₦airaland Forum

ProWalker:
How do I help you push for it when I know by January for every Ibo man that traveled to the village, he will come to the SW with minimum of 3 others villagers.

Tell your greedy elective representative to do the damn push and stop passing your responsibilities to others

Fuckrards!

Your wailing about 'unregulated markets'...'coming to SW with 3 or more villagers'....etc, is at variance with your position that you should not be expected to actively push for Biafran secession!

You see what i mean when i say your type are two-faced and hypocritical? Your not wanting to have anything to do with lending your voice (whether in a positive or negative way) to the Biafra bid for secession invariably means you're for 'one Nigeria'! Now this your 'one Nigeria'.....doesn't it have a constitution that guarantees freedom of movement and freedom to live and work in any part of the country? The fact 'unregulated markets' are even allowed to exist and possibly thrive in Lagos (b'cos it's Lagos we're talking about here innit?) says more about a failure of gov't control than anything else! Besides, are we talking of the same Lagos that owes its present economic status and a large part of its infrastructure to the effort and commonwealth of Nigerians as a whole? You do realise a large part of the funds used to build Lagos came from the proceeds of oyel and gas exploited from Alaigbo (note, i said Alaigbo and not south-east)?

If i despise a people the way you and your ilk despise Igbos, i wouldn't sit on the fence acting unperturbed and say the people i despise should carry on the agitation for secession on their own! I'd jump off the fence and actively engage in the process to get rid of the 'pesky irritants'! Malaysia did it with Singapore, so it's not like it hasn't been done before!

Feliz Navidad!

Can Anambrans in the know help answer this question: what has the Obiano gov't built/done in Nnewi to help improve its livability, ease of doing business and enhance infrastructure....top 5 things they've built/done?

There's a distinct lack of greenery on the inner streets and major roads of Aba! Also the sides of the streets have accumulated much sand/sediment which tells me they've not been swept for ages! I know these pics are about a decade old, but i doubt the situation has improved today!

Aba is within the rain forest belt and should be rich in foliage and greenery, but what chance does it have with the kind of leadership its been saddled with for the past 20 years! The fact even Sokoto has more trees than Aba is a cause for worry and puts the problem in proper perspective!

Omoodua007:
Exactly why I don’t rate Igbo people they don’t lead in any indices

Dude you're quoting was responding to another guy who knew exactly what he was doing in making the mischievous and misleading post he made...all aimed at getting the kind of anti-Igbo, moronic and bigoted responses like the one you just made!

For a self-made state with little or no federal presence for decades...second smallest state in the country.....and not being contiguous to the commercial/industrial capital of the country, wouldn't you say Anambra has punched way above its weight?

FlyoruB:
You must be looking at another stat. Anambra has the highest in the SE, but even the likes of Rivers, Edo and Delta have higher subscribers than Anambra.

The top 5 states with the highest subscribers are:

Lagos
Ogun
Kano
Oyo
FCT

Of course the guy can read and comprehend! His aim was achieved...to get the kind of reaction like the one you just gave!

Destroyerofyeeb:
Which igbo, the ones that couldn't stand for lamidi kanu?

Care to flesh out this your assertion a bit? How did Igbos 'not stand for lamidi kanu'?

franchasng:
Coward Buhari finally bowed to US government pressure, I thought he said he is a fearless army general without certificate

He shouldn't have released him and watch US and major countries place him and his looting family and friends on travel ban, and let's see how they will survive it, nansense!!!


Tyrant Buhari and his cowardly army and Police only form strong men when they meet unarmed Nigerians, but when they see Boko Haram, and militants, they pee in their pants....just one single letter from US Congress got them scampering all over Aso Rock blaming each other already, cowards forming strong men

Nice one bros!

Methinks Deji getting kicked in the head by a drug-addled and sai baba chanting almajiri was the final straw that broke the camels back and led to them finally caving in and yielding to commonsense!

This isn't the first time i'm hearing of this wiper dude!

It always surprises me that a state like Anambra cannot easily raise at least 3 billion a month in IGR. This is a state with one of the highest number of small, medium and large-scale industries in the country. Also, the state has a huge real-estate sector made of up tens of thousands of houses/office buildings and hundreds of thousands units of flats....probably second only to Lagos! And there's also the markets and motor parks that abound in the state!

The buck ultimately stops at Obianos' table, and if he hasn't already looked into this 'wiper issue' and the states poor IGR receipts relative to it's huge economic capacity, then he's not doing his job properly!

Pics 1, 2 & 3 are renders of planned new Abakaliki int'l airport.

Pic 4 is a complete view of ongoing Abakaliki mall. You get an idea of it's scale seeing next to the newly completed ecumenical centre.

sanctity454:
Waltersmith modular refinery at ohaji, 90% completed

Love this!

Which company is doing this? Any news of the multi-million dollar Seplat gas company?

superior1:
Nigerians excel....only outside of Nigeria

That's because excellence and merit is recognised outside Nigeria! In Nigeria, it's all about quota-system, federal character and toxic ethno-religious considerations!

Kingosytex:
South Africa or Ghana?

I think you guys are going too far. Burundi should colonise Nigeria for 20 years.

Hehehehehe

Chibuzoc:
We are all entitled to our opinions but Op you lack understanding although you sounded intelligent.
Now answer me, were will the seaport be located in igboland if not either in akwa-cross, port Harcourt or Warri
Op with all due respect, I will classify you as an igbophobic element, my opinion thou

Of course he's Igbophobic! He's trying to hide it (unsuccessfully) under the mask of appearing to be 'detached', 'neutral' and 'logical'! Engaging such people in a intellectual discuss is akin to moving round and round in a revolving door.....you get nowhere with them!

Short film by Bruce Beresford.

Kingsize woman: showcasing inscriptions on public vehicles in Enugu (1965/66).

Clip courtesy Oronbaba.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmppUlfgDM8

Musical interlude! You'll love this!!

The Oriental Brothers in performance....1978.

Clip courtesy Oronbaba


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZrFW1jRNlw

BeachTime:
I'll advise Nigerians to apply critical thinking when making analysis; and it will be appreciated if Nigerians shun bigotry , Myopia and corruption,and build an organized society.
You wanna know who is really cheated and marginalized in my opinion? Akwa ibom,Bayelsa,etc. .I'll use Akwa ibom /Anambra as example.
Akwa ibom generates $13 Billion dollars per year .The money is confiscated and shared by Nigeria to all states and Akwa ibom ends up receiving only $50 million dollars per month or $600 million dollars per year.
Anambra's total internal revenue is $14 Million dollars . Akwa ibom's internal revenue minus oil is $11 Million dollars.
Anambra receives free $20 million dollars from Nigeria per month.
A 1.5 km bridge like the Onitsha bridge length cost $600 million to 1.3 billion dollars depending on number of lanes and vanity features. The second Onitsha bridge cost $600 million dollars. Anambra would not have the money to build the bridge if all states have autonomy and control of their resources.
The Akwacross needs at least 10 six lane worldclass bridges (calabar itu , Oron calabar ,etc. ) all of these would cost a combined $6 Billion dollars . Does Nigeria care about those bridges? Akwa ibom has a natural harbor for seaport . In fact, that very Ibaka area seems to be an international trade point between Nigeria and the central African countries. Does Nigeria care about that seaport? In fact,it won't hurt having an 2 seaports in the area with the present day calabar seaport as reserve seaport. Akwa ibom has the perfect spot for Maritime University ,yet that was not converted to university. Even so,it won't hurt if Nigeria has at least 2 or 3 Maritime Universities.
Donald Duke was more qualified to be Nigeria's president ,yet he was nixed . Bakassi(Calabar(akwacross) territory)was forfeited to Cameroon by Nigerian government.
Who cares about producing president if you have autonomy and control your resources. In my personal opinion, I think Igbo have it good in Nigeria than Calabarians,Ijaws and some others.
The above is my unbiased submission. I would like anyone to counter my point with facts and tell me how Igbo is marginalized and I'll kindly reason with your opinion.

You see the problem i have with people like you is you keep quiet in the face of tyranny and become docile....willing to accept any and all types of injustice for the sake of not wanting to 'rock the boat' or being tagged as 'reactionary'! All the while your resources are being milked and depleted with you having next to nothing to show for it! But when others who equally feel marginalised speak up and question the status-quo that has led to their ill-treatment, you raise your hand and say 'why are you complaining.....i feel i've been hard done by even more than you'!

How many of you have keyed into the Biafran agitation for a referendum on secession? Or if you love 'one Nigeria' so much that you feel you can't do without it....how many of you have formed a movement to push for true fiscal-federalism and resource ownership?

Igbos have been murdered in cold blood standing up for what they believe in, yet you sit there....doing nothing, and want to argue that your marginalisation is greater than what the Igbo are experiencing, hence we should keep quiet!

The travails Donald Duke faced had nothing to do with Ndigbo! Rather, blame ethno-religious Nigerian partisan-politics and the those who can 'annoint' whomsoever they want to be president!

Dedetwo:
I want nothing but out of the shithole called Nigeria. The moment the Republic of Igbo land is proclaimed, I shall return home to impact my technical know-how on the young generation of the republic on pro bono.

Hehehehehe

itsme01:




honestly Ibos are Ibos downfall, if Buhari reads this in a newspaper and cancels contracts with them now they would be wailing

Buhari's FG as bought more innosun vans for agencies than any government since innosun started and he also confirmed it


It took President Buhari's direct intervention before SouthAfrica gave Airpeace landing rights in their Airport as it was a competition for their local SouthAfrican Airways.. same as Dubai which Onyeama himself thanked him and Aviation Minister for.. Buhari also uses Airpeace to repatraite people from libya



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Try another gimmick!

The little number of cars they bought from INNOSON and them finally agreeing to support Air-Peace on landing rights in South Africa (after much begging, pleading and wasting of time) is just them playing smart! You don't expect them to go all out and refuse all assistance to Igbo-owned businesses.....that would make their malevolent intent too obvious! The trick is to, every now and again, give little assistance to these Igbo-owned businesses they're targeting so that their cheerleaders, minions and Fulani lovers like you can have something to hang on to when you try to convince Nigerians that the devilish Buhari is fairminded and treats Igbos no different than he treats his Fulani people and Yoruba!

The little rubbish you listed up there as proof Buhari is good for Igbo business pales into insignificance when placed side-by-side with all the wickedness and frustrations they've visited on said Igbo businesses and entrepreneurs (normally done by stealth), and all the benefits and assistance they give to the likes of Dangote and Tinubu! See how they decimanted Ibetos' cement business; see the travails of INNOSON with GTB and how they gave his darling wife a hot slap; listen to INNOSON saying he struggles to get FOREX at all....never mind getting it at the favourable rates Dangote gets his; listen to Air Peace complain that the federal gov't doesn't give local airlines protection against subsidy-enabled foreign airlines that want to bully them out of business; see how they were quick to ruin Orji Uzor Kalus' businesses and appropriate same instead of returning them to Abia state that they claimed he stole from.....all this while the likes of Tinubu, Gandollar, etc are declared saints; see how they were quick to try and decimate Ifeanyi Ubahs' business by giving him the 'SLOK treatment'; i could go on and on!

The little 'help' you listed up there reminds me of the urban legend of the rat that blows on the sleeping humans foot as it bites it so he's oblivious to what's going on!

MrSly:
The victimization is clear. I use to know Ibeto and Dangote. Boom! Ibeto was hit hard and he went into oblivion thanks to God who didn't allow him fall completely. The counterpart dangote always has a field day. Even now builds a refinery and I come to ask if oil sector in Nigeria has been privatized. FG should make it known cos many people will want invest there.

They're very sneaky and sly to the point that they love trumpeting all the gains Dangote is greedily grabbing to himself in the name of 'one Nigeria' as 'gains' of Nigeria as a whole! They must think they're dealing with kids here!

Mrexcell:
I don't think so oguta is just 18 nautical miles to the seas while obuaku is over 40.

I know of the route to the sea from Obuaku....can easily see it even from google-earth! Not so sure of the water route from Oguta and if it's wide enough. I know its possible with dredging and widening, but we have to consider cost and other geo-political factors involved!

tungamaje:
You are absolutely right. I was then a student in Abia State (then part of Imo State) and listened to the launching on radio. Even our teachers made us pay some tokens toward the project

I suppose that was your lunch money for the day! No kpuff-kpuff and coke!

Amanda4life:
Please also try to get rail line from Abuja , Lagos to abia, river state , cross river, akwaibom


Although this one is gonna be bad market for GUO, ABIA line.GIGM, CHISCO, PIECES transportation line

I mean PEACE =Pieces

This is where our entrepreneurs need to think outside the box! What's stopping all these transportation moguls you mentioned from coming together to form a consortium that will build railways to these destinations you mentioned, or at least buy controlling stake/equity in any similar project?

Given natural progression, one would have expected a then thriving coy like Ekene to graduate to owning an airline, but we hardly hear of them nowadays!

Glorifiednwafor:
Are you serious?? I have been praying everyday that if we can have our seaport that is called our own, I would be happy everyday of my life, that is when I will say we are complete as a GIANT IGBO nation. We Igbo's have suffered a lot which has actually helped mould us into being homegrown and home focused, we shall get there by God's grace, the same God that 99.9% Igbo's call upon unlike other tribes that have both Christian and Muslims in equal numbers, that same God will remember us for good..... Iseeee!

Igboland is not landlocked...and i'm not referring to Port Harcourt here! The only thing preventing Igboland from building its own seaport is funding, will power, and toxic Nigerian politics of envy, ethnicity and hate!

CSTR2:
Stop electing nitwits like obiano, ihedioha , ugwuanyi or ikpeazu.

Any candidate without atleast a Master's degree, and years of experience and integrity in the economic or legal private sector should not be elected governor.

The south east need to raise the standards higher than the federal level to get quick results.

Given the way partisan-politics is done in this country, i think you'll find the Igbo masses/electorate (like those of other regions) have little or no say in who is thrown up as the party flag-bearer and goes on to 'win' election!

delawal:
Igbo's come home.
Igbo's come together
let's develop the east
let's create a Singapore inside Nigeria
let's improve our life and welfare
we can do it by ourselves
let's stop waiting for them
because they don't care
come one, come all


pls Igbo musicians can try put this into a song or jingle.

Bros, it's already been done!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yul2-4mc6mg

NGpatriot:
You just copied my brain, I was expecting him to come up with his fake facts.

I think playing the victim game is a coping mechanism for them.

Dude, mind what you post on this thread! Nigerians like you that claim Alaigbo/Ndigbo has been and are being treated equally with say the core muslim north and south-west and hence have nothing to complain about, are truly wicked and part of the problem! A people are telling you where the shoe is pinching them, and you (a none-Igbo) is standing up to declare they are just crying wolf and 'playing the victim game'....impying they've never had it so good!

nijabazaar:
If this should happen, mehn. SE will be Tuggling between looking like Taiwan or Singapore.

All we need in Igboland is at least one working int'l airport; rail access to at least one deep seaport; gas/coal-fired power plants (can be located in Imo and Anambra for gas and Enugu for coal) for constant and guaranteed power supply; and security (to flush out the bastards that may want to troop down to the east to kidnap, rob and engage in wanton slaughter)! With these critical economic enablers in place, fast-paced and accelerated socio-economic development will be witnessed comparable only to what was experienced in the east from the early 60s right up till '66!

I don't know where you guys get all this fake news from! No Igbo politician would come top ten when both legitimately and illegitimately acquired wealth from a stint in gov't (both state and federal) are considered! And i doubt Ifeanyi Uba and Rochas are dollar billionaires to begin with!

Dreal1247:
Can this be repeated in Nigeria?

Granting regional/state autonomy like Barcelona and these Cameroonian regions have would -to a large extent- take the wind out of the sails of the Biafran agitation for secession! All we want is to be able to determine and control our own destiny and resources, and this can either be as a independent country or within a 'Nigeria' framework!

But we all know who will oppose such a move don't we?

Randy91:
Very useless video....with retired oloeshoes in their fallen heroes regalia

To each his own!

drizslim:
Ever since His throat surgery. Tekno has been relegated to B-list naija artist.. I suggest he change his name to oppo or huawei..

Nigerians don't enjoy going backwards

Speak for yourself mate! I make bold to say Tekno is the most talented and biggest music export from Nigeria today! Presently, only Burna Boy and Davido compare! Everyone else you think are bigger than him are either driven by hype or ethnic sentiments of wanting to hype or push a artiste forward because he's from my ethnicity!

You can take that to the bank!