El rufai mentioned this to Buhari in his memo.

freeze001:
Unfortunately he still has d lazy, socialist mentality and expects allocation from the central federal government.



What is that crap? Where will d FG draw d funds to share as allocation from? Is it not from d regions? Why should a group of people commandeer resources not theirs and redistribute by whatever sharing formula? The regions should be self reliant and then contribute to the centre an agreed percentage.

I lost interest in the interview when I read the part you quoted. All northerners have this lazy mentality with different types of sharing formulas in their pockets.

Why would the rest of the country feed the north and theirnown is to lay claim to leadership? Nigeria is backwards because of northern Nigeria. They are not ready to move forward and don't want the rest of the country to move forward.

Dotng:
WHY NORTH’LL CONTINUE TO BE PROBLEM TO NIGERIA –BALARABE MUSA

— 19th March 2017
… Says region can’t produce 100 engineers, but a local government in

South can produce 1000 engineers

From Noah Ebije, Kaduna



GRANTING this interview was a Herculean task for the former governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, not because he was not willing to talk, but because he admitted, “I am weak, health wise, I don’t think I can speak for very long, but let me try, as long as you will not drill me for too long.”

Alhaji Musa also appeared not to be in a good mood last Tuesday morning when the correspondent went to his house, saying, “Apart from the fact that I am weak, I could not attend INEC meeting in Abuja because they gave only two days notice for the meeting, and I would have loved to attend the meeting myself, but I cannot. So I have asked the national secretary of my party to attend.”

So with this situation, the former governor was not in his usual mood and as such the reporter could not stretch him much on burning national issues. Nevertheless, he managed to release an arsenal, saying, “North is the problem of Nigeria because the region is educationally backwards to be able to help in reconstruction of the country to achieve socio-economic greatness among comity of nations.”

President Muhammadu Buhari returned to the country recently from London where he underwent medical treatment. He admitted that he had not been so sick in his life, but before now, the President’s handlers did not open up to Nigerians as to the true state of his health. What can you say about this?

Well, the handling was very bad, very unexpected, they took Nigerians for granted when they should not because the health of the president affects everybody, every Nigerian, whatever any Nigerian feels, Buhari is president, and Nigerians future is linked to the president’s presence or absence. And therefore people should not be indifferent to the health of the president. And the president’s handlers must make sure that they keep on informing Nigerians about the true health of the president. When they said the president was not ill, unfortunately we did not hear about the true health of the President.

This is not the first time, the same thing happened during the late President Umar Musa Yar’Adua. But fortunately enough, the president has returned in a healthy condition. I said in a healthy condition because, seeing how the president came down from the aircraft, I was confident that his condition of health is not worse than all of us because he came down from the aircraft without being held and in a strong position. So as long as Nigerians are concerned, unless the president is hiding something medically, he has returned healthy and he is carrying out his responsibility.

Hardly had the President returned to the country than Nigerians were told that he would soon go back to London for another round of medical attention. Do you think it is good for our politics, don’t you think our politics will suffer for the president’s periodical absence from Nigeria?

No, certainly it is not good for our politics. But this can happen to anybody. We have all been in and out of hospital, so it is not unexpected, particularly when the president has greatest share of pressure. It is not unexpected of him to go back with the hope that his condition will be better than when he was released from the hospital, and what treatment he got after his return, and later he will stay there for the mean time.

Away from Buhari’s ill health, Let’s talk about the last national conference under former President Goodluck Jonathan. As it is today, many Nigerians are yearning for the implementation of the report of that Confab, particularly, the restructuring of the country. But up till now President Buhari has not looked at the recommendations. What is your reaction to this?

President Buhari is right, not to have approved the report of that confab because the national conference was not legitimate; it did not reflect the wishes of Nigerian people. It was Jonathan himself who dictatorially decided that we should have a national conference. It is he who appointed those who participated in the national conference; it is he who gave them the…, so that national conference has nothing to do with the aspirations of Nigerians, it has nothing to do with democracy, and it has to be dismissed. There may be aspects of it that are progressive. For instance, the call for restructuring. This is an incidental thing, and we should pursue it, but not as a result of the national conference. The confab should be dismissed because it is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the aspirations of Nigerians, and it has nothing to do with the destiny of Nigerians. It has to do with the will of a president who wanted to continue in office.

From what you have just said, you are in support of restructuring the country. How do you want Nigerians to pursue or go about the restructuring agenda?

Well, in the first place, let’s determine what we mean by restructuring because at the moment now there are various meanings of restructuring. As far as I am concerned, I am in support of restructuring, particularly in two areas; in return to the arrangement of the First Republic, where we had regional governments which were viable, and we should return to that. The 36 states are not viable, and everybody now knows it, and it is not in the interest of the country to continue with it. Let us have six regions, the North-west, the North-east, the North-central, South-west, South-south and South-east. This is the way to transfer Nigeria into three regional governments, each with its own constitution and government. Let also be units and not the statutory states, let any financial allocation come directly from the Federal government to the regions. And let the regions establish as many local governments as they cope with them with regard to financial allocation with the centre. And in fact what they need from centre will be reduced. They will be viable like the former Eastern region, Northern region, the Western region, and even before the Mid western region, they were viable. They needed the Federal Government support just to ensure even development and national unity. But definitely, even without the Federal Government support, they could survive. This is not what we have now.

The second restructure I want is that let us return to the situation before the military came in where the government played the leading role in the economy to ensure, equality, justice, dignity of the human person and progressive even development of the country. It is the major restructure, this is economic restructure. So we should have this political and economic restructures. There are other aspects of restructuring that we can tolerate as long as they keep Nigeria united as one nation and capable of equal development because as long as we have one region not having the equality to participate in the affairs of the country, we will not have unity, we will not have peace. For instance, at the moment now we have major problems which we must face and solve as a country. Free education development is central to any form of national development. At the moment now because of historical development, the North is 40 years behind the South in educational development. If this condition continues, there is no way we can have national unity, there is no way we can have even development, there is no way we can avoid the North being the problem of Nigeria. It is a fact, and we have to face it. If we have people like the Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Sir Ahmadu Bello and so on, their contributions to development would have continued, we will not have problem of even development, particularly in the educational sector. Let’s not forget that because of the colonial policy, the North was left behind right from 1950. For instance, by the time I left school in 1951, there was no single secondary school in the North.

And therefore, a northerner could not go straight to university. He had to go to the South, that was in 1943 when there were about 100 secondary schools in the South. And this disparity has continued up till today, and we are calling on Nigerian leaders to know that this is a threat to peace, to national unity and even development of the whole country. But Nigerian leaders, particularly, the present crop of leaders don’t listen to this. But they now have to listen because we want peace and progress, and there is no way we can we have peace and progress if a section of the country does not have equal rights to participate in the affairs of the country, and you can’t have the equal rights to participate in the affairs of your country if you have this disparity in educational development. I always give an example. Let us say the present government of APC, (just for the sake of mentioning the party) decides to go revolutionary, decides to face the problems of Nigeria in a revolutionary way, in a way that within a short time we can see Nigeria becoming one of the second largest economy in the world. This is possible, it is not a dream. Take the case of the Soviet Union in 1976, take the case of China in 1949, what are they now, they are the leading countries of the world. Nigeria can achieve this within a short period of time because Nigeria is large in every respect, and it has resources.

Let us suppose, just for the sake of mentioning it, that if the present APC government decides to go and do what these other countries have done to bring them to this present position, if that happens, for instance, the role of the engineers will be very vital. Of course, the roles of doctors, administrators, educationists will be vital. But the roles of engineers will be more vital in the sense of changing.

Let us suppose that that government because of the need to reconstruct the country, to rebuild the nation quickly, wants every one of the 36 States, including FCT, Abuja, to produce 1,000 engineers for the sake of achieving this rapid development, how many states in the North can produce 1,000 engineers instantly without deploying the state engineers to the central pool. Now, maybe, if they can, it is Kwara and Kogi states that can produce such number of engineers, but I don’t think they can. They can’t even produce 100 engineers.

But let us take the South, in the South, even one local government can produce ,1000 engineers to the national pool. How can we expect equal development under this condition where there is an unequal role in the society? So let’s face the problem. And that is why we in the PRP who aimed to bring about new and equal Nigeria to its God-given status, advocate socialist reconstruction of Nigeria, starting with the leading role of the state in the economy to ensure peace, equality, justice, dignity of the human person and progressive, even development. If we adopt this, I can tell you that within the next 20 years, even less, Nigeria will be different from what it is today. It will be one of the most developed countries in the world because we have the people, we have the geographical area, and we have the resources.



Sir, you spoke with passion and sincerity about the problems of the North, in this case, will you advise President Buhari to organise a national conference to replace that of former President Jonathan?

I don’t think he can because, I mean, he is not in any way politically different from former president Jonathan. President Buhari won’t do a better job from Jonathan. Let us find ways and means of agreeing for the need of the relevant national conference, and let us decide how it should come about.



You mean President Buhari is politically weak to organise a national confab?

No, I am saying that President Buhari is not different from Jonathan because Buhari is the product of the wasteful system we have been having for so long since the beginning of Nigeria. So you can’t expect him to do better than Jonathan. Maybe marginally, but not importantly because, for instance, he may have the courtesy to say that Nigeria should decide whether there should be a national conference or not, what is the agenda of the confab, Nigerians should elect who should participate in the conference, and so on. If he does that, he will definitely be ahead of Jonathan.



Sir, INEC has just released the time table for 2019 general election. What is your observation about the time table because Nigerians are saying is too early, and others are saying it is not too early?

I think it is proper that INEC has released the time table now because that gives all political parties, at least two years, to prepare for the election. It also gives INEC itself sufficient time to ensure that the time table is followed to the letter, and to conduct free, fair and transparent election leading to a legitimate government. It will also give INEC the time to make sure that the government provides it with the money it requires to conduct the election. So I think the time table is quite good. The only thing is that INEC should know that they are in a privileged position with regards to telling political parties when to starting campaigning doesn’t hold, whatever the law says, whatever INEC says, election campaign should start from now since INEC has announced time table for the election, and INEC should tolerate it.

Kaduna State SIECOM has proposed electronic voting for local government election, are you in support of e-voting system of election?

I am in support of anything that can lead to legitimate election, leading to a legitimate government.

But many of the stakeholders expressed the fear that the powers-that-be may use the machine to manipulate votes in their favour. How do you react to this?

They can use anything to manipulate votes, but it is up to the political parties to organise themselves, and if necessary to unite and make sure that the election is free, fair and they participate equally.



http://sunnewsonline.com/why-northll-continue-to-be-problem-to-nigeria-balarabe-musa/

95% of the Head of State in 9ja came from the North...

Still they lack in Education, infrastructure etc...

The Northern Leaders are greedy and wicked... Accumulating wealth just to be like gods in the sight of their herdsmen..

They will rather give them cows and guns than to train them in school....

That man said some "NONSENSE "...

How can 9ja be like China or the Soviet Union when some section of the country in this 21st Century still parade the streets (even commercial places) with cows and sheeps

In a civilised country, a farmer or cattle rarer whatever they are called must have a RANCH... The animal will never cross their property...

The problem of the North is their leaders...
The problem of Nigeria is the North...

Other Regions can't do a thing about it because countries like America, England, France etc are with the Northerners... The people they can control...

Nigeria is a time bomb...

Bombshell!

Lobatan. This man makes sense....

I don’t think he can because, I mean, he is not in any way politically different from former president Jonathan. President Buhari won’t do a better job from Jonathan. Let us find ways and means of agreeing for the need of the relevant national conference, and let us decide how it should come about.

Thoughtful post

Kemperor:




95% of the Head of State in 9ja came from the North...

Still they lack in Education, infrastructure etc...

The Northern Leaders are greedy and wicked... Accumulating wealth just to be like gods in the sight of their herdsmen..

They will rather give them cows and guns than to train them in school....

That man said some "NONSENSE "...

How can 9ja be like China or the Soviet Union when some section of the country in this 21st Century still parade the streets (even commercial places) with cows and sheeps

In a civilised country, a farmer or cattle rarer whatever they are called must have a RANCH... The animal will never cross their property...

The problem of the North is their leaders...
The problem of Nigeria is the North...

Other Regions can't do a thing about it because countries like America, England, France etc are with the Northerners... The people they can control...

Nigeria is a time bomb...

I'm not talking about Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, or Shenzhen. I only speak of a western city of China - Chongqing.
Do you know what a monorail is? Do you know that China has the world's largest high-speed rail network?

just negodu what brown roof afonjas got us into

freeze001:
Unfortunately he still has d lazy, socialist mentality and expects allocation from the central federal government.



What is that crap? Where will d FG draw d funds to share as allocation from? Is it not from d regions? Why should a group of people commandeer resources not theirs and redistribute by whatever sharing formula? The regions should be self reliant and then contribute to the centre an agreed percentage.

This is a very confused man.

Besides that nonsense he also said this:

"There may be aspects of it that are progressive. For instance, the call for restructuring. This is an incidental thing, and we should pursue it, but not as a result of the national conference. The confab should be dismissed because it is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the aspirations of Nigerians, and it has nothing to do with the destiny of Nigerians."

I'm glad that he recognizes the educational imbalance but beside that he doesn't want anything introduced or acknowledged that would force him or his kin to really examine themselves.

He had a lot of negative things to say about GEJ but refused to mention the fact that it was under his administration that the Federal Government attempted to redress the balance as a result of the fecklessness of the north.

Kemperor:




95% of the Head of State in 9ja came from the North...

Still they lack in Education, infrastructure etc...

The Northern Leaders are greedy and wicked... Accumulating wealth just to be like gods in the sight of their herdsmen..

They will rather give them cows and guns than to train them in school....

That man said some "NONSENSE "...

How can 9ja be like China or the Soviet Union when some section of the country in this 21st Century still parade the streets (even commercial places) with cows and sheeps

In a civilised country, a farmer or cattle rarer whatever they are called must have a RANCH... The animal will never cross their property...

The problem of the North is their leaders...
The problem of Nigeria is the North...

Other Regions can't do a thing about it because countries like America, England, France etc are with the Northerners... The people they can control...

Nigeria is a time bomb...

The leaders are a result of the culture, therefore all who keep the culture alive are culpable. Not just the leaders but the everyday people.

Everyone from the parents who send their children to mallams to be abused and forced to beg; to the parents who sell their daughters into sexual slavery known as Islamic child marriage. If they did not have so many children to fend for the people might have more energy and inclination to hold their wicked leaders to account. Unfortunately whenever the issue of child marriage or family planning are raised it is the common people who kick against it.

And lest I remind you it was the common people who sheltered and fed Boko Haram members just as it is the common people who are stealing food from IDP camps.

Afonjas perceive "Western education as a taboo". That's why they'll always be 40 years behind Southern region

freeze001:
Unfortunately he still has d lazy, socialist mentality and expects allocation from the central federal government.



What is that crap? Where will d FG draw d funds to share as allocation from? Is it not from d regions? Why should a group of people commandeer resources not theirs and redistribute by whatever sharing formula? The regions should be self reliant and then contribute to the centre an agreed percentage.

It is not only him that is lazy.How is he different from those areas where they have oil? Are they not lazy too? THey are just lucky they have oil they are equally lazy.

Yes regions should keep their resources but resourcess did not arrive there through hardwork.

Now there is a fundamental difference betweed Saudis,Kuwaitis on the one hand and Japanese/Germans on the other. The one are consumers while the other are producers.
There is no area in Nigeria that is more productive than the North apart from Lagos if you remove oil. That is the food basket of the country.
If we are to revert to true oil revenue resource control which I think we should that cannot happen overnight unless we split the country but let us not pretend that somehow Ijaws or Ikwerre as a people are more productive than Hausa because they have oill. They are among the laziest and least enterprising people on earth.

It is governments State and local that need oil not people and in the North the level of agricultural productivity is phenomenal. No one can tell me that Abokis are lazy. They work like machines

They are all overLagos riding okada and there is no state you do not find them,working which ia a lot more than you can say for Ikwerre or Ijaws

As long as the constitution concentrates power in the FG there will be need for allocation. Depite all the noise about corporate headquarters the truth is that corporate tax is paid to the FG ,VAT is paid to the FG the FG controls NPA and so on . Many of those revenue raising powers have to devolve before states can be viable. So those inbuilt constraints have weakened the states and they cannot overcome them overnightStates cannot generate power or build sea ports and many other things without the FG saying so.

ABOKI9ja:
I might agree with his point. As a Northerner and Hausa by tribe I will like to share Northern's view on Leadership Of Nigeria Based on my Understanding. More than average of total population of Northerners are scare of any Southerner to Becomes president, Because of too much hate and Descrimination from the Southerners which is means there will be more Consequences whenever Southerner climbs number one seat. For Example, During Jonathan everyone knows Jonathan did not fought well on Boko Haram and its even politically Empowered by Him. If you to Judge fairly you know South hates North very much for Example, its hardly to find Northerner that owns House or land in south but if you come to The North you will be Suprised to find thousands of Southerners that own lands, Houses, and some of them are even in the Government. We treat them like our own people we do Business with them we employ them we give them Right to own Businesses we sometimes prefer to do Business with them than our own people and all we need from them is only to respect our Religion and Tribe Because these two things come first before everything.
Thank God we dont talk too much we only do action and we dont care about what Southern media are saying.
We might be a Prloblem to Nigeria as South and the only Solution is to let every Region go it own way
Note: I only say my opinion and yours might vary from mine

Is there a Northerner that came to buy property in the South that was rejected ?
.

Civilization is an abomination to the North

[quote author=JideAmuGiaka post=54729065]Jideamugiaka

Hold your preek wit hand? Na name be dat?

[quote author=DirewolfofStark post=54738692][/quote]

DireWOLFofstark? na name be dat?.

JideAmuGiaka:



DireWOLFofstark? na name be dat?.

Na good name

Any name wey no contain preek inside am na good name

The brain of this old man is weak. i swear my local government alone can boast of more 100 engrs as he claimed the whole region couldnt. He need to be flown for medical advice asap

ABOKI9ja:
I might agree with his point. As a Northerner and Hausa by tribe I will like to share Northern's view on Leadership Of Nigeria Based on my Understanding. More than average of total population of Northerners are scare of any Southerner to Becomes president, Because of too much hate and Descrimination from the Southerners which is means there will be more Consequences whenever Southerner climbs number one seat. For Example, During Jonathan everyone knows Jonathan did not fought well on Boko Haram and its even politically Empowered by Him. If you to Judge fairly you know South hates North very much for Example, its hardly to find Northerner that owns House or land in south but if you come to The North you will be Suprised to find thousands of Southerners that own lands, Houses, and some of them are even in the Government. We treat them like our own people we do Business with them we employ them we give them Right to own Businesses we sometimes prefer to do Business with them than our own people and all we need from them is only to respect our Religion and Tribe Because these two things come first before everything.
Thank God we dont talk too much we only do action and we dont care about what Southern media are saying.
We might be a Prloblem to Nigeria as South and the only Solution is to let every Region go it own way
Note: I only say my opinion and yours might vary from mine

Southerners hates Abokis and yet we don't kill you guys but on the otherhand Abokis kills Southerners. Guy abeg think well before you talk

DirewolfofStark:

Na good name
Any name wey no contain preek inside am na good name

Wolf' dey there naa.

Dotng:


The second restructure I want is that let us return to the situation before the military came in where the government played the leading role in the economy to ensure, equality, justice, dignity of the human person and progressive even development of the country.


http://sunnewsonline.com/why-northll-continue-to-be-problem-to-nigeria-balarabe-musa/

And who is to blame for the educational gap between the North and South? The North has had more years of rulership of the country but chose a primitive lifestyle where they allowed their religion limit thier scope in life.

ABOKI9ja:
I might agree with his point. As a Northerner and Hausa by tribe I will like to share Northern's view on Leadership Of Nigeria Based on my Understanding. More than average of total population of Northerners are scare of any Southerner to Becomes president, Because of too much hate and Descrimination from the Southerners which is means there will be more Consequences whenever Southerner climbs number one seat. For Example, During Jonathan everyone knows Jonathan did not fought well on Boko Haram and its even politically Empowered by Him. If you to Judge fairly you know South hates North very much for Example, its hardly to find Northerner that owns House or land in south but if you come to The North you will be Suprised to find thousands of Southerners that own lands, Houses, and some of them are even in the Government. We treat them like our own people we do Business with them we employ them we give them Right to own Businesses we sometimes prefer to do Business with them than our own people and all we need from them is only to respect our Religion and Tribe Because these two things come first before everything.
Thank God we dont talk too much we only do action and we dont care about what Southern media are saying.
We might be a Prloblem to Nigeria as South and the only Solution is to let every Region go it own way
Note: I only say my opinion and yours might vary from mine

if you have noting to say just shutup... I was born and GREw up in the south... Niger deltans has no time for anybody... and has no time to hate any1.. we all love every one.. d number of aboki and Warri alone is alarming... we believe in 1 Nigeria.. I don't take life too serious like u guys in d north... Niger delta believe in love .. if u have a problem with any southern man.. u beta go and settle with him.. and stop generalizing your problem.. thanks... 1nigeria

hucienda:
Fact!

This is one northerner who isn't afraid of going against the dominant politically correct hypocrisy prevalent in the country.

How can a region grow if most of the people are not educated? Such will keep holding this country back. Taking a leaf from Abe Lincoln's 'House Divided' Speech in 1858, Nigeria cannot continue one 'half enlightened' and the other 'half unenlightened' in perpetuity - it is either the country becomes all of one (enlightened) or all of the other (unenlightened). Implication of the former being a restructured, stronger, prosperous country; the latter, division of the country into countries to pursue their interests in enlightenment or lack of there of.

Only time will tell which.

i swear to God the old man is lying. Looking for a way score cheap points. He knows what the southern folks like to hear about the north, si deliberately portray as a that backward. And you are already sympathising, abeg go vote for him party

Justiceleague1:
Thats a mallam talking there buh watch and see how scratch_face sophisticated afonjas will soon troop on and take a swipe@ balarabe and mouth_foamingly tag him a wailer....afonja mumunis will soon stage a protest against balarabe and when they hear the firing sound of a burst tyre,its straight to mowoe/ibafo idp

trully,the north is and will always be naija problem..no thanks to the mumunis

I believe in my kinsmen political wittiness. Already drawing support enmasse. Balarabre you have scored one already

okosodo:
Goodluck wanted to help them, but almost all of the decamped to join the presidential candidate whose educational qualification was being a general ok a skewed process. They cant stop other regiong from moving foward no matter how hard they try

how has Goodluck helped the nation to move ahead or atleast to move the Niger Delta ahead of other regions?

....but they are feeding us. No problem, kontinu!!!

sasko:


Is there a Northerner that came to buy property in the South that was rejected ?
.

YES, MY OLDER BROTHER

There is sense in 'Nonsense' 1.The north will continue to be the problem of Nigeria. 2.Buhari will not perform better than Goodluck Jonathan. 3.As at 1953 there was no secondary school in the North whereas there were over 100 secondary schools in the south.4.The north has produced up to 90% of past presidents of Nigeria yet they lack knowledge equity with the south how was that possible with 90-10 in leadership opportunity and 100-0 eductaional capability?things are not summing up in Nigeria.Religion and Born to rule attitude is another no go area between both sides.

thesicilian:
This man speaks like a true patriot and I agree with most of what he says, but the major solution to Nigeria's problems is not restructuring, it is still fighting corruption. Both political and economic corruption. If you restructure the country into regions and the regional heads are corrupt and incompetent, how does that help? A major reason the north is educationally backwards is because their leaders have diverted their resources and allocations for their personal use, and there is no accountability. It is the same problem with the Niger Delta, and if you check very well, you'll see that both the north and Niger Delta have similar issues - educational backwardness, insurgency, poor infrastructural development. To blame that on the central government is just plain mental laziness.
Whatever the structure of the nation is is not as relevant as having competent, accountable and economically sound leaders...

he spoke your mind and suddenly yiu believed. That old man most likely have had amnesia

Drikojigzy:



if you have noting to say just shutup... I was born and GREw up in the south... Niger deltans has no time for anybody... and has no time to hate any1.. we all love every one.. d number of aboki and Warri alone is alarming... we believe in 1 Nigeria.. I don't take life too serious like u guys in d north... Niger delta believe in love .. if u have a problem with any southern man.. u beta go and settle with him.. and stop generalizing your problem.. thanks... 1nigeria

Thanks for fixing his brain

smartty68:
Afonjas perceive "Western education as a taboo". That's why they'll always be 40 years behind Southern region

Do u know who d Afonjas are?

u mean I should read all this, all because of aboki