Omoluabi16:
Putting our supposed 'rivalry' with the east aside. Can we call these northern people our brethen, can we call them nationalists or sectionalists?

friendng how far?

Jabioro:
The latter is the best.. no doubt about it.. we are living in pretentious country, we professed to love each in pretence..

jargo89:
Yorubas and Hausa have always been at the far end of any spectrum. But its easier for them to relate due to the diplomatic attitude of Yorubas. The East on the other side have issues with Yorubas as they feel we are substandard to them. And no tribe can stand denigration.

hardbody:


I don't engage with irrational posters. I just referenced ango Abdullahs contention clustering east and west together. I can understand your difficulty in comprehending because your mind is conditioned to only think in a linear fashion.

mascot87:
See what the IPOB have gotten us into as a nation

realjoker:
lol
lol.
Maybe it was used to develop north, infact Ango need to tell us what north achieve with Cocoa and oilpalm money

because this is what awolowo achieve with north groundnut pyramid money

his dynamic and welfarist leadership. In particular, he pioneered Nigeria's free primary education and free health care programmes and implemented the first minimum-wage policy by a Nigerian government at any level; he also established the first television service in Africa and the first Nigerian university (The University of Ibadan) whose creation was not even recommended by the Federal Government of the day, he built the first tower in Nigeria and so on.

hoMegas:
Yoruba unite, trying times are ahead

almarthins:


U disgust me ... Why be say una hate other tribe like say na dem cause gully erosion for east. The old fool said smtin wrong instead of show disgust at his words. U turn to south begin d bombard us like ango...he b like na ur brother. Una plan no go work. Shey herd men don kill any body for Lagos before ? Angos brother

Blue3k:


https://www.google.com.ng/amp/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/igbo-quit-notice-northern-elders-forum-backs-arewa-coalition/amp/

Blue3k:


https://www.google.com.ng/amp/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/igbo-quit-notice-northern-elders-forum-backs-arewa-coalition/amp/

Blue3k:


The Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF), on Friday expressed support to the call by the Coalition of Northern Youth Groups for Igbos to leave the region within three months.

The group made its position known despite widespread condemnation that followed the ultimatum earlier handed by the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum.

The forum expressed “disappointment” with the Northern Governors’ Forum for disowning the youth groups.

Ango Abdullahi, the NEF spokesperson, told journalists in Zaria on Friday that it was hypocritical for the Igbos to continue to live in other parts of the country while agitating for Nigeria’s break up.

Mr. Abdullahi said: “I am disappointed in the decision taken by Northern Governors’ Forum disowning and condemning the agitation by this young agile and progressive youth groups.

“Let me ask these Northern governors, whom are they representing, are they representing spirits, ghost or people of the north?

“Recently, people from eastern part of this country, specifically Igbo, were busy calling for the Sovereign State of Biafra and from all indication their leaders including governors are behind them.”

According to him, whoever feels Nigeria “is not conducive for him” let him quit, adding that what the northern youth groups did was not a sin.”

He lamented that none of the Northern governors reacted to the persistent call for the actualisation of Biafra and other agitations.

Mr. Abdullahi said when Nnamdi Kanu was released on bail recently, over 100 vehicles escorted him to his residence including big personalities from the south-west and south-east.

“This is somebody who has been agitating for the breakup of Nigeria but his people were behind him, therefore, I am behind the youths.

“This is because the Northern youths are pushed to the wall, we have been calming them down in any event similar to this,” he noted.

Speaking specifically on the Igbos, Mr. Abdullahi said the people from the south were always pretending that people from the north were cheating them.

“These people always pretend that the North is cheating them, not minding the fact that Southern Nigeria was developed by resources from the North.

“Please, look for a book written by Adamu FiKa, the Waziri of FiKa on Nigeria’s budget before and after independence.

“Each year, up to the time Nigeria gained its independence, none of the two regions was able to provide for itself.

“I mean none of the Western and Eastern regions had the money to effectively run the affairs of its region until they get financial support from the Northern region,” he said.

He recalled that the tradition had remained during the colonial masters and nothing changed after they left the country.

Mr. Abdullahi said it was the same money from the North that was used to construct Nigerian Railways, refineries and other facilities.

“First oil exploration was conducted using money from groundnut pyramid, cotton, hide and skin among other cash crops from Northern Nigeria.

“However, these people tend to forget all these goodies provided by the North toward ensuring the unity and corporate existence of Nigeria.

“They always look down on us, feeling that Northerners are parasites in this country,” he said. (NAN)



https://www.google.com.ng/amp/www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/igbo-quit-notice-northern-elders-forum-backs-arewa-coalition/amp/

Brownbaba:
I envisage civil war in d future.....all region should prepare

Blue3k:


This country is dead if a civil war breaks out. We dont have infrastructure as is. After all the smoke clears we'll have to deal with famine and poverty.

lilfreezy:


Guy calm down I'm an igbo man and i don't hate you. Northern social media Strategist are many in nairaland, they are busy opening different account causing more friction between yoruba and Igbo. I've noticed this thing since but you guys refuse to believe me. The Igbo language dey write was gotten from Google translation, it's not that accurate

honeychild:


Stop it. There are no northern social media anything. You guys like to blame others for your failures.

When the Niger Deltans kept telling Biafrans they were not interested in you, you refused to acknowledge and kept calling them Afonja, until the outcry became too loud for you to ignore.

Now you want to claim that your pepole who cannot stay one hour without calling Afonja are actually northerners.
That's not how to reconcile. You acknowledge your errors that's what you do. Don't make excuses.

For whatever reasons best known to igbos, they decided to demonise the Yoruba and make them the scapegoats for all their frustration. Now they want a united south against the north which has always been their real enemies. It's a good idea. But go about it the right way.

nellyelitz:
ITS A LIE THAT MONEY FROM THE NORTH FUNDED OIL EXPLORATION IN THE SOUTH

Professor Ango Abdullahi actually repeated this lie recently. He said this, ironically, while exhorting Emir Sanusi II to “go and read history.” The truth is that not a dime of northern Nigeria’s money contributed to oil exploration in the Niger Delta.

When oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Oloibiri in 1956, Shell bore the financial burden for the exploration. Other Euro-American oil companies later joined in oil exploration. It wasn’t until 1973 that the Nigerian federal government acquired 30 percent shares in oil companies. By 1973, Northern Nigeria had ceased to exist; it had been divided into states.

In any case, colonial records show that the biggest motivation for amalgamating northern and southern Nigeria was because northern Nigeria wasn’t financially self-sustaining and the British Imperial Government said it would never subsidize colonial administration anywhere in Africa. So Lord Lugard amalgamated the two regions and used the surplus from the south to sustain the north. It’s illogical to say that a region that wasn’t financially self-sustaining financed oil exploration in the Niger Delta.

Farooq Kperogi (A Northerner)