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Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by Freebills12: 3:20pm On Feb 10, 2022
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olas24u:
Balysea state and parts of delta were in western region before the creation of midwest.check your map.
Small portion of Balysea and bendel in delta state were part of western region, not the whole of Balysa
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by olas24u(f): 3:20pm On Feb 10, 2022
TheOgaBoss:
was bayelsa part of old western region?
Azikiwe was so jealous and started plotting because most of the oul fell in the western region area which meant more money for western region.
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by Amah70: 3:21pm On Feb 10, 2022
VeryWickedMan:
Afonjas are very good at stealing other tribes properties.

No be only Cocoa money na Cocacola money.

How come Afonjas stopped making money from their cocoa all of a sudden? Is it bad to continue making money off such viable venture or are they saying cocoa is no longer being used around the world today??


Very thieving tribe. All they know is to reap where they did not sow.

70% of Afonja landlords today stole their properties from Igbos in 1967.
The Lagos State that Afonjas claim as their greatest achievement was the Federal capital developed by Abokis using Niger Delta and South East oil and palm oil money. Afonjas contributed nothing.


Mark my words, once Nigeria breaks up, Oduduwa Nation will be colonized by either Arewa or Biafra.
It's not the force of Arewa or Yoruba or combination of Nigerian tribes that hold Nigeria from breakup. It's the oil companies and their home governments.
That's why going with guns for new country or new countries from Nigeria by any southern Secessionist group/groups is not the ideal.
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by olas24u(f): 3:21pm On Feb 10, 2022
Freebills12:
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Small portion of Balysea and bendel in delta state were part of western region, not the whole of Balysa
Check the map yourself .
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Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by olas24u(f): 3:23pm On Feb 10, 2022
Freebills12:
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Small portion of Balysea and bendel in delta state were part of western region, not the whole of Balysa
Very easy to google you will see it clearly.If their was no distruptions ,we will be in the same league with the Asian tiger nations .we had tv station before france a d italy.
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by TheOgaBoss: 3:23pm On Feb 10, 2022
olas24u:
Yes and some parts of delta,you can google it.delta had people like alfred rewane who was later assasinated during the military era.
bayelsa was never under the old western region, it was only Edo and delta, which later became Midwest in 1963 that was under the western region.
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by olas24u(f): 3:24pm On Feb 10, 2022
TheOgaBoss:
bayelsa was never under the old western region, it was only Edo and delta, which later became Midwest in 1963 that was under the western region.
Balysea state state ,was former wedtern region check
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by Sardume: 3:28pm On Feb 10, 2022
Another useless Supreme court governor has spoken
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by olas24u(f): 3:28pm On Feb 10, 2022
TheOgaBoss:
bayelsa was never under the old western region, it was only Edo and delta, which later became Midwest in 1963 that was under the western region.
Go and start from eyo ita ,he was a politican from the delta area .
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by Freebills12: 3:31pm On Feb 10, 2022
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olas24u:
Very easy to google you will see it clearly.If their was no distruptions ,we will be in the same league with the Asian tiger nations .we had tv station before france a d italy.
Bayelsa State was created out of Rivers State on October 1, 1996 by the Sani Abacha's military government. Its name was derived from the first few letters of the names of the major local government areas from which it was formed: Brass LGA (BALGA), Yenagoa LGA (YELGA) and Sagbama LGA (SALGA). Please google it, large portion of Bayelsa was in Eastern region. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayelsa_State#:~:text=Bayelsa%20State%20was%20created%20out,and%20Sagbama%20LGA%20(SALGA).
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by TheOgaBoss: 3:32pm On Feb 10, 2022
olas24u:
Go and start from eyo ita ,he was a politican from the delta area .
post ur source or keep quiet.
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by TheOgaBoss: 3:35pm On Feb 10, 2022
olas24u:
Go and start from eyo ita ,he was a politican from the delta area .
bayelsa state was created in 1996 from old rivers state.
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by DMerciful(m): 3:35pm On Feb 10, 2022
Bayelsa is not receiving fed allocation rather Bayelsa is giving the federal govt allocation.


Without the fg, Bayelsa would be far richer than she is so who's feeding who?
shortIGBOman:
Oga Governor, tell us why Bayelsa remain the most underdeveloped State, even when it receive so much as Federal allocation?
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by sageb: 3:36pm On Feb 10, 2022
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by olas24u(f): 3:39pm On Feb 10, 2022
TheOgaBoss:
look at an idiot that has refused enlightenment, bayelsa was part of old rivers state. Fool.
Block head
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by Kinematics: 3:40pm On Feb 10, 2022
olas24u:
[s]Balysea state and parts of delta were in western region before the creation of midwest.check your map.[/s]
See them. Bayelsa in Western region? Too many kids on this forum.

Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by amuwo1980: 3:41pm On Feb 10, 2022
Cocoa money develop the oil fields , not even palm oil money , the way these guys try to rewrite history makes u doubt all u read from their historians
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by TheOgaBoss: 3:41pm On Feb 10, 2022
olas24u:
Block head
olodo of the highest order, bayelsa part of western region, laughable.
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by amuwo1980: 3:43pm On Feb 10, 2022
Kinematics:
See them. Bayelsa in Western region? Too many kids on this forum.
That’s what the new generation of afonjas believes, the free oil money they have been enjoying since the 60s have twisted their minds and giving them a false sense of superiority
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by olas24u(f): 3:43pm On Feb 10, 2022
TheOgaBoss:
olodo of the highest order, bayelsa part of western region, laughable.
That is how your senior brother became jealous and started planning evil against awolowo.you people are just terrible.you have your own storry you twist to fit a narrative.
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by Mccullum: 3:43pm On Feb 10, 2022
VeryWickedMan:
Afonjas are very good at stealing other tribes properties.

No be only Cocoa money na Cocacola money.

How come Afonjas stopped making money from their cocoa all of a sudden? Is it bad to continue making money off such viable venture or are they saying cocoa is no longer being used around the world today??


Very thieving tribe. All they know is to reap where they did not sow.

70% of Afonja landlords today stole their properties from Igbos in 1967.
The Lagos State that Afonjas claim as their greatest achievement was the Federal capital developed by Abokis using Niger Delta and South East oil and palm oil money. Afonjas contributed nothing.


Mark my words, once Nigeria breaks up, Oduduwa Nation will be colonized by either Arewa or Biafra.
Can you show any reputable leaders from West that claimed Western region funds generated from cocoa used for oil exploration and exploitation, during the colonial era within 1957 - 59 when oil discovered and explored in Nigeria, South West was not the only region that had cocoa cash crop, Eastern region had it then too.

The governor may not be referring to the West, but due to your syndrome of abusing Western Nigeria people has beclouded your sense of reasoning on the statement of Bayelsa State governor, I thinks inferiority complex is the challenging that's facing you on how the West above your region. For you to claimed that Igbo houses were occupied by western people due to civil war, you're missing facts of the history while fabricating fictions. South West was the only region which majority of Igbos fully regained possession of ownership of their houses in Nigeria after the war.

Even After the war, many of your uncles and fathers enjoyed freed education from South West when Awo was premier of the region and after the war they still ran to the west for enjoyment of free education. which replicable to how Ajayi Crowther assisted your people to be educated and even translated bible from English to Igbo and teach your people how to plant maize.

Yoruba land has abundant natural and human resources, the region can stand on her own without any regions assistance, that was proved by Awo who made the West to lead in all ramifications, such as trade and commerce, free education, first stadium, first TV station, first University built by autonomy independent of regional government and many more.

Western Nigerians doesn't use force to be respected but they had what it takes for commanding of respect at all time in Nigeria state. not beating of chest.
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by Kinematics: 3:44pm On Feb 10, 2022
olas24u:
Block head
You are the one with block head. No part of Bayelsa has ever been in Western region. Bayelsa was in Eastern region then part of Rivers State that was created in 1967. Then in 1996 Bayelsa was created from Rivers State.

Your head too block.

Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by olas24u(f): 3:45pm On Feb 10, 2022
TheOgaBoss:
olodo of the highest order, bayelsa part of western region, laughable.
It may take you a life time to know that balysea eas in western region of nigeria ,because you cannot even access information
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by Maobichek: 3:45pm On Feb 10, 2022
VeryWickedMan:
Afonjas are very good at stealing other tribes properties.

No be only Cocoa money na Cocacola money.

How come Afonjas stopped making money from their cocoa all of a sudden? Is it bad to continue making money off such viable venture or are they saying cocoa is no longer being used around the world today??


Very thieving tribe. All they know is to reap where they did not sow.

70% of Afonja landlords today stole their properties from Igbos in 1967.
The Lagos State that Afonjas claim as their greatest achievement was the Federal capital developed by Abokis using Niger Delta and South East oil and palm oil money. Afonjas contributed nothing.


Mark my words, once Nigeria breaks up, Oduduwa Nation will be colonized by either Arewa or Biafra.
This is absolutely unnecessary, Nigeria will be better if we do away with hate and tribalism, do away with this .
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by Idiko1: 3:46pm On Feb 10, 2022
Maxymilliano:
Bayelsa State Governor Duoye Diri has explained that oil wasn’t developed in Nigeria by money made from cocoa farming but money invested by international oil companies.

The governor, on Thursday, during an interview on Channels Television breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily said many Nigerian leaders wrongly spread the notion that cocoa money was invested into oil exploration in the country.

A lot of people make a mistake and say we used cocoa money to developed oil, that’s not true.

“Multinational, international oil companies came with the capital in oil exploration and exploitation. There was no money from Nigeria, every money that came was monies from those who came to develop oil here. These are the issues Nigeria needs to resolve,” Diri said.

Even though Bayelsa State is an oil-producing state, the governor said his administration is working to re-orientate youths to go into farming.

According to him, farming is a priority and everyone in the state is encouraged to key into it.

“Agriculture is a priority for this government, we are working hard to have a change of mindset of our youths to key into Agriculture. Tomorrow, the Akwa-Ibom governor is coming into Bayelsa to flag off the farming season. He will also superintend over the made-in-Bayelsa Agriculture show.

“Oil is almost going; we cannot continue to live (dependent) on oil. The focus of this government is agriculture. Let us all key into Agriculture,” the governor said.

​Oil according to the NNPC was discovered in Nigeria far back in 1956 at Oloibiri in the Niger Delta after half a century of exploration. The discovery was made by Shell-BP, at the time the sole concessionaire, and the country’s economy has since been largely dependent on oil production.


https://www.channelstv.com/2022/02/10/nigeria-didnt-use-cocoa-money-to-develop-oil-bayelsa-governor/
Western region of Nigeria did not contribute a kobo to the development of crude oil exploration in Nigeria. In 1948, Shell D'Arcy started crude oil exploration in Ondo. However, after many futile attempts to strike crude oil and empty pocket, the company requested money from the quasi-regional governments in order to continue the exploration. Western region refused to support financially. Eastern region agreed to support if Shell D'Arcy will resume the exploration in eastern region. Even northern region contributed money. Shell agreed and moved its head quarter to Owerri. In 1951, Shell struck crude oil at a community called Iho-Dimeze, 8miles north of Owerri. However, Shell did not have the technology to handle the enormous natural gas and requested certain section of the community to be transplanted to Obudu which resulted into extreme hostility towards Shell by the entire community of Iho. Shell had to seal the well and moved southward where in 1953 struck crude oil at a place called Akata in today's Akwa Ibom State. However, the quantity was not of a commercial one. Shell continued and struck crude oil in a commercial quantity in 1956 at a place called Oloibiri in today's Bayelsa State. Two years later, Shell struck again in a bigger commercial quantity at a place called Owaza in today's Abia State. The headquarter of Shell remained at Owerri until 1967 when the war broke out between Nigeria and Biafra then moved to Port Harcourt. However, Yoruba went to work and convinced the Shell to move the headquarter of operations from Port Harcourt to Lagos. Nigeria would have been a better place without certain individuals.
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by sageb: 3:46pm On Feb 10, 2022
olas24u:
Balysea state state ,was former wedtern region check
Never
Rivers state begat Bayelsa
Rivers state was under Eastern Region
It was not part of Western Region
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by JohnSin97: 3:51pm On Feb 10, 2022
Inferiority complex.....with all the oil what have you drunkards have to show for it...
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by Obamaofusa: 3:51pm On Feb 10, 2022
VeryWickedMan:
Afonjas are very good at stealing other tribes properties.

No be only Cocoa money na Cocacola money.

How come Afonjas stopped making money from their cocoa all of a sudden? Is it bad to continue making money off such viable venture or are they saying cocoa is no longer being used around the world today??


Very thieving tribe. All they know is to reap where they did not sow.

70% of Afonja landlords today stole their properties from Igbos in 1967.
The Lagos State that Afonjas claim as their greatest achievement was the Federal capital developed by Abokis using Niger Delta and South East oil and palm oil money. Afonjas contributed nothing.


Mark my words, once Nigeria breaks up, Oduduwa Nation will be colonized by either Arewa or Biafra.
lol..typical illiterate from the other side.
Re: Duoye Diri: Nigeria Didn’t Use Cocoa Money To Develop Oil by JohnSin97: 3:54pm On Feb 10, 2022
VeryWickedMan:
Afonjas are very good at stealing other tribes properties.

No be only Cocoa money na Cocacola money.

How come Afonjas stopped making money from their cocoa all of a sudden? Is it bad to continue making money off such viable venture or are they saying cocoa is no longer being used around the world today??


Very thieving tribe. All they know is to reap where they did not sow.

70% of Afonja landlords today stole their properties from Igbos in 1967.
The Lagos State that Afonjas claim as their greatest achievement was the Federal capital developed by Abokis using Niger Delta and South East oil and palm oil money. Afonjas contributed nothing.


Mark my words, once Nigeria breaks up, Oduduwa Nation will be colonized by either Arewa or Biafra.
Ask wike and his father about the useless Igbo abandoned properties....you guys love to throw jabs at Yoruba but even your SS neighbors are disgusted by you apes....
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