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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by haulagehandlers(m): 4:18pm On Mar 14, 2016

kingzizzy:
Ben Bruce makes me laugh with this postulation. Are the Notherners giving us this food for free? But the Northerers are taking the proceeds of oil for free in the name of 'one Nigeria'. The South does not depend on the north for anything, if there was no Northern Nigeria, us in the South would buy food from other countries like Cameroon,Benin Republic, Ghana etc and life would go on. But if there was no Southern Nigeria, only God knows what would have happend to the North by now.

its possible the north would have developed More by exporting its cash crops like, cotton, ginger, garlic etc... If you have ever travelled to the core north you will knw that them no send us for south here oh...

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by favourlove1: 4:19pm On Mar 14, 2016

DropShot:
IPOB touts and wailers will kill this man today.

are u alright? Always deviating from d thread

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by hopily(m): 4:19pm On Mar 14, 2016

The drop in food prices can not make Nigeria broke but the drop in oil price is killing us already!.....I just want to make comon sence

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by omolola15(m): 4:20pm On Mar 14, 2016

amuokuko:
I believe they re educated as their Daura King..

Bruce must ve eaten a contaminated apple from the North this weekend..

Go to UAE, virtually all their foods re imported but they ve the crude, can u even compare our economy with theirs..

The Pedophiles should keep their food..

How many acres of land do you have for farming?

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by atoleybaba(m): 4:21pm On Mar 14, 2016

Ralphdan:

No u re geting it all wrong.Am an ibo guy and down here in the east we dont depend on anyone or anything be it oil or government but our hard work.

almost all ur foosstuffs are grown in the north na

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by Standing5(m): 4:24pm On Mar 14, 2016

MrEverest:
There is something you dont understand, a huge fraction of the tomatoes, onions, cabbage etc grown in the North gets spoilt before they are consumed because of glut during peak production, that farmers in the North are able to make optimal profit is because of the demand from the South! The moment South stops buying, a lot of farmers in the north will either liquidate due to losses or they will significantly scale down on production to minimize losses. They dont even have storage facilities to preserve them, its even one Igbo man that built the largest tomato paste factory in SSA here in Lagos to help them market their products!!

so if the south stop buying the north minimizes its losses first before any other thing. That makes them secure in terms of feeding themselve. Can you say same of the south whose scarce or non-existing fund will be glaring. As long as you buy from them you are dependent on them more. Fact!

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by Ibolt4m(m): 4:29pm On Mar 14, 2016

I jst cut out some big sweet pieces of cow meat and swallow it down d stomach, I must confess those northern meat are very gud for d health grin

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by str8talk1: 4:30pm On Mar 14, 2016

Whatz d business a southerner have wt a dirty,stinking,gworo eating,child abducting,terrorist tendencies,sub-human life styles the Northerners live?
Sic. Count me out of dis union. Itz just not working in line wt common sense.

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by Kingspin(m): 4:32pm On Mar 14, 2016

ziccoit:
Only the blind individual who is suffering from chronic paucity of knowledge would carry such a stupid notion about a group of people especially the Notherners. I don't know why Mr Ben didn't call a spade a spade and put it that some SSners and SEners should receive a proper education and stop the chronic hatred they have for the Northerners.
Majority of what's being said about Northerners are borne out of nothing but hatred for those people.

Just like the case of Ese, the petroleum bill and the national conference report.

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by Festy4u(m): 4:33pm On Mar 14, 2016

This argument is so stale! I believe you are basking in the euphoria of being a senator and enjoying all the amenities and comfort you derived at the red chambers without putting into consideration that all these and many more development you see at the FCT is an exclusive preserved of the huge resources from crude gotten from the south.
More so, the kaduna refinery built in the north to refine crude oil pumped all the way from the south to service some northern states is completely true about your assertion "the south erroneously think that the north depends on the south" my foot!

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by Psoul(m): 4:37pm On Mar 14, 2016

abuayman:
Hmmmm. Common Sense is not really common ai.

Thatz the oil, once it got dried up, disconnections start.

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by EasternActivist: 4:38pm On Mar 14, 2016

Ephemmm:

Why importing food from other states if you are truly self-sufficient? God has created every region with its own comparative advantages over the others.

Deal with it.

So you finally agree you don't feed us.
We also import corn beef from united states does that mean USA is sufficient or does that implies you feed us...

If USA is importing food products will you say the north don't import?

Nobody feeds the south... If the one we have isn't enough we buy and the sufficient ones we export.

Shikina.

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by MrEverest(m): 4:38pm On Mar 14, 2016

ChoCandyDiamond:

The man is just a politician looking for cheap popularity among northerners, APC continue to blame the continue Nigeria economic woes on drop in oil prices and he is talking about food, The north cannot do without SE or SS, they know that one, if not let them grant Biafra to those who are agitating for it

He is just preying on their ignorance, knowing fully well that majority of them are illiterates. Educated folks will just be laughing at their gullibiity because Ben's gimick is already working atleast some juviniles are already praising him here on nairaland! Poverty rate in the North Varies from 75% to 90%, with such little purchasing power, no middle class, rife illiteracy, no Forex, lazy populace, insecurity etc, the North as a country will definitely rank among the three most poorest countries in the world.

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by oluwafreshkid(m): 4:46pm On Mar 14, 2016

edoyad:

Now whose argument should I support, that of Bruce, successful business man and senator who employs over a thousand people, or you, anonymous poster on NL?

No, he doesn't employ thousand people tongue

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by carboblanko(m): 4:52pm On Mar 14, 2016

san316:
The social media senator himself.

However, I agree with him. The south believes because oil comes from the south and Nigeria depends on oil, the north is dependent on them.

Fact is, the average northerner does not even benefit from oil money, they mostly live off agriculture, business and menial jobs.

The so called southerners who claim to be feeding the nation have no input whatsoever to the economy other than the fact that the resources were naturally deposited in their region.

The problem with some of our southern kin is that they do not take time out to educate themselves about the other parts of their country.Stereotyping other Nigerians without even getting to know them is really ignorant and does no justice to so called educated and enlightened people. So sad.

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by amuokuko: 4:52pm On Mar 14, 2016

Xvenus:

And that's why people like remain backward. Why would you call them pedophile? They have their culture, you have yours.

If you have ever lived amongst them, you would appreciate how educated and industrious most of them. And yes! They have uneducated bigots like we do in the South.

U sound like someone from a Backward background...
What sane culture would marry off a child that is yet to develop breast tissues and still claim they aint pedophiles...

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by MrEverest(m): 4:53pm On Mar 14, 2016

Standing5:
so if the south stop buying the north minimizes its losses first before any other thing. That makes them secure in terms of feeding themselve. Can you say same of the south whose scarce or non-existing fund will be glaring. As long as you buy from them you are dependent on them more. Fact!

You still do not get it, what is the value of their economy without oil proceeds? have you seen how most parts of Nigeria became grounded just because of reduction in allocation & what do you think will happen to the northern economy the moment allocation entirely stops going to them?? How successful are countries like Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Mauritania, CAR etc that lie approx on the same lattitude with Northern Nigeria?? The South will have more oil income to go round & remember that ECOWAS made free movement of goods posible which means that Northerners will still try to bring their goods down here to make more profit. U guys should be grateful to the South!!!

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by sam90s(m): 4:54pm On Mar 14, 2016

sinkhole:
this is the first sensible thing I think I will be reading from the man! He has jst hit the nail on the head, gbam!

Or he's presidential hopeful.

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by amuokuko: 4:58pm On Mar 14, 2016

omolola15:

How many acres of land do you have for farming?

Which kind drop out you be

I gave example of UAE that was formerly desert, ask anyone there what is the cheapest thing in UAE and see if they wont yell FOOD!!!..

Now ask urself if they farm those produce. Give me ur answer to disprove my 1st question...

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by AreaFada2: 5:10pm On Mar 14, 2016

Oil or no oil, foodstuff or no foodstuff, fact is Nigeria is decades behind where it should be.

With what Bruce just enumerated, why is the North so opposed to regionalism?

This centralised/unitary system is not working. 50 years after Ironsi, the system has failed. That should change.

If the North keep opposing true federalism, then we're just postponing the evil day.

It won't matter who has oil in his backyard or who produces ground nut.

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by Ephemmm: 5:18pm On Mar 14, 2016

EasternActivist:

So you finally agree you don't feed us.
We also import corn beef from united states does that mean USA is sufficient or does that implies you feed us...

If USA is importing food products will you say the north don't import?

Nobody feeds the south... If the one we have isn't enough we buy and the sufficient ones we export.

Shikina.

And how have you been feeding the Northerner who is using his/her personal money to buy fuel? Oh! I forget, Northerners just go to filling station to collect fuel because the President is from their region.

Yeye dey smell.

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by EasternActivist: 5:24pm On Mar 14, 2016

Ephemmm:

And how have you been feeding the Northerner who is using his/her personal money to buy fuel? Oh! I forget, Northerners just go to filling station to collect fuel because the President is from their region.

Yeye dey smell.

You missed the point of argument...
Nigeria is an oil country yet it imports fuel... You can imagine?
But the allocation you get from crude oil export from the south, do you pay for them?
Yet your parasitic governors that their igr didn't reach
1 billion is using the free oil money allocated to them each month to build infrastructures like roads with flyovers and bridges, pay state civil servant and give you social amenities.
Do any of you pay for the oil money? I ask?
Rubbish.
South feeds north and not otherwise.

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by olayinkajnr(m): 5:35pm On Mar 14, 2016

Wow, this is the most reasonable post I've read from this man.

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by ihatesycophant(m): 5:35pm On Mar 14, 2016

kingzizzy:
Ben Bruce makes me laugh with this postulation. Are the Notherners giving us this food for free? But the Northerers are taking the proceeds of oil for free in the name of 'one Nigeria'. The South does not depend on the north for anything, if there was no Northern Nigeria, us in the South would buy food from other countries like Cameroon,Benin Republic, Ghana etc and life would go on. But if there was no Southern Nigeria, only God knows what would have happend to the North by now.

The same way the north would have been exporting their produce to other countries, even at exorbitant price and you have to buy ticket and fly to the north. This story just reminds me a salient story in the Bible, when there was a famine in Israel and Jacob has to send his children to Egypt to buy food under the leadership of Joseph. If you think money is everything, when scarcity of food come knocking at your door, you will realise the impulse of the message. Inflation theory even explain this clearer.

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by somegirl1: 5:36pm On Mar 14, 2016

acenazt:
what does the Biafra add

What does it remove?

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by hollywater: 5:36pm On Mar 14, 2016

The foods are being bought with money from individuals, while northern governors assembled themselves in Abuja every month end to collect free oil money in the name of allocation.
Common sense Senator, you fail here,but you are still the common sense master.

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by Ephemmm: 5:37pm On Mar 14, 2016

EasternActivist:

[s]You missed the point of argument...
Nigeria is an oil country yet it imports fuel... You can imagine?
But the allocation you get from crude oil export from the south, do you pay for them?
Yet your parasitic governors that their igr didn't reach
1 billion is using the free oil money allocated to them each month to build infrastructures like roads with flyovers and bridges, pay state civil servant and give you social amenities.
Do any of you pay for the oil money? I ask?
Rubbish.
South feeds north and not otherwise.

[/s]

Before the discovery of oil in 1960s, Nigeria has been surviving and if there is no more oil today, it will still survive. However, where was the lamentation from your region when Nigeria's major source of income was from Cocoa which was not produced from your region?

You can lament till tomorrow, you are just wasting your time. Your leaders are in Abuja enjoying your entitlements.

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by ChoCandyDiamond(f): 5:38pm On Mar 14, 2016

haulagehandlers:
its possible the north would have developed More by exporting its cash crops like, cotton, ginger, garlic etc... If you have ever travelled to the core north you will knw that them no send us for south here oh...

They no send us for south here, but they are fighting tooth and nail to make sure that SE or SS remain part of Nigeria, How much can you get from selling cash crops,countries like Niger,Mali, Gambia would have become rich by selling their cash crops, let them stop to receive monthly allocation from Nigeria oil proceeds lets see wether they can pay salaries of their workers and be able to run their government, If they can be on their own why are they stampeding on Biafra from having their independence.

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Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by Saladin25(m): 5:40pm On Mar 14, 2016

I am not his fan but he just nailed it. The temporary closure of mile 12 market is affecting the price of perishable goods.

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by hajhud: 5:46pm On Mar 14, 2016

0YorubaParapo0:

Lol they'll start calling him Yoruba

mallam or hausa

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by ezigr8(m): 5:48pm On Mar 14, 2016

Mr common sense senator all this just to gain support from the north for your future political ambition to the detriment of the truth. The we share the proceed of the north sell of their food?

Re: Southerners Erroneously Think The North Is Dependent On The South - Ben Bruce by ChoCandyDiamond(f): 5:48pm On Mar 14, 2016

Ephemmm:
[/s]

Before the discovery of oil in 1960s, Nigeria has been surviving and if there is no more oil today, it will still survive. However, where was the lamentation from your region when Nigeria's major source of income was from Cocoa which was not produced from your region?

You can lament till tomorrow, you are just wasting your time. Your leaders are in Abuja enjoying your entitlements.

Without the discovery of oil, Nigeria would have been a very poor country like Niger and Mali, Cocoa was never a major source of Nigeria income, in the 60's the major source of Nigeria income is from Groundnut and Cotton from the North, Coal mining in Enugu and Palm oil from the East, Cocoa from the Mid West and West. The major contributor then was Cotton, Coal mining in Enugu and Tin mining in Jos.

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