Shym3xx:


Well, it seems you're a terrible student of history. There's no correlation between the British colonisation of both Singapore and US...and that of Africa. While the Brits saw US and Singapore as new homes in foreign lands and did all they could to develop those places (the nucleus of the US ruling class today is still Anglo-American, Scottish, Welsh and Irish) - Africa was exploited and left in darkness. And till today, there's still indirect colonisation of Africa - Francophone Africa, apart from Algeria to an extent, is the most overt form of the colonisation still going on in Africa today.

Now back to ya retort. How can they fight only their leaders when the FG takes almost every revenue that comes from them? What you posited would only make sense if their leaders are in control of the resources. However, that isn't the case.

As for Spain and Catalonia: only 1/8 of Spanish income comes from Catalonia, unlike Nigeria that earns close to 80/90% of its FOREX from Niger Delta oil. And the Spain government did well in developing Catalonia and it's also a semi-autonomous region. Can the same be said about Nigeria vis-a-vis Niger Delta? Apples and oranges, mate.

Be logical, don't be emotional. I don't know what part of naij you're from - but ya region would fare better without oil if the stakeholders can look inwards to create wealth.

slimfit1:


That shows he was not aware of what has been going on in this country. Go to Minna tell me how that place looks like . He was clueless and he surrounded himself with clueless and selfish people. If it was me my village would look like a developed city I don't care what people say or think, as long as we provide the bread we will be the first to take a bite.

pavy:
The militants should also call on all the Niger-Delta leaders, past and present, to give account of the huge funds that have been flowing through the States especially since 1999. Left for me, Niger-Delta leaders are the problem of Niger-Delta, and not the federal govt.

AreaFada2:


Well, in Nigeria, gentle and fair people are called clueless.
We live in a society in which everything is upside down compared to saner climes.
Any wonder why are nothing to write home about after 55 years?

Subway1011:
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Gbam.

lereinter:

Rubbish Rubbish and Rubbish

femyodsky:
Pictures of Major areas in warri and PH should be taken and compared with that in Ajegunle.

veeceesynergy:
. When they were fully represented and not Marginalised in appointments, what did they achieve.

menstrualpad:
free them....am Yoruba and I maintain that until Nigeria is restructured we would not move forward. If you think Lagos is developing you need a brain check...development means the people are keeping pace with the government....ordinary brand new car Nigerian professor can not afford. the current structure of Nigeria since about 1979, nothing can move....unless States and LGA's are compelled to be viable and fruitful.

Mztarstrechy:
So why didnt they blow it during GEJ's regime?

Shym3xx:


So, you're Yoruba, yes?

Darn! You Yoruba folks on this forum always disappoint me with the way you harangue with these folks over inconsequential, insufficient, and counter-productive accursed oil. A cursory look into Yoruba post-colonial history would showed that the region achieved its greatest strides when it depended on proceeds from agriculture and it looked inwards to create wealth. So why be the loudest voices for other parasitic regions that can't thrive without being fixated oil proceeds?

Lagos has potentials to be a world class city, if the population can be managed effectively and they can find a way to create an identity for it. And it has a few drops of oil and bit of gas reserves. Ditto seaports for commerce. Ogun has massive potentials to be an industrial hub. Ibadan has huge untapped potentials and it can become a world class city if well restructured and planning. Ondo has a lot of potentials. Ditto Ekiti, Osun, and other parts of Oyo for agriculture and tourism. So, what's the fixation on oil that has stagnated growth about?

Our fixation should be on (semi)autonomy...not oil. Let them take their oil. If we can get (semi)autonomy, the money generated by Lagos alone should be able to replace whatever proceeds we're getting from oil right now. Lagos is being cheated in the scheme of things.

AreaFada2:


Every part of 9ja will be better without oil.

Every part has comparative advantage in one area or the other.

But we all currently sit down waiting for oil money.

We have to restructure seriously & innovate.

Mztarstrechy:
So why didnt they blow it during GEJ's regime?

modath:

Did the scavengers just wake up from a coma?

13% ,NDDC, ND Ministry? They are their own problems.

priceaction:



This is because they might will be hunted by their kingsmen and those that they are sponsoring. That means their hands too are not clean. Even tinubu, which is close ally of dokubo, upon all his so called shaddy deals and curruption has most of his investment in nigeria. Why cant they site it in places that are save in the region?
I stayed in niger delta for years. I mean creeks and riverine area not cities, majorly ,bayelsa and the likes- from patani-sagbama, toru ebeni,kabiama, okobiri, brass and nembe amasomma, ogbia, name them even during MEND days. We know what is really happening in the place. Even then, a local government chairman likely richer than some State governor but they will never come office? why because their hands are not clean, even in the community. Too many factions and leaders. So i know what i am talking about. The more you are influenced and radicals, either young or old, the more you will command boys...Even if they still control everything, there wont be development because of these.

modath:

Did the scavengers just wake up from a coma?

13% ,NDDC, ND Ministry? They are their own problems.

Mztarstrechy:
So why didnt they blow it during GEJ's regime?

olafum1:


They were not much marginalized in appointments & likes or regarded as 5% under GEJ.

Imagine some northern leaders along side pmb vowing to give them the Boko Haram treatment when only it is pipelines they are blowing up, and at the same time they all are denying the ethnicity of the Fulani terrorists, who is maiming & taking lives in a gruesome manner in the south.

So it's d govt that shot herself in the leg . To me, one live is more significant to all the pipelines in Nigeria.

Mind you, what they are clamouring for now, is more of federalism. Let them have d larger stake over their resources. That's all. This northerners have 98% stake in their resources and are still calling for their death, using the boyscout military who specializes in terrorizing civilians. Isn't that another form of modern day slavery and savagery?

Nigeria is ripe enough for federalism... The govt needs to act fast, smart and wise to tackle this root cause, so that the country can remain as ONE. enough of military bragadro over there, it will fail, Obasanjo tried it and failed but Yaradua nailed it.

Yaradua, my Hero.

FYB:
And all the money dat was used to develop abuja came from the Niger Delta

Monkey d work, Baboon d chop

Bluffly:

Please, Please, British did all they could to develop Singapore and USA or USA and Singapore were ready to build themselves. No one can make you feel inferior, if you do not permit it. These two countries did what they need to do. You said Federal Government is not doing enough to develop ND, so should we relieve the governors of their appointments, cancel the existence of those states and declare it a federal territory?. What have the region done with all the quintillions that have sank into ND, They are complaining of pollution and yet they are polluting it the more through bombing. These regions collect allocation more than any other place, with all other allocations that other states do not get. Either Autonomous, Semi-autonomous, or non-autonomous, what have they been doing with what they've gotten all this while.

You said how can they fight their leaders as if the FG took the money and pocketed it without giving them sizeable amount of it back. Do you know the quantum of projects that the FG has positioned into these areas in which this same set of buffons will rather collect the money from them than allow the project come to being? If you are not from that region, You collect a meaningful project and go to that region to execute it, if they allow you to be successful, let us know, if not, let us know.
You even said every revenue, as if they do not have IGR. Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta occupies positions in 1st to 4th and yet nothing to show for it.

I beg. In spite of lacuna in a political system, violence, and stupidity can never be justified.

Eluwilussit:


Lagos wouldn't be the way they are today if all they got was federal allocations. FG consciously invested in them and made sure almost everyone else did.