Rosskiiku:


You need big infrastructure projects to move to the next level of development. Learn from China.

You cannot do without power plants, modern rail, road, sea and air transport facilities, or you'll be stuck in the middle ages.

And they cost billions of dollars.

China used microeconomic policies for her development before implementing mostly macroeconomic policies presently.

"Macroeconomic policies improved in a majority of developing countries in the 1990s, but the expected growth benefits failed to materialize, at least to the extent that many observers had forecast. In addition, a series of financial crises severely depressed growth and worsened poverty [. . .] [B]oth slow growth and multiple crises were symptoms of deficiencies in the design and execution of the pro-growth reform strategies that were adopted in the 1990s with macroeconomic stability as their centerpiece” (World Bank, 2005, p. 95).

Macroeconomic policy reactions to external shocks
In the face of a negative terms of trade or financial shocks leading to a deterioration in the balance of payments and increasing poverty among populace.

Difrent:


Because you were not alone before now and was enjoying the commonwealth more than the rest of us , we want to enjoy to the level you are too first before you now call us and ask nicely for separation which will be done using world best practice - referendum.

But you intimidating me and threatening me will not work

Lmao which region as igbo benefited more from Nigeria compare to them ...just name one abeg one

Omihanifa:


Lagos Ibadan rail (156kilometers) was built by CCEC for 2billion dollars in 2016

While Ghana government awarded a 560-kilometre rail contract to a subsidiary of thesame CCEC for 2billion dollars in 2019

Now the question is why is Ghana building more length of rail line at a cheaper cost and Nigeria keep spending so much?

Thesame scenario applies to Abuja stadium that was built by the Obasanjo adminstration in 2003. So much money was spent (380 million dollars)

South Africa during the preparation for the 2010 world cup built a better stadium for less of that price

Just of recent the minister for works awarded the Abuja Kaduna Kano express way to Julius Berger at the cost of 1trillion naira, if you take that same length of road outside of Nigeria you will be shocked that with 500billion the job will be done and some change go still remain.

nigerians are very greedy thats why....
talk about anything and they will immediately ask how much it will cost....

get rich quick at any cost is the issue....
they dont even mind to steal and risk landin in jail....

PissfulProtester:
As if say na only Una dem do Nigeria for..

Continue to dey unleash mayhem on police na. E go shock you say police no dey ever forget, especially if it affects them directly.

So what solution can you proffer?... in the Security appointments did you see any rep from that end?

Rosskiiku:


You don't use stuff like the length of a rail line, road or bridge to determine how much it should cost. Numerous other factors come into play including topography and soil type, rainfall density, timeline for completion, choice of materials used, loan repayment deal reached, eg the shorter repayment time, the lower the price charged, etc etc.

Only a layman would say, ''oh this road in Ghana is 100km and cost 3 million, so every 100 km road in NIgeria should cost 3 million.''

be honest....
nigerians are too greedy....

Igbochief001:

This right here is the mind set of most nigerians toward Igbos 100%

Igbos already control the market and economy what do they need political power for

Honestly it's sad living in the same country with people who think like this and don't see anything wrong with it

look...you igbos get pissed off too quick....
nobody can be good in everything....its just not possible....

i am a construction worker,but you cant use me as a doctor....
why all this marginalization talks....??

Difrent:


Is it really nepotism that's driving the agitations in the east or GREED. Ibos control our capital market and monetary sector (except for minister of finance) , Ibos control trade and enterpreneurship , manufacturing , import and export, visible in banking , not lagging behind in agriculture, education and health ......no yoruba or HAUSA man is occupying the ministerial slots of eastern states BUT BECAUSE they don't control the military and security forces they have become marginalized. DO IBOS WANT TO CONTROL EVERYTHING ? this country belongs to all of us and there nothing wrong if Ibos don't control (not that ibos are not represented) armed forces when they control the economy...,it greed that makes ibos want to control the economy and also control the security forces.

How are they controlling, when their is a president?... they are only representing their country.

All the aspects you mentioned are not controlled by Ibos, they are only players same way everyother person is as it is a level playing ground.

I gave an example with the police because it was a bit glaring and quite predictable, yet happened.... An IG of police from eastern extraction would have gone a long way to douse that tension.

justtoodark:


look...you igbos get pissed off too quick....
nobody can be good in everything....its just not possible....

i am a construction worker,but you cant use me as a doctor....
why all this marginalization talks....??

So because you are a construction worker your family farmland should not be given to you ?

What has our success in the private sector have to affect our public sector involvement ? I don't get ...

optionalY09:


where is the infrastructure

Leave your local beer parlour and ashi joint and travel around the country.

You will see infrastructure.

justtoodark:


be honest....
nigerians are too greedy....

I'll be first to admit there is SOME corruption in virtually all contracts awarded in Nigeria.

I'm past hoping it will somehow end. We just need to see less amounts of money involved, which I believe is the case with this administration.

Is there any one of us here who, if given the chance to oversee a contract, will not ''add their own cut on top''?

It's as Nigerian as apple pie is American.

If you don't do it, even your own wife and kids will disown you, and call you a fool.

Your kinsmen will call you the mad man who spat out the juicy morsel the gods placed in his mouth.

And we are not unique in this tendency to inflate contracts.

Go to Russia, it's the same thing.

We can STILL develop, even with corruption. Other countries have, so it is no excuse.

What we cannot stand is another Jonathan-type administration of free for all grand looting. Theirs was just madness.

Igbochief001:

So because you are a construction worker your family farmland should not be given to you ?

What has our success in the private sector have to affect our public sector involvement ? I don't get ...

its free market....you cant force anybody to hire anybody....

family farmland....??

thats your private business....nobody can drag that matter with you....

what am sayin is,you cant force employers to employ a certain type of people....
its either they need you or not....

nigeria should have passed this tribal nonesense long ago....

to be demandin because you are igbo,you must be employed by the employer is nonesense....

justtoodark:


its free market....you cant force anybody to hire anybody....

family farmland....??

thats your private business....nobody can drag that matter with you....

what am sayin is,you cant force employers to employ a certain type of people....
its either they need you or not....

nigeria should have passed this tribal nonesense long ago....

to be demandin because you are igbo,you must be employed by the employer is nonesense....

Nigeria has passed tribal nonsense ? Really tell that to buhari

Difrent:


Is it really nepotism that's driving the agitations in the east or GREED. Ibos control our capital market and monetary sector (except for minister of finance) , Ibos control trade and enterpreneurship , manufacturing , import and export, visible in banking , not lagging behind in agriculture, education and health ......no yoruba or HAUSA man is occupying the ministerial slots of eastern states BUT BECAUSE they don't control the military and security forces they have become marginalized. DO IBOS WANT TO CONTROL EVERYTHING ? this country belongs to all of us and there nothing wrong if Ibos don't control (not that ibos are not represented) armed forces when they control the economy...,it greed that makes ibos want to control the economy and also control the security forces.

Stop deceiving yourself. You don’t control all the aforementioned.

Rosskiiku:


Leave your local beer parlour and ashi joint and travel around the country.

You will see infrastructure.

Do you know how much you have to pay bandits to allow you use the infrastructures? or should I say uncomplicated infrastructure

CNN appeasing their African watchers cos they know people don't watch them in the US

Rosskiiku:
Other Nigerian mega-projects:

Eko Atlantic ($25 billion)
Lagos - Aba - PH - Calabar Coastal Rail Line ($11 billion)
Lagos Light Rail ($30 billion)
Mambilla Power Plant ($5.8 billion)
2nd Niger Bridge ($2 billion)
World Trade Center, Abuja ($1 billion)

all of them have been abandoned except Niger bridge Eko Atlantic and Lagos light rail

Op, u go give the NL Secessionists major e-pain with this news.

Rosskiiku:


I'll be first to admit there is SOME corruption in virtually all contracts awarded in Nigeria.

I'm past hoping it will somehow end. We just need to see less amounts of money involved, which I believe is the case with this administration.

Is there any one of us here who, if given the chance to oversee a contract, will not ''add their own cut on top''?

It's as Nigerian as apple pie is American.

If you don't do it, even your own wife and kids will disown you, and call you a fool.

Your kinsmen will call you the mad man who spat out the juicy morsel the gods placed in his mouth.

And we are not unique in this tendency to inflate contracts.

Go to Russia, it's the same thing.

We can STILL develop, even with corruption. Other countries have, so it is no excuse.

What we cannot stand is another Jonathan-type administration of free for all grand looting. Theirs was just madness.

haha....
your honesty is chillin....

all you said is the truth....
but that still doesnt mean we should give up completly....

They said the same in 2014 during Jonathan and this was in January 2021.

Nothing special.

Igbochief001:

This excuse is wack ... marginalization of Igbos is systematic ...not political

Explain how Igbos arguably nigerians most educated tribe have the least aig and Commissioners of police ?

Have the lowest military generals

Have the lowest perm secs

Explain how since 1960 south east is the only region without government built power plants

Explain why south east zone even tho small have the least capital investment

PDP is not perfect but no section of the country was made to feel like they don't belong like APC did

So you wanted Igbos to support a failure like buhari just for political gain ? Never

Buhari and his supporters just made Igbos confirm we are not meant to be one ...if a buhari can do this and get away ...who knows what the next president can do

Arguably what?

Igbochief001:

Because we can .... because our resources are still bring taken from our land , because we still pay tax

One question is if u hate Igbos so much that u would chase them away after break up even when they contribute economically .....then why do you want to share the same country with Igbos

What resources?

Cocaine is no resource men.

joyandfaith:
Developing nations don't need mega projects. We need projects that will benefit the poor people directly. World Bank/IMF and international creditors benefit more from big projects. It is business. It is macroeconomy. Macroeconomy benefits few elites while majority of population suffers.
I am advocate of microeconomy - bottom to top approach.

When they build small bridges you would say we need mega power stations.

When they build mega power stations you would say you need toilets.

Peterobi90:
If the president re-evaluates his appointments to ensure federal character and lack of nepotism, then we might just have a United Nigeria to fight insecurity, unemployment and the downward spiralling economy..

If the IG of police was from the SE, do you think the mayhem being unleashed on the police by the UGM would not be fought against by that region?..

But it seems the presidency does not think that way.

If thats the way ESN and IPOD terrorist want to fight for positions in government, then the president will not appoint IG from the south east, do your worst at the end of the day ESN is destroying its own region.

Where does the CNN article say that Nigeria is the infrastructure capital of Africa?

Rosskiiku:
Other Nigerian mega-projects:

Eko Atlantic ($25 billion)
Lagos - Aba - PH - Calabar Coastal Rail Line ($11 billion)
Lagos Light Rail ($30 billion)
Mambilla Power Plant ($5.8 billion)
2nd Niger Bridge ($2 billion)
World Trade Center, Abuja ($1 billion)

Rosskiiku:



Remember, Africa has 54 countries.

CNN listed the 9 biggest and most important infrastructure projects going on in Africa today.

3 of them are in Nigeria. The other 53 African countries are sharing the remaining 6.

And some people have the impudence,

The insolence,

The audacity,

The effrontery,

The temerity,

to dare call Nigeria a ''failed state''?

Calling for the nation to be split up?

Balkanised into inconsequential little Sierra Leones, Gambias, Togos, Malawis, and South Sudans.

From a rampaging elephant to a puny mosquito.

Are you crazy?

Are you out of your mind?

How dare you?

If YOU can't handle Nigeria, GET OUT.

Nigeria, the Giant of Africa, is here forever.

Your words are precise, articulate, and full of wisdom.. you can only remind them, some people are so cursed that they subconsciously blind to the truth and unfortunately they cannot be saved.

Nigeria Is the GIANT of Africa

I was opportune to be in a business group chat where all African entrepreneurs connects and honestly, i realized outsiders know our worth and respect us more than we respect ourselves

GOD BLESS NIGERIA
OMOLUABI LEMIOO

Rosskiiku:



Remember, Africa has 54 countries.

CNN listed the 9 biggest and most important infrastructure projects going on in Africa today.

3 of them are in Nigeria. The other 53 African countries are sharing the remaining 6.

And some people have the impudence,

The insolence,

The audacity,

The effrontery,

The temerity,

to dare call Nigeria a ''failed state''?

Calling for the nation to be split up?

Balkanised into inconsequential little Sierra Leones, Gambias, Togos, Malawis, and South Sudans.

From a rampaging elephant to a puny mosquito.

Are you crazy?

Are you out of your mind?

How dare you?

If YOU can't handle Nigeria, GET OUT.

Nigeria, the Giant of Africa, is here forever.

God forbid, so Fulani would be in power? Thunder fire both of una