The real issue is that our government don't plan ahead of time. What is the work of the office of statistics, is not not to project what is going to happen in a country even a decade ahead.the simple truth is that we don't have a government.

Hi is this man always talking about raining season anytime he talks about farming.people can farm without raining season that's why we have irrigation.

I thought they said that no Yoruba in any government cabinet in South East.

I think that why the virus is not have that effect on subsahara Africa is because of the antimalarial medicine that and average person from subsahara African took almost every 90 days is having great effect on corona virus.

Can't you guys be positive for once, did you guys have time to study about this virus? They might be right in the figure they are giving us because if the virus is spreading the way we are thinking, it will have reached to a stage where we will be picking dead bodies on the street. I think that our hot weather is still helping us on this virus since it can't with stand more than 27° centious . Let us try to have positive thinking and stay safe by staying at home which is the only remedy to over come this virus.

That serves them right . I still remember what we Africans living in China pass through during the time of ebola crisis. Once you are a black man you are tagged as ebola carrier. Even if you have stay in China before the ebola crisis

Lie lie Muhammad, this is part the reason why America stops us from going to there country because we don't have data base. Let me educate you ministry of information . Before you get a Nigerian international passport, U most give it real name, ur local government and your addres so Mr minister Nigeria immigration have what you need to at least trace 20% of this people. We in the 21st century please.

I really don't know if this government knows the gravity of what is coming our way about this virus. I know that they dont have the manpower to quarantine any village in Nigeria talkless a city like Lagos. A lot of people cannot eat if they did not go out for a day.so just Think about what will happen if this virus attack us like what is happening in Italy or China. O boy if it gets to that level to fry onions in ur house na death sentence be that. Don't know if you guys are thinking what I am thinking.

Make una see the leg of someone that wants to make U rich

Can we be realistic just for once.

51-Year-Old Abandoned Bridge: Mbala Community Begs Abia, Enugu Govts For Urgent Intervention
By Our Correspondents - December 16, 2019039

The damaged Mmam bridge
"OVER 5,000 NIGERIAN MEN HAVE OVERCOME POOR BEDROOM PERFORMANCE SYNDROME DUE TO THIS BRILLIANT DISCOVERY"https:///2lLYhDx
“We need help! Over 51 years of neglect is unjustifiable. A change of heart is required. Enough is enough.” That was the chorus by delegates to the extraordinary general meeting of Mbala Town Development Union (MTDU), which held at Nkwo Mbala, Isuochi, in the Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State last weekend.

Mbala community was unanimous in their call for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and the Anambra-Imo River Basin & Rural Development Authority to urgently execute abandoned Mmam Bridge and Mbala-Achi Road projects.

The community believed that this would not only reintegrate the Mbala community with the rest of the world but would also restore the economic life of the people.


The president general of Mbala Town Development Union,. Ndubuisi Ikeh, who addressed journalists at the end of the meeting, which held in Mbala, recalled that the Mmam bridge, which was built by Shell BP in 1955 created as an alternative route to Enugu following an incident of gas flaring that occurred at Ugwu Oba-Enugu road which resulted in accessing to Enugu city being cut off.

The bridge, according to him, became the gateway for motorists and commuters alike traveling to Enugu, Onitsha, and northern Nigeria. It also opened the way for inter-community marriages to take place between Isuochi and Oji River people. Market men and women moved freely from their community in the opposite direction as means of transportation were readily available. Economic and social activities boomed.

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He stated further that Isuochi people living in such areas as Enugu, Onitsha, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Jos, Zaria, and other parts of Western and Northern Nigeria usually pass through the Achi-Awlaw- Mmam Bridge route.

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Similarly, Achi, Inyi, and Awlaw people residing in cities in Imo and Abia states, as well as South-South states, usually made use of the same route to get to their ancestral homes.

Ikeh noted that 13 years after the construction of the Mmam bridge, and in the heat of the Nigeria Civil War, soldiers loyal to the Nigerian government desperate to advance and launch their attack on Okigwe bombed the bridge to gain entry.

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“The joy brought to the people of the Old Okigwe Division as well as Oji River people following the construction of the Mmam Bridge was cut short on September 15, 1968, when Nigerian troops bombed the bridge to facilitate their advancement towards Okigwe during the Nigerian Civil War.

“After the destruction, the people had to endure painfully, with the hope that one day a sensitive government would rehabilitate the bridge. But 51 years after, the situation has remained hopeless, and the endless hope for reconstruction, elusive,” Ikeh said.

The President General lamented that the damaged bridge has rendered Mbala a closet at best while also observing that successive governments’ neglect of the damaged bridge has dealt a significant blow on the economic, social, and cultural lives of Mbala people and her neighbours across the bridge as well as hindering socio-economic development of the areas.

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“Over five decades now, we have continued to suffer untold hardship in the hands of successive governments from the old Imo and Anambra states to the present day Abia and Enugu states. Successive governments have roundly neglected us. And that is why the road leading to the bridge is in very deplorable condition,” Ikeh lamented.

Another community leader, Oluchukwu Uzor, outlined a few reasons why the government should urgently come to the rescue of the border community by prioritising the reconstruction of the damaged Mmam Bridge and the road leading to the bridge:

According to him, “The abandoned Mmam Bridge and the road are a constant reminder of the negative impacts of the civil war, 49 years after. The bride there was destroyed by federal troop. Ever since, Mbala people have remained cut off from the neighboring states of Enugu and Anambra through that route, in addition to access to agricultural land with the result that there is hardly any economic activity in Mbala town, and the negative impacts are evident and visible.

“An impressive achievement of the former premier of the defunct Eastern Region, late Dr. Michael Okpara, was the establishment of Mbala Cashew Plantation, which still thrives today. The plantation contributes a significant amount of the estimated Cashew production figure of 45,000 metric tonnes per year that Abia State produces. In the contemporary Nigeria of today, it should not be in doubt what a plantation of the magnitude in Mbala can contribute to the economy of Abia State in terms of job creation opportunities. Yet, the road to this vital agricultural cash cow has been neglected for over 51 years.

If you guessed Nnewi.....then you are right. According to Forbes, the city not only has the highest number of billionaires, they produced the country's first billionaire..... Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu. He is the father of the late Biafra leader, Chukwuemeka Ojukwu.

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.

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.



Ehen!! So they have the highest billionaires? I am currently looking for Nnewi suitors. Just Kidding.

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alao333 at 07:36 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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Of what use as it helped the region ,many of youth stil go abroad dieing on high seas
tegonwa at 07:43 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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And Nnewi Looks Too Rural.Quite Hopeless.Nawaa O!
Zaki68 at 08:12 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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THESE ARE THE MARGINALIZE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA.
freethinker at 08:30 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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Quote from: alao333 on 07:36 PM, 11/08/2017
Of what use as it helped the region ,many of youth stil go abroad dieing on high seas
ARE YOU JEALOUS?
THEY ARE MANY MORE THEY HAVE NOT MENTION
freethinker at 08:33 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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Quote from: Zaki68 on 08:12 PM, 11/08/2017
THESE ARE THE MARGINALIZE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA.
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I AM SUPRISE AT YOU, DID THEY SAY THAT NIGERIA GOVT HELPED THEM OR INDIVIDUAL EFFORT?
MY DEAR STOP BEING JEALOUS OKAY...
freethinker at 08:35 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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NNEWI IS THE RICHEST TOWN IN NIGERIA WHILE ANAMBRA STATE IS THE RICHEST STATE IN NIGERIA.....
Deltaboy1 at 09:50 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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Quote from: freethinker on 08:35 PM, 11/08/2017
NNEWI IS THE RICHEST TOWN IN NIGERIA WHILE ANAMBRA STATE IS THE RICHEST STATE IN NIGERIA.....
Wikipedia, will tell u the truth about GDP by states
Mykie010 at 10:02 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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Quote from: Zaki68 on 08:12 PM, 11/08/2017
THESE ARE THE MARGINALIZE PEOPLE OF NIGERIA.
did ur federal govt make any of them billionaire like dangote,there are all self made for ur information.
Mykie010 at 10:03 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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Even in Lagos,Igbo's are the richest
Starnixx at 10:42 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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But the forgot my name oo
Patrioti at 11:21 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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Nnewi in Anambra State and Abiriba in Abia State is the two richest town in Africa. Their individual effort put together can feed the entire 19 States of North for 75 years. No wonder after Sanusi introduced the Bank Verification Number ( BVN ) he saw that Igbos monetary access is beyond what their Northern politicians stole from government, they started antagonising us.
clechi at 11:41 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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I trust Igbo's
luvly4luv at 11:46 PM, 11/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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Poster, please why did you not mention my name? Engr Onyijoe: Uduatamiri 1of Ndimgbu Otolo Nnewi!
Meanwhile, do you want to promote and project your business and products to a higher level so as to join us in the Billioners Club? If YES, then this is for YOU: https://hubpages.com/money/INTELLIGENTSTRATEGYTOPENETRATETHEGLOBALMARKET
Asterimou at 12:00 AM, 12/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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RITUALIST.
RICH IN PAPER BUT POOR SOCIALLY. EVERYONE KNOWS IGBOS ARE RICH BUT THEIR WEALTH ARE ILL-GOTTEN. THAT IS THE REASON THEY CAN'T USE IT TO HELP THEMSELVES NOT TO MENTION OTHERS. THE LITTLE MILLIONAIRES WE HAVE IN MY STATE TRANSFORM IT INTO A SMALL BEAUTIFUL CITY AND GOOD LIVING CONDITION. HOW CAN NNEWI HAVE MORE THAN 10 BILLIONAIRES AND STILL IN A PITIABLE CONDITION? YOUR WEALTH BECOMES ZERO WHEN YOU CAN NOT USE IT TO TOUCH ON THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU. WHAT A SHAME!
nonsovin at 12:54 AM, 12/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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I'm so proud of my hometown.. NNEWI

proudly.. ANAEDO
meaning... "Land of Gold"
osarobo62 at 02:15 AM, 12/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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we are talking of clean honest wealth,...not drugs ,rituals and baby selling
proly at 02:45 AM, 12/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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Hmmmmm
angesco at 09:13 AM, 12/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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PEOPLES CLUB OF NIGERIA.

Nice one Nnewi.

Wow. Never knew that Chief Ilodibecwas an orphan who arose from the handout of a KIND PRIEST.

Churches in NIGERIA of today can LEARN a thing or two about HELPING ORPHANS!
angesco at 09:14 AM, 12/08/2017 (2 years ago)
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Quote from: angesco on 09:13 AM, 12/08/2017
PEOPLES CLUB OF NIGERIA.

Nice one Nnewi.

Wow. Never knew that Chief Ilodibecwas an orphan who arose from the handout of a KIND PRIEST.

Churches in NIGERIA of today can LEARN a thing or two about HELPING ORPHANS!

So bubu papa IQ is too low . No wonder anything he touches na failure.

Officialgarri:
Any sensible person who watched the "full" clip will understand that Lai Mohammed was just saying what could happen to anyone.

He never said we should forgive him, rather it should be pardonable after 53 years....... It's not a plea, neither a decree

what's the difference between forgivable offence and personable offence. Did attend school at all.

luminouz:


You still don't get it!
Your actions declared a war and they retaliated,albeit on the innocent men,women and children up north. It was a cascade of repercussions from that singular event (the coup d'etat).
If you still don't get my point, I can't explain further

So yoruba man flow do the coup.go and read the history and tell yourself the truth.

Afamed:

Until you go to Kano and see Ndigbos who don't subscription to the propaganda news you read on social media with their billion of Investment . When you get to Kano, the biggest manufacturing pharmautical coy in Bompai and the one of the biggest private hospitals are all own by Igbos. It's only nonentity like you , who have not left their face me and face you room that daily promotes devision in Nigeria

so IGBOS can have a very big pharmaceutical companies in Nigeria. I thought na only 2x2 shop them dey get .U guys can be funny

[y can't U import ur own original China crap. Or dey curse u make U no do importation? Just accept the simple truth U hate us just the way you love us. uotehor=kmcutez post=81837577]

How do Nigerians need you? You guys just import fake China crap to sell. Anyone can do that.[/quote]

It's only an intelligent person that you will give the so called expo and he will copy it down correctly. So if you like call it what ever you like, just accept the bitter truth that IGBOS are the best in everything they venture into. See brother, brother wey mumu

Dino you are a Nigerian before chrstainty.

Voting is about your conscience , you vote what you believe on. An average Igbo did not believe in this government and they are not expecting anything from it.uote author=livebyday post=79594078]

The term. Mumu. People is not to be used on a whole tribe

Mods rule 2

Mynd44 Seun Ishilove lalasticlala[/quote]

Oshigun:


And you irrelevant people have a say in this? This is is how you swore twice (2015 and 2019) Buhari cannot win. You guys are jokers. Political weaklings and neophytes.

but we still have food on our tables, onlike other tribes that deposit There kids just for a bag of rice

globemoney:

Nobody cared about Lawan and Gbaja, but guess who were very afraid and were going across Nigeria to beg for support? Lawan and Gbaja.. If they were not afraid, theyn would not have come to the SE to campaign so I didnt really get your point.. You expected us to betray after they came cap in hand begging for support and we accepted them? That would not be in our nature.

What has transpired since 1999? Who cares about who has more voice since 1999? Is SE the least educated in Nigeria since 1999? Is SE suffering from poverty since 1999? Is SE at war with boko haram and fulani herdsmen since 1999? You are the one that need to shut up!

abeg tell dem . right now Fulani herdsmen dey nack them now for there backyard

They hate us the way they love us .Igbo amaka.

Every Nigerian road traffic can be like this if all the roads are marked.