otokx:

As a civil servant with over 3 years experience my salary never reach 65000 even with the masters wey i acquire at almost 3 times the latter.

slimes:

I just hope the militants would not return to the Niger Delta.

adventure:

we Nigerian are simple greedy and dont like good things,  for Christ sake,  what is all this yarbing against the ex-militants all about,  when those guys  are blowing our pipe lines and doing all sout of this over there,  we are here yarbing,  now they have repent and accept peace some stupid people are still here yarbing nonsense,  infact enough of all this madness,  just free those guys.

Vavavoom:

Things are falling apart
The centre is struggling but can't hold
we all are no longer at ease
a Port Harcourt dilemma, our Nigerian face
of a people caught in a quagmire-stalemate
We move but in circle, eyes toward a centre
the attraction that feeds our greed
same stories like Rwanda
repeated in bits around my motherland
tears won't fall from my eyes
cos they've long dried with each passing harmattan
Chimamanda I hope you can hear me?
grief has taken over where once peace tarried
the work of many a man's hand tainted with blood
blood seeping deep within the black gold
the care of the centre their greed to fill
ALL to waste,
empathy from us is gone.

Vavavoom:

Things are falling apart
The centre is struggling but can't hold
we all are no longer at ease
a Port Harcourt dilemma, our Nigerian face
of a people caught in a quagmire-stalemate
We move but in circle, eyes toward a centre
the attraction that feeds our greed
same stories like Rwanda
repeated in bits around my motherland
tears won't fall from my eyes
cos they've long dried with each passing harmattan
Chimamanda I hope you can hear me?
grief has taken over where once peace tarried
the work of many a man's hand tainted with blood
blood seeping deep within the black gold
the care of the centre their greed to fill
ALL to waste,
empathy from us is gone.

ochukoccna:

Yes O! Where I fit collect forms for me and my boys? before U answer, just keep 38,682 forms down for me i.e. General Black Scorpion and his jeun jeun army!

700john:

make na leave dat tin

Leave wetin? You be one of the so called ex-militants?

Anyways, I'm no more against it, I need the form to join, please.

ono:

These things aren't just the way many of us here paint it. While I sympathise with the woman whose 7 year-old daughter was raped, it should be clear to us all by now that we are in a country where the folks leading us are really not after our welfare. Besides, the sins of the past is what, I think, we're paying for today. How?

We (and I use the word in the Nigerian context - I am a Nigerian, albeit a Niger Deltan to the core) have allowed rogues to lead us this far. Today, we even have a university lecturer leading us. But, we're worst for that. I have decided its not an ''education thing'' that's our major problem. There's more to it.
Nigeria is reaping what she has sown over the years - seeds of discords, lies, violence against her people all over the nation, not only in the delta (where we all know it is worst), theft of the people's god-given resources, falsehood, etc. These are the ''ingredients'' this country is built on. It is only natural that we begin to see these manifest in our peoples/society with time. Maybe we have reached that point where we have to decide if indeed, this is where we want to be.

I understand that some of these militants are graduates of engineering, sciences etc etc from some of our universities. I used the word ''some'' because I have heard/read so. We all know that when Jomo Gbomo ''speaks'' from the creeks, we all are at attention. He writes with such passion and clarity of purpose, you cannot say that whoever Jomo Gbomo is, he's an illiterate. Many of us read his briefs/notes on their planned attacks with fear and trembling, knowing fully well that MEND acts with such brute force, and our source of livelihood in this country could be blown to shreds within minutes by these people. No, some ex-militants are not dafts, rogues, illiterates etc.

I think the FG is just trying to make the best of a very bad situation. But how long this will drag on is what I don't know.