₦airaland Forum

When Wike says this man looted Rivers, they call it blackmail. Tell me how this man deserves to be minister of the Federal republic of Nigeria after Buhari waited for over 6month to carefully select his cabinet.

So because he's police man he should not call fools a fool? The worst you guys can do is to abuse him, he can't get sacked because of this

The whole SE can not boast of 2% of the total VAT. I wonder which area they actually contribute to national growth in that region.

Kanu should limit his rally to Biafra land to avoid sad stories. If we need rally in Yoruba land, we will conduct it. It will be bloody!!!

Igbo with bragging. 70% of lagos Asset or what's this Iddiot saying. Igbo can not govern Nigeria, Kalu should wake up from political slumber.

And when they kill badoo member, some foools will be shouting jungle justice and all that. Badoo group deserve no mercy

If IPOB tries this protest in Lagos and succeed like the ones did in the SE without getting Buratai shia treatment, I will renounce my Yorubaness. Though, we don't oppose Biafra but we will not allow this. I call on OPC and others to be battle ready for this war on our land as Nigerian securities have compromised and tolerated Kanu to become uncontrollable in the SE. The strategy is to allow Kanu to destroy their region before coming for intervention. KANU, please come and die in Lagos!

You are marginalizing igbo if they can't cheat you.

God have mercy on our land

We saw their secret during the last UTME where CCTV captured their malpractices. They can't excel in a free and fair environment in the so called WAEC leading states.

OPEY20:
the problem is not about the marketing but it is the way it is being done. Many firms have not come to terms with the fact that he digital world has changed the way by which we do marketing now.

and for us the youths, this is a plus one for us has we can take advantage of their ignorance and turn it into a win for us. he expect you to move around to market their products to a bunch of random people you don't know if the are going to buy from you or not.
With digital marketing skills you can not only comfortable sit at home with your laptop or phone to market their product, you can as well target the right people who are interested in your product with a minimum amount and get the desired result.

why not let us show you how. contact us by leaving ur email with a direct response to this content.

jrockson48@gmail.com

My brother got this, same day he applied to AU... hope he applied at the appropriate site?

Arewa youth should be given an award for the quit notice strategy, They really gave Igbo political uppercut with this idea, Now, who is the unity beggar ?

Beast news. When igbo lies everybody knows

I'm happy to be Yoruba

N- TAX-2017-00000849394-78. For my bro. Thanks

It pains igbos when people tell the story of igbo coup and they first shed the first blood.

IT IS IGBO COUP AND NOTHING ELSE

bashydemy:
I can bet my life you are not from osun state, Tell us about your State.. Tell Us about Bayelsa.. haha

Smart people in this forum use to check past posts before betting with life, Unfortunately, you are not part of them .So because I don't support Aregbe makes me a Bayelsan. I'm from DTN .

bkool7:
You dont know jack about Osun.

Im sure youve never been there



https://www.naij.com/1114400-naij-uncovers-true-nature-aregbesolas-administration.html

I'm talking about diversion of public fund or money meant for civil servants into capital project, been executed by their companies. I know Osun state more than you do. Yes, the man changed osun state at the detriment of our future

Aregbe will divert it as usual...

You look like thief but I may be wrong anyway

solreb:
This is a very good analysis. Please read it and comment
WHAT DO IGBO REALLY WANT? By Akin Omoz-Oarhe

I woke to a post by one Humphrey Achor in which my young Igbo friend Chibuzor Dunamis Obele tagged me. He must have known that there was no way I would be able to resist contributing, where numerical figures are being discussed, although these days, I am reluctant discussing the untouchable Igbo. Coming to think of it, how do you teach a group that is only marginally next to God in intelligence, at least in their reckoning. What baffles me is how a group can live a life of perpetual complains. If they are not talking about Genocide, it is Marginalization. If it is not about "Biafra", then in recent times, it is Restructuring.

Achor Humphrey, in his post, made strenuous efforts to show how the Igbos are marginalized. Often, he tried to bundle together South-South and South East in a union that I fail to understand. At other times, the grouping was South versus the North. This does not interest me a bit. It was an irritating post to me.

Basically, Achor's comparative study was of the geopolitical zones. He needs to know that the Federating Units in Nigeria are the States. The State Government is the middle tier in governance between the Federal Government at the Top and the Local Government at the Bottom. The Geopolitical Areas represent nothing in the governance of Nigeria. It has no Leader, It has no Capital City, It has no Financial allocations and as of fact not part of the Nigerian Constitution.

Achor should also know that there are six independent Geopolitical Areas in Nigeria. I therefore do not understand why Igbo writers often group South East and South South together. South South is in no way more related to South East than it is, to North West or South West. If the grouping is meant to take us back to the original Regional System, then why not group NE, NC and NW together? Even at that, Edo and Delta States in South South were part of Western region, and not Eastern region. At times I get a feeling that such writers still have their "Biafra" scheme in mind with an intention to colonized South-South the way Ojukwu did in 1967 just for their wealth and arable soil. If not, then they should stop grouping the two zones together.

Now, to the Issue. Politics and Governance are about people. If any meaningful comparison is to be made about representation in the legislature, we shall be taking about how many people are represented by each representative.

The population spread in Nigeria between North and South since 1952 are;
1952 Census, 54.55% North to 45.45% South
1962 Census, 56.77% North to 43.23% South
1963 Census, 53.51% North to 46.49% South
1973 Census, 64.99% North to 35.01% South
1991 Census, 51.85% North to 48.15% South
2006 Census, 53.59% North to 46.41% South

There is a striking similarity between 1963 and 2006 figures. Also fine is that the 1963 figure was conducted when Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was President of Nigeria and Nwanfor Orizu, another Igbo, President of the Senate. They could not have cheated themselves so, it's safe to adopt the 2006 figures conducted when a Southerner was president. The 2006 Figures have this distribution:

NW with a population of 35.8m=25.6%
SW with a population of 27.6m=19.7%
SS with a population of 21.0m =15.0%
NC with a population of 20.3m=14.5%
NE with a population of 19.0m =13.6%
SE with a population of 16.4m=11.7%

TOTAL 140.1m
North 53.6%
South 46.4%

COMPLAINT 1
The first complaint Achor Humphrey is that in our House of Representatives of 360 Members of the House of Rep, South has 169 members. This represents 46.9% South and 53.1% North. Are these not the same spread as the our population distribution? What then is his problem?

COMPLAINT 2
His next complaint is about the spread across the Geopolitical zones where:

NW has 92 Reps which are 25.6%. Compared 25.6%
SW has 71Reps which are 19.7%. Compared with 19.7%
SS has 55 Reps which are 15.3%. Compared with15. 0%
NC has 49 Reps which is13. 6%. Compared with 14.5%
NE has 48 Reps which are 13.3%. Compared with 13.6%
SE has 43 Reps which are 11.9%. Compared with 11.7%
Abuja has 2 Reps which are 0.6%
TOTAL 360 Reps
Note that if the 0.6% of Abuja is added to 13.6% above, we get 14.2%

Achor, what do you have against this?

At this point he wondered "The question is, how dare you upstage these people in a vote even if Southeast, South-south and Southwest joined together cannot upstage the North. This made me laugh. When in 1959, Chief Obafemi Awolowo approached Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe for a coalition government with Zik as the Prime Minister, why did he not remember that there was Southern Nigeria? Has there been any political dispensation in this country minus the current one in which the Igbos did not go into a "Government of National Unity" with the North? My friend, we have long gone past that politics. We have also gone past North, East and West Nigeria. Ours is a New Nigeria, where the States are the Federating Units. The earlier you key into this the better.

COMPLAINT 3
The next port of call of Achor Humphrey was what he called "Injustice in allocation of Oil in Nigeria". He presented a falsity that:
North Central receives 20% contributes nothin
North East receives 16% Contributes Nothing
North West receives 21% Contributes Nothing
South West receives 16% Contributes 3.97%.
South East receives 11.00% Contributes 25.07%
The south South receives 15.00% Contributes 70.64%

The Truth is which you may google right now is

OIL REVENUE
1st. Akwa Ibom – 504,000 barrels per day
2nd. Delta – 346,000 bpd
3rd. Rivers – 344,000 bpd
4th. Bayelsa – 290,000 bpd
5th. Ondo – 60,000 bpd
6th. Lagos – 40,000 bpd
7th. Edo – 33,000 bpd
8th. Imo – 17, 000 bpd
9th. Abia – 11,000 bpd

From the list above, West Produces 100,000 bpd
I challenge Achor to present his source of the figures. I however make bold to say that there are two oil producing States in South east. Abia currently produces 11,000bpd and Imo State produces 17,000bpd making a total of 28,000bpd where Akwa Ibom alone produces 504,000bpd in a total of 1,580,000bpd. The Igbo contribution is paltry 1.75% Even Edo state produces more that the combined SE. May I ask: Do you go out to deliberately deceive your readers or are these genuine errors? Information is so cheap these days. Afford yourself of it.

You may want to ask yourself who produces the Electricity Power in Kainji, Jebba, Egbin etc. that you consume. You think it is from Oji Coal Power Station? What about the Yams, Beans, rice meat? Maybe you should be made to import them. Yet you say, "Contribute Nothing"

INTERNAL REVENUE GENERATION
We all know that the Igbos are very enterprising and must generate much revenue internally from Taxes etc. Maybe that is the area they contribute much. Let us see what the figures from the National Bureau of Statistics has for us for the year June 2015 to May 2016.
SW generated N392.4b
SS generated N185.2b
NW generated N 72.3b
SE generated N 57.2b
NC generated N 50.7b
NE generated N 27.0b

REVENUE ALLOCATIONS
Using 2016 First Quarter Allocation to States
SS got N113.9b
NW got N67.64b
SW got N49.86b
NE got N47.02b
NC got N45.45b
SE got N40.46b

These translate to:
SS: N5, 423/capital
NE: N2, 475/capital
SE: N2, 467/capital
NC: N2, 238/ capital
NW: N1, 889/ capital
SW: N1, 806/capital

You can see that while SE is the third lowest in revenue generation it is the third highest in revenue consumption. Note that in spite of these, by their itinerant nature, they consume not less than 10% of revenues allocated to other states.

POLITICAL APPOINTEES
We all have the statistics of political appointees of the current Buhari administration.
NW has 51political appointees from 7 states
NC has 47 political appointees from 6 states
NE has 45 political appointees from 6 states
SW has 45 political appointees from 6 states
SS has 45 political appointees from 6 States
SE has 41 political appointees from 5 states

These translate to
1st. SE: 2.50 appointees in a million.
2nd. NE: 2.37 appointees in a million.
3rd. NC: 2.34 appointees in a million.
4th. SS: 2.14 appointees in a million.
5th. SW:1.63 appointees in a million.
6th. NW:1.42 appointees in a million.

SE is highest, The presidents zone is lowest and the Vice Presidents zone is second lowest

IGBO STOP MISINFORMING YOUR HIGHLY GULLIBLE MASSES SO THAT PEACE MAY RETURN TO OUR LAND

Noted

Confusion

Oodua nation loading.....

Afenifere chieftain Ayo Adebanjo bashed
the military regime of Sani Abacha which
saddled Nigeria with the burden of a ‘false’
constitution

- He stated that northern states heavily
cheated other states in the federation
because they give so little and get so much
- He called for a change in the status-quo
while accusing president Muhammadu
Buhari of defending the current situation
because it greatly favors his northern
kinsmen


Chief Ayo Adebanjo, a chieftain of the pan-
Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere
and elder statesman has stated that the
country may cease to exist after 2019.
In an interview with Punch, Adebanjo stated
that if political leaders fail to heed the call to
restructure the country, Nigeria may cease to
exist.

He noted that except for a few northern elites
like Atiku Abubakar, Gen. Ibrahim
Babangida (retd.), Gen. Yakubu Gowon
(retd.), Col. Umar, etc who have been calling
for restructuring, most of the elites of
northern origin seem to be irritated by the
word ‘restructuring’.

He stated: “Of course, without restructuring,
there might be no Nigeria. It’s as clear as that.
“I often say that the word restructuring came
into our political lexicon after the military
coup. Why? When the military came, they
suspended the constitution and then created
one-line government.

“When they wanted us to return to civilian
regime, they didn’t want us to have it under
that constitution.
“In 1993, Abacha made that fraudulent
document (constitution); he died and
Abdulsalami Abubakar sustained it which was
handed over to Obasanjo in 1999.
“Yet, they are saying we have to live together
on the constitution made by the North.
He stated further: "I give you an example.
“Lagos and Kano had identical population. The
military created Jigawa from Kano and then
created local governments so much so that
from the two states you have over 70 local
governments.

“Lagos still has 20 LGAs. This is one of the
inequities in this constitution that the
opposition to restructuring wants us to retain.
“There are a lot of bad things in this
constitution. We don’t want violence, so let’s
sit down together and talk.
“The military men changed our structure and
laid down strange conditions for distributing
our revenue, like using land mass, whether
productive or not.
“With what is in this constitution now, the
North is contributing £1 and they are collecting
£1,000. That would be the sum total of the
situation. They contribute N1 but they are
taking N20,000.


“They used all the conditions that favour them
as the basis for distributing the allocation they
don’t contribute to. These are the injustices.
“You see why the South opposing this
constitution. And they are doing that because
of the crude oil. Let them refute it.
“They can’t counter it other than to be
politically correct because their leader doesn’t
want it.
“And I accuse Buhari that it is because his
people are the beneficiaries, that is why he is
defending it. They want it to continue, but it
won’t continue.

“And we are in this position again today
because Asiwaju Bola Tinubu led the Yoruba
into an alliance with APC.
“At 89, what else am I looking for? I’m only
sorry for your generation. When people should
do something positive, they are playing with
words because they want to cheat you.
“I want you to emphasize that the reluctance
is because they want the country to separate or
they want to impose unity on us, which I call
the unity of the horse and the rider.
“The North would be the rider and the South
the horse. We say no, it will not happen.
“For a democracy that would work, we need to
go back to the constitution we had at
independence, which our founding fathers gave
us. How can you be cheating me and you want
me to keep quiet?”

Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported
that acting president Yemi Osinbajo said the
federal government will soon address calls for
restructuring made by some Nigerians.
The acting president made the statement at
the presentation and launch of a book titled:
“Nigeria: The Restructuring Controversy,” in
Abuja.
Osinbajo, who was represented by his special
adviser on political matters, Babafemi Ojudu,
said the federal government was aware of
debate for the restructuring of the country by
Nigerians and has noted issues about the
debate.

https://www.naij.com/1115129-nigeria-cease-exist-2019-country-restructured-ayo-adebanjo.html

BlowBack:
If so, he should pick Fayose
Only brave good man left in SW

If that's your favourite, no problem but remember he's still Afanja

BlowBack:
I leave you with this recent statement from the AYF spokesman

Those AYF are not different in anyway to Fayose and FFK, noise makers. We can handle them

Viergeachar:
Please dont follow their warped logic and reasoning.

Saraki is Yoruba. He cant take a SW VP. Nothing of such is going to happen cos Osinbajo will become president if...

It's not matter of whether Saraki is Yoruba or not but Which region is he from. Saraki is from north and that's all. He has the constitutional backing to pick the Vice from the south which SW is part of.