dukeprince50:
while that is the case, we practice a centralized system of govt, it's like been a slave in ur own land and u have to give the govt almost everything ur region produces and at the end of the month, they give u peanut as allocation, ND gets nothing from one Nigeria and we have been crying since time immemorial because the people are neglected, the state government can't build those bridges and still function very well.
This is one of the reason I despise the Ipob agenda because when the govt favoured them, they didn't shout SS/SE should break off from Nigeria and we are the ones crying, but now that they are been marginalized, they now see us as brothers and now know that we were suffering, what kind of brother remembers u wen things are bad for him?

exactly my theory. Every ethnic groups in nigeria want to go back to the time they were once dominant.

Take Edo for example, I wish we return to the time before British invasion so that we won't be regarded as a minority.

Igbos want to return to the time they were in control of the eastern region, that's why they always advocate for Niger Delta region to join them because they were the only one enjoying then.

Yorubas and hausas don't want things to change because they are in control and this is the best time in their history as a people.

The only foolish ones among these ones are the so called south south people that have oil in abundance but continue to loot and steal from their own people forgetting about the future.

Same oil the north are using to develope their region! If you've been to Kano, kaduna, maduguri, Abuja, gombe etc you'll wonder which north is poor

TheGodlessGod:
these are nonsense and any country can Disobey.

Don't use see how china are locking up Muslims and trying to annex different regions even with United Nations warning??

Do you see how Russia are going about bombing and trying to take over territories even when United Nations warn against it??

USA have been bombing and looting countries oil since years ago.

I can go on and on but the point is, if a country choose not to respect that law, they won't respect it.

A landlocked country is at the mercy of the host, Lesotho now is even consider a province of south Africa because they are landlocked and most of their people are in South Africa.

Those successful European landlocked countries you see have histories of hiding looted money and have different agreements with countries with sea.

None of the instances you mentioned has anything to do with access to the sea.


The agreement you talked about in the last paragraph has no high handed conditions attached. Just normal normal procedures.

AyakaDunukofia:


And how does this "advantage" put them ahead of others...And why have Togo, Benin Republic, Gambia and so on not leveraged on it to economically supersede landlocked states like Rwanda, Ethiopia, Botswana and others?

looters and few population

It's not like those landlocked countries you mention are any better

iSlayer2:




None of the instances you mentioned has anything to do with access to the sea.


The agreement you talked about in the last paragraph has no high handed conditions attached. Just normal normal procedures.

I meant any country can decide to disobey the United Nations and there won't be consequences.

Those rules are mere formalities

voiceofthetruth:



What sort of education did you have? or is the dumbness genetic?
Did ever say we would artificially convert a river to a sea? Must all transportation be on seas, do you know there are barges of over 300ft that can carry up to 8000 tons of containers and goods on a trip.
Everytime you southerners accuse us of literacy, but nairaland have shown me your education is just mediocre at best. Honestly you guys are disturbed.

You’re dumb and myopic, how do you transport billions of crude oil over river, you think only vessel ship pass over sea, how do you own a navy? With fever Niger

Education that trumps your own with a wide margin


With your assertion, Niger and other nothern African states should have used international law to have access to the Atlantic Ocean cause river Niger passed through their countries, northern states are still battling with chad basin, you’re talking about dredging (is it a road network or story building, that you can wake up one day to start) in your previous posts, you were comparing china blue sea to a river, that flows from guinea and empty in the Atlantic, you’re relating international law that governs sea bodies to a river, pathetic!

river niger is not a strait even if its dredge large vessels can’t use it, or you’ll dredge/Dig Senegal and Guinea lands to have access to the Atlantic Ocean .. recite this and don’t forget,

river niger can’t be turned to an international water

it’s not a strait that connects two large bodies of water

You can’t turn a river into a sea by dredging

You can’t have a naval fleet with river niger

I’m not surprised cause you’ve wasted billions of dollar finding imaginary oil in the north so you can believe in your write ups that it’s possible you dredge a river to become a sea

You can still use barges to transport your goods from Atlantic Ocean through river Niger but it’s only southern states that can give you access to their sea
Lower river niger has been dredged, how many shipping companies have used it? Where can ship berth in nothern Nigeria

Interesting how a region that can’t feed their almajiris want to start a dredging project that’ll gulp billions of dollars


If Nigeria is to divide, it’ll be into tribes and not regions

TheGodlessGod:
I meant any country can decide to disobey the United Nations and there won't be consequences.

Those rules are mere formalities

I strongly doubt that.

franchasng:
Guess their response Biafra will need to worship Yoruba or Niger Delta in order to have access to the sea or else, they will all die of hunger!! Jokers



The same tactics they have been using to discourage Igbos from trying to secede from Nigeria since the end of civil war in 1970 that is not working, why not change tactics


They tried by dividing Eastern region and caving out so called Niger Delta states out of Eastern regional communities like Bendel, Obiokpor, Elele, Ohaji, etc, etc in their effort to undermine Igbos and cut their power and then named the carved regions of Eastern Nigeria Southsouth, is there any geometric point called Southsouth anywhere on earth if not in Nigeria as designed by Hausa-Fulani + Yoruba controlled Federal government of Nigeria

Even after they did that, they further awarded crude oil communities in Igbo land to their neighboring states just to undermine Igbo states economically in their national revenue sharing nonsense, and they intentionally abandoned crude oil wells and sites solely in heart of Igbo communities like Nekede, Ihiagwa, Ohaji, Mbaise, Abia communities, etc.


Yet all these haven't stopped the Igbos from shinning and becoming the richest tribe with the highest number of rich people according to Forbes Magazine, while an Igbo community after years of political marginalization emerged and remained the richest community with the highest number of millionaires and billionaires in Naira, which is Nnewi town.



So let them continue with their landlock mantra until Nigeria divides then we will know who is who

You spoke well sir. You really captured alot in your short write-up.

The hatred for the ever resilient, successful and ambitious Igbos by the Hausa-fulani and yorubas has been the reason for the backwardness of the zoo.

Carving out SS from the Eastern region was born out of hatred for the prosperous Igbos and to whittle down their quest for secession but all that never deterred the ever resilient and determined people.

The sun shall rise again one day, just one day.

TheGodlessGod:
you are right I'm from Edo state and we are considered landlock but we still have access to sea.

If there's a time we are to be separated, we can't use the sea without agreement from yorubas/itsekeri people

There is nothing like and no need for any "Agreement" with any dolt. As long as the water body touches your national shores and the ocean, it is already international waters. River Niger is already International Waters right now. Go and check where Mali is in Africa. They have a fully functional and operating River Niger Port in Bamako. They do not need any "Agreement" whatsoever from any of the countries the same river Niger passes through. All these "Landlocked" dolts mocking Igbos (Even though Igboland is not even Landlocked in any sense), Whan this country breaks, make sure you leave your Osogbo and Ogbomoshor to come and police the River Niger.

Temptee101:


You spoke well sir. You really captured alot in your short write-up.

The hatred for the ever resilient, successful and ambitious Igbos by the Hausa-fulani and yorubas has been the reason for the backwardness of the zoo.

Carving out SS from the Eastern region was born out of hatred for the prosperous Igbos and to whittle down their quest for secession but all that never deterred the ever resilient and determined people.

The sun shall rise again one day, just one day.

Western region didn’t raise an eye when the midwestern region was carved out from her, it’s been over 40 years time to move on bro, nobody hates igbo here or had any igbo shop been looted in the south west? Countless of Igbos attend Yoruba schools, nobody hates you bro, time to stop those rhetoric

imhotep:
Sai Baba must hear this

Cc lzaa itooworwor

dukeprince50:
while that is the case, we practice a centralized system of govt, it's like been a slave in ur own land and u have to give the govt almost everything ur region produces and at the end of the month, they give u peanut as allocation, ND gets nothing from one Nigeria and we have been crying since time immemorial because the people are neglected, the state government can't build those bridges and still function very well.
This is one of the reason I despise the Ipob agenda because when the govt favoured them, they didn't shout SS/SE should break off from Nigeria and we are the ones crying, but now that they are been marginalized, they now see us as brothers and now know that we were suffering, what kind of brother remembers u wen things are bad for him?

They will soon call u Afonja or Efulefu (Their National Anthem)

TheGodlessGod:
I've seen some ignorant threads and post about landlocked issues in Nigeria and it's a Shame many nigerians don't know the meaning of landlocked.

Yorubas.ijaws.iskhkeri.akwa cross(ibibio, etc) are the only Ethnic groups with access to sea.

Rivers, bayelsa, Delta,ondo,Lagos,ogun,akwa ibom and cross river state are the only state with directaccess with to sea

What is all this noise in nairaland of who is landlocked and who have access to the seas all about? With all the access to the seas and all the huge natural resources at the advantage of Nigeria as a soverign state for over 60yrs what has it achieved? Nigeria is still largely underdeveloped and is still ranked as the poverty capital of the whole world. If access to the seas and oceans is what makes a country to be a first world nation then countries like Gabon, Gambia, Seychelles, Togo,Mauritania etc would have since been in the league of developed nations.
I strongly believe that what makes a country great and developed is the quality of the human resources that is available to it and not any access to the seas or even natural resources. The failed country called Nigeria is a very good example to illustrate this point even the Nigerian state knows this that's simply why they have refused to allow the industrious igbos to leave the Nigerian forced union. Apart from access to the seas and crude oil and gas deposits what else can the yoruba and the ijaw nations confidently boast of as a people?

TheGodlessGod:
looters and few population

It's not like those landlocked countries you mention are any better

I don't join issues with ignorant people. If you can, go read about the economies of the landlocked states that I mentioned, then compare them with those whose coastlines are washed by the Atlantic Ocean that I also mentioned. Then you begin to appreciate the importance of human capital visaviz geography in this age.