How the North Swallows Monies It Receives Yet Remains Poor

How The North Receives So Much and Swallows that Much, Without Development

By Dahiru Bello

Did someone just ask who Tinubu compensated in the North?

I honestly don’t know where people get the audacity to expect me, Dahiru Bello, to freely provide information I spent my own time and data gathering.

Let’s break it down:

Tinubu gave the Gombe State Governor ₦60 billion—just for farming—aside from the regular FAAC allocations.

Where is the money? Where is the farm?

₦100 billion was allocated for the Kaduna State Light Rail Project.

Where is the light rail?

Over 50% of the federal capital budget between 2024 and 2025 was allocated to Northern Nigeria.

The North West Development Commission got ₦585.9 billion.

The North East Development Commission received ₦291 billion.

The North received more intervention grants, while the South got more FAAC allocations—because that’s where the revenue is generated.

So, where is all the money our Development Commissions and Governors have been collecting? Billions upon billions. I remember the United Nations gave Uba Sani $11 million for hospitals.

Where is the hospital?

Let me be clear: the people killing the North are our own people. But we can’t even confront them because:

1. The DSS will come after you.

2. You’ll be blackmailed and accused of being jealous of their families.

3. You can’t question them—because the same youths whose future is being destroyed will rise to defend them.

We get money upon money from all directions. There has never been a time in the Fourth Republic when the Federal Government refused to allocate billions and trillions to Northern development. From Obasanjo to Goodluck to Tinubu, we have always been the beneficiaries of massive intervention funds.

From Sadiya Umar Farouk to Dasuki, it is always our own Northerners who have bundled the money—but we’re too shy to question ourselves. Sadiya Farouk even claimed she sent 37.1 billion Naira and 729 billion Naira meant for displaced persons to her account by accident. How can you send billions by mistake? 

Where are all these billions?

Tinubu is not your problem! Jonathan was never our problem. The South is not our problem. The Southwest, South-south and the East generate 80% of our country’s revenue and fairly share it with us in the name of one country.

Tinubu has given the North enough money to start another country—or even another planet, if they wish.