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Op, should update us more on what is happening in Aba and Abia in general.

Brendaniel:
Did you say the same thing when Igbos were stopped from voting in Lagos without court order?

Did you say the same thing when they stopped an Igbo masquerade from coming to an Igbo gathering in Lagos?

this is a mod who is not supposed to be biased in his judgement, then you wonder if this one is given power if he will not reason the way Tinubu and Wike and Akpabio are reasoning...


You guys have achieved what you've always wanted, Destroyed the country for tribal supremacy that is even temporary, enjoy the bullshit while it lasts...

Na Yoruba man. Wetin you expect before.

Hypocritical set of people. Anything they accuse other people of doing, they support it and do it X10.

iLoveYouToo:
Does the governor also know that power is transient? Why is he scared of Wike coming to the state?

Coming to the state to what exactly ? Is wike from bayelsa ? Wike should face his job in FCT.

If he want to do rally. He should do it rivers not in bayelsa.

Which one is wike rally ? His he contesting for any political position ?

Are now in election and campaign season ? Is wike from bayelsa ?

Wike should restrict his madness to rivers state.

lionshare:
But how will village B function without additional investments in infrastructure? Village B is thinking in years while village A is thinking in decades.

Village B just small infrastructure especially in areas that needed it.

Village B will record economic growth, pay back their loan, make profit and use it to build infrastructure they need.

FiveFootNinja:
Cool story, but there's too much emphasis on the infrastructure. How is the infrastructure alone going to guarantee foreign investment? Don't you think a skilled workforce is just as relevant?

If you have all the infrastructure in the whole wide world, but there's no productive economic activity, then what's even your objective? What's your end goal? Where are the direct revenue streams to pay back the loan mentioned in the OP's hypothetical?

Which Tinubu is building Nigeria ? Is the one that says "Snatch, grab and run like a thief looks like someone that will build Nigeria ?

The same tinubu that is spending tax payers money on Paris hospital while he couldn't even build one single hospital in Nigeria that will treat him.

The same tinubu that him and his cronies are looting Nigeria dry by awarding government contracts to their proxy companies ?

Is it the same man that will build Nigeria ? Shit comot from one side.

MadPolitician:
Compairing Apple and oranges..

Abia has more businesses because of Aba whose commercial/industrial set up started off during the colonial era and continued roburstly during Mbakwes administration as Imo state governor. Shoes and carpet factories were built near aba by Mbakwes administration. Roads, water projects, city mapping etc. Those formed the fulcrum of Aba business development. The development of Aba was intentional. It was government driven and the people did what they should do after the government has provided the conducive environment for businesses to thrive; invest!

It is the same at Onitsha. That city is a trading base today because of one singular act of the eastern Nigeria government of the 50s and 60s; Onitsha main market. That was how traders started converging at Onitsha from far and wide. Money borrowed to build that market nearly cost Zik his political life. Story for another day.. City development was a regional idea and it relatively paid off..

Otta? Part of the Ogun state that has benefitted from massive infrastructural developments in nearby Lagos. If the Lagos big market was not there, nothing on ground would have made anyone come down to Ota from Birnin Kebbi.

Why not ask us why Abkaliki is not thriving business wise as say Lagos, Abuja or Portharcourt? Why is it that the state capitals across Nigeria, where lots of the infrastructure developments are concentrated, are more economically fertile and active than other surrounding cities?

What are the names of other major cities you know in Kano, Sokoto, Ebonyi, Benue, Edo etc? Are the most economically thriving cities in these states not the capitals where the states and federal governments have concentrated investments all these while? Are businesses in the surrounding cities barred from all the loans, federal/states grants and incentives from governments? If no, why are they still lacking..?

Oga, go and read up about Shenzhen ..
It was a very timid village 30 years ago. Do your research. Pictures of Shenzhen before and after the Chinese government stepped in are online.. Read about how direct Chinese government investments turned Shenzhen into one of the most productive and modern cities of the world today.. Singapore too..
That's how cities and businesses are built, and not this ultra capitalist theoretical nonsense about throwing cash at businesses and hoping that eldorado will appear later..

The Op is right.

The best form of development is human capital development. You need to invest human first before infrastructure because it is human being that will build the infrastructure.

Remember, china invested massively in human development before building infrastructure that's the reason where able to pull of 700 million out of poverty within the period of 3 decades. From 1980 down to 2010.

Is not that china was not building infrastructure at that time. They were but at a minimum of 25% while the remaining 75% were for human development.

They started building their world class and gigantic infrastructure from late 2010 down after pulling 75% of their population out of population.

The Op has a point as regards to Nigeria. FG allocated 15 trillion naira to build Lagos calabar coastal that leads to nowhere where only 75 billion naira was allocated for SMEs!

Just imagine, 15 trillion for road while 75 billion naira for SMEs in a county that has one of the highest unemployment rate in the world and also the world poverty capital. It nonsense.

As regards of Nigeria. The Op is right. Am not saying that infrastructure is bad. Is not, because it also needed in opening economic corridor and also help in economic growth. But We need to invest massively in human development first and foremost. Then infrastructure will come second.

As you are investing in human, also invest in infrastructure but make sure that human development is the top priority.

Tinubu is an old man. His health is already declining. Thats why he always travel to France every 3 to 4 months.

He went there to recharge his batteries.

SlayQueenSlayer:
The south need courageous people. Greed is the bane of southern Nigeria. An average southerner does not mind being a willing tool in the subjugation and distruction of his people. Especially people from the south-south and south-east. You just need to look at their governors and law makers over time.

The people from South West nko ?

Are they not the ones Fulani used as willing toos in subjugation, slavery in the South ?

Is it not the same tinubu that defend the herdsmen by saying " where are the cows" ?

Is it not the same tinubu that says " Yoruba and Fulani are one " ?

Shift park one side! Hypocrites like you.

mastermaestro:
You don't live on Mars, do you? How about Oyo state governor succumbing to shariah law recently? Southern governors dread the north. That's why I like the way Tinubu is handling them. Many don't know why Tinubu keeps Wike close. Tinubu observed with admiration the way Wike resisted Atiku and his northern bothers' attempt at subjugating southern interests in PDP.

With Wike and Tinubu, the north will not smell presidential power until 2031, that's if Tinubu does not push it to the Middle Belt or hand power over to Wike. By the way, Shettima won't succeed Tinubu. He should stop dreaming.

Stop talking nonsense.

The same wike that want to be Atiku Vp until his name was replaced at the last minutes. That's the reason he still mad at pdp.

Your tinubu is a coward. Stop over rating him . The same tinubu that was defended herdsmen by saying " where are the cows " ?

If tinubu is not chicken hearted, he would have read riot act against Fulani herdsmen and order the military to shoot at sight at Fulani herdsmen see wandering around the street and destroying agricultural products with the farm with their cattle.

But he can't do that because he fears the north! He think they will use their votes and remove him from power. See the way he
interface in rivers state issue, he he has done that against Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria will be save from bandits and kidnappers.

Which tinubu will hand over power to wike ?
Stop drinking that thing. Is not good for your mental health.

WriteerNg:
⚡US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick:

European Union won't take chicken from America.

They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.

European Union hate your chicken because your chicken doesn't meet up to their safety health standard.

American chicken is Washed with strong chemicals as preservatives which is not good for human consumption.

Skulland republic.

MEEVEET:
Igbos know themselves, the other ethnic minorities are the people u should be worried about... Give them small change n boom they would turn against the igbos

We saw it in EDO elections.. The anti igbos sentiments, from Facebook to Twitter to TikTok but today it's igbos backing Edo people

It's course we igbos have we can't see oppression and look away( even if it's our enemies being oppressed) ... Every problem igbos have faced in Nigeria is fighting for others...

Same ijaws igbos took risk for conspired with wike ro rig out Obi in rivers... Now igbos are backing a ijaw man again in rivers because he is facing injustice

If you ask me. It is nonsense.

Igbos should fight for their battles and their interest only. I repeat only! We should be selfish now.

Let the so called minorities fight their own battle. Because if reverse is the case, they won't be there to help Igbos.

Let everyone carry their own cross.

CoronaVirusPro:
Remove Lagos state governor from the list!

You can have such revenue and debt and still be celebrating his little substandard achievements

Dapo Abiodun 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That should be the worst governor in Africa!

I was surprised to see abiodun there including the ones In kwara state.

Those two are one of the worst governors in Nigeria.

They can go ahead and rename it and stop disturbing anyone.

Misleading headlines.

But I don't know why some idiots are bragging. Just bragging for nothing. Something that will not add any benefits to Nigeria talkmore of themselves.

It is blackrock that want to buy some ports in Panama canal not the whole of Panama canal.

But china has already block the deal.

helinues:
Lack of political power is what made Uzodinma the 4th position to eventually became the Imo state governor. Such can never happen in any other regions in Nigeria

Lack of political will is what make Kanu to still be incarcerated for over 2 years. Your politicians don't have level

It's because politically, South East is weak that's why illiterate kids was able to lock everyone at home for over 2 years Including the Igwes

Is that the reason why tinubu declare State of emergency in Rivers maybe wike, no get political level.

Rivers state that wike rigged for Tinubu, how far. Has there been peace in that state since since 2023 ? Is it not from one political crises to another.

Nnamdi know is answering for his crimes he committed against the state. He should face his music. Sit at home no longer work In the east again ever since that idiot in Finland was arrested.

Fubara was removed and an administrator imposed on rivers state forcefully on them. Is that the price rivers state get by playing center politics ?

BlueStripper:
You see Wike, that man is a politician. Give him his flowers.

That man has rewritten history and placed Rivers State on the political map like an irresistible bride.

Every minority tribe should and state should fight to get to the center. When you get there, PLAY POLITICS.

Going forward, I don't think anyone will downplay the calibre and might of of Rivers people. Most especially the Ikwere's.

Ikwere anu meka o!

Placing rivers state on political map of State of emergency by removing the democratic structures of the state

Other states of Nigeria have their elected governor while rivers state is being governed by a military administrator that is a non indigene.

You are not from rivers state. We know where you are from.

Rivers state Is now been shared like a cake by strangers and aliens.

Criminal Nafdac with Nigeria army invaded a market. Loot and steal people goods in the name of fighting fake drugs.

fergie001:
Not true.

It is a Constitution Alteration Bill meaning it will go through the 36 Houses of Assembly.

Those house of assemblies in the north will reject it or ask for their own LGA to be increased to 100.

The same with SE and SS. They will create their own Lcda and ask for more lgA.

DeLaRue:
Hmmm...

I think by the time the Governor returns, he will find himself working with and surrounded by people he didn't appoint.

I also suspect that as part of the settlement deal for him to return, he will have to agree to appoint a certain number of Commissioners, and key political appointees nominated by the Wike side.

There's also a good chance that Mr Fubara will also meet a new CJ.

The local governments too will not be under his control.

All of these will leave a returned Mr Fubara defenestrated, and more or less toothless.

Wike their godfather has defeated and conquered them.

Anywhere belle face politics. This is type of politics that is played in rivers.

The state has been badly destabilize. No form a good governance again maybe till and after 2027 election.

Rivers state people should enjoy their military rule their godfather in Abuja forcefully imposed on them.

zero8zero:
Congratulations to Alhaji Asari Dokubo, the President -General of Muslims in SS and SE. His primary duty is to ensure more converts, establishment of sharia panels in both regions. And more building of mosques. And Saudi Arabia are ready to bring in money for this.

Sultan of sokoto is the head of Muslims in Nigeria including you yoruba Muslim.

MURIC will bring sharia law and sharia criminal code in the South West.

Governor Peter Mbah does not have the balls to confront the terrorist herdsmen.

He has abandoned the people of isi uzo.

Punch Newspapers
https://punchng.com/pictorial-anambra-drug-traders-protest-nafdacs-market-closure/
PICTORIAL: Anambra drug traders protest market closure by NAFDAC

Governor Soludo should please intervene on behalf of these traders.

Criminal Nafdac officials invaded their market. They steal and loot goods and drugs worth billions of naira in the name of fighting fake drugs.

Criminal Nafdac carry those goods to trucks and carry them at midnight into an unknown destination where they sell it and make money from it.

Yet, Nafdac is still charging those traders 2 million for their shop to be open. Where will they see the 2 million when they shop has been closed for two months.

If Nafdac claims that they fighting fake drugs in the market, then why are they demanding for the traders to pay 2 million for their shop to be open after their so called investigation is over.

Is so sad that Nafdac is now used to fight their imaginary political enemies and opponents.

Nafdac has now descended low like police, Efcc and customs where they arrest and frame people, loot and steal their goods and also ask them to pay huge fines for them or their goods to be released.

This is what Criminal Nafdac is doing to those traders at ogbo ogwu market.

Soludo should intervene

Efewestern:
The task of unifying all related groups under a single umbrella is no small feat. You can agree with me that even the two major ethnic groups in the Southern religion have failed to unify some of their related groups scattered across various regions. If theso called majority with their large numbers are struggling to, why do you think it will be easy for the Urhobos to unify all related groups? Or do you want me to dwell on the disunity of these majority groups?

In the Niger Delta, the largest groups are the Urhobo-Esan-edoid bloc, the Efik-Ibibio-Akwa-cross bloc. The ijaw numbers are highly disputed but these groups I earlier highlighted have failed to come under a single umbrella and push for something, so the Ijaws with their unified strength have automatically assumed the largest in the region.

In the case of split up, lots of these groups will be vulnerable. In life, there is never a vacuum. Either you come together or you will be chopped separately and consumed. In the civil war, we all saw how the Midwest was easily overran and a leader imposed on them.

Same with the Efik-Ibibio bloc. Theirs is even more saddening because they are the largest and could easily become a voice of the region, but they have failed to unify. In all of these vacuum, the Ijaw quickly emerged and despite their disputed numbers, they became a voice the region where we have other majorities.

If Nigeria eventually split without these groups putting their house in order, they can easily be overran. This is a sad reality of life and reason no reasonable person will want a fragmented region. These groups need each other to survive a hostile territory where weakness is not needed. With the minorities all in one basket, it will be hard for any external force to overrun and dominate.

The Minorities in Niger delta can't unite because they are heterogenous.

They don't share anything much In common.

Omoawoke:
That coalition worked against GeJ doesn’t mean it would work against Tinubu

Tinubu na heavy weight champion and yoruba no be minority tribe oo

Heavy weight champion that loss lagos and osun

Heavy weight that loss the three KKK states in the north including Abujs

If the opposition unite, tinubu is going. That's why he is using that thug wike to cause problems in pdp.

Dvdpity:
You are talking rubbish. Poles never trusted Germany not for once, same with France. If the USA removes it self from Europe, they will be at each others neck. Europeans hate themselves.

Don't mind him.

US is the reason why Europe is peaceful. It is FACT! Should US pull out from NATO and withdraw all their troops from Europe, they will invade and kill each other.

WW1 started from Europe. US intervene on behalf of the allies and defeat Germany and Austria Hungary. After the war, US left Europe.

20 years later. Another war break out in Europe again leading to WW2. Even before the WW2, most European countries are already fighting civil war within themselves e.g is Spain

US still intervene in WW2 on behalf of European allies again and defeat Nazi Germany in 1945. They created NATO in 1949, build military bases in most European countries and remain there till date.

Europeans hate each other. Even before the WW1 in 1914, they are been fighting wars upon wars between them.

Should US under the leadership of trump withdraw from NATO. Germany will see that's opportunity to rearm them selves, build nuclear weapons and get prepared to invade countries like Poland, France, Belgium etc and take back their territories they lost during WW2 which will likely lead to WW3.

Even Russia will not be spared from German onslaught because they will came for their territory which is kalilingrad.

US is what is keeping them at bay. Should US leave Europe. The war that will break out there make middle east own looks like a WWE wrestling.

NastiLord:
Wike is Tinubu's godfather now. There's no way Tinubu can resist him



E go clear yorubas soon

Wike and tinubu go fight serious fight for villa.

Is just a matter of time.

DomPerignon:
And how did he make his money ? Is it not from fleecing Abia state for 24ys.

You are nothing but an Top A ignorant fool.

OUK was already a made man. A very wealthy and rich man before coming to politics in 1999. He was the main man that sponsor Obasanjo presidential campaign in 1999.

Go and Google about him and stop exposing your ignorance.

mrvitalis:
Ring road wike brain child? Lmaooo all this children self

Yoruba will be in their region and be telling that your governor is not working You too will be shock. They will tell you that your governor is the worst.

The governor they are always insulting, they have never travel to that state to see things.

They have insulted governor Otti, soludo, fubara, Fmr gov Obaseki. Those governors that they are insulting are 50x better than governors in the west.

If you ask them about the performance of their governor in their region, all of them will disappear and you see them again.

They are only expert on other people affairs not on their own affairs.