₦airaland Forum

LegendHero:
Out of all the crap above there is only one truth that they spoke about:

—“If the South-South is claiming the North is a parasite on the region, that region should ask itself what were the sources of Nigeria’s revenue before the discovery of oil at Oloibiri in the present Bayelsa State in 1965? What was the significance of oil before its discovery & exploration by the Shell Oil? What revenue did Nigeria use to fund oil exploration?” Chief Abu quipped.”

Initially during the 1900s, the Southern Protectorate and Lagos colony were the one financing the Northern Protectorate. Also, in addition to that, the Northern protectorate got huge grant from the Imperial Treasury to complement what they generated locally. Some of the reason for the low productivity of the North was because they prohibited the trade in Spirits due to the fact that islamic religion forbade alcohol. Spirit was part of the major revenue generating commodity then.

After the individual regions were created (Southern, Eastern, and Northern Region) , the table turned. Looking at the Federal gazette from 1957s up to the period of oil boom, the highest generator of revenue for the federal government are arranged below in terms of hierarchy.

1- Western Region
2- Northern Region
3- Eastern Region

Most revenue running the Federal government Is from the Western and Northern Region.

So when these guys (Northerners) are trying to justify the statement that the oil producing region shouldn’t be too pompous about them being the source of revenue to the country, they might be right to some extent. Some Region have helped before, the Oil producing region should help now this time around.

However currently, the North is pulling Nigeria backward because they have contributed more to the socio-economic failure of Nigeria by their not-too productive huge population, Terrorist activities that resulted in Nigeria wasting lot of money on equipping soldiers and buying weapons, poverty metrics, high illiteracy rate, and etc.

Where are you getting the things yoi just wrote here?

Plzz be very sure of the sources in your answer before answering me.

There has never been a time the northern refion has generated money more than the south. NEVER.

The northern elites pushing this narrative are not only lying through their teeth but entrenching the already precarious position they currently are in

Okoroawusa:
It's like asking u y do you love your gf or wife or your favorite colour or your best food...

The way these people reason baffles me

Are you OK with what you just read @ OP?

Afamed:
Because it's ungodly for me to adopt your enemy as my own enemy. It does not work that way.

Are you OK with what you just read @ OP??

Sometimes i dont just cant get why any normal person can still possibly supporting Buhari, including the northerners that he is supppsedly helping.

Why do people like seunmg and afamed etc still support Buhari

Can the Buhari Govt pull this through??

I need to see the document to this. It sounds like a good one

Hehehehehe....

I have been laughing since

I just love Yoruba poetry joor. Very expressive

Afamed:
Only looters and their families will have a contrary opinions. Because PMB has blocked their sources of free meal tickets

This stuppid line on corruption no longer works, Bruv.

Buhari and his Govt is just as corrupt as previous govts in Nigeria. Nothing has changed.

Add to that the most incompetent govt in Nigeria's history.

He is just a waste!!!

This programme from when it was conceived was a waste in the allocation of scarce resources- every economist would understand this(whether they agree or not) and also an avenue for fraud.

This new modified system is simply FRAUD and it is one of the stupidest ideas i have ever seen. When we should be discipline with how we spend our money esp with what is certainly coming in a few month's time(the Finance Minister just said yesterday that the economy may contract by as much as -8% this year), we are wasting scarce resources (billions of naira) in a meaningless programme where much of the money would be stolen anyways.

Stupid Govt!!!
Spineless Citizens!!!

olaolulazio:
Maybe they aren't paying cus second term is over.

some parents are yet to pay for second term self.

So private schools dont usually pay during the holidays??

KingJa:
This is not out of the norm, there is a 2 week strict quarantine period for new arrivals whether you tested positive or not, due to a 2 week incubation period the Covid-19 has.

After 2 weeks the strict restriction should be lifted according to protocol. It’s tough but I don’t think the govt is being harsh intentionally. Just my opinion anyway.

You are right, Bros.

The Govt is now doing exactly what they should have done late Feb immediately the 1st case was detected.

The returnees should keep quiet and stay there for 2 weeks. And it afterall one of the conditions for evacuating them back.

They however have a point if they say no Govt officials is engaging them there. Govt should do better here

pineed:
In terms of Infrastructure, this admistration is doing quite well.. but more need to be done on
security and the huge cost of governance

This admin is NOT doing well in infrastructure!!!

Or are you guys mad or something? This is so annoying.
Which infrastructure are you guys talking about:

POWER: This admin has hardly done anything in power. The last admin did much more than them in power.

AVIATION: The last admin did much better than them here too. The facelifting of domestic terminals and even the start/funding of renovation of international terminals were done last admin


EDUCATION: The last admin also did better infrastructure wise also- from building of new universities ans secondary schools as well as renovation of older ones.

HEALTH: I have.no idea here. Both didn't do much. But suffice to say that this admin has failed here.

ROADS: I dont see what special this admin has done in this area. Just as the last admin repaired/reconstructed some roads, this admin is also doing same. Both having largely failed here as well.

RAILS: This is the only area where this admin can lay claim to been better and that will be debatable. For instance, it was the last admin that reconstructed and revived the old Lagos-Kano and PH-Maiduguri railways, virtually constructed almost everything of the Abuja- Kaduna railway that this admin simply completed and commissioned (same railway that some of you clowns are now using to make this argument here), almost finished the Warri-Itakpe railway, and negotiated funding for the Lagos-Kano railway(for which this admin takes a lot of credit for seeing through).

So i dont see how this admin did better infrastructure wise than the last admin. They did NOT. You guys should stop your annoying propaganda. The failing Govt should just work. We will see it. We will not need their paid hacks to come and "remind" us of their good work.

DISCLAIMER: Whilst i fully believe that infrastructure wise the last admin is clearly better than this admin, let me state that i believe that both largely failed on this count. Absolutely. We deserve better as a country. Way better. Which is why i even bothered to comment on this sillly thread

Weedsmoker:
The number 1 determinant about how well a government has performed is on the economy.Give us the comparisons between APC and PDP on that regard.

You dey mind them.

Shameless things!!!!

Leave them let them continue to post pics of a few basic infrastructure which every sane Govt should provide even in the 3rd world, projects that were mostly even ongoing before this Govt came in, as proof that this extremely incompetent Govt is somehow doing well.

Simply disgusting!!!

And to think that the comparison is also with another useless party, PDP.

Dont we deserve more in this country??

APCNig:
Please don't forget the APC projects below;

1. Lagos-Abeokuta-Ibadan Railway
2. Kaduna-Abuja Railway
3. Ajaokuta-Itakpe-Warri Railway
4. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
5.Oyo-Ogbomoso Expressway
6. Apapa-Oshodi-Iyana_Oworo Expressway
7. Remodeling of several international airports which PDP left to decay.


Someone please post PDP projects

The funny thing is that most of the projects listed above were started by the PDP and much of the work in a lot of them was even done before APC came to power.

If after 5 years, and if these projects that APC met on ground(some of which have not even been completed) is the reason you wanna give the present Govt a pass, i really feel immerse pity for you and yours.

And then when you compare both parties in terms of basic economic index( inflation, exchange rate, poverty rate, employment rate, hunger rate, stock exchange performance etc), security and running an inclusive Govt, APC even fails behind the PDP, as bad as PDP was.

Just see how the APC FG Govt has completely malhandled the corona crisis in Nigeria!!!!

Both parties have failed Nigerians.

But APC is even the worst in my view, esp as they were voted in to significantly correct the ills of the PDP.

senatordave1:
My anger is that we have overtaken Ghana again.lagos still topping the charts,I don't know why Edo case is worsening.perhaps its because obaseki failed to lockdown early.

Nigeria is in deep poo cos your President failed, as SanwoOlu and Fayemi said recently, to lockdown airports and properly isolate those coming from abroad on it between late Feb and late March.

The virus was brought by few people and has now gone to the dangerous community infection stage.

For almost 2 months, Nigeria has tested about 18,000 persons(a tiny proportion of our population and even smaller than what some African countries have done).

Govts, at all levels have failed to provide palliatives for people to stay at home(which is the main reason the lockdown is been eased by the way), failed to effectively enforce the lockdown when it was operational(including inter state travels), failed to expand bed capacities in lieu of expected increasing space(the Min of Health only suggesting recently that Nigerians give their houses as isolation centre), failed to provide PPEs for those in hospitals such that hospitals are rejecting patients who may not even have Corona.

We are paying for the abysmal leadership we have tolerated for so long in this country.
At this point , only God can help us fooolishness and show us mercy.

If thia Covid crisis management in Nigeria has not show every Nigerian the extent of the rot in the state of the country and the abysmal levels of Govt at all level, i really dont know if they can think.

God should just deliver us for now. Cos our Govts are totally clueless

Absolutely needed

I get scared when i think about Kano. What can actually happen there id immediate actions are not taken there now.

Kano, just as any part in Nigeria, is very important to all of us.

Our prayèrs to our brothers in Kano...
Plzz stay at home ans allow this wrath od this pandemic pass

I feel his decision this night was generally in the right direction:

The gradual easing of the lockdown but after 1 week extension in the 3 states of Lagos, Ogun and FCT(this extension is necessary);

The total lockdown of Kano and takeover by Federal authorities (which is extremely important at this time cos of the explosive nature of things going on in Kano and its potential to infecting other neighbouring states);

The ban of interstate travels;

The curfew at night.


Where he failed were exactly those areas that should be the direct responsibility of his Govt:

No talk of palliatives;

No talk on a strong economic plan/stimulus for the economy that is bleeding;

No strong push at massive and conprehensive testing across the nation.

May God help us and have mercy on us- mercy for allowing the kinda Govts that is ruling us at every level

Caseless:
He's a smart and performing governor. I wish he's even the president. Very active and proactive.


God bless mallam!

The last President you chose or supported has been a complete disaster.

@ caseless my g, you are not allowed to "choose" any other President till further notice

Susu888:
Evrything to your likes is just sentiments , do kindly share with us how the northerners are enjoying the best of this government.


Letz not venture far: lets take this times now ...

How many test COVID-19 test centres are in the south vs north?? Did you hear us complain? Or are we not human beings??

If it was the other way round we won't hear the end of it , of how it is a grand agend to kill southerners or something of that sorts.

Because they sent expired rice na hin become northerners dey enjoy this government?

Mugu

So nobody is enjoying the Govt right??

Kudos to the Nigerian Army.

This is exactly what we want to see.

Regardless of how some of us feel about this Govt, we wanna see more of these heaetless terroists killed everywhere

festacman:
As long as Muhammadu Buhari sits as the president, Nigeria will pass through this period of downturn successfully and emerge stronger.

This moment is why Buhari lost many elections but persisted in contesting. This moment is why Buhari went through valley of death but emerged healthier.

Believe.

Lolz......

So Bros you are still taking that "thing" this corona season?

Hehehehehehehehehe.......

festacman:
You lie. Even Pres. Trumps and PM Boris Johnson have committed blunders. Blunders are part of being humans. So quit your masturbation.

Well, the difference between Buhari and the people you just mention is that Blunders is 2nd nature to Buhari's Govt.

That is the point.

festacman:
Although, understandably, things happened very quickly within a short space of time, the poor planning and unpreparedness that characterized Abba Kyari's burial were embarrassing to say the least.

Apart from social distancing, the funniest blunder was, rightly, giving PPE suit to the men who handled Abba Kyari's cadaver but, wrongly, abandoning them to wallow in confusion as to what to so with the outfit after the burial. One of the men looked right and looked left and then decided that best thing to do was to 'jejely' dump the goddam dress by the roadside and be free.

In short, what happened at Abba Kyari's burial was a dangerous dance with death.

Were you surprised??

The imcompetence in display that day is same incompetence shown by this Govt since inauguration.

Imagine the very Team leading the fight against a serious pandemic in the country openly violating its own rules.

Fuckktards!!!

aminu114:
what is happening in kano is really scary just a guy in my area came back from lagos before the lockdown he fell so sick someone in their house called ncdc without the guy knowing when they arrived the suspected guy run away his wife and children tested positive and still there is no sign of that guy

Woo!!

Am praying for Kano and the north as well as all Nigeria.

May God help us.

We need to help ourselves too

SeverusSnape:
The guy (Tayebest) you quoted is an unrepentant supporter of the dullard.

Hmmm, Is that so?

So he is part of his miserable supporters in the south??

tayebest:
Buhari dey fcck up with this his nepotism Sha

As in eh!!

And he does it consistently(right from 1980s) without blinking an eye lid.

Anyways, he still has some miserable supporters from the south, init??

swtdrms:
I think you're the only sensible person I've seen so far, the question should be what's the criteria used. From the little i understand, its a cash transfer for the indigent...poorest of the poor, people suffering from extreme poverty. From what we all know and what we all agree to, the far north has the highest number of people wallowing in extreme poverty. When it comes to insulting the north we know that but when it comes to handouts to extremely poor people, we argue about that. All we're good at is tribal and religious sentiments

Nope, you are totally wrong.

Except you allow sentiments to becloud your sense of reasoning.

The grants at this time is for the poor people AFFECTING or IMPACTED by the corona virus.
Naturally, any assistance for now should target the poor in those states most imparted in respect of total lockdown and no of cases.

States like Lagos, FCT, Osun, Edo and now Kano.

You get??

But from this report, not only are you giving Katsina the largest chunk, the most imparted state (Lagos) is given nothing i.e assuming this report is correct.

I have no element of discrimination against the north(i honestly do not understand how people can be tribalist) so this is from a place of sincere understanding of issues. I would expect same from you, whether you are northerner or not.

See what is wrong and condemn it, all the time

donphilopus:
See those guys calling Buhari names because his State is the highest beneficiary. Y'all should be glad he's doing this. Unlike that Otuoke man who promised to only start developing his State and other neighbouring States during his second term.

Besides, no one can be more nepotistic than someone who chose to sits a federal university in his village instead of his state capital.

You should have just resisted the urge to type at all.

They say it is better left unsaid than to say and remove every doubt of been seen a foool.

chrisobi1:
...sorry to say but good for kano. They failed to do the needful as at when due.u cant have such population and all that and fail to take precautions ... those in that part of the north never believed there was covid now its here,they want to see ,Oya take it

I dont understand why the mosques ans churches were not closed in Kano before now.

Now, shey they will still leave them opened?

Fooolish Gov