The Aridolf hotel in Yenagoa is an unlikely monument to kitsch on a reclaimed swamp in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger delta. In the lobby, Louis XIV furniture is accompanied by bowls of plastic fruit, faux Dutch landscapes and a grotesquely gaudy chandelier. The hotel is redolent of the riches on display in a region that for half a century has generated the bulk of Nigeria’s wealth.

Only a decade and-a-half ago there was just one petrol pump in Bayelsa state, which produced a quarter of Nigeria’s 2m barrels per day of oil, and Yenagoa, the state capital, was a string of tin-roofed shacks. Resentment at the region’s under-development erupted in violence, with militants blowing up pipelines and kidnapping oil workers.


Today, Yenagoa is a sprawling construction site. But the Aridolf, which is owned by Patience Jonathan, wife of the outgoing president, is symptomatic of how superficial progress has been in addressing the festering sense of marginalisation in the region, which remains desperately impoverished despite benefiting from a tide of petrodollars in recent years.

source: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e90265be-e43e-11e4-9039-00144feab7de.html#axzz3YX0njxNN

Chai! Diaris God ooooo!

l have seen grander hotels like tinubu oriential hotels


How do we even know it is her hotel

Ewoooooooo!

no be small thing.

I wish say Buhari go seize am

Chai.. See milking of the country's resources??
Well, una don try.
Make another set of politicians come milk their own share.

How u take knw say na her own?

gragraboy:
I wish say Buhari go seize am

on what ground. let her face her biz

How you take know say na she get am?

gragraboy:
I wish say Buhari go seize am

after him go don seize IBB's hilltop mansion,Thief'nubu's orient hotels,Abdulsalami's mansion,Atiku's ABTI schools,OTA farms,Danjuma and Alakija's oil wells,etc.
She deserves even more, at least oil well dey her backyard,unlike Ali baba and d 40 thieves from d desert.

The first picture looks like cgi.

Chai.....
#baba-now-that-you-are-there....

Dnt hesitate in seizing dat 5 star hotel frm shepopotamus

What is her source of income.

What was she worth before she became Deputy governors wife

dokyOloye:
after him go do seize IBB's hilltop mansion,Thief'nubu's orient hotels,Abdulsalami's mansion,Atiku's,etc.
She deserves even more, at least oil well dey her backyard,unlike Ali baba and d 40 thieves from d desert.

The whole of That backyard belong to the Government no individual owns it plus the money for that hotel should have gone to schools, hospitals, roads, boreholes and things the common Akara seller on the street would have benefited from.

SLIDEwaxie:
How u take knw say na her own?

read the link from financial times confirming its her hotel

gragraboy:

The whole of That backyard belong to the Government no individual owns it plus the money for that hotel should have gone to schools, hospitals, roads, boreholes and things the common Akara seller on the street would have benefited from.

You are just wasting your time on that guy, He is a Tribal bigot and that bigotry has beclouded his sense of reasoning.

If the rumour that she is childless is indeed true, what then drives her insatiable greed and desire to accumulate this kind of obscene wealth ?

If Mama Pieces get this one, only God knows the one wey Madam Diezani get.

I no surprise sha, she is one of the Out-going Presidents

noted..........

I don't understand our people and this primitive, disgusting, acquisition of wealth!

What's wrong with us?

Its her right.

Its just a hotel. Whats the big deal?

My God, kai! Hmmmm.

Politics, politics.
Tomorrow pesin for oil industry go shout say oil pay pass Nigeria politics.

You know. ......

gragraboy:
I wish say Buhari go seize am

Seize it and do wat ??
Buhari can't do ish.
He's like a dog that can't bite.

too bad but i guess she's emulating the leaders before her tenure as first lady

Buhari no go do 'gra-gra' like that

gragraboy:
I wish say Buhari go seize am

My bro how true is this or is this a way to pull her down.

You know how people disliked her.

You know. ....

dokyOloye:
after him go do seize IBB's hilltop mansion,Thief'nubu's orient hotels,Abdulsalami's mansion,Atiku's,etc.
She deserves even more, at least oil well dey her backyard,unlike Ali baba and d 40 thieves from d desert.

Abdusalami Abubakar mansion is one the biggest houses in the country,I don't know what he doing with all that space.

dokyOloye:
after him go do seize IBB's hilltop mansion,Thief'nubu's orient hotels,Abdulsalami's mansion,Atiku's,etc.
She deserves even more, at least oil well dey her backyard,unlike Ali baba and d 40 thieves from d desert.

Gbam!!!! Charity begins at home

ifyan:
My bro how true is this or is this a way to pull her down.

You know how people disliked her.

You know. ....

Bro this one no be saharareport talk am oh na Financial Times of UK-the most respected business paper in the UK. the equivalent of the US Wall Street journal.

Link was pasted for you to read and confirm too.

stebell:


Seize it and do wat ??
Buhari can't do ish.
He's like a dog that can't bite.

Oh boi you de strong oh.

Which kain faith wa you get(He is like a dog that can't bite).

Chooooiiiii! Meeeeeeehnnnnn.

You know. .....