₦airaland Forum

erunz:
who wan fight., shey na urle yoruba people that couldn't even fight Ijaws in ajegule in 2001.

Y1bos said the same thing, until their malfunctioning compass was re-calibrated for them at Ore.

Hausas said same, until the Idi Araba and Ketu/Mile2 testing testing treatment.

We always give people long rope to hang themselves. You will need 1000 Tompolos and 5000 Asaris.

As small as our cousins- Itshekiris, are in number, you were not able to defeat them. I hope you have 3mm women and Children to be offered as sacrifice to whatever your god is?

MayorofLagos:
You can be a bush man or an hottentot for all I care....
Yoruba is coming to colonize and rule Iboland.

The Osus that escaped Iboland for solace and comfort in Yorubaland shall return as Kings over the land.....courtesy of Oduduwa! They are in training....they speak Yoruba but they are not of our race and dont have anything in common with us...but they have been grromed in our political intrigues.

Join them or get out of the way, who cares who you are?

we have always been ruling them by our proxies that were tutored here.

The new phase we just entered into, is the phase of neo-colonisation of their enclave by using our proxies, born and bred in SW.

They ain't seen nothing yet.

Rawani:
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For all the support Ndigbo gave Ebele Azikkiwe Jonathan since 2010, a PPP modeled 2nd Niger Bridge is far worse that what Awolowo did when Ojukwu released him from Calabar prison and he promised to declare Oduduwa Republic, but chickened out at the deceptive offer of Gowon. This time around, this disappointment is not from a Soyinka nor Obasajo nor Tinubu, rather it is under the supervision of “our cousin” Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, and our former Chairman, Board of Trustees of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) ‘Igbo Party” Peter Obi and world acclaimed Igbo Economist Okonjo Iwuala whose economic wisdom failed to notice the injustice and criminality in this transaction.


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The id1ot of a writer should tender the evidence that shows Awolowo promised to declare Oduduwa Republic.

How gullible can some people be, when you are basing your war strategy on other people's projected action and inaction. If Shekau is as daft as this group of people, by waiting for Biafra Zionist Movement to start it's own insurgency, he and his blood thirsty demons would have been defeated by now.

Alas, the same gullible you of 1966, is still the same gullible you of 2014, if not worse.

How will they ever have a write up, without mentioning the names of their lord and master. We have been that to them, since 1860 when we taught them how to write their names.

Omooba77:
For 8 years,LASG has been working on Orile-…Mile2-Badagry rail

What is the crux of your piece of widely known information?

Broadcast by
His Excellency, President Olusegun Obasanjo, GCFR
On Nigerian Railway Modernization and Expansion Programme
Abuja, August 9, 2006


Fellow compatriots

It is with gratitude to God and great joy that I address you today as we mark another milestone in our on-going efforts to rejuvenate and reposition our country for greatness and sustained development. We have resolutely embraced reforms in order to move away from a past that was characterized by fiscal recklessness, plan indiscipline, misplaced priorities, and general insensitivity to the plight of the Nigerian people.

I am pleased to note that our reforms, your sacrifices and commitment to purposeful change are now yielding results. On all sectors of the economy, we are witnessing rapid changes and these are being acknowledged by the international community especially by our development partners. While we give thanks to God and I specially commend all Nigerians, we cannot and must not rest on our oars until we get to our set goals and destinations.

One area in which we have invested a lot of time, energy and resources is infrastructural rehabilitation and development. It is difficult to believe that in the decade before 1999, not a single investment was made in the power sector. The railway was not an exception to this neglect and policy indifference. Hence, I am pleased and proud to inform you all today, that the government has come up with a very bold and comprehensive agenda for the re-development, modernization and expansion of our national railway transportation system to meet our socio-economic, political, cultural development and integration objectives.

Broadly speaking, transportation offers tremendous potentials and opportunities for activating, stimulating and integrating national economies and ensuring national interaction and unity. The role of the railway mode of transport in particular has been quite significant in this respect and is quite evident in international economic and social relations and even within nations such as Nigeria.

No nation has achieved holistic development in all its ramifications without a coherent, integrated, efficient and reliable transportation system. It is therefore important that we place our railway development in proper historical perspective in order to fully appreciate the importance of our new path and approach in our inter-modal and comprehensive transportation system planning and development.

This inter-modal system includes road, inland waterways, and air transportation. Our investments in these areas are coordinated to make a lasting impact through a holistic transportation system across the country. Though I have not included bicycles in the inter-modal list of transport systems, it must not be forgotten, if only for its physical exercise and therefore, health implications.

The development of railways in Nigeria, like in most African countries was the initiative of the Colonial Administration with the objectives of exercising full political control, penetrating the hinterland, and evacuating goods to the coast for export to develop and feed their industry.

Actual railway construction in Nigeria commenced in 1898 with a 32 km line of 1067mm gauge from Iddo (Lagos State) to Otta (Ogun State), which was further extended to Ibadan covering a total of 193 km in 1901. Railway construction continued incrementally in such manners between 1901–1910, Ibadan–Jebba (295 km); 1907–1911, Kano–Baro (562 km); 1909–1915, Jebba–Minna (252 km); 1914–1916, Port-Harcourt–Enugu (243 km); and 1922–1927, Kafanchan–Jos (179 km).

Unfortunately, in spite of the obvious benefits of railway transportation, further development was more or less stultified between 1927 and 1958- a period of thirty-one years. It was not until 1958 with the construction of Kafanchan to Bauchi line (238 km) that work resumed on the rail system. This was followed between 1961–1964 with the Bauchi-Maiduguri line (302km).

This brought the total rail route of the Nigerian Railway Network to 3505 km (and if sidings are included, to 4,332 km).

In addition to the network mentioned is the 277 km on-going standard gauge railway specifically built and being dedicated to the steel complexes of Ajaokuta, Delta (Warri) and Itakpe (Iron-Ore mine). This line that stretches from Itakpe through Ajaokuta to Warri is at 90% completion level and would be put into full operational use this year as a Concession line to the operators of the concessioned Ajaokuta Steel Plants.

The emergence of the Nigerian Government Railways in 1912 was paradoxical and challenging especially with the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates in 1914. Railway development in Nigeria during this period brought in its wake great socio-cultural impact as seen in the movement of traders from different regions and ethnic background to commercial towns created by railway activities. Besides normal commercial activities in these new commercial towns, inter-ethnic marriages, new dressing habits, food and languages and new tourist attractions, have emerged including mega towns referred to in Nigeria as Railway Towns. These include Lagos, Umuahia, Zaria, Kano, Kafanchan, Jos, Enugu, Aba and Port Harcourt.

The establishment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation in 1955 with sole responsibility for the provision of rail transport in Nigeria provided an exciting opportunity for the movement of goods and persons across the country. The corporation performed reasonably well between 1955 and 1979. In the period 1972 – 1979, in spite of efforts by Government to rehabilitate and reposition the sector, a steady process of decline in its business operations had set in.
This process was later accelerated by the systemic decay of the Corporation’s entire infrastructure, manpower and institutions.

Statistics on passenger and freight traffic show that while the Corporation in 1964 carried 11,288,000 passengers and 2,960,000 tonnes of freight, these figures dropped to 4,342,000 passengers and 1,098,000 tonnes of freight in 1974. Thereafter passenger traffic gradually grew back to 6.7 million in 1978 and reached a peak of 15.5 million in 1984 with the help of RITES of India brought in by our military administration. This declined again to 3.0 million in 1991 and 1.6 million in 2003. The same dismal performance is also reflected in the freight traffic fluctuation from 3 million tones in the 1960’s and 1970’s to less than 100,000 tonnes in recent times.

The same deplorable performance is reflected in the 6% daily locomotive availability rate and in the fact that only 25% of the over 700 Coaches and 4,000 wagons were available for use in recent times. It was certainly a combination of corruption, poor management, inefficiency, lack of adequate marketing, failure to develop new lines and to plan ahead or introduce new technology and adapt to global best practices that saw the near total collapse of the railway in Nigeria.

Government made several efforts in the last 20 years to address the deterioration. Such efforts included:

(a) Techno-Managerial Services by Rites of India (1979 – 1982);

(b) Romanian Project for the supply of Rolling Stock and
Workshop equipment (1986 – 1996) but inconclusive; and

(c) CCECC Track Rehabilitation and some Rolling Stock (1995 – 2003).

In addition to these efforts, studies were concluded on how to get the railway started including the 25-Year Vision Plan which provided the global framework and benchmark for possible Rail expansion and modernization for over 8,000 kms linking all State Capitals and major population centres and industrial areas in the country to be developed over a period of twenty-five years. The report was prepared in 2002.

As part of the effort to bring in private capital, skills and technology, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) is already considering the possibility of concessioning the existing East, West and Central lines (i.e. Port-Harcourt to Maiduguri with link line from Kafanchan to Kaduna; Lagos to Kano; and Itakpe to Ajaokuta to Warri Rail Lines respectively). Even this requires minimal rehabilitation to get value for money from concessionaires.

Today, we have a new vision, a new commitment, and a holistic strategic plan encompassing expansion and modernization of the Railway to be implemented within a 25-year time frame. Various scenarios and options of commencing and progressing with the implementation of the Plan have been presented for consideration at various fora. Following the presentation of Draft Final Proposal to the Federal Executive Council on 19th July, 2006 the Federal Government endorsed an implementation Plan entailing:

(a) 3 Nos. Longitudinal Lines, Lagos – Up North, Warri – Up North and Port Harcourt – Up North

(b) 4 Nos. Latitudinal Lines; and

(c) Branch and Extension Lines.

This covers all the State Capitals and major commercial centers in the country. Within this framework, it is further agreed that the 1st Phase of the Railway Line should entail the Lagos–Kano Standard gauge, double track railway line spanning over 1315 kilometers with a loop from Minna to Abuja and only Abuja to Kaduna being single track due to inadequate anticipated traffic. It was further agreed that the scope of work, segmentation and construction will follow 5 segments:

1. Lagos – Ibadan

2. Ibadan – Ilorin

3. Ilorin – Minna

4. Minna – Kano; and

5. Minna – Abuja – Kaduna.

This new approach will significantly impact on our people and their communities. It will ease movement, reduce reliance on vehicles and the airport, promote tourism, and build on the foundations of integration, unity, cooperation, and social harmony that we have been working so hard to consolidate.

The design criteria or technical features are:

1. A speed of 120 to 150 km/hour for passenger service

2. A speed of 80km/hour for freight service

3. Rail gauge of 1435 mm Standard Gauge

4. Maximum gradient of 12%, and in exceptional situations 15%;

5. Minimum curve radius: ordinary terrain 2000m, difficult terrain 1200m;

6. Traction type: diesel-electric engine (3 phase engine).

7. Axle weight: 23 tons

8. Type of rail: 60kg/m

9. Block type: computer interlocking, inter-station automatic block, subject to being upgradeable.

10. Continuous welded rail shall be applied on all the tracks.

The construction of the rail line will employ tens of thousands of Nigerians immediately. The entire project will promote technology transfer, the building of new skills, and the development of rail allied industries. As much as possible, local materials will be used.
Furthermore, the towns and communities around the railways will experience an improved socio-economic activity that reduces their unemployment rates.

[b]Fellow Nigerians, this is a critical stage of our national economic growth and development. Our much desired national economic growth, development and cohesion can only be achieved with a modern and virile transportation system of which railway is a very critical part. Therefore, all Nigerians should co-operate with the Government, its consultants and contractors to ensure that the project is completed at the scheduled time for the benefit of all.

Phase I is scheduled to be completed in four years at a cost of $8.3 billion of which $2 billion is being obtained as soft loan from the Chinese Government. Phase II, which will be the second spine of the backbone- Port Harcourt to Jos, with the same design criteria, will follow on the heels of Phase I.

In this regard, those who have encroached on railway land should quietly leave such piece of land to save the Government and themselves the effort of using all means to reclaim such right of way. There will also be need to acquire new land for the modernization and expansion to new locations. I appeal to State Governments and land occupiers to co-operate in making land available for this all-important project.

By the grace of God Almighty, contract formalities for the award and commencement of Lagos–Kano 1st Phase Project of the modernization programme will be signed this month; and construction work will commence immediately thereafter.

To start with, the Federal Government is committing the sum of US$2.5 billion dollars – one billion dollars from the Chinese Government concessionary loan and with one and a half billion dollars Federal Government counterpart additions between 2006 and 2007. It is my hope that subsequent Administrations will buy into this vision and that other friendly countries will offer similar concessionary loan assistance to continue the project in the years ahead with the possibility of a West African regional railway system.

I look forward to the successful completion of the first phase of the Project and the realization of our 25-Year Rail Vision for our benefit and those of succeeding generations. Let us collectively welcome the new future of railway service in Nigeria.[/b]

May God continue to bless our dear country, Nigeria.

Thank you.

GEJ should show us one thing he started and completed in his 6years of clueless reign.

OBJ awarded the said contract for to revice rail system. You need fact, Google is your friend.

How daft can SaTANoids and Jonathanians be?

Mckennedy:
Do u think you are better than Igbos? Everyday red mud, Gala seller etc yet you cry fowl each time they mentioned Biafra that is to show how worthless you are in this so called contraption and will forever remain Gambari slave. Coming to the issue of who's constituting nuisance mind you yorubas are one of the laziest tribes that constitutes agbero and omonile as means of lively hood coz they cant offer nothing but stealing from Eastern Region and causing confusion in the name of one Nigeria don't worry enjoy while it last.

Who gives a hoot about your Biafra? The people that are actually looking for sovereignty will stay in their region and develop it. They will not keep running away from it and still keep shouting Biafra. Makes you guys a bunch of unserious, incoherent chest beaters and a laughing stock of others. Shameless charlatans, hopeless group of wanderers, descendants of of cursed Cain.

Laziest tribes have always been the and will always be pace setter in everything called development in this country, minus kidnapping child labour child trafficking, slave trade, baby factory, robbery, okija things, etc

Qelvin:
go brush up on your English buddy cause I could barely decipher the atrocity you just posted...and uhmn...talking about been slaves to the Northerners...it wasn't an Igbo general that was caught on tape weeping like a woman at the feet of Abacha, abi another General of your tribe who was also caught begging an officer who ranked several places below him not to put him in prison, we saw how the likes of MKO Abiola,Awolowo, Kudirat...were wasted away like rats by the Hausa/Fulani junta, last time I remembered the heavens did not fall while the Hausas used you dogs as their punching bags...and it is on record that the fairest election ever conducted in Nigeria was done under an Igbo man,we are talking about the same June 12 election that IBB annulled(makes me wonder which jakande sub-standard school that is prototypical of yoruba education that told you Nzeribe annulled the June 12 election)

Lol, this imbeci1e is indeed a learner.

Which one is better --- a Yoruba general begging for his life or a sissy bandits-lord deserting the people he offered 3mm of them to Amadioha on a platter of gold.

They killed a handful of us because of JUNE 12 struggle. Our leaders sacrificed themselves, at the expense of sacrificing just 3mm of us to Amadioha just for fun. That is the leadership that y1bos lack and will forever lack.

For June 12, we took power from the northerners.
For our sacrifice, we sent the military back to the barracks.
For our pain, we demystified northern oligarchy and dismantled it.
For our loss, we sent one president away from Aso Rock and Killed the devil incarnate himself.

See this id1ot, read up on June 12 and tell the world, who annulled it.

Qelvin:
I feel your morbid frustrations bro, its just hard for you to come to grasp with the reality that we own you lots in Lagos...whether the Iya Loja is elected or appointed doesn't even add any substance to your arguments cause we are still looking at the same reality- that we are systematically taking control of our God-given land and resources LAGOS, so y.a.r.i.b.a slave know your place cause you are condemned to the conduits of servility...politically to the Hausa/Fulani's...commercially and quasi-territorially to Igbos

The only recognisable Iya Loja is Tinubu's Daughter, cry me holy water.

Keep fantasising about Lagos, it's your right and enjoy the erection-giving fantasy.

See the slave of all Nigerians, calling somebody a slave. Y1bos are slaves of all Nigerians, even the unclad komo people, you are our war booty.

Mind you, who did the British blackmailed to form Govt with Northerners, Zik --- a y1boman

Who connived with Northerners to destabilise Western Region --- Zik, a y1boman

Who annulled June 12 for y1bos -- Nzeribe, y1boman

Who organised 5mm members of their ethnic group to support Abacha YEAA's project -- Daniel Kanu, another y1boman

Who has been suck1ng the balls of northerners ---- as you can see, is the y1bos.

Who wrestled power from the northerners. -- yorubas
Who sent the military packing -- yorubas
Who is always check mating the northerners -- yorubas

Bow at your master's feet and learn.

Qelvin:
those traffic trickling gala sellers generate far more resourceful means of human labor and revenue to the coffers of the Lagos productivity than your whole lot of agbero money extorting animals who loiter around claiming "Omo nile" put together... at least they don't resort to tongue slashing as a means of making their money,and you still think we are not relevant in the scheme of affairs in Lagos? just wait till that Igbo man who was elected as the local govt chairman of his Isolo ward ends up winning, it was not too long ago an Igbo woman was appointed Iya loja.we all saw how that went down on NL with Yorubas crying blood, we are slowly but surely taking over Lagos, all this fractions of political ascendancy and "relevance" will eventually sum up to a whole factor when more Igbos become politically aware of their rights and chances to stake a claim in the affairs of Lasgidi, but it will come only sooner than you expected...by then you might see yourself answering "yes suh/ yes mah" to Ogbuefi Ezenwa and his wife Lolo Adaeze.

Omo y1bo na fe j'oba.

Iya loja is not elected but appointed, that shows how daft you are.

You are contesting for mere LG when you have 110% population of Lagos, how stup1d and unambitious can your lot be.

Sincerely Y1bos are the WORSTEST THING, if any word like that ever exists, to have happened to humanity.

Mckennedy:
Come to Izombe, egbema, oguta,,etc etc,, yorubas and Gambaris are occupying our land taking our oil and you are here asking this silly question? Ok soon we will all go home and meet those yorubas and Gambaris head on. Pls stop forcing Eastern region into your devilish plans coz we don't want to die along with you in the hand of your Gambari northern masters.

See y1bo having the gut to saysomeone is living on their useless unproductive red mud. Thank God the yorubas and Gambia are taking the oil and not constituting nuisance like some gala selling people.

Qelvin:
you want facts? well Yoruba boy tour the better part of Lagos right across the third mainland bridge and take your time to observe...visit the nucleus of real estate high brow areas during your tour and observe once again.... do a statistical analysis of the home owners in this areas and take note of their names....once you are done visit the posh markets, boutiques, schools, private and public institutions and once again observe...when you do all this, take a trip back to your slums across the third mainland bridge and then observe once again starting from the motor parks, agbero spots, hooligans, dinghy shops, taxi drivers, bus conductors e.t.c and observe once again...once you complete this task your answer will present itself to you...then take a cool evening stroll to the same bridge, haul yourself off the bridge as you plunge to your very doom when it dawns on you how useless it is to be from your tribe

The only statistics that is obvious to sane minds and not delusional ones is the traffic gala selling business is being ran by y1bos, sweating it out in hot sun.

Y1bos were, are and will never be relevant in the scheme of things in Lagos. Despite all your noise about Lagos, I thought 5 maazis will be jostling for the post of the number 1 citizen of this state, taking into cognizance your fathom 110% population of Lagos, your imaginary and mirage wealth in Lagos and your delusional self importance in Lagos.

Empty barrels always making the loudest noise. How useless can your worthless population be?

Mofo, no history can be worse than a sissy cowardly mini skirt wearing bandit leader offering 3million of his kith and kindreds to Amadioha, just for fun. That is history.

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Qelvin:
yeah we are running from our gully eroded lands(whatever that means to you) to take over the lands of our perennial slaves..the yaribas, starting from our newly annexed territory Lagos we shall expand our control over yaribaland...the curse Afonja incurred upon you animals by Alaafin Aole is surely beginning to manifest itself .

Gala selling y1bos are dreaming of owning Lagos
2by2 inches rented shop owners are hallucinating about owning Lagos.
Child traffickers in the name of learning trade are fantasising about having a stake in Lagos.
We have heard your rants repeatedly and we are tired of your dubious claim. Shows us the fact, bunch of self delusional liars.
We remain your lords and we shall forever be.
Everybody is looking for territory to.annex, even cannibalistic coward and sissy rebels too are looking for one. What were your useless forefathers looking at, when the ore proactive forefathers of others were acquiring frontiers for their born and unborn descendants?
Recover your houses and streets in PH first,rename PH And Obigbo second, before you can talk of Afonja.

Did your descendant even ever had a war Generalismo, talk less of having an Emperor like Alaafin. Y1bos lack history and the best of them that was recorded was them dancing round a pot of boiling human being.

fx45:
The haters have arrived as expected! It really baffles me how U can hate someone and yet U can't let them out of Ur miserable life

When they had the opportunity to pull out of the country, when Ironsi took over after killing the leaders of others, why did they not pull out of the country then?

Y1bos smartness is at par with that of a toddler.

FreeGlobe:
which region do igbos sustain from? igbos have all needed natural resources. It is people like yorubas and hausas who depend on ss/se oil that should panic. igbos currently receive 0% help from any region in Nigeria

Y1bos have resources and they are running away from their cursed gully eroded land. Wonders shall never end

These delusional people always believe others are as daft as them. Y1bos have been thinking upside down since 1860.

Jona can grant Amnesty to rogues such as Alams, Bode George, Abacha's son, Sergeant Rogers etc and here we are that someone's brother, father, son etc is being condemned to death, for refusing to fight against Boko Haram tank with bare hands.

We need a change and the change must come.

Some people's skyscraper fathom and mirage port can become another paper project, that will be tolled for 50years.

internetpirate:
Is that why you folks are resisting the legitimate plan to make Anambra an oil producing state? To limit Igbo potential is a task that must be achieved, aye? LOL! How laughable!!! In case you get too tickled by the production in Ondo, note: it's from largely none yoruba areas! Wake up from your pipe dream!

Non-yoruba speaking areas of Ondo such as?

Tell us the answer and let the world see how stup1d you are.

It is easier for Bornu to become an Oil producing state, than for a red mud sand state to be.

Ondo oil production dwarfs the combo of Imo and Abia. Fact.

BackDatAssUp:
Even if the oil prices fall to a dollar toa barrel you can bet that the rest of Nigeria will still be eyeing the earnings from that region.

As things stand, with current pricing at $60, do you think it would shake the economy of oil producing regions if they were fiscally independent without remmitance of over 87% earnings to the rest of the federation?

Have you asked what the ND get in return of subsidizing the Nigeian economy? Food prices are most expensive in these areas than any other region, infrastructural commitment by the FG is still lacking when compared to other states like the FCT and Kano. They are discriminated against in recruitments into the military and govt establishments. There is also the 50 year ecological disaster committed by the oil companies with the FG turning a blind eye. This has caused serious environmental degradation that the people of the Delta can noteven rely on their land and waterways for their traditional sustenance.

This is pure neglect.

The Niger Delta agitation has always been fairness and equity with regards to their own resources. They never said they won't remmitance but were asking for a better deal in revenue and also for government action to ensure that the oil companies act responsibly. They have never agitated for secession but demanded they be treated as citizens of the land and not like 3rd class beings.

The story will soon change. And when they return back to thir arms it will be for total succession from the Nigerian polity and there isnt a damn thing whoever is in Abuja or Sambisa can do about it.

I quite agree with you that the earnings from Niger Delta has sustained the nation for decades. However, the region ought to have done better than this, taking into cognisance 13% derivation, NDDC, Min of Niger Delta, normal allocation, Oil companies CSRs, Amnesty etc.

I can boldly say that the level of development in Niger Delta is not commensurate with the allocated funds, as listed above, in any way. Even let us agree that FGN is neglecting ND, must they also allow corruption of their leadership to deprive them of accelerated development based on the revenue coming into the region.

Do not lay every blame at the doorstep of FG. The followership should learn to demand more from leadership, that is the only way the true impact of oil generation can get to the masses. If this cancer is not address the same of same will continue, even if you have 120% resource control.

No one can threatening anyone with secession. If you want to secede, go through a plebiscite. Going through the war path, is being foolish because the war will be fought on your land and the wanton destructions, calamities and deaths will only be on your land. A given example is the mistake.of the century of the creators of Boko Haram.

Collynzo9:
Absolute trash!
People have been migrating to Lagos as capital and former capital of Nigeria even before Fashola was born.

Rubbish!!!!!!!

We witnessed unprecedented migration of your likes during the reign of Fashola, due to his ingenuity to turn Lagos into some people's London.

BackDatAssUp:
The oil producing areas agitated for 100% towards paying corporate taxes to the central govt but that was opposed by the north and southwest delegation. They came down to 50% but were still opposed. Some northern representatives to the confab even suggested a lowering of the current 13 % deprivation to that which will give more to the north citing population grievances.

In all honesty, the southwest and north are not ready for a return to true federalism even though they will cite their golden ages of. Groundnut pyramids and cocoa production.

In your agitation for resource control, I believe SS needs to be more strategic.

The argument has always been, embrace regionalism, with that resource control, state or regional policing, more devolution of power to LGS, weakening of the centre/FG and bringing governance closer to the people, will automatically follow.

In as much as you keep advocating for resource control under this present arrangement, you are on a long thing. Mind you, no Nigerian President do not want to have the exclusive power that his predecessors had. That is while the National Jamboree report will never see the light of day.

I strongly doubt, whether Oil price will recover again, if and only if, there is no other major war, that can stimulate the price again.

The future of Nigeria is very bleak, if we do not act first. One day we will wake up to find our reserve being at sub zero. The Executives, the Legislators and Governors need to come to their sense and realise it cannot be business as usual again.

A projection even indicates that oil price will go as low as 20-25dollars. How will this sustain our culture of wanton corruption?

Collynzo9:
Fashola hoodwinked you with all that and not a single stone has been laid for any of those projects.

Fashola has done what the whole of SE governors combined together can never achieve in 40years to come.

Is it not reflecting in the rate of your net migration to the Centre of Excellence, State of Aquatic Splendour. You keep witnessing loss of manpower and brain drain to the same Lagos and SW as a whole, your economic regression and doldrums is making you rival Sahara Desert in productivity and contribution to National GDP, all due to the visionary and exemplary leadership of Fash and you are here salivating like pavlov's dog.

As clueless as GEJ, as leadership inept and bankrupt as the whole of SE Govs.

Collynzo9:
Like Ibaka like 4th mainland bridge
Like Ibaka like Lekki International airport
Like Ibaka, like Lekki seaport.

Lol.

GEJ did not hoodwinked us with 4MB
Lekki Int'l Airport is a state govt project, not another silly promise of the Mandela of Otuoke
Lekki Seaport project is going steadily.
The ones the Clueless one promised us ar Ore-Benin and Lagos-Ibadan

BackDatAssUp:
Only a constructional amendment can change the status quo back to what it was before the civil war.

The recently concluded Soverign National Confrence was filibustered by the northerners and the current crop of representa-a-thieves in the house are more interested in their allowances and kickbacks to bother about any true meaningful debate towards correcting the useless constitution we have.

The best way to correct this anomaly of pseudo-unitary system we are practising is to go back to regionalism or confederacy.

The states as they are today, can never be self sufficient, if oil is still coming out of the ground.

What I expected from SS at the National Confab, was a proposal for regionalism, with a work plan in phases, in gradual increase in resource control over 5-10years.

we have been talking of diversification of our economy since when i was in primary school, i hope the plunging oil price will make us to ''do the needful''.

It will take the special Grace of God,,for us to have a President that will be magnanimous enough to throw away the concentrated power at the centre in Unitary system, to embrace true federalism.

Like Ibaka, like Onitsha Port
Like Ibaka, like 2NB
Like Ibaka, like Enugu-PH expressway.

BlackSEER:
we are better than those that are ruling.Having the lowest poverty level in the country is greater and better than being in leadership without having anything to show for it.It is just a matter of time before we complete the turnaround in our history.once we achieved the political emancipation,our fortunes in Nigeria would have been complete.Educationally,economically and technologically we are there.

where is the fact that shows you have the lowest poverty rate?

how about having the highest criminal tendencies and highest child slave trade.

deluded people.

A rare and highly commendable act.

OneNaira6:
I think you forgot to inform God he was supposed to bless una. If you staving and can be easily persuaded through stomach infrastructure, you're not blessed.
If you people barely have toilets in your cities and have to decide having one or not when buying a house, you're not blessed.
If you have to create a fake stats to show improvement and each of those stats is being destroyed by the federal government, you're not blessed.
If you have to beg to receive free lands and foods when you're out of your region. You're are not blessed.
if you have to dependent on others for money in order to develop? You're not blessed.

nigga you're cursed and God dealt a heavy one on you. Now go outside and carry that Igbo man's bag for him so he can give you your daily 20 naira dash. We all know what a tout/agbero yoruba be.

See this ediot..he posted an article of a rant saying "Obiano stopped his projects, paying Obi thousands of naira" yet in the article the projects stopped was not named, pay check or any form of evidence to proof Obiano is paying Obi that amount was not provided and this ediot, superstar1, posted it up. Cheiiiii. Dem should dash you a goat brain sef. Anyway sha, never click on that Anambra thread where their people are posting what's going on in their land. Wetin you see go make you cry.


No projects aren't done with money. Na your head dey use do am.

y1bos whining and crying since 1860.

We are your lord and we shall continue to lord it over you, slave of all.