.

Spits!

eduj:
bro ikpeazu till date hasn't shown any foresight/desire to modernize markets in Abia.
our people are also resistant to change.
Take this instances:
1) Aba mega mall -5 years since completion it is laying fallow and that's a mall built to international standard.
2)2015, a South African group proposed modernising ariaria (electric lifts, covered roofs, fire service and the works). if the market union had accepted the firm would have made up their money from expanding the market-Ariaria trade union protested till that idea died down.
3)etche road strip mall-the builder is yet to complete construction because few people signed onto the project
4)ekumi Plaza -this modern market built by a bank which is located deep in Ariaria isn't full for 3 years now.

point is Aba people need force to accept change. Ikpeazu unfortunately lacks the will to do such (bring down or at least relocation of ariaria,new market and Shopping Centre). unfortunately again, those shops sells for over 2 million naira -In some instances -how do you destroy or relocate such?
unless he pulls off what Rocha's did with Douglas market, I don't see any change happening
The government made a mistake selling the shops instead of leasing them for a maximum of 10 years.

yet again, some of this markets like new market are witnessing failure and subsequent abandoning of buildings -definitely in the nearest future modernisation of thread in Aba would begin
market square opened up the first mall franchise in Aba this year, with the massive patronage the garner everyday I hope more of such outfits would spring up.

Except what they built is plaza, I don't see how shops inside malls can be sold, it is only practical to rent or lease them. Also, sections of it can be partitioned with glass cubicles and made smaller for traders that need smaller spaces who can't afford to rent larger shops. That is why I said the governor can do it in tranches. He can select a particular zone/area, mark it and give the occupants a specific time period to relocate to such malls already built, once that time elapses, he will demolish it and move to another section. For instance, he can build a dedicated mall for cloths/boutiques, once it is completed, he will demolish sections of the old market were cloths/boutiques are sold and selling of such will be banned anywhere else. He should make sure that such shops are not too expensive for the traders. That is why it is important to use glass to create small cubicles that would be cheaper. Since people won't be paying to run their noisy generators or other challenges they experience when maintaining independent shops, the little added money on rent wouldn't be punishing and they will leave quality lives instead of the kind of suffering they pass through at the moment.

The state government has not shown enough commitment already. The traders union at Ariaria have no right to resist such and the government shouldn't tolerate it because they are doing so from the point of selfishness. Many of them own many shops they rent to others and so would naturally be against any change that would affect them. However, it is the duty of any responsible government to do what is right for the majority of people.

People are now looking down on Aba people after seeing the sort of environment they trade in. We as Igbos have always been pace setters in innovation in Nigeria but we are now seriously lagging behind.

Flyingngel:
Ladies and gentlemen, can you now see that all politicians are the same?
They criticize their partner in crime wh :oen such partner's policies doesn't favour them(embezzling of public funds): if this is the case why do we people that are struggling for their daily bread without the help ofthese politicians support them with their life like what is happening in Edo and Ondo now?
Just look at WIKE!!!!

Don't mind the mugu talking like a slave. The same money that was gotten from his backyard in the first place is what he is worshiping Buhari for as if it was money he got from selling his impotent cows.

RUBBISH!

ChimaAdeoye:
I usually ignore hoodlums and they can continue to write and respond to their own ignorance a thousand times with many monikers, until they wear themselves out. But, i briefly looked through your profile and i'm not sure if you are writing out of sincerity. So i'll respond just once.

I am different from you paid hatchet writers because i neither care if the politician is in APC, PDP or APGA. Nor if the state is Abia, Ebonyi or Anambra. I am ONLY concerned about the development of Igboland. I don't even read thread outside my area of interest because it concerns people from that region.

Aba is perhaps the greatest Igbo city, yet it was neglected by successive Abia governors since 1999 beginning with Orji Uzor Kalu! Thus, responsible Igbo people have continued to condemn and openly expose the foolhardiness of neglecting Aba, the greatest city with the greatest potential to propel the Abia state, massively increase the IGR, and lead the industrial renaissance of the entire SE region, and opting to focus on developing other mushroom towns in Abia state.

If Abia Governor turn a new leaf and begin a massive urban renewal of Aba instead of senseless propaganda on the internet with half educated brats, then i will openly acknowledge and praise their new attitude towards Aba. Again, i totally don't care if you repost, insult, cajole or do whatever you like about my post. It doesn't change my opinion nor will it make me to lie on your behalf in my next post unless i verify that indeed the roads have been fixed.

You're right, Aba used to be about the most important city in the whole of the old Eastern region. Many people elites were even living in the city then including the likes of Margaret Ekpo, Dennis Osadebe and several others but today, the elite and the proliterates have all ran away leaving only traders, even graduates hardly return to the city on leaving school. It's quite sad.

eduj:
Shell’s 20km gas pipeline connects industrial zones in Aba



Lagos — Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) has completed the final phase of its 20km domestic gas pipeline expansion project in Abia State, connecting Agbor Hill, Osisioma and Araria industrial zones.
The project has also enabled the supply of pipeline gas to Ariaria Market Energy Solutions Limited, the Independent Power Project (IPP) consortium that provides electricity to the popular Ariaria market in Abia State. Ariaria International Market is one of the largest leather shoe-making and open stall markets in West Africa, with over 37,000 shops and an estimated one million traders.
Managing Director, SNG, Ed Ubong, said, “We are proud of this domestic gas infrastructure investment which allows the industries in Abia to have more reliable and cleaner source of energy. SNG is committed to supporting Nigeria’s industrialisation provided there is a stable regulatory environment in the domestic gas sector that allows investors recover their investment .”
Managing Director, NICEN Industries Limited, a paint and plastics manufacturer connected to the pipeline gas, Christopher Eze, said, “SNG has put life back into our industries in Aba through the provision of this natural gas line. This milestone will open up the state for an influx of investors thereby creating an enabling environment that will generate job opportunities for the youth of the State. I am sure that many industries in Aba will quickly take advantage of this great opportunity. Our company sincerely appreciates SNG for this great feat”.
Also speaking on the completion of the expansion project, President of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Mansur Ahmed, said, “MAN is proud of the role that Shell is playing in driving industrialisation in Nigeria through domestic gas supply. Industries and manufacturing plants play a key role in transforming the Nigerian economy and this project will connect many manufacturers in Abia State, one of the nation’s major industrial hubs, to pipeline gas, which is a cheaper, cleaner and more reliable source of energy.
According to Ahmed, the gas supply to the Ariaria Market IPP would strengthen micro, small and medium enterprises in the Abia State and enhance the operating environment for manufacturing to thrive.
SNG together with its partners and local stakeholders has agreements to build infrastructure and deliver natural gas to over 150 industrial and commercial customers, mostly in Ogun, Abia, Rivers, Bayelsa and Lagos States. This will drive industrialisation, provide employment for skilled and unskilled local population in addition to directly improving internally generated revenues in these states.
With a reputation for safety, credibility and reliability, SNG has maintained a 16-year streak of successful ISO 14001 certification and has operated for over 10 years without any lost time injuries.



https://sweetcrudereports.com/shells-20km-gas-pipeline-connects-industrial-zones-in-aba/

This is good! Aba needs to regain its position as an industrial city. The state government should ensure that roads are in good condition as well as proper waste disposal.

Also, I don't know why Ariaria market and others in Aba have remained the way they were since 1970's. Abia lacks sophisticated thinking governors otherwise, they would have modernized the markets in tranches. For God's sake this is 2020 and we should be thinking of building mall-like markets. When commerce is integrated with tourism it can yield massive revenue. That is what Dubai and China has done and Aba and Onitsha should be thinking in that direction.

Now that shell is supplying gas straight to Ariaria, it is now easy to build massive malls to replace those archaic shops. With a dedicated gas supply, there can be 24 hours light and central cooling systems without the sellers having to pay through their noses. Who needs to go to ShopRite when Ariaria is just like it selling everything cheaper.

I don't know why we have mediocres as governors, these things won't cost much to build but the multiplier effect can be massive. Having thousands of shops with all of them using generators, with leaky roofs, gutters in front of shops and flooding whenever it rains is nothing but madness.

Anybody who is close to Okezie Ikpeazu should tell him to replace all those old shops at Ariaria with massive malls, if the state does not have the resources to do so (which is not possible) then he partner with private developers. The rest of the world is living us behind and we shouldn't allow that.

helinues:
You should have verified him before sending him the money...

The Facebook account must either be hacked/cloned account

The bank account might be of innocent friend

You seem to be blaming the victim and even defending the account number used in the fraudulent activity instead of consoling her or better still offering advice on how the criminal could be apprehended, is it because the fraudster's name is BALOGUN?

To the op, go to the police station along with the fraudsters phone number and account details. They can give you a report to present to the bank so they can blacklist the account. Whenever the fraudster goes to make withdrawal, they will apprehend him.

helinues:
As expected,say you no go carry this news, Na lie

Grown old man doing Cho Cho upadan

Why did you leave the message to attack the messenger??

Aren't you the one that need to grow up, dude

I watched this video earlier, and I found it so disturbing. People we're stampeding just to collect a plate of food Worse still, the occasion was the burial of someone that died of COVID-19!!!!!

Are these guys that poverty stricken and hungry to such extent??

martineverest:
[s]Nigerian governors and unnecessary projects....what is the population and the traffic congestion rate of Abakaliki that made him build such flyover?

the money should have been used to build industries[/s]

Would you have said that if it was Osun or Ekiti? Stop hiding your envy and jealousy under the guise of being altruistic.

catfrog10:
Afonjas are hungry people with no money. It's all audio flyovers and IGR. Envy that this small Ebonyi created with Osun is doing so well want to will kill them!

Afonja and hunger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g1HcYAPpUM

WTF did I just watch A stampede during the burial of a person that died of COVID-19, just to collect a plate of food! Are these guys that hungry and hopeless? Yet they will be mocking the North for having almajiris and being poverty stricken even when they are worse off.

Tomorrow Yeye Kale will console them with a fake statistics about how they are the richest region. Audio people

DenreleDave:
Cc: proeast gabkosh iamgrey5 Igbochief001 Ideke9000 lzaa imhotep RuudVanNisteroy Iceberg3

Selemempe must see this

Lol, I can feel his anger and frustration on those clueless past and present governors of Abia state, but wishing him death? That's extreme man!

humilitypays:
Those are old and dead Igbos who lived in the North when Nigeria was unfolding and didn't realize how volatile Northern Nigeria was and some of them lost their properties to Northern Nigeria's frequent religious riots and violence.


Modern Igbo youths who have sense, value their life and not just after chasing money that they won't even make that much no longer troop to the North.


Tell me one influential Igbo family still living permanently in the North today I can boldly tell you none!

Those Igbos that own big houses, warehouse and investments in Kano, Kaduna, etc are downtrodden when they get to their respective Igbo communities - nobody know them in their villages....they are nobody. I use my LGA as example.....we have influential men that return home every now and then......none live in Northern Nigeria today. They may go there for politics and return but not permanently living there.


Only an Igbo man who doesn't love his life or value his life still live permanently in far North today with the repeated killings North have carried out, targeting Igbos and their properties and businesses.....


Some Igbos are like some foolish Americans, no matter the travel warning US Government issues to them, they will still go to Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and all volatile nations to invest....they are on their own and they are usually the downtrodden Americans just as the Igbos living permanently in the North now are the downtrodden Igbos and they are on their own there

Yes, you're right. You will hardly find any enlightened and rich Igboman who will stay anywhere in the North beyond Abuja except those working with Federal government or as lecturers.

In the past when Abuja was not yet built and when there was no internet and telephones to co-ordinate things virtually, many wealthy Igbos lived in the core North due to their businesses there. However, since Abuja came on board with ease of remote communication, those wealthy Igbos now operate from Abuja and Jos. There are still lots of Igbos in the core North but they are mostly hustlers and people who can't compete elsewhere in the South and can't resist the lure of cheap housing and food with near monopoly in business.

Even when some of them come back to the East and discover how much they are lagging behind their kit and kins back home, you will see them return to the North.

This may sound annoying but anyone who is naturally lazy and laid-back will find the North irresistible and that is why you see some people defending it despite all the risks.

I can't live in anywhere beyond Abuja, even if you will pay me 1 million naira monthly. How can I have rest of mind in an environment where you can lose everything in a twinkle of an eye!

So far there are still millions of almajiris roaming around, almost 90% illiteracy and poverty rates, coupled with religious intolerance then no Southerner can ever be safe in the North. That's a fact and anyone arguing it is living in a fool's paradise.

Arrewa:
shut up!! Lagos is an overrated polluted, slump and very congested!

Kano is still developing and still have lands in abundance... Kano never reached it peak of development.

Give kano more 10yrs of massive development and you'll see a small Landon.

Lagos is filled and 60% of Lagos has been taken over by Igbos

Jesus Kristi, this guy is wicked
This is what we call brutality during the era of mortal Kombat. Finish him!