NewStats: 3,263,782 , 8,181,390 topics. Date: Saturday, 07 June 2025 at 09:46 PM 2u6934

Simeonjoe1:


South Africa vs Nigeria
One has higher gdp, the other has higher igr..... Which is better managed?

What does management have to do with IGR and GDP.

Nigerian goverment cant even manage the oil properly. The one they have they haven't managed, you want to give them more.

UAE manages their oil, they have multiple refineries and the goverment owns all of it.

Nigeria doesnt have any working refineries, and we are suffering from massive oil theft, and corruption.

Manage the one you have now, when you can manage that we give u more.

If you give someone who cant manage 5, 10. What makes you think you will get a different result?

Nigeria needs to work on nationalizing mineral and oil etc. Thats the role of a goverment. then use the money to build infrastructure. We should be owning every part of the resource pipeline to maximize profits. Then use the profits to build trains, roads and to give security.

Thats the role of a goverment. Not to tax the heck out of its people and scare businesses and Foreign investors away.

Yujin:
Where are all the lovers of One Nigeria? Why are they not protesting against the collusion of the Nigerian army with fulani terrorists in the wiping off of indigenous people of central Nigeria?

The fact is that most of the so called lovers of Nigeria are just haters of Biafrans hiding under the love for Nigeria. If it weren't so, they would have been up in protests against the genocide towards their fellow Nigerian citizens of the middlebelt.
Shame on all lovers of one Nigeria who are silent in the face of this brazen genocide.

these people dont actually love Nigeria. They just hate Biafra. If they actually loved nigeria they would be fighting for these people in the middle belt

When middle belt people are slaughtered they ignore the page. They dont care , they dont make comments.

if you mention Biafra they start screaming "We are patriots we love nigeria we love nigeria we love nigeria"

OK IF YOU LOVE NIGERIA WHY DONT YOU HELP SOLVE THE ISSUES THAT MAKE PEOPLE WANNA LEAVE NIGERIA

Even one of them told me that they arent from the middle belt so it doesnt concern them. Yet he is a PROUD NIGERIAN PATRIOT when it comes to Biafra.

I've already given up on those idiots.

nairalanda1:


Yes they need to cut costs, but at the end, it doesn't solve our revenue problems

Hence, taxes.

Yes we need to cut costs, but we need more and more and more money. Population is growing, needs are rising.

The same bridges they build in Egypt for 10 million USD, they build in Nigeria for 50 million USD.

These people are eating your money, the more you pay in taxes, the more they eat. Whenever they start talking about taxing, that means they are going to be taking money from the large middle class in the South, and giving it to subsidize the poor of the north.

In the South a middle class man will have 1 wife and 3 kids. While in the north a lower class man will have 5 wives and 15 kids.

Now my TAX money is going to be used to help feed this guy and his kids? Give me a break

leanonme82:
Please put EL RUFAIs picture cos he made that happen.

He said himself he used the Lagos template, they even adopted REMITA to automate payments to government coffers. He also ensured he outpaced Lagos before he left. He is in the category of 'Nigerias Bes Governors'.

this guy is a terrorist. He openly declared his intentions. We have other smart governors in nigeria. Babajide sanwo olu, Charles Soludo, Alex Otti, Dave Umahi, Ademola Adeleke, Caleb Mutfwang. I even like Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

nairalanda1:


No it is, because

1.The oil money isn't enough. It isn't enough

2.The article says so...most states are not making enough to cover operational costs.

See no 2 above.

At the end, the states have to make more money. And the only way they can do so is by TAXES. The alternative is more loans.,...which most Nigerians do not want, especially since loan servicing is now chopping a large bit of our oil revenue.

It's a hard choice. Taxes, or we further get into the clutches of the IMF and world bank. They both don't give free gifts.

Why are the goverments spending more money than they have to cover operational costs? If we give them more money, arent they going to just keep spending more than they have?

If you have 20 dollars and you spend 40 dollars every week, If I give you 50 dollars, are you going to start spending 100 dollars every week?

They need to cut costs. No more big houses, No more fancy cars. They need to post all spending online, so we the public can monitor it. After they can prove trustworthy, we can talk about other options.

Nigerian politicians hate electronic stuff because its harder to rig (its still possible) but they need to be posting ALLL spending online. They are public servants anyway.

nairalanda1:


Oga, did I abuse you? No. Did I call you names ? No. SO why are you abusive?

Better calm down.




Eff it, I'm not tribal. My state is among those that does not make enough to cover operating costs...and yes it is a disgrace.

We have been told for donkey years that we are not making enough from taxation. And the above shows that we aren't.

We better face hard choices, man. It means more taxation, more tightening of the leakages, and fightng corruption FOR REAL.

Nah the solution isnt more taxes. Take it from me. If the goverment is "corrupt" giving the goverment more money to spend aint gonna solve a thing.

anungangampu:


Just for bragging

I've never heard of any place in the world that uses IGR to determine if a state is the best economically. They use other metrics. This is their way of changing the rules so they win lol.

The South has the large middle class of Nigeria, when they start taxing heavy, most of the south will be the ones paying the taxes, and it will be used to subsidize the north that has a lower average income with welfare/handouts.

:p

eneye1:

They made the state relatively comfortable for others to come and stay

Anambra is also in the top 5, but because that doesnt fit your narrative you will ignore it.

*Sigh*

nairalanda1:


Better stop being a bigot, man.



The harsh truth is that the SE is also as parasitic as the North. The figures do not lie. So also the SW, except for Lagos, and the middle belt.

Make we all face some hard truths. The solution to the parasistim, is that each and every state governor Taxes THE UNTAXED...and raises tax rates on the rich too. EVEN THEN...it might make things slightly better.

This is not an occasion for pride, or for defedning your state, it is an occasion for us to start facing hard truths.

This is such a low IQ take. I wish Nigerians weren't so tribal and could actually reason.

sageb:
Kaduna is doing well, I'm surprised that it is ahead of Rivers state.

Rivers state economy is still more than double the size of Rivers state. I guess when you are losing you elite change the rules to determine how the ranking is given.

bluecircle470:


Go sit down joor… una poor for istration for SE and una go dey boast. Yeye people

SE is trying. Anambra is in the top 5.

is the goverment a business? now you guys want to use IGR as a way of deciding the best states economically. Meanwhile every other state around the world use GDP to determine this.

Everything has to be backwards in Nigeria.

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are they going to comment on this, or are they going to keep fighting

Tochitee:
Ibos," the timid people of Nigeria. I many of them saying they would burn down Nigeria if Tinubu is made the president . On the day of declaration, they were hiding under their beds cheesy cheesy grin. All eyes on judiciary,as turned to all eyes on Chicago. Mumu people. I wonder the crime they committed that God refuses to forgive them. They keeps on labouring in vains. Thank God for putting them under the Yorubas. From now till eternity they will continue to be under the Yorubas. Any attempt to overstepped where we placed them will always incure serious consequences.

Keep crying about Igbos. One day you will realize that Igbos are the greatest friend to the Yoruba man. One day you will see what we were telling u when it comes to Fulani domination.

Until then I think my igbo brothers should stop talking about this issue. We need to move on because for some reason our Yoruba brothers cant see the wave that is coming in. We tried to warn them. They didn't listen. Now it's time to save ourselves.

Chukwu Bless Africa

na wa oooooo. What is going on in Nigeria?

VEHINTOLAR:


Gibberish;the most imbecilic response I have ever had to read on NL ! You have no issue with Yoruba yet, you had to mention Ilorin and made some senseless postulations in your terribly muddled up craps,right ? I knew it,you were scared of facing your Bini tormentors and that was why you had to involve Yoruba in your stupid narrative as a diversionary tactic ! Dead on arrival,kiddo !

Now,let me remind you again,in case the little whitish substance you called brain in your flat head has malfunctioned as expected,the Op's point is that : AGBOR PROPLE ARE NOT IGBO ! That is what you're expected to dispute with verifiable historical facts and not trying to make it Yoruba issues. The thread has nothing to do with Yoruba,so don't involve Yoruba in it; it's cowardly,Omo ibo ! How can you say you don't have issue with Bini people when someone is telling you that Agbor people,that you ibos have made us to believe are ibos too,are actually rooted in Bini tribe ?

Coward,dispute Op's claims now or you shut up your faecal smelly mouth for ever !

Im just giving Yorubas some tips :p Take back Kwara its even larger than the land you are trying to grab, and besides the people there speak Yoruba already.

It's just weird you guys want to claim every tribe east of ondo. Take it easy. We dont even speak Yoruba nor do we bear Yoruba names. One love.

VEHINTOLAR:


Lol,are you scared of facing your Bini tormentors such that you have to find a way of involving the Yoruba in this ? Come on,leave Yoruba out of this and dispute the Op's claims with verifiable evidences/counterclaims ! The Op is not a Yorubaman,so face your nemesis squarly ! The point here,according to the Op,is that Agbor people are not IGBO but from the Edoid tribe. That's what you need to dispute; don't run away from your battle by trying to involve Yoruba in this. It is your battle,face it ,Omo ibo !

I have no issue with Bini people. Yoruba people I have no issue with them.

I have an issue with idiots.

spearman:


You will not find a single person of known Agbor true blood that will find a single fault with this historic narrative. All the negativeness will come from predictable known headless actors whose motives have always been sinister.

It's just ridicilious. You guys claim every single tribe east of ondo is related to Yoruba. Cmon man.... everybody is looking at u guys like ....

I think we just need to it that the entire southern nigeria has been traveling and intermingling since the beginning of time.

spearman:
History/Origin of Agbor

Agbor is the biggest and the most cosmopolitan city of the lka nation. The historic origin of Agbor kingdom as we stated earlier has different angles. Some writers trace the origin of Agbor to the reign of Oba Ewedo of Benin. According to this perspective - the Oba had twin sons named Edo and Ogugunagbon. Both were subjected to a kind of lucky dip in order to pick a successor to Oba Ewedo. Ogugunagbon was unlucky to choose the wrong box and had to leave Benin with throng of his ers to a new location leading to his founding of Agbor. However, Prince Adams Gbenoba in his book "The History and Culture of Agbor (Agbon) Kingdom" agrees with the Benin origin but adds another angle:

"Without doubt, beyond myths and legends by way of oral tradition, no s can be more authentic than the neutral, historical s of colonial travelers, explorers and s. Mr. J. Macrae-Simpson on page 5 of his "1935 INTELLIGENCE REPORT ON THE AGBOR CLAN IN THE AGBOR DISTRICT' recorded thus: "Talbet, on page 168 of Volume 1 of Southern Nigeria", quotes an extract from the chronicle of the Dutch historian-traveller Henrik Nyendael, which seems to be a description of the exodus from Benin of the founder of Agbor Clan: "After this barbarity, the King aIso found a third man that stood on his way, who, being universally beloved,was timely warned ...and accordingly took his flight, accompanied by three-fourths of the inhabitants of the town. The King caused the fugitives to be pursued.. Then the fugitives, thoroughly incensed and flushed, came directly to the City, which they plundered and pillaged, sparing no place but the King's Court; after which he returned, but incessantly continued to rob the inhabitants of Great Benin, till at last a peace was concluded ... He lives two or three days' journey from Benin, where he keeps at Agbor as great a Court and State as the King...".Talbet goes on to say that of the two families that left Benin at this time (shortly before Nyandael's visit in 1702), one settled at Agbor while the other went to Obior, another Clan in the Agbor District.

Of the same Obior family came also the ancestors of Onitsha-Mili (the Onitsha Waterside of today). It is a tradition of the Obior people, and indeed of most of the Clans between them and the Niger, and also of Onitsha itself, that their tribe was founded by Chima a refugee from Benin City...The story is that Chima?, when driven from Benin, traveled eastwards towards the Niger, which he eventually crossed, and settled in Onitsha. There he begat nine children, of which eight died, leaving him with a daughter called Owuwu. Believing that the loss of his children was caused by witchcraft, he left Onitsha and returning to Agbor, long existing country, settled at Osarra (present day Ozanogogo- previously called Ozarra- in Agbor Kingdom), where one of the quarters to this day bears the name of his sole remaining child, Owuwu.

Similarly Onyekpeze F. A, a foremost writer of lka history in his book ·An outline of the Culture & Socio-Economic Interest of the Ika Nation emphasizes this trend of the Benin factor in the formation of Agbor: One factor is that the place names of Agbor and Its outlying settlements are Bini words. Another factor which buttresses Agbor claim to Bini origin is that the villages in Agbor Town viz, lghogbe, Olihe, Ogbeisere, Ohumere, Ehaikpen, Ogbesogban and Ogbeiwaise, etc. are a replica of the villages in Benin City. In addition, even the lhogbes of Agbor like the lghogbes of Benin City, claim lfe origin and their ancestors are believed to have accompanied Prince Oromiyan from lfeto Benin to establish the present monarchy.

The Agbor titleship, Uzaman, lhaime, Odlonwere and Ehaivbo, and its system of government are similar to those of Benin. Furthermore, inAgbor's oral tradition, the king of Agborwas popularly known as Ogle Agbon, meaning the ruler of the whole world. The question which arises is, when did the title of the ruler of Agbor change from Ogle to Obi of Agbor? One can therefore acceptthe Bini oral tradition that the rulers of lka now called Obis were Ogies as other rulers or Chiefs or Oba's representatives in Benin Division. It may be that the rulers of lka, especially the ruler of Agbor regarded Ogle as belittling and wanted a more prestigious title, especially after successfully severing political relationship with Benin following the deportation of Oba Ovoramwen in 1898.

Despite these different views Agbor continues to wax stronger with a rich cultural heritage.

IAlisor, Alilehan and Ozanogogo speak Oza language of the edo people and not the lka language.

Government of Agbor

The monarchy rules the Agbor kingdom.The Dein is the king of Agbor kingdom. He is the supreme authority for the whole entire kingdom. Dein was the first ruler of Agbor .He reigned from 1270 to 1307 with his headquarters at Agbor-nta. However, the headquarters of the Agbor Kingdom has moved to different locations for a couple of times in order to maintain a modicum of impregnability and invincibility of the kingdom. The Dein was the commander in chief of the Agbor kingdom. Agbor warriors feared no foe. Their exploits are legendary and they maintained their territories with an iron fist. The Agbor kingdom founded outposts towns far away from the kingdom to protect itself from foreign invasions.

Dynasty till Date

1. Dein 1270 to 1307
2. Owuwu 1307 to 1333
3. Akina 1333 to 1460
4. Agho 1460 to 1518
5. Oguade 1518 to 1594
6. Ahisama 1598 to 1630
7. Oseh 1630 to 1650
8. Oje-1650 to 1658
9. Adigwe 1698 to 1740
10. Modu 1740 to 1795
11. Obanor 1795 to 1885
12. Odin 1885 to 1890
13. Gbenoba 1890 to 1911
14. Agborbu 1914 to 1929
15. Obika 1935 to 1967
16. lkenchuku 1968 to 1979
17. Kiagboekuzi 1979 till date.

Yorubas need to STOP land grabbing. They want to claim that every tribe east of Ondo is related to Benin because they claim that Benin descends from Yoruba.

STOP LAND GRABBING.

Focus on Kwara a place where everyone speaks Yoruba but somehow Fulani is the one running the show

pls dont ever post such nonsense again. Respect yourself.

Im ok w a politician marrying a Fulani wife. One Nigeria. Igbo Amaka

Like I'm confused. Atiku is doing all the attacking, and these guys keep attacking Obi

they are scared to attack Atiku. Honestly its really sad

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coolitempa:


It is not about the numbers but synergy. SE and SS can never be together.

How else can I split it into 4? What do you think

Ojutiti:
Whatever happened to the six geo political zones we currently have

I like that, but I just gave a different idea for this 1

AlexBells:
They already divided it into 36 regions I don’t know what you guys want, states can collaborate on t interest

HAHHAA

coolitempa:
Split into five then. The SE and the SS are not the same. No be by force.

I didn't make the regions based off similarity. 4 is a good number.

What do you guys think?

tonicyril:
I still don't get you, you are yet to connect ur first sentence to the second....

most people are very stupid. What does backing ur currency up with oil have ANYTHING to do with having a low population?

accordadoga26:
hahahakikiki

We are not like the children of hate.

Congrats to him.

But I would advise him not to indulge in any act of fraudulence like his kinsmen

dont worry. he will OPPRESS UR FAMILY AND UR PEOPLE