curiouses: And whose fault is it that your state of being up north is in such a pitiable condition?

Rawani: The OP should have put his points forward as what he feels is the plight of the average rural dweller in Zamfara State, instead of masquerading as a northerner to start another round of north bashing, a NL pastime. The OP could not disclose specifics like the name his rural community or even LGA, yet expects people to take him serious. Look at these statements for Christ's sake:




Now let me tell you OP, your predicament is not different from that of any underprivileged and poverty ravaged rural dweller anywhere in Nigeria. I chuckled at you stating the absence of power in your rural community when some parts of URBAN Nigeria have lacked electricity supply for months. There is no doubt that the absence of western education contributes to the lack of development of the majority of the northern youth, just as the abysmally low standard of education has stifled the potential of the average Nigerian youth and perpetuated the cycle of poverty which stands at about 59% in the best parts and 77% in the worst parts of Nigeria.

Choosing to steal, kill and destroy the lives of innocent Nigerians and blocking any economic opportunities to better the situation you are groaning about, and then blaming the same poverty that exists everywhere in Nigeria in varying degrees for that decision is not only foolish, but myopic and deceitful.

Painting your unfortunate circumstances as a villager in Zamfara and decision to be a blood sucking terrorist, as the plight of the Northern youth, is not only a aberration of logic but a slap on the face of every urban, educated, hardworking, and self-fulfilled contemporary young northerner.

fnep2smooth:
i won't be surprise if you blame your frustrated life on jonathan.
common Sense is not that common

Stillfire: To think Northerners have been at the helm of affairs in Nigeria since I was born.
You are taking up arms to kill the Nigerian people that are suffering like you? You are not serious.
You say you took up arms to fight for better lives? So bombing innocent people at motor parks who have chosen to make lemonade out of the diseased lemons Nigeria throws at them is what you call fighting to better your life?
You say Zamfara...now that sounds familiar. Is that not the state that introduced Sharia into secular Nigeria? So you guys were suffering and Senator Yerima who was then governor was more interested in preserving a borrowed religion than your well being? You people are still not serious.
Your way of life is tied around a few being stupendously wealthy and the majority of the populace being subjected to stupendous poverty. In fact you are very very comfortable with this dynamic. This was the method your people used to rule and finish off Nigeria. And it ended up killing off the middle class. The middle class in the South ran away to other countries, that some have not been back in decades. However, Northern students that school abroad, never ever stay back, they go back to Nigeria because a lucrative job is waiting for them by a principality and powerful relative in Nigeria who is holding the country to ransom.

Please ring me up when you are done licking the bum bum of your leaders. When are you going to pelt eggs on Senator Yerima, his predecessors and successors for allowing your state to be in such deplorable conditions? Why can't you hold your governors to ransom instead of the whole country? Naa, according to the intelligence of the average Northerner, the unholy South is to blame, rubbish!

I will judge every damn nigerian, rich or poor. All have contributed to the rot called Nigeria.

Stillfire: To think Northerners have been at the helm of affairs in Nigeria since I was born.
You are taking up arms to kill the Nigerian people that are suffering like you? You are not serious.
You say you took up arms to fight for better lives? So bombing innocent people at motor parks who have chosen to make lemonade out of the diseased lemons Nigeria throws at them is what you call fighting to better your life?
You say Zamfara...now that sounds familiar. Is that not the state that introduced Sharia into secular Nigeria? So you guys were suffering and Senator Yerima who was then governor was more interested in preserving a borrowed religion than your well being? You people are still not serious.
Your way of life is tied around a few being stupendously wealthy and the majority of the populace being subjected to stupendous poverty. In fact you are very very comfortable with this dynamic. This was the method your people used to rule and finish off Nigeria. And it ended up killing off the middle class. The middle class in the South ran away to other countries, that some have not been back in decades. However, Northern students that school abroad, never ever stay back, they go back to Nigeria because a lucrative job is waiting for them by a principality and powerful relative in Nigeria who is holding the country to ransom.

Please ring me up when you are done licking the bum bum of your leaders. When are you going to pelt eggs on Senator Yerima, his predecessors and successors for allowing your state to be in such deplorable conditions? Why can't you hold your governors to ransom instead of the whole country? Naa, according to the intelligence of the average Northerner, the unholy South is to blame, rubbish!

I will judge every damn nigerian, rich or poor. All have contributed to the rot called Nigeria.

onyiwest: this is what happened when you have someone like PGJ running this country....

Rawani: The OP should have put his points forward as what he feels is the plight of the average rural dweller in Zamfara State, instead of masquerading as a northerner to start another round of north bashing, a NL pastime. The OP could not disclose specifics like the name his rural community or even LGA, yet expects people to take him serious. Look at these statements for Christ's sake:

Now let me tell you OP, your predicament is not different from that of any underprivileged and poverty ravaged rural dweller anywhere in Nigeria. I chuckled at you stating the absence of power in your rural community when some parts of URBAN Nigeria have lacked electricity supply for months. There is no doubt that the absence of western education contributes to the lack of development of the majority of the northern youth, just as the abysmally low standard of education has stifled the potential of the average Nigerian youth and perpetuated the cycle of poverty which stands at about 59% in the best parts and 77% in the worst parts of Nigeria.

Choosing to steal, kill and destroy the lives of innocent Nigerians and blocking any economic opportunities to better the situation you are groaning about, and then blaming the same poverty that exists everywhere in Nigeria in varying degrees for that decision is not only foolish, but myopic and deceitful.

Painting your unfortunate circumstances as a villager in Zamfara and decision to be a blood sucking terrorist, as the plight of the Northern youth, is not only a aberration of logic but a slap on the face of every urban, educated, hardworking, and self-fulfilled contemporary young northerner.

[size=28pt]Of course this is assuming I don't know the OP is a pained Ibo.[/size]

alakid: Honestly, when I see threads like this, I know we as a country have failed.
I have a lot of reservations about this post.
The Op is most definitely not a northerner, why pose as one?
Again, who told you that in the schools in the north we are only taught islamic knowledge and a little english and arithmetic? That's a very poor attempt at humor!
Yet again, who said our young ones are so daft as to be brainwashed into being terrorists?
Mr Man/Woman, if you hate the North just say it plainly. Don't hide behind a porous literature, because we now have people who are just waiting for anything bad about the north to start their usual and unfounded confrontations and insults.
Please refrain from such in the future.

Leerikz: sometimes i ask myself, was it my fault that i was born into a northern family??, life seems to hold nothing for a young hopeful northern born child like me,i was born in a rural area in zamfara state,a typical Hausa community, i was raised accordingly by my parents, on getting to my teenage years, it dawned on me that everything seemed to follow one pattern in my community, it was compulsory for everyone to follow the Muslim faith, it also seemed compulsory for every male indigene to marry from the same community, i observed the whole life process here, everything seemed the same, nothing different ever happened, men were born local and died local, the whole community lacked innovation, nobody ever thought of anything new, life was an everyday process which everyone had to follow. there was hardly any form of electricity supply in my community, power was supplied on very rare occasions, and on such white collar days, the whole village would gather at the village square to watch tv, most times news, probably to everyone else, they were having fun and expressed it with big grins on their faces, when they saw big cities like lagos, kano, abuja and the rest on television, to me, it was like watching a totally different world, most of the things i saw on television were non-existent in my community,good roads, water supply, electricity and the rest. It all seemed alien-like when i saw them, the schools we had in my community seemed like death traps, with the buildings dilapidated and slowly collapsing due to age, i used to imagine how old those buildings must be, not to talk of the kind of teachers we had, most of them took extra holidays and came to school whenever they wished, we were mostly taught Islamic doctrine and a little bit of arithmetic and English to go with, you would wonder where we the students got our motivation to keep attending school, it all seemed that school seemed to be the most exciting thing happening around us, even though we could not say we had even up to quarter of what you would regard as a stellar education. I myself had dreams to be different, to make my community a happening place, to make my family proud of me, to help all kids in my community have standard education, to put good roads and water in place for my people, but as i grew up, i faced reality and it dawned on me that my dreams would eventually amount to nothing, 'where would i start from?' was the question i asked myself frequently, i was willing to do anything to actualize my dreams, but everytime i tried to muster a little hope for the future, my dreams were dashed by reality .life went on like this for a long while until something happened sometime in August 2008,a group of men came to our community school and separated the male folk from the female folk, we were told that a lot is going to change in our lives in the next few months and advised to prepare for anything.The lessons we were having at school changed totally,we were now lectured in the reason why our lives and community had come to be like this, we were told by our instructors that our kind was hated and neglected in the whole of Nigeria, we were shown videos of how our kind performed roles of servants to the society in urban areas, how our kind seemed to poverty stricken and isolated in such towns and cities, we were told that we would be in the same situation if we tried traveling to such places in search of greener pastures. Therefore we had to do something that would make our lives and that of our families better, we were told that if we cooperated, our families would be rewarded with huge amounts of money and life would get better. We were then told that it would involve killing and suicide bombing for our plans to really work out. Already our minds were prepared for anything. That was how we took up arms to fight for better lives for ourselves and for our families.So next time you want to open your mouth to judge the youth who have joined boko haram,think of the situation of this young man, think of the plight of his family and underdevelopment that had eaten deep in to lives of everyone in their community. live positively!.
.This was written by a young Nigerian.. Just looking at things from the other point of view.. I am in no way supporting insurgency of any kind.. Share your thoughts

Stillfire: To think Northerners have been at the helm of affairs in Nigeria since I was born.
You are taking up arms to kill the Nigerian people that are suffering like you? You are not serious.
You say you took up arms to fight for better lives? So bombing innocent people at motor parks who have chosen to make lemonade out of the diseased lemons Nigeria throws at them is what you call fighting to better your life?
You say Zamfara...now that sounds familiar. Is that not the state that introduced Sharia into secular Nigeria? So you guys were suffering and Senator Yerima who was then governor was more interested in preserving a borrowed religion than your well being? You people are still not serious.
Your way of life is tied around a few being stupendously wealthy and the majority of the populace being subjected to stupendous poverty. In fact you are very very comfortable with this dynamic. This was the method your people used to rule and finish off Nigeria. And it ended up killing off the middle class. The middle class in the South ran away to other countries, that some have not been back in decades. However, Northern students that school abroad, never ever stay back, they go back to Nigeria because a lucrative job is waiting for them by a principality and powerful relative in Nigeria who is holding the country to ransom.

Please ring me up when you are done licking the bum bum of your leaders. When are you going to pelt eggs on Senator Yerima, his predecessors and successors for allowing your state to be in such deplorable conditions? Why can't you hold your governors to ransom instead of the whole country? Naa, according to the intelligence of the average Northerner, the unholy South is to blame, rubbish!

I will judge every damn nigerian, rich or poor. All have contributed to the rot called Nigeria.

yousee: The one thing that baffles me is the Almajiri concept.


The young boy is drafted to a malam for tutelage, upon completion of studies, he is leased to a suya seller, cobbler, sugarcane hawker, etc where he learns the rudiments of that trade. Thus ends his destiny, he starts his own business, gets married and soon gets younger almajiri from the malams for business trade...

Meanwhile, these malams have their daughters and sons schooling abroad or at least in western education and Islamic education as well. Where do we find these crop of youths, in banks, telecoms, hospitals, military etc



Make I hear anybody wey go blame other regions for the northern woes.

onyiwest:

why do you sound so pained ? oh i remember you're under his pay roll. your days are numbered