northern Nigeria is made up of nothing less than 100 tribes but they decided to put their differences aside and form a northern caucus,for centuries indigenes of Kano,katsina,sokoto and bornu fought themselves endlessly but towards 1960 they saw the need to come together and form a United front because they understand the United we stand,divided we fall slogan,southern tribes barely clash,u can barely hear 29 igbos killed in osun etc and they inter marry well,so we have no excuse

1Rebel:


You cannot put the tribal identity aside, an average nigerian sees his tribe first, then nigeria second.

northern Nigeria is made up of nothing less than 100 tribes but they decided to put their differences aside and form a northern caucus,for centuries indigenes of Kano,katsina,sokoto and bornu fought themselves endlessly but towards 1960 they saw the need to come together and form a United front because they understand the United we stand,divided we fall slogan,southern tribes barely clash,u can barely hear 29 igbos killed in osun etc and they inter marry well,so we have no excuse

sarrki:
Restructuring is actually Good

Only concern is we don't have good people that can represent each region

Not the set of criminals we have at the two upper houses

Zone B, speaking from two sides of his mouth. Either you are for it or you are against it.

Its very sad my dear, very very sad.

somadinho10:
I tells you my brother but what baffles me is the fact that I don't know what the yorubas gain in associating with the north...... What have they to offer absolutely NOTHING

sarrki:
Restructuring is actually Good

Only concern is we don't have good people that can represent each region

Not the set of criminals we have at the two upper houses

Gbam. Best words I av read so far

why are they afraid of restructuring?
We cannot continue living like animals.
no no no its not possible

ZombiePUNISHER:
Remove a parasite attached to a host.it will die a sudden death
The irony is even when northern sane leaders like sanusi speaks the honest truth about the status of the north in Nigeria
These same old fools will shout down on him

Where are the Yoruba Muslims .. Come and chant Sai baba and one Nigeria as usual

Can you ever itemize your points without involving the Yorubas

You people will soon get what you want again on this thread.

praise010:
That's the only thing the illiterates brag about - land mass and population. They practically add little or nothing to the economy of the association called Nigeria.

They prefer status quo....docile States and parasitic local governments that relies only on Niger Delta Oil for Survival.

I no blame them sha. The brown roof enclaves caused it all

You guys should make up your minds on who is responsible for your eternal political failure

Emir Sanusi has said it already, in his words "if the North was to be a country, it will be the poorest".

Why wont they,the status quo pays them,bunch of lazy ass.
Where in the world is resources shared based on landmass?

if that is the case,Siberia in Russia,west coast states in USA,NW provinces in Canada will be getting more money/resources than the rest of their counterpart region.

Only in Nigeria is the Northern part has more population than the coastal part in west Africa.

Present NE in Nigeria was part of Cameroon,what resources did they bring to the federation since when the opt to join Nigeria?

You need to shed this presumptive toga of yours. Read my comment well, it captured the part where i said its saboteurs derailing the Southern cause. As a person and a Yoruba, i kno the North is up to no good, same for a legion of other tribesmen that i kno of. Its always convenient to lay the hassles of realization of B****a on d doorstep of the Yorubas whereas you see some Igbo sons denouncing it everyday. As for me, i support it. Most of the Southern/ Yoruba punks attacking the I**b cause are ignoramuses, prolly teenagers that are still breastfeeding that overrun this forum on a daily basis, who dont seem to see d big picture or just prefer to remain in denial. The same way Igbos arent speaking with one voice on B****a is the same way Yorubas arent all agreeing on the lie called Nigeria. Lets be conscious and well informed about our ethnic challenges pls.....

BLACKdagger:

This is a lie brother
but its d same yoruba that carry biafra matter for head like gala here more than the hausas...Wheneva ipob mentioned secession
which u kno very well..

STOP TELLING OBVIOUS LIE BRO..
Had it been yorubas dnt sell souths out by forming allies with north during election the norths wont be feeling superior.

According to the forum, “The North was not given fair representation in the conference with 189 delegates despite its [s]landmass of 70 per cent and 55 per cent of the country’s population.[/s]
SO BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO BORN MORE THAN NECESSARY, THE BRAINS SHOULD SUFFER FOR IT

Mr. Bashiru Dalhatu, who was a Minister of Power and Steel in the Gen. Sani Abacha government, while presenting his keynote address, said: “The 2014 national conference had 492 members and the north which constitutes about [s]70 per cent of the country’s landmass and 55 per cent of its population was allocated 189 delegates while the South with only 30 per cent of the landmass and 45 per cent of its population was given an incredible 305 delegates.[/s]
BY NOW THESE PPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT NIGERIA IS DIVIDED INTO 6 GEOPOLITICAL ZONES.



“To call upon any group of sponsors or individuals agitating for any form of restructuring of the federation, first and foremost, to respect the existing constitutional order and to seek to do so within the bounds and parameters stipulated under our constitution and law. To suggest otherwise would lead to chaos and anarchy,” the NDF said.
WHY SOME PPLE WILL JUST BELIEVE IN THREAT ALWAYS AS LAST RESORT TO PERCEPTIONS


They also resolved to initiate all necessary steps and take all[s] lawful measures to engage the stakeholders[/s], such as governors, opinion leaders, civil society groups within the region and across the nation with a view to disseminating and canvassing the support of the report produced by the Strategy and Legal Committee of the NDF.
ONE OF THE REASONS SANUSI INSISTED ON THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION.

Where are the Brown roof muslims?? Food don don

izombie:
These northerners are unbelievable! And people still think nigeria go better. I don't blame them sha, they already have willing saboteurs down south in the name of yoruba moslems. I still don't understand why the yorubas want to remain in the same house with these animals.

You guys are irredeemable

BLACKdagger:

This is a lie brother
but its d same yoruba that carry biafra matter for head like gala here more than the hausas...Wheneva ipob mentioned secession
which u kno very well..

STOP TELLING OBVIOUS LIE BRO..
Had it been yorubas dnt sell souths out by forming allies with north during election the norths wont be feeling superior.

Oga if you have nothing positive to say then you better dont say anything at all..if you never cause tribal sentiment for this thread your body nor go rest..how old are you self? you nor dey tire for this your Biafra/Igbo and Yoruba tribal e-war?.all yorubas' are not in support of northerners.I can categorically state that the Afenifere Group always stood their ground about restructuring and they were ready to support who ever believed in that..even during the last election alot of yorubas voted for PDP becos APC didn't have a better candidate..so stop promoting tribal sentiment here.I nor be yoruba but i know what i am saying.

Of what use is your population to the growth of this country. How may cinemas do we have In the north. All the our is used in fighting boko boys, dieses, hunger

Divide this country already if you cannot make it better.

Haba!!!! Una get population and land only. What else?

does it mean the north are holding us ransom in this country

orisa37:
The NASS has all The Powers.
Call The Bluffs
Make The 36 States Fully Autonomous with regards to Sourcing and Spending their Resources.
Limit Federal Powers to Foreign Affairs, Military and Treaties.
By merely amending The Exclusive List this way, all The 36 States will soon be in the streets marketing for relationships with themselves for survival with or without the constitution.

What you are asking for is a constitutional review. Needs two thirds votes from two thirds of the state assemblies.

Goodluck with that

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With way these northern leaders are kicking against everything, I hope one day they will not kick bucket....

meanwhile....we can help restructure your real estate properties with our landscape , Horticulture and gardening services.

Oil will soon become as cheap as Pure water. Our current system cannot sustain Nigeria after the oil age is gone.

i predict that by 2030, there'll be no Nigeria without Restructuring. We will not even have money to maintain our military by then.

The Northern Leaders are illiterates who think that oil prices will rise again. That's why they're insisting that Nigeria won't be restructured.

praise010:
That's the only thing the illiterates brag about - land mass and population. They practically add little or nothing to the economy of the association called Nigeria.

They prefer status quo....docile States and parasitic local governments that relies only on Niger Delta Oil for Survival.

I no blame them sha. The brown roof enclaves caused it all

kindly explain how SW caused it please.

You don't need any soothsayer to tell you who the leeches are and who the enemies of progress in Nigeria are.

twentyk:

THE IGBOS AND THE YORUBA 'COLD WAR'; A CASE FOR SOUTHERN UNITY:

By Charles Ogbu

"Power is like a shadow. It resides exactly where men who are under its control think it resides"

The above is true with regards to the situation of Southerners in the Nigerian experiment.

We think the Fulanis are the ones that have been holding power and because we think and believe so, it actually look so. Because of this assumed knowledge, we hand over our destinies, our future and those of our children to a people who are not above 11 million, have little or no education and contribute little or nothing to the national pulse.

What if I told you that the real power rests in the South and with southerners but that the mutual distrust and foolish superiority contest between Igbos and Yorubas is the biggest obstacle to wielding this power? This senseless feud between these two Southern giants is also the biggest enabler and promoter of the fulani Oligarchy.

The southern part of Nigeria owns the oil which feeds the entire country. Without the oil today, there is no economy and there is no Nigeria. The same south controls the commercial sector of the economy. The media is still owned and controlled by the South.

When a people owns the only thing that is feeding a whole country and still control commerce plus the media through which people's thoughts and opinions about anything can be shaped and can equally boast of the best human resources, what else does it take for such a people to wield power in such a country?

Unity!

The few fulanis who have been running this country directly and indirectly since independence, what do they have?

Unity!

When the fulani Oligarchs want to achieve an aim, they effortlessly find a way to get every northern minorities such as Christians and middle Belts on their side even when they almost always end up discarding these same minorities and even killing them once the aim is achieved.

Now, ask yourself: how have the fulani Oligarchs managed to turn the entire Nigeria into an 'Animal Farm' with them as the only "Napoleon' despite their low education and the fact that all the prerequisites/bargaining chips for acquiring and wielding power are domiciled in the South??

Igbo-Yoruba 'cold war'! This, right here, is the answer.

The day the two biggest southern ethnic groups --The Igbos and The Yorubas --decide to put a stop to their needless bickering and channel all their energy towards confronting their common enemy --the children of Danfodio--, that is the day the Fulani Oligarchs will understand that even though the king is the one with the crown, he is nothing without the kingmakers and the people.

The Fulanis are not runing Nigeria because they are smarter than others. Far from it. They are messing with the destinies of over 180million people because the two Southern big brothers with the wherewithal to end their murderous reign of impunity are busy chasing rats while their houses are afire.

I am no historian neither do I pride myself as a man of letters but I know for a fact that the biggest weapon of the fulanis is neither guns nor bombs. Their biggest weapon is their ability to identify their opponents' weak points or even create one where none exists, magnify it and use same to create division amongst them just so they would effortlessly implement their Divide And Rule tactics.

Sadly, they have succeded in using this weapon against Southern Nigeria's two biggest ethnic groups.

Throughout history, all the wars and woes visited on both the Igbos and the Yorubas all came from the fulanis. There is no record of ethnic clash between these two humane southern Nations.

No time has these two people ever disagreed violently.

Strangely, the mutual suspicion that exist between these two great peoples seem far greater than the one they harbour against their common oppressor, the Scions of Danfodio.

It was not the Igbos who imprisoned Awolowo and killed thousands of Yoruba youths who protested the unjust imprisonment for days in different Yoruba cities in 1963. It was the fulanis and the killing was done by another fulani man, Muhammadu Buhari, who was the then platoon commander, 2nd infantry brigade, Abeokuta. That same year, Buhari was gifted with double promotion on the same day by the govt of Tafawa Balewa.

It was not the Igbos who imprisoned many Yoruba leaders, forced others into exile and killed others like Abiola after annuling his presidential victory.

It was not the Igbos who attacked Yoruba citizens in Lagos neither was it the Igbos who desecrated Yoruba cradle of civilisation, Ile-Ife by cutting off the head of a Yoruba citizen and parading it along the street, thereby sparking off a bloody ethnic clash that ended in the arrest of only the Yorubas including an Oba by the fulani president and his fulani security agents.

It is not Igbo herdsmen that kidnapped a yoruba son, Chief Olu Falae and have been going about terrorizing and killing Yorubas in Osun, Ogun, Kwara etc with govt-sponsored impunity.

On the other hand,

It wasn't the Yorubas that killed thousands of Igbos in the 1945 Jos pogrom and 1953 kano pogrom.

It was not the Yorubas who slaughtered millions of Igbos in the North after the first 1966 coup.

It was not the Yorubas who jailed an Igbo son, Alex Ekwueme who was only the vice president while the president, Shehu Shagari, a fulani, was left in a cosy apartment in the govt house. It was a Fulani man, Muhammadu Buhari who did this in 1984 after overthrowing the then govt in a coup.

Was it the Yorubas that is holding Nnamdi Kanu? Or was it the Yorubas who rained bullets and acid on hundreds of Igbo sons and daughters praying inside a school field in Abia state on Feb.9th, 2016 and those remembering their Biafran heros inside a church in Onitsha on May 29-30, that same year?

Is it Yoruba herdsmen that have been killing, maiming and raping villagers in Nimbo, Nsukka, Awgu Bende Council etc, all in Igbo land?

Today, even Jack, my two day old puppy knows that Nigeria CANNOT work as presently constituted. It was the rejection of the Aburi Accord by the Fulani Oligarchs which would have restructured Nigeria as a Confederation that led to the Biafran war. Today, the Yorubas want a restructured country. The Niger Delta want the same thing. The Igbos want Biafra BECAUSE Nigeria has refused to restructure.

Who are the only people resisting the call for restructuring, thereby holding everyone to ransom? Your guess is as good as mine.

Dear Yorubas and Igbos, what exactly are you dragging?

Why have you refused to realise that you have a common enemy, a very ruthless common enemy who have kept you busy fighting among yourselves while he's busy ruining your future and that of your unborn generation?

Can you not see that your siblings; Ijaws, Urhobo, Edo, etc are all looking up to you for that 'big brother' leadership and direction?

Can't you see that the fulanis are not really the problem? You are! Your disunity is!

You have no reason to be fighting.

Was it not a Yoruba man, Lt. Col Fajuyi, who chose to die with his visitor and commander-in-Chief, Thomas Umunnakwe Aguyi-Ironsi, an Igbo man, rather than give him up to the Hausa/fulani soldiers on 28th July, 1966?

Was it not an Igbo man, Odumegwu Ojukwu, who released Obafemi Awolowo from calabar prison and sent a squad of Eastern Nigerian policemen who escorted him to Ikenne, Ijebu, his home town?

You pride yourselves as the two most educated people in the country, yet your best brains have been reduced to playing 2nd fiddle to the Scions of Danfodio who are mostly without even a secondary school certificate.

In 1979, it was one of the best Igbo brains, Alex Ekwueme, playing 2nd fiddle to Shehu Shagari.
In 1983/84, it was Idiagbo playing 2nd fiddle to a Buhari who had no certificate.
In 2015, it is a Yoruba professor of law still in political purgatory under the same fulani-born Muhammadu Buhari who has now acquired a certificate........NEPA bill certificate.

Ojukwu is dead. So is Awolowo. And since I was born, Igbos and Yorubas have never killed each other. How about we put the gory stories of the war behind us and save ourselves and unborn children from this danger that is staring us in the face?

It is always the descendants of Danfodio doing all the killing, all the subjugation and slavery and we, the entire south have always been the victim.

In a nutshell, Charles Ogbu is simply saying that the Igbos and the Yorubas should channel their energy towards confronting their common enemy. You can join forces to fight a formidable enemy and still remain ethnically patriotic to your respective ethnic groups!

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After reading your long epistle, I must say it carries alot of truth, howbeit stuffed with plenty bigotry
First, we must question intentions when it comes to nigeria
Northern nigeria have fought to stay in power for a few reasons
1. They see power as dominance. So if they rule, Islam dominants
2. They tasted wealth n prefer it. They know the only way to get the national wealth from the south easily is by being the principal
3, they are lazy. They dont see any future apart from oil. So, its best to suppress all while they milk the cow

So, an average northerner is more patriotic to nigeria than any other. Statistically, 9 northerners out of 10 ll return to nigeria from the UK after staying there for min 5 years. 1 of of 10 yorubas may return. For the igbos, that number largely depends on which brings cash flow.

So,
-northerners are likely to unite for for nigeria if they are served reasons laced with religious sentiments
-yorubas are likely to unite for nigeria if they are served sentiments along cultural/ethnic lines (tinubu is yoruba leader, OPC has approved it, Oba agreed etc)
-the igbos are the hardest to unite. Why cos they are a society which over time, have been encouraged to grow along individual benefits. So, for them to unite, one ll av to ask them to look past themselves, their individual sentiments. This is a mountain task

I believe a reform is possible, only when 2/3 or 3/5 of nigeria unite and insist. But it begins with regional unity.

When the Yorubas eventually starts their own on this thread now, this same set of people will start Yorubas are this and that

Story!

Atiku2019:
Atiku Stands with 100% Restructuring

What is wrong with dis people

Restructure or not, when the right time comes everyone will find his/her root. I can envisage Biafra, Niger Delta and Oduduwa Kingdoms in the south, Hausa Bokwoi and Banza Bokwoi in the North. The more they try to stop restructuring the more Nigerians drift apart. To your tent o Isreal.

Brother please put this up as a post on its own and mention me.

Such posts should be the stuff of front page.