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Thrash.....

Crap... Abia state has not paid salary dis year.. Get ur facts right OP..

Thrash

I came across this pics and i kept wondering, will they be counted as the unemployed graduates when they are done? If i had a company and someone comes up for interview with this kind of 'spoken' english, will i even look at their CV. Or is this update just a joke..

#justthinking..

Lol.... Daura President..

Buhari sef..mtsheeeeeeeew

Buhari sef

buhari sef

pretydiva:
wey tin concern buhari 4 dis mata nau

pretydiva:
wey tin concern buhari 4 dis mata nau

he locked down d economy,tins come hard so men don restrategise

buhari sef... Mtscheeew

Siberia101:
ABSU..self..

Which one is Atabo boys?

and the Mafs? Marphites or Italian Mafians...

Well not my biz

Its a new cult dat entered Absu around 2007..its dia code name but the name of the cult is BURKINAFASO bur dey call themselves Atabo

Oluwasaeon:
Six comments and fp straight away

My brother make u see d injustice..my post dey romance section with 18posts bur still d MOD's no wan carry am go front page.. because no b snake or sis. Tonto or sis. Yemi.. Na look I go jus dey look..
www.nairaland.com/2987557/sorry-ladies-men-never-just#43735997

MODs please take this to the front page.. I yaff try kwanu

Ladies, I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you know that wonderful male friend who offers you a shoulder to cry on or company when you can’t get a date on a Saturday night?

The one you are absolutely certain has no sexual interest in you whatsoever? That man is a liar. That man is a cheat. He is a con man guilty of friendship fraud. I know this because that man is me. And he’s every other man, too.

I’ve always fancied my female friends. At the age of ten, I fell in love with a girl called Pamela. Too shy to tell her how I felt, we stayed friends right through the hormonal onslaught of adolescence. She blossomed into a great beauty; I blossomed into a chubby blob. We’d get drunk together and she’d put her arms around me and say the words no man wants to hear: ‘You’re like a brother to me.’ When a woman says that to a man, what she is really saying is: ‘I would never go for somebody like you in a million years.’

This whole ‘I just want to be your friend’ thing doesn’t make much sense to men. We think that if you really like a man, if you really enjoy his company, his mind, his good manners, his humour and if you’re single, why wouldn’t you want to sleep with him?

In a survey by the University of Wisconsin, 88 sets of young male and female friends were asked to rate their attraction to each other in a confidential questionnaire.

It found that men — whether attached or single — were more likely to be attracted to their female friends and want to go on a date with them than the other way around. Put simply, it means that given half a chance, most men would jump at the opportunity of having sex with their female friends. And yet, despite what these and other researchers have discovered over the past two decades, many women still believe a man can carry on a friendship with a woman, free from any thought of hanky panky.

I know sophisticated and worldly women — married and single — who will say of their male friends: ‘Oh, he never thinks of me in that way.’ How naive they are!

It would be wonderful if men could be friends with a woman without ever imagining what it would be like to sleep with them. But then we wouldn’t be men.

They say that men think about sex every seven seconds. While this may be an exaggeration, we certainly think about our female friends in ways that would make them blush.

As far as guys are concerned, friendship is merely an aphrodisiac. A man can meet a woman who is not, at first glance, that attractive or his type. But as time passes and he gets to know how funny and smart and fun she is, that woman becomes very sexy indeed — and men don’t mind the long game, like I did with Pamela.

For three decades I did my duty as a loyal and devoted friend — I was the shoulder to cry on, the dispenser of tea and sympathy, hugs, advice and brotherly affection. I hid my disappointment when she gushed to me about her latest love, just as I hid my delight when it all went wrong. I did this because what I always carried with me was hope. I clung to the belief that one day Pamela might change her mind.

And that day — or, rather, that drunken night — actually happened. OK, so it took 30 years for it to occur, but one morning I woke up in bed next to my best female friend. In films, sex between ‘just friends’ is usually shown to be awkward and the whole encounter is portrayed as an embarrassing mistake.

But it wasn’t — for me. That night was worth waiting for and while we didn’t last as a couple, our friendship survived our little fling and I still see Pamela today. With other female friends I haven’t been so lucky. When I attempted to cross the friendship line with one woman, she slapped my face. Another said I was a ‘creep’.

My friend Lorraine just burst out laughing when I tried it on with her — and her reaction hurt far more than the other two. But the most disastrous encounter was with a woman I will call Emma, who I met during my university days. While I was ‘like a brother’ to her, she was like Bridget Bardot to me. We had a 35-year friendship. I never missed a birthday or a note of congratulation when she got her degree, married her husband or gave birth to her children.

I was the perfect male friend — until her marriage broke down.

Distraught at the break-up of her marriage, I did what a friend is supposed to do: I took her out to drown her sorrows. Yes, I confess that at the back of my mind was the thought that I could be in with a shot.

And then many drinks later, I went and spoiled it all by doing something stupid — like making a lunge for her. Later, she wrote me a long letter about how I had ‘betrayed her, used her, lied to her’ and compared me to some internet creep trying to ‘groom’ her. It seems that when a man discovers that a good female friend harbours sexual feelings for him he is flattered, but when a woman makes that discovery she feels saddened.

For women, friendship is about trust. When they say they want a cuddle, they really do just want a cuddle. When a man says he wants a cuddle, he means that he will tolerate one in the hope it leads to sex. But what is a chap supposed to do? If you hide your sexual feelings you feel like a fraud — but if you are honest and open your heart you can end up being condemned. So can the expectations and desires between men and women who are friends ever be reconciled?

Only if men realise that having sexual desire for a woman who is just your friend is fine — but trying to do something about it is not. (My success with Pamela was an exception to the rule.) Lose your self-control and you can easily lose a life-long friend. And for their part, women have to accept the fact that yes, he does think that way about you — but it’s no big deal, or it shouldn’t be. The best thing is if you can both be honest with each other, laugh it off and leave it behind. After all, what are friends for?


www.naijasinglegirl.com/sorry-ladies-but-we-men-can-never-just-be-your-friends/

Keneking:
Was the car scrap before the incident

Exactly my thought... D car looks like it was even wrecked before d accident if ever there is one...

MOD's biko do d needful.. Una no dey ever move y topic to frontpage..please don't ignore dis one lalasticala..

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has offered the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, free form to resit her mathematics exams after a major goof during budget defence at the National Assembly last week.
During the defence, she alleged that one of the exams body in the country made N16 billion from sale of forms and other services, and got additional N6billion from the federal government bringing the total to ‘N24billion’ yet remitted only N2million to the federation account.

Responding to the allegation, the registrar of WAEC Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, not only faulted the minister on the allegation, but also offered her chance to have another go in maths given the poor summation of the figures.

Uwadiae said: “It’s not enough to go to the Senate and reel out figures. The minister should know, that what Nigerian students pay to sit for WAEC examinations is simply an operational/management cost, that covers registration, data keeping and management, printing of examination papers, logistics, marking of scripts and production of certificates. And all these cost about N16 billion Naira.

“WAEC examination is not designed as a revenue generating source for the Federal Government. In fact governments in the past subsidized the examination fees, just to encourage education. The N6 billion she talked about is for payment of salaries and overheads for staff of the council.

“However, we do not know the mathematical formula the Honourable Minister used, when she said the summation of N16 billion Naira and N6 billion Naira was N24 billion Naira.

“I think somebody needs to resit her WAEC mathematics examination. And we in WAEC have offered to give her a free WAEC form in this respect.”


http://nigeriantimes.ng/news/waec-offers-finance-minister-free-form-to-rewrite-mathematics/

segalex:
Oxygen supply doesn't use electricity so the issue of no UPS doesn't make sense at all, maybe they're negligent in other areas but in the area the accuser stated above, thanks

The way people talk of something they are not sure of on nairaland is mind-blowing..
We have mainly 2 types of oxygen concentrators:
1. The portable oxygen concentrator which uses electricity,the merit of this type is that is cheap and affordable @ first but the cost of maintainance is expensive because of high electricity bill and this type does not give 100% oxygen. Its mostly used especially for paediatrics patients.

2.Manual Gas cylinders or gas tanks: this typ is like d one used by welders.. The only difference is dat it contains medical oxygen.. The initial cost of obtaining it is expensive but its maintainance is cheep.. It gives u 90% oxygen..

So yes we have electrically controlled oxygen storage equipments. She is right.. Lemme kno if u need pictures.

TO BUHARI, WHILE ON VACATION

Why me? Why did I rule Nigeria now when while others ruled oil sold for 146 dollars per barrel. Buhari Paraphrased

SIR,

When life gives a Fulani man soup, he does not complain he has no cassava to make garri or akpu. He takes his rice and makes tuwo.

I wrote an article immediately after you Buhari won that all this flipflop and complaints of not having money etc is like a man who deceives another man's wife to leave her husband and that he would love and cherish her, only for her to pack out and move in with him and he starts telling her he does not have the money to take care of her. If you Buhari knows that you cannot manage the country without oil selling for 146 dollar per barrel, why did you keep contesting? Why not leave our GEJ or let Atiku or Tambuwal inherit the APC structure created by Tinubu?

To think that all you ever think of is oil is understandable. You have never worked in your life. Everything has come free. You have never guaranteed your own Salary. As a youth you joined the army. In the army, your uniform and gun is paid for with oil money from the Niger Delta. You became Governor. You merely rely on allocation to states. Then you became Minister of Petroleum and then NNPC Managing Director. Of course more free oil money. Then you became president. Free house in Dodan Barracks and again free money. you went in prison. Free house and free food. You came out and became PTF boss, richest ministry under Abacha. Again Free oil money. And when you left office, as a former president, everything has been free free free.

An Atiku has invested and ran a company. Even as Nigeria is going through hard times, an Atiku is calculating and thinking how best to MANAGE his huge investments. Tambuwal has a chambers. El Rufai has his building firm business. These people have understood good and bad times and know not to blame the breeze, sun, moon, cloud etc. They know they must pay their workers. Every Igbo man with a store knows this. You complain a bit but you shut up most of the time and work. Iya Basira that sells kpomo at Oyingbo knows how to cut her kpomo when economy is good and how to cut it when it is bad. But you Buhari, your addiction to free and easy everything is your undoing. I owned a record label. We do not know where promo money will come from or recording money but we believe and we hustle and fight and when we have money, we go to Puffy T, OJB etc. and when we do not have much, we leverage on friendship with the Charles Duke etc. We do not cry.

It is why I have maintained that you Buhari, for not leveraging on the time you have had since you left power to educate yourself further and learn new things, by not following your passion in cow husbandry and bringing your cow business to modern standards, by not having NGO's and running them, searching for money to fund it, you Buhari have passed through life SPOILT. As a Fulani, you did not even need WAEC to enter the army. You used a Principal's promissory note THAT YOU WIIL PASS. Even your campaign, Tinubu and Amaechi did all the work. You only speak for four minutes. You did not even read the APC 100 days Covenant. YOU ARE SPOILED ROTTEN. Sai Baba, Sai Baba that you are called has made you think you know it all and must not develop yourself. Obasanjo went back to school in front of us all and while he was president. Gowon has gone back to school and Ojukwu cannot deceive him with CONFEDERATION anymore, where he still alive. You, YOU HAVE NOT ROSEN UP TO ANY CHALLENGE.

Oil at 36 dollars now is a challenge to be faced squarely by any president who has run a business. He will know that it is no time to buy BMW or budget 39 billion for propaganda. (ministry of information.) In times of crisis like this, you do not get told in a media chat that Senate is collecting car loan and then getting cars free and then saying "that is bad" as if it is not your budget. You look at every item with a view to limiting expenditure, ensuring there are no leaks or wastage. An Atiku is doing that with his companies now. El Rufai is doing it. Every Igbo man in government is doing it with their SECOND ADDRESS aka businesses. The Yorubas continue to read eg Osinbanjo is using 5Million for just books. But you, your learning ended in 1985 so you still say WEST GERMANY and DEUTCHMARKS and FRANCS even when all the above has changed.

Buhari, with all your complaints and blaming of everyone, DID YOU NOT KNOW THIS BEFORE CONTESTING? did you not analyse it that IBB killed the naira? (as you claimed). Did you not know Chibok was in GEJ's time? Why did you go promising people you will make naira equal to the dollar and you will find Chobok girls and provide "sekooority"? Its been 9 months and instead of presenting your road map to success, you are insulting the old map. WHERE IS YOUR NEW REPLACEMENT ROADMAP?

Nigeria is not the only country affected by oil slump. In fact, many countries have no oil. Do people not still run these countries and without complaints?

Nature has called you Buhari at this time to stand up and lead your country. You must take it AS IS. It is how the Southerners buy cars from auction... AS IS. We then fix the cars, no matter how bad. Sometimes we gain, sometimes we lose. But we do not keep whining.

What good does whining do? NONE. Oil will never sell for 100 dollars per barrel ever again, except our sweet crude or Bonny Light happens to cure cancer. Those days are gone forever. So what do you do?

1. Take back that Anini budget. get experts to look it over. I can suggest Kalu Aja, young but brilliant. He can refocus the expenditure and make each naira work for itself

2. GEJ people like Adesina is head of Africa Development bank. Ottey is Vice president of World bank. Ngozi Okonjo Iwealla remains a financial goddess. Use her influence and get financing.
stop demonizing everything GEJ.

3. Buy Nigeria. All government official cars should be Innoson. One Yoruba guy in Osin fits bullet proof. Let us keep
the money in this economy

4. Switch the forty billion for oil search in Sambissa forest to farming and gem stone and metal search in the North and middle belt and to Bitumen in Ondo. See where coal in Enugu can take us.

5. Ensure there is peace in Niger Delta and in the East. Whatever is spent to achieve peace within reason will not be regretted. Peace is cheaper

6. Complete the GEJ projects like the maritime university, second Niger bridge etc. You can punish the fraud without stopping the projects. These are laudable projects.

7. Get Northern youths into the Almajiri schools and build more. Pay parents in the Northto send kids to school. we will complain in the south, but ultimately, this is the true end to Northern backwardness and Boko Haram.

8. Buy weapons and motivate the army. Imagine that Boko Haram started in your time and forget about what Gej bought or did not. Take the army AS IS and move on and crush Boko haram through financial offering to those who will take it and stop fighting and crushing those who will not.

9. Get The best advisers. No one expects you to know everything

10. Cede some power to Osinbanjo. If Tinubu trusts him, he mist be quality. You trusted Fashola, a Tinubu creation. Trust Osinbanjo too. You cannot do it all

11. Again, you cannot do it all. we see you moving FEC meeting from weekly to bi monthly. We know it is over your health and age. We hear you want to make it monthly. DO NOT. We need you on the ball. Even if you cannot be there, let Osinbanjo be a true deputy. Dambazzu is there to watch him for you.

12. you are president of the whole Nation, not of Daura. Act like it. Texas did not vote Obama. It does not matter what areas voted you. Be all our president

13. Economy economy economy. Reconsider ypur position on the naira. Keeping it 197 when all of us buy at 307 is foolishness. we are losing investment in trillions. pls reconsider. Make those in diaspora have confidence in banking their dollar in Nigeria again. we need their dollars

there is so much to say sir, but nothing that you have spoilt that cannot be repaired. Get better advisers sir.

Yours Patriotically ,
Ena Efugara



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doyinisaac:
Stop stammering..

Laff don tear my belle finish

Lol... APC sef...

Buhari: What Do Igbos
Want?

Obi Nwakanma Writes

A Response.
JANUARY 2, 2016 BY DURUEBUBE


During the presidential media chat on Wednesday
30th December 2015, Nigerian President
Muhammed Buhari said that Igbos were not
maltreated, and should stop screaming
marginalization.
Speaking of the continue protests and struggle for
the realization on Biafra Republic in parts of the
South East and South South, the former miliary
head of state said:
“Why does it have to worry me, when I have
militants, Boko Haram and other. They said they
are being marginalsed but they haven’t defined the
extent of their marginalisation. Who marginalised
them? How? Where? Do you know?,” he
queried.”Who is the minister of state for
petroleum, is he not Igbo? Who is the Governor of
the Central Bank of Nigeria? Is he not Igbo? Who is
minister of labour, science and technology? What
do the Igbos want?”
And now, Obi Nwakanma, a Poet, journalist,
biographer and literary critic, has written an article
in answer to the question, “What do the Igbos
want?”
Enjoy:
In Biafra, under three years, they were making their
own rockets and calculating its distances; distilling
their own oil and making aviation fuel, creating in
their Chemical and Biological laboratories, new
cures for diseases like Cholera, shaping their own
spare parts, and turning the entire East into a vast
workshop, as Ojukwu put it.
At the end of the war, the Ukpabi Asika regime
brought together these Biafran scientists and set
up PRODA. The initiative led, in the first five years
between 1970-1975 under the late Prof. Gordian
Ezekwe and Mang Ndukwe, to designs of industrial
machinery models and prototypes for the East
Central State Industrial Masterplan, which remain
undeveloped even today. The Murtala/Obasanjo
regime took over PRODA in 1975 by decree,
starved it of funds, and basically destroyed its
aims.
2ndly, Federal government policies centralized all
potentials for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Before 1983, states had their Ministries of Trade
and Industry. These were charged with local
business registration, trade, and investment
promotion, and so on. But today in Nigeria, if you
wish to do any business, you’d have to go to Abuja
(it used to be Lagos) to register under the
Corporate Affairs Commission. It used to be that
local business registration was state and municipal
functions. The concentration of the leverage for
trade utterly limited Igbo entrepreneurs,
particularly in the era of import licensing, once your
quota was exhausted, you could not do business.
This affected the old Igbo money in Aba and
Onitsha, who were the arrow-heads of innovation
and traditional partners in the advance of Igbo
industrial economy. It is remarkable that as at
1985, a least by a book published by the Oxford
Economist Tom Forrest in 1980, The Advance of
African Capital, the Igbo had the highest
investment in machine tools industries in all of
Africa, and the highest depth of investment in rural,
cottage industries. In his prediction in 1980, if that
rate of investment continued, according to Forrest
in 1980, the Igbo part of Africa would accomplish
an industrial revolution by 1987. Now, by 1983/85,
Federal government policies helped to dismantle
the growth of indigenous Igbo Industry through its
targeted national economic policies. As I have said,
there is a corollary between industrial development
and innovation.
3rdly, the severe, strategic staunching of huge
capital in-flow into the East starved Igbo
businesses and institutions of the capacity to
utilize or even expand their capacities. There were
no strategic Federal Capital projects in the East.
There were no huge infrastructural investments in
the East. The last major Federal government
investment in Igbo land was the Niger Bridge which
was commissioned in 1966. Any region starved of
government funds experiences catatony and
attrition. Private capital is often not enough to
create the kind of synergy necessary for
innovation. Rather than invest in the East, from
1970 to date, the Federal government has
strategically closed down every capacity for
technological advancement in the East and
stripped that region of its capacity.
By 1966, the Eastern Nigerian Gas masterplan had
been completed under Okpara. But in its review of
a Nigeria gas masterplan, the Federal government
strategically circumvented the East. Oil and Gas
are under Federal oversight. The Trans-Amadi to
Aba Industrial Gas network/linkage had been
completed in 1966, to pipe gas from Port-Harcourt
to Aba. The Federal government let that go into
abeyance and uprooted the already reticulated
pipes. The East was denied access to energy with
the destruction of the Power stations during the
war.
The Mbakwe government sought to remedy this by
embarking on two highly critical area of investment
necessary for industrial life: the 5 Zonal water
projects, which were 75 completed by 1983, and
set for commissioning in 1984, which was to supply
clean water for domestic and industrial use to all
parts of the old Imo state, and the Amaraku and
Izombe Power stations, under the Imo Rural
Electrification Project. These were the first ever
massive independent power projects ever carried
out by any state government in Nigeria which
would have made significant part of Igbo land
energy independent today. The supply of daily
electricity was possible in Imo as at 1984. The
Amaraku station had come on stream, and the
Izombe Gas station was underway, when Buhari
and his men struck.
The first order of business under the Buhari govt in
January 1984, was to declare all that investment by
Mbakwe “white elephant projects.” They were
abandoned, and left to decay.
Ground had already been acquired and cleared on
the Umuahia-Okigwe road to commence work by
the South Korean Auto firm, Hyundai, under a
partnership with Imo for the Hyundai Assembly
plant in Umuahia, to cater to a West African
market. The first order of business under the Buhari
government in January 1984, was to declare all
that investment by Mbakwe “white elephant
projects.” They were abandoned, and left to decay.
The equipment at the Amaraku power station was
later sold in parts by Joe Aneke during Abacha’s
government. Some of the industries like the Paint
and Resins company, and the Aluminium Extrusion
plant in Inyishi were privatized, and sold. Projects
like the massive Ezinachi Clay & Brick works at
Okigwe are at various stages of decay, as
memorial to all that effort.
4thly, you may not remember but Odumegwu
Ojukwu founded and opened the first Nigerian
University of Technology – the University of
Technology Port-Harcourt in 1967, under the
leadership of prof. Kenneth Dike. He had also
compelled Shell to establish the First Petroleum
Technology Training Institute in Port-Harcourt in
1966. All these were dismantled. The PTI was take
from Port-Harcourt to Warri, while University of
Tech, P/H was reduced to a campus of UNN, until
1975, when it became Uniport. You will recall that
for years, up till 1981, the only institutions of higher
learning in Central Eastern Nigeria were the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, IMT Enugu and Alvan
Ikoku College of Ed, in Owerri. There is no
innovation without centers of strategic research.
Mbakwe and Jim Nwobodo changed all that in
1981, when they pushed through their various
states Assembly, the bills establishing the old
Anambra State Univ. of Tech (ASUTHECH), under
the presidency of Kenneth Dike, and the IMOSU
with its five campuses under the presidency of Prof
MJC Echeruo. The master plan for these
universities as epicenters of research and
innovation in the East were effectively grounded
with the second coming of the military in 1984, and
the diminution of their mission through
underfunding, etc. As I have said, I have given you
the very short version. After a brief glimpse of light
between 1979-83, Igbo land witnessed the highest
form of attrition from 1983- date, and the
destruction of the efforts of its public leadership to
restore it to its feet has been strategic.
Some have been intimidated, and the Igbo
themselves have grown very cynical from that
experience of deep alienation from Nigeria. I think
you should be a little less cynical of Igbo attempts
to re-situate themselves in the Nigerian federation:
starved of funds, starved of investments, subjected
to regulatory strictures from a powerful central
government which sees the East in adversarial
terms, and often threatened, the Igbo themselves
grew cynical of it all. You may recall, the first move
by the governors of the former Eastern Region to
meet under the aegis of the old Eastern Region’s
Governors Conference in 1999, was basically
checkmated by Obasanjo who threatened them
after they called for confederation in response to
the Sharia issue in the North.
Their attempts to establish liaison offices in Enugu
and create a regional partnership was considered
very threatening by the federal government under
Obasanjo, that not too long after, they abandoned
that move, and that was it. If people cannot be
allowed to organize for the good of their
constituents, then it only means one thing: it is not
in the interest of certain vested interests in Nigeria
for a return of a common ground in the Eastern
part of Nigeria because establishing that kind of
common ground threatens the balance of power. It
is even immaterial if such a common ground leads
to Nigeria’s ultimate benefit. There are people who
just find the idea of a common, progressive
partnership of the old Eastern Region threatening
to their own long term interests. This is precisely
what is going on – its undercurrent. This of course
cannot be permitted to go on forever. A generation
arises which often says, “No! in Thunder.”
The Trans-Amadi to Aba Industrial Gas network/
linkage
had been completed in 1966, to pipe gas from Port
Harcourt to Aba. The FG let that go into abeyance
and
uprooted the already reticulated pipes.
Igbo population is quite huge, and people who truly
know understand that the Igbo constitute the
single largest ethnic nation in Nigeria. Much has
been made about how this so-called “small” Igbo
land space could accommodate the vast Igbo
population. But People also forget that Igbo land
accommodated Igbo who fled from everywhere
else in 1967. So, the question of whether Igbo land
is large enough to contain the Igbo is a non-issue.
In any case, Biafra is not only the land of the Igbo. It
goes far beyond Igbo land. But even for the sake of
building scenarios, we stick to Igbo land alone – the
great Igbo cities of Enugu, Port-Harcourt, Owerri,
Aba, Onitsha, Asaba, Abakaliki, Umuahia, Awka and
Onitsha are yet to be reach even 30% of their
capacities.
New arteries can be built, facilities expanded; there
are innovative ways of moving populations through
new transportation platforms -underneath, above,
on the surface, and by waterways. The East of
Nigeria has one of the most complex and
connected, and largely disused system of natural
river waterways in the world. New, ecologically
habitable towns can be expanded to form new
cities from the Grade A Townships – Agbor,
Obiaruku, Aboh, Oguta, Mgbidi, Orlu, Ihiala,
Amawbia/Ekwuluobia, Elele/Ahoada, Owerrinta,
Bonny, Asa, Arochukwu, Afikpo, Okigwe, and so on.
The Igbo will be fine. The Japanese and the Dutch,
for example, have proved that there are innovative
ways of using constricted space.
As for the economy: it is supply and demand. New
economic policies will integrated Igbo economy to
the central West African and West African Markets.
The Igbo will create a new vast export network,
unhindered by idiotic economic and foreign
policies. The re-activation of the PH port systems
will for e.g. open the closed economic corridor once
and for all to global trade. As anybody knows, it
might take a fast train no more than 45 minutes to
move goods from the Warri or Sapele ports to Aba
and even in less time to Onitsha. As Diette Spiff
once observed while playing golf at Oguta, all it
would take to connect Warri and Oguta is just a
long bridge, and the vast economic movement will
commence between Warri and its traditional
trading areas of Onitsha and the rest of the East.
The quantum of economic activity will see the
growth of that corridor between Aba-Oguta-
Obiaruku down to Warri as the crow flies. The
impact of trade between the Calabar ports and Aba
will explode. In fact, the old trading stations along
the Qua-Iboe River (the Cross River) at Arochukwu,
Afikpo, down to Oron and Mamfe in the Cameroons
will explode and create new prosperity and new
opportunities. I am giving the short version. So, the
Igbo will be alright. They would simply be just able
to define their own development strategies, deploy
their highly trained manpower currently wasting
unutilized, and the basis of its vast middle class
will create new consumers, and generate an
internal energy that will thrive on Igbo innovation,
industry, and know-how, which Nigeria currently
suppresses. This is exactly one very possible
scenario.
So, Tanko Yakassi is wrong. May be if the Igbo
leave Kano, the Emir will no longer need to buy his
bulb from an Igbo trader in Kano. He will have to
buy it either from an Hausa, a Fulani, a Lebanese,
or some such person. But those will have to come
to Igbo land to buy it first before selling to the Emir.
There was a time when all of West Africa came to
Onitsha or Aba to buy and trade because it was
safe, and those cities were the largest market
emporia in the continent. People came from as far
away as the Congo to buy stuff in Aba and sell in
the Congo. It could happen again, only this time on
a vaster, more controlled scale. The network of
Igbo global trade will not stop if they left Nigeria. In
fact, they will have more access to an indigenous
credit system that would expand that trade,
currently unobtainable and unavailable today to
them, because Nigeria makes it impossible for Igbo
business to grow through all kinds of restrictions
strategically imposed on it, including port
restrictions.
However, although I do think that the Igbo would do
quite well alone, they could do a lot better with
Nigeria, if the conditions are right. This agitation is
for the conditions to be made right; for Nigeria and
its political and economic policies to stop being a
wedge on Igbo aspirations. And Igbo aspiration is
quite simple: to match the rest of the developed
world inch by every inch, and not to be held down
by the Nigerian millstone of corruption, inefficiency,
and inferiority. The Igbo think that control of their
public policies on education, research and
innovation, economic and monetary policies, and
recruitment, control and deployment of its own
work force both in public and private sectors will
give them the leverage they need to build a
coherent and civilized society.
They point to the example of Biafra, where under
three years, they were making their own rockets
and calculating its distances; distilling their own oil
and making aviation fuel, creating in their
Chemical and Biological laboratories, new cures for
diseases like Cholera, shaping their own spare
parts, and turning the entire East into a vast
workshop, as Ojukwu put it, while Nigeria was busy
doing owambe, importing even toothpick, and
creating new wartime millionaires from corrupt
contracting systems by a powerful oligopoly. It is a
fallacy much driven by ignorance that Igbo will not
thrive and that Igbo land will not accommodate
Igbo population if they leave. That is not true.
There is no scientific basis for it.
The dynamics of human movement will take great
care of all that. It’s a lame excuse. What people
who wish for Nigeria to stay together should do is
not to make such puerile statements, because it is
meaningless. What we should all do is to find the
strategic means of containing Igbo discontent by
LISTENING to the Igbo, and seeking peaceful and
productive ways of fully freeing their energy to
instigate growth both of themselves and of Nigeria
within Nigeria for everyone’s benefit. Threatening
them will not work. It has never worked, and it is
important to understand a bit of Igbo cultural
psychology: the more you threaten him, the more
the Igbo person digs in very stubbornly. Igbo, with a
long tradition of diplomacy, thrive on consensus
not on threat of the use of force, or the like.
Frankly, those who continue to think that the Igbo
have no options are yet to understand the
complexity of this movement as we speak. They
still look at the surface of events while the train is
revving and about to leave the station. We need to
work very carefully on this issue. I myself, I prefer
Nigeria. I like its color of many peoples and
cultures. That in itself is the very condition for
growth and regeneration. A single Igbo nation may
be more prosperous, but will be less interesting,
and that is the more valid argument.
By Obi Nwakanma


www.oblongmedia.net/2016/01/02/buhari-what-do-igbos-want-obi-nwakanma-writes-a-response/

Nigerians have reacted to the statement
"payment of salaries is not a right, but rather,
it is a privilege” made by Governor of Imo
State, Rochas Okorocha.
He made the statement through his
spokesman, Dr Kelechi Okpaleke, following
the immediate payment of salaries to civil
servant by the presidency.
The Governor who has been accused of
owing Imo workers of over 4 months salaries
has come under attack after the the
statement was made available.
See Tweets:



http://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/okorocha-payment-of-salary-is-a-privilege-not-a-right-nigerians-react.157532/

When I hear APC rattle about there change mantra,I remain speechless because anything I say will never cover exactly what I want to say.. I came across this piece and I want to share it with my fellow nairalanders.. I wish this will get to President Bubu...

Tanzania’s President elect John Pombe Magufuli
addresses members of the ruling Chama Cha
Mapinduzi Party (CCM) at the party’s sub-head
office on Lumumba road in Dar es Salaam,
October 30, 2015. REUTERS/Emmanuel Herman
Newly elected Tanzanian President John
Magufuli has scrapped independence day
celebrations to spend the money on a clean-
up campaign, an official statement said.The
president has instead decreed that on that
day everybody should pick up their tools
and clean their backyards.
“It is so shameful that we are spending
huge amounts of money to celebrate 54
years of independence when our people are
dying of cholera,” Magufuli said in a
statement read on state television late
Monday.
Last weekend the Tanzanian parliament
was going to open and there was a state
dinner planned for all guests that was
going to cost about 300million
Shillings.President Magulufi cut the budget
to 25million Shillings and ordered that the
rest be taken to buy hospital beds for
Muhimbili they got 300 beds and
mattresses and 600 bed sheets from that
money.
On Saturday 21st November 2015 a group
of 50 people were about to set off for a tour
of commonwealth countries but President
Magulufi cut that list down to 4 people,
saving government 600m shillings in
tickets, accommodation and per diems.
It is said when John Magufuli was confirmed
winner of the presidential election people
started congratulating him and sent gifts to
his place which he turned back, saying he
will receive all congratulations over the
phone and nobody should visit him.
Some other austerity measures
include:
No more foreign travel, embassies will take care; if
it’s necessary to go, special permission must be
sought from him or Chief Secretary
No more 1st class and business class travel for all
officials except President, Vice, and Prime Minister.
No more workshops and seminars in expensive
hotels when their so many ministry board rooms
available.
President Magulufi asked how come engineers are
given V8s when a pick-up is more suitable for their
jobs.
No more sitting allowances, how the hell are you
paid allowance for a job which you have a monthly
salary; that also applies to MP’s.
All individuals/firms that bought state companies
that were privatized but haven’t done anything
(20years later) are to either revive the industries
immediately or hand them back to the
government
Tanzania’s say President Magulufi has
literally pressed the reset button; returning
Tanzania to default factory settings which
was the Tanzania Julius Nyerere left.
On the day after he was brought to power,
as State House officials were showing him
round he decided to take a walk to ministry
of finance, told government workers to get
their act together. He asked why some
employees weren’t in offices and ordered
the TRA to scrap all tax exemptions,
everyone must pay taxes especially the big
guys
President Magulufi went to Muhimbili
Hospital unannounced and walked thru the
worst parts that they keep hiden from
important visitors and fired the director, the
hospital board and ordered that all
machines that weren’t working (so that
people go to private hospitals owned by
some doctors) to be repaired within 2 weeks
otherwise he would fire even the new
director.The machines were repaired in 3
days.
Finally, last week when going to officially
open parliament President Magulufi didn’t
go by plane, drove the whole 600km from
Dar to Dodoma.
President Magulufi has reduced the size of
the presidential convoy, even reduced the
size of presidential delegation that travels
with him.
President Magulufi chose a Prime Minister
most had never heard of before, a man with
a reputation for hard work and no
corruption.All the big guys Tanzanians
expected would be PM have been let
wondering what hit them.
His motto is: Hapa Kazi Tu



This is change
https://www.lusakatimes.com/2015/11/26/new-tanzanian-president-john-magufuli-makes-radical-changes/

Nairalanders,I just received the mail below from 'FIRST MONEY' with subject ' BVN DEADLINE ACCOUNT DEACTIVATION'.. I was confused because I don't even have an account with first bank.
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This what my street after the heavy downpour yesterday.. This is Church Avenue by 257 Obohia road Aba.. Please Gov. Ikpeazu should do something before we lose our properties to flood..

God heal our blood soaked land ..2chron 7:14

warrior01: Hate doctors? The fact is those people in Nigeria that parade themselves as Doctors, don't know what it really means to be a mreal doctor. No ethics, no compassion and no proffessionalism. All we have is a bunch of greedy people that is full of unnecessary pride. If you doubt me, why do our people rush to India for proper treatment?

they go there because we are not equipped..not necessarily because they are better...afterall some doctors there are still Nigerians....

7sperovs: U are a fool? who asked u to go to school for 6 years, i went to the NDA for 4 years and after graduation i still have to stand before a bullet each time there is crisis so that i can protect u the doctor, who should earn more..Soldier, that protect even the doctors or police that the CMD calls when armed men come into his house to collect what the CMD stole from the hospital..Genuine cause my foot...Soldiers cant go on strike, th epolice cant go onstrike even when they are paid rubbish, who sacrifices more and who should really be agitating for better pay..Doctors should go and sleep
Am pregnat. doctor say lets find out, Go for a test.
Am feeling feverish- Doctor says lets find out whats really wrong with you, go for a test.
Am very sure the so called lab technician, can tell what result is positive for any ailment and a pharmacist can tell u what drug and what dosage u need to get cured....Every consultant just gives u a list of (lab technician's) test that decides which of the (pharmacist's) drugs to use..It make one wonder what they can really do without test and drugs..
None of the medical/health sector can survive without the other, Doctors should stop feeling too important joor

well I don't HV much to tell u. Where I was trained as a medical student, we where told to believe what the lab. technician said with a pinch of salt,..The lab technician does an ultrasound scan and writes "presence of left adnexal mass"..which is not a diagnosis,the doctor is the one who says if it is ovarian cyst or ectopic pregnancy. the lab scientist does an ultrasound scan and says that it is twin,the doctor does a CS and finds triplets. The nurses does d Apgar score of a patient and she drops the value purposely because he or she doesn't want this patient in her ward. she wants him to be moved to intensive care unit. Its so bad that he doctor has to repeat his procedures to be sure of what he is doing. naw these people want to be consultants yet will refer their loved ones who are sick to d doctor-consultant. I fear for the future of ou r health sector. For JOHESU's advocates..Less jealousy will help u live longer.,

As in eh..dis one tire me. Most students aren't bk yet sef..