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Recalls that "Northern Elders Call For Immediate Break-Up" "Nigeria Is Not Working, Let Us Go Our Separate Ways" in response to the Igbo agitation for secession.Examine these maps and see why some selected few are calling for immediate break up.
The few Nigerians calling for disunity should know that no Region or state in Nigeria is a total write-off or useless.
It is not the Unity of Nigeria nor One Nigeria that has failed or is failing the people but poor governance, docile, irresponsible and failed leadership.
STATE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
EAST:
Anambra: Clay, Glass-Sand, Gypsium, Iron-ore, Lead/Zinc, Lignite, Limestone, Phosphate & Salt;
Enugu: Coal, Lead/Zinc & Limestone;
Imo: Gypsium, Lead/Zinc, Lignite, Limestone, Marcasite, Oil/Gas, Phosphate & Salt;
Abia: Gold, Lead/Zinc, Limestone, Oil/Gas & Salt;
-Ebonyi: Gold, Lead/Zinc, Salt, Limestone, Zinc, quarry stones and 100s of other minerals,
NORTH:
-Kaduna: Amethyst, Aqua Marine, Asbestos, Clay, Flosper, Gemstone, Gold, Graphite, Kaolin, Hyanite, Mica, Rock Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, Sihnite, Superntinite, Tentalime, Topaz & Tourmaline;
-Kano: Gassiterite, Copper, Gemstone, Glass-sand, Lead/Zinc, Pyrochinre & Tantalite;
-Benue: Barite, Clay, Coal, Gemstone, Gypsium, Iron-Ore, Lead/Zinc, Limestone, Marble & Salt;
-Borno: Bentonite, Clay, Diatomite, Gypsium, Hydro-carbon, Kaolin & Limestone;
Katsina: Kaolin, Marble & Salt;
-Kebbi: Gold;
-Plateau: Barite, Bauxite, Betonite, Bismuth, Cassiterite, Clay, Coal, Emeral, Fluoride, Gemstone, Granite, Iron-ore, Kaolin,Lead/Zinc, Marble, Molybdenite, Phrochlore, Salt, Tantalite/Columbite, Tin & Wolfram;
-Sokoto: Clay, Flakes, Gold, Granite, Gypsium, Kaolin, Laterite, Limestone, Phosphate, Potash, Silica Sand & Salt; Taraba: Lead/Zinc; -Yobe: Soda Ash & Tintomite; Zamfara: Coal, Cotton & Gold;
-Nasarawa: Amethyst (Topaz Garnet), Barytex, Barite, Cassirite, Chalcopyrite, Clay, Columbite, Coking Coal, Dolomite/Marble, Feldspar, Galena, Iron-ore, Limstone, Mica, Salt, Sapphire, Talc, Tantalite, Tourmaline Quartz & Zireon;
-Niger: Gold, Lead/Zinc & Talc; Jigawa:
Butyles; Gombe: Gemstone & Gypsium;
-Bauchi: Gold, Cassiterite (tine ore), Columbite, Gypsium, Wolfram, Coal, Limestone, Lignite, Iron-ore & Clay;
-Adamawa: Bentonite, Gypsium, Kaolin & Magnesite
-Kogi: Cole, Dolomite, Feldspar, Gypsium, Iron-ore, Kaolin, Marble, Talc & Tantalite;
-Kwara: Cassiterite, Columbite, Feldspar, Gold, Iron-ore, Marble, Mica & Tantalite.
SOUTH:
-Cross River: Barite, Lead/Zinc, Lignite, Limestone, Manganese, Oil/Gas, Salt & Uranium;
-Delta: Clay, Glass-sand, Gypsium, Iron-ore, Kaolin, Lignite, Marble & Oil/Gas;
-Edo: Bitumen, Clay Dolomite, Phosphate, Glass-sand, Gold, Gypsium,Iron-ore, Lignite, Limestone, Marble & Oil/Gas;
-Rivers: Clay, Glass-Sand, Lignite, Marble & Oil/Gas;
-Bayelsa: Glay, Gypsium, Lead/Zinc, Lignite, Limestone, Maganese, Oil/Gas & Uranium;
-Akwa Ibom: Clay, Lead/Zinc, Lignite, Limestone, Oil/Gas, Salt & Uranium
WEST:
-Ogun: Bitumen, Clay, Feldspar, Gemstone, Kaolin, Limestone & Phosphate;
-Ondo: Bitumen, Clay, Coal, Dimension Stones, Feldspar, Gemstone, Glass-Sand, Granite, Gypsium, Kaolin, Limestone & Oil/Gas;
-Osun: Columbite, Gold, Granite, Talc, Tantalite & Tourmaline;
-Oyo: Aqua Marine, Cassiterite, Clay, Dolomite, Gemstone, Gold, Kaolin, Marble, Silimonite, Talc & Tantalite;
-Lagos: Bitumen, Clay, Oil & Glass-sand;
-Ekiti: Feldspar, Granite, Kaolin, Syenite & Tatium
FCT
Abuja
Cassiterite, Clay, Dolomite, Gold, Lead/Zinc, Marble & Tantalite.
The fact that Northern Nigeria is bigger than most African countries, North is the breadbasket of Nigeria and because the North occupies 70% of Nigeria’s land mass and other regions share 30% shouldn't be enough reasons to call for a division.
We are better as one and no state is useless.
People calling for separation are not fighting to emancipate the people from mental poverty, social injustice, economic injustice and perpetual enslavement but they are fighting for personal gains and rule.
We must not be easily manipulated by the few who think they have the audacious impunity to continually call for division. The politicians, elders and secessionists are desperate and can give anything to the gullible and docile populace to support their greedy call for national disunity.
It is time for the majority of the Nigerian people driven by hunger and the Anger against audacious impunity and Political Criminality; the sustain poverty of our collective humanity to come together and think how they can tap the untapped potentials and the resources in their individual state. “Our unity as a people must be complex." To defeat the few that are speaking for the majority of the Nigerian people, it would require nothing but the total commitment of the Hausas; the educational Intelligence of the Yorubas, the Management Intensity of the Ibos, the Guts and the Bravado of the Niger Deltans; the Connecting capacity of the Middle Belters, The Warrior Spirit of Legendary Nigerian Heros and The Resilence of the average Nigerians.
When we are united, we can build the tomorrow that we seek from yesterday and we will not be asking yesterday (So-called Elders and greedy old Politicians) to determine what our tomorrow would be like today.
We must accept the past struggles as a source of inspiration impelling us to dexterity innovative approaches to present-day problems;
These sets of greedy elders are deciding for us because we have habitually substitute historical consciousness with a despairing wistfulness, allowing the past to become a depository for present political desires. We allowed the present to be held captive by the past (Elders and greedy old politicians).
We are aware that there can never be a romantic Arewa or Northern republic not even with a thousand Kaduna declarations.
Let the Niger Delta threaten and declare all they want, Niger Delta republic will never survive if it decide to stand alone. What happen after there is no more oil and no money money to loots?
Biafra is already a deceptive nation because there are diverse autonomous Republics in the Eastern region and that has made the call for a Biafra nation a total failure unless we want to deny the disunity amongst the Igbo for example, the Aguleri and the Umuleri in Anambra or between the Ezza and the Ezillo in Ebonyi.
Haha! Those calling for Oduduwa Republic are either ignorant of their history. There can never be Oduduwa Republic until the pending scores between the Egba, the Ekiti, the Ijebu, the Ijesha and the Ilorin are resolved.
It is time for all the declaring groups to form a peaceful coalition and design a path that would lead to social and economic freedom.
There can only be the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Anyone is free to cry us a river and wail us tears; No matter what anyone says, Nigeria is a country and a country it should remain.
Let the chanting be "Nigeria First" "One Nigeria" "Nigeria Always"
Peace and Unity.
You are right the people advocating for break up are people seeking relevance. They know that it cannot be actualize.
ReplyDeleteAffirmative. It is time for the Majority of the Nigerian people to unite and fight for a country worthy of our celebration.
DeleteThanks for reading and sharing your view.
We must flush our docile and irresponsible leaders that has become prominent in the political structure of Nigeria.