₦airaland Forum

bixton:
So, from your research what is the meaning of Adama and was he the first person to be called that name or is the name a self named by him?

The military government did not create unproductive States but the various States government and governors made their States unproductive. Let's get that right and truthful about it.

Before it became a state in Nigeria, Adamawa was a subordinate kingdom of the Sultanate of Sokoto, which also included much of northern Cameroon. The rulers bear the title of emir ("lamido" in the local language, Fulfulde).[13]

The name "Adamawa" came from the founder of the kingdom, Modibo Adama, a regional leader of the Fulani Jihad organized by Usman dan Fodio of Sokoto in 1804. Modibo Adama came from the region of Gurin (now just a small village) and in 1806, received a green flag for leading the jihad in his native country. In the following years, Adama conquered many lands and tribes. In 1838, he moved his capital to Ribadu, and in 1839, to Joboliwo. In 1841, he founded Yola, where he died in 1848. After the European colonization (first by Germany and then by Britain), the rulers remained as emirs and the line of succession has continued to the present day.


Dancers of Adamawa state in their cultural adornment
In the early 1800s, the Fulani jihad seized much of modern-day Adamawa State and formed the Adamawa Emirate under the Sokoto Caliphate. About 90 years later, forces from Germany and the British Empire defeated the Emirate in the Adamawa Wars and split the area. The British-controlled area (much of the west of modern-day Adamawa) was incorporated into the Northern Nigeria Protectorate which later merged into British Nigeria before becoming independent as Nigeria in 1960. The German-controlled area formed a part of German Kamerun until allied forces invaded and occupied Kamerun during the Kamerun campaign of World War I. After the war, what is now eastern Adamawa State became most of the Northern Cameroons within the British Cameroons until 1961, when a referendum led to a merger with Nigeria.

Originally, modern-day Adamawa State was a part of the post-independence Northern Region until 1967 when the area became part of the North-Eastern State. After the North-Eastern State was split in 1976, Gongola State was formed on 3 February 1976 alongside ten other states. Fifteen years after statehood, Gongola was split with the state's south becoming Taraba State while its north became Adamawa State.

Racoon:
Sanni Abacha was really one relatively quiet unknown but dangerous coup merchant in the Nigerian army until he sprung up like a sleeper. Naira was best stabilize during his iron-fisted years

mysticwarrior:
This man's embezzlement was very serious, but If he is the one in Aso rock he would have crushed Boko haram, bandits and all domestic terrorists by now.

CJStarz:
Negatively so.
BAT was only being ambitious but Nigerians didn't see that

Kingosytex:
I thought same but realized he had his good sides too. He executed the idiots that spearheaded the killing of one George or so in Kano for blasphemy. The only one that escaped was Sanusi who later became the CBN governor.

Lekby25:
Murtala Mohammed and Obasanjo meant well for the country.

grandstar:
Buhari left a gangatuam mess behind. Tinubu is cleaning it up.

grandstar:
The country's credit rating has been upgraded twice.

Fujiyama:
^^^


Unbelievable

No truthful person who was an adult during the Abacha years - and who was actually in the country - will agree with these comments.

A lot of these comments are grossly, wildly inaccurate. Hankering after some blissful, glorious past that never existed.

The Abacha administration was most definitely not what these posters are making it out to have been. Sani Abacha was a terrible ruler and that's the truth.

legionISproteus:
I think the people pushing posts like this to the front page are trying to guage nairaland perception of abacha so they will know how to whitewash the mf.

Majority of those who felt the brunt of his dangerous regime are dying so the project now is to lie to the younger generation that abacha was a hero and maybe compare him with Ibrahim Traore (of Burkina Faso, for those that don't know). dem fit even cook say na abacha fight for nigeria independence, with the kind of things these liars say, I can not put it past them.

I admire their effort. they should keep trying to repackage abacha for us, maybe one day they will succeed.

Sonnobax15:

As bad as Sani Abacha was,but this is the kind of time where you won't have any other option than to miss someone like him .

Sonnobax15:

As bad as Sani Abacha was,but this is the kind of time where you won't have any other option than to miss someone like him .

Fujiyama:
^^^
Exactly

That's why those of us who were there need to tell it like it was.

legionISproteus:
so he was still incompetent then. allowed sanusi to survive

legionISproteus:
look at the usernames for two of the posts you tagged

one is btruth, the other is freshtruth i can bet there is nothing truthful about what they posted there

they have been paid to rewrite history and push false narratives like another nairaland account identified as domperignon

Zocalite:
You can't say

Times have changed now

Maladministration in nigeria has reached novel heights

Even buhari who succinctly defended crime committed by various Fulani group once destroyed a terrorist group as military commander

Forgotten the name of the group*

sulaak:
Google is your friend.

The military created unproductive states that have given rise to Islamist insurgency and a space that can't be governed. There is no business breaking Kano into three new states.

Kingosytex:
The said Sanusi was smuggled out or so. Abacha would have executed the killers of Deborah. Man was evil, but he was nowhere near a religious fanatic.

Chiefwandungu:
-Gen. Abacha overthrew the ING led by Ernest Shonekon. The AFRC seized to exist after the retirement of Gen. Babangida.

DomPerignon:
Sanusi was pardoned by Abacha after being lobbied by several Emirs including Ado Bayero.

Sanusi was then released and forced to go into exile in Sudan.

The north will always find a way to protect their own even before Abacha

Sanusi's co-defenders were all executed by hanging .

nairalanda1:
1.Clamor for state creation started under the first republic, that is why we had the midwest region created (which became bendel, and which lasted till 1991

2.Clamor was from minority tribes who felt oppressed by the majority tribes in the three original regions.

3.Regions were not productive, and had they lasted till today, they would be described as being unproductive because of the resource curse. As many researchers have pointed out, countries that use brain power are richer than countries that sell cocoa, cotton, palm oil, crude oil, metals, and so forth (unless the population of the resource rich country is tiny enough ). Infact, that is why most subsaharan african countries are broke and poor.

(By productive I mean being able to produce industrial goods that are exportable. No country in Africa gets rich from selling raw materials and so forth. If it was so, by now Nigeria would be like USA. )

4.If you want the states to be profitable, start with taxation. But Nigerians don't like paying tax at all, even as at 2019, only 30% of Nigerians paid taxes to state and federal governments. I doubt anything would have changed with 'regions'. Government now claims it is 44%, but even then tax to gdp is low at less than 10% up till today.

Also, many states started well by investing in education. But when someone graduates and finds no jobs because imports and poor electricity means that the ability of our economy to generate jobs (poor electticity being caused by the same issues with poor tax revenue)..is broken. All we got is the civil service, which can't absorb everyone

5.Regions were flawed, very flawed. The Igbo pogrom was a good example of how flawed, when you have a regional police that cannot do anything. Why there has been no repeat is due to our police having been federalized. Throroughly.


Nigeria's problem is that people and government think that economy is a cake that can be shared and that after sharing e go regenerate every night. That's a fairytale, not true economics.

And because of that we end up with leaders like buhari, gej, tinubu, and company whose job is to share money, not do serious governing. And why we have so many idle youth who end up in arms...

Kingosytex:
I thought same but realized he had his good sides too. He executed the idiots that spearheaded the killing of one George or so in Kano for blasphemy. The only one that escaped was Sanusi who later became the CBN governor.

Btruth:
he was never been appreciated. Prophet sometimes is never value for his worth.

sulaak:
Google is your friend.

The military created unproductive states that have given rise to Islamist insurgency and a space that can't be governed. There is no business breaking Kano into three new states.

GABRIEL6036:
History will never forgive this man even after death. This idiot lay a footprints that other polithiefians follow. God will judge all of you.

Love800:
Was the economy lucrative under abacha?

Kingosytex:
I thought same but realized he had his good sides too. He executed the idiots that spearheaded the killing of one George or so in Kano for blasphemy. The only one that escaped was Sanusi who later became the CBN governor.

nairalanda1:
1.Clamor for state creation started under the first republic, that is why we had the midwest region created (which became bendel, and which lasted till 1991

The Mid-West Region was an agreement between the Western Regions and people from the Mid-West (Delta State, Edo State, and Bayelsa State) that they would have their own region. The issue was debated and agreed upon in the Western House of Assembly.

2.Clamor was from minority tribes who felt oppressed by the majority tribes in the three original regions.

What should have happened was empowering Local government and not creating new states that are not viable.

3.Regions were not productive, and had they lasted till today, they would be described as being unproductive because of the resource curse. As many researchers have pointed out, countries that use brain power are richer than countries that sell cocoa, cotton, palm oil, crude oil, metals, and so forth (unless the population of the resource rich country is tiny enough ). Infact, that is why most subsaharan african countries are broke and poor.

The resource curse is a problem in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia, Chile, New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Russia, Indonesia and many Asian countries have turned their resources into opportunities. Even Namibia, Botswana, and recently Guinea (Conakry) have turned their resources into economic development by balancing resource extraction with social and infrastructure development.

The Western and Eastern Regions of Nigeria were developing at a fast pace.


(By productive I mean being able to produce industrial goods that are exportable. No country in Africa gets rich from selling raw materials and so forth. If it was so, by now Nigeria would be like USA. )

Agree, that's why support for local entrepreneurs such as Dangote, Innoson, BUA and many more should be a priority.

4.If you want the states to be profitable, start with taxation. But Nigerians don't like paying tax at all, even as at 2019, only 30% of Nigerians paid taxes to state and federal governments. I doubt anything would have changed with 'regions'. Government now claims it is 44%, but even then tax to gdp is low at less than 10% up till today.


Cancelling FAAC and handing funds to states that have never contributed to the national budget will force states to focus on revenue generation. The entire North have lost its capability to be productive due to the availability of FAAC.

Also, many states started well by investing in education. But when someone graduates and finds no jobs because imports and poor electricity means that the ability of our economy to generate jobs (poor electticity being caused by the same issues with poor tax revenue)..is broken. All we got is the civil service, which can't absorb everyone .

The faster growth of Education in Nigeria occurred between Self-Rule 1952 and 1966 in the old Western and Eastern Regions. A regional government with complete control of governmental power and resources is the only way to develop Nigeria.

5.Regions were flawed, very flawed. The Igbo pogrom was a good example of how flawed, when you have a regional police that cannot do anything. Why there has been no repeat is due to our police having been federalized. Throroughly.


Nigeria's problem is that people and government think that economy is a cake that can be shared and that after sharing e go regenerate every night. That's a fairytale, not true economics.

And because of that we end up with leaders like buhari, gej, tinubu, and company whose job is to share money, not do serious governing. And why we have so many idle youth who end up in arms...