₦airaland Forum

deltafly:
She is the only woman in the history of women football always with heavy make up during matches. I wonder why

She isn't.

Francisca Ordega: Make-up Or Muscles? New York Times' Article
https://www.nairaland.com/5256661/francisca-ordega-make-up-muscles-new

Ishilove:
Person wey don die since. He has finally 'officially' died.

Since when and how do you know?

Or are you referring to "Jubril from Sudan"?

Pearl1910:
It's d work of northerners, gbagbe.
I don't mean to mention names but it is not the work of southerners.
Even if they want to divide the country between North and South, d natural boundary should be the River Niger and River Benue.
States like Benue, Kogi, Kwara should be in the South

That's what I mean. You don't know what you are talking about, but you just came here to blame northerners without any proof, no name, nothing. You just came here to sell your agenda without any facts. I knew it from your first post.

Goodbye.

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Pearl1910:
Because it gives the North undue advantage and way bigger land mass

Is that the name of the person that implemented the 6 geopolitical zones??

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Kai!

Pearl1910:
How and why is Kwara a Northern state?
What is d definition of northern Nigeria?

These are the two sets of people that you need to ask that question:

1) The founding fathers including Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Mrs Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Dr Eyo Ita, Sir Adesoji Aderemi (Ooni of Ife), Sir Muhammed Sanusi (Emir of Kano), Alhaji Usman Nagogo (Emir of Katsina), Oba Aladesanmi (Ewi of Ado-Ekiti), Edidem Essien Nyong (paramount ruler of Uyo), Eze S.E. Onukogu and many others, who met at Lancaster House in London to negotiate independence for Nigeria, fashion a new constitution and to decide how Nigeria was going to be governed and structured.

2) Dr Alex Ekwueme, who drew the map of the 6 geopolitical zones.

Pearl1910:
It is greatly disproportionate giving the north an advantage. Today all those NC states are being gradually overrun by core northern cultures and religion.

Why are you running away from the question?

We haven't yet come to your agenda, we'll come to that later.

You said:

Pearl1910:
Conceived, Yes.
Implemented, No

The final delineation as we know it today is no work of a southerner

How do you know it's not the work of a southerner? If it's not the work of a southerner, then who's work is it?

naptu2:
How do you know that it is no work of a southerner?

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Please don't forget to answer this question.

Pearl1910:
Okay fair enough, but if the plan was to put majority tribes together and minority tribes together why do we have Kwara in NC when Kwara is a Yoruba state?

North Central contains the minority tribes in the North. Are Yorubas a majority in the North??

Pearl1910:
Conceived, Yes.
Implemented, No

The final delineation as we know it today is no work of a southerner

How do you know that it is no work of a southerner?

🤣 (I want to laugh today)

Pearl1910:
Good job naptu2
But beyond the academic and theoretical publications. What's ur opinion on thoughts that the 6 regions were adopted by Abacha in other to divide and conquer.

Nope, he adopted them for the same reason that Ekwueme proposed them. I've previously posted a video of him talking about it.

raumdeuter:
You know in the US too they have zones like Midwest Northeast southeast southwest etc

And if you look at the map, what does a state like Ohio have to do with anything west to be called Midwest

Its basically grouping states together based on perceived similarities in culture

Exactly and that was one of the reasons for the American Civil War (the idea that geo-political zones were not being listened to or represented).

I am writing about that right now.

Nefort:
Since the minorities eventually got their states why was creating the geopolitical zones necessary to create further political divisions?

I am not going to answer all the questions (because it will take several days. I have already been writing about this across many Nairaland threads over the past 14 years), but I need to make one particular thing very clear.

Alex Ekwueme recommended the 6 geo-political zones at the 1995 constitutional conference, but delegates voted against it. However, General Sani Abacha included it in the 1995 constitution.

The committee that reviewed the 1995 constitution to create the 1999 constitution removed it again.

The 6 geo-political zones are not recognised by the constitution.

However, they are recognised by certain laws that were enacted by the National Assembly in order to provide representation.

You see, we have 36 states and in some cases you can have representation from all states. For example, the constitution states that there must be a minister from each state. Each state also has a quota in recruitment for the armed forces and the civil service.

However, some bodies are too small to have representation from all states. You are not going to have 36 commissioners in the National Broadcasting Commission. You are not going to have 36 judges in the Supreme Court. Etc.

The 6 geo-political zones are used to ensure representation in such small bodies, so that there are at least members from 6 areas of the country in order to ensure adequate representation.