@Ibkhaleel001 I have read all posts on this topic, pages 1 - 8 so far (yes, I have got some time to waste). You obviously feel entitled and pained on behalf of your people. You made all manners of assertions to justify your stance and for all you posts and comments about the north being peaceful, being the biggest region with the largest population, I sighed cos I was born and bred in the north and lived amongst our brothers on that side. The truth is northern Nigeria has been the most unfair and most parasitic in the geopolitical relationship called Nigeria. You argued based on several points, but here below are some sincere facts that I think you are your ilk should ponder on:

1. Violence: You conveniently forgot all the riots that happened up north (Katsina Maitasine, Bauchi, Jos, Sokoto, Kaduna, Kano etc) with mostly southerners being the targets of death and destruction by rampaging mobs, sometimes driven by twisted sermons from religious leaders. The people of Jos had been attacked and killed severally before they were forced to start reacting. Till today, they are being attacked and killed but you remembered that they ate flesh (which was bad enough) to show that they too could be mad; after-all no region has monopoly of violence just that some people loves peace (not northerners like you claim) so much hence they don't react when marauding fulani herdsmen come killing. Imagine where this country would have been if every community react to the provocations of the Hausa-Fulani.

2. Biggest size/Largest population: So I ask what is the use of biggest size and population when most of them are unproductive? Ah! The Elections. OK. I believe that even if FIRS reserves the right to share VAT it should never be by population or geographic size but by how productivity of such geography or population. Truthfully, we cannot continue to reward laziness and as someone said, any fool can marry plenty wives and have multiple children. I have no issues with having multiple wives since you claim it helps abate social ills, granted. However, the number of kids per wife probably has to be curtailed cos right now what the north has given to Nigeria is a population problem, but if your leaders are smart, they can easily turn such a huge liability to assets and the only way is to provide free child and adult education. But again, how can greedy and selfish leaders retain power if the populace are enlighted? GEJ, wanted to help in that regard by building the schools for the almajarai, I guess you know that ended. Boko Haram provided an alternative that was embraced by your elites, now the chicken has come home to roost.

3. VAT Matters: I would not even over-flog this. I cannot be paying VAT which would be given to other states that are hardly productive in any sense of the word. On the flip side I see this state collection of VAT as a positive thing (if your leaders would be smart). Instead of insulting people on Nairaland with half-truths and poorly written articles, call your politically-inclined friends and family and brainstorm on how to make your states more economically viable or help your leaders to think creatively. Do you know how many southerners have never crossed the Niger? Why can't you think of a plan together with hoteliers, tour operators, government security agencies, airlines, cultural guides etc to invite people from the south to tour northern cities safely. You can only imagine the amount of jobs that can be created and businesses that would pay taxes from this example. On the flip side, imagine doing all this HARDWORK and your tax is used to reward some people who choose to sleep all day. Then you would be required to do it all over next month and the month after that. The Good Book says a worker deserves his wages.

In conclusion, it takes so much energy to insult and respond to insults on Nairaland. if I were you all the insults received on this platform would make me so angry that I would gather my family and friends to brainstorm on how to use resources (human and otherwise) to grow the region in a sustainable manner, then try to influence the people and govt to work hard and delivery success; after all success is the best revenge. But again, I am not you!

Take good care man!

Ibkhaleel001:
LET US VOMIT OUT THE SOUTHERN HOOK, LINE AND SINKER


Northern Nigeria has more graduates and Professors than South Africa. The real problem is not as Southerners paint it and you echo it like empty halls. 


Practically, millions of Northerners are either unemployed, misemployed, or underemployed. Our problem is our chances are blocked and our resources dominated by Southerners who paint the wrong picture for fools to believe them.


75% of  government spending is connered by Southerners via the domination of salary earning, contracts, projects, bail outs and other interventions. Trade and industries are dominated by Southerners who have easy access to multi billion credit facilities courtesy their domination of state financial structure and instruments and institutions. 


Every ministry is dominated by them. All our markets are monopolized by them due to their control of capital that enable them to finance business and take more risk due to ease of acces to money. They conrol their markets by regular disruptuons of our businesses officially and by direct frequent violence unofficially. Their control of and easy access to liquidity enable them to be more enerprising business wise. They buy our goods cheap and sell theirs exorbitantly.


To preserve the exploitative status quo they spread false verson of the reality. They centralize oil as the main source of wealth so that our attention will be far away from other sources of wealth they dominate.

Oil is less than 10% of  Nigeria's GDP. They tell us we are the parasite and we are lazy and we are uneducated to instil a sense of guilt, self hate and inadequacy in us. We swallow all these falsehood uncritcally because we made our source of daily information their media and books. They over concentrate on our weaknesses and ignore almost completely their own weaknesses. An average Southerner having mild cold will almost by default blame it on Northerners and will not lack northerners who "speak the truth" to agree with him.


How can uneducated people have multitude of unemployed graduates? How can lazy people be producig the food of the nation? Why do millions of Southerners troop to the poor parasitic North and refuse leave? The south said so and it is?


What we need is a  political economic solution. We must take control of our local markets, our institutions and our businesses in their land must be given due attention and protection and any act of disruption by way of constant destruction must be paid back in due measure without listening to their victimship outcries. They fear separation more than us because their weak economic foundation, especially the west entirely dependent on controlling  government resources.


We must ask and take our fair share of every government employment at whatever cost. No people has ever prospered when their resources, oppurtunities and chances are blocked and dominated by others.  Our constant preachment of peace must stop: justice and and equity must be our new slagon. 


The real problem is believing in the propaganda of the enemies which saps our resourcefulness and infuse our senses with feelings of backwardness that really do not exist, or are caused by false perception. The greatest defeat one can suffer is to see oneself as projected by one's enemies. 


Almajiri is system suffocated by lack of finance. Poverty is a direct result of economic domination and exclusion. Degrees are not unavailable. Marrying four wives will not stop as it is never a problem but a great social system. Once we assert control on what is rightly ours, that self concious timidity will evaporate and be replaced by confidence and bold enterprise. Up to the Seventies we were the richest people in Africa. As the central government grows and  takes control of resources our wealth progressively dwindles. As the southerners intensify drums of hate and aggression we draw back to give peace, that is never forthcoming, a chance.


Try asking for propotionate representation in all government employment in all institutions and at all levels, they will cry out about mediocrity supplanting merit as if those half literates southerners dominating the place are Einstein incanates. Or they will blackmail you with Islamization.


Try treating their traders in our markets as they treat ours and they will cry xenophobia as if the regular denial of market space, heavy taxation, constant disruption of business and officially sanctioned harrassment of our traders in their land does not exist.


Try replacing Southern union leaders and foreign sponsored NGOs operating in the North with our own people and they will start wailing about marginalization.


Well, their era of dominance and false propaganda is coming to an end with the coming of age of young northerners who could no longer accept marginalization because of blackmail or threat. These new bold Northern youth have seen how southerners cowered when asked to leave the North two years ago. Their cries for secession are empty ruse. 


We will be better off without them and they will definitely be worse off without us. They know we lack nothing, while their millions selling substandard, fake good, drugs and inrdinately high interest bank loans fleecing the north and feeding on cheap food and services will have nothing on returning back home. Their franchise firms and industries will lose over 100 million costumers overnight which is more than their home market demand. 


Soon we will ask for equity or call it quit. We know who we are and we know our strength.

Ibkhaleel001:
[s][/s] Myopic thinking....dead brain.... polytheist trinitarian pagan!

Hit him with the undiluted truth he’s been avoiding, and he resorts to insults. Sad & laughable at same time.

Nasa28:


Yea . I'm always in deep pain whenever I hear about the death of Nigerians, how youths are committing suicide, how the number of homeless ppl keep skyrocking , how insecurity in the other of the day, how Nigeria has become a laughing stock in international community. The above and many more make me be in pain .

I am a human with a conscience.

I hail and respect you bro. Your response is gold!

EternalBeing:
The Easiest Way To Become a Strong Christian is by listening to the right things.
Ephesians 6:10&11. "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the LORD, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the." Strong Christians are those that are strong in the LORD by having unflinching/unwavering/unstoppable Faith in our CREATOR. How can we become strong in the LORD? The easiest way to become strong in the LORD is by making sincere effort to fill our minds with HIS Words and things that irreversibly solidifies/concertize our Faith in HIM.

You cannot unsee what you've seen and you cannot unhear what you've heard. That's why the devil is speaking through those that submitted to him to produce "extraordinarily sweet" music to capture so many Souls. ALMIGHTY GOD too is seeking sold into Christ People that would use for HIS Work of Salvation so that HE can speak/sing unprecedented mysteries through them to reverse what Satan has done and restores his Creatures back to HIMSELF. The writer of the following Song has obviously lost himself into JESUS Christ and permanent Holiness. The Youtube comments below the Video shows that it is massively converting Satanists, Atheists, Muslims, Pagans to Christianity and helping Christians to become permanently Holy. When HOLY SPIRIT Speaks through you, the whole Humanity knows it. Most people that hear it, download the audio and put it on repeat. The World needs more of this type of the unprecedented Revelations that came out in this Song. Yours may be through your career, movie, dressing, actions, profession, etc. Please let HIM use you too.
Despite still having 99 sheep, HE's the One who cares so much never to leave the lost 1 behind.

God of creation
There at the start
Before the beginning of time
With no point of reference
You spoke to the dark
And fleshed out the wonder of light

And as You speak
A hundred billion galaxies are born
In the vapor of Your breath the planets form
If the stars were made to worship so will I
I can see Your heart in everything You’ve made
Every burning star
A signal fire of grace
If creation sings Your praises so will I

God of Your promise
You don’t speak in vain
No syllable empty or void
For once You have spoken
All nature and science
Follow the sound of Your voice

And as You speak
A hundred billion creatures catch Your breath
Evolving in pursuit of what You said
If it all reveals Your nature so will I
I can see Your heart in everything You say
Every painted sky
A canvas of Your grace
If creation still obeys You so will I
So will I
So will I

If the stars were made to worship so will I
If the mountains bow in reverence so will I
If the oceans roar Your greatness so will I
For if everything exists to lift You high so will I
If the wind goes where You send it so will I
If the rocks cry out in silence so will I
If the sum of all our praises still falls shy
Then we’ll sing again a hundred billion times

God of salvation
You chased down my heart
Through all of my failure and pride
On a hill You created
The light of the world
Abandoned in darkness to die
And as You speak
A hundred billion failures disappear
Where You lost Your life so I could find it here
If You left the grave behind You so will I
I can see Your heart in everything You’ve done
Every part designed in a work of art called love
If You gladly chose surrender so will I
I can see Your heart
Eight billion different ways
Every precious one
A child You died to save
If You gave Your life to love them so will I

Like You would again a hundred billion times
But what measure could amount to Your desire
You’re the One who never leaves the one behind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfVd5x9W1Xc
After deeply listening to the song, let's know what you think. Also, share other songs and material like this on this thread for us all to benefit too.

May God Almighy reward you for posting. This is pure!

TundeHashim:
This is bullshit...we can't keep being fed useless information without any proof. Come on, this could be a robbery attack..we should desist from emotional blackmail and irrationally exploiting the ongoing media bias against Fulani herdsmen

Until they appear in your backyard abi? Oya, kontinu

asdfjklhaha:
He said USA and north korea, why are weaklings like Nigeria scared? If at all there would be a nuclear war, it wouldn't get to us as the world powers would exterminate each other within minutes.

Sometimes being weak has its own blessings.

YARN OF THE DAY: Sometimes being weak has its own blessings #Respect

Logosclose:
@Naijachiefwhip

GM To Release Cars With No Steering Wheel In 2019

If the Department of Transportation grants GM's latest Safety Petition, the automaker will be able to deploy its no-steering-wheel, pedal-less autonomous car next year. The company describes it as "the first production-ready vehicle built from the start to operate safely on its own, with no driver, steering wheel, pedals or manual controls."

The car has no controls whatsoever, not even buttons you can push it. 100 percent treats you as a passenger, no matter where you sit. The car can even open and shut doors on its own.

http://www.naijachiefwhip.com/2018/01/gm-release-cars-no-steering-wheel-2019-pics.html

.... all these smart cars with no place for human control or input.

Imagine you enter siddon, the car welcomes you. As e dey drive you, it runs your facials through police crime/civil offense databases & discovers one parking ticket or tax offense or that one authority dey find you. Na so doors go lock you inside as the car go carry you go nearest police station report you and your offenses even before you arrive.

As for me, I get hands and legs and I have to understand and control any technology. I refuse to use anything wey smart pass Benin boys.

pasol4real:

Sharap my friend
If bubu n his useless cabals had their way they will put aall their ppl there ,but unfortunately for them this is is a field where u have to use ur very very best .

...you guys would do much worse if you're put in Bubu's shoes. I wish you can get your Biafla, let us watch you all eat yourselves.

Guilderland1:
I only see Biafra children training, Igbos doing Nigerian jobs alone since1800BC

What sort of uneducated and idiotic comment is this please? You people are quick to shout marginalization and Biafra for every little thing. I hope you see that no tribe is screaming blue murder because igbos are, supposedly, the major stock of the national team as seen through your tribalistic eyes.

It is comments such as this that creates hatred towards the good people of eastern Nigeria.

Please receive sense!!!!

I think the issue should not be about money earn-able in Canada, but more about the quality of life.

In most western countries, you WOULD pay bills and tax. You can earn plenty (e.g N4m equivalent monthly) but spend just as much trying to live and survive. Many people traveled and are not able to build a house in the village cos they cannot save to send funds home (some others do have it easy). Like someone mentioned earlier, you may earn N400k monthly in Nigeria but you live like a king and even have savings; this is after carrying all your responsibilities.

My advice: Take study leave if you must go to school, graduate with good grades and during this period, consider the issues (salary, rent, tax, immigration policies, racism, business climate, etc) then make your decision to stay or run back and take your job which can have better prospects cos of your new degree. But please don't travel based on hearsay.

Truth is we never value Nigeria until you travel to see somethings or have some experiences.

May God Almighty guide you and continually bless Nigeria!

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CaptainBomb:
How would you feel knowing your sister has lumps in her br3ast and the chances of having cancer is 70%. She still talk to you normal as if she is fine , though she did not know what is wrong with her is a life threatning disease that has no cure and could take her life. We havent scan the lumps to know if it is cancer or not but i am worried my sister may die of cancer. Is there any hope for her to survive because i have been told and read that no one survive cancer

Dear Sister, your only hope is in Jesus Christ. Please lead your sister on a faith based prayer.

My prayers is with your sister. Regards!

feedthenation:
What some people don't understand is that if this allegations are true about Aisha Buhari, the US Justice department would have demanded that she be extradicted to the US to face justice.
By the way this has been going on since 2009, why can't the various past governments of OBJ, Yar'adua and GEJ do something about this case?
Also if this is true, the PDP party would have used this case during the 2015 election against PMB and the APC party.

I think the US wouldn't act just yet. They'd probably keep the answer to this Aisha-Buhari-or-not puzzle under wraps and use as a bargaining chip with Buhari. Nothing might happen even if she goes to the US, it's all politics of interests. We should cease the insults as time would reveal all.

IamPatriotic:
Rumour has it that Obasanjo broker a deal that brought him back to the country and Buhari consented to the deal because this one agreed to refund a lump sum of money he and his wife stole while in power.

APC propaganda factory getting to overdrive!

AgroPeele... Thanks for this very informative information. You're becoming a blessing to us all.

@lalasticlala... tomato don done, send to front page!

@OP.

I'd rather you title this NIGERIA'S SEAT OF POWER.

It belongs to all Nigerians not just President Buhari.

Hmm.... I really dunno what to say about this, but I'd share a colleague's experience.

He said he and his family were robbed at night while they slept. The room were he & his wife slept was turned upside down and ransacked, they heard nothing. It was when his wife got to go ease herself at about 4am that she was confused at the state of room so she just asked in anger why he scattered the place and in confusion he responded that he did no such thing. When he arose in bewilderment, they found the front door wide open and came to the conclusion that they've been robbed.

He said criminals now use sleeping spray through windows and other openings (see wetin heat fit cause?) to induce serious sleep in the occupants while they proceed to sneak/break-in and rob since house owners are in cloud 9. He has committed to permanent air conditioning now.

When I heard this from a direct source, I just tire for this life. We all need to be hyper cautious cos these are perilous times.

BTW... Who fit help me hustle GreenCard?

Bring Back Our Cock. #BBOC

This should a noble cause to keep OshoBaba & madam busy from their picture taking fetish.

In Lagos, the most important issue is traffic/distance to work. I pay more to stay close to my office cos I'm able to accomplish more before & after work (including proper rest) than spend so much time & stress on the road to get to a cheaper apartment. For me quality of life is important, the money I save on transport, fuel & healthcare allows me to do other important things. So these are the considerations before you calculate percentages.

I'd welcome the insults from this man if only it would anger us enough to make Nigeria & Africa great. Why won't they insult us... What's our contribution to the 21st century? We use their technologies, medicines, education and more....

But again, in these times no man/nation is an island. Donald Trump is simply a doofus who is not in tune with the realities of our time. All he's been having are grandiose delusions.

Video attached. Judge for yourselves!

YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Bzw7fFjCRgA

SMH... What if she never becomes a Canadian?!

It was the 'mericans that came up with the refrain ", innocent until proven guilty". In my opinion I think we should go the Russian way ", guilty until proven innocent", with respect to corruption issues. Then it will be easier to gather them all and do a collective ass-whooping.

Aondoakaa returns as minister, not!

Yes, he is not a member of the PDP but a former goverment official and a corrupt one at that. The fact that one suddenly becomes an outspoken opposition figure doesn't make him righteous. He plundered his state. Go check the records. I am against anyone, whether in PDP or not, that has engaged in govt deceit and corruption.

First he complains there is little or no grass, next thing he spits out: ", guess how they cut grass? By hand"

WHAT A MAN,  NAGGING and NAGGING!




PS: Loved the view,  This is Lagos!

@ duabba

Where does it state he was 'radicalised' in Britain? He was only there for a few years for his degree before moving to Dubai and then Yemen.

@EloSela
We are all aware that radicalist elements exist in the West also and peeps there have much better access to radicalist messages from online sources and some mosques. These so-called islamic preachers have been able to brainwash people to live according to their dictates. Mutallab being called an Alfa while at college in Togo (not Nigeria) is nothing new as he wouldn't be the only one to be addressed as such. From most of the news sources, he spent time in a London university, then to Dubai, Egypt and Yemen. You would see that Nigeria has little or nothing to do with his extreme views because while here he was a very serious muslim and he contacted his dad from Yemen via text message that he want nothing to do with his family.

All I am trying to do is to downplay the influence of Nigeria in the life of this chap before the last moments in which he boarded that plane. Fact remains all Nigerians are going to bear the brunt of Mutallab's actions directly or indirectly.

PS:
For Pete's sake, did you really expect the media to tell you he was radicalized in the UK?

Your links provides a different angle to the whole thing.

For those interested, check out the movie: Body of Lies by Leonardo Dicaprio. In today's world anything is possible, I also support independent research and less dependence on mainstream media. 2010 promises to be one of intense trans-national mafiaism. Nigeria had better put her house in order.

MY OPINION: All Nigerians, through the power of the web should insist that even though Muttallab was a Nigerian by birth he was radicalized in Britain. Therefore, he didn't get his extremist views from here. If I were the Minister of Foreign Affairs, I would issue a travel alert stating that people should be wary of sending their wards to the west. That is same thing they would have done to us. In this situation, we should refuse to be at the recieving end of propaganda in whatever form or guise, we should quickly twist the story in our favor somehow. If this whole media flood starts, we as Nigerians would be branded as terrorists worldwide, we shouldn't sit down and mope but broadcast and amplify the side of the story favourable to us (the fact the father reported his son, and the fact he was radicalized when he was away from nigerian soil) while downplaying the other parts CNN and co are wont to put up in colorful headlines.

We should refuse to allow others paint the rest of us, as they try to paint us black we should also try to wash ourselves (propaganda in the high level international relations is so real today than ever before). Most Nigerians on the net is screaming that we would all be branded as terrorist, as for me anyone that brands me or my countrymen as terrorists, I would label their lands as breeding farms for terrorism. Afterall some of their citizens also go off to fight for other lands against their nation.

My 2 kobo!

www.thisdayonline.com has got a streaming line stating: " Maryam Bagangida, Wife of Former President Ibrahim Babangida is Dead, Details shortly"

I do hope she made peace with the Most High, May her soul rest in peace!

According to CNN website (26th December, 2009), no strong ties have been established between the 'terrorist' and any extremist group.

Doctors on Nairaland,

Help me o! If I don't hear the noise from a generator I can't sleep. Is this also to similar to situations whereby people cannot sleep with/without the light on, what can I do??