₦airaland Forum

tete7000:
While you might seem to make some seemingly valid point, you have to realise there are reasons why that has not happened and might not happen anytime soon. It is about people in other areas having a different kind of attitude, attitude that allows business opportunities to thrive just like op mentioned. People often claim that it is political gang up that made Lagos develop to the detriment of other places but when you realise that no one can hold you captive without your consent, then we begin to realise there will be need for attitudinal change in others for the development being sought to come.
The multinationals did not just find themselves in Lagos for no reason, it is because the place provides the peaceful and business-conducive environment they desire. Even you won't dare to set up your business in a highly restive and violent area.

Princedapace:
No big deal. Lagos is just shining because she is in the mist of losers.. Nigeria is not a working country that is why we glory lagos..

Lagos mates in other countries have gone passed this level. And there is nothing too extra that lagos is doing.

Lagos is the main gate into and outside nigeria.. Not even abuja.. That alone is the reason for the little strive she is getting.. Take that away, lagos will turn to like other states..

Anything that comes into nigeria passes thru lagos.. That is the selling point. Other states don't have that.. Stop comparing lagos with other states..

Arondizuogu:
I love your first two paragraphs. One man controlling a state with PH.d, BSC and MBS holders ooo... Yoruba's are supposed to be the most educated for God's sake. I expected this from Abia but not from Lagos!

Smithkafors:
These are the so called men that will take Nigeria to promise land....indeed we are doomed.

BALLOSKI:
Here's the founder of unitary system of government.



But na him people de scream marginalization pass. They always forget how they helped to create the message we are in today - but turn around to blame everyone for their woes.

dingbang:
If ajaokuta steel can be revived, then Nigerian airways can also be tevived too

Aroyehunkayode:
I am really surprise at your comment,i am a Yoruba man and I can tell you that the VP is not a disgrace to Yoruba but a pride of Yoruba people,even as a Christian am also proud of him,if he has gone to Jerusalem who will attend to all his duties,you don't know what you are saying man....

SLIDEwaxie:


You don't knw anything, I know. But the worst part is when u, like your poepke think you know all.

Let's see:

The VP should put on clothes and go to Jerusalem to represent Nigeria

Oh, let's see another one:

He should call a pic his phone and order the IG to move up north.. since he's the Commander in Chief of armed forces

Oh, let's see more of your stupidity by calling my people a coward:

I am sure it's awolowo that ran to the then ivory coast when the shit hit the fans

Infact, after asking for war recently, it was Osinbajo, not the pig, Kanu, that abandoned his people and ran away

Lol...

Shall we see more of your idiocy?

Indomixx:
God bless u. You just spoke my mind

Dollyak:
Why do you speak without sense man? Do you really expect a VP to go against the president? Please tell me you are not that simple with your thought process.

slotA4:
I won't blame you Osinbajo, even if you condemn the killing till tomorrow you don't have any power to make a difference being a mere commissioner that you are. I only blame Buhari, the Commander in Chief of Armed Forces of the federal republic of Nigeria who has all the security agencies under his command and deliberately allow the killings to continue because he wants to expand Fulani caliphate. May the blood of the innocent Nigerians killed by his Fulani foot soldier forever hunt his generation.

shukuokukobambi:
Why exactly should it bother you? Why should who they vote be your problem?

When you all lined up behind ojukwu, ekwueme and azikiwe to vote shagari just 9 years after the suyanisation of 3m of your ancestors, did any yoruba complain?

what exactly is the problem comrade?

ImperialYoruba:
Would Awolowo have supported Nigeria if your mthrfvkng warlord had not entered into Yorubaland with boots and guns?

Hausa declared war on you and killed you. Yet you were bringing war into Yorubaland. Did your ragtag biafra not know difference between North and West? Why should Awo not support blockade, if the same shyyte repeat today and you ignore North to bring war into West your situation this time around will be worse than that in 67.

Bloody punk!

honeychild:
So true. Growing up I never heard even one negative thing said about igbos by my parents or any of their generation. We were taught to sympathise with them, encourage them and admire them for what they went through in the civil war.

Its so sad to realise that the parents on the other side were busy breeding hatred and training their children to despise the Yoruba's.

And forget those that say it's just online. It's not. They just keep it well hidden.

tribalistseun:
Please someone should tell me that this is a JOKE!!

Nnamdi Kanu, we are sorry we didn't know you were right all along.

Throwback:
Your greed led you to a position where you had to fight.

Yorubas are not backbones to serve the purpose of the Igbos or come to their rescue after fomenting trouble.

Azikiwe was in control of his full senses when he ensured that Nigeria will not have a secession clause, and that such a move would only be settled by war. If only he knew he was sealing the fate of his own people.

You never remembered your Yoruba partners in NCNC when it came to sharing the juicy spoils from your partnership with the North. Yet with greed you wanted more and thought best to eliminate political and military leaders from other regions except yours.

Rather than be grateful that the Yorubas were civilized enough not to have their own pogrom against you in their region, your delusional entitlement makes you expectant that the Yorubas will lay down their life to protect you in the crisis you caused.

You have never been useful to us, we do not owe you any delusional loyalty after an alliance gone wrong with your Northern partners.

desiredmee:
No,they actually never forced him on us they only felt he would do better and now that he has disappointed their believe or thought they are making a new turn which is what we all should be doing..making a new turn from this Buhari led administration

Princedapace:
Bro, this is not keep deceiving ur self syndrome.

hey, I av really traveled around this country. No be by mouth bro... In the east, those guys there are dam hustlers.. be it legal or illegal, they are hustlers to the core. I mean, forget all these rubbish online, even yorubas I meet daily usually use igbos as a example of people who hustle so much to make a decent life..

Now, the west u talk about, hope u are aware that many people there are Nigerians from other ethnic groups? Majority are igbos and hausas.

It was in Ibadan I saw people inheriting their great grand fathers' houses without renovating it.. in igbo land, houses and lands are seen as business. The major reason most south western states, excluding Lagos, have more brown roofs and dilapetated houses is because most of their youths are so comfortable with the way things are... I mean, travel to ibadan, from leventis, to iwo road, to Mokola, to Oke tonu, to Dugbe, etc, these are major towns in the city centre, they still have houses of great grand fathers and they av youths, i mean able body youths living there comfortably...

An average igbo man would av converted such places into serious business and pull down such structures.. I mean structures facing the major roads.. This is just an example..

At least i know ibadan very well. You get to Sango market, most of the shops that are big and doing fine are owned by igbos.. The city owners are mostly into sales of tomatoes, efor, agbo, etc on the floor. If u get to Queenslima market, over 90% of the main stores there are all owned by the igbos.. The computer stores, fashion stores, etc.. The igbos own these stores... go to dugbe markets, most of the main big stores there are owned by the igbos. Now, if u think im lying, please do visit these places i mentioned.

Unemployment among the igbos are very low. Why? I have never seen people like those guys before. The way these guys hustle in life, I never see. The yorubas offline use igbos as example of survivor.

Bro, forget the niaraland igbo vs yoruba nonsense, those guys from the east are something else. The above report is a general situation of the country. Im sure u will still attack this post shaaa.

3Ceagle:
You will also agree that the oil producing states should have been accorded special status from the early days of oil production in Nigeria. Is there any state in the SS that have received national investment like Lagos and Abuja?

InyinyaAgbaOku:
What percentage of lagos population is Igbo that made you talk like this?

oluoni:
These same Igbo senators were part of those that voted against the bill of special status for lagos I watched it live and later dem go say na Yoruba no dey cooperate.. Honestly the government and people of Lagos should be really hostile to these people and treat them like enemies but yoruba people just dont care first they gathered themselves like Titus fish and voted against ambode still he won they out of badbelle sprit which lives in them they'll not let Lagos get special status...who's the enemy here?.who's the traitor.Yet they'll pack their family members like IDP and come to Lagos to benefit from a system they never supported they all over Lagos like bugs.

rabzy:
of course for tribalists facts are based on tribes and not facts, and its not everyone you can lump into into that pot. Adulterers believe everyone is an adulterer, that doesnt make it true no matter the prevalence of adultery.
my views does not define my tribe and there are ibos who didnt support the biafran war and who still does not support Kanu, and there are yorubas who fought in the biafran army and many today still support biafran secession, maybe they are all pretenders.

ariesbull:
When the IGR data was released for the year 2017, it told a sad story for the 5 Igbo States namely Enugu. Anambra, Imo, Ebonyi and Abia.

None of these states can survive by what the generates as revenue without federal allocation. What it means is that these 5 south eastern states are poor and financially insecure. This is very dangerous. The danger is without federal allocation these 5 south eastern states will not be able to pay salaries or keep the states running. This may result to high borrowing without proper payback financial plan which may further worsen the situation.https://etimes.com.ng/2017-internally-generated-revenue-igr-and-the-poor-5-igbo-states/

For instance, Cross River State generates more money than Anambra State, and Ogun State generates more money than the entire 5 south eastern states put together last year.

Last year, Anambra State passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill of N115.5 billion, but generated N17.3 billion as Internal Generated Revenue. The danger is that Anambra State spent 6.6 times higher than what the state generated last year. Another danger is when the "free" federal allocation does not pass through a productive channel, it exacerbates inflation. For instance, salaries shouldn't be paid directly with federal allocation. It should be paid from the state "federal allocation" investment proceeds, but this is not the case. I am using Anambra State as a model.

It would have been better if it was the other way round. That is to say Anambra State generates N150 billion as IGR, and gets N10 billion as federal allocation.

Last year, Abia State passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill of N102.5 billion, but generated N14.9 billion as Internally Generated Revenue.

Enugu State passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill of N105.7 billion, but generated N22 billion as Internally Generated Revenue.https://etimes.com.ng/2017-internally-generated-revenue-igr-and-the-poor-5-igbo-states/

Imo State passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill of N131 billion, but generated N6.8 billion as Internally Generated Revenue.

Ebonyi State passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill of N127.2 billion, but generated N5.1 billion as Internally Generated Revenue.

Is it that the eastern government has inefficient tax regime? Is the IGR a reflection of the southeastern states' economy? How can the southeastern states become economically viable to the extent of not depending on the federal allocation?

2017 IGR for the selected States below:
(ENUGU - N22,039,222,902.86)
(ANAMBRA - N17,365,385,830.51)
(IMO - N6,850,796,866.07)
(EBONYI - N5,102,902,366.82)
(ABIA - N14,917,141,805.80)

*(OGUN - N74,835,979,000.51) higher than all 5 south eastern states IGR put together.
*(CROSS RIVER N18,104,562,225.62) higher than Anambra State.https://etimes.com.ng/2017-internally-generated-revenue-igr-and-the-poor-5-igbo-states/

Gloria Akamba

Data source: National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)

TheCabal:
I am always amazed with the average south easterners obsession with the idea that; someday someway the nation will set ablaze and the south east will remain unscathed like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in old testament.

I know you feel powerless and worthless like a reject and that somehow the "hungry northerner" whom you supposedly lord over is responsible for your inability to pacify you earthly desires.

You blame everyone but yourself for all the wrong decisions you have made from the day you were born till this moment. In light of this, I fail to see how this collective delusion you and your kind are passing through will result in negative consequences for Nigeria and Nigerians when you turn to the west for a piece of bread, purified bottled water and sackcloth to cover you unclothedness.

When I read posts like these or meet people like you; I see an ideology that translates into slavery; slaves chained at the hands, feet and neck, walking in a single file through the streets of western nations. If you listen carefully; you can hear a whip crack on their backs, the smell of fear pulsating from their breath as they scream in anguish.

You find them standing when they should sit, laughing when they should be crying, smiling when they should complaining, and running when the majority is dancing.

onatisi:
I remember what awolowo told abiola in 1982 when npn refused to give mko the ticket and he went to beg awolowo for forgiveness. Baba told mko that the northerners mko supported against him awolowo and who mko is always following about will be the same people that will kill him. And just like baba predicted it all happened

[/quote]All the crimes you listed with regards to Igbos, are they the only crime in Nigeria?[quote author=baysol post=58111474]Why all these warnings to these miscreants from the East? There is a proverb in Yoruba that says it is lack of will to refuse that made the wooden ladle to plunge its head into the hot water. Let those who have ears hear. Mine be say Nigeria will never miss this lazy money lovers, who has contributed nothing to the Nigerian nationhood but only what they can get is important. They have threatened our unity (Ojukwu civil war), kidnapped (Evans....), drug dealing (all over the world), heat up polity (kanu..), rubbish corrupt businesses (Alaba market). Let this p[eople go in peace abeg and let us see if their theory of south West economy will go down will ever happen. If they must know south west will grow from strength to strength with out oil with cocoa, oil palm, tourism agricultural cash crops, Industry and real estate to name just few. Please, fellow Nijas let this people go without a fight the are fake Israelites as they claim they have a lot of supprises waiting for their sorry a-sses in Biafra. Lobatan.

Blue3k2:
You guys act like restructuring is this magic wand. Special economic zones are always determined by federal government. I don't know about any country where such a decision is made at state level.