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Ayatullah:
@beaf, I am sorry for you, because you will soon be eaten up (afterall beef or beaf is for d soup pot)!!!

The only way I can be eaten is by a darn lovely babe with all the juicy whistles!
. . .But I guess you are just an educated almajiri, a fcked up, damn ugly, toothless Boko Haram that has learnt to type and post on NL.

People like you are a waste, you are given a loaf of bread to "fight for God" and like a fool, you rush off to kill, burn, loot and ra'pe. Did God tell you he is a weakling that needs idiotic mortals to defend himself?

Bloody cretin!

jabbok:
Apart from ethnicity, one other clog in our wheel to development is unweaving of unecessary sentiments and avoiding issues. @ WALES, with all due respect to u, are u an employer of labour?. The campaign aside take it or leave it, Nigeria will be better of with more Dokpesis. For having d courage to set up a company in Nigeria and thus, employ people, he is better off than most of the rogues who stash stolen money in foreign Lands, Dokpesi should b encouraged!

Who is avoiding issues? Wales who has rightly pointed at some of Dokpesi's fatal flaws? No! It is you who is advocating that we overlook and avoid those Dokpesi's flaws.
Abeg go sidon jare!

[quote author=Care-Taker link=topic=512453.msg6745096#msg6745096 date=1284379366][size=14pt]Suicide is now a profitable venture[/size]
and we certainly are taking the risk.

It is a calculated suicide/risk dining with the resident devil than to flirt
with the alien open toothed blood thirsty scammer[/quote]Dude, you hit the nail on the head. Absolutely brilliant!
Bags of money are being recieved by immoral men "speaking on behalf" of the gullible moral masses.

9ijaMan:
@ Beaf,
I would have preferred not to honor you with a response, but felt neutral forumites reading this thread may be misled by responses from people like you.

Since you "put so much thought behind your words" it requires no-brainer to figure out that you did not answer the questions about GEJ's past performances. It also does not require knowledge in rocket science to wonder aloud why all GEJ's campaign coordinators are (just like him) those who have done little or nothing in the years in office. Perhaps you need to lecture us more on putting thoughts behind words, and point out succinctly what the performances of the likes of Alao Akala, Liyel Imoke, Gbenga Daniel (and the rest of the poor performers) have been over their several years in office.

I also do not think it requires a PhD to conclude that all the foot soldiers (zonal campaign coordinators) of GEJ are a bunch of losers who have only used their years in office to loot the treasury of their respective states and hence enrich themselves. If GEJ has been so smart to assemble these idiots, after exhibiting so "much thought behind his actions", I wonder how he's reign will be.

On your shallow response about conflict resolution, how would GEJ have reacted if he does not need Gbenga Daniels to help him mobilize the South west? Your depth of knowledge about current affairs and politics can best be described as laughable, as it seems agreeable to you that GEJ can be preaching free and fair elections on one hand and tacitly supporting anarchy in Ogun state on the other. How else can you explain 9 legislators suspending 14 of their colleagues? I thought democracy is a game of numbers and perhaps in the books of people like you, 9 is a greater number when compared to 14. Yet the best Mr. President can do is to issue a 48 hour ultimatum. I wonder what he'll do next after the 48 hours elapses. I think I know already - he'll withdraw the statement!

I asked you a simple series of questions, but you seem to have totally missed their import in the rambling response above, here they are again with more emphasis in case you simply glossed over the salient points;

What do you expect him to do? Send in the army? Input like the above always comes across as contrived and lacking depth.
Jonathan has given Ogun state a 48 hour ultimatum to resolve their crisis and report back to him and he is meeting their leaders. So what do you want, that he drops bombs and sends in fighter jets to settle the argument in the state?

Now calm down, actually attempt to put in some thought, thoroughly consider your response, then rewind and come again.

9ijaMan:
And I'll add a few more questions too.
What are the achievements of GEJ since he's been in one form of government or the other since 1999?
Why has he turned away from settling the dispute in Ogun state when he's able to hurried retire the service chiefs?
How come the corrupt Gbenga daniels who's more of a dictator in ogun state is now GEJ's campaign coordinator in the south west, ?
What exactly is your expectation of a GEJ administration, ?

What do you expect him to do? Send in the army? Input like the above always comes across as contrived and lacking depth.
Jonathan has given Ogun state a 48 hour ultimatum to resolve their crisis and report back to him and he is meeting their leaders. So what do you want, that he drops bombs and sends in fighter jets to settle the argument in the state?

Conflict resolution is not a one day affair. Abeg, think of something that makes you look like you are at least putting some thought behind your words; dis one don fail!

truly:
It would really be useful if you read my posts
I have answered that question

However since you want just yes or no
YES - BUHARI has acted like a democrat

He contested elections
He went to court to contest the result when he was disatisfied
He accepted the court decision even though it was close 4-3 in favour of an incumbent president

I have demonstrated good faith in answering your questions
But you keep repeating it
Whilst you refuse to answer ANY question put to you

BTW - was Shagari such a democrat?
If yes, why did he arrest journalists and charge them for sedition
Why did he deport an elected opposition party member - Shugaba - without due process?
  Why did he use the police force to truncate the eleltoral choice of Nigerians

If you are not GJ's fan, who are you for?
If you are asking hard questions about Buhari, but not asking any about GJ, what is the effect
Bad press for Buhari, but neutral for GJ - is that being against somebody

BTW, the Nigerian people welcomed Buhari's coup

I guess the bolded sums up your position? You are simply here to blacken names for political reasons (immoral), rather than because you are convinced. That is a terrible shame.

GEJ's move has caused quite a massive earthquake! Former military authority has been beheaded in an incredibly bold move.

24 army Generals retiring no be moi moi!
And when you include the other forces, the number of generals for the chop rises to a staggering 35!

Very rightfully, the military is being remoulded, but it looks to be a process that will take years to accomplish (except Jonathan has more brilliant shockers lined up).
Something tells me it is far from over, especially as we still have people like Major General Saleh Maina running around in uniform; the massacre of several hundred people took place under his nose in Jos, the general was outwitted by illiterate peasant farmers on the one hand and illiterate nomadic cattle rearers on the other.

A military more representative of Nigeria will rise out of the arshes.

Kobojunkie:
Blame yar adua still?

From its 99th position on the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) in 2009 to the 127th position.

According to our NSA( abi na im name), we have been recording approximately 7.0% growth since First Quarter 2009, so how can the economy still get worst economic rating?

Simple English says there is a difference between, "blame Yar Adua" and "blame the Yar Adua saga", except as usual you are making a poor attempt at dishonesty.

Beaf:
We can blame the Yar Adua saga for the drop, Nigeria was an outcast nation in that period. We should bounce back easily when the next reckoning is done.
At least, we were one of 139 countries singled out for measurement, some countries don't seem to have been worth the trouble.

Having said the above, there is little reason why Nigeria cannot be globally competitve; we have low wages and a currency value advantage, therefore we should be targetting the export sector, but hey! 9ja only does oil.
There are a tonne of things we could export e.g. services, manufactured goods, outsourcing etc.

[size=14pt]New Service Chiefs: 35 Maj-Generals, Air Vice Marshals may retire[/size]
News Sep 13, 2010 Share | By Kingsley Omonobi

ABUJA— There is palpable panic and unease in the Armed Forces following last Tuesday’s removal of the Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike; Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Abdurahman Dambazau and Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ishaya Ibrahim by President Goodluck Jonathan in what has been described as the most sweeping change of heads of security organisations by any sitting President.
Vanguard investigations revealed, weekend, that the Nigerian Air Force, with Air Vice Marshal Mohammed Umar, is the worst hit as 11 Air Vice Marshals who are seniors to the new Chief, have become panicky and uncertain of their future under the new dispensation.

While the new Chief of Air staff, Umar, who takes over from Air Marshal Petinrin, new CDS is Course 19, his seniors in Courses 17 and 18 where most of the officers belong, abound in the Air Force.

Though there may be openings at the Defence Headquarters for one or two of the officers if the Air Force High Command deems it necessary, feelers however showed  that about 10 of the AVMs would be sent packing.

Among the senior officers being considered for retirement, two of them are currently serving in the Defence Headquarters. One of them is at the Nigeria Defence Academy, two are Commandants of Tri-Service institutions, one is an Air Officer Commanding, AOC, while two of them are currently Principal Staff Officers, PSOs, at NAF Headquarters.

[size=14pt]For the Army, about 24 Generals including nine Major Generals and 15 Brigadier Generals are due for retirements owing to being seniors of the new Army Chief while others have been caught by age on rank.[/size]

Already, some of the Generals have received their terminal leave letters which is as good as retirement and they include the Commandant of the Training and Doctrine Command; General Officer Commanding 81 Division of the Nigerian Army; Chief of Administration, Nigerian Army; Chief of Logistics, Nigerian Army and one other Major General at the Defence Headquarters.

Others whose continued retention in service would depend on the new Army Chief and application of the terms and conditions of service, include the Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy, Maj-General Yerima.

The Brigadier-Generals, on their part, include those who have surpassed the stipulated age that is allowed to hold the rank of Brigadier-General.

Regarding the Nigerian Navy, Rear Admiral Ola Saad who is Course 17, is spared the trauma of having to dispense with officers as the closest to him presently is a Course 18 officer, who is the current Chief of Administration at the Naval Headquarters.

In fact, there is celebration among family and friends of the new CNS because going by the terms and condition of service of the Armed Forces, the former FOC Western Naval Command, who was scheduled to proceed on terminal leave in either December or January 2011, would have retired from service in May 2011.

With the appointment as a service chief, his tenure now depends on the wishes of the President and Commander-in-Chief, President Jonathan.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/09/13/new-service-chiefs-35-maj-generals-air-vice-marshals-may-retire/

“[b]God has revealed to us that Yar’Adua will come back hale and hearty [/b]as against what some prophets have been saying that he would not make it. He would complete his first term…”

Primate Ayodele Elijah Babatunde, founder of the Inri Evangelical Church, Lagos.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

[size=14pt]"got my mind on my money and my money on my mind"[/size]

odumchi:
You people seriousley need to stop wasting your time arguing about how little Nigerians have and actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. You are just whiling away time when you can be out theredoing something i. e. contesting for seats in the government and expressing your ideas via a political party. Any one of you can be the next Obama, you just have to get your lazy a**ess off the computer and into the real world.

Actions are stronger than words.

Oya, click the pic below and register!

gadogado:
That was the majority opinion of the Nigerian supreme court when selfish Niger Deltans wanted to claim derivation on even the oil deep in the ocean.

Selfish "Niger Deltans?" Now thats rich!
What happened to the groundnut pyramids and why? Who is really selfish?

How far does your state go underground? Did the FG ever own the roots of your groundnut crop, because the state stops at the surface?
One could come up with enough ridiculous positions, but hey! maybe we need to look into this seriously, so that in the future we might sieze everything below the surface in your state; things like underground water and rocks will belong to FG. How does that sound?

We might even take this offshore thing a bit more seriously and apply it to inland lakes and rivers, therefore festivals like Argungu will become illegal and anyone caught fishing anywhere in the country will be jailed or something. Sound clever?

Ayatullah:
@Ileke-Idi, If you are actually in the USA as you claim you are, you should be ashamed of yourself for thinking about Nigeria breaking up!!!
And you really miss the point like Pastor Terry Jones who want to burn the Quran by calling those muslims who storm Bauchi Prison and rescue their brothers retarded. It is only brilliant minds that can carry out such operation, are you an ? The word retarded belongs to those who keep them in prison as 'awaiting trial' for over a year. Be careful Ileke-Idi or I will let loose all your 'ilekes'.

Are you a joker or just terminally lost?

Damn! So there are actually educated Boko Haram supporters? Talk about being confused about lifes direction!
What a waste!

gadogado:
Locals dont have control over oil in the US, private businesses/investors do. Some of these investors come from the middle east others from Russia and all over the world.

If you have an oil business in the US and are seeking to explore, the federal government has to give you permission to explore anything on US territory. The state collaborates with the Fed as to guidelines for your oil business. The fed has more power and claim over resources found anywhere in the US. The state has a right to tax, the state tax doesnt get paid to the center since there are two different taxes, one state, the other federal. In America, all power ultimately stops with the president not the governor.

You have never seen oil in your drinking water or turned on the tap only to be greeted with a foul smell, that is why you are saying this poor stuff.
have you ever heard of anybody getting compensated when oil is found in their community?

[size=21pt]What happened to the groundnut pyramids and why? Don't dodge this question.[/size]

If there was no oil, Nigeria would have been just fine.
The problem we have is that there are people who think oil must be all there is, parasites who believe the whole country (whether North or South) must serve their every beck and call. They want oil without having to pay for it and treating those whose lands bear the treasure as slaves.

Nigeria actually wants to move on from these feudal lords and preachers of "zoning" who have left their own people steeped in poverty, decease and desolation. What does the North have to show for Nigeria being ruled by a Northern clique for 80% of its existence? Abuja?
Its a shame.

ziddy:
hope you're ok?

Good question.

Amarui:
Se let me tel u ppl am in north here in nasarawa st. northerz has rule dis country 4 long but dy ar d ppl that suffa past no lit No watar no road no gud food but i stead wanda why dy stil wat d presidency why

This is the main problem. . .
Gadogado refused to answer the question I asked about what happened to the groundnut pyramids and why it happened; but the answer to the underdevelopment you have pointed out, lies in the reason the groundnut pyramids, cocoa, rubber, manufacturing (more on that later). It is the same reason why we continue losing children in their hundreds to lead poisoning in Zamfara; why we have the ugly almajiri problem; why we have militants in the Niger Delta and kidnappers in the East; why we have bank robbers armed with dynamite in the West. It is the same reason why our politicians are the highest paid in the World.


Yes, Northerners have ruled the country for about 80% of its existence with next to nothing to show in the North. There are rampant deceases; including those that have been eradicated elsewhere (polio), literacy levels are abysmal and poverty levels are double that in the South.
The problem is not that Northerners have ruled the country, the question is who exactly where this rulers (or who did they proxy).
The answer leads us to a very specific small clique that only cares for its own and see's the country as their personal piggy bank. It is these few that are guilty for the decay of the country, from groundnut pyramids to problems in the Niger Delta..
They don't care that the people in their own home towns and villages are starving to death and racked by decease. In fact, it suits them just fine, because they have a ready army of angry souls that can unleash death and destruction for a loaf of bread anytime their authority is challenged or they need to intimidate others.
It is the above group that have manipulated Nigeria’s structure in such a way that they can sit across the country and sip crude oil through a very long straw (perpetual ruler ship). As long as that oil is flowing, they do not give a damn about you or me, they do not share even the crumbs of their stupendous wealth. But let that flow be threatened or cut off and they suddenly remember that “Northerners are being cheated.” One thing I am sure of, is that someone from Ghana or Congo with no Nigerian ties or relatives, will do more for the North than these set of thieving clowns.

As for Nigeria, the only way we can attain greatness, is to put the oil straw out of everybody’s reach by practising true federalism, not the thieving rig we currently have.

Hilarious!

Becomrich0:
what nonsense are you talking about. do google check, he himself call himself Jonathan Ebelechukwu Azikiwe Goodluck.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201005100339.html

Do you know there is Ekpeye people in the border of Bayelsa state and river state?

Damn! Dude, I am now convinced that you can't read!

googles:


Errr. . . . wat a way to commit suicide

hez prolly not balanced mentally. . . I mean who attacks his own balls if not a Err. . .mental health patient

and why must they charge him to court ? did he cut their own balls ?

he is obviously depressed and not in the right state of mind

stoopid pple, serious criminal cases they wont attend to it o. . . its an helpless man they want to charge to court

It sounds weird, but things like self harm and suicide are criminal. The man tried a very foolish suicide method, probably as a cry for help (otapiapia is sure fire) and in the hope that he would be fixed as good as new, instead he can't have kids and the law has banged him up!
Its sad.

Aigbofa:
Relief! I thought Beaf removed his balls!!

naijaking1:
tpia wouldn't like that one bit

Kai!!! Una no like me atall atall!!!

Why I removed my testes with broken bottle
By AKINWALE ABORISADE
Sunday, 12 Sep 2010

What‘s the worth of a man‘s scrotum? This is the question that Mr. Toyin Ibitoye has been battling with. After losing all his investments in a business transaction, he attempted suicide by piercing his own scrotum. While the police prepare to charge him to court, his medical doctor describes it is as a psychiatrist case. AKINWALE ABORISADE writes

For Dauda Abimbola, a night guard at Oke-Offa area of Ibadan, Oyo State, every night comes with a peculiar horror.

But the horror that struck in the wee hours of Sunday, August 5, 2010 was such that kept him brooding all day long. This is because of the absurd manner in which it came.

It was night as usual in the area. At 12:30 a.m. the rustic city had gone to sleep. Baba Isale area of Oke-Offa was calm and still, with no humans on the street but for the guard on patrol. Only the intermittent chirping of birds and crickets intruded the tranquillity of the night-time. Suddenly, a long, painful groan rent the air. Abimbola cautiously walked down to the direction of the noise. A huge figure (a man) was lying helplessly on the floor, writhing in pain in the pool of his blood.

Could it have been a gunshot or a knife stab? The stranger was soaked from the buttocks down to his feet. Toyin Ibitoye was obviously not calling for help; rather, he was only groaning as a result of the excruciating pain.

Abimbola made a distress call to the police. Soon after, a patrol team came to convey the agonising young man to a hospital in the neighbourhood. There, the doctor confirmed that the young man was actually on a suicide mission. He had inflicted some injuries on himself, using every object that came his way.

Ibitoye said, ”I attempted to take my own life by throwing up huge stones that landed on my head.” As each stone landed on his clean shaven head, it left a deep sore on it. But not done with that, Ibitoye broke a bottle, stripped himself naked and pierced his scrotum with it. He forcefully removed the two testes in a manner that caused him much agony that made him to cry and quiver.

Police investigation however revealed that this is not the first time Ibitoye would be making an attempt to take his own life.

Weary and utterly disappointed as a result of a business deal turned sour while living in Lagos, the embattled man was said to have made several attempts on his own life. He had lost his life savings, with barely nothing left. He also lost his customers‘ monies in the failed oil business.

To him, all hope was lost. And the only way out, he opined, was to end it all by committing suicide. He had, ever since, been trying to kill himself; but it had been unsuccessful. Worried by Ibitoye‘s dangerous behaviour, his parents relocated him to their base in Ibadan so that he could be under their close watch. But, the huge burden in his heart outweighed what parental love could cure. He continued to look for a way out.

The last attempt he made in a desperate quest for death was in the early hours of Sunday when everybody was fast asleep and no one could interrupt him. Again, he did not succeed. Rather than lose his life, he only lost his testes. He presently nurses a festering sore between his legs on the hospital bed. He said, ”After removing my testes, I threw them away somewhere at Ode-Aje (area of Ibadan).” When SUNDAY PUNCH visited Bembow Hospital, Ibadan, where he was receiving treatment, Ibitoye was writhing in pain, with swollen scrotum. He painfully recalled the desperate action he took in an attempt to kill himself in order to be ‘free from life‘s challenges,‘ saying, ”I pierced my scrotum with broken bottle and forcefully removed my testes.”

Four hours after committing the dastardly act, Ibitoye was wheeled into the theatre at Bembow Hospital. He underwent a four-hour surgical operation, and though he came out alive, he was still in a depressed mood. His grief was not just as a result of the pain he went through, but especially because of his failed efforts to end his own life.

Now, he lies on the hospital bed almost half-minded. His words are incoherent: This minute, he will reflect on his ordeal; the next, he will bring up a topic that is totally unrelated to what he said earlier, especially when attempting to answer questions posed to him.

While responding to questions from our correspondent, he said he attempted suicide but he did not explain what led him to it. He said, ”I jumped into the well, but they brought me out. I did many things but death would not come. It was painful but they treated me and the pain has reduced.”

His father, a native of Ajase-Ipo, Kwara State, told the police that Ibitoye had a failed deal with some of his business partners in Lagos. According to the old man (name not given), his son‘s capital (amount not mentioned) and his customers‘ money were involved in the business.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Oyo State Command, Ms. Olabisi Okuwobi, said the man‘s action was criminal and the act was typical of a man who is incapable of facing the challenges of life.

The Divisional Crime Officer 1, Agugu Police Station, Ibadan, Mr. Ayoola Olawole, who noted that the man had the tendency to attempt to take his own life again after recuperating, said the suspect would be charged to court. He explained that there was no basis for anybody to make an attempt on his own life or that of others, irrespective of the circumstances; as such actions are against the law.

The Medical Director, Bembow Hospital, Dr. Abimbola Kuteyi, who explained the procedure carried out on Ibitoye said, ”We did surgery on the two sides of the scrotum, though he pierced himself on just one (right) side. He caused harm to the sperm duct. In medical term, we carried out bilateral orchiectomy – repair of sperm duct.”

According to Kuteyi, Ibitoye can still have sex but can no longer make babies. If the session was not carried out on him, the doctor said, he might bleed to death. He explained that the patient suffered secondary inflammation of the scrotum because of the unsterilised broken bottle he used to pierce it.

The doctor, who said that not less than 20 per cent of the world population had one psychiatric problem or the other, said Ibitoye obviously had psychiatric problem. Kuteyi said, ”In my diagnosis, I indicated that there was a stressor that gingered the psychiatric action in him. The patient still behaves irrationally and cannot easily identify people now.

”What happened in his case was as a result of depression. He suffered what we call loss of mood and self respect. He is fed up with the environment, so he wants to commit suicide. This is, however, treatable with anti-depressant.”

Will it then be right to charge Ibitoye to court, being a mentally unbalanced and traumatised individual? The doctor said no; while the law enforcement agents have a different perception.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201009121573793

Becomrich0:
Beaf, then answer my question, why does Jonathan Ebelechukwu Azikiwe Goodluck does not want justice for delta state or Edo state. Give me one reason.

I don't know Jonathan Ebele[i]chukwu[/i] Azikiwe Goodluck.
Ask me about Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

The name is Jonathan Ebele Azikiwe Goodluck. Which one be "Ebele[i]chukwu[/i]?"
Stop calling our presido strange names o!

We can blame the Yar Adua saga for the drop, Nigeria was an outcast nation in that period. We should bounce back easily when the next reckoning is done.
At least, we were one of 139 countries singled out for measurement, some countries don't seem to have been worth the trouble.

Having said the above, there is little reason why Nigeria cannot be globally competitve; we have low wages and a currency value advantage, therefore we should be targetting the export sector, but hey! 9ja only does oil.
There are a tonne of things we could export e.g. services, manufactured goods, outsourcing etc.

Yes, I believe!
This is a baby Illuminati!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The strange thing about people like Ali is, they never seem to grow up and become World changers. We hear they are the youngest at something and it ends there, is something missing in the way they are brought up or educated? Its perplexing.

naijaking1:
That's a big one
I have always supported Jonathan for another 4 more years in office, but if his supporters would bend over backwards to intimidate and harrass anybody not supporting his campaign, then it would become obvious that the election will not be free and fair.
What's wrong with Dokpesi being outside the 99% of SS people who support Jonathan
No need to exhume his personal failures in life and business, just because Dokpesi wants to vote for another guy.
Also, I expect you to condemn the fact that governement paid workers like Ima Niboro are being used to attack a political opponent even when the president has not declare his candidacy.

It isn't about who he supports, he is absolutely free to lean in any direction.
My grouse is with his far out claims, Dokpesi will do anything (including selling his family) for the right price.

^Well done Alonso, he drove really well today.
I feel quite sorry for Lewis though, he was a bit too eager into the corner, trying to take two Ferrari's in one go; after watching that race, I'm quite certain he'd have won it or been on the podium.

olason:
ALL, Dokpesi as far am concern is already a failure, looking up to cheap pay back by IBB. A man that cannot manage a tv station, owning staffs salaries, coned a lot of people into buying AIT shares which is nowhere to b b found TODAY now. pls were is Darsat or is it Darsat fever. Let him continue he and IBB WOULD SOON MEET THERE WATERLOO.

Dokpesi is just embarrassing himself all over town. Here is a man who can't pay his workers and treats a publicly quoted company like his personal property, someone who is always shamelessly protituting himself to the highest bidder; he has just done it again with IBB, but does he have to talk so foolishly in addition?

@gadogado.
Why argue about other peoples resources? Why not grow cocoa, groundnuts, rubber or whatever? Why not extract the resources in your area and pay a tax to the FG?
You argue that the parasitism Nigeria practices is federalism, well as a student of US history, how do you compare the US and Nigerian systems? Surely, there is never a case of US state governors going on the hawk to Washington to get a monthly stipend of Obama; most unlike the sham system Nigeria practises.

It is most disingenuous to argue that Nigeria is a "modern nation state that is practicing a federal system of government." We are nothing of the sort! In fact, God alone knows how to classify us; there is no name for our system of govt; we are a set of anarchic ethnicities bound only by greed for oil money.

We keep hearing about, "North" this and "North" that, it is tiring and annoying. We wonder what happened to your groundnut pyramids and why. How can any group fight so had to rule a country they contribute so little to?

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