There is a widely held notion in the South of Nigeria that the North is a parasitic appendage that contributes little or nothing economically to our commonwealth and only takes and takes.

TheCabal:
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If the youth in the South turned to agriculture, do you think any grown man would wake up in the morning and claim the north is parasitic? Would you not instead ask yourselves, where all the beans, tomatoes, organic chickens and meat, fish, peas, potatoes, onions, yams, maize, sorghum, carrots and cabbages including cucumbers and peppers have been coming from.

The painful truth is that the average Nigerian youth is lazy, and this is most true in the southern region. Where our children raise over 500 thousand naira to travel to Europe illegally. Majority of them die enroute or end up in Libya as slaves. The girls end up as se.x slaves no matter where they are. The men end up dead or in prison, many have been sodomized brutally, or shot for sport. Yet, the poor northerner remains in his country and uses his 500K to purchase farming input to grow the crops that you eat; still you assume he is parasitic.

Agricultural subsidies are meant for Nigerian farmers not northern farmers. The bulk of it goes to the north only because northerners alone have the patience, grit, dedication and commitment required to till the soil. Ekiti, has one of the finest rice strains in the country but it is in low production. Is this because of lack of land or input? neither, infact, it is because the youth who have graduated from the universities have refused to turn to agriculture, so the old men and women are left to till the soil.

Educated youth can take advantage of government policies and loop holes, they can grow independent and ensure that their offspring are bequeath with a flourishing endowment. Instead, you find them investing their youth in service to prostitution rings or yahoo and cultism.

Nigeriabiafra80:
So this is a response

Cooly100:



Laughable...

You produce yet the worse region faced with starvation and malnutrition is the north.

How can you convince anyone that you produce food while the south who are not prodcuing food are better of?

According to UNICEF, statistics showed that 37 per cent of children representing over six million are malnourished.
She disclosed that the 17.2 million figure represents 43.6 per cent of an estimated 40 million Nigerian children under the age of five years, adding that 19.4 per cent children in the South-west are stunted resulting from malnourishment.
“This is worse than the South-east and South-south but better than the North. And we must do more as agenda setters to keep this issue on national discourse and help reverse the ugly trend,” she said.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/02/27/17-2m-nigerian-children-suffer-from-stunted-growth-unicef-says/

TheCabal:
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If the youth in the South turned to agriculture, do you think any grown man would wake up in the morning and claim the north is parasitic? Would you not instead ask yourselves, where all the beans, tomatoes, organic chickens and meat, fish, peas, potatoes, onions, yams, maize, sorghum, carrots and cabbages including cucumbers and peppers have been coming from.

The painful truth is that the average Nigerian youth is lazy, and this is most true in the southern region. Where our children raise over 500 thousand naira to travel to Europe illegally. Majority of them die enroute or end up in Libya as slaves. The girls end up as se.x slaves no matter where they are. The men end up dead or in prison, many have been sodomized brutally, or shot for sport. Yet, the poor northerner remains in his country and uses his 500K to purchase farming input to grow the crops that you eat; still you assume he is parasitic.

Agricultural subsidies are meant for Nigerian farmers not northern farmers. The bulk of it goes to the north only because northerners alone have the patience, grit, dedication and commitment required to till the soil. Ekiti, has one of the finest rice strains in the country but it is in low production. Is this because of lack of land or input? neither, infact, it is because the youth who have graduated from the universities have refused to turn to agriculture, so the old men and women are left to till the soil.

Educated youth can take advantage of government policies and loop holes, they can grow independent and ensure that their offspring are bequeath with a flourishing endowment. Instead, you find them investing their youth in service to prostitution rings or yahoo and cultism.

Purehuman:


This one of the craziest replies I have actually gotten in modern time. The fallacy that the north provides all these should be sent into the canal. We get agricultural produce from all parts of the country and the south inclusive. Rice can now be gotten from different states in the south while the north still produce theirs. You can't tell me that the large quantities of rice produced are from subsistence farming. You have forgotten that major organization like Olams are the ones doing the farming in most areas in the country.

Yam, tomatoes, eggs, fish, maize and even meat are not exclusive to the north. People all over the country have ventured into these farming business so stop making it look like they produce all.

And average Almajiri just wakes up and carry blue plates to beg. That's their simple way of life. If they get to a particular age, they either start shayi business or other businesses that are tax exclusive because of the low income.

You were highlighting Nigerians leaving this country and you were just mentioning the negatives, lol. Seriously you are very funny. There are millions of Nigerians making impacts all over the world without doing such things and it will baffle you that the percentage making impacts dwarves the nonsense you highlighted up there.

Moreover, do we get these agricultural products for free or we buy them?