₦airaland Forum

ekt_bear: Dividing the country doesn't help (at least, not directly.)

The point the article makes is one of population DENSITY and rapid population GROWTH.

Even after dividing Nigeria, many parts will still remain densely populated and/or with very high pop growth.

Now, certainly industrialization will help.

But family planning would also be quite wise. I doubt the economic miracle currently happening in say China would be possible if they'd not instituted family planning many years ago...

For sure at bolded, when one checks, that was critical key to the reduction of growrate in Asia

alj harem: BEAF, Asari and co have really destroyed the relationship between the SS and SW.

In that case, I would like to express a big thankyou to beef, asari and co who have fought relentlessly to destroy such a parasitic relationship. more grease to your elbows..

The same Hypocrisy was seen by Fashola when the FG crushed subsidy removal protest just after he used police on Lekki toll gate protesters....the man should just shut up if he has nothing to say

Why Should South South Political Fools Be Having Meetings In LAGOS?

or

Why Should South South oil money revenue be shared to Fools in LAGOS?

Both Tinubu, First lady, Uduaghan and all public officials that do this are wrong.....but the one sided accusation and hypocrisy displayed by Fashola is nothing new.. i believe it has genetic origins

PhysicsQED was trying to pass a message to floor of the the house but nobody seemed to listen, some even took to attacking him....

The solution is industrialization simple, thanks physicsQED and sorry for the unprovoked and unintelligent attacks from you know who...

The way I see it, industrialization > economic empowerment > improved educations and standard of living> reduction in number of children due to balloting attitude.... this is what I believed happened in Asia that had a similar population growth with us as at independence......

But what is preventing us from industrializing? the present unitary structure of government, where government tried to drive growth by trying to run everything and ends up spoiling everything is the key reason....caused by the need to depend on free oil...

Dividing Nigeria will probably break this need and enable people sit up...
This is what I understand from physicsQED post, please correct me if I am wrong...

mpumalanga: Igbos should form ogbunigwe group and link up with boko haram to frustrate jona the same adaka boro,ogbemudia and others link up with the north to dissembowel their pregnant women. They must learn to be wicked because they are surrounded by unrepetant wicked tribes or they will perish.

I read some parts of isaac saka bokos books and i saw where he complained that the department of fishries was located in Enugu! A fisherman from nembe had to go all the way to enugu for any sort of administrative activities......
The exact same thing the sw is now perpetrating on a worse scale, before you start feeling that the ss betrayed the se you have to see that the se did not do enuf to assure the feelings of the ss on the right to self determination within an independent nigeria. While Midwest was cut out of western region after so much struggles the igbos actively fought to prevent the ndtans from having their own region.
The first armed insurrection in nigeria was the isaac saka boro 7 day war to demand for more justice to the administration of the nigerdelta..this was suppressed with the active support of the eastern region government run mainly by igbos....and you have the mouth to turn around and say igbos were betrayed by nigerdeltans.

glb2012: In as much as I quite understand that its logical to move HQ close to the mineral...I honestly believe this is a conspiracy against the south west

How does reversing an unjust situation amount to a conspiracy against tha south west?
Don't u understand that companies like that were not suppose to be there in the first place?

debosky: This just shows how STOOPID you really are. NLNG started as an idea in the 70s when Lagos was the seat of power - it was all about negotiating the deals required to get the project off the ground, so it is completely logical it would have to be in Lagos to start with. It is quite foolish of you to claim it is in Lagos because of underhand deals -

You are too stoopid for words - kindly state the price of the alleged helicopter flights compared to rent. Resorting to blatant falsehoods to support idiotic decisions - I wouldn't expect anything less from the buffoon called .

I quite agree with you that corruption may be involved here, but we r arguing on a bigger scale corruption here involving wastage accrued over the years by IOCs and govt run oil operAting and regulAtory companies and agencies operating far from the resource point.

i work in the oil industry now so let me illustrate an example using snepco of shell operating bonga oil fields of bayelsa.

Shell pays $7000 for an hour of helicopter fight. Daily flights btw lagos and bonga is at least 4hour s everydAy for 365 days. That's a cool $10m a year.. Let's assume snepco operated out of warri, less thN half distance between lag and bonga...this cost will drop to $5m dollar s per annum...even less if it is bayelsa.


in 5 years that is $50m or =N= 8billion on helicopters alone......
If =N=4billion naira gets to lanlords in bayela, over a 5year periods wouldnt thT be great?

shymmex: Blah blah blah....

I don't want Nigeria to disintegrate - but your comment is utterly stupid. So Kogi, Edo and Delta should join the East because they share borders with the East - like they don't share borders with the West, and have more in common with Yorubas, than they will ever have with Igbos. And as if Yorubas don't make up at least 30% of Kogi; same ancestry with Edo; and similarities with Itsekiris..

I hate when people post stupid comments!!!

I am from delta state where igbis have 8 or 9 lgas and itsekiris share 3 lgas with ijaw and urhugbo, so what d hell are u talking about?

I have had the privilege of visiting Houston and Aberdeen in us and uk respective, and you find that operAtional activities that employ the active operational personnel are located in those cities not newyork and london...i wonder were we copied our own style from...
People on this forum pretend to be colour blind and accuse those asking for reasonable behaviour by the oil companies of being tribal...

So if Nigeria insists that multinationals must locate their technical services in country to encourage local content developments..the countries gaining from the services being run out of them will accuse nigeria of being racist? Because nigeria is generally unsafe, no nepa, no light govt curruption etc..

This is exactly what the southwest is doing to the south South by saying that we are tribal in demanding this

ndu_chucks: Please do not close your eyes and invoke sentiments in order to make any business decision in real life. We are in the 21st century for goodness sake.

If you can come up with a business case for moving the HQ to Port Harcourt, let's hear it.

What are the specific business activities which take place at the Lagos HQ?

ndu_chucks: Please do not close your eyes and invoke sentiments in order to make any business decision in real life. We are in the 21st century for goodness sake.

If you can come up with a business case for moving the HQ to Port Harcourt, let's hear it.

What are the specific business activities which take place at the Lagos HQ?

Ok we r in the 21st century but y should they even be in a place like Lagos when london and Johannesburg exist? Afterall they can operate remotely from anywhere abi? Stop ur colonial mentality..

Apart from the wAstage incurred by operating far from your raw materiAls, there's also the opportunities that are denied the locals.

Y do you think Americans are constantly worried about companies moving their operAtions abroad? Y don't the yanks hands in d air and say, after all they can operate remotely?

There's nothing wrong with having a small liason office in lagos or abuja to interface with necessary political or economic connections but when you decide to run operational activities out of Lagos, handshake definitely don pass elbow.
I have often wondered how IOCs can allow tribal reasoning to supersede economic sense of allowing full operations close to the raw materials...then it occurred to me that the IOCs smartly avoid the undue financial exposure by passing this to the fg thru the JV..Clever accounting allows for this wastage...
I honestly believe that the fg needs to collapse it stake in the JVs..as one of the steps in the right direction....

ndu_chucks: Good, so what percentage of these flyers travel on a regular basis and why? If only a handful of them need to travel frequently because telephones, emails, other electronic communications devices are insufficient to meet their needs, why can't those employees relocate? Why move the whole head quarters.

Again I ask you, what percentage of the staff at the Lagos head quarters have to travel on a regular basis to necessitate this move. If you don't know, simply state so, we don't have to know everything.

I hope you are not supporting this move due to tribal interests? I await your sensible response.


@odumchi, are heavy trucks used in exploratory activities parked in Lagos?

ndu_chucks: Good, so what percentage of these flyers travel on a regular basis and why? If only a handful of them need to travel frequently because telephones, emails, other electronic communications devices are insufficient to meet their needs, why can't those employees relocate? Why move the whole head quarters.

Again I ask you, what percentage of the staff at the Lagos head quarters have to travel on a regular basis to necessitate this move. If you don't know, simply state so, we don't have to know everything.

I hope you are not supporting this move due to tribal interests? I await your sensible response.


@odumchi, are heavy trucks used in exploratory activities parked in Lagos?

Ndu_chucks please close ur eyes, pretend this is the 1960s, cocoa is a major export earner for the country, and all operational, financial, contracting, employment, investment decisions are made in cocoa house located in kano!
Meanwhile the natural resourses are coming from the southwest...
Is it too much to ask for simple rational thinking here?

Lol, i really believe when shell, mobil, chevron, napims, schlumber ger etc decide to move to NDer......nairaland will end because this clown will crash the servers with image files....lol

Ifa simple movement of 400 people can generate this amount of madness.....i wonder wetin go happen when all the companies decide to move......

Na to tear cloth enter street....lol

Musiwa: https://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4551/eeeeuuuu.jpg

Good lord have Mercy.....this guys madness is getting out of hand!

I wonder why it's taken so long to move dpr, napims all govt controlled upstream oil companies to the niger delta.... For private oil companies the clock is ticking, patient is wearing thin.

Hi nLers,
I am not able to run banking mobile applications on my Samsung android note because it does not run java Apps...
I am left with two options
1 install an Android emulator on my phone or 2 wait for the banks to create their mobile apps in .apk format which will run on android phones.

since the banks dont seam to have android versions now, i have tried two java emulators i downloaded from the net and none of them work on my phone (JBED & andme-signed)..

please kindly let me know how and if you have been able to overcome thiz challenge.

So unfortunate, this is just one step closer to the anointed year of 2015

Joe Mosco: This is an ethical issue, thus, from all I deduce, i want to state the facts of the case.
(1)GEJ coplained of the poor nature of the church in his home town.
2) it was not a direct plea to anyone....
3) A firm responded.....
So, put yourself in GEJ's shoes, would you ask that the house be pulled down??

Guy thanks, the opposition a lot of times don't know when they talk themselves into irrelevance, it just a pity, so many intelligent areas to tackle the government of the day on and you choose this to ask for impeachment?

People defending the ACNs artitude here should take a sit and find out what it means to talk yourself into irrelevance such that people now start considering you as unserious...

Shebi all HOR and senate members from the SW are from ACN, how have they used this number to aggresively fight for a reduction in legislative expenses which the senate fix by themselves...

It beats me how we expect to have credible leadership when we put up tribal and unserious opposition

Sorry I forgot to add the link
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/politics/2012/apr/02/politics-02-04-2012-001.html
The story sounds too unreal to be true, but it;s really how nigeria has happened

It was Uthman Dan Fodio, a Fulani and great Islamic scholar who described “Conscience” as “an open wound” that could only be healed by “the truth.” Whatever served as the inspiration for this concept could not be anything other than awesome.

The fact that this same Dan Fodio is the great grandfather of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the late Sultan of Sokoto and Premier of Northern Region, the man who have played a prominent role in the Nigerian vicissitudes makes it highly imperative that we all open our “consciences” and allow “the truth” to heal them, if Nigeria must be saved.

It is important that Nigeria returns to true Federalism if it must survive. In this era when there is clamour for the Sovereign National Conference (SNC), it is important that we try to look back in History and examine how our Federalism was unmade. This is because as the Spanish born American Essayist Geoge Santayana once contended, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In this venture, all of us, regarfless of our ethnic background must allow “the truth” to nurture and heal our “consciences” for the sake of our collective survival as a country.

The Nigerian Federalism was unmade via two fronts: (1) Structural or Political and (2) Fiscal or Financial
In 1952, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sultan of Sokoto and the leader of the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) made the following request to the Nigerian Colonial Seceretary, Mr. Oliver Lyttleton:“If you want us (the North) to be part of this Nigeria you have in mind, then we want 50% of the membership of the National Assembly.”

It would be recalled that as a result of the elections of 1954, there were 162 seats in the Nigerian National Assembly. Out of this, the South had 83 seats (51.23%) and the North had 79 seats (48.76%), including the Yoruba people of Kwara. This means that if the Kwara people were not lumped with the North, they would still have less number of seats than 79, since this was based on population.

This shows that the South of Nigeria has always been more populous than the North of Nigeria. But Sultan Bello, as evident from this 1952 request, has a different idea. If one considers his aristocratic background, one would have an understanding of his fear of “pure” democracy. Aristocracy is “the government of a country by a small group of people especially a hereditary nobility” which is “a group believed to be superior to all others of the same kind.”

Thus for the Sultan to seek to dominate by any means necessary, would seem natural to him.
In 1957, he refused the independence of Nigeria because he insisted the North was not ready. But the North was ready when he got what he wanted, and more, before Nigerian Independence in 1960. The British overlords, in order to assuage Sultan Bello’s fears and put Nigeria in his control, created in 1959, 312 seats for the Nigerian National Assembly without any election or new Census. Out of this 312, the North was allocated 174 and the South 138 in the anticipation of the Parliamentary Political System being put in place for Nigeria’s independence. Sultan Bello asked for 50% of the seats in the National Assembly, he got 55.7%. Suddenly, an apartheid system was put in place as the majority South, became the minority and the minority North became the majority.

This is where the future of Nigeria was unmade, and the seed for the destruction of the Nigerian Federalism was sowed. This development gave unburnished confidence to Sultan Bello who declared on October 12, 1960, in an interview with The Parrot, just days after independence the following words: “This New Nation called Nigeria, should be an estate of our great grand father, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the North as willing tools, and the South, as conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.”

With Alhaji Tafawa Balewa firmly in charge in Lagos, Sir Bello’s confidence became ebullient. To him Chief Obafemi Awolowo has been a thorn in his flesh politically, having mainatained an effective opposition to the feudalisation of Nigeria. Earlier in 1959, he had vowed to make Chief Awolowo pay dearly for forcing him to canvass for the votes of his Northern people. Awolowo had to be caged. Thus in the Daily Times of May 3, 1961, Sir Bello said the following:

“I’m set and fully armed, to conquer the Action Group, AG, in the same ruthless manner as my grandfather conquered Alkalawa, a town in Sokoto province, during the last century.” In May 1962, twelve months after this statement, the NPC Prime Minister of Nigeria, Tafawa Balewa, acting on instructions from Sultan Bello moved a motion to Declare A State of Emergency in Western Region. Below is an excerpt of Chief Awolowo’s contribution opposing the motion of Prime Minister Balewa on May 29, 1962:

“Not long ago after independence, there was rioting of a most severe nature in the Tiv Division of Northern Nigeria. Several lives were lost, several properties were destroyed, there was arson and a host of other crimes were committed. At that time, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the Prime Minister as he is today. He did not think it fit to call this parliament to declare a state of public emergency in the Northern Region. Also in Okrika - there was widespread rioting in Okrika; again, several lives and properties were lost. I understand that this widespread rioting in Okrika occurred twice in the Eastern Region. The Prime Minister and the cabinet did not think it fit on that occasion to declare a state of public emergency in the Eastern Region.

“But, because the Action Group is pursuing the normal democratic processes as laid down in our constitution to oust someone who happens to be a very close friend of the Prime Minister, and also because the AG is looked upon as a moral foe to the NPC, this very far-reaching provision of our constitution is now being invoked, …..It is doing violence to our constitution and doing violence to the construction of words to suggest that what happened in the Western House of Assembly amounts to a state of public emergency.”

On July 16, 1962, exactly 46 days after Chief Awolow moved this motion and fourteen months after Sir Bello made the statement of conquest of the AG, Chief Awolowo was arrested on the trumped up charges of Treasonable Felony. On November 2, 1962, Chief Awolowo and 28 other members of his party were put on trial. After a hearing lasting eleven months, he was sentenced (September 11, 1963) to ten years imprisonment. This effectively shut down the opposition to the unmaking of Nigerian Federalism which continued unabated.

Thus, why Awolowo was incarcerated, the Northern Peoples Congress led Federal Government embarked on headcount. This exercise was headed by a Briton as Federal Census Officer, Mr. J. J. Warren. The exercise was later cancelled because it was unacceptable. Daniel Agbowu in his book “NIGERIA: The Truth” quoted from M. Crowder’s book, “Story of Nigeria” published in 1966 noting that “The 1962 figures were first questioned in the first place not by politicians but by the civil servant in charge of the Census.”

The Census was reconducted in 1963 but not without controversy. The figure released on February 24, 1964 is as follows:
North: 29,809,000
East: 12,394,000
West: 10,931,000
Midwest: 2,536,000
TOTAL: 55,670,000.

This was in contrast to the initial figure of over 60 million. Dr. Michael Okpara, Premier of Eastern Region described it as “worse than useless.” Chief Dennis Osadebey characterised it as the “stupendous joke of our age.” Chief S. L. Akintola, revelling in his supposed invulnerability having allied himself to the NPC, which mastermined the incarceration of Awolowo, gladly “accepted the census figures” and said “the figures were accurate.”

Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, encumbered by his involvement in the Balewa government, could not effectively artculate the anger of his people as he pleaded that “all should remain calm” because the Census controversy “might plunge the nation into disaster.” Chief Awolowo was meanwhile effectively out of circulation. Sultan Bello had come out smoking as he threatened that “he and his party were ready for a complete showdown” and “warned all Nigerians” that his “Government has accepted the published figures.” Tafawa Balewa ignored all the protestations and went ahead to distribute the seats in the National Assembly as follows:

North 168 53.8%,
East 69 21 %,
West (Lagos included) 61 19.6%,
Midwest 14 4.5%.

The Eastern Region Soilicitor General, Mr. D. O. Ibekwe “took out a writ in the Supreme Court to restrain the Federal Government from using the 1963 Census figures for delineation of the country.” But the Supreme Court said it had no jurisdiction over the case, thus the unmaking of Nigerian Federalism continued.

Crisis followed that action of 1964 by Tafawa Balawa. In the West, the people took their destiny in their hands to confront the government of S. L. Akintola in an episode ingloriously referred to as “wet e.” The Tiv Riots, simmering since 1960 also came to a head in 1964 in what was called “nande nande” (burning burning) and “atem ityough” (head breaking). The whole country went up in flames which unfortunately, consumed the main actors, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sir Tafawa Balewa and Chief S. L. Akintola, as the Military ascended the political pedestal to continue the serial rigging of Nigeria’s Federalism.

As at the time the First Republic went up in flames in 1966, there were different constitutions for each region and Nigeria. Each region has its own High Commissioner in London. What does this mean? It meant that every region was in control of its destiny. Most historical analysts believed that General Aguiyi Ironsi who took over the reign of power from the uncoordinated plotters of the coup was the first leader who actually practicalised Unitarism of the Nigerian political space, at least officially.

Reasons for this should not be difficult to decipher given the chaos that ended the First Republic. But this particular act coupled with the fact that in the January 15, 1966 coup led by mainly Igbo officers, Sultan Ahmadu Bello, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa (both Fulani) and Chief S. L. A. Akintola (Yoruba) were killed. But this was reportedly an excuse for the July 25, 1966 coup led by Murtala Mohammed that eventually saw the installation of Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon as the military Head of State.

If the Northern soldiers abhored Unitarism, part of the reason they had allegedly staged a vengeance coup, one would have thought that things would have been different on taking power. But alas, that was not the case. The Aburi Agreement meant to calm the nerves after the 1966 pogrom that would have guaranteed each region the control of its own destiny was violated by the North led Federal Government which went ahead to break Nigeria into twelve states. One region, the North ended up with six states. The three other regions ended up with 6 states in yet another rigging of Nigeria. And then there was the Civil War and the unmaking of Nigerian Fiscal Federalism commenced in earnest.

The Constitution establishing Nigeria stipulated 50% derivation “in respect of any Mineral extracted from that region.” Sub-sections 1,2 3,4 and 5 of the Constitution explained this in detail. But this would not deter the rigging of Nigeria as Yakubu Gowon unilaterally took off 5% oil receipt of the Niger Delta leaving them with 45%. He then proceeded with another Census in 1973. At first, Gowon came out with a total of 79,758,969. The six states of the North got 51 million while the Southern six states were given barely 28,758,969.

“This meant that the population of the North had jumped from 53.6% in 1963/64 to 63.8 in 1973/74 census. The Southern population had dwindled to 36.2% from 46.4%....” The Chairman of the census board late Sir Adetokunbo Ademola said “the figures published by Gowon were not my making.” Chief Obafemi Awolowo, now out of incarceration called the 1973 census a “barren exercise..”

To appreciate the extent of the rigging of the census figures, a comparative analysis of the figures alloted to the North of Nigeria showed that Niger Republic with 1,266,700sq km in land space in the desert has 5,013,966 population in 1973. Chad with 1,259,200 sq km of space had 4,011,856 population in 1973. But the North of Nigeria sharing boundaries with Chad and Niger Republic and with 679,534 sq km of space had 51million! The 1990/91 Census gave the North 47,261,959. Nothing points more to rigging when you look at the 1973 figures of 51 million and 1990 figure of over 47 million. There is no scientific explanation for the reduced difference of almost 4 million.

The Northerners rigged the population in favour of the North and used it as a basis to create States and local governments to the North’s advantage as ameans to siphoning resources to the disadvantage of the South. The Northern Military rulers who created states made sure that the North always had more states than the South as the table below shows:

At the risk of stating the obvious, it is an open seceret that the North has 64 more local governments than the entire South – North 419 LGs to South’s 355. What is obvious is the careless abandon with which money is allocated to the states and local governments of the North such that the North takes home 21/2 times what the former Eastern Region took, and 3 to 4 times what the Western Region took and at times, as much as 10 times what the former Mid-Western Region took.

According to “Nigeria: The Truth,” since 1980 when the Federation Account was introduced before the 13% derivation was resuscitated, the take home of each region in percentage of the total accrued money is as follows:
North 54%
East 22%
West 18%
Midwest 6%
Not many Nigerians are aware that the Northern Region paid custom duties to the Western Region until 1976, when Murtala Mohammed took over the reigns of Government. Or that as at 1975 when Murtala Mohammend overthrew the Yakubu Gowon administration, the Niger Delta enjoyed 45% rents and royalties? Murtala Mohammed slashed it to 20% (Decree No. 6 of 1975) to assuage the Northern States, before Olusegun Obasanjo, through the Aboyade Technical Commission which recommended the removal of the remaining 20% of the rents and royalties, finally nailed the coffin of the Southern States without any protest from the people of the Niger Delta or other parts of the South.

Since then the North has been having advantages in appointments and resource distribution and have been robbing Peter to pay Paul. Now that the call for Sovereign National Conference is increasing, it is important that Nigerians isolate where the country went off the track and seek ways to retrace their steps as a way of moving forward. The way to go include but not limited to the following: Install True Federalism and allow each region to have its own constitution according to the Principles of Self Determination;

This will put an end to the apartheid system where the minority North is lording it over the majority South.;
This will end the injustice against the South, the goose laying the eggs being deprived of appropriate entitlements to its resources; Allow a minimum of 45% derivation if we cannot go back to the old 50%;
Allow state or regional police force and dismantle the Nigeria Police Force;

Decentralise the Nigerian Armed Forces and allow each region to manage its own defence;
Decentralise power generation; and Let each Region or zone be able to enunciate its own economic plan without the Central Bank being able to overrule them.

na wa oooo, this share the money spirit done tey ooo

don't really understand Awos insisting that west would go if biafra goes? why must they go together? why couldnt the north.and west live happlily ever after?

I hope this isn't just another hoax to piss yoruba people of and get them saliavating with jealousy...else why don't they mention the estimated qauntity of reserves and the estimated daily production rates from the field

Beaf: Police have to sign for their guns, so forcing them off their road blocks means they now have no legitimate reason to sign for weapons.
Could this mean that some of them were signing for guns in the pretext of using them at road blocks, but using them in armed robberies instead? That might well explain the drop in armed robbery incidents.

i couldnt help laughing...strange as it may sound...u may actually be right

@gidimonsta,
i am not saying the SW were not seriously into captialist running of the country prior to the indiginisation decree....but lets assume that there was almost a 50/50 split in the corporate world between the Sw and Se, plus the SE had the army and commerce...meaning that overall they were leading.....

This dominace and extreme competitive spirit drove the SE to cover the almost 50years head start the SW had on education due to earlier contact with the british...even the free education of the SW did not still make them outright leaders in the corporate world....
the dominace was so great that they were seen in every activity in the SW and north....the earliest recorded case of mass kolling in the north was in the 1950s....many years before the nzeogu coup? because it was feared by the core northernsers that shoild the british leave..the igbos with their aggresive drive would be the once runjing things....so over the years mistrust, jealosy, envy and haterate built up in the nigerian mind against the igbos....the nzeogu coup was just the final straw for the northerners......

Kn the SW...lagos was threated as a federal capital and the igbos threw their all into the development of the place just like they are doing for Abuja today..their presence was felt to the extent that NCNC could win elections in the Sw in the 50s...almost causing an embrarasing situation for awolowo....in a final act odlf desperation Awo played the ethnic card...causing the yorubas that supported the NCNC to cross over to the AG......

there are so many things to write were about igbo participation in the development of nigeria..and how they lost out thier spheres of influence after the civil war.....but whqt needs to be acknoledged is that key big corporations that dominated the economy mostly run by lebanese and british were forced to sell their shares to nigerians by awolowo....the igbos only had 20pounds (another awo magic)....the northerners as usual were far behind in education and all sorts....the only people with money then were the SW....guess what happened next..
That why those sitting on the boards of old companies like pz, liver brothers, fristbank are at least 80% ... this does not mean they wouldnt have been there....but they may not have been so dominant......please now your history...

gidiMonsta:
Guy this is not an imbalanced argument, its what every Nigerian knows:

Go to spare parts market, who do u see there? Ibo people (not a bad thing)
Go to Alaba, Badagry, Onitsha, Aba and other places where u buy knock offs, who do u find there selling this stuff? Ibo people
Majority of those arrested for armed robbery and drug trafficking are Ibos.
How many people have been kidnapped in the southwest?
We have heard tons of stories of young ibo men killing their family members for blood money. (happens everywhr in Naija but more rampant in the east).

I'm not saying SWners are saints and this is not an attempt to attack Ibo people but u have to admit that this is true, a lot of people in ur tribe are known to worship money.

On the issue of per capital income, it's true the Ibo's may be more successful in SME's (no evidence to back this tho) but when it comes to the big corporations and financial institutions that run this economy, the SW is still ahead. The Nigerian civil service consists mostly of Northerners with an almost equal distribution of SWners and Easterners.

the reason for the bolded was the indeginization decree smartly crafted by awolowo as finance minister in gowons government, knowing fully well that the igbos were still recovering from the civil war, after also masterminding the 20 pounds for every igbo law, since then the SW have held on to the corporate world like bees to honey.

Dede1:
Bros, eastern region led every region in Nigeria in number of civil servants before 1967. It was the sheer number of Ndigbo in government payroll and dominance in private sectors that instigated the hatred and mythical fear of Igbo domination which led to civil war of 1967.

word, i also they still are quite there is good numbers despite the tough challanges especially those from the owerri/imo axis,

Da infamous:
you are the one that said eastern region selling spare parts, importing knock off products, armed robbery, kidnapping, ritual killings and drug trafficking,and your people are saints you have to make a balance argument before people takes you serious well even from statistic SE are far ahead from SW their is evidence on that, and looking at it SE people earn more per capital in businesses than civil servants we all know SW are mostly civil servants and we know how much an average salary is in Nigeria

da famous, please cross check your fact about earning power of civil servant vs business men, remember that civil servants in nigeria earn most of their pay from perpetuating corrupt and sharp practices,

alj harem:
Hmmm but Igbos are not the majority in Delta state and infact when people talk of delta state we talk of Ijaw, Itsekiri and Urhobo being the majority. I wonder where you got Igbo from

anyway, Again you do not know the different between Itsekiri and Yoruba because if you do then you would know the top positions are reserved for Niger-delta people which might even be Akoko people or Apoi Ijaw

Are they not all Niger-delta ? Moreover as for the Itsekiris it is not the population that matters but the land they occupy (the avocados) where 70 % of delta state oil comes from.

Yes Itsekiris would protest even Ilajes who happen to be yorubas would protest if something does not favour them. Did this articule not mention "Ijaw/Itsekiri youths" ?

If something does not favour you, would you not protest ? Or do you think they are as tribalistic as you ?

Even Aworis can protest, Igbos can protest etc it has nothing to do ethnicity but about interest.

I hope I have answered your question ?

Now this are the top 3 people working in shell as of today, this is just to show you your hypocrisy

Chike Onyejekwe - Igbo from ENUGU, is he NOT even Niger-delta

Mutiu Sunmonu

Philip Mshelbila

look at this boy ooo, so you want to turn truths on their head because you need to prove a point, na wa oooo,
I live in delta state and i am from there so stop shamelessly saying rubish, to top it, i work with an IOC there so i know where oils is from and where is not from,
urhobos are the largest group in delta state with 8lgas share warri central lga with ijaw and isekiris, igbos(anioma)are next even with 9lgas, ijaws are next with 3 lgas to themselves and share 3 warri lgas with isekiris, isokos have 2. while isekiris u claim are the majority dont even have a complete lga to themselves,

Majority of the oil in delta state is located in the ijaw and urhobo areas, chevron operates most of the isekiri fields and they are few in number,

stop the lies, we know you is who. there is no confusion here, oil companies shoukd relocate over here to give the communities better value