Nigeria generally is rural by nature because of the nature of our cultural profile. Here is the truth, about70 % of the nations population are rural based up to recent times. As a matter of fact it'll be safe to say that immediately after the civil war in the early seventies, our rural population accounted for nearly 80 % of the total federation population . City dwellars were routinely found more in the parts of the Western Region and some parts of the Eastern . However, that is outside the question. Population shift is a global phenomenon . People tend to go to where amenities and jobs are located. Put amenities in local or rural communities, most Nigerians want to live there than anywhere else.This is the major attraction of small cities worldwide . The North is a special case and have always been. That a Region that control 70 % of the national wealth can not help the poor and deprived within them is a hard stuff to take. Over the years, this Region hid under undeveloped part of the nation ploy to wreck everything the federation could afford with full coperation of all corner of the country . I believe this was part of British arrangement to frustrate the nation independent objectives. Ibos have often berated Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe for going too soft with Northerners whose social and political ideology is feudal.The cause of the civil war as we now know was purely economic. The colonization of the petroleum industry in the Eastern Region and the invasion of the oil wells now being the object of debate in the nation's upper houses by Norther men have same character like invasion of a nation by foreign soldiers in todays analysis. I remember when Abiola and his co Muslim ex-Army General Yara Adua were lifting petroleum for Saudi Arabia , they both nick-named their vessels against each other's wife's name. Funtua was one of the vessel names as well as that of the wife to one of players. The next we heard was plans to bring in Muslim Bank as well as make Nigeria a Muslim Nation with no provision to debate the pros and cons in the Federal House . The North have what it takes to reduce poverty in the Region , afteralls , that is the Region that boast of one of the richest man on the planet. Enough of that game of helping our impovirished part to catch up . They're so rich today we'll never catch up with them. They have stolen enough they now have to work to bring the North and the rest of the nation together or am not sure the doves within us want the kind of alliance the North are interested in the nation .