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dsylvo:
IT'S VERY CLEAR U SERVED IN ONE OF THE ND COMMUNITIES.

IT'S NOT DAT THE ND REGION IS NOT GETTING ALLOCATION FROM THE FGN BUT D ALLOCATION (13%) IS SUCH DAT MUST FAIL.

IF ALL U SCORED IN UR EXAMS WAS 13% U WOULDN'T HAVE HAD D OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE, U SEE WHAT I MEAN??

IF ALL DAT D REST OF NIGERIA WAS GETTING FROM ND FOR INSTANCE WAS 13%, NIGERIA WOULD DISAPPEARED BY NOW.

D LEADERS U REFERRED TO WERE LOOTING FAILED ALLOCATION. IT'S NOT 13% DAT DEVELOPED LAGOS, ABUJA ETC, IT WAS OVER 80% CASH FROM ND.

I ALSO UNDERSTAND DAT ASO ROCK WAS COMPLETELY BUILT WITH PROCEEDS FROM ND.

TRUE FEDERALISM & RESOURCE CONTROL IS D ANSWER.

Lagos was developed long before oil was discovered in Nigeria...

MICHEALADEX:
See green fields yet they will come and shout our land has been polluted by oil companies...lazy cats looking for easy money.

Hausas don't value anything as farming so if Nigeria break tomorrow the North will still be doing fine cos only agricultural common sense can make the difference not oil any longer.

Most of the farm the north claims..... are located in the middlebelt... the north doesn't have s:hit

Ngozi123:
You do realise that the Nigerian Civil War is commonly referred to as the Biafran War, right? It's not unusual for a war or any other important national event to have more than one name.

As for the rest of your post, well, what can I say other than to thank you for proving my point above. What evidence do you have to support your claims about Ojukwu? How could Ojukwu have decided to "attack Nigeria" because Igbos 'lost' power when it was Nigeria that declared war on Biafra, not the other way around? This is what I meant when I said that there is a lack of intellectual discourse on the matter; if you had studied this war in depth and read from a wide range of sources then you would see that there are some large gaps in what you have learnt. History is like one of those 1 million-piece puzzles; you won't be able to see the full picture until all the pieces are in place.

If ojukwu wanted biafra all they had to do was defend the eastern region.

but they were advancing towards the SW it was when they reached ondo that their downfall started..

Ojukwu wanted conquer Nigeria by killing most south westerners.... We don't hear edo/bini indigenes talk about what igbos did to them because the igbos had a very high casualty figure...

North tried the same thing in 1800s but the SW dealt with them...

Its a shame that t:inubu would partner with ancestral enemies just for political power.

coretechng1:
Honestly I dont know why someone is not sponsoring the bill.States should generate their power ,period!!!A state like Lagos am sure will achieve 24hours power supply in no time.

Lagos should have its own major power plant. Its a shame that it doesn't have a state owned power plant with all the money it makes..

Ambode will rather build 4th mainland bridge and displace people than build a power plant and save people from generator fumes.

Ngozi123:
I would create a thread about the lack of intellectual discourse on the Biafran War but I'm sure that it'd be closed as soon as I opened it...

The government doesn't realise that by failing to teach it's citizens about the war and being as impartial about it as possible, they leave it in the hands of our elders to teach us about it. For the non-Biafrans, it is a mere footnote in many of their minds as most of them were not greatly affected by the war. For the Biafrans, the war holds much sentimental value as most were/still are affected by it. This means that both sides are getting the bulk of their information from bias viewpoints that have been heavily influenced by propaganda. I think that they did this on purpose because anyone who has studied the Biafran War in some detail will tell you that history is indeed repeating itself.

There was no biafran war...

It was a civil war not a biafran war..

It was majorly a SE vs SW war..

After ironsi was killed ojukwu realised igbos were no longer in power and had lost control of its resources due to ironsi making Nigeria a unitary and igbos where getting killed in the NORTH so ojukwu decided to attack Nigeria whose seat of power was Lagos...

To attack Nigeria back then, the SW would have to be attacked because the seat of power was in Lagos.

It wasn't a NORTH vs SE war..

princey83:
Half of my Engineering Physics degree was spent studying Nuclear Engineering and materials science. I now currently work in the electrical engineering industry. Most of the countries listed above are already trying to get rid of their nuclear generating station for sustainable means of generating electricity. Money that would be spent on research purposes for nuclear source of power should instead be spent on making sustainable energy more efficient.

The cooperation i currently work for has a mix of hydro, wind, heat recovery from biomass, solar and coal. Coal being the source with the largest input, but most of the research at my work place is focused on making coal cleaner as it's still the cheapest source of generating power.

I heard Enugu has a large coal deposit. Nigeria should make use of that, and focus some research on making coal cleaner. There are lots of Nigerian born stationary/steam engineers in North america that would relocate to Nigeria if the country embraces coal.

kmega08:
Electricity from Nuclear Energy is quite cheap and clean, but the risks involved are pretty much. Add the peculiar nature of Nigeria, it is an absolute no go area for me.
I still think our best shot in solving our power issues is in our huge coal reserves. Gas has not done it for us. Militancy and pipe line vandalism isn't going away any time soon.
I know some people will say coal is not clean and all the other global warming issues.
That should not deter us at all. We should not allow that to hinder us from growing our economy. US, China and other nations that emit the most green house gases are not doing as much as they are preaching to reduce the gas emissions. When we are developed, we can join the clamour to reduce emission of green house gases and solve the climate change issues.
Coal remains the easiest and fastest way for us to solve our energy challenge.

You guys should use your brains(no insult intended).... coal has been there for centuries and it has been ignored.. Nigeria is mostly controlled and governed by people that hate southerners and don't want to see them succeed..

If the coal was in the north, do you think it would be ignored.... the igbos or other southerners are the only ones that can come together and build the coal sector and power Nigeria.

Nigeria would never invest in Coal as long as it is controlled mostly by those people, Its the same reason why the Oil refineries are not working... but the illiterates in the south keep calling "FG, FG, FG" for help like they think the people that hate them want to help them.

the SW is seriously compromising itself... that's why dangote is building a refinery there.. a refinery is one of the quickest ways to destroy the environment and economy of a place.... so its a "win win" fot the people that hate southerners... too bad the SW politics is mostly controlled by a religious bigot.

Nigerians need to accept the truth... Tribalism is a serious problem...

kings09:
They shld have appointed a northerner or e be like say buhari nor get mouth for dis one

if northerners don't see a qualified northerner for a job... they higher a foreigner... that's their rule...

kikake:
Boko Haram brought Buhari to power after Boko Haram five years fight against Nigeria and Jonathan government made Nigeria's electorate see Jonathan government as weak on security.
.Boko Haram says it's fighting for a new country to be ruled through sharia criminal codes.

Boko Haram emerged after 12 northern Nigerian states adopted the use of sharia criminal codes.

Buhari thereafter said he would not rest until sharia criminal codes are used in all of Nigeria.

Buhari is on the same boat with Boko Haram fighters. So releasing and paying Boko Haram fighters by Buhari and his sharia clan is not surprising.

What is surprising are some Nigerians from the south who kick against separatist Niger delta and Biafra.

The Buhari twelve sharia states indirectly seceded from Nigeria but remain hooked up to Nigeria for economic dependence.

They didn't remain hooked to Nigeria... They remain hooked to the SE, SS and SW.

99.9% of Nigeria's revenue comes from this regions.

Kosy79:
Yea Dangoted has always been helped by govt no arguements but he makes use of them well.Northerners think they own Nigeria imagine them calling Nigerian's money their Yam, they always hunt for powers yet they will not go to school all they know is to kill, behead, rape, rob e.t.c. Nigeria matter tire me as i dey so. Things are really fvcking bad now.

whether he makes use of them or not doesn't matter.... the money he will from the family oil block would still help..

Kosy79:
PMB is looking promising by starting a clean up yea that's true but he never cease to hide his feeling for SS and SE through his words, how can a leader of one country discriminate? How can he call some 5% and others 97% yet he expects d 5% to give him 100%? No they will return d 5%love to him. How can he pay deaf ears when SS and SE are being killed but rush to fight for oil and yet will expect the people to be in one country. If he really want one Nigeria and 100% love lethim shun all discrimination and racism of any sort, and let Nigerians give him chance to perform afterall Dangote didn't attend university but he is business oriented and smart. We all know that Buhari is not educated but if he is not business oriented or skillful i tell u am not in support to encourage for his support.

like 95% of northern leaders Bubu is also a tribalist.. Its not just SS/SE they dislike the entire south.

An igbo man named Aguiyi Ironsi made Nigeria a unitary state and he was killed 6 months after so the oil problem is as a result of the decision of one man. don't be deceived D:angote is not business oriented... the govt has always helped D:angote, D:angote's family owns an oil block.

Ajua360:
What I find pathetic is that many of these comments blasting cnn africa are because no one bothered to read the article. Take time to read the article and you will discover that it's coming from a fellow Nigerian and not some foreigner. Cnn is just the messenger.

Oh and another thing, the person that wrote the article is also Nigerian. Smh

Here is the article:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/14/style/lagos-shanty-megastructures/index.html

A Nigerian that may have never been to Nigeria.. or a Nigerian that will be paid to build mega shanties in future...
Its because the lagos govt is been sentimental, shanties should not be condoned.... If a person can't live or afford to live in a place that person should never be allowed to constitute a nuisance.

Gr8Adedayo:
The concept of culture, if clearly understood, will help you to swallow and digest what I'm about to drop.
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You see,people that live together in an area, SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE, dress in same manner, share the same view about life and have similar/common goals, are regarded as one tribe or let's call them one nation or a country.
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If that is the case, there will be no or very little causes of fight or discord between these people. However if there be any reason to fight, it may be one family against another and the fight can be easily settled without pulling guns or swords against one another since they understand themselves. You may take the entire Yoruba race or Igbo or the English as an example.
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England is one country, United States Of America is one country but NIGERIA IS NOT ONE COUNTRY.
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Nigeria is made up of different countries bounded together by constitution or whatever. Nigeria is many countries disguised as one country.
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You see, the Yorubas were existing independently. Same thing with the Igbos and Hausas and same for every other minor tribes in Nigeria. Each of these countries existed in different regions without little or no relationship. If there was ever any relationship between these tribes before the coming of the British, it would be strictly trade. No father would even give out her daughter to be married by a man from another tribe. I really doubt if it ever happened.
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All of a sudden, some men came and established some rules and another one in the name of Fedrick Lugard decided to join different tribes (different countries) together and pronounced them as one nation; Nigeria.
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It might have worked somehow fine for a very fleeting moment in time past but it cannot endure forever.
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And that is what you can see happening now. The Igbos want to be alone, Niger-Delta wants to carve their own niche and stand alone. Any small issue on social networks, you see punchlines, Igbos against Yoruba, Yoruba against Hausas....
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In fact, an Igbo friend told me he believes the Hausas are planning civil war secretly. He argued this by pointing to Buhari's appointment so far. That is to say the prominent and sensitive positions of authority are given to the northerners. The positions that has to do with the nations security. Seriously, I found myself buying what he said. I have always been a supporter of one Nigeria but what he said got me. I couldn't help it. I felt a bigger love for my Yoruba brethren than I could offer an Igbo or Hausa or any other tribe. I can't pretend. It's real.
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Well, my friend wasn't trying to forecast doom but I too, can smell something here- A war is likely around the corner and Buhari and the northern carbals are holding strategic positions in order to be able to strike deep and hard.
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If you have ever read about the Rwanda Genocide of 1994; how the Hutus massacred the Tutsis. Over 800,000 Tutsis died and few Hutus. That "Operation cut the tall trees".
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Well, I pray this type of occurrence won't happen in Nigeria o.
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We had better make the Marcedonian's call today. We need help. We need a saviour.

They are not planning any civil war, Bubu is a tribalist.... whatever war they are planning already started years ago since the time of Dan fodio... If your friend is just noticing it then you and your friend need to read Nigeria's history...

they have been attacking southerners even before you were born... I guess you're just waking up....
T:inubu is a disgrace to the south west.

Onegai:
I, frankly, in all honesty, do not give a shi.t how rich Nigeria is. Did you sleep with electricity all night long last night? Are your roads flooded because they are poorly constructed and need to be fixed? Are your General Hospitals lacking even clean public toilets and Hand Sanitisers?

If all that is true, then Nigeria is a poor country.

But how is that pride of yours, hope it makes through the flooding and bad traffic this morning and helps your iron your short with no light

Some people live in poor neighbourhoods with old looking houses but the inside of the house is state of the art ..
Some people don't drive state of the art cars.
Some people don't experience power outage in Nigeria .

Just because some people don't own state of the art luxuries does not mean they are poor.

All the things u've listed have been provided for. Its bad management that is the problem.

Nigeria is a badly managed country...

LaExpert:
I did not say that.
There ARE poor Europeans.

Just like any sane person will point to the Northern Nigeria as a specific impoverished area in Nigeria, that is the same way Africa will be cited when speaking of poverty in the world.

Europe does not have poverty problems as Africa does.

Are you mad at the lad for saying £100m can help a poverty stricken African nation? Is it a lie?

I'm vexing for your reasoning capabilities... £100m is nothing to Nigeria...

Europe has poverty problems but they don't broadcast it the way they tarnish Africa.

LaExpert:
That's the problem, Nigerians taking the truth to be an issue.

The guy simply expressed his frustration at the way money is being wasted when there are serious and pressing poverty problems in Africa. He actually means well for those that are making an issue out of it.

...and he did not take Africa to be one nation neither did he generalize anything...or even make a racist reference. I wonder how some read that piece and think in that direction.

So u're saying there are no poor europeans

Onegai:
That £100mil would have at last transformed out Education sector, so that one wouldn't wonder if those replying him (who are all most likely "graduates" ) would at least be able to reply him like people who learned the official language of their country: English is the national language of Nigeria, you know.

That £100mil could have given a transformer to this guy in a tertiary university: https://www.nairaland.com/3217893/how-iron-clothes-ogwashi-uku

The same people insulting him are wondering how to cross the desert and swim to Europe or travel to the U.S. on a tourist visa and find a elderly person to marry.

But yeah, let's defend our pride!

If u know how rich Nigeria is.. U won't be saying this..

SeverusSnape:
Forget smoke o, What matters is the flesh, The tasty and delicious flesh.

*rushes to buy SUYA*

Are u absolutely sure its cow or goat you're eating

attackgat:
Hausas always coming to Igboland to cause problems

Delta is not igboland.

bennygreat1:
Bro.. just this question.. can you compare the percentage of atheists and traditionalists to the foot soldiers Islam is creating and why the you think both Christians,atheists and traditionalists will come together and fight if it happens

They don't have to come together... They just have to fight a common enemy.

bennygreat1:
You re so correct sir.. The plans re gradually unfolding... And the Christians re watching... We re need Our God at this point in time..

I hope some Christians will gradually realise is was a mistake they did to vote this man in power. They need to really cry to God for mercy..

#I pray Christians won't dig their graves with their hands...

Where do christians cry to god...

There are many atheists and traditionalists in Nigeria... Stop thinking Nigeria is only made up of two religions...

Christians, atheists and traditionalists will conquer anyone that opposes them.

Xionez:
i can see a sharp rise in prices of Gala...finally.
Legit kiosks will start selling at higher rates because he knows you wouldn't find it on the road. So its either buy or forever remain hungry for as long as your journey would last.

Those who are cunny enough will factor in 'bail money' to the original price. That will be like N70 or N80 for Gala. Lets not delve into the price of LaCasera that will go along with it.

Some governors don't know where their priorities lie.

There's nothing bad in the ban.

okada, agberos and beggars should also be banned...

Then makoko should be evacuated and destroyed.

eazydon,
Its the best decision ever made..

mmsen:
4 Fulani presidents from a region that has some of the worst human indices on the planet. Not one of those presidents did anything positive worth talking about. The best of them is Yar'adua who came into power because 'he wasn't corrupt', they ignored the fact that his wife is.

This is why I'm angry with Igbos and Yorubas. Instead of realizing that they have both made progress over the past 20 years (unlike the North) and work together to build Nigeria into something great they choose to fight each other. Very silly people.

plaetton:
Whereas the above statement may be construed as being tribalistic, the GLARING FACTS of Nigeria's sordid history ATTESTS to it's VERACITY.

That both OBJ and GEJ united Nigeria by running truly pan-Nigerian administrations where merit took priority over tribe really really annoyed the northern elites.

That both OBJ and GEJ expanded the middle class ( dominated by southerners) really really annoyed the northern elites.

That both the OBJ and GEJ invested so much on education , Northern education especially, was taken as an unforgivable insult to the northern feudal elites.
How dare OBJ and GEJ remind them of the their glaring failures against their own people.

The irony is that the type of hatred that the northern elites have GEJ or anything related to GEJ administration is oddly directly proportional to the high level of attention GEJ paid to northern education and economic development.

Again, this might appear like a tribalistic rant, but let's do away with the political correctness and call a spade a spade. After all, Buhari and brethren have absolutely NO pretences about political correctness or their agenda.

Let's take a minute and reflect, for those old enough, that anytime things appear to be getting good in Nigeria , the northern elites intervene to take us back a few decades.

Look back at 1983, when this same Buhari committed treason against his fatherland by overthrowing a Democratic government, a growing and maturing democracy.
What happened to Nigeria thereafter ?

Let's look back at 1993 when the whole nation united and voted for a new Democratic government, MKO Abiola.
Again, what happened next?
The same northern elites scuttle that peaceful transition that would have united Nigeria in more ways than imagined.

Then came Abacha, and the tyranny of that feudal Despot took Nigeria back another 2 decades.

Was it an accident that after POWER shifted to the South for the better part of the last 16years, that our economy began to grow, debts paid off, boost in education, boost in agriculture, boost in trade, the largest economic expansion since the colonial days, the largest expansion of the middle class ( the backbones of any economy) since the colonial era ?

Wow!
And what an odd coincidence (?) that the same Buhari is back, and is quickly taking Nigeria back to the LOCUST years, the years of hunger, despair and desolation.

What an odd, but very very sad coincidence indeed.

Dereformer:
Do you think southern Nigeria will ever be united? I doubt. The type of hatred the Igbos and the Yorubas have for each other is unprecedented.
Some people are benefiting from this animosity and I believe the North is using divide and rule approach to deceive the south.

I keep saying it, any politician that succeeds in uniting the sw and the se should be giving a southern award.

The day the SE and SW embrace each other and form a new alliance towards self determination, Northern influences will stop.

Dragonking:
You are very right.. If igbos and Yoruba's can stop this their stupid fights and unite the whole Southern Nigeria, no one will need those northern crooks.

Iceland population is not over 1 million people and they are a country, the SW has over 10 million people, the SE has over 5 million, the SS has over 5 million...

we all know the truth. Nigeria's unity is the problem. An igbo man named aguiyi ironsi made it worse by making Nigeria adopt a unitary system of government.

shamecurls:
Thats a a single broke ass Dude trying to get help with bottled waters. How many Americans would even buy such from a road side Dude? Dude is looking for money/help


Why cant you post a group of street hawkers



Information is totally False!!! Yes there re beggers in the USA but have restrictions.

That's a Nigerian who wants to trend online.

Why is he the only one in the picture?

Its as if he got down from the car and walked beside it then his friend snaps him..

HAH:
You clearly did not understand what the op wrote, he is 100% right because I have seen many prepaid meter with fixed out standing bill being charged monthly on them

Then its not a prepaid meter. The word "prepaid" means pay as you use and "fixed payments" means keep using even though its past its limit ...

amakenny:
Sorry for you people for refusing to embrace the political reality of Nigeria, that's one United Nigeria is a mirage, it can never come.

Jihadists destroyed the prospect of unity in Nigeria beginning from OIC debate period and progressed till now.
Before then, Nigerians both Christian and Muslims would be in the same school or jobs for years without any of them bothering to know who among them was Christian or Muslim.
Greed to control all in Nigeria using Islamization of all in Nigeria is the instrument that finished up Nigeria to this point of no return.

If your boy aguiyi ironsi didn't make Nigeria a unitary country things may have been different.

You're wrong about prepaid meters.. It uses card once the credit on the card has finished the light goes off...

HalimaSadiya:
Very beautiful ! The 16th picture though they're Hausa but still

You're calling yoruba muslims hausa

harveyspec:
how am I bring naive? I said whether it's thru loan or personal funds, didn't u see that

by the way, dangote put up $4b of his own, the balance is a loan.

if an individual can source for $9b regardless of the source, why can't nigeria as a country build one?

because the people (South South leaders and billionaires) that were supposed to build were waiting for the FG to build for them.

Its mainly tribalism against southerners.. The SW and SE won't be where they are today if they were waiting for the FG...

TheFreeOne:
My point is majority of the cattles in Nigeria are owned by northern Fulanis so southerners need to invest more in cattle rearing to avoid overdependence.

Will Fulani herdsmen and their leaders be misbehaving the way they've been doing if southerners are self-sufficient in provision of cattles

Southerners rear chickens, turkeys e.t.c. Southerners especially the SW does not put all their eggs in one basket..

Southerners are self sufficient in everything it is the greedy ones that are giving northerners an opportunity..

TheFreeOne:
I concur with the bold.

It is high time southerners starts establishing ranches to grow cattle and feed ourselves. And we can do it better cos the pasture is available for cattle feeding.

A Yoruba proverb says "we shouldn't lose our self worth because of cow meat".
Or should we start calling cows brothers because we want to eat meat

We don't want Fulani madness on our lands again. Enough is enough.

I have seen ranches in the south owned by yorubas..

Most of the food u eat is from the south..

We don't GROW cattle, we plant seeds and feed communities.