internationalman:
USA, despite their over 300million population still has a GDP per capital of $85k..

Population dealt China a huge blow too...

Nigeria should be topping the list from behind..

Population did not deal China any huge blow. China's population is it's biggest asset. China's GDP per capita may not be as impressive as other countries but that same China is fast achieving an economy where 1 in every 5 Chinese will soon be a millionaire in dollars.

Bliss4Lyfe:



Tinubu could not pass up the opportunity to destroy a legitimate business of a hard working Igbo man.

This Yoruba economic warfare against the Igbo that started with Awolowo in the 1060s have now moved to demolition of Igbo homes and bsuinesses.

I can confidently assure you that the mission was not exactly to demolish an Igbo man's business, it was strictly to help improve the infrastructure of Lagos by linking Apapa Ports to Eko Atlantic and Victoria Island using Federal Money. Atiku mentioned it before and questioned why the coastal road project did not start from Calabar instead of Lagos. It's just unfortunate that the Igbo man's business is a blockage to achieving this infrastructural growth in Lagos and parts of the business have to demolished to give way. It's the same way Soludo and Otti have been demolishing houses in Anambra and Abia respectively to expand the roads in those states without anybody crying about ethnic targeting or discrimination.

Bliss4Lyfe:
This is what they did to an Igbo man business in Lagos.


Now we have road in the front and back.

Nothing yoruba can say again that Igbo should listen. The hate is clear both in words and action.


Original route is the red line but they delibrately moved it forward to destroy the Igbo man bsuiness and then connect the road back to the original route down a the other end.


The wickedness made me to throw up yesterday.


Even the white will not do such to another white or investment in their land.

Lol. Is it only the Igbo man's business that will be demolished there? The main buildings of the Landmark event centre will not be demolished. Dave Umahi is the minister of works. He has changed and adjusted the plans of several other federal projects, what is stopping him from adjusting the plan of this coastal road project to prevent the demolition of any property along the coast?

The Yoruba people are very wise and I give them a thumbs up for that. That newly added road was supposed to be built by the Lagos State government to connect Eko Atlantic to other parts of Victoria Island and the Apapa Seaports but why should they use Lagos state's money when they can make the Federal Government include the project in the so-called coastal road and use the federation account to fund the road?

Look at the narrow gauge rail they did from Aba to Port Harcourt with World War 2 trains . They know that Igbo people naturally are docile and their leaders are ready to accept any nonsense just to please the federal government.
As for this Landmark center, the bitter truth is that there are many Igbo investors currently looking for land in that same Lagos state to build their resort. Shey Stanel built one of the most luxury hotels in Nigeria in Lagos but built Petrol Station in Awka . Na so Igbo people be abeg very comic characters

irisher:

Okay we heard you! Owerri and it's metropolis is more urbanized and developed than Onitsha and metropolis, Nnewi and metropolis, Awka and metropolis, Ekwulobia and metropolis, Imo state as a whole is more developed and urbanized compared to Anambra state. Are you okay now

Trolling will not change their positions. You can't accept stats only when they suit you and reject stats when they don't suit you. The same people who said Anambra has the best primary and secondary school completion rates in Nigeria also said Anambra is the 3rd most urbanized state in Nigeria. Accept the stats and move on, trolling won't alter Anambra's position

irisher:

Imo 2nd, what do you really mean? Is Imo the second most urbanized state in Nigeria, second in banking transactions, highest in MD, engineers and computer tech graduates in the country and abroad, what exactly?

Imo is the 2nd most urbanized state in Nigeria.

wiseoneking:
Dubai or no Dubai, Anambra still remain the second most urbanized state after Lagos, 4th largest in number of banking, among the three top states producing doctors , engineers and computer tech etc , highest graduating rate in primary, lower and higher secondary Sch, highest cut off mark in unity sch

@bolded, that number has been reviewed to 3rd. Lagos 1st, Imo 2nd, Anambra 3rd. Other stats you listed are accurate.

Cjrane2:
Thank you to Anambra First Son TV for shedding light on these long-standing issues within our community. Personally, I've grown weary of pleading with our people to change their ways.[/b]Let them persist in their folly, but they must also accept the consequences that may arise from their greed and shortsightedness in the future.

Recently, I've been troubled by individuals who are overly distraught about the proposed demolition of the Landmark mall in Lagos? My question to them is simple: how can one expect to be an Igbo person and own the largest mall in another community without considering the feelings and perspectives of the ancestral owners of that land? Are we really that daft to see everything strictly from the lens of profit and loss considerations?

Those who make such miscalculations must be prepared to bear the losses themselves when things inevitably go awry. [b]Those who live in a rainforest but fail to have a fall-back plan in case it rains should be prepared to become drenched when it inevitably rains. It is a proverb and advice for those who fail to reason while living in a tribalist and divided country such as Nigeria.

However, it's important to remind these individuals that they have a home state that they've neglected in pursuit of their ambitions to dominate others in foreign territories. They only seem to remember their roots when the consequences of their actions catch up to them. That's all I have to say on the matter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1t_nDMlxtI&pp=ygUnVGVuIHRvcCBpbmR1c3RyaWVzIG93bmVkIGJ5IG5kaSBhbmFtYnJh

@bolded You never start. You will plead for 600 years . But on a more serious note, I no longer see anything wrong in Igbo people building factories outside the East. Everyone builds his or her business in an environment where he or she hopes to make maximum profit as fast as possible and Lagos and Abuja are the top locations to host your business for fast growth as far as Nigeria is concerned.

We should be more focused on the businesses setup by residents of the South East. That is why I love the way Soludo is carrying out his youth empowerment program. We need to grow our own local industralists. We saw a video of an Igbo woman who makes motorcycle spare parts in Nnewi, that woman is an example of a local industralist though still small. There is another video of a man in the same Anambra state who manufactures materials for hairdressers using glass fibre. His products were of very good quality and looked like products imported from China. The only difference between these local producers in Anambra and their counterpart in Lagos and Ogun is that they lack the kind of capital required to scale up to the size of the industries in Lagos and Ogun. We need to educate our small scale business owners like these ones I mentioned to legally register their businesses and apply for loans from the Bank of Industry. The Bank of Industry is open to everyone in Nigeria that has a registered business. They will help you scale up gradually and provide the machines and tools you need to grow your business.

Another issue I discovered about Igbo businesses is that they don't advertise. I remember watching a program on Afia TV and the guest complained about how Igbo people, especially those in the east are always slow to adopt new technology to grow their businesses and they don't advertise enough. I have heard adverts from Gino, Tasty Tom, Mr. Chef etc on radio here in Lagos but I have never heard Tiger foods advert on radio (or TV) in Lagos despite their products being in Lagos. The first time I saw Tiger foods was on Nairaland posted by Anambra 1st Son and not even by the company itself.

So my main point is, it's high time we grow internally and locally in the east and forget about these guys who build whatever in Lagos. You can't tell anyone where he should spend or invest his or her money. We can start small and with strong patronage from our residents, our small businesses will gradually become big businesses.

christejames:




Interesting observation there but PO doing this is not just for his political ambition because he himself has made it a challenge for other wealthy Nigerians to build at least one borehole in a community, how many people have taken up that challenge?

The communities you mentioned in Igboland, I believe each of those communities have at least about 3 very wealthy individuals, how many of them have drilled a borehole for those communities. I applaud the benevolent ones amongst them though...


And for you to know, this is also a political strategy which is now changing the views of some northerners about the Igbo political elites. Before Tinubu finally declared to contest the last elections we all know what he did just to curry favours from the north, donating money to every gathering, embarking on some 'philanthropic' gestures, even his yearly colloquium that was always organized in Lagos was moved to the north just to make them see him as someone who is in tune with them, this is the same Tinubu that once blasted northerners and even declared he doesn't believe in one Nigeria. We can't just wish it away, the north wield some electoral values in today's Nigeria.



I just hope INEC will be reformed before the next general election just like you said, if not it will be another effort in futility.

@CJrane2 please read the part of this comment that I made bold. This is a typical example of the Igbo people that love fantasies more than reality.
Jonathan built new schools, new campuses in the North, did those projects change their perception about him? Arthur Eze has spent more on philanthropic activities in the North than Peter Obi, or do you want to talk about the school that was renovated with a new library by Emeka Offor in the same northern region? How did those activities positively affect the perception of the Northerners towards the Igbo people? Like I said before, allow these guys waste as much money as possible trying to please the unpleasables, they will all learn the hard way. How many times have a northerner donated anything towards the development of any eastern state? Na only us dey mumu ourselves.

Cjrane2:
I have been looking for who to ponder this issue with me.

I’m so uncomfortable with Peter Obi’s policy of focusing on only the northern poor people to provide them with water. In my own hometown of Aboh, we don’t have boreholes and would gladly love to get water courtesy of Peter Obi’s benevolence.

The idea that if one could only be a “nationalist” if one prioritized and solved only the problems of the northern poor. Both northern or southern Presidents except perhaps Tinubu prioritized northern Nigeria to their profound miscalculation and folly. Goodluck Johnathan tried the same strategy and also failed woefully like Zik before him. Peter Obi must understand that Nnamdi Azikiwe was born in Zungeru in northern Nigeria. He spoke Hausa better than he spoke Igbo. He prioritized the welfare of northern Nigerians and willingly gave the Prime Ministerial position to the north and took a ceremonial President role. After all that, it didn’t make any northerner not to see Zik as Igbo and still supported even the least competent northerner instead of Zik.

Someone should point out to Peter Obi that many communities in Ekwusigo,Ogboji, Achina, Umunze, Ogbunka also have severe challenges with portable water and would be happy to benefit from his boreholes benevolence. Not to mention some communities in Opi, Ede-Oballa, Ehamufu, Ezzamgbo, Okpanku, in northern Igboland where portable water has been a challenge for more than 60 years. These people are frustrated that they are neither remembered by the FG nor our own Peter Obi. Instead it is the same northerners favoured in every Federal government project in the Nigeria that again are the benefactors of every good thing offered by even non-northerners like Peter Obi! Please we should stop taking the southern communities for granted!

Meanwhile it is clear that Peter Obi won the 2023 presidential elections. Till date, the tallied votes on Rivers State IREV portal shows Peter Obi won in Rivers State. Yet his mandate was stolen by INEC and given to those who the Godfathers of Nigeria wanted. What guarantee is there that in 2027, even if Peter Obi wins by a bigger landslide than in 2023, INEC would not do the same thing and the Supreme Court of Injustice would cement the heist.

What I expected was a concerted effort to ensure that INEC only conducted elections but cannot declare winners because that role is outside their legal role as an election umpire.

How many times will we revisit this issue? Cjrane2 I ask you again, how many times are we going to revisit this issue? Are you not tired of repeating the same issue every year? I no longer concern myself with issues like this after I discovered 2 main problems about the Igbo people:

1. Ndigbo hate reality but love fantasies.
2. Ndigbo never learn from their mistakes.

From your write-up, you mentioned how even Azikiwe made the same mistakes in the 60s, fast forward to 2024 (over 60 years after) and we still have Igbo people (like Peter Obi) making same mistakes over and over again. What does that tell you?

My advice to you is to double your hustle. You can be the next popular philanthropist in Igboland and build these water projects with your money. Stop worrying about Peter Obi, he is a billionaire in naira, allow him waste as many millions as possible trying to please people that can't be pleased. Even I myself writing, I was part of the group that purchased school bags and other educational materials for students in my village. It was a contribution between some well to do members of our community and our brothers and sisters in diaspora. My contribution was not the biggest by any means but I played my part in helping children in my community.

All I know is that Peter Obi will learn the hard way. I laugh anytime I see his borehole projects and say to myself "see how this guy dey throway money on a lost cause ". It's all good though. It's up to us to do some of the developmental projects ourselves and stop hoping that our daft politicians will learn from the past.

I love the fact that Nigerians are breaking different records in GWR books but I don't understand why everyone who breaks a record must meet with some state governors, some even get cars and monetary gifts from some governors and I wonder how it's so easy for our governors to withdraw money from the state's accounts for issues that have no economic benefit.

I would also like to know if the world record holders from the US and some European countries also run to government house once they break or set a record. Like imagine a man from Florida breaking a record and the next picture you see is the Governor of Florida meeting with the man and even gifting him a car or money

Please I'm not criticizing, I'm just stating my observations.

ANSMEDIA:
Awka millennium city the first smart city in the region

What are some of the smart features of this Estate that makes it a "smart city" because you guys have been calling it a smart city for a while now but have not shown any advanced technology or anything at all to showcase the smartness of the city.

objpmb:



Is Umahi not Igbo? If he likes, let him play House Nigga and watch his people imperilled, amadioha will infest pain and sorrow on him.

I don't trust Umahi 1 bit. That man is just another useless Igbo politician. A person that spent his time as governor spreading discord between Ebonyi people and other Igbo people. He may just proceed with the project as outlined and forever destroy the chances of any major sea project in the East.

FatherOfJesus:
If you tell me the exact name of that road, I will deactivate my account.
Before deactivating, I will send you 100k if it's true that such ever happened in Aba

@Jcoleworld911 oya oo. Mention the name of the road lets verify.

PapillodeKing:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdtWKhO42IQ?si=mh52NF-5M1PSuQ6h

People that said Yanga Life was always attacking Anambra, who do we blame for this video now because it looks like he is now Abia oo
Inferiority complex and victim mentality is very horrible. Let's start viewing things from a more logical point of view instead of always crying over everything.

Tflex01:


Dey whine yourself. 😂

Ok.

Tflex01:


😂
I know you guys will dispute this one.

If it is the one that massage you guys ego now you will accept and even call anyone that question it a hater. 😂

Nobody is disputing anything. We are only clarifying that the Igbo apprenticeship system which may have clearly made up majority of those classified under child labour is a system that cannot be stopped because that system built Igboland.

Empiree:
Iran would not make unconfirmed allegation. FFK was right. Iran wanted usual to openly confirm it before it decided what to do.

US cable news confirmed this morning that Israel launched attack on Iran. So FFK was right. Iran is also right. Israel is very coward. It hides its identity like it has always been doing by not claiming responsibility what evil it did.

Wait until Iran confirms it was Israel and you see Israel under rubble tomorrow

Lol. Even Iran has confirmed that it has no intention of retaliating. The escalation is over. Iran multiplied by 10 cannot bury Israel under rubble, let that sink in.

Some people like FFK have already claimed that Israel launched the drones even when Iran is saying that the drones did not come from another country.

SoNature:
Hope Uzodinma shared the pictures of the ongoing International Conference Centre. This project still has a long way to go.

BTW, what did this man achieve in the past four years? This is one question his defenders haven't been able to answer

On the politics today program on Channels TV, he said his administration has empowered up to 20k youths and about 4k of them are now working in Europe
I never knew there would ever be a governor that would be worse than Okorocha and Ohakim. I won't be surprised if he rigs his way back to the senate once he is done with his 8 useless years in office.

Chikeluba25:
Note US, not Canada but Okija. One of the fastest growing cities in Anambra.

Is this an estate?

See nonsense talk oo. Simon Ekpa won those medals due to hardwork and if he were to be representing Biafra or any other country, he would have still won those medals.

On the issue of the North supplying food, you talk as if they supply food for free. Let Nigeria open her borders to food imports and let the North stop supplying food to the East and see if the Easterners won't look towards other countries to import food. Na only Northern Nigeria dey produce food for this planet

bassdow:

and from wetin we dey gather, seems damages done by the few that got into Israel, were much more than the WEST is letting us know.

Lol. You wish. Even the Airbase that was hit resumed operations after 5 hrs.

360degreess:
Una don dey accept reality? .At first you people said 99% of the missiles failed to hit their target, now you are saying 50%.Ok let us agree for the sake of argument that it's only 50% successful,do you know the damage those missiles will do on their target?, because we are talking of about 330 missiles and drones.

Read carefully and understand. Stop rushing to comment nonsense. Out of all the drones and missiles Iran launched towards Israel, about 50% of them either failed to launch or dropped somewhere else while 99% of those that successfully flew towards Israel were intercepted and destroyed. This thing is simple English.

AllenSpencer:
Defense system that collapsed by cheap drones!

Israel was using $50,000 to shoot down $1000

Israel will need a lot of aids from the US to fight Iran.

The Kamikazee is a good technology to put the enemy under pressure.

Iron dome got confused yesterday. 🤣🤣🤣

If Iran meant business, it would have been fried🤣🤣🤣

@bolded is clear delusion. A unit of that Iranian drone costs over $190,000 for the short range versions. You think you can build a drone that can cover 2000km with just $1000 Are you a serious human being at all? And for you to think cruise and ballistic missiles (which are more expensive than those drones) launched at Israel costs just $1000 each says alot about your level of ignorance. Iran just wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on a useless mission that had 0 casualty. Israel actually spent less than Iran this time around. I'm so disappointed in Iran. All the images and videos they released on twitter at midnight have been confirmed to be fake just to deceive clowns like you.

This is why I fear these islamic extremists. Their willingness to die fighting for what they believe in is shocking. How these guys always risk their lives fighting for Iran against Israel says alot about their ideology. Who would believe that Hezbollah has lost over 125 fighters in Israeli air strikes since October 7, yet they keep believing in the cover from Iran and have continued to launch rockets into Israel.

I sincerely pity Lebanon because Israel will respond as usual and more Hezbollah fighters and Lebanese civilians will die with more people about to become homeless in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah should pity the innocent Lebanese citizens and stop launching rockets into Israel. Allow Iran fight Israel directly and stop sacrificing yourselves on a lost cause.

predictor1:
I knew it would lead to this. I'm curious to see how Israel would fight a war on two fronts.

Funny statement. Israel and Hezbollah have been firing missiles at each other since October 8 and Israel has also been destroying military targets in Syria since October 8. Israel has been fighting on 3 fronts since this conflict began and you are talking about 2? Why do you think Israel recently withdrew its soldiers from Southern Gaza? Israel is preparing to defend itself from a direct attack from Iran and the long awaited invasion of Rafah. Hezbollah just wants to add Lebanon into this turmoil with their rocket launch.

Stop overhyping nonsense. I was expecting to see pictures of the shanties already getting destroyed and not him strolling in the shanties with police officers.

Na people wey get money dey move around na. If you want them to come out, display a truck load of bags of rice and watch Ibadan residents troop out in large quantities to loot the rice. No rice, no movement, deal with it.

FreeStuffsNG:

But Isreal is crazy enough to strike the Iranian embassy in Syria? Smh.

Isreal is just making things more difficult for the US in the middle east and US is genuinely worried especially in the middle of an election. it's just as simple as that.

Something must remove a President from office. Covid 19 outbreak ruined Trump's administration and Israel-Gaza war will ruin Biden's administration. If Biden wins, it will have little effect on the war, if Trump wins, I pity Palestinians.

Solitechworld:
The US is trying hard to prevent Iranian retaliation against Israel, Biden has started to put pressure on Israel to conclude a ceasefire deal as soon as possible, and apparently the US has also asked Oman to mediate with Iran on behalf of the US

🇮🇷🇺🇲Iran communicated to the United States through the Sultanate of Oman, that the Islamic Republic intends to directly strike Israel, unless the U.S. guarantees an immediate permanent ceasefire in Gaza & no Israeli ground invasion of Rafah – Exclusive sources to Jadeh Iran

So basically Iran has given the U.S. a choice: You can avoid a direct attack on Israel, by signing a permanent ceasefire in Gaza & an official guarantee of no Rafah operation.

Source: Middle East Spectator

The way some of you pro terrorists give yourselves hope is funny. Just today, the Prime Minister of Israel said both pressure from within and the international community will not stop Israel from carrying out it's offensive on Rafah. The Defence Minister also said the same thing that Israel is planning on the next phase of the attack which includes an offensive on Rafah but here you are giving yourself false hope of Israel surrendering to a ceasefire.

Artscollection:


I hate it when we don't mind our business, if an ikwerre man said he is not igbo then let him be!!!

The person you quoted is one of those bringing disgrace to Igboland. Ikwerre said they are not Igbos, let it be so and everybody should mind his or her business period.

proeast:


I think the political disenfranchisement Igbos are suffering in Nigeria is due to their extreme clannishness. Everyone is against you in your country, yet you’re also against yourselves and you think you will survive? Continue deceiving yourselves!

I don’t even blame the peripheral Igbos for distancing themselves because all these unnecessary bad blood defeats the whole idea. What do we even have in Igboland that we can’t forge ahead and focus on common good? Should we have our country today, we will be among the least developed in Africa, in terms of infrastructure!

All Igbos used to condemn Abia governors and the state of Aba for many years, the people of Abia State never took it personal. Today, they’re enjoying massive turnaround. But the moment any Igbo person criticizes Anambra governor or any city in Anambra, it becomes a war against brothers. Why?

Imo state governors starting from Rochas were criticized massively by Igbos. The people never take it personal, instead they join in criticizing while hoping for a change.

Anambra vs Abia.
Anambra vs Imo.
Anambra vs Ebonyi.
Anambra vs Enugu.

Believe me, if Anambra had huge oil resources and was at the periphery, they would still be acting like the ikwerre and others who deny their Igbo identity.

Same way Anambra brings glory to Igbos in many fields, so also they bring disgrace in others. Same applies to other Igbo states, so I wonder why or what is causing all these.

If Lagos were to be in Igboland, with this sort of mindset people are exhibiting here, I wonder how the relationship will be.

I know some people will still quote me to say whatever they like but wisdom is profitable to direct.

@bolded, I have said same thing here. I just don't understand how some of these guys see every criticism as war against Anambra.

Imo and Abia have been bastardized more than this but we didn't see them crying haywire all over social media playing victim.