byteem:


Let's get this straight the north has no agricultural potential the middle belt does comprising of venue plateau Kogi tarraba and nassarawa.. in these states lie the food engine of Nigeria.. the rest is all convoyed lies.. trying to.merge the north with middle region is a lie that cannot stand .

you're correct but those states are not the food engine of Nigeria they are the food engines of their respective states not Nigeria....

Nigeria comprises of different ethnic nations and each ethnic nation grows their own traditional food. the traditional food eaten in "plateau Kogi tarraba and nassarawa" is different from the traditional foods eaten in Lagos, Anambra, Bayelsa, Edo e.t.c..

It's actually true. They discovered onion oil.

byteem:


Let's get this straight the north has no agricultural potential the middle belt does comprising of Benue Plateau Kogi Tarraba and Nassarawa.. in these states lie the food engine of Nigeria.. the rest is all convoyed lies.. trying to.merge the north with middle region is a lie that cannot stand . The second fallacy they try to push is that the north is entirely islam another fat lie.. borno Maiduguri kebbi . Adamawa Kaduna all have Christian dominated areas that date back Nigerias independence.. the Sokoto caliphate did not have a under its wings.. why else do u think that majority not the locations targeted by bokoharam are Christian communities in the north Bama.. chibok .. dapchi.. and so on.. these are popular Christian settlements.. the genocide going on in the north didn't start today.. it's being on for decades .. they just got bolder .. an addage says when the son has the permission of his father to go steal .. he breaks down the front door of the house he goes to plunder with boldness and confidence.. that even if you report him to his father nothing dey happen..

As someone who is familiar with Northern Nigeria, I disagree with your submissions but you are entitled to your opinion.

aminulive:
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The north is a parasite to Nigeria, they contribute nothing good, but only negative indices like meningitis, leprosy, poverty, and the chief of them- bandits, terrorists, terrorist herdsmen.
Absolutely nothing good comes from the north.

Yes we Igbos support them, oil was discovered by the north.

aminulive:
POLITICSNIGERIA.COM



https://politicsnigeria.com/northerners-are-not-parasites-we-discovered-oil-ncm-leader-aliyu/

And even if this bladderdash were to be true (Groundnut Pyramids), the South has repaid you back a million fold!
Fact of the matter is no crude is available in commercial quantities in the North and we demand to harness and spend the sweat of our resources as we deem fit.
So this Abioki should go and sit down

We, the northerners are the economic heart of Nigeria and nobody can address us as parasites.



And why una no wan free for restructuring and division?

All these useless northern group with nothing of value to offer but bamboos the media with fake reality is appalling. You should have developed your groundnut into oil, instead of using your claimed resources to develop another region you hate.

If there is going to be one Nigeria, then, there must be equal distribution of power, right and resources in Nigeria.

Upon all the allocated resources to your region, what have you become?

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Developers of Africa indeed. Have you developed your country?

obiekunie01:


see yeye name!

make them wait small am working on cediland.com.gh

na we be the developers of africa.

the dot in dotcom! the power that drives the internet!

KingOKON:
LIE Mohammedans

bro God bless you, those mohammedians from sehel they can lie for Africa.

SmartPolician:


How do you mean valuable because you are not making any sense?

Last time I checked..

D price of 1 barrel of palm oil is more expensive than the price of 1 barrel of crude oil.

The unification was done for economic reasons rather than political— Northern Nigeria Protectorate had a budget deficit; and the colonial administration sought to use the budget surpluses in Southern Nigeria to offset this deficit.

Just like the americans as regards to native americans

xpressionx:
Mungo Park said he 'discovered' river niger,therefore we should cede river niger to him and his family.

Una dey ment.

codemaniacs:


the Ijaws discovered oil...

Its d Brits, did Ijaws know how to read and write before 1956?

Arkmanbuddy:
This is how you know stupid people: believing that everyone is as stupid as they are. You can only tell that fake history to your Almajirized youths in the North. We in the South know better. I really don't know why there are many Northern groups springing up from nowhere.

I am a Northerner, but the increase of stupid people down here is a contributing factor. How can you just come up on media without a deep research. Little wonder we are always lashed by Southerners cos of useless idiots who feel to go on media anytime.........it is painful but no way to go.

Is this man high on cheap Oshogbo weed?

quentin06:


Its d Brits, did Ijaws know how to read and write before 1956?

yes they could read and write hundreds of years before 1956.. Every African ethnic nation has their traditional way of writing and their indigenous language,

in bayelsa, the oil comes to the ground in some places that means the indigenes were the first to see it...

Arkmanbuddy:
This is how you know stupid people: believing that everyone is as stupid as they are. You can only tell that fake history to your Almajirized youths in the North. We in the South know better. I really don't know why there are many Northern groups springing up from nowhere.

These people are very stupid. Nasir El Rufai will be ashamed of these people. He is not even ashamed of his foolishness. There is a wide gap between the children of the rich and those of the poor in the North.

I have so many friends from the North that are highly intelligent, exposed and very urbane. When Malami was comparing herdsmen to spare parts dealers then I know something is wrong somewhere. Nomadic thinking transferred from Cow milk passed genetically from one generation to the other.

aminulive:
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```Unless you understand your role in society, you can never make any meaningful contribution.

According to the Greeks there are three types of people on earth:
- the idiots,
- the tribesmen, and
- the citizens.

Studies show only 10% of Africans are citizens.
The remaining 90% are either tribesmen or idiots.

2. When the Greeks used the word "idiot", they did not use it as a curse word.
Idiots are people who just don’t care.
If they write exams, they will cheat.
If they are in government they will steal.
An idiot does not care at all, if he eats bananas he throws the peels anywhere instead of putting them in a trash bin.

According to the Greeks, some societies have more idiots than tribesmen and citizens.

3. The next set of people are "tribesmen", these are people that look at everything from the point of view of their tribe.

These are people that believe in you only if you are part of their tribe.
It can be terrible to have a tribesman as a leader, he will alienate the rest.

When the Greeks talk about tribes, it’s not just about ethnicity, they also consider religion as a tribe.
A great percentage of Africans are tribesmen, because they view everything from the point of view of their tribes.
They trust only their tribesmen.

4. The last group are "citizens".
These are people that like to do things the right way.
They will respect traffic light rules, even if no one is watching them.
They drive within speed limits.
They respect the laws, won’t cheat in exams.
In government they won’t steal.
They are compassionate and give to others to promote their wellbeing.

Citizens often promote projects that benefit everyone.
The Greeks called this group the citizens.

Some countries have more citizens than tribesmen and idiots.
Others have so many idiots.

A tribesman can become a citizen through orientation.
And an idiot can become a citizen by training and constant enforcement of the law.

But things fall apart if you elect an idiot or tribesman to lead you if he has not been reformed.

Where do you belong?
Are you an idiot, a tribesman or a citizen?

Reflect about your life.
Reflect about your country and Africa in general before you answer.

Food for thought.```


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codemaniacs:


yes they could read and write hundreds of years before 1956.. Every African ethnic nation has their traditional way of writing and their indigenous language,

in bayelsa, the oil comes to the ground in some places that means the indigenes were the first to see it...

Leave sentiments na, did they know what it was, did they use it for anything?
I will agree with you if you made reference to palmoil.

Nothing we nor go see for nairaland lol....

Abeg make my nairaland family wish me well as i mark my birthday today n 13th year as a bonafide member of this great forum with clean slate.. was a guest for some years b4 i finally registered as a full fleshed member.. I've had no regrets being here at all.. E no easy...

Happy Blessed Birthday to me...

tiswell:
fathom

Prof you are sighted
No one is above typographical error

This i hsve seen

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Saturday, August 5, 2017
Ango Abdullahi, Northern Nigerian Colonial Economy and Niger Delta Oil
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi

In my May 6, 2017 column titled “Top 8 Popular National Lies that Won’t Die in Nigeria,” I called attention to out-and-out historical lies that vast swathes of Nigerians treasure and reproduce intergenerationally, and that are, I said, almost “impossible to uproot.”

One of such lies, I pointed out, is the idea, popular among northern Nigerians, that the Northern Region’s resources financed oil exploration in the Niger Delta. I wrote: “Professor Ango Abdullahi actually repeated this lie recently. He said this, ironically, while exhorting Emir Sanusi II to ‘go and read history.’ The truth is that not a dime of northern Nigeria’s money contributed to oil exploration in the Niger Delta.


“When oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Oloibiri in 1956, Shell bore the financial burden for the exploration. Other Euro-American oil companies later joined in oil exploration. It wasn’t until 1973 that the Nigerian federal government acquired 30 percent shares in oil companies. By 1973, Northern Nigeria had ceased to exist….

“In any case, colonial records show that the biggest motivation for amalgamating northern and southern Nigeria was because northern Nigeria wasn’t financially self-sustaining and the British Imperial Government said it would never subsidize colonial administration anywhere in Africa. So Lord Lugard amalgamated the two regions and used the surplus from the south to sustain the north. It’s illogical to say that a region that wasn’t financially self-sustaining financed oil exploration in the Niger Delta.”

Of the eight historical lies I pointed out, this was the stickiest among historically challenged northerners. I use the term “historically challenged” advisedly because several northern Nigerian professional historians called or emailed me to confirm that what I wrote was a basic fact that every beginning undergraduate in Nigerian economic history knows. They wondered why someone of the stature of Professor Ango Abdullahi would ridicule himself by repeating discredited and falsifiable lies. I told one of them to write a guest column to educate our people on the economic history of the region. “I am not as brave as you are,” he said. But when did educating people with the facts become bravery?

I am a northerner with as much stake in the region as anybody else, but I am also a truth-seeking academic who isn’t held back from telling the truth by maudlin sentimentality or fear of emotive pushback from the vulgar herd. I go where the truth leads me, even if it is to facts that cause me personal discomfort. That’s how my dad raised me, and no amount of emotional blackmail will stop that.

Several of the readers who continue to angrily react to my column say I didn’t provide any proof for my assertions. So, here we go. In an 89-page report for the British Parliament titled, “Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria, and Administration, 1912-1919,” Frederick D. Lugard clearly said two reasons informed his proposal to amalgamate the North and the South: finance and railways. On finance, he wrote:

“In 1906 a further step in amalgamation was effected in the South. Southern Nigeria and Lagos became one Administration under the title of the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. From this date the material prosperity of the South increase with astonishing rapidity. The liquor duties—increased from 3s. in 1901 to 3s. 6d. in 1905—stood at 5s. 6d. a gallon in 1912, and afforded an ever-increasing revenue, without any diminution in the quantity imported. They yielded a sum of £1,138,000 in 1913.

“The North, largely dependent on the annual grant from the Imperial Government, was barely able to balance its budget with the most parsimonious economy, and was starved of the necessary staff, and unable to find funds to house its officers properly. Its energies were concentrated upon the development of the Native Administration and the revenue resulting from direct taxation. Its distance from the coast (250 miles) rendered the expansion of trade difficult. Thus the anomaly was presented of a country with an aggregate revenue practically equal to its needs, but divided into two by an arbitrary line of latitude. One portion was dependent on a grant paid by the British taxpayer, which in the year before Amalgamation stood at £136,000, and had averaged £314,500 for the 11 years ending March, 1912” (p. 7; view the PDF of the entire report here).

Again, a 1935 report by colonial government statistician S.M. Jacob, titled The Taxation and Economics of Nigeria, gives a vivid account of the immense disparities in the revenues between the North and the South. It shows, for instance, that one of the reasons the North was financially disadvantaged was that agricultural produce from the region had less economic value in the international market than agricultural produce from the South.

There is also a 202-page record of the correspondence between colonial administrators in Nigeria and their home government in Britain on the necessity of amalgamating the North and the South. Copious references were made to the North’s economic disadvantage and to the economic lifeline the region needed from the South to survive. The record of the correspondence, which took place between May 15, 1913 and January 27, 1914, is held in the British National Archives, and can be accessed with the following reference number: CO 879/113/3.

But two things need to be made clear. First, the North’s economic disadvantage relative to the South wasn’t a consequence of the South’s superior work ethic—or the North’s laziness. It was because, being close to the coast, the South had (still has) ports, which brought foreign goods that attracted hefty tax revenue. It was, in fact, Lagos that almost singlehandedly gave the South its economic advantage. Lagos still accounts for more than half of Nigeria’s IGR.

Second, it also so happened that the cash crops that the colonialists introduced to the South—cocoa, palm oil, kernels, rubber—had more economic value in the international market than Northern Nigeria’s cash crops such as groundnuts and cotton. In terms of quantity, the North produced substantially more agricultural produce than the South but, by a twist of circumstances, the North’s crops didn’t have as much economic value as the South’s.

This isn’t something to be proud or ashamed of. We are talking here of naked colonial exploitation of our people for the benefit of Britain. It means, in effect, that the colonial conquerors exploited the South more thoroughly than they did the North. That’s neither a cause for pride nor a reason to be ashamed. In my undergraduate days, I recall getting a kick out of Lord Salisbury’s angry description of my part of northern Nigeria, that is, Borgu, as "a malarious African desert…not worth a war." As a starry-eyed Marxist then, I took delight in the knowledge that imperialists didn’t find my place worthy of economic exploitation.

Anyway, if the North wasn’t economically self-sustaining, how could it possibly finance oil exploration in the Niger Delta? That’s a wild leap of logic. Plus, it’s a well-known fact that it was Shell, not the Nigerian government, that bore full financial responsibility for oil exploration in the Niger Delta.

As George G. Frynas points out in his Oil in Nigeria: Conflict and Litigation between Oil Companies and Village Communities, Shell spent more than 6 million pounds of its own money between 1937 and 1953 before striking oil in Akata, near Eket, in non-commercial quantities. After spending some more millions, it found oil in commercial quantities in Oloibiri in 1956. Neither the Nigerian government nor the northern Nigerian government made any financial contribution to Shell’s exploration activities.


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Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D..

eh! ,cooton and counou/fura dey nounou, and cow legs.oro buruku lenu eye.

He must be joking. He forgot to add cow and banditry

History of oil exploration
The history of oil exploration in Nigeria started back in1903 when Nigerian Bitumen Corporation conducted exploratory work in the country; at the onset of World War I the firm's operations were stopped. Due to the lack of technological and financial resources of small oil companies, large oil companies took over the exploration of commercial oil in the country. Thereafter, licenses were given to D'Arcy Exploration Company and Whitehall Petroleum but neither company found oil of commercial value and they returned their licenses in 1923.[5] A new license covering 920,000 square kilometres (357,000 square miles) was given to Shell D'arcy Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, a consortium of Shell and British Petroleum (then known as Anglo-Iranian). The company began exploratory work in 1937.

The association was granted license to explore oil all over the territory of Nigeria but the acreage allotted to the company in the original license was reduced in 1951 and then between 1955 and 1957. Drilling activities started in 1951 with the first test well drilled in Owerri area. Oil was discovered in non-commercial quantities at Akata, near Eket in 1953.[5] Prior to the Akata find, the company had spent around £6 million on exploratory activities in the country. In the pursuit of commercially available petroleum, Shell-BP found oil in Oloibiri, Nigeria, in 1956. Other important oil wells discovered during the period were Afam and Bomu in Ogoni territory. Production of crude oil began in 1957, and in 1960 a total of 847,000 tonnes of crude oil was exported. Towards the end of the 1950s, non-British firms were granted license to explore for oil: Mobil in 1955, Tenneco in 1960, Gulf Oil and later Chevron in 1961, Agip in 1962, and Elf in 1962. Prior to the discovery of oil, Nigeria (like many other African countries) strongly relied on agricultural exports to other countries to supply their economy. Many Nigerians thought the developers were looking for palm oil.[6] But after nearly 50 years searching for oil in the country, Shell-BP discovered oil at Oloibiri in the Niger Delta. The first oil field began production in 1958.[7]

After that, the economy of Nigeria should have seemingly experienced a strong increase. However, competition for the profits from oil created a great level of terror and conflict for those living in the region. Many citizens of Nigeria believe that they have not been able to see the economic benefits of oil companies in the state. Additionally, Nigerian government officials have remained majority shareholders in the profits created by the production of Nigerian oil, leading to government capturing of nearly all oil production, and citizens are not seeing socioeconomic benefits, and insist that oil companies should compensate people.[6]

visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Nigeria#History_of_oil_exploration read more

It is unfortunate that Malam Auwwal Aliyu is either ignorant or very small to the history of Nigeria.About groundnut pyramid he is claiming that was used to research and developed oil discovered in the east; it was Alhasan Dantata who individually started the groundnut pyramids in 1972 and oil and petroleum were discovered in 1909/1954 and production started in 1956, where is correlation between mr Aliyu claims? He should back to his elders to be properly briefed.

It is unfortunate that Malam Auwwal Aliyu is either ignorant or very small to the history of Nigeria.About groundnut pyramid he is claiming that was used to research and developed oil discovered in the east; it was Alhasan Dantata who individually started the groundnut pyramids in 1972 and oil and petroleum were discovered in 1909/1954 and production started in 1956, where is correlation between mr Aliyu claims? He should back to his elders to be properly briefed.

Kriss216:
You discovered and harnessed oil yet no single drop of oil runs in your desert of a region.

You don't even have ordinary palm oil.

We have groundnut and cottonseed oil

Drsnives:

Prof you are sighted
No one is above typographical error

This i hsve seen

just say thanks

Ololade1999:
If they aren't parasites, they should agree to either restructuring or division of the country. They have held this country back for so long. It's time to prove to other regions that they can stand on their own like they did pre-independence period.

We shud not even be giving them audience, so their foolishness can be met by a deafening silence. They are guilt-triping and a ploy for no region to have self determination... Niger delta quietness is so amusing, they are at the receiving end with creeks and oil infested waters, yet can't even speak for themselves only expecting militant money every now and then... its not the way.

bunto:
They are actually right. Northern Nigeria is the economic heartbeat of this nation.
They work so hard to feed us.

Can you people screaming blue murder up there feed yourselves?

If not for northern Nigeria, the country would be like Venezuela now.

The SE and SS and SW mostly just spend. The NE, NW and NC are in true reality the heartbeat of this nation.


Argue with your keyboards.

Unfortunately y'all are atill premium unity beggers... shey na person wey dey feed d lazy, dey still beg am to stay...