₦airaland Forum

diadem10:
It's like the fool forgot the schools were built by the missionaries, not his illiterate loving utman dan fodio..

Come to think of it, no one's stopping muslims from attending schools built by Muslims. My mum once headed a muslim school and every students had to be clothed in hijabs, including teachers' children who aint muslims. That's why school dresses are called "uniform" wears. Everyone ought to be uniform in their wears. Whoever doesn't like it should go and die!

And we were colonised by the British, not Arabs, hence our generalised weekend days remains Sat and Sun! No eediot can force Arabic views on us. If you want to become one, go and live in Saudi.

Ola17:
Muslims now the majority in SW

Is this a joke? Who conducted the census?

diadem10:
We're talking of muslim mosques in the north, one bastard is talking about organisation.. Go serve the North. Your state is useless to the SW at large!

OBAGADAFFI:
”Six: There is no single Shari’ah court in South Western Nigeria where Muslims constitute the majority. This is contrary to what obtained in Yorubaland before the advent of the British. There were Shariah courts in Ede, Iwo, Ikirun, Ibadan, etc. Yoruba Muslims are now compelled to take their civil matters like inheritance, marriage, etc to Christo-Western courts. This is preposterous and unacceptable.

When did Muslims constitute a Majority in the SW

At an All Progressives Congress public hearing on true federalism held in Kano recently, the governors of Kano, Abdullahi Ganduje, and Aminu Masari of Katsina, opposed attempt to restructure Nigeria or devolve power from the federal to state governments to reflect true federalism.

Ganduje and Masari said their aligned position (a strong coordinating federal government as against stronger states or regions) was on behalf of the North-west geo-political zone. The seven states of Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa, Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi make up the North-west.

“True federalism should not be misconstrued for a weak central government but rather a Federal Government that should be seen as a strong coordinating unit that will be entrusted with the responsibility of equitable distribution of common resources, among the federating units,” submitted Ganduje.

Over time, the North-west have shown to be the geo-political zone most opposed to restructuring. Judging from landmass and population figures (figures that play key roles in how much monthly federal allocation accrue to states), it is easy to know why the North-west is anti restructuring. It becomes even much easier to understand when you compare the North-west states allocation to what they individually make from Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, and ultimately contribute as Value Added Tax, VAT, to the commonwealth.

FIRST, A BIT OF HISTORY

Aside being classified as regions, Nigeria is further divided into geo-political zones, namely, North-east, North-west, North-central, South-east, South-west and South-south. The six geo-political zone structures is a major division principle for the country’s economic, political, and educational resources.

The six zones were not carved out based on geo-political location, but rather states with similar cultures, ethnic groups, and common histories were classified in the same zone. Because the structure is not recognized by Nigeria’s constitution, many groups and individuals have canvassed for its inclusion.

LANDMASS & POPULATION

According to data obtained from the National Population Commission, based on figures from the contentious 2006 census, the North-west zone is the most populated in Nigeria: Kano (9,383,682), Kaduna (6,066,562), Katsina (5,792,578), Jigawa (4,348,649), Sokoto (3,696,999), Zamfara (3,259,846), and Kebbi (3,238,628). The zones combined population is 35,786,944.

The zone has the third largest landmass. Individually this is what they get: Kano (20,680Km2), Kaduna (43,460Km2), Katsina (26,785Km2), Jigawa (22,605Km2), Sokoto (25,973Km2), Zamfara (39,762Km2), and Kebbi (41,855Km2).

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY REPRESENTATION

Out of Nigeria’s 774 Local Government Areas, the North-west has the largest number with 186. While every state is evenly represented by 3 senators at the Senate, that is not the case with the House of Representatives. The 360 members of the Lower House are elected in single-member constituencies using the simple majority system. Out of this figure, the North-west has the highest at 86. The zone also has the highest number of senators at 21.

ALLOCATION SHARING FORMULA

Nigeria relies heavily on oil revenue to fund its budget, and every month the states through their Commissioners of Finance go to the capital Abuja to attend the Federal Accounts Allocation Committee, FAAC meeting and to collect their share of the oil revenue. Now, how this oil money is shared has a lot to do with each individual states population and local government areas.

While the federal government receives 52.68 percent, the states and local government councils get 26.72 and 20.60 percents respectively. Because the North-west has the highest combined number of LGAs and population, this means the zone gets the biggest share from the 44 percent revenue that accrues to both states and local governments. This is after we minus the 13 percent derivation that accrue to the Niger Delta states for housing the oil deposit.

Another source of revenue shared between the federal, states and local governments is the Value Added Tax, VAT. While the federal government takes 15 percent, the states and local governments get 50 and 35 percents respectively. The sharing formula for the VAT is similar to how the oil revenue is shared.

Based on this lopsided formula that does not recognize hardwork and creativity, lazy states whose sole claim to bigger share of the allocation is in their population and landmass, get bigger share of the VAT generated by hardworking states like Lagos.

VAT CONTRIBUTION & ALLOCATION

According to data from the Economic Confidential magazine’s 2016 Annual State Viability Index ranking of states by Internally Generated Revenue compared to Federation Account Allocation, for contributing a dismal amount to the nations purse, states in the North-west zone get a great percentage of the oil revenue and VAT, on account of their local government areas and population.

These are the North-west states and what they got in 2016 as Federal Account Allocation in relation to their IGR: Kano got N111billion and contributed N31billion in IGR; Kaduna got N78.5billion and contributed N17billion in IGR; Zamfara got N53billion and contributed N4.7billion in IGR; Sokoto got N65.9billion and contributed N4.5billion in IGR; Katsina got N83billion and contributed N5.5billion in IGR; Jigawa got N68.5billion and contributed N3.5billion in IGR and, Kebbi got N60.8billion and contributed N3.1billion in IGR.

Except for Lagos and Ogun state (both in the South-west zone), the North-west states, just like the rest states in Nigeria cannot run their government using their IGR. Five states in the North-west (Zamfara, Sokoto, Katsina, Jigawa and Kebbi) are part of the poorest contributors to Nigeria’s ‘national cake’.

CONCLUSION

The North-west’s obtuse argument on restructuring and devolution of power portray their governments as bereft of ideas, uncreative and lazy. Truth be told, it is only an insipid and lazy government that would clamour for the retention of the current structure, best described as a “feeding bottle system”, where state governors go to Abuja cap-in-hand as beggars.

In a restructured Nigeria where power is devolved from federal to the state governments, the landmass and population figures wouldn’t count; rather what would matter is how much Internally Generated Revenue figures individual states can boast of. The North-west’s dismal contribution to the nation’s commonwealth and what lies ahead (an end to this lazy culture where ‘monkey dey work baboon dey chop’), is why the zone is opposed to restructuring.

Buharimustgo:
Will he rebuild another fine edifice?

25ahmad:
ohoooo! I am still with the masses

seguno2:
Can the 419 entity and the brain behind it exist without the FOREIGN content?
Research properly to learn something new before you answer anyhow.
Thank me later.

Sunnypa11:
Happy Birthday Omeruo girlfriend, Kenneth is just declining while you're progressing.

Cinkq:
Now they are talking about southern govs meeting without inviting any sw govs.

Tomorrow they'll tell you story of how yorubas are aiding the North to lord over the south.

They could also come out with another story of how yorubas are not supporting their cause.

IS IT NOT STUPIDITY TO BE EXPECTING THE PEOPLE YOU SEE AS ALIENS TO SUPPORT YOUR CAUSE?

And If this sudden love between se and ss govs is meant to spite the great yorubas, then they've failed woefully because we are up to the task and we also know how to get things done without aligning with you.

Lets keep our fingers cross and see how your meetings will be fruitful without sw supports, it will only take another sw and North callabo to make your efforts void again.

NB: YORUBAS NEED NOT YOUR SUPPRTS TO PROGRESS. IF YOU ALIGN WITH US, IT'S TO YOUR GAIN, AND IF YOU SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM US,YOU DO THAT TO YOUR DETRIMENT.

moninuola65:
yah, they know their limit, they won't shoot at crocodile!

dhsfbi:
quote author=nototribalist post=61217051] I strongly believe you're mad. Them fit buy 100,000 decoders?

I don't think you guys are getting his point. I think he is talking about them creating a monopoly for tstv like they did for dangote. Something like the three years tax relief.

I think he meant those people are powerful men in this country and have power to make things happen.

tsdarkside:
we deltans welcome the nigerian army to do their duty in the delta...

the nigerian army should know that,if anybody attack them while doing their duty,that people are terrorits...we disown them..

they are not us....

malagu:
It is disheartening to see Nigerians celebrate corrupt people in the society - Osinbajo http://www.thenewsroom.ng/article.php?id=1484

kn23h:
Why didn't he use a Biaflan frag?
Oh yea....no such thing

One idiot asked my why I pray Ibos don't leave. Haha. If it were up to me, you'd pack out of the SW yesterday.

Bari22:
PDP agenda

Oyindidi:
is she not married? Thought she is a married woman

DaCharis2016:
But MainOne is owned by glo?
Their optic submarine fibre.

MARQUIZ:
This can't be Ibadan..... I'm very sure!

nero2face:
Finally