jamesibor:
Full PDF document can be accessed here: https://www.google.com/url?q=http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/ilharvest/Africana/Books2011-05/3064634/3064634_1914/3064634_1914_opt.pdf&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiGyOH69YLPAhUBJMAKHe0OAM8QFggLMAA&usg=AFQjCNE8bx1PWlU-vVAQhrTxIllP50Cn-w

seunmsg:
Ango Abdullahi talked about revenue after independence and before the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantity and not at amalgamation in 1914.

jamesibor:


Oil was discovered in 1956 before independence, so that notion still falls flat on its face. The North was never at anytime in history more buoyant than the South.

seunmsg:


So, how then do you juxtapose a revenue report of 1914 with oil palm production data of 1950's and 60's?

If you want to do a serious analysis, compare the revenues that accrued from groundnut, cotton, cocoa, timber, palmoil, rubber and other cash crop in the 50's and 60's and you will get the true position of things before exploration of crude oil started.

aribisala0:
So you found a report from the colonial era posted and you think your work is done?you have made a point? .FYI we have been posting and debating colonial reports going back to the 19TH CENTURY long before amalgamation. Nigeria existed as one for 46 years before independence. One year tells us NOTHING. In 1914 the British did not have full control of the country and so much changed over 46 years for example Nigeria started exporting coal and cocoa took off. It should be noted that cocoa is not an indigenous plant to Nigeria and in 1914 it was quite new it took off and by 1960 it was a different story.
Whilst I do not agree with AbdullahI you should not deceive yourself that your lazy offering proves or disproves anything. It is just information and you still need to do the work of putting forward a coherent argument to marshal your point whatever it might be. You cannot make any argument without at least 10 years data

jamesibor:
Full PDF document can be accessed here: https://www.google.com/url?q=http://libsysdigi.library.illinois.edu/ilharvest/Africana/Books2011-05/3064634/3064634_1914/3064634_1914_opt.pdf&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiGyOH69YLPAhUBJMAKHe0OAM8QFggLMAA&usg=AFQjCNE8bx1PWlU-vVAQhrTxIllP50Cn-w

jamesibor:


You have done nothing either to prove your assertions. Provide verifiable data to back your argument.

Superior argument will always win.

jamesibor:


Ango Abdulahi said "before the discovery of crude oil" and 1914 belongs to the era "before the discovery of crude oil", No?

aribisala0:

I have no assertion or argument. I am making none.
I am only asking a question
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN.?
So you found a report ok fine
How do we interpret it ?what does it tell us?
You think by posting a report you have proven or disproven anything? No
How does this post take us from A to B in terms of drawing any conclusions.
I don't know whether AbdullahI is right or wrong though I very much doubt that he is.
This post does not prove anything anymore than telling us that in 1914 people were drinking rain water. It has no value

jamesibor:


It proves that contrary to Ango Abdulahi's claim, in 1914 (before the discovery of crude oil), Palm oil (mainly from Eastern Nigeria) was by far the major export commodity and revenue earner.

I do not have data do other years, if you do, please share.