₦airaland Forum

FreeIgbos:
https://www.nairaland.com/6661240/why-breaking-up-nigeria-nightmare

WibusJaga:
It's just Buhari's actions/inactions that is fueling all these secessionism agitations.
IF And only IF the next president is a true Nationalist upholding justice & equity, the agitations will naturally die off.

Coronabirus:
I hope this isn't the justice u're praying for:
During GEJ's administration Nepotism was not in Nigeria's dictionary.
Below were GEJ's appointment of his kinsmen to some sensitive positions and may be worst than PMB's:
1. SGF: Anyim Pius Anyim.
2. DG, DSS: Ita Ekpenyong.
3. CBN: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi(Replaced with Godwin Emefiele)
4. COS: Mike Oghiadomhe.
5. Acct Gen. Fed: Jonah Ofunia.
6. Chief of Army Staff: Azuibike Ihejirika.
7.NIMET; Anthony Anuforom.
8. NNPC: Andrew Yakubu.
9.NIMASA: Patrick Apobolokemi.
10. PENCOM: Chinelo Amazu.
11. FERMA: Chukwu Amuchi.
12. DPR: George Osahon.
13: BOI: Evelyn Oputu.
14. Nig Content Dev. Agency: Ernest Nwampa.
15: CPA: Dupe Atoki.
16. NCC: Eugene Juwa.
17. NAMA: Nnamdi Udoh.
18: NCAA: Engr Akikuotu.
19.FAAN: George Uriesi.
20. NCAT: Capt Chinere Kali.
21. SEC: Aruma Otteh
22. Sovereign Wealth fund: Uche Orji.
23.NAFDAC: Paul Orhii.
24. FIIRO: Mrs G N Elemo.
25.Maritime Agency: Joshua Ekpo.
26: NRC: Seyi Sijuade.
27.Nig Tourism Dev Corp: Sally Nbanefor
28. Budget Office:
Bright Okogwu.
29. NERDC: Godswill Obioma.
30. NEXIM: R R Oriya.
31. SON: Joseph Odumodu.
32. NBC: Emeka Nkem MBA.
33. ITF: Longmas Wapmuk.
34. NUC: Prof Okojie
35. NESREA: N. S Benebo
36.MDG Office: Precious Gbenro.
37. Surveyor Gen.: Peter Chigozie
38. Statistician : Yemi Kale.
39. Acct Gen Fed: Jonah Otunla.
40. Auditor Gen Fed.: Samuel Yonongo.
41. NOA: Mike Omieri.
42. NAN: Oluremi Oyo.
43. NEPC: David Odelugba.
44. Emeka Eze.
45. IGP Police: Solomon Arase.
Etc.

GEJ'S SERVICE CHIEFS WERE:
1. Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshall Alex Badeh; 2. Chief of Army Staff, Major General Kenneth Minimah;
3. Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Usman Jibrin; and
4. Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Adesola Amosu.
These are some of the appointments Jonathan did when he was in office for good 6yrs and the other tribes never made noises..

Nakedtruths:
You know why because
1. Bag of rice was 8,500. Now 38k
2. Naira was highest 187 but now 512
3. Fuel was 87 but now 162
4. Bag of garri was 3500 but now 15,800
5. People empowered with 10m(you win project) could creat jobs as compared to 10k trado money
6. His appointments were people who brain not herdsmen and terrorists sympathiser
7. Jonathan never arrested anyone for protesting unlike PMB
8. Jonathan signed the foi bill BUHARI is about killing our electoral process
9. Jonathan is a PhD holder BUHARI waec cert. is nowhere to be found.
10. If the above doesn't convince you then I don't know how else to help you

Coronabirus:
North control the biggest stake in Nigeria's food commodities and in as much as 200m people will eat at least once in a day then you know foodstuff is a lucrative business, Northerners are the main actors in transport with more than 90% of Nigerian trailers belong to them, most petroleum tankers belong to Northerners, most oil marketers in Nigeria today are Northerners because the biggest strategy of Northerners is population factor, the consumption is high as such the profit will definitely be high. Northerners are 80-90% farmers, more than 70% of domestic fish we consume in Nigeria is from Baga, Borno state.
Nigeria has $400b GDP; look at the GDP of different sectors and commodities in Nigeria and assess who control the major stake of Nigeria's economy: Accommodation, food, transportation and real estate: 12.2%, Education, health, science and technology: 6.3%, Farming, forestry and fishing : 30.5%, Manufacturing, mining and quarrying: 11.3%
Retail, maintenance, repair, and operations: 24.9%
Managerial, finance and insurance: 4.2%
Telecommunication, arts and entertainment: 1.8%
Other services: 8.8%.
Going by the given statistics above it can be seen that Education, health, science and technology, Entertainment, manufacturing, Telecommunication, arts and entertainment that u claim Southerners control are not up to 30.5% of GDP contributed by farming and fishing mainly control and done by Northerners while all other businesses southerners do, Northerners are either into them en masse or are the main actors. Oil is a natural resources which u can't in anyway be proud of hardwrk in it; Northerners control the sector because they venture into anything that brings profit and the same with port and other government sectors, they don't attain the positions at platter of gold but by hardwork.
Dangote and BUA alone make up more than 5% of the whole Nigeria's GDP.
Only poverty ravaged person will sit down and make this unsubstantiated allegations against North, go back to farm and learn how money flow, venture into business and stop this unnecessary ethno-religious bigotry!

FreeIgbos:
You jumbled together a lot of ignorant assertions without paragraphs which makes it difficult for me to correct the fictions you wrote with facts.

Firstly, you claimed to have a huge population but you forgot that having a huge population that is unproductive and poverty stricken is even a big problem. With poverty levels largely hovering in excess of 90%, 100 million people in the North may end up having same purchasing power with 5 million people!

Secondly, with extreme illiteracy levels and over 10 million out of school kids roaming aimlessly about, it becomes a vicious circle whereby you can only produce shoe menders, barrow pushers, and other forms of cheap menial workers who can't contribute anything meaningful to the economy. American tech companies are moving their facilities to India to take advantage of cheap but we'll educated population. After India, they will start coming to Africa and Southern Nigeria will naturally attract them while North misses out.

Thirdly, having 90% of your people as farmers is not something to brag with, rather it shows how crassly underdeveloped your economy is. Why on earth will you have close to 90 million people in subsistence agriculture yet we are not a net producer of anything? Even the cows that has become the federal government's only concern, you guys are no where near the top! 70% of domestic fish consumption in Nigeria from Baga? What a barefaced lie! We don't get any fish resources from the North, what we consume here is imported okporoko and crayfish/dried fish that comes from Oron in Akwa Ibom.

Fourthly, when agriculture is mentioned, do you think it's only cattle and goat or onions, tomatoes and other food crops grown in the North that contribute most of it? Lol, check our export commodities, cocoa is the major one. Then others like poultry, piggery, fish farming etc contribute significantly too. In transport, is it only haulage tankers that make up the transport sector? Do they contribute more than luxury and small buses? What about airlines?

Lastly, the only areas North dominate is through government manipulation. Oil marketers and the rest are due selective government patronage. Dangote has been using government to muzzle out competitors since day one. The FG protects Dangote like an insurance cover and ensures that it has everything on a platter of gold. Dangote can't survive on a level playing ground because he is not as good as you guys potray him. His involvement in building the world's largest refinery at a time the world is fast moving away from fossil fuels exposes him as lacking in foresight. To mitigate his exposure, government had to use NNPC to invest in the same refinery so he could get some of his money back. As if that was not enough, they're also planning to give him sole rights to import petroleum products.

Why should I go back to farm when I'm exporting intellectual skills and helping Nigeria to earn forex. The same farms fulani herdsmen are killing people everyday?

The joke is on you!!

Coronabirus:
Ignorance is a disease. What is the Tech in the south that fetches Nigeria anything reasonable, haven't u see the figures I quoted from our GDP?
Dangote was born in a very rich family, his grandfather was the richest man in West Africa before his demise. All the allegations of monopoly are born out of envy; a lot of you just throw the word "monopoly" around without properly understanding what it entails.
Every businessman operating in a capitalist economy aspires to gain as much market share as possible so as to maximize returns, in order to do this, he deploys various strategies all derived from his business environment. One of the tools used is a PESTEL analysis which analyses the political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal environments to see where one can gain competitive advantages which they can use to achieve his objective of maximizing market share.
A monopoly would arise from the effective deployment of such strategies developed, in a market where other players are unable to compete due to the lack or insufficiency of the identified advantage - for example - Dangote aligns with practically any government in power so that he gains competitive advantages in the political environment, which come in the form of favourable policies, waivers, concessions etc. which enable him to dominate the industry/market to the point that other players are relegated or forced out. This is not in anyway wrong in the world of business, it is capitalism at its finest and it is the same across the world. Microsoft were so savage in this sense that anti-trust laws had to be enacted to protect other software companies. If you think Dangote's advantages are due to his ethnicity and not sheer brilliance and tact, how come he is replicating his success in several other African countries with various governments?
Therefore neither Dangote nor the government is doing anything wrong because what they have is a mutually beneficial strategic relationship. Dangote is simply a brilliant businessman that consistently outplays his competition.
What of BUA?
Many southern business tycoon got there money from CBN and Bank of industry, during GEJ's administration they used to collect billions with intention of building modular refineries but ended up building nothing. Now about 300 Nigerians defaulted loans of more than N3trillion from CBN and BOI.
Let me school U abt the self deception of many Southerners, a Northern shoe maker make abt 3 times the earning of southern graduate teaching in private school, that wheel barrow pusher make average of N60k/month, okada rider make average of 80k/month. So, pls stop living in delusion and deceit. I mate a Northerner doing okada in one SS state and asked him the average income of his daily ride, he said, he often makes abt 5k daily and settle his master 2k daily balance.
For ur information, the only Northerners going to south are people with no conventional education. The educated few only work with either govt or private organisations. Even if u employ a Northerner in the south, he will find his way to go back to North that is why we're very few in FG Secretariats in southern states, only security personnels stay and work in the south comfortably.
Why are u trying to cover the poverty, hardship, illiteracy, and social vices of ur communities. I've been to the nooks and crannies of Nigerian states, I saw a lot of things and learnt that those Nairalanders calling North derogatory names are living in cities like Lagos, PHC or major towns and don't know the sufferings of their people in villages. Many young boys/girls are not going to School in many southern villages, the level of illiteracy is relatively high, child prostitution is common, incestuous relationships are rampant but their religious leaders and Politicians are telling u Northern problems only.
Pls stop pretending and face reality, all those making ethno-religious bias comments are people suffering from poverty, hate and envy. If u're living good life u won't come here ranting abt things that u neither see nor have facts abt. Why dwelling on social media for information that will ridicule ur assertions on public domain? Step ur foot out of ur hiding place, go round the country and bar witness of facts. Every month I travel more than 2k within this nation, I pass through atleast 3 zones, I see how people are living all forms of life in cities and villages but u people only know how to report abt others by covering ur mayhem!

Coronabirus:
I hope this isn't the justice u're praying for:
During GEJ's administration Nepotism was not in Nigeria's dictionary.
Below were GEJ's appointment of his kinsmen to some sensitive positions and may be worst than PMB's:
1. SGF: Anyim Pius Anyim.
2. DG, DSS: Ita Ekpenyong.
3. CBN: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi(Replaced with Godwin Emefiele)
4. COS: Mike Oghiadomhe.
5. Acct Gen. Fed: Jonah Ofunia.
6. Chief of Army Staff: Azuibike Ihejirika.
7.NIMET; Anthony Anuforom.
8. NNPC: Andrew Yakubu.
9.NIMASA: Patrick Apobolokemi.
10. PENCOM: Chinelo Amazu.
11. FERMA: Chukwu Amuchi.
12. DPR: George Osahon.
13: BOI: Evelyn Oputu.
14. Nig Content Dev. Agency: Ernest Nwampa.
15: CPA: Dupe Atoki.
16. NCC: Eugene Juwa.
17. NAMA: Nnamdi Udoh.
18: NCAA: Engr Akikuotu.
19.FAAN: George Uriesi.
20. NCAT: Capt Chinere Kali.
21. SEC: Aruma Otteh
22. Sovereign Wealth fund: Uche Orji.
23.NAFDAC: Paul Orhii.
24. FIIRO: Mrs G N Elemo.
25.Maritime Agency: Joshua Ekpo.
26: NRC: Seyi Sijuade.
27.Nig Tourism Dev Corp: Sally Nbanefor
28. Budget Office:
Bright Okogwu.
29. NERDC: Godswill Obioma.
30. NEXIM: R R Oriya.
31. SON: Joseph Odumodu.
32. NBC: Emeka Nkem MBA.
33. ITF: Longmas Wapmuk.
34. NUC: Prof Okojie
35. NESREA: N. S Benebo
36.MDG Office: Precious Gbenro.
37. Surveyor Gen.: Peter Chigozie
38. Statistician : Yemi Kale.
39. Acct Gen Fed: Jonah Otunla.
40. Auditor Gen Fed.: Samuel Yonongo.
41. NOA: Mike Omieri.
42. NAN: Oluremi Oyo.
43. NEPC: David Odelugba.
44. Emeka Eze.
45. IGP Police: Solomon Arase.
Etc.

GEJ'S SERVICE CHIEFS WERE:
1. Chief of Defence Staff, Air Marshall Alex Badeh; 2. Chief of Army Staff, Major General Kenneth Minimah;
3. Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Usman Jibrin; and
4. Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshall Adesola Amosu.
These are some of the appointments Jonathan did when he was in office for good 6yrs and the other tribes never made noises..

Aganju849:
So anyone from the south is automatically a GEJ kinsman?

Use your sense brother, a lot of other people are already using theirs

FreeIgbos:
I have also considered the stakes and realized that core North won't give up on their stranglehold on Southern Nigeria except they are forced to. The way Nigeria currently is, is Utopia to them since they know they're getting everything absolutely free from Southerners while equally using us as slaves.

Almost everything of economic value is domiciled in the South while the North controls it all. The seaports, oil and gas resources, economy, human resources etc are all in the South while the North is almost collapsing under the weight of overpopulation, abysmally low productivity, poverty, all indices of development/growth in the negative, banditry, Boko Haram and near anarchy.

Virtually all the sectors that earn Nigeria its fame are in the South such as Nollywood, music, sports, diaspora exploits, economy and industry, natural resources and all positive human development indices.

The North will automatically sink into failed status the day South breaks away and they will become obscure like Niger, Chad, Mali and other Sahel countries, only to be remembered because of the activities of Islamic terror groups.

All these realities I mentioned above is not lost on them and that's why would rather die in their millions than allow South to peacefully break away.

That's the sad reality but should the South fight together as one, they will defeat the North in war with absolute ease in the long run. We have the brains and resources to rout them and they will be at a serious disadvantage since they won't have access to the sea to bring in heavy war equipment.

Also, with a largely poverty stricken populace that will sink deeper into crushing poverty, coupled with Christian minorities that will rather fight against them and break free than fight on their side, they won't be able to resist for too long before giving up.

The South is just a willing slave with terribly selfish politicians who allow themselves to be manipulated. The North is only relying on propaganda and manipulation to scare South from uniting and fighting them.

Ekpeitit:
Igbos have been talking about Biafra since I was born and they will continue to talk about it for the next 200 years.
Why don't you put that energy into developing your zone which is the least developed zone in Nigeria?

akanke79:
The Igbos created one Nigeria through the unitary system .Yorubas and Niger delta want a return to regional govt our founding fathers agreed on,Fulanis and Igbos refuse to go back to regional govt because they benefit from Yorubas and the Niger delta largesse.

FreeIgbos:
I have also considered the stakes and realized that core North won't give up on their stranglehold on Southern Nigeria except they are forced to. The way Nigeria currently is, is Utopia to them since they know they're getting everything absolutely free from Southerners while equally using us as slaves.

Almost everything of economic value is domiciled in the South while the North controls it all. The seaports, oil and gas resources, economy, human resources etc are all in the South while the North is almost collapsing under the weight of overpopulation, abysmally low productivity, poverty, all indices of development/growth in the negative, banditry, Boko Haram and near anarchy.

Virtually all the sectors that earn Nigeria its fame are in the South such as Nollywood, music, sports, diaspora exploits, economy and industry, natural resources and all positive human development indices.

The North will automatically sink into failed status the day South breaks away and they will become obscure like Niger, Chad, Mali and other Sahel countries, only to be remembered because of the activities of Islamic terror groups.

All these realities I mentioned above is not lost on them and that's why would rather die in their millions than allow South to peacefully break away.

That's the sad reality but should the South fight together as one, they will defeat the North in war with absolute ease in the long run. We have the brains and resources to rout them and they will be at a serious disadvantage since they won't have access to the sea to bring in heavy war equipment.

Also, with a largely poverty stricken populace that will sink deeper into crushing poverty, coupled with Christian minorities that will rather fight against them and break free than fight on their side, they won't be able to resist for too long before giving up.

The South is just a willing slave with terribly selfish politicians who allow themselves to be manipulated. The North is only relying on propaganda and manipulation to scare South from uniting and fighting them.

FreeIgbos:
Ignorance is your biggest challenge. What do you call development and which zone in the strict sense of development is more developed than the SE? Can you name them and list the areas they are more developed than SE?

Gworo man claiming Akwa Ibom, tufiakwa!

sultry69:
How ?young guy.



Yoruba that's housing all of you fools are now your problems,just bear it in mind that there will be no heaven (SW) for you again immediately we separate.,your migration from your hell SE,North en mass will have to stop by force.

And SS elders were not given you usurper any breathing space.

Ekpeitit:
It looks like everyone from your part of the country is very delusional.
Development is about infrastructure- Hospitals, good roads, companies that offer employment to the people, housing and recreational amenities.
It's a known fact to everyone except you that the South East has none of these things because you don't generate enough revenue apart from the little allocation you get from the Niger Delta which includes my state Akwa Ibom. ( The highest producer of crude oil in Nigeria)
That's why Igbo people relocate to other Developed states and zones to make a living. For example, you insult the Hausas,Yorubas and Niger Delta people everyday but that's where most of Igbo people do their petty trading and so called business. The South East is a shithole, you know this,I won't be surprised if you're actually typing from Lagos, Port Harcourt or Kano right now.
If Nigeria breaks up right now,it's the Igbos that will suffer the most.
Put that energy into developing Igbo land so you can all go back home.
EWU.
I'm sorry to tell you this but the IPOB tribe is the most inferior and underdeveloped tribe in Nigeria, that's why you run to other areas to earn a living. How many people from other tribes do you see in Igbo land?
Compare the amount of Fulani,Hausa, Yoruba,Ijaw,Ibibio or Efik people you see in Igbo land to the amount of Igbos in Akwa Ibom,Kano,Lagos,Oyo,Rivers State or Kaduna State.Just because a few ritual killers, armed robbers,419 people, drug dealers,drug dealers and petty traders have made some money doesn't mean your zone is developed.THE SOUTH EAST IS A SHITHOLE and if you disagree with me please relocate to Aba or Onitsha.

FreeIgbos:
What a very dum.b post by a very ignorant person. Why not pick a particular region and let's compare with SE but in your dishonesty, you had to bring the rest of Nigeria against SE? Is that not foolishness?

I have been to virtually all the regions and I can tell you that SE has comparatively better hospitals, far better housing, and a lot more companies/industries outside Lagos region. Tell me which states/cities has more industries/companies than Onitsha, Aba, Nnewi and Enugu? Pick a particular region and list them and I will do same for SE, don't go and start mentioning the rest of Nigeria, that's stupidity!

I live in Owerri and I'm presently typing from there! However, the fact that we are providing expatriates all over Nigeria doesn't mean SE isn't good enough. In the SE, most of the menial jobs are left for outsiders while we go to other regions and take up the elite jobs like lecturing, civil service, phamarcy, supply, business etc. But here in the East, things like okada riding are mostly done by people from Nasarawa, Benue and Cross River, house maids are left for people from Kogi, Akwa Ibom, Plateau, Cross River etc, same with several others like cart pushing, construction works, farm works, security etc. Wake me up the day you see Igbos doing these sort of works in your own region.

Igbos are far above whatever shitty tribe you represent, which you're obviously ashamed to name, in all areas of life!

Lastly, the globaly recognized yardstick for measuring development by the UN is MDG, particularly in areas like education, school enrollment, healthcare, number of people living above poverty, as well as absence/low percentage numbers for maternal mortality, under 5 mortality, underweight children etc. Tell me your region and let's compare with SE on which region is doing better. You can hate on Igbos as much as you want but you will always lag behind us in the grand scheme of things!!

Uchek:
Please how are you housing all the fools Is SW no longer part of Nigeria. The way you folks in SW reason is comical?

FreeIgbos:
I have also considered the stakes and realized that core North won't give up on their stranglehold on Southern Nigeria except they are forced to. The way Nigeria currently is, is Utopia to them since they know they're getting everything absolutely free from Southerners while equally using us as slaves.

Almost everything of economic value is domiciled in the South while the North controls it all. The seaports, oil and gas resources, economy, human resources etc are all in the South while the North is almost collapsing under the weight of overpopulation, abysmally low productivity, poverty, all indices of development/growth in the negative, banditry, Boko Haram and near anarchy.

Virtually all the sectors that earn Nigeria its fame are in the South such as Nollywood, music, sports, diaspora exploits, economy and industry, natural resources and all positive human development indices.

The North will automatically sink into failed status the day South breaks away and they will become obscure like Niger, Chad, Mali and other Sahel countries, only to be remembered because of the activities of Islamic terror groups.

All these realities I mentioned above is not lost on them and that's why would rather die in their millions than allow South to peacefully break away.

That's the sad reality but should the South fight together as one, they will defeat the North in war with absolute ease in the long run. We have the brains and resources to rout them and they will be at a serious disadvantage since they won't have access to the sea to bring in heavy war equipment.

Also, with a largely poverty stricken populace that will sink deeper into crushing poverty, coupled with Christian minorities that will rather fight against them and break free than fight on their side, they won't be able to resist for too long before giving up.

The South is just a willing slave with terribly selfish politicians who allow themselves to be manipulated. The North is only relying on propaganda and manipulation to scare South from uniting and fighting them.