yemmight:
No be today dem dey have meeting. If anyone thinks the meeting is for the interest of the populace, you probably not in this country.

This guy dey fear

Amarabae:

don't derail the thread out of envy and bitterness, South east and South south states want federalism,so that oil will not be drilled in yenegoa and the oil company headquaters will be in ur Lagos.

You are always very quick to trivialize and display tribalism on issues. If they attack you now, you will then run away.
OP, good move, anything that will ensure people stay back in their regions and take full advantage and tap the resources available therein.
No more parasitic leeching and economic nomad-ism on other regions all in the name of One Nigeria.

farokkunle:
IBAKA SEA PORT .



ONLY IBAKA SEAPORT WILL CHANGE THE WHOLE THING .



ECONOMIC INDEPENDENT FROM EVIL SALT WASTE AND THEIR MURTALA MUMU MED AIRPORT

What of the new port in Calabar that is supposed to be connected to a new highway?

I'm in absolute support of this. This is think in the right direction.

raker300:
Tell the south south to return every abandoned Igbo property they seized after the war.

None of them should align with the igbos again..what I have seen on nairaland has opened my eyes...well, the governors we have in the east now are mean men that don't take nonsense..well, maybe excluding okorocha sha

A divisive tactic and comment. Oga face your front and match to your region. You can not divide us again we are very much wise now, we've forgiven south south and have forgotten the abandoned property issues. Igbos don't dwell in past, the past has gone and we're facing today and tomorrow. By the way, the properties by now must have been too archaic for someone to claim.

Are we clamoring for compensation from federal government for the properties and lives they destroyed during the Civil War, No. So what's the big deal about the 20 face-me-I-face-you apartments Ijaws claimed with the help of the Federal government masterminded by the Yoruba figure?

Oga, there's joy in unity and oneness, we are more united now and we are moving ahead as one body. If you don't like it Pls hug the nearest transformer around. Don't remind us the past cos we don't need it.

God please bless south south and South east and give us more unity.

Entrepreneurship should be a key issue to b discussed. These regions need to provide enabling environment for budding entrpreneurs.... Co working space, angel investors etc

victorvezx:

Beacon of hope for the south south? The south east? Tell me u are joking. Hahahah. The south south is better than the south east in everyway

Lol, they have a choice to "continue being better" or be the best. They have chosen to go for the best and they realised economic integration with SE will give them the best. They are aware how you afonjas are benefiting from Igbo entrepreneurial energy to their economic detriment. We saw your wailing when Innoson moved to Akwa Ibom instead of Lagos/Ogun

Good move . Let's hope it will have the desired effect

In a twinkle of an eye, who ever has political power can destroy what Economic powers you have acquired, make legislation or take political actions and inaction to dis-empower you.

Economic Summit can only bring Pyrrhic Economic Power to the two regions of southeast and southsouth still under Nigeria.

Nigeria was politically restructured by northern Nigeria's soldiers to exclude the southsouth and southeast from apex political power positions - unless power by an aberration.


Secession from Nigeria is the only instrument for the southeast and southsouth to real Economic empowerment of their peoples.

raker300:
Tell the south south to return every abandoned Igbo property they seized after the war.

None of them should align with the igbos again..what I have seen on nairaland has opened my eyes...well, the governors we have in the east now are mean men that don't take nonsense..well, maybe excluding okorocha sha

Igbos own the ss abi?? What property are u talking about??

Igbos came to the ss because of our fertile land for farming. The were allowed to farm provided they give the owner a parentage of the crops. Then they started building thatch houses then progressed to permanent houses.

Dose that make them owners of ph?

Focus more on tech powered economy. We want to see more tech driven start up that are nurtured from ground up.... oil and gas is good, but the tech industry in the south/east needs more attention.

vantage001:
Access to the atlantic closer home is the most important thing here. That should be the first thing especially from the south-east point of view.
The SE need to prevail on the governor of akwaibom to develop a world class seaport and if possible make it a joint venture with an agreed revenue sharing formula.
If that is the only thing they can achieve in five-ten years, then it would have been very well productive union.

This is the most important singular factor of the whole attachee thing with the SS by the SE

YelloweWest:

Igbos own the ss abi?? What property are u talking about??

Igbos came to the ss because of our fertile land for farming. The were allowed to farm provided they give the owner a parentage of the crops. Then they started building thatch houses then progressed to permanent houses.

Dose that make them owners of ph?

afonja historian, oya tell us how igbos built what the built in Kano and Lagos and why it was not taken??

gurnam:


This is the most important singular factor of the whole attachee thing with the SS by the SE

...and so Why e dey pain you. We prefer a closer port, viz Akwa Ibom or Port Harcourt than far away Lagos where nepotism thrives to high heaven. Swerve

TippyTop:
The South-East has become the beacon of hope for the South South. Not too long ago we in the old Midwest were foolishly following the SW, never again, until the SW liberates itself from the north's hegemony.

The funny part of it is that you are even from Edo, and you as well as others from that same midwest will be seen forever as Yoruba by the other people you are famzing.lol

Eastern Nigeria I know, Western Nigeria I know, Northern Nigeria I know.... "South-South" I know not.
"South south" indeed.

blues20:

...and so Why e dey pain you. We prefer a closer port, viz Akwa Ibom or Port Harcourt than far away Lagos where nepotism thrives to high heaven. Swerve

I don't have a problem with that one bit, it's only disgusting when you guys try to sound like and force it down like the SS and the SE are conjoined twins.

igwebuike01:

Lol, they have a choice to "continue being better" or be the best. They have chosen to go for the best and they realised economic integration with SE will give them the best. They are aware how you afonjas are benefiting from Igbo entrepreneurial energy to their economic detriment. We saw your wailing when Innoson moved to Akwa Ibom instead of Lagos/Ogun

Abegy quiet!

Abagworo:



http://authorityngr.com/2017/04/South-East-South-South-hold-Summit-in-Owerri/

Yes, the contradictions in Nigeria tailored to stunt economic emancipation of the southsouth and southeast are many.

Those contradictions cannot be erased in Nigeria's National Assembly due to obvious and deliberate political under-representation of the population of the southeast and southsouth in Nigeria's political process, including in the National Assembly.

The political under-representation was created by northern Nigeria who used its soldiers to wrongly use land mass as criterion and proliferated 20 new federal states in one northern region, but allowed only 17 states in two southern regions. There should have been more states and local govt areas in the two southern regions than in one northern region when Abacha created the last set of states.

Southsouth and Southeast Summit needs to understand that in this democratic experiment, northern Nigeria cannot yield to losing the political and economic advantages north gained through warfare. Total secession of southsouth and southeast from Nigeria needs to be put on the summit agenda.

MXrep:

afonja historian, oya tell us how igbos built what the built in Kano and Lagos and why it was not taken??

Because we Ikwerres don't want igbos claiming ph.

gurnam:


I don't have a problem with that one bit, it's only disgusting when you guys try to sound like and force it it down the SS and the SE are conjoined twins.

Even if we sound, as you claimed, why is it your headache Are they complaining? Tell me why its your pain, if not obsession and extreme paranoia

gurnam:


I don't have a problem with that one bit, it's only disgusting when you guys try to sound like and force it down like the SS and the SE are conjoined twins.

You dey fear, make una face una north oh.
Leave us alone, we are more than happy to abandon you with the North.

raker300:
Tell the south south to return every abandoned Igbo property they seized after the war.

None of them should align with the igbos again..what I have seen on nairaland has opened my eyes...well, the governors we have in the east now are mean men that don't take nonsense..well, maybe excluding okorocha sha

Clowns everywhere

TippyTop:
The South-East has become the beacon of hope for the South South. Not too long ago we in the old Midwest were foolishly following the SW, never again, until the SW liberates itself from the north's hegemony.

How, please? Enlighten me, biko.

YonkijiSappo:


The funny part of it is that you are even from Edo, and you as well as others from that same midwest will be seen forever as Yoruba by the other people you are famzing.lol

Eastern Nigeria I know, Western Nigeria I know, Northern Nigeria I know.... "South-South" I know not.
"South south" indeed.

Keep living in denial.

YelloweWest:

Because we Ikwerres don't want igbos claiming ph.

Just keep quiet. Ikwerre never participated on the property saga. This issue has been trashed here several times. I don't want to guess your tribe.

Sanchez01:



How, please? Enlighten me, biko.

Same question here!

Ekinematics:



Keep living in denial.

What denial?
I just spelt out the plain facts for you and the others to see.