New York City, wetin dey sup? It was a joy to commemorate 34 years of the Nigerian Day Parade alongside the many Nigerian New Yorkers who fill our city with life.
From the entrepreneurs whose businesses strengthen our neighborhoods, to the sounds of Afrobeats pouring out of graduation parties in Southeast Queens, and the aroma of Agege bread calling out to passersby in Brooklyn — the impact of Nigerian New Yorkers is felt across the five boroughs.
Our city is richer in culture, stronger in community, and more vibrant because of your contributions.
They are now arguing that Azumini proposed seaport cannot handle 5000 tons ship. This is how they spread ignorance to kill Igbo projects.
Let's educate them with FACTS:
1. Azumini is NOT a river gutter, it's 19 nautical miles to the Atlantic.
The Azumini Blue River joins Imo River which flows 240km directly into the Atlantic through Akwa Ibom. The corridor is just 35km to the sea. With dredging, it becomes a channel — same way Onne and Port Harcourt were dredged.
2. 5000 tons is SMALL even barges carry it.
Do you know that ordinary river barges in Nigeria already carry 2000-8000 tons daily on the Niger? Calabar Port currently with only 9.5m draft handles 15,000-20,000 ton vessels. So anyone saying Azumini cannot handle 5000 tons doesn't know shipping.
The plan is: Dredge to 10-12m depth like Calabar
Use feeder vessels and barges to connect to Ibom Deep Sea Port and Onne
Cargo moves from big ocean ships at Ibom/Onne to Azumini via barges, that is how 80% of ports work in the world (Rotterdam, Antwerp model).
3. The purpose is NOT to compete with Lekki, but to serve Aba.
Aba needs raw materials IN and finished goods OUT. If Azumini handles even 5000-10,000 ton vessels, logistics cost for Aba manufacturers drops by 40-60%. That is the goal not bragging about big ships.
4. They said Onne cannot work, today Onne is Nigeria's most modern port.
They said Ibom Deep Sea Port cannot work, construction has started. They always say Igbo projects cannot work.
They want us to keep going to Lagos to clear goods and then pay N1.8m per truck to bring it to Onitsha. That suffering is their business.
Azumini will work. The feasibility study will prove the dredging requirement, the draft, the cost and the design.
Stop listening to people who have never built a jetty arguing about tonnage.
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Enugu Rangers is the only Nigerian Premier League club that has standards. When it comes to class and steeze, the Flying Antelopes are in a league of their own.
They are the ONLY team in the Nigerian Premier League that consistently inscribes the names of their opponents on their matchday jerseys.
That means 38 different jerseys every season, one specially designed shirt for every league opponent.
No other club in the NPFL can boast of this!
The Real Madrid of Nigerian football.🙌
I need you to understand how grossly wicked a person is, if they have experienced life abroad in any capacity (lived abroad, are living abroad or have visited abroad) and still support a terrible government back home.
They are the very spawn of Satan. You can't be enjoying good governance and dont want same for others.
Prof. Stella Okunna has revealed on Gbam Interview that when Peter Obi appointed her as the commission for information in Anambra State, she was scared because she did not know who Peter Obi was and the character he possessed.
Prof. Stella explained that she had not met Peter Obi before she was appointed as the Commissioner for information and the day she met him for the first time, was the day he swore her and other appointees into the Anambra state civil service.
She said she wanted to turn down the offer because she did not know what kind of person he was and if he is someone who lies but she was persuaded by her family to take the job.
She explained that the first day she had a meeting with Peter Obi, she told him that as his commissioner for information, she would not tell lies on his behalf or forge any information to paint him as a saint in the eyes of the public.
Prof. Stella said when Peter Obi hears this, he smiled and told her that she will not have to worry about that when working with him and he would make sure that nothing like that happens in his administration.
She further revealed that throughout her time working with him, Peter Obi kept to his words and didn't ask her to publish any false information as the Commissioner for information and his Chief of Staff. She concluded by calling Peter Obi a world class Governor.
Admin Ekwulobia.
@ruffydfire@OjyOkpe@charlesaniagolu please invite this lady to hear first hand from her
This nonsense has been going on for a while without a reply.
Here are facts for those of you who may not know.
Between 2008 and 2009 many families lost over 100 kids to My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture produced by Adeyemo Abiodun CEO of Barewa Pharmaceutical Ltd.
In 2015, over 30 people lost their lives in Ode-Irele Ondo state to local gin/ogogoro manufactured there.
The same 2015, about 80 people lost their lives to localgin/ogogoro.
In 2026, over 50 people lost their lives with close to 200 people affected by Meko herbal medicine owned by one Oloruntoba Babatunde in Ondo state.
While you go around pointing fingers to Igbo people, statistics and facts are saying something interesting.
Keep this accusation up, maybe it will finally get rid of a lot of nonsense in our market.
It’s like when you people kept accusing certain people of committing crimes abroad, only for facts and figures prove otherwise.
🚨 BREAKING: By stroke of pen, President Trump just signed an executive order on stage brought to him by Natalie Harp to greenlight virtually TAX FREE DIESEL FUEL for truckers, farmers and other Americans
The Nebraska crowd just ERUPTED! 🔥
Typical trucker saves $100 per fill-up, farmers will save MILLIONS
"I'm gonna do what Biden couldn't do. Sign the signature!"
THE MAGIC OF TRUMP RALLIES 🇺🇸
Anambra people should start asking Soludo and his government where is the $155m that Peter Obi saved for them.
Thank you Alex Otti for this further clarification!!!
Just In📹 “I AND MY WIFE ARE GODPARENTS TO SOLUDO’S CHILDREN…”
HIS EXCELLENCY PETER OBI SPEAKS AT THE NIGERIAN GUILD OF EDITORS’ 22ND CONFERENCE IN ENUGU🇳🇬
It’s well
BREAKING: Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga and Serie A release a statement demanding for FIFA reform, calling "for a new governance structure for our sport’s global governing body that is transparent, objective, proportionate and inclusive, built on three core commitments." 🚨
One would think you’ll end up in Yemen and probably join the Houthis, you people will know the right thing but swear you’ll die a religious genocidic bastard.
“NOBODY COMPLAINED ABOUT HEALTHCARE SHORTAGE DURING THE DOCTORS’ STRIKE… SHAME ENDED THAT STRIKE.” - NNAMDI OBANYA
The debate over the doctors’ strike in Anambra under Peter Obi has resurfaced.
Obanya also recalls a claim involving Tinubu and former Governor Fashola, saying striking doctors were ordered to be sacked.
Was the real issue healthcare access, government response, or both?
Hear Nnamdi Obanya break it down.
PAGING HEZBOLLAH
Israel's beeper operation was the most phenomenal intelligence operation of the century.
Mossad sold boobytrapped pagers to Hezbollah, to blow its terrorists' balls off if they attacked Israel.
Now it's a documentary 🍿
WOW!! Benjamin Netanyahu brought a beeper to the UN:
“You remember the beepers?
Well, I can tell you this, Hezbollah certainly remembers them.”
Holy shit.
Two of the greatest sound bites ever recorded in a live tv interview have come from our southern brothers.
The timeless “We dey beat!”..
has been joined by “I’m a youth leader nah. How knife go take enter me?”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Abia State espcially Aba was once like this. We all criticised the state because of its waste crisis.
Guess what? Abians didn't tag our criticism an agenda against their state. They simply went to the polls, threw the pigs out, and voted in a competent governor.
Lagosians? 🤭🤡
THIS IS HOW NIGERIANS MUST STOP WIKE AND INEC RIGGING 2027; 'OPERATION LAUNCH YOUR BAG'
Save this, share, and let everyone know this is the safest and cheapest way to secure your votes 🗳️
2027 is a BALLOT REVOLUTION!