I was going through a post earlier from a thread, and clicked on a link that redirected me to this post on wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Nigeria_Protectorate

Revenue and expenditure in £s[21]

Year Revenue Expenditure Surplus/Deficit
1900 535,902 424,257 +111,645
1901 606,431 564,818 +41,613
1902 801,737 619,687 +182,050
1903 760,230 757,953 +2,277
1904 888,136 863,917 +24,219
1905 951,748 998,564 -46,816
1906 1,088,717 1,056,290 +32,427
1907 1,459,554 1,217,336 +242,218
1908 1,387,975 1,357,763 +30,212
1909 1,361,891 1,648,648 -286,793
1910 1,933,235 1,592,282 +340,953
1911 1,956,176 1,717,259 +238,917
1912 2,235,412 2,110,498 +124,914
1913 2,668,198 2,096,311 +571,887
Demography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Nigeria_Protectorate

This proves southern nigeria was always a success story on its own from the beginning

and see what i saw on this page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Nigeria_Protectorate

[b]One defining characteristic of administration in Northern Nigeria Protectorate was the inclusion of chiefs and emirs as "native authorities" fitting into British administration.[4] Taxation proved very difficult in the protectorate for the first years of British rule. Lugard's attempts to institute poll taxes were foiled by the emirates, the need to introduce coin controversy, and attempts to tax trade were opposed by powerful merchants.[4] This created a substantial deficit in the budget of the Protectorate and public works projects had to be paid by grants from the British Empire. As a result, the British often had significant shortages of British personnel before 1907. These pragmatic concerns resulted in incorporation of the traditional authorities within the British structure.[4]

These same financial and administrative challenges resulted in discussions led by Lugard for the unification of the Lagos Colony, the Southern Nigeria Protectorate, and Northern Nigeria. The disparities between the protectorates was to be corrected by creating a central administration in Lagos, with custom revenues from the south paying for the projects in the north.[4] The unified Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria began in 1914 and had two lieutenant governors with one responsible for the area of the southern province and another responsible for the northern province. The administration in the north remained largely separate and included and deepened the use of native authorities. These divisions have been found to persist in many respects to this day[/b]

what are your opinions on this

The uselessness of Northern Nigeria did not start today.

Where is that Lord lugard sef....

And some abokis will be here making mouth

Its just like north feeding from south.

I no knw y any time I dey watch TV and I see buhari I go just check my wallet to see if my PVC is intact...