Jacobx007:


And you so forgetful to remember that once Nigeria was financed from groundnut and cotton from the north. Did northerners complain then?

Oil exploration in Nigeria was a 50-year business venture that was funded by private equity with government only providing exploration licenses to the various international oil mineral development companies. It began in the Oil Rivers protectorate, around the bight of Bonny and Biafra, in 1907, seven years before the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates in 1914 and several years before the appearance of the first groundnut pyramid in Kano. Oil exploration was initiated in Nigeria by the Nigerian Bitumen Corporation, a private firm, which left Nigeria after a failed venture in 1914. Between 1937 and January 15, 1957, when international oil giant Shell-BP began exploration and the discovery of oil in commercial quantity in the Niger Delta community of Oloibiri in Bayelsa State, over six million pounds was spent by the company. Shell-BP would go on to construct the basic oil and gas infrastructure (network of pipelines) that would aid the evacuation of crude oil from production in Oloibiri and other oil-producing sites to the export terminals for international sale. The first oil refinery in Nigeria was not built with money from groundnut pyramids; it was built by Shell-BP in Eleme community, Rivers State, in 1965. Similarly, the 1970s was the beginning of the oil boom and Nigeria’s oil and gas production infrastructure would be expanded rapidly with oil money. The construction of the Warri refinery was awarded at a cost of $478 million to Snamprogetti Spa Milan of Italy by the Gen. Yakubu Gowon regime at the height of the oil boom in 1975 when the groundnut pyramids had almost disappeared. The Kaduna refinery was awarded at a cost of $525 million to Chiyoda Engineering and Construction Company in 1976 by the Murtala/Obasanjo regime and the new Port Harcourt refinery was commissioned in 1989.That's the lies they use to lay hold on niger delta oil. Awolowo used cocoa to develop his region, sadaurna used proceeds from groundnut to islamize d north, okpara used palm seeds proceeds to reinvigorate east.
No ground nut n cocoa money was used for exploration. The truth must b told.
The FG used royalty money paid by oil companies to buy a stake.
Your cocoa and groundnuts did not fund the oil industry so please stop your taqiyya lies.
I'm still asking what are guys from desert bring to the table

Tolexander:
Most of them aren't really interested in life outside their territories where they won't have their cultural values exhibited and protected.

Northerners are conservative.

Many of them outside Nigeria are there to spend the money or acquire knowledge and come back to their ancestral territory.

I am sure you know that you didn't answer the question.

And just so you know, there are less Northerners outside Nigeria cos, why move when Abuja (pot of oil money) is working for you.

boss1310:
is it possible for comments here not to be about tribal warfare every time?don't think so,cos the youths of this country who claim educated and exposed have failed to learn from what made this country to still be rated as third world

I guess it's because of our third world mentality.

MadamExcellency:


Is bribery not prevalent in schools?

What about our girls and women (mama*s) sleeping with male lecturers for marks upgrade or award when they never sat for the exams?

Forget about the youths, let's talk about the unborn generation.

don't think you understand what my comment is all about

UncleJudax:

I am sure you know that you didn't answer the question.

And just so you know, there are less Northerners outside Nigeria cos, why move when Abuja (pot of oil money) is working for you.

Abuja is not working for northerners ooooo lol, hop u saw the pics uploaded above? Its jst that d average northerner is contended wit the little he has

abbeyty:


Of course they are there to spend the money they acquired through bribery and corruption

Simple and short.

ZUBY77:
Another national issue youths should discuss how to tackle.
But as long as South East and South West came up on the same sentence,
The bunch of silly no-goods would turn it into a tribal war.
At the end, they lose focus on the topic and wait for National Bureau of Statistics to publish the same thing next year.

And you wonder why 80% percent of them still struggle to make ends meet at the age of forty.

God bless you bro

ELKHALIFAISIS:

Oil exploration in Nigeria was a 50-year business venture that was funded by private equity with government only providing exploration licenses to the various international oil mineral development companies. It began in the Oil Rivers protectorate, around the bight of Bonny and Biafra, in 1907, seven years before the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates in 1914 and several years before the appearance of the first groundnut pyramid in Kano. Oil exploration was initiated in Nigeria by the Nigerian Bitumen Corporation, a private firm, which left Nigeria after a failed venture in 1914. Between 1937 and January 15, 1957, when international oil giant Shell-BP began exploration and the discovery of oil in commercial quantity in the Niger Delta community of Oloibiri in Bayelsa State, over six million pounds was spent by the company. Shell-BP would go on to construct the basic oil and gas infrastructure (network of pipelines) that would aid the evacuation of crude oil from production in Oloibiri and other oil-producing sites to the export terminals for international sale. The first oil refinery in Nigeria was not built with money from groundnut pyramids; it was built by Shell-BP in Eleme community, Rivers State, in 1965. Similarly, the 1970s was the beginning of the oil boom and Nigeria’s oil and gas production infrastructure would be expanded rapidly with oil money. The construction of the Warri refinery was awarded at a cost of $478 million to Snamprogetti Spa Milan of Italy by the Gen. Yakubu Gowon regime at the height of the oil boom in 1975 when the groundnut pyramids had almost disappeared. The Kaduna refinery was awarded at a cost of $525 million to Chiyoda Engineering and Construction Company in 1976 by the Murtala/Obasanjo regime and the new Port Harcourt refinery was commissioned in 1989.That's the lies they use to lay hold on niger delta oil. Awolowo used cocoa to develop his region, sadaurna used proceeds from groundnut to islamize d north, okpara used palm seeds proceeds to reinvigorate east.
No ground nut n cocoa money was used for exploration. The truth must b told.
The FG used royalty money paid by oil companies to buy a stake.
Your cocoa and groundnuts did not fund the oil industry so please stop your taqiyya lies.
I'm still asking what are guys from desert bring to the table

Oh ye Nigerians, pls rise up frm ur slumber, the era of crude oil is abt to crumble. Most European countries are planning to ban all fossil fuel vehicles by 2040-2045. Every time oil oil oil, how many countries in the world have oil? Are they not surviving? Some of them are even doing better than us. Has oil actually help Nigerians or turn us into lazy idle bunch, jst waiting for monthly allocation.

That's interesting nobody can get anything done without greasing palms. The factor of corruption seem cultural at this points. It's just interesting to see SE ranks lowest.

However, the report notes that from the “spatial analysis of bribery prevalence across the 36 states of Nigeria, no clear geographical pattern emerges. At the state level, the prevalence of bribery ranges between 13 per cent in Kwara State and 52 per cent in Borno State, indicating that local factors can have a significant impact on interactions between civil servants and the public.”

You see what i have been telling people that everything wrong with Nigeria is NORTHERNERS cos everything is wrong with Northerners. Corruption, bribery, stealing, rape, child abuse/marrriage, nepotism, cronyism, laziness, violence and TERRORISM. Just mentioned a few but they will hypocritically cover up their sins and be shouting about another's. GOD CONTINUE PUNISHING MUSLIMS WITH INCURABLE DISEASES AND BUHARI IN PARTICULAR.

Realtouchnot:


https://t.guardian.ng/news/northwest-northeast-top-bribery-prevalence-rate-in-nigeria/

BUT THEY ALWAYS CLAIM TO BE THE SAINT IN NIEJERIAAA...lol

Tolexander:
You don't know what you are saying!

Who told you that northerners are not many outside the shores of Nigeria?
You must be one of the people being fed junkz about the northerners.

Many northerners living outside the country are living large and not undergoing the kinda hustling some southerners are undergoing to make ends meet.

mostly in Arabic countries where they garner terrorism skills

shamack:
Lol lies,,,,am currently in the east where money can do anytin for u

Funny What are you doing in the east?. I thought thought the east is 'erosion ravaged land'. when statistics doesn't favor you, it becomes a lie.smh.

Jacobx007:

Oh ye Nigerians, pls rise up frm ur slumber, the era of crude oil is abt to crumble. Most European countries are planning to ban all fossil fuel vehicles by 2040-2045. Every time oil oil oil, how many countries in the world have oil? Are they not surviving? Some of them are even doing better than us. Has oil actually help Nigerians or turn us into lazy idle bunch, jst waiting for monthly allocation.

yeah as the era of crude oil is about to crumble ,what do you have in hand to scale through Education F9
entrepreneurship F9+ , ... so tell me how do you guys plan to survive since northern Nigeria are highly oil dependence , East have commerce, education and technology , West have financial institutions, education, and entrepreneurship, and what do u northerners have mass illiteracy , terrorism, unfriendly business destination, social unrest, religious fanatics, poverty and hostile society , u will mentioned Dangote ,but should I reminds u Dangote is just one man, and a tree does not make a Forest, Dangote is surviving at the mercy of FG monopoly , remove the monopoly let's watch how he falls, development is when you have 20million people naira millionaires than 1man with $20billion , the equation is not balance, .. I ask u again what do u guys have in hand to survive this , u might say agriculture... but do I reminds you, 89% of Germany, England groceries and edible foods are imported , what am I to lose if there is no oil 90% of northern agricultural products are sold in South , I can source any of this your unhygienic products elsewhere, so my dear I don't depends on ur unhygienic products to survive. u can take it elsewhere and sell, I believe ur agric did not meet up with international standard, the only place u can sell it, is Niger chad of Somali, I laugh when you said we ... please should I reminds you there is nothing like we, every region will carry it Cross, your fate and mine are not the same, as I'm seeing it sooner or later there will be nothing like we anymore, it won't be business as usual, no more monthly oil bounties, no southern Nigeria to carry you along, u will wallow in chaos and social rascality and Almajiri system your leaders intentionally brought to your region... please tell me how northern Nigeria going to scale through

ELKHALIFAISIS:
yeah as the era of crude oil is about to crumble ,what do you have in hand to scale through Education F9
entrepreneurship F9+ , ... so tell me how do you guys plan to survive since northern Nigeria are highly oil dependence , East have commerce, education and technology , West have financial institutions, education, and entrepreneurship, and what do u northerners have mass illiteracy , terrorism, unfriendly business destination, social unrest, religious fanatics, poverty and hostile society , u will mentioned Dangote ,but should I reminds u Dangote is just one man, and a tree does not make a Forest, Dangote is surviving at the mercy of FG monopoly , remove the monopoly let's watch how he falls, development is when you have 20million people naira millionaires than 1man with $20billion , the equation is not balance, .. I ask u again what do u guys have in hand to survive this , u might say agriculture... but do I reminds you, 89% of Germany, England groceries and edible foods are imported , what am I to lose if there is no oil 90% of northern agricultural products are sold in South , I can source any of this your unhygienic products elsewhere, so my dear I don't depends on ur unhygienic products to survive. u can take it elsewhere and sell, I believe ur agric did not meet up with international standard, the only place u can sell it, is Niger chad of Somali, I laugh when you said we ... please should I reminds you there is nothing like we, every region will carry it Cross, your fate and mine are not the same, as I'm seeing it sooner or later there will be nothing like we anymore, it won't be business as usual, no more monthly oil bounties, no southern Nigeria to carry you along, u will wallow in chaos and social rascality and Almajiri system your leaders intentionally brought to your region... please tell me how northern Nigeria going to scale through

The way you are talking I don't think you hav been to the north b4, its funny how some of u were utterly surprised when they visited the north. Yes we have issues in the north bt we are united in fighting them.
NORTHERN NIGERIA: Farming is our pride, Agriculture remains our backbone.

Others resort to Yahoo Yahoo and other cyber crimes. They marry much much older women for visas.... While the ladies mostly engaged in prostitution.
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You just gave a proper definition of your yoruba people. Nairaland is awash with the pictures of yoruba youths marrying white grannies.

The NBS has a penchant for nonsensical statistics.

shamack:
Lol lies,,,,am currently in the east where money can do anytin for u

afonja!!!

Jacobx007:

Abuja is not working for northerners ooooo lol, hop u saw the pics uploaded above? Its jst that d average northerner is contended wit the little he has

A northerner with a first degree has a better chance of getting employed in Nigeria, that his/her southern counterpart. This influences their willingness to stay back.

You can choose to say otherwise.

Were is sarrki

magoo10:
so bribery and corruption rises from the north,one wonders why the highest thieves in govt comes from that region .abacha,buhari,ty danjuma etc comes to mind.

BABANGIDA &co,
THEY ARE COUNTLESS

Jacobx007:

The way you are talking I don't think you hav been to the north b4, its funny how some of u were utterly surprised when they visited the north. Yes we have issues in the north bt we are united in fighting them.
NORTHERN NIGERIA: Farming is our pride, Agriculture remains our backbone.

hahahaha stop showing me unhygienic agricultural products, I can't even touch such filthy things not to talk of eating it, chad and Somali will need those things , let's close all the southern border let's see where you will sell it, do you know that you are slaving for us for nothing u guys are good for odd and dirty jobs , well I like your spirit I pray and hope the rest of you guys will go back to your various farm and leave our oil alone.

Revelations backed up by empirical evidence........
These folks not only gave the most.....they reported the least incidents of their indulgence in this pastime to the relevant law enforcement agencies for their necessary action....as required of them by the provisions of our extant laws.
They are however vociferous in calling out other folks who report such incidents...
Shame on them...

Realtouchnot:



This got me thinking!
What could they possibly be doing that's helping them 'live large' without involving in the 'hustling' some southerners undergo to make money?

Niger Delta Oil money loot, custom import duty waivers due, smuggling, hajj dollar rebate and BDC crimes .

Tolexander:
Most of them aren't really interested in life outside their territories where they won't have their cultural values exhibited and protected.

Northerners are conservative.

Many of them outside Nigeria are there to spend the money or acquire knowledge and come back to their ancestral territory.

Yes plenty of them in Sudan and Pakistan. They like to maintain religious affinities with their like minds

Jacobx007:


And you so forgetful to remember that once Nigeria was financed from groundnut and cotton from the north. Did northerners complain then?

Along with palm fruit from the SS/SE, and cocoa from the SW. Northern Nigeria has never sponsored nigeria - rather, its been the other way round. In the words of Lord Lugard, “What we often call the Northern Protectorate of Nigeria today can be better described as the poor husband whilst it’s southern counterpart can be fairly described as the rich wife or the woman of substance and means. A forced union of marriage between the two will undoubtedly result in peace, prosperity and marital bliss for both husband and wife for many years to come. It is my prayer that that union will last forever”.

Even before the discovery of oil, the south has always subsidized the north since pre-colonial times.

ELKHALIFAISIS:

Oil exploration in Nigeria was a 50-year business venture that was funded by private equity with government only providing exploration licenses to the various international oil mineral development companies. It began in the Oil Rivers protectorate, around the bight of Bonny and Biafra, in 1907, seven years before the amalgamation of the northern and southern protectorates in 1914 and several years before the appearance of the first groundnut pyramid in Kano. Oil exploration was initiated in Nigeria by the Nigerian Bitumen Corporation, a private firm, which left Nigeria after a failed venture in 1914. Between 1937 and January 15, 1957, when international oil giant Shell-BP began exploration and the discovery of oil in commercial quantity in the Niger Delta community of Oloibiri in Bayelsa State, over six million pounds was spent by the company. Shell-BP would go on to construct the basic oil and gas infrastructure (network of pipelines) that would aid the evacuation of crude oil from production in Oloibiri and other oil-producing sites to the export terminals for international sale. The first oil refinery in Nigeria was not built with money from groundnut pyramids; it was built by Shell-BP in Eleme community, Rivers State, in 1965. Similarly, the 1970s was the beginning of the oil boom and Nigeria’s oil and gas production infrastructure would be expanded rapidly with oil money. The construction of the Warri refinery was awarded at a cost of $478 million to Snamprogetti Spa Milan of Italy by the Gen. Yakubu Gowon regime at the height of the oil boom in 1975 when the groundnut pyramids had almost disappeared. The Kaduna refinery was awarded at a cost of $525 million to Chiyoda Engineering and Construction Company in 1976 by the Murtala/Obasanjo regime and the new Port Harcourt refinery was commissioned in 1989.That's the lies they use to lay hold on niger delta oil. Awolowo used cocoa to develop his region, sadaurna used proceeds from groundnut to islamize d north, okpara used palm seeds proceeds to reinvigorate east.
No ground nut n cocoa money was used for exploration. The truth must b told.
The FG used royalty money paid by oil companies to buy a stake.
Your cocoa and groundnuts did not fund the oil industry so please stop your taqiyya lies.
I'm still asking what are guys from desert bring to the table

They bring absolutely nothing.

julietm123:

Funny What are you doing in the east?. I thought thought the east is 'erosion ravaged land'. when statistics doesn't favor you, it becomes a lie.smh.

NYSC,,,,,,

Bagehot:


They bring absolutely nothing.

no they bring mass illiteracy poverty and terrorism

ELKHALIFAISIS:
no they bring mass illiteracy poverty and terrorism

Guys abeg takam easy na, lol

they must learn in a hard way,