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My dad told me if I came first in my exams, he was going to buy me a bicycle. I never truly understood what the concept was then so I outdid myself. I made sure I was "first" to finish and submit.

Immediately I got home, I broke the news to my dad filled with joy and satisfaction. Immediately he heard, he was like how did you know you are the first when your results haven't been released and I was like "I was the first to finish and submit dad, am not lying, you can ask my aunty"...and that was the end of the story. All the explanation he gave me fell on deaf ears. At the time I felt he betrayed my trust so that he won't be obliged to fulfil his promise of buying me the bicycle

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HMMMNNNNNNN TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY PLS BE KIND ENOUGH TO CONGRATULATE ME

Happy Birthday

It works...thanks

You were the best ever. You never let Nigerians down throughout your whole stay in office. You are gone now, but your legacy lives on. Sleep on mama Dora

This Lady has the natural tendency to be a very corrupt politician. Like Jonathan, they all start by peddling lies that they cannot fulfil just to attract sympathy from voters. I remember when GEJ too said he was going for just one term too. I guess that's why she joined PDP anyway.

From her days as a judge on Nigerian idols, I have grown to hate the stu.pid biatch, cos of all her bias and insensitive judgements. How can such a person like that be an incorruptible politician

Chest beating go reduce...

chegx: That's why i dont attend all those trainings, motivational programs . They know what they are training you on is a dead end, that's why they rather train you on it than to get busy making money from it.
i cant advice my enemy to go into Fish farming or GNLD.

Really, pls what do you have against fish farming. Am planning to go into it very soon.

What of the round one, koko or something...am not sure whether that's what it is called

Don't mind the fools, the FG is owing more than all the states combined.

tsolz150: "However, oil discovery in the east changed things",i dont get your drift sire,oil was discovered in the east?

The south or south-south wasn't really recognized politically back then. We only had three governing regions then

Sallychizzl3: Bro, so from your analysis you're saying the east was at fault or what

Like I said, am just laying down the facts...this thread is not created to elicit any sentiments

atlwireles: When will you people stop manufacturing this lie. At no time in the history of Nigeria, was groundnut from the north the main source of income. Also income, that was tax collected from the export of groundnut was share on 50/50 derivation formula. The same applied to cocoa, palm oil, rubber, hides and skin. The regions kept 50% of the taxes they generated and the center kept 50%.

But it was then major source...just like oil is the major source presently

tit: Stop lying to yourself.
The reason Lugard joined the south and north was to use revenues from the south to subsidize the north.
Yes, that word, subsidy. We north have been spoon fed for 100 years.
While the northern region's revenue mainly came from cotton, ground-nuts and tin, they kept 50% while the federal government got 50% of revenues.
The Western Region kept 50% of revenues from products like cocoa while the eastern region also kept 50% of revenues from coal, rubber, palm oil.
The value of products from the north was the least and it was no mainstay of the federal government.

Seriously, I don't get what your point is. Before oil was discovered in the south, the north was the major economic powerhorse followed closely by the west. If that's what you meant then I guess we are still on the same page

Brb...make I read am first

The causes of the Nigerian civil war could be
grouped into economic, political and social.

Economic:
Before the discovery of oil in the east, the nation' revenue had relied heavily on the groundnuts from the north. The then revenue was largely from the north, it was shared equally among all the regions. In addition, the north had political control.
However, oil discovery in the east changed things, due to economic focus shifted to the east. Due to this, the east also demanded for some political influence which the north was greatly against. This was definitely a recipe for war.

Political:
Failure of factions to compromise and cooperate to work together. Neither of the prime ministers wanted to compromise their deals to work together for a united Nigeria. Also the fact that the north received more revenue and opportunities though the east produced bulk of the revenue. The crisis in the west that came due to the fact that the elections that were held, were rigged and all laws were broken. Also, in 1966, a group of young staff members of the army under the leadership of Ironsi, staged a coup because they felt all the top nations politicians and leaders had let Nigeria down. They killed all top politicians and at the end made Ironsi the leader. Unfortunately for them, the north retaliated by opening a huge massacre of all igbos and also killed Ironsi and made Gowon the head.

The fleeing of the igbos during the massacre made them end up in the east. This again, made Ojukwu, the leader of the east ask for more demands as there was so much pressure on their facilities. But the north disagreed and this time the east decided that they were going to break themselves off Nigeria and take the oil with them. With this, the north couldn't allow as the oil gave in lots of revenue.

Social:
This was basically a combination of the different tribal groups put together and couldn't attempt to compromise together to make decisions leading to the small quarrels and arguments between them.

In summary

1) The easterners discovered oil and decided to secede whilst the economy had been majorly sustained previously by the notherners through agriculture. The notherners were obviously aggrieved at this.

2) In physics, it is said action and reaction are opposite and equal. Obviously, this was not so in this case of the civil war. Soldiers from the east launched the first coup campaign against top military officers and politicians who were mostly of nothern origin...few from the west too most notably chief Samuel Akintola, the then premier of west the western region. Within few months, nothern soldiers led a counter coup which was much deadlier than the first one. After terrible military and civilian losses, the easterners then decided to secede especially after discovering oil.

kobonaire: You saying that NairaLand has a better user interface than Facebook & Twitter is like saying that Niger republic is a better place to live in than Nigeria

Bleep interface. When I surf, am looking to get informed and not vain talk or swagg as characterized by twitter and facebook

@dhammyg...you just had to try that share button right?

Ok, now you know it works

kobonaire: I like your sense of humour ...

And you think am joking

Wow...this is awesome


Nairaland...decimating Facebook and twitter combined since 1960

Whether Babangida or not, all I know is that the Culprits are all within PDP. Ask general Azazi.

Its years now since GEJ publicly declared he knows boko sponsors. Why hasn't he gotten them arrested

Defies logic

aljharem: What !!!! 5 zones combined

Lol you must be crazy

You can choose to believe whatever makes you happy. Am only stating the facts. Am not hear to trade insults

GEJ's administration is filled with Chronic liars. Nigerians are paying dearly with their lives cos one of the lies perpetuated by the information minister Labaran maku back in April that we have stockpiles of vaccines and drugs for ebola. Sawyers wife disclosed that the reason her husband came here was because he was certain we had the cure

They're are ashamed to own up that GEJ went to Germany for medical check up because of the messy state of affairs in the health sector. So its understandable why they will try all means available for them to deny that fact

tit: Lagos is owing more than 5 zones combined.

If fashola should be on trial, then jonathan should be tried first...you get it now?

And besides, lagos is more populated and complex to manage than 5 zones combined

Gbawe: Why compare Lagos to Warri? A mere Lagos? Why not compare almighty Warri to London, New York and Paris? Nonsense. You people should at least check that your village delusions and 'dick comparison' obsession makes sense before you go public with it.

Lol...Some dumbos wouldn't get the sarcasm.