From DESMOND MGBOH, Kano
Indications that the North may contest some aspects of the Petroleum Industrial Bill (PIB), currently before the National Assembly emerged at the weekend. Worried that the South Souht allegedly enjoys so much allocation from the Federation Account, Kano State Governor, Dr Rabiu Kwankwaso said that governors of the 19 Northern states would meet to take a closer look at the bill and take a stand guided by their interests. He gave the hint yesterday at the commissioning of the first Serbian General Consulate Office in Kano. He said that the governors would deliberate on the proposed bill to know how it will benefit the region.
“We will soon come together on a roundtable to make our stand known on the PIB and very many other sundry matters”, he said. The governor said that having served as member of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), a federal parliamentarian and Minister of Defence, he has sufficient knowledge that what is shared to the oil producing states from the Federation Account was staggering. Consequently, he said that they do not deserve any additional money or advantage.
He argued that states in the South-South get more than their northern counterparts from incomes emanating from the Federation Account, saying that it implies that some states in the country were getting richer while others get poorer by the day, with their people wallowing in devastating poverty. He said: “We in the North are keenly watching (the development) and we will not allow our region to be plunged into yet another uncertain future. We will do all we can to make sure that there is equity and sense of belonging to every citizen.” He regretted that the North was passing a phase of its lowest political level ever, and insisted that the situation should not be allowed to continue.
It would be recalled that Dr Kwankwaso was in the frontline for the abolition of the Onshore/Offshore law in the country. The governor applauded the opening of the Serbian Consulate office in Kano state and assured that the office would be put to maximum benefit for the state and the country. Two former Heads of State, General Muhammadu Buhari and General Abdulsalami Abubakar, as well as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, attended the event.
Mr. governor, am sure u are aware we are practicing federal system of Government. You dont have to complain that South South is getting Richer while the North is getting poorer. I know you did not consider other zones like West and East. Tell your people to be hardworking .WE ARE GLAMOURING FOR TRUE FEDERALISM.YOUCAN ONLY DEVELOPE ACCORDING TO YOUR AVAILABLE RESOURCES.
Goodness! Serbian Consulate office in Kano state! We hope the consulate wont be an undercover point to ship arms to militants with ethnic agenda, all covered by the clause of diplomatic baggage! Nigerians please be on the watch!
South- East Leaders, it is time to lobby for an Isreali consulate in Owerri!
agreed fine idea with urgent need for implimentetion
I 100% support this.
Exclusive: Tinubu Ejects LGA From Headquarters, Takes Over Prime Property
Controversial former Lagos State Governor and leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has taken over a prime property that was once the headquarters of Ikoyi-Obalande Local Government Development Area and relocated the local government secretariat to Obalende, a district in the commercial city of Lagos. The huge and strategic parcel of land located at the junction of Alfred Rewane Road (Kingsway Road) and Glover Road in highbrow Ikoyi has been demolished to make way for prime construction believed to be blocks of serviced luxury flats.
The acquisition of the property is coming on the heels of the ACN’s defeat in the local government chairmanship election for Ikoyi-Obalende Local Council Development Area by the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) candidate, Mr. Ibrahim Babatunde Obanikoro.
The politician has also cornered the contract to reconstruct Glover Road using a proxy company P.W. Nigeria Limited. Though THEWILL has not been able to get details of the transaction, several sources say the politician is recklessly acquiring properties in prime locations across the state with the assistance of current Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN).
The politician is also believed to own FirstNation Airlines, The Nation Newspaper, stakes in Oriental Hotel Victoria Island, Renaissance Hotel Ikeja, Eko Hotel Lagos, and the yet to be completed InterContinental Hotel located along Kofo Abayomi Street, near the popular Mega Plaza in Victoria Island. Tinubu also owns TV Continental (TVC) and Radio Continent
The South south ppl should pls push their Governors n those traditional chiefs to constantly account for the hundred of billions they continually receive from the federation account as well as private petroleum firms operating in the zone. I can assure u with good governance south south will within the shortest possible time turn to London or any bigger city in the world.
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kwankwaso is foolish. when the north was at the peak politically, what did the governors do with the money? send themselves and gazillion stupid jackasses to Umra without creating jobs. giving handouts to youth while their own children go abroad to school. nemesis has caught up with them. if the southern governors do the same and impoverish the region, chickens are going to come home to roost. the youths of nigeria are no longer taking kleptomania in govt in supine submission. if nigeria breaks into two, where would they get had outs from, ojare? if i may ask.
Goodness! Serbian Consulate office in Kano state! We hope the consulate wont be an undercover point to ship arms to militants with ethnic agenda, all covered by the clause of diplomatic baggage! Nigerians please be on the watch!
k wankwaso and propaganda, well is all good atleast our brothers across the rivers is begining to discover their real enemies, if we had listen to ojukwu some fourty something years ago…… just imagine what a country within west african communities but the struggle continues. GOD BLESS IKEMBA
@mberede Honestly what you said now has been among major issues that we(especially the young people) in the Niger Delta have found so disturbing for some time now. I believe there was lots of things to regrate among us whenever that said Nigeria/Biafra war is mentioned. But I also thinks that we (the old eastern region) still have the chance to put some things in order. We only needed some sound minds to lead-on the campaign. THANKS
Typical mallam.Always moaning and crying while their children and mothers are begging on the streets of the South. Mallam should wake up and tap the resources in their zone.Stop this crying mallam.We are tired of hearing your croaking voice.Be manly for a change.
Wetin be your problem. It is the south-south money and they are kind enough to let the remainder go to the federation account to be shared by other states. so be content with what you get and develop your own resources after all oil has been foun in sokoto. If oil were in kano will the kano man let the money go to other parts of Nigeria. Truth of the matter is that we are not one. Develop your resources and if care is not taken the undue belligerence of the North will lead to the disintegration of Nigeria. A word is enough.
I support kwakwanso. You do not short-change your ‘brothers’ when sharing booties. You need to hear Rivers people, then including ek clark, Saro Wiwa etc talking about their new found ‘northern brothers’, all in an effort to spite the Ibos. For over 40 years the hausa/fulani asked them to watch out and ward off the Ibo while they helped themselves with the oil wealth, allocating oil blocks to themselves, gifting oil lifting rights, heading nnpc one after the other, sacked and humiliated Tam David West and Dan Etete who ventured into the oil monistry and the nnpc etc. Now that the chicken has returned home to roost, we are watching. My people of south south should understand the the army, police, navy, airforce, customs, immigration, etc in their states are headed by their ‘northern brothers’. Any attempt to forment trouble will lead to mass anihilation. A riversman would rather have a DPO from Kaura Namoda than have an Ibo from across îmo river at Obigbo. Now that our northern brothers’ have drawn the battle line, let’s see how it unfolds. I hope we shall not resort to kidnapping from the creeks because one helicopter gunship can chase the so called militants into the sea. Kwakwanso should roll out their battle plan for us to study. You do not forcefully take what does not belong to you without a fight. I hope it will not be yoruba type of two years preparation for a fight that may never take plce or end in just one blow. We are waiting for our ‘northern brothers’ next oves. I love this country.
I am enjoying this.
my man Kwankwaso even if what your saying is truth, i love it becos giving you and your brothers money is a total waist, tell me what are you going to do with the money is it not to sponsor boko haram? haaaaaaahaaaaaaa foolish man
Always Northerners every time ,day in the news ,on the road ,in abuja . meanwhile we claim one Nigeria .
we are in big trouble if this power is not out of aboki funalis
kwankwaso you are pig anyway
Prince, he(gov kwanshanko) will also used the money to marry 1000 wives, feed almerijes with kunu and brukutu, go to mecca with 7 virgins and also send his almerijes (brukutu boys) to early grave in the name of boko haram. I de laugh…o.
This kankwaso is a tribalistic man religiouse fanatic, he never like any development from sout east or sout sout,the other time he said there is no need of creating one more state in the south east when other regions are six state and south east region deserve only 5 state and kwankwa see’s nothing wrong in it,Is Abuja not part of north with huge development in it, this man should tell the world the development he saw in the south south that they never had in north or is it becouse FG is paying millitant and he want FG to allso start paying the boko haram which is inposible, the other time all the northern govanors where claiming onshore offshore oil in the niger delta, LAZY MEN.
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A word is enough for the wise.
JUST WATCH..WEN THE TRUMPET SOUND,AS THE TRUCT WILL PREVAIL AGAINST LIES…DONT BE SURPRISED OBASANJO MAY BE THE MOSES OF OUR TIME.THANK YOU DADDY FOR SAVING US 4RM THE HAND OF ALMAJIRI;S/NORTH……ND WE PROMISE NOT TO ENTER EGYPT AGAIN….INFACT THEY HAVE DROWNED IN THE RED SEA AS THEY PURSUE GOD ANNOINTD.
Kwankwaso will never stop to amuze pple & embarrass himself. A selfish man who doesn’t see any reason in d; 1)Creation of one additional state in d South East 2)On-shore/ off-shore oil revenue to d Niger Delta & now he sees too much money in South South. What does he exactly want?? To share oil revenue wth d South South?? Dat will never happen. Perhaps, he is running short of cash to sponsor his Boko Haram brotherhood & now wants a share in d oil revenue meant for Niger Deltan to further his selfish interest. May God help us
Kwankwaso, you are an arsehole how many local govt. Area do u have in ur state and monies come straight 4rm fg 4 those LGA, and u dont see that as an injustice when some state hav jst 8 LGA: come to think of it if this oil were in the north i know u would hav opted to go ur own way, u better grow up.
Mr Gov. you people in the North allow illigal mining and other such like , where you should generate more money. Now, mouthing that south south is on more money. I say generate your revenue from your state – - -
Kwankwaso or whatever u call urself, u’re on ur second term as govnor of kano state,but honestly speaking can u pls list three of ur achievement till date. None, with all de money u’ve collected from de fedration’s account. U’re a disgrace, if de whole one nigeria’s budget is handed to all de northern states,i bet my life on this nothing will come out of it. Remember kwankwaso,north had ruled this country for almost forty yrs out of fifty two, can u tell us which of ur northern ruler u could be proud of. Ur begger can not tell de giver what he want, de begger can only take what it’s given to him or he can leave it. U really can’t do anything about what south south is getting from de fed account. It is their money anyway. If we should practice true fedralism,these money will not even go into fedration’s account in de first place. So get really. All ur poor people should blame de so call northern elit u ruined their lives all cos of ur greed. I hope one day this ganbaris will one day rise up against u in revolution. How many schools have u built,how many roads,hospitals to mention but few from de money u get. De like of u are armed robbers. U better put de shock in ur mouth cos nobody is listingn useless alimajari.
Kwankwaso is very greedy gone the days Hausa-fulani will be going to Abuja, At the end of the day ,They will pack full Ghana must go to their respective states without executing any work only to be selling their LPO to Ibo guys. Driving flashy cars Thank God for Obasanjo who drove those men from power in the year 1999. Kwankwaso go home and farm, the wise governors are devoloping their states even some northern governors were inviting foreign partners to help in mechanized farming. Nobody is revisiting offshore/onshore again instead it will be increased for ur information unless you want this country to break. There was a time the north were enjoying 50 percent resources control, B4 we discover oil we didnot say anything we were managing with our palm produce,kwankwaso develop sabongeri that gave u vote to win election, Beside them Takai of ANPP could have won. All the roads very dilapidated u are very tribalistic. Why are you wickedly collecting revenue from them only bicos they are Ibos.
Let the Igbos return to their wealty East if they don’t want to pay tax in Kano.Why insist on living in the poor North ? You Igbos are noise makers. 60 % of your population are in diaspora bcos your land is dry and full of hunger.Apart from garri you don’t produce anything.We are tired of the threat of Nigeria,s split we want action.The North as of today feed itself and other part of Nigeria.So you can not threaten us.
What is this guy talking about? does he understand the subject at all?
It is quite intruiging to see how Southerners especially from East and NDelta always resort to abuses in response to political discourse. One wonders if the entire people have same culture of abusing people at any slightest opportunity.Some of us d minority tribes in d North are beginning to rethink our stand on national issues.This is bcoming necessary as the truth is that apart from the religion of christanity we have nothing in common with Southerners.Their value system is to say the least disgusting.People without elders and morality.Men and women of easy virtues.Shame on you all.
Ode ,that reason we dont care about u all northerner christian,let BH,kill and distroy all ur church,we dont have anything in common with all northerner,let we seperate of all of u.is a big mistake of Britian to join us in 1914, will uneducated people of northerner region, kindly go ur own way,we are not one and nothing in common,u said it urself.
Ode! YOU THE MINORITY OF THE NORTH ARE THE KILLING MACHINE USED ALWAYS BY DAN FODIONS TO MAIM AND KILL IBOS AND OTHER SOUTHNERS. DO U KNOW THAT JOS CRISIS! AND OTHER MIDDLE BELT CRISIS ARE RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. WORST IS AHEAD WATCH OUT. A KILLER IS AN ENEMY HUMANITY
For your information, women of easy virtues are more in the north veiled in pudah. We know. this to be true. When you see the women cover their face you think they are religious. They are not. They do it to satisfy (deceive) their men. The northern men publicly preach Islam but behind the patronize the women of easy virtues.
ode your idoma sisters na ashawo be there work,and for your information you so called minorities are the problem of the north.
@ Netenyahu you have said it all. He who has ear to hear let him hear. Beware Dr. Kwakwanso and co, we in the south south and East knew this game. Serb is pro Russia and only good in arms smuggling . Just imagine the stockholders in attendance of a common consulate there in Kano, even a blind man can tell the ceremony has a hidden agenda. The days are gone when the North can knock the head of the SS and SE for their personal agenda and not National issue.
indivisible indeed .. indivisible because of the oil revenue?.. indivisible after you guys had succeeded in driving the southerners out from the north via bokoharam activities. indivisible when the north set up bokoharam to destroy the government of Gej. who told you that nigeria is indivisble ?
we are not one, and we cant be one till end of this world,cos we dont have same tradition,we dont think same,we are secular people or tribes ,in the north,they are fanatics,even the so call northerner christian dont like us, trying to cover up being calling northern,by changeing looks,names, religions and language e.t.c, so that hausa-fulani master will like them,thank God they still blow them off ,by BH.so we need referedum, u will see, we southern,from west,east and south, will vote yes 100% for sepeartions,forget politicias,we normal people dont want to live with northerner again in force country call nigeria.
The Governor of Kano is among the least qualified in the north to complain about allocation from the centre. Jigawa came out of Kano, yet Kano still has 43 LGA. Lagos with its dense population has only 20 LGA: remember, the more LGA you have, the more you take from the centre! The northern states benefit the more from local govt allocation than the southern states. The governors of the north should get more creative and make judicious and productive application of the allocation they get from the centre. With the vast land at their disposal who said they cannot go into intensive mechanized farming which dividend will make nonsense of what the south south states make from the 13% derivation? Be creative and stop threatening anybody for no one is afraid of anyone any longer. The days of fright is gone and gone for ever unless you don’t believe in the continued existence of this country as one united entity. God bless Nigeria
Jaradi, not need to lobby for isreali consulate for your arms because Gov. Obi of anambra state has built a sea port at onitsha for your easily arms dealing importation.
Whenever a strong national issue occure South South will want to confide on South East for help why?if not IGBOS ATIKU could ve destroy JONATHAN in last PDP primary and presidential election..,i think kwankwaso is making a point cos south south is a conquered colony by Northern generals..they shld not be denied of their CONQUERED TERITORIAL DIVIDENDS..and ss people shld not expect igbos to fight for them when the proverbial chicken comes home to roast..loi
Mr. Abuki, produce oil in your state and get pay. If u are waiting for this money to use and support boko haram, then consider urself a liar.
NO NATION CAN EVER GROW ON FALSEHOOD . WHAT NIGERIA NEEDS IS EQUATABLE DISTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES. WATCH OUT FOR THE BEST FORMULAR THROUGH MY UP-COMING BOOK.
yes kwankwaso u reli said the truth about south south, they only remember south east when they are touched.