prophetone:

How can you conclude that they're all children of corrupt politicians? Are aware that the North boasts of multi-billionaire industrialists and businessmen like the Sayyu Dantata's, Abdulsamad Rabiu's, Rahamanniya's, Dahiru Mangal's, Dan Kabo's (Kabo Air), Dasuki's etc. This is not to mention the Indimi's, Danjuma's and Mai Deribe's who you will argue had links with government, or the father of them all, Aliko Dangote - the Earths Richest Black Man.

Admittedly there are some corrupt politicians who have looted the treasury and spoil their kids while the average northerner, like any other nigerian struggles to earn a living, but condemning their indulgence in their passion for supercars is simply throwing away the baby with the bath water as some of the cars you have seen belong to reputable industrialists.

Its because of the reverence that your moniker holds that I have not called you out, considering typing in Giant red font on a quiet thread is akin to screaming in a cupboard.

GenBuhari: Those industrialists made their billions with the corrupt collusion of the corrupt politicians so no real difference between them

prophetone: Jakumo, are you suggesting there are no wealthy northerners that did not steal their billions?

prophetone:

SMH

GenBuhari: prove me wrong

dozzybaba: You are running around in posh cars while you have millions of bomb-strapping almajiris to convert back to humanity. Why don't you go to sambisa and ride it in front of shekau's boys
I thought this abokis would have listened to words of Lamido Sanusi the day he won silverbird man of the year award-->"one day the children of the poor in the north, will catch our children(the rich kids), kill them and burn their cars".
That was when the Islamic rag was still absent on his head, he was still thinking cerebrally like a normal human then. Today the gaps between the rich and the poor keeps widening in that axis of evil and these same aboki molla keep hiding their families in Dubai, Sudan, Saudi....What humongous stupidity.

prophetone:

The burden of proof lies on you as I stated the individuals that made their money without looting and you opined otherwise. While you're at that, i would like you to name ANY billionaire ANYWHERE that did not make their money with the collusion of government.

The fact is that when you create wealth, you create value. You create jobs and pay huge tax to government, who will in turn give incentives in support of your venture to amplify the benefits accruable to the state from it. If you refuse to accept government incentives in any case, you cannot stay ahead of the competition as these incentives will go to others. Its simple logic, really.

prophetone:

The burden of proof lies on you as I stated the individuals that made their money without looting and you opined otherwise. While you're at that, i would like you to name ANY billionaire ANYWHERE that did not make their money with the collusion of government.

The fact is that when you create wealth, you create value. You create jobs and pay huge tax to government, who will in turn give incentives in support of your venture to amplify the benefits accruable to the state from it. If you refuse to accept government incentives in any case, you cannot stay ahead of the competition as these incentives will go to others. Its simple logic, really.

Jakumo:

Without northern politicians' historic back-door access to all those illegally allocated oil-fields in the Niger Delta, you would have 90% FEWER super-car pictures to post from northern Nigeria, Prophet One, and that is the truth no matter how much is said to the contrary by the looting class, their cronies, and their dependents, ALL of whom are overly concentrated in Nigeria's north, while the inhabitants of the Niger Delta live amid the squalor of a polluted and defiled landscape that supports neither agriculture nor fisheries.

You cannot honestly say only northern politicians recieved 'illegally' allocated oil fields or that 90% ( ) of those cars belong to corrupt northern politicians. I listed some names and more than 60% of those cars are linked to those names. Trust me. Any further discourse on this issue will take us into the subject of resource control which is something I'm not about to partake in.

oduastates:

Bill gates ( Microsoft )
Steve jobs( apple)
Larry elision (oracle)
Sir dyson (dyson)
J k Rowlings ( Harry porter)
Dr Dre ( Rap , Beats)
Odutola,Davies of the 40's ( manufacturing) .

Quailties :intelligence , hardwork ,diligence .

GenBuhari: Did Dangote not benefit from many contracts corruptly awarded to him by Thief Obasanjo?

GenBuhari: Did Dangote not benefit from many contracts corruptly awarded to him by Thief Obasanjo?

prophetone:

The burden of proof lies on you as I stated the individuals that made their money without looting and you opined otherwise. While you're at that, i would like you to name ANY billionaire ANYWHERE that did not make their money with the collusion of government.

The fact is that when you create wealth, you create value. You create jobs and pay huge tax to government, who will in turn give incentives in support of your venture to amplify the benefits accruable to the state from it. If you refuse to accept government incentives in any case, you cannot stay ahead of the competition as these incentives will go to others. Its simple logic, really.

dozzybaba: You are running around in posh cars while you have millions of bomb-strapping almajiris to convert back to humanity. Why don't you go to sambisa and ride it in front of shekau's boys
I thought this abokis would have listened to words of Lamido Sanusi the day he won silverbird man of the year award-->"one day the children of the poor in the north, will catch our children(the rich kids), kill them and burn their cars".
That was when the Islamic rag was still absent on his head, he was still thinking cerebrally like a normal human then. Today the gaps between the rich and the poor keeps widening in that axis of evil and these same aboki molla keep hiding their families in Dubai, Sudan, Saudi....What humongous stupidity.

prophetone:

I will start from the top. Ever heard of Microsoft Anti-Trust Scandal? Look it up.

oduastates:
Bill gates ( Microsoft )
Steve jobs( apple)
Larry elision (oracle)
Sir dyson (dyson)
J k Rowlings ( Harry potter)
Dr Dre ( Rap , Beats)
Odutola,Davies of the 40's ( manufacturing) .
Quailties :intelligence,individual brilliance , hardwork ,diligence .
You've got it upside down,
The Nigerian way.
Anybody can create "money" from a stolen oil block from which they collect the rents which ought to be going to the government,Not everybody can write a 20,000 pages long computer code.
It is more like ,when you create value ,you create wealth.
Almost if not all those you have listed are involved in socially destructive business and are not true wealth creators .
The true wealth creators are the farmers,the welders etc

oduastates:

Your arguments are just lame.
We are talking about the proceeds of crime, you are talking about what is essentially typical business behaviour in the business life cycle (elbowing the competitors out of the way).
Tell me what value any of these people add to the Nigerian society.
All of them are either fascist monopolist or crooked government contractors,socially useless bankers or oil thieves.
You thought this thread will lead to money worship but you were not prepared for the blowback effect.

prophetone: In the past months a lot of negative news has come out of the great federation that is Arewa. The incessant bombings and general insecurity that's has pervaded the Nation and Northern Nigeria in particular has left us searching and praying for a solution in view of the lacuna in leadership that has left us to search within for a way out.

We deserve a break from all the bad news emanating from every crevice of our land and celebrate the good things we are blessed with.

prophetone:
No, YOU are talking about proceeds of a crime as you're the one alleging all the cars were sourced with criminal wealth. If you had been observant, you would note the Anti-trust reference came as a response to an earlier response to a question asking for a list untainted world billionaires. The purpose of that reference was to disprove that Bill gates was an untainted billionaire. Of course that skipped you because I was not talking to you in the first place.

Money worship? How old are you? The purpose of this thread was clearly stated in the preamble, i guess you missed it - again because you are not observant. The only effect that came was one i was prepared for after upsetting the ship of thought that wants to hear nothing prosperous about the north, a ship that has propaganda as the skipper and ignorance as deck men.

Calculia:

Word! I absolutely agree. First u create value, given recognition via offers of consideration(money offered and accepted in exchange), then u create wealth. Work pays.

prophetone:
No, YOU are talking about proceeds of a crime as you're the one alleging all the cars were sourced with criminal wealth. If you had been observant, you would note the Anti-trust reference came as a response to an earlier response to a question asking for a list untainted world billionaires. The purpose of that reference was to disprove that Bill gates was an untainted billionaire. Of course that skipped you because I was not talking to you in the first place.

Money worship? How old are you? The purpose of this thread was clearly stated in the preamble, i guess you missed it - again because you are not observant. The only effect that came was one i was prepared for after upsetting the ship of thought that wants to hear nothing prosperous about the north, a ship that has propaganda as the skipper and ignorance as deck men.

Jakumo:

Ha ha ha Prophet I must say that despite disagreeing with every muffugin' word you say, I LOVE the way you fight for your stand like a seasoned Gong-Fu man, ever cool and always composed with the counter-punch sequence served up while deflecting multiple attackers with panache and style.

oduastates:
Mr ,take your epistle elsewhere.
The result of this mentality is all over the north ,and to a lesser extent ,the south.
Poverty as bad as Niger ,
Destitution even worse than Afghanistan .
I can easily guess the names of the inbreds(they marry within their group,don't they ?) in this your beast club.
The "How not to run a country " hall of shame.
People like these were strung up and burnt alive during the French Revolution .
Have you forgotten the last general election when the talakawas went after every single one of your papas and mama regardless of party.
The molten metal from the crucible of revolution is already spilling over in the north
Keep it up,
It will catch up with you soon.

prophetone:

How can you conclude that they're all children of corrupt politicians? Are aware that the North boasts of multi-billionaire industrialists and businessmen like the Sayyu Dantata's, Abdulsamad Rabiu's, Rahamanniya's, Dahiru Mangal's, Dan Kabo's (Kabo Air), Dasuki's etc. This is not to mention the Indimi's, Danjuma's and Mai Deribe's who you will argue had links with government, or the father of them all, Aliko Dangote - the Earths Richest Black Man.

Admittedly there are some corrupt politicians who have looted the treasury and spoil their kids while the average northerner, like any other nigerian struggles to earn a living, but condemning their indulgence in their passion for supercars is simply throwing away the baby with the bath water as some of the cars you have seen belong to reputable industrialists.

Its because of the reverence that your moniker holds that I have not called you out, considering typing in Giant red font on a quiet thread is akin to screaming in a library for the mute.

AsSabirin: All I see is hypocrites all over on this thread. Imagine one saying

Let me ask you a simple question, do you wear a wrist watch? If yes, why should you do so when you can give the money to someone suffering? Besides you can check time on you phone.
Do you use a phone? Is it a smart phone? Why not go for something less like a java phone and give the money to some suffering around?
You don't have to have millions to help.


Port Harcourt people please correct me if I am wrong.
But isn't Trans Amadi where almost all (if not, the a lot of them) the oil companies in Nigeria have a office or some sort of location there?
How is the condition of the road? Yes the "trans amadi" road.
I have traveled to quite a handful of places in the north and there is no state, at least the ones that I have been to with a road like that in the middle if town. NONE!!

Lets try to check ourselves before we point at other people flaws.

Below is the shot of trans Amadi, the not so bad part seff.

prophetone: Jakumo, are you suggesting there are no wealthy northerners that did not steal their billions?

eaglechild:

My major problem with the north is the very marked gap between the rich and poor.

No where else in the country is that way.

The oil bunkerers you mentioned are criminal opportunists who are on a level playing ground with the rest of the populace. They did not come from a stock of predetermined elites. The oil bunkering analogy is even a bit off considering that they make money from their environment. Of course it is not justified.

My problem with the north is that it is almost impossible to breakaway from poverty.
While it is difficult in other regions, it is at least achievable via hard work.

For the north it seems the poor have imbibed and accepted their fate and are totally lack the will or even the desire to try to breakaway.
They see the elites as gods.
That is what breeds extremism.