sleek29: First, increasing local content is not the problem, what methods or processes were used to increase local content?, what are the names of the companies involved?, did they obtain their licences through due process?, who owns this companies?, politicians?, PDP politicians? businessmen?

These are the questions we should be asking government as they are accountable to us and not just blindly defending every GEJ action like some peeps in nairaland, dis number has increased drastically this past few weeks, guess GEJ has overhauled his PR or better still 'internet relations', I know you guys are just earning your pay, but try and be a lil objective in your arguments.

if you read both the article and my rejoinder thoroughly, you would hve known that we did not stop at the govt's drive for local content. I went the extra mile to refer to the article in paragraph 10 where it clearly stated that "STEPS HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO CREATE HIGH BARRIERS OF ENTRY FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE 2012-2013 TERM ALLOCATIONS". weappreciate that these barriers may not be error proof( as with everything in Nigeria) but it represents a bold step by the present govt to raise the bar and ward off unwanted operators pursuant to the TRANSFORMATION AGENDA

Billyonaire: What do you sycophants mean ? What about the Cocoa theft in the West and Groundnut theft in the North ? All man wan survive on Oil....from the Niger Delta. Lazy rats.

no mind them make we dey make una come carry the oil? sidon look na dog name o

what do u expect?, when the people who sponsored his election are bunkerers.

Seems some Niger Deltans are utilizing some of their own oil. "Theft" is a strong word, "Partial ResourceControl" may be more like it.