DeepZone:

Is there any thing wrong with protecting your own as long as you are not protecting evil? What evil did Adenuga commit in Nigeria? At least, there are indications that Dangote got some help from the Federal govt coffers but not Adenuga. Why not discuss dirty Ibo billionaires like Globe Motors or Car Links or Fred Ajudia?

Can you tell us why he ran to Ghana? https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-21299.0.html

You people are condemning this new Niger Delta ministry? The best thing to happen to Ijaws since slice bread, oooppps kai kai. Ok, wait until those of them in this nairaland pounce on you and your pessimism.

$$Rhino:

i don't think anyone blv Yar Adua could do anything for Nigeria

Are you for real? Where have you been living? Lalala land?

DeepZone:

Whatever, Adenuga made his money from SCRATCH.

Ohh, you dirty tribalist. Why didn't you say "Whatever, Dangote made his money from SCRATCH" It's so glaring that you are here to protect your own even when he is the most corrupt. More than Dangote. Where is the nigerian in you? We all should be patriotic you know.

Lots of peeps here believes that their messiah Yar'adua has faith in nigeria's health system, so this article is rubbish.

DeepZone:

What made bayo Kuku a billionaire? His joint [/b]ownership to EKO hospital?

What made Tony Elumelu a billionaire? UBA?
[b]
Real Naija billionaires are:

Jimoh Ibrahim
Tony Ezenna(Orange Drugs)
Aliko Dangote(Dan Nigeria)
Mike Adenuga(GLO)
Orji Uzor Kalu
Cosmas Maduka(coscharis)

Bankers that are richer than Elumelu are:
Mike adenuga
Pascal Chukudozie
Jim Oviah

Remove Dangote and Adenuga from that list. Those were people that their bank accounts were stuffed with government stolen money. Their system is not how millionaires are made.

The ministry is simply to take the burden of development out of the hands of corrupt state governments and NDDC officials. This ministry is of strategic national importance and the usual level of corruption we see in Nigerian political structures will not be allowed in it. Let us give it a chance.

Kaii, see rejoicing and masturbation of the highest order. These people, when will your "eyeses" open? This is 2008 for goodness sake. Before NDDC, there was Niger Delta River basin Development Authority and you and your people believed that NDDC was simply created to take the burden of development out of the hands of the THEN corrupt state governments and Niger Delta River Basin Development Authority officials.
What heppened after the creation of NDDC? the status quo at Abuja continued. Today, "porti, yes" (meaning the more you look, the less you see)  have been done to your people in the hit of your people's pressure against them born to rule people and they created a new Niger Delta ministry meant to redirect your attention, but you couldn't grab the trick and you still believe that the ministry was simply created to take the burden of development out of the hands of corrupt state governments and NDDC officials. lol. Open and shine your eyes and know that this hausas meant no good for your people. Is it not better to have no oil and be free than to be the slave because you have oil?

However, the constitution review is coming up and we would like to see the following:

You will like to see the listed below when the constitution review is not yet here, yet you already believed that nigeria is slowly headed in the right direction. Lol. What has history taught you? Nothing?

A repealing of the Petroleum act and the Land act.

Come back here to say had i know.

A derivation system that better reflects true fiscal federalism.

Are you dreaming or what? Who will give that to you? hausa rulership? (Am sure you are thinking of between 25-50%)And where will they get money to build Abuja and support their corrupt way of life? You can't get nada unless through MEND's system. That is the only way to get your thing (what really belong to you) back from them. You do not need to take permission or make deals with your oppressor to be free and happy. That is why MEND's way is the only way out of this mess.

A repealing of the law that protects Government officials from prosecution whilst they are still in office.

Bia this boy, ina apu ara? Who will repeal such law? When 99% of the sitting government officials are corrupt. As you are now, can you stab yourself? May be you are the one that will repeal such law. Ol'boy stop too much kai kai.

I believe Nigeria is headed in the right direction however slowly.

Dreamer, dream on. Plan ni, Niger Delta ko.

$$Rhino:

Since someone has mentioned that Ekiti is messed up, i do suggest that we give Ekiti a special Ministry and shall be called Ministry of Ekiti State

And mus be headed by no other person other than the agba of nairaland, DeepZone.

bawomolo:

the 1966 coup arose due to high rate of corruption and political instability in nigeria. tafawa balewa was PM while obj was still a junior officer in the army.


there were actually openly corrupt southern ministers too but hey u have an agenda on nairaland

Who ever is in charge is where the bulk of the blame or praise stops. There is no excuse by hiding under "there were southern ministers as well" That is bull crap that i don't buy. That is why i laugh when i see some idiots come here to write that every other group is involved in corruption in nigeria. Fact is if those in charge are willing to stop the corruption, nothing and i mean nobody will stop them from doing so. But hey, who are we talking about? Those that wears corruption like their everyday dress, so how can they go out naked without their normal dress.

vigasimple:

History of corruption should be less of interest than SOLUTIONS TO GET RID OF CORRUPTION.

We may have to think out of the box on the SOLUTIONS. The history is like fogging a dead horse.

Get it into your head that you will never know where you are going if you don't know where you are coming from. People that think like you are the ones holding nigeria down and backwards.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7612996.stm

The chief of a village in northern Nigeria has been suspended from office for divorcing his wife because she had her children immunised against polio.

Buluma Ali has been ordered to re-unite with his wife or face "dethronement".

The head of Maisandari district said a traditional ruler was supposed to educate subjects on the importance of getting children immunised.

In 2003, some Nigerian Islamic leaders said the immunisations were part of a Western plot to make Muslims infertile.

They brought a halt to the vaccination campaign in the north of the country for a year, during which the number of new cases exploded.

"[Mr Ali] still believes that polio vaccine can render children infertile," Borno State spokesman Usman Ciroma told AFP news agency.

According to the UN World Health Organization, Nigeria is the only country in Africa and one of the four worldwide where polio is still endemic.

DeepZone:



Behold, a hero is born.

You are only here to laugh at your funny brother. Why don't you give him advise or call him to order. haba.

The hausas started corruption in nigeria. Go and read nigeria's history particularly about census inflation and "why we struck by the five majors" The first coup came about because of rampant corruption by the hausa administration of those days.

tpia:


In your permanent state of mental unbalance, you're confusing Tpia's brothers with your sh*t carrying fellow inmates and relatives at the local lunatic asylum where you're typing from.

Lol. I pity you. I don't know what to write when it comes to you. I can bring out my true colors and argue with others, but when it comes to you as an hausa, the impression i get is that i am dealing with a low mentality sub human. I can only have pity for you. Sorry, it's not my fault until your lots get education to empower themselves and be up to par with others.

Nigeria1@;:

tpia, tell your friend if he live in lagos or anywhere in yorubaland. he should wake up at 3 am and step out to see the type of weapon those who have taken over the night security of yorubaland are carrying, i do not want to name the group. . check some of the weapon out. i  do not think those weapon are toyguns,   more than 300,000 to 500,000 sure weapon is in people hand all over yorubaland. have you ever heard of agbe koya. And 1983 election crisis.  That should be a sign to any yoruba man either governor or anyone who betray our people for contract. Any governor who dare to betray our people. Shall by the grace of God, relocate for ever to abuja. Go and ask akin omoboriowo, how it feels like.

It is better to be smart and seek peace and correct the injustice to our people. Honestly if i am member of the senate and national assembly family member that is what i would be telling members of my family. honestly. No one cheat the yorubas and get away with it. At least president yar adua and the senate president are old enough to remember 1983 crisis.

But we already know the group and they are no other people than the night watch men, the HAUSAS. Tpia's brothers do the same thing all over Igboland including shoe shining.

tpia:

if none of your own brothers showed any concern about your madness talkless calling you to order, wetin be your own with other people's brothers?

Your brain still dey malfunction you think say na small thing.

Can you recommend some good anti psychotic drugs for the benefit of others like you? You're definitely an expert in that area and I would respect your opinion on this.

You are hausa and don't deserve my response. Your IQ is so low because of the region you come from.

Where is DeepZone the Orolo girl? Is this not your state? So you and your people are this backward and you come here dey make mouf? Sorry, na yoke i dey yoke oo.

Where are my Ijaw neighbors abeg? One son of their masters is giving them true love and care here. At the count of 55 hits so far on this thread and none of my neighbors have anything to comment. Still sleeping?

Queenisha:

Let him leave before he costs Obama the election.
It's hard enough trying to convince Americans he's not Muslim, then to have a muslim connected with controversy in his campaign.
Obama's middle name Hussein (which he's struggling to cast off) is enough "bad luck"
He doesn't need this kind of bad press.
All Muslims are extremists until proven otherwise.
We have no time to sort out the bad from the ugly.

When the "publicans" get this sort of news before we know it,they'll say Obama has terrorist connections.
I applaud MR Asbahi for leaving
we want to win this election.

KPOM!!!

Queenisha:

The man had some sort of connection with the muslim brotherhood.
see what they believe.

The Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” — Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991


and that mindset exists in every true Muslim, moderate or radical.
The only difference is how much one is willing to do , to see it come to pass.
do not be deceived

KPOM KPOM KPOM!!!

I say it again get this and others into your head. Consider the entire yorubaland excluded from the federal republic of nigeria. we would use the axis of good to our advantage. Since your friends are the axis of evil.  If you get what i mean. 

Go ask your father if you are not old enough , how the yorubas ground nigeria economy to ground during the june 12 election.

DeepZone:

You dey laugh at @nigeria1? No be your brother? When he is going insane, you should call him to order instead of laughing. 

If any one doesn't believe that Igbos are the most populated in nigeria, such person is insane.
If any one believes that hausa/fulani are the majority, such person is insane.
If any one believes that the last census and previous ones wasn't falsified to portray the hausa/fulani as the majority, such person is insane.
If any one believes and refers to the CIA fact book as a means of finding out the real population of nigeria, i say such person is the biggest fool and will remain a fool as long as nigeria exists.

If you want to know the most populated ethnic group in nigeria, which the Igbos are, then do not be afraid to include "ethnicity" and "religion" during census count. Don't count off head and come back to tell me that hausa/fulani are the most populated. That is a myth and falacy and it's not accepted nor believed anywhere in Igboland. Igbo people are the most populated in nigeria with a population of over 60Million, period!! If you doubt it, then recount the people of nigeria and include "ethnicity" and "religion" and lets see who is more in number than the others.

ekiti for one has no business being a state likewise osun

DeepZone asked

Why?

Sorry Orolu girl, your state ekiti is simply not big enough to be a state.

NOW READ ONE OF THE RESPONSES TO THIS DEMENTED ARTICLE.

"Thank god indices have showed Northern Nigeria to be the most backward region of the country although they have ruled the country more than other regions and allocated more cash to the north than have been given to any other part of Nigeria. It shows mismanagement, ineptitude, corruption, illiteracy and mediocre in government. Nigeria was doomed from day one when the north became a part of the entity. The south is the way it is today, mainly because of the trauma we have suffered (and still suffer) sharing a country with Islamists. For every year of trauma suffered it might take 2 to remedy, Southern Nigeria will face that fact when they finally get rid of Muslim northern Nigeria. Not long now, not long!

“It has become a fad for Southerners to insult and cast aspersions on Northerners as parasitic and lazy”
hmmm, if only it were insults and abuse that thousands of southerners received in Northern Nigeria while they were simply sojourning in a part of the federal republic of Nigerian. Indeed thousands of southerners did not get called names; they were MURDERRED IN COLD BLOOD BY PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO BE MORE ISLAMIC-JIHADISTS THAN NIGERIANS. What is the life expectancy of a southern person in Jigawa or Zamfara state?

As a southerner raised in Northern Nigeria, I rebuke you and curse your backward Islamic mentality masquerading as nationalism; the stewardship of many a northern rulers as has ruled this country produced nothing more than discrimination and segregation of the southerners who produce the oil that you use to fund yearly pilgrimages, build outrageous mosques, provide scholarships to Northern ONLY candidates to study abroad…I dare mention the bursary award available only in Northern Nigeria that comes out of the federation account, should I talk about REAL free education in Northern Nigeria, allowances and the available CASH for your Northern Nigerian Governors meetings

No Sir, we are NOT all parasites – Northern Nigeria is the ONLY parasite here.
Its behavior is reminiscent of the jihadists who went from land to land conquering and milking all in its sight. I have read the history of northern Nigerian as told it to me because I was assumed to be a Northerner; until you found a safe economic haven in a balkanized arrangement with oil producing Southern Nigeria did you stay PUT for good? If this is not a clear case of parasitic behavior then I owned the Roman Empire.

Thieving in Nigeria started because Northern Nigerians saw the south as a land to exploit jihad-style, your leaders as the early custodians of this nation saw to it that corruption and decay reigned rankadede-style. You practice your religion with such passion as to send a message of devotion and respect while all of you are actually day-light robbers. I am yet to find a handful of Northern Nigerians who held political appointments without resorting to kickbacks, favoritism, nepotism, fraud and graft. Your Honda accord-for-girlfriend days are still fresh in my mind. You destroyed this country while all the time you allegiance lay with Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.

It becomes even more interesting when you mentioned those thieving southern governors, who were actually brought to destroy us by power brokers in the North. The Babangida boys’ are not over, they are in civilian clothes and never served in the military. The biggest thieves who started graft in this country were Northerners and today although attention is being diverted from them they remain the biggest looters of Nigeria’s treasury. They never liked Nigeria as a country and never will.

Long after the days of Hassan Usman Katsina, the kids of thieving northern leaders of this country are still living large in London’s Mayfair and places like it,
The Emir of Kano’s son owns 2 oil wells and a formula one racing business ( I dare not ask what his father creamed from Nigeria) I wonder how many Southerners own hectares of carrot farms and cattle in Bauchi!

The Abacha family documented internationally and nationally as the biggest looters of any known state treasury on the earth is still fresh in our minds, oh, and they are from Northern Nigeria and said to be “good Muslims” The man (Abacha) is being nominated for the Guinness book for highest amount stolen from a country. If Northerners are not greedy bunch, try the Abacha family who are ready to lose Nigeria’s wealth to the Swiss Government rather than return it to the talakawas and almajaris of Kano. Even an offer of 100 Million Dollars of Nigeria’s money is not enough for them in return of our foreign reserve.

Now and again I run into children of Northern Nigerian former governors and ministers, some of whom were only in appointments for 1 year but ensured they stole enough for their future Arabic-style generations to live lives of extravagance, it was one of such kids that bid 1 million dollars to sleep with an ugly British actress.

I talk about Abachas Guinness book nomination; how about the fact that Babangida (a northerner) almost single-handedly installed CORRUTION on the republic of Nigeria? This man is responsible for the James Ibori and Jonathan Goodluck's of today, he created a rotten climate of thievery and graft. In the 70’s and 80’s we did not have so much corruption until A northerner called Shagari became the first Nigerian head of state to be sacked and his entire cabinet detained for years.

It is evidently clear that these northern Muslims who visit mosques are actually the biggest looters and criminals Nigeria has experienced. On top of which they murder Southerners for residing in their lands"

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/guest-articles/parasitic-north.html

Written by Nafata Bamaguje
Monday, 08 September 2008

It has become a fad for Southerners to insult and cast aspersions on Northerners as parasitic and lazy, obviously because the oil wealth that largely sustains this nation comes from the south specifically the Niger Delta. Hearing these ethnic chauvinists tell it, one might think that presence of crude oil in the Niger Delta was due to dint of hard work by our illustrious compatriots in the South-south, rather than serendipitous geological happenstance millions of years before humans even existed.

It's quite possible that some Niger Deltans think their venerated ancestors used the supernatural powers of Owuamapu, Ohworhu, Olokun and other riverine spirits of the Delta to magically impregnate their corner of mother earth with sumptuous hydrocarbon deposits, so that their modern day descendants can gloat and hold the rest of the nation to ransom. The truth of the matter is that thanks to the visionless misrule of by the unconscionable kleptocrats that have presided over our affairs since independence, we are all parasites – Niger Deltans included.

Hence some of our South-south compatriots sabotage oil installations to deliberately cause oil spillage in order to collect huge monetary compensations and other pay-outs from oil companies for the self-inflicted environmental degradation, which is much more lucrative than tilling the land like we lazy northerners who sweat to help feed the nation.

Shell, Mobil, Chevron and other multinational oil companies operating in the Niger Delta are responsible corporate citizens elsewhere around the world, but only in Nigeria do their activities regularly cause oil spillage. To be fair, this sordid state of affairs is not at all the fault our Niger Delta brothers & sisters, since government at all levels has repeatedly failed to deliver on development in spite of the stupendous oil wealth being pumped out daily from their ancestral land. Hence they are compelled to get a cut of the oil wealth by hook or crook.

But to derisively insult and castigate over 80 million (HOW DID THIS HAUSA GET TO THIS AS FACT) northern Nigerians as lazy parasites who diverted the oil wealth for their selfish development is erroneous, insolent and diverts attention from the real parasites who have ruined this blessed country - the thieving Nigerian ruling class, which include kleptocratic Niger Delta ex-governors viz James Ibori, Peter Odili, Dieprirye Alamiesigha all of whom have cases with EFCC. Even Goodluck Jonathan, our VP's hands are not clean, for it is on record that EFCC confiscated millions of Naira worth of foreign exchange from his wife while he was governor. Mrs Jonathan has no direct constitutional access to public coffers, and could only have looted Bayelsa funds with the connivance of her husband, the current VP. OBJ hushed up other scandals to facilitate his imposition of Jonathan as VP, ostensibly to assuage restive Niger Deltans.

Little wonder vice president Jonathan was very reluctant to emulate his boss and publicly declare his assets – he had skeletons to hide !! The only reason we haven't heard more about Jonathan's Bayelsa scandals as with other ex-governors, is that Timipere Sylva, the current governor dares not expose his powerful godfather in Aso Rock. Thankfully many Niger Deltans are now aware that corruption (not derivation) is the major obstacle to development of the Niger Delta as evident from a recent Daily Independent interview with, Joseph Amberkederim of the South-South Elements Progressives Union:"…The amount of money that has accrued to the South-South governors in the past nine years is enough, more than enough to transform the Niger Delta, If monies are being used judiciously and religiously, the monies that have come to the governors of the South-South today, we would not have the problems we are having in the Niger Delta, The corruption among the governors in the South-South is enormous, the stealing is enormous, and I have stood as a voice even I would be the lonely voice that would tell them, so be it…"

Living in the North with potholed roads, numerous beggars, high illiteracy, collapsed industries and massive unemployment amongst other obvious evidence of underdevelopment, one is at loss as to the "development" that supposedly accrued from diverted Niger Delta wealth.

The same North that the Southern-led CBN reports is poverty-stricken with Jigawa as the poorest state – while Bayelsa is the richest. A few mansions here and there in the North owned by the thieving Nigerian ruling class such as can be found elsewhere in the federation, does not constitute development.

Even after the North made the mistake of bending over backwards to accommodate the outrageous offshore greed of Niger Delta agitators that short-changed the rest of the nation, the pea-brained ethnic jingoists continue their campaign of calumny against Arewa. Then there is the lame excuse of difficult terrain that makes road and other development projects in the Niger Delta expensive, which holds no water as even in the North there are peculiar development challenges. Territorially, Adamawa, Niger or Borno states are each as large as all the South-south states combined.

So when Rivers government budgets for 1km of road, Adamawa budgets for 6km, not to mention the additional cost of providing social amenities and infrastructure to widely dispersed population over much larger territory – more transformers, wires & electric poles for rural electrification, more health centres etc - all without the help of oil companies, NDDC or derivation.
Consequently, the intelligence of Nigerians should no longer be insulted with the "difficult terrain" tissue of lies, particularly as Rivers state collects more federal allocation than the entire North East zone – seven times that of Adamawa !! (see Fed min of finance state allocations - www.fmf.gov.ng, http://www.fmf.gov.ng/ downloads/FAAC/ CurrentFaacDetail/State_ goverment_detail.pdf)And Akwa Ibom which doesn't produce one drop of crude oil follows Rivers closely collecting more than all 5 South Eastern states together - thanks to the undue offshore allocation from our distal territorial waters. Unlike the over-remunerated Akwa Ibom, some of the shortchanged South Eastern states (Abia, Imo) actually have crude oil, not to mention being further shortchanged by unjustly allotting oil-producing Igbo areas from Imo/Abia to Rivers state…just to economically undermine secession-prone Biafrans - Igbos. SO, HAUSA PERSON CAN EASILY ADMIT THIS? WONDERS SHALL NEVER END.

[b]If South-southerners persist in their unreasonable demand for 50% derivation, then we will have to re-open the Pandora box of such vexed issues as boundary demarcation and revenue from offshore drilling. International maritime law bestows the 200 mile territorial waters on the Nigerian nation not on any federating unit. So the offshore oil belongs to all Nigerians not any littoral state.[/b]Of course corruption is not unique to Niger Delta, but a national ailment that has underdeveloped the entire nation, not just Niger Delta. It is only more poignant in the Niger Delta because the wealth that largely sustains this nation emanates from there. Hardly a week goes by without our sensibilities being assailed by media reports of billion naira / dollar corruption scandals at all levels of government – 16 billion dollars wasted on phantom power projects, missing 1.5 trillion naira NNPC funds, National Judicial Council 1.2 billion naira scandal etc. Thus instead of this divisive ethnic-sectarian bickering and North-south dichotomy, we the Nigerian masses regardless of ethnicity or creed should unite to dethrone the corrupt ruling elite that has ruined our nation in order to establish a new political order – the much talked about, but yet to be realized Nigerian revolution. Until corruption is eradicated and the present cabal of kleptocrats is deposed, even 100% derivation wouldn't make much of difference to the average Niger Deltan.

VISIT THE WEB SITE BELOW AND READ THE RESPONSES.

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/guest-articles/parasitic-north.html

havent read through the entire posts but i believe a majority responders share the following views.

Which means it's the truth.

"Instead of hating on them, i think we should show some respect for their ability to dominate the power game in this country. and see what lessons we can learn.

No one is hating on them, we are simple telling them what is the truth. They should wake up and work more harder. Their laziness and reluctanct way of life is taking it's toll on the rest of nigerians. Can you maintain an association, business or otherwise with someone that his or her imput is lower than yours? And for how long? That doesn't mean hating on anyone.

You can trace all these back to the colonial masters who appreciated the Hausas Simplistic worldview which in some instances mirrored their society. that was why they gave them all the priviledges and powers (i mean Tafawa and the Saradauna where Knighted).

The colonial masters didn't appreciate any simplicity in hausa people's world view and stop confusing yourself with the simplicity of the hausa's nature to the white man's because both are no where near in comparison. If not, they the colonialists wouldn't have left their place in search of where to make MORE money which brought them to Africa and other areas of the world. The European race love money and have the urge to make money wilts aggressively more than any other race. The hausas are not known for that, so your simplicity comparison is floored.
The colonialists giving privileges and power to the hausas is because they found them as the compromising mugus. That is people that can easily be maneuvered and used to hold and arrest the development of others while milking us dry. The colonialists knew they can't try such with the igbos of nigeria and they will lose out in their long term plan. Any coincidence as to why they located all nigeria's military installations in the northern part of nigeria before leaving? Because they trusted those mugus and illiterates to look after their oil in the Niger Delta without causing them sleepless nights and you can see that their evil plan is still working until today 2008.  Go back to read the history of nigeria/colonialists power play. Akanu Ibiam, an Igbo was knighted and he threw it back at the queen, so being knighted has no meaning.

However i believe that power is cyclic and if the rest of the country play their game right (esp my brovas from the South-South) they'll get to claim whats theirs.

There is no right you can play to take back power from them. Everything is already programmed for them by the British and they get everyday advise from their masters at No10 Downing street. If you are thinking of playing right, then you will keep on dreaming. They manipulated the census to favor them, so if you wait to win correct election and wrestle power from, then as i said above, you will keep on dreaming. The only way will be by force. They have played into our hands by admitting there was agreement to rotate power and that was in their greedy quest to get power back to the north by all means after OBJ. Good and fine, lets wait for them to finish Yar'adua's term and lets see the next spin they will bring about, then blows will fly across if the power will not come back to the south. Power coming back to the south through rotation is definitely not what you meant by saying "playing the right game"

To remain on directly on-topic, its the simplistic worldview that'll make the average mallam content with his small scale retail outfit and handouts from their big men in power.

You are right, but simplistic world view doesn't get any country, group or individual anywhere. That their simplistic worldview is having it's toll on hard working southerners. Every well meaning society have to engage themselves in money making ventures, job creations, e.t.c Go ask the Americans, Europeans and Asians. You don't sit and become ahlmajiri and become a pain in the arrss of others while waiting for handout from Niger delta oil money and tell me, it's because you have a simplistic approach to world view. Sorry, it's not accepted anywhere in Igboland. Get your fukcing arss up and go to work. It will be better if they carve out their own country and can go and swim and sink with their simplistic worldview and allow others who love money so much as lazy people use to say (as if their leaders stealing of our money is not because of love for money) to go their way.

for example some friends were insinuating that Yar'Adua needed a kidney transplant and they where like he'll get on d waitng list like others.
My response to this was, On the streets of Katsina he'll find 100 000, yes 100 000 willing donors who'll gladly sign over the maintenace of their families to him.

That shouldn't surprise anyone. Even in the South East, Yar'adua can't wait a second to get a donor if he request for one from that region, not to talk of an Igbo popular person in the mould of Ojukwu. Nobody rejoices in the bad health of anyone.

Sagamite is the only person here hitting the nail on the head. Fact is most northerners are POOR and you can't compare their POORNESS to the poor that is obtain in the south. As Sagamite said above, there is poor and there is POOR. They have just few rich men that have stolen nigeria blind, but that doesn't mean that their society in general is not POOR. What we are talking here is average and not overall.
@ Nigeria1. They have people who win more contracts at Abuja more than the Igbos, but the average living standard of the Igbos by fact quadruples their own and that is as a result of Igbo's individual effort. Has nothing to do with federal money (Niger Delta stolen blood money) that is been splashed on many of them northerners. So where is the contract money? Only inside the personal pockets of the few who are unfortunate among them to win such contracts. What about the other millions and millions who have to get up their lazy arsss and work like others to earn a better living standard? Someone mentioned Dangote? I say, lame comparison. See my comment about Abuja contractors. There is no difference.

It's not terrible. It's expected. That is exactly what you get in any country where some silly illiterates are supported by the British to lord it over their superiors. Deal with it. They coerced you into their war and you stupidly and ignorantly supported them. Sign of weaknes of those who can't rule themselves.

tpia:

your jealousy of other people's progress has turned you into a madman. Or maybe its your madness that's manifesting everywhere, who knows.

ever heard of the outsider weeping louder than the bereaved?

Your pathetic life prevents no one from achieving whatever they want to.

eat your heart out and weep buckets of tears over your everlasting bad belle. More grease to your elbow and let peace of mind and progress continue to elude you as long as you continue to irritate others with your meaningless noise.

You are illiterate ahlmajiri hausa, so i don't have much to tell you because you are not up to my class. I am Igbo and we know you more than you know yourselves, so you can't try those bullshit with us. But i promise you that i will continue to put sands into your peoples source of garri. My neighbors are sleeping and all you do is cheat an cheat and cheat them. I don't blame you much anyway, i put the blame on those my neighbors who will never wake up from sleep. New ministry my arrsss.

DRANOEL:

@qoutasystem

mugu nddc will become a parastatal under the ministry and the ministry will function like the fct ministry and bros i aint from the niger delta you unpatriotic criminal

You and your Niger Delta people are the biggest mugus ever known to mankind. Our people noticed the evil intention of this tin head hausas more than 40 years ago, but until today, they are still taking you people for a ride with the picture clearly shown on the wall, yet, you are busy sleeping with the effects of kai kai and can't notice any of their fraud.
You are happy that NDDC will become parastatal under the new created ministry. Lol, what a mugu. Does that mean increasing productivity? What about increasing same productivity under NDDC without creating new ministry? So, all of a sudden, new ministry will bring about increase in productivity?
Listen attentively, increasing productivity is more important than increasing the number of people on government payroll, ala, creation of new ministry, but you porous heads won't get it until after some months when it will dawn on you that this is another fraud creation to divert attention and pressure and silent your people. Get it into your tin heads that sincere governments don't resolve problems of Niger Delta nature by creating extra ministries, rather they reform existing ministries by creating focus agency to make sure that assigned jobs are being executed. If not that i was the first person to post on this thread, many Ijaws would have flooded this thread with their celebration without thinking which is the only thing they know.
Mugus, keep on sleeping. I remember when this same lame yar'adua was selected, many of them were rejoicing that their messiah has finally arrived while forgetting that he is still one of those that have been oppressing them since over 40 years. The offspring of a snake remains a snake.

Aloy.Emeka:

Here you are again with the usual gibberish. Was dafur not controlled by the islamic Sudanese govt? The moslems are on top of their game in Sudan, it's the christians that are being oppressed, so why should Islamic Nigeria go in there when their moslem brothers are in control?

Do you even read and understand what the article is all about? Reading is one thing and comprehension is another.

Aloy.Emeka:

@Quotasystm, this your igbo igbo igbo is getting out of hand. Are you even sure you are igbo? Igbos were not the only people killed during the Denmark cartoon frenzy but majority of them and every other Nigerian as long as he/she is christian. Efiks, Tivs, Ibibios, Ijaws etc lost a handful too. Even during the Kaduna crisis, was it not a trailer load of dead  ibibios and Efiks that triggered the riot in Aba and port harcourt? this me me me mentality of yours is getting out hand and don't mask here as igbo whilst spewing rubbish.

Who are the illiterate head of states?
Obasanjo is a trained military engineer
Shehu shagari was a teacher
Abacha,Ibb,Buhari,Abdulsalaami all graduated from the  NDA, why call them illiterate? or was Aguiyi Ironsi more educated than them?

Shut up my fren. We know your type that will masquerade under Igbo name to come defending the evil deeds of your people. Even if no Igbo were killed as you want us to believe, but were humans killed in the name of cartoon of some useless idiot? And why should even a single soul be lost because of ordinary cartoon? The heat is too much on you and you didn't disappoint by revealing your real awusa identity. You think your fake Igbo name is supposed to convince who?