Today, the president of Togo was in Lagos, Nigeria to inspect the Dangote Refinery currently under construction with an estimated daily production capacity to refine 650,000 barrels of crude oil. The project which is ranked to be the biggest in the world is set to be completed in 2019 or there about.

Currently, a few numbers of young Nigerian engineers are undergoing training in India to understudy similar refineries with the overall objective of taking over its operation once it starts production.

Since the construction began, community agitation or picketing of any sort has not been heard. Workers have not been kidnapped or molested. There has not been any need to deployed troops or police to site. In a nutshell, relationship between the host community and the promoters of the project has been cordial.

Ditto for other industrial and infrastructural projects across the State, the Badagry - CMS light rail project, the Lagos - Ibadan express road and other projects in Ogun State and other States across the SW.

In Edo State, the Dangote Cement factory currently ongoing is also a good example of an industrial project that is being built under peaceful atmosphere with a tolerant and hospitable host community.

Bottom line is, many investors are turning their back on the SouthSouth especially the three States of Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta because of the aggressive nature of most communities in these States.

Just this week, the governor of Bayelsa State, Seriake Dickson was appealing to APC members in the State to attract Federal government projects to Bayelsa and I wonder why he failed to do same as a governor whose party was not only at the centre but had a sitting President as a son of the State.

The youths from the Niger Delta must take the bull by the horns to wrestle the region from the stranglehold of selfish and self serving leaders who are quick to arm youths for their selfish political and economic interests without providing for them a suitable means livelihood.

Traditional and spiritual leaders like Chief Edwin Clark and Ayo Oritshajafor that had unfettered access to the ex President Goodluck Jonathan failed to put to positive use the enormous goodwill they enjoyed in advising the then president of the need to transform the region and empower the youths.

Rather than unite the region towards a common purpose they were busy playing politics of self aggrandizement, of religious acrimony and tribal jingoism.

The future of the Niger Delta rest squarely on the shoulders of the youths who must take bold steps in holding their leaders accountable. The welfare and well-being of the critical majority must not be sacrificed on the slaughter slab of the few.

They are quick to tell you the Hausa are trying to islamise you or they are stealing your oil but all those leaders telling you this have mansions built in Abuja, Lagos and abroad. The same Muslims they tell you are your enemies are their business partners.

When your leaders collect dollars from oil companies, they approach the Bureau de Change Alhajis for business deals.

The Northerners do not hate you and they do not seek to islamise you. Your real enemies are within you, they are your leaders namely Political, Social and Traditional even the various Community Development Associations (CDAs) are also culprits.

To the one that has brain, sense is given. And if you no get sense better borrow from the one wey get.

bias opinion, the hausa-fulani has no political will to develop the ND , Tell me one development OBJ carried our in Ogun State throughout the 8 years he spent in aso rock .
I agreed, GEJ was a curse to the Niger Delta.
He was in power, but not in control.
NO POLITICAL WILL NO DEVELOPMENT
THIS WAS WHAT LED TO THE 1ST AGITATION.
NIGERIA GOVERNMENT BUILT ABUJA AT THE EXPENSE OF UNDERDEVELOPING THE ND.
PRIVATE INVESTORS CAN SITE THEIR INDUSTRIES IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD.
WAS THERE AGITATION WHEN AGBARA, OTA, IKEJA, OLUYOLE INDUSTRIES WERE BUILT? WAS THERE AGITATION WHEN CHEVRON SITED THEIR HQ in lagos? Was there agitation when NNPC sited its HQIN lagos, then Abuja? was there agitation when a northerner was appointed as the 1st minister of petroleum in NG?
all dz were the manifestation of selfish political will of NG nation.

LET US GIVE KUDOS TO THE RESILIENT ND PEOPLE.
THEY HAVE TOLERATED THE MISRULE OF NIG NATION FOR YEARS.
TELL ME ONE MINERAL RESOURCES DT IS DOMICILED IN AREWA LAND DT IS BEING CONTROLLED BY A SOUTHERNER?
When we talk about stealing, all the governors in Nigeria are guilty.
when we talk about psychopath and selfish leaders, The Northern leaders are the worst and more guilty .

well said..

The truth.

The Niger Delta youth has blamed everyone but the person responsible for the situation of the region.

They should continue and see where it will land them in 5 yrs time.

Imagine delta state owing more money than Lagos state and they still have nothing to show for that debt, allocations, derivations and even NDDC.

On top of all that, they still owe salary payments..

Okay

xprezboy:
bias

here lies the problem with dat region. Anyway, the Op dey try open una eyes bt since u choose to be blind to reality, it's nw up to u to be jumping aimless so that u don't enter into any pit.
After all, if ur eyes were open, u don't need to jump, u just avoid the pits.

My people are just lazy, that is why they are quick to take up arms. Right now in my community (delta state) most of the youths are either involved in fraud - both internet and local fraud or they are busy selling lands and constituting nuisance.

The issues of the Niger delta is as a result of the corrupt structure Nigeria is operating on both internally and externally...I blame the structure which has bred all bad leaders put together both locally and nationally...

The north is also responsible. ..I won't absolve them...They are leeches...The leaders in the Niger delta are fools....idiots who can't fight for the region but their useless stomach...imagine the Niger delta..still backward...state governors waiting for the FG to give them stipends from the same oil thar is underneath the Niger delta soil....arrant foolishness....dickson can't pay salaries. .okowa same...idiots who are governors...


Make I stop to talk abeg....

What kind of post is this?
The communities you cited in lagos and Edo will start behaving like the ND militants once the companies start treating them like the IOC's are presently treating/degrading the ND.
Nobody hates investment, but those communities ve an existence before those mega companies, which will continue after the company makes their money and pack up.

This post is worthy of front page
The youths in other states can also learn from this

Montaque:
What kind of post is this?
The communities you cited in lagos and Edo will start behaving like the ND militants once the companies start treating them like the IOC's are presently treating/degrading the ND.
Nobody hates investment, but those communities ve an existence before those mega companies, which will continue after the company makes their money and pack up.

Makes zero sense.

Montaque:
What kind of post is this?
The communities you cited in lagos and Edo will start behaving like the ND militants once the companies start treating them like the IOC's are presently treating/degrading the ND.
Nobody hates investment, but those communities ve an existence before those mega companies, which will continue after the company makes their money and pack up.

SWesterners are not violence loving set of people, we have a functioning brain. For a company to start degrading its host community, a community it must had respected bfore, something must have gone down which if properly investigated will have some of your greedy leaders as the brain behind it. As small as ibeshe is, dem no born dangote well make him do anyhow.

johnwizey:
SWesterners are not violence loving set of people, we have a functioning brain. For a company to start degrading its host community, a community it must had respected bfore, something must have gone down which if properly investigated will have some of your greedy leaders as the brain behind it. As small as ibeshe is, dem no born dangote well make him do anyhow.

You are ruling out business greed which is natural irrespective of race. The greed of some unscrupulous businessmen is the problem atimes.

aresa:


Makes zero sense.

Thank god you are not the only person on NL

Montaque:

You are ruling out business greed which is natural irrespective of race. The greed of some unscrupulous businessmen is the problem atimes.

Luckily, a lot of people in the Southwest can differentiate between healthy profit and business greed.

The greedy ones are still there but rather than shield them and copy their style, we confront and expose them.

Hmmmm, you'v got a point dou

Montaque:
What kind of post is this?
The communities you cited in lagos and Edo will start behaving like the ND militants once the companies start treating them like the IOC's are presently treating/degrading the ND.
Nobody hates investment, but those communities ve an existence before those mega companies, which will continue after the company makes their money and pack up.

Our moral foundations are different so we can never act alike.

Montaque:
What kind of post is this?
The communities you cited in lagos and Edo will start behaving like the ND militants once the companies start treating them like the IOC's are presently treating/degrading the ND.
Nobody hates investment, but those communities ve an existence before those mega companies, which will continue after the company makes their money and pack up.

Will you shattap? See the tripe you just posted! You think the lagos or edo state governments would sit back and be watching the environment get degraded while pocketing the money meant for the environments clean up and be using it to drink, sleep wth hoes and buy cars and houses?



Your people will never learn! Your leaders are your worst enemies but tribalism would never make you notice this! Who colludes with the oil companies to ignore the spillage? Naija deltans! Who receives billions in allocations from both the states allocation as well as through the nddc with nothing to show for it? Naija deltans! Whose brother was the president for 6 years and did not do 1 thing to uplift his people or tackle the problems of the naija deltan's environment? The same naija deltan!



You guys are a joke! Keep looking for hausa, yoruba, igbo, tivs, koma, kabba and ishan to blame you hear, no blame una selves 1st!

They are their own problem

All those denying what it obvious are fools and bastards. If you are true son of the delta, you should bury heads in shame.

I am not surprised because it's the Nigerian nature to blame others for their own failures. It was just yesterday that I was thinking about hydra-headed problems plaguing this country plus idiots like these who help to propagate and magnify the problems.

Yes, environmental degradation, social neglect and threatened existence of life in the delta has been a problem BUT why can't you bastards hold leader of the delta responsible for ONCE? Why? Why blame the federal government for EVERYTHING. We know that the federal government has it own faults BUT haven't some monies be going to that region? What has been done with the money? Didn't Asari and Tompolo claim to have fought for the freedom of the Niger Delta? What happened when they got paid? How did it affect lives of poor Niger Deltans? Did any of you here ask them the development they promised the region during the battle?

Fools, would you ask? NO! Over the years, leaders like Asari and Tompolo in different strata of the delta have been using your plights to rob you but instead you to hold them, you blame the federal government. Your case is like one in which you are blind, your brother takes you to the road, stand and beg for alms, he gets the money but instead of sharing it with you, he eats everything or give you peanuts that can hardly sustain you.

Mind you, NOBODY, I MEAN NOBODY has the right to insult you in your father's house, beat you EXCEPT you give them the right. Your leaders in those region gave both Northerners, the foreigners and the federal government the right to destroy your land, hence the current state of things. GO hold them responsible before people will take you all serious. Was it not Ibori that ruled and milk delta state dry through scams until he was arrested. Despite that, people from Delta state still call him hero, even celebrate his birthday on his behalf last year etc. Fools act like this and expect Nigerians to take them serious.

Today we have Niger Deltan Avengers, repeating what Asari and Tompolo did. When they get huge sums, they will forget the people they claim to be fighting for. You all who support this continuous scheme and scam to the detriment of the poor and poverty stricken Niger Deltans who can barely feed themselves let alone fight genuinely for themselves are bastards, fools and it shall never be well with any of you who like to live in denial and point accusing fingers to everyone but yourselves.


I schooled in Delta State, my late mother was a Benin woman while my dad is igbo from Anambra, so technically, I am son of the delta.

ba7man:
Luckily, a lot of people in the Southwest can differentiate between healthy profit and business greed.

The greedy ones are still there but rather than shield them and copy their style, we confront and expose them.

You can say so much about what your people will do. Everybody has a good story about his family. While acknowledging what I said earlier, You haven't yet said how your people will tackle the greed of businessmen when they go over-board with govt collusion.

BossKratos:





Will you shattap? See the tripe you just posted! You think the lagos or edo state governments would sit back and be watching the environment get degraded while pocketing the money meant for the environments clean up and be using it to drink, sleep wth hoes and buy cars and houses?



Your people will never learn! Your leaders are your worst enemies but tribalism would never make you notice this! Who colludes with the oil companies to ignore the spillage? Naija deltans! Who receives billions in allocations from both the states allocation as well as through the nddc with nothing to show for it? Naija deltans! Whose brother was the president for 6 years and did not do 1 thing to uplift his people or tackle the problems of the naija deltan's environment? The same naija deltan!



You guys are a joke! Keep looking for hausa, yoruba, igbo, tivs, koma, kabba and ishan to blame you hear, no blame una selves 1st!

I don't know how to respond to you, having regards to your expression drift. What makes edo and lagos state govt different from their counterparts down SS? Your views are welcomed.
Most of the things u find wrong with having a president from a region happened with OBJ, and the whole northern heads of state, without a complementary input in their states of origin. I guess states like kastina and Ogun are more developed than all other states having produced heads of states in the recent past. Or our federal legislators with their constituency allowance which they ALL pocket, buy cars and spend on hoes.
The reason for any people based agitation is the failure of govt based intervention. And this play out federation-wide, not limited to ND. As if our leaders are different from your leaders when they collude to choose who to defend or abandon based on THEIR pockets, not yours.

ba7man:
Our moral foundations are different so we can never act alike.

Nobody can fault his mother's soup.

Montaque:

I don't know how to respond to you, having regards to your expression drift. What makes edo and lagos state govt different from their counterparts down SS? Your views are welcomed.
Most of the things u find wrong with having a president from a region happened with OBJ, and the whole northern heads of state, without a complementary input in their states of origin. I guess states like kastina and Ogun are more developed than all other states having produced heads of states in the recent past. Or our federal legislators with their constituency allowance which they ALL pocket, buy cars and spend on hoes.
The reason for any people based agitation is the failure of govt based intervention. And this play out federation-wide, not limited to ND. As if our leaders are different from your leaders when they collude to choose who to defend or abandon based on THEIR pockets, not yours.

You cannot compare where I live, abuja and kaduna with most parts of the niger delta! We have a fair amount of good infrastructure, it is safe, power supply is good, businesses and jobs are enabled and crime is minimal!




You know why, because the leaders of these places HAVE A PLAN! The same can be said for lagos and edo! We all come from places were there is corruption and looting of states funds and all that but how come in these other places still THINGS STILL GET DONE?




But there is always a comma attached to the naija delta! Look I served in government house in bayelsa state years ago and then I worked all over rivers state for 3 years before I bounced back to a saner society in abuja, so I KNOW YOUR REGION like the back of my hand! Believe what you will and keep deluding yourself......................

Montaque:

You are ruling out business greed which is natural irrespective of race. The greed of some unscrupulous businessmen is the problem atimes.

see you trying to put blame on a businessman but leaving your people out of it.

A man says he wants to establish his business that will develop your region and employ your people but you chose to extort money from him far more than it is required, he pays through his nose and you expect him to treat your people well?

Montaque:

Nobody can fault his mother's soup.

Who told you that?

Some mother's soups are Crap.......... and the kids know it too.


Some of these our old proverbs are rubbish atimes.

BossKratos:





You cannot compare where I live, abuja and kaduna with most parts of the niger delta! We have a fair amount of good infrastructure, it is safe, power supply is good, businesses and jobs are enabled and crime is minimal!




You know why, because the leaders of these places HAVE A PLAN! The same can be said for lagos and edo! We all come from places were there is corruption and looting of states funds and all that but how come in these other places still THINGS STILL GET DONE?




But there is always a comma attached to the naija delta! Look I served in government house in bayelsa state years ago and then I worked all over rivers state for 3 years before I bounced back to a saner society in abuja, so I KNOW YOUR REGION like the back of my hand! Believe what you will and keep deluding yourself......................

Abuja ke.
Abuja is a cosmopolitan city, nobody comes from abuja nowadays, rather everybody wants to be from abuja. So don't make example with abuja. Nobody wants to live where the money that makes abuja what it is.

Well, I don't think we need dwell much on this argument. The fact is that there is environmental degradation in the SS, owing to the peculiar nature of oil mining, a situation which the oil companies ve failed to correct despite being signatory to various environmental convention/laws. The militancy is a fallout of such neglect, which I believe u saw during your short stay in the hood, and is the reason why u wanted a saner clime.

fxbot:
see you trying to put blame on a businessman but leaving your people out of it.

A man says he wants to establish his business that will develop your region and employ your people but you chose to extort money from him far more than it is required, he pays through his nose and you expect him to treat your people well?

Well, we are here talking about oil companies. The OIC's are in the SS through the sole permission of the FG. The NDans doesn't extort money to allow them stay, not to talk of far more than is required. The demands on them is to mind the safety of the environment of the host community, which is their source of livelihood. And you and I know they haven't done so. Even the much touted clean-up in ogoni has not yet gotten out of the garage.

ba7man:
Who told you that?

Some mother's soups are Crap.......... and the kids know it too.


Some of these our old proverbs are rubbish atimes.

ba7man:
Who told you that?

Some mother's soups are Crap.......... and the kids know it too.


Some of these our old proverbs are rubbish atimes.

Funny you, you have thus been setting exams for yourself right from Nursery. Kudos

Montaque:

Funny you, you have thus been setting exams for yourself right from Nursery. Kudos

You shouldn't just swallow all you're told.

You're supposed to process it.

That's how brainwashing works.

ba7man:
You shouldn't just swallow all you're told.
You're supposed to process it.
That's how brainwashing works.

Even with the easiest everyday instance? I give up.