PH is a cosmopolitan city as Lagos and Abuja, so investors will always go there whether Igbo or not. Besides investments are driven by ROI, so more rich Igbos will continue to invest in the city. The same reason industrialists will always choose Onitsha ahead of any SE city.

pazienza:


Exactly. Never again will Ndiigbo invest outside Igboland, when there is an available option in Igboland.
Ph viability as an option for Ndiigbo, ended with the Death of Easter region in 1967.

That chapter is gone.

onuebonyi:
PH is a cosmopolitan city as Lagos and Abuja, so investors will always go there whether Igbo or not. Besides investments are driven by ROI, so more rich Igbos will continue to invest in the city. The same reason industrialists will always choose Onitsha ahead of any SE city.

Exactly our point. Ikwerre should serve Ikwerre and Ijaw people. It's as simple as that.
Onitsha and Aba will continue to attract local industrialists, while Enugu will remain the real estate haven in the East.
Together, they all form a closely knitted economic zone, which will not be allowed to be placed under a city outside the zone.

pazienza:


Exactly our point. Ikwerre should serve Ikwerre and Ijaw people. It's as simple as that.
Onitsha and Aba will continue to attract local industrialists, while Enugu will remain the real estate haven in the East.
Together, they all form a closely knitted economic zone, which will not be allowed to be placed under a city outside the zone.

give it to the mumu onuebonyi guy.

I dont know why an obviously igbo hater is 24hrs on igbo threads using various monikers. Shame on the poor boy

Panzienza, your arguments are aptly noted, however Ebonyians decision of not joining the bandwagon of regionalism according to Murphy is natural. And with the occasional taunts, insulting remarks and notions have also influenced their decisions, that going back to a regional government will be taking them back to post independence days of the 60s down to 96.
The reasons apart from the stated insults are singularly not farfetched. Meet any ebonyi youth out there and he/she has been able to tertiary institution, studied history and of course with a bias mindset, will always assert that the former regional government didn't put them in the state of things. Even in the perfected creation of states by the military, they always point accusing fingers that whatever that would have accrued to them from Old imo or abia or enugu, always stopped at the borders of ebonyi. These intentional or unintentional actions, obviously caused a dearth in the much needed infrastructures.

And I'm sure, You must have heard of the guinea worm scourge in ebonyi. The question has always remained, why didn't those in the position of authority deem it fit to secure portable water for the lots? These and many more have been a dent on the mind of ebonyians, once the issue of regionalism is posited. That fear and anger is still there!

Bede2u:
give it to the mumu onuebonyi guy.

I dont know why an obviously igbo hater is 24hrs on igbo threads using various monikers. Shame on the poor boy

Hehe!
Ikegwuru. He's helping us move the ministry.
We intend making this thread the longest and busiest thread in NL history. The guy is playing a big role in that.

He serves a purpose. At least, through his determination and scheming, Ndiigbo will be awakened to how tenacious our enemies are,how much energy they are willing to devote to keep us divided, deny us of necessary infrastructures in Igboland, and basically extinguish whatever fire we have in us.

He serves a purpose.

LLobiorah:
Panzienza, your arguments are aptly noted, however Ebonyians decision of not joining the bandwagon of regionalism according to Murphy is natural. And with the occasional taunts, insulting remarks and notions have also influenced their decisions, that going back to a regional government will be taking them back to post independence days of the 60s down to 96.
The reasons apart from the stated insults are singularly not farfetched. Meet any ebonyi youth out there and he/she has been able to tertiary institution, studied history and of course with a bias mindset, will always assert that the former regional government didn't put them in the state of things. Even in the perfected creation of states by the military, they always point accusing fingers that whatever that would have accrued to them from Old imo or abia or enugu, always stopped at the borders of ebonyi. These intentional or unintentional actions, obviously caused a dearth in the much needed infrastructures.

And I'm sure, You must have heard of the guinea worm scourge in ebonyi. The question has always remained, why didn't those in the position of authority deem it fit to secure portable water for the lots? These and many more have been a dent on the mind of ebonyians, once the issue of regionalism is posited. That fear and anger is still there!

No Eastern government did anything for Ohafia people, they did nothing for Abriba people either. I don't know the visible things Eastern region government did for Ogidi, other than the Enugu Old road that passed through the town.
Ebonyi had Akanu Ibiam, who stopped him from doing something for his people.
All the families I know that schooled in my town, were not trained by Eastern region government. The scholarship was limited. Most were trained by their families who underwent strainous sacrifices to train them in school. Money was hard to come by those days, almost everyone was a farmer, so food crops were not that lucrative, you made peanuts selling them.

Groups whose forerunners were shortsighted to see the long term benefit of western education, or were simply not eager to go through the pains to train children to highest level of education those days, are those whose descendants today are looking at others with misguided anger and resentment. I know that nonsense.
That's how my Etche friend who insisted he can't be Igbo, told me that he hate Igbos because of what Igbos did to them in Eastern region. He said that Igbos grabbed all the scholarship programs and left his people with none. That his people are backward today because of neglect they suffered in the Eastern region.

Of course, I gave it to him raw. I told him that many who went to school in my area were not sponsored by the regional scholarship. I told him that it was through group and individual sacrifices that the foundation developed parts of Igboland enjoy today, was laid by their fore runners.
While their own forerunners were too comfortable to farm and eat their fill with yams, mine sold their yams for peanuts and went to sleep at night on empty stomach, to send sons and daughters to acquire the white man education.

Who has portable water in Igboland? Go to interior parts of Enugu and see communities still suffering from lack of portable water, http://sunnewsonline.com/nkerefi-enugus-forgotten-community-where-life-is-still-in-dark-age/, this is an Enugu community in same senatorial zone as Enugu capital city, so much for proximity to capital city, Huh? The government never solved all problems. Communities with educated influential sons in Igboland through communal efforts dug boreholes for their people and provided portable water for them.

Any sincere Ebonyi person should look inwards and wonder what their forebearers were doing, when other parts of Igboland were acquiring education.
That's called self appraisal. Ogidi did it, when we noticed how far behind Onitsha had left us. Even Obosi, Nkpor Umuoji, Ojoto, Uke, etc. We didn't start placing the blame for our backwardness on Onitsha people.
They should strive to suffer today and invest in human resources development. They should give to their successors, what their predecessors failed to give to them.
Ofcourse, as it was yesterday, quality education, is still costly, and can hardly be afforded by commoners without great sacrifices which would involve giving up on comfort.

onuebonyi:
LOL..that is why the airport is now allowed to rot. Now FG has left it behind because other Igbo states understood the politics behind it. Owerri airport traffic is more than twice Enugu airport traffic. The enugu airport has been abandoned, so it is now left for your state govt to take it and run as a local airport.

Owerri has more traffic because of the road connection, everybody heading to Owerri isn't stopping off at Owerri, most of those people get off and drive to Anambra, Abia and other parts of Imo State. The Enugu-PH road is a death trap that nobody wants to try, so also is the Enugu-Onitsha road a shambles. If you fix the roads to Enugu, especially Enugu-Onitsha, the airport will overtake Owerri which was why people were pushing for that road to be fixed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYRKYrdJ2Uk

pazienza:


No Eastern government did anything for Ohafia people, they did nothing for Abriba people either. I don't know the visible things Eastern region government did for Ogidi, other than the Enugu Old road that passed through the town.
Ebonyi had Akanu Ibiam, who stopped him from doing something for his people.
All the families I know that schooled in my town, were not trained by Eastern region government. The scholarship was limited. Most were trained by their families who underwent strainous sacrifices to train them in school. Money was hard to come by those days, almost everyone was a farmer, so food crops were not that lucrative, you made peanuts selling them.

Groups whose forerunners were shortsighted to see the long term benefit of western education, or were simply not eager to go through the pains to train children to highest level of education those days, are those whose descendants today are looking at others with misguided anger and resentment. I know that nonsense.
That's how my Etche friend who insisted he can't be Igbo, told me that he hate Igbos because of what Igbos did to them in Eastern region. He said that Igbos grabbed all the scholarship programs and left his people with none. That his people are backward today because of neglect they suffered in the Eastern region.

Of course, I gave it to him raw. I told him that many who went to school in my area were not sponsored by the regional scholarship. I told him that it was through group and individual sacrifices that the foundation developed parts of Igboland enjoy today, was laid by their fore runners.
While their own forerunners were too comfortable to farm and eat their fill with yams, mine sold their yams for peanuts and went to sleep at night on empty stomach, to send sons and daughters to acquire the white man education.

Who has portable water in Igboland? Go to interior parts of Enugu and see communities still suffering from lack of portable water, http://sunnewsonline.com/nkerefi-enugus-forgotten-community-where-life-is-still-in-dark-age/, this is an Enugu community in same senatorial zone as Enugu capital city, so much for proximity to capital city, Huh? The government never solved all problems. Communities with educated influential sons in Igboland through communal efforts dug boreholes for their people and provided portable water for them.

Any sincere Ebonyi person should look inwards and wonder what their forebearers were doing, when other parts of Igboland were acquiring education.
That's called self appraisal. Ogidi did it, when we noticed how far behind Onitsha had left us. Even Obosi, Nkpor Umuoji, Ojoto, Uke, etc. We didn't start placing the blame for our backwardness on Onitsha people.
They should strive to suffer today and invest in human resources development. They should give to their successors, what their predecessors failed to give to them.
Ofcourse, as it was yesterday, quality education, is still costly, and can hardly be afforded by commoners without great sacrifices which would involve giving up on comfort.

I agree to the above you stated, but it would be so damn easier for a camel to pass thru the eye of a needle, than an ebonyian to pass thru, because that notion is not just immersed, but has also saturated any motives of him/her to support regionalism.

To your tents oh Israel, is being championed now. That balkanization of one igbo under one central government, might be the top priority of other igbo states, but I seriously doubt if the ebonyian will give a hoot about it; sadly!!

That is not true. Anambra uses Asaba airport mostly. The reason why Owerri airport has more traffic than Enugu airport is because of economic activities and purchasing power. There are more rich population in Imo than there are in Enugu state. I am talking of indigenes now

ezeagu:

Owerri has more traffic because of the road connection, everybody heading to Owerri isn't stopping off at Owerri, most of those people get off and drive to Anambra, Abia and other parts of Imo State. The Enugu-PH road is a death trap that nobody wants to try, so also is the Enugu-Onitsha road a shambles. If you fix the roads to Enugu, especially Enugu-Onitsha, the airport will overtake Owerri which was why people were pushing for that road to be fixed. htk

pazienza:


I wasn't in support of Mike Okiro own. Okiro is the Agunaechemba 1 of Egbema.
It wasn't his fault that Egbema was divided into two, with one part put in Rivers state and the other left in Imo.
Egbema people in Rivers, are proud Igbos, they are nothing like the Bini Ikwerre people, and shouldn't be treated alike.

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onuebonyi:

That is not true. Anambra uses Asaba airport mostly. The reason why Owerri airport has more traffic than Enugu airport is because of economic activities and purchasing power. There are more rich population in Imo than there are in Enugu state. I am talking of indigenes now

Why is Asaba not the highest since anabala "bilonaires" use it

pazienza:


No Eastern government did anything for Ohafia people, they did nothing for Abriba people either. I don't know the visible things Eastern region government did for Ogidi, other than the Enugu Old road that passed through the town.
Ebonyi had Akanu Ibiam, who stopped him from doing something for his people.
All the families I know that schooled in my town, were not trained by Eastern region government. The scholarship was limited. Most were trained by their families who underwent strainous sacrifices to train them in school. Money was hard to come by those days, almost everyone was a farmer, so food crops were not that lucrative, you made peanuts selling them.

Groups whose forerunners were shortsighted to see the long term benefit of western education, or were simply not eager to go through the pains to train children to highest level of education those days, are those whose descendants today are looking at others with misguided anger and resentment. I know that nonsense.
That's how my Etche friend who insisted he can't be Igbo, told me that he hate Igbos because of what Igbos did to them in Eastern region. He said that Igbos grabbed all the scholarship programs and left his people with none. That his people are backward today because of neglect they suffered in the Eastern region.

Of course, I gave it to him raw. I told him that many who went to school in my area were not sponsored by the regional scholarship. I told him that it was through group and individual sacrifices that the foundation developed parts of Igboland enjoy today, was laid by their fore runners.
While their own forerunners were too comfortable to farm and eat their fill with yams, mine sold their yams for peanuts and went to sleep at night on empty stomach, to send sons and daughters to acquire the white man education.

Who has portable water in Igboland? Go to interior parts of Enugu and see communities still suffering from lack of portable water, http://sunnewsonline.com/nkerefi-enugus-forgotten-community-where-life-is-still-in-dark-age/, this is an Enugu community in same senatorial zone as Enugu capital city, so much for proximity to capital city, Huh? The government never solved all problems. Communities with educated influential sons in Igboland through communal efforts dug boreholes for their people and provided portable water for them.

Any sincere Ebonyi person should look inwards and wonder what their forebearers were doing, when other parts of Igboland were acquiring education.
That's called self appraisal. Ogidi did it, when we noticed how far behind Onitsha had left us. Even Obosi, Nkpor Umuoji, Ojoto, Uke, etc. We didn't start placing the blame for our backwardness on Onitsha people.
They should strive to suffer today and invest in human resources development. They should give to their successors, what their predecessors failed to give to them.
Ofcourse, as it was yesterday, quality education, is still costly, and can hardly be afforded by commoners without great sacrifices which would involve giving up on comfort.

Where I come from Anambra I could remember people contributing money to build churches , hospitals , schools and even tar their roads ! They assist each other ..go to places like OraUkwu , Awkaetiti , Orsumenyi and Nnewi environs they compete with titles like onwa Na etiri it's and ochiri ozuo....these are titles for men that have made impacts in their towns ....till date Anambra man still brags and ask you how many people have you trained

In Anambra they understand the group economics and group efforts ...we don't wait government to give us electrification....this is what the Ebonyi man has refused to understand

Even till date they hate education..go to izaa , and other inward places and you would see

They the Ebonyi must look inward and know that they had the opportunity...Akuanu Ibiam was there ...I can't even remember anything we Anambra did that was bad..the eastern capital Enugu was in their zone , it was if recent that Anambra had Awka ...Afikpo has always been a district


So what do they want. They must measure up ....look at Enugu has come up

NIGERIA DECISION MAKERS NEED TO PUT THEIR EYES DOWN BEFORE MAKING DECISION.


WHO IS AN AIRPORT IN PORT HARCOURT MEANT TO SERVE?


THE ATLANTIC OCEAN?



ENUGU IS AN INTERNATIONAL AVIATION HUB BECOS IT HAS THE PROSPECTS OF PROVIDING RELIEF TO LANDLOCKED COMMUNITIES BOTH IN THE SOUTH EAST AND THE NORTH EAST CENTRAL.




THIS IS Y A SECOND TERMINAL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF NSUKKA IS CRITICALLY NEEDED.





THE AIRPORT WILL NOT JUST SERVE THE LANDLOCKED SOUTHEAST BUT ALSO, KOGI, BENUE, TARABA ETC.



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basilo101:

Why is Asaba not the highest since anabala "bilonaires" use it

Its simple, Asaba shares it with Owerri and Enugu ..Owerri is high because Owerri is a tourist city ans Asaba is just ripping off Onitsha and also Deltans aren't known to always visit home ...i know this.....for a long time Owerri airport would be busy

IkpuMmadu:


Where I come from Anambra I could remember people contributing money to build churches , hospitals , schools and even tar their roads ! They assist each other ..go to places like OraUkwu , Awkaetiti , Orsumenyi and Nnewi environs they compete with titles like onwa Na etiri it's and ochiri ozuo....these are titles for men that have made impacts in their towns ....till date Anambra man still brags and ask you how many people have you trained

In Anambra they understand the group economics and group efforts ...we don't wait government to give us electrification....this is what the Ebonyi man has refused to understand

Even till date they hate education..go to izaa , and other inward places and you would see

They the Ebonyi must look inward and know that they had the opportunity...Akuanu Ibiam was there ...I can't even remember anything we Anambra did that was bad..the eastern capital Enugu was in their zone , it was if recent that Anambra had Awka ...Afikpo has always been a district


So what do they want. They must measure up ....look at Enugu has come up

Your last sentence is what people like chino don't know. Enugu is no longer the Enugu of the 60s anf 70s

IkpuMmadu:


Its simple, Asaba shares it with Owerri and Enugu ..Owerri is high because Owerri is a tourijst city ans Asaba is just ripping off Onitsha and also Deltans aren't known to always visit home ...i know this.....for a long time Owerri airport would be busy

Kano route into SE was given to owerri. It's not those things you are saying. Same way enugu got all international route into SE. These are govt policies and not the economic strength of the city.

Asaba is relatively a newly built airport but it is already busier than your wawa airport. Poor useless people

basilo101:

Why is Asaba not the highest since anabala "bilonaires" use it

hammerF:
NIGERIA DECISION MAKERS NEED TO PUT THEIR EYES DOWN BEFORE MAKING DECISION.


WHO IS AN AIRPORT IN PORT HARCOURT MEANT TO SERVE?


THE ATLANTIC OCEAN?



ENUGU IS AN INTERNATIONAL AVIATION HUB BECOS IT HAS THE PROSPECTS OF PROVIDING RELIEF TO LANDLOCKED COMMUNITIES BOTH IN THE SOUTH EAST AND THE NORTH EAST CENTRAL.




THIS IS Y A SECOND TERMINAL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF NSUKKA IS CRITICALLY NEEDED.





THE AIRPORT WILL NOT JUST SERVE THE LANDLOCKED SOUTHEAST BUT ALSO, KOGI, BENUE, TARABA ETC.



I hope Chino, Abagworo, Omanbala, Globemoney, NnamdiJonathan CJRANE, investnow2013, spyder880, ILoveAnambra Raker300 Ezeagu pazienza have noted this

Enugu and Aba remain the most strategically located igbo cities. Govt don't put infrastructure based on individual wealth of indigebs otherwise abuja would have got nothing from fg

basilo101:

Kano route into SE was given to owerri. It's not those things you are saying. Same way enugu got all international route into SE. These are govt policies and not the economic strength of the city.

Policies matters but economic strength is so important be sure that the tourist and geolocation of Owerri is imperative

You are very correct, Enugu is just one useless worthless place with nothing else to its name. Onitsha, Owerri, Aba, PH, etc all stands for something, what does enugu stand for... absolutely nothing. That explains why the airport is virtually empty all year round. FG did well to abandon the useless airport there.

IkpuMmadu:


Its simple, Asaba shares it with Owerri and Enugu ..Owerri is high because Owerri is a tourist city ans Asaba is just ripping off Onitsha and also Deltans aren't known to always visit home ...i know this.....for a long time Owerri airport would be busy

onuebonyi:
You are very correct, Enugu is just one useless worthless place with nothing else to its name. Onitsha, Owerri, Aba, PH, etc all stands for something, what does enugu stand for... absolutely nothing. That explains why the airport is virtually empty all year round. FG did well to abandon the useless airport there.

Enugu stands for administration
Owerri is for tourism
Aba is for fabrication and manufacturing
Onitsha is for commerce
Nnewi is for heavy engineering
Nsuka is education
Oguta is tourism
Awka is metallurgy and education
Abakiliki is agriculture

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS 2010-2015BANK CREDIT AND DEPOSIT BY STATES IN NIGERIABank credit/deposit in each state may be used as an indicator of the level of activity and well being of operators (households and businesses) in a particular state as it shows what residents are borrowing and the amount deposit in banks
http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/report/384

Bank Deposit by states in Nigeria

From the report bank deposit by states in Southeast from 2010-2015

Bank deposit in Anambra state #1'844'434.75
Bank Credit # 258'716.37
Balance #1'585'718.38

Bank deposit in Enugu #1'651'741.09
Bank credit #370'012.75
Balance #1'281'728.59

Bank deposit in Imo # 936'606.57
bank credit #218'853.32
Balance #717'753.35

Bank deposit in Abia from #1'031'355.42
bank credit #391'675.25
Balance 639'580.17

Bank deposit in Ebonyi #330'841.52
bank credit #93'627.5
balance 237'214.02

Southeast total balance from 2010-2015 #4'461'997.51


From the report bank deposit by states in Southwest from 2010-2015 excluding nation commercial center

Bank deposit in Oyo #1'617'678.48
bank credit #598'298.6
Balance #1'019'379.88

Bank deposit in Ogun #1'204'873.59
bank credit # 558'073.3
Balance # 649'800.29

Bank deposit in Ondo #821'901.84
credit #306'621.05
Balance #515'280.79

Bank deposit in Osun #648'726.72
credit #417'073.72
Balance #231'653.05

Bank deposit in Ekiti #301'136.23
credit #123,254.46
Balance #177,881.77

South west total balance from 2010-2015 #2'593'995.78

How does administration put food on the table? Have you why the airport there is useless and without air traffic all year round.

IkpuMmadu:



Enugu stands for administration
Owerri is for tourism
Aba is for fabrication and manufacturing
Onitsha is for commerce
Nnewi is for heavy engineering
Nsuka is education
Oguta is tourism
Awka is metallurgy and education
Abakiliki is agriculture

Bede2u:
give it to the mumu onuebonyi guy.

I dont know why an obviously igbo hater is 24hrs on igbo threads using various monikers. Shame on the poor boy

Anambra has made it clear is not interested in enugu airport coz is a dead project.

Umuleri or ph can serve ndi anambra.

AIIA if later come to life can serve enugu and ebonyi.

We know for certain, that Enugu is an economically viable state, and not a liability on SE, like detractors propose here.

The above stats proves it. Enugu is the real estate haven in SE, with millions if not billions of annual real estate investments pouring into the state, with its attendant job creation.
Enugu also has a good economic and industrial presence. The state host Nigerian breweries at Amah, the biggest breweries in West Africa, amongst other industries.
As we can see with bank deposits transactions data from NBS. Enugu in SE, is only second to Anambra , and beats all states in SW, expect Lagos.

onuebonyi:

That is not true. Anambra uses Asaba airport mostly. The reason why Owerri airport has more traffic than Enugu airport is because of economic activities and purchasing power. There are more rich population in Imo than there are in Enugu state. I am talking of indigenes now

I like how you realized this point was nonsense. Then specified "indigenes" to add weight to your comment. As if only Enugu indigenes use Enugu airport. Enugu is without a shadow of doubt a bigger economy than Imo state and houses more high-net-worth individuals than Imo (and Anambra infact). Enugu metro is the most cosmopolitan urban area in the SE. Even Abia state surpasses Imo in economic output. So it makes no sense to attribute higher traffic in Owerri airport to "economic activities and purchasing power".

onuebonyi:
SE and SS has got their Air hun in PITAKWA. Igbos has got their fair share in this government

Answer one question, are u Chino?

cc omanbala raker investnow2013


if not then u are definately an Afonja.