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RichyBlacK (m)
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sharrap!
I knew between baggages and luggages, one was wrong.
Ehm, actually, they're both wrong. Plural of luggage is luggage.   |
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debosky (m)
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So by your flawed reasoning the North has a right to oil simply because it wasn't planted?
Intelligence was never the forte of Northerners, religious subjugation has always been their strength - starve the people and make them dependent on your hand outs and claim to be servants of Allah and they will follow you like sheep.
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deor03 (m)
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From what i have read so far, I am highly disappointed in a lot of us,  If educated Nigerians can argue like this , no wonder all the religious/ethnic riots in Nigeria. The task before us is provisding, Food, shelter and other basic needs for 140 million people , locked within a land area 910,000 sq km. simple |
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morpheus24
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From what i have read so far, I am highly disappointed in a lot of us, If educated Nigerians can argue like this , no wonder all the religious/ethnic riots in Nigeria. The task before us is provisding, Food, shelter and other basic needs for 140 million people , locked within a land area 910,000 sq km. simple We are only Human. |
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Ibime (m)
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@ Poster,
Why do you have to prove that Northerners bring anything to this union?
All this talk of Northerners being 'parasites' is not something we haven't been discussing amongst ourselves for the last 25 years. Note the use of double negative Thankfully, it is now in the open and I am happy that you know how we feel about you guys.
If you don't like it, do something about it. . . . . . prove you can bring something to the table by instituting fiscal federalism. . . . Otherwise, leave us alone. You are the ones begging to keep this union together, not us. We are happy to cut you off. . . . and face this 'harsh new world' that you imagine we will face upon divorce. . . . lol. . . . glad we live in a globalised economy. . . . let me see if I cannot buy soft puna yam from Ghana if the North refuses to sell. . . . it's a buyer's market. . . .without us, you would have no one to sell your hard yams to. . . .
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lucabrasi (m)
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@poster
i was going to applaud your post till i read the last 2 paragraphs,you made some good points but stained it by being the very same thing you are chasticing others on here for,the fact is that no one is worse than the other and if you name ten southern criminals,if you are being objective you will equally name ten northern criminals,the state of nigeria today is the fault of southern as well as northern,south south,igbo,middle belt oligarchs who have exploited the situation to amass wealth,we should talk about moving the country foward as a country and not nit picking or trying to score points,
balarabe musa,colonel umar,dakingari e.t.c are all good n upstanding northerners amongst others who have stood up for the south south,and the rest of nigeria yet we have let our ingrained ethnic prejudice becloud our stance,how many threads on here have praised these northerners but once we hear of corrupt northerners its another thing!
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Dis Guy
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with all these gra gra online I wonder why the real people on ground are not killing each other already!!
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jumobi1 (m)
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Most of Nigeria's best leaders were from the North, righttt? its not the northern people, but their leaders.
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PapaBrowne (m)
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with all these gra gra online I wonder why the real people on ground are not killing each other already!!
Abi oh!! It really feels like bombs are already blowing up on the streets!! US predicted that Nigeria would break up in 2015, Till then, abeg make we enjoy the marraige. On a more realistic note, it is the north that is suffering more from the system the Northern elders seem so bent on protecting. And wait oh, all this talk about northern agriculture . . . it's a ruse oooh!. If you want to look at it critically, the North has food crops while the south has the cash crops. I will take cash crops over food crops anyday. The only agriculture the north produces is Yam, cattle, carrot, Irish potato, onion, guinea corn and maybe a few others. Look carefully, these crops can't earn you good currency anywhere. They are so cheap that it would barely reflect any significance. On the other hand, the South produces Palm Oil, Pineapple(For Fruit Juices), Cocoa, Rice, Corn, Cassava, Chicken, Fish, Shrimps, Bananas, Plantain, Avocado and a host of others. These are hard currency earners anyday. Southern Agriculture has ten times more weight than the North Agric. I really feel for the North. I sometimes think southerners should pity them. The british deceived them badly.Telling them to join the army, while southerners were getting educated.Telling them to hold on to political power while the south was buliding the economy. The same british went ahead later and started shouting democracy. Now democracy has made the army useless leaving the North in a disadvantaged state of parasitic dependence. Now the North has nothing. No education, No Economy, No Industries, No Manpower and Little or No hope.They need help not bashing! I pity them. About Dangote, Northerner:Yes! But majority of his companies are located in the south and run by southerners and foreigners. And yes, while the South has a lot of greater potential, it does have lot more problems do deal with than the north. |
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henry007 (m)
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it works this way
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davidylan (m)
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if the north is tired of being bashed then i'd expect the honorable route would be to split from the south no?
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DeepZone
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The only agriculture the north produces is Yam, cattle, carrot, Irish potato, onion, guinea corn and maybe a few others.
Look carefully, these crops can't earn you good currency anywhere. They are so cheap that it would barely reflect any significance.
On the other hand, the South produces Palm Oil, Pineapple(For Fruit Juices), Cocoa, Rice, Corn, Cassava, Chicken, Fish, Shrimps, Bananas, Plantain, Avocado and a host of others. These are hard currency earners anyday. Southern Agriculture has ten times more weight than the North Agric. The north also produce millet which is a heavy cash crop. |
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Sagamite (m)
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@poster
i was going to applaud your post till i read the last 2 paragraphs,you made some good points but stained it by being the very same thing you are chasticing others on here for,the fact is that no one is worse than the other and if you name ten southern criminals,if you are being objective you will equally name ten northern criminals,the state of nigeria today is the fault of southern as well as northern,south south,igbo,middle belt oligarchs who have exploited the situation to amass wealth,we should talk about moving the country foward as a country and not nit picking or trying to score points,
balarabe musa,colonel umar,dakingari e.t.c are all good n upstanding northerners amongst others who have stood up for the south south,and the rest of nigeria yet we have let our ingrained ethnic prejudice becloud our stance,how many threads on here have praised these northerners but once we hear of corrupt northerners its another thing!
Concur!!! times 2 this please, then plus Ribadu and Murtala Mohammed in list of upstanding. |
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ofurufu (m)
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And the greatest criminals, looters, murderers and brutal dictators that ever lived
Sanni Abacha
Ibrahim Babangida
Murtala Mohammed
Suku buku Dimka
All of them all illiterates with the brain of teenagers. --Morpheus
please remove Murtala Mohammed from that list. He the best President Nigeria ever had. Take it or leave.
Also to say IBB, bundle of wisdom, has the 'brain of a teenager' is most laughable.
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Jarus (m)
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Argument bordering on North-South divide is one thing I hate. I'm a Yoruba northerner, from the middle belt! I'm more Southern than Northern. I even forget at times that I'm not from South-West.I'm from the North-Central state of Kwara.
Before a couple of years ago, I used to be one of the fiercest critics of the North. I was swayed by the 'Everything North is bad' mentality. I hated the Hausas, I hated the north then. May God forgive me.
But having come of age, and freeing my brain from the shackles of gullible thinking, I have come to realize that all this bashing of our Northern brothers and sisters is a product of mental enslavement. We should be brothers and sisters and not enemies.
We Southerners, sorry Yorubas,(please take me as a Southerner, because my being a northerner was by the 1914 geographical mistake that saw Lugard marking the northern boundary just after my town) are no doubt ahead in terms of education but what we don't know is that these people are catching up while we continue to boast 'we are schooled and they are illiterates'.
I'm a proud Yoruba of course, and my Dad was a First republic politician and a die-hard Awoist.His friend, late J.S Olawoyin,also from my town, was the opposition leader in Northern Nigeria parliament in the first republic. But if I was alive during during that time, I would have gone with Ahmadu Bello.
So all these North-South arguments are baseless. The North survived with groundnut revenue during pre-Federalism, and they(or is it we?) will surely survive without oil.
So, let's stop all these tribalistic rantings, the North is not the cause of all our problems.
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DeepZone
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So all these North-South arguments are baseless. The North survived with groundnut revenue during pre-Federalism, and they(or is it we?) will surely survive without oil. Another Northern douche bag making circumlocutory comments instead of addressing their real issues on poverty and it's alleviation, Yoruba wannabe. Ability to speak Yoruba does not make you one abeg. |
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Sagamite (m)
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DeepZone, you have been cursed!!!
Moron!!!
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udezue (m)
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To say that Yorubas are uneducated and stole their degrees sounds very ridiculous and absurd. LOL Quite laughable. I am not Yoruba but a proud IGBO --( little IBIBIO) BIAFRAN and I won't support a lie when I see it. The Yorubas I know are in school studying hard just like Igbos.
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MrCrackles (m)
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Abeg make una leave Northerners alone ooo Aboki pass me a plate of SUYAYarinya pour a glass of Burantashi and KunuMallam pass me Kolanut abeg! |
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morpheus24
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And the greatest criminals, looters, murderers and brutal dictators that ever lived
Sanni Abacha
Ibrahim Babangida
Murtala Mohammed
Suku buku Dimka
All of them all illiterates with the brain of teenagers. --Morpheus
Please remove Murtala Mohammed from that list. He the best President Nigeria ever had. Take it or leave.
Also to say IBB, bundle of wisdom, has the 'brain of a teenager' is most laughable.
I suggest you read up on Murtala Mohammed's activities following the murder of General Ironsi and see who you are calling best President of Nigeria. And as for IBB it doesn't take a genius to be street smart which is what Babangida pretty much was good at. Have you forgotten DELE GIWA. |
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DRANOEL (m)
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@poster
i was going to applaud your post till i read the last 2 paragraphs,you made some good points but stained it by being the very same thing you are chasticing others on here for,the fact is that no one is worse than the other and if you name ten southern criminals,if you are being objective you will equally name ten northern criminals,the state of nigeria today is the fault of southern as well as northern,south south,igbo,middle belt oligarchs who have exploited the situation to amass wealth,we should talk about moving the country foward as a country and not nit picking or trying to score points,
balarabe musa,colonel umar,dakingari e.t.c are all good n upstanding northerners amongst others who have stood up for the south south,and the rest of nigeria yet we have let our ingrained ethnic prejudice becloud our stance,how many threads on here have praised these northerners but once we hear of corrupt northerners its another thing!
take that as an over reaction Abi oh!! It really feels like bombs are already blowing up on the streets!!
US predicted that Nigeria would break up in 2015, Till then, abeg make we enjoy the marraige.
On a more realistic note, it is the north that is suffering more from the system the Northern elders seem so bent on protecting.
And wait oh, all this talk about northern agriculture . . . it's a ruse oooh!.
If you want to look at it critically, the North has food crops while the south has the cash crops. I will take cash crops over food crops anyday.
The only agriculture the north produces is Yam, cattle, carrot, Irish potato, onion, guinea corn and maybe a few others.
Look carefully, these crops can't earn you good currency anywhere. They are so cheap that it would barely reflect any significance.
On the other hand, the South produces Palm Oil, Pineapple(For Fruit Juices), Cocoa, Rice, Corn, Cassava, Chicken, Fish, Shrimps, Bananas, Plantain, Avocado and a host of others. These are hard currency earners anyday. Southern Agriculture has ten times more weight than the North Agric.
I really feel for the North. I sometimes think southerners should pity them. The british deceived them badly.Telling them to join the army, while southerners were getting educated.Telling them to hold on to political power while the south was buliding the economy.
The same british went ahead later and started shouting democracy. Now democracy has made the army useless leaving the North in a disadvantaged state of parasitic dependence.
Now the North has nothing. No education, No Economy, No Industries, No Manpower and Little or No hope.They need help not bashing!
I pity them.
About Dangote, Northerner:Yes! But majority of his companies are located in the south and run by southerners and foreigners.
And yes, while the South has a lot of greater potential, it does have lot more problems do deal with than the north.
might excuse you for the rest but rice,cassava,corn,chiken,banana,plantain,pineapple,orange are mainly northern produce,you might really want to do a research on that. some of dangote's companies are located in the south while almost all adenuga's companies are located in the west doesnt that sum up every thing about your people? if the north is tired of being bashed then i'd expect the honorable route would be to split from the south no?
every day i read about the south wanting to break up but i see no action,don't you think its time you guys walk the walk instead of talking the talk? Another Northern douche bag making circumlocutory comments instead of addressing their real issues on poverty and it's alleviation, Yoruba wannabe. Ability to speak Yoruba does not make you one abeg.
from your comments one will think theres no poverty in yoruba land. remind me is the western region in nigeria a first world region? |
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debosky (m)
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No one is denying poverty in the South, but when by the CBN's already flattering description, 80% of Most Northern States are poor, then poverty in the North is on a completely different level. PS - Pineapples are almost exclusively grown in the South, specifically the states of Akwa Ibom and Cross River The South (especially the South-South and Lagos) have fought vehemently for the first installment of a split up - real economic and fiscal federalism, where producer states receive a greater share of resources FIRST before paying to the FG, but in the National Political Reforms COnference, the Northern States used their higher number to veto the demands. The thieving parasites refuse to let go. That is why I respect ex Kaduna Governor Ahmed Makarfi - he said it as it is, the South CANNOT be allowed to control oil on its own, as that would lead to the demise of the North, reducing them to another Niger republic or Burkina Faso, barely able to meet its needs. A FRESH insight into the opposition of the Northern elite to the controversial Offshore/Onshore Abrogation Bill, was yesterday given by Kaduna State Governor, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi.
The governor at the 10th yearly general meeting of the Zaria Educational Development Association (ZEDA),restated his Northern colleagues' earlier argument that the bill could put Southern states at an undue advantage over them.
Makarfi argued that should the bill become a law, the resources of the Southern states would rise phenomenally against those of the North. He said while Kaduna would receive about N9.7 billion as statutory allocation in the new year, Delta would get N66 billion.
The governor noted further that the development would result in Lagos State receiving N87 billion from the federal purse, while Bayelsa's allocation would be N47 billion. He argued that with such an arrangement, 10 Northern states would receive far less than even one Southern state.
About 90 per cent of the nation's resources is derived from oil, found only in the Southern states, several years of oil prospecting in the North yielded no results, Lagos, a littoral state and the nation's economic capital, also generates substantial resources through import taxes and Value Added Tax (VAT). And the revenue sharing formula as it is now has been a source of complaint from the Southern states which feel they receive less than they deserve. Also, they have been calling for true fiscal federalism.
Makarfi said: "The passing of the bill has put the credibility and competence of Northern representatives to question as they have abandoned their fundamental responsibilities to their people."
He expressed dismay that the legislators could pass a law that would make more funds available to the oil producing states even when the subsisting revenue sharing system is, according to him, unjust.
Makarfi said he had expected the Northern legislators to demand an increase in revenue for their regional bloc so as to bridge the educational and developmental gap between the North and the South.
He argued that the bill had served as a wake-up call for the Northern states to work as a team and also protect their own interest. |
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DRANOEL (m)
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@DEBOSKY
before the pineapple plantations by donald duke, the fruit was almost like the birth right of plateau and adamawa states
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MC Usman (m)
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The nbati bati people on board talk as if them they produce oil. The west & east needs the south south oil just like we do
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Queenisha
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Mc usman aka Usu there's oil in Yorubaland and plenty oil in Eastern Nigeria.
Nigerdelta includes these areas,olodo
Akwa Ibom State is the second largest oil-producing state in Nigeria and provides the operational base for Exxon Mobil which is currently investing massively in the expansion of terminal facilities at its Qua Iboe Terminal, Ibeno and some gas utilisation projects. Exxon Mobil contributes about 28 percent of Nigeria's total output. Other multinational oil companies operating in Akwa Ibom State include Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria and ELF.
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davidylan (m)
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Makarfi said he had expected the Northern legislators to demand an increase in revenue for their regional bloc so as to bridge the educational and developmental gap between the North and the South.
He argued that the bill had served as a wake-up call for the Northern states to work as a team and also protect their own interest.[/i]
Makarfi is another thieving idiot. The way to earn more revenue for the north is not to DEMAND FOR WHAT IT DOES NOT PRODUCE . . . that is laziness and wickedness or enormous proportions. |
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Queenisha
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The nbati bati people on board talk as if them they produce oil. The west & east needs the south south oil just like we do
13-09-07 Nigeria’s Abia State has joined the league of states in the Niger-Delta enjoying high revenue from oil as the state has been credited with additional 46 oil wells by the Federal Government.
Five other wells that are still being contested for by Abia and Rivers States would have revenue accruing from them shared fifty-fifty by the two states in the interim until a final decision is taken on them.
The state Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Deacon Ralph Egbu at the end of the state executive council meeting, said there are other outstanding wells, adding that the state government would engage a consultant who is vast on oil matters to identify those wells and recover them for the state. He commended the Federal Government for the action, adding that with the anticipated revenue from oil, Abia State would have more funds for development.
The issue of oil wells in Abia that were credited to other states has dragged for years with previous governments in the state protesting the situation, but nothing was done. Last year, a group of youths from the oil bearing communities of Ukwa carried out a peaceful demonstration over the issue and threatened to stop the multi-national oil company operating in the area unless the oil wells were ceded to Abia.
Egbu said that another issue that engaged the attention of the executive council members was the epileptic power supply in the state.
According to him, following the statement by officials of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in the state that it would not be able to power the street lights recently installed in the state capital because of inadequate supply of energy, a committee headed by the Deputy Governor was set up to ensure the realization of the 132 kVA sub-station under construction in Umuahia. |
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Jarus (m)
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Another Northern douche bag making circumlocutory comments instead of addressing their real issues on poverty and it's alleviation, Yoruba wannabe. Ability to speak Yoruba does not make you one abeg.
I'm not surprised. I know it will beat your imagination having a detribalized Yoruba that doesn't join the fray of labelling Hausas 'no-do-wells'. I'm a confirmed Yoruba from Offa, Kwara state, whose ancestors,according to Yoruba history, came from Ile-Ife. I don't even understand Hausa other than the 'zo', 'muje' 'nawa' etc that I grasped during my service year in the north. Maybe I should give you my oriki(Yoruba traditional praise poem) to convince you that I'm from Offa: Iyeru okin olofamajo
omo abisujoko
omo ijakan ijakan tiwon jal'ofa nile olalomi
won losoju taani, wonlo soju poro loko
ibaju soju oloko ibalawon
omo laare buure ikan ogbodo jukan
tikan bajukan lofa, ogun londasile baba won
iyeru okin olofamajoSo what are you saying? Emi omo Olalomi!!! |
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Queenisha
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The nbati bati people on board talk as if them they produce oil. The west & east needs the south south oil just like we do
Ondo State has huge mineral deposits (notably CRUDE OIL & BITUMEN)
Ondo State Offshore CRUDE OIL Field Has Capacity of over 20, 000bpd
Ondo State has secured over $6 billion for the development of OKLNG - Chevron-Texaco and British Gas have agreed to a joint venture with NNPC on OKLNG. |
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tpia
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@DEBOSKY
before the pineapple plantations by donald duke, the fruit was almost like the birth right of plateau and adamawa states
You're absolutely wrong. My grandfather in the west has grown pineapples before. Please stop yarning ignorance in your overzealousness. @ Mc Usman: by the way, when did you turn into a Nigerian? You got naturalized or something?  |
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DRANOEL (m)
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You're absolutely wrong. My grandfather in the west has grown pineapples before.Please stop yarning ignorance in your overzealousness. @ Mc Usman: by the way, when did you turn into a Nigerian? You got naturalized or something? MUGU theres a difference between just growing pineapple and growing for commercial use |
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tpia
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MUGU theres a difference between just growing pineapple and growing for commercial use
read my post again. This time with your eyes wide open. You have eyes but want to act like you are blind. |
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