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Due to exploration successes, coal has now been discovered in commercial quantities in 14 out of the 36 Nigerian States, namely Abia, Adamawa, Anambra, Benue, Cross-Rivers, Edo, Enugu, Gombe, Imo, Kogi, Kwara, Nassarawa, Ondo, and Plateau Although there are about 22 existing and potential coal fields in Nigeria (Table 1), only few are operational/active (Okaba, Okpara, Onyeama and Owukpe), while some are historical mines (Obwette, Ribadu, Ogbete) and new discoveries are being made.
To date,[b] the proven coal reserves in Nigeria are about 639 million tonnes, while the inferred reserve is generally reported to be 2.75 billion tonnes [19, 21- 24], but few authors reported 3 billion tonnes [19], while Adenikinju [1] reported 4 billion tonnes. [/b]Other authors such as Gulloma [14] reported that Nigeria has 360 million tonnes of proven reserve of coal, which is considered lowest among major coal producing countries, with the following million tonnes of reserve; USA (237,295), China (114,500), Australia (76,400), India (40,699), Columbia (6,746) and Canada (6,582). The majority of Nigeria’s proven reserves are located in Enugu and Kogi states.

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explorer250:
bastards. this government need to realise that they cannot do without Igbo. look at Jonathan government thrived well because he used elite Igbo minds at the right positions but look at buhari? using a lawyer as a minister for power. let me categorically state this YORUBAS CAN NEVER BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR IGBOS. If it is not Igbo it can never be Igbo.


As long as their is shortage of Igbo in Buharies government so shall their be shortage of progress in his government.





Yoruba are notorious poor managers, if you want to quote me first tell me the fate of the companies that was "victims" of the indigenization policy.

Can you show us the study you carried out to prove your point.
Or you are depending on prejudiced beer parlour/ village square rubbish.

Falae can go to hell with his confab report.
The useless report that gave indigenous rights to Non-indigens . Is this not legitimising the so called herdsmen Especially in the middle belt?
Before we even start talking( not some No go Area)
First question is
Do you want to remain in Nigeria?
If yes, how?
The minimum is autonomous regional government with pocket money to the centre to manage relationships.

Any omoluabi interested can look at Afenifere renewal group take down of the useless confab.

http://watch.ooduapathfinder.com/watch/?p=7145
http://watch.ooduapathfinder.com/watch/?p=10895

Unfortunately, I doubt the show of force will achieve much. Soft targets like pipelines run through inaccessible and indefensible parts of the delta. Even the pipelines that run through the more urban SW are routinely vandalised by Creek rats.
If only the country had shown more seriousness in defending other sectors of the economy like the vigor they are showing with oil.

Only they can rationalise the loss of 28 lives. But how come this was not done between 2010 and 2014. There was more likelihood of success then.on another note,

1960 then the writer jumped to 1967.

What happened in 1963?
What about 1964?
Or 1966?
The writer willfully ignored those parts of Nigerian history.

So much food is being wasted and not leaving the farms. It is possible to become a net producer of many agricultural products within a few months. The problem is,
Are we ready?

sonOfLucifer:
Correction. God has abandoned us. E don Tay. All our prayer warriors no fit light bulb with their prayer. Na to dey bind power of darkness while their churches run on generator.


Prayers should be banned for a year. Let's work with our hands and brains and see what we can achieve.

Funny but right

Your confab does not apply to the Children of those who trace their roots to Ife.
At least , Autonomous western region or nothing

From where i sit, the avengers are doing you a favour.
If after over 40 years there is something to learn, it is that oil will not get Nigeria anywhere.
Are they not making the government rethink their dependence of the government on piped ND gas for power?

jerrywool:
Came across this. Food for thought.

Remove lagos Ilu Eeko from your rubbish.

Talk is cheap
Restructure the country now.

Good one from mimiko.
Those who want to raise cattle should buy animal feed and keep their animals within ranches.
This is why I am against any coastal road that cuts anywhere near our sacred forests and reserves.

The Nigerian question would have to be answered.

True.

A cross between plutocracy, autocracy and kleptocracy and oligarchy.
To varying degrees, we have a fascist society and you can trace all the problems to the body known as the federal government of Nigeria.

Not going to solve anything.
The government should get her eyes off oil.
The masses are not deriving any benefit from oil
Like I have said before, oil has distorted the perception of reality.
The reality is that Nigeria is poor because they left everything to chase easy black gold loot.
I am sure that oil palm, cocoa, rubber and manufacturing etc would have remained the chief earners.

Alexk2:
To start with, I'm a Nigerian.... But if that's not enough for you, go and confirm the truth in my post.

You are a Nigerian and so damn what?
I do not blame you. It is the only status you are know.
A dysfunctional country from head to toe.
Even your leaders do not believe in the country.
"Na our turn" ; to steal?
What sort of country is that.
They do not believe in the country, they see their fellow "Nigerians" as animals.
The reason they keep putting the country's wealth in foreign vault.

Can you tell me the essence of being a Nigerian?
The day you see patriotism in the face of a German, American, British, French, German etc This is the day you will understand the definition of a Nation.

Alexk2:
Nice line of thought.
The truth is, the disadvantages in breaking away are too many only if the advocates can think deep. We must not allow sentiments of religion and ethnicity to decide our future.

If anybody is in doubts, read about South Sudan and check out their post succession situation as a country.

Exactly what makes you an expert on this issue?

" Another fundamentalist cesspit no one cares about this issue"

Exactly what was written on an international news website.
If anything, this issue reminds me why my the yorubas have to leave Nigeria.
The Nigerian bad rap sheet keep increasing.
What next are you going to ban or burn.
Books?
I would rather read book, watch news or documentaries than waste my time on reality TV.
But what happened to skipping the channel or locking it instead of exposing your extremism for the world to see.
Philippines has an ISIS problem. Malaysia is getting more fundamentalist by the day. Yet they are hardly in the news.

Waste of money if you asked me.

plaetton:
OK.
This is what everyone has been advocating for long while now.
I also think that this was what the confab report stressed on.
So how does the confab report contradict this position?

Your confab makes it worse

why would they cry when their entire business strategy is based on free money from the CBN,corrupt money money from politicians and ducking the blood out of their depositors.
If their business strategy was based investments, Nigeria would not be as rotten as it is right now.

The right thing to do is to kick out their leaders ftom NDDC and Niger delta ministry.

Merge the two into a development agency.

Give the bloated and incompetent work force of this agencies the pink slip.

Get about 20 competent administrators. Architects, Engineers, planners etc go foreign if needed.

Give them a development mandate with emphasis on critical physical infrastructure.Roads, housing, water works and not toilets . The social infrastructure would have to be built by the people themselves.

Emphasis must be on the places where the oil is actually pumped and not statewide.

plaetton:
@oduastates

So are you saying that Yorubas are preparing to pull out of the federation ?

If yes, then the body language of your political elites betray that line of thought.

This is regionalism with a weak centre.

STRATEGY FOR MOVING FORWARD
23. It is now certain that
(i) the purposeful transformation required is not realisable within the current Nigerian constitutional and political arrangements; and
(ii) it will be a barren experimentation to expect gangsters and fraudsters to execute the agenda. This is because the average Yoruba is contemptuous of anybody associating with office-seekers who do not possess the traits and virtues of dependable, tested and trusted leadership.

24. The problem under the present ‘quasi-unitary’ system of government, based on one central constitution (Nigerian version of federalism), is that Nigerians will, forever, struggle, individually and collectively but fruitlessly, with ignorance, superstitious beliefs, primitive cultivation of the land, technological backwardness, disease, injustice, corruption and lack of accountability, insecurity of life and property, youth unemployment, widespread poverty and mass hunger. 25. The next and only way out of the quagmire is the convocation of a truly YORUBA NATIONAL CONFERENCE to fashion out the Yoruba Constitution.


DISTRIBUTION OF FUNCTIONS AND ALLOCATION OF AUTHORITIES AMONG TIERS OF GOVERNMENT.
26. In the present situation of Nigeria, characterized by arbitrary state boundaries, where nations - with distinct languages, historical, cultural and political affinities - have been bastardized during various military rules, a regional configuration (composed largely of citizens that are ethnically homogeneous, geographically contiguous, materially and humanly resourceful with demonstrable willingness to co-habit) shall be introduced to serve as the federating unit and as a useful co-ordinator of its regional activities.

Therefore, it is suggested that functions be allocated among the various tiers of emergent governments as indicated below.

27. (a) Exclusive Legislative List for the Central Government
i) Citizenship, Naturalization, Immigration, Deportation of Non-Nigerians, Extradition, Passport and Visa;
ii) Foreign Relations and External Affairs generally;
iii) Common Legal Tender, Currency, Coinage, Central Bank and Exchange Control;
iv) Defence, Armed Forces, Arms, Ammunition and Nuclear Energy;
v) Custom Duties and Aviation Control;
vi) Census, Territorial Boundaries and Election to the offices of President and Vice President;
vii) Award of national titles and honours;
viii) Federal Police and Federal Civil Service;
ix) Federal Pension and Gratuities;
x) Federal Public Holidays;
xi) Post and Telecommunication;
xii) Airways services.

27. (b) Regional Legislative List (to be held in concurrence with the States within the Region).
i) Transportation including: Airports, Railways, Water ways and Trunk Roads;
ii) Polytechnic and University Education;
iii) Borrowing within and outside Nigeria;
iv) Commercial and Industrial monopolies, Excise Duties and Control of Capital Issues;
v) Consular and Trade representation;
vi) Mines and Minerals (including petroleum mining)
vii) Copyright;
viii) Drugs and poisons;
ix) Incorporation of Companies, Insurance, Patents, Trade Marks, Business names, Profit and Capital Gains;
x) Energy and Electricity;
xi) Produce Inspection for Export;
xii) Banking; etc.
xiii) Creation of states;
xiv) Election to the offices of the Regional Prime Minister, National Assembly, Regional and the State Legislative Councils;
xv) Regional/State Police, Prisons, Evidence and Fingerprints;
xvi) Research in education, health, agriculture and technology, etc.;
xvii) School curriculum and general examinations;
xviii) Regional Public holidays;
xix) Regional Pension and Gratuities

27. (c) State Legislative List
All residual powers, in addition to all the functions listed under Regional Legislative List, should be given to each of the states. The powers and functions of the local governments in a State will remain as may be prescribed by the House of Assembly of that State.

28. In the event of the Regional Legislature making a law on any function which has earlier been legislated upon by the state, such function shall be jointly negotiated, formulated, financed, implemented, controlled and co-ordinated according to the degree of the benefit derivable by each of the two or more authorities concerned. In other words, it will be a joint -venture approach.


CONCLUSION
29. It is imperative, if there must be progress and development, that each regional government should have absolute access to and control over all matters of internal security, social and economic functions. In other words, the restructuring of the polity for decentralization and devolution of authorities and functions is imperative now for more useful and durable internal security, social and economic infrastructures that can promote individual citizen’s inner-confidence, educational consciousness and welfare, and which can substantially reduce corruption and poverty in Nigeria.

30. Only a government which is indigenous to the Yoruba (and which strongly regards PERSON as the unit, the prime-mover, and the sole purpose of development) can achieve the aspirations of the Yoruba Nation. Whoever aspires to do it without the intellectual faith required will fail, no matter how much he tries.

SELF-DETERMINATION
21. Unfettered self-determination to do all the above, as a federating region of one Nigeria, is the only requirement currently lacking in the efforts to industrialize the Yoruba Nation.

22. After all, with adequate rainfall for large-scale agriculture, and with a population of over 50 million people (1991 census) the extensive fertile Yorubaland is

i) more populous than 20 countries in Europe i.e. Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republics, Denmark, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland;

ii) more populous than 41 countries in Africa i.e. Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Equitorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, SierraLeone, Somalia, Swaziland, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe;

iii) more populous than 17 countries in the Americas i.e. Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El-Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela;

iv) more populous than 13 countries in the Middle East, i.e. Bahrain, Brunei, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United Arab Emirate and Yemen; and

v) more populous than 6 countries of Asia i.e. Cambodia, North Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Taiwan.


STRATEGY FOR MOVING FORWARD
23. It is now certain that
(i) the purposeful transformation required is not realisable within the current Nigerian constitutional and political arrangements; and
(ii) it will be a barren experimentation to expect gangsters and fraudsters to execute the agenda. This is because the average Yoruba is contemptuous of anybody associating with office-seekers who do not possess the traits and virtues of dependable, tested and trusted leadership.

24. The problem under the present ‘quasi-unitary’ system of government, based on one central constitution (Nigerian version of federalism), is that Nigerians will, forever, struggle, individually and collectively but fruitlessly, with ignorance, superstitious beliefs, primitive cultivation of the land, technological backwardness, disease, injustice, corruption and lack of accountability, insecurity of life and property, youth unemployment, widespread poverty and mass hunger. 25. The next and only way out of the quagmire is the convocation of a truly YORUBA NATIONAL CONFERENCE to fashion out the Yoruba Constitution.

The Post-Colonial Period
11. By the time of Nigerian Independence in 1960, the Yoruba populated the Western Region (which was one of the federating units of Nigeria) and the Ilorin-Kabba provinces of the then Northern Region, another federating unit of Nigeria. The culture of the Yoruba was, as at that time, already anchored, among others, on
(a) Good Education and Continuing Education,
(b) Industry and Hard-work,
(c) Honesty and Patriotism to the fatherland.
Yoruba aspirations have since been violently eroded so much so that the question being asked has been “Which is the fatherland:
(a) Yorubaland
OR
(b) Nigeria?”

12. It is sad that the tendencies derivable from the now entrenched neo-feudal cultures tend to make the Yoruba (who believe in true federalism) a people marked for marginalisation, dispossession and oppression by successive operators of the central government.

13. While the market potentials and military strengths derivable from ‘One Nigeria’ are attractive, the contradictions in the present constitution bear no appreciable benefit for the Yoruba. Therefore, with regard to all matters of economy, internal security and social responsibilities, the Yoruba yearn to be autonomous, while they prefer to continue to collaborate with, but not to be subordinated to, other ethnic nationalities in administering the central government of Nigeria.

QUASI-UNITARY CONSTITUTION
14. While the Yoruba do not ask others to change their focus, they expect others to refrain from imposing their own goals and values on Yorubaland. But that is what the civil/military cabals have done, for decades, through ‘quasi-unitary’ constitutions and military governments since independence. In the process, they have destroyed the legacy of Yorubaland’s cocoa farms, tourism, environmental sanitation, industrial factories in Apapa, Ikeja, Ijebu and Ibadan, railways, roads, electricity, water supply, respectable universities, schools and hospitals – a situation which has now resulted in large-scale unemployment among Yoruba school–leavers and artisans, thereby exacerbating mass poverty and hunger throughout the land.


Culture Adulteration
15. The mix of the various cultures became highly adulterated and bastardized among Yoruba families, clans, villages, townships, cities and kingdoms during the British Colonial era, and since Nigerian Independence so much that Yoruba’s famous tradition of hardwork and honesty has been supplanted by fraud, street begging and gangsterism.

THE YORUBA DECLARATION
1. It is right, necessary and inalienable that when a nation reaches a historical crossroad, it should pause and ponder its destiny and God-given duty to protect its heritage, advance its culture and safeguard the future of its unborn generations. The Yoruba Nation of Nigeria has since reached such a pass. It is therefore appropriate for it to seek its allotted destiny as prescribed by Providence so that it can take its rightful and just place among the ethnic nationalities of the earth.

2. Today, the Yoruba Nation is part of the Nigerian Federation in which neither the present generation of Yoruba people nor their ancestors had a say in its formation. It is in the light of this reality that Yoruba, on behalf of themselves and future generations, have set certain goals for the betterment of their society in the interest of justice, the rule of law, democracy and abundance of life. The creation of an autonomous Yoruba Region is the fulcrum of that destiny ordained by Providence that created the Yoruba where they have been since creation.

3. A self-governing and autonomous Yoruba Region is necessary to mobilize the energy of the Yoruba for progress and development, and to ignite their collective resolve for cultural renaissance, educational resurgence and social stability. The Yoruba of Nigeria believe that there is only one Yoruba Nation; it has a common interest; and one inescapable destiny.


THESE WE DEMAND
4 (i) It is the right of the Yoruba of Nigeria (living in Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo states) to live under a regional government within the Federation of Nigeria.
(ii) The Yoruba Region shall have the right to negotiate with other nationalities of Nigeria along the laid down principles of true federalism, justice and equity.
(iii) The Region shall have the same rights, equal representation and obligations, being the rightful representatives of Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo states, in its dealings with the other nationalities of Nigeria.
(iv) As it was before the coming of the military in 1966, the Yoruba Region shall have its own constitution that shall not be inconsistent with the constitution of a true federation.
(v) The Region shall have control over its destiny and shall be the master of its internal affairs, except in those areas which all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria, at a properly constituted Constitutional Conference, shall agree should be under the aegis of the Federal Government.
(vi) Yoruba outside the present Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo states, who wish to join the Yoruba Region, shall exercise the right to do so.


AFFIRMATION
5 (i) We affirm the right of the Yoruba of Nigeria living in Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo states to live under one regional government of their choice within a democratic federation of Nigeria.
(ii) We affirm the right of Yoruba living in Delta, Edo, Kogi, and Kwara states, whose territories are contiguous with the rest of Yorubaland to demand that they want to join the Yoruba region.
(iii) We affirm the right of other nationalities and states to form their own regions within the Federation of Nigeria.
(iv) We affirm the right of non-Yoruba, and indeed, non- Nigerians, to live and work within the Yoruba Region. They shall be protected by law like every other citizen of the Region.
(v) We affirm that it is the right and, indeed, the duty of every Yoruba citizen to work for the creation of the Yoruba Region to protect the legacies of our ancestors, safeguard the heritage of the past, and bequeath a land of freedom and progress to future generations of Yoruba.

He should not only trash it, he should set it on fire.
What rubbish report?
They can approve the reports for other region apart from the yoruba groups in those regions.
The other 5 regions (apart from Yoruboids in NC and Niger delta) can have their confab approved for them.
The yoruba agenda is what we will ever accept.

Northern Nigeria Don buy market.
Until they start moderating their emphasis on religion especially as it relates state sponsored religion, extremists will continue to haunt them.
The only solution is to increase the population of educated and critical thinking individuals by saving the future of all those Al majiris today

Z

Travel travel Na him all of dem dey talk.

And wtf are you doing about it.
There are step that can be taken right now to change this oil dependent economy