In this Country we need to approach all region with equity and fairness... In Zamfara State the illegal gold mining is called "Artisanal gold mining" and is acceptable by the Federal Government while in South such act is regarded as Oil bunkery why can't there be artisanal oil drillers and refiners in South South? Why call it oil bunkering?

Because it's one Nigeria. Do you want to divide us?

Animal farm.
'All animals are equal but some are more equal than others'

stop fooling urself.
First know the meaning of bunker before displaying ignorance.

The right word to call it is bunkery and artisanal doesn't help.
Bunker isn't actually an illegal word.

The people manually build the bunker though we normally call it "kpo fire pot" here in Rivers, but the right word is bunker and not the pot we call it.

Ok

Don't mind the fools in SS government. You let people kill your kinsmen struggling to survive by tapping their God given resources while their counterpart in the north have a field day mining gold and keeping the proceeds to themselves.

Well, thankfully I know a lot of SS dudes who became wealthy through oil bunkery.

dogmax:
In this Country we need to approach all region with equity and fairness... In Zamfara State the illegal gold mining is called "Artisanal gold mining" and is acceptable by the Federal Government while in South such act is regarded as Oil bunkery why can't there be artisanal oil drillers and refiners in South South? Why call it oil bunkering?

The guys in SS also have to be blamed for this. They're disoriented and disorganized. There are not much solidarity between ethnic groups there but they like to front a fake "common front".Their willingness to accept peanuts from the same set of people destroying their lands while looting their resources ,as "security contracts" is mainly the reason why this disjointed system has gone on for long.. The north have been looting their resources and folks in SS tagged notherners "our traditional allies"! This is where tht allignment has brought everybody.. How can we find ourselves in a situation where resources from one section of the country is for everyone while that from another section of the country is for few?

Crude oil: The processes of extracting crude oil from the earth is very sophisticated and expensive. Most of Nigeria's oil are even extracted deep into the Ocean.
Which artisans have the machines & technical know how to drill for crude oil?

What most guys do is 'oil bunkery' whereby they locate pipelines (an already invested properties of some oil companies) , burst them through bombing and start siphoning crude oil, to be refined locally in the creeks with very dangerous and environmental challenging methods.

Gold: Gold is a 'special type of metal' found in impure forms beneath the soil.

If you have enough energy, diggers, hoes & shovel, you can start digging for just 12 feets and see gems of gold in certain areas. These are collected and washed by the artisinal miners.

dukeprince50:
stop fooling urself.
First know the meaning of bunker before displaying ignorance.

The right word to call it is bunkery and artisanal doesn't help.
Bunker isn't actually an illegal word.

The people manually build the bunker though we normally call it "kpo fire pot" here in Rivers, but the right word is bunker and not the pot we call it

Artisanal is still right and very correct.

Artisanal refining. Is the right word.

Northern Nigeria is dealing with you

Who are you?

Follish Southerners

Juliusmalema:



Artisanal is still right and very correct.

Artisanal refining. Is the right word.

artisanal mostly use crude implements like hoe and shovel.

just dig four meters into the earth, u may find gold.
Oil need some level of sophisticated machines, u can't call it artisanal

Interesting perspective.

dukeprince50:
artisanal mostly use crude implements like hoe and shovel and just dig four meters into the earth, u may find gold.
Oil need some level of sophisticated machines, u can't call it artisanal

Cut it short

We have artisanal refininggoing on in bayelsa state..

I am short of words

Juliusmalema:


Cut it short

We have artisanal refininggoing on in bayelsa state..

OK.
Bunkery isn't a bad word either, OP thinks bunkery could mean illegal thieves/hoodlums refining oil. lol, I just wan correct that misconception that bunkery is as cute as artisanal

PMB gave Rivers State Government OML 11. Much to the dismay of APC Rivers State and ogoni people coz we know it's now WikeD personal property.

Nobody heard all these noise u guys are making.

PMB had made it clear that state governments should partake in the OML process.

Carry your complaint to the government now.
If you are not satisfied being called Niger Delta or Bunker but now wants to be called artisanal. That's a no problem. You can always apply for change of name.

My point here's is it not illegal for individual to mine gold and sell it to the State Government. If it's in Niger Delta they will all declare an illegal operations. We can't move together in this manner.