SairikiDurri:


This is why today yorubas do not believe in restructuring.

See your ancestors occupying Lagos because of Niger Delta oil

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Your leaders know that they can't exit without Niger Delta oil.

APCHaram:


Leave them for me.

I keep busting their lies daily.

West Africa is the classic region of smallholder production, both of food and export crops. The oil palm, which has been both, flourishes in natural association with yam and cassava cultivation throughout the wetter parts of the region. In eastern Nigeria, which C. W. S. Hartley (1988: 7, 16) called “the greatest grove area of Africa,” densities of 200 palms per hectare (ha) were common in the late 1940s, and densities of more than 300 palms per hectare were not unknown.

Present day Biafra was even a major player in palm cultivation back then.

Luckilo:

[s]Its a big lie...We don't import palm oil...It is abundant in the South-East[/s].

leahcimzil:
until we learn to hold the right people responsible, there won't be any progression for us. See this idiot now making noise bout Niger Delta feeding the whole nation. yu are making the wrong noise man. Of all the afore listed raw materials, how many do we still export? why not hold the government responsible fr this deterioation. the fight is not against yur fellow compatriots from other regions of the country. It is against the government past and present that is playing this tribal politics tune, knowing you'll dance to it. Please EMANCIPATE yourself and see beyond

APCHaram:
The famous Groundnuts generated a total of 154,000 pounds.

Cocoa the same.

The only commodity that neared palm oil from the Niger Delta was Tin mining in Jos which wasn't even up to half of that realised from palm oil.

Can you people now shutup on that silly lie that your cocoa and groundnuts were used to develop the oil industry!

OBAGADAFFI:


Am just laughing, at the comments of those guys here.

They probably didn't know that Crude oil discovery was the beginning of Palm decline.


As the time SW was making Palm oil production has declined.

SairikiDurri:


I re-edited the title because I later found out that the SE was the largest producer of Palm oil.

Midwest is now part of Niger Delta!

Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Abia, Bayelsa and Calabar were part of Eastern Region and are today considered part of Niger Delta.

So what is your problem with me renaming it to reflect the true geo-political makeup of post civil war Nigeria?

And I see no reason why the changing of the title should be an issue since you yorubas hate the Niger Delta more than the SE.

APCHaram:


No be jealousy dey worry them?

Why did the Afonjas vote this tyrannosaur in the 21st century ? No be because they were jealous of the developmental strides under GEJ which saw the better south (SS/SE) the best rating in all human developmental indices.

aribisala0:
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwis0Y_rooPPAhVHDsAKHRKWCcYQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Flibsysdigi.library.illinois.edu%2Filharvest%2FAfricana%2FBooks2011-05%2F3064634%2F3064634_1904_lagos%2F3064634_1904_lagos_opt.pdf&usg=AFQjCNEd_sf_ZcOX25Vi4KrNZQZCbsrADw&bvm=bv.131783435,d.ZGg&cad=rja

Read paragraph 14

on Page 10 "Lagos so rich in palm products"

wristbangle:


Dude, is this the best you can come up with to counter my statement? Your level of reasoning is too timid. Come up with something constructive and let's dialogue. Your comment depicts that of a 2yrs old kid.

hundredhunndred:


You cant dialogue with that kid, he is only good at insulting everyone while quoting his own comment with his other several handles. Lol

APCHaram:
The famous Groundnuts generated a total of 154,000 pounds.

Cocoa the same.

The only commodity that neared palm oil from the Niger Delta was Tin mining in Jos which wasn't even up to half of that realised from palm oil.

Can you people now shutup on that silly lie that your cocoa and groundnuts were used to develop the oil industry!

LeFreakSoChic:




So whose fault is it that your leaders refused to develop your region?
Have you held Asari Dokubo to ransom for investing at Cotonou instead of your region?
How about Kingsley Kuku? Has been hung for spending your funds on org1es and foreign prostitutes?
Has the ugly Ayiri been shot for wearing a 4Million naira suit for his wedding when an average ND indigene does not have access to portable drinking water?
You all praised Tom Polo for buying 3warships with your money instead of developing the region.
Ayo Oritsejiafor used his jet to help transport the fund for the arms and ammunitions that the militants are using today,
The chief buffoon, GEJ did not do shii for your region. He was focused on pleasing almajiris that would vote in their brother even if GEJ had given them a million naira a day just to take them off the streets.
You have been feeding other regions yet they are much more devloped.
The irony of the whole thing is that from the stipends you feed other parts of the country, they are supposed to be the least developed.
You are not serious.

jneutron4000:
So op thinking SW did not and is not feeding Nigeria is a big lie. The region has got everything. Crude oil, Agriculture, industrialization etc. apart from the SS can you pls tell us what the SE contribution that is increasing this country GDP?

APCHaram:
The famous Groundnuts generated a total of 154,000 pounds.

Cocoa the same.

The only commodity that neared palm oil from the Niger Delta was Tin mining in Jos which wasn't even up to half of that realised from palm oil.

Can you people now shutup on that silly lie that your cocoa and groundnuts were used to develop the oil industry!

jneutron4000:
Even in the report, the SW region i.e. Lagos sea port was used to export good from every parts of the country to overseas and some of you will say it was crude oil money that was used to build Lagos sea port. Even for using Lagos port shows the SW region Have being useful since the time of Adam and Even. Now don't give me that flimsy excuse that is because Lagos was the Sit of power then why then no put sit of power for Imo then?

wristbangle:


Smh. You are deviating from our original discussion but since you start it, let me perch on the aisle with you.

I believe in restructuring and true federalism. Even recent news shows APC governors in southwest calls for it in order to have resource control hence every states will look inward to feed herself instead of everything going to federal government, then redistribution to states.

The restructuring structure works fine for USA where california generates 30 percent of the country's income (about $ 560.80 billion).

If such can happen in Nigeria, generally I see the entire south prospering but the north may struggle.

So, hope my comment has done justice to your strife and bitterness?

ojialo:

nice comment but the IDIOT is harsh please...

BarryX:
Explain the bolded please
No vex

Igboid:


Cocoa became Western Nigeria major source of income, after independence, but even that was debatable, as some had argued that rubber mainly from the Midwest area was the real forex earner for the region.
Either way., Western region Cocoa was strictly for Western region, they fed no one else, they only paid their loyalty to the FG, like the the Eastern region and Northern region did.

Moreover, Cocoa was also produced in Cross Rivers and Northern Abia parts of the Eastern region, but not in the scale it was produced in Western region, just as Western region Palm produce were not in the scale as produced in the Eastern region and mid western parts.

Winning123:


You folks always think the north will suffer if Nigeria breaks. On the contrary it is the south. With experience of Nigeria we can see that it is not only resources that drives development but common goal, aspirations and shared values. The north are more United and if Nigeria breaks are more likely to unit under same goal and aspirations. However the south with their ITK mentally will struggle. The leaders will fight for position and will want to build dynasties for themselves which is the typical mentality of southerners. Please note I am from the south before you spew hatred.

VulgarVulvas:


I countered that lie by responding to him that if we were to go by that assertion then SW and Lagos was highest producer of groundnuts since northern groundnuts were exported out of Nigeria exclusively through Lagos port.

Yoruba people come and gagg aribisal0 because he is really disgracing you guys here with his silly lies

APCHaram:
The famous Groundnuts generated a total of 154,000 pounds.

Cocoa the same.

The only commodity that neared palm oil from the Niger Delta was Tin mining in Jos which wasn't even up to half of that realised from palm oil.

Can you people now shutup on that silly lie that your cocoa and groundnuts were used to develop the oil industry!

Noblecx:


Given by what you've said about southwest could the same be applied to Present SE as they have the industrialization, Onitsha,Nnewia and aba comes to mind, they have oil where Anambra, IMO and abia comes to mind, and lastly agriculture they have yam,cassava, cashew, rubber, rice, maize, vegetables all in commercial quantities and in adding to it they have coal in commercial quantities...

SE is more resourceful than the whole SW bro..

wristbangle:


Yet a lot of your indigenes domicile in SW much more than the SW people in your region. Can you explain this statistics?