lamalang:
This people have done nothing in other northern states, though we in the northeastern part we already know the northern states like kano, katsina, kaduna, sokoto, zamfara, kebbi, jigawa dont consider us ( plateau, nasarawa, gombe, adamawa, taraba, benue as full northerners because of high number of christians in these states and 70% are not hausa-fulani. They only consider them north when are looking for votes

sarrki:



;DD

Kind of busy with personal stuffs

phreakabit:


There is no Southern Nigeria!
The is SW, SE and SS empahsis on the and due to the rocky relationship between the 2.
The other ones however are brothers of the North and so they should stay.

RZArecta:
What else do you possibly expect from a northern regional president who views every other part of the country with contemptuous disdain ? It's a fact that he hasn't deemed it necessary to visit any other region of the country especially the SS & SE since he assumed power but his days are numbered on that throne, by 2019 he shall be kicked out of Aso rock like a burst football and shoved to the ICC to answer to charges of genocide against unarmed Nigerians Insha'Allah

tsdarkside:


delta igbos are not deltans...they are yeasterners....

bigtt76:
That request was tactical to help defeat Boko Haram. I know people would read political meanings into it but then the best way to defeat terrorism is human empowerment.

The youths in the north are being given pittance and ridiculous amounts with promises just for them to strap up. Imagine if they were empowered to do business and fend for themselves... Would they want to strap up? No!

I agree they need to extend to other parts of the country because many youths are out of employment hence their ability to agitate and easily deceived to embark on fruitless ventures.

fiizznation:
Shut up there!!! Were you expecting the world Bank to bring development to the south that have already developed? According to your stats?

Paperwhite:
[/b]"The President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, said on Thursday that the bank had concentrated on the northern region of Nigeria in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s request."[b] Government of the north,for the north and by the north.Buhari have never hidden his ethnic bias in a multipolar country like Nigeria.Too sad and bad.Meanwhile Sarrki welcome back.Guess recent trend of events have become too hot for you to handle that you had to sneak at this dead of the night to do your work?

ZZ22:
To the ewedu sai baba chanters dont you think that SW are part of those classified as 5%

odomanis:



Is this instruction not a Hate act ? Hate act and Hate speech which one is worse ?

bigtt76:
That request was tactical to help defeat Boko Haram. I know people would read political meanings into it but then the best way to defeat terrorism is human empowerment.

The youths in the north are being given pittance and ridiculous amounts with promises just for them to strap up. Imagine if they were empowered to do business and fend for themselves... Would they want to strap up? No!

I agree they need to extend to other parts of the country because many youths are out of employment hence their ability to agitate and easily deceived to embark on fruitless ventures.

tsdarkside:


delta igbos are not deltans...they are yeasterners....

Desyner:
This explains why we are ignoring crude oil refinement to go in search of northern crude oil first - a gamble in time of scarcity. Let the north discover theirs if the south won't allow northerners sheepishly transfer it Kaduna to refine. The southerners can't bomb the financial pipelines carry the funds unlike raw crude.
This is why we must restructure on time.

Mrchippychappy:


I see we are playing the "convenience" card yet again right? When it comes to the numbers game and politics (elections, census, state creation, revenue allocation) THEN the igbos in the SS are not Igbos they are south southerners BUT once the political agenda is achieved then its back to the igbos in the south south NOT being REAL south southerners, right?

tsdarkside:


they are not...as long they were saying too more resource control,okay...but biafra??...thats a big no no......

many in the delta dont speak igbo...or you wan deny that fact??.....if they start thinking like yeasterners then they are not deltans any longer...

sarrki:


Other parts shouldn't be left out

Johnayoola:
buhari stands as the worst president in Africa not only in Nigeria,he just can't pretend to show is hatred towards the south.

phreakabit:


You forgot Borno they are part of the NorthEast too, don't throw your brothers away because of Bokoharam now.
This is the country your fathers fought for just chill and enjoy it, everything will be alright.

BanevsJoker:

I still want to know whose idea it was to build a refinery in Kaduna. Imagine the collosal waste of resources involved in laying pipelines all the way from the Niger Delta to Kaduna. Evil is beginning to look like a profitable business venture in this world. I mean the more evil these people are, the more prosperous they appear to be. I'm beginning to think I'm in the wrong line of work.

sarrki:
The President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim, said on Thursday that the bank had concentrated on the northern region of Nigeria in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s request.

Kim and the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, who spoke at separate press conferences in Washington DC, United States, also advised Buhari to invest in


things that would enhance economic growth.

Kim said, “You know, in my very first meeting with President Buhari he said specifically that he would like us to shift our focus to the northern region of Nigeria and we’ve done that. Now, it has been very difficult. The work there has been very difficult.

“I think Nigeria, of course, has suffered from the dropping oil prices. I think things are just now getting better. But the conversation we need to have with Nigeria, I think, is in many ways related to the theme that I brought to the table just this past week, which is investment in human capital. The percentage of the Gross Domestic Product that Nigeria spends on healthcare is less than one percent.”

He added, “Despite that, there is so much turbulence in the northern part of the country, and there is the hit that was taken from the drop in the oil prices. Nigeria has to think ahead and


invest in its people. Investing in the things that will allow Nigeria to be a thriving, rapidly growing economy in the future is what the country has to focus on right now.”

Kim also said, “Focusing on the northern part of Nigeria, we hope that as commodity prices stabilise and oil prices come back up, the economy will grow a bit more. But very, very much important is the need to focus on what the drivers of growth in the future will be.”

According to the World Bank boss, the bank will invest in human capital in other parts of Africa in order to prepare the continent for the next phase of growth.

Lagarde, in her remarks, said Sub-Saharan African countries, including Nigeria, had posted suboptimal


growth in recent times.

The growth figures, she said, were far too small considering the huge demographic potential of Nigeria and other countries in the region.

As a result, she said the IMF would be engaging ministers of finance and central bank governors from the region attending the annual World Bank and IMF meetings on how they could boost and stabilise economic growth.

Lagarde said, “The Sub-Saharan Africa is one region of the world where growth is suboptimal. Those countries grow at an average growth of 2.5 per cent. That is too low for the demographic expansion of the region.”

The IMF managing director said emerging and developing economies must invest more in their economies through infrastructural spending, strengthening safety nets, allowing women more access to the labour market and carrying structural reforms.

http://punchng.com/buhari-asked-us-to-focus-on-northern-nigeria-wbank/

giftq:

And to think that many mumu southerners are still screaming "sai barbarian" till today