Nigeria is Africa's largest crude oil exporter and while the majority of the country's 150 million [/b]residents live below the poverty line

there are [b]hundreds who have a large share in billions of dollars from the continent's biggest oil industry.

Kilode?!:

It's called Owambe on a bling bling level

Jenifa_:

^lol

na today?



at least they're using nigerian stones. although it is all refined/cut abroad. and then resold at exuberant prices back to us.
just like our oil.

ode remo:

No one shld bling bling an eyelid when boys come to rob them oh ,
Ita orerin rara oh. Boys dey vex oh.
Last wk boys robbed bks at shagamu,14 innocent ppl died oh.
4get this bling bling, i beg of una oh.

Nigeria is Africa's largest crude oil exporter and while the majority of the country's 150 million residents live below the poverty line, there are hundreds who have a large share in billions of dollars from the continent's biggest oil industry.

Kobojunkie:

Quit that . . . like you can get Nigerian refined and cut stones for cheaper. Ordinary food grown, and sold directly to you there in Nigeria, you no fit buy cheap. ***hisss********

Beaf:

This is by far the saddest bit of the article. How can a nation so blessed see its riches cornered by a few greedy and corrupt bastar'ds?

Stuff like that makes me lean toward outright removal of the oil subsidy. Firstly, lets understand that "oil subsidy" means many things, but boils down to paying people to import fuel that is refined abroad, while destroying the refineries at home.

It is noteworthy, that in their times, IBB and Abacha built personal refineries in Ivory Coast, Benin Republic and Sierra Leone, so that they could benefit from the "oil subsidy."

jensinmi:

Oh really?,  This is the link to an article on another Chris Aire bash from last year.

http://www.bellanaija.com/2010/04/09/nigerian-jewels-bling-in-hollywood-as-chris-aire-launches-the-hollywood-glamour-collection/

Look and see if you recognize some of our corrupt and greedy "bastar'ds" you are talking about.




Who is deceiving who? I hope your Aunty showed up for last night's own.   

In the commercial-hub Lagos, yachts float on dirty waterways and super cars line driveways of grand houses which sit beside shanty towns. A lack of proper irrigation and pot-holed roads mean the vehicles are impractical status symbols.

Beaf:

This is by far the saddest bit of the article. How can a nation so blessed see its riches cornered by a few greedy and corrupt bastar'ds?

Stuff like that makes me lean toward outright removal of the oil subsidy. Firstly, lets understand that "oil subsidy" means many things, but boils down to paying people to import fuel that is refined abroad, while destroying the refineries at home.

It is noteworthy, that in their times, IBB and Abacha built personal refineries in Ivory Coast, Benin Republic and Sierra Leone, so that they could benefit from the "oil subsidy."

Prime Minister Julia Gillard found herself greeting the much [size=18pt]bejewelled[/size] and marvellously named Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria, and his friends.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/vibe-was-right-for-pm-to-hope-for-goodluck-charm-20111027-1mm3a.html#ixzz1fISLAC6z

Kilode?!:


"I think the world is like that, everyone is placed somewhere for a reason, it is just society which says rich is good and poor is bad," Aire told Reuters on the red carpet, sporting a diamond studded watch.

He said it was regrettable that profits from some diamonds in West Africa, known as 'blood diamonds', are used to fund wars but he said all his stock is "conflict-free."

dayokanu:

Isnt the President Odechukwu Retardeen desribed by Australian Magazines as Blinged up?

Kilode?!:

It's called Owambe on a bling bling level