Ephemmm:
[/s]

Before the discovery of oil in 1960s, Nigeria has been surviving

and if there is no more oil today, it will still survive. However, where was the lamentation from your region when Nigeria's major source of income was from Cocoa which was not produced from your region?

You can lament till tomorrow, you are just wasting your time. Your leaders are in Abuja enjoying your entitlements.

Hahaha!!! Is my region not south again??
Is it now north?? Lol.
South have been feeding the north time immemorial, thanks for blowing your own cover the more...

I don't wanna go down towards eastern region because in 19's they hold the fastest and the strongest growing economy manly because of palm oil and coal proceedings... But let's not go there.

You have been enjoying free money from the south, and since has been feeding fat without contributing essentially nothing to Nigerians purse...

How dare you northerners now turn around to say that north feeds the south. Are you all that ungrateful.?

Saying that north feeds the south is just a very big slap to the southerners faces. You lofts keep insulting us but the day of reckoning is coming and we shall know how far.

Rubbish.

EasternActivist:

Hahaha!!! Is my region not south again??
Is it now north?? Lol.
South have been feeding the north time immemorial, thanks for blowing your own cover the more...
I don't wanna go down towards eastern region because in 19's they hold the fastest and the strongest growing economy manly because of palm oil proceedings... But let's not go there.
You have been enjoying free money from the south, and since has been feeding fat without contributing essentially nothing to Nigerians purse...
How dare you northerners now turn around to say that north feeds the south. Are you all that ungrateful.?
Saying that north feeds the south is just a very big slap to the southerners faces. You lofts keep insulting us but the day of reckoning is coming and we shall know how far.
Rubbish.

yeah. You Southerners have been feeding the north; with apku, gari and amala. For that we remain grateful

ChoCandyDiamond:

Without the discovery of oil, Nigeria would have been a very poor country like Niger and Mali, Cocoa was never a major source of Nigeria income, in the 60's the major source of Nigeria income is from Groundnut and Cotton from the North, Coal mining in Enugu and Palm oil from the East, Cocoa from the Mid West and West. The major contributor then was Cotton, Coal mining in Enugu and Tin mining in Jos.

Tell the Hausa man so he can learn.
The south has immemorial be feeding this ungrateful abokiis.

DoTheNeedful:


So,you think the average Northerner also get the oil he uses for his car,generator or tractor for free He just queue up at the filling station get fuelled and leaves?
If you go by primordial sentiments,you are likely to love those you are supposed to hate and hate those you should love

The north gets the a percentage of the proceeds of crude Oil from my state for free. What is the north giving me in the south for free? Nothing. So how can I be dependent on the north when I can buy the same food anywhere in west Africa?

Ephemmm:

The problem with you people is that you hardly see clearly from objective point of view. The Biafra you are shouting, what will you benefit if the SS refuse to join hands with your region?

Only one state in Yorubaland produces oil than the whole of SE and you are fugitively and vagabondly in every states of Nigeria surviving among those you show your hatred towards.

Why can't you just tell your Governors, Senators, etc to leave their official offices all in the name of Biafra? Tell all the Biafra suppliers in the north and SW to leave their residence to form a state/business function where no consumer would be needed and let's see how it goes.

An independent life is good, but an inter-dependent life is better as no nation can has all it wants for its citizenry.

Get your fact right.

Lies of hypocrisy and propaganda from a parasitic ingrate to divert attention from the very obvious!

It's preposterous the extent a group of confused lots would lie and spread wicked propaganda just to share a mere geographical expression with the same Igbo Nation they have nothing but hatred and envy for. It indeed defies all logics known to humanity!

https://www.nairaland.com/2535543/why-yorubas-afraid-biafra-actualization

https://www.nairaland.com/2839356/kemi-olunloyo-blasts-illiterate-yorubas

https://www.nairaland.com/2668808/opinion-todays-yoruba-youths-too

If you really passed through the four walls of a tertiary institution you would have known that every group of people in the world is entitled to self-determination.

https://www.nairaland.com/2708477/oil-producing-states-nigeria-facts/9

Igbos are not interested in anything Yoruba. Yorubas are free to merge themselves with any group in Nigeria. It's a free world!

Yorubas and their partners in crime cannot dictate for Igbos on how self-determination should be carried out to suit Yorubas interest and narratives when many Yorubas are wallowing in illiteracy, abject poverty and squalor.

A people who are barely existing cannot dictate to another how to live their lives!

https://www.nairaland.com/2769778/osun-state-now-failed-state

https://www.nairaland.com/2125679/yorubas-traitors-dont-care-loss

https://www.nairaland.com/2692549/only-bark-land-wont-dare

If indeed one state in Yorubaland produces oil than the whole of SE, while would miserable bigots like you currently earn a living on pay-per-post basis just to attempt to quench the call for self-determination by Igbos?

https://www.nairaland.com/2967468/yorubas-now-disgrace-awolowos-education

BTW, what kind of deluded people think that bile-filled hatred is their way of displaying love and therefore expect others to appreciate such evil?

If Yoruba elites believe in 'One Nigeria' they wouldn't hustle to have dual passports and sending their children abroad to live and school with our commonwealth.

If 'One Nigeria' apologists like you are willing to risk their life for their country the way the Biafrans are doing now, Nigeria would have been a better place.

I shall reveal your latent fear: the fear of Fulanis plundering your entire land, islamisation, no free crude oil wealth and eventual low economic activities in your land once BFR emerges.

Yorubas desparately want Easterners to remain in this fraudulent union so that they can help them wade off Dan Fodio's descendants whenever they recommence their jihad.

Wake up from your delusion, the 1966 charms of propaganda and lies against Igbos is no longer working. Your once poisonous fangs has lost its potency.

That your Yoruba folks rarely stand for anything should not be an excuse for you to come in the public to castigate Igbos for seeking to have a separate existence. You shouldn't expect Easterners to follow foolish ways of delusion. 

Leave Igbos out of your home troubles. Go find yourselves an idea you can live and die for!

EasternActivist:
Rice , yam, cocoa, cocoyam, potatoes, tomatoes, poultry farm, maize, cashew, pineapple, cassava, palmoil, garri, groundnut, oranges, mangoes, sorghum, pepper, crayfish e.t.c are grown in the south...

Is it the beans and the onions that graduated to feeding the south?

Omo!!! this senator should not fall my hand, why bootlicking this northern asses just to get your books sold.

Rubbish

Sir, you are truly clueless about food distributiong in Nigeria. Your statistic is wrong.

ChoCandyDiamond:

Without the discovery of oil, Nigeria would have been a very poor country like Niger and Mali, Cocoa was never a major source of Nigeria income, in the 60's the major source of Nigeria income is from Groundnut and Cotton from the North, Coal mining in Enugu and Palm oil from the East, Cocoa from the Mid West and West. The major contributor then was Cotton, Coal mining in Enugu and Tin mining in Jos.

but how exactly will Nigeria be the same with those countries you mentioned when Nigeria (okay, northern Nigeria to be specific ) has vast expanse of arable land that is unrivaled in the entire African continent?
You, ma'am, have never been to the other side of the Niger. All you know about the north is what you read on nairaland (and other southern owned media)

atoleybaba:
[s]like what Ben said in his book, we are interdependent. We need each other[/s]

i DON'T NEED YOU. IF YOU YORUBAS NEED THE HAUSA, FINE AND GOOD. BUT THE EAST DON'T NEED YOU BOTH. YOU BOTH SHOULD FUCCCK OFF AND ENJOY YOUR MARRIAGE WITHOUT THE EAST.

Finally a southerner with sense. Do not ever underestimated the power of every common Human being.

Arsenate:
yeah. You Southerners have been feeding the north; with apku, gari and amala. For that we remain grateful

Seriously this is no longer a joke and the records has to be brought up and settled once and for all.

We fed you with essentially everything we have, food crops we exported and gave you your share remember you have 19 states and so you even cheated us.

We gave you coal money
We are now giving you oil money.

Yet you all northerners are being grateful by half.
Rubbish.

Without oil money, am telling Nigerians especially those that are saying that nigeria has been surviving, by now, we won't in Nigeria lifetime attain the position of the third fastest growing economy in the whole wide world. By now you will be using firewood in your village, farming with hoe and posting letters in your open square postal offices.

Rubbish.

Jdesilentkiller:

Sir, you are truly clueless about food distributiong in Nigeria. Your statistic is wrong.

With this your mistake in first empty rebuttal I wonder the statistics you will be referring to.

Abeg just shutup and go and sleep and enjoy your free oil money from the southern Nigeria.

Comparing South and North in terms of economic relevance and contribution is laughable. Even the Northerners made it clear in their quest to hold on to political power, that it will be unfair for both economic power and political power to be in the south. They want the political power to be in the North cos the economic base of the nation is naturally placed in the south. Ben Bruce makes common sense uncommonly complex.

I can list a million reasons why northerners can never exist without southsouthern n southeastern nigeria.
firstly d oil, 99.9percent of nigerias total earnings come from oil, our budget is oil dependent abi why did they set 38dollar benchmark on the budget? why did they not think of setting a benchmark of 1800dollars from gold or tin, why oil?
oil funds 99.9percent of agriculture being done in the north. without proceeds from oil, agric biznes in the north would hv been zero.
now to our ports, 79.9percent of revenues generated from our ports comes from oil, these revenues is being shared amongs state, federal n local govt.
99.9 percent of allocation being shared amongst states, federal n local govts comes from oil, without these monies how will they make their budget, money from oil is being used in funding ministry of agriculture in their region.
if nigeria can stip sharing this our south south oil money to the parasitic region, I bet u d money that will be made can fund agricultural ministry in cross river, akwaibom, ebonyi, abia, imo, anambra. I bet u in 4yrs we will be exporting foods to northern nigeria.

The hatred is mutual not only between the north and south but also among the subgroups in both regions. Talk of Urhobo /Itshekiri/Ijaw feud. Is it Tiv / Jukun strives u want to talk about? How about the Anambra and neighbouring Igalas around the Anam basin? It is the hatred that gives rise to the stereotyping most of which are wrong and false. The Igbo seem to be suffering most under the arrangement. I lived in the north for 17years starting as an NYSC chap.

Arsenate:
but how exactly will Nigeria be the same with those countries you mentioned when Nigeria (okay, northern Nigeria to be specific ) has vast expanse of arable land that is unrivaled in the entire African continent?
You, ma'am, have never been to the other side of the Niger. All you know about the north is what you read on nairaland (and other southern owned media)

You mean the desert like sambisa that host terrorist that no sane human will like to live.

If you say land for solar project I will agree because of the hell fire in that place.

EasternActivist:

Seriously this is no longer a joke and the records has to be brought up and settled once and for all.

We fed you with essentially everything we have, food crops we exported and gave you your share remember you have 19 states and so you even cheated us.

We gave you coal money
We are now giving you oil money.

Yet you all northerners are being grateful in half.
Rubbish.

Without oil money, am telling Nigerians especially those that are saying that nigeria has been surviving, by now, we won't in Nigeria lifetime attain the position of the third fastest growing economy in the whole wide world. By now you will be using firewood in your village, farming with hoe and posting letters in your open square postal offices.

Rubbish.

man, you are absolutely ignorant. You are not making any sense. Mr Bruce's statements clearly bruized your ego that's why you are all over the thread typing gibberish. I can feel your hurt, and I'm not gonna dignify you with any more response

Arsenate:
man, you are absolutely ignorant. You are not making any sense. Mr Bruce's statements clearly bruized your ego that's why you are all over the thread typing gibberish. I can feel your hurt, and I'm not gonna dignify you with any more response

Bruce common sense statement was due to either ignorance or his magnanimity to please your dumb parasitic asses.

See how you are now bletting on his lies just for you to feel good.
Yes you can feel temporarily good.
But it doesn't changes the fact that the south especially SS and SE can do without the north.

North is a big fallowed expanse of land. But they are just big for nothing sake...
Book haram is ravaging your people, you are here massaging on lies which is really a mistake from his side.

South feed you and your governors with free oil money. Get that. Ingrates.

EasternActivist:


[s]Hahaha!!! Is my region not south again??
Is it now north?? Lol.
South have been feeding the north time immemorial, thanks for blowing your own cover the more...

I don't wanna go down towards eastern region because in 19's they hold the fastest and the strongest growing economy manly because of palm oil and coal proceedings... But let's not go there.

You have been enjoying free money from the south, and since has been feeding fat without contributing essentially nothing to Nigerians purse...

How dare you northerners now turn around to say that north feeds the south. Are you all that ungrateful.?

Saying that north feeds the south is just a very big slap to the southerners faces. You lofts keep insulting us but the day of reckoning is coming and we shall know how far.

Rubbish.
[/s]

Wetin concern East and cocoa or did you just wake up from your slumber? Oil you have not except SS, wetin you dey yawn self?

[[s]quote author=3xtr6r post=43769246]

Lies of hypocrisy and propaganda from a parasitic ingrate to divert attention from the very obvious!

It's preposterous the extent a group of confused lots would lie and spread wicked propaganda just to share a mere geographical expression with the same Igbo Nation they have nothing but hatred and envy for. It indeed defies all logics known to humanity!

https://www.nairaland.com/2535543/why-yorubas-afraid-biafra-actualization

https://www.nairaland.com/2839356/kemi-olunloyo-blasts-illiterate-yorubas

https://www.nairaland.com/2668808/opinion-todays-yoruba-youths-too

If you really passed through the four walls of a tertiary institution you would have known that every group of people in the world is entitled to self-determination.

https://www.nairaland.com/2708477/oil-producing-states-nigeria-facts/9

Igbos are not interested in anything Yoruba. Yorubas are free to merge themselves with any group in Nigeria. It's a free world!

Yorubas and their partners in crime cannot dictate for Igbos on how self-determination should be carried out to suit Yorubas interest and narratives when many Yorubas are wallowing in illiteracy, abject poverty and squalor.

A people who are barely existing cannot dictate to another how to live their lives!

https://www.nairaland.com/2769778/osun-state-now-failed-state

https://www.nairaland.com/2125679/yorubas-traitors-dont-care-loss

https://www.nairaland.com/2692549/only-bark-land-wont-dare

If indeed one state in Yorubaland produces oil than the whole of SE, while would miserable bigots like you currently earn a living on pay-per-post basis just to attempt to quench the call for self-determination by Igbos?

https://www.nairaland.com/2967468/yorubas-now-disgrace-awolowos-education

BTW, what kind of deluded people think that bile-filled hatred is their way of displaying love and therefore expect others to appreciate such evil?

If Yoruba elites believe in 'One Nigeria' they wouldn't hustle to have dual passports and sending their children abroad to live and school with our commonwealth.

If 'One Nigeria' apologists like you are willing to risk their life for their country the way the Biafrans are doing now, Nigeria would have been a better place.

I shall reveal your latent fear: the fear of Fulanis plundering your entire land, islamisation, no free crude oil wealth and eventual low economic activities in your land once BFR emerges.

Yorubas desparately want Easterners to remain in this fraudulent union so that they can help them wade off Dan Fodio's descendants whenever they recommence their jihad.

Wake up from your delusion, the 1966 charms of propaganda and lies against Igbos is no longer working. Your once poisonous fangs has lost its potency.

That your Yoruba folks rarely stand for anything should not be an excuse for you to come in the public to castigate Igbos for seeking to have a separate existence. You shouldn't expect Easterners to follow foolish ways of delusion. 

Leave Igbos out of your home troubles. Go find yourselves an idea you can live and die for![/quote][/s]

Summary please? No time to read cock and bull stories.

carinmom:
One of the few times the man made sense.



Are you saying that fuel is distributed free in the north while you buy food items from them? You are the one who is funny and doesn't make any sense.

@carinmon,reply my PM now. ko kina haushi da ni ne?

Ephemmm:


Wetin concern East and cocoa or did you just wake up from your slumber? Oil you have not except SS, wetin you dey yawn self?

OK you are Yoruba.... Eeeh and I have been ranting trying to put records straight to these northern ingrates...

Cocoa is the only thing the Yoruba's can boast of, money made from cocoa couldn't even turn Abeokuta brown roofs village to a city even if given 1,000 years.

Oil is fast going as every body is turning to gas...
So let's grow up and tell ourselves who owns the future...

SE especially Anambra, imo has natural gas that can serve till millions years to come if used the way oil is being used now.

And I ask again who owns the future? Or are you still dwelling in your cocoa that even the neighbouring countries are sharing for free.

Lmao. Is a pity the Yorubas has nothing to offer economically even with their cocoa.

Progressive01:
They'd tell you: "that he constantly makes commonsense all the time doesn't mean he doesn't make nonsense sometimes". Smh.

Ndi Ara.

If he had said the opposite he would ve bn senator of common sense. Hypocrite

Osakah24:
The truth is that Nigerian North and South Relationship is not mutually benefiting both parties. The Northern states get money from crude sales,the south should also get money from the sales of food items,Imagine a scenario where crude oil sales is shared amongst Southern states only, their Northern counterparts will invest more in agriculture so that they too can export agricultural products to the world and even the southern Nigeria. It will be a win win situation for both parties.I really think True federalism will be the best system of government for this Country.

Who told you that the south doesn't get money from agricultural sales? The problem is that oil provides easy money and subsequent governments have become lazy. They have refused to develop agriculture to the level where it can provide as much income as oil but definitely taxes are paid on agricultural products which go into the federation account.

EasternActivist:


OK you are Yoruba.... Eeeh and I have been ranting trying to put records straight to these northern ingrates...

Cocoa is the only thing the Yoruba's can boast of, [s]money made from cocoa couldn't even turn Abeokuta brown roofs village to a city even if given 1,000 years.
[/s]
Oil is fast going as every body is turning to gas...
So let's grow up and tell ourselves who owns the future...

SE especially Anambra, imo has natural gas that can serve till millions years to come if used the way oil is being used now.

And I ask again who owns the future? Or are you still dwelling in your cocoa that even the neighbouring countries are sharing for free.

Lmao. Yorubas has nothing to offer economically even with their cocoa.

And what development has oil brought to the same Abeokuta so far and to Nigeria in general except massive corruption and embezzlement? Majority of infrastructural development in Lagos metropolis were traced to those years and not the period of oil boom.

Only someone like you believe that gas is the only resource available in Nigeria apart from Gas. I don't blame you sha, I blame the government that has relied excessively on oil without thinking of exploiting other opportunities.

Resources available in Ondo state alone can sustain SW if properly managed and exploited get your fact right.

sinkhole:
this is the first sensible thing I think I will be reading from the man! He has jst hit the nail on the head, gbam!

it is the first because what he said is in your favour

[s]

Ephemmm:

Summary please? No time to read cock and bull stories.

[/s]

IPOO minion, it's time you checked the functionality of your brain...

Lies of hypocrisy and propaganda from a parasitic ingrate to divert attention from the very obvious!

It's preposterous the extent a group of confused lots would lie and spread wicked propaganda just to share a mere geographical expression with the same Igbo Nation they have nothing but hatred and envy for. It indeed defies all logics known to humanity!

https://www.nairaland.com/2535543/why-yorubas-afraid-biafra-actualization

https://www.nairaland.com/2839356/kemi-olunloyo-blasts-illiterate-yorubas

https://www.nairaland.com/2668808/opinion-todays-yoruba-youths-too

If you really passed through the four walls of a tertiary institution you would have known that every group of people in the world is entitled to self-determination.

https://www.nairaland.com/2708477/oil-producing-states-nigeria-facts/9

Igbos are not interested in anything Yoruba. Yorubas are free to merge themselves with any group in Nigeria. It's a free world!

Yorubas and their partners in crime cannot dictate for Igbos on how self-determination should be carried out to suit Yorubas interest and narratives when many Yorubas are wallowing in illiteracy, abject poverty and squalor.

A people who are barely existing cannot dictate to another how to live their lives!

https://www.nairaland.com/2769778/osun-state-now-failed-state

https://www.nairaland.com/2125679/yorubas-traitors-dont-care-loss

https://www.nairaland.com/2692549/only-bark-land-wont-dare

If indeed one state in Yorubaland produces oil than the whole of SE, while would miserable bigots like you currently earn a living on pay-per-post basis just to attempt to quench the call for self-determination by Igbos?

https://www.nairaland.com/2967468/yorubas-now-disgrace-awolowos-education

BTW, what kind of deluded people think that bile-filled hatred is their way of displaying love and therefore expect others to appreciate such evil?

If Yoruba elites believe in 'One Nigeria' they wouldn't hustle to have dual passports and sending their children abroad to live and school with our commonwealth.

If 'One Nigeria' apologists like you are willing to risk their life for their country the way the Biafrans are doing now, Nigeria would have been a better place.

I shall reveal your latent fear: the fear of Fulanis plundering your entire land, islamisation, no free crude oil wealth and eventual low economic activities in your land once BFR emerges.

Yorubas desparately want Easterners to remain in this fraudulent union so that they can help them wade off Dan Fodio's descendants whenever they recommence their jihad.

Wake up from your delusion, the 1966 charms of propaganda and lies against Igbos is no longer working. Your once poisonous fangs has lost its potency.

That your Yoruba folks rarely stand for anything should not be an excuse for you to come in the public to castigate Igbos for seeking to have a separate existence. You shouldn't expect Easterners to follow foolish ways of delusion. 

Leave Igbos out of your home troubles. Go find yourselves an idea you can live and die for!

carinmom:
One of the few times the man made sense.



Are you saying that fuel is distributed free in the north while you buy food items from them? You are the one who is funny and doesn't make any sense.

Actually, you make no sense. Can states in the north survive without allocations from oil revenue?

It is sad that a senator can make common sense assertions, when he can present an empirical analysis of issues. Making commonsense statements is not only a misgiving but a dis service to the academics.
Commonsense statement: An increase in the dollar relative to the naira will lead to inflation.
Empirical Statement: An increase in the dollar may cause inflation in the long run in a developing nation, providing there are no injections, investment, fall in oil prices and or institutional problems(Corruption or sabotage)

The senate is supposed to house, the best of brains in a country and not commonsense revolutionist.

Lessonteacher:
it is the first because what he said is in your favour

of course Mind you I am not from the north but I am currently at the north central! Beleive me, in terms of food, I dont see how these people will depend on the south! They farm here all year round and the people of the south are already becoming very lazy, they do not really farm in the south again!

Ephemmm:


And what development has oil brought to the same Abeokuta so far and to Nigeria in general except massive corruption and embezzlement? Majority of infrastructural development in Lagos metropolis were traced to those years and not the period of oil boom.

Only someone like you believe that gas is the only resource available in Nigeria apart from Gas. I don't blame you sha, I blame the government that has relied excessively on oil without thinking of exploiting other opportunities.

Resources available in Ondo state alone can sustain SW if properly managed and exploited get your fact right.

Your ability to comprehend is below par and should be properly diagnosed.

I said. That if all the cocoa money should be invested in Abeokuta alone it can never transform the brown roof village to a city even if given 1000 years.

Now compare the ideology like you did earlier to the oil states of Nigeria... Will you tell me it won't turn the region to sensible city with the shortest period of time...

I have no interest in ondo or is it osun that is feeding on 55 million a month. What good will come from such interest. I doubt anything good.

You don't have right to blame anyone for your inability...
I know Ibadan expressway media so well and how they brandishes fantasies and wishes.
You only wish you have resources except cocoa. Lol.
You have nothing to offer to Nigeria, nothing.

ChoCandyDiamond:

Without the discovery of oil, Nigeria would have been a very poor country like Niger and Mali, Cocoa was never a major source of Nigeria income, in the 60's the major source of Nigeria income is from Groundnut and Cotton from the North, Coal mining in Enugu and Palm oil from the East, Cocoa from the Mid West and West. The major contributor then was Cotton, Coal mining in Enugu and Tin mining in Jos.

EasternActivist is right... Cocoa was the major source of income... even today, after crude oil its cocoa... Palm produce is also abundant in the SW.. there is place named Palm Groove in Lagos.... It used to consist of palm trees and other farming activities before the influx of people ruined Lagos farming activities.

sinkhole:
of course Mind you I am not from the north but I am currently at the north central! Beleive me, in terms of food, I dont see how these people will depend on the south! They farm here all year round and the people of the south are already becoming very lazy, they do not really farm in the south again!

North central is not the north... it is only referred to north for northern political gain... it is meant to be called central Nigeria.... when Nigeria was northern Nigeria and Southern Nigeria.. the place they call north central was part of southern Nigeria..