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potoX:
Yes I. Buhari has put them in their rightful place and it's killing them inside

Care to tell us what exactly you mean by the bolded?

splendid2:
What kind of nonsense media hype of Ugwuanyi are you guys doing, please that lazy gov should better sit his a$s down and work. By this time, during Sullivan's tenure, he has achieved not less than 5x of what this lazy Gov has achieved yet no body was doing any kind of stewpid advert online but Ndi Enugu praised him cos his achievement was so clear to the blind. You are here advertising inconsequential award and little projects he's doing in nsukka region only

This is true...i've noticed this as well!

During Chimes' tenure, it wasn't like this. The little he did, it was ordinary people like you and i, that had nothing to do with his administration, that were praising him and creating threads of developments in the state! The reverse is the case now. All i can link with this gov't is a few rural roads and upgrading the roads in Nsukka (well constructed it must be said), yet their otimpkus would not allow us to hear word!

What big-ticket, game-changing project/s that would change the economic fortunes of Enugu State can we actually point to?

Also, anyone know the current state of the Presidential Hotel, the new AIIA Terminal and the abandoned Convention Centre at Independence Layout?

JAMESOJAY:
Now the truth is out and you think same thing will happen again? You know it will never happen

Ikpeazu didn't win that election and deep down you,you know the truth..so why support evil when you don't gain anything from him..you just support him cause his nwga right

I asked you if your parents are civil servants and they are been owed for 10 months how will you feel?

He used abia states money to bribe the Supreme Court that's why salaries are be owed for 10 months now and the road are not fixed

You may have me confused with someone else!

Some juvenile-minded moro'ns have taken over this and the Imo State threads!

You click on these threads to see fresh and nice pics/videos and to read matured discussions of developments in the South East, and all you see is an entire page filled up with curses, evil pics (used to denigrate a fellow Igbo state), inane back-and-forth, immaturity, bigotry, hate and tittle-tattle! It's starting to get a bit tiresome!

ZeeBaba17:
The right word to use is not arrogance but foolery and comic acting that cost PDP the ticket and point of correction, its not PDP bigwigs that would have given PDP the ticket but the people whom Fayose couldn't elevate their poverty level

The way you guys 'analyse' governance and the outcome of elections in Nigeria....one would be forgiven for thinking we're talking of a Nigeria in a parallel universe!

Show me a Nigerian politician who isn't 'arrogant'! I suppose the likes of Hell-Rufai, Oshiomole and Buhari are soft-spoken, humble and friendly to all?

But you did the same thing didn't you?

JAMESOJAY:
ABA- Governorship candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in the 2015 election in Abia State, Dr.Alex Otti , said he had forgiven the former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party , Chief Olisa Metuh for the role he played during the collation of the results of the election at the INEC collation centre , Umuahia , in 2015. Otti who stated this while declaring his interest in the 2019 governorship election, in Aba, Abia state, alleged that Metuh and and former governor, Theodore Orji, had stormed the collation centre and forced the INEC returning officer to reverse the result of the governorship election in favour of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of the PDP. He, however, disclosed that Metuh had regretted his role and apologized to him when they met at an event in Lagos and urged Abia people to forgive the former PDP spokesman. Otti further stated that Orji was yet to apologize to him and promised to forgive him and urged Abia people to consider extending same treatment to the former governor when he seeks their forgiveness. As Otti threw a question to the mammoth crowd at the event whether they would forgive the former governor, shouts of ‘no , no, no’ , rent the air. The APGA chieftain said, “There’s one man who now wears collar on his neck. His name is Olisa Metuh. It was Olisa Metuh and Theodore Orji that led the other thieves in PDP to break into the collation centre took the returning officer and intimidated him and threatened him at gun point, and the man reversed himself. “If Olisa Metuh is listening to me, he’ll be surprised that I’m calling his name, but I’m doing it for history sake because he has apologized to me. Olisa Metuh saw me in a burial ceremony in Lagos and told me that it looks as if he’s suffering because of what he did to me in 2015 election in Abia. He said it is like he was cursed for that singular act. He begged me to forgive him that he has done everything to end his suffering yet all have failed. I’ve have forgiven him and I beg you my people to forgive him. It is remaining T. A. Orji. If he comes, we’ll consider if we can forgive him. In his own, you own me and if you want us to forgive him, we’ll do so.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/07/abia-govship-i-have-forgiven-olisa-metuh-otti/

That's politics naija style for you! Worst part is that it's still going on today!

Hopefully now Metuh and Ochendo-Global have no power over security like they had when PDP was in power, we can see the true will of Abians reflected in the ballot! Ikpeazu has been governing on a stolen mandate all this while, and that the useless Supreme Court didn't find this out is part of the problem we face as a country!

I think you'll find it's quicker to list those who aren't IPIPs in this present gov'ts appointments (it's not just the ministerial appointments) than those who are!

melodyogonna:
We all know the many benefits of being independent, that's why we are fighting for it. The problem is that powers that be won't allow us to govern ourselves without a fight.

True that!

Everyone, including Igbo and non Igbo know the benefits derivable from a detachment from Nigeria! Problem is, the non Igbo don't want it to happen either because of envy, or they feel they can't survive alone without sharing the same country with us and tapping into our human and natural resources!

And for the Igbo that don't want it, it's mainly due to them placing selfish and materialistic gains over the freedom and emancipation of their people! They know that in the type of country envisioned by IPOB, many of them wouldn't have access to the unmerited positions and filthy lucre they presently enjoy courtesy of this corrup, ineffective and inefficient 'one Nigeria'!

EternalTruths:
If only the Northern Christians will raise the flag of Biafra after signing a unification deal with IPOB.

This issue of Christian Middle-Belt joining forces with IPOB/Biafra is a tricky one! It would have been easier say about 70 years ago for them to extricate themselves from the clutches of their Fulani oppressors, but as of today, the Fulani have craftily and patiently perfected their age-long plan of embedding themselves all over the middle-belt and are now claiming indigene' of all these places they've settled in over the years!

You do get some rare cases where the original owners of the land fight back (as can be seen in Jos and Southern Kaduna), but the Fulani that have solidly consolidated and entrenched their positions are prepared for them....and seeing as they (the Fulani that is) are backed up by the 'Nigerian state', i don't see the present demographic in the Middle-Belt changing anytime soon! The Middle-Beltans waited too late!

oshe11:
See the Hunger when Buhari don Put Naija?



Turned lion to PussyCat

This one na real CHANGE......


I wouldnt be surprised if the Zookeeper is taking the meat meant for the Lion, home to feed his family

That was the first thing i thought as well!

I bet if they show us a pic of the zookeeper responsible for feeding those poor lions, we'll see a robust looking fella with full cheeks and an even fuller stomach!

alextini:
Guys please can you just stop this online hatred n fix yourself? Why is that we Igbo's are always quick at bashing each other online I hate it with all my blood anytime you guys make a mockery of each other, have u ever thought about wat other tribe will say? No, rather u foolishly come online to bash each other. No wonder they say we Igbo's are not united.
I weep for you guys .
@nnamdi and imo1stson

I seriously doubt these guys (or guy, as it maybe one person doing all this) are Igbo!

I think some people are not happy seeing how the Igbo threads have lasted this long, and want to set the cat amongst the pigeons, just to see if that would help derail proceedings!

This is Nigeria, not obodo oyibo where things like presidential debates and votes cast go a long way to determine who would win the race!

Buhari ain't gonna loose sleep over this your threat! All he need do when the election comes is send out a 'call-to-arms' to his horde of ill-informed, bloodthirsty mob up north, while depending on Tinubu to do the needful in the south west, and the election is in the bag!

Can we have a time-out on this Milikin Hill news story? It's been overflogged already!

Hehehehehe

Crafty Oshiomole thought he had boxed him into a corner with his statement after their meeting!

Nigeria as presently constituted is a fraud, this is why you see a lot of crazy things happening that defies normal convention in saner climes!

You look at the likes of Singapore, Dubai, China, etc....countries we were either equal with or better than on the eve of 'independence' in 1960, and the enormity of the mess we're in suddenly hits you like a 10 ton truck!

dontbothermuch:
It's so sad that since military regime, no major project has taken place.

APC & PDP have failed us

Youths be wise
Nigerians be wise.

Major projects are being built and launched alright...just not in your South East! They're mainly in the South West and North....both federal-enabled and private projects.

Of course, when you complain about this daylight robbery, they'd place an arm around your shoulder in a patronising manner and console you by pointing out that you've got the 2nd Niger Bridge and Enugu-Port Harcourt expressway so you should be happy!

deboysben:
This Time around pdp is no more at this central to rig election for Okezie Ikpeazu


#Team apga

#teamalexiotti

For better Abia state

True, but don't think because PDP isn't in control at the centre that Ikpeazu and his thugs wouldn't try to rig it! The default setting of most Nigerian politicians is to rig, and then tell the opponent to go to court!

It's basically up to Abians to vote for quality and intimidating antecedents over emotions and tribal considerations! They shouldn't fall for that 'it's been zoned to and the turn of Ngwa' stunt that was pulled on them in 2015!

Asquare84:
upon all the dangerous story we here about migrant die in libyia nigerian are still embarking on this dangerous journey, let them even live them there

It will take more than threats of starvation, rape, enslavement or even death to stop these ones from giving it a go!

Their moto will be no pain no gain!

ikorodureporta:
Were they nt suppozd to carry out an aerial survey b4 penetrating??

Can you just imagine bros!

Even guys do it in the bedroom before the hanky-panky begins so they're sure what they're getting themselves into, so how hard can it be!?

For the mere fact that he was stupid and callous enough to put innocent little kids through such an ordeal and perilous journey, he doesn't deserve to get the other kids back! They're safer away from the fool!

EDIT: Just read the rest of the OP! I guess he should be handed the kids back since he was against the trip from the onset!

I prefer the first pic!

But come oh....was the Atlantic that close to the street back then, or are my eyes deceiving me?

Lipscomb:
Lol ipob nuisance they don't know what they are fighting for. Useless people.

How would you know one way or the other what they're fighting for when you bluntly refuse to engage them in a debate/discussion on what they're agitating for? And when they go out to protest you send soldiers to mow them down in cold blood, after which you then proceed to give a press conference proscribing their organisation!

Can you pretend you're not aware they're asking for a referendum? Or is it a case of burying your head in the sand and trying to ignore them because you secretly know Igbos are not happy in Nigeria as presently constituted and in all likelihood may vote to secede?

Dino....the cat with nine lives!

yemmight:
Garba Shehu is differen from Bashir Ahmad.

But one and the same in idiocy!

writefreely:
NOI for first female president? IGBO 2023? patriots feel me Nigerias international profile will peak immediately. And considering she has brains too might just choose to either restructure or disintegrate the country.

Meanwhile check my signature to contact the best article writer/re-writer on nl.

You should understand that there are some Igbos that sections of Nigeria (we know where) would see become president over there dead bodies!

Whereas they expect us to accept people from their regions that we see as bigots, murderers and religious fundamentalists, when it comes to us producing president, these mofos would only be comfortable with the likes of Rochas, Orji Kalu or Igbokwe....Igbos they see are prepared to kiss their arsse! Intelligent Igbos and Igbo technocrats like Okonjo-Iweala, Soludo, Chidoka, Muoghalu, etc, they see as a threat and unable to 'manage'! In any event, no matter the Igbo that becomes president with the current set-up still in place, they would give him hell and find fault in almost everything he/she does! How they related with the OBJ and GEJ presidencies would give you an idea of how they'd relate with any Igbo presidency!

So the long and short of it is that no Igbo should get excited with a Igbo becoming president in Nigeria as he/she wouldn't be given the space, cooperation and peace to work!

Choi! See bad belle!

LIFEisSIMPLE:
God give me the strenght not to ever call the entity called Nigeria a zoo

Hehehehe

Something tells me you're pretty close to saying it!

seanfer:
PDP Chairman is talking like a looser already... This is same was Shouting every where that there will be no Election in 2019 if Ekiti is not Free and Fair... Now it's about Security Agencies and Inec.... Oga Go and eat Shawarma at you Restaurant and stop disturbing us

To be honest, nothing would please Buhari and APC better than PDP and its aspirants boycotting the 2019 elections.

PDP should try something else.

Ofodirinwa:
Aba Can Generate Enough Money To Develop Abia State’
July 13, 2018 12:04 am 38 0

Emma Nwabuko
Before he became the Principal Secretary to the governor of Abia State, Engr. Emma Nwabuko had headed various ministries in the past administration. He bares his mind on his present job and other issues concerning the state in this interview with Emmanuel Ugwu. Excerpts

You’ve held different positions across two administrations. Is your present office as principal secretary to the governor as challenging as the previous ones?



Any position you hold in government, understand that you are there to deliver services to the state government and to the people of the state. So, no matter the level you are doing it, the sole aim is to deliver services and that has been what we’ve been doing in these past years. The bottom line is service to the people and we’ve been doing that. Yes, some positions might be challenging in the sense that the volume of work and volume of responsibility will increase. In the past years, I was a commissioner in charge of some ministries – ministries of works and transport as at then. It was very challenging because when you have a government that has as its cardinal point delivering infrastructure to the people, then you must be on your toes to make sure that those things are carried out. From there I was made commissioner for local government and chieftaincy affairs which is another bigger assignment because you are dealing with the whole state as matter of fact. The commissioner for local government deals with all the local governments in the state. That one was also a bigger assignment. And from there to this position as principal secretary to the governor. This one is like the engine room – I would say that it is like the clearing house of whatever the governor wants – whether directive, instructive, the complaints of people; we are just like the vehicle that carries those things to the governor.

So, how tasking is your present position?

In this position you do not have a time of your own; you cannot say this is my working hours. Of course you can be called at any time. The governor is a young energetic man, very dynamic, so you hardly sleep when others are sleeping. You can be called up at any time, and what irks a boss is when a worker cannot be reached at any time either because your phone is switched off or something. So even if you switched off all other lines you must keep open your dedicated line where you can always interact with your boss. The job is tough but exciting and we’re flowing with the modalities, trying to provide dividends of democracy to the people and since we are on the same page we are very grateful that any time we are called upon we will answer.

Is there any continuum between the immediate past government and the present one in terms of completing inherited projects?

Of course governance is a continuum. I can tell you there hasn’t been any programme or project started by the last administration that was abandoned or cancelled by the present government. Look at the area of providing infrastructure to the people, this government is still continuing with that programme. And when you think about the projects that have been there you also think about the values to the people you are providing them for. What obtained yesterday might not be what obtains today. Today the local governments are independent enough so what you get at the centre is hardly enough to take care of your needs and all that. So you have to go back and think of what to do because governance is dynamic. You can’t just say because that project was started you stick by it instead of sitting down and rearrange your priorities. And when you arrange your priorities now, it’s not as if you have abandoned those projects; it is those projects that will give value to the people that you face when you get the money. For instance if you check the international conference centre (ICC) it was started by the last administration and it is still there. And if you look at the housing projects, the JAC building, ASUBEB building- they are all there. Even the roads that were awarded during the last administration this government is also handling it. So governance is a continuum; there is none of the projects that have been absolutely abandoned. What is happening is that you now prioritise, looking at the precarious state of the state when it comes to generating internally generated revenue. If you are building a road now it must be able to open up all the fronts for getting internally generated revenue. It is then that more money would come to the government and you can use it for more projects.

Is the principle of power shift on which Dr Okezie Ikpeazu rode to power still relevant as 2019 election year approaches?

That decision facilitated by the former governor of state(Senator T.A. Orji) to shift power to Abia South was a laudable one. Last month the people of Ohangwa organised for him grand civic reception and gave him chieftaincy title. Politics is about equity, it’s about fairness. Politics is making sure that you do not marginalise people because they don’t have anybody to speak for them. The Abia charter of equity recognised that and that was why as we now have three senatorial zones. What happens to one senatorial zone should also happen to the other senatorial zones. Power started from the north and shifted to central so you don’t have to argue that power must shift to south so that every where will be quiet. The Igbo adage says that emee nwa ka emere ibe ya obi adi ya nma. I tell you when you now talk about the benefits of power shift a lot of things have been done in Aba. I can tell you that Aba has capacity to give us all the money we need in this state. Rivers state is generating more than N4 billion every month, why are we not generating our own? It is because of dilapidated infrastructure that Aba has. Aba is noted for businessmen and industrialists and what they need is good roads, electricity and you give them enabling environment then the money would come in IGR. What the governor is doing is a matter of strategy. He is there strategising and when he says let us develop this place it will give us money and when you bring in that money every other part will be developed.

Can Aba really generate enough money to fund the overall development of Abia state?

If we are able to rearrange the revenue in Ariaria we will be able to realise more than N2 billion monthly. And today Ariaria is attracting the attention of everybody not only in Nigeria but outside our shores because of made in Aba products. See what people are doing there, for instance, what I’m wearing from head to toes are made in Aba. I no longer have to go for foreign made cloths. Quality products are coming out from Aba including foot wears. It is because of the importance of Aba that electricity is now supplied to some parts of Aba constantly more than 100 per cent. For more than three moths now, there has been constant supply of electricity just to boost the economy. Developing the infrastructure at Aba is strategic – giving the people what they want. Before he (Governor Ikpeazu) started, he held a town hall meeting where he asked the people what they wanted and the businessmen and industrialists in Aba told him they don’t want money but an enabling environment – good roads, electricity and security. They said if given these, they already know how to market theirselves. It is because of the potentials of Aba that the vice-president has come here five times because it is important to the federal government. The potential of Aba is not only for Abia, but the whole of Nigeria. So the governor concentrates more in Aba. But it is not as if he is neglecting other parts of Abia, strategically what he is doing is to realise the five pillars of his government’s developmental framework. When you talk about commerce and industry all those things are in Aba. There is no road that the governor is building in Aba that does not lead to a market, industry or where you are going to have ease of doing business.

As it is now in vogue for government officials to dress in made in Aba attires, was there a directive from Governor Ikpeazu to that effect?

No, it’s not. This is a time when you have to live by example. If you’re saying that made in Aba products are good for everyone and good for export, you have to show a living example. The governor has marketed Aba and you have to do the marketing yourself. If you say you are not here nobody will recognise you are here. The governor himself dresses in made in Aba attire wherever he goes. It is the same thing; you don’t have to tell us. We must not only do the talk we must also do the work so that anyone who sees us here will know that we’re from Aba the home of SMEs. That is what we want to tell Nigerians and the world that Aba is a centre for quality goods. Nigerians no longer have to carry heavy suitcases when they go abroad for holidays. No; those days are gone, we now have to concentrate on our own. With our population we are ready to keep people afloat; everybody will not go for white collar jobs what you do is to encourage people to consume what we produce.

You have been involved in the campaign for people to obtain their PVCs, are you getting positive results?

We have been working hand in hand with INEC to make sure that we sensitise our people. That is what INEC wants because there is this apathy of people not coming for registration to obtain their PVCs. This is a good opportunity but we have always been known for fire brigade approach. The day that voter registration exercise is ending you will now see thousands upon thousands of people trooping out to say I have not registered and I want to do it. The opportunity is there now but in this part of the country every morning people go out for one business or the other. They take it as priority and nobody is thinking about their civic responsibilities and they are not taking voter registration as one of our civic responsibilities. Good enough INEC in Abia state has set a target of registering up to two million voters in the state. And in getting two million voters you have to really sensitise the people. So the essence of my jingle is to really sensitise the people. We thank God that when they presented this matter to their office INEC now agreed that they have to move these machines from their office to different wards and different polling units at least to bring the registration exercise closer to the people. That was a very good one and I have received a very good recommendation from INEC people that we have really helped them to sensitise people. That has also helped in beefing up our voting strength as at today and I think that the two million voter target can be reallised by the time the continuous voter registration would end.

This is why i get so exasperated and impatient with Abia State! That state has so much potential, yet 19 years since returning to what they call democratic rule, it still remains just that....potential!

The part in bold says studies have shown Ariaria market can easily generate 2 billion naira a month. Can you imagine how much has been fritted away into private pockets these past 19 years and what we could have built with all that money!