₦airaland Forum

One remembers when one Igbo internet science man was recognized by a US president, people of SW petitioned for years until they rubbished the man.

Yet, SW would not form its own country and leave the Igbo alone. Because SW believes if Igbo leaves Nigeria, the south south which contains lots of crude oil may also go.

Let someone tell Yale that it is a small SW section of Nigeria - incurable ethnic bigots - who talk of Yale withdrawing award that Yale made to Iwealla.

HiGod:
Hausas/Fulanis were never interested in any region resources until Igbos opened their eyes. Each region control their resources until Igbo forced Unitary system of govt so as to control other region resources.

They failed to achieve this under Aguiyi Ironsi and made second attempt through civil war but were forced to eat humble pies.

You just woke from sleep and started shunning out lies and crap.

Just read what he wrote out of stupidity "for divide and rule tactics. Who is using divide and rule tactics when you and fellow stupid Ijaws could not account for trillions of dollars that had been disbursed to NigerDelta and NDDC over the years. You are your own enemies fool.

Have u ever heard the quote that says that the more you blame other for your misfortunes/failures as an individual in life, d more your destiny is left on the path of destruction.

Stop blaming Federal govt for your woes.

Federal government didn't come up with the idea of Niger-delta ministry and NDDC, your leaders did. They were the ones who proposed these Niger delta ministry formation and NDDC parastatal to the Federal govt just like amnesty program which were later accepted by Federal govt.

Look inward and old your Immediate Leaders responsible for your woes. If you guys are smart enough, you would have realised by now that you guys are the most foolish set of people on earth. Asari and his likes claimed to be fighting for you(the poors) in that region but became rich out of blue moon without a reliable source of income and you are here chatting shit as usual.

The only thing that would be achievable out these lies is nothing but War.

However, let me sound this warning to you and your fellow Ijaws that in eventuality of war, you are on your own either with Igbos or purely on your own cos I m very sure that Igbos would desert you when they see the ddevastation on Ijaw land. I think you are already witnessing how your fellow Ijaw man has been deserted and abandoned by the same Igbo who were rooting for him just few weeks ago. I m even praying that Satan would push you and your enemies-in-disguise under Gen Buhari to take arms against the Nigeria state, I want you to see the pains of war in your lifetime which would certainly be fought in predominantly ijaw area and your enemies-in-disguise area.

And please, don't come here to tell us that you are betrayed by Itsekiris, Edos, Urhobos, Egberis and even the few Ijaws in Ondo state. Looking at your history, it ll be stupid at your own side to think that those aforementioned tribes would support you in any fight.

No body taught you that in Ironsi's unitary government system, 50% of wealth that was derived in any region was retained by the region;

that in Ironsi's unitary government system, regions still maintained some degree of autonomy;

that it was when the Fulani/Hausa saw crude oil in large quantities that they gradually started dividing Nigeria's regions into states, and ultimately proliferated 19 states +Abuja in the once one region north of Nigeria, but only created 17 states in the once three regions south of Nigeria.

With political representation from these states, north thus holds overwhelming political representation in any gathering of Nigerians.

Normally, at the end of states creation, the new states ought to be equal multiples of the number of region's that existed when states started to be created.

In no other country of the world was new federating units like states created using land mass as criterion, as was done in Nigeria by northern Nigeria soldiers.

Yakubu Gowon who started state creation lamented in Kaduna about three years ago that states creation was eventually hijacked to create a super political class in one section of Nigeria - north, no doubt.

After creating the 36 states, northern soldiers supervised the ultimate 1999 constitution to legit the political structure which makes north take home most of the revenues shared in Abuja since then.

To worsen matters, north has chased out non-northerners that once lived in the north who would have enjoyed the development infrastructures provided in the north with oil money.

In no other country in the world does a situation exist where people from one part of the country cannot comfortably settle in another part of the country.

One Nigeria still exists because of crude oil in the south of Nigeria.

You ignore what problems keep you second class citizen in Nigeria, but vent your spleen on Igbophobia.

gregg2:
This part so much interest me:
[size=14pt]“Instead of settling down for governance and working out how to fulfill its promises of

1) making the naira the same in value with the dollar,
2) paying N5, 000, 000 monthly to 25 million poor Nigerians,
3) providing electricity on 24/7 basis,
4) providing free meals for school children and
5) allowances for discharged but unemployed youth corps members among others, the APC is busy inventing excuses for failure and blaming everyone else but themselves.

We hope they will not blame the PDP for their Saturday’s embarrassing outing at 10 Downing Street.[/size]

Baba Buhari went to 10 Drowning Street, London to talk about military ties between Nigeria and the UK, while Nigeria he was to inherit was being crippled by fuel scarcity.

Baba must be having the mentality that brutal force is what is required to preside over Nigeria and keep it united.

tayebest:
Infact, this man really needs kirikiri!

Do you even know what you want in Nigeria?

For decades, fuel scarcity frequently crippled Nigeria.

Jonathan became president and stopped fuel scarcity all the six years he was in office.

Jonathan planned to remove subsidies to fuel so that fuel shall become buy as you can. You said no.

Election time, you voted out Jonathan.

So what do you really want?

BabaO2:
I hope there won't be coup before may 29. When the nation is grounded, it could be a cheap opportunity to take over as planned by Jonathan

You should be grateful if there is benevolent military rule now in Nigeria to reposition the country to true federalism.

From the look of things, Buhari still has the mentality of use of force to coerce citizens to do what the leadership wants.

Even before Buhari is sworn in as President, he had already gone to talk of military tie with the UK; and that's while fuel scarcity was murdering Nigeria.

spako4:
What kind of legacy is he leaving behind?
No light,no fuel,lack of employment ,huge debt ,kidnapping,corruption and lack of security

For Nigeria to have all the above goodies in quantum, fiscal federalism must be operational in the country.

In the present unitary government system, no matter who is the president, corruption shall deny Nigeria all the goodies you mentioned above.

The present unitary government system makes leaders to be far detached from the citizens; as the long distance between the leaders and the citizens make accountability by leaders to the citizens next to impossible.

Its no point for APC to build all its programs on return from crude oil sales.

Let APC tell Buhari that Nigeria needs fiscal federalism to survive and have development in all of Nigeria.

APC has return to fiscal federalism in its manifesto, but shall the north with its uncountable number of self-created states and local government areas that benefit north from the present unitary government system accept reforms to fiscal federalism?

CR77:
Nigerian are expecting too much from Buhari


I hope baba atijo go do magic 4 us

Magic?

.Nigerians are hurting themselves.
Ethiopia is a miltiethnic country like Nigeria. But Ethiopia practices Fiscal Federalism. It is just announced that Ethiopia is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.

Before he died in 2012, former Ethiopian Prime Minister boasted that what kept Ethiopia United and fast developing was its Fiscal Federalism.

But in Nigeria, because of crude oil in the Niger delta region, the north and SW regions clutch tightly to a now most monstrous form of unitary government system never practiced in any country in the world.

The SW ask for Fiscal Federalism during the night but reject it during the day.

Some sections take some sections of the country as conquered estates. That's why Fiscal Federalism is being seriallty denied in Nigeria.

And the population degenerate to dependents on hand outs from government.

doublewisdom:
Very good. Better insult is what they need. Imagine the yeye boys that have never given back to the society that made them.

How did you make Nigeria's celebs ?
You rather owe them because they tried to keep you happy in Nigeria; and in your Nigerian unhappiness you raise no noise over the forced lopsided political structure that every four years threw up the OBJs, GEJs and now the Buharis as leaders; in the midst of heavily educated, youthful, and healthier Nigerians who are very willing to lead Nigeria, but are usually filtered off by the lopsided political structure.

Na Celebs Nigerians shall now vent their fuel scarcity anger upon? GEJ is now elusive as not even his office cares to issue periodic statements on the fuel scarcity situation.

Methinks, GEJ and Team are humans. In whatever method, they killed fuel scarcity that for decades tried to kill Nigeria before Jonathan government came up.

But majority of Nigerians refused to reciprocate Jonathan's good gesture. It has been mum from Jonathan government side since.

Atiku, the man many times rejected for apex leadership of Nigeria owing to accusations of corruption, is now on decision-making category for Nigeria's leadership and political process.

Buhari, the coupist long rejected for apex leadership of Nigeria because of various allegations, many unprintable, is going to be atop Nigeria.
Is Nigeria going forward or backward,? Backward, for sure

lygn19:
the geopolitical zones were not crested by northerners, it was actually created by d idea of an igbo man, Alex Ekueme, he created to bridge unity but Nigerians instead of focusing on the positive aspect of it they manipulated d negative part...

The present 6 geo-political zones are not what Ekwueme envisaged and suggested.
North's Abacha latter used state creation to make some geo-political zones more equal than others . Seven states in the NW zone.

About three years ago, Gowon who started state creation lamented in a public lecture in Kaduna that state creation was ultimately hijacked to create a super-political class in Nigeria - unarguably in the far north.

The same manner, unitary government system introduced by late Aguiyi Ironsi was gradually over-centralized as crude oil emerged as Nigeria's major bread winner, and ultimately left Nigeria with the present monstrous unitary government system.

barcanista:
The Lower Niger Congress is a consortium of ethnic nationalities from the present day South East and South South. It doesn't seek to impose on anyone. The Ijaws for one will support/are in support of the ideology, same with others. However, a REFERENDUM will determine whether or not each ethnic nationalities will want secession according the LNC principle.

A prayer: if peoples in the Lower Niger Congress Area want to liberate their areas and themselves from being sucked dry by rest of Nigeria, they need to vote for one country in the Lower Niger Congress Area in a referendum;

that's one country with Resource Control/Fiscal Federalism as the guiding principle, and possibly, with a clause that any part can secede from the country if its people want.

If the peoples of Lower Niger Congress Area vote for multiple countries in a referendum, it is most likely they are not getting even one.
The rest of Nigeria must apply divide-and-rule, as usual, with bribery and pay-offs, to neutralize
the leaders of the L. N.Congress Area.

omoeso:
Small small, una don dey talk true.
Moreover, how many cars they the whole of south east. Sure the numbers of cars for Alimosho alone pass all the one for south east combined.

How many cars in Alimoshon do you or your tribespeole own? Perhaps less than 1%.

Mimee803:
Don't mind dem igbos so full of illusions of grandeur! Smh jsst pathetic d comments wit 375 likes can so many pple be crazy all at once

.And you do every trick in the books so that people you call crazy cannot leave Nigeria to form another country.

Even as Nigeria created by Oyibo remains dysfunctional, you can't think for an alternative because of your diffidence.

babyosisi:
I read the fuel thing on nairaland and I forget to ask my parents. I speak to my parents every two days and have never heard them lament about fuel scarcity.
Is that so.
Please let it stay that way o

People were angry that Igbos didn't join in their subsidy protest rubbish
Our people understood it was all a gimmick by then ACN to deceive the gullible and ignorant and business went on as usual in all of Igboland
The only thing we share with these folks is a space called Nigeria and nothing else
We don't think alike
We don't look alike
We don't even have the same dreams and aspirations
Certainly not the same ethos

Only God knows why the former southeast region should still remain with Nigeria where rest of Nigeria share no value systems with the people of former south east region of Nigeria.

xmich:
Haven't you had that s-east refines their own oil

Southeast produces crude oil from its soil enough to last its domestic needs and export.

Southeast refined crude oil in war time. How can't south east refine their crude oil in peace time?

Vivly:
It sounds totally unbelievable that Abia is part of the Niger Delta

Abians would gladly be part of Biafra than being associated with that Nigerdelta thing under one Nigeria.

All those southsouth, southeast, and Nigerdelta things were creations of Northern soldiers to divide people of the former southeast region so that no strong challenger can rise from former southeast of Nigeria as resources were being plucked from the former southeast region to sustain one Nigeria.

skyps:
Imagine, a nation that is so bless with crude oil! I honestly think naija could have been better off without crude.

Without crude oil, Naija wouldn't be up till now. Without crude oil, many sections of Nigeria would have gotten their areas independence from Nigeria long ago.

But Oyibo joined the campaign that GEJ and government were useless.

Firefire:
O God of creation,

Direct our noble cause; p

[size=18pt]Guide our Leaders right[/size]:

Help our Youth the truth to know,

In love and honesty to grow,

And living just and true,


Great lofty heights attain,


To build a nation where peace and justice reign

[size=18pt]
I support the probe of Nigeria itself.[/size]

NIGERIA IS A FRAUD.

Nigeria is the greatest fraud in Africa's experiment in nationhood.
The northern area that has benefited from the fraud of Nigeria has continued because the south south and southeast refused to stick together to free themselves from the fraud.

Worse, northern soldiers proliferated states in nearly every former small northerner district through which the north overpopulates the National Assembly. Thus no more important change can be made in the 1999 constitution unless north is mostly favoured in the amendment.

noblezone:
As much as I am not a member of TAN, PDP or any of such. I am an unrepentant fan of Jonathan!

Danjuma whose hand spilled Ironsi's blood is one of the most corrupt Nigerians.
He owns an oil well in the South South. Just like some Emirs who too who the only knowledge they ahve about crude oil is that it makes their Dollar account to swell, how did Danjuma come about his oil well?

People like him earn more than some State Governments.

When Jonathan became president, did Danjuma call him to probe OBJ?
Something is wrong somewhere.

Buhari can probe Jonathan and all his ministers, he must probe those who handled security also (most of them are from the north).
If he probes Jonathan, Iweala, Deziani and Odua only, I wont be suprised.
After all, when the criminal called Buhari and his gang of power hungry gangsters in the Nigerian army trampled upon the constitution and arrogate to themselves ultimate powers, Shagari his kinsman was kept under house arrest while Ekwueme, Shagari's vice was kept in prison.

Let Jonathan be jailed! It will be a hard and harsh reward for his devotion to Nigeria and monumental impact he made for the North.

Bros, haul your stones.

Prof. Tam David West was jailed during IBB regime because as Minister of Petroleum then, David West received a gift of wrist watch from a foreigner.
David West fought hardest from his south south to have Jonathan return Aso Rock to Born to Rule.
No Born to Rule leader or their appointee - OBJ - has ever been probed after office despite that allegations of lost billions of Naira or Dollars trailed all the administrations.


They will probe or even jail Jonathan and his ministers. It is a way of telling the people of southsouth and southeast that they are second class citizens in Nigeria unworthy to lead Nigeria.

If former leaders of the south south had known the importance of ganging together with the southeast right from the 1960s, no group in Nigeria could afford to take the two groups for a ride.

Obijulius:
Danjuma the saint.

You will die a strange death. And Jonathan will attend your Funeral.

See idiot talking.

True?

Creek people of southsouth refuse to understand politics Nigeriana beginning from beginning.

Jonathan was hobbnobbing with TYDanjuma and other northern leaders even till the last minute till they literally forced Jonathan to surrrender Nigeria to Born to Rule. Jonathan even appeared to believe then that those northern leaders shall return him for second term on a platter of gold. Now, Jonathan and crew fit escape their wrath?.

mobaking:
The same lopsided structure that threw up jonathan in 2011.When Abba Moro was scamming job seekers,what did he do?.When 4t2aler BMW was doing her thing,he was missing in action.Have u heard of Jonathan sacking someone for corruption?.He is simply incompetent and corruption friendly.

They told you that Baba Buhari was incorruptible and you ate it hook, line and sinker. Was Jonathan the best Nigeria could afford? No. Was Jonathan not imposed by OBJ who was imposed by born to rule?

Is corruption a Nigerian? No. Is every Nigerian born to be corrupt? No. Has every administration in Nigeria been smeared with corrupt practices, including Buhari's? Yes.

Restructure the polity for equitable representation to enable learned, committed and energetic leaders emerge. Or return fiscal federalism to Nigeria so as to drastically reduce official corruption. Otherwise, continue to speak long grammar about corruption and scarcity in Nigeria.

bigass123:
Bros, you're on your own... Even the FFK of this world knows they have managed the economy very poorly. Your lame defence of GEJ leaves me wondering how patriotic a Nigerian you are. Few days back GEJ apologised to Nigerians and you're here playing the devil's advocate.
Do you have an idea how much pain and discomfort Nigerians are experiencing right now? Are you even in Nigeria at all?
I fear for your safety if you come out in broad daylight and spit this nonsense in public. You might have to pay with your head. The masses are not smiling, so keep your defence in your pocket.

Go for the dismantling of the real thing that brings you endless misery in Nigeria. Go for restructuring of the polity in a democratic atmosphere to usher in equal representation in the polity so that well-trained and committed leadership can emerge for Nigeria. Or return fiscal federalism to Nigeria.It's no gain pointing fingers to every failed leadership which the present unworkable political structure in a unitary govt system throws up to you after any election - OBJ do-or-die election - Yara go slow - Jonathan clueless; who knows what we shall name incoming Baba Buhari? Suggestions please....

Your lot have captured power by proxy; what use are Obasanjo's words again?

ichidodo:
[color=#1980BC] [b] Well,first off Buhari never built any refinery maybe he commissioned one or two but he never was part of any team that conceptualize,initiate and build any refinery at any time whatsoever.Now we have gotten that small humdrum out the way tis better for us to come to an agreement as to the fears of these marketers currently brewing this artificial scarcity,if Buhari will shut down subsidy-ironically, the same motion GEJ sought about to initiate but was opposed by the opposition,the cabals and ordinary naive Nigerians decieved in #Occupy Lagos- will these same marketers get their investments back especially now the dollar is at an all time high? If not, tis businness savvy to start a scarcity and sell your product at quadruple the normal rate so as to get back your capital and profit before the new government settles down. We don't see how the blame is Goodluck's instead we have gullible Nigerians to blame who protested against their freedom and occupied Lagos when Goodluck sought to liberate Nigerians from the shackles of the cabal...Freedom,we had the chance to be free or dum(b) but Nigerians were bambozzled by the opposition and cabal into choosing dum(b).[/b] [/color]

About 70% of present population of Nigeria is ill-informed. They grew up with information recycled and recounted to them by gold diggers. And they insult when one tries to inform them better.

Lol, long after the presidential election campaign ended, they are still trying to sell Buhari candidacy to Nigerians. They are aware Buhari emergence of president is unusual - in a. country endowed with young, well educated, healthier people capable of leadership.

Buhari they rejected thrice became president - how. Definitely not because of Jonathan's much touted failure.

A lopsided political structure threw up a Buhari as President, the structure unless adjusted must continue to throw up Buhari-like presidents till....

Returning Nigeria to colonial masters - Buhari style. Buhari is afraid he can't withstand all the forces of "reform Nigeria politically in a democracy or we pull out of Nigeria."

Let's see how British leaders shall lead both Britain and Nigeria for Buhari to sustain the unworkable political structure created by soldiers of Buhari clan to politically and financially favour politicians from Buhari northern clan.

Can't remember any African country's president-elect officially visiting British Prime Minister - for what?

deb:
Shame don finish for your body patapata. You dey import product wey una they sell. Why u no fit work on refining it? The fight against subsidy removal is all about getting refineries to work instead of feasting on the general public out of greed.

You must have believed that past leaders, except Buhari, did not know the importance of having functional refineries.
And which Oyibo go agree to come to Nigeria to repair the refineries in the midst of Boko Haram attacks? Only fake Oyibo engineer.

Even before Boko Haram attacks, few honest Oyibo engineers would want to come to Nigeria to do work, because they usually had more attractive offers elsewhere.


I pray we get a miracle to get crude completely refined in Nigeria for domestic use. But thinking that mid-70s old Buhari will do the miracle does not fit.

And when knowledgeable people suggest to restructure Nigeria politically in a democracy for equitable political representation to enable the emergence of quality leadership - or return to fiscal federalism - the north refuses fiscal federalism which may reduce its oil earnings, the SW and north refuse political restructuring because they believe it may give people of southsouth and southeast equal rights to the rest of Nigeria.

So the sufferings from leadership failure continue in Nigeria.