₦airaland Forum

aletheia: At topic:
NOT TRUE. What the Biafrans did was to outfit Swedish single-engine MFI-9B trainers to hold rockets in pods under its wing under the tutelage of Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen.



The Nigeria Airforce has built and used for several years now, a light trainer aircraft it dubs the Air Beetle.

jason123: Lol. You simply cannot say I am trying to annex anyone. If you read my post, I was protecting the interest of the SS. I said, why should the SS join sides Why can't we use the Igbo and Yoruba enemity to our collective interest??

torkaka: You forgot to add kano and eastern kebbi

Standing5: Biafra! . . . Wtf is that pls? Is it a ''Seaport-less Island Nation''?

Standing5: Biafra! . . . Wtf is that pls? Is it an ''Island Nation''?

dayokanu: [quote author=torkaka]Gaddamit, Mumbai didn't make it for consideration? Surely new york made it!

demmie1: Kanuris are for Biafra and I also have the contact of Ugandan zonal Coordinator. South Africans too are begging to join.

Hardfact: Hmm, scary! Smart indeed.

Demdem: i have always known that the boundary of the so called biafra will be a contentious issue.

solajacobs: After a serious thought about the part,the present and my vision for Nigeria, i decided to come out with this topic to reassure my people from all tribes and religions that indeed, a new day is coming.despite the fact that the nation has witnessed all sort of things since its inception,yet,what interests me most is that we can jointly make Nigeria a nation of our dream. Our attitude must change,our life must reflect the good image of our dream. I dream of a great nation where everybody irrespective of our background,would live together in peace and harmony., I dream of an highly civilized nation where exportation of our scientific initiatives would be a culture., I dream of a nation where there would be no poor or illiterate., I dream of a nation where the security of lives and properties is guaranteed., I dream of a nation flowing with milk and honey., I dream of a nation where there is neither south nor west,neither east nor north but one big family called Nigeria. What is your dream for Nigeria?

jomogbomo: I see some Igbo morons here commending GEJ for this. . . Have you stopped to think about what happened to the dry port he promised the Eastern region? How come the SW gets thiers b4 us? I am well aware he made us that promise year"S" ago! So far NONE of the promised projects have commenced or been completed in the East! A lot of paid idiots in here I tell you.

geez*:
Its in like 30 threads here on Naira land

That's where the land of the rising sun starts and end

bilms: Few weeks ago or is it month ago, some people in Enugu state declared a Biafra Republic which according to them,would fight against any nation fighting Israel.

Many of my Igbo friends dissociated themselves from such group and i still have some including here on nairaland that supported it.


To those who supported it,can you please provide us with the latest development regarding the Biafra republic as declared? i am asking because i have not heard anything regarding it ever since.

felifeli: Surely you mean Land of the SETTING sun

omonori1: ZIK: “LET US FORGET OUR DIFFERENCES AND MOVE ON”.

THE SARDUANA: “AZIKIWE, WE CAN NOT FORGET OUR DIFFERENCES. LET US UNDERSTAND OUR DIFFERENCES TO BE ABLE TO MOVE ON”.

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“We must recognise and uphold the balance between cohesion, all types of differences and equity. People are brought increasingly together at the same time as they are easily driven apart. Bridges must be built between them. This geographical space that God has put together, let no man or one group put asunder. We must understand and accept our differences and encourage all best practices.”

- Peter Pacqueens Aisagbonhi, 2011

WHAT THINGS DIVIDE US, AND WHAT ARE THE THINGS TRULY UNITE US AS NIGERIANS, REALLY?

Share your toughts here...

geeez: Why can't people focus on their non performing governors and leave Lagos and the SW? If our governors in the SW aren't performing, it should be our headache not the Igbos. Why should they be taking Viagra for our erect!le dysfunction?

All the threads they've opened on this subject is enough to make fabrics that will revive the dead textile mills in the north. Why is it paining them? We the Yoruba people of Nigeria aren't complaining about our governors so why should their performance give you sleepless nights?

truth4meal: I don't know why you have to dress the tribe in anonymous garb - we all know some Igbos hate the progress of Fashola and SW as a progressive region. I think dis fanatical criticism of Fashola if channel to their kidnap raven region wuld ve helped them push their gov to action. Criticism to me is good in a democracy - as a tool if well utilised can make for better governance. Having said that I think criticizing Fashola when we can behold the wonders of his govt is a mere waste of time. I knw some igbos did not just lose d war they also lost their sense. Eko oni baje o!!!

Ricky_Ross: Pls let no one be deceived, this Onitsha port is not worth 4.6 Billion Naira. I was too excited when i read about this port on the internet, but just few days ago I passed through the river Niger on my way to Asaba and i cant believe this small warehouse is the so called port? Why cant they give us a port as big as the one in Lagos? This is a warehouse to me and not a port, the place is just too small. I took pics of the so called sea port from river niger but am too ashamed to post it here.

Last night i received someone at Port Harcourt International airport and I cant believe the kind of quack job they are doing there in the name of airport modernization? When are we going to have a world class airport and sea port in south east/south south? I mean the federal government makes billions of dollars from this region every month?

All in all, i think the Onitsha port is a good project, but it is too small, I DO NOT THINK INTERNATIONAL SHIPS WILL BERT IN ONITSHA, I THINK OR ASSUME SMALL SHIPS FROM LAGOS WILL BE DIVERTED TO ONITSHA. I thought they are supposed to build a world class seaport for us so we can ship our goods to onitsha direct from Asia, Europe or America. I may be wrong though.

CyberG: It is not fair that you put the blame of what you consider an under-executed project on some other geo-political zone and Federal Character. Why not look inwards and see the problem for what it is, not finger pointing? Is it another zone that is responsible for an over-inflated contract in which sizeable percentage of funds was frittered away? Your estimate on the cranes are so off, which were most probably bought in China (See Alibaba.com). Cranes worth millions of dollars are usually European/Japanese/Americans, see http://www.portek.com/publications/Crane_Prices_Boom.pdf for reference. In the end, it is the duty of the stakeholders to ensure that the project meets all set expectations in quality as they would be aware of the entire project plan and they had a chance to influence it before it was completed. If the stakeholders jointly compromised and NO ONE had been screaming about it from the get go, neither you nor they can go blaming some geo-political zone thousands of kilometers away!

geeez: In my opinion this project is a waste of funds. They can as well dredge it further up to Lokoja which is close to Abuja. The EIA should show that as a region prone to errosion, dredging of an adjoining waterway shouldn't have been contemplated in the first place. The coastal states of Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Cross Rivers are enough to build ports that can serve the whole of Africa. They can build Dry Ports with rail lines from Sea Ports instead ...

Rhino.5dm:
This most be joke, right? Look those buses/cars or whatever are 99.99% (excluding labour) made in china. From mere nut and bolt to connecting rod or driving shaft. Even PAN with their 40% local inputs did not claimed to be manufacturing their cars in nigeria, yet we have some fraudulent individuals importing almost everything from China to a make-shift warehouse called "manufacturing plants", claiming to be manufacturing in nigeria.

It is called 419!

asha 80: small and medium barges not big ones that birth the lagos ports.crude oil is already being moved from there to onne port.

geez*:
I doubt if serious importers and exporters will use this jetty

If you look at the concessioned Lekki Port which is currently under construction, the sheer size of the project will make this look like a boat club

Ogun and Ondo states are also building equally massive ports. This is a waste of funds as the FG should have connected existing ports by rails to other cities and not dredging a river

http://www.lekkiport.com/photo-gallery/index.html