₦airaland Forum

Aww, it thinks I'll respond to it. So cute.

Heeey!! I can't wait till 2015 when we will be liberated from monkeys and chimpanzees like the one above. Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry!

Reddfox:
I think its the other way round. When you have all the "Necessities"(a.k.a Needs) necessary, then it becomes a "Want". A "Want" commodity is something you can live without and can easily find a substitute. For example, I can agree with you that beef is a want, as it can be substituted with pork, fish or chicken or non the above. I see a "Want" more like a complementary commodity. A "need" however is the complete opposite. Basically, you have to satisfy all your "needs" before you can have a "want". Have you done scale of preference in your economics? And trust me, its very hard to substitute a basic staple like rice which is a basic need to the majority of the world's population. Rice is the second most important cereal in the world after maize. The only way the South can have access to enough rice is by becoming a net food importer. They'll have to spend a very significant percentage pf their GDP on food importation, which is a characteristic of most least developed countries. The cost of importation from the Far East will be high as opposed to importing it from right next door.

Before the north, the south east was getting it's rice from Abakaleke, Ebonyi state. If the need for rice becomes too much, the east can simply develop Abakaleke. I've said before that the south east fought a war without all these things, the only thing that killed them was salt.

[quote author=Abu-Maryam link=topic=652658.msg8193863#msg8193863 date=1303638135]Hmh some people are making trash, some are thinking Niger is not Arewa, if you said it meaning you dont know hausa states, kindly find out, if thers's split today Niger, Kwara Taraba will fall between the fold of north, while plateau and Benue must stay by force ;[/quote]The Idoma and maybe Igala are not Arewa, if there was a serious split, I can see Idoma going with the south east.

Reddfox:
I completely disagree. These countries, especially Niger heavily rely on the North for food crops, in turn we receive sheep and goats. The bulk of our farm produce are sent down South as per being a single market. The other part is and imported to Niger, Chad etc. The remaining are subsistence . These countries do not have the  fertile/arable land to produce in bulk as we do, for that reason your claim of a saturated market is wrong. It is just a matter of doubling up production and exports. You don't have to flock all the way to another country to achieve this.

Niger and Chad can never match the demand for products that southern Nigeria does, and simply doubling the exports will just be a waste or products, how many people are in Niger and Chad? The majority of northern traders will not frustrate themselves and they would continue to try and sell to the largest market around, which is southern Nigeria.

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Original female hairstyles.

Someone is called on their word, and it is being called "argument". They should have read the silence.

Reddfox:
Ok, I'm not really following this. How does the process of exporting result in the loss of traders?

Other nearby (West) African countries already have a community of Hausa or Fulani traders that give them the tomatoes, the cattle etc. Do you expect the millions of Northerners to be welcomed to flood their markets as well as flood the markets with goods that are already enough for the populations? People in nearby West African countries that are rich enough to buy these things already have enough from their Hausa/Fulani population.

Reddfox:
That is why I included "other parts of West Africa". The emphasis on Niger was because of the severe food shortage and proximity. They may not be a rich country, but they are a net food importer. Speaking of which, how and where will the South get the most basic staple cereal without importing?

Selling to other parts of Africa will only work if they lose their own Fulani traders as well. So that means Cameroon? No. Ghana? No. Ivory Coast? no . . . . . etc.

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=653242.msg8191894#msg8191894 date=1303602464]Yes your senseless comments are still there, and you CAN'T retract them anyways. You went up and down kissing buhari's backside, down talking jonathan, and beating your chest but at the end, you lossed out. Now you're going around crying like a little. Now you're condemning Oderemi Buhari and hopping on Goodluck's goodluck charm.Sounds pretty whorish to me. Keep it up. [/quote]The nerve of them to use "Buharistan".

Hahaha, this dotti Nigeria.

Reddfox:
We can easily sell our farm produce to Niger (they starving over there) and other parts of West Africa. Most parts of the South is also unsuitable for cattle rearing because of the climate and tse-tse fly. Maybe they'll have to be importing their beef from like say Argentina??

If a secession were to occur, pls so be it. I'm 100% we won't be any worse than we are now. At least we will be free from the oil curse.

"Oil curse". Who in Niger has money like this to replace Southern Nigerians?

sonya4all:
Idigun yeka ma mburu ye unulechari efor,nmo ri umuode yeka ma miri ye unu efor,mpkitime yeka napu nne le nedi u ihe we cho.Ebe omeni une si ni une meko nim ra miri bu mkpu tor ali.

What is this you're writing? You don't even know how to write Ika. Ki wuzi hun?

Abia dialects are supposed to be 'harsh' and 'bush'.

You think that is bad? You don't want to hear what Anambra people say about Abia dialects!

Eko Ile:
ibo people and money as usual. Money don fall hand, na to throw their own candidiate under bus remain,

u can't do people with no serious personal convictions or anything that has nothing to do with money,

You know, "Ibo" comes up in your posts more than anything else. Do you not see this as a problem?

[quote author=ekt_bear link=topic=500126.msg8185644#msg8185644 date=1303522491]What do you mean, "mixed with Igbo"?

Many Idoma are of Igbo descent. . . ? Intermarriage? What?

Are there any LGAs in Benue where Igbo is the primary language, for example?[/quote]Yes, many member of the Northern Igbo communities are intermarried with the Idoma, and some Idoma are of Igbo descent, also the same for the Igala who share even gods (alusi) with the Igbo.

It's hard to say because the Idoma are mixed with the Igbo.

Where are his supporters bragging about the insignificance of the South east?

The thing that killed the east during the war was salt, apart from that there's nothing that can't be grown in the Equatorial belt, sorry.

You know what I mean, and there's no need arguing what we can see everyday in Nigeria.

I'm talking about business mindedness, not who does business or not. Not everyone who sells puff-puff will be successful at it.

It's cheapness, they know they can't have it as easy in the east as they do in other regions because of the intense competition, so they move to other places. The only thing that would bring them back to the east is if south easterners become lazier. The business mindedness of the Igbo is both a blessing and a curse in more ways than one.

Gera1980:
Nne dalu, anom na nke enyim nwanyi, ona ekenekwagi osirigi dalu,

'Nne' ('my darling', 'female friend', literally 'grandmother') thank you, I'm at my female friend's (girlfriend's? house), she is also greeting you saying thank you.'

iwonbaoko:
in talking about land.land does not have origin in people.a good example is palestine/israel.
talking about igbo origin of bonny is an exercise in illogicality.

That's the worst example you could give.