ilugunboy:

Please can someone tell me how will the attack on Atlas cove Jetty caused panic in the International Oil Market?.

Me think ACJ is mainly a receiving point of IMPORTED REFINED PETROLEUM PRODUCT and[b] not an Export Terminal[/b].

Please guys let try to separate facts from fictions.

Negro_Ntns:

Presido,
How dare you take the word of BBC and Yahoo against a eye witness report on the ground?  You want make I send MEND to ya backyard, ehn?

freezy:

Atlas Cove Jetty is (NNPC) Nigerian property. First built in 1979, and rebuilt by Messrs Julius Berger in 2000. You see why isaid mend is losing focus?
Putting it simply. blowing up PH refinery to get attention. Whose gonna suffer for that ? US!!!

Beaf:

No nation has survived two civil wars. . .

How many nations have had two civil wars?

The aim is to bring oil production down to 0 bpd

MrCrackles:


How many nations have had two civil wars?

doyin13:

I am largely in support of MEND and their activities.
But the real fun would begin when ''they'' finally get control of the resources.
How they share the oil bounty would be a classic study in conflict management/regulation/resolution

Negro_Ntns:

I hope not.  The global economy right now does not leave much room for safeties. . .any total crippling will doom us. . . everybody, Hausa or not.

Jakumo:

So, after all the hot air expended here, are we talking about an event that never actually took place, and in fact originated in the firtile imagination of a stock broker hoping to boost the value of crude oil to make a quick killing ?

$5M-Buyout:

keep deleting my post, you sell out

Ibime:

What d'ya mean. . . . Nigerian military officials have confirmed the attack. . .

Jakumo:

Well a few posts ago there was a guy who claimed to live right where the bombs supposedly went off, and he claims not to have heard a thing.    I suppose he could have missed the noise if his stereo was turned up.

LAGOS (AFP) — Nigerian rebels have taken their battle with the government into the country's main city, targetting an oil tanker loading facility in Lagos harbour in an unprecedented attack on the metropolis.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) said the attack had left the facility in flames after the sound of an explosion just before midnight on Sunday reverberated across the city of 16 million people.

The government later confirmed the attack which came hours before treason charges against one of MEND's senior leaders were expected to be dropped as part of an amnesty deal.

The MEND campaign against Nigeria's main oil facilities over the past three years have badly hit much needed oil revenues.

MEND said its fighters carried out the "unprecedented attack" on the Atlas Cove Jetty in Lagos harbour on Sunday night. It said in a statement that the "depot and loading tankers moored at the facility are currently on fire".

"We encountered some slight resistance from the Nigerian navy guarding the facility but they were easily over-powered. Over nine may have been injured or killed," said MEND.

Military, police and government spokesmen all confirmed the attack.

Jakumo:

Well a few posts ago there was a guy who claimed to live right where the bombs supposedly went off, and he claims not to have heard a thing.    I suppose he could have missed the noise if his stereo was turned up.

doyin13:

Walahi. . .anytime I see this Gbomo Gbomo's writing. . . IBIME keeps coming to my mind.

But I know Ibime no get heart like that. He will turn red even before action

kizzyaka:

The sad thing is if this attack actually occured the likes of Shell, Exxon-mobil, chevron will be making amazing profits from the higher oil prices. Though their production is now lower in Nigeria, they make it up and more from other countries due to higher prices. I think they love it. The only loser here is Nigeria.

ow11:

You sincerely believe a group of men will wake up and risk their lives for the wonderful prize of front page news on the Guardian! I am having a laugh.

You lived in the Delta for three years and you are an authority on the issues. Well, I would not begrudge your knowledge but MEND's activities have come in leaps and bounds; from election thugs to the menace they are today in the eyes of the looters in power and their sympathisers.

Nigerians need something new to speak for them and yes you can argue that MEND lacks the moral authority to be that voice but they are carrying a message and would continue to destroy Nigeria's vital facilities until Yar'adua and his ilk realise that they need to shift their focus from their pockets to the average Joe on the Nigerian street.

The crusade shouldn't be for the delta alone, it should be for the entire country as Nigerians have had the wrong end of the stick for far too long.

Beaf:

Oh you think Niger Delta people should be slaves eh?
We hear wazobia and all that bullshit in Nigeria but people are waiting for Delta minorities to act first.

Ibime:

MEND doesnt disriminate between Nigerian property and oil company property. Both can get it. The aim is to bring oil production down to 0 bpd. . . .its now 800,000, down from 2.4m bpd. . . . I say MEND are making very good progress. . . .

presido1:

You are a selfish bloke, let everybody suffer it then collectively we will all join to defeat the dynasty that put us all in this mess. remember a hungry man is an angry man.

Let it doom us so that we can go back to re-draw how we can co-exist as a nation.

freezy:

~~~And angry men don't think straight. Most descisions made when angry are mostatimes regretted. Call me selfish? If protecting what was built not by investors, but our taxes and all stuff to make life easier, then you have a point.