Dagah2:
With their size and no international support, they held the other regions hostage for 3 years, with their miniature size they have proven to be the most resilient. And in conclusion, the deserts of the north is as useless as the letter P in psychology. Come to think of it, the whole landmass you're trying to portray COULD be mostly deserts and that small sized region you are stroking the oasis. Size doesn't matter in everything.

Please stop giving us bad names with your lies. We survived attempted annihilation for 3 years in a war of survival and another 49 years of post war marginalization. Never for once did we hold any one hostage.

ZaraGift:


Benue is not North, most of the food we eat are imported/smoggled to Nigeria.

Aboki never see food chop na nation him want feed?

The core Northern States are half desert with their useless big land mass, them never see food chop.
that's why they are trying to conquer the Middle Belt

I'm sure you can only tell that to your kith and kin stuck in the village.

This nt true

Esseite:


How come with all the projected Agricultural achievements, it's still where it is on poverty index ratio?

Its does not feed everyone alone, those small states can comfortably feed itself from its internal agriculture with its guarded population growth if need be...

The Middle Belt Nigeria is different from the core North, the core North is half desert, they can't produce food for themselves let alone Nigeria, they are surviving by aids from, UN, European Union, American charity organization,
the middle Belt and the South have more arable land than them and that's why the Fulani herdsmen are carrying out Ethnic cleansing to grab land from the indigenous Christians

Buhari is really right about the 5%

EmekusTHEgreat:


And yet the nation imports food, isn't the north useless

The core not is desert

the Fulanis won't allow the Middle Belt to farm peacefully, the Fulanis are trying to conquer them and seize their land


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0CeMHeoejw

I knew Niger should be the largest, imagine travelling for 8 hours within one town to anoher in a state.

Binikingdowm:
the old Midwest is bigger than south eastern states combined.(delta and Edo).

Ironically they are even more developed than the eastern states even with all the bragging.

I can agree warri and asaba try..

But Edo state generally is a village.

GavelSlam:


But the nation also imports petrol.

ADAMU

ABOKI NAMA

NORSYK:


Shut the Bleep down... Which North is feeding Nigeria? North Korea or Northern Nigeria?

maybe the idiot mean north America

ZaraGift:



ADAMU

ABOKI NAMA

You still dey do short-time.

The thing wey your mama do.

wwwihy:
South East States should be merged into one state. They are the lowest in term of land mass and also lowest in term of productivity... Their internally generated revenue is not up to Ogun States Combined

And ogun still looks like a village with over bloated IGR.

skykenny:
To think that a super country as Israel is sitting on a land mass as low as 22,072 km² still baffles me. Here we pride ourselves on landmass & population.

Same with Singapore

Problemkid1:
So Niger state is bigger than all the South West combine I'm proud of my state

Yes without Lagos.Igbo people no man´s land.

To be candid,the North has continued to pull Nigeria backward with ethnocentric views and practices.Restructuring will help the North a great deal but they are afraid even of their own shadows in terms of partially standing on their own..

albaniy1:
Buhari is really right about the 5%

5% to 97%. Please deal with your presidents literary level before bringing his input to public discourse as this.

Problemkid1:
So Niger state is bigger than all the South West combine I'm proud of my state

Minus lagos

Which is deliberate in a way

MelesZenawi:



I can agree warri and asaba try..

But Edo state generally is a village.

The south is united and can never again be divided by the gambari's.

Hmmmm..

Ask the corpers that did Inec here in Niger State I wan laff kill myself election time..

They travelled almost twelve hours within a state and they were


" hope this drivers know road abi" I just dey laff cus its my state am used to travelling 15 hours self in a day


Guy to be frank Niger state is massive

QuotaSystem:
For your information (though I suspect you're aware), apart from being the tiniest region, the SE also has the smallest internally generated revenue making it the least productive region.

That makes your logic perfect for a pit latrine

When you compare population size to IGR, I really dont think SE is at the bottom ten.

Yet IGR OF THE NORTH IS LOW . CHECK HOW MANY STATES THAT DEPENDS ON FED_GOVT FOR PAYMENTS OF SALARIES . NORTHERN STATES TAKES ALSO THE FIRST . DOING WHAT'S RIGHT AT THE RIGHT TIME NEEDS NO PERMISSION. MERCI NAIRALANDER.

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MelesZenawi:



And ogun still looks like a village with over bloated IGR.

There is no state in the SE that is as developed or viable as Ogun state.

ZaraGift:



ADAMU

ABOKI NAMA

Aboki na Aboki any day. What do you expect.

MelesZenawi:



And ogun still looks like a village with over bloated IGR.

he's right, south east is too small and should be one state.

Very useless region, they contribute nothing but also want free money from fg

KayCee92:
When I read the comments left on this page I just felt sorry for the Nigerians that commented here. They said Land mass not which is more productive. There is/was absolutely no need to start playing ethnic or state card on this topic. Get the gist before Rushing to comment. Soyinka was right afterall. It a generation of first to comment. Feel sorry for those that played that ethnic card here.

Soyinka is worst than the average Nigerian zombie

princeadams11:

Their productivity has little or nothing to do with the effort of the state and citizens but due to the ports and the attention that the federal government has on the state. Mind you, if federal government should look into reactivating PH and akwa ibom ports and further extend the gesture to the proposed kogi port, the economic activities in lag will drastically reduced to the level you will never expect.

But the North has alledgely been ontop on Agriculture for decades, how come it has not catapulted the region to Eldorado?..

The question that comes to my mind is HOW DO WE GET HERE?

MelesZenawi:



And ogun still looks like a village with over bloated IGR.

Yoruba's are hardworking people. The problem of Nigeria has always been the division in the South and the core North are now benefiting from it.

Esseite:


But the North has alledgely been ontop on Agriculture for decades, how come it has not catapulted the region to Eldorado?..

We are not talking about the north here bro, we are talking abt Nigeria and this is because the government has so much focussed its attention to crude oil exploration and decided to abandoned other vital sectors in the country. For instance, Botswana's major source of revenue is COW exportation. Dont you think we will achieve better as a country if the government looks into other sectors. There is no state in this country that has no form of resources that can generate more revenue to our dear nation. What we need to do is to forget abt north, east or south and focused on Nigeria. Lets not get divided by religion and culture because wen u look at things as a whole, we are all human beings. You are a christain or muslim not by choice but because u were born into a christain or muslim family. So lets drop tribe, region and religion aside and think like human beigns bro. Cheers

The same problem Nigeria is having with the rest of African countries. Claiming Giant of Africa only by size and population which has never have anything to show for it.

Keep claiming that 5 States or more is just equal to one state up there while the small state is doing greater thing more than the 5in one State.

Useless comparison.

Peacemaker5128:

Dangote alone can buy the entire shout yeast the land of raising criminals

ipob,pd pigs and igbos are coming after you