Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,161,823 members, 7,848,305 topics. Date: Sunday, 02 June 2024 at 08:05 PM

Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North - Politics - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Politics / Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North (4809 Views)

Yahaya Bello Buys Groundnut During Inspection In Kogi. PICS / 60 Years After, Kano Groundnut Pyramids Site Turns To Football Field / The Wealthiest Man In Westafrica Who Invented The Great Groundnut Pyramids (2) (3) (4)

(1) (2) (3) (Reply) (Go Down)

Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by APChangeZombie: 8:29am On Jan 12, 2016
APChangeZombie:



Slavery was officially declared illegal in Islamic northern Nigeria as late as 1933.

This is despite the fact that the British Crown had abolished slavery over 150 yrs prior.

The British met a well entrenched slave based economy in the north and seemed hapless to stop constant slave raids by the Hausa Fulani in and around the middle belt.

Towns like Suleja where setup as slave raiding centers by the Muslim north in conjunction with Arab slavers.

The twin towns Abuja and Suleja where named after two Arab slave raiders , Abu and Suleiman.

In that same Suleja, the hills and their natural caves served as refuge by the indegonoius Gwari people who fled to them to avoid capture.

The slaves where transported to Kano and other slave markets in the Moslem north where a vast majority where sold in the trans Saharan slave trade while some ended up as domestic servants, field hands or sex concubines.

The groundnut pyramids you used to hear of where based on slave labour.

The British tolerated it because the Northern Muslim oligarchs where making them rich.

The House of Dantata are prime example of this dark past of slavery in the north.

They traded slave labored produce to the British and distributed finished goods in return.

This is why you will never see or hear of groundnut pyramids ever again.

This also applies to the much touted cocoa glory days in the SW. The Agbekoya Parapo uprising ended an exploitative plantation model.

This is why Tajus are not farming cocoa anymore.


Till this day a form of indentured slavery still exists in the north.

Widespread ignorance and lack of basic education has made the majority of northerners unemployable unless as field hands.

This is the reason the northern elite will never truly invest in education in the north. A vast majority of the northern illiterate population are actually descendants of slaves.

This is why a hereditary and class rotational monarchy still exist in the Islamic north even though Islam forbids it.

This is why the Maitassine class revolution was viciously put down and similarly why the Shiites have been widely condemned by the Emirates.

El Zackzacky was always preaching against this class divide and had several runnings with the Emir of Zazau.

Ironically, the same descendants of slaves living in bondage to the descendants of their ancestors' slave masters are now fighting in the NE to bring about this class society based on an inhumane doctrine of subservience and submission in the guise of religion of peace.

God dey.

9 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Wizlove(m): 8:37am On Jan 12, 2016
Nice piece of information.

2 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by ernesty20(m): 8:45am On Jan 12, 2016
Ok
Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 8:51am On Jan 12, 2016
The north can not survive one year without the SS and SE.

The kind of revolution their poor masses will unleash on their leaders will make the French revolution a child's play.

Just as the SW needs the SS (as a source of income) and the SE (as a buffer against the impending Jihad from the north ) so also does the northern establishment need the both the SS and SE.

Without the better south (SS and SE) the rest of Nigeria will spiral into total anarchy and war.

They need us badly .

18 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 9:01am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:
The north can not survive one year without the SS and SE.

The kind of revolution their poor masses will unleash on their leaders will make the French revolution a child's play.

Just as the SW needs the SS (as a source of income) and the SE (as a buffer against the impending Jihad from the north ) so also does the northern establishment need the both the SS and SE.

Without the better south (SS and SE) the rest of Nigeria will spiral into total anarchy and war.

They need us badly .



Nigeria’s economic size is a blessing in disguise. It means the country will have a ready domestic market for its eventual industrial growth. It means it can envisage economies of scale not possible in smaller countries. Even now, Nigeria offers alluring returns for investors. Says Charles Robertson, Global Chief Economist at Renaissance Capital: “We know it’s not risk free, but look around the world and find another economy with 160 million people growing at 7 percent with such potential. It’s a struggle to find them.”
Countries go to war to acquire the kind of real estate that is Nigeria. This makes it all the more ludicrous that there are noises coming out of Southern Nigeria demanding that the country should be divided. The most ethnically jingoistic of these is the insistence that Nigeria would be better off without the North. It would appear that some Southern Nigerians have been intoxicated by oil. Since there is no oil in the North, they conclude that the North is no more than an albatross on the neck of the South and castigate it as a region defined by dependency.

This view is nothing short of idiotic. No serious-minded country relinquishes a region as rich and as resourceful as Northern Nigeria. Without the North, Nigeria’s much-vaunted potentials would vanish. Without the North, Nigeria would be nothing more than yet another balkanized and insignificant African country, or group of countries. Take the North out of the Nigerian equation and there can no longer be any black country in the world that can possibly attain the status of a major power in the world. Without the North, Nigeria and Nigerians would be reduced to nonentities.

Nigerians have been blinded by oil. Because of oil, we have become unproductively mono-cultural in our economy. However, oil is hardly the only major resource we have. Although oil revenues have brought us a great deal of financial prosperity, at the same time it stunted the inexorable emergence of agro-based industries in Nigeria.

The backbone of such promissory local industries is in Northern Nigeria.
The North is the breadbasket of Nigeria. A significant proportion of the food we eat down South comes from the North. The North occupies 70% of Nigeria’s land mass, giving it comparative advantage vis-à-vis the South in terms of agriculture, raw materials and livestock. A large chunk of the North is arable and supportive of year-round food production. Thanks largely to the North, there is no tropical agricultural crop known to man that cannot be grown in Nigeria. With a transition from subsistence to mechanized agriculture, Northern Nigeria alone can produce enough food to feed the whole of Africa.

Northern Nigeria is bigger than most African countries. Currently, Nigeria wastes a staggering 1.3 trillion naira on food imports; virtually one-third of the annual budget. But the North can produce all the food we need, thereby liberating valuable resources. Already, it is the North that feeds the South in Nigeria. Virtually all Southern food crops and livestock come from the North. Much of Nigeria’s water resources are also in the North. With the right policy mixes, the North will earn for Nigeria billions of dollars annually from agriculture.
Our Niger-Delta brothers should not get too carried away by their oil. If their oil is a national resource today, so will Northern agriculture and agro-allied industries be national resources tomorrow. Oil is a wasting asset. Short of new discoveries, Nigeria’s oil will expire within the next 50 years. However, Northern agriculture will never expire.

There is something else besides. There can be no doubt that there is oil in the North. It is only a matter of time before it is discovered. The geography and topography of the North and the discovery of oil in surrounding areas is a testament to this eventuality. Since there is oil in Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic, the chances are pretty good that Northern states like Bauchi, Borno, Sokoto and Niger will one day become oil-producing states.

Moreover, the North is rich in mineral resources; far richer than the South. There is gold in Zamfara; uranium in Taraba; tin-ore in Plateau; columbite in Nassarawa; iron ore in Kogi; gysium in Gombe and limestone in Sokoto among others. Hydroelectricity for the country is provided from Kainji Dam and Shiroro Gorge. There are game reserves in the North including Argungu, which make it a potential money-spinner for tourism, a possible Kenya in the making if we can get rid of the scourge of Boko Haram.

Southern Nigerians should stop underestimating Northern industry. Northerners created the ground-nut pyramids, cotton farms and tanneries of old. With visionary national and regional leadership, these will surely make a comeback. So also will the textile factories of Gusau, Kaduna and Kano. All the Southern bigotry about the North being predominantly Moslem is just nonsense. When you see what economic wonders Moslems are doing in places like Dubai, Oman, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, you will realise that Nigeria has a lot to learn from Moslems.
It should not be forgotten that by far the most enterprising Nigerian today is a Northerner from Kano. According to the most recent Forbes Billionaires list of March 2014, Aliko Dangote is now the 23rd richest man in the world with a net worth of $25 billion dollars.

This is an amazing feat for an African and a Nigerian. Dangote is now richer than Alisher Usmanov; the richest man in Russia. He is also richer than Mukesh Ambani; India’s richest man. Dangote is all the more remarkable because he achieved this feat primarily through a route far less travelled by Nigerians: the hard, difficult grind of manufacturing.

This is just a bit.Eschew being myopic and sentimental please.Half knowledge is worse than full illiteracy.A person who does not read has no difference with one who did not go to school.. smiley

14 Likes 4 Shares

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 9:12am On Jan 12, 2016
Lugard took Kano and the entire northern realm with less than 800 British regular soldeirs and an assortment of native auxiliary forces numbering about 10,000. They had about 3 machine guns and only 2 cannons.

The siege on Kano lasted a few hours and when Lugard made it into Kano he met little or no ressistance.

The fact was that the northern emirates had already agreed to inviting the British to take control.

Every Emir or sultan since Don Fodio had struggled with legitimacy and palace coups where a norm. Prior to Luggard's appearance the Emir of Kano was facing hostile opponents bent on dethroning him and seizing power for themselves.

The British came with their cannons and machine guns to bolster the ruling class and thus bring about stability.

Luggard was no fool and knew from what happened a few years back in Sudan with the beheading of the Khartoum Governor-General Gordon that a mahdist revolution will sooner or later begin if he assumed direct rule.

In short , the British indirect rule bennefited both the British colonialists and the ruling Emirates. The British will provide assistance to governance and security while the Emirates will enforce Islamic jurisprudence in the form of Sharia law and also maintain the cheap plantations, tax collection and distribution of imported finnishef goods.

Northern Nigerian and the SW openly invited the British unlike in the better south where the British faced opposition to colonization .

This is why there are no opposition figures during the pre colonial period in both the SW and north.

These two regions that claim superiority shamelessly capitulated to British rule.



Pic above is the nightmare of all colonial governors including Luggard. The British governor of Khartoum (Gordon) making a last stand after his palace was overrun by mahdist rebels. He will later be beheaded and his head brandished round Khartoum on a spike.

9 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 9:23am On Jan 12, 2016
This view is nothing short of idiotic. No serious-minded country relinquishes a region as rich and as resourceful as Northern Nigeria. Without the North, Nigeria’s much-vaunted potentials would vanish. Without the North, Nigeria would be nothing more than yet another balkanized and insignificant African country, or group of countries. Take the North out of the Nigerian equation and there can no longer be any black country in the world that can possibly attain the status of a major power in the world. Without the North, Nigeria and Nigerians would be reduced to nonentities.

Mutuwa this is plain rubbish.

You have so much potential in what exactly? Open arid space filled with illiterate bokos?

Nah. Let me see the Ediot that will invest in that hellish hole you call north.

15 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by drss(m): 9:26am On Jan 12, 2016
D only tink keep d zoo together is oyel.

3 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Pidggin(f): 9:28am On Jan 12, 2016
North - Middle belt = Groundnut Republic

2 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 9:29am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:


Mutuwa this is plain rubbish.

You have so much potential in what exactly? Open arid space filled with illiterate bokos?

Nah. Let me see the Ediot that will invest in that hellish hole you call north.

Read bros,read...allow your human intellect to flow and capture reality.

2 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 9:31am On Jan 12, 2016
Mutuwa:


Read bros,read...allow your human intellect to flow and capture reality.

The north has so much potential that it is lagging behind on all human indices?

What is stopping you from developing your potentials ?

Yeye.

6 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 9:34am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:


The north has so much potential that it is lagging behind on all human indices?

What is stopping you from developing your potentials ?

Yeye.

did you read the part about "Bad governance and leadership"?
this is why I kept reiterating READ READ READ

yeye!

2 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 9:36am On Jan 12, 2016
Moreover, the North is rich in mineral resources; far richer than the South. There is gold in Zamfara; uranium in Taraba; tin-ore in Plateau; columbite in Nassarawa; iron ore in Kogi; gysium in Gombe and limestone in Sokoto among others. Hydroelectricity for the country is provided from Kainji Dam and Shiroro Gorge. There are game reserves in the North including Argungu, which make it a potential money-spinner for tourism, a possible Kenya in the making if we can get rid of the scourge of Boko Haram.

Keep selling your furniture to pay you rent.

If you like have a mountain of gold you can never ever smell the south because we have something you will never ever have which is human capital.

Mutuwa:

Read bros,read...allow your human intellect to flow and capture reality.
Last I checked there is a lunatic militia fighting in your region to ban education.

How can you develop when you don't have the capacity to even develop yourselves?

Next time you want to preach to anybody here about the benefits of western education please apply the universal rule of charity and how it begins with oneself.

7 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 9:39am On Jan 12, 2016
Mutuwa:


did you read the part about "Bad governance and leadership"?
this is why I kept reiterating READ READ READ

yeye!

I stopped reading after you started counting the furniture you have that you intend to sell to pay the rent.

Go and educate your people before telling me to read.

Hypocrite boko like you.

4 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 9:40am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:


I stopped reading after you started counting the furniture you have that you intend to sell to pay the rent.

Go and educate your people before telling me to read.

Hypocrite boko like you.


Tell me… Is being stupiddd a profession or are you just gifted?
sentimental love child like you.. grin

1 Like

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 9:42am On Jan 12, 2016
Mutuwa:



Tell me… Is being stupiddd a profession or are you just gifted?
sentimental love child like you.. grin


Where are you much touted groundnut pyramids?

2 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 9:45am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:


Where are you much touted groundnut pyramids?


you don't even make sense at all..
poor lad,sentiments has clouded your concentration.
you are in a hurry to respond,instead of trying to understand..
its a pity..

2 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 9:50am On Jan 12, 2016
Mutuwa:


you don't even make sense at all..
poor lad,sentiments has clouded your concentration.
you are in a hurry to respond,instead of trying to understand..
its a pity..

Keep doing spell checker.

It goes to show you have no argument left.

Daft zombie

3 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 9:57am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:


Keep doing spell checker.

It goes to show you have no argument left.

Daft zombie

I don’t even need a dictionary to find out what a moronnn is. I’ve got the perfect definition replying my every message.
reading can seriously damage your ignorance.
you are just a typical case of awful coituss interruptus..
It is baseless trying to make an ediot,especially a sentimental one understand and conceptualize on things.
stupidd sentimental daft kunt. wink

3 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 9:59am On Jan 12, 2016
Mutuwa:


I don’t even need a dictionary to find out what a moronnn is. I’ve got the perfect definition replying my every message.
reading can seriously damage your ignorance.
you are just a typical case of awful coituss interruptus..
It is baseless trying to make an ediot,especially a sentimental one understand and conceptualize on things.
stupidd sentimental daft kunt. wink

Go back to sambisa grin

Boko like you dey claim intellect .

Don't you know it is absolutely haram to post here? Go and recite your terror verses.

6 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 10:02am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:


Go back to sambisa grin

Boko like you dey claim intellect .

Don't you know it is absolutely haram to post here? Go and recite your terror verses.

hahahaha!

go back to tapping palm wine and falling on your backs. grin grin grin

Congenital sentimental absurd charlie.. grin grin

1 Like

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 10:05am On Jan 12, 2016
Mutuwa:


hahahaha!

go back to tapping palm wine and falling on your backs. grin grin grin

Congenital sentimental absurd charlie.. grin grin

Why are you not planting groundnut again?

Parasitic lazy illiterates.


Time to bring back the whip!

4 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 10:08am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:


Why are you not planting groundnut again?

Parasitic lazy illiterates.


Time to bring back the whip!

we will plant and feed you with it in prison

sentimental rodent.At most,we are ruling you.

so go die of frustration and sentiments o! negatively industrious riffraffs

2 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 10:16am On Jan 12, 2016
Mutuwa:


we will plant and feed you with it in prison

sentimental rodent.At most,we are ruling you.

so go die of frustration and sentiments o! negatively industrious riffraffs

Lolz.

You and I know you are on your last legs.

A prison cell will be like a night at the Waldorf Astoria when your full blown sectarian civil war begins in the north.

Enjoy your last few days of southern hospitality .

4 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 10:19am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:


Lolz.

You and I know you are on your last legs.

A prison cell will be like a night at the Waldorf Astoria when your full blown sectarian civil war begins in the north.

Enjoy your last few days of southern hospitality .

hehehe...you and I know,it will engulf us all,depending on where it starts from.
so lets get ready to all die.
people wey de use to fainting,death no be stranger to them..

1 Like

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 10:22am On Jan 12, 2016
Mutuwa:


hehehe...you and I know,it will engulf us all,depending on where it starts from.
so lets get ready to all die.
people wey de use to fainting,death no be stranger to them..

Your war will consume you and your people in your region only.

Any attempt to cross into the better south will see us deporting you into the atlantic where you can continue your jihad with the fishes in the ocean . Pls carry your copy of terror manual aka Koran so you can at least fulfill Uthman's jihad wet dreams of dipping the Koran into the sea.


Yeye.

6 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 10:24am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:


Your war will consume you and your people in your region only.

Any attempt to cross into the better south will see us deporting you into the atlantic where you can continue your jihad with the fishes in the ocean . Pls carry your copy of terror manual aka Koran so you can at least fulfill Uthman's jihad wet dreams of dipping the Koran into the sea.


Yeye.

it will engulf us all and we shall die as one Nigeria Donkey! don't you get it? grin

1 Like

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 10:27am On Jan 12, 2016
Mutuwa:


it will engulf us all and we shall die as one Nigeria Donkey! don't you get it? grin

Last I check nah only for north this boko rubbish and Shiite bullsh1t dey happen.

grin grin grin

Enjoy your jihad

6 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 10:30am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:


Last I check nah only for north this boko rubbish and Shiite bullsh1t dey happen.

grin grin grin

Enjoy your jihad

as long as it is in Nigeria charlie..it will flow to the south. grin
one Nigeria,one death..we shall all die together.

2 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 10:34am On Jan 12, 2016
Mutuwa:


as long as it is in Nigeria charlie..it will flow to the south. grin
one Nigeria,one death..we shall all die together.

But we never see bokos here and we have been posting on Iranian Army site and twitter handle the map of Nigeria clearly depicting which side the Sunnis dey flenty flenty.

Like Vegas , whatever happens in the north will remain in the north.

4 Likes

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by Mutuwa(m): 10:39am On Jan 12, 2016
MagicBishop:


But we never see bokos here and we have been posting on Iranian Army site and twitter handle the map of Nigeria clearly depicting which side the Sunnis dey flenty flenty.

Like Vegas , whatever happens in the north will remain in the north.


eyyah ome boy,e be like say you be ouse boy.. grin so you no de read abi? keep engulfing ya self with twitter handle and social media,by the time death stares at you right in your ome, you go know say "rat wey follow lizard enter rain,na later en go hear am" grin grin wink

1 Like

Re: Why You Will Never See Groundnut Pyramids In The North by MagicBishop: 10:42am On Jan 12, 2016
Mutuwa:


eyyah ome boy,e be like say you be ouse boy.. grin so you no de read abi? keep engulfing ya self with twitter handle and social media,by the time death stares at you right in your ome, you go know say "rat wey follow lizard enter rain,na later en go hear am" grin grin wink

We are perpeared .

But wait ohh, you sound like a boko spokesman?


Are you a boko for real?

If so when are you sending your 12 yr old niece down south?

Yeye cowards

(1) (2) (3) (Reply)

Oby Ezekwesili Is A Sick, Demented Fool For Her Nigeria Air Remarks / One Question To All These "Buhari Is Jubrin From Sudan" Fellas! / You’re A Bastard! – Nigerians Slam Okupe For Endorsing Buhari

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 83
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.