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^^^Let them try.

Chiwude:
I understand your point my brother. I was just trying to add some yellow journalistic touch to it. But when I finally looked at what I wrote, I noticed that they were some little deviation of what I originally had in mind. Yet, the highlighted views of Junaid Muhammed proves that his likes are among the problems we have in the country. And until his kinds are phased out ruthlessly, Nigeria may never regain true reconciliation and unity.

With regards to your above statements (in bold).

If you truly believe in those words, then why not initiate the clean up starting from yourself; by revising the Divisive Misleading Evil title of your thread along with the similar message you expressed in your first post (i.e. without the lies); in order to limit the damage that you may have already caused by your irresponsible action - or for ever remain as an exposed unrepentant bigot, caught spreading malicious inciting propaganda.

Go ahead; do the needful and prove me wrong - though I very much doubt if you would.

Chiwude:
You came out to prove me wrong, but all you did is contradict yourself. Even from your post, it is obvious that I did'nt frame the topic. And it is obvious that someone, somewhere and his group have evil plans toward some certain people.

My friend stop lying through your teeth and further discrediting yourself in the light of incontrovertible evidence against you.

This is what ppl hate most about your kinsmen; lying and cheating, trying to twist facts or even history; as well as never accepting their mistakes (lest they appear weak or defeated) in order to suit their selfish agenda.

This trait is also the reason why Igbos are not seen as honest co-travellers in any arrangement in the Nigerian context.

Please show me where or how I contradicted myself?

Please stop playing denial like an ostrich, because no amount of such deceit would exonerate you from the blatant lies you printed and are trying to spread through this thread, the evidence is still out there for all to see; if you are blind or suffering from amnesia, well others are not - better wake up and smell the coffee.

Even if you deny framing the topic (assuming somebody else did e.g. the moderator) that still cannot save your lying arse; because there is no way you can successfully exonerate yourself from your own printed words.

Kindly therefore tell us who typed these words (refer below to a copy of your first post, especially the words in bold)

Chiwude:
Junaid Muhammed has finally let the cat out of the bag. His recent outburst proves that there are plans by some northern elements to carry out mass killings of Igbos should they lose out in the next election. How prepared is Ndigbo from (Delta, Imo, Abia, Enugu, Anambra, Ebonyi, Rivers and other southern groups) in mitigating this subtle threat? What machinery is on group should a confrontation break out between Ndigbo and their enemies? The early we begin strategizing the better for us all. This isn't an ordinary threat oh.

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-cant-win-in-2015-because-he-never-won-any-election-in-the-past-junaid-mohammed/

Please tell this audience, where in the entirety of Dr. Junaidu's interview did he suggest or even inferred to any such plans to kill Igbos? Why is it so difficult for you to comprehend and accept your dishonesty?

FYI. Dr Junaid must have anticipated bigots like you and the likelihood of his words being twisted, that he felt it necessary to even declare that he had an Igbo daughter (and a Yoruba one as well); so as to show he wasn't driven by tribal sentiments (if not why would he sire daughters with other ethnicities)
It should have been evident that rather than speaking out hatred Dr Junaidu was obviously speaking from a pro-northern perspective, in similar manner like other fiery regionally biased politicians also abound in other parts of the country.

Remember, the man was invited and questioned by one of the security agencies and subsequently released. If indeed he was guilty of such statements or could have been misinterpreted in the manner you (dishonestly) wanted others to believe, why then was he not arrested and detained for possible incitement, given the fact (as he himself attested) that the man behind his questioning was Igbo (apparently also irked by the said Junaidu's statements)?

BTW, since when does Dr Junaidu speak for the north or his words carry much weight to the extent that ppl would sit up and actually take him seriously?
By the same token shouldn't then ppl in the north or Nigeria also start taking words any 2cent Igbo politician e.g. the many unguarded statements of MOSSAD chief (I forget his name) or for that matter those of Asari Dokubo from the SS, with much seriousness.

Finally, pls go easy on the hatred and malicious propaganda; and more on objectivity and honesty; though I am encouraged with your sudden change in sentiments as expressed in your subsequent post to engrfcuksmtin: but I am nonetheless not convinced by this dramatic volte-face given the evil you have already just spread.

Having used the link provided by the OP and read the interview, I find it incredible that the OP would stoop so low as to openly manufacture and be spreading such blatant lies, clearly designed to whip up tribal hate and unrest between Nigerians.

I challenge the OP to point out where Dr Junaid said or even inferred there are evil plans against the Igbos (as he deliberately and misleadingly titled this thread); it is a matter of basic comprehension, I challenge him to prove these allegations.

For those who may not be bothered to click on the provided link, please find below the entire transcript copy of the alleged interview, read and judge for yourselves; please also help me as the OP identify where Dr. Junaidu mentioned plans by northern politicians to kill Igbos.

@OP:
Shame on you.
You are a LYING BASTARD and a disgrace to Igbo ppl, what do you hope to gain by inciting such hate through such obvious falsehood? How would such lies advance the course of your ppl?

Jonathan can’t win in 2015 because he never won any election in the past –Junaid Mohammed

OCTOBER 25, 2014 BY JOHN ALECHENU 400 COMMENTS
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Dr. Junaid Mohammed
Dr. Junaid Mohammed


In this interview with JOHN ALECHENU, a Kano State delegate to the just concluded National Conference and convener of the Coalition of Northern Politicians, Academics, Professionals and Businessmen, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, speaks about his brush with the law and other sundry national issues. Excerpts

You were once arrested by the State Security Service for a statement you made which it considered inciting. What do you make of your arrest?

It was true I was invited. That was the word they used. I was invited by the SSS to present myself at their Kano State office which is about one and half kilometres from my residence. Before I arrived Kano from Abuja, there were some shadowy characters who were following me. The order for my arrest came directly from the Director of Operations, an Igbo man. Apparently, he does not like anyone who says anything uncomplimentary about Igbo people and their greed. I think he was particularly very unhappy because I said Igbo have taken charge of the economy and that they have also grabbed most of the land especially for estates in Abuja; where they don’t have any historical claims or any other logical claim to even one square foot of land in Abuja. He was also unhappy because I said what was taken out of the North and converted into a national land holding is about two and half times the size of Lagos. I don’t see any Nigerian ethnic group, zone or region that could be prepared to cede that kind of virgin land in addition to the valuable mineral which is under the land. When I got there, some small boys started asking questions which I answered. I spent about half an hour and somehow; because of the many calls that were coming into my telephone from a number of media people and civil society groups, I think somehow they got a bit jittery and allowed me to go. That was what happened. I believe what was done was deliberate and it had the blessing of people in government at the highest level and those in the security services. It was done primarily with a lot of ethnic bias. I am aware that long before now, SSS had tried to get me arrested months before what happened. They even took my name to the office of the NSA and other people trying to frame me up for things I didn’t do because they said I was unhelpful and that I am a threat to the government of Goodluck Jonathan; I wish I were. Every patriotic Nigerian must do what he or she can do legally to constitute a threat to this government. This is the most irresponsible, most corrupt and the most incompetent government in the history of Nigeria. These are people who are not only tribalistic; they are also sectarian and they are very clannish. Their greed and stupidity is unprecedented in the history of Nigeria.

But people say you’re chronically tribalistic going by your statements on national issues.

I want them to tell me what makes me tribalistic, let them mention the statements they are referring to. If saying about 42 per cent of the key positions in the economic sector of Nigeria is dominated by Igbo, if that is what they call tribalism, then I stand by that tribalistic statement because these are verifiable facts and whenever I made that statement, I mentioned names and positions and institutions. For example, I said the most powerful person in this country is the Minister of Finance who is in fact, the de facto Prime Minister. What it means is that she is the de facto head of government. For a person who was not elected and the legitimacy of the government that appointed her still in doubt, anybody who thinks saying this is being tribalistic, so be it. They can burn to ashes and go to hell. Two, I said the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria is also an Igbo person, next I said the DG, Nigerian Economic Summit Group is an Igbo man, the DG, Sovereign Wealth Fund, is also an Igbo person, the DG, Securities and Exchange Commission is also an Igbo person, the DG, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria is also an Igbo person, other ministries which are very critical to the running of the economy like aviation, are also in the hands of Igbo people. So, what are we talking about? Igbo remains one ethnic group in Nigeria that is so devoid of any shame to show their greed, selfishness and contempt for other ethnic groups. I said and I will still say that the first time Igbo officers staged a coup and assassinated wholesale the political leaders of most other ethnic groups was when we had General Aguiyi Ironsi as the Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He was involved in the coup where the entire political leadership, the military and economic leadership of other regions especially the North was decapitated under him and he was from Umuahia. The next time we had another Igbo man as Chief of Army Staff was at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency and that man was (Azubuike) Ihejirika, who also comes from the same Abia State, from the same Umuahia. So, if this is what they use to call me a tribalist, then they can go to hell.

Are you one of those who believe Northerners are born to rule and that a Northerner should be President in 2015?

I have never said a Northerner should rule Nigeria in 2015. There was never a time in my entire political career when I said a Northerner must govern or rule Nigeria under any circumstance. I will not dignify this question with an answer. Next question.

Why did you say that President Jonathan will not win a credible election in 2015?

Because he never won any election in the past. The election which brought him to power as number two to Umaru Yar’Adua was not a credible election. The election he was alleged to have won in 2011 was not credible and I don’t believe he could win any election if anybody is to vote rationally- by this I mean, if people are to vote for a man on the basis of his performance and that performance must tally with what he promised to do, there is no way-let me tell you, we have a saying in American English ‘at the end of the day, all politics is local.’ As far as I am concerned, if he is to be voted for without recourse to ethnicity and religious bias and people are to vote for him on the basis of performance, there is no reason why any part of this country should vote for him- apart from the mercenary Igbo and of course, the Ijaw who are opportunistic, they are the only people who will have occasion to vote for Jonathan. When I say Ijaw, I choose my words carefully because most of the people who got appointments in this government are Ijaw, not Kalabari, their cousins, not the people of Akwa Ibom whether they are Anang or Ibibio and not even the few other tribes who are not associated with Edwin Clark. None of them got anything. The Igbo are mercenaries; they are there for sale. If the devil were to come today to say, I am the devil about whom the Bible and the Quran have spoken, I am prepared to give money, the Igbo will take the money and vote for him. Quote me!

You once described President Jonathan as a bad president. Is it because he’s not a Northerner?

I knew Jonathan before most of you. I employed him and Chief Horsefall is alive. I employed him (Jonathan) as Assistant Director when I was a Federal Commissioner in OMPADEC in Port Harcourt. To be fair to President Jonathan, he has never denied me nor has he ever denied circumstances surrounding my employing him. If I hated him, why should I be the one who was instrumental in his getting a job as Assistant Director in OMPADEC? Two, I said he was a bad President but I never said he was a bad director of ecology because that was what I recommended and insisted he should be employed as and he was employed. I did not say he was good enough to be president but I said he was good enough to be director of ecology because he comes from an educationally disadvantaged area and that to me is important. I come from the North which is also educationally disadvantaged and I believe people who are underrepresented in such circumstances especially in the Federal Government institutions should be employed. I believe every Nigerian has a right to be given a sense of belonging and I believe one of the good aspects of a government is how inclusive it is so that every Nigerian should have a sense of belonging. I have never hated him and he himself has never said I hated him.

Some people say that you hate Igbo people, is that the case?

I have an Igbo daughter. I don’t see how I can hate my daughter. My daughter speaks better Igbo than Hausa. Nobody can make me hate my daughter. I also have a Yoruba daughter and I have an Ijaw daughter who is doing her Master’s degree at the University of Ghana, Legon. I don’t hate Igbo but I see no reason why I should spare them when they have done more damage to the psyche, to the sovereignty and the existence of Nigeria. Some of my closest friends for life are Igbo and one of them is Uche. S.G Ikoku is someone I regard as my political mentor even more than the late Aminu Kano-as far as I am concerned, and he was an Igboman. I can tell you many more. I have never associated with other Nigerians (who are either majority or minorities) who have accused me of being a tribalist.

You have said a lot about the 1966 coup, where some northern leaders were killed. What about the killing of Igbo in the North, weren’t you bothered about that too?

I have always said that tit for tat killing is not a characteristic of human beings. I have always said that an eye for an eye is not a way of running a society. If you continue an eye for an eye, at the end of the day, the world will be blind. I am not a believer in an eye for an eye and I never believed that what the Igbo did which was purely on tribal basis, politically motivated-it was also motivated by tribal hatred- was right. Even if what they did was deliberate; I believe it was deliberate. The frenzy which somehow took over the North was wrong because I believe there was a way in which that issue would have been handled differently in a much more humane and sensible manner. That is number one. Number two, when you look at what happened during and after the Igbo coup and the action of the Igbo, you don’t justify what happened, but you have to agree that the Igbo themselves contributed to the severity of what happened after their own tribal coup because I was alive and well and I knew what the Igbo were saying afterwards. They were showing photographs of the Sardauna and saying we killed your father. I saw that, in addition and if you look at the long term consequences of the Igbo coup and the civil war afterwards, you will notice that first and foremost, the North treated the Igbo much more humanely, much more honestly and as fellow citizens than the rest of the country. My first job in government in 1968/69 was as an abandoned properties officer in Sabon Gari, Kano. At that time and up till now, Sabon Gari is one of the most developed parts of Kano metropolis. When I finished my assignment and had to leave for the Soviet Union, I handed over to another person. The sum total of what I am saying is that not a single Igboman can claim that he came back to Kano and that his house or property was alienated. Every Igboman who came back got his property back and I challenge any Igboman to tell me that he came back to Kano or any part of the North for that matter and he found that his land had been taken from him or his house or his market stall or anything of that nature. I can give you an example of a good friend of mine, Prof. ABC Nwosu who was formerly Political Adviser to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and later Minister of Health during the first term of Obasanjo’s administration. He was the one telling me and he is alive- he said but for the houses his father left in Kano which he recovered completely when he came back, he and six of his brothers would never have gone to school. You can crosscheck this with ABC Nwosu. If I hate Igbo, he will not tell me that. He is a good friend of mine and Governor Sule Lamido; fact must be fact.

You said that Gen. Buhari is not fit to rule Nigeria again. Do you have any other Northerner in mind who will offer good leadership to Nigeria?

Where and when did I say that? I never said that.

You said that the PDP cannot win the presidential election in 2015. What will you do if the party wins?

There will be mayhem. The party cannot win a free and fair election. It is not beyond it to connive with Attahiru Jega the way they did in 2011. And if they do that, there will be mayhem.

Why do you think that Abuja should go with the North if Nigeria divides? Is Abuja not central to the country?

Abuja has been and remains central to Nigeria but it is also central to the North. In creating Abuja, not one square foot of the other regions was incorporated into Abuja. In fact, 80 per cent of the whole land of Abuja came from Niger State. The remaining 20 per cent came from the northern states of Kaduna and a small fraction of Nasarawa when it was part of Plateau. How can you then say if Nigerians decide to go their separate ways, Abuja will remain central? I have said it before that if you draw a straight line from Abuja southwards, you will have to go over 351,000 kilometres before you reach the end of the North. That is where the border will be in case of a break-up. I invite you and the Igbo irredentists and all the historical revisionists to see what happened recently when the North and South Sudan split. The North retained Khartoum. The stretch from Khartoum to the border is more than the distance between Abuja and Okpila. Even Okpila where you have the cement factory is originally Igbira land and if we want to reacquire it, we will re-acquire it, it is Northern land. If Nigeria was to break up, Abuja will not only remain a northern territory, it will also remain the capital of a new Nigeria. It will be unfortunate, but there is no alternative. If Nigeria were to break up tomorrow, the North with Abuja as capital will acquire all the assets and liabilities of Abuja.

Many think if President Goodluck Jonathan wins in next year’s poll, the current Boko Haram crisis will not subside. Do you share this fear?

I believe that this government is involved with Boko Haram directly and indirectly with some of the terrorists in the Niger Delta. Anybody who believes that there is a direct connection knows that this Boko Haram insurgency is not coming out of the blues; it is being financed indirectly or directly by the government. If as they tried to do during the (Peter) Odili tenure in Rivers, to encourage people to unleash violence and after the election, they abandon them, those people will take up arms and unleash terror on them. The fact is this, government is irredeemably corrupt and incompetent.

Do you think that negotiation is the key to curtailing the Boko Haram crisis in the North-East?

Who are you going to negotiate with? Modu Ali Sheriff, Asari Dokubo, Edwin Clark or the President himself who are all implicated? How do you talk about stopping armed robbery with a confirmed armed robber?

You seem not to see many good things about the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. What is your rating of his administration?

I am sorry to say and I hope that I don’t sound too negative, I challenge anyone who has anything positive to tell me. The first responsibility of any government is the maintenance of law and order, is there law and order in Nigeria today? No. One of the first promises made by this President was that he was going to get rid of corruption, has he done that? He promised he was going to get rid of poverty, the poverty level has risen beyond belief. Tell me what he has done about infrastructure? On a daily basis, I spend more on petrol than I pay on a monthly basis for my entire NEPA bill. I live in a small bungalow, my bill has been in excess of N2,000 for the past six months, I have not paid more than that. And there is no water, no major state in Nigeria has reliable water supply. And the Igbo who have been running the ministry of aviation have taken it upon themselves to deny other airports particularly Kano Airport of commercial venture. They want to destroy the airport as a commercial venture, they have refused other airlines who had expressed interest in coming to Kano. Starting with Stella Odua and now Osita Chidoka, I challenge those who say Jonathan has performed to tell me what he has done in terms of what he claims he would do.

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He should not only declare his interest but also his assets so that Nigerians may understand how he manage to reach the alleged no6 world richest African head of state.

gidjah:
BUILD D POWER PLANT and wait for boko haram or other crisis,those plants will be destroyed by them without thinkin back

See bad belle, what about those creekbillies in the south blowing pipelines everyday; isn't it instructive to note that the Oyinbos have already weighed carefully where most of the risk lies and decided to hedge their bet by investing their money in the relatively safer north.
Yes, there is Boko Haram; but we are beginning to see the hands of their real sponsors - ask oga at the Top, he knows them all.

This is indeed a welcomed development and no doubt of benefit to kano, whose its erstwhile vibrant industries have been deprived of its full quota of energy by successive wicked PDP governments - because of politics.

It is equally reassuring to source the power plant's gas supply through pipelines from neighbouring Niger, which is more stable and friendly, rather than from the south in view of potential risk from saboteurs (from the creeks).

It is also a big up as a whole for northern Nigeria; well done USA, we thank you for this support.

Why our ppl from SE like killing their wives - d problem even worse when dem reach yankee.

Stale old lies being recycled by robotic programmed mofos.
Propaganda Propaganda Propaganda

But they call themselves Christians because believe in Jesus Christ, the Bible and also worship in churches; what then are they?

Christians always tinkering away and setting aside their own values to accommodate modern times.
How can they therefore say their religion is still intact and undiluted and no longer being made by man.

OP:
This is stale news and you are lying to say that the international community is not doing anything about it; if not, ask yourself why is the North Sudanese head of state is still a wanted man?

Currently, it has turn around to black killing black, Christian against Christian in Southern Sudan - don't say you are not aware.

Thats why some are even warning Nigerians against similar eventuality - noting heating up of the polity along religious and tribal lines.

^^^^^^Let me follow am laugh too. Kikkikkikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk LOL

NAIJASOM:
Bonny Light crude is too sweet and addictive. The north is in their 4th decade of addiction of crude oil. It might take another 4 decades to ween them off oil. But knowing their mentality, this will be mission impossible until that oil runs dry.

Yes, the north would remain addicted to southern oil till it runs dry; then it would go on to develop its own but only after the country is divided; as for now, we must remain as One Nigeria - yeepaaaa! who no like awooof.

Hope you also enjoyed the sarcasm

^^^^They produce beasts of the worst kind: animals who kill and eat other ppl for fun (CANNIBALS to you); Rap!sts, who specialise in Rap!ing their grand mothers; Ritualists who kill and use human body parts to make money......the list of evil goes on, don't temp me to remind you of all of them.

Sunnybobo3:
The irony of this all is that the Northerners are allowed to mine their minerals themselves, make as much money as they like without paying a dime to the Federal purse and at the same time, getting regular monthly allocation from Niger Delta crude proceeds while the Niger deltans do not even have access to the oil in their back yard.

If you had read carefully, you would have noticed that the article suggested that everybody: Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and even foreigners from neighbouring countries, including the locals were all converging to the area.

Besides, the Niger Deltans you mentioned are similarly helping themselves to the oil (through illegal bunkering) just as these ppl are illegally mining for the minerals - pls be more objective and stop being biased.

atlwireles:
Alamjiris means mass a murdering tool, called upon when non moslem need to be slaughtered. Usually walking around with a bowl used for begging food. How many millions of those do you have again?

As many as you ppl are producing from your baby factories - I hear there is vacancy waiting for you as chief Impregnator.

atlwireles:
Creekbillies have every time over Kano almajirs, 54 years of Nigerian history is the evidence slapping you, over your face daily in Niyeria.

See what gibberish you just typed - educated illiterate.

BTW, almajiri means: scholar or pupil (so there is nothing derogatory about it; except to you olodos) - and by all indications, you could really do with a little more schooling, why not try night class for a start; maybe you could even earn your family a much needed 2nd certificate.

Birds of the same feather flock together.

@ OP:

Follow this thread for the answer to your question.

https://www.nairaland.com/1945471/true-face-north

atlwireles:
The gov is building a wasteful structure for 33B, in your neck of the woods that would be a mosque built with public money. Now compare the swampland Bayelsa, with Kano in education, healthcare , and quality of life issues? The educated progressive differentiate themselves from the almajiris any day.

Sorry to burst your bubble, those CREEKBILLIES have nothing over the ppl of Kano.

Educated progressive my foot, products of exam malpractice, family of 40 sharing ONE single certificate; the Sheppo and the Otuoke Dunce at Aso Rock are unfortunate examples; supposedly all degree holders (one even PhD) but just look at the tomfoolery they are performing before Nigerians and the world at large - educated illiterate you even get mouth to talk sef.

atlwireles:
Keep lying to yourself, same story in all HDI, since 1960.

Can't handle the truth, can you?
Don't miss out on the latest lootocratic tricks by one of your govs in Bayelsa, building a new office for himself for 33.8 BILLION Naira on your behalf; while many of the streets still have potholes - what visionary priority for apparently well educated progressive ppl.

https://www.nairaland.com/1943178/bayelsa-state-new-governors-office

atlwireles:
Did you really say that? Why is poverty in the NW standing at 75% and NE 80%.

More population and less money per head - olodo couldn't you have figured that?

cjrane:
[size=15pt]...and use whose money to sustain it?
Northern states are truly the most infrastructurally developed part of Nigeria. Years of military misrule and favoritism towards the north saw to that infrastructure imbalance in the country.
The idea is all about cheating the Niger Delta of their resources and using it to develop the north. [/size]

Olodo, is that what they have been telling you?

Well, if you have to hate and blame anyone, go back to your leaders and ask them what have they been doing with your share of the oil money; what have they done with this money that has impacted positively on your life?
If not, then blame yourself for your foolish gullibility for believing these fairy tales.

The difference between north and south leadership Vs the alleged infrastructural imbalance you mentioned is that your leaders would collect huge sums of money on your behalf and loot almost all leaving maybe only about 10% for projects; while northern leaders (though also corrupt but collecting much less) are comparatively more compassionate, may loot about 40/50% and still execute 50/60% of the money on projects for their ppl.

The difference you see on the ground is therefore not due to a disproportionate share collected by the north but the greed of your leaders who rob you blind; while brain washing gullible folks like you with these outdated fairy tales so that you can come over here and yarn such dust - in order to turn your attention away from their very own crimes against you.

Next time before coming here with such bigotry, try first ask yourself how could the north have been responsible for stopping them from spending such money on your welfare and therefore the bitterness against it - charity begins at home, pls start from there.

Finally, let me leave you with a recent example of the enormity of the looting in one of the southern states, Bayelsa, where N33.8 BILLION is to be spent on the governors office - while the state still has streets with potholes.
https://www.nairaland.com/1943178/bayelsa-state-new-governors-office

optimumprimus:
the USA does not need Nigeria's oil. the USA has oil and gas reserves to last for more than 300 years . the USA has more natural resources than Nigeria and most of Africa.
list of American resources :natural gas, timber,Oil, coal, copper, lead, phosphates, rare earth elements, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc .


oil is actually not needed anymore but the oil companies are greedy and are doing all they can to prolong their streak . we have electric vehicles (Tesla) $80,000,more people are buying them , they will be more cheaper in the next 10 years .
we have solar panel roofs ,more people are using solar panel roofs ,they will become more cheaper and affordable in the next 10 years . plus,thorough research is ongoing at this time to increase the capacitance of a single square foot of solar panel, this mean that a single square foot of a solar panel will be able to store more kilowatts(there are now different colors of solar panel such as red,grey and black .

below is a tesla electric vehicle ,it does not emit carbon dioxide nor any gas at all into the atmosphere,it simply has no exhaust pipe . all you have to do is charge it. it runs as fast as a gas car .
the other vehicle in the pic below is a rendering of a solar electric vehicle. once the capacitance of solar panels is increased there'll be no need to charge electric vehicles .

I concur with the above premise regarding advancements in exploitation of alternative sources of energy.
In addition, it is postulated that oil prices would eventually plunge even further due to predicted global glut; resulting from the recent huge finds in Australia and off the coast of Mexico. When these commence yielding and supply exceeds demand then prices will will be expected to plummet.

It is therefore advisable that we aggressively continue to diversify our economy before it is too late.
The Arabs are already miles ahead in this regard; just take a look at the UAE, particularly Dubai, because their leaders have more foresight and resolve than ours.

On the home front, those agitating for resource control ought to consider their position more carefully; because if this happens then they will be holding on to considerable less and less valuable asset; while the gods of fortune and misfortune may change sides, as resources elsewhere (e.g. land & agriculture in the north) appreciate considerably - and a new set of so called parasites emerge.

nedu2000:
Muslims that want to go to hajj should sponsor themselves,christians that want to go for pilgrimage should do the same.....we waste money in Nigeria,imagine Borno state where its people are refugees,jobless and dying

Agreed, kudos to Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who has put an end to this practice in his state - instead he is now channeling the money towards developing state institutions and infrastructure.

Fighting terrorism is not only about bullets, guns and bombs but also about winning hearts and minds, of the community embedded with the terrorists and also the terrorists themselves (those among them willing to give up the fight).

There is also the additional cause of winning support and cooperation from among your friends and neighbours within the international community through propaganda.

Unfortunately, this example of torture (among others) contributes negatively towards our national image and therefore to the latter mentioned cause; its no wonder that we are also allegedly having problems buying arms from more civilised countries (USA, UK etc) due to the assumption that such weapons could be used inappropriately by our soldiers.

While we should support our government and soldiers in the fight against terrorism; we must also be ready to speak against such counterproductive tactics.

pelvicky:
Wonders shall never end!

Funniest thing..about 12 northerns governor are PDP....fact 1.

Their is power of incumbency...GEJ has it,..fact 2.

Our people from south west do not support almaijiri and jihadist nd dey are.....fact 3.

Gej is a christain... I tink christianity cover 60% in Nigeria...fact 4.

Base on what Gej has done...a good road, railway lines, improve in our electricity supply, he overcome ebola, health sector, airway development, employment, reduction in poverty...boko haram is goin on extinct...fact 5

out of 36 states...PDP owns 23 states...fact 6

By his name we won d AFCON, came 2nd in women wc, doin excellently in comon wealth game....fact 7

Gej is returning to office come feb 15. 2015...

PDP!! Power!
Their is always power to the people.

Typical dunce, graduated from the same class as his master from Otuoke; so after you've insulted them, calling them almajiris and jihadists, you still think they'll go and vote for your guy? - well done, nice campaign strategy; you must be more foolish than I thought!

deor03:
I pity the average black man .

Lots of gullible people

Yes oooOOOO! In these modern times many of them still believing in mumbo jambo, SMH.