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Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Captain8(m): 6:52pm On May 06, 2022
The Supreme Court on Friday in Abuja, in a landmark judgment, resolved the ownership dispute of 17 oil rich wells in favour of Rivers State.


In the judgment prepared by Justice Heleen Ogunwumiju but delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the apex court dismissed the counter claim ownership put forward by the Imo State Government.

The oil wells, located in the territories of Rivers and Imo states, have been a subject of litigation at the apex court which served as a court of first instance with seven justices in the panel.

According to Justice Agim, reliefs 1, 3 4 5 and 6 sought by Rivers State Government were granted by the court.


The court however refused to grant reliefs 2, 7 and 10.

Among the reliefs granted by the apex court in favour of Rivers are that the boundary between Rivers and Imo as delineated in Nigeria’s administrative map 10th edition, 11th, 12th edition and other maps bearing similar delineation are inaccurate, incorrect, and do not represent the legitimate and lawful boundaries between Rivers and Imo state.

The Supreme Court agreed with Rivers that the correct instruments, map and documents to be relied upon in determining the boundary between Rivers and Imo states are those used by Rivers in delineating the boundary line between the two states including Decree No. 14 of 1967, Decree No. 12 of 1976, the White papers/conclusion of the Federal Military Government on the Irikefe and the Nasir Boundary Commission/Boundary Adjustment Commission, the Eastern Nigeria map, the Provincial map of Owerri province, Warri Province, Onitsha Province, Rivers Province, the Ahoada District map and Aboh Division map.


The Apex Court also declared that based on the correct instruments, maps and documents for determining the boundary between Rivers and Imo states, including Decree no. 14 of 1967, Decree No. 12 of 1976, the White papers/conclusion of the Federal Military Government on the Irikefe and the Nasir boundary Commission/boundary Adjustment Commission, the Eastern Nigeria map, the Provincial map of Owerri Province, Warri Province, Onitsha Province, Rivers Province, the Ahoada District map and Aboh Division map, the Rivers State communities wrongly attributed to Imo State among other communities are communities within the territorial boundaries of Rivers State and therefore communities in respect of which Rivers State is entitled to exercise governmental and administrative powers including entitlement to benefits derivable from mineral or other resources within the communities.


The court also made declaration that all the oil wells within Akri and Mbede communities usually identified with the names Akri and Mbede including the oil wells identified on Rivers map showing the location of oil wells wrongly attributed to Imo State including Akri 012, Akri 009, Akri 010, Akri 004, Akri West 002, Akri 001, Akri West 001, Akri 003, Akri 002, and Akri South 001, Mbede 017, Mbede 010, Mbede 019, Mbede 018, Mbede 002, Mbede 009, and Mbede 005 are all oil wells within the territory of Rivers State and form part of Rivers State and that it is only the state that is entitled to receive the full allocation of the distributable revenue derived from the oil wells on the basis of the 13 percent derivation principle as provided for under Section 162 of the 1999 Constitution as amended, among others.

Justice Ogunwumiju however refused to grant the N500 million cost requested by Rivers State.

The Supreme Court also refused to order the AGF to calculate and refund to Rivers State all revenue that have been wrongly denied the state and wrongly paid to Imo state on account of the extent of the distributable revenue derived from the Akri and Mbede oil wells.

The AGF and Imo State, who are the 1st and 2nd defendants respectively in the suit, had on February 7 when they adopted their final processes prayed the court to dismiss the suit and order Rivers to file it at the Federal High Court because it is a revenue matter.

Their grounds are that before the suit can be amicably resolved, witnesses, especially residents of the disputed areas needed to be called to give oral evidence on which side they belonged between Imo and Rivers.

The two defendants further demanded that the intervention of the National Boundary Commission would also be required to give evidence at the Federal High Court before an appreciable conclusion can be drawn.

The requests were however turned down by the court.

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Illuminatiship(m): 6:53pm On May 06, 2022
Ok
Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Mooh247: 6:53pm On May 06, 2022
cool


Atleast they still have Palm Oyel

Oyel Na Oyel

A barrel of Palm Oyel. Is $200
A barrel of Brent Crude Oil is $100

Wike no allow land grabber developer turn Rivers to no man's land



.

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Emergingnation(m): 6:55pm On May 06, 2022
Lol ! This lazy IJaw stunts is still rejoicing over crude oil that will be obsolete by 2030 in international market....


The world is moving away from oil for Greener energy of which gas is one of them.

The future is gas which Imo is blessed with the highest deposit in the world...

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by neonly: 6:57pm On May 06, 2022
Na real tears jare

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Afamed: 6:57pm On May 06, 2022
Una too like trouble

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Nobody: 6:57pm On May 06, 2022
See twist
Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by YorubaIsGreat(m): 6:58pm On May 06, 2022
Unproductive and landlocked beerfraud land still get palm oil, oil nah oil now

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Felimax(m): 6:59pm On May 06, 2022
Imo and Rivers states are two brothers.

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by seunowa(f): 7:01pm On May 06, 2022
I dont want to laugh oo grin grin grin

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by basilo101: 7:54pm On May 06, 2022
Gas is the future. But why are all Rivers oil close to SE border? Onelga and oyigbo are neither ijaw nor ikwere. Thank God gas is situated deeper into south east away from these cowardly minorities who are being used by fulani feudalist

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by chrisxxx(m): 8:03pm On May 06, 2022
Emergingnation:
Lol ! This lazy IJaw stunts is still rejoicing over crude oil that will be obsolete by 2030 in international market....


The world is moving away from oil for Greener energy of which gas is one of them.

The future is gas which Imo is blessed with the highest deposit in the world...
So all this heavy duties that rely on combustion engine will be quarantined? Can you see what Nnamdi Kanu did with cerebrum?
Fossil fuel will remain and be highly sought after for some inestimable years to come.

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Coly2012(m): 8:05pm On May 06, 2022
Just imagine your caption, does it sound like something that came out of an intelligent person? People like you are the problem of Nigeria.

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Transcriber: 8:05pm On May 06, 2022
seunowa:
I dont want to laugh oo grin grin grin
cheesy
Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Ekpeitit(m): 8:17pm On May 06, 2022
Don't mind the useless people, they're cursed.

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Conrod: 8:27pm On May 06, 2022
Ekpeitit:
Don't mind the useless people, they're cursed.
EKPEITIT in my language means decendants of bastards.

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Oplomo: 8:30pm On May 06, 2022
Oyel wey abokey dey use brush teeth?

How many oyel wells your family get. No be kpofire be una family business while abokey dey carry lionshare. If you resist, Army, police, civil defense, Navy, go descend heavily on you. grin

Igbo people say hungry dey kill them? No be oil spill water una dey drink wey dey scatter una brain for creek? grin

Crude in Rivers belong to Jigawa. Go figure. Slaves. grin


I never see crude oil for my life but I dey feed these useless creek rats for my office. Mugus. grin

Mugu say na 'Tears in Biafraland'. grin

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Factshunter: 8:34pm On May 06, 2022
Eyaaaa

What a bad day/week for awa bolodaa from the land of the falling sun. cheesy

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Kinematics: 8:39pm On May 06, 2022
This part pain me shaaa


"The Supreme Court also refused to order the AGF to calculate and refund to Rivers State all revenue that have been wrongly denied the state and wrongly paid to Imo state on account of the extent of the distributable revenue derived from the Akri and Mbede oil wells."


Shameless land grabbers...

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Kinematics: 8:44pm On May 06, 2022
Oplomo:
[s]Oyel wey abokey dey use brush teeth?

How many oyel wells your family get. No be kpofire be una family business while abokey dey carry lionshare. If you resist, Army, police, civil defense, Navy, go descend heavily on you. grin

Igbo people say hungry dey kill them? No be oil spill water una dey drink wey dey scatter una brain for creek? grin

Crude in Rivers belong to Jigawa. Go figure. Slaves. grin


I never see crude oil for my life but I dey feed these useless creek rats for my office. Mugus. grin

Mugu say na 'Tears in Biafraland'. grin[/s]




Eyaahhh, I feel your pain. Cry more

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Pinklygul: 8:48pm On May 06, 2022
Where are the tears nah?
Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Emergingnation(m): 8:52pm On May 06, 2022
Ekpeitit:
Don't mind the useless people, they're cursed.
And you are still dying to share thesame country with your Imaginery cursed people.. you that can survive without them is the cursed one here.. chronic unity beggar..

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Dbboy(m): 8:56pm On May 06, 2022
When the fool that posted this fail to realise the said oil even though rivers won it still situated in an Igbo speaking community.

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Taba21: 9:13pm On May 06, 2022
Captain8:
The Supreme Court on Friday in Abuja, in a landmark judgment, resolved the ownership dispute of 17 oil rich wells in favour of Rivers State.


In the judgment prepared by Justice Heleen Ogunwumiju but delivered by Justice Emmanuel Agim, the apex court dismissed the counter claim ownership put forward by the Imo State Government.

The oil wells, located in the territories of Rivers and Imo states, have been a subject of litigation at the apex court which served as a court of first instance with seven justices in the panel.

According to Justice Agim, reliefs 1, 3 4 5 and 6 sought by Rivers State Government were granted by the court.


The court however refused to grant reliefs 2, 7 and 10.

Among the reliefs granted by the apex court in favour of Rivers are that the boundary between Rivers and Imo as delineated in Nigeria’s administrative map 10th edition, 11th, 12th edition and other maps bearing similar delineation are inaccurate, incorrect, and do not represent the legitimate and lawful boundaries between Rivers and Imo state.

The Supreme Court agreed with Rivers that the correct instruments, map and documents to be relied upon in determining the boundary between Rivers and Imo states are those used by Rivers in delineating the boundary line between the two states including Decree No. 14 of 1967, Decree No. 12 of 1976, the White papers/conclusion of the Federal Military Government on the Irikefe and the Nasir Boundary Commission/Boundary Adjustment Commission, the Eastern Nigeria map, the Provincial map of Owerri province, Warri Province, Onitsha Province, Rivers Province, the Ahoada District map and Aboh Division map.


The Apex Court also declared that based on the correct instruments, maps and documents for determining the boundary between Rivers and Imo states, including Decree no. 14 of 1967, Decree No. 12 of 1976, the White papers/conclusion of the Federal Military Government on the Irikefe and the Nasir boundary Commission/boundary Adjustment Commission, the Eastern Nigeria map, the Provincial map of Owerri Province, Warri Province, Onitsha Province, Rivers Province, the Ahoada District map and Aboh Division map, the Rivers State communities wrongly attributed to Imo State among other communities are communities within the territorial boundaries of Rivers State and therefore communities in respect of which Rivers State is entitled to exercise governmental and administrative powers including entitlement to benefits derivable from mineral or other resources within the communities.


The court also made declaration that all the oil wells within Akri and Mbede communities usually identified with the names Akri and Mbede including the oil wells identified on Rivers map showing the location of oil wells wrongly attributed to Imo State including Akri 012, Akri 009, Akri 010, Akri 004, Akri West 002, Akri 001, Akri West 001, Akri 003, Akri 002, and Akri South 001, Mbede 017, Mbede 010, Mbede 019, Mbede 018, Mbede 002, Mbede 009, and Mbede 005 are all oil wells within the territory of Rivers State and form part of Rivers State and that it is only the state that is entitled to receive the full allocation of the distributable revenue derived from the oil wells on the basis of the 13 percent derivation principle as provided for under Section 162 of the 1999 Constitution as amended, among others.

Justice Ogunwumiju however refused to grant the N500 million cost requested by Rivers State.

The Supreme Court also refused to order the AGF to calculate and refund to Rivers State all revenue that have been wrongly denied the state and wrongly paid to Imo state on account of the extent of the distributable revenue derived from the Akri and Mbede oil wells.

The AGF and Imo State, who are the 1st and 2nd defendants respectively in the suit, had on February 7 when they adopted their final processes prayed the court to dismiss the suit and order Rivers to file it at the Federal High Court because it is a revenue matter.

Their grounds are that before the suit can be amicably resolved, witnesses, especially residents of the disputed areas needed to be called to give oral evidence on which side they belonged between Imo and Rivers.

The two defendants further demanded that the intervention of the National Boundary Commission would also be required to give evidence at the Federal High Court before an appreciable conclusion can be drawn.

The requests were however turned down by the court.

Right from time the Niger Delta people are the blessed and successful People in Nigeria, without involving into ritualist etc

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Taba21: 9:15pm On May 06, 2022
Emergingnation:
Lol ! This lazy IJaw stunts is still rejoicing over crude oil that will be obsolete by 2030 in international market....


The world is moving away from oil for Greener energy of which gas is one of them.

The future is gas which Imo is blessed with the highest deposit in the world...

Now you believe uzodima

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Taba21: 9:17pm On May 06, 2022
chrisxxx:

So all this heavy duties that rely on combustion engine will be quarantined? Can you see what Nnamdi Kanu did with cerebrum?
Fossil fuel will remain and be highly sought after for some inestimable years to come.

They don't know anything even gas they no get

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by ItsTutsi(m): 9:18pm On May 06, 2022
Na only granout and palm oil remain for nyamuri bai.fraud now grin

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Taba21: 9:18pm On May 06, 2022
Ekpeitit:
Don't mind the useless people, they're cursed.

Easy

Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Emergingnation(m): 9:19pm On May 06, 2022
Taba21:


Now you believe uzodima
The fact was already there before his announcement... We have nothing do that supreme court governor..
Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Emergingnation(m): 9:21pm On May 06, 2022
chrisxxx:

So all this heavy duties that rely on combustion engine will be quarantined? Can you see what Nnamdi Kanu did with cerebrum?
Fossil fuel will remain and be highly sought after for some inestimable years to come.
Go and find out about heavy duty electric vehicle... Below is the pics.

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by Taba21: 9:21pm On May 06, 2022
Oplomo:
Oyel wey abokey dey use brush teeth?

How many oyel wells your family get. No be kpofire be una family business while abokey dey carry lionshare. If you resist, Army, police, civil defense, Navy, go descend heavily on you. grin

Igbo people say hungry dey kill them? No be oil spill water una dey drink wey dey scatter una brain for creek? grin

Crude in Rivers belong to Jigawa. Go figure. Slaves. grin


I never see crude oil for my life but I dey feed these useless creek rats for my office. Mugus. grin

Mugu say na 'Tears in Biafraland'. grin



You don eat you when illiterate jobless men plenty for your region,beheading people up and down is here claiming feeding Ama youth.

They swear for you

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Re: Tears In Biafra Land As Attempt To Landgrabbed Niger Delta Oil Failed by 1874ma: 5:30am On May 07, 2022
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Transcriber:
cheesy
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