₦airaland Forum

coolzeal:
I am a realist and i love when someone challenge my argument with facts.. The Easterners are cheated woefully in Nigeria and exempted in the scheme of things. Disintegration is a must...

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Good morning and happy Sunday.

Some people say easterners benefit the most from Nigeria because they get to freely travel, live and do business anywhere in the country. Can you imagine such nonsense?

Match against the 1999 constitution instead.

raumdeuter:
Foreign investors choose the SW because of the peaceful nature of the states

They know the North fuelled by religion hate foreigners

ALso all the foreign investment in the East and South left due to kidapping and militancy

Check the US travel warnings to Nigeria and see the states they list as travel risks.

Below are examples of travel warnings to Nigeria issued by Canada



Below is another example from the US. Note how the SE and SS states are all there

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Nigeria Travel Warning (July 27, 2015)

The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Nigeria and recommends that U.S. citizens avoid all travel to Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states because the security situation in northeast Nigeria remains fluid and unpredictable. The U.S. Department of State strongly urges U.S. citizens in Nigeria to consider their own personal security and to keep personal safety in the forefront of their travel planning. This Travel Warning replaces the Travel Warning for Nigeria dated February 2, 2015.

The ability of the Mission to provide assistance to U.S. citizens in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states remains severely limited. The Department continues to recommend against all but essential travel to the following states due to the risk of kidnappings, robberies, and other armed attacks: Adamawa, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Borno, Delta, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Yobe, and Zamfara. The Department also warns against travel in the Gulf of Guinea because of the threat of piracy. Based on safety and security risk assessments, the Embassy maintains restrictions for travel by U.S. officials to those states listed above; officials must receive advance clearance by the U.S. Mission for any travel deemed as mission-essential. U.S. citizens should be aware that extremists could expand their operations beyond northern Nigeria to other areas of the country.

The U.S. Mission advises all U.S. citizens to be particularly vigilant around government security facilities; churches, mosques, and other places of worship; locations where large crowds may gather, such as hotels, clubs, bars, restaurants, markets, shopping malls; and other areas frequented by expatriates and foreign travelers. Security measures in Nigeria remain heightened due to threats posed by extremist groups, and U.S. citizens may encounter police and military checkpoints, additional security, and possible road blocks throughout the country.

Boko Haram, an extremist group based in northeast Nigeria designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the Department of State, has claimed responsibility for many attacks, mainly in northern Nigeria. Its members have killed or wounded thousands of people during the past four years. Boko Haram has targeted churches, schools, mosques, government installations, educational institutions, and entertainment venues in Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Kaduna, Kano, Plateau, Taraba, the Federal Capital Territory, and Yobe states. Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians have been displaced as a result of violence in the north.

2014-2015 saw an increase in attacks by Boko Haram and clashes with Nigerian government security forces in northern Nigeria. Boko Haram targeted men, women, and children for kidnapping. In April 2014, Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of over 200 school-aged girls in Borno State. Boko Haram is known to descend on whole towns, robbing banks and businesses, attacking police and military installations, and setting fire to private homes. In 2014, extremists also targeted several public markets and transportation hubs in northern Nigeria, including the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja. In Abuja, two explosions occurred in separate attacks at a parking lot in April and May and a shopping center was bombed in June. Several other markets, schools, churches, mosques and bars were targeted throughout the north including an attack with heavy casualties at the central mosque in Kano in November. Boko Haram also claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in Lagos that used a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device that killed four at the Apapa port facility on June 25, 2014. In January 2015, Boko Haram attacked the town of Baga in Borno state, resulting in an estimated 2,000 casualties. January - July 2015 saw attacks and suicide bombings in Adamawa, Plateau, Borno, and Kano states.

Various curfews are intermittently in effect in several states in the North. All U.S. citizens should remain aware of current situations including curfews, travel restrictions, and states of emergency in the areas they are in or plan to visit. This information is commonly announced via the news media, but at times it can change with very little notice. Please take the time to find out this information for your area.

Cell phone service has, at times, been disrupted in Nigeria, particularly in areas where a State of Emergency has been declared, and when extremists have attacked cellular telephone towers. U.S. citizens should attempt to arrange for multiple means of communication in case of need during emergencies.

Kidnappings remain a security concern throughout the country. Kidnappings are orchestrated by Islamic extremists, predominately in the North, and for ransom by criminal elements in the South. Several high-profile kidnappings occurred in 2014-2015 involving U.S. citizens and other foreign nationals. In September 2014, two U.S citizens were kidnapped in Port Harcourt in two separate incidents. In February 2015, a U.S. citizen was kidnapped in Kogi state. In May 2015, two U.S. citizens were kidnapped in Ondo and Anambra states in separate incidents. Kidnappings of foreign nationals and attacks against Nigerian police forces in Lagos state and the Niger Delta region continued to affect personal security for those traveling in these areas. Criminals or militants have abducted foreign nationals, including U.S. citizens, from off-shore and land-based oil facilities, residential compounds, airports, and public roadways. Local authorities and international corporations operating in Nigeria assert that the number of kidnapping incidents throughout Nigeria remains under-reported. Attacks by pirates off the coast of Nigeria in the Gulf of Guinea have increased substantially in recent years. Armed gangs have boarded both commercial and private vessels to rob travelers. The Nigerian Navy has limited capacity to respond to criminal acts at sea.

Violent crimes occur throughout the country. U.S. citizen visitors and residents have experienced armed muggings, assaults, burglaries, armed robberies, car-jackings, rapes, kidnappings, and extortion. Home invasions also remain a serious threat, with armed robbers accessing even guarded compounds by scaling perimeter walls, accessing waterfront compounds by boat, following residents or visitors, or subduing guards to gain entry to homes or apartments. Law enforcement authorities usually respond slowly or not at all and provide little or no investigative support to victims. U.S. citizens, other foreign nationals, and Nigerians have experienced harassment and shakedowns at checkpoints and during encounters with Nigerian law enforcement officials.

I repeat, the only reason Lagos gets foreign and local investment is due to its strategic market positioning in Nigeria.

QuotaSystem:

2. The same disparity exists in the south. In fact the difference in poverty rates between the north and south is less than 19% meaning the povert rate in the south exceeds 50% (half your population). What Karma are you suffering?

It is more prevalent and palpable in the north than the south. It will remain so in the long run.

YoundDoctor:
You people are truly sacrificial....
But your sacrificial is out of cowardice will I say weakness.
You don't even have right over your resources nor your land...
And I didn't even remember when we ask you to sacrifice your own resources.
As someone in jigawa is claiming ownership of bayelsa oil resources..
So calling for a minorities day is kinda a big slap to some other citizen as no one is begging you guys as it is now to lay down your resources...
And I see it thrashed down by responsible citizens as this will only bring ethnic tension thereby heating the heated polity...

Stop asking for special treatment as No one begged you for your sacrificial resources. #fact.

That is why they should be celebrated. Besides not all minorities have oil.

LRNZH:
I am shocked because if the old guard like OBJ, Anenih etc condone and partake in corruption as usual, a shoeless son of a fisherman from the ND creeks with a PhD who got overwhelming masses votes in 2011should have known better and worked for the masses interests but alas...

Under GEJ , Nigeria had the highest revenue ever in its 101 years history. All that opportunity wasted.

The best opportunity Nigeria had to redress our fundamental problems was during OBJ's regime in 1999. But he messed up so terribly thereby puting the country in a deeper mess than he left it.

No president in Nigeria can stop corruption or even try to minimize it. Corruption will flourish under Buhari, it will still flourish after Buhari leaves office. That is the hard truth.

mikolo80:
Real reason is education
west indispensable technical education

north indispensable political education

east and co. Just noisemakers and chest beaters

Crap.

arresa:
Fair write up, but a little off, incomplete picture and oversimplification.


Sure, investors look at the Nigerian capital factor, but the number one factor investors think and worry about before siting their investments is safety and security of their investments. The SW remains the safest and the most peaceful, progressive and conducive place to invest in Nigeria. Other factors are availability of skilled and educated manpower and also disposable income.

Lastly, leadership and their ability to seek and drum up investments via favorable terms, trade and investment summits.

Where was this analysis when Lagos hosts trade summits every year including Ehingbeti Economic summit.

Same with Ogun trade summit, Oyo state trade summit and SWITS/SouthWest Investment Trade Summit..

Investments doesn't drop from the tree, you have to work for it..

Investors wont jump into the North, SE/SS to invest anything because of insecurity and instability.

Many questioned Dangote for not investing in the SE, but the man is obviously not regretting his actions if intentional or not after witnessing the destruction of life and property including his own trucks in the SE last week.

Peace is an abstract term but if you want if you want to qualify environments with it then you should admit that Lagos is not a peaceful place. Lagos is one of the least peaceful places in the whole of Africa.

The basic reason investors come to Lagos is due to its availability of markets (consumer, industrial, financial and labor).


Every other thing is secondary or baseless - Trade summits, "leadership" and "progressiveness" are baseless reasons. I don't even know what you mean by those terms.

QuotaSystem:
You forgot to add that the North controls most public institutions, gets most government projects, and has the best public infrastructure like dams, roads and installations e.g. KD refinery in the country.

You also forgot to add that the military and civil service are also dominated by northerners. The unfortunate thing is that the northern masses however don't seem to directly benefit from these advantages unlike the middle class/elite.

Regardless, there are lots of things to be glad about as a northern Nigerian.

I noted all that. E dey sweet your belle abi?

The unfortunate thing is that the northern masses however don't seem to directly benefit from these advantages unlike the middle class/elite.

This is due to karma.

LRNZH:
..

Says a Biafra agitator....

Did these things begin to happen in 2011 or you're shocked because the journalism was done by a white man?

LoveMachine:
I was with you until the near end. What did Igala people do wrong?

It was a benign joke. Removed

Why Yoruba's Love Nigeria

As it stands currently, the Yoruba’s are biggest beneficiaries of Nigeria. Why, you may ask? Well this is because they own (or claim to own) Lagos.

How are Yoruba’s benefiting from Nigeria by owning Lagos? This is because 90 percent of all foreign investment that comes to Nigeria goes to Lagos. Lagos is the commercial heartbeat of Nigeria. Everything important about Nigeria’s commercial sector and economy is in Lagos – From the vibrant ports, to foreign missions and embassies, to industries, multinationals, financial sector etc.

Almost all trans-border projects connecting Nigeria to other countries are connected to or only through Lagos.
For example – The West African Gas pipeline, the West African Power Pool, The Lagos to Abidjan Corridor, the West African Cable system and a host of others.

All the 5 submarine cables connected to Nigeria are connected to Lagos. In fact, even a cable linking Cameroun to Nigeria was connected only to Lagos. They skipped, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Delta and connected it to Lagos. (This may be due to viability reasons)

So, the south west is aware of the development that is coming to them through Lagos and they wouldn’t want to mess it up. Their ownership of Lagos has already made them dominate the organized private sector followed by Igbos. Ogun state is also becoming the most industrialized state in the country. That is why they chose to be patriotic Nigerians. Most patriotic Nigerians are Yorubas.


Why Hausa/Fulani Love Nigeria
The reason why the Hausa/Fulani and their kith and kin in the north are happy in Nigeria is obvious. After the yoruba’s/south west, the north comes next as the zone/ethnic people who benefit from Nigeria at the expense of others. They have more states, more local governments, more politicians and more civil servants but less human capital. This means Northerners get to receive more of the revenues generated by the federal government (from the Niger delta).
Due to the low human development in the northern region, they get favorable educational programs and policies funded by the federal government which is not available to other regions. The northern zone also has better road infrastructures than the southern zone. The seat of government is also located in the North, to facilitate the development of the Northern Region.


Ijaws and other ND minorities
The reasons why Ijaws and other minorities in the South South are “content being Nigerians”
Ignorance and helplessness. That’s all. The minority tribes in Nigeria’s Niger Delta generate a bulk of the country’s revenue but they’re some of the poorest people you can ever find in Africa. Most Nigerians from the west and north barely even know they exist.

[s]This thread is purely speculative[/s]


Have a nice night rest. . .

Nigerian minorities are the salt of Nigeria. Hate it or love it, Nigeria would not exist without the minority ethnic nations in the north and south. It is the minorities that are sustaining the economy of the country by sacrificing their lands, resources and future towards the development of Nigeria.

There is a need to celebrate them, appreciate them and grant them the justice they deserve. Unfortunately, most Nigerians do not know about even the most common minority ethnic groups in Nigeria like the Efiks and Ibibios, Ijaws, Urhobos, Idomas, Igala, Tivs etc.

Had it not been that an Ijaw man was president, many Nigerians especially from the west and north wouldn’t have known that there was an ethnic nation called Ijaw. If you ask Nigerians today what ethnicity is the former senate president, (David Mark) most people can’t tell because they have no idea.

We tend to brand any tribe in close proximity to the majority tribes as part of a majority tribe although they are culturally, linguistically and socially different. People in the west think the Ijaws are Igbos, the Igbos think the Tivs and some other minority tribes in the north are Hausa/Fulani and so on.

It is in the wake of this that I propose we have a minority’s day in Nigeria. We get to meet them, learn about them and appreciate them. They deserve it



Special shout out to the Urhobos, Ijaws, Ogonis and Binis.

So? Whats the big deal?

Rikidony:
dude the Nigerian am living in is not unprogressive if ur region is lacking behind hold your leaders accountable,

Nigeria is an unprogressive country on all fronts. Stop deceiving yourself.

Rikidony:
dude what IPOB claims they are passing through is what every Nigerian is passing through

Then tell other Nigerians to protest. IPOB should continue and intensify the protest against this fraudulent and unprogressive Nigerian state. That is the only path to progress and justice. Violence is the only language the Nigerian state understands.

The Biafran protests are necessary. They remind us that Nigeria was built on a wrong foundation and it has to be addressed.

The Biafra protests are very necessary and they should continue. Only a hypocrite will disagree with me.

Who cares? Why should I bother?

Should this be on the frontpage?

LMAO!!!

Kyase:
Good for Nigerians

No. Good for him and his people.

Good for him and his people.

feaworaoja007:
kai! She wasnt @ all...didnt u watch when a senate commitee summoned her and bombarded her wit lots of question,she was almost crying...infact,it was aas if she was defending her thesis in sch or something...the chairman of the committee treated her like a mean lecturer!

The power of the senate lies in the group and not a single person. A single senator is powerless

When you say powerful, what exactly do you mean? Some Ministers have the power and authority to set policies and programmes that may have overreaching effects on our socioeconomic and political life. Okonjo Iweala was more powerful than any senator during her time. Same with Diezani. A CBN governor is not elected but he's more powerful than the senate president.

HungerBAD:
Are you okay?

Ask Buhari.

Anything to empower Boko Haram financially is a welcome development.

crowns2:
But the dance we used to dance to his beats are Makossa

No. The dances aren't makossa either.

crowns2:
Please and please let this music track come out real quick. I can't wait to dance to this collabo. Let me try out my former makkosa skills mehn I smell a hit mehn

Awilo is a soukous musician. He does not sing makossa

If there's no Kimoko in the studio then the song is wack!