It's one thing to have fanciful infrastructre like paints and syringe factory which doubles as a background for photos.
It's another thing to empower your people instead of leaving them to roam southern Nigeria looking for menial jobs.

It's a facade and it's exhaustive.

ToyinDipo:
Was it every presidential result that failed, or you have proof that it was every Senate and HOR result that they were able to upload, that's the answer to the randomness question.

Yes.

From eyewitnesses' report.

The BVAS was unable to transmit only the presidential results.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:




u 4 add pictures

LOL. I won't, except you want pictures already online because I used the pictures I took for the gallery of a website I built for a client who later insisted I join the board.

We are organising a massive international tourism, culture and more event, all things being equal. You should get ready to come explore Akwa Ibom live. You'd love it. I PROMISE.

Magnoliaa:


Yes.

From eyewitnesses' report.

The BVAS was unable to transmit only the presidential results.

Every


Give me a break

ToyinDipo:
Every


Give me a break

You're free to get out of my mention.

Magnoliaa:


You're free to get out of my mention.

lol

For the guy above, I checked his threads and found out he's 21 and at crossroads with life choices so I understand his angst with the Nigerian system in general or wanting the government to give him a hand. I understand, bro. I do.
I hope governments at all levels do more, and you somehow find light however long that tunnel is.

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Interestingly, I just found out he made a post to brag about the developmental strides in Akwa Ibom over the years. Just a few pictures. Well, that answers it.

Look at how clean the places are: https://www.nairaland.com/7348830/akwaibom-overated . Celebrate the gains while continuing to hold government accountable.

Two truths can exist.

DissTroy:


Back to back for years, Akwa Ibom has been the cleanest state in Nigeria. By 2024, we'd be completely off the naitonal grid as we have our own power-producing company and have scaled to produce 768MW of electricity since 2021.

Well-tarred roads only Abuja can boast of.

Good electricity supply.

Tech city. Perfect for remote workers.

The most secure and peaceful state in Nigeria.

Best ease of doing business in the whole of Southern Nigeria and number 4 as whole.

Great night life.

Akwa Ibom is built as a tourist city. Every Governor must follow a blueprint.

I have all of these on offer and I'd settle for the madness and insecurity of Lagos? God forbid!

Boss this your marketing and promotions na wa o. Lol
I am already wondering how that area is like.
I am based in Lagos, but from what you said, your city seem interesting and worthy to explore.

demanuel:

Boss this your marketing and promotions na wa o. Lol
I am already wondering how that area is like.
I am based in Lagos, but from what you said, your city seem interesting and worthy to explore.

If you work remotely already, you should move. Leave that madness which is Lagos for your sanity's sake. If you intend to start a business, it works too.

If you are looking for a job in Akwa Ibom, ensure you have a solid plan before moving or a backup allowance to aid you.

Uyo (the metropolis entirely), Eket and Ikot Ekpene are your best bets.

And if you are skilled, you'd survive. Igbos and Yorubas in Akwa Ibom don't consider relocating and have fully integrated into the state, many of them marrying Akwa Ibom women too.
And, no, we'd never be tribalistic enough to ask you to leave our land over an argument or because of your voting pattern. I assure you.

- Remote work. Move.
- Starting a business. Move. (No omo onile or agberos would tax you to death except LG tax paid once monthly.)
- Seeking jobs. Make your research first then move. Port Harcourt is ~2 hours drive from Uyo too.

DissTroy:


Damn straight! We've been quiet for too long. Imagine depending on me for pocket money as a distant relative yet asking one of our mutual relative who lodges in your part of the estate but feeds and clothes himself to vacate the premises? Then I'd have to in turn stop the allowance and turn off the light.

Good luck surviving on your own.

Like Wizkid said, call me daddy.

The problem i have with my Yoruba brothers is that they hardly travel to other parts of Southern Nigeria.
To them, Lagos is the all and all of Nigeria. They believe Nigeria starts and ends in Lagos.
Aside Lagos, the next place the typical yoruba man thinks of relocating to is abroad. To him, no other place is better than Lagos so why should he go the other way round when those people are coming to his side.
For some of us who are not homeboys (i usually use it as a name for the typical yorubas who never travelled out of South-west), we have travelled and seen other places and are marveled about what is going on over there.
I schooled in Oron, so i know how developed Uyo and environment is. Have been to Calabar and environment, been to many south-south states and south-east and i can categorically tell you, the south-wet is the most backward out of the 3 souths.
My brothers don't like hearing this. Some will call me omo-ale (a bastard) which is typical of them. I guess the truth hurts.
I do not say this to bring them down or denigrate them rather for us to sit-up and improve. There is no point living in self-denial.
Reason why i do tell them that Lagos/Tinubu/and other Lagos governors have all failed. They are serial failures.

You can't be generating this huge amount of money and your city still looks like a shit-hole.
If AKpabio can turn Akwa-ibom around in 8 years with the money he got which is not up to what Lagos is generating, tarred roads, built stadium, Standard hospital, now ibom-air yet lagos can float Lagos-air and many more and they think their governors are working, then something is wrong somewhere.
Tbh, i only have pity for them.

emmaodet:


The problem i have with my Yoruba brothers is that they hardly travel to other parts of Southern Nigeria.
To them, Lagos is the all and all of Nigeria. They believe Nigeria starts and ends in Lagos.
Aside Lagos, the next place the typical yoruba man thinks of relocating to is abroad. To him, no other place is better than Lagos so why should he go the other way round when those people are coming to his side.
For some of us who are not homeboys (i usually use it as a name for the typical yorubas who never travelled out of South-west), we have travelled and seen other places and are marveled about what is going on over there.
I schooled in Oron, so i know how developed Uyo and environment is. Have been to Calabar and environment, been to many south-south states and south-east and i can categorically tell you, the south-wet is the most backward out of the 3 souths.
My brothers don't like hearing this. Some will call me omo-ale (a bastard) which is typical of them. I guess the truth hurts.
I do not say this to bring them down or denigrate them rather for us to sit-up and improve. There is no point living in self-denial.
Reason why i do tell them that Lagos/Tinubu/and other Lagos governors have all failed. They are serial failures.

You can't be generating this huge amount of money and your city still looks like a shit-hole.
If AKpabio can turn Akwa-ibom around in 8 years with the money he got which is not up to what Lagos is generating, tarred roads, built stadium, Standard hospital, now ibom-air yet lagos can float Lagos-air and many more and they think their governors are working, then something is wrong somewhere.
Tbh, i only have pity for them.

I had to check your profile to be sure you not another moniker.


I’ve been to all South East states except Ebonyi and I can say if you not from Lagos… one shouldn’t even talk about underdevelopment in south east

You need to see heavy development in Enugu and Owerri as I was shocked when I first when there.

raumdeuter:
GRV don drive trailer between Obidients comrades

larride:


Gbadebo can speak Yoruba very well. All those one you are seeing na disguise because hes speaking to Igbo community.

The guy is a cunny bastard.

E fit don score Odiye level own goal be that.

raumdeuter:
Na Dayo bring tribalism come this thread?

Many are mad, few are roaming

OasisX:


DonJ is the happiest right now.

The guy fit do give away.

Realmrsean, what's your reaction to this video?

https://twitter.com/renoomokri/status/1631385605580922882?t=0bvtOlWmvZ7TsextU7pQXA&s=19

obainojazz:
I had to check your profile to be sure you not another moniker.


I’ve been to all South East states except Ebonyi and I can say if you not from Lagos… one shouldn’t even talk about underdevelopment in south east

You need to see heavy development in Enugu and Owerri as I was shocked when I first when there.

That is totally true but the average Yoruba man won't agree with you since he believes Lagos is the eldorado of Nigeria. The London of Africa to him.
And come to think of it, aside the Lagos sef which is still an eye sore anyway, other south-west towns/cities are virtually nothing to write home about. I guess that is why most of them always cling to the so called Lagos.
If you go to our hinterlands - Oyo, ibadan, abeokuta, oshogbo, ogbomosho etc Damnnnnnnnnn
1. The literacy rate is very low
2. Basic social amenities/infrastructures are very poor- roads, access to good water (mostly wells in this modern day for God sake), etc. It is sickening and scary.
If the Yorubas continue on this trend and not address it,in few years time they will be left behind and that is if we are not left behind already.

I Love my people and i want the best for them but with what am seeing, it is really scary. The leaders and stupid Obas are not trying at all.

I don't celebrate rubbish and nonsense.
The so called Lagos they all even want to die on top,i don't really see anything special in it. Abi no be the Lagos we dey again?

emmaodet:


That is totally true but the average Yoruba man won't agree with you since he believes Lagos is the eldorado of Nigeria. The London of Africa to him.
And come to think of it, aside the Lagos sef which is still an eye sore anyway, other south-west towns/cities are virtually nothing to write home about. I guess that is why most of them always cling to the so called Lagos.
If you go to our hinterlands - Oyo, ibadan, abeokuta, oshogbo, ogbomosho etc Damnnnnnnnnn
1. The literacy rate is very low
2. Basic social amenities/infrastructures are very poor- roads, access to good water (mostly wells in this modern day for God sake), etc. It is sickening and scary.
If the Yorubas continue on this trend and not address it,in few years time they will be left behind and that is if we are not left behind already.

I Love my people and i want the best for them but with what am seeing, it is really scary. The leaders and stupid Obas are not trying at all.

I don't celebrate rubbish and nonsense.
The so called Lagos they all even want to die on top,i don't really see anything special in it. Abi no be the Lagos we dey again?

I don't even rate Lagos a single bit

My preferred cities in Nigeria is Abuja and akwaibom and my own Owerri here

I don't even know what people see in that Lagos sef

Realmrsean:
I don't even rate Lagos a single bit

My preferred cities in Nigeria is Abuja and akwaibom and my own Owerri here

I don't even know what people see in that Lagos sef

If i am to rate in terms of cleanliness, organization, infrastructure in relation to landmass (i have to use in relation to landmass because the average yoruba will come for my head. What this means is that your development measured according to your land size. You can't regularly use lagos island to boast for the entire lagos when it is not more than 25/30% max of Lagos while others are shanties)
Soin relation to your land size,i will rate this towns/cities/state accordingly -
Uyo
Calabar
Abuja
Asaba
Lagos/Onitsha/Owerri/Ph/Benin/- are allin this basket.

2 of my Ogas who are oyinbos on 2 different occasions have asked me if actually Calabar is part of Nigeria.
I mean different oyinbos at different times and places because they have landed in Lagos, they saw how roudy and shanty it is, they have landed in Ph and saw how our city is and then they landed in Calabar and from the airport, the organisation, cleanliness etc. They were marveled and wondered if they are still actually in Africa.

Unfortunately, Calabar is deteriorating gradually now. Was there early last year and not really happy the way it is been handled.

emmaodet:


That is totally true but the average Yoruba man won't agree with you since he believes Lagos is the eldorado of Nigeria. The London of Africa to him.
And come to think of it, aside the Lagos sef which is still an eye sore anyway, other south-west towns/cities are virtually nothing to write home about. I guess that is why most of them always cling to the so called Lagos.
If you go to our hinterlands - Oyo, ibadan, abeokuta, oshogbo, ogbomosho etc Damnnnnnnnnn
1. The literacy rate is very low
2. Basic social amenities/infrastructures are very poor- roads, access to good water (mostly wells in this modern day for God sake), etc. It is sickening and scary.
If the Yorubas continue on this trend and not address it,in few years time they will be left behind and that is if we are not left behind already.

I Love my people and i want the best for them but with what am seeing, it is really scary. The leaders and stupid Obas are not trying at all.

I don't celebrate rubbish and nonsense.
The so called Lagos they all even want to die on top,i don't really see anything special in it. Abi no be the Lagos we dey again?

....but what do you expect from hinterland? Don't you think you are trying too hard to make your point?

Mention hinterlands in Nigeria where literacy level is high and let's do comparison. Let's learn something new from you sir.

You expect to see good roads and infrastructure in hinterland and all. Common bro

emmaodet:


If i am to rate in terms of cleanliness, organization, infrastructure in relation to landmass (i have to use in relation to landmass because the average yoruba will come for my head. What this means is that your development measured according to your land size. You can't regularly use lagos island to boast for the entire lagos when it is not more than 25/30% max of Lagos while others are shanties)
Soin relation to your land size,i will rate this towns/cities/state accordingly -
Uyo
Calabar
Abuja
Asaba
Lagos/Onitsha/Owerri/Ph/Benin/- are allin this basket.

2 of my Ogas who are oyinbos on 2 different occasions have asked me if actually Calabar is part of Nigeria.
I mean different oyinbos at different times and places because they have landed in Lagos, they saw how roudy and shanty it is, they have landed in Ph and saw how our city is and then they landed in Calabar and from the airport, the organisation, cleanliness etc. They were marveled and wondered if they are still actually in Africa.

Unfortunately, Calabar is deteriorating gradually now. Was there early last year and not really happy the way it is been handled.

Lagos that is full with agberos and touts

You have a tout like mc oloumo who controls some part of a territory and Treasury and you ask yourself if this is the city they boast of?

A state that one particular person is holding in his palms? Is that one a state?

If tilumbu can conquer Lagos and hold it in his palms, why can't the igbos conquer this Lagos too?
Abi obi never conquer tilumbu for him backyard?

If obi has conquered tilumbu.. that means igbos too can conquer Lagos which they have already conquered

Theflint1:
The people that own the oil were they not themselves farmers contributing to the cocoa export, rubber and leather?

You are repeating what I've already said.

DissTroy:


Delta? You are my Immediate brother competing with me for oil production which feeds these our geopolitical relatives enough to chestbeat and threaten to chase out our cousins during any argument.

Remind this people who the real accomodators are. Their sons are even in the NDDC and Oil ans Gas Free Zone Commissions created for us but we aren't chasing them out.

Let them keep the tribalism up. At least for the Oil and Gas Free Zone headquartered in Onne and NDDC in Port Harcourt, we'd get answers for those real soon.

Continue spreading hatred.

Don't mind those fools, owners of Lagos yet the are partaking from our oil revenue. Why can't the claim kwara same way the are shouting owners of Lagos.

emmaodet:


The problem i have with my Yoruba brothers is that they hardly travel to other parts of Southern Nigeria.
To them, Lagos is the all and all of Nigeria. They believe Nigeria starts and ends in Lagos.
Aside Lagos, the next place the typical yoruba man thinks of relocating to is abroad. To him, no other place is better than Lagos so why should he go the other way round when those people are coming to his side.
For some of us who are not homeboys (i usually use it as a name for the typical yorubas who never travelled out of South-west), we have travelled and seen other places and are marveled about what is going on over there.
I schooled in Oron, so i know how developed Uyo and environment is. Have been to Calabar and environment, been to many south-south states and south-east and i can categorically tell you, the south-wet is the most backward out of the 3 souths.
My brothers don't like hearing this. Some will call me omo-ale (a bastard) which is typical of them. I guess the truth hurts.
I do not say this to bring them down or denigrate them rather for us to sit-up and improve. There is no point living in self-denial.
Reason why i do tell them that Lagos/Tinubu/and other Lagos governors have all failed. They are serial failures.

You can't be generating this huge amount of money and your city still looks like a shit-hole.
If AKpabio can turn Akwa-ibom around in 8 years with the money he got which is not up to what Lagos is generating, tarred roads, built stadium, Standard hospital, now ibom-air yet lagos can float Lagos-air and many more and they think their governors are working, then something is wrong somewhere.
Tbh, i only have pity for them.

The bold is totally untrue! My uncle ( my father's younger brother) has been living in Port Harcourt, Rivers state since I can remember. He married an indigene in 1998 and myself and the rest of our family were there live in Port Harcourt in 1998. I watched most of the France 1998 world cup in port Harcourt.

Need I tell u that my family is a typical Yoruba family that has both Christians and Muslims in the family line. My grandma is a core Muslim but never objected to him marrying a south southerner who is a christain and even didn't have issues with my uncle when he converted to Christianity. My grandma loved her daughter-in-law like her own daughter despite not speaking same language.

Make Una stop these myopic narrative una dey drop ; it does nothing but wants to make those of us who are reasonable to want to join in the tribal rofo rofo fight una dey mong around.

FYI: My uncle still live In Rivers State till date and he owns properties there just like Igbo's, Hausas, Ibibios, Efiks etc own properties In Lagos.

Itsrm is even a Yoruba man and he lives in Rivers state as well.

Realmrsean:
Abuja is a Northern territory then if you say this

The notherners should start chasing everyone away from Abuja because it's in the northern territory

Rubbish

Did Abuja exist before the amalgamation of the north and south(y/n?)

Did Lagos exist before the amalgamation of the north and south(y/n?)

Yes, the development of Lagos was driven by years of being the federal capital , and yes, Igbos as a group along with other groups have contributed to the growth of Lagos. However, you can’t call Lagos a no man’s land. It has existed as a part of Yoruba land long before Nigeria was created

BlueRayDick:


The bold is totally untrue! My uncle ( my father's younger brother) has been living in Port Harcourt, Rivers state since I can remember. He married an indigene in 1998 and myself and the rest of our family were there live in Port Harcourt in 1998. I watched most of the France 1998 world cup in port Harcourt.

Need I tell u that my family is a typical Yoruba family that has both Christians and Muslims in the family line. My grandma is a core Muslim but never objected to him marrying a south southerner who is a christain and even didn't have issues with my uncle when he converted to Christianity. My grandma loved her daughter-in-law like her own daughter despite not speaking same language.

Make Una stop these myopic narrative una dey drop ; it does nothing but wants to make those of us who are reasonable to want to join in the tribal rofo rofo fight una dey mong around.

FYI: My uncle still live In Rivers State till date and he owns properties there just like Igbo's, Hausas, Ibibios, Efiks etc own properties In Lagos.

Itsrm is even a Yoruba man and he lives in Rivers state as well.

When i say many yorubas don't travel to other southern nigerian cities, it doesn't mean we don't. We do but our number is minute and not in a sizeable amount to be really recognised.
I am yoruba too. I have worked most of my life in PH/calabar/warri area and i schooled in Oron. So the best part of my life has been outside south-west so what i said may not be totally true but large percentage of it is.
I have families too who built houses in PH and co.

BlueRayDick:


The bold is totally untrue! My uncle ( my father's younger brother) has been living in Port Harcourt, Rivers state since I can remember. He married an indigene in 1998 and myself and the rest of our family were there live in Port Harcourt in 1998. I watched most of the France 1998 world cup in port Harcourt.

Need I tell u that my family is a typical Yoruba family that has both Christians and Muslims in the family line. My grandma is a core Muslim but never objected to him marrying a south southerner who is a christain and even didn't have issues with my uncle when he converted to Christianity. My grandma loved her daughter-in-law like her own daughter despite not speaking same language.

Make Una stop these myopic narrative una dey drop ; it does nothing but wants to make those of us who arr reasonable to want to join in the tribal rofo rofo fight una dey mong around.

I think that's the plan all along, I was in onne free port zone and the place felt like a mini Lagos I got to find out majority of the companies there import their skilled staff from Lagos while using the indigenes as contract staff, non skilled staff
My host was telling me he rejected 2 big offers in Lagos and he left his family in Lagos

emmaodet:


When i say many yorubas don't travel to other southern nigerian cities, it doesn't mean we don't. We do but our number is minute and not in a sizeable amount to be really recognised.
I am yoruba too. I have worked most of my life in PH/calabar/warri area and i schooled in Oron. So the best part of my life has been outside south-west so what i said may not be totally true but large percentage of it is.
I have families too who built houses in PH and co.

What u should be saying is different ethnic groups In Nigeria have their own specific areas outside their regions they prefer traveling to.

Go to places like Yauri, Zuru in Kebbi and u will practically see Osun state and Oyo State indigenes speaking Yoruba freely on the street. The same in some parts of southern Kaduna. Go to Abidjan in Ivory coast and u will see Yorubas from Ejigbo In Osun State conversing in Yoruba in large numbers like it's the official language.

There are Hausa speaking who flood Lagos and even have communities in places like Agege, Okokomaiko, Shibiri, etc. There's even Kano street In ebute mẹta Lagos mainland.

Igbo's like to travel to the north to trade and also to other parts of south to trade. They also travel abroad to Asian countries like China, India, Malaysia etc.

No be must say Yorubas must flood the east before u believe they travel oustide their region. U can only speak of what u know about, stop generalising and making it look like Ur own point of view is the S.I unit of judging a whole tribe

Realmrsean:
Lagos that is full with agberos and touts

You have a tout like mc oloumo who controls some part of a territory and Treasury and you ask yourself if this is the city they boast of?

A state that one particular person is holding in his palms? Is that one a state?

If tilumbu can conquer Lagos and hold it in his palms, why can't the igbos conquer this Lagos too?
Abi obi never conquer tilumbu for him backyard?

If obi has conquered tilumbu.. that means igbos too can conquer Lagos which they have already conquered

At the bolded.......why do you want to conquer them? i guess that is what they are trying to resist.
Conquering is symbolic to turning them into slaves which if true, then many will preferred to be conquered and slaved for their own than outsider. Basic human nature
Tbh, the city called Lagos is at a turning point of power tussle between the indigenes and settlers.
It has always been for major cities in the world. That is the major problem of many cities even from ancient times... from Damascus in syria to Jerusalem (jews and arabs), to Timbuktu in Mali(arabs/fulanis/indigenes), Luanda, Lagos etc It is the reason Peace will always be an illusion in the world...Power tussle on who to control the city.
I don't know how the yoruba elites will handle this situation but if care is not taken, Fighting is inevitable. When will that be? i don't know. Maybe 5 years from now, may 50, may 100 but the possibility of Fighting on who to take control of the city is inevitable.
But let us all be rest assured, this is a moving train and it will never stop.
Ojo to ro pa ara Ede, o si n bo wa kan ara Oyo..........The man in Oyo should not laugh and mock the Ede man that is battling with the heavy rain and flooding that falls in Ede and washing away people and properties because sooner or later, the rain will get to him too.
Today is Lagos, tomorrow will be Ph and then Warri and then Calabar, Benin, Uyo and the list continues. Like i said before, this train doesn't stop