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Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by citizenisb: 2:04am On Aug 20, 2012
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/politics/oil-producing-states-have-cornered-the-nations-wealth-abba-ibrahim/

The oil- producing states have the federation take home, 13per cent derivation, the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs with hundreds of billions for projects in the region, the NDDC with billions of naira, the oil companies, doing a lot and finally, the Federal Government gives very handsome grants to oil-producing states under all sorts of guises. You also have the Amnesty Programme, all in the same region. So, they have six different sources of income.

The other states are left with one source of income. I know how we indirectly got there. The oil producing communities have been neglected for a long time. There is no doubt about that. They were not taking very good care of them. In our own anxious way of solving the problems, we are now over funding them and underfunding the non-oil producing states.

This disparity can bring all sorts of crisis to the country in the future. We have to consciously do something about this development before it will put us in very bad and embarrassing situation. So, there is going to be a review.
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by ektbear: 3:19am On Aug 20, 2012
this guy is an idjit

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by UYCO: 3:55am On Aug 20, 2012
i dont know why this nothern elites speaks with much arrogance. even if they unleach boko haram wersion 2, it will not change any thing rather, we will demand for more money.

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by donguutti: 4:09am On Aug 20, 2012
Another mischievous statement from a northern governor,Dear Governor , must you have just one source
of income, why not seek another. Ask your counterpart in lagos, if you don't know how to go about it,
You contribute exactly nothing to the pot , yet you are complaining that the people that bring the
food,cook it and serve it, have larger portion than yours.

BTW, North Eastern states have cornered the "Nation's Insecurity problems" and we are spending 900 billion
there, maybe this is just a prelude for creation of an Amnesty program for BOKO, Ministry of Northern
Eastern affairs,defense contractors,"13 percent terrorism derivation", now you have 5 sources. of
income(plus Federal sharing).Whatever ekt bear meant ,x2 would describe you(Mr Guvnor) better.

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Nobody: 4:47am On Aug 20, 2012
donguutti: Another mischievous statement from a northern governor,Dear Governor , must you have just one source
of income, why not seek another. Ask your counterpart in lagos, if you don't know how to go about it,
You contribute exactly nothing to the pot , yet you are complaining that the people that bring the
food,cook it and serve it, have larger portion than yours.

BTW, North Eastern states have cornered the "Nation's Insecurity problems" and we are spending 900 billion
there, maybe this is just a prelude for creation of an Amnesty program for BOKO, Ministry of Northern
Eastern affairs,defense contractors,"13 percent terrorism derivation", now you have 5 sources. of
income(plus Federal sharing).Whatever ekt bear meant ,x2 would describe you(Mr Guvnor) better.
LOL, NEED I SAY MORE ?
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Nobody: 5:23am On Aug 20, 2012
[size=16pt]Predator: Any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms = hausa /fulani aka beast of prey
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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by aryzgreat: 5:37am On Aug 20, 2012
one by one they will confess, they lied that ojukwu and ndigbo are oil greedy thats why ojukwu cornered oil rich niger delta as part of Biafra, Now we have known whom the real oil parasites are, coming out under different guise to demand for what belongs to another region. Keep the confession coming.

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by ITbomb(m): 7:03am On Aug 20, 2012
parasites talking
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Alaafialoro(m): 7:08am On Aug 20, 2012
Another northern leader with their usual&well known madness...what positive thing has the northerners got to offer Nigeria? Terrorism,‘poo‘ talk(like this one),killing in the name of religion&ethnicity etc.
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by citizenisb: 7:10am On Aug 20, 2012
GOING by a recent report by a global coalition of experts and activists, Nigeria’s total capital flight in the last four decades far outweighs the total of the national debt.

London-based Tax Justice Network (TJN), last month, released a report totaling Nigeria’s Real capital flight (from 1970 to 2010) at a whopping $233.9 billion.

The Guardian of London news report, which analysed the TJN research, estimated that even though capital flight from Nigeria had totaled $233.9bn in the four decades since 1970, once “investment income is included, this stock of secret wealth could be as large as $306.2bn, nearly 40 times the country’s total external debt of $7.9bn.

This then produces a flight stock to debt ratio of 3876% by the end of 2010.

But a US-based Nigerian professor of Political Sociology, Dr. Ebenezer Obadare, and former US- Pronaco leader, Dr Baba Adam, explained that this flight was partly a result of official graft, and they are putting the blame squarely on the nation’s political elite, while calling for punitive action against them.

In Obadare’s words, “we must begin a campaign, first, to bring all the ‘leaders’ (living or dead) involved in this historic heist to book, and second, to repatriate all monies from their various western financial institutions and tax havens.”

Besides, Obadare, an award-winning Nigerian scholar, argues that the report is a reminder, that the issue of elite theft of public funds in Nigeria “is not a matter that can be outsourced to a single parastatal or commission, no matter how well-meaning and determined such a parastatal is. It is a battle that we must all fight in different public and private forums.”

According to him “majority of Nigerians have always suspected that most of their leaders, military and civilian, have taken liberally from the public purse.

THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER 20/08/2012
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Nobody: 7:32am On Aug 20, 2012
Lazy bunch of cattle rearers looking to reap where they didn't sow. So they also want 13 percent oil derivation? Where is all the money his fellow northern rogues stole? They couldn't use it to develop the north. Now they want their own share of oil money! Mtscheew!

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Abagworo(m): 7:45am On Aug 20, 2012
Contrary to what most of you are saying, I seem to understand and support him on this. Every part of Nigeria deserves to be funded well to avoid future catastrophe. There is so much money flowing in Port-Harcourt while most other parts of Nigeria are in abject poverty. The gap is too wide in terms of economic empowerment.

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by gramci: 8:12am On Aug 20, 2012
And what do these cattle 4kers do with the "little" allocation they get; sponsor pilgrims, invest in islamic education as against proper education, arrange marriages for the divorced, hold all sorts of forum on how to regain power in 2015 e.t.c.

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by walton1(m): 8:21am On Aug 20, 2012
The solution to nigeria's problem is to practice real fiscal federalism where the resources in the domain of a state belongs to the state and the state have more powers patterned like the USA which we claim to be copying, let ♏ε̲̣̣̣̥ see how some states will be eyeing others resources and not work for thiers instead of waiting for month end to share money from abuja and go black to sleep.

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by naptu2: 8:24am On Aug 20, 2012
This is why we need to go back to the allocation principles we had between 1960-1966.

In the north we have cattle, gold, uranium, precious stones and many other resources, but they are not being developed because governors sit and wait for hand outs from Abuja.

I propose the following revenue sharing formula.

The owner of the land owns the resource. He then pays tax to the local government. The local government keeps 20% of the tax and remits the rest to the state government. The state government gets 30% of the tax and also remits the rest to the federal government. The Federal Government keeps 25%, while the remaining 25% is reserved for emergencies (flood, drought, etc).


This will force governors to develop the resources in their states.

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Elueme: 8:33am On Aug 20, 2012
What can I see than to laugh.. People talk carelessly without reflecting.... Another parasite in the words of E K Clarke... LWKMD
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by PapaBrowne(m): 8:42am On Aug 20, 2012
Abagworo: Contrary to what most of you are saying, I seem to understand and support him on this. Every part of Nigeria deserves to be funded well to avoid future catastrophe. There is so much money flowing in Port-Harcourt while most other parts of Nigeria are in abject poverty. The gap is too wide in terms of economic empowerment.


What a reasoning!!Abagworo, you know better than this!
So lets assume for a moment that by the genius of Donald Duke, Tinapa worked and so much money started flowing into Cross River State while other parts of Nigeria were in abject poverty, should we also stifle Cross River's growth so as to ensure balance and avoid future catastrophe??

This reasoning is backward. The money flowing in Rivers State has less to do with the Oil proceeds and more to do with the ingenuity of the people. Port Harcourt has been robust forever. The oil money is just an added input. Bayelsa State has more oil money per capita and yet the backwardness in the state is second to none.

Northerners have had this attitude that balance must be maintained.They think One region should not develop faster than another. If one is developing too fast, then it should be slowed down.Thats horrible and pathetic because these guys are holding this country back. We can't continue like this. Funding has nothing to do with the educational backwardness of the north. Its the parasitic attitude of the leaders in the region that is holding them back and in turn stifling the growth of the rest of the country.

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Nobody: 8:45am On Aug 20, 2012
Yeah, Yeah. What else can they say. *SMH. Bunch of Loosers.
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by lazinc(m): 8:55am On Aug 20, 2012
Another lousy statement coming from a mur0n!

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Orblonde: 8:58am On Aug 20, 2012
If this is a true reflection of the view of northerners then it is clear the they want to be spoonfed for doing nothing while the south works themselves to the bone. Does the north and south really need to be one country, I mean really?

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Orblonde: 8:59am On Aug 20, 2012
Ojuckwu warned you southerners but you choose to fight him for it. Now you see he spoke the truth.

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Willzkid(m): 9:00am On Aug 20, 2012
What we are failing to see is that all 6 sources of income end up in the hands of politicians and ex-millitants with little impact on the grassroot

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by jude33084(m): 9:01am On Aug 20, 2012
Why won't they go backwards whey are busy groming almajiri their future destructive leaders. More grease Ť☺ their elbows! grin
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by mkpologwu(m): 9:01am On Aug 20, 2012
Pls we shldn't leave d north behind o! We all must progress together, otherwise d least progressed will attack d most progressed by night!

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Nobody: 9:07am On Aug 20, 2012
citizenisb: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/politics/oil-producing-states-have-cornered-the-nations-wealth-abba-ibrahim/

The oil- producing states have the federation take home, 13per cent derivation, the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs with hundreds of billions for projects in the region, the NDDC with billions of naira, the oil companies, doing a lot and finally, the Federal Government gives very handsome grants to oil-producing states under all sorts of guises. You also have the Amnesty Programme, all in the same region. So, they have six different sources of income.

The other states are left with one source of income. I know how we indirectly got there. The oil producing communities have been neglected for a long time. There is no doubt about that. They were not taking very good care of them. In our own anxious way of solving the problems, we are now over funding them and underfunding the non-oil producing states.

This disparity can bring all sorts of crisis to the country in the future. We have to consciously do something about this development before it will put us in very bad and embarrassing situation. So, there is going to be a review.
i read an article on nairaland which shows the number of northerners having oil wells in the niger delta 
www.nairaland.com/1022409/real-owners-nigeria
. Tho not a niger delta, what dat gov should be interested in is call all this oil baron to invest in their northern lands instead of raising this useless claim. See lands upon lands to cultivate food and offer gainful employment yet he is looking at someone's backyard for his upkeep And wit all this land and the so called "60%" of the population according to junaid, they dont have the sense to cultivate that land and feed their people.
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Nobody: 9:09am On Aug 20, 2012
citizenisb: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/politics/oil-producing-states-have-cornered-the-nations-wealth-abba-ibrahim/

The oil- producing states have the federation take home, 13per cent derivation, the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs with hundreds of billions for projects in the region, the NDDC with billions of naira, the oil companies, doing a lot and finally, the Federal Government gives very handsome grants to oil-producing states under all sorts of guises. You also have the Amnesty Programme, all in the same region. So, they have six different sources of income.

The other states are left with one source of income. I know how we indirectly got there. The oil producing communities have been neglected for a long time. There is no doubt about that. They were not taking very good care of them. In our own anxious way of solving the problems, we are now over funding them and underfunding the non-oil producing states.

This disparity can bring all sorts of crisis to the country in the future. We have to consciously do something about this development before it will put us in very bad and embarrassing situation. So, there is going to be a review.
This man is out of his mind.Stupid Aboki
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by hovic(m): 9:09am On Aug 20, 2012
So you wanno milk the south erh, my bro told me that Almight God in his infinite Mercy bless the 36 state of nigeria with minerals, countless natural mineral, so the south found theirs. My bro told me (Sad) that 95% of oil mogul in nigeria are from the north so why the fuss man? You guys are so greedy more than the Yoruba self, Una wan hold naija to ransom? Politic na una own, oil NA una (mogul) own, this is simply GREEDY!

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Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by agent22: 9:10am On Aug 20, 2012
Abagworo: Contrary to what most of you are saying, I seem to understand and support him on this. Every part of Nigeria deserves to be funded well to avoid future catastrophe. There is so much money flowing in Port-Harcourt while most other parts of Nigeria are in abject poverty. The gap is too wide in terms of economic empowerment.
u r not what u claim to be. Aboki
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by aribisala0(m): 9:11am On Aug 20, 2012
No it is THEIR wealth NOT the Nation's. The Nation should be grateful for what they get and become more PRODUCTIVE
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by Nobody: 9:15am On Aug 20, 2012
Orblonde: Ojuckwu warned you southerners but you choose to fight him for it. Now you see he spoke the truth.
Shut your trap wt dis yr Ojukwu story joor
Re: Oil Producing States Have Cornered The Nation's Wealth- Yobe Governor by dnawah(m): 9:16am On Aug 20, 2012
Abagworo: Contrary to what most of you are saying, I seem to understand and support him on this. Every part of Nigeria deserves to be funded well to avoid future catastrophe. There is so much money flowing in Port-Harcourt while most other parts of Nigeria are in abject poverty. The gap is too wide in terms of economic empowerment.

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