Blackking98:

Bad belle isn't good.
If we didn't feature at the top you'll say we don't know how to use the large oil money we have.
Change your ways,bad belle is not good.

Well, it's not you, using the money. So no, I wouldn't say that. But I do think the governors in the SS are the most corrupt in the country.

rdokoye:


Well, it's not you, using the money. So no, I wouldn't say that. But I do think the governors in the SS are the most corrupt in the country.

Then why say because oil producing states are top it means something else. That's double standard

Blackking98:

You're funny
GDP is part of the topic and you're still listing it? Even per capita we came only behind Bayelsa and fct. Go and rest. Give recommendation when it is due.

Yes, but it's not the only indice that you look at. That's the whole point. You're looking solely at GDP, because it's convenient to do so, but when measuring human development, economic size isn't the only thing to consider.

For example, at independence, Nigeria had a larger GDP than South Korea, but South Korea had a higher HDI (Nigeria having one of the lowest HDI ratings in the 60s), that's why today it's a first world nation, and Nigeria is still developing.

Blackking98:

Then why say because oil producing states are top it means something else. That's double standard

It's not a double standard. The oil producing states are at the top, despite having amongst the lowest level of development in the nation, because oil still accounts for a considerable amount of the Nigerian economy. All the services, industries and agriculture produce in the country, is still minicue when compared to oil revenue.

rdokoye:


Yes, but it's not the only indice that you look at. That's the whole point. You're looking solely at GDP, because it's convenient to do so, but when measuring human development, economic size isn't the only thing to consider.

For example, at independence, Nigeria had a larger GDP than South Korea, but South Korea had a higher HDI (Nigeria having one of the lowest HDI ratings in the 60s), that's why today it's a first world nation, and Nigeria is still developing.

Oga I'm not looking at only GDP.
In GDP
Per capita
We were in the top three
In security Akwa Ibom is the safest in the SS.
In cleanliness Akwa Ibom is the cleanest in the whole country.
Busi you viability we're there.
Below is proof. Like I said give commendation when it is due and stop being a critique in every opportunity you have in life.

rdokoye:


It's not a double standard. The oil producing states are at the top, despite having amongst the lowest level of development in the nation, because oil still accounts for a considerable amount of the Nigerian economy. All the services, industries and agriculture produce in the country, is still minicue when compared to oil revenue.

Lowest level of development?
If Rivers or Akwa ibom is lowest develop, where do u place osun or zamfara or ekiti or kebbi? You're not ok honestly.

Blackking98:

Oga I'm not looking at only GDP.
In GDP
Per capita
We were in the top three
In security Akwa Ibom is the safest in the SS.
In cleanliness Akwa Ibom is the cleanest in the whole country.
Busi you viability we're there.
Below is proof. Like I said give commendation when it is due and stop being a critique in every opportunity you have in life.

How do you even measure something like cleanliness? It's such a fluid situation. That said, I don't think there's much correlation between the two; wealth and cleanliness. SS is a pretty dangerous region, so that's not saying much, is it?

No, I've been raised to always take the pragmatic approach - to just about everything. What's the point in gloating at something that doesn't in any way, enhance your life. It's just a number, that doesn't reflect, in any way, on the living standards of the people within the state.

rdokoye:


How do you even measure something like cleanliness? It's such a fluid situation. That said, I don't think there's much correlation between the two; wealth and cleanliness. SS is a pretty dangerous region, so that's not saying much, is it?

No, I've been raised to always take the pragmatic approach - to just about everything. What's the point in gloating at something that doesn't in any way, enhance your life. It's just a number, that doesn't reflect, in any way, on the living standards of the people within the state.

I see
Pained much that it's SS and SE States that are topping the lists. Keep crying.

Blackking98:

Lowest level of development?
If Rivers or Akwa ibom is lowest develop, where do u place osun or zamfara or ekiti or kebbi? You're not ok honestly.

I said "AMONGST"; didn't MEND (along with those other insurgency groups) operate out of those Niger Delta states? Insurgency is a great indication of extreme poverty. Just as you had/have in the North East.

Blackking98:

I see
Pained much that it's SS and SE States that are topping the lists. Keep crying.

Pained?? Everything is about emotions with black folks. This isn't about pain, it's about truth.

Blackking98:

this will degenerate into Biafra topic now. Just watch when the IPOB fanatics arrive

ipob and biafra issue must be giving you a serious night mare! instead of congratulating the ikwa ibomites and move on,how you managed to involve SE and biafrans in this topic still baffles me..

PIMPAR:

But there is oil in Imo and Abia and some part of Anambra now . Or their own oil na 5 litres oil?

the guy you quoted isn't igbo! he is an impersonator from hell.

rdokoye:


I said "AMONGST"; didn't MEND (along with those other insurgency groups) operate out of those Niger Delta states? Insurgency is a great indication of extreme poverty. Just as you had/have in the North East.

Mend was for our resources and resource control. What is Boko Haram for?
Did we slaughter citizens and soldiers for fun like Boko Haram is currently doing? Never you in your unfortunate existence compare mend with Boko Haram.

splendour7:
ipob and biafra issue must be giving you a serious night mare! instead of congratulating the ikwa ibomites and move on,how you managed to involve SE and biafrans in this topic still baffles me..

rest

rdokoye:


Pained?? Everything is about emotions with black folks. This isn't about pain, it's about truth.

It's the truth. Rest

Blackking98:

Mend was for our resources and resource control. What is Boko Haram for?
Did we slaughter citizens and soldiers for fun like Boko Haram is currently doing? Never you in your unfortunate existence compare mend with Boko Haram.

MEND was the result of underdeveloped, mass poverty and unemployment. If people within the region had all the basics. Access to healthcare, a job, with a disposable income, a home, car and other amenities, then they never would have taken to the bush, to start blowing up oil installations.

The bombings was only one aspect of it, the other was extortion, in the form of kidnapping. So it obviously wasn't exclusively or solely about resource control. Resource control just provided the militants with the perfect crutch to do whatever it is they were doing. It wasn't until these groups were settled financially, that they gave up the fight.

It doesn't matter what Boko Haram are about, all that matters is that they exist. Their existence is the result of mass poverty. Insurency, militancies, uprisings are all symptoms of extreme poverty.

rdokoye:


MEND was the result of underdeveloped, mass poverty and unemployment. If people within the region had all the basics. Access to healthcare, a job, with a disposable income, a home, car and other amenities, then they never would have taken to the bush, to start blowing up oil installations.

The bombings was only one aspect of it, the other was extortion, in the form of kidnapping. So it obviously wasn't exclusively or solely about resource control. Resource control just provided the militants with the perfect crutch to do whatever it is they were doing. It wasn't until these groups were settled financially, that they gave up the fight.

It doesn't matter what Boko Haram are about, all that matters is that they exist. Their existence is the result of mass poverty. Insurency, militancies, uprisings are all symptoms of extreme poverty.

And if i may ask. Which state are you from or which region are u from

RIVERS1stson:
28% poverty rate is low? Shame on you

And how many percent is your Rivers state?

What's the difference between both??

is it not a shame to you that despite the federal presence and infrastructure put in place you're still lagging behind Delta, Anambra, Bayelsa and even Osun state?

Blackking98:

And if i may ask. Which state are you from or which region are u from

It doesn't matter.

rdokoye:


It doesn't matter.

Sageb
Hunchogee
Ilumoh
Hotice085
Come and see their type, they'll be typing plenty, when you finally ask them their state they start fumbling and behaving stateless

Exclusive: COVID-19: How ban on livestock markets becomes boom to bush meat trap makers in Akwa Ibom.

Akwa Ibom state government places indefinite ban on livestock market ...No cows precisely will be allow inside Akwa Ibom again .

They say another name for crisis is opportunity. No other crisis or even a disaster has been more devastating in recent times than the current Corona virus pandemic.

But while it has brought untold hardship to people including institutions, even religious ones, it appears to have opened up hitherto locked opportunities to others.

This cannot be better illustrated than by the Made-in-Akwa Ibom Project, a team of young entrepreneurs in Akwa Ibom pioneered by Mr Collins Oscar, who had been battling over the years to make people see the need and the beauty of patronising locally made products ranging from equipment, food and beverages to cosmetics, but with very little success.

But last month, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects which led to the restriction of interstate movement, Akwa Ibom State government ordered the closure of all livestock markets in the state. That automatically reduced the quantity of meat in the market while the few available became too costly for the common man.

Made-in-Akwa Ibom Product team appeared to have been waiting for such an opportunity. So Oscar instantly advertised, online, locally fabricated traps and urged people to resort to it in order to trap bush meat and still enrich their soups and stew. And miracles happened.

Here him; “Here we sell only made in Akwa Ibom products and one of our engineering works here is traps. We’ve been having these products; they are not new products. Even our fathers and fore fathers this is what they were using to also feed themselves. We have a lot of traps here long before now; that’s over a year plus in this showroom, but people have been looking at it as artifact. We never knew that this thing will become hot cakes. So right now out of the traps we stocked up this place with, and which we somehow started seeing it also as artifact; as one of those things in the museum, we never knew that people would be paying three times the value we bought it then, They are paying for it confidently and you’ll also be surprised by the kind of people who are coming to ask for traps. And they will take it home and less than 24 hours they’ll catch something with it; meat; and they’ll snap it tag me and post it on Facebook; and I’ll be surprised. So this thing is really working.”

Oscar, who has always been promoting self reliance, including writing a book: Idiots With BSc, said within three days, they were able to sell nine traps since the close of livestock market was enforced, whereas for nearly two years, they could not sell even one before. And Oscar said they were prospecting to restock their showroom with more and different kind of traps.

“No problem at all coz unlike before, I have to go to the market and buy them. Now I go to the manufacturers. I like calling them engineer. I like going to the village to get some from them. I’m planning to go the on Monday because we have only two traps remaining now.”

Though Made in Akwa Ibom products have been about a year and a half at the their showroom, the vision to get people patronize locally made products, according to Oscar, he has promoting the philosophy for more than four years now.

Initially, it wasn’t funny, you’ll present a nice product better than this imported product but just because you are the one producing; just because they know who is the producer, they’ll just tend to look down on the product. Is it custard? You’ll hear comment like I hope this thing will not purge me-o. Why! because it’s locally made product. This was the challenge then; but now I think the reverse is the case. Now people walk in here and buy made in Akwa Ibom product and are even proud of it. They will not only buy and consume; they’ll buy it and even snap picture and use it as a status symbol.

“So it’s an achievement but before now it wasn’t like that. People were somehow ashamed that they cannot afford something better that’s why they are buying made in Akwa Ibom; and our product also is better than most of those imported products; because our product is natural.”

He dismissed the notion that locally manufactured products, especially by small sale entrepreneurs and artisans in the state would tend to be costly because their inability to mass produce to meet the cost of production.

“That was a problem before now. This is an association of 257 members; all entrepreneurs, producers and services providers. Right now we have our own factory, made in Akwa Ibom factory in Aka Road. So there are most of these young entrepreneurs who cannot afford machines that cost up to N600,000, or N500,000. So we have shared facilities there, most of these industrial machines; mixers, binding machines, fillers and other ones. So they come there to produce. So at our factory we have a mixer that will mix this same product and give you over five thousand pieces. So that has solved that problem for them especially when they have contract.”

You will be surprised to hear that the group has a “mixer” for traps since traps seem to be the flagship product at the moment. “Yes, we have our fabrication unit although the persons producing traps are not with us. They are villagers but our fabrication unit, we do something like, hanger and wardrobe; we have an architect who is fabricating all those things so we have a section in our factory were we do that.”

But it is not all rosy, in fact it is not just a trap affair for Made in Akwa Ibom Product people as, apart from re-engineering the consuming mentality of the people in the state, they also face institutional challenges.

There challenges on the part of product owners, consumables and non consumables also. This people have challenges like NAFDAC. Most of their products are not certified so they cannot sell their products outside this place. They cannot take it to supermarket or any other places; so that has been a challenge to members. And another is export. We cannot keep producing for ourselves here. We’re not improving the economy. We want to produce enough where we can send out and people will patronize what we’re doing here. We also have a challenge as an association; this space is no longer containing us. This place is too small for this vision, a whole of Akwa Ibom state inside this place. We need a place like six times this size and basically that is the main challenge now; then the other small kind of working capital.”

Another challenge is still making the people of the state buy into the vision of seeing locally made products as good enough if not better than the imported versions.

“Like I earlier said. it wasn’t easy to push this vision into their mind because before now looking down on locally made product was like wisdom. This thing will not be durable, will not be strong. If you insist that the products are, It makes you sound as if you’re playing on their intelligence.

“If you sound that way it makes you sound stupid and the person following you will also see you as stupid.. So having more Akwaibomites seen patronize our thing as a good thing is a huge support already. Like 100% or 50% of Akwaibomites who loves our thing is a enough support.

We’ve also got so much government attention here. The commissioner for trade and commerce Prince Ukpong Akpabio has been here many times; he brought in minister for trade and commence and general manager for trade and industry and about six commissioners in different parts of Nigerian. That’s a big thing and they bought out things the make announcement for us radio television. That is a big one.”

Blackking98:

Sageb
Hunchogee
Ilumoh
Hotice085
Come and see their type, they'll be typing plenty, when you finally ask them their state they start fumbling and behaving stateless

Let me start from were I left ....let the banter begins

RIVERS1stson:
For the clown that kept mentioning Imo state everywhere, please check the poverty ranking of the state. Imo state is on the same level of economy with states like Ebonyi and other northern states.

Baddest

Blackking98:

Brilliant submission bro.
Hopefully we must get there.

yes

Jimiyung:
How are these two states in the south east? Seems there is a new map of Nigeria

Are you still confused even at the point in time ?
My brother south south is for political tool
South east is for economical tool

24SEVEN:



I am not interested in statistics that aren't tangible. That publivation is merely an academic exercise. Akwa Ibomites live in the worst of slums in Port Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos.

Pls stop flattering yourselves on paper. Let it translate into the lives of average Akwa Ibomites.

Fool that only believe in superstition lol

Unbiased1:
You just hit the nail on the head.

Why won't he .... When a pained hater and a jealous fool come in terms ...

PROUDIGBO:


It’s gradually....a marathon and not a sprint! Rome wasn’t built in a day you know....neither was Dubai!

Great point

PROUDIGBO:


It’s like you don’t know SMEs are the main drivers of a third world economy!

Spot on

Ahamefuna0001:


Even with your list IMO has one of the least poverty ranking

you just shoot yourself on the foot

Blackking98:

Hunchogee
Ilumo
Sageb

Shea I said this one will still come and say nonesense

Dirt attracts flies na

Blackking98:

Rivers State indegenes on this forum are full of envy Sha. While this one is dragging imo, other's have dedicated their lives to dragging Akwa Ibom. Pity

Lol ....hateful fools them be