₦airaland Forum

Educationalserv:
we can only do ameachi , there will be no point . We have benin ,Ijaws urobos isheriki ,Yoruba .I rather have all this

What is Amaechi if not an Igbo man? Mind you, not everybody from the SE is Igbo.

Educationalserv:
we from North will never ever Vote peter OBI or any IGBO Man this sin are unforgivable .

As long as Igbos are part of Nigeria, an Igbo person will be President at a point. No ethnic group has the numbers to control Nigeria or to solely determine who will be President.

emee701:
Ibadan was not working under Alaafin. Ibadan once installed Alaafin of oyo. When oyo empire collapsed, Alaafin used to look up to Ibadan.

The majority of people in Ibadan came from the Oyo Ile that was sacked by Ilorin. Every historian knows the Oyos from Ibadan etc that subdued the rest of Yoruba in the nineteenth century referred to themselves as workers of the Alaafin. The leader of Ibadan just before colonisation was Aare Latosisa and he was an Aare ona kakanfo appointed by the Alaafin. The cultural head of all Oyo is the Alaafin. The military headquarters was Ibadan and Ibadan was founded by Ile Ife before the Oyo became a majority there. Would you now say another monarch apart from the Alaafin is the cultural head of the Oyo?

President Tinubu and Northern Nigeria

President Tinubu believes if he can lead his people to vote for President Buhari twice despite his nepotism that favoured his own people then the Northerners owe him the duty to do the same for him. President Tinubu wants to do a nepotism for eight years that will favor his own people. He believes that the Northerners will like gentlemen play ball.
He does not believe President Buhari's nepotism should go unanswered. In any case you don't leave wrongdoing unanswered unless you are weak.

Obviously, he is ready to play dirty.

Ordinarily the system in China is better, where the party and not the President alone decides who gets what.

The age of conquest is over and what is popular now is mutual respect among groups and shared prosperity. A coup d'etat can not work now too because it simply will not succeed in all parts of the country.

Every group should stop trying to rule others. Rule yourselves and cooperate with others. Respect the boundaries of other people.

President Tinubu has gotten something right and that is the drive to free the country from dependence on oil and gas. He is succeeding at it. Given that the country is not one and has little basis to be one, is there any reason to continue as one country if non oil revenue this quarter is less than twenty percent of total revenue?.

If this quarter, oil reduces to less than twenty percent of federal government revenue, it will be better to just dissolve the country and save everybody the unnecessary stress

emee701:
Alaafin didn't upgrade Ibadan from baale. He does not have such power. There is already governments in 1976. The government did. Ibadan has never been under the authority of oyo empire. Stop the beer parlour gist. In fact Ibadan once influenced who became alaafin

The majority of big cities in Yoruba land are majority Oyo. Ibadan, Ilorin, Ogbomosho, Ede, Iwo and etc. Modakeke in Ife which is up to half of Ife is also Oyo. Ibadan was working under the Alaafin. Abeokuta was under Oyo. When the Ibadan defeated Ilorin at Osogbo, the leaders that they captured were sent to Oyo for judgement. When Ibadan controlled Yoruba land they always said they were doing so on behalf of the Alaafin

blueAgent:
Way all the, dey want to steal our African resources people.
No African country is a major mineral resources exporter on that list apart from ivory Coast.
It's obvious the World can do without Africa.

Cocoa in Ivory coast is not a mineral resources

Love800:
Thanks so much.

Can you please explain the "economically recoverable?"

It may cost 65 dollars per barrel to extract crude when the price is only 60 dollars per barrel. In such a scenario the crude is not economically recoverable. Some crude like Venezuela crude is also heavy and reports say it costs 18 percent more to refine and that will make buyers price it lower

Pacesetter123:
Then why are we not in the list?
Or does it mean cassava is not a recognizable product to the world market?

The op could not have put every product on the list. Also, we are the largest producer but not largest exporter of cassava

Inflation has dropped to 15.15 percent according to the Nigeria Bureau of statistics. This is happening in the midst of a drop in oil production. A drop in oil production in past years would have led to higher inflation and a significant devaluation of the currency and the first people to suffer as usual would have been the fixed income earners or salary earners.

Citizens always pay one way or the other. If you don't pay taxes you will pay inflation. The countries with the lowest rate of inflation are the ones with the highest tax to GDP ratio

https://punchng.com/nigerias-headline-inflation-eases-to-15-15-in-december-2025-nbs/

Pacesetter123:
It's a shame that only 1 African country is able to make the list.
No wonder the entire Africa is very poor economically and otherwise.
Producing nothing but depending on importation to feed herself is the greatest undoing of black Africans.
Can you imagine that Indonesia/Malaysia that came to Uyo in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria few decades ago to receive training on how to grow palm oil trees and how to extract the oil from the seeds and couldn't grab anything about the lesson but have to carry the oil palm experts farmers there in Uyo to their land to help them plant the seedlings are now the leading producers of palm oil in the world?

Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava, kolanuts etc. Cote D'Ivoire is highest producer of cocoa. If we have 50 billion dollars per annum worth of cassava the Chinese will buy it if the price is favorable to them

Kemetian:
But 2nd Niger Bridge, Onitsha was built with federal funds for $2 billion.

That's 2.85 TRILLION NAIRA

Lagos - Calabar coastal highway $3.5 billion.

That's 5.3 TRILLION NAIRA

But 100 billion Naira to help with Lagos Green Line is upsetting you.

You're calling it ''a crime''.

You people lack humanity..

I even gather it is an investment and not a gift. Lagos now needs to focus on getting a percentage of revenue gotten from their ports. It is unfair to give a percentage of oil revenue to oil states and give nothing of port revenue to port states because what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Lagos also needs to go to court over the 50 million dollars they paid for the metro in 1984 that the military canceled for no valid reason

ernesco0816517:
You the government doesn't want stress ,therefore they go for less stressed one OIL.

Ghana is now making more from cocoa on a per Capita basis than we make from crude oil in Nigeria. They make six billion dollars from cocoa and ten billion dollars in all from agric export. We make around twenty billion dollars from oil. We are 220 million and they are 33 million

It is a known fact that big spenders pay a premium for goods and services. If you sell anything in a highbrow area you will sell for a higher price. The USA is the number one consumer of crude oil followed by China. The US consumes twenty percent of crude oil produced on Earth. The US is a big spender because of high wages and a high cost of living. Even China has become a big spender when compared to countries like India or Nigeria. The US and China are the top consumers of crude oil

If the cost of living in all countries were to become even, then the price of crude oil will substantially fall. How much do you think the price of crude oil will rest at in this year 2026 if such a scenario were to become a reality?

Love800:
What is the meaning of reserves pls?

Reserves is oil that you have under the ground which in some cases is not economically recoverable

plainlogic000:
China topping so many categories really shows how scale beats everything else. Even when they’re not the most efficient, sheer volume puts them at the top of the list again and again.

Yet some people think China is not the biggest economy on Earth

Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava and kolanuts and probably a few other things. We are also the headquarters of pentecostal Christianity with branches all over the world and a brood of billionaire pastors with private jets

AMINDA:
Fair enough. A teeming population of the North are involved in agriculture which has been exempted from VAT and CIT. Otherwise, the numbers will show.

I agree with you. Northern states should find a way to recover revenue from agriculture because the money is there. They can set up produce boards for one.

AdUlAM:
Abuja 4million people? Where did u get that from?

That is the most recent population estimate I saw for Abuja

AMINDA:
This thread proves a lot of Southerners have never been to the North. In terms of real estate numbers, quality of housing and architecture, the North is doing much better than the South. Aside from Lagos which is already saturated, not much is going on in other parts of the Southwest.

Yet even Ekiti is paying a high amount in VAT and CIT?. Ibadan is also rated higher than any Northern city in things like startups and infotech. Only Kano can drag with Ibadan in the North. Things are happening across the country but different states are successful or leading in different sectors

Other Muslim lands like Turkey, Malaysia, etc were able to modernize. Why not Northern Nigeria?.

If the cost of living is the same, the economic development level is the same, HDI is the same, dependency ratio is the same and revenue drive is the same, then a nation with 100 million people will have double the revenue of a nation with 50 million people.

FarahAideed:
Being smuggled to Niger

I believe they have records for what is sold in Niger without mixing it with Northern Nigeria. They have dealers in Nigerien cities

VeeVeeMyLuv:
I agree with you on this

Another perspective is that the federal government since Nigeria got her independence has focused on developing North and the South West (Lagos) while neglecting the rest parts.

Check the % of building and road projects (civil works) very huge % has always been in North.

.What did the FG really develop in Lagos? The FG cancelled a metroline that was already paid for. The FG is not paying Lagos any percentage of port revenue. They built third mainland bridge but built bridges and roads in other places too. The actual reality is that Lagos is being cheated. One thing to also note is that if taxes were being used to run the country then the NW and SW especially would never have agreed to the current structure.

mrvitalis:
Abuja

You have a valid point. However Abuja is just a city of 4 million and should not have made much difference. The North with Abuja is still not up to sixty percent of Nigeria's population

That is bad news. How I wish it drops so that oil will account for less than ten percent of revenue this quarter

VeeVeeMyLuv:
You are very correct

They are spending all their loots domestically on home soil

Compared to the other side of the divide

You see this Nigeria ehn?
North and South have their problem

Someone say if Dem explain Nigeria for you and you understand

Just forget it

There is not much money in government. Not much money can be made from stealing government funds. The whole oil money is less than five percent of the GDP.

Dijita:
where is your source? Not enough original content

I can't find the original article I read again but this is AI

Moroccoguy:
All the house that malami and his cronies built nko. They actually buy more.

One man can not make much difference. If you remove all the houses Malami built, the North will still be leading

Everybody works and therefore everybody have money but the records says Northern Nigeria buys around sixty percent of cement produced in Nigeria even when NIN records say they are around 55 percent of Nigeria's population. This establishes clearly that they are pulling more than their weight in building houses despite the common narrative that they are poor.
Why are they building more houses? The only reason I can think of is that they do not waste money as much as Southerners on trying to relocate abroad. In any case, most of them don't hold qualifications that will grant them easy passage. The average person relocating to the UK now will spend over 30 million naira which is enough to build a house.
I project that Northern Nigeria is leading in many other sectors of the economy too if checked. Why not if they are leading in cement purchases?.
What other reason do you think is why the North is pulling above it's weight in cement purchases and hence building of houses?

doyin01:
Some of you are obviously ignorant or just pretending to be ignorant.....just walk into any cinema around you...check the number of tickets sold for that movie at that $3 per ticket..just for one branch of that particular cinema alone ooo..I have not even mentioned other branches..I have not even mentioned other cinemas too and I have not even mentioned the ones in other 36 states of Nigeria.....obviously you don't even attend cinemas frequently or you are just a natural hater....

Is box office the same as cinema?. The story said box office revenue. Box office is movie rentals on DSTV and etc. It is only Nigerians with explora decoder that can contribute to box office revenue

Seeplusplus:
What is that?
Less than 10 states in Nigeria have active cinemas, so I don't know which 36 states you're talking about

Is box office revenue from cinema? Box office is movie rentals on DStv and etc. It is only people with explora decoder etc that can access box office. The story said the money came from box office and not cinema

The best run countries in Earth take almost half of their GDP as taxes to finance collective prosperity. They take around 45 percent of the GDP. There is no other way to become an advanced country