₦airaland Forum

JayFK:
I think he has already distanced himself from the comments his pastor made. Hey but at least with this, no one still thinks he is M'uslim.

bawomolo:
people are born gay whether u like it or not.

nwando:
are you sure it's not from nike lake ?

doyin13:
I remember what Jesus said in err. . . .is it Matthew or Isiah chapter errrrr

neway. . . .Come ye all woman wrappers and errrr. . . . .

Neway you get my drift.
So no prejudge me abeg. . . .I love the Lord

ruthty:
@all
didn't i tell u about foster that guy is great. if he gets more games under his belt i assure u guys he is going to be better than our own van.

Vieira:
Point of correction to you: You CANNOT be offside if the opposing player plays the ball to you.
Boateng played the ball to Adebayor, so how could he be off?
Some people watch their football on the TV while Software watches his football on the radio.

Origins of gross domestic product 2005(a)
Agriculture (excl livestock) 38.6

doyin13:
hmmm. . , 17.6 %

a bit too much to be honest

agriculture is as overated as Mode 9

In 2006, oil accounted for just over one fifth of GDP, 85% of government revenue and over 90% of export earnings. Agriculture accounted for around 40% of GDP, the services sector for just over 30% and manufacturing 5% of GDP.

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 17.6%
industry: 53.1%
services: 29.3% (2007 est.)

Sky Blue:
@4Play, i don't believe there is anywhere on this thread i was talking about shifting resources about. Wasn't the north producing some food for the country decades ago? So why can't they go back to agriculture? Why are we so quick to jump unto the whole splitting up thing? If Nigeria was well run would we be calling for a split? I hope we are not confusing our hate for the Nigerian leadership with our hate for Nigeria. Of course if you develop an area people will flock there, it is only natural. But if you spread the development, which can only happen simultaneously in our current disposition if states start working instead of waiting for oil revenue, then there will be development and growth in more areas. Hence population won't just flock to one area, but can flock to more areas, and even with that more people compared to now can carve out a career in their own regions instead of thinking they have to go to lagos or abujja to "make it". if we had competition between regions, this could drive economic development.

4Him:
4 Play . . . u are right. But oil should have been a catalyst for our development and not the curse it is today.
What the Niger Delta is agitating for is not even 100% control of their resources but 50%.

The idea is to engender some form of competition to drive economic growth. We literarily have no economy right now . . . if oil prices crash to $30/barrel today we'd be in serious trouble.
We have oil and we can't refine a drop! Shame on us . . . we are too busy arguing about sharing the proceeds with no thought for using this extra cash to develop other viable sources of income.

doyin13:
Okay 4play. . . .what sound economic policies would you suggest for the Naija environment

Maybe that would enlighten us further

Why is a state like Zamfara declaring sharia and then demanding oil funds to pay for an illegal state religious structure that is opposed by the vast majority?

doyin13:
4play. . . . . .You are beginning to sound like a Bolshevik

'The country grow together'. When that one start.

There is simply no way, around it. Uniform development of all the regions is nigh impossible.
One region will always develop faster than the other.
It is in this instance that your libertarianism tendencies come in handy.

If we accept that everybody cannot come up together. . . .the most important thing then is to make the
richer regions as rich as possible and then it can drip down to the poorer regions.

4Him:
4 Play . . . what did we use to build all the structures we had prior to 1966?
We didnt have any oil and each region was forced to fend for itself and we did it quite well. The south was generating close to 3m pounds a yr without a drop of oil by the 50s . . . why can't we do the same?
Japan has not a drop of oil, suffered 2 atomic bombs in 1945 and YET are the world's second largest economy . . . haba!

doyin13:
The reallocation obviously by itself is not a panacea to our problems. It has to be accompanied by other measures.
And you make it sound like the spending will be a deliberate skewering to favour the Niger Delta.

Such an allocation rejig will only be disentangling the federal allocation mess, allowing local populations to reap the full rewards of their
resources.

Sky Blue:
@ 4Play If you read through my posts you will see that i have been encouraging autonomy of states, but what i am saying to you is that you are assuming that the money spent in the north was used for development. If money is not that important then why are we bothered about what happens to foreign reserves? Those states that got all that money are still the way they are because the money was not spent on wisely on the people but instead went into pockets. If the money was spent to generate power for the north, provide good water, you are still saying their lives won't be improved? In an ideal situation states should strive to generate their own revenue and be more active instead of waiting for money, money which if used wisely can make a difference

doyin13:
But I bet the Niger Deltans would rather their environs look like Abuja than what obtains at the moment.