wristbangle:


Dude, is this the best you can come up with to counter my statement? Your level of reasoning is too timid. Come up with something constructive and let's dialogue. Your comment depicts that of a 2yrs old kid.

Noblecx:


This is the kinda truth that can discontructs the a skyscraper of lies being sold to us from the gutters of ibadan

wristbangle:
[s]So 1914 statistics till when oil was discovered shows that SS/SE has been entirely feeding Nigeria as said by the OP judging from his comments. See here is the thing, can we have statistics of 1940 - 1965 to show which region contributes the highest GDP in Nigeria? Cocoa and groundnut were the mainstream of our economy as facts can be seen on Google search.

These people, una no dey tire? The 1914 and perhaps oil boom sales from your region of which the derivatives was paid to your corrupt leaders who ate all the money to themselves hereby building mansion in Lagos and abroad is not our doing[/s].

OBAGADAFFI:


Am just laughing, at the comments of those guys here.

They probably didn't know that Crude oil discovery was the beginning of Palm decline.


As the time SW was making Palm oil production has declined.

Lushore1:


Bros why are u like this? Or are you not the "OP" again? no one claimed that southwest produced more palm oil products more than SS or SE. It was you "OP" that clearly stated in the first page that niger delta is feeding the rest of the country through palm oils, u later added eastern region and someone else added midwest. Even though there were no evidence to suggest that monies generated from this period were shared with any other region, most of these incomes were simply going into british government account.

Noblecx:
Resuscitation of the thread ongoing....

What a nice counter to the famous Yoruba and Hausa oil funding propaganda.

aribisala0:
[s]This is simply not true. Read the report. Good fom the East were shipped from the east ,Calabar,Port harcourt etc , there are previous reports before 1914 where this is very clear so no not tell ridiculous lies. How did palm oil get to Lago from Calabar? There was not even a Niger Bridge in 1914 yet one clown is posting funny pictures of antique trucks. Even from Warri in the Midwest goods were shipped from Forcados/Burutu . Rather than guessing spend time to educate yourselves
Southern Nigeria before 1906 referred to Eastern Nigeria region and some parts of the Midwest and a part of Western Cameroon

They were administered separately before 1906 under different Governors.

This is the report for 1900 let us not pretend that reports started in1914
http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/ilharvest/Africana/Books2011-05/3064634/3064634_1899_1900_southern_nigeria/3064634_1899_1900_southern_nigeria_opt.pdf

While Colony of Lagos refers to Lagos ,Western Nigeria and some parts of the Midwest[/s]

Lushore1:


[s]It was the op that was attributing the total palm oil production in the country to niger delta. He later changed it to eastern region and eventually added midwest.

Go through the cited report again and you will see that the present southwest region is also part of southern provinces. Example the regeneration of cocoa farm in agege district and apapa saw mill (lagos), the oni forest reserve (ogun state) and many others...[/s].

modath:


[s]Thanks for resurrecting this travesty of a wailing thread, to think same people are almost convulsing now!!

Cc, Midolian, Omenka, 989900 , Aresa, Tuale4u, TheVoice, seunmsg, Ratello, Goke7[/s],

omenka:
[s]These guys are just so pathetic and disgusting. This isn't the first time we'd see such foolishness on display from them. What about the el Zakzaky case- these same people that see EVERY MUSLIM and NORTHERNER as their mortal enemy happen to be the most fervent supporters of the ol man today, reason being that he's being handled by Buhari!
They would bury their mothers alive if that spites Buhari[/s].

SpicyJosBabe:


Ok, and if i may ask, which money was used in developing the oil and gas industries in the past? Was it the private money of Southernerns? No, it was the collective wealth of agriculture all Nigerians.

Talking about Abuja, do you know the sacrifice which the FCT indigenes paid? They lost their ancestral land and heritage forever. Its not as if the land was a complete virgin land. These people no longer have a lot of rights in their ancestral homeland, they can never become governors and worst of they dont produce ministers. Lets not go to that topic.

SpicyJosBabe:



[s]You guys have the mouths to boast today because the federal govt invested much into crude oil exploration. If we the northernerns get as much federal govt investments into this hydropower generation, we can supply energy to meet the demand of the whole Nigeria and even other countries, there are many waterfalls in the north.[/s]
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Your Cocoa and Groundnuts did not fund the oil industry[/size]

That is tantamount to saying Saudis funded their oil industry with sun and sand!

Exploration for crude petroleum oil in Nigeria first began in 1908. However, serious and sustained efforts did not happen until Shell Darcy Petroleum Company commenced operations in 1935. It took this company more than 20 years to discover petroleum crude oil in commercial quantities in Oloibiri in 1956.

Before 1965, all the international petroleum marketing companies in Nigeria imported their stocks independently from their own refineries located abroad. As the local demand grew for these products, and following the local availability of crude oil by pipeline, establishment of a refinery in Nigeria became commercially viable..  Two oil marketing companies in Nigeria , Shell and British Petroleum, BP, formed a 50/50 joint venture refining company in Nigeria , the Nigerian Petroleum Refining (NPRC) in 1960.

The NPRC built a 38,000b/d petroleum refinery at Alesa-Eleme, near Port Harcourt to refine local crude oil into five petroleum fuel products. Construction of the refinery commenced in 1963 and production started two years later, in 1965.

Crude oil processed in the NPRC refinery was a portion of the production destined for export through Shell-BP’s Bonny Island export terminal. By a special contract agreement among all the five major products marketing companies, they procured crude oil from Shell-BP..  The crude oil was transported by pipeline to the NPRC Refinery for processing based on the quantity processed, at an agreed unit price per ton of crude oil.

The major marketers also, at their own cost, arranged the timely evacuation of the products from the refinery, mostly by the sea to Lagos and the remaining by road tankers..  The refinery was de-bottlenecked in 1973, in order to increase its crude oil processing capacity from 38,000b/d to 60,000b/d. The domestic demand for petroleum products which steadily increased was satisfied by the NPRC refinery for about 8 to 10 years.

In 1970, the Federal Government acting as a member of OPEC compulsorily acquired and paid for an equity share of 60 percent in all private international companies working in the Upstream and Downstream sectors of the Petroleum Industry in the country.

https://www.nairaland.com/2286512/cocoa-groundnuts-did-not-fund

timeman:
If only you had patience, maybe knowledge would have smiled at you, unfortunately, you were way ahead of yourself. if you had read with keen insights you would've realised that you gloated on mere trivial. Ask yourself why the market for palm oil declined from early 40s.
Kiss the truth!