That will happen when your father became the president of Nigeria. I hope you understand that grammar.. Became not become

oz4real83:
Don't be penny-wise and pound-foolish. Whatever sacrifice to make to enable the project's completion should be made. Don't lose on the altar of selfishness.

mapet:


Let me get you, you mean the "qualification" to work on that NPDC project is "ethnicity"?

no. Being a "Nigerian" is a better qualification. If we are talking about "local content", it means the local population should be given some advantage. NPDC took a large farmlands from indigenes without compensation. Isn't it injustice to give almost all jobs, not even specialised ones, to non-indigenes even when indigenes were willing to work? I witnessed a situation when an somebody brought a relative from south-east to become a cleaner, a job an indigene could have done.

Anambralstson:

For your little mind, many ways to kill a rat, I can't be cage

Just one more direct insult from you

Toni19:
That will happen when your father became the president of Nigeria. I hope you understand that grammar.. Became not become

your statement shows u have no respect for your parents. That's why u can easily insult peoples parents. Idiota.

Naija

MetaPhysical:


You sabi my people too much.

All these steel and concrete means nothing of value to them. When they heard the bridge will cost 2billion naira their mind started working on how to share the money.

Lmao

samorobo:
Please someone should englighten me..what is the Importance of this bridge that we will not hear word ..why is it always making headlines...

Like what is so special?

Yoruba will work behind scene to achieve results. No one will ever know until a stranger see and bring the achievement into limelight. This is their element.

If Yoruba make noise about anything it doesnt go far....it doesnt even reach Ghana. However, when they are silent...the impact of their queitness can be felt even in space.

God has not given Igbo the fruitfullness of silence. Their blessing lies in making noise....and their noise carries far. Igbo can just say one word and it can be irrelevant but it would be heard and repeated in every country in the world. However, their noise has no impact even though it echoes around the continents.

Example -
Do you know how many tankers had spilled fuel and the explosion so combustible that it wiped out lives, properties and businesses in a flash? In fact some communities have not had one but two, three of such infernos....yet it hardly went beyond RIP for the victims.

Onitsha had a fuel spill that gutted property, lives and businesses like anywhere else....it turned into national tragedy.

Ibo has the gift for using noisemaking to hold govt to bend to its needs. The channels of backdoor horse trading, out of view and out of hearing negotiations, does not produce meaningful result for Ibo like noise can.

The second niger bridge is Ibo baby, it has been nursing this baby since 1970. All we can do is tolerate Ibo noise when they feel like giving us earful. Many a times their vuvuzelousness is comical. Enjoy it!

The hullaballoo about 2 niger bridge is just Ibo in its element and having need to pump out noise into the airwave.

why making unnecessary demand when the bridge will yield good benefits for the community n perhaps they will one day make use of the bridge.

ProWalker:
Igbos are not really interested in that bridge, they will prefer to be using it as a political demand and blackmail so building it will just kill one of their blackmail

They prefer you share the money for that bridge to them.

why are you full of stup!d!ty,how has the foolish demand of a few individuals become an Igbo demand? Hit off the silly stereotype from your brain and reason rationally.

kettle84:
[s]why are you full of stup!d!ty,how has the foolish demand of a few individuals become an Igbo demand? Hit off the silly stereotype from your brain and reason rationally[/s].

I will take this that you don’t understand NL, one more insult again, you will go to NL jail for a long time

Beezy94:
why making unnecessary demand when the bridge will yield good benefits for the community n perhaps they will one day make use of the bridge.

1970 to 2019 is 49yrs.
Almost 50yrs without second niger bridge and they have not perished, the communities are still thriving. So what if its never completed? Nobody dies.

...but if that 2billion naira is not shared between hands many people will get sick and perish. They need that money in the community, not on the bridge.

Sorry if you feel offended but sincerely I wasn't insulting your parent okay.
If you understand what is happening in that area, I think in the first place u won't agree to the fact that the community should be settled by being paid or pound wise as u put it. Where in the world is development happening and community is asking for settlement? Are we for real in this country? Some people said that bridge was fake , it was a paper work..so is it a paper work now? Secondly, if the bridge is completed, are u saying those people asking for settlement won't make use of it? Nigerians are bad and wicked. Buhari is the problem abi, what about this one?

oz4real83:
your statement shows u have no respect for your parents. That's why u can easily insult peoples parents. Idiota.

ProWalker:


I will take this that you don’t understand NL, one more insult again, you will go to NL jail for a long time

Your threats are as useless as a cow's dung.

ProWalker:


Just one more direct insult from you

I can see you are pain, once you push it, I will give it back to you in a bitter style You and your likes are quick to point to others, write rubbish epistle just to paint them black, but always clueless once yours pupup, your people own is worst we know what innocent Nigerians are facing in Lagos and Ogun state once they buy land to build house, after settling them for buying land, they still settle for foundation, plastering, settle for roofing and painting, where in the world do they practice such? Is not greed, wickedness But hypocrisy in you will not see anything wrong with that , so far it's your tribe

What's the difference between their demands and that of your people

ProWalker:


If you understand NL rules, you will delete this your comment

If only

oz4real83:
no. Being a "Nigerian" is a better qualification. If we are talking about "local content", it means the local population should be given some advantage. NPDC took a large farmlands from indigenes without compensation. Isn't it injustice to give almost all jobs, not even specialised ones, to non-indigenes even when indigenes were willing to work? I witnessed a situation when an somebody brought a relative from south-east to become a cleaner, a job an indigene could have done.

Bros,

I am in the "terrain" so you know. If you please, avail us with the details of a project that NPDC took over farmlands without compensation. If my knowledge of Oil & Gas industry is still valid (and definitely 20yrs experience and still counting), I dare say no Oil company, govt, indegenous or IOC can "take over" lands. Land Acquisition through a legal transaction is valid means by which Oil company acquire land for project, even Right-of-way (ROW) for things as little as pipeline projects. I would be interested in this scenario and I can get the details out here in less than 24hrs.

The scenario of someone bringing a cleaner cleaner from SE to do a job in SS is not that clear from your description. I know for example that jobs that are "ceeded" to the local/operating communities are agreed in an MOU with local communities. How a South Easterner be brought to breach a an MOU and the community will not raise hell, beats my imagination.

One thing that is constant in this administration is the manner in which lies are being told with alacrity.

This is just one excuse in their numerous schemes to abandon the project. If the govt is serious about this claim, assuming we give them benefit of the doubt, can they tell us in holistic terms why military personnel shouldn't be drafted to this area for speedy completion of the said project since host communities won't allow it in the nick of time on baseless entitlement claims?

Femsyn:
This is where traditional leaders should come in. If they can't resolve this, then their position is useless, and should be disbanded.

The trader you mentioned are the one behind it

KEVIND:
I know this lies & slandering will come up as long as it concerns development in the SE/SS region. What is happening to the Niger bridge is what is also happening to the Ogoni clean-up & the East West road etc. But when it concerns taking oil from the Niger delta by the parasitic regions,they will deploy all the military apparatus & might to destroy any uprising or dissenting voice. e.g Ken saro wiwa.

Thou FOOL

naptu2:


Remember that the project was initially meant to be in Ondo State, but the host communities frustrated Dangote with outrageous demands and so Fashola came in and snatched Dangote from under their nose. There's no way that Fashola would have allowed a repeat of the Ondo experience in Lagos.

https://www.nairaland.com/1415180/dangote-construct-refinery-petrochemical-complex

Thanks Bro.

I believe above all a demonstration of leadership is to know when to wield the big stick and beat people into line. If the leaders of these communities or the state government cannot see the potential damage done already, they are foolish. Same scenario was how LADOL refused to sight their project in Bayelsa, in spite of the fact that the then sitting President is from Bayesla preferring Badagry.

ProWalker:


That is the truth.

To an average Igbo, if there is no money to be shared, he or she is not interested.

Igbos actually coined the PDP slogan “PDP !!! Share the Money!!”

That is why up till today, majority of them still deny the existence of the bridge because they simply don’t want it done

how on earth can u believe dis propaganda filed government using their deciestful line to talk down on tribe?it shows that u are an unfortunate fellow, when it's time to dance python dance u will do it without hindrance even at the detriment of the people's lives but time to bring developments to the people we begin hear about miscreants hindering construction workers, boko haram, banditory could not stop this good for nothing government from building dry port in Kaduna, transport university in kastina but some miscreants could not allow u to complete the Niger bridge the only project the eastern region seems to be geting from this tribalistic government. U can only deceive some igbo people not all of us.

mapet:


Bros,

I am in the "terrain" so you know. If you please, avail us with the details of a project that NPDC took over farmlands without compensation. If my knowledge of Oil & Gas industry is still valid (and definitely 20yrs experience and still counting), I dare say no Oil company, govt, indegenous or IOC can "take over" lands. Land Acquisition through a legal transaction is valid means by which Oil company acquire land for project, even Right-of-way (ROW) for things as little as pipeline projects. I would be interested in this scenario and I can get the details out here in less than 24hrs.

The scenario of someone bringing a cleaner cleaner from SE to do a job in SS is not that clear from your description. I know for example that jobs that are "ceeded" to the local/operating communities are agreed in an MOU with local communities. How a South Easterner be brought to breach a an MOU and the community will not raise hell, beats my imagination.

NPDC headquarters in OKO/Ogba road, Benin city. The construction was being carried out by BNL ltd. The project has been suspended for now due to disagreement between the construction company,BNL and the govt agencies NNPC/NPDC/. As at the time of suspension of that project early this year, the locals working on that project was less than 15. A relative of mine was part of the few until they were stopped early this year. I know what I am saying.

l code "Ajani, said, ‘‘Each community is demanding a project worth N50 million and by the time it is calculated, it will amount to N500 million. Where can such money come from?" yes its true..!! but the Senate can seat and budged for each Senator to have a car of N50m, each, the QUESTION IS Where can such money come from?.

oz4real83:
NPDC headquarters in OKO/Ogba road, Benin city. The construction was being carried out by BNL ltd. The project has been suspended for now due to disagreement between the construction company,BNL and the govt agencies NNPC/NPDC/. As at the time of suspension of that project early this year, the locals working on that project was less than 15. A relative of mine was part of the few until they were stopped early this year. I know what I am saying.

Well I do not want to doubt what you claim, but to put it in proper perspective. Even from your post, this is a project NPDC contracted out right? And you do not see that a 3rd party contractor handling a project is different from NPDC?

I am well familiar with issues 3rd party contractors face with communities. In some cases the contractor cannot accede to community demands because it is expected in most cases that operating companies contracting out projects should have handled all community related issues in such a way that contractors go in and do their jobs without hitch. In some cases, communities want more; in others OCs do not do a good job negotiating with communities, hence leave contractors at their mercy. Sometimes greedy contractors will include community negotiation in their contract and charge for it, only to get stuck mid-way and the OC suffers for it.

Which yeyelistic reason? I hope on the long run, nobody will blame the FG if the project is abandoned.
In fact, the community leaders of the affected communities should be arrested immediately for their ineptitude. Did we ever heard about such thing on railway line from Lagos to Ibadan, and Abuja to Kaduna? My people of the southern part sef.
Abeg, this project must see the light of the day whether the devil likes it or not.

xamuel17:
let's all try to hear both sides of the story before concluding .... I'm very sure that there is a reason behind their actions

You sabi them.

SincereBigot:
Another excuse for the delay until 2023

If is for oil drilling, will federal government stop work bcoz of community demand?

Lack of political will to do the needful to better her citizen life is our major problem.

Shame on FG, you can't fool us anymore with Evasive excuses

SincereBigot:
Another excuse for the delay until 2023

Who is allowing room for exploitation of the said opportunity?

Host communities are always settled in cash or kinds in any project in their community. It happens all over Nigeria......This is not the 1st and won't be the last. Settle them and continue the work. Don't give useless excuse that would make it look like the people are the reason for the delay. We know govt don't have real intention about building the 2nd Niger Bridge.

Anambralstson:

Dumbo you always find stupid ways to prove your people are right while others are not..

Stop embarrassing yourself. Don't you understand the meaning of compensation?

Why are they frustrating the continuity projects?