tiwiex:


True. They pretty much provided no solution to the numerous problems. I would have thought the theme could have been "challenges of open grazing and economic benefits of ranching". That would have made it worthwhile. That sector trumps oil and gas if managed commercially across the value chain and would create numerous jobs for the youths.

The youths will participate in panels that will formulate the solutions. El-Rufai also asked them to forward the solutions to the leader of the Northern Governors forum so they can implement the solutions collectively . Maybe you didn't read that part

nnokwa042:
if western nation stop managing Dubai it will turn to Yemen is like you don't know about Islam ,check all Muslim countries and tell me which one you will like move to with your family buy house and live

Explain how western nations manage dubai please. Your ignorance and illiteracy stinks.

He is massaging the ego of southerners
This place is still a shithole

Funny enuf, they rule everywhere by violence

General0847:


Saudi Arabia is developed yet that's where wahabi come from.
You are quite ignorant, google up stories of couples arrested for kissing or cuddling in public or stories of people who have been arrested for drinking in public.
I have first hand experience cos i lived there for over a year. Educate yourself.
Is Nigeria underdeveloped because of religion? Don't be deceived the entire Nigeria is not developed. Lagos and Abuja won't make top 5 most developed in Africa because they lack basic infrastructure.

Yes Saudi Arabia is developed today because of the recent amendments on their Islamic laws. compares Saudi Arabia of today to years back you'd notice the difference.

Religion values and believes plays a significant role in a Nations civilization and over all development. China, USA, India, Australia, south Africa etc don't these countries have their various religion?? making religion as a priority in a given society has a positive as well as negative effects on their socioeconomic activities

Infinityk:

Saying north doesn't have a religion problem means u are not facing reality
Don't use Yorubas as a comparison
It was because awolowo made education d mainstay of Yoruba culture, that's y Yorubas don't have same problem
If it wasn't for awolowo education drive in Yoruba land
We wouldn't b having this conversation

what is this one saying?
You're the one that owes awolowo your life, I DON'T OWE HIM ANYTHING!

General0847:


Explain how western nations manage dubai please. Your ignorance and illiteracy stinks.

this are people who never been to dubai some of them are in oshogbo or jalingo ,

Who was and still is responsible for the so called backwardness in the north?

Anyway, as a consultant on Millennium Development Goals MDGs, I will advice the north pro bono(free of charge). The north should go and educate it teeming youths through making western education free and compulsory. That way, the myriad of challenges bedevilling the north will be half solved. No nation can develop on ALMAJIRI ideology.

nnokwa042:
this are people who never been to dubai some of them are in oshogbo or jalingo ,

LoL! This one is from okitipupa .

henryobinna:
don't attend to dunces who all they know is to blame religion on everything bad about the useless country...

Religion has little or nothing to do with the crass level of underdevelopment in Nigeria, even crime and other things has little connection with religion. But idiots always find a way to blame it on religion because of course it's safer for them than to say it; their politicians who they worship like gods are responsible.

shatap my friend. How can u write so intelligently and didn't know religion is our problem. Ur appointments today,only osibanjo is qualify to be there

Juliusmalema:
To me the speech is nothing but deceit.

Believe El-rufai at your own peril.

you talk sense....

Juliusmalema:
To me the speech is nothing but deceit.

Believe El-rufai at your own peril.

I am very confused on what you had written. I don't understand.



You said "to me" that means you prefer him then why saying he is evil again?


I guessed you should have used "for me" to show your opinion.


Whichever way,we all know he is a bigot and his system of rule is "tyrannical "

Ttipsy:
Yes Saudi Arabia is developed today because of the recent amendments on their Islamic laws. compares Saudi Arabia of today to years back you'd notice the difference.

Religion values and believes plays a significant role in a Nations civilization and over all development. China, USA, India, Australia, south Africa etc don't these countries have their various religion?? making religion as a priority in a given society has a positive as well as negative effects on their socioeconomic activities

Saudi Arabia has been a developed country for more than 2 decades now.
Go and educate yourself and stop displaying your ignorance here.

This is it!

Tell yourself the truth, accept your weakness and that is the beginning of finding a lasting solution instead of basking in your folly and failure while accusing another race for your failures!

Mr. El Rufai, the major thing contributing to the backwardness of Northern Nigeria is ISLAM!

Islamic religion and its doctrines does not support civilisation and human capital development.

Don't mention Qatar or Dubai or Saudi Arabia or Oman or Kuwait, their economy is built on crude oil that has no future! They lack human development, they rely on foreign manpower which can desert them anytime, any day. Islamic doctrines and religion made their citizens lazy.

Its either Northern Nigeria do away with Islamic religion and its ancient doctrines or they should find ways to reform and refine it to support civilisation and true education not Quranic education of cramming Quran to recite.

Your youths abhor western education due to Islamic doctrines!

Your youths are not ambitious, they are okay following one rich Muslim Alhaji who will be providing them with food and tent to sleep and they are okay because that is what Islam teaches.

You cannot achieve what you do not desire and work for.

Northern youths spend most of their time at the Mosque cramming Quran and how to fight Kafirs (Christians) to defend Islam, while the Southern youths are busy reading, studying technology, business an science books, hustling to get visa to western nations and cracking brain to succeed in their various businesses and only go to Church to pray to their God to help them succeed in their life endeavors and to help open their eyes to opportunities to invest in.

So you can see the difference between the religious ways of Southern youths from that of northern youths, that's where the solution lies!

And you northern elites and politicians love it that way because it helps you manipulate them and use them as you like to gain political power and dominance, so talk to your fellow northern elites and oligarchs

Demographic superior of the north is suspect and cant stand close scrutiny.

Do u read before u type? Please read the story again and comment as a sensible person so that u can be one

Donmedra:
Some idiots in the south want this one as president or vice president??.

El Rufai is just a bigot, is it our fault the northern leaders stole the money the South LP bring into developing the north.

What a distraction from Hel'Rufai and his so called fellow leaders.....as if I hear

BigBrother9ja:
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Rubbish and silly mentality
What has religion got to do with this?
What will u say of dubia and others?
grow some brains please

This cities have started adopting western mentality..

henryobinna:
yea, I'll acknowledge religion for all the positives it has added to the country... because it has done greatly for the country right from inception, many of the founding fathers of nigeria and top guys then went ti school on scholarship from different religious institutions Christians and muslims.

And by the way can you ne succinct in telling me how religion is the problem.of Nigeria, be it Christianity or Islam...

lazy people are only good at pushing blames to something they know won't reply them.

The same christianity that came with slavery and colonization by Europeans? The first school in Nigeria came almost 300 years after the British arrived.

Tithing, fake miracles, prosperity nonsense, child witch beatings and slavery to pastors, are all problems with christianity.

If christianity is so good, why did the Europeans dump it with us? Why are majority of people in the UK atheists?

Do you know how much money we have wasted on free pilgrimages to Isreal? Government money for religion?

Do you know how much tax revenue the government loses from not taxing churches?


Who is lazy and ignorant now?

Dubai citizen well done sir , however Dubai returnees don’t use singular words in the place of plural ....it is these not this sir!!!!

Me I prefer my ekiti o

nnokwa042:
this are people who never been to dubai some of them are in oshogbo or jalingo ,

am south south but I school in the north, to be precise even the so called educated one still don't can't think out of box, all they do is copy and paste, an average northern fear southern in everything even their lecturer once they know that you are a southern the start hating with fear.

General0847:


Explain how western nations manage dubai please. Your ignorance and illiteracy stinks.

He is correct. Western nations manage Dubai, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman!

They depend and rely heavily on western manpower and technology, they can't do anything on their own except flaunting wealth and living luxury life from selling crude oil that western nations helped them discover and explore and still buy.


Islam does not support civilisation and human capital development

It's largely your fault that the north is less developed.
Your people have refused to embrace progress, chosen to be unambitious and enterprising, and worst of all; your elite has weaponized illiteracy and poverty. It's not surprising that things are as it is.
Suck it up, and deal with it cox nobody will do it for you.

As a show of good faith; stop being a bigot.

Niraland still had to change naked to unclad

“[b]So, we still have a lot to be proud of. We should be proud of our culture and tradition, as well as unity. You hardly can find someone from northern Nigeria convicted of 419 or being aYahoo boy. That is something we should be proud of."
This is likely the main reason EFCC is frantically fighting Yahoo Boys whilst the same federal government turns the other eye when it comes to fulani herdsman atrocities. I pity southerners who prefer to be apolitical or indifferent on issues like this

Remember when the chief imam of Abuja mosque in the presence of Buhari claimed all the insurgency and insecurity a test from Allah
Y'all better wake up

henryobinna:
don't attend to dunces who all they know is to blame religion on everything bad about the useless country...

Religion has little or nothing to do with the crass level of underdevelopment in Nigeria, even crime and other things has little connection with religion. But idiots always find a way to blame it on religion because of course it's safer for them than to say it; their politicians who they worship like gods are responsible.

Juliusmalema:
To me the speech is nothing but deceit.

Believe El-rufai at your own peril.

This is exactly what dumbos in the south would like to hear. This man has no love for his own people, let alone Nigeria at large.

Religion is the problem.

Love is the answer.

This man is what we call Belgium rat, typical parasite

General0847:


You mean the same religion that is practiced in developed Dubai?
Religion has nothing to do with this, Nigeria as a whole is just one giant ghetto. What about the poor state of roads, health care and electricity, will you blame that on religion too? Mkpi

Religion has a lot to do with this, the manner of application of Islam in Dubai is different from what obtain in Zamfara

General0847:


Saudi Arabia has been a developed country for more than 2 decades now.
Go and educate yourself and stop displaying your ignorance here.

in such scenario Northerners has been occupying all critical political offices since 1960s, what your take on that?? upon their absolute dependant on oil resources from the south, they have the highest share to what the South get! Yet they are still backward and backward and backward

nonsense

North less corrupt than d south,d north that hav ruled for over 40yrs with most of their mediocres in top public service & military who looted this country dry.......so Abacha,ibb is no longer from d north?

Dpharisee:


Religion has a lot to do with this, the manner of application of Islam in Dubai is different from what obtain in Zamfara

Saudi Arabia beheads people till date but that hasn't stopped them from developing. Qatar and UAE practice sharia law, Malaysia is an Islamic country yet these countries are miles ahead.
Okay why is southern Nigeria not developed? Will you blame religion?

That's the lie they tell their people to keep them distracted from the harsh reality around them that they are looting the whole country.