phemmyjohnson:
Even the oil in the southern region was not utilized for the regions benefit . So you think the north will do anything meaningful with oil in its region .. please sleep and wake up again .. until we separate nothing good will happen

North have been using Southern region oil to benefit theirs and u think they won't use their to benefit their own northern Sabi play politics na we southern dey always Bleep up

Nigeria has had bad leaders. If you like go and vote for another bad leader

Tafawa balewa,Nnamdi,Awolowo and that former and longest Minister of Finance during their era are the core problems of present Nigeria. They left a bad legacy and we are reaping the fruit

DejiPlug:

Hmmm

Hmmmmmmmmm

Aufbauh:
The Northern states concern will show their Southern counterparts how to judiciously use the oil derivative money accrue to her.

Exactly bro.
Just as they have judiciously used all their time in government and in top positions in the country to better the lives of Northerners, pulled them out of poverty and developed the North above other regions.

Nigeria my country
it is well oh !

We are happy. We want north to have crude oil.

Great insight, I hope they take a cue from our mistakes in the south to do a better job when production starts. Nigeria will succeed!

We can be sure that the selfish
parasitic north will keep the proceeds
of the Northern oil to themselves while
they continue to be parasitic and keep
taking the lion's share of the oil from
the Niger Delta.

I have always wondered why the
South South allows Northerners to have
control of the oil in their region while
not allowing any Southerner have
any control of whatever may be more
in the north, like gold, agriculture, FCT.

Now that the North has found oil, the doomed contraption can DISINTEGRATE PEACEFULLY!

I rep odua Republic.

Racoon:
What is different today whether what the white imperialists or the stupid irresponsible leaders Nigeria have today are doing something new or different.

The useless leadership of this nation goes to London and other cosy hospital to seek healthcare to the detriment of the nation. Buhari plane was senseless parked @ Stansted Airport London wherein it accumulated staggering debt burden on Nigeria.

Nigeria goes cap-in-hand to IMF, and other financial bodies to beg for loans or borrowings that have crumbled this nation. Meanwhile, the debt servicing charged by these borrowers is choking. Keep up with your delusional beliefs.

It's better we join england than be recolonised by them.

I am coming to add something.

If you want to expose the scam. Ask government to allow state's to retain 80% of their income from petrol while 20% is paid to FG account to be share to states without oil exempting state's with oil from sharing in it. This means saying to oil producing state's," take 80% of the revenue from the oil you claim to have and send 20% to FG and you will have no share from the 20%."


You will see all these states lying to have oil confess their sins as no money from oil will accrue to them.

Revolution2022:
Which oyel the north found? Buhari doesn't want criticism over the trillions of dollars spent on searching for a sham oyel.Is he not the one telling Nigerians to diversify into agriculture?What has he spent in purchasing tractors for agricultural use? Nothing

TheGiftedOne:
... Can the south now go their separate ways?

Why? Northerners have substantial stakes in southern oil fields

You don't understand the real significance of this discovery

now that the north has found oil? I'm not trying to be a pessimist but there would be increment of food price, why? lands in that region wouldn't be fertile anymore,with the new found wealth,most Northerners wouldn't even bother farming anymore....all regions always complemented each other and now APC has altered that balance

dem go remit to the national treasury ??

After the Niger delta region has been completely destroyed with nothing to show for.

Insightful one Mr Kolawole.

What is the faith of the Yelobas, now that the Awusas and Yeebos have oyel.

I'll be back to read this with open mind...

Quintopia:


Let them recolonise your father's house.

Leave Nigeria out of your madness.

Stupid slave.

Nigerian leaders not doing well enough? Okay so let's hand the country back to foreigners whose VERY REASON FOR COLONISATION is to LOOT our resources.

That is the fundamental motive for all colonisation throughout history. To LOOT the resources of the colonised territory, to enrich the coloniser's country.

That is what you are calling for as a solution to our problems?

I mean, the way some of you reason is just baffling.

And tomorrow you’ll be praying for visa to go abroad?! Lol.

Black people aren’t fit to rule. Maybe the next generation but not these set of hungry greedy men. If you like break your head on the wall, it doesn’t change the fact that you walk beside open gutters and the most progressive state in your country has a huge landfill site at the entrance of the state. Like wtf! Who heaps trash at the entrance of their state and within heavily populated residential areas?

Let me tell you who; Africans. Lol.

mecuries:
now that the north has found oil? I'm not trying to be a pessimist but there would be increment of food price, why? lands in that region wouldn't be fertile anymore,with the new found wealth,most Northerners wouldn't even bother farming anymore....all regions always complemented each other and now APC has altered that balance

Food prices will never increase.. cows grazing also causes the land to not be fertile.

The food the north eats is different from what other regions eat..

Food prices will only increase in the north.

I find the framing of the headline problematic. And this is the way we continue to stake narratives that further divide us.

The headline should read:

Now that WE have found oil in the North

Dear Op, what a brilliant piece! Its lengthy structure notwithstanding, I read it to the last word. Kudos!



The "devil's excreta" has proven over the years to be more of a curse than a blessing to the ordinary man on the street.




Only the privileged few and gangsters actually feed fat from that sector!




Therein lies our bane!



The talakawas up North would still end up as drawers of water and hewers of wood.




No be Naija again?

We can go our separate ways in peace!

Oil in the North is a scam
Buhari is pulling that scam to deceive northern urchins into believing he brought something tangible to the North for supporting him for eight years
He pulled such scam with Baro port towards the 2019 election.
Today, Baro port is only working on paper
I pity notherners. Buhari scammed them big time.

When Nigeria struck oil back in the 70s, they did develop some infrastructure, like the automobile manufacturing plants, several refineries, and even the cocoa house in Ibadan. And the Ajaokuta steel. All are now dead. Why?
Bad management. And the fact that even though we build cars for instance, we still make importing cars more lucrative by not putting high tax on imported cars, which result in them being more cheaper than locally made vehicles.
People would always choose the cheapers alternative especially if it overperforms the locally manufactured product.

If you make oil refineries and still make importing oil the cheaper alternative, those refineries would fall moribund within a few years.

Can youh elaborate in this "The detail that has been lost in the conspiracy theories, though, is that it will still take years for oil production to start in Kolmani, so the issue of derivation payment does not arise yet."

Why will it take long for production to start if Oil has been found?

QuotaSystem:
Excellent article. Well penned.

I foresee massive investments of the proceeds in infrastructure, agriculture and education.

The integrated blueprint (refinery, fertilizer, gas & power plant) is a masterstroke.

Quintopia:


Let them recolonise your father's house.

Leave Nigeria out of your madness.

Stupid slave.

I mean, the way some of you reason is just baffling.

I am happy that we still have sane people on this forum.
God bless you for your contribution.


More sane people need to speak out more, otherwise one would think this forum is filled with wereys when you see some comments

Something must be wrong with some of you!

Simon wrote this piece as if the Oil that is found in the North belongs to the North.

Even the title of the message is whack.

"Now that the North has found oil."

Not now that Nigeria has found oil in its Northern part.

So the Oil that has been carrying Nigeria for 50yrs that was found in the South is Nigerian oil but now that it's time to tap that found in the North it has become Northern oil.

It's a pity that the Yoruba Nation has developed a slave mentality to the North.

That mentality appears to have always been there but Tinubu boosted it out of proportion.

So Simon acknowledges that the South is a second class citizen in this political arrangement

Aufbauh:
The Northern states concern will show their Southern counterparts how to judiciously use the oil derivative money accrue to her.

RedpillAnalyst:
Insightful one Mr Kolawole.

What is the faith of the Yelobas, now that the Awusas and Yeebos have oyel.

They'll soon drill oil in Oyo state. Hearing rumours that crude oil is in Lagos state. Hehehe

codemaniacs:


Food prices will never increase.. cows grazing also causes the land to not be fertile.

The food the north eats is different from what other regions eat..

Food prices will only increase in the north.

Like really?

If the South have enough lands to farm, store and sell produce in large quantities, the North are doomed!