₦airaland Forum

One_Naira:
Do you think they would care? They already doing that to their own people. All that would achieve is providing BH an excuse to attack more innocent Yoruba up north.  Why do you think no other Nigerian group is retaliating in such away?

igbo2011:
Oil brings the most money though.  80% of government revenue is from oil

igbo2011:
Oil brings the most money though. 80% of government revenue is from oil

is generally agreed that the Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) originated in the tropical rain forest region of West Africa. The main belt runs through the southern latitudes of Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo and into the equatorial region of Angola and the Congo. Processing oil palm fruits for edible oil has been practiced in Africa for thousands of years, and the oil produced, highly coloured and flavoured, is an essential ingredient in much of the traditional West African cuisine. The traditional process is simple, but tedious and inefficient.


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Traditional fertility and marriage ceremonies are not carried out in the south-east of Nigeria unless a big unwieldy yam – which can weigh up to 70kg (150lb) – is presented.

Ibadan – By the middle of 2014, more than 150,000 households in Nigeria are expected to be eating vitamin A fortified yellow cassava, an international agricultural organisation, HarvestPlus, said

The study on "A Cassava Industrial Revolution in Nigeria" coordinated by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is in line with the Global Cassava Strategy. It was prepared as a contribution to the joint effort by IITA and the Federal Government of Nigeria to enhance the Nigerian Cassava Industry. This has been followed-up with similar support from many of the petroleum and crude oil producing companies operating in Nigeria to ensure that this effort is achieved.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5548e/y5548e01.htm

THE World Bank has aid that Nigeria as the largest producer of cassava, could develop its econonmy by exporting quality cassava and other commodities other than oil.

Oil is actually the fourth largest sector of the Nigerian economy, the largest sector is agriculture, the second largest sector is wholesale and retail and services is the third largest.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/01/cassava-can-be-nigeria%E2%80%99s-mega-export-earner-world-bank/

igbo2011:
Africa exports to much, we should be processing first then exporting the rest to other countries. This same eal goes with all of our resources. Africa is ike a big plantation for other countries. Export crude oil, import finished petroleum product, cotton import finished clothing, export rubber import tires. It shouldn't be like this. We don't NEED anyone, we have everything in the world in the continent.

igbo2011:
http://chikauwazie.com/2011/09/21/governor-business-investment-forum-was-it-worth-attending/

Cocoa increasingly accounted
for the largest percentage of non-oil exports in Nigeria[b]. Both cocoa and rubber still
remain the largest non-oil exports from Nigeria.[/b]

http://www.unep.ch/etu/publications/Synth_Nigeria.PDF

Cocoa is grown principally in West Africa, Central and South America and Asia. In order of annual production size, the eight largest cocoa-producing countries at present are Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Brazil, Ecuador and Malaysia. These countries represent 90% of world production.

Ondo State is planning a massive cocoa revamp programme that may put the nation back on track as the powerhouse of cocoa production in the world.

n 2008, the then deputy governor of Osun State and chairman, Cocoa Rebirth Committee, Erelu Olusola Obada, disclosed during the 4th Cocoa Day celebration that efforts had been made to ensure that cocoa production hit 600,000 metric tonnes in 2010. And in 2010, at a two-day convention of cocoa-producing states in Akure, Ondo State, 14 cocoa-producing states promised to formulate renewal policies geared towards enhancing farmers' capacity and the payment of a cocoa development levy to assist farmers.

Local production of cashew nuts to hit 400,000 tonnes

Meanwhile, Nigeria is the 6th largest producer of cashew in the world after India, Brazil, Vietnam, Guinea Bissau and Tanzania. Like most African producers, most of Nigeria’s production are exported in raw form to India and Vietnam for processing and export with added value and benefits to those economies. Vietnam, for example entered the field of cashew production for export in the early 80’s about the same time Nigerians became aware of the commercial significance of cashew.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/12/local-production-of-cashew-nuts-to-hit-400000-tonnes/

Kobojunkie:
Oil does not contribute 40% of your GDP. It contributes about 16%. Agriculture contributes about 40% of your GDP. At least do your home work if you are going to open threads on issues that are somewhat beyond you.

WORRIED by the evils of crude oil in the oil-bearing communities of the Niger Delta, Bitumen-bearing communities of Ondo, Ogun, and Edo States of Nigeria, rose from a consultative forum in Benin City, the Edo State capital, on Tuesday, with a strong voice, clamouring for a national conference on the matter.

Bitumen is however, another form of fossil fuel that is more heavier than crude oil. Environmentalists say it possess as much danger as oil.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1111/S00062/bitumen-exploitation-scares-nigerian-communities.htm



The bitumen producing states in the country are Ondo, Ogun and Edo.

Vanguard gathered that the country has the third largest bitumen deposits in the world with Venezuela and Canada, coming first and second, respectively.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/11/bitumen-communities-seek-fgs-protection/

asorocker:
Banjo was a basta.rd for attaking the MW. You do not attack your ancestors.
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Victor Banjo Liberated the MW and did not attack it ,we are supposed to know the difference between attack, invade and liberate , but unfortunately the same MW chose to remain in the bondage called Nigeria , i am yet to get Ejoor view on this .


There were 3 main reasons why Biafra lost .
1. The decision of Biafra to seccede against doing a counter coup
2. The delay of Victor Banjo in proceeding to Lagos to liberate the SW
3.The Inaction of Biafra to protect the coast

Of these 3 reasons British military/intelligence pundits have it that But for Victor Banjo's delay the war would have be concluded swiftly .

pazienza:
I think the war was inevitable,Ojukwu tried to prolong it,but i think Gowon saw through it,his division of the east into rivers,cross river and east central,without making Ojukwu the administrator of any of these states left Ojukwu with only one option.

pazienza:
Yeah,i think the war was lost when he trusted that lagos mission to banjo. Ojukwu trusted the yoruba a lot,from aluko to awo and banjo.

Akanbi_edu:
[b]I observed this disparity between Fasheun and Gani factions too. The Fasheun faction has not necessarily been kissing up to PDP really but to Jonathan. If it was a northerner in power, not so sure Fasheun faction will be working with the PDP. What am saying is that, its not a party thing, rather an ethnic thing.

Whatever the case may be, the end result will not be good I am sure. Nobody is going to recognise factions in OPC when trouble eventually starts. Whatever factions starts trouble will be seen as the face of Yorubas. A lot of northerners don't support Boko Haram at the moment, some are trying to make up their minds. But when actions like this continue, it will help those undecided people to make up their minds too. Even the fence-sitters on the Yoruba side will eventually have to join at least for defense purpose.

If the police didn't do anything, the action probably has the FG's hand in it. Ain't no need bragging like some posters here about how Yorubas can not be arrested. We all know the police command is not in the state govt's or Yorubas hands. If the FG wants to arrest OPC, they would and heaven is not going to fall because of that.

Somebody is seriously trying to mess Nigeria up, big time. We may not be able to stop it because masses fall for these things, always.[/b]