festacman:
Emir Sanusi is a lone voice crying in the 'wilderness' of change, saying CHANGE YE NORTHERN LEADERS and invest in positive human capital development and reform outdated socio-cultural/economic systems because your people are being left behind and the consequences of inaction will be much worse than robbery, kidnapping and armed banditry. The magnitude and impact of the inevitable uprising will be better imagined than experienced. Take a cue from the conservative Saudi Arabia, which has realised that reforms are necessary to catch up with neighbours like UAE.

Will they listen? Will they continue to loathe the messenger and his message? The choice is theirs to make, just as the blame will be theirs to bear when the cup fills up. Time is running out fast!

P.S: This is not saying that Southern leaders are doing wonders but the situation in the North is dire.

Nasir is a bigot and not a nationalist.He is a tribal and ethnic irredentist.Southerners are not impressed.Prof Babagana gov of Borno is more acceptable.

myobjective:


Why would you place all the blames at the feet of the political leaders?

What about the sense of responsibilities of men that have more wives and children than they can manage, resulting in a high rate of divorce, out of school children and general decay in our society?

What about the old age disdain for education which has been propagated by years of religious propaganda and the lack of care for the girl child, their education and the role they should play in modern society?

Were these leaders also responsible in turning the north into a dumping ground where all foreign religious ideologies are dumped no matter how ridiculous or incompatible with our current prevalent economic and social situation?

Answers to this question will point us to the direction we need to be heading as a nation.

That masses of the north have failed themselves and their region due to their laziness, religious intolerance and their inability to rise beyond their narrow world view

All what your are saying was caused by our leaders! And yes i put the blame solely on them.

You made some fair points but most of what you said was just propaganda you heard or read on the news about northerners! We know our problems better than you(only the owner of the shoe knows where it pinches) :

1- The north is not a dumping ground for foriegn religions infact on the contrary the north is the most homogeneous part of Nigeria religious wise. South has more varieties of religions.

2- The north also does care about educating the girl child we are not barbarians pls!

3- We are not religious intolerant, we are very accommodating as long as you don't insult our culture or religion.... you don't expect me to sit down and look at you insulting my religion or my way of life do you? If you were in my place you for sure will ask me to pack up and leave nd thats the truth.

4- Northerners are not lazy mr.... the whole of nigeria can testify to that. Can you endure the average work day of an Aboki?? You can't and if u say otherwise you're lying to yourself!
An average northerner engages in any job no matter how menial just to fend for himself and his family.
What you mean to say is most northerners are not smart workers(for this also i blame our leaders for the lack of education is the cause) but hard workers.
They mostly engage hard labour works while the average southerner prefers jobs that keeps him in the shades nd thats a fact*.

5- You said we have a narrow world view which ofcourse is again false.... its not narrow world view its lack of education and it leads us back to our leaders!!

The only valid point i agreed with you on is that some of us marry many wives while they don't have the financial ability to take care of their offsprings..... this point as well leads us back to lack of education about social security nd welfare which i also blame our leaders for not providing nd making education compulsory!

They preferred the masses remaining ignorant so as not to know their rights and so that they(leaders)can steal as much as they like without hindrance.

When a southern person hears the word north what comes to his mind is people raring cows and sheeps,long beards and hijab.... thats all he can think off

Your points are based on propaganda and stereotyping of northerners.

Explore nigeria and you will have a change of mind about most of the things you once thought where true.

The media lies alot to sell their articles online and newspapers or whtever means they use to dispatch information to the public.

The problem northerners have is mainly related to lack of education and has nothing to do with our religions!

they will certainly perish with quota system that produce Buhari, all heads of agencies, armforces, judiciary and legislators.

Rekhina:
wetin olosho sabi ? But na olosho born u kwuma Allah dirigi Al banzari

No dey use same eyes you take dey look your Mama other ppl Mama. Olosho beget olosho, hence your existence . You go soon enter Chad go hawk your market

Well said Emir but do more about it. The North is sitting on a ticking bomb.

FREE YOUR PEOPLE!!

The mentality of that part of this country is not easy to crack.

festacman:
Emir Sanusi is a lone voice crying in the 'wilderness' of change, saying CHANGE YE NORTHERN LEADERS and invest in positive human capital development and reform outdated socio-cultural/economic systems because your people are being left behind and the consequences of inaction will be much worse than robbery, kidnapping and armed banditry. The magnitude and impact of the inevitable uprising will be better imagined than experienced. Take a cue from the conservative Saudi Arabia, which has realised that reforms are necessary to catch up with neighbours like UAE.

Will they listen? Will they continue to loathe the messenger and his message? The choice is theirs to make, just as the blame will be theirs to bear when the cup fills up. Time is running out fast!

P.S: This is not saying that Southern leaders are doing wonders but the situation in the North is dire.

I couldn't have put it any better than you have done.
Well done

If the north can have just five of this man. Things will certainly would have been good for them. Almajirinchi is the number one monster in the north.

Susu888:



All what you are saying was caused by our leaders! And yes i put the blame solely on them.

You made some fair points but most of what you said was just propaganda you heard or read on the news about northerners! We know our problems better than you(only the owner of the shoe knows where it pinches) :

1- The north is not a dumping ground for foriegn religions infact on the contrary the north is the most homogeneous part of Nigeria religious wise. South has more varieties of religions.

2- The north also does care about educating the girl child we are not barbarians pls!

3- We are not religious intolerant, we are very accommodating as long as you don't insult our culture or religion.... you don't expect me to sit down and look at you insulting my religion or my way of life do you? If you were in my place you for sure will ask me to pack up and leave nd thats the truth.

4- Northerners are not lazy mr.... the whole of nigeria can testify to that. Can you endure the average work day of an Aboki?? You can't and if u say otherwise you're lying to yourself!
An average northerner engages in any job no matter how menial just to fend for himself and his family.
What you mean to say is most northerners are not smart workers(for this also i blame our leaders for the lack of education is the cause) but hard workers.
They mostly engage hard labour works while the average southerner prefers jobs that keeps him in the shades nd thats a fact*.

5- You said we have a narrow world view which ofcourse is again false.... its not narrow world view its lack of education and it leads us back to our leaders!!

The only valid point i agreed with you on is that some of us marry many wives while they don't have the financial ability to take care of their offsprings..... this point as well leads us back to lack of education about social security nd welfare which i also blame our leaders for not providing nd making education compulsory!

They preferred the masses remaining ignorant so as not to know their rights and so that they(leaders)can steal as much as they like without hindrance.

When a southern person hears the word north what comes to his mind is people raring cows and sheeps,long beards and hijab.... thats all he can think off

Your points are based on propaganda and stereotyping of northerners.

Explore nigeria and you will have a change of mind about most of the things you once thought where true.

The media lies alot to sell their articles online and newspapers or whtever means they use to dispatch information to the public.

The problem northerners have is mainly related to lack of education and has nothing to do with our religions!

In your tiny minds, other ethnic groups don't reside in the north?
When i talk about the North I talk from a position of knowledge. I was born and brought up in the region so don't patronize me with that nonsense

1. To start with, the north is north the most homogeneous part of Nigeria both in terms of religious ideology or ethnicity but if you are talking about northwest I will still disagree with you when you talk about Ideology. Has a young teen growing up in northern Nigeria in the late 90s and early 2000s I was exposed to "Izala movement" formally Jama'at Izalat al Bid'a Wa Iqamat as Sunna also called JIBWIS. This was Saudi backed Wahabist movement that started sowing the seed of intolerance against the west, Christians and other religious sects. They were also at the forefront in the campaign for the actualization of "political sharia" in the northern part of Nigeria which was the foundation to all the extremism plaguing the nation. I am not at of place to say that the north is a dumping ground for different Islamic ideology be it Izala, Quraniyu (kali Kato), Tijaniya, Shia, Ahmediyah, etc,

2. The northwest is the worst-hit region in term of female illiteracy, it has worst as less than 36% in some states in the region compared to that of the south-west/east which is as high as 90% in some states. couple with early marriages forced marriages and seclusion of women out of economic activities under the pretence of "Sharia".

3. Tolerance is when you are open to debate and trash out whatever difference through dialogue. What you actually called the attack on your way of life is other people being critical of your practice is having a negative impact on the country we all share together. Most of the civil unrest in Nigeria has always emanated from the core north where a simple misunderstanding can easily be blown out of control due to lack of religious tolerance of core northerners.

4. I'm a civil engineer and I worked in the construction industry. You are right the core northerners do most of the menial job not because they are hardworking but because they lack the skills and education to handle any serious work where some level of discipline and knowledge is required. don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they don't have the capacity to do these jobs but they are too lazy to invest the time and energy to learn the trade or get an education that will make them competitive in the aforementioned areas.

Finally, I'm very sure that I have traveled around this country than you. I have been to all the geopolitical zones, interact with people outside my ethnic group and religion to shape my views about people and group.
Note, I'm not generalizing that all northerners are lazy and not open-minded but we can all agree that they are far behind other Nigerians in this regard. peace

When the head is off it will be too late to cry. The neglect of 65 years of human development of the entire Northern population by leaders of the region from the Sultan to the Emirs , to the local heads called Serikis including the political big wigs has being the cause of what they are witnessing and seeing today in the entire Region.
Recall when the great leaders of Yoruba land led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo __The best President Nigeria never had " ( Odumegwu Ojukuwu) started the free primary education in 1955 in the then Western Region including the then Mid_ West. ( Today's Edo and Delta ) . As at today, no 40 year old of the old Wester Region male or female can not read or write thanks to Obafemi Awolowo and his Yoruba leadership groups..but The Who is Who in the North then saw no reason for them to embrace the West Regional ideas to bring the generality of their people into modernization knowledge except their own children despite the fact they have being in government for more than 50 years of the 60 years of Nigerian Independent. Despite sending their own children to MAKARANTAN BOKO Halal countries of Europe, America and Canada it did not prevent them from retaining their Islamic religious believes and knowledge. but the generality of their poverty stricken population were made to believe that MAKARANTAN BOKO HARAM NEE , but MAKARANTAN NA ALLAH HALAL NEE so KARKA JEE MAKARANTAN BOKO they the poor even if they want to have a change no available facilities to do it because the money for doing that has been overtaken for use by their leaders children abroad. The resultant effect is what we are witnessing today as BOKO HARAM and insurgencies leading to the killings and destruction of properties every where in the entire North and some areas in the South. Unfortunately for the BOKO Harams all their arms and ammunitions and social media appearances are gotten from BOKO Halal countries. So you Northern leaders you can now see how you neglected your people from inception which resulted what you are now witnessing to day so it is too late to cry when the head is off.

REally

Rekhina:
girl power what is the difference between yareebas and hausa

There millions of almajiri
And here billions of Agberos and skullminers


Cc osuamaka

and Igbo land billions of jobless ipob terrorist, kidnaper like don waney and Evan fraudster like investus obi and drug dealers spoiling Nigeria name abroad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtp51eZkwoI

Buhari will not like this,
he wants to spread Sharia all-over Nigeria , he send his children to the best schools in the West and preaches to his mumu people that Western education is abomination

StaffofOrayan:
The myth about Northerners not valuing education is all lies, they just have the most wicked Fulani led leaders,
All their kids attend the best schools in the world (Buhari,El Rufa,Sanusi included) and then turn around to build mosques and madrasas for the masses.

Now we are using more money to fight their children than spend on our children's future.
If we don't break up, we would all be like them,

They are advocating Sharia law, while at the same time their elites are enjoyingWestern education. I am fed up with the stories of backward North, the south also have problems that their leaders should be dealing with.

StaffofOrayan:
The myth about Northerners not valuing education is all lies, they just have the most wicked Fulani led leaders,
All their kids attend the best schools in the world (Buhari,El Rufa,Sanusi included) and then turn around to build mosques and madrasas for the masses.

Now we are using more money to fight their children than spend on our children's future.
If we don't break up, we would all be like them,

we are too progressive minded to be like the north

myobjective:


He didn't and his body language shows that he prefers Atiku as all the elites know that Buhari was an incompetent bigot who would condemn Nigeria to a worst situation than what we were running away from at the time.

Then why dont they speak up and openly condemn him, and show more sound support for the very obvious better Atiku. He is Educated, a successful business man and of the majority group in the region (Hausa). Why in the heck would they put their support behind a too old, poorly educated, business acumen lacking, Fulani bigot (Buhari). Atiku was clearly the better choice by a long shot. The Hausa clearly have a subservient mentality toward the Fulani, and it is destroying them.

myobjective:


Why would you place all the blames at the feet of the political leaders?

What about the sense of responsibilities of men that have more wives and children than they can manage, resulting in a high rate of divorce, out of school children and general decay in our society?

What about the old age disdain for education which has been propagated by years of religious propaganda and the lack of care for the girl child, their education and the role they should play in modern society?

Were these leaders also responsible in turning the north into a dumping ground where all foreign religious ideologies are dumped no matter how ridiculous or incompatible with our current prevalent economic and social situation?

Answers to this question will point us to the direction we need to be heading as a nation.

That masses of the north have failed themselves and their region due to their laziness, religious intolerance and their inability to rise beyond their narrow world view

Majority of the problems you raised still stems from a lack of education and illiteracy which is very common in the north.
Individuals cannot stop illiteracy, and until their respective governments make it compulsory for children to be in school from certain ages, it will continue .
Their governments need to invest more in education, create more public schools and get quality teachers, especially primary schools. All children should be mandated to go unless their parents want to be jailed for neglect.
But their leaders are deliberate in ensuring their citizens remain uneducated, so they can use them when the time comes and also ensure their 'caste' system remains where only the elite continues to rule, and are worshipped by their masses. The generations of the poor continue to pander to that of their elite

SpecialAdviser:
No leave them. If what happened to Igbos in 1967 happened to the north, 80% of them would still be street beggers.

I think 90% believe Me what is keeping north moving his the federal character an average northerner business man has an influence from political figures.

myobjective:


In the same vein, not all northerners are supporting Buhari, I know many that are critical of his government from day one.

check well they may not be Muslims, or they are liberal Muslims.

chukwumzurum:

Still there's nothing to show of it..
Could u believe u can hardly find a block house, or a good home in northern communities.
U could go severally miles before u see a house constructed with block and cements...

^^^

Incredible generalization up there. So you are saying with a straight face that you 'can hardly find a block house' or a 'good home' (what does this even mean?) across the entire expanse of Northern Nigeria?

Educate yourself, man. It is true that Northern Nigeria has serious development challenges but that doesn't grant anyone the licence to spread outright falsehood.

VolvoS60:


^^^

Incredible generalization up there. So you are saying with a straight face that you 'can hardly find a block house' or a 'good home' (what does this even mean?) across the entire expanse of Northern Nigeria?

Educate yourself, man. It is true that Northern Nigeria has serious development challenges but that doesn't grant anyone the licence to spread outright falsehood.

What could be false here. The region is grossly underdeveloped. Any one knows this.
There are quite good edifice in the north but they're so little. I repeat myself the north is highly under developed. Development should not only be seen in the state capitals.

chukwumzurum:

What could be false here. The region is grossly underdeveloped. Any one knows this.
There are quite good edifice in the north but they're so little. I repeat myself the north is highly under developed. Development should not only be seen in the state capitals.

^^^
Now you are talking.

If you use the broad description "underdeveloped" for Northern Nigeria, nobody will argue with you. But you were very specific in your previous post - you stated that a block house or a good home could hardly be found in Northern Nigeria. And that modern housing (constructed with cement blocks) cannot be seen except you travel for miles!

Both these statements of yours are simply not true. Anyone who has actually been to Northern Nigeria can confirm this. I have travelled to several towns and cities in Northern Nigeria that are not state capitals - and there is modern housing as far as the eye can see! Having said that, it is also true that pre-modern housing is also prevalent in several small settlements and villages in rural Northern Nigeria. But remember that this is a pan-Nigerian matter and not just a rural Northern Nigerian one.

Criticize if you must but be honest and truthful about it.