₦airaland Forum

SalamRushdie:
How did he get up that far without a faraday cage ..I doubt that 330 KVA pylon was carrying electricity

He did not touch the real thing but when he got to the peak,he touched the uppermost wire.People said it is neutral.All the same no sane person will try that stunt on a live powerline as he did.

People watching.Lagos Lookers

He has been cajoled to come down.He is an Aboki...one of the bowler guys..maybe he has taken a hard drug or gum which is very common amongst them.He was enticed with money when he came close and refused to come down.

This is how they brought him down and some TV crews started filming him...Pix

Happening Now:Nobody knows why he has not been electrocuted.
Some people said he is a mad man.
He is still there as I type.

paparazzi1987:
There are places called FOOD BANK in Canada and US where people line up in a long queue to get there portion every thuesday.

We Nigerians always try hard to look for dirts inside EVA water.

We can teach them a little decency too,you know.

paparazzi1987:
very creative and innovative way to feed the less privileged.

Am setting up food back in my home town In Sha Allah

Innovative way of feeding the poor* Get a suitable large place for them with chairs,everybody seated and their tokens given to them neatly packed and with prayers and thanks,everybody goes home happy.
Do not dehumanize them by telling them to line up in the public,u under the sun or in full glare of people that will mock them.Pls,stomach infrastructural governors should take note and fear almighty God.If you dehumanize the poor,remember that karma is a boomerang.

[quote author=BankeSmalls post=66633294]

These Lagos people should stop giving this country a bad image just to hurt Buharri chance of winning the presidency next year.

Can't they walk home? They walked for Buharri when he won, they should keep walking [/quoPlease,don't trivialize this issue,pls.

There were crowds of passengers all over the bus stops in Lagos today.
Reason given by an official was that they are short of fuel.
Wonders shall never end.PRIMERO,your business is everyday transportation and you are short of fuel when there is no fuel scarcity.Is it monopoly or what?

mercyville:
What about the South?South East,South South or South West...I do not even know how Northerners think for God's sake.Why would all or most military establishments be in the North?You will shoot your legs and destroy the bones therein one day with these lopsided dealings..

Really disheartening.

Owamudia:
Dullards won't even read the post before commenting.
The aboookis were actually chased away.

We are actually in the midst of this nonsense.It is not a Yoruba vs Hausa thing but a handful of boys from Amoo street and Olatunji streets in OJOTA vs all the Hausa because they are gking from one place to the other lookibg for Hausa people.The worst they have done is stabbing one Isiaka(hausa) and destroying hausa kiosks both in Amoo and Olatunji streets.We have heard
a lot since yesterday that a pregnant woman and nine Hausa died but all was false.Nobody,I repeat,nobody died.As I type this,we have some hausas in our big compound.This is where they will sleep until tomorrow.I will post some pictures tomorrow. We believe those boys are cultists.

The etymology of the name "Yoruba" can be traced to the Arabic or Arhamaic language. I am not too good in referencing posts, I would have referred to you the post in which I discussed your question. Let's look at Yoruba and the believed founder of the tribe, Lamurudu. The word Yoruba was used to refer to a people that emigrated from an Arab culture. As you head North and encounter different languages its pronounciation gets closer to "Ya Arab". Ya Arab stand for the "Children of Arab" or "People of Arab" or "Descent of Arab". The Hausas call Yoruba "Bayarabe". They call Arabs, "Balarabe" . Sometimes they will say "Yarabawa" for Yoruba and "Larabawa" for Arab. Who were the Arabs at the time of Lamurudu arriving in Ife? They were idol worshippers who believed in gods. Lamurudu brought that tradition to Ife and instituted it as the religion of the Yorubas. The Arab land covered all along the eastern edge of Africa to the horn by Somalia and into Yemen and up into what today is Saudi Arbia. Lamurudu was an Arab of Axum descent. Axum was in what is now Ethiopia. Yorubas are not the only Arabian migrants to current Nigeria. The Shuwa Arabs are too. They are found in Adamawa and Borno and they are of Sudan descent. To explain Lamurudu (Oduduwa's father), let's look at two names; Abdul Hamid and Al Amin. When pronounced in Yoruba, the first becomes Lamidi and the second Lamina. There are people today in Yorubaland called Lamidi and Lamina and if you tell them its correctly spelled Abdul Hamid and Al Amin they will dispute it. Using this analogy, Lamurudu would be something like Al Marud. Lamurudu has no translation in Yoruba language, it is widely acknowledged that its a foreign name. The story of Lamurudu beaing a man of Eastern origin is true. He emigrated from Ethiopia. Now did every Yoruba emigrated with him and are of Eastern origin? NO!

KwaraRat:
The word "Yoruba" does not have any meaning in the language of the Olukumi People but traces it's origins from the mockery the Hausa/Fulani jihadist used in describing the once great race after they had sacked Oyo Ile (the capital of the old Oyo empire) and annexed Ilorin for the Sokoto Caliphate.

The word Yoruba is derived from the two words: Oyo and Oba and from the Hausa/Fulani dialect was pronounced "Oyoroba" and was a direct mockery of how they (Hausa Fulanis) captured Ilorin, killed Afonja and the Oba of old Oyo.

How the Olukumin peope will accept a known derogatory mockery as the name of their race baffles me.

There is nothing like oyoroba that you formed out of the air.
This is how Yoruba came by..


History of the Yoruba:
Decoding the History of Yoruba
within the meanings of
language and the symbols
One of the things that is
very consistent in the
History of Yoruba people
and family nations has been
that King Lamurudu was a
powerful hunter who had
several children and one of
them, Odua or Oduduwa the
last child, became the
founding ancestor of the
Yoruba people and family
nations.
Our prehistory is based on
oral traditions and, like all
oral stories, subject to
change by omission and
commission -- after some
thousands years of told and
retold. When groups and
family nations have found
their niche and security
within the land, independent
of one another, different
stories about groups'
origins become more
fashionable.
And the advent of
colonialists did not help our
history. It was like the
'sermon on the mount' --
"Give ye not that which is
sacred to the dog, neither
cast your pearl before the
swine, for the swine would
trample them under their
feet and the dog would turn
and rend you." For some
thousands of years we have
given our history to alien
powers; as we use their
expertise and their language
to interpret and write about
who we were and are.
The situation was made
more complicated as
colonialists (another alien
powers) moved in and
assigned different alphabets
to the spoken words of
similar groups within group.
For example: Some groups
were assigned the letter C,
some got Z and another got
S -- for similar sounds. In
one similar sound, some
groups were assigned Ch, or
Sh, or, even S. Some group
received the K and others
received the Q for similar
sound, and so on and so
on. Each group accepted its
alien alphabets without
reexamination and change.
Furthermore, isolation of
groups from each other led
to different pronunciations
of words and their uses
took new, but related,
meanings.
Please allow me to digress
a moment. I went to see a
Ghanian colleague in
Richardson by Dallas in
Texas. He and I went out for
a couple of hours and, upon
return, his wife welcomed
us back home with the word
that sounded like Yoruba
"eku aabo,"which means
"welcome" in Yoruba. But I
was wrong. She was
speaking her Ghana
language when she said
"akwaaba," which means
"welcome." Another group in
Ghana spells the same word
"aquaaba."Our languages
and symbols, highly codified
by our ancestors in order to
promote survival, could be
very useful in determining
our true history.
We must look at prehistory
and other available
references from ancient
times related to oral
prehistory and our cultural
symbols to correct the
mistakes in written history.
Last year I wrote: "The
Yoruba language is
excellent in what is called
"euphony." Euphony is a
method by which one makes
a phonetic change to make
a word or phrase more
pleasant to hear or
pronounce. For example, in
Yoruba, "li" or "ni" can
interchange. Some Yoruba
ethnic can say "ni ana" or "li
ana" which means "as of
yesterday." "Ni oni" or "li
oni" which means "as of
today." For the sake of
euphony, both phrases
become "lana" and "loni"
respectively. Now, let us
apply the same to Nimrod,
Nam'Ur-ud and the father of
O'dua -- Lamurudu.
First, take out all vowels in
each name. Nimrod will
become NMRD, Nam'Ur-ud
will become NMRD. For the
sake of euphony, replace
the "L" in Lamurudu with N
and you have NMRD.
Lamurudu was the
beginning of ena; the
inversion or change of
letters, words, syllables or
sentences in order that the
sense is disguised.
Lamurudu is thus
concealed.
It has now become an
instinctual response for the
Yoruba to trigger the "u"
sense upon contact with
Arabic names, which have
their root in Aramaic, the
language of the Canaanites.
Ask yourself this question:
How did the Greek come to
have the "Staff of Orion" and
the Yoruba also have the
"Opa Oranyan?" Orion and
Oranyan are the same but
utter confusion.
But our elders would
exaggerate some words.
Oranyan (Orion) became
Oranmiyan -- the same utter
confusion. The Greek and
the Hebrew borrowed a lot
from their Canaanite
masters from prehistory.
The art of writing came from
the Canaanites. The Hebrew,
the Arabic and the Greek
borrowed from the
Canaanite. Some older
dictionaries would let you
know that.
But modern dictionaries
have begun to omit the
Canaanite as first in writing.
And that is purposeful. For
example, the letter "O" is
used by the Canaanite to
mean "end or completion." It
is "omega" in Greek which
means "end." The word "dua"
is Aramaic/Arabic for
"prayer" or "supplicate
before God." In Arabic "Ya"
is "O." Therefore if you
named your child "Ya'dua"
and I named my child
"O'dua," we are both
thanking God for answering
our prayers for giving us the
child we want.
The name is usually given to
the expected last born son.
In modern Yoruba, a'dua has
acquired the letter "r" to
become "adura. "Following
the deluge, after a few
thousand years with the
kingdom under water and
under deserts, other people,
including the Hebrew,
invaded with confidence to
take over the land gradually
because the great king was
gone. The Canaanites
scattered under different
names to hide because of
persecution, genocide,
splinter groups and within
group fighting. One group
became Yoruba, which was
'Yerubbaal' -- the 'People of
Baal'. Baal was a
monotheistic God.
With new names for the one
and only God, the word
'Baal' was absorbed from
the Canaanite into Hebrew
to mean 'lord or master of
the house' and it is the
same as 'baale' in Yoruba.
The people further changed
the identity of Baal to
Shango.
Please make the effort to go
to a good museum where
you can find the drawing of
the Canaanite God Baal and
compare it with any statue
of Shango. And for that
matter, we should compare
the sculptures and arts of
the Canaanites
(Phoenicians) with that of
the Yoruba, Benin, Asante
and others for similarities.
And we should not allow
any stolen history found in
the Old Testament cause us
to shy away from our
prehistory. The Canaanite
word "ilu" gave us Olu, Eli
and Ala. The same people
gave us "ob" from which
Obd, Abd and Oba came.
For example in the Bible, we
have OBADIAH which is
"servant of God." It is
oxymoron when our Yoruba
ministers call God "Olorun-
oba." the Owner of the
Heaven cannot also be
called the servant. Olorun
by itself is a great attribute
for God. Oba in prehistory
was the servant of the
people appointed by the
King to administer his
territories -- conquered or
acquired. At that time, Obas
were like Governor Generals
under the British rule in our
present day. They were not
meant to equal the status of
the king.
In the same line of
conversation, the deity
"Obatala" in Yoruba was the
'servant of God' and God is
'Ala Ta Ala' in Islam. The
time is now for our
linguists, lexicologists,
educators and simply
ordinary persons to help
update the Yoruba
Dictionary to include the
roots and origins of words.
Our alphabets, developed by
a European anthropologist,
only put us further away
from our origin, especially
those letters that carry a dot
along with them.
Take for an example, the
letter 'O' as in 'imo' and
'ino'. Both words mean
'light'. But in Aramaic and
Arabic, the words 'light' will
be 'ur' and 'nur'. Let us
declare our own Age of
Enlightenment with the new
millennium.
Author: M. Kayode Oladale
Molake

Hello,Seun why did you hide the Salisu Adamu thread.Do you know something I do not know about the unfortunate boy?Pls,reply.God bless.

diana158:
Akwa Ibom state Government have began the construction of a 21 storey building for offices.

Speaking on efforts so far to ensure relocation of offices of International Oil Companies to the state, Commissioner of information Udoh said the ongoing 21-storey building embarked upon by Governor Udom Emmanuel would have state-of –the art facilities for offices.

"We know how much ExxonMobil is paying as tax to Lagos State government. Now we are constructing a 21 storey building with the intention to gradually increase it to about 30. This is a smart building with standard facilities for a modern office. So ExxonMobil would no longer have any excuse for not relocating to the state”. he said
cc mynd44

http://ibomtoday.com/akwa-ibom-begins-construction-of-21-storey-for-mobil/

Laudable

Jakumo:
But for the existence of the international airport in Lagos, I would never set foot in that place for the rest of my entire life, and be glad for that freedom of choice.

I cannot think of a dirtier, smellier, louder, more congested, more polluted, and more spontaneously dangerous city, than Lagos, Nigeria.

I would sooner occupy a grass hut located in a deep forest, for a whole year, with no phone, no electricity and only the food I can kill, than to spend one single day trapped inside a mansion built ANYWHERE in that place called Lagos.

I wouldn't stay a week in Lagos, even if someone offered me a million euros to take that challenge, unless of course the money was paid in advance, in which case I would take the cash and vanish into the cosmos, never to be seen again.

I could go on, but suffice to say, my loathing for Lagos Nigeria, runs very, very deep indeed.

Mmm

We have 30 tons.What is the mileage?Are you going to fill the trucks up to 30 tons or below e.g 230,250 etc?How much are you paying for each truck?

Stingman:
Suffersticated ogbeni...What do you do with the trillion IGR collected in Ogun state, the biggest in Africa.

This clarifies the question economically..
Nigeria: One Country Four Economies
Discussion Points
By
Falalu Bello, OFR
abumoha1978@yahoo.com




v I thank my friend and Junior brother,
Mr. Sam Nda-Isiah, for inviting me to
speak at this important forum on what
to do to reverse de-industrialization in
Northern Nigerian. When the invitation
was extended to me, I asked of the
topic I am to speak on and I was not
given any. All my brother wanted me to
do at this Conference is to set the tone
for the experts invited to do justice to
the topic under discussion. My role
therefore is not to talk of how
industrialists are to access funds from
the banking system nor even to talk on
such general issues as the importance
of finance to industrialization:



v I have been invited to contextually put
Northern Nigeria amongst other regions
in Nigeria and could easily have
compared Northern economy and its
Southern Counterpart. I have chosen
not to go this route because, I want us
all to see that geography, history and
the Obasanjo administration and its
reform agenda have created four (4)
fairly distinct economies in Nigerian.
We as Northerners need to appreciate
where our economy currently stands
amongst other economies in Nigeria so
as to appreciate the kind of race we
have to run if we are to remain relevant
in Nigeria.




v On the basis of ownership and/or
control of resources that make for
economic development, post-Obasanjo
Nigeria in terms of strength could easily
be categorized into 4 economies as
follows:
a) South West Economy;
b) South East plus Delta
Economy;
c) Northern Economy; and
d) South South minus Delta
Economy




v The four economies mentioned above
are fairly distinct with each growing at
its own pace. The South Western
economy is growing at a faster rate
than all followed by South East plus
Delta economy whilst those of the
North and South South minus Delta
could at best be described as
stagnant. A simple analysis of these
four economies is given below:-





a) South West Economy
South Western Nigeria with
a Land Mass of 76,852
square kilometres and
population of 25.2 million
today owns and/or control
60% of the nation’s
industrial capacity, 44% of
banking assets, 67% of
insurance assets and is
house to the nation’s three
deep sea ports of Apapa,
Tin Can Island and Roro;
the busiest international
airport of Ikeja, three
thermal stations of Egbin,
Papalanto and Omotosho.





Today, its three major
industrial estates of Agbara,
Ikeja and Otta are all linked
to gas under the West
African gas pipeline plan
and piping of gas is ongoing
from Otta to Abeokuta.
Added to these, the South
Western population today is
the most educated as
western education came
through there and education
as a resource was
democratized since the
early sixties. Geographical
location, democratization of
western education,
availability of resources
enhanced in last 9 years
and some empowerment
during the Obasanjo
administration have
collectively enabled the
South Western economy to
rank as first of the four
economies in Nigeria.





Today, the South West as a
region can boast of having
a defined growing middle
class and is perceived to
have at least 20,000 of its
indigenes with net worth of
over N100m each. Take it
out of Nigeria, the South
West economy with is
defined growing middle
class and resources, will be
one of the fastest growing
economies in the world.





b) The South-East plus Delta
The South Easterners plus
their cousins across the
Onitsha bridge control
commerce in all parts of
Nigeria and are thus largely
employed. The region has
clusters of small scale
industries around Nnewi and
Aba. The banking
consolidation has assisted
these people to now have
ownership and or control of
over 50% of Nigerian
banking assets. It also
controls 21% of the nation’s
insurance assets and 20%
of industrial assets. With
this development, this
region which has not had a
commanding control over
Nigerian economy will
certainly begin to do that
now. Commercial activities
backed by finance can only
grow the economy of
South-East plus Delta.





The growing strength of
financial muscle of this
region has been aptly
demonstrated by the recent
licensing of Micro Finance
Banks. Of the over 600
MFBs recently licensed by
the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN), Anambra State alone
had 74 whilst Yobe State
had 1, Sokoto 5, Zamfara 6,
etc. There exists also in
this economy a middle
class which will now grow
itself in number and
financial muscle and will
almost certainly grow its
economy inclusive
particularly of small and
medium sized industrial
base.





c) The Northern Economy
The North which
geographically is 719,435
Square Kilometers or 79%
of Nigeria’s landmass and
has 75 million or 53.6% of
Nigeria’s population has its
economy as a consequence
of various reforms
introduced, been totally
grounded. Today, the North
has ownership and/or
control of no more than 3%
of banking assets and 2% of
insurance assets and 10%
of industrial assets. True,
the North has a huge
landmass but this has
remained under exploited
due to jettisoning of time
tested policies of price
support (as a result of
abolishing of marketing
boards without putting
alternatives) and
abandonment of extension
services and quality
control.





Also, the North has
a huge population but the
population has remained
largely uneducated and/or
half educated because of
near failure of governance
in certain States and Local
Governments. Currently its
most distinguishing
characteristic is grinding
poverty. Recent poverty
statistics indicate that the
poverty level of States in
the North has been on the
increase in the last 9 years
and reached over 80%. Its
two commercial and
industrial nerve centers
(Kano and Kaduna) have
seen industrial capacity
utilization decline to an all
time low of less than 10%.





The textile, automobile and
beverages companies that
thrived so impressively in
the 1970s and 1980s have
collapsed rendering
thousands jobless.
Although hydroelectricity is
generated at Kainji Dam
and in lesser quantities at
Shiroro Gorge and at
several smaller sites, the
entire mechanisms are run
on very obsolete equipment
and the performance is
consequently very epileptic
and unsuitable for
meaningful economic
activity.




d) The South South minus
Delta
The South South is largely in
the creeks of Niger Delta and
has therefore a small land
mass of only 48,321 square
kilometers and is populated
by 13.6 Million people.
Notwithstanding the fact that
it is house to Nigerian Oil
wealth, this region exclusive
of oil company activities like
the North is also backward
economically. It controls no
more than 3% of banking
assets, 10% of insurance
assets and no more than 10%
of industrial assets on
account of oil related
industries that the indigenes
do not control. Furthermore,
its overstretched land mass
has suffered considerable
degradation and its aquatic
life destroyed.




As a region,
its people and economy are
worst off than the North as it
lacks fresh environment,
water and even good air to
breath.




http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS7879.htm

patrick89:
You guys are so lucky that I did not see this thread on time.... All these dirty lace wearing addidas faces from the descendants of odududevil would be crying by now...
I don't need help I will slaughter you oblongos into pieces.
Very backward mouthed beings from poo land of waste have nothing to show. They always brag about Lagos, they have no economic dominance on... Ndi ara.

Do not mind them.I support you on this.

Those of you praising Ibadan for dusting all the SE states should cover your faces in shame.Ibadan should even be dusting Lagos and Abuja if it were not for bad leadership.Kudos to the recent govt in Oyo state for waking up the giant but they should put in more effort.I say kudos to the SE for braving the odds after what they have gone through during the civil war.You are great.

This clarifies the question economically..
Nigeria: One Country Four Economies
Discussion Points
By
Falalu Bello, OFR
abumoha1978@yahoo.com




v I thank my friend and Junior brother,
Mr. Sam Nda-Isiah, for inviting me to
speak at this important forum on what
to do to reverse de-industrialization in
Northern Nigerian. When the invitation
was extended to me, I asked of the
topic I am to speak on and I was not
given any. All my brother wanted me to
do at this Conference is to set the tone
for the experts invited to do justice to
the topic under discussion. My role
therefore is not to talk of how
industrialists are to access funds from
the banking system nor even to talk on
such general issues as the importance
of finance to industrialization:



v I have been invited to contextually put
Northern Nigeria amongst other regions
in Nigeria and could easily have
compared Northern economy and its
Southern Counterpart. I have chosen
not to go this route because, I want us
all to see that geography, history and
the Obasanjo administration and its
reform agenda have created four (4)
fairly distinct economies in Nigerian.
We as Northerners need to appreciate
where our economy currently stands
amongst other economies in Nigeria so
as to appreciate the kind of race we
have to run if we are to remain relevant
in Nigeria.




v On the basis of ownership and/or
control of resources that make for
economic development, post-Obasanjo
Nigeria in terms of strength could easily
be categorized into 4 economies as
follows:
a) South West Economy;
b) South East plus Delta
Economy;
c) Northern Economy; and
d) South South minus Delta
Economy




v The four economies mentioned above
are fairly distinct with each growing at
its own pace. The South Western
economy is growing at a faster rate
than all followed by South East plus
Delta economy whilst those of the
North and South South minus Delta
could at best be described as
stagnant. A simple analysis of these
four economies is given below:-





a) South West Economy
South Western Nigeria with
a Land Mass of 76,852
square kilometres and
population of 25.2 million
today owns and/or control
60% of the nation’s
industrial capacity, 44% of
banking assets, 67% of
insurance assets and is
house to the nation’s three
deep sea ports of Apapa,
Tin Can Island and Roro;
the busiest international
airport of Ikeja, three
thermal stations of Egbin,
Papalanto and Omotosho.





Today, its three major
industrial estates of Agbara,
Ikeja and Otta are all linked
to gas under the West
African gas pipeline plan
and piping of gas is ongoing
from Otta to Abeokuta.
Added to these, the South
Western population today is
the most educated as
western education came
through there and education
as a resource was
democratized since the
early sixties. Geographical
location, democratization of
western education,
availability of resources
enhanced in last 9 years
and some empowerment
during the Obasanjo
administration have
collectively enabled the
South Western economy to
rank as first of the four
economies in Nigeria.





Today, the South West as a
region can boast of having
a defined growing middle
class and is perceived to
have at least 20,000 of its
indigenes with net worth of
over N100m each. Take it
out of Nigeria, the South
West economy with is
defined growing middle
class and resources, will be
one of the fastest growing
economies in the world.





b) The South-East plus Delta
The South Easterners plus
their cousins across the
Onitsha bridge control
commerce in all parts of
Nigeria and are thus largely
employed. The region has
clusters of small scale
industries around Nnewi and
Aba. The banking
consolidation has assisted
these people to now have
ownership and or control of
over 50% of Nigerian
banking assets. It also
controls 21% of the nation’s
insurance assets and 20%
of industrial assets. With
this development, this
region which has not had a
commanding control over
Nigerian economy will
certainly begin to do that
now. Commercial activities
backed by finance can only
grow the economy of
South-East plus Delta.





The growing strength of
financial muscle of this
region has been aptly
demonstrated by the recent
licensing of Micro Finance
Banks. Of the over 600
MFBs recently licensed by
the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN), Anambra State alone
had 74 whilst Yobe State
had 1, Sokoto 5, Zamfara 6,
etc. There exists also in
this economy a middle
class which will now grow
itself in number and
financial muscle and will
almost certainly grow its
economy inclusive
particularly of small and
medium sized industrial
base.





c) The Northern Economy
The North which
geographically is 719,435
Square Kilometers or 79%
of Nigeria’s landmass and
has 75 million or 53.6% of
Nigeria’s population has its
economy as a consequence
of various reforms
introduced, been totally
grounded. Today, the North
has ownership and/or
control of no more than 3%
of banking assets and 2% of
insurance assets and 10%
of industrial assets. True,
the North has a huge
landmass but this has
remained under exploited
due to jettisoning of time
tested policies of price
support (as a result of
abolishing of marketing
boards without putting
alternatives) and
abandonment of extension
services and quality
control.





Also, the North has
a huge population but the
population has remained
largely uneducated and/or
half educated because of
near failure of governance
in certain States and Local
Governments. Currently its
most distinguishing
characteristic is grinding
poverty. Recent poverty
statistics indicate that the
poverty level of States in
the North has been on the
increase in the last 9 years
and reached over 80%. Its
two commercial and
industrial nerve centers
(Kano and Kaduna) have
seen industrial capacity
utilization decline to an all
time low of less than 10%.





The textile, automobile and
beverages companies that
thrived so impressively in
the 1970s and 1980s have
collapsed rendering
thousands jobless.
Although hydroelectricity is
generated at Kainji Dam
and in lesser quantities at
Shiroro Gorge and at
several smaller sites, the
entire mechanisms are run
on very obsolete equipment
and the performance is
consequently very epileptic
and unsuitable for
meaningful economic
activity.




d) The South South minus
Delta
The South South is largely in
the creeks of Niger Delta and
has therefore a small land
mass of only 48,321 square
kilometers and is populated
by 13.6 Million people.
Notwithstanding the fact that
it is house to Nigerian Oil
wealth, this region exclusive
of oil company activities like
the North is also backward
economically. It controls no
more than 3% of banking
assets, 10% of insurance
assets and no more than 10%
of industrial assets on
account of oil related
industries that the indigenes
do not control. Furthermore,
its overstretched land mass
has suffered considerable
degradation and its aquatic
life destroyed.




As a region,
its people and economy are
worst off than the North as it
lacks fresh environment,
water and even good air to
breath.




http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS7879.htm

obiageIi:
This is really scary

More than scary for me.I hate heights! Just imagine having a dizzy person or a pregnant woman go over this "bridge".The weirdest thing to me is that a lot of students of WASIMI SCHOOL (public)pass this route with their hearts in their mouths every weekdays.imagine them fighting on this death trap.There is an abandoned project-sign post at the Ojota end.
Pls..lalasticlala,Mynd44,Seun..

obiageIi:
This is really scary

More than scary for me.I hate heights! Just imagine having a dizzy person or a pregnant woman go over this "bridge".The weirdest thing to me is that a lot of students of WASIMI SCHOOL (public)pass this route with their hearts in their mouths every weekdays.imagine them fighting on this death trap.
Pls..lalasticlala,Mynd44,Seun..

Gov Ambode should,as a matter of urgency construct rails on this bridge running from Ojota to Anthony end of Lagos.Just a little skirmish on that bridge and lots of lives will surely be lost..may God forbid!

Well...?

BrutalJab:
Enough of this Asiwere Tinubu's Epistles jare....

Meanwhile,

[b] I don't know why yorubas will never learn, it beats me how they go about beating their chests shouting 'Sophistication' while everything is pointing to the contrary.
Benjamin Adekunle took his hatred for Igbos to another level during the civil war when he went about shooting women and children at the outskirts of Biafra while the hausa/fulani were watching. After using him, they disgraced him out of the army without any benefits such that he was looking for small contracts to feed himself before he died. At some point, his son was begging for donations to be made to take him to just Ghana for treatment. We are not even talking of taking him to the USA, Germany or UK oo, just to ordinary Ghana that we can trek into he could not afford it.
Obafemi Awolowo was also used by the hausa/fulani to wage the war against Igbos were he suggested that Biafran children by starved which lead to the death of so many. Awolowo was hoping that the hausa/fulani would compensate him by supporting him to become president but it only turned out he had been used and dumped. The northerners threw all their support behind their son Shagari and Awolowo was never president. As though this was not enough, Babangida was about to arrest Awolowo(which would have been the second time the northerners would be arresting him if it had happened) and to avoid this disgrace, Awolowo had to commit suicide by drinking poison(I think Ratak).
Abiola the yoruba aere onakankanfo thought that he had the north all behind him only for them to cancel his electoral victory and throw him in prison. The hausa/fulani still went ahead to serve him a very special tea which he drank and died. They went a step further by dispatching his wife Kudirat to join him in eternity.
This brings us down to Bola Ahmed Tinubu aka BAT- jagajaga borgu. Like FFK said, Buhari is the spirit clearly behind Tinubu's woes. The hausa/fulani are out to destroy Tinubu and reduce him to one of those agberos running around Lagos shouting 'owomida' at the top of their voices. Again, another yoruba leader has been used and is being dumped.
I keep wondering why yorubas continue to mistake treachery for sophistication and cowardice for wisdom.
selah[/b]

No wonder they call you mumu.Go into history and see if no northerner and eadterner were equally disgraced out of the army which should not have happened by the way.Yorubas know that life is all about winning some and losing some.Is Obasanjo an Igbo man?Yorubas have gained more than anybody in Nigeria and we intend to gain more if Nigeria still exists in the mighty name of Allah.

iconize:
How will your love for him bring about the disintegration of Nigeria as he said?

Only the deep knows the deep.We are strongly behind Tinubu.To know a people,go and read their history The North wants to break the only strong political force in the South so they can continue holding the con3 to ransome by putting their stooges in power but it is a DOA thing.The Northerners are using Odigie Oyegun like a cyborg.I pity the man for being so weak.

kingofthejungle:
buhari is a bastard

Truly but why?

Two entrepreneurs are set to unveil Nigeria’s first online lender in New York on Thursday.
Marketed as a digital bank that will have no branches, Lidya will be based in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, and offer small and medium-sized businesses unsecured loans of between $500 and $15,000. While it will initially focus on Nigerian customers, Lidya will target cities across Africa, according to Tunde Kehinde, a co-founder.
“There are no real products catered to these customers today,” Kehinde said by phone from New York, where he’ll announce the formation of Lidya at a financial technology conference. “What we’re trying to do is introduce a lot of technology, algorithms and machine learning to industrialize the credit assessment process.”
Kehinde, a Harvard Business School graduate, is a former managing director of Jumia, Nigeria’s biggest online retailer. He currently runs Africa Courier Express, a logistics company, along with Ercin Eksin, the other founder of Lidya.
While Kehinde and Eksin are the majority owners, they will look to bring in other shareholders and raise more than $1 million in the next few months from investors, primarily in the U.S., Eksin said.
Lidya will be opened next month and also partner with Nigerian banks to allow them to use it as a platform to target small businesses.
“Because of how the banks are set up, with bricks and mortar networks, they’re more inclined to service multinationals and large government institutions,” Kehinde said. “Their cost structure isn’t favorable to servicing small businesses. Because we’re using technology and algorithms to assess the risk, it allows them to offer financial products to these customers at a low cost.”



.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/harvard-graduate-set-to-start-nigeria-s-first-online-only-lender

HarkymTheOracle:
I slapped a soldier today and he ran away. That's how i knew he was fake. Please let's join hands and expose the fake soldiers in town.How? By slapping any soldier you come across this week, if he runs, then he is fake, if he doesn't run, the Lord is your strength.
happy eid.

I just slapped one soldier now and he is laughing.What should I do?