mali_gnant:

We have moved past the age of "AUTHORITATIVE". The world is now in the age of "EVIDENCE-BASED/FACT-BASED". When you have no evidence to support your assertion, why not stay by the sideline, instead of throwing words carelessly.

Nobody knows all. Informations are continually updated. The writer knows only the informations that were made available to him. Moreover, he did not disprove anything.

thelastPope:

So what on earth does that mean? Why write a rejoinder explaining volumes except you are a paid traitor? Who appointed him the defender of the north? Voltron! Don't the north have their own people who work in the oil industry? Don't the north have journalists and proffesors? The cheap backstabbing idiota has to be the one to do the dirty job! So they can say a southerner agrees with them! Kole kole! Always trying to mop up the dirt and filth! Animal!

Jarus: We have serious problem in this Nigeria, if supposedly educated people think an innocent article written by a well known oil and gas publisher (whose publication, Africa Oil & Gas report, is regarded as most authoritative in the industry), to correct a misinformation, is a paid agent playing a tribal card. We are in trouble in this country.

pluto04:

|What proof did the senator provide? I think he should provide the full list. That should not be very difficult. If 83% of the oil blocs are owned by the northerners, what percentage is owned by the Multinational oil companies?

pluto04:

|What proof did the senator provide? I think he should provide the full list. That should not be very difficult. If 83% of the oil blocs are owned by the northerners, what percentage is owned by the Multinational oil companies?

Eziachi:
No you are wrong. Its the duty of those that oppose his claim to provide the full list to prove him wrong. The 83% in question is referring to the oil block to indigenous prospects, not the whole of Nigeria oil blocs. Can't you give read and digest things you read first?

Demdem:

I disagree. Knowing fully well the weight of his allegations its expected he gives a complete report. Do those names he called represent the so called 83%. He is a senator for crying out loud. We have to understand the circumstances involved before he stood up to talk. The PIB was being discussed and allegations abound that the north isn't in support. This baseless allegation was simply a ploy to temporarily cut their wings to enable the south have their way and this was surely acheived.

Eziachi:
You don't have to agree with me.
I don't get you guys sometimes. Without the senator making those allegation, we both won't be talking about oil blocs now and some of the things I knew now, not mainly the names of person, I would never had known them.
So instead of you guys to concentrate on the issue raise, you start attacking and calling the guy name and then as things with Nigeria, the meat in the bone will be lost. If you thin he is wrong, why not publish the authentic or full names of all the oil block owner.

How can you call something baseless, when you haven't got a rebuttal figure, opinion to shame the senator?
Again, I am not saying that he is right, but let those that says that he is wrong tell us why with their own better and authentic list. If the allegation is from El Rufai against Jonathan govt, you don't normally call it baseless, you just swallow it entirely, which means what you beleive is based on who is saying it and against who.

Eziachi:
No you are wrong. Its the duty of those that oppose his claim to provide the full list to prove him wrong. The 83% in question is referring to the oil block to indigenous prospects, not the whole of Nigeria oil blocs. Can't you give read and digest things you read first?

Enang, who is also the Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, said that those opposed to the fund should know that over [b]83 per cent of oil blocks [/b]are owned by northerners.

But he did not give the number of oil blocks Nigeria has.

omonnakoda:
If I call you a thief is it for you to prove you are not ?? How can you say my allegation is baseless if you cannot prove you are honest. according to your reasoning it is your duty to prove you are not a thief

thelastPope: Hahahahahaha! You guys have been exposed! Give it up! It isn't really new to many of us. We have known for years. Even before 1999.

Imagine claiming that igbinedion and ibru own oil blocks. lol. Give it up guys. Paying a Yoruba guy to betray us southerners again won't work this time. He is on his own. We know the truth and that is why Saro Wiwa was killed. Saro Wiwa kept saying this till he was killed. That is why militancy started. It isn't news to us. It isn't only the oil blocks they have cornered. They cornered customs, army positions, PHCN and many others. People with little or no qualification were running major departments. Some with diploma in Islamic studies. If you ever worked in the ciil service, you will weep for Nigeria. The northern oligarchy ran Nigeria aground. Thanks to OBJ, he balanced the army. Thanks to GEJ now, he is normalizing the civil service. That is why you see them whining and attacking Deziani, the head of immigration, minister of aviation and the chief of army staff, accusing them of tribalism. lol. You guys will have to earn anymore respect from us. Simple!

Eziachi:
You don't have to agree with me.
I don't get you guys sometimes. Without the senator making those allegation, we both won't be talking about oil blocs now and some of the things I knew now, not mainly the names of person, I would never had known them.
So instead of you guys to concentrate on the issue raise, you start attacking and calling the guy name and then as things with Nigeria, the meat in the bone will be lost. If you thin he is wrong, why not publish the authentic or full names of all the oil block owner.

How can you call something baseless, when you haven't got a rebuttal figure, opinion to shame the senator?
Again, I am not saying that he is right, but let those that says that he is wrong tell us why with their own better and authentic list.

If the allegation is from El Rufai against Jonathan govt, you don't normally call it baseless, you just swallow it entirely, which means what you beleive is based on who is saying it and against who. And those now hailing the senator now, it will be their turn to cal Rufai names.

Demdem:



We are talking about a senator of the repulblic, u made mention of el-Rufai. Besides refer me to any of el Rufais comments that I click with that isn't verifiable. When u say u guys, u will need to be more specific and deal with individuals and not lumping them together.
These allegations aren't new to me, vast majority of ND peeps have been made to believe such.
A senator made a political statement all in an effort to prune down the norths wings so that the PIB will pass in my opinion and that to u is calling him names or what exactly are u saying? What names have I called him?
Av u ever wondered why no one seems to have the full list? Or are u insinuating that both madueke or retardeen who seems to be ND don't know either?
Besides its all less than 10% of our total production. The largesse still lies in the hands and control of the ND so where is the marginalization here?

all4naija: And so what? It is their lands. Have they benefited from it since the Northern military dictators used the resources as personal properties? Please, get off this thread and go reason with your clear mind.

Duru1:


Of course, at least the Senator Enang gave an educated estimation. The only mugus in the crude oil shenanigans are Mr. Geologist and you. The hack writer, named Toyin Akinosho, filled the entire page with garbage and failed to proffer an iota of prove in solid figures. If Mr. Geologist could not disprove southerners were given only 17% of Nigerian crude oil blocks, why did he wish to fool around with the subject?

Demdem:

With this stance of urs then its obvious the senator lied. The ND still control and administer the resources " on their land". Case closed.

omonnakoda: ENANG MADE A CLAIM HAS HE PROVED IT

thelastPope:

There is nothing that can tarnish the north's image more than almost 50 years of misrule, plunder and wanton destruction of Nigeria while chanting one Nigeriya! The north has done a good job of that. No one needs to do more.

Give it up. The only people that will believe such articles are the same traitors that betrayed us southerners in 1967, 1994 and 1998. They are trying to betray us again but we are far wiser now. Can't you see the SS and SE have made up their minds? Open your eyes. Now we have forged a strong alliance with the NC who have also been terribly marginalised and mess up both by the NE/NW and some of their own leaders. Nobody will buy your story anymore. You guys destroyed and plundered Nigeria and used divide and rule tactics to turn us against each other. It will never work again.

Why do you think nobody cared about the last subsidy protest in the SS and SE? Only your slaves will believe your crap again. We are fed up of it. We will get equity whether you like it or not.

dgitrader:

GBAM! Man wey sabi

*556#:


Man wey sabi wetin? That you greedy bastards are now bedding the Niger Deltans for your selfishness? was Ojukwu not the coward that ask you lots to support the criminal minded evil genius IBB, after collecting bribes from him? keep deceiving yourselves and think we won't check your greedy excesses. What ever rock your boat, but WE WILL NEVER ALLOW YOU TRAITORS again.

Right from the first republic you bastards went into coalition with your northern masters, keeping awolowo's action in oppositions, but when the northerners outplayed you, the hunter was hunted, you came shouting that we support your greedy quest to dominate Nigeria.

Shout and write rubbish if thats what makes you sleep well at night.

Forget it jooor! You can never ever ever play your wayo again, cos even the south south are wary of your greed.

One_Naira:

Dude you are making a damn fool of yourself. The two dude you jumping up everywhere, following around shouting Igbo, ojukwu, etc have long been said they are from Niger delta and not delta igbo. Thelastpope is well known for being from delta state, warri. He said it like so many times. Why do you think they ignoring your stupid ranting? Even if you were clueless on their origin; most specifically last pope origin and too lazy to read his past post, on this thread alone he pointed out repeatedly he is from delta state yet this nigg@ is going around shouting Igbo, Igbo, ojukwu, SS. Wtf is wrong with some people? Men this why people get irritated with SW. You people can be an annoying @ss community.

Deep Sight: Interesting article, but I was rather dissapointed after reading it, because no where in the article does the writer address or prove the title - "The North does not control Nigeria's Oil Blocks." Unless such parts are missing in the excerpts above?

The article is a response to Senator Ita Enang's claim at the National Assembly that 83% of indigenously owned oil blocks in Nigeria are owned by Northerners. If Akinnosho wants to disprove that, all he needs to do is show us the figures, period. Nothing in that article up there disproves anything at all.

While the authour dwells on issues like which field is producing and which is not, he completely fails to address the core claim made by Senator Enang.

*556#:


Delta? Shut it!

Ibo na ibo. He can claim whatever he want, but won't change the fact that he is ibo. Whether delta ibo or not ibo na ibo.

Just like how Major. Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu went ahead to kill Sardauna after living in his house for years, ate his food and drank his water.

You ibos can not fool anyone with treacherous nature again. My question to you is, why did Ojukwu canvassed supports for IBB against Jonathan?

thelastPope:

There is nothing that can tarnish the north's image more than almost 50 years of misrule, plunder and wanton destruction of Nigeria while chanting one Nigeriya! The north has done a good job of that. No one needs to do more.

Give it up. The only people that will believe such articles are the same traitors that betrayed us southerners in 1967, 1994 and 1998. They are trying to betray us again but we are far wiser now. Can't you see the SS and SE have made up their minds? Open your eyes. Now we have forged a strong alliance with the NC who have also been terribly marginalised and mess up both by the NE/NW and some of their own leaders. Nobody will buy your story anymore. You guys destroyed and plundered Nigeria and used divide and rule tactics to turn us against each other. It will never work again.

Why do you think nobody cared about the last subsidy protest in the SS and SE? Only your slaves will believe your crap again. We are fed up of it. We will get equity whether you like it or not.

christ4mi:
Which NC are talking, it seems u r blind. They are only two Christians Govs in NC, Tell me how can Nassarawa, Niger, Kogi or Kwara form an Alliance with SS and Sw. I think u need a lecture on politics

thelastPope: Hahahahahaha! You guys have been exposed! Give it up! It isn't really new to many of us. We have known for years. Even before 1999.

Imagine claiming that igbinedion and ibru own oil blocks. lol. Give it up guys. Paying a Yoruba guy to betray us southerners again won't work this time. He is on his own. We know the truth and that is why Saro Wiwa was killed. Saro Wiwa kept saying this till he was killed. That is why militancy started. It isn't news to us. It isn't only the oil blocks they have cornered. They cornered customs, army positions, PHCN and many others. People with little or no qualification were running major departments. Some with diploma in Islamic studies. If you ever worked in the ciil service, you will weep for Nigeria. The northern oligarchy ran Nigeria aground. Thanks to OBJ, he balanced the army. Thanks to GEJ now, he is normalizing the civil service. That is why you see them whining and attacking Deziani, the head of immigration, minister of aviation and the chief of army staff, accusing them of tribalism. lol. You guys will have to earn anymore respect from us. Simple!

true2god: My pple frm the left side of southern Nigerian are perpetual sell-outs and unrepentant betrayers. No wonder this article originates frm there.

The fear of this pple is the end of wisdom.