thesicilian:
This man speaks like a true patriot and I agree with most of what he says, but the major solution to Nigeria's problems is not restructuring, it is still fighting corruption. Both political and economic corruption. If you restructure the country into regions and the regional heads are corrupt and incompetent, how does that help? A major reason the north is educationally backwards is because their leaders have diverted their resources and allocations for their personal use, and there is no accountability. It is the same problem with the Niger Delta, and if you check very well, you'll see that both the north and Niger Delta have similar issues - educational backwardness, insurgency, poor infrastructural development. To blame that on the central government is just plain mental laziness.
Whatever the structure of the nation is is not as relevant as having competent, accountable and economically sound leaders...

freeze001:
Unfortunately he still has d lazy, socialist mentality and expects allocation from the central federal government.



What is that crap? Where will d FG draw d funds to share as allocation from? Is it not from d regions? Why should a group of people commandeer resources not theirs and redistribute by whatever sharing formula? The regions should be self reliant and then contribute to the centre an agreed percentage.

mmsen:


Sanusi also said that $47 billion was missing from state coffers...

The colonial authorities did not stop them from educating their children that was their own stupid thinking.

Instead of having your child recite a book written by an Arab who was probably a schizophrenic teach them mathematics. Mathematics is universal. I wouldn't impede on their religious mythology in any way and would provide them with the foundation to be engineers. They elected not to.

Nathan2016:
This is the funniest comment here...Abeg is there any northerner that have been rejected to purchase land in south....well the man hit the nail by saying you guys need to be more enlightened....seriously.....how can you expect to grow wen all you do is stir up[ one terrorist group or another.... and saying the u guys dont want south to rule is laughable.....go and read the history and tell me how many northerners have ruled ngeria... come back and correct yourself........jonathan did more for you guys than to his own people stilll.....you just want to play the victim,,,,,i cant say we dont hate you or you dont hate us ,, becos in truth the feeling is mutual.

hamzeiy:

what the guy said is d pure truth..either you like it or not the southerners are so free in northern nigeria..come to kano and see igbo business men you might think its onitcha...they build houses in the middle of the hausaz and and muslim community without consequence except during religous or ethnic crises perpetrated by hoodlums, i stayed in porthacourt for sometime its even difficult to see a mosque over there or rent an apatrtment as a muslim and that is based on the fact that SS is even more tolerant than the SE..so pls lets be honest with our selves ..if you think gej did anything to northern nigeria other than bombs and distruction in the name of winning 2015 election then you must have lost the touch of reality..i can categorically tell you that gej is the most hated president in northern nigeria not because he is a southerner but because he was wicked in dealing with the mass death due to bh.. building few almajiri school wont bring back lost lives or givin public money to northern elites wont solve the problem...

thesicilian:
It is the same problem with the Niger Delta, and if you check very well, you'll see that both the north and Niger Delta have similar issues - educational backwardness, insurgency, poor infrastructural development. To blame that on the central government is just plain mental laziness.

JideAmuGiaka:
Jideamugiaka was here.

ABOKI9ja:
I might agree with his point. As a Northerner and Hausa by tribe I will like to share Northern's view on Leadership Of Nigeria Based on my Understanding. More than average of total population of Northerners are scare of any Southerner to Becomes president, Because of too much hate and Descrimination from the Southerners which is means there will be more Consequences whenever Southerner climbs number one seat. For Example, During Jonathan everyone knows Jonathan did not fought well on Boko Haram and its even politically Empowered by Him. If you to Judge fairly you know South hates North very much for Example, its hardly to find Northerner that owns House or land in south but if you come to The North you will be Suprised to find thousands of Southerners that own lands, Houses, and some of them are even in the Government. We treat them like our own people we do Business with them we employ them we give them Right to own Businesses we sometimes prefer to do Business with them than our own people and all we need from them is only to respect our Religion and Tribe Because these two things come first before everything.
Thank God we dont talk too much we only do action and we dont care about what Southern media are saying.
We might be a Prloblem to Nigeria as South and the only Solution is to let every Region go it own way
Note: I only say my opinion and yours might vary from mine

vedaxcool:
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The ineffectual buffoon once again acted out of sheer greed and selfish interest.

Bizibi:
was expecting this from u......aboki

vedaxcool:


abobaku

hamzeiy:

what the guy said is d pure truth..either you like it or not the southerners are so free in northern nigeria..come to kano and see igbo business men you might think its onitcha...they build houses in the middle of the hausaz and and muslim community without consequence except during religous or ethnic crises perpetrated by hoodlums, i stayed in porthacourt for sometime its even difficult to see a mosque over there or rent an apatrtment as a muslim and that is based on the fact that SS is even more tolerant than the SE..so pls lets be honest with our selves ..if you think gej did anything to northern nigeria other than bombs and distruction in the name of winning 2015 election then you must have lost the touch of reality..i can categorically tell you that gej is the most hated president in northern nigeria not because he is a southerner but because he was wicked in dealing with the mass death due to bh.. building few almajiri school wont bring back lost lives or givin public money to northern elites wont solve the problem...

olisaEze:


Point of order, the Niger Delta is not educationally backward as you have asserted. A lot of those militants and freedom fighters are well educated and understand that the fight is not against their fellow struggling citizens but against a government that would take their resources and greedily and shamelessly redistribute it among themselves and their lackeys to the detriment of the region's eco-system. The north will remain educationally backward for as long as religion is paramount when weighed against human capital development. As long as the people don't question their social order, their leaders will continue to dupe and use them for their personal political advancement.

chloride6:


The corruption hides behind the bad structuring and that's why you cant get it out.

cole265:


You are by only an inch more intelligent than Balarabe Miss.

No joke o, I beg

NorthernParrot:
he spoke your mind and suddenly yiu believed. That old man most likely have had amnesia

ABOKI9ja:
I might agree with his point. As a Northerner and Hausa by tribe I will like to share Northern's view on Leadership Of Nigeria Based on my Understanding. More than average of total population of Northerners are scare of any Southerner to Becomes president, Because of too much hate and Descrimination from the Southerners which is means there will be more Consequences whenever Southerner climbs number one seat. For Example, During Jonathan everyone knows Jonathan did not fought well on Boko Haram and its even politically Empowered by Him. If you to Judge fairly you know South hates North very much for Example, its hardly to find Northerner that owns House or land in south but if you come to The North you will be Suprised to find thousands of Southerners that own lands, Houses, and some of them are even in the Government. We treat them like our own people we do Business with them we employ them we give them Right to own Businesses we sometimes prefer to do Business with them than our own people and all we need from them is only to respect our Religion and Tribe Because these two things come first before everything.
Thank God we dont talk too much we only do action and we dont care about what Southern media are saying.
We might be a Prloblem to Nigeria as South and the only Solution is to let every Region go it own way
Note: I only say my opinion and yours might vary from mine

President Buhari is right, not to have approved the report of that confab because the national conference was not legitimate; it did not reflect the wishes of Nigerian people. It was Jonathan himself who dictatorially decided that we should have a national conference. It is he who appointed those who participated in the national conference;

Let also be units and not the statutory states, let any financial allocation come directly from the Federal government to the regions. And let the regions establish as many local governments as they cope with them with regard to financial allocation with the centre. And in fact what they need from centre will be reduced

The second restructure I want is that let us return to the situation before the military came in where the government played the leading role in the economy to ensure, equality, justice, dignity of the human person and progressive even development of the country. It is the major restructure, this is economic restructure. So we should have this political and economic restructures. There are other aspects of restructuring that we can tolerate as long as they keep Nigeria united as one nation and capable of equal development because as long as we have one region not having the equality to participate in the affairs of the country, we will not have unity, we will not have peace.

Free education development is central to any form of national development. At the moment now because of historical development, the North is 40 years behind the South in educational development. If this condition continues, there is no way we can have national unity, there is no way we can have even development, there is no way we can avoid the North being the problem of Nigeria.

Let’s not forget that because of the colonial policy, the North was left behind right from 1950. For instance, by the time I left school in 1951, there was no single secondary school in the North.

And that is why we in the PRP who aimed to bring about new and equal Nigeria to its God-given status, advocate socialist reconstruction of Nigeria, starting with the leading role of the state in the economy to ensure peace, equality, justice, dignity of the human person and progressive, even development.

thesicilian:

Lol. Most Nigerians have amnesia, even some of the youths. How else do you explain electing Buhari as President even after driving Nigeria into recession in his first stint as Head of State? Or a governor of the federal republic openly praising Abacha? Or even those who witnessed the Civil War calling for another war?!

NorthernParrot:
[s]Of course i can see you are one of those brainwashed Nigerians. How can u attribute Nigeria's recession to Buhari when root causes are glaringly clear? i understand it is just in your blood and chose not to see. The foundation Buhari is laying would produce a vibrant nation in years to come. Just watch and see[/s]

thesicilian:
This man speaks like a true patriot and I agree with most of what he says, but the major solution to Nigeria's problems is not restructuring, it is still fighting corruption. Both political and economic corruption. If you restructure the country into regions and the regional heads are corrupt and incompetent, how does that help? A major reason the north is educationally backwards is because their leaders have diverted their resources and allocations for their personal use, and there is no accountability. It is the same problem with the Niger Delta, and if you check very well, you'll see that both the north and Niger Delta have similar issues - educational backwardness, insurgency, poor infrastructural development. To blame that on the central government is just plain mental laziness.
Whatever the structure of the nation is is not as relevant as having competent, accountable and economically sound leaders...

freeze001:
Unfortunately he still has d lazy, socialist mentality and expects allocation from the central federal government.



What is that crap? Where will d FG draw d funds to share as allocation from? Is it not from d regions? Why should a group of people commandeer resources not theirs and redistribute by whatever sharing formula? The regions should be self reliant and then contribute to the centre an agreed percentage.

Pavarottii:

[s]E be like say, this one dey learn how to talk; [/s]who and north av similarities? Where r u from sef. Tell me any head of state that has been more educated that GEJ?