₦airaland Forum

FriendNG:
Show us one person that lost his hand or leg because of sharia in the north. shameless liar.

Face up to the truth. This happened over 15 years ago .

In Gusau - Authorities in Nigeria's northern Zamfara State have amputated the hand of a Muslim man found guilty of theft under strict Islamic law, a court official said on Saturday.
Lawali Inchitara, 35, had his right hand cut off at the wrist on Thursday in a government hospital here, the official told AFP.
Inchitara was convicted by an Islamic or Sharia court in the town of Gumi six months ago of stealing eight bicycles, but had the sentence delayed to allow for an appeal, the official said.
"The man refused to appeal the sentence on the ground that he was actually guilty of the offence and the sentence was carried out under the supervision of government doctor Bello Buzu on Thursday," he said.
Inchitara was reported by the local media to be pleased with the amputation.

There are other ones which are not made known in the public because it has no publicity. There are many amputees in the core Northern Nigeria than anywhere else in Nigeria. The second case in 2011 became unrealistic when there was an outcry. All thanks to the pressure group.

(Sept. 13, 2011) On September 8, 2011, a Shariah court in Nigeria's northern, predominately Muslim region sentenced two men to amputation for theft. The sentence of amputation at the right wrist was given to the men for stealing a bull worth about 130,000 naira (about US$867). The two young men, Auwalu Abubaka, age 23, and Lawalli Musa, 22, have 30 days to appeal the sentence, which is due to be imposed on October 8. The court, located in the village of Nassarawan Mailayi in the northern Nigerian state of Zamfara, ordered that the sentence be carried out in public, on a market day. (Nigerian Court Sentences 2 to Amputation for Theft , AFP (Sept. 9, 2011).)
The judge in this case, Muhammadu Abubakar, stated that the sentence was “[b]ased on the admission of guilt by the two of you of trespassing into the house … and stealing a bull whose worth is well above the minimum value to warrant amputation … .” ( Id.)
Shariah law is in place in 12 Nigerian states, but enforcement is uneven. Sentences of amputation have been carried out very rarely. ( Id.) The State of Zamfara was the first in the country to adopt Islamic law following Nigeria's 1999 return to democracy. The first Nigerian case of a penalty of amputation occurred a year later, when Buba Jangebe was so punished for theft of a cow. (Nigeria's Zamfara Sharia Court Orders Amputation , BBC NEWS AFRICA (Sept. 9, 2011).)


Hand had been cut off popularly and so many ones done according to Islamic law in their local communities. This explain the reason the existence of more disabled who weren't as a result of fatal accident.

Ersan:
What people call it doesnt change what it is. Nor does it change the origin. You said its a type of suit, just like the babban riga or boubou draws inspiration from arabian outfits. In this case the distinction is enough that its carved its own niche. Again, just because the tux worn by others doesnt mean its not of american origin.


We are talking about origin here mind you, you've lost the plot. Why is it so hard for yorubas to accept this simple truth.

The tukulors (again, a branch of fulas) invented the grand bou bou and was the sahelian mode of dressing. Yorubas got it from the hausas just like they did the dashiki. It is no wonder yorubas are one of the few if not the only non sahelian/majority muslim ethnicity that wears the grand boubou.

Infact one of the most famous pictures of awolowo, he was wearing a very famous hausa style babban riga called kwado da linzami (not completely sure about the name).

Again, most of your "agbadas" today still incorporate the eternal knot which everyone knows is a symbol of the hausa people.

It is obvious that this design was borrowed from Songhai or Malian Empire because the trade of Yoruba beads and clothing materials in 13th century could have facilitated such. But made more popular through some Yoruba who adopted Islam as a religion .Hence became accepted everywhere in Yoruba land. If One consider the method of design on Yoruba ASO OKE / ASO OFI stylish embroidery design which has span 100s of years. It can be deduced that Yoruba clothing designers had close knowledge on this style of bou bou even before it became more popular among the Islamic scholars cum elites in Northern Nigeria.

Odingo1:
In Nigeria,it is only yorubas that is too afraid of Nigeria division.
The Northerners are hardworking people. The best 20 countries in the world don't have oil.
Igbos believe in their creativity to survive.
Switzerland which is landlocked country with no oil is one of the world richest country.In Africa Botswana is the best African country and they don't have oil and also a landlocked country. It is all about good management and hardworking.

Moi,Je te moquer

Stupidity of the highest order.

umarshehu58:
Because we the poor gained nothing from the oil blocks. Our Northern leaders doesn't want the division because of their selfish interest.

It is a big shame on the part of the Northern leaders. It is shameful to have few voiceless voices in the multitude of devouring and wicked men...They have suppressed the activists Who can make many of the leaders to be on their toes. So pathetic.

Hemanwel:
Bro,you just spoke my mind about the position of the Middle Belt. I refuse to call them "North Central". How can any sane person call Kogi state or Kwara state that is closer to the South than to the North "North Central" ? Why not "South Central"?
It's time Southern Nigeria woke up from her slumber! The north can never occupy 75% landmass of Nigeria and still call it "north". It means they've exceeded their boundary.
Even North Africa cannot claim Niger or Chad or even Gabon to be part of North Africa.
This anomaly has got to stop! They have been leveraging on this to cheat on southern Nigeria a lot.
When it comes to getting allocations from the federal government, northern politicians are ready to call Enugu state, if possible, as "north", but when it comes to bringing out a representative from there, they may even say someone from southern Kaduna is not a core northerner.

It is the creation of LUCIFER CHILDREN; THE BRITISH COLONIALIST..I JUST WONDER WHY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION WILL ZOOM KOGI AND KWARA AS NORTH CENTRAL. It is only in Nigeria, the unbelievable Happens. Nonsense landscape division.

umarshehu58:
I am from Northern part of the country but i support the division. Let biafra go, if afonjas want to go let them go too. We will all survive it

You sound extremely different. Why do support such division?

babsir:
Okay whatever you say big guy.. Am Yoruba tho

Great knowing your Yoruba identity. God bless us all

MrPresident1:
Jesus has a people he descended from. He is the God anointed Ruler of the whole world, and he is black. Jesus is a Negro. Jesus Christ is the code name for the leadership of the Black race. Face it you liar! Jesus the black man will rule you with a ROD OF IRON and there is nothing you can do about it. You will be ruled with a firm and iron hand



Liar! Who ever said Jesus is Hamitic? Is Jesus Hamitic? You are a lying pig. Now, answer me, what is the meaning of 'core Hamitic Race person'? Pig.



This is the pig who said that the Yoruba have neanderthal genes. Pig, Yoruba do not have the neanderthal gene, the neanderthal gene is found in Caucasoid Europeans. You are a liar, you are not Yoruba. You are only here to create confusion. God will surely punish you.



This pig is talking about truth, you are nothing but a pig, a lying pig. The Yoruba are Judah, Oduduwa, the mythical progenitor of the Yoruba fell from heaven, that is the story of the devolution of Israel, falling from the heavens (rulership) to the earth (slavery) Lamentations 2:1.

Your 'Falasa' abi palasa Jews are fake, they have no place in the Bible.

Unfollow me. I have unfollowed you. Or you can just continue to be my local ekuke bingo. And that will be your name henceforth if you do not unfollow me. 'Ekuke bingo'

Imagine this psychopath with graded foolishness. You are a first Class worm with pseudo theories on Jesus. You will end up in HELL, SON OF LUCIFER. I am very sure inferiority complex has set in you. I have sense your slavish blood from the one of this Yoruba slave's descendants. Hell await you, else you repent of your nonsense and lies you have peddled all along. I AM WAITING FOR YOUR fake god THAT Was supposed to come in JANUARY 17th or so?. Lair, Lair, Lair.


Unfollow you? Why cry like a baby? It is inferiority complex that has waned in on your Medulla oblongata...Laughing away your inconsistency...

[quote author=babsir post=55433149][/quote]Corruption is part of humanity. So, no one in his or her right sense will make fool of himself or herself to assume any country with a well organised structured system will be corrupt free. No, of course not but the barest minimum of it is all that truly must exist in such society. The first problem and the last problem of Nigeria is quota system. It has eaten too deep into the fabric of society. And the system won't allow it to change because some people claim that they are disadvantaged since 1950s. The way Nigeria is organized, nothing can change except people want it through bloodshed. Far be it from bloodshed . And this can't be because some people want out of the country. Check out the military arm, it is only the Army, Nigeria has a quantifiable number, the Navy is less than 50,000 in population. In fact, is an exaggeration, the Nigeria Navy is less than 40,000 personnel. What about the Air Force? Nothing home to write about . The Nigeria system is faux

Ersan:
Ypu couldnt be more wrong. First and most significant blow to hausa animist cults was dealt by the hausa king of kano ali yaji dan tsamiya, the first islamic jihad in west africa. During the time of bil foduye majority of hausas were muslims.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaji_I

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Santolo

Further islamization was the carried out by Muhammad Rumfa, who is widely considered one of the greatest hausa kings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Rumfa

One of your wiki info still support my point


Pre-Islamic Hausaland


An aspect of the traditional Maguzawa Hausa religious traditions, Bori became a state religion led by ruling-class priestesses among some of the late pre-colonial Hausa states . When Islam started making inroads into Hausa land in the 14th century, certain aspects of the religion such as idol worship were driven underground. The cult of Tsumbubura in the then Sultanate of Kano and many other similar Bori cults were suppressed, but Bori survived in "spirit-possession" cults by integrating some aspects of Islam. The Bori spirit possession priestesses maintained nominal influence over the Sultanates that replaced the earlier Animist kingdoms.


I hope you understand the basis in which UTHMAN DAN FODIO did suppress the local religion when he came and woo people to support and the usurping he did in Sokoto. The rest is history.

Ersan:
Ypu couldnt be more wrong. First and most significant blow to hausa animist cults was dealt by the hausa king of kano ali yaji dan tsamiya, the first islamic jihad in west africa. During the time of bil foduye majority of hausas were muslims.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaji_I

I didn't mention as if there weren't Islam. I inferred about the outright destruction of an identity. Have you no knowledge on the destruction of Hausa tradition having a knowledge as the ARK which is kind of the type of MIDDLE EAST TRADITION? Is Hausa language not Afroasiatic? How come I was wrong? I am not new to criticism? I want you to enlighten me.

YonkijiSappo:
but why are you posting those notes and other pictures in this thread when according to your own posts and external sources, the symbol is ubiquitous.
Why not create a separate thread for the expression of the symbol in yoruba motifs and designs, or just Africa in general?

It is part of knowledge sharing. irrespective of where it is posted. It is not a waste. Shockingly, I saw this “University of California at Los Angeles Fowler Museum of Cultural History, USA has a large African collection that includes nineteenth and twentieth century CE Yoruba glass beadwork crowns and masks decorated with Solomon's Knots"


This was during Jesus Christ!!!

MetaPhysical:
An article on Solomon's Knot in wiki.

KING SOLOMON'S KNOT? NO WONDER, THE CURIOSITY OF WHITE RESEARCHERS TO IDENTIFY THE YORUBA ETHNICITY. THIS IS EVEN NOT PART OF WHAT I HAVE EVER COME ACROSS.

THANKS FOR THIS MAGNIFICENT INFO

MetaPhysical:
An article on Solomon's Knot in wiki.

KING SOLOMON'S KNOT? NO WONDER. THE CURIOSITY OF WHITE RESEARCHERS TO IDENTIFY THE YORUBA ETHNICITY. THIS IS EVEN NOT PART OF WHAT I HAVE EVER COME ACROSS.


THANKS FOR MAGNIFICENT INFO

MetaPhysical:
Olu,
Its nice to see you again. Your contributions in the discussion on Yoruba origin was very informative and I took some lessons from your input. Thanks!

If I may expand a little bit I will start with the origin of the Eternal Knot itself. How did it become a symbol of ritual with the Yorubas and why do we celebrate or idolize the North Star?

The first writing about the North Star was in the story of Jesus' birth in Nazareth and the appearance of the "three wise men" guided in by the North Star.

The three wise men were priests and worshippers of Celestial Illumination, primarily, North Star.

The interpretation of their presence in Nazareth is that they observed a change in the Star and divined to find meaning. Divination revealed that a king is born. They appeased through divination and offerings for the Star to guide them to the king. This is how they ended up in the manger where Jesus was born.

This would show that a spirituality of deity worshipping and celestial cults existed in Palestine and Jerusalem in the midst of Judaism and ahead of Christianity and Islam.

Who were those that practiced this spirituality?

Same here dear brother.

MetaPhysical:
I saw a mention about this ETERNAL KNOT in another topic discussing cross-cultural influences between Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani. I figured my contribution will be best appreciated here, under the subject, than anywhere else.

I will precede with pictures and then follow it up with the significance of AREWA to the Yoruba.

I say AREWA because the term itself is Yoruba and a denotion of the celestial bearing of the Norh Star. The eternal knot is the symbol Yorubas use to ritualize the North Star, which in our language is called AREWA.

I find this information quite interesting. Although I know the Hausa language is classified as Afroasiatic but didn't do much finding as it regard the connection of the Endless Knot (Eternal knot) to Yoruba. However , personal experience had shown that once there is a kind of sacrifice in which the Yoruba tradition in the use of RAM without blemish for sacrifice. The killing of the Ram's is directed TOWARD THE NORTH. The white Ram's skin and white hair are removed outrightly from the body. And this has nothing to do with ISLAM. Although , I do know a little about the Hausa's history and how their ancient way of worship was destroyed by UTHMAN DAN FODIO. However, on the issue and history of the knot in connection to Yoruba is a new area I may delve into to learn more.

There are whole lot of it which started at Egypt with her gods, then Israelites looking on to the cross and the interpretation within the whole of Middle East. The the Three Wise men were priests who had to follow the sign which signify the birth of a unique being on Earth.

In what way is AREWA connected to Yoruba tradition?

KimWooBin:
the richest black man still remain Dangote...

Of course yes , Dangote is touted to be the richest. But he isn't. Considering the exploit of ex military heads of state. Have you checked how ,Dangote earned his money? The only company in Nigeria which produce sugar and licence for over two decades for importation of sugar. The only major company+ meagre ones who have been given concession for importation of steel with little or nothing to be paid as tax. Thank God, Bukola Saraki, became the Senate President. Many of these acclaimed rich men aren't worth it . What is even Dangote contribution to humanitarian or social services? You people are funny. Go and check if there were any equal opportunity for all men who have money to spend on investment. Although, he is a wise man because his trusted and productive employees are the Southerners. Perhaps, he ought to be asked why isn't he investing heavily in is Northern part? The last investment on tomato production caused him million of dollars which was lost in his farm up North, during the last quarter of 2016. However ,no hatred for Dangote because,richest man come and go. It may be your turn if you have product that can win WOMAN'S PATRONAGE. If you want to be a multi billionaire, find a product and sell which men and women can't do without.

davidif:
Nigeria is very workable. All it needs is good leadership and this is something we have probably never had in out entire history.

A leader unites people and inspires them to live up to an ideal (John F. Kennedy anyone). He pushes them to climb up higher and overlook there petty tribal differnces. He also shares his vision and rallies the people to come together to achieve it. Tell me if Nigeria or the continent of Africa has ever had anyone like that before.

Nigeria can be workable on full fundamental equal rights but reverse is the case. And this is farfetched because of difference in ideology. I gave an instance earlier, did you read it as it concerns dress code of civil servants up North? A country whose ideologies are multifaceted can't work as a unified entity. If country like Ireland, Wales, Scotland, still want their own separate identity from England despite hundreds of years within the same geographical location in the United Kingdom, considering, the inter marriages and technological advancement between all these people. Then ,you will see the need for every group to go separate ways. Imagine a country like Canada, with less than 30,000,000 is a developed country with her population which is closely knitted with United States of America still exist . J. F. Kennedy met a country in which the ideology was very progressive in nature with one common interest, which was to be the best in the world and it has been achieved . Are you now referring to a group of people dragging my ethnicity to Middle Eastern Arab nation just because of alliance which has no basis with social economic development . Just yesterday,which was palm Sunday, in Egypt, there were two explosives in two Coptic churches which killed about 40+ people and was carried out by ISIS. The Muslim's mosques opened their doors to the Christians for safety and medics to be administered to the wounded. Still, some Muslims throng to the hospital to donate blood. Can this ever happened in Nigeria? A country where Christians are killed anyhow in the North. A country where a child is forcefully married to by an Emir because she is a Christian. And the President turned his eyes to opposite direction. There is more that meet the eyes. A country where some people want to use another tribe's land for grazing while the so called PMB support such barbaric ideology. Nigeria is just a bloody joke.And It is just the truth .

Probz:
No need for caps. Calm down.

Of course yes, you are right. But I want it to be very conspicuous because of many haters.

babsir:
Still I do not think Nigerian isn't working be cause of ethnic diversity... Is tribalism in Nigeria? Yes but to me its borne out of poverty, illiteracy and joblessness. So why not let us fixed those things and see how things will work out fine

Truthfully ,had it been that these view of yours is tenable in Nigeria, why not? But the reality is that we are unworkable entity. Why do I believe this? The core North don't believe in allowing the less privileged to be educated because at a tender age they have been made as almajiris. Only the noble are educated. Some people armed some of their people at the detriment of others. And still monopolize violence. Where in the history have you seen a state divided into two and one state still maintain 44 local government? It is only in Nigeria. They don't want federal system of government where the power will rest at the state level while check and balance is effective. They want unitary System as it stand. Nigeria is not workable. I tell you the truth. Is it the religion aspect? Just some few days ago, there was an information on meningitis, and one man claimed it was God. Can you imagine in. the 21st centuries? While the Emir of Kano was making reference to cause of the disease. And here we are, one man claiming it was From God. And if you try to educate some of them,your opinion is yours as it stand. They are not tolerant in the core North as it concerns religion. Do you expect such nation to thrive? when one part believe in Islamic ideology while others believe in a Secular state. In Northern part, do they dress formal as they do in the Southern part to work? Go and do. your finding on how government worker's (civil servants) dress code. You will understand.

[quote author=babsir post=55419812][/quote]Absolutely not true because human beings are insatiable to a large extent. But it will be a country Yoruba people will like to defend with their blood. Do you know Nigeria don't care about her citizens? Is that a country? A country that her citizens bring wealth in terms of foreign exchange into the country yet to get stable electricity, becomes diamond being search out by explorers. Yoruba aren't money mongers as such. Imagine the crave for wealth amongst Nigerians? Even when they don't know what to do with money apart from spend spree attitude. A whole world where people can be put in position based on the best qualified for the job. I haven't in anyway don't see where there won't be challenges but can be nibed on the board. Look at a country like Nigeria, that is the most expensive democracy in the world and yet cannot produce A BICYCLE. And non of the Northern part want reform. Part of ex President Jonathan confab was thrown to the archive by my PMB. I mentioned by my PMB because I thought he was close to making Nigeria better but it seems opposite as it stand. NIGERIA IS A JOKE .

aribisala0:
won ma wa oku iya re ti oloriburuku akoshi bero

Ani omo alè ni è. Omo éru lasan lasan. Imukumu ti é n ma mu o ti ta si é ni opolo. Idiot dégradé

aribisala0:
Sango lo ma paa iya re omo ale

YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO YORUBA ETHNICITY. You even have the gut to call on Sango. Is it because we don't identify our personal lineage? You are far below me. I tell of a truth. You are far below me.. ONE LOSER RAN AWAY AND DELETED HIS ID FROM NAIRALAND BECAUSE OF WHAT I TOLD HIM, YOU WILL. DELETE YOURS TOO IF YOU DON'T RESPECT MY HERITAGE. THE SANGO YOU CALLED CANNOT STRIKE PART OF HIS FATHER'S LINEAGE. NOW, CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF?


Creation of NNPC


Not satisfied with mere collection of taxes and royalties from the multinational oil companies drilling crude oil in the country, the government in 1971 made a bold attempt to create its own national oil company, hence the establishment of the Nigerian National Oil Corporation (NNOC), via Decree No 18 of 1971.
NNOC was empowered by Decree 18 to engage in oil exploration and "in all other activities associated with the petroleum industry."
It was set up primarily as the country's national oil company (NOC) to compete for acreages with other multinational firms operating in the country.
Also in 1971, Nigeria joined the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to have a global voice in the energy market.
By 1973, the government acquired f 35 per cent shares in the oil companies operating in the country and in 1974, the second participation agreement, which increased government's stake to 55 per cent, was signed.
Decree No. 33 was promulgated on April 1, 1977, merging the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the NNOC to form the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

aribisala0:
Sango lo ma paa iya re omo ale

YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO YORUBA ETHNICITY. You even have the gut to call on Sango. Is it because we don't identify our personal lineage? You are far below me. I tell of a truth. You are far below me.. ONE LOSER RUN AWAY AND DELETED HIS ID FROM NAIRALAND BECAUSE OF WHAT I TOLD HIM, YOU WILL. DELETE YOURS TOO IF YOU DON'T RESPECT MY HERITAGE. THE SANGO YOU CALLED CANNOT STRIKE PART OF HIS FATHER'S LINEAGE. NOW, CAN YOU SEE YOURSELF?


Creation of NNPC


Not satisfied with mere collection of taxes and royalties from the multinational oil companies drilling crude oil in the country, the government in 1971 made a bold attempt to create its own national oil company, hence the establishment of the Nigerian National Oil Corporation (NNOC), via Decree No 18 of 1971.
NNOC was empowered by Decree 18 to engage in oil exploration and "in all other activities associated with the petroleum industry."
It was set up primarily as the country's national oil company (NOC) to compete for acreages with other multinational firms operating in the country.
Also in 1971, Nigeria joined the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to have a global voice in the energy market.
By 1973, the government acquired f 35 per cent shares in the oil companies operating in the country and in 1974, the second participation agreement, which increased government's stake to 55 per cent, was signed.
Decree No. 33 was promulgated on April 1, 1977, merging the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and the NNOC to form the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

aribisala0:
Sango lo ma paa iya re omo ale

Sè o ti ri pè omo Iran kiran ni é. Adoju tini éda eniyan ni iwo omo kunrin yi. Afi èni pè èni afi èyan to mu ara oko n san banté wo ilu. Leave with it and let shame follow you because you have caused someone above you.

aribisala0:
So because I am You a I should lie.? Please shut your mouth if you have no evidence to back up you absurd claims.Have you got any idea what the price of crude oil was in the 60s?
Oil was never developed with government money it was an investment by oil companies.Why not provide one single piece of evidence? The reason is you CANNOT because thee is none

You want evidence? Google it or go the Nigeria's home office in Nigeria. Perhaps, you will be given. And lastly, you are a because you have not shown the attitude of omoluabi. The Yoruba aren't aggressors,while, engage me on abusive term. You are indeed a fortunate guy because I don't engage Yoruba on banter. It is better to understand the meaning of banter before using it. I have never engaged on banter. Not at all and I wouldn't .J'ai terminé ma communication avec vous.

aribisala0:
stop talking rubbish young man if I don't know? Do you know me? BECAUSE we exchange banter on the Internet means little. Even when the oil money started flowing until now government has never had money for exploration. The only time in memory when government put money into exploration is the ongoing political exploration in the North by Buhari.
Oil exploration is not divination if there were genuine prospects the oil majors would put their money into it like they do even in extremely poor countries like Niger Sudan and so on
I could tell you the history of oil,joint venture and other agreements Nigeria had with oil majors back to and before Buhari's time as petroleum Federal Commissioner.
Under the 1960 constitution there was no benefit for the North or West to invest in oil in the East it made no difference
Araromi is IRRELEVANT To what we are discussing here.Absolutely no relevance

You called me a Young man? you are funny. I am young? indeed ,you know my age and all what not. However,where did I mention that government explore directly? Apart from the partnership in the 50s when Shell Darcy came got the deal and later turned the name to Shell Bp. You didn't read my messages, it is obvious. Any way, I remember ,Mike Spencer, because some mothers do have your type.

aribisala0:
What evidence do you have for your claims.?Why not educate and inform your self properly instead of arguing blindly .Was government operating cocoa farms? They made money from taxes duties ,none of that had anything to do with oil

And the taxes they collected, what did they use the money for? save it in the bank and be smiling at it?. I rest my case with you on this. I have informed those who need it. And From it, truth can be deduced. But I am not an admirer of some Yoruba like you who believed nothing was benefited from North. This hasn't deter my stance as it regard Nigeria but write, type and speak the truth always. May be, you aren't Yoruba, with what you have sent on here. And I just wonder how new generation cope with not being studious. I have cited a place where money got from the three region were used to develop Port Harcourt . It is better you live with or you continue to make your opinion remain yours and inconsequential while you cry blue murder.

aribisala0:
Oil exploration was an investment by SHELL BP AND NOT cocoa money. If you like write a PhD, you have no evidence to the contrary

Don't disgrace my ethnicity. If you don't know, it isn't a problem. The reality in life is that no one knows it all. Any time I find new knowledge, I appreciate it and don't feel too big to learn. This is the key to intellect acquisition. Bro, equip yourself if you want to inform in detail. Let me even expose a new knowledge. THE FIRST OIL DISCOVERY WAS IN YORUBA LAND . It was at Araromi, a fishing coastal community in the western fringe of Ondo State towards its border with the Ijebu Yoruba of Ogun State, that oil was first discovered in 1908 by the German Bitumen Corporation.. Equip yourself, my dear. If you have knowledge on governance, you will know more. It is subject matter you are supposedly expected to have knowledge on.

aribisala0:
You are talking nonsense. OIL WAS NOT EXPLORED for with groundnut money. If you have evidence show it.
CO COA was not an earner for Nigeria but for the farmers There is a difference between the GOVERNMENT interest in Crude oil which the government owns and Cocoa which farmers own.
if you have no idea how things worked go and learn exactly how the regions made money.

COCOA WAS NOT AN EARNER FOR WESTERN NIGERIA'S GOVERNMENT? WHERE DID THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT GOT THE 30million+ pounds given to each region? I am disappointed.