BlueScholar:


I really want to know more about Nigeria before the amalgamation as I mostly state mute when it comes to topics like this as I don't have much knowledge on it. Any book recommendation will be appreciated. Thanks

Okoroawusa:

Sir George Goldie and the Making of
Nigeria
By John E. Flint; Gerald S. Graham
Oxford University Press, 1960


The History of Nigeria
By Toyin Falola
Greenwood Press, 1999



On The Nigeria Civil War

There Was A Country by China Achebe(To understand the war from an Igbo perspective)


SunSet In Biafra by Elechi Amadi(To understand the war from the Riverine people perspective)


The Biafra Story by Frederick Forsythe




Culture and Customs of Nigeria
By Toyin Falola
Greenwood Press, 2001( an indepth of what Nigeria's tribes had before the White Man's "civilization"


A wise man known as Mahatma Gandhi once said,"When you stop reading, you start during"

BlueScholar:

Thank you very much Sir, I appreciate

iammo:


am talking of immediate calamity, and feasibility of a project like restructuring, you're talking about solid mineral deposit that its value, quantity and market for it hasn't been established. do you know the British had to give concession for northern Nigeria to royal trading company because it was an unsuccessful colony, even after that they had to merge north with south for its survival. truth be told without sugarcoating it as it stands today, many can't survive without oil

joe120120:




And when oil finish? what will they do?

Babysho:


I agree with you that as it stands today, many wouldn't survive without oil BUT the issue of making Nigeria a successful nation is one where you either fight it head on or go home. If we continue this way, it can not end well now that there's possibility of our oil running dry.

Restructure now!

PrecisionFx:



Inna restructure whereby each state with carte for itself, Funds shared by FG won't be stopped immediately. It will be gradually reduced for many years while each state develops new sources of income thorough exploration, mining, agriculture, Etc. It could take 3 - 5 years or more for each region to stand on its own n then stop collecting allocation from FG.

Edoloaded:
I'm just surprised, because we are supposed to put pressure on our leaders to adopt restructuring as the only solution in this country, because whatever they are doing right now won't work I tell you. It's like running round the same circle, Give States Back Their Power

deleo16:
God bless your generation for this comment it was when I read this books me that I am always sentimental about tribe,party It was just like my zombie dispair all the leaders in this country APC and PDP are useless including my region the leaders are useless

edupedia:


....take more codeine when the effect of the one u took is over....

bestpunterever:
wait first let the power go to the state and you will see how each state will buckle up.

iammo:


this is my thought, and all offshore oil blocs remains property of the FG, but the exclusive list would be reduced

Lomprico2:


Do u know the quantity of mineral deposits in d north??
If restructuring is done it will benefit all region in d long run.

These your excuse are a lazy man's/corrupt politicians own.

Edoloaded:
I'm just surprised, because we are supposed to put pressure on our leaders to adopt restructuring as the only solution in this country, because whatever they are doing right now won't work I tell you. It's like running round the same circle, Give States Back Their Power

iammo:


Naso, give elrufai, rochas, fayose and ajimobi intact give them there own SARS

edupedia:


....is dumbness responsible for making your inaccurate statement?....

Edoloaded:
I'm just surprised, because we are supposed to put pressure on our leaders to adopt restructuring as the only solution in this country, because whatever they are doing right now won't work I tell you. It's like running round the same circle, Give States Back Their Power

iammo:
the reasons the elites would not try talk about it, is because of resource control, every other issue like state police is possible. In southwest ; only Lagos and Ogun are economically viable, in south south; only Edo, Delta and Rivers, in North Central Only kwara, Non in North west,North East and South East. according to Economic development Magzine.
this simply means the day you stop giving out federal allocation from crude oil sales to these states, the system automatically collapse, teachers won't get paid and public schools would close down, similarly doctors, judicial staffs, prison workers, and all state and local government staffs. the royal fathers and kings also survive on the share of the local government allocation from abuja. without allocation how will osun and ekiti pay its external debt, not to talk of paying salary or maintaining infrastructure. I wonder were some region would get forex from to take to China, if the major forex earner is oil, Venezuela's case would be better than some region, while some region would instantly become new Dubai of africa.

Lomprico2:


Do u know the quantity of mineral deposits in d north??
If restructuring is done it will benefit all region in d long run.

These your excuse are a lazy man's/corrupt politicians own.

poseidon12:


You don't know what you are talking about. Most of the States you mentioned as being economically not viable, have mineral resources they will take control of, if we restructure. And the restructuring will allow States to merge.

Herdsmen:
Why is the Southwest suddenly gone mute on regionalisms and Tru federalism..

Now if you shout restructuring..na Dem go first fight you..abuse you..with heavy insults before the north will come down with pythons and Crocs..

Maybe after 2019.. when the dullard don retire..
They will resume..

For now..all this na stories..

Shout restructuring and be an enemy of the state.

Efewestern:


I quite disagree with the report on south East, Anambra and Aba are economically viable, unless there is another definition of "economically viable", truth is, restructuring won't solve 100% of our problems, our major undoing as a country is corruption, too many clueless leaders at the helm of power, how do you expect such nation to grow?

justtoodark:


restructure but corruption is still their....our mindset need to change....restructure will not help anything...may even make the situation more worser sef....

justtoodark:


nobody is stopping any state from doing anything....

you think nigeria own bad....go western countries and see....you can not even mess sef without permition from the goverment....

iammo:
the reasons the elites would not try talk about it, is because of resource control, every other issue like state police is possible. In southwest ; only Lagos and Ogun are economically viable, in south south; only Edo, Delta and Rivers, in North Central Only kwara, Non in North west,North East and South East. according to Economic development Magzine.
this simply means the day you stop giving out federal allocation from crude oil sales to these states, the system automatically collapse, teachers won't get paid and public schools would close down, similarly doctors, judicial staffs, prison workers, and all state and local government staffs. the royal fathers and kings also survive on the share of the local government allocation from abuja. without allocation how will osun and ekiti pay its external debt, not to talk of paying salary or maintaining infrastructure. I wonder were some region would get forex from to take to China, if the major forex earner is oil, Venezuela's case would be better than some region, while some region would instantly become new Dubai of africa.

justtoodark:


restructure but corruption is still their....our mindset need to change....restructure will not help anything...may even make the situation more worser sef....