989900:


My dear, I asked you a simple and straightforward question "which state are you from?", and you fluffed it. I didn't ask you to sing me a lullaby -- 'igbo' is not a state in Nigeria, neither is America a state in Nigeria or anywhere else for that matter (there are tons of multiple passport holders on NL, but that is irrelevant in this context).

The above is why you scored zero.

Ikechukwu183:

Rubbish from brown roof republic dweller.

CSTR6:
[s]I don't subscribe to your concept of states created by nitwits with a subzero IQ.
Ask me a correct question first and then maybe you would get a correct answer.[/s]

Johnsinia:
look at this kid o. U r as illiterate as ur presidnt

Amitex:
Op, if you were this brilliant, why did you not challenge El Rufai, Buhari, Sanusi, Chiroma, Saltan of Sokoto, etc when they were indirectly supporting Boko Haram?

Have you stepped your foot in any of the riverine communities? Do you know about Adaka Boro? Where you alive when Saro Wiwa and Ogoni 9 were murdered? So you think that the Creeks are not already polluted? Or militancy just started because Buhari is president?

Have you ever taken time to check what these people have been agitating for? Go read their demands and fault them, not rhetoric. All the ND militants have asked for same thing over and over. Resource control, instead the Northern oligarchy and the SW collaborators would create divide and rule system to continue plundering the people.

Volksfuhrer:


Lagos State was never a federal capital!

free2blast:
Hate is entrenched your people's DNA. But why?

989900:


There he goes again . . . maybe you should take a second look at your initial comment that begged the question.

DropShot:

But the governors have had more than enough time to condemn the criminals already but haven't done it.


Very weak defense! If after reading the article, you still argue this way, one has to wonder about your thought process. There is no single difference between BH, FH or rustlers and this terrorists called NDA and the writer has given enough reasons for that already. The militants are criminals fighting for their pocket and nothing else. Tompolo, Asari Dokubo, and many other past militants became millionaires through militancy while the people they claimed they were fighting for still live in abject poverty.


No sensible being can justify criminal acts on failure of government to yield to militants demands. In as much as I support resource control, I remain unconvinced that it will achieve any desired result where 13% additional derivation has not translated to better living; where creation of Niger Delta Development Commission has not had significant impact; and where creation of Niger Delta ministry has not improved the region's condition.



Just as the writer of that article said, we all are losers in this. And as the people of NE that allowed BH to grow within their region are the biggest losers of the BH terrorism, the same way the ND communities allowing these NDA terrorists bomb oil pipelines and wells will turn out the biggest losers at the end. If I may ask, who have been suffering the past environmental pollution and degradation brought about by similar past sabotage?


Does any northern state have absolute control of resources found in the state? You're obviously misinformed and misguided.


You can't engage in terrorist acts and expect the government to look on. Doing so will amount to giving in to cheap blackmail and terrorism. It's unfortunate that you guys are so misguided not to think of the unfortunate innocent people who will become collateral damage when the FG troops come calling.


I am a proponent of separation. I will love us (Yorubas) to separate from largely uneducated and nomadic north; from largely boastful, bullying and hateful SE; and from largely lazy and natural resource dependent SS. However, in the absence of peaceful separation, I will never support any violent action to achieve secession. Why not call your reps/senators, your governors and other leaders and make them take legitimate steps towards achieving your desire separation?

Genrally, your reasoning is childish and warped. Let me remind you of this saying: "A child that laughs at his father's rotten yams is laughing at the hunger that will strike him in due course".

DropShot:

But the governors have had more than enough time to condemn the criminals already but haven't done it.


Very weak defense! If after reading the article, you still argue this way, one has to wonder about your thought process. There is no single difference between BH, FH or rustlers and this terrorists called NDA and the writer has given enough reasons for that already. The militants are criminals fighting for their pocket and nothing else. Tompolo, Asari Dokubo, and many other past militants became millionaires through militancy while the people they claimed they were fighting for still live in abject poverty.


No sensible being can justify criminal acts on failure of government to yield to militants demands. In as much as I support resource control, I remain unconvinced that it will achieve any desired result where 13% additional derivation has not translated to better living; where creation of Niger Delta Development Commission has not had significant impact; and where creation of Niger Delta ministry has not improved the region's condition.



Just as the writer of that article said, we all are losers in this. And as the people of NE that allowed BH to grow within their region are the biggest losers of the BH terrorism, the same way the ND communities allowing these NDA terrorists bomb oil pipelines and wells will turn out the biggest losers at the end. If I may ask, who have been suffering the past environmental pollution and degradation brought about by similar past sabotage?


Does any northern state have absolute control of resources found in the state? You're obviously misinformed and misguided.


You can't engage in terrorist acts and expect the government to look on. Doing so will amount to giving in to cheap blackmail and terrorism. It's unfortunate that you guys are so misguided not to think of the unfortunate innocent people who will become collateral damage when the FG troops come calling.


I am a proponent of separation. I will love us (Yorubas) to separate from largely uneducated and nomadic north; from largely boastful, bullying and hateful SE; and from largely lazy and natural resource dependent SS. However, in the absence of peaceful separation, I will never support any violent action to achieve secession. Why not call your reps/senators, your governors and other leaders and make them take legitimate steps towards achieving your desire separation?

Genrally, your reasoning is childish and warped. Let me remind you of this saying: "A child that laughs at his father's rotten yams is laughing at the hunger that will strike him in due course".

freeze001:
I think it is rather uncharitable for the writer to attempt to preempt the Southern Governors and leaders by saying they are going to defend the actions of the NDA.

Secondly, it takes a fairly obtuse person to lump the NDA with the boko haram and fulani herdsmen. One stark contrast is that the later two are murderers pure and simple. Every action they take is geared towards massive human casualty. Again, they have no identifiable cause other than greed and tribal/religious supremacy agenda which informs their modus operandi of killing the 'infidels' according to their kouran and doing so in the name of Allah (boko haram). For the herdsmen, they simply have a bad sense of entitlement hence the audacity with which they sack and take over communities, not without massive murder and pillaging.

The NDA however are fighting for the soul and ownership of what is theirs and it is easy to see why unless a person is just plain daft and greedy. Nigerian leadership has proved itself as incapable of being reasoned with. Dialogue has been tried and engaged in over the issue of resource control and system of governance but always remains dead because some in power particularly the North do not want it. Having systematically empowered themselves with unfair majority representation at every level of government including the legislature, they make it clear that it is their way or no way!

The most recent and inclusive effort to address these issues, the CONFAB has been relegated by the same North. History tells everyone what happened to Ken Saro Wiwa again at the hand of a Northerner.

Now, there is no one that knows or feels the effects of environmental degradation more than the Niger Delta indigenes. However, because the Nigerian govt is determined to feed off the South without commensurate recompense, the freedom fighters know to strike at the jugular which is crude oil. Rather than see economic sabotage which is the outcome of their actions, I see a people pushed to the wall, damned tired of being told they count for nothing because of the 'almighty North' and to crown it all, majority of stakeholders in the ownership of resources in the ND come from the same north.

The FG controlled by the North during the military era, by fiat packaged as a Constitution today commandeered the resources if the South as belonging to the FG. Fairness and equity should have seen the same happen to solid minerals scattered over the North and major agricultural resources should have also been controlled by the FG but no, just the South simply because it's easy money.

Now there are rumbles, rather than give due regard n respect to a region, the FG once again run by the north has chosen to play the role of bully by unleashing military action. Same response that boils down to killing innocent people because they're never precise enough to actually gather intelligence, identify and fish out their targets.

The Nigerian government must learn to accord respect to each region in its own right and not by the number of votes cast in support of any govt in power. See the passion with which a whole President defends his kinsmen by saying no one should think of driving 'us' out because he is one of them but makes no attempt to understand the cause of the Niger Delta. Let me not even talk of IPOB and the right to self-determination now. So remind me again why unity is a do or die affair in Nigeria? How exactly is Nigeria one other than having no other country bearing the same name?

Johnsinia:
look at this kid o. U r as illiterate as ur presidnt

menxer:

Like seriously?
OK, I remember it was Ikeja.

DropShot:

But the governors have had more than enough time to condemn the criminals already but haven't done it.


Very weak defense! If after reading the article, you still argue this way, one has to wonder about your thought process. There is no single difference between BH, FH or rustlers and this terrorists called NDA and the writer has given enough reasons for that already. The militants are criminals fighting for their pocket and nothing else. Tompolo, Asari Dokubo, and many other past militants became millionaires through militancy while the people they claimed they were fighting for still live in abject poverty.


No sensible being can justify criminal acts on failure of government to yield to militants demands. In as much as I support resource control, I remain unconvinced that it will achieve any desired result where 13% additional derivation has not translated to better living; where creation of Niger Delta Development Commission has not had significant impact; and where creation of Niger Delta ministry has not improved the region's condition.



Just as the writer of that article said, we all are losers in this. And as the people of NE that allowed BH to grow within their region are the biggest losers of the BH terrorism, the same way the ND communities allowing these NDA terrorists bomb oil pipelines and wells will turn out the biggest losers at the end. If I may ask, who have been suffering the past environmental pollution and degradation brought about by similar past sabotage?


Does any northern state have absolute control of resources found in the state? You're obviously misinformed and misguided.


You can't engage in terrorist acts and expect the government to look on. Doing so will amount to giving in to cheap blackmail and terrorism. It's unfortunate that you guys are so misguided not to think of the unfortunate innocent people who will become collateral damage when the FG troops come calling.


I am a proponent of separation. I will love us (Yorubas) to separate from largely uneducated and nomadic north; from largely boastful, bullying and hateful SE; and from largely lazy and natural resource dependent SS. However, in the absence of peaceful separation, I will never support any violent action to achieve secession. Why not call your reps/senators, your governors and other leaders and make them take legitimate steps towards achieving your desire separation?

Genrally, your reasoning is childish and warped. Let me remind you of this saying: "A child that laughs at his father's rotten yams is laughing at the hunger that will strike him in due course".

YorubaHighness:
The article must be written by a Yoruba person.

Yorubas always tries to see events with a diplomatic perspective, always trying to separate the corn (event) from the cob (tribe/ethnicity).

In a country where multiple group tries to monopolize violence (Fulani herdsmen and boko haram, ND Avengers) and some deals with victim complex (Igbos/Ibos), diplomacy won't work.

Yorubas need to stop being the only diplomatic group in Nigeria. Diplomacy doesn't work for Nigeria. Aggression does.




Yoruba. Philosophy.

That's why the Yoruba race can successfully practice Religion plurality. We don't belong in Nigeria's context. We're ordained for better circumstances. Sometimes i just think of Nigeria and I ask Oduduwa how we became so cursed. How I wish Awolowo's plan had been successful.

989900:


1. Who and what are the NDA made of ?

2. How would you define ownership of oil blocks and production?

3. How is the blowing up of oil installations, and killing of security operatives plus indirectly exposing the oil communities to enviromental hazards, economical and security hazards the most sensible way of achieving their goal (basically the same thing BH did)?

medpren:


You hausas and yoruba pretend you really give a damn about environmental problems in the ND, even the devil knows you don't, you are just interested in oil flowing undisturbed. So quit your sanctimonous preachings and tighten your austerity belts, NDA are just gerrin started.

modath:



: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/05/the-enemies-within/

ibedun:


Idiots don't read. Lagos State was never the capital of Nigeria.

The previous capital of Nigeria before Abuja was 'Lagos' which excluded many part and regions of Lagos state, Ikorodu, Epe, Badagry and Ikeja were all part of Lagos state. Lagos state the state was different from 'Lagos' the capital.

Yoruba's continued diplomacy and softness with the East villagers is the reason for this madness.

ibedun:


Idiots don't read. Lagos State was never the capital of Nigeria.

The previous capital of Nigeria before Abuja was 'Lagos' which excluded many part and regions of Lagos state, Ikorodu, Epe, Badagry and Ikeja were all part of Lagos state. Lagos state the state was different from 'Lagos' the capital.

Yoruba's continued diplomacy and softness with the East villagers is the reason for this madness.

YorubaHighness:
The article must be written by a Yoruba person.

Yorubas always tries to see events with a diplomatic perspective, always trying to separate the corn (event) from the cob (tribe/ethnicity).

In a country where multiple group tries to monopolize violence (Fulani herdsmen and boko haram, ND Avengers) and some deals with victim complex (Igbos/Ibos), diplomacy won't work.

Yorubas need to stop being the only diplomatic group in Nigeria. Diplomacy doesn't work for Nigeria. Aggression does.




Yoruba. Philosophy.

That's why the Yoruba race can successfully practice Religion plurality. We don't belong in Nigeria's context. We're ordained for better circumstances. Sometimes i just think of Nigeria and I ask Oduduwa how we became so cursed. How I wish Awolowo's plan had been successful.

tee10:


Suddenly u are becoming a little more objectives

Now that's been progressive, loyalty to progressive ideals and thinking and not some BLIND loyalty to individuals

Keep it up

Could this sudden change of urs be due to PMB disappointing u and 98990 lately...LOLZ

Ikechukwu183:

Rubbish from brown roof republic dweller.

medpren:


You yorubas don't belong in nigeria. But you are the biggest screamers of 'one nigeria'. Confused people.

medpren:


You hausas and yoruba pretend you really give a damn about environmental problems in the ND, even the devil knows you don't, you are just interested in oil flowing undisturbed. So quit your sanctimonous preachings and tighten your austerity belts, NDA are just gerrin started.

989900:


It will help if you can point out the part that I've been subjective.

PMB is not perfect, I've praised his successes and criticized his failures likewise.

What is your point again?

freeze001:
I think it is rather uncharitable for the writer to attempt to preempt the Southern Governors and leaders by saying they are going to defend the actions of the NDA.

Secondly, it takes a fairly obtuse person to lump the NDA with the boko haram and fulani herdsmen. One stark contrast is that the later two are murderers pure and simple. Every action they take is geared towards massive human casualty. Again, they have no identifiable cause other than greed and tribal/religious supremacy agenda which informs their modus operandi of killing the 'infidels' according to their kouran and doing so in the name of Allah (boko haram). For the herdsmen, they simply have a bad sense of entitlement hence the audacity with which they sack and take over communities, not without massive murder and pillaging.

The NDA however are fighting for the soul and ownership of what is theirs and it is easy to see why unless a person is just plain daft and greedy. Nigerian leadership has proved itself as incapable of being reasoned with. Dialogue has been tried and engaged in over the issue of resource control and system of governance but always remains dead because some in power particularly the North do not want it. Having systematically empowered themselves with unfair majority representation at every level of government including the legislature, they make it clear that it is their way or no way!

The most recent and inclusive effort to address these issues, the CONFAB has been relegated by the same North. History tells everyone what happened to Ken Saro Wiwa again at the hand of a Northerner.

Now, there is no one that knows or feels the effects of environmental degradation more than the Niger Delta indigenes. However, because the Nigerian govt is determined to feed off the South without commensurate recompense, the freedom fighters know to strike at the jugular which is crude oil. Rather than see economic sabotage which is the outcome of their actions, I see a people pushed to the wall, damned tired of being told they count for nothing because of the 'almighty North' and to crown it all, majority of stakeholders in the ownership of resources in the ND come from the same north.

The FG controlled by the North during the military era, by fiat packaged as a Constitution today commandeered the resources if the South as belonging to the FG. Fairness and equity should have seen the same happen to solid minerals scattered over the North and major agricultural resources should have also been controlled by the FG but no, just the South simply because it's easy money.

Now there are rumbles, rather than give due regard n respect to a region, the FG once again run by the north has chosen to play the role of bully by unleashing military action. Same response that boils down to killing innocent people because they're never precise enough to actually gather intelligence, identify and fish out their targets.

The Nigerian government must learn to accord respect to each region in its own right and not by the number of votes cast in support of any govt in power. See the passion with which a whole President defends his kinsmen by saying no one should think of driving 'us' out because he is one of them but makes no attempt to understand the cause of the Niger Delta. Let me not even talk of IPOB and the right to self-determination now. So remind me again why unity is a do or die affair in Nigeria? How exactly is Nigeria one other than having no other country bearing the same name?