B2mario:
No it is not ideal. everybody has his choice of party and freedom of association. All Igbos belonging to the same isolated Igbo party will make everything seems clannish.

What are we going to say about the north and southwest who have voted only APC governors and senators in the last election?

We shouldn't care about what people say at this point because that has been one of the reasons for our setbacks. We need to fight for ourselves first before anything.

OMANBALA1:


Now , you see what a picture is supposed to look like and stop posting those rubbish you post here.

You are very stupid for making such statement. Are you insane?

I am enjoying the pictures. Let's behave matured because it has come to a time that we need to define our development ourselves.

NonsoWow:
You are very correct. And to add, you shouldn't take that ghostface clown who is fuming that traders pay ten thousand naira in mgbuka serious. Even on a very bad day, a trader in mgbuka won't make less than 100k a day! Yet one clown is saying that a tax of 10k a year or even a month is too much! Our people don't like paying tax and they expect to have their roads paved in gold. On the average, no trader in the big markets should be paying less than 20k a month consolidated tax to the anambra government if we want to have improved infrastructure.

This is good.

nnamdijonathan:


Your points are very wonderful and too tactical that is why many people find it hard to understand your points and misinterpret what you've written.

Thank you very much bro. I really appreciate.

NonsoWow:
Exactly. It makes no sense that Anambra will generate so much revenue from people living within the state and then gift it to businesses based in other states. Contractors who want to get anambra contracts should relocate their head office back to anambra. The funny thing is that those contractors don't even get contracts from those states where they built their base because the governments of those states see them as non-indigenes who want to steal what belongs to their people. Yet, they expect anambra government to be giving them contracts for them to be paying as tax in other states. It is senseless. They should emulate Pacchucs engineering and Tamad construction that are based in anambra if they want to get contracts from the government.

The only way states get richer is if they keep money flowing within its walls. Or else, they will be making money for other people.

Major businesses should as a matter of urgency relocate to Anambra state if they will love to enjoy it's dividends. States should even put as a clause in handing projects to them.

ghostfacekillar:
it not about raising tax. It is about doing something with it.do u think they don't tax market. They do. Last two months. Every body in mgbuka paid ten thousand naira but still there is no good road there in mgbuka. And they ave started complaining about the toomuch tax which ave not yielded anything cos they don't see any improvement or infrastructures laid with all this tax

The government should as a matter of sensibility give back to its people. If you increase the tax of a particular people, 30% gotten from there should be returned there so that the people will feel included in the income generated from them. It makes them more relaxed while they keep paying.

We as a people need to stop comparing ourselves with others because it will not favour in the long run. We should only have projections. We should be able to educate everyone about the direction the state is going. What do we want to achieve so that when you tax people for it, their resolve will be relaxed and it will not generate unnecessary uprisings.

Anambra has two issues, namely:

1. Utilization of its inherent human capital strength.

2. Utilization of its economic advantage.

We have the billionaires that are doing well all over the world. Are we managing them well? Sadly no! Anambra should as a matter of urgency have a huge economic forum where all these guys are invited. First, ask them what they want, and if it's within the power of the state to give them, let them have it for 5years. Let these people make money. Money intoxicates. After they have made money from Anambra, it will be your turn to suck tours from them.

We should push for more electrical energy in the state. Many business owners are crying of recent because of this. They keep hammering on it. The senators and rep members in the state are morons, don't be annoyed if I pissed you guys off. Keep pushing and let us get more share from the grid. So that our businesses will not suffer.

The under utilization of our people, Onitsha and Nnewi will soon give Edo, akwa ibom and cross river the advantage. We need to really look into ways of finally making these state depend on us forever. In fact we should be looking for ways 70million Nigerians and other African country to depend on us.

The hurdle is difficult but it's achievable.

hammer6F:
When you dont over burden the people with Tax, they will have money to spend on Big Business investing in the state.

e.g.

Shoprite wont have customers if Ndi Anambra dont have extra money to spend due to over taxation.

Shoprite will go into liquidation and close down.

The trickle down effect is more people become unemployed and unable to pay tax to government.

A tax should have a regime. If we need more money for some bigger projects, the state can increase tax because it will still trickle down into their pockets. As far the projects will have a positive effect on the people, then we are good to go.

NonsoWow:
Who knows the name of the contractor who did the roads in odume layout? They should be given more contracts. There are very good anambra-owned contractors like inter-bau, master holdings, akiota works etc that the anambra government should patronize. The only problem I have with them is that they refused to build their head offices in anambra. Pacchucs does not have that problem and that is why they are getting so much contracts now. Obiano is trying to keep anambra money circulating in anambra and he must be commended for that.

This is good. If you want to enjoy Anambra state, bring your business to Anambra.

NonsoWow:
Obiano should raise taxes now especially in markets. Otherwise, he should borrow from banks and pay back with taxes collected from traders. Goodies always come at a cost and the sooner our people realize it, the better.

Nonso, God will really bless you for this.

bestviewer:
The gas is there whether being used or not. The world economy is going towards NATURAL GAS.

Anambra has the largest market in West Africa. There's no part of Nigeria with such concentration of human and material resources like the Main market Onitsha.

I never said Anambra has the largest oil reserve but Anambra has oil wells.

You don't have to devalue your land just because you want anyhow investors if not herdsmen will come in and buy the lands and turn it to cattle colony.

To be frank, you and I don't want Fulani herdsmen to come around our lands. We don't want that. We all want something much more Western. Something really big.

The main market is due for reconstruction. The block and zinc pattern of business will soon fade away with many countries trying to fuse tourism with commerce e.g Dubai. We are the commercial nerve of the country, we need to show for it. We are just building the same thing the forbearers of the state built with a different paint.

If we redesign Onitsha market and infuse E-market and tourism to the area. Not only are we going to attract the biggest brands like Gucci, Microsoft and other brands to the place, we will be cleaning up the whole area for good.

Anambra state isn't making much from the commerce we are practicing now because we can't really value what each shop is making a year. We are not even trying to improve on it. Many states are trying to build main Market kind of shops, when our brothers run there, they will slowly be killing the relevance of main market.

So if we keep sticking to today and be praising ourselves. Then we are not ready to look at what others are doing to be better.

PS: I am not a lover of any other Nigerian state or cities. I just love my own place to be better for our people.

hammer6F:


Yet Anambra revenue is far better than Osun State.

One thing you have to realise is that SW benefit from the proximity to Lagos and of course the oil revenue going round in Nigeria.

Today, 90% of all investment in Anambra are owned by Ndi Anambra and this includes the industry.

How many of the businesses and industry in Ogun are owned by Ogun people?

This is how we measure development.

Do you care about what happens in Osun state? Do you want to reverse the trend that has been making ndigbo lose over 500billion naira yearly to other regions?

We need as a matter of urgency resell Anambra and as a whole alaigbo to the world. We need to break the over-dependency on Lagos. People will say Lagos is full but the number of investors trooping in keep increasing. They keep diving into the sea just to get space for businesses. In fact one of our brothers has gotten a piece of the slice in the ocean. Why, they keep seeing these places as places where their large scale businesses can only flourish.

We should please stop indigenization of industries. What are we going to gain if the cleaner of our houses are Anambra people. The only way we can get the required attention is when other people see reason to invest in our space. No one is saying ndi Anambra are not trying but the aim is, let's become world champion and not celebrate mediocrity.

Stnomso:

You know nothing about anambra.

My 50 forefathers from mother and father side are from Anambra state. So I know everything and get every information I need.

OMANBALA1:


This is Ignorance. Anambra has so much to offer ,the state is one fastest in urbanization due to influx of people.

I am not saying Anambra isn't a good place to do business, in fact the southeast happens to be the best place for any business owner to do business because of its closeness to over 70million customers within 4hours distance.

The only reason I responded that way was the way the other brother responded when compared to other bigger states like Abuja, Lagos and Rivers state. These states in the subconscious of investors is the best place they go to because they something to offer. External economies of scale from those areas are high.

Anambra state, if well managed has the biggest external economies of scale for automotive and commercial sectors. But we haven't made other people realize that, that is why even as we are growing, our state isn't getting the right attention it needs.

Anambra state needs strong rebranding. Good media outlets that can sell the image well for us. Its important we do something about these and many more.

bestviewer:
Anambra has the largest market in the West Africa.

Anambra has the largest gas reserve in Nigeria.

Anambra has crude oil

Anambra has well informed human capital.

Anambra doesn't use its gas. Anambra doesn't have the biggest crude reserve in Nigeria. Other states also have human capital. Anambra state only has a retail market which many states also have.

You have to do more of rebranding the region to be economically viable for investors.

bubu152:
How can people just come out here and be talking trash. How will you be talking about reduction in the price of land in order to aid development. So, is land in Abuja, Lagos, PortHarcourt cheap? Why are they developing? My dear, if you don't have money for land, go and make money or you go to those places where they sell 70k and buy your so called cheap land. The high cost of land in Anambra is because of development and the price is still rising.

Abuja is the seat of power, it has something to offer. Portharcourt is the oil and gas hub of Nigeria, it has something to offer. Lagos is the business capital of Nigeria, it has something to offer. What has Anambra got offer investors? Nothing but average population size at best.

Like the Singaporeans did, lure the investors with little or no tax, when they get comfortable, do whatever you like because they can run no more.

The poor performance of igbo states in development indices goes to show the dire need of smart minds in developing the region. The concrete and manual system of economy is making development run at a very slow pace.

More so, our inability to pick sectors of the economy to invest on so that the ripple effect of the development of such sectors can be used in developing a tier-2 sector that will sustain the region.

We keep moving around doing almost nothing. We keep making it difficult for indigenous investors to invest because our issues are much. We continue neglect the importance of electricity, security, water resources and good environmental ambience. We are not looking for people to rebrand the mental outlook of the east in the minds of other people.

We need lose some huge sum of money so as to gain. We need to start reducing the prices for lands so that people can buy lands and build business. In some parts of the country, a plot can still go for 70k, but in the east, even the evil forest goes for nothing less than 800k per same plot.

We need to device better workable methods to drive businesses, healthcare, industrialization and hospitality.

mktinsight:


The report should follow UNDP measures for human development which is health, education, sanitation before adding things like income, employment, comfort. On this scale I seriously doubt Lagos would rank first since it is generally an oasis of wealth in a sea of urban poverty.

For Anambra it needs to sustain the education, healthcare battle while trying to boost employment through infrastructure and investment. It is a small state and while agriculture is nice there needs to be a plan to focus on driving growth in industry, retail and services around the hubs of Onitsha, Nnewi and Awka. There is a correlation between the sophistication of cities and investment and Anambra has to be committed to transforming itself from a primitive wheel barrow and bare concrete trading economy.

This is very smart.

AKswift:


‘Ease of Doing Business’ is horrible in the East

We caused it. There's so much bottleneck in doing business in the east. The inability of we igbos to release lands for business is a major debilitating factor in business.

We also have the problem of people feeling like they won't be welcomed in the area, that's why it is getting more difficult.

We need to rebrand the east to be cosmopolitan in nature. Let everyone feel at ease to do business. I am not trying to invite other religions to this but it is very difficult for Muslims from the southwest and north to want to settle in the east unlike southwest.

We have to be smarter than the way we are holding up.

Metuh:

Nothing is left unsaid anymore but you expect the minister of finance to clear the air on her fake NYSC certificate saga? Don't you

This question you just asked, did someone else typed it for you? Because if you typed this yourself, you just messed up.

As at yesterday when the defection got to the people, you will clearly see people rejoicing. RMK is not just another political figure in Kano, people respect this man a lot in Kano.

FriendNG:


You're rather wrong because I am not an outsider. I am among the people. You cannot be living somewhere else and be assuming what is not.

Do you stay in Kano? If you don't stay in Kano, then stop lying. RMK will certainly defeat Buhari in Kano in a free and fair election. Even Buhari knows this.

OMANBALA1:
The matter about Abakaliki people has not blown over. As matter of fact, they just sent a delegation from their state to come appeal about the street name change...What a nerve!!
In my own land you want to dictate to me ?? We have definitely given these people to much space.

Which land do you own? A land you were recently given by a Hausa man just last 27years? Why are you creating animosity where there is none. I do not think anyone is thinking in such a backward manner in 2018.

You guys should cease all these talks. Let the people in government do what's necessary and stop heating up the whole place.

Yyeske:
I even think the hate is becoming more obvious everyday, imagine 2 of the remaining 4 governors of the SE taking swipes at Obiano, we give them everything in Anambra but our people are usually given restrictions in their own states

What does Anambra has that is making your head swell? These village folks with Arabic mentality are the real problems we have in the east. Always looking for who hates them.

asha80:
the ultimate mission of they is self government or federalism..a lot of the people from there who want it will tell you the present direction they went and is still going is not going to get them that..the present leadership near power as it is now are after something else

that is because like others you are pouring out your emotions here..not sure how that will translate to what we all we all desire..this is just cyberspace where people exchange ideas..if people are interested they take what we discuss here is they arent they ignore.

Self governance is a political mission which in recent times everyone is chasing. The economic direction is lacking. Like there is no economic direction.

How many jobs in the east can pay 500 workers 150k monthly? Only very few. So you see why many igbo graduate will always runaway?

The people need what the government cannot give, so they run to other people to get it. We are not just traders, we are also professionals and graduates who seek a better market for our growth.

asha80:
he is based in lagos..the problem with almost all of us here is that we argue more with emotions..both those affirming and condemning..i personally believe that igbos(leadership) is shortcoming in development..i personally believe our best was BTW 1955 to 1970...non bar one or two did what was expected after that so i do not really reckon with the present ones and there deserves criticisms they get but please i do not believe in belittling the efforts of individual igbos as it gets very annoying..secondly there is a general dearth of leadership around the country so i do not get this tales of other places being eldorado..the same nigeria i travel around abi?..igbo people are in other places na today?do we not all know the migration of igbos to other places to make use of opportunities there started early 20th century?bisi olatilo speaks fluent igbo like a native but has never lived in the east but grew up in Kano in the 50s..maybe we should ask how that was possible

The truth is, the Yorubas have a mission and you can see it from the news emanating from them everyday. They are following it up even without anyone noticing it. The thing about we igbos is that we don't take some things serious and when people see these things, they believe we don't have any mission.

I get seriously tired when it comes to igbo discuss because it ends here.

asha80:
that you assumed he is in the east also a problem when he isnt

But his mentality is for someone who hasn't been in the length and breadth of this country. I feel more people should have a broader view of this country than the way many people see it.

DawatNama:


The guy you quoted is a LAZY SOPHISTICATED M0R0N, the lazy twerp are not bothered how their young men chase yellow buses up and down in Lagos from sun up to sun down and suing the proceeds to take tramadol, codeine and patronize prostitutes while their women hawk everything in heavy traffic avoiding menacing vehicles.

It's very unfortunate our people are yet to know the stock he is made of, see how he talked down on everything Igbo. The lazy sophisticated m0r0ns

Anyone who speaks his mind must be from southwest. You lots in the east have a long way to go seriously. Very annoying.

You guys do not know that each year, the east is witnessing massive de-marketization. I just laugh when you guys keep thinking that the market is still in Onitsha or Ariaria.

Osazi is a graduate of UNIBEN. Was my junior then, maybe 4years my junior. Always looking for attention. She must have written what she's selling beneath that tweet.

She just wants to trend to sell her goods.

Igbos, the only group without head nor tail. They don't know where they are and they don't know where they are going.

They are always comfortable whenever they see bread dipped in chilled water. They build their tent there and forget that there is tomorrow.

Igbos, no old generation to learn from and no next generation to look up to. The worst that can ever happen to a people.

Igbos, where is your God!!!