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Romance / Re: Ladies, Can You Get Married To A Non Degree Holder? by xtgozie(m): 11:09am On Oct 26, 2017 |
HRHQueenPhil:What do you understand by education? |
Romance / Re: Ladies, Can You Get Married To A Non Degree Holder? by xtgozie(m): 11:06am On Oct 26, 2017 |
Peachess:a fool is a fool no matter the degree |
Romance / Re: Ladies, Can You Get Married To A Non Degree Holder? by xtgozie(m): 11:04am On Oct 26, 2017 |
HRHQueenPhil: Sorry o! Innoson Motors, never had a school cert, Ifeanyi Uba none, Coscharis none, the list goes on. Most times what we don't want is wat we get. |
Politics / Re: Buhari Asked Us To Focus On Northern Nigeria — World Bank Chief by xtgozie(m): 3:18pm On Oct 13, 2017 |
sarrki: Why are you talking like this naa. They should be left out...... In my opinion |
Politics / Re: Warning To Nigeria. The U.S Army wants to form a Base in Niger Republic by xtgozie(m): 9:35pm On Oct 10, 2017 |
777philosopher: I'm not interested in ruling the world, I just want to lease the US military some hecters of land to stand their military Base |
Politics / Re: Warning To Nigeria. The U.S Army wants to form a Base in Niger Republic by xtgozie(m): 7:23pm On Oct 10, 2017 |
777philosopher: Don't mind this guys commenting rubbish. If you have the numbers of the Director of DOD in America, give me so we can speak. We have a very large land in Anambra State. Or should I send you my numbers so you can give them to call me. I Will so appreciate if you will help me |
Politics / Re: Warning To Nigeria. The U.S Army wants to form a Base in Niger Republic by xtgozie(m): 7:15pm On Oct 10, 2017 |
menstrualpad: Hahahahahahahahhahahahaha |
TV/Movies / Revealed: Checkout The List Of Channels Available On TSTV by xtgozie(m): 6:38pm On Oct 10, 2017 |
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Politics / Re: Pythons, Crocodiles And The Nigerian Zoo by xtgozie(m): 1:36pm On Oct 07, 2017 |
BALLOSKI:Completed |
Politics / Pythons, Crocodiles And The Nigerian Zoo by xtgozie(m): 11:24am On Oct 05, 2017 |
AS A PERSON I am a cautious optimist on “project Nigeria”, although it is one that I put my whole heart on, despite the counsel of a statesman who once told me “Nigeria was not worth dying for…you must live for it”. Despite very recent efforts, we remain a nation that simply does not know where it is headed to, or does not want to face what I term, realistic, reasonable and responsible approach to its diversities. The ethnic conundrum of our existence continues to hunt and haunt us being one of the major obstacles to the existence of the Nigerian state. Beginning with the transition from colonial to neo-colonial dependence, military and back to the current brand democracy. The conflict spiral generated by ethnicity can be seen at all the critical phases in Nigeria, its democracy, the party system, the electoral process and the sharing of the national cake via offices and resources. Almost all our conflicts, controversies and interests all narrow down to who is from where? Even the way we are reported: Mr. Buhari from Muslim North, or Mr. Jonathan from predominately Christian South. The truth is that as much as some form of true federalism or on the extreme confederacy, resource control and largely self determination isvdesirable, however the complexity of ethnicity in Nigeria can only be properly understood in the context of power struggle among various factions of the ruling class, especially within the context of the lower class’ ignorance through manipulation. The empirical fact being that ethnicity cannot be deconstructed because we have a faulty form of state and a morally bankrupt class in power. Ethnicity has been also constantly shifting because of a fluid and dynamic nature of changing interests, for example a hitherto unknown South- South (which contextually in English is wrong) or a salient Northeast, then a newspaper Middle Belt, a political one, and also a geographical Middle Belt remain real. It has simply varied as demands change or as the social injustice is perceived, from the rigid North/South and Christian/Muslim divide, and today Nigeria/Biafra. It is difficult to prefix a particular political tendency to the collectivism of an ethnic group because as the Nigerian example suggests, different political tendencies can be expressed within a particular ethnic group, like the differences between the Ohaneze ndi Igbo and MASSOB, IPOB and that of the Afenifere fon awon Yoruba and the OPC. It has been recently easy for everyone to have an understanding of the term ethnicity within a narrow conceptualization. This is rather a faulty assumption. For one, there is a tendency to conflate ethnicity with other social phenomena that share similar features especially those that fall within primordial and communal identities like tribalism, favouritism, the Biafran struggle, Resource control, MEND, BOKO HARAM, MASSOB, OPC et al. There could also be the tendency to see ethnicity as the natural outcome of existence of ethnic groups, which again is wrong, the fact that like any other portmanteau word, it can serve as a euphemistic substitute for other appellations has led to abuse, precisely as it has no independent existence of its own. It continues to be driven by class interests or the quest for power. In our Nigeria today as always it has taken greater meaning in the competitive situations where available resources are scarce in relation to the interests that grow around them. The major issue in the ethnic struggle is the phenomenon of politicized ethnicity. More often than not, ethnicity is invoked by interests, which are not necessarily described in ethnic terms. As Claude Ake once put it, “conflicts arising from the construction of ethnicity to conceal exploitation by building solidarity across class lines, conflicts arise from appeals to ethnic support in the face of varnishing legitimacy, and from the manipulation of ethnicity for obvious political gains and not ethnic problems, but problems of particular dynamics which are pinned on ethnicity”. This is the Nigerian situation. The contradictory tendencies of ethnicity are obvious today and the need to provide important safeguard against centralization and authoritarian tendencies has once more arisen. The problem we have is that the mobilization of ethnicity as a way out has more often than not been for some few people’s material benefit and this has given rise to the questions of citizenship rights, statism, indigeneship/settler palaver. To an extent this has become a veritable tool that is internalized and used as a crisis generating mechanism and obstacle to democracy. Deep ethnic fears generated by in-built structures that promote unequal access to power and resources is being exploited, and is part of the government’s dilemma at all levels. As a nation and a people we continue to think like birds born in a cage that think flying is an illness. So let me tell a story and leave men of good conscience to fight for the soul of this nation that is at war with herself. Three sons left home, went out into the business world and all prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother. The first said, “I built a big house for our mother.” The second said, “I sent her the latest Mercedes with a driver.” Home Opinion OPINION: PYTHONS, CROCODILES AND THE NIGERIAN ZOO By THEWILL_ - September 17, 2017 Chains by any other name would still hurt as much. As a person I am a cautious optimist on “project Nigeria”, although it is one that I put my whole heart on, despite the counsel of a statesman who once told me “Nigeria was not worth dying for…you must live for it”. Despite very recent efforts, we remain a nation that simply does not know where it is headed to, or does not want to face what I term, realistic, reasonable and responsible approach to its diversities. The ethnic conundrum of our existence continues to hunt and haunt us being one of the major obstacles to the existence of the Nigerian state. Beginning with the transition from colonial to neo-colonial dependence, military and back to the current brand democracy. The conflict spiral generated by ethnicity can be seen at all the critical phases in Nigeria, its democracy, the party system, the electoral process and the sharing of the national cake via offices and resources. Almost all our conflicts, controversies and interests all narrow down to who is from where? Even the way we are reported: Mr. Buhari from Muslim North, or Mr. Jonathan from predominately Christian South. The truth is that as much as some form of true federalism or on the extreme confederacy, resource control and largely self determination is desirable, however the complexity of ethnicity in Nigeria can only be properly understood in the context of power struggle among various factions of the ruling class, especially within the context of the lower class’ ignorance through manipulation. The empirical fact being that ethnicity cannot be deconstructed because we have a faulty form of state and a morally bankrupt class in power. Ethnicity has been also constantly shifting because of a fluid and dynamic nature of changing interests, for example a hitherto unknown South-South (which contextually in English is wrong) or a salient Northeast, then a newspaper Middle Belt, a political one, and also a geographical Middle Belt remain real. It has simply varied as demands change or as the social injustice is perceived, from the rigid North/South and Christian/Muslim divide, and today Nigeria/Biafra. It is difficult to prefix a particular political tendency to the collectivism of an ethnic group because as the Nigerian example suggests, different political tendencies can be expressed within a particular ethnic group, like the differences between the Ohaneze ndi Igbo and MASSOB, IPOB and that of the Afenifere fon awon Yoruba and the OPC. It has been recently easy for everyone to have an understanding of the term ethnicity within a narrow conceptualization. This is rather a faulty assumption. For one, there is a tendency to conflate ethnicity with other social phenomena that share similar features especially those that fall within primordial and communal identities like tribalism, favouritism, the Biafran struggle, Resource control, MEND, BOKO HARAM, MASSOB, OPC et al. There could also be the tendency to see ethnicity as the natural outcome of existence of ethnic groups, which again is wrong, the fact that like any other portmanteau word, it can serve as a euphemistic substitute for other appellations has led to abuse, precisely as it has no independent existence of its own. It continues to be driven by class interests or the quest for power. In our Nigeria today as always it has taken greater meaning in the competitive situations where available resources are scarce in relation to the interests that grow around them. The major issue in the ethnic struggle is the phenomenon of politicized ethnicity. More often than not, ethnicity is invoked by interests, which are not necessarily described in ethnic terms. As Claude Ake once put it, “conflicts arising from the construction of ethnicity to conceal exploitation by building solidarity across class lines, conflicts arise from appeals to ethnic support in the face of varnishing legitimacy, and from the manipulation of ethnicity for obvious political gains and not ethnic problems, but problems of particular dynamics which are pinned on ethnicity”. This is the Nigerian situation. The contradictory tendencies of ethnicity are obvious today and the need to provide important safeguard against centralization and authoritarian tendencies has once more arisen. The problem we have is that the mobilization of ethnicity as a way out has more often than not been for some few people’s material benefit and this has given rise to the questions of citizenship rights, statism, indigeneship/settler palaver. To an extent this has become a veritable tool that is internalized and used as a crisis generating mechanism and obstacle to democracy. Deep ethnic fears generated by in-built structures that promote unequal access to power and resources is being exploited, and is part of the government’s dilemma at all levels. As a nation and a people we continue to think like birds born in a cage that think flying is an illness. So let me tell a story and leave men of good conscience to fight for the soul of this nation that is at war with herself. Three sons left home, went out into the business world and all prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother. The first said, “I built a big house for our mother.” The second said, “I sent her the latest Mercedes with a driver.” The third smiled and said, “I’ve got you both beat. You know how much Mother enjoys reading poetry? And you know she can’t see very well. So I sent her a remarkable parrot that recites all her favourite poetry. It took a world- famous literacy teacher 12 years to teach him and cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars to see to his maintenance yearly He’s one of a kind. Mother just has to name the poem, and the parrot recites it.” Soon thereafter, Mother sent out her letters of thanks: “Milton,” she wrote to the first son, “The house you built is so huge. I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house.” “Gerald,” she wrote to the second, “I am too old to travel. I stay most of the time at home, so I rarely use the Mercedes. And the driver is so rude!” Dearest Donald,” she wrote to her third son, ” You have the good sense to know what your mother likes. The chicken was absolutely delicious! I always have stated I wished Nigeria currently was not about Buhari, Nnamdi, APC, PDP and change, sadly it is not, rather it is about the different narratives which often than not betray our sense of emotion. We act in the now, we continue to pour venoms on each other, and fact is we really do not know what we want. We don’t know the story, but we know our side of the story and our desires. We have plenty narratives, and we are all angry. Everyone is right, and yet wrong! My friend in the DSS happens to be a Christian, he is Fulani, and owns a very big farm, yet viewed with suspicion, both by his Fulani family and the larger public. My Ibo neighbor is a perpetual target, and his crime; being Ibo. I am more terrified by our lack of knowledge than by the incidents that we know of. We have unknown unknowns, we are just telling stories, you and I, need to think Nigeria without loosing our identity, as it is with the wild, every animal specie needs to find, evolve and work with a system that suits it and promises survival for it in the habitat…Nigerians need to become noble in understanding themselves: are we ready—Only time will tell. |
Politics / Re: Reno Omokri Meets Theresa May, British Prime Minister (Photos) by xtgozie(m): 11:09pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
umarshehu58:Like? 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Reno Omokri Meets Theresa May, British Prime Minister (Photos) by xtgozie(m): 11:08pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
umarshehu58:Go and beg for your own |
Politics / Re: Reno Omokri Meets Theresa May, British Prime Minister (Photos) by xtgozie(m): 11:07pm On Oct 02, 2017 |
Aragon:For your mind you have consoled yourself? With this useless comment 4 Likes |
Politics / Re: Imagine A War Between Nigerian Soldiers And North Korean Soldiers by xtgozie(m): 1:18pm On Sep 28, 2017 |
hakimi1974:Lai Mohammed in the making 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Biafra: France Denies It’s Funding IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu by xtgozie(m): 10:04pm On Sep 21, 2017 |
igbodefender:It's incompetence period. But the French political consular denied it, which means, the Nigerian government is accusing the French government. |
Politics / Re: Biafra: France Denies It’s Funding IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu by xtgozie(m): 8:28pm On Sep 21, 2017 |
igbodefender: UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYES OF FRENCH GOVERNMENT? France is sabotaging Nigeria if so! |
Politics / Re: Biafra: France Denies It’s Funding IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu by xtgozie(m): 5:23pm On Sep 21, 2017 |
igbodefender:FUNDED IN FRANCE BY WHO? |
Politics / Re: IPOB Finance Headquarters Is In France - Lai Mohammed by xtgozie(m): 8:59pm On Sep 20, 2017 |
This country is comedy 71 Likes 4 Shares |
Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu Backs Out Of South-East Governors’ Peace Parley by xtgozie(m): 9:53pm On Sep 13, 2017 |
Yyeske:Stop � crying |
Politics / Re: Nnamdi Kanu Backs Out Of South-East Governors’ Peace Parley by xtgozie(m): 9:49pm On Sep 13, 2017 |
sarrki:This one pain you on talk trur |
Foreign Affairs / Re: Leyla Muhandale, 23-Year-Old Wins Kenyan Assembly Election by xtgozie(m): 4:18pm On Aug 13, 2017 |
With such development, why won't Kenya be better than Nigeria in all aspect. 3 Likes |
Politics / The Small Town Of The Super Rich-forbes by xtgozie(m): 2:22am On Aug 13, 2017 |
By Forbes Africa 5 min of reading August 7, 2017 The small Nigerian town of Nnewi has more naira billionaires per capita than anywhere else in the country. Shortly before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria’s first black billionaire, and founding president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. The royal honor came after he helped the British during World War II with his fleet of trucks. He was so wealthy that during the Queen’s visit in 1956, she was chauffeured around in his Rolls-Royce – apparently the only one in the country at the time – on the request of the colonial administration. Profiled in September 1965 by TIME magazine, Ojukwu made his money by importing dried fish for resale, and diversifying into textiles, cement and transport. When he died a year later, his wealth was an estimated $4 billion in today’s economic value. His son, Chukwuemeka, who also ended up a billionaire, returned from Oxford University at 22 with a master’s degree in history and led his fellow Igbos into the Nigerian civil war as head of the secessionist state of Biafra in 1967. Their hometown Nnewi, in the southeastern state of Anambra, either by good fortune or hard work, has bred more naira billionaires than any other town in Nigeria, and possibly Africa. The Igbos, who sometimes refer to themselves as the ‘Jews of Africa’, have entrepreneurship in their blood. They have built themselves from the ground up, with little help from the government, after a controversial policy left them all with 20 pounds each, regardless of their bank balance, at the end of the Nigerian civil war in 1970. Nicknamed the Japan of Africa, Nnewi is famous as a hub for automobile spare part dealers, and most recently, Innoson, Nigeria’s first indigenous car assembly plant. The town is also known for its factories that manufacture household goods and is home to the biggest road transport companies in the country. Nnewi, with a little over two million residents, is a 30-minute drive from the Onitsha – the biggest outdoor market in West Africa – on the banks of the Niger River. These are 10 of the most prominent naira billionaires from Nnewi, in no particular order: Cletus Ibeto: The Ibeto Group has been described as the largest industrial enterprise in southeast Nigeria. Starting out as an apprentice to an already established auto spare parts dealer, Ibeto eventually branched out on his own and effectively ended importation of lead acid car batteries in Nigeria in the late 80s. The result is a conglomerate dealing in hospitality, motor products, real estate, petrochemicals, agriculture and cement. Cosmas Maduka: One of the country’s foremost car dealerships, Coscharis Group, is the brainchild of a man who lost his father at four and had to drop out of school to sell bean cakes, a popular food staple. His company, one of the largest car dealerships in Nigeria that deals with BMW, Jaguar, Range Rover and Rolls-Royce, has diversified into agriculture. Innocent Chukwuma: Another school dropout, he is the founder of Innoson Nigeria Limited which produces sport utility vehicles, commercial buses and passenger cars at the first indigenous assembly plant in Nigeria. The company has factories in Nnewi and Enugu and has the governments of Anambra and Enugu states, as well as a few federal agencies, among its customers. Gabriel Chukwuma: The elder brother of Innoson, Gabriel is invested in sports, real estate and hospitality. As chairman of Gabros International Football Club, he oversaw its rise into the Nigerian Premier League and partnership with English side, West Ham FC before selling to fellow Nnewi entrepreneur, Ifeanyi Ubah. He began business as a patent medicine dealer. Alexander Chika Okafor: Chicason Industries, and one of its products – A-Z Petroleum, are household names in Nigeria. The conglomerate has made significant inroads in the mining, manufacturing, and real estate in Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Okafor, its founder and chairman, was named in 2011 by the Senate as one of the beneficiaries of the subsidy fraud under the Goodluck Jonathan administration, pocketing as much as N18 billion ($54 million). Augustine Ilodibe: An orphan and mass server in the Catholic church, young Ilodibe was gifted £35 by one of the priests and he initially invested in motor spare parts trading. By the sixties, he pioneered the interstate luxury bus transport service; for years, he was the sole importer of these buses. After helping organize vehicles for the Biafran side during the civil war, he established the hugely popular Ekene Dili Chukwu Transport, his main cash cow and later diversified into brewery and agriculture. Ifeanyi Ubah: The flamboyant businessman funded parts of the Goodluck Jonathan campaign ahead of the 2015 presidential polls and unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of his home state, Anambra, in 2014. His wealth comes from investments in oil and gas, as well as exportation of motor spare parts and, recently, from sales of football players. In June 2015, Ubah – described by one Nigerian newspaper as ‘the new sugar daddy of Nigerian football’ – completed the purchase of Gabros FC for N500 million and renamed it Ifeanyi Ubah FC. Louis Onwugbenu: The head honcho of Louis Carter Industries dropped out of school in 1967 when the Nigerian civil war broke out. He got his nickname from weekly trips to Lagos to sell motor spare parts under the popular Carter Bridge in the city. His reinvested profits allowed him to diversify into manufacturing car batteries and pipe fittings, agriculture, food processing, real estate and, by the age of 30, he was already a naira multimillionaire. The headquarters of his conglomerate sits in the Carter Industrial Estate, spanning many acres in Nnewi. Obiajulu Uzodike: Nigeria is one of the foremost cable producers in the world due to many indigenous manufacturers across the southeast. One of the top cable companies is Cutix Nigeria, whose founder, Obiajulu Uzodike, cut his teeth in the business as a staff at a US-based aircraft and military wires and accessories company. By 1982, the Harvard Business School alumna and civil war veteran set up Cutix with N400,000 ($1,200), nurturing it to eventually become the first indigenous firm in the southeast to be listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. -Written by Eromo Egbejule https://www.forbesafrica.com/wealth/2017/08/07/small-town-super-rich/ 1 Like
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Travel / Photos:some Interesting Borders From Around The World. by xtgozie(m): 9:02am On Aug 04, 2017 |
Photos of some interesting borders from around the world.
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Crime / Re: Humphrey Jefferson Ejike Eleweke Mistakenly Executed In Indonesia Over Drugs by xtgozie(m): 10:41pm On Aug 01, 2017 |
MasterChen: Like the excuses afonjanas are making for MKO Abiola |
Politics / Re: IPOB Shows Their Own Soldiers That Will Stop Elections PICS - VIDEOS by xtgozie(m): 7:24pm On Jul 22, 2017 |
IpobExposed:CAI |
Politics / Re: My Hands Are Off The Biafran Struggle. by xtgozie(m): 10:01pm On Jul 21, 2017 |
iamexcelblog:Don't spill the beans, you know! |
Politics / Re: My Hands Are Off The Biafran Struggle. by xtgozie(m): 12:20pm On Jul 21, 2017 |
iamexcelblog: You choose to. |
Politics / Re: My Hands Are Off The Biafran Struggle. by xtgozie(m): 9:59pm On Jul 20, 2017 |
iamexcelblog: Yes you are |
Politics / Re: My Hands Are Off The Biafran Struggle. by xtgozie(m): 8:10pm On Jul 20, 2017 |
iamexcelblog:You are part of Obiano's campaign team |
Politics / Re: What Will Happen If There Is No Election In Anambra State by xtgozie(m): 4:44pm On Jul 20, 2017 |
nwaanambra1: Ewu has spoken. Who bought you to write this post. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Sheriff Loses As Supreme Court Affirms Ahmed Makarfi As Authentic PDP Chairman by xtgozie(m): 4:55pm On Jul 13, 2017 |
gare:You forever remain irrelevant. As long as our course pains u. Be useful to yourself and chat a clear path to your future, because no body that has ever stood against an ideology that was left unbroken. |
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