horsepower101:


Do you know how many jobs just building 1 house provides?

There is investment inflows into the east unless you think local investors don't matter.

Our attitude towards attracting big FDI is really appalling. Most of our governors only attract foreigners who wants to collect contract from them. The other day, Ikpeazu scammed us that honda company or is it hyundai are planning to build oil refinery in the state but he hasnt said or done anything about it. Many more occasions where we need to leverage on the advantages our region has over other regions, we tend to sleep while the west and the north snap everything from us.

The funniest part is that igboland is only sharing pictures of beautiful edifice in the east. All of you have refused to take action on the lack of jobs and investment inflow in the region. Dont be deceived, many of the property owners are not in the east, so the question is, what are the people in the east doing to make money?

AZeD1:

Don't get it twisted the Russians will sell weapons to Hezbollah.

It is not a Russian problem and I don't think they will love to get messy in an unproductive venture as that. Moreover, Hama's and Lebanon are not their favorite people. I see no reason they will want to aid them in this. Remember 2013.

All of you screaming independence. What has your demonstration gotten you? The world isn't ready to Balkanize any third world country because of no economic importance in the move except you fight for it which doesn't make sense. We can achieve economic independence through smart policies and investment.

dunkem21:
Why the concern on what the Igbos want?

The Igbo's needs a clear motive. All we have been getting are mere conjecture.

The problem with you Igbo youths is that you don't know the direction you want to take. All you do is complain about everything and anything happening in the region except it is done by private individuals.

I saw a thread on southeast development commission getting its needed hearing this week, none of u commented in that thread or make it trend. But when there is total neglect, you scream Biafra!

We should care more about what is happening in the east than concern ourselves about what happens in other region.

We shouldn't be known as people who complain everyday but people who in their terms developed their region with their own resources.

totit:


Reeeeally

This should help, that's if you really care to about facts and informations and not another oral statistian




https://www.nairaland.com/3918290/yorubas-most-industriousrichest-educated-tribe
Shm

What is the economic importance of the Yoruba's to the people of sokoto or Kano? Do you have businesses in these domain? Do you have taxable businesses more than the Igbo's in gboko, markurdi, Jo's, sokoto and Maiduguri? You just stick to your region and people come and develop it.

I am not one who is fascinated with dick measuring. One thing I found out in this site is that the Yoruba's are found thinking themselves bigger than other tribes when they have not contributed one naira outside their region. They sit in their regions looking for numerous foreign investors to invest in their lands and come out to shout development.

I find it very funny that this same western region I grew up in and schooled are being termed most developed. Apart from Lagos, no other southwestern state is finer than Kaduna and Kano. I have been to most parts of the west, they only have development in their capital cities, after the capital, you are in for a long ride into 18th century village settings. You get to see numerous mud houses and some more muds houses which has been plastered with cement and painted blue and lazy white.

Abeokuta: This is the capital "town" of Ogun state. This town before the last eight years was one straight dual lane with numerous old houses around the place. I appreciate Lagos state external economics of scale which has made Abeokuta to garner many factories and industries because it was cheaper setting up in those villages at the time when one plot was 70thousand naira. Abeokuta is a developing area as at the last time I visited. The government is trying super hard to develop it but the indigenes do not have the capacity to maintain or use the infrastructure the government has put in place. They do not run businesses like the lagosians but rely heavily on state government jobs and teaching to survive. That's why the state might have high igr but it doesn't translate to a better life of its people.

Ibadan: After Lagos, I give to this capital as the next best thing in the west. Though, a very hold town, it has one of the slowest level of development. Bedeviled by the high level of hooliganism, the state is finding it hard to have a developmental direction. Ibadan was primed as the beautiful bride of the west in the 60's. It got first of everything. It has(had) research institutions to push for limitless development but going to those places now, they are a shadow of its their very self. The federal government blessed the capital with the highest number of research institutes in the country with the mindset of being a city where most of our country's agricultural and economic solutions will come from, they have since been moribund liabilities of our country. If asked today, what is the usefulness of this "city", we will be lost with no answers.

It's quite funny the way westerners are taking delusions. Is it the southwest I know or the one that is yet to come. I am just confused.

sicobamty2:
southwest was leading even before the war, first Television station ibadan, first high rise building Cocoa house ibadan.. U guys u just stop always blaming others for ur woe.

I think they should review the kind of education you are been thought. First of everything doesn't make it best of everything. Seriously, you need an updated education.

Feraz:

I read the news on what Obiano said and I was shocked. The idiot just started up what we hate OUK for, blabbing rubbish while stirring up controversy. Was it that he was drunk when he said that or he just wanted to tend? Haven't read any statement from him concerning Ekwueme who just passed on.

It made me wonder, upon all our achievements, why can't we replicate the same? Why can't we change the status of Onitsha and Aba, making it become an advanced market?

Even if you dominate somewhere, why not do it silently and let your works speak for you?

I'm sorry to say but dude goofed big time on this, even pitching sone ethnic groups against Igbos. It's a sad situation.

Most annoying is that some persons are beginning to open up topics on it and bragging about it.

Please, drum it in their ears let them learn...

Those folks in the east are really something else. Why are u claiming everywhere? If you ask them to sit down and plan for the homeland, they will run to Lagos.

Igbo's love already made food, they hardly start anything these days. This generation of Igbo's talk too much and do so little.

EvilMetahuman:
yes, 5 northern states this past few months.

My job takes me everywhere.
Shut your ignorant mouth up.

Lolz! you are the ignorant one here. Go and sleep. I will teach you telecom because I am in the sector while u are not. Glo can't maintain its service stations because he doesn't have the capacity. he should just sell Glo.

EvilMetahuman:
story story.

Is mtn 4g stable or available anywhere else apart from lagos, ph, abuja like glo?

After more than a year of announcing there 4g, a so called "coordinated company with topnotch upgrade" should have atleast covered 50% of the country by now.

Chai, I give up on you bro. Have you been to Kano and see how its fairing? Have you tested it in many states now?. As at last year, MTN installed 4G BTS in all northern states and they are up and running.

If you do not know anything, stick to your field and not come online because your 4G format is too old to connect with the upgraded 4G by mtn

EvilMetahuman:
is that why their 4g signal is till no where to found apart from 3 states after a year when glo already covered almost 40% of the entire nation?


Coordinate upgrade indeed.

If you are not in the telecoms sector, please don't argue with me. Glo staffs will even tell you that MTN are still the most coordinated when it comes to service delivery and service station maintenance. Glo is worst that's why they can dish out 5gig without you using 500mb out of it.

We in the sector know these things. Installing a particular BTS doesn't make you better, how do you manage them?

nobilie:


Lol. Little do you know about Telecoms in Nig. The small Etisalat was a big challenge to MTN before it was miss managed.
MTN was learning from Eti in product development and subscriber management.
It's the greedy Nigerian directors and it's chairman that used Jimoh Ibrahim's formulae on the company. Same thing they did to UBA if not that the bank is very strong.
Same has happened to Evans pharmaceuticals, Aero, virgin Nigeria,

The guy is right, no telecom company can oust MTN in the interim. They are more coordinated than the rest. Their facilities and upgrade plan are always first and quality. The rest are mere copycats.

Glo and dangote must not buy this network or kill it altogether. Most people commenting here are not in the telecom world. You guys are just making statement because you subscribe MB every month.

Minemrys:

yea. We accept it to be their view but then do we discard our's because of their's? We don't have to c0ndemn theirs or disregard ours unless we feel ours is wrong. Thats what tolerance call for.

With people having differing views, it means it is not a statement of fact but a statement of personal experience which cannot be generalized. A tribe is made up of people of different characters, so we can generalize based on some ppl attitude.

Augiiee:
You should accept the cold-hard truth

I believe you made this statement after 'years' of research too. It is a disastrous mindset thinking that a particular tribe are not united when in 2M registered voters, less than 400k ppl voted and i .6Million boycotted it. At least someone said something and they were united in following the command. That cannot be said in your states.

Minemrys:

lol. Very sarcastic of u bro. But on a serious n0te, ibos aren't united. Its s0mething my ibo friends attested to. Same with m0st tribes sha.

I believe we judge based on our experience with people. Many people still have a differing view from yours. So what are we going to do about their views?

okosodo:
Ibos problem is ITK. Everybody know pass each other, that is why the can never ever be united for a reasonable cause, betraying each other at the corner of breakthrough. I have been studying this tribe for years and this is my final submission

with 'years' of study, this is what ur thin head could come up with.

Very sorry..

HiddenShadow:



You are not smart enough to know why the military quickly responded.


Go and find out how militancy started in the Creeks.

So you were planning to go into militancy? Just to get Biafra? After killing all the youths in the east, who will live in the Biafra?

HiddenShadow:



You still don't get the point.


Any excuse to secede will be given a chance.


Armed Fulani herdsmen terrorism was an excuse we sought to exploit but the Fulani cabal saw the signs and stopped their terrorism down south.


2023, will be another prefect excuse to secede.


In the end, Nigerians will either surrender to the Biafrans or let them go.

What did u plan to do with the Fulani's? fight them so that the UN will come in and separate fight of kids?

Why are you guys behaving like this biko.

HiddenShadow:



Freedom is not given by parasites.

That is why the host have to kill the parasites.


We have no regret supporting Kanu's BSS to stop armed Fulani herdsmen.


When last did you hear of Fulani herdsmen terrorists in the East since the creation of BSS.?

Don't always believe your own thoughts because it might not be true. I have no problem creating security for our harmless villagers but calling it a secret service and not registering it with the govt is an affront to the authority of the country.

BSS could have easily be registered under Vigilante group of the state and no one will blink about it. But you created it and you were inspecting them like the military? I believe you and I know that he was trying to create tension and that tension made them take that decision.

We had the government in our hands and we just lost it all in the heat of everything. I believe most decision he made at the later days, he did not consult people.

horsepower101:
It's funny when these armchair critics keep pointing Nnamdi Kanu failures but none of them have done shiit with their lives. All they do is complain and complain. Complaining doesn't solve problems. Only action does.

Enough of these unsolicited criticisms and unwarranted advice.

Those who know better than Nnamdi Kanu should use their superior knowledge to get restructuring.

The man made a lot of sense. Because you are agitating doesn't mean you can wake up one morning and create BSS. If your intention was to fight Fulani herdsmen killing our people, you and I know the process of creating a vigilante group. Why was he trying to make Igbo's all over the country uncomfortable because he feels he has power over the youths in the east.

He should have maintained the stance of a subjugated fellow trying to fight for justice and not start a parallel government.

laudate:


Listen, as long as Mugabe was in power, nobody could have supervised any free and fair election, because Mugabe kept manipulating the process. So he needed to be removed. Now that he is gone, if the Zimbabwean parliament and the people decide to hold an election, no problem. It has a better chance of succeeding. And if Chiwenga gets elected through such a process, you are free to ask his people not to swear him in as president.

You have to ask yourself, who were used to manipulate the process? The same people. He used the military through the vice to manipulate the military. You are not even talking about the ripple effects of this coup. We should stop applauding coup because those who gained through that process always do not want to relinquish it. Even if vice gets to be president, he will still use the Mugabe style and stay there for years.

Ask yourself, why did the military install their man as interim president? I thought if a president leaves, the vice follows.

laudate:


Thanks for the short biography of Chiwenga. Now, nobody really cares about all that. The main issue is that a man like Mugabe who has ruled for 37 years and turned his country from a promising vibrant nation into a shadow of itself, whose citizens have been impoverished beyond limits, needs to go. If Chiwenga is the instrument that would be used to achieve this task, no problem. The presidency of Zimbabwe is not Mugabe's birthright or inheritance.

If his mind is clear, let him supervise an electoral process that will push Mugabe out of govt. He shouldn't oust him like that.

Those guys are no saints and they should not be allowed to rule. They will even plunge Zimbabwe further into oblivion.

Watch how soldiers will retire and get juicy positions.

laudate:

Chiwenga must hang? For what? For going against a myopic man who has perpetuated himself in power, impoverished his people and made it almost impossible to hold free and fair elections, because of his manipulative ways and utter disregard for the people's wishes?

Abeg, very few individuals would listen to this your sermon if you preach it in Harare, or anywhere in Zim. Mugabe has so messed up the system, that the people cannot express their wishes through the ballot box. He took that power away from the people. Now, that a different option is being given to them, you think they would turn it down? Abeg, come down to the real world. Wake up and smell the coffee.

Chiwenga is a friend to Mnagwanga, when he was sacked after months of having problems with Mugabe, he told Chiwenga to hatch their plans. For over two decades, Mugabe have been dining with the guy, impoverishing the country. Now, he wants to come out as the saviour of his people? Please read up the politics of Zimbabwe. Mnagwanga wanted to oust Mugabe in 1980.Mugabe had to bring out of the military and favor him in politics. Why didn't he reject those favours those years? Why is he now greedy?

Like I said earlier, I do not care about what happens in Zimbabwe. An action might look right in the interim but the ripple effects might be more dangerous than we are making it to be.

ja2ken:


LOL, u talk like u don't know the continent we are in..U talk like u don't know whats happening in Zimbabwe.. Sometimes, you guys need to take a second to thank GEJ.

I don't care about what is happening in Zimbabwe but I care about the retrogressive approach they took. We are trying to bury the era of coup and people are still trying to remind other countries that coup can still be plotted to oust leaders from their seats.

Chiwenga and MNA*******, are no saints. They benefitted from the rubbish government for over 20years. Now they are tired. Let them get out.

laudate:

And when the sit tight leader always manipulates the electoral process to declare himself the winner, and hounds the opposition into exile or oblivion, what is the next step?

Leaders like Mugabe need to realise that their actions would invite coups, if they fail to do the right thing. This would send a strong signal to him. If the AU intervenes, it is to help the Zimbabwean Parliament put in place an interim govt and compel elections to be held in the absence of Mugabe. Once a new govt comes in, then the AU can back down.

The power is meant to be with the people and not with the vice. The vice orchestrated everything, that means the coup was a selfish one. If the millions of people in Zimbabwe cannot vote out a nonworking president, then its their problem. It might look good in the eyes of many but evil people know how to manipulate good intentions for their own gain.

The military can advise the legislature to impeach him or they monitor the next election to see him out of office. Military actions in Africa need to be frowned at and democratic processes need to be promoted.

Chiwenga must be hang!

ja2ken:


Zimbabweans have had it rough, I believe they have seen the limit of poverty and bad economy. To me, if it would take a Western stooge to take Zimbabweans away from their misery, so be it.. Sir Mugabe was too greedy and obsessed with power, see where it has left him, a mockery, kicked out of office like a common criminal.. From hero to zero..

if they are tired, let them vote him out. sefini

AryaSand:

I was about saying the same thing. What is it that they have that the West is trying to hijack? Farmlands or what? With their poor economy and Useless currency. Good Riddance to Mugabe and his Power drunk South African Gucci wife. The both of them should be Jailed.

ma'am no matter how bad a democratic setting is, no military man should go there and remove him from power. If you can't vote him out, keep crying in your room. The military are not angels. in fact most of them are illiterates and just know how to shoot bullets.

TWoods:


Oh please stop this nonsensical rants about the West. If you ask the average American, they could not locate Zimbabwe on the world map neither do they care. Left to the average American, they would build a wall on their southern border and forget anyone else exists, other than Canada maybe. The west does not care about you, they are not dictating to you, you are grossly incapable of thinking for yourselves. You continue to vote for geriatric idiots with no serious economic platforms, you continue to traffic in mediocrity... hailing roads as evidence of development. How can one man rule a nation for 37 years? Is that the fault of the west too?

I am not from Zimbabwe neither I live close to their border. Any decision they make is their problem and I do not care about it. I only care about the ripple effects of the military interfering with a democratic process.

To you, an average American cared about Gaddafi when they took him from power. What was the concern of USA citizens with what was happening in Syria? If you think the "sins" of Mugabe haven't been read out within the caucus of the west after the UN convention then I believe you don't know a thing about world politics. In your mind, you thought the coup was planned immediately Mugabe sacked the vice president. If the west plan your downfall, it will always look like your fault.

These guys are experts in making things happen.