XANDERBOY85:
A trip down posh Onwe Rd, Abakaliki.

I'm guessing this would be their GRA. I'm so impressed with how tidy, green and posh the area looks. So surprised with how good Abakaliki looks generally, because the NBS says Ebonyi is at the top of the poverty league in Nigeria. What i'm seeing doesn't lend credence to this assertion. Even some of the states they say are at the top of the prosperity/IGR league table would struggle to march what i'm seeing from Ebonyi as a whole! Some analysts like to use IGR as a marker for a states prosperity, but i reckon that's a flawed tool for measuring for a number of reasons....but i digress!

When the state eventually gets their airport, they would be unstoppable.

Anyone know what that huge building shown towards the end is?

Clip courtesy Helen's Corner. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPARExvV0FRuK0bJFcura7w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJrSa1B37Kc

Purehuman:
In the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000s, the transport sector was firmly in the hands of the igbos. Alas, everyone has woken up, modernization and competition has made the sector revenue coming to the igbos drop considerably.

The Auto sector is still thriving but with the coming of technology and ease of import, people are going to the source to get some of these goods themselves. Another hit on us again.

The Commerce sector has been heavily attacked from everywhere. We now have very strong competition in these sectors and it is killing businesses.

What is the problem? The igbos do not control the economy of Nigeria anymore. We are not in control and our region do not hold any strong advantage presently in the scheme of things. If we ask ourselves, what does southeast have that Nigeria depends on? Nothing. There is something about being unimportant. The only importance of the east is it’s people and the people’s capacity are being challenged continuously.

The igbo to survive really need to devise a strategy of total control of the sub Saharan market. We can be in control without having the capital city in our hands. We can create the biggest economy in Africa if we strategize very well.

There is a misused power in Nigeria that needs to be taken but if only we plan to take it, our freedom will surely be taken from us. Remember that every policy in Nigeria has not favored the igbo people in recent times. It has strangled us in no small measures that we will need to create a new route towards economic development.

I found out many of us in this thread have spent most of our times trying to micromanage our small development when others are eating fat on the total revenue of the country. Do we still have really big businesses in the east that can develop and generate funds for the region?

Do we have healthcare system that take care of us during our bad times and also redirect the over 1billion dollar’s Nigerians spend on health tourism around the world?

Do we have the capacity to create an economic giant from igbo land? Or should we maintain our state of economic comatose.

If we do not do something right now, we will regret it. I have always said it “our best times should be tomorrow not our yesteryears.”

XANDERBOY85:


Self-determination (either as an independent republic or in a truly federal Nigerian setup) is the only way Ndigbo can reach their full potential and be in a position to fashion out favourable policies in the sectors you highlighted! Anything short of this would amount to nothing more than more-of-the-same....a continuation of the status-quo which has seen bigots, Igbo haters and envious mofos continue to fashion out and impliment policies that are unfavourable to the Igbo businessman and AlaIgbo!

The current situation of meetings of south-east governors every now and again that never gets us anywhere; having Igbo representatives in the national assembly that are there just to make up the numbers; occassionally going to Abuja to bow before Buhari and beg him for what is constitutionally ours; each south-east state doing their own thing independent of the other four; etc......with all this still in place, trying to achieve even 20% of what you've mentioned above would be a excercise in futility! Abuja (whether by ommission, commission or by stealth) will always be there to place a spanner in the works. You think it's just by coincidence, there's no working int'l airport in the south-east since 1970; no effective and viable seaport in the south-south, equal to Apapa port, which can service our industrial/commercial cities in the south-east like Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi; no working rail line in the south-east and south-south, while the south-west and north-west get preferential treatment; no federal attention given to our industrial/commercial centres like was and is being done for Lagos, Kaduna and Kano; no president of Igbo extraction since 1966.....you think all this and more just happened to happen?

There has to be a solid foundation in place before all these ideas you mentioned can germinate and yield fruit! The cart has to be put before the horse!

Purehuman:
In the 80’s, 90’s, and early 2000s, the transport sector was firmly in the hands of the igbos. Alas, everyone has woken up, modernization and competition has made the sector revenue coming to the igbos drop considerably.

The Auto sector is still thriving but with the coming of technology and ease of import, people are going to the source to get some of these goods themselves. Another hit on us again.

The Commerce sector has been heavily attacked from everywhere. We now have very strong competition in these sectors and it is killing businesses.

What is the problem? The igbos do not control the economy of Nigeria anymore. We are not in control and our region do not hold any strong advantage presently in the scheme of things. If we ask ourselves, what does southeast have that Nigeria depends on? Nothing. There is something about being unimportant. The only importance of the east is it’s people and the people’s capacity are being challenged continuously.

The igbo to survive really need to devise a strategy of total control of the sub Saharan market. We can be in control without having the capital city in our hands. We can create the biggest economy in Africa if we strategize very well.

There is a misused power in Nigeria that needs to be taken but if only we plan to take it, our freedom will surely be taken from us. Remember that every policy in Nigeria has not favored the igbo people in recent times. It has strangled us in no small measures that we will need to create a new route towards economic development.

I found out many of us in this thread have spent most of our times trying to micromanage our small development when others are eating fat on the total revenue of the country. Do we still have really big businesses in the east that can develop and generate funds for the region?

Do we have healthcare system that take care of us during our bad times and also redirect the over 1billion dollar’s Nigerians spend on health tourism around the world?

Do we have the capacity to create an economic giant from igbo land? Or should we maintain our state of economic comatose.

If we do not do something right now, we will regret it. I have always said it “our best times should be tomorrow not our yesteryears.”

sage:


Thanks for being honest. Some Igbo people here lie to themselves all day and pretend the Southeast is an economic juggernaut when in reality a lot of people are even scared of going back home because of kidnapping and most influential entrepreneurs have fled to Lagos (and some Abuja)

Cities like Aba that used to be the industrial heart of Igbo land has been rotting while people who are destroying places like Abia state engage in silly propaganda even on this platform

What is so sad about what South east leaders are doing is that they are eroding our ethnic identity slowly. When our kids are born in Lagos,, Abuja or overseas to parents who run away from Igbo land and dont spend anytime there anymore because its comatose economically and unsafe, these kids lose our language and our culture slowly fades away. Our identity dies bit by bit

Our problem is not Fulani, Yorubas or any of these things we waste our time on. I weep whenever I see all these arguments on here. Our problem is Ikpeazu, T.A Orji, Ikuku and the likes. They are the one destroying Igbo land

sage:


Thanks for being honest. Some Igbo people here lie to themselves all day and pretend the Southeast is an economic juggernaut when in reality a lot of people are even scared of going back home because of kidnapping and most influential entrepreneurs have fled to Lagos (and some Abuja)

Cities like Aba that used to be the industrial heart of Igbo land has been rotting while people who are destroying places like Abia state engage in silly propaganda even on this platform

What is so sad about what South east leaders are doing is that they are eroding our ethnic identity slowly. When our kids are born in Lagos,, Abuja or overseas to parents who run away from Igbo land and dont spend anytime there anymore because its comatose economically and unsafe, these kids lose our language and our culture slowly fades away. Our identity dies bit by bit

Our problem is not Fulani, Yorubas or any of these things we waste our time on. I weep whenever I see all these arguments on here. Our problem is Ikpeazu, T.A Orji, Ikuku and the likes. They are the one destroying Igbo land

rdokoye:


The most reliable identifier is education, seeing as there's a direct correlation between education and poverty. Thus, if Igbo states were faltering, as you see it, then you'd see Igbo states performing worse education wise.

The mere fact that Igbo states perform the best. With all five states finishing in the top 10, with 4 of them typically finishing in the top 6, Says otherwise.

Unless we're to believe that Nigeria is the only place on earth were illeducated people do better than educated people.

Just accept the fact that Nigeria is a dreadfully corrupt country. And stop speaking I'll of us born outside of Nigera. We're the lucky ones. Do we not send biliions back to Igboland each year?

XANDERBOY85:


Cheers bros!

You can always get an idea of the kind of nwafors' you're dealing with based on the slant of their argument! Imagine saying the likes of the two Orjis', Ikpeazu, etc, are our problem! Yes they are a problem alright, but they are sympthoms of the problem and not the genesis of it!

sage:


Aba used to be Lagos of the East. If an Igbo man came back straight from USA or a Europe, he could relocate his family to Aba and raise his kids there. 30 years later Aba is an uninhabitable filth. Most big Igbo men lived in the city. Foreigners doing business lived in the city. Today it’s a ghost slum unfit for human habitation

Fulani’s and Yorubas are not the reason why a big city like Aba doesnt even have a single mile stretch of good road.

The governor has his media propagandists post him with wheelbarrow cement mixers and call it working on roads.

I weep so bad for our Igbo people. The foremost industrial Igbo Town is a shame on all Igbo people today. All so TA Orji and his son can keep the state hostage as their fiefdom.

If Aba doesn’t return to what is used to be and even better Igbo people are going to struggle in the south east. Hotels in Owerri and Enugu are fine and all but don’t an economic juggernaut make. The productivity of Aba of the 1970’s and 1980’s makes a productive juggernaut

B2mario:


Who told you this rubbish you are talking about. Stop believing what you read on nairaland. No commercial city in Nigeria or Africa in extension is better than Aba. Aba is far better than most Nigerian state's capitals.

B2mario:


Who told you this rubbish you are talking about. Stop believing what you read on nairaland. No commercial city in Nigeria or Africa in extension is better than Aba. Aba is far better than most Nigerian state's capitals.

B2mario:


Who told you this rubbish you are talking about. Stop believing what you read on nairaland. No commercial city in Nigeria or Africa in extension is better than Aba. Aba is far better than most Nigerian state's capitals.

B2mario:


Who told you this rubbish you are talking about. Stop believing what you read on nairaland. No commercial city in Nigeria or Africa in extension is better than Aba. Aba is far better than most Nigerian state's capitals.

XANDERBOY85:


Don't mind the guy and his ilk! I know what exactly their intention is....try to make it look like the genesis of our problems as Ndigbo is Ndigbo and not 'one Nigeria' and all that goes with it! See how they say don't blame so and so but blame the likes of the Orjis', Ikpeazu, etc The major problem facing Ndigbo today is the status-quo that's cheated us and is presently holding us down in more ways than one! We know those who actively or passively support the status-quo and are known to actively work against Igbo interests whether in business, politics or the media! The likes of the Orjis', Ikpeazu and co are just sympthoms of the problem and their like arise when we work with the status-quo and political-economy Nigeria has foisted on us! Look at what happened in Imo to understand where i'm going with my argument!

One of them (a impostor) is here already, trying to run the image of Aba down!

Austine1213:

sage:


Dude stop this silly trash you are doing. For a few peanuts from the people holding Abia state hostage (who think through foolish propaganda they can forever rip off the state) you are selling Igbo people down a river. They think they can perpetually run this criminal enterprise without consequence forever because TA Orji got away with it for 8 years.

There is a reason TA Orji’s sons enjoy Abia money in Abuja and don’t spend their loot in the state it was stolen from. Abuja is a real city while Aba is a embarrassment to Igbos and an absolute shitty filth.

What the state propaganda machine doesn’t recognize is that they are destroying what was once the pride of Ndi Igbo. They are harming Igbo people irreparably and erasing our identity as a people.

So many Igbo people around the world would bring investments and prosperity to Aba if only the people holding the state hostage understood how they are throwing away the jewel of Igbo land and it’s massive potential.

Shame on people who collect small pennies from the criminals ruining Abia state and post pictures of wheelbarrow cement mixers as evidence that the “governor is working”

These people are worse than Fulani’s/Yorubas/Buharis etc. that they complain about. Absolutely despicable scum

B2mario:

Thunder fire you, what do you mean by small peanuts they are giving me? Is like I'm through with you, imposter. I just posted the current and real pictures of Aba, and you are there vomiting nonsense.

XANDERBOY85:


Don't mind the guy and his ilk! I know what exactly their intention is....try to make it look like the genesis of our problems as Ndigbo is Ndigbo and not 'one Nigeria' and all that goes with it! See how they say don't blame so and so but blame the likes of the Orjis', Ikpeazu, etc The major problem facing Ndigbo today is the status-quo that's cheated us and is presently holding us down in more ways than one! We know those who actively or passively support the status-quo and are known to actively work against Igbo interests whether in business, politics or the media! The likes of the Orjis', Ikpeazu and co are just sympthoms of the problem and their like arise when we work with the status-quo and political-economy Nigeria has foisted on us! Look at what happened in Imo to understand where i'm going with my argument!

One of them (a impostor) is here already, trying to run the image of Aba down!

sage:


What do you gain from this? Nobody is running Aba’s image down. The city is in a horrific shape and no amount of internet propaganda can change that. You are only harming Igbo people and shortchanging is by this. The first step to changing a situation is to acknowledge reality as it Is. For Aba to change we need to expose its dire condition currently.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailytrust.com.ng/aba-generating-billions-groaning-under-infrastructural-decay.html/amp

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/375805-despite-thriving-businesses-aba-remains-a-pigsty.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sunnewsonline.com/abia-portrait-of-decay/amp/

What do we as Igbo people gain by this situation continuing while we pretend? This is wickedness of the highest order!