₦airaland Forum

quentin06:
yeah huge deposits of limestone, why are cement companies located in the middle belt, south and west?

Goto deal with the banditry problem in the north, insecurity devalues an area, doesn't matter what natural resource they claim to have.

the limestones and minerals in the north as of now are blood resources.

Did you not hear that the cement company in Sokoto has been producing cement from our limestone for over half a century? Is Sokoto State in the East? Your ignorance is clearly irredeemable.

Of course insecurity makes a place less investor friendly, afterall all the major oil companies have relocated from the Niger Delta due to militancy and cultism as a result of illiteracy in the region and moved to safer Lagos, and investors like Dangote are building mega refineries in Lagos instead of the Niger Delta where the bulk of oil is deposited.

Why else do you think the SE is lacking in FDI if not for her constant bloodletting through cultism, kidnappings especially of foreign workers, cannibalism, armed robbery, bloody drug wars (Ozubulu etc.) and IPOB violent agitations? Unfriendly investment climate is the answer.

So why do you think an intelligent Igbo man from Anambra state, Emeka Okwuosa, is now investing and risking Billions of $ into a PRIVATE pipeline project from Ajaokuta to Kaduna to Kano in the "insecure bloody North" if you're not just myopic, ignorant, unexposed, quasi-educated and hollow in thought?

I'm sure you know for sure, that you're not a quarter as smart as the successful Anambra investor sinking billions in the North so you have no point. The joke is on you .

Our land is blessed. Abdulsamad is a Forbes multi billionaire and he tripled his billions of $ from his SOKOTO operation alone in the core North, within one year.

Choke on that.

adecz:
You are now digressing & equating Sokoto to
a human being!! You are saying
sokoto has limestone, why didn't he
stay in sokoto to make his initial
money?

Did I tell you that north had no
resources?

I told you that all northerners depend
on south to get wealthy & so far you
haven't shown anything to negate my
informed observation..

You appear like one of those half educated
northern ethnic jingoists positioning
to be among the next generation of
parasitic northerners.

Don't quote me again Mr Aboki!!

My goodness, you're a living, walking indictment of the failed Nigerian educational system

Did you not hear me tell you we have been producing cement in Sokoto for the last 50 years? Who do you think have been minting the millions before Abdulsamad bought the Cement Factory? Aliens?

I'm asserting to you that we have several Cement multi-millionaires & billionaires in the North that made their fortune from the limestone under our blessed northern soil, across the spectrum of the value chain. Not to mention the hundreds of agro-millionaires in the North.

As for my education, without tooting my horn and sounding immodest, I've been privileged to have the best money can buy. Literally.

Continue to stew in your stark ignorance and severe delusion. It's your right.

quentin06:
he was just rebagging bulk cement, the only thing produced there are terrorists, too bad useless media is under reporting events over there.

Bulk cement from where? To where? Through where? When there are huge deposits of limestone waiting to be processed in his backyard? Something Sokoto Cement has been doing since for over 50 years?

Do you know what limestone is at all?

Do you know where its deposits are in Nigeria?

[quote author=adecz post=91165964][/quote]Where do you think the limestone comes from (assuming you know what it is & its core use in cement production) ?

Is Sokoto in the South?

Obajana?

Okpella is just ONE of his factories. Do you even know Sokoto has been producing cement since the 70's? Did he triple his networth to $3.1b from Edo or his acquisition of Sokoto Cement Company?

Can you see why I emphasise you're ignorant and lack capacity to properly discuss the topic at hand?

Stop exposing the limits of your comprehension with glee, you're however free to wallow alone in the depths of your delusion.

kikero:
Reading through the comments on the thread, the thing I see here is bitterness, bitterness, and bitterness.

Honestly, I really don't want to say anything, because if one calls people out on their bitterness, one would be accused of things that he or she is not supporting.

All I'll say is this. All those condemning the project, don't cut your nose to spite your face. This is a good project by an otherwise incomeptent government, and as such, let's hail them for it. I did not like GEJ much, but when he was doing things like almajiri school, railways, and even privatising power, I made sure I hailed him.

Likewise for Buhari.

The problem this thread shows is one of the side effects of democracy, and no it is not isolated to Nigeria. Check out UK and US political threads, and if you see the bitterness towards Johnson and Trump, you will wonder if the commentors are aware they are in a democracy.

For the last time. Buhari won twice. I don't like it, infact, since democracy came to Nigeria, none of the governments have been to my taste. Infact, I have refused to vote for PDP or APC out of priniciple, and inasmuch as in 2015 I wanted PDP out, was dissapointed somewhat that APC chose a former ruler as its candidate...as if there weren't any intelligent others, even from the North. But if I allowed my anger to dominate me, I honestly won't sleep, and I would get very sick.

And to be honest as a Southerner, I am tired of Southerners blaming the North for our underdevelopment. Nothing is stopping us from putting fire on the legs of our leaders at all stages to get us developed. Nothing is stopping us from making sure our region is investor friendly (and yes, we shout at North for Boko...whereas in the SOuth, a guy who came home from abroad with money to invest was kidnapped and nearly killed by his own kinsmen, not by fulani herdsmen, his own people)...but we won't do that. Instead, we vote for leaders who give us ourdaily bread, and then go home and forget about development.Then we cry that Dangote is not building refinery in our area.

I've seen many people yarn about 'we don't have power'. When in the SOuth (and North for that matter) most of us don't pay our power bills. Which investor is going to come and invest in a region where he or she is not sure of getting money.

Besides, this pipeline project , was actually an initative of GEJ. And as someone has said upthread, if the thing works, we get direct access to European Markets, we earn billions more for the exchequer, the gas producing areas get more money as per derivaiton, and we get more jobs, and hopefully more power to power our economy. Maybe every part of Nigeria becomes productive, and then we can safely talk about dismembering the country, since no one would be 'reliant on oil'

The sad thing about Nigerians is that we are so bitter. Yes, we have a right to be bitter, but there is a time when bitterness becomes counterproductive.

Kudos.

adecz:


For say Hausa/Fulani fit carry the ocean
& forest from south go North, them for
don carry am tey, tey!!

Since that one no dey possible, dem just
dey tiff the oil & gas with style.

However, dem no allow south see all the
gold & other minerals wey dem dey mine for north..


Without the resources of the south, there
will no single millionaire in northern Nigeria!!

Quote me!

LaZy parasitic people.

You are just ignorant.

Google BUA Cement founded by Abdulsamad Rabiu.

It's founder is a Forbes Billionaire and one of the richest Africans alive, and his billions of $$$ came from CEMENT which is manufactured from Limestone found in his factories in Kalambaina, Sokoto among other places.

In fact just this year alone, he has more than tripled his networth by acquiring the Sokoto Cement Company (CCNN) and has built 2 production trains and is about completing the third.

He made $650 million dollars from that Sokoto acquisition alone and is now worth $3.1 Billion USD thanks to our blessed land.

https://businesselitesafrica.com/trending/bua-cement-ceo-abdulsamad-rabiu-becomes-8th-richest-man-in-africa/

Stop advertising your ignorance with pride.

The trait of most igbos when they're younger & inexperienced, is to first resist and fight the northerner due to a clash between our perceived dominant nature and their misplaced superiority complex, until they get older and wiser to realise real superiority is quiet, humble, yet vicious.

That's why the naive younger ones act like paper tigers in online political discourse, but their more experienced older ones act like like kittens when dealing with Northerners politically in real life.

Unfortunately Ojukwu as a young, egoistic and impulsive igbo man, had to waste 3 million of his people before he learnt the hard way, and fell in line.

Kizzygentle:
They have finally succeeded in setting him up. Osibanjo should have rejected such responsibility from buhari. Why did he not put his fellow northerner as usual? Finally Egugun Don enter express.

Just to show politically ignorant IPOBs that Tinubu's boys are still very relevant in his administration, and our winning political alliance with the SW is still as solid as a rock

airminem:
Blookus. Never before have i seen a nigerian president utilize the common wealth of the people (private sec. BS) to subvert the system for a region and punish the common majority all in the name of politics

Blookus.

It is a private sector led initiative and is the first of its kind in Nigeria. The market is positioned to be the largest commercial one-stop hub for both domestic and export market for international standard agro commodities in Nigeria. The Market is integrated with a trading platform; Gezawa Commodity Exchange (GCMX), where agricultural commodities will be traded live 24/7 online.

Moustache1:
I think we are trouble

With the rate at which investments are popping up in the north, shows the government hidden agenda.

Why north, what happened to the other geo political zones in the country, I can confirm that 90% of Investment in Nigeria since buhari took over are residing in the north..this is bad for Nigeria Outlook

There is no hidden agenda. The FG had been clear on its policy on economic diversification especially through agriculture, but you people were too busy insulting the President to reason accordingly. Furthermore, this is a PRIVATE initiative so don't blame anyone for your inability to innovate and take advantage of opportunities when they emerge.

Moustache1:
Who the Bleep would be willing to put his money in a region which is politically destabilized, Insecurity is at the forefront...

Building a refinery in a region that has no business with oil extraction while oil producing state are languishing in xxxxxx

We are in trouble

The North is not politically destabilised as we remain the most united bloc in the country (NW, NE & NC), that title is for the internally displaced people of Biafra.

In addition, we are not sitting on our arms waiting for "oyel money" because of the insecurity challenges we are faced with. We are striving to be self sufficient while dealing with our societal challenges and by God's grace we are surging forward.

The North is marching on strong and rising educationally (enrolment is at an all time high and the almajiri system is gradually being phased out), economically, and infrastructurally, so you should face front and demand accountability from your failed leaders while you use your brains to develop ways to exploit any opportunities that emerge, instead of looking for the North to blame for your woes.

Otherwise I'll have to agree with your last statement; you are in trouble.

sulaak:
Sometime in business, you must learn how to market yourself. The North must do more than allowing the global narrative to be about corrupt governors, beggars and violence. Tell the world that the North is about agriculture, light industrial development and clean cities etc

The Igbo's and promoting the SE as a place to do business, the North must learn do the same.

Self promotion is different from arrogant belligerence. Silent achievement is always more admirable, not audio.

Empty drums make the loudest noise.

OfoIgbo:
Fa Fa Fa.....FOUL!!!!!

It must be done the way it was done in 1999. The top two parties must field SE candidates.

If APC fields a SW candidate, then zoning is dead. PDP can then bring in a sellable northerner.

Is it that Easterners are not worthy of PDP's ticket despite slaving for 21 years?

Or you finally admit that they are politically inferior to any "sellable" Northerner?

Or you're just scared stiff of facing a Yoruba candidate, knowing the likely result thanks to IPOB's foolish shenanigans over the years?

You know what? Don't bother. The answer is obvious to even the blind

PrecisionFx:
""Furthermore, none of the other two repeatedly called the country they desired to rule a Zoo.""

Jumping from more hopeless excuses to another.


"They all worked & won their elections, from primaries to general; and all regions presented candidates. From Ekuweme to Moghalu to Jim Nwobodo himself.""

More hopeless excuses. In 1999, everything was a mere formality, the nation agreed that yoruba should be allowed to rule and they did. Everyone stood aside for them. In 2007, yoruba n igbo also stood aside n allowed the 2 political parties in nigeria to field only hausa-fulani candidates.

Theres no bridge to build anywhere. Igbos have supported every other tribe in Nigeria n gave them large sums of their votes to win....There's no bridge to build, YORUBAS didn't build any bridge in 1999, neither did hausa build any bridge in 2007.

Its not an excuse but a statement of FACT.

You cannot call your country a ZOO & expect to win NATIONAL elections.

Is it your 5% votes you're referring to as "support"? IPOB hate filled rhetoric?

You must be joking. You have a very long bridge to build or keep wailing.

P.S You can do better than tell plain LIES. Who stood aside in '99? Ekwueme or Nwobodo? Did Uzor Kalu not contest in 2007? Have some shame and stop peddling outright lies.

PrecisionFx:
Presidency was handed to yoruba in 1999.

Presidency was handed to the hausa in 2007.

The igbo case shouldn't be any different.

Be guided.

They all worked & won their elections, from primaries to general; and all regions presented candidates. From Ekuweme to Moghalu to Jim Nwobodo himself. Buhari lost several times (including 2007) and restrategized; nobody was handed anything.

Furthermore, none of the other two repeatedly called the country they desired to rule a Zoo.

You see that bridge, you must build it or continue to wail.

So stop deceiving yourself waiting to be handed the Presidency like a beggar & get to work.

DEROX:
OK i believe you buh the percentage makes the difference how many fulanis abuse igbos compared vice versa

Actually those were newly coined words in response to the endless insults and hate speech from Igbos due to Jonathan's defeat. (In fact, it was Kanu himself that first called Igbos that oppose him pigs and idiots, not anyone else and it was re-echoed). Pre-2015/Kanu, those words didn't even exist.

To make matters worse, they are STILL unable to stop the insults & invectives against Arewa & other Nigerians despite being in desperate need for our votes to rule a supposed "Zoo". Unmitigated foolishness.

They will reap the fruits again in 2023.

bigfish3k:
Thats my grouse with the yorubas
Yorubas are the ones bringing out awareness to the north why igbos shouldn't rule

They are the ones going about with the slogan that igbos hate every body, why igbos are not fit to rule, why igbos shouldn't rule.
Everything against igbos stems from yoruba media

You must be joking. You think we live under a rock? Lol.

You think we haven't been following your hate speech online and through Radio Biafra? I personally was a keen listener of RB and Nnamdi Kanu's frustrated hate speech through the TUNEIN radio app.

Go and check less anonymous Arewa Twitter, to test our pulse regarding phantom igbo Presidency.

The South East is reaping the fruits of IPOB's seeds of hatred and insults against the North and rest of the country.

Yujin:
Lol. We're not confined to the boundaries our enemy set for us. We know the extent of our lands and resources and no amount of the rubbish you and your likes repeat here will change the reality. So go on fasting and praying that the non-Igbo tribes of the SS will continue to reject Biafra. Mind you, the sword will continue to lay waste your region. It has always been like that and will remain so.
How Igbos will survive in Biafra is non of your concern terrorist fulani.

You can go and negotiate that with your Islamic Biafra Terrorist leader Alh. Mujahideen Asari Dokubo, your SS IPOB Leader.

My own is to wake you from the delusion that the SE can secede and survive without SS compliance and oil. Even Mazi Nnamdi Bolt isn't that dumb

Better face your masquerade and stop seeing Fulani giants in your dreams.

“They are going to kill all Moslems, including myself, a critical stakeholder, a formal stakeholder in our Biafra – they will kill me! They will kill every member of my family, they will kill every Muslim.

“And they say go and work with Nnamdi Kanu, go and work with Nnamdi Kanu. Who is this idiot you want me to go and work with?

Dokubo quipped: “What are his credentials in our struggle? He rants. What is his badge of honour? 76 times in detention, still counting. I have not given up, I have not run away. I am not Ben Johnson, I am not Usain Bolt.”

NGpatriot:
Not surprised that you are void of the capacity to read, comprehend and digest simple English words, but I'll just go ahead and break down to granular and elementary level that subscribe to.


1. You blamed everything on ignorance and quota system, but we've had and still have people from all the 4 corner walls of Nigeria as participants in every administration from Yoruba, Hausa, Ibo and everything inbetween so where is the quota system?

2. Was Jona a product of a quota system? Were all ibo his appointees as directors, managers, ambassadors and so on were products of the quota system?

3. The so-called uneducated illiterates in the North that ignorants and bigots like you love to belittle with the quota system rubbish performed better than the so-called educated incompetents from the south, Jona and his worthless PHD was the most useless, crooked, corrupt and incompetent ever.

4. Nearly all the critical and major infrastructures in Nigeria were built by leaders from the North.

5. 1st and 2nd NB were built by Northern leaders

6. 3rd Mainland was built by Northern leaders

7. 30 years abandoned Warri Itakpe railway completed by a northerner.

8. 13 years left for dead on the drawing board Lagos Ibadan railway was started and completed by a Northers

9. Lagos Ibadan express was left to decay, to rot and ultimately abandoned by southern leaders, it too a norther to give it the need attention once and for all.

10. Zik mausoleum was abandoned by southern leaders including PHD Jona for 26 years, but a northern leader completed it in no time.

Now, do you see how ignorant and bigoted you sound?

Before your next ignorant post, make sure you show up with the achievements of the so-called educated non-quota system southern leaders.


Ignorant bigots with upside-down mentality.

T. K. O

It's refreshing to see banter based on intelligent analysis of facts, too bad he couldn't keep up.

Thanks for showing him his ignorance, bigotry and infantile reasoning in the mirror.

Yujin:
Certainly not true aboki. We don't need the SS for our viability. Any foolish group from the SS who buys into your deception the second time will all perish from your own hands. Let the other tribes in SS agitate for their own country and we will support them too. Paying some tired and expired agitators from the region to derail the present momentum of young bloods will never work. The Nigeria during Asari's hayday and that today is not the same. Nigeria has degenerated to become even worse than countries facing open wars. Asari can't be a distraction to us. We are moving on and set on getting a country we can be proud of. In your Nigeria, only fulanis are rightfully proud to identify with it because they can commit any crime and go Scot free. No one can prosecute them. Biafrans don't want such a country. The opportunities that Biafra will present for her youth will be so enormous that a lot of them will return from the various countries they've been scattered to.
You fulanis on the other hand are destroyers. All empires are known to bring an improvement in the development of the territories they control except the fulani caliphate. All your people know is destruction. Attack, pillage and burn down. No civilization, no structural improvement, monuments of any repute to show your contribution as a regional force. Nothing! See the Nigeria you controlled! It has been so degraded and battered. The life of an average Nigerian is worth below that of a dog courtesy of your people. Shame on you lots.
Biafra is our hope and we will give our all to see to her establishment. Let the other tribes choose which of the countries is more promising.

Okoro your watery epistle still did not explain how the 5 SE states (whose current combined generated revenue is less than only Kano and Kaduna) would be viable without the oil from the South South especially in the early stages, which was the question.

Your issues with Alhaji Asari Mujahideen Dokubo and his Islamic Biafra SS wing is the headache of you and Nnamdi Ben Johnson.

The entire viability of a possible Biafra is built on a compliant South South.

InvertedHammer:
Nnamdi should just ignore him.

PFRB:
Nnamdi Kanu . Please IGNORE. IGNORE. IGNORE.

Ignore? The roof of a man's house is on fire and you ask him to ignore?



Nnamdi Kanu is not as stupid as he looks.

a. He needs the oil in the SS for the biafran states to work, especially in the critical early stages.

b. He needs access to the sea, once cut off from Lagos. He also knows he can't dredge through the enemy.

c. He doesn't need a Biafra that will be walled all around by hostile neighbours from all flanks.

Now the powerful Muslim head of his SS wing says he must be accommodated...calling him an idiotic Ben Johnson ?

Go on Kanu. IGNORE

afube:
you do not know what unity is? the nonsense you mouth here in nigeria....can you say it in other countries ! Biafra will eventually leave Nigeria whether you like it or not

How naw? Please tell us.

Is it militarily? You are out muscled, outgunned, and out manned by the Nigerian military. It will just be another massacre. You have even fewer allies now than when you were defeated in 1967.

Is it diplomatically? You lack the tact, humility and unity to lobby other Nigerians to vote to amend & allow the referendum clause to be included in the constitution.

Or is it by the UN, EU, BBC, NFL & UEFA as touted by the Late Nnamdi Kanu?

Arrewa:
I will personally campaign for Any creditable candidate the south west will present here on Nairaland!!

I will show them how to play politics...

Let them continue with their Biafra agitation!

We are in on this together danuwa.

We will continue to show them that politics is played strategically and not by petty blackmail.

An Adesina or Osibanjo remains my choice.

Tissaia:
Mutanen Arewa mun yarda Osibanjo especially mu musulmai yanuna mana soyaya da daraja. Fiye da Buhari awani lokacin

Ba karya mallama.

ofemigeorge:
the bible said. If a fool keeps his tongue he will look as if he be wise. Check out buhari. Them don make am africa leader for fight covid 19. How many times him adress him nation. How many words him talk. Trump should just stop talking too much or else he will become a fool due to misyanning.

God bless you and your brilliant brain.

ChoCho54:
What facts?

The lifeless Sudanese has moved on, you should too.

Another Donald Dunce/Late Nnamdi Cownu zombie.

Stalwert:
one ipob opened a disgraceful thread to justify trump claiming Cancer is a virus .

You can never be right if you are supported by IPOB, they supported Trump, over 24 million have lost their job, the stock market is down, over 50,000 people, they supported Brexit, UK can figure out how to leave, their currency has dived several times and they have become a laughing stock in Europe that they can even get PPE for their doctors, they supported Atiku he lost terribly, they supported Cownu he abandoned them and only asked for his dog jack, they cheered everytime BH killed any of our troops today Shekau is begging to be arrested. Their support equates down fall, death and destruction. Nigerians wisely rejected Atiku who they so much love.

This is an underrated post.

100% Facts.

ThinkFreely:
Why are you so angry? Are you an American citizen?

Just your regular Nnamdi Cownu cum Donald Dunce blind buttlicker.

Trump is no doubt the daftest President America ever had.

He says things even a ten year old wouldn't utter.

Disinfecting the lungs with a disinfectant? Lol.

How about swallowing condoms to strengthen the immune system & cure HIV?

Such an arrogant dunce.