CFCfan: @ Olumide: I want the regions to control their natural resources. But it has to be a gradual process; let 50% be a start.
Why 50% for a start? ok let's pay both regional and federal tax then and any region rich enough to forfeit regional tax should do so. But let us pay federal tax and control 100% of our resources and also take responsibility for expenses in regions.
FG is just an accepted tyranny in democracies across the world. It is the platform on which the majority impose their rule on the minority. FG isn't necessary for shit but defending our borders and promoting unity among regions with fairness and justice. Many roles given to FG are the reasons it need more allocation it can't manage effectively.
^^^ I absolutely agree that Nigerians should pay income taxes to the FG, while the regions/states control d natural resources. The taxes (VAT, income tax, corporate tax) should be able to fund a limited FG. If the need arises, the FG could borrow money.
Good news Now that oil is being found every other place hopefully Lagos and all it's sorrounding states and beyond can stop the quarterly Almajiri trips to Abuja for Niger delta oil money. Let each state harness and use the natural resources in their backyard swim or sink I hope we are getting closer to that dream of mine.
i see! honestly, i am not well educated on the totality of the grievances raised by the oil people. i would love to know more. i brought it up a number of times as a topic for discussion on the monthly debate but jarus never picked it up.
i believe there needs to be awareness and sensitivity. that might get buy in and support nationwide fortheir cause. if they d not end up with 100% return a 50% tax free reimbursement is far better than 13.
all the ijaw sites or ogoni sites i have visited to learn are highly spiced with political counter spins and makes it hard to truly grasp where the shoe is hurting their feet.
Things are slightly better now, but I'll paint you a picture from the early 90s when the Niger Delta crisis started.
1) Crude oil is found in your ancestral land. The government steps in, pays you a pittance called "compensation" and takes your land from you.
2) The indigenes are mostly farmers and fisher folk. The oil companies cut corners to save cost. This results in oil spills. The oil spills kill off fish and render land infertile. The livelihood of the indigenes has thus been destroyed. Sometimes, vandals who cut pipelines to steal oil also cause spillages.
3) Sometimes (I stress, sometimes) the oil companies pay compensation, for environmental degradation, to village chiefs who pocket the money. Other residents do not receive a kobo.
4) The government of Nigeria, which should protect the indigenes (citizens), usually takes the side of the oil companies, because over 90% of government revenue is gotten from the oil companies. The citizens are expendable. (Basically, the government of Nigeria acts like an oil company, so it has more sympathy for the oil companies).
5) Citizens stage peaceful and sometimes violent protests. The government of Nigeria sends in soldiers and policemen to break up the protests (sometimes with maximum force). The citizens "are engaged in economic sabotage" (preventing government from getting oil revenue).
6) I can still remember my conversation with a former medical student at Uniben. I can't remember the medical jargon he used, but I can remember the shock (or should I say horror) that his voice conveyed. They conducted research and discovered high levels of carcinogens and respiratory problems in villagers in the Niger Delta. This was something that his books and lectures had not prepared him for. The cause. . . .
Natural gas is one of the by-products of crude oil. Once upon a time, it was thought that the gas was useless, so it was burnt (gas flaring). This releases toxic chemicals into the atmosphere which fall back to earth as acid rain. The villagers breathe this air. They drink water from polluted streams.
Recently, an archbishop took President Jonathan to task about the East-West road. Two years ago I had the opportunity to hear the bishop speak. He spoke about mothers bringing their children to him to bless them before they die, or asking him to heal them. He spoke about illnesses and extreme poverty. Everybody was in tears by the time he finished speaking.
Since 1999 the government has repeatedly given deadlines to the oil companies to stop gas flaring, but none has been met (also consider the fact that that gas could be used to generate electricity or sold). (The government can't enforce these deadlines because it is basically an oil company).
7) The government, oil companies and politicians sometimes sponsor inter-ethnic wars in order to gain easy access to oil fields.
Social Justice
8 ) Imagine that you live in your own village in your own country, yet you have no electricity (I'm not talking about power cuts, I mean that you are not connected to the national grid). Yet, at night, you can see a place, just a few metres away, that is a Shell or Mobil or Chevron camp. There's electricity there. The lights are blazing. That's because the white men are there.
9) Imagine that a boat comes to your village every friday to pick up girls. Some mothers would holler at the people in the boat, "na white man I want for my daughter o!" Imagine that one of those girls is your sister, or your daughter, or your mother, or your girlfriend; how would you feel?
10) To add to that, consider the fact that the people have no roads, schools, health centres/hospitals, electricity, etc, then you'll understand the reason for the Niger Delta crisis.
X) Most of what I wrote up there were problems from the early 1990s (many persist till this day), but there's also another problem. I mentioned the fact that some chiefs received compensation, on behalf of the community, for environmental degradation and pocket the money. Well, this problem has spiralled out of control.
Some people were appointed to government positions because they are from the Niger Delta (it was expected that they would use their positions to better the lives of their people). They got to these positions, took "their share of the national cake" and forgot about the people that they were representing.
Niger Delta militants emerged "to fight for the rights of the people". Well, some of them also took "their share of the national cake" and forgot about the people they were supposed to be fighting for.
Dagogo Joel's arm was burned by the Oshie gas flare when he was a child. The flare--lit since early 70s and adjacent to Joel's home village of Akaraolu -- occasionally spews out flaming liquids on the countryside, and burned Joel's arm while he was fishing with his father.
Barkin Zuwo was governor of Kano (I think he was also a senator at one time). He was the only northerner who supported increased derivation % for states during the debate about increased derivation % for the states (2nd republic).
Surprised journalists cornered him afterwards and asked him why he supported increased derivation % for states when his state had no minerals. He replied, we have a lot of minerals like coke, fanta, etc.
What was the context? Did he not understand the mineral or was he joking?
What was the context? Did he not understand the mineral or was he joking?
Check my shared posts. You'll understand the issues behind the success of Barkin Zuwo if you check the shared posts. I'll also share my previous post about his statements.
naptu2: Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, the Baba Adinni of Nigeria
The late Baba Adinni of Nigeria, Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, was a member of the donation circuit. He was one of the wealthiest Nigerians of the 1970s, '80s and 1990s and he donated enormous sums of money to charity. He also had a noticeable impact on the development of Lagos State, both through his business activities and through his philanthropy.
Chief Folawiyo attended the University of North London in 1951, where he read Management, specialising in Ship Brokerage. In 1957, he founded Yinka Folawiyo & Sons, which has become the parent company of the Yinka Folawiyo Group of Companies. The group imported cement and sugar from the former Soviet Union, then later introduced building materials from Romania and Bulgaria into the Nigerian market. In 1967, the firm was incorporated as a limited liability company. When Folawiyo and Sons' revenues increased, the firm began chartering vessels to bring in commodities including cement, building materials, frozen fish and fertilizer.
Shipping
To provide logistics support for the firm's trading operations, the group established Maritime Associates (International) as a vessel chartering, clearing and forwarding company. The company was later invited to bid for shipment of agricultural produce from Nigeria to Europe. In 1972, the group established Green Lines shipping company when demand for chartering of ocean liners increased. M.V. Ahmodu Tijani, a 10,826 dead-weight ton carrier was purchased in 1973 as the first ocean liner. By 1980, the firm owned six vessels and had joined the UK/West Africa Lines Joint Service and the Continental West Africa Conference. In the 1970s, regular service was provided between Hamburg/Antwerp and Lagos. The firm later acquired M.V. Bello Folawiyo and M.V. Yinka Folawiyo in the mid 1980s.
Trans-Atlantic International Lighterage was established in the 1970s, it operated within the Lagos Port Complex providing lighterage service with the use of pontoons and barges.
This (shipping) was the business that Folawiyo was most famous for.
Other businesses
In 1971, the United Property Development Company was founded as a real estate investment vehicle. The Nigerian Spanish Cement Company was founded as a bulk cement bagging operation with its own deep water berth. The firm also invested in farming projects across the country including a rice farm in Rivers State which was established as a cooperation between the group and the Rivers State government. The firm also owned farm estates in Oyo involved in livestock and cultivation of fruits.
Electricity and the Lagos Power Project
In 1999, Yinka Folawiyo Power, a subsidiary of the group entered into a partnership with Enron for the development of an independent Power Project. This was the first privately funded power project in Nigeria since the country's independence and after legislation liberalized the sector in 1998. The 270 MW plant became operational in 2001, by then Enron had sold its remaining equity to AES and the Folawiyo Group.
The power plant is located on a barge which is moored off the shores of Ikorodu, near the Egbin Power Station. It is a thermal power plant and it receives gas from the Escravos-Lagos pipeline system. At the time only the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) was permitted by law to sell electricity to consumers. The Lagos State Government said that it had a deal with NEPA that the power that was generated on the barge would be distributed in Lagos. However, the power was actually fed into the National Grid when the plant became operational.
Crude oil and the Lagos Aje Oil Field
In 1982, the group incorporated a natural energy company, Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum, to focus on gas recovery and gasoline sales. In June 1991, the company was granted an Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 309 as a Sole Risk Contract under the Nigerian government's Indigenous Allocation Programme, put in place to encourage the development of a locally owned and operated Nigerian upstream Oil industry.
Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum owns a 60% interest in the Aje Oil and gas field on OML 113, 24km offshore of western Nigeria. The field is located off the coast of Badagry in Lagos State.
In 2016, Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum announced its first production of crude oil from the Aje Field, the first producing field outside of the Niger Delta in Nigeria.
As a result of the good standing of the company and its commitment to develop the gas potential of the field, the authorities renewed in August 2018 the OML 113 license for a further period of 20 years.
Video: The managing director of the Folawiyo Group, Mr Tunde Folawiyo, visited Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at Lagos House Marina in 2016 to inform him that production had started at the Aje Oil Field and that Lagos had become an oil producing state.
Folawiyo Energy is a midstream Oil and Gas Company focusing on delivering storage solutions for refined fuel products through its privately owned deepwater jetty in Lagos, Nigeria.
Enyo Retail & Supply was established in 2016, following the growing liberalization and evolution of oil and gas industries in Nigeria. It owns a chain of fuel stations across the country.
Philanthropy
Chief Wahab Iyanda was a member of the Donation Circuit.
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The donation circuit was not a formal organisation, but it’s the way that I refer to a phenomenon that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s (the Babangida era).
Some of Nigeria’s wealthiest men were often invited to specific events in which they donated large sums of money. These events included fund raising in churches and mosques, university convocations, book launching and fund raising activities by universities, secondary schools, community development associations and charities.
It was usually the same set of people that were invited to these events. The president was usually the special guest of honour (when he was invited), the governor was usually the chief host, the head of the institution was usually the host, Chief Abiola was usually the chief launcher and other members of the donation circuit were usually special guests.
There was a day that I watched the 9 o’clock news and there was an advert for one of these events and the invited guests were listed. There was another advert immediately after and the list of invited guests was almost exactly the same as the list in the previous advert.
The members of the donation circuit included Chief MKO Abiola, Alhaji Aminu Dantata, Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, Chief Sunny Odogwu, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas, Chief Razak Okoya, Prince Adedapo Tejuosho, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, Prince Adekunle Ojora, Chief Onwuka Kalu (Onwuka Inter-Biz), Chief Michael Ibru, Dr Alex Ibru, Chief Sunny Okogwu, Chief Francis Arthur Nzeribe, Alhaji Isyaku Rabiu, Dr Olusola Saraki, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, etc.
Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo donated huge sums of money to schools, charities and similar causes. He endowed the professorial chair in Physics at the University of Lagos, and contributed to virus research at the University of Ibadan. Folawiyo, in June 1998, also became the first private individual to put together a physical structure at the University of Lagos when he upgraded the University's Health Centre to a full-fledged hospital complete with an X-ray Unit. In sports, he was the sole philanthropist of the Yinka Folawiyo U 15 Athletics Championships and the National Amateur Wrestling Championships. He also funded the Bab Es Salam Home for orphans in Lagos.
Lagos Central Mosque
Chief Folawiyo contributed almost 90% of the funds that was used to rebuild the Lagos Central Mosque. The new mosque, which was opened in 1988 by President Ibrahim Babangida, was several times bigger than the old mosque which was built in the early 1900s. He was also instrumental in the construction of the Surulere Central Mosque and the Sultan Bello Mosque in Kaduna.
Folawiyo also sponsored very many Islamic programmes on radio and television during Ramadan.
Honours
Chief Folawiyo was installed as the chancellor of the Lagos State University, Ojo in 1999. He was given the national honours of Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR) by President Shehu Shagari in 1982 and Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) by President Olusegun Obasanjo in the year 2000.
He was also honoured by many universities, for example, he was given the honorary degrees of Doctor of Law by the University of Calabar in 1991, Doctor of Letters by the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1992, Doctor of Science by the Lagos State University, Ojo, in 1998 and Millennium Award of Doctor of Science by the University of Lagos.
He was given the key to Dade County, Florida, in the U.S. and he was also a patron of the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce.
He was (obviously) the Baba Adinni of Nigeria, he was the Grand Patron of the Nigerian Muslim Council and he also served as the chairman of the Executive Council of the Lagos Central Mosque
Personal life
Princess Abba Adesanya was one of the most popular fashion designers in Nigeria in the 1980s and early 1990s. Her fashion house, Labanella, was probably the biggest fashion house in the country and they made expensive clothes for the elite. She had been married to Segun Awolowo (the son of Chief Obafemi Awolowo) in the 1960s and she bore a son, Segun Junior, for him. However, Segun Awolowo Senior died in a car crash on the Lagos-Ibadan Road before his son was born. He was 25 years old at the time (this was in 1963).
She got married to Evangelist Lagun Adesanya in the 1970s, but they later separated.
Rumours emerged in the early 1990s that Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, was dating Princess Abba Adesanya. It was in all the gossip magazines, but the pair denied that they were dating. However, a few months later, it was announced that they were married. The marriage lasted until Chief Folawiyo's death in 2008.
The Baba Adinni of Nigeria, Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, passed away at his home on Queen's Drive, Ikoyi, Lagos in the early hours of 6 June 2008. He was buried the same day at the cemetery of the Lagos Central Mosque (which is usually reserved for imams).
Chief Folawiyo's son, Mr Tunde Folawiyo, took over the running of the company after his death. There was an extremely funny thread about Tunde Folawiyo on Nairaland. King Sunny Ade celebrated his 70th birthday in 2016 and as part of the activities that were held to mark the occassion, his guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, was auctioned. Tunde Folawiyo bought it for 52.1 million naira. People on the Nairaland thread said that he must have made a mistake and that he must have regretted paying that amount of money for the guitar. They obviously did not know who Tunde Folawiyo was.
Picture 2) The former assistant secretary for African affairs, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, visited the AES Barge power plant. Mrs Thomas-Greenfield is now the US ambassador to the United Nations.
gratiaeo: Me i no no say oil de hungry Yoruba people... But wait oo na for only paper una oil field dey Make laugh no kill me abeg!!!
UselessBuhari: Naptu2 the Tinubu propagandist, how far? This is seven years later
As an oilfield professional, I was involved in a very significant part of the well development for Aje 5 well on the Eni Scarabeo-3 semi-submersible rig. That was in H2 2015.
The Aje offshore oilfield is just off the coast of Badagry, and about 20mins chopper flight from Caverton helipad at the airport in Ikeja.
As an oilfield professional, I was involved in a very significant part of the well development for Aje 5 well on the Eni Scarabeo-3 semi-submersible rig. That was in H2 2015.
The Aje offshore oilfield is just off the coast of Badagry, and about 20mins chopper flight from Caverton helipad at the airport in Ikeja.
? please don't delve into the terrain you know nothing of jooor!!!! 
