sowetto:

This article is brilliant and a lot of her points a true although some of the things said are inconsistent with facts

* saying that agricultural revenues from the north was used to sustain the whole country before oil was found is a blatant lie.  Nigeria had 3 major cash crops cocoa, groundnut and palm oil; two of these are from the south. Oil was found in Nigeria in the 1950s that was before independence.

* saying that most of the victims of boko haram are northerners cant be proven and it does not exempt northern leaders from having a hand in the operation of boko haram. This guys have been well motivated, coordinated and funded. Some influential elements in the NORTH are effectively backing them. The prime targets of boko haram are not northern Muslims, they are Christians and southerners.
It is left for northen leaders to resolve the issue of boko haram because only they can. They should stop making unreasonable excuses ( like poverty, oil derivation, killing of muslims , corruption ) for boko haram.

BERNIMOORE:

[b]Nice Article, Hitting The Nail On The Head,

Only That This Kind Of Article Will Not Have A Meaning To All Northern Leaders Who Stubornly Believed That 'God Had Already Make Some People To Be Poor,And Some People To Be Rich' And So,You Cant Change Anything,They Always Choose Not To Be Realistic,

So How Do You Expect Change From Someone Like That,Or Someone Whose Decision Is Shaped To A Particular Pattern By His Religion?

For Example, The North Has 33 Yrs From Our 51 Yr Rule From Our Independence, But We In The South Are 30 Yrs Ahead Of Them In Everything,Education,Trade,Civilisation Etc. The Rate At Which They Breed The Almajiris In Kano Expecially Is The Most Wicked Thing That Can Ever Be Done To Human Race, And That Is Because Of Their Firm Religious Muslim Belief ( 'God Had Already Make Some People To Be Poor,And Some People To Be Rich' And So,You Cant Change Anything)

This Belief Makes Them Not To Plan Their Birth Rate,
Makes Them Not To Take A Good Responsibility Of Training Children They Bore
Abuse Under Age Girls To Start Rearing Children At An Early Age Without Having A Plan For Her Future.

And In All,They Promote Idleness To The Highest Degree With Their Lack Of Planning, And Now That They Have No Access To Be President To Steal And Distribute Free Money As An Act Of God, Or That Their Religious Belief Has Been Proved Wrong That They Are Born To Rule Is Just A False Feeling,Now They Want The Heaven To Fall.

Buhari For Example Is A Bad Looser The Way He Always Pursue The Case Agaisnt The Southern President. He Did Not Do That To Ibb That Overthrows His Gov'nt.
Buhari Overthrows A Democratic Government Of Shagari Instead Of Waiting For His Own Time To Contest,He Choose The Bloody Way.

Now What Betterment Did He Do For His People? Nothing, No Education, No Jobs, And The Auterity Measure Did More Harm Than Good To His Northern People.

Now Some People Still See Buhari A Someone Who Can Change Nigeria, ''Show Me Your Friend,Then I Will Know Who You Are''

From The Massive  Underdeveloped Northerners Perspective,Buhari Is A Failure Like Any Other Northern President.

I Have Always Say It That We In The South Are Not Compactible With The North,
And The Better We Split. Thats My Opinion

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ndu_chucks:

I wonder whether some folks know what a pen mame, nom de plume, or literary double mean. SMH

namfav:


that is a important point, if you look at that that, it is actually the media creating some of this problems, they created the name "boko haram" just to get this group going, they make them bigger than they actually are, by bringing fear you make things difficult to control, they created the perception that northerners are illiterate, poor, uneducated, they created the perception that northern leaders can't lead, they created the perception that northerners have held nigeria backwards, people should not be ashamed of there problems, the north has problems, but it seems when people talk about problems in nigeria they only stop and start at the north, not the south, mind you anyone who has been to the south knows the endless problems, the media in nigeria is not honest, its driven by a blame agenda, northern leaders have been ridiculed for many years, what types of insults haven't buhari, ribadu, sanusi etc. got in nigeria? even tomorrow if we come up with a good enough leader the media will find ways to ridicule him and make him as null and void as possible to the southerner, it doesn't make sense to repeat what the media in the south has repeated, sure there are problems in the north, but what is being told that hasn't been told, what northerners, the writers, the contributers have to do is focus on the good things, if we cant do it for ourselves, don't expect anyone else to do it for us, write a critical article about the north it will be frontpage, write something which gives a positive outlook, it will have 50 views, lets be honest, we've already hit the bottom, no way but up now, the experiences will be positive, rally behind the positives, the north has a "template" which is historical and progressive that are leaders (we have many too chose from) can build from