TonyeBarcanista:

Dear, how are you?

seyigiggle:
same with the Northerners.
Vast land without agricultural activities. all they wait for is government money. even their leaders are in search of crude oil, free money!!!

Abagworo:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200812190067.html

GOVERNOR Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State has expressed
dismay over the practice of selling employment slots to
non-indigenes by youths of the state at give-away prices.
At an interactive session with the Bayelsa State Elders
Consultative Forum, the governor lamented the
development, saying "it is saddening to note that indigenes
of the state are selling their employment slots in reputable
companies at give-away prices of between N20,000 and
N70,000."
The governor, who gave a graphic description of the
thinking of an average Bayelsan, noted with sadness that
they wanted everything free, bearing in mind that the state
remains the only state throughout the federation where the
electricity is generated free.
His words, "An average Bayelsan has also believed
erroneously that we have money and that is why they want
everything for free. In the education sector we pay nothing.
The craze now is that everybody wants their children to be
sent abroad by the government for free. In the health sector
we pay for nothing, everybody is expected to be treated for
free.
The electricity we produce is for free. Even nobody wants to
work; they prefer handouts. "When I first came as governor,
my belief was very different.
My belief was that if you create jobs, people benefits from
those jobs. And one of the things when I came in was that I
paid all contractors that were on site. I paid N900 million
and we decided to complete all on-going projects before we
plan new ones.
"The idea was to stimulate the economy so that our people
can do small jobs. And I was happy when I paid the money
and there were many people working on the site. I went to
those sites personally because there were still a lot of
complaints on the streets on Yenagoa.
sites personally that more than 500 people working on the
sites they were all non-Bayelsans. I asked if there was any
Bayelsan, there was none and I was shocked. That was
when I know we have a problem. Because no matter how
much you tried to stimulate the economy it would fly over
the Bayelsan because our youths won't work.
"I would give you another example - the community around
Saipem protested that they were not being given jobs. We
intervened and Saipem decided to give 70 quality jobs to
boys from that community.
The community nominated people to go and work there and
I was happy that through our intervention we were able to
create the jobs [/quote letter I saw one of the boys and questioned
him why he is not at work.
"I later found out upon enquiry that he sold his space to an
Igbo man for N40, 000 a month out of the N 70,000 he is
being paid and that is what all of them did.]that's how they about killing some successful Igbo men. They sold all
their spaces to Igbo people. You would send Bayelsans for
training through oil companies; they sell their spaces to
Igbo people and those acquire the necessary skills.
They are happier to be on the streets of Yenagoa claiming
every day that there is hunger. There is no economy that
can grow like this. It is a very sad situation." Earlier, the
chairman of the forum, Chief Francis Doukpolagha had
called on the government and the elders in the state to map
out developmental programmes that would be aimed at
improving the lots of the people in the state.

Deadlytruth:


Jonathan was not really the best candidate the SS could offer for presidency. Obasanjo studied all the SS governors then and discovered that GEJ was the weakest, most pliable, most lacking in personal vision and self-conviction, and least self asserting; so he chose him as Yaradua's running mate for the purpose of tokenism so that it would be said he made it possible for power to come to the SS. It was the same way the Northerners studied all the southerners in 1998 and found OBJ to be the most pliable and bendable to Northern interests, most resistant to his own Yoruba agenda, the biggest Southern collaborator and lackey of the Northern Hegemony, etc and then chose him too for the tokenism that after all they were kind enough to give it to a Yoruba man whereas he was actually the worst and least likely candidate the Yorubas would offer for presidency if given the total leverage.
What Northerners did to OBJ he too did to the SS. But the difference was that Yorubas were quick to reject OBJ as a Trogan Horse gift from the North while the SS could not see and till now has still not seen that GEJ was a Trojan Horse offer to the SS by OBJ.

Adminisher:
My brother, I calculated 13 percent derivation for 16 years....

Dlee1:
Are you indirectly saying that Gov. Dickson lied?

Goke7:
someone is beginning to say the truth after all

Deadlytruth:


If all these are true about them, then how are they different from Northerners? In fact Northerners might even be better than them.

D2diff:
Please retract that nonsense about OBJ.

mark3009:
I am not a bayelsan but i would like to say that all states of the federation are lazy. If this was not the case all states would be able to adequately generate their own internal revenue and not depend on monthly handout from the federal government. There is hardly any state that does not have one form of natural resource but they are just too lazy too develop.

ferhyntorlah:

I am fine Tonye.

chukel:
see them. Instead of commenting on the thread, he is going after a woman. By their... U shall know them.

Deadlytruth:



What's the nonsense therein about OBJ? Was he not a lackey, Southern collaborator and stooge of the North whom the Northern Oligarchy deliberately chose to perpetrate their born-to-rule philosophy? Did they really choose him back then in the interest of Nigerians or for the belief that he was their old reliable friend who was surer to return power to them just like he returned power to Shagari after it got to him through Murtala's demise? Did OBJ spare any fair attention for the genuine agenda of his own Yoruba brothers? Was it not the North and himself he tried to please all through his tenure? How many roads did he construct in the SW? Did he investigate the political assassinations of his time despite 80% of the victims were his own Yoruba brothers?
OBJ is the biggest problem Nigeria ever had. I keep wondering how he still has fans among even Yorubas. It beats me silly.

mandarin:


I disagree with you. My knowledge of the North is absolute. Their problem isn't laziness at all but illiteracy and religion. I've seen a meruwa get like 6gallons of water from a well almost 300meters deep. They can persevere for real.But their outlook on life is lack of ambition based on religious beliefs. The educated among them also like to feel cool without doing much. Hausa people are good farmers

Abagworo:


It has nothing to do with Jonathan or PDP. They suffered systemic manipulation from their elites aimed at controlling the vast myopic majority for the continued enrichment of few. It has been that was even before colonialism.

The solution is total reorientation.

chubbyswit:
na who go come dey field? Robot? C una mentality, lazy bunch of nothingnesses

mandarin:


I disagree with you. My knowledge of the North is absolute. Their problem isn't laziness at all but illiteracy and religion. I've seen a meruwa get like 6gallons of water from a well almost 300meters deep. They can persevere for real.But their outlook on life is lack of ambition based on religious beliefs. The educated among them also like to feel cool without doing much. Hausa people are good farmers

D2diff:
Trust me when I say I am not a fan of OBJ but to claim that that he was a stooge is extremely stvpid. In fact OBJ tried to do the exact opposite

TonyeBarcanista:
you just abandon me

Deadlytruth:


I can see that you find it difficult to read between the lines. I said Northerners gave him power because they (Northerners) believed he would dance to their tune and haunt his own Yorubas. He might not have wholly danced to Northerners' tune, but he definitely did not give a damn about the pan-Yoruba interest of SNC as he too conducted a sham which he called a confab and which the most notable Yorubas ignored cos it carried no genuine regard for the SNC and restructuring which Yorubas had always demanded from Abacha days. Was his resistance to restructuring not in the interest of the North? Or you think Northerners love the idea of restructuring? Did OBJ not in the end give power back to the North through Yaradua after making Igbos believe that he would hand over to them? Do I need to give you a full semester lesson?

mark3009:
I am not a bayelsan but i would like to say that all states of the federation are lazy. If this was not the case all states would be able to adequately generate their own internal revenue and not depend on monthly handout from the federal government. There is hardly any state that does not have one form of natural resource but they are just too lazy too develop.