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Adaibeku:
HEi ! Asaba ndiike ! Eeh

Asaba bu odogwu ! Eeh

Asabe ndi ji mmiri eme ego(money) ! Eeh

Asabe the great!

Saying in onitsha has it that onitsha is great but asaba is greater ! Imaka asaba nna , due u no d mind n spirit moving d asaba blood unborn?

Who dey hell is itshekiri ,what is oil ,

For your info asaba is hiding their oil field same wt onisha n otuocha ,

Asaba oh ! Asaba runs the south south with their blueblood mentality , signs ! anyway do ur research

Goddess

I hope you are joking, right? Blue blood ko, black blood ni. Asaba that was like a village when went there in 1992, just after being made state capital. Then it had only one motorable road. Asaba that was a vassal of the Benin Empire.

You guys are lucky we allowed the capital to be located in asaba.

Odingo1:
What question are you asking , each village will manage their own resources and pay tax to central government.

What concern Asaba with Ijaw community. Even Ijaw communities have different villages from one state to another.

I am trying to understand you guys idea of resource control.
You should understand that the oil business is a very specialised and complex business. You just can't walk with a shovel and pick crude from the ground. You need complex international and national relationships to do oil business. You need to bring in foreign expertise to even search for the oil at great expenses. These companies have very powerful government backings. Once oil is discovered, the mining is another cup of coffee altogether. After mining marketing and selling is also another ball game regulated by international trade and treaties. You guys think normal oil business is done like the way oil bunkerers steal oil and take to open waters to sell to illegal buyers. Governments can't operate that way. I have cousins that used to do illegal oil bunkering, so I know what I am talking about.

princfred:
Did Jeff Bezos receive government backed monopoly?
Mention another business man in Nigeria with government backed monopoly like Dangote over time as much as him.

Why not explain this government backed monopoly that no other business man was able to participate in.

Adaibeku:
No ,ijaw oil is for ijaw ,akwa ibom oil is for akwa ibom ,delta oil is for dem ,igbo technology and business is for d igbos...

I commented on his behalf

You are being cleaver by half. What do you mean delta oil for dem? Will Asaba people insist on sharing even $1 from crude drilled in itsekiri lands?

Abeg what is Igbo technology? I am a very tech swavy guy, and I have no idea of Igbo technology.

Amujale:
1.Imhotep ✓ The worlds first multi- genius and arguably the mist celebrated academic of all time.
2. Marcus Garvey ✓ Political Activist
3.Malcolm X. ✓ Political Activist
4.Martin Luther King (Jnr) ✓ Political Activist
5.Emperor Haile Selassie ✓ Monarch & Spiritual Leader
6.Lewis Latimer. ✓ Hall of Fame Inventor
7.Jesse Ernest Wilkins. ✓ Renowned Mathematician
8.Muhammed Ali ✓ Professional Boxer and Political Activist.

Revising and rewriting history.
Imhotep was not black, and he was not even close to the most celebrated academic of all time. He is no where near Sir Isaac Newton in terms of academic achievements or Leonardo da Vinci. The only thing I learn of imhotep was that he designed the pyramids of Giza. You should know that pyramids had been built far before imhotep. Every learned person must learn the works of Newton and Da Vinci.

Being a political activist does not confer greatness on a person. He only become a cult figure to his followers. On that criteria, Vladimir Lenin or Gandhi would be far greater than all the political activists you listed.

Edodefender:
ijaw oil should be use to develop ijaw people not funding and fighting terrorism that don't concern ijaw

You did not answer my question. In your new country, will Ijaw oil be shared among the other tribes without oil?

princfred:
Anyone with the full backing of oil government of millions of people with upto giving him monopoly in such huge market for decades can do a dangote. Not there.

And dangote is the only Nigerian that had full government backing and monopoly.
I am sure if you were in the US, you will accuse Jeff Bezos of becoming the richest man in the world because of government backing and monopoly.

OladimejiRufai:
spurious claim spotted!!


Tupac was 25 when he died man

If musicians, entertainers and politicians is all we can nominate as the greatest blackman, then we are in trouble.
When the whites have a Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander the Great, William Shakespeare, Albert Einstein, Richard Hawkins, and thousands of others that have changed the world. We can only be proud of entertainers.

Edodefender:
So Biafra is all about justice to the southern minorities? I wish I knew I'll never insult their cause ever again.

Let the south south control their own resources why is it so hard to understand?

Will Yoruba allow Nigeria to use Lagos igr and give them ordinary 13%?

Please explain this your concept of resource control. What do you mean south south control their own resources? I hope you are not suggesting that I jaw oil will be used to develop asaba or other igbo areas?

This Biafra will be interesting, with civil war happening within the first 2 years of formation. It will be IPOB vs MASSOB vs Biafra Zionists on one hand VS Niger delta volunteer force vs egbesu vs MEND on the other hand. It will be like royal rumble. Everyone fighting everyone else for power and oil.

I will be watching it live from warri on CNN and Aljezira with popcorn in hand.

Johncables402:
If Mandela was such a great black man he would have given each race the appropriate size of land , instead most of the land belongs to the minority whites while many blacks live in the fringes of society . I know residential land is more black than white, but what about the land that matters the most ? Agricultural ( You have been made to depend on your oppressors for food)? Is that sanity ?. I didn't know much about the land problems over there until I followed the debate between the Kenyans, the boer guy and lionessza6 , I thought she was playing victim mentality until I did my own research and realised that she actually had a point. Your inequality starts from the ownership of productive land , you cannot not have a bright future without owning the factors of production. Your banks require collateral which is mostly land with value before they give you a loan for a business expansion , how many blacks qualify for this ?. You can never play a meaningful role in your economy without land ownership my guy . I watched a documentary on why Chris chani was killed and it makes sense . The West tagged him divisive, that is because he wanted the land more than welfare that Mandela gave you people . Do you really believe that your boer friends would have opted for peace and unity if the people in slums looked like them ? Do you think they would be celebrating Mandela if the banks and mines belonged to all ( nationalised )? . They only supported the so called unity and peace because they got it all ; the institutions, banks , land and of course some of yalls love and loyalty lol. Your country is burning because of the mistakes of this man . I'm not saying he was a total disaster but he can't possible be a hero for black men , not when a black man still digs the dangerous mines without any hope of his sons ever owning a share . I'm not saying he should have taken everything from whites, but he shouldn't have given it all to them not when all the hard work for centuries has been done by the blacks . Without fixing the land issue , I do not see your country ever finding peace , you will always talk about the rainbow but the cries of the masses cannot be silenced forever . I smell another zim land grabbing case coming closer. With many videos from your country with whites tormenting poor black farmers and the many young blacks crying for land ...........1

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I disagree with you on all levels. Mandela was a great leader and very few world leaders could ever match his resilience, foresight and humility.
Mandela was negotiating from a position of weakness. The blacks had been under decades of oppression. The literacy levels of the black was poor compared to the whites and all the security forces were under the control of the apartheid government. They even have support from the US and the British. Confronting them headlong would have been a suicide mission. I know my brothers from the east usually allow emotions instead of intellect get the better of them. They are ready to fight war without calculating their chances of success. The whites had the economic and military power. No way Mandela would confront them headlong, he will lose and lose millions of the people he wants to protect.
The best he could have done is negotiate the best deal, take over government and then empower his people economically and militarily over time. When they have acquired some power, the blacks can then challenge the whites.
Seizing land forcefully would have been a disaster. The blacks did not have the expertise and capital to engage in industrial farming, in fact no black African has been able to engage in industrial farming. Hunger would have wiped out a significant percentage of blacks. See what happened when Zimbabwe seized white land suddenly, food prices jumped thousand times fold. Zimbabwe changed from a net exporter of food to a net importer of food.

I am highly disappointed at the black governments after Mandela, they have done little to alleviate the condition of the blacks. Instead, they exhibit what is regarded as the black mans curse of Greed, avarice and insensitivity.

PrecisionFx:

A parasitic region that ur father's n grandfather's fought A bloody civil war to make sure that they remain in the same country wit u? What a lovely parasite we are.

It's annoying when you guys make false and misleading statements just to promote an agenda. The civil war was not necessarily fought to make sure igbos remain in the same country. Until the civil war, no one cared about the igbos. The civil war was as a result of power play within the military hierarchy. It finally boiled down to an ego contest between Ojukwu and Gowon. Ojukwu was not ready to take orders from Gowon - his junior.
It was the Igbos that brought us one Nigeria 6 years earlier. The other regions were not exactly thrilled with one Nigeria until the civil war.

Binidefender:
Itsekiri names are more like afonja names, those land belongs to bind bro, oil producing part of ijaw is bini/ijaw land ceded to ondo to make it look like Yoruba people have oil, when they have nothing

You post makes no sense whatsoever. What brings afonja into the discussion? Do you have nightmares on afonja every night. You seem to think of afonja day and night and related everything you see to afonja.

Otumara in itsekiri means " agrees with my body" it has no meaning in Yoruba.
Ehinmoghan means this is where I am, a Yoruba translation would be "e bi mo wa"

I cant really say the meaning of Ikorigho, but origho means head in itsekiri, so Ikorigho might mean a gathering of heads.

If the land originally belongs to the benis, why are they bearing itsekiri names. Lots of our lands were annexed to Benin and Ondo, especially the oil bearing ones. Even Igbokoda is an Itsekiri name. My father was councillor there in the first Republic.

Starry321:
Most of those areas sound so edo_ish

They are itsekiri sounding names.

RealityShot:
and who is paying for all the firepower the west has been fighting since 9/11/01??

You mean the Saudis have more money than the US? The US don't need Saudi money to fight wars. The Saudis only help the US by flooding the market with oil to keep the price down.

Esseite:
You misunderstood the write up... its majors on why Nigerian politicians cant invest stolen funds and dominate vital industries like these...

Nigerian politicians can't invest stolen funds. First Nigerian politicians are terrible at business and secondly they are more interested in hiding and laundering the stolen funds. They prefer to take the monies overseas to be hidden in bank vaults or acquire expensive properties.

RealityShot:
you are right...


But ibe kachuku did not tell us how much NNPC made last year too!


But we don't want to become AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, IRAQ! Or Libya

Nobody knows how much NNPC made in any year. Even Okonjo Iweala did not know how NNPC made in any year of the Jonathan administration. NNPC just declares the monies they like, and we accept whatever they give.
Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq or Libya was not caused by the Saudi. The conflicts were caused by the power play of the West.

Esseite:
And here they are again to dominate a vital market again and repatriate proceeds to their countries.

Shopping - South Africa, lebanese
Real estate - chagouri brothers
Telecoms - South Africa, middle east, Indians
Automobile - Chinese, German, American
Clothing - Italian, Chinese, Turkey, dubai
Airport - Chinese
Rail - Chinese
Crude oil - American

Now refinery - Saudi Arabia is coming...

WHO CURSED YOU NIGERIA.

Are you people cursed to always criticise? Today you will say Buhari is driving away foreign direct investment, when foreigners decide to bring dollars into Nigeria and invest heavily you complain again.

These companies that you are complaining about bring their monies, expertise and experience. They did not hinder you or your people from investing. They pay for licences, pay for land, pay taxes and most importantly employ locals.

The Saudi owned ARAMCO is one of the biggest companies in the world if not the biggest. The company is estimated to value more than $2 trillion (two trillion dollars ). If they come to Nigeria, that would be a huge boost to investor confidence and our economy.

tactius:
Saudi ARAMCO is a private company and one of the big oil companies.



Sauce: Wikipedia.

It is a big company really.

ARAMCO, private company? How

Your Google must be corrupted. You need to format your phone.
ARAMCO is wholly owned by the Saudi government.

SarkinYarki:
I am in support of a special status for Lagos..I have always been ...I have always called for a Lagos Marshall Plan to expedite infrastructure growth for Lagos

Fa fa foul. Special status for lagos ke? You want the whole 200 million Nigerians to flood into Lagos? An area less than 3.5 square kilometres.

We need to decongest lagos. Other urban centres need to be constructed and connected by rail and good roads to drain lagos of its massive population. Other ports must be operational to divert some traffic away from lagos.
We require a concise plan to stem rural - urban migration drift.

SarkinYarki:
I was only trying to shed light on the fact that all Nigerian states are contributing their fair quota to the Federal tax purse and It will be erroneous for anyone to start assuming Lagosians pay 70 percent of the Tax the Federal govt receives because that will amount to a wrongly premised financial illusion .

Wrong premise. Other states are not contributing their fair quota to the Tax purse, not because their indigenes are not generating taxable activities, but the governors are simply contended with going to Abuja every month cap in hand to receive hand outs. Lagos was also like that before Tinubu. It was Tinubu (with a little encouragement from Obasanjo due to the allocation withholdings ) that increased the tax revenue of Lagos.

Most governors do not take tax collection serious. The east with so much economic activities have no excuse for the abysmal poor IGR.

Imo1stson:
Enough of this repeated fallacy. Remove the seaports and move them to the rightful place which is Niger Delta, relocate all oil companies and their affiliates to the rightful place which is the Niger Delta and wait for only 10 years.

How will you remove ports from Lagos and relocate them to Niger Delta? Will you force oil companies at gun point to relocate their headquarters. You attracts investments with incentives and not by force. What incentives have your state governments provided for oil multinationals to make them relocate there, like security, infrastructure, tax breaks. You guys forget state governments have roles to play also.

If a UAE company can bid and win concession to operate US ports, why can my igbo brothers - either individual organisations or state governments? - https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.arabianbusiness.com/amp/article_listing/aben/transport/393279-uaes-gulftainer-wins-50-year-concession-to-operate-us-port

After all the igbos boast to be the best at business. Business does not mean only buying and selling.

9gerian:
majorly.
Why didn’t people shout then so that they build seaport in each state of the federation or at least in each SE or SS state?

This my grouse with my Igbo in laws. All complaints but no actions. No effort whatsoever at solving perceived inbalances or injustices. If efforts had been made and it was sabotaged by the FG or other Nigerians, I will be the first to carry the fight on their behalf.
What stops the state government or a couple of state governments from taking over one of the ports in the Niger delta and making it viable. The FG concessioned the ports in the country and any business person or state government can take control of the ports. After all if Atiku can have full control of Onne Port, why can't others take control of other ports?

The era of governments of building and operating ports are over, even in the US ports are concessioned to private companies.

kafulka:
Did you Skip where I mentioned corporate organization which represent Dangote's business interest
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Then why did you even mention igbos? You make it seem as if igbos are the only people responsible for the 70% Of Nigeria’s N5.2 Trillion Tax Revenue contributed By Lagos State that we are talking about.

Do you know the amount of importation done by jumia or direct importation by Nigerians through aliexpress or alibaba?

kafulka:
Who are the major players in these land borders that generates the IGR if not business people

People like you whose only job is to rant on line are just spectators
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And Igbos are the only people that bring in goods through the land borders?

kafulka:
Sentiment aside, 70% of containers/imported goods at Apapa whorf and Tincan port are owned by Igbos and corporate organizations
.

Where did you get this your statistics? Imports by Flour mills, honeywell and Dangote (salt and sugar) imports alone is higher than all Igbos imports added together.

See the amount of ordinary salt we import - https://www.thenationonlineng.net/nigeria-spends-n3-6tr-on-salt-import/amp/

emekakanu2:
Thanks to Igbo business men and woman, because Lagos is Igbo and Igbo is Lagos base on business level, Yoruba people are just security in Lagos state

And how many igbo people pay VAT or tax as a whole?
In that case Aba or Nnewi will contribute significant tax revenue for Abia and Anambra.

PAGAN9JA:
--------------NEWS UPDATE -----------------

The Ide has been returned!

This was resolved yesterday after the case was taken up by the Isese Youth.

As narrated,

"Hello my people, i so much appreciate you all.

Good news, they found her bead and returned it to her!

The girl returned back home sad and informed her people, today Isese people made me proud. They all went back there in full Isese squad and good enough they met the security and guess what? She was a woman!

Clearly it was stated in the brochure that no one is allowed to enter into the exam hall with their beads, rings or any jewelry be it for religious or fashion purpose.

On getting there, they understood everything but still if you collect someone's property, you have every right to return it afterwards but due to the hatred the woman have towards Isese, she threw the bead somewhere she couldn't find it again while other people's bead and properties were found there.

When people started boiling up and make them understand we ain't taking it slightly, she knew she was in trouble. She saw traditionalist well dressed and speaking good English, standing on their feet, the woman started crying.

I wasn't there with them but I was on the phone with her all through and I also spoke with the supervisor heading that school. I told them we will be going legal again them and involve lawyer!

They never expected it!

Miraculously they found the bead that was nowhere to be found in the first place. Still I could still hear the woman crying and at the same time praising her god.

Afterwards they started begging like a baby.

I also blamed the girl for leaving the center without making sure they provided her bead at all cost but at the same time, who knows what the woman would have told her.

My people, we still have a long way to go but still we shall start from somewhere.

Let's not entertain any form of discrimination or hatred against us.

We are traditionalist not terrorist. Ire ooo"
~Concerned Isese Youth (CIY)

Weldone. Kudos to you guys for standing up to your rights. Nigeria is a secular country and not a Muslim - Christian country. The Abrahamic religions are the most violent religions in the history of Mankind. African traditions traditions had their negative practices just like the Abrahamic religions encouraged human sacrifices, but it never engaged in genocide or religious wars.

The practice of bowing down before an image of a dying white man covered with blood to atone for sins never seemed logical to me.

Adakintroy:
Hahah..it's already been forced down thwit throats sir. She made a silent point. They could have shut the club down during the day. But they waited till night to Mae a statement.

Those who do not get it, let them gather this time. They will answer to their children. "what is a strip club daddy"?

You just don't get it. Either you are very naive or you are not in Nigeria. The police did not intent to make any statement. They intent to make money from bail. Once the people get to the police station each person arrested will be billed from 10k to 50k depending on perceived status. Those that can't pay will sleep the night at the station. By the next day the amount of bail would have reduced by half. The fine ladies would be given the option of paying by other means. If after 2 days, they are unable to receive any money from the few remaining. They would be let go.
I ran a joint before, so I understand how things work.

The owner of the strip club will go and settle the DPO and the boys, ,and the club will open the very next day.

Ask people close to the strip club to check tonight, I am sure they will be open for business.

Emycord:
FOOL deny which allegation ? by who ? his family ? or nigerian government ? when will the police issue a statement ? why is the government silent? since it involves thier key enemy? if you are sure that ipob did it then go to court and prove it. i thier statement says that fat pig is now an enemy so are you saying they will soon kill him too ? so why has ipob not killed the 5 se governors ? and ohanaeze boss? what about clifford iloanya and a host of other former allies who are of more importance to kanu than this man who's not a dot of his words has ever come to pass. and the man indeed said that kanu brought him from lagos down to enugu. his only grouse with kanu is that kanu left him, to hunger. it all points out to one thing the man is a "money for food prophet"

Kill governor ke? If IPOB dare attack any governor or any other important igbo politician, python dance will look like the blues. The one that would dance on the south east will be Anaconda.

Afritop:
Prophet Nwoko cried out in his Facebook page in April 14 that IPOB are threatening and planning to kill him, nobody believed him. Now that they actualized their threat 5 days later they are trying deal with Asari and anybody that fingered them in the murder.

Supporters of IPOB are very prone to violence, expecially to someone critical of their supreme leader.
A friend narrated how he was almost lynched at a bar in imo state. He told me that during the course of discussion and gossip as is usual in a beer parlour, he was critical of Kanu and Biafra. He said before he knew it some hefty guys came to his table and dare him to repeat what they heard him say earlier. Being a wise guy, he told them he was just joking and that he just wanted to found out which of the guys he was discussing with supported Kanu and Biafra.
After he calmed the guys down, he quietly left the beer parlour.

IPOB guys get verbally and physically aggressive to anyone critical of Kanu and Biafra, even here on nairaland.

gloria34:
Go and read the original post, nor be police, it was another agency, i don Forget their name. Una just like to blame police for everything

If it was an agency enforcing their laws, why arrest innocent club goers and strippers?