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This is quite an interesting conspiracy theory, it is quite possible. And thanks pete, I did not know South Africa  had a nuclears weapons program before, just searched it.

But the stuff is that the Lake is so small that I can not understand how the water from it will drown 8 states. Check it out on google maps. I do not even think the water there will drown a village, but then I have not taken a look at the dept.

From my secondary school geography, I undertand volcanic lakes to be born by mere rain water collecting in a crater, so that lake should not have any source emanating from the ground water table, unless it is super unique. It is even on a high ground, so I can assume that the water you see is exactly the much you will get should it spill.

My question then is why should we be talking of spending some 42 billion naira on a crazy dam, that is not even expected to prevent the so called spill.

The obivious simple solution to this is to drain the lake (not even to strengthen the embarkment). It will be much cheaper to drill a directional hole into the lake side, case it, lead it out with a pipe into a degassing unit to remove CO2 and then pump the water into a nearby river, Nature will follow its cause and the water will end up in the sea.   You could do this over a 5 years and just open the piping valves to allow a non-dangerous volume to flow out. And when the water in the craters collects in again in say 20 years, you just use a pig to clean out you pipe line and drain it away.

This will even protect the enviroment, since you will not have the lake totally destroyed, the plants and animals will still survive

Why spend 42 billion naira for  a dam and still the people are not even safe. Some one should take another look at the report on this Nyos dam, I think our currupt Gov. officials might be trying a little huccus poccus. Infact, it sounds to me as if since we a have never had a major natural disaster, so we want to make one, we want to sit down or build dams and believe we can do nothing about it. The fact that cameroon is not so bothered makes me think of this as another Millenium Bug/Y2K compliance sleeze.

@KenGali

SA had nukes and the world knew. They had to disarm when the Apatheid government was leaving.

There's a degassing unit in place at Lake Nyos.

kengali
Although am not familiar with the whatt you talked about ppertaining the lake issue. it makes alot of sense to me, but you have to bring the idea to the government. there is no harm in trying out your method. it could be our saving grace. there is nothing wrong in going ahead to do something about the lake. like the saying goes PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE. l

if the carbondioxide is released in a phenomenom known as lake turnover where the carbondioxide is released suddenly by a disturbance such as a rockslide into the lake, then the flood will be the least of our problems. this is serious. is there any way for citizens to get our senators to sponsor a bill to make them look into this? anyone pls educate me?
does anyone have family living close to these places? you may begin by alerting those close to you, spread the word and hopefully our voices will build into a crescendo that cannot be ignored and force the authorities concerned to do the right thing. we can always hope

kosovo:

wow, 
  signs of the end days and fulfillment of the  2012/2013  Nigeria division

I was gonna say the same thing. Let's wait and see.

THE AMAKA:

(i just wanna grab yaradua by his neck!   )

Have you seen his neck? I don't think thats a good idea.

only God knows the true story. lake turnover is a relatively new theory in geography and could have been cooked up to explain weapons discharge but lake kivu in east africa has the same potential although it is drained by a river and dammed naturally by volcanic emissions. do you know if there is a history of weapons use there as well?
don't want to derail the thread but another thing that disturbs me is that we (africans) have relied too much on research carried out by nations that do not have our interests at heart. when our own scientists are not equipped to carry out our own research, all we can do is speculate and say only God knows even when God has given us the ability to go and find out what the mystery is all about. just my 2  cents.

toba:

This politicians will not take measures to protect peoples lives,rathar than protecting their pockets&loots

The alert was made by 18 senators from these states and the issues were well deliberated on. If the theory that another solution can be found on it as promulgated by Kengali, then, that will save a lot of lives and funds from the government.(that is if he can prove it beyond reasonable doubts), then an audience with the senate committee on Environment will be sought for him. The chairman of the Senate committee on Environment is Senator Grace Bent and the Deputy Chairman is Annie Okonkwo
the National Assembly are very concerned about this issue

its not a matter of whose state is involved or not , it going to affect evryone . the Gov has to look into this matter seriously b4 smtin terrible happens . taking us unawares

Action and less talk that is what Nigeria needs. All we have ever done when there is a problem or an impending problem is talk and talk some more, without doing anything about the problem. It's time we take our destiny into our own hands and stop thinking that the government will do something about it when we are the government. God Bless Nigeria

eros:

Action and less talk that is what Nigeria needs. All we have ever done when there is a problem or an impending problem is talk and talk some more, without doing anything about the problem. It's time we take our destiny into our own hands and stop thinking that the government will do something about it when we are the government. God Bless Nigeria

true.

Well lets see what happens.
Five years is around the corner
at least Sokoto and Zamfara has enough empty land

^^ are you suggesting people from the affected states should migrate to Sokoto and Zamfara?

dont see how that's workable and besides, a lot of that land is arid, I should think.

Nothing will happen.

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Have you seen his neck? I don't think thats a good idea.

exactly the guy is already quatre to death on d clock of lyf,by d tym the amaka grabs his neck [sub][/sub]no be 4rm my mouth u go hear am

What happened to this story?