₦airaland Forum

FOR THE MOST PART, HAUSA will last longer than any language, followed by yoruba- to the point non- yorubas are speaking modernized yoruba
Yes modernized yoruba- the "Lagosian yoruba" which is more easy to understand and speak, even here in America- Ive met countless efik igbo edo urhobo who grew up in Lagos Akure, or ibadan speak yoruba. Fulani, Hausa, Nupe, Ghana Togolese based in SW speak yoruba fleuntly,

You can't even tell who is from what tribe among the migrants who live in SW, sometimes


My padis dad is edo and mother is igbo- she speaks neither language because both parents dont speak eachothers language- but they all speaks yoruba FLUENTLY


My Hausa-fulani followers on twitter/instagram who are based in Lagos always post in Hausa, Yoruba or English.

otokx: Let them keep talking; if you like build the largest refinery on planet earth; just make sure the pipelines are not coming from the niger delta oil fields.

You talk like the main investors are yoruba people or the state governements of Ondo and Ogun are paying for it

if you like voice your Opinion to Dangote, Jim Ovia Segun agbabje ANIL DUA and Tony Elumelu- they are the ones who are building it and two of them are from the Niger delta.


But I doubt you can and will, Nairaland warrior they will probably laugh in your face before throwing you out on the street.

Tinubu was handsome- fuk happen to him'? Oluremi has not AGED AT ALL

agbameta: Unfortunately for you clowns, Olokonla is more than LNG, it's a FTZ and industrial park with billions of dollars investments already on the ground even before Dangote stepped in to add his $8 billion refinery project. $8 billion refinery itself is a city or community with it's own side industrial and manufacturing activities.

The LNG fiasco remains one of your FG's usual corrupt and incompetent move and with investments still flowing into Olokonla regardless, your LNG nonsense remains mute and irrelevant.

Right, the LNG is not even important at this point. The refinery, Petrochemical plant and fertilizer plant are the basis of this investment, no one is even talking about LNG.

Some people are soo bitter they would rather the project fail then realize it will benefit all Nigerians-from the investors banks, Dangote (hausa), Jim Ovia(igbo), Tony Elumelu(igbo), Segun Agbaje(yoruba) Including the countless number of igbos efik edos Urhobo itsekriri hausa yoruba ijaw variou tribes from all around nigeria and non-Nigerians from other parts of Africa, who will relocate to Olokola for employment reasons.

its ridiculous, Even a baby with common sense knows that employment in this industrial complex will consists of Professional graduates looking for employment from different tribes and countries across Africa. Eevryone knows Dangote employs regardless of ethnic group or religion.

chima12: The olokola project is one obasanjo/southwest project whose principle is based on parasitism.obasanjo refused to site the facility in delta state which is actually the major source of the gas that is to feed the facility rather they intend to move the gas/raw materials from the source in delta state via pipelines to the facility sited in olokola,ondo state.

Delta state having seen through the plan of southwest to exploit the resources of delta state using olokola facility in ondo, have decided to build one of the largest industrial gas facility/city in warri southwest lga of delta state.

As far as LNG,LPG is concerned,olokola is a non-starter whose establishment is due to politics and desire by yorubas to exploit niger delta resources.olokola is another ajaokuta in the making which is one reason the major partners like chevron,shell have deserted it.

otokx: Olokola is really another Ajaokuta, the days of injustice are over. They want to pipe gas from we delta to far away Ogun state, not God but we forbid. Koko is there, Sapele and Brass are also there, Ibaka too is there.

There are certain black/african people who are enemies of progress..... I believe you two belong to that category
The east west Pipeline, Already supplies gas to three west African countries, Benin,Togo,Ghana and soon to be Ivory coast making it 4.

How is Gas piped from Escravos far away from Ondo/Ogun? the Pipeline currently goes all the way to Effasu Ghana
The Longest US/Canada pipeline Is 3000 miles from Canada to YANKEE. YET you bad belle people are crying over 100-200 mile distance lol

No matter how much you clowns sit up here and cry the fact is that Ondo and Ogun on shore and offshore have Crude and Natural gas that will be developed in Olokola with the assistance of East-west african pipeline THAT IS ALREADY PIPED TO GHANA!!!.

[size=13pt]If it was soo political Dangote, Jim Ovia and Tony elumelu would not be investors in the project. Its common sense.[/size]

Oh man I think its sooo funny lmfao that all the people in here from were happy the foreign investors pulled out.

Whats even funnier is that the main investors is dangote and the other minor investors are Niger deltans Jim Ovia and Tony Elumelu who are based in the SW.

sbeezy8: [size=14pt]Dangote to Amosun: Don't abandon Olokola, industrial park[/size]

THURSDAY, 29 MARCH 2012

BILLIONAIRE industrialist, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has charged Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State to build on the successes of his predecessor.

He specifically urged Amosun to complete the Olokola Free Trade Zone and industrial park initiated by the immediate past administration of Otunba Gbenga Daniel to attract huge funds to the state.

Dangote, who spoke in Abeokuta on Tuesday at the just-concluded Ogun State Investors' Forum, also advised the governor to partner with the concessionaire of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Bi-Courtney Highway Services, to reconstruct the highway in the interest of Nigerians as well as business development.

The business mogul said the Gateway State has the potential to become Africa's industrial and investment hub, if right policies and programmes are mapped out by the state government.

Dangote said: "Ogun State has what it takes to become the giant of Africa. As you know, the state has a place where it shared boundary with Ondo State and that is the place we call Olokola.

"The Olokola Free Trade Zone is a place where we can build the biggest seaport in Africa. If Ogun is able to get the right, genuine investors to put up massive infrastructure, we’ll have more businesses than what we have put together in the whole ports in Nigeria because today, as we are talking, we don’t have any deep sea port in the Western part of Africa and by setting up one, it means that much of the businesses will come down here.

"Today, it take weeks for you to clear a 20-feet container in Lagos port; other ports are so shallow, they are not really commercially-viable and will not be able to take big ships to go and discharge your cargo.

"Secondly, you also have what we call proximity; Ogun State is just some few kilometres away from Lagos and also it is the entrance going to other parts of the country. This means that you can have the Lagos, Ogun, Nigeria and the rest part of African markets. So really, why do you want to leave Ogun State and go somewhere else?

"One of the things that Ogun State needs to do is: first, the governor should personally take interest in terms of finishing the gas pipeline which is just less than 150 kilometres which links part of the East to the West.

"I remember when we wanted to build the Kogi cement factory; we have to run a 92 kilometre of gas pipeline. So, for Ogun State, the calibre of participating investors here can assist in financing the project and the state can pay up in a maximum of two years.

"By linking the West with Eastern gas pipeline, Ogun State can set up an industrial park with uninterrupted gas supply, they can set up petrochemical industry, because today if there is an industrial park, what it would do is to help in terms of creating jobs here. The economy will be totally transformed because you would have created a lot of jobs; the people that are here and in the neighbouring states and countries will have disposable income and that will translate to economic prosperity.

"So, I believe it is now key upon you to do three things: first to be sure that Olokola becomes a reality, also to set up an industrial park which does not need much money and people are ready to pay; it does not really cost much. Once you generate that industrial park, everybody would move down to Ogun State."

Dangote noted that Ogun has the markets for the attendant businesses, adding that "by 2014, the state will be much bigger in terms of cement production than 90 per cent of African countries.

"As it is today, the total cement production capacity in Ogun State is bigger than that of South Africa put together.

Ogun state has capacity to produce 16 ½ million tonnes and South Africa has only 14 million tonnes," he said.

The industrialist also urged the governor to invest in security and infrastructure to attract more industries to the state.

Shine It: Why was it located between Ogun and Ondo States? If you ask me I'd say the location was wrong and it was bound to fail.

ogb5: That plant was initially planned to be located in Delta state. When the eastern LNG plant was planned for Bonny, the plan was that a second one will be built in the west in Escavos, delta state.

The eastern one was completed, the western one was about to commence, on the last minute, Obasanjo changed the location by executive fiat to the boundary of Ondo state and his home state, Ogun with the gas to be piped from delta and bayelsa state to Ondo state. People kicked against the change but he would not bulge.

Whether they complete the project or not, that project is at best a political project, any aggrieved group in delta and bayelsa state will continually be bombing the pipeline feeding the plant to make a political statement.

GEJ should not put any fund into that project, when next we have another yoruba president, he can continue from where Obj stopped.

ohh man what a terrible pair of comments..... sad WELP JIM OVIA and Tony Elumelu are investors also

who cares

NOT BEING IN THE CENTER OF POLITICS - has been a blessing to the SW.
keep that ish its a poison mean while in the GEJ home state/region whats happening besides in fighting and scaring away investors?

Can you imagine this GEJ guy has been in office going on 4 years!!!!!! no meaningful development around the country or his region with govt presence

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[size=16pt]WELP[/size]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/rapgenius/tumblr_l73uhbHy5w1qc0m6fo1_500.jpg

You people are delusional - i wont make fun of the situation but an imo is still as igbo as an anambra or abia man- beating your chest this will never happen in anambra or abia. see below


[size=13pt]9 Killed As Herdsmen, Farmers Clash in Anambra
[/size]

Awka — NO fewer that nine persons were feared dead in a clash between Fulani herdsmen and farmers at Umuaka-eme village in Ifite-Ogwari in Ayamelum Local Government Area of Anambra State.

The clash took place when the villagers tried to ward off the herdsmen whose cattle were grazing on their farmlands, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

http://allafrica.com/stories/200804030093.html

[size=13pt]in Abia[/size]

[size=14pt]Crisis looms between Abia community and Hausa/Fulani herdsmen
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Tension continues to rise in Akanu, Ohafia community in Ohafia Local Government Council of Abia state as Hausa/Fulani herdsmen and the local indegines now disagree over a piece of land.

The community alleged that the cattle rearers, late last month “attacked and nearly killed the Chairman of Akanu-Ukwu Ohafia Vigilante group, Chief Thomas Onuegbe Uka”.

http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/crisis-looms-between-abia-community-and-hausafulani-herdsmen

[size=14pt]Dangote to Amosun: Don't abandon Olokola, industrial park[/size]

THURSDAY, 29 MARCH 2012

BILLIONAIRE industrialist, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has charged Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State to build on the successes of his predecessor.

He specifically urged Amosun to complete the Olokola Free Trade Zone and industrial park initiated by the immediate past administration of Otunba Gbenga Daniel to attract huge funds to the state.

Dangote, who spoke in Abeokuta on Tuesday at the just-concluded Ogun State Investors' Forum, also advised the governor to partner with the concessionaire of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Bi-Courtney Highway Services, to reconstruct the highway in the interest of Nigerians as well as business development.

The business mogul said the Gateway State has the potential to become Africa's industrial and investment hub, if right policies and programmes are mapped out by the state government.

Dangote said: "Ogun State has what it takes to become the giant of Africa. As you know, the state has a place where it shared boundary with Ondo State and that is the place we call Olokola.

"The Olokola Free Trade Zone is a place where we can build the biggest seaport in Africa. If Ogun is able to get the right, genuine investors to put up massive infrastructure, we’ll have more businesses than what we have put together in the whole ports in Nigeria because today, as we are talking, we don’t have any deep sea port in the Western part of Africa and by setting up one, it means that much of the businesses will come down here.

"Today, it take weeks for you to clear a 20-feet container in Lagos port; other ports are so shallow, they are not really commercially-viable and will not be able to take big ships to go and discharge your cargo.

"Secondly, you also have what we call proximity; Ogun State is just some few kilometres away from Lagos and also it is the entrance going to other parts of the country. This means that you can have the Lagos, Ogun, Nigeria and the rest part of African markets. So really, why do you want to leave Ogun State and go somewhere else?

"One of the things that Ogun State needs to do is: first, the governor should personally take interest in terms of finishing the gas pipeline which is just less than 150 kilometres which links part of the East to the West.

"I remember when we wanted to build the Kogi cement factory; we have to run a 92 kilometre of gas pipeline. So, for Ogun State, the calibre of participating investors here can assist in financing the project and the state can pay up in a maximum of two years.

"By linking the West with Eastern gas pipeline, Ogun State can set up an industrial park with uninterrupted gas supply, they can set up petrochemical industry, because today if there is an industrial park, what it would do is to help in terms of creating jobs here. The economy will be totally transformed because you would have created a lot of jobs; the people that are here and in the neighbouring states and countries will have disposable income and that will translate to economic prosperity.

"So, I believe it is now key upon you to do three things: first to be sure that Olokola becomes a reality, also to set up an industrial park which does not need much money and people are ready to pay; it does not really cost much. Once you generate that industrial park, everybody would move down to Ogun State."

Dangote noted that Ogun has the markets for the attendant businesses, adding that "by 2014, the state will be much bigger in terms of cement production than 90 per cent of African countries.

"As it is today, the total cement production capacity in Ogun State is bigger than that of South Africa put together.

Ogun state has capacity to produce 16 ½ million tonnes and South Africa has only 14 million tonnes," he said.

The industrialist also urged the governor to invest in security and infrastructure to attract more industries to the state.

common sense - i knew it would be lagos ondo or ogun.

@OP

Answer is simple.... 60% of those from the SE are not based in the SE but the SW and north. Imagine 50% of igbos know more about political situations in the SW than SW know about SE.

Most SW people cannot tell you a thing about the governors of any SE states because they don't pay attention to that region honestly. I've seen post by Igbo guys about Aregbesola work in Osun and even Oshiomole edo and how they govern their own states, why? i dont know, because its not their states.

SO I WONT SAY ITS SE but generally the igbo people who are based or plan on relocating to the ACN states for opportunities.
if SW people lived in the SE, yoruba people would concern themselves with SE politics but they dont....

gratiaeo: ********* bellow are those who hate Tinubu most********

1. HID Awololo
2. Pastor Tunde Bakare
3. Late Gani Fawehinm
4. Nuhu Ribadu
None of them are Igbo

berem: you forgot to add Labour Party, Lagos Chapter who supported Fashola in the last election but didn't fail to pour their hate for Tinubu. I can remember the sms sent to lagosians by Labour Party condemning the tyrannical attitude of Tinubu towards his influence in Lagos politics.

Whether the above mentioned party or people above hate tinubu is irrelevant because these are individuals from his regioin affected by his political decisions as for ribadu- he doesnt hate tinubu... dont know where you guys got that from.

nnenna.1:
Bad example, unless you are insinuating that everyone regardless of tribe is a kidnapper/criminal in the making.

I also find it funny that you overlooked the Northerners who ascribed this to Igbos only.

its a very good example, as i said EVERYONE has a price, and i am saying everyone has a price regardless of tribe, seems you are making my post about igbos ONLY which is not whats stated, it seems you can read but cant comprehend EVERYONE HAS A PRICE REGARDLESS OF ETHNICITY, and 99% of people are criminals in the making

WONT WORK-

obioraop: ur source is wrong my brother to say osun state is the third cleanest state in the country in it self is lies i live in oshogbo and belive me wen i tel u its a very dirty and un organised place cos for rum . Who has stayed in lagos,enugu, akwaibom,calabar, and even ondo osun is nt even close

WHY DO YOU LIVE IN OSHOGBO THEN?

Everyone has a price mrs-

sbeezy8: [size=13pt]Suspected Kidnappers Of Iweala’s Mom Paraded
[/size][/b]Published on April 15, 2013 by · 2 Comments

The Lagos State Police Command Monday paraded suspected kidnappers of the mother of the Coordinating Minister and Minister of Finance, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
Professor Kamene Okonjo, the mother of Okonjo-Iweala, was kidnapped by gunmen 9 December, 2012 in Delta state, southsouth Nigeria.
[b]The eight suspects paraded Monday in Lagos are Ejiofor Ogbue a.k.a. Marvelous, 22, Michael Ojeabulu, 23, Endurance Oke, 22, Ibrahim Abubakar, 28, Buhari Amadora, 27, Hassan Oseni, 29, Chiejine Onochie, 32, and Chukwuma Okoh, 31.
Some of the suspects were arrested in Port Harcourt on 2 April, 2013 following the arrest of their suspected gang leader, Ejiofor Marvelous, and Okoh on 27 March, 2013 at about 1000hrs by men of the State Investigation Burea, SID, in the Lagos Police Command.

[size=15pt]EVERYONE HAS A PRICE REGARDLESS OF TRIBE
[/size]

confused idi,ot- if there was no mend who was the leader of mend that called cease fire because of amnesty?

-she said that at an igbo cultural showcase which is expected- when she said that people gained positions on Merritt was she also talking about GEJ? His whole political career was based on backdoor.

-this speech would have held more weight if she said it in the midst of ijaw yoruba hausa edos urhobo igalas fulani efik kanuri,

I don't believe she or anyone has an igbo agenda but that was quite dumb of her to say 99% of igbo dont have a price, 99% of humans have a price regardless or race/ethnicity. With all her education and years of experience she reason like a child.

very true, my padi was saying that had he been in naija he would never major in biology as he is now.

dayokanu: Why the guy no name am Ohafia abi him village dey shame am?

I usually want to stay away fro tribal tings but dat guy is COMPLETELY shittin himself, I know the store hes talking about and its just one of many african stores like the one of many you can find in London,

We have more known stores in the area such as eleganza food, these african stores are owned by Nigerians, Sierre leoneans, ghanaians, Malians, Gambians, etc- there as over 50 african stores in that area alone, and majority of people who work in these store are illegal who take the LOW PAYING jobs because they need work thats regardless of tribe- country.

redsun: He doesn't see like that,he sees nigeria as his hamlet.And anything that can attract,jolt and represent,he uses to make his dollars.

You guys thinks lagos belongs to you.It belongs to those that are making money in lagos,nigeria.

Yeye people.

lol be serious dont try to make it what it isnt- the guy owns a store like many other africans in the area. Nothing glamorous about the store, the man or the story. Lets be realistic.

Tinubu is a very intelligent man- Period i guess the guy understands politics very well.

BIASED PROPAGANDA-

another news reported that 4 who died were from kogi

gratiaeo: He died bitter @ 82? Guy look 4 nearest psychiatric or better still ask your father what Awo is thinking before taking rat poison

lol

dayokanu: The biggest loudmouth in Nigerian history was the fictional writer who just died today Ashebe

haha