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For instance, the Rimi administration claimed that Zuwo voted for massive use of derivation as a means of sharing the national revenue whereas Kano State , which he was representing in the Senate, did not produce mineral resources. The senator, according to the state government, did not know that the minerals being referred to in the bill for legislative deliberations were deposits like coal, crude oil, natural gas, gold, tin ore, etc. Therefore, the alhaji innocently claimed on the floor of the Senate that Kano “has surplus minerals like Fanta, Coca cola, Sprite, Mirinda and even Tango.”

There are other instances. Legend has it that Zuwo once saw a number of car marts and concluded they all belonged to one person known as Saleh, for the simple reason that each mart had this inscription, “for sale”. The Kano State government campaign against Zuwo did catch the national imagination in a profound way. Barkin Zuwo has thus become a national bye word for lack of intellectual sophistication.

Dis Guy:
bloody hell its only been five months

grafikdon: Becomerich: Egwuofor, you speak truth. Wickedness is bad. Igbos should have only two states because 90% of them are traders and their population is not more than 2000000. See map. They are less than 1% of Lagos. Only 500 Igbo traders are in Lagos but because they are everywhere, they look like many. See map.

Lagosboy:
Is this the only question you could ask amidst many intellectual issues affecting the country and which the dude talked upon.At least someone read his articles and concluded he his tribalisitc which is better than the area you are steering the discussion to. How abt how many times he sleeps with his wives !!

Lagosboy:
@Jarus bro

I have known this dude and reading his write ups since 2003 on gamji.com. Honestly i have always wanted to meet the man since way back then as the depth of his knowledge and diverse his thinking baffles me as he his also a full time banker. Nigerians dont appreciate knowledge and intellect otherwise this guy should be celeberated as he his one of the few Nigerians of our/his generation we could still count on. He touches economics, political economy , stimulates thinking and thoughts in religious issues, analyses banking and debates politics. I can only pray and hope to have some of the intellectual prowess of the humble man.

Many NLers will be surprised to read so much of his articles and diverse as they are. Please go to Gamji.com and you will see about 20-30 articles spanning from 1999 - 2005.

Unfortunately, we cannot even attempt an answer to that question here; why, because it is sub-judice as a few fellow Nigerians whose historical lessons at school as to how Nigeria came about, are already asking it at the Federal High Court in Abuja and Lagos. The plaintiffs include: Prince Tanimose Bankole Oki (SAN); Chief Anthony Enahoro; Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu; Professor Wole Soyinka and Biship Bolanle Gbonigi. The Late Chief C. C. Onoh was on that list up to his passage. From the younger generation, we also have plaintiffs including Ralph Uwazurike, Alhaji Shettima Yerima and Mujahedat Dokubo Asari. There is a legion of other prospective plaintiffs applying to join.

Lord Malcolm Hailey, a British historian recorded Nigeria’s short-coming in these essentials when he said of his own peers’ creation: "Nigeria is perhaps the most artificial of the many administrative units created in the course of European occupation of Africa". Henry Bretton, an American political scientist wrote in the same vein: "there is no universally acceptable and understood rationale for the existence and functioning of a state called Nigeria and efforts at an artificial creation of a national mythology or a Nigerian ideology will be unproductive."

cap28:
Beaf,  first of all this thread is about whether hiv/aids is an artificially manufactured disease created by the whites in order to wipe out blacks it is NOT a thread about superstitious claims made about the disease.  the poster has tried (in vain) to narrow the discussion down to this area but for some reason this is proving almost impossible.  I am not interested in discussing about superstititious beliefs and in no way is this discussion to be equated with crazy superstitious beleifs.  this is not the first time an investigation into the origin of hiv/aids has been carried out - i thought that inquisitiveness and the pursuit of knowledge and understanding were traits which distinguished human beings from animals, therefore your unwillingness to question or even investigate an issue that disproportionately affects people of your own race is quite frankly tragic.  Members of the black medical establishment are equally unconvinced as to the true origins of this disease and have refuted vehemently the pseudo scientific explanation that has been put forward by some members of the white medical establishment but because you cant be bothered to put your brain into gear and for once use it to think you dismiss it as a giant crackpot conspiracy theory, well you carry on in your blind mindset maybe one day you will wake up.

and by the way the dictionary definition of race is a group of people sharing a common ancestry and sharing similar cultural and/or physical characteristics eg skin/eye  colour, facial features  and genetic markers.

to my mind all black people share the above characteristics therefore they are of the same race - the african race.

i agree ignorance IS a very dangerous thing it reminds me of a saying by a scottish philosopher who said: he who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave (Sir William Drummond)

cap28:
now i can see why our progress as a race is stagnant - if the opinions of some of the people on this thread are anything to go by we are doomed, critical thinking seems to be almost non existent - im sorry to say that we are a nation of followers and not leaders, following blindly and unquestioningly.

yeah research on a blog - oh were you expecting me to point you to some text books where all the answers would be found just like in primary school, research involves gathering information from different sources, its a painstaking exercise which requires looking at various sources of information and taking from them whatever is relevant so i wouldnt dismiss blogs, by the way that particular blog contains a lot of verified and accurate information.

ikeyman00:
right . . .

etc

me waitin

west germany and east germany?

south and north italy??

oya scatter scatter crew

me waiting

hymen:
very good .Im checking all your previous posts to check if u have strongly condemened those that kill southerners in the name of religion up north !

spikedcylinder:
A little off topic but Dr. Boyd's suit is just wrong.

9ijaprince:
Hope the monies will be returned to bayelsa state.

jazzsoul:
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NaijaKing 1, these banks are not private banks as they all listed on the NSE and are publicly traded firms. The CBN has a duty to ensure that the funds of shareholders and investors entrusted to the care of these banks are properly managed. Most Nigerian banks have been cooking their books for years and Soludo knew this but probabaly did not have the courage or political capital to clamp down on these criminal practices.

It is a felony for the  banks to file false financial statements to the regulator(CBN) or investors. These banks have played fast and loose with the funds of depositors by giving out unsecured loans and gambling in the scam that is the current NSE.

When these banks eventually fail, the NDIC will have to step in and spend tax payers fund to pay back all depositors subject to the maximum guarantee. In the U.S. it is $250,000 per depositor.

. . .Furher Henry Kissinger. . .

holymike47:
Aboki is not a bad word, i think it means 'my friend'. sure if you wanna be one to me, no shakings!!!