Throughout my time lurking around on Nairaland observing, I notice that it has become quite "fashionable" for our people to post post pictures of one percenters and GRA's, estates and other people and locations from within the opportuned minority class of our capitals and make it look like that is how most of our people live in the East.
Please, I have nothing against these projections however, I know as well as you all do that this does not represent even 10% of our people, but I would also like us to be true to ourselves, and show how the majority of people in the villages live. How do people keep doing these things without batting an eyelid? Instead of addressing the problems we face, we are too busy covering up essential truths, all in the name of looking good on the surface, or tackling other groups in a fantasy tribal E war.
Why do 98% of our elite sojourn or settle in other parts of Nigeria building property and sometimes providing employment, when we have our own issues here at home to deal with? Thereby feeding a continuous trend of mass emigration of Igbo youth that should be busy at home - maka why? It has now become a trendy thing to leave igboland. Villages are becoming hollow and spiritless, while our large cities have simply become large open air markets surrounded by squalor sections on all sides and lacking sustainable development.
Please, biko unu umu nnem, What can be done to reverse this plaguing trend of Igbo youth not wanting to stay at home?
This is a desperate cry, Al'Igbo is all We've got!!!! And if we don't stay in it and develop it, nobody will !!!

By the way, please outsiders and bad belle people, KEEP OFF!
Don't say I didn't warn you.

Attract investments back into Ala'Igbo, just like Peter Obi did when he encouraged investors to site that huge brewery in Anambra. Hold those in authority accountable, for every policy they make and every kobo they spend, to ensure it is utilised judiciously.

Improve access to land, funding/grants and build collaborations across industries and communities. Most parts of the country suffer from the issues you have mentioned. Ejì m̀ aka nà Chukwu gà-ènyelụ ānyị aka.

NB: No hate mail please. And for the record, before anyone starts launching brickbats in this direction, am not Igbo.