Deep Sight:

I do not say that Enang's claim was correct. I simply say to you that Akinnosho's "refutal" does not refute anything. In the same way as Enang merely reeled out names, teh authour here also merely reeled out names. The article does not prove or disprove a jot, and I would even say that it is actually widely off point for the most part.

All the authour needs to do is produce a complete list, and we work out the percentages. End of.

If he cannot do that, he has not disproven anything, just the same way Enang has not proven anything.

Demdem:

Enang's claim wasnt balanced. it had a set aim which was to rubbish the north. This report is much more balanced.
Besides Enang to me just read names of oil blocs held by northerners and others and i doubt if he read out the complete list of bloc owners.

Jarus:
This is nadir of ignorance. Even as a 10 year old boy in 1992, I knew Igbinedion and Ibru were part of the first indigenous guys IBB sold oil blocks to in 1991. You didn't even read the part where the author wrote that of all of them, only Adenuga is still producing today. Others have either sold them off or left them idle.

thelastPope:

Nothing new there from you and your kind! You have always been traitors and backstabbers. You did it in 1967 and have been doing it ever since. You will always stoop to kiss the feet of your slave masters. That is your way. The way of the feeble hearted! The way of betrayal! We have liberated ourselves. No amount of propaganda will change that. What Enang said has been common info in the ND for years. So continue spewing your trash there.

la furia:
a common info in the niger-delta as a perfect excuse for ur under development. when niger deltas asked why the their government isnt doing much, the government tells them that the north stole their oil. its a recycled theme. no nobody dares mention the oil block owned by southerners, no, the need to keep blame game going so that the people wont revolt against them.

Demdem:

Fool, because its common doesn't make it right state of things. We have as many southerners benefiting also. Did u even consider the etete's angle he brought into it?
Aboki hater, u have a problem.

thelastPope:

Of course, I have a problem with you and will always have one as long as you continue to betray us to serve your slave masters! I will always have a problem with you proclaming to love us more than ourselves and yet acting the traitor over and over again! If resisting imperialism and wanton injustice is what qualifies one as an aboki hater, then I am a very very very BIG, KING SIZE, aboki hater! Confirmed!

Demdem:

Bottom line, u are a hater. There is simply no way anything sensible can ooze out from ur mouth. There is simply no injustice here afterall several of ur folks are collaborators in helping them acheive their goals and are constantly being paid handsomely for it. It's their legitimate source of livelihood. Besides haven't seen anything illegal so far. Show me if u have.
By the way, am no Aboki.

lacasa: .

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.

thelastPope: And for the record, Adenuga has no oil block. He is fronting for IBB. Adenuga did not acquire any oil block in 1991. He is only fronting for IBB. As at 1996, Adenuga was just an ok guy. My friend's father worked with him. He was importing tin tomatoes and other products at one time.

thelastPope:

Igbinedion has no oil block! Stop spewing trash. You were a baby in 1991 yet you knew that, lol. Lucky bailed his father out when he almost went bankrupt in the early 2000s. Of all his business, only his secondary school was doing well. Igbinedion has started and crashed so many businesses, we have lost count. He has absolutely no oil block. Blatant lie!

Among the top Nigerians we gave oil blocks were Adenuga, Arthur Eze, Igbinedion, Dantata, Mai Deribe, Lulu Briggs and Michael Ibru. Ibru actually was the first person I talked to on this matter. We gave them oil block and it became a status symbol. It became a question of: How can this man have oil block and I don’t have a block? Who is he? Instead of their Rolls Royce and their big palaces, now oil block became status symbol. I was enjoying the fun. They all came; we addressed them and we told them what we wanted. I remember saying to them: If only one of you is successful, my point would have been made. And I got the full support of President Babangida.

backtosender: Why must reply always come from a S-west?

they are not benefiting anything from the north,

they are becoming a pain in the ass within southern nigeria

Pls S-west yorubas do you enjoy the way Northerners molest you,detain your politicians murder some in the process while some of your

elders will go behind and sell-out their own people,and collect bribes and create segregation within the same tribe..

What are you afraid of??

CHESSBOARD: Its only a Yoruba Man that will publish this kind of rubbish to shield the Northerners , bloody betrayals. What does ordinary field Geologist know about oil politics. i didn't bother reading all these craps.

Jarus:

This is not an opinion for that matter, it is a fact, an event. Denying this is like denying Babangida was never a President of Nigeria.

How on earth will someone be disputing what is announced on TV, reported in newspaper, well known by everybody literate enough to read newspaper in 1991.

Hear from Jubril Aminu, IBB's petroleum minister:



http://saharareporters.com/news-page/raw-copy-col-gwadabes-secret-memo-jonathan-exposes-babangidas-hidden-wealth-mike-adenugas-#comment-119574

This is why I select people I argue with on NL.

lacasa:



Anϑ we expect Nigeria to one day turn the tide wt this kind of people? ^^^

backtosender: Why must reply always come from a S-west?

they are not benefiting anything from the north,

they are becoming a pain in the ass within southern nigeria

Pls S-west yorubas do you enjoy the way Northerners molest you,detain your politicians murder some in the process while some of your

elders will go behind and sell-out their own people,and collect bribes and create segregation within the same tribe..

What are you afraid of??

backtosender: Why must reply always come from a S-west?

they are not benefiting anything from the north,

they are becoming a pain in the ass within southern nigeria

Pls S-west yorubas do you enjoy the way Northerners molest you,detain your politicians murder some in the process while some of your

elders will go behind and sell-out their own people,and collect bribes and create segregation within the same tribe..

What are you afraid of??

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.