₦airaland Forum

ORIGIN OF WRONG NOMENCLATURE

The people of the Niger Delta believed and still believe that they have not benefited enough from their God-given resources since Nigeria started generating revenue from crude oil in 1958, because of their minority status. This has been one of the major reasons for their agitations over the years. In response, Sir Henry Willinks Commission, in 1958, recommended that the Niger Delta Region deserved special development attention by the Federal Government, especially because of its difficult terrain.

The Federal Government then established the Niger Delta Development Board (NDDB) in 1960. This could be seen to be the origin of the inappropriate nomenclature for oil producing states, because as at 1960, when the board was established, crude oil had been discovered in present-day Ondo State, outside the Niger Delta Region.

It could be assumed that the government named the committee as such to satisfy the yearnings of the Niger Delta people by making them feel the committee was strictly for them. But the board (NDDB) died a natural death when the country came under military rule in 1966.
With the return of civilian rule in 1979, the agitations for resource control resumed in earnest. This led the government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari to set aside 1.5% of oil earnings for oil producing states, and the body the government established to oversee the execution of the allocation was named Niger Delta Development Committee (NDDC), clearly following the NDDB precedence in its choice of nomenclature.

But the government of military President Ibrahim Babangida not only doubled the allocation to 3 % but also changed the name of the body to the more appropriate Oil Mineral Producing Areas Development Commission (OMPADEC) in 1992, obviously to reflect the fact that not only Niger Delta states produce oil.
On his assumption of office, Gen. Sani Abacha scrapped OMPADEC. He instead established the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), whose development mandate covered the whole country. Nevertheless, his 1994 National Constitutional Conference (NCC) agreed on at least 13% derivation. He did not live to implement it.

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’ government scrapped PTF and established a special body to undertake a rapid development of the oil producing areas. But instead of re-instating the old name of OMPADEC, or any other nomenclature, to reflect the fact that not every oil producing state is a Niger Delta state, the government opted for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). When the Umaru Yar’Adua government wanted to establish a ministry to offer more palliatives to oil producing states, it followed Obasanjo’s precedence and named it ministry of Niger Delta affairs!

The two women are on a bus ride from Apapa to Oshodi in Lagos. From their appearance, they look like petty traders. In excitement, one informs her co-passenger that Anambra State has recently joined Niger Delta states with the discovery of oil in the state. Her deep Igbo accent gives away her ethnicity, and from her excitement, it is easy to suspect that she or her husband is from Anambra.

Her fellow passenger, an acquaintance, going by the cordiality of their conversation, is happy for her, and she highlights some of the benefits accruable to indigenes of an oil producing state: job opportunities in the oil companies operating in the state, company scholarship for students, contract jobs in the companies among others, which she expects her friend and her family to start enjoying soon.

Other passengers in the bus who might have paid attention to their conversation certainly would have understood it to mean that crude oil has been discovered in Anambra, therefore the state has become a Niger Delta state.

If the two women are considered not to be lettered enough to know that an oil producing state does not necessarily mean a Niger Delta state, then one could only marvel at the planners who drew up the law establishing the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and who named the commission as such, as if only Niger Delta states produce oil.

COMMON PERCEPTION

The common perception among Nigerians is that crude oil is found in the Niger Delta Region and that every state in the region is an oil producing state, which is in order. But it is evident, especially from the example of the bus conversation, that this perception has been wrongly taken further to mean that any state where oil is found automatically becomes a Niger Delta state.

The perception is common among commoners as well as the elite, and it is believed to have been generated by the naming of the commission which was established to tackle the developmental needs of oil producing states with oil derivation funds, as the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), and the ministry later established to offer more palliatives to the region named the ministry of Niger Delta affairs. What could have informed the naming of these institutions as such?

eleojo23:
I never knew Anambra was part of Niger delta.
Or is it because river Niger passed through the state?

Somebody should explain please.

Anambra is not part of the Niger delta region same with Ondo, Abia and Imo state.. They are just mere members of NDDC

YourMrBoo:
Obiano Is the man...

SE and ss are one and such should bond properly to overcome the divide and rule antics of the sw.

How does been a member of NDDC just like Ondo state make We Niger delta and you greedy igbos one?

Why can't I share my page's post with another group BY MOBILE! Having to use my main computer for this is such a pain as I'm often on the go and very eager to advertise the business. I have an iPhone by the way... Anyone have any tips?

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kissval1388:
this thread must hit FP as long as it is viviangist. seun girl friend.















we the Igbo people staying in the northern part of the country are solidly behind pdp and wike in this election.
APC your days are numbered.
rivers is PDP and PDP is rivers.
#riversrerun

Come how Rivers election use concern Igbo people?

see photo

yes oh i saw dem life in our polling unit.

lie

TeeFeh:
LOL it was a funny experience for real,I never imagined it to happen and end up this way but it did..

I met this guy on palm chat ni oh,and he was the one that asked for my number. I wasn't even eager to give him but as he refused,I couldn't resist too because his profile picture isn't bad,he's presentable too..

After that day this same guy sent me a message that I gave him a wrong number and that's not true because I don't think so,maybe he doesn't have card to call and he's lying yeah I told him that and he said how could I say such oh,that he stays in falomo in ikoyi,do I know how much he's renting his house, i sha told him "no vex" and told him to retry the number.

We were chatting for hours that day and this guy said he wants to meet me that he owns a car, owns an hoverboard, uses premium phones..errm He even said he's planning to order the S7 edge once its out, that he's using one phantom 5 or something. He also said he has a drone in his house and all those things sha and he talked like the kind of guy I've always dreamt to be with, not because of the car tho he was just on point! I got interested immediately!!

We picked a date for our meeting,I dressed up,bought new clothes and shoes with a new perfume,I just wanted to look good too,you know what I mean na? in fact I took a cab from Mushin to Ikoyi I gave the cab man N5000,I called him that I'm already in Ikoyi around falomo,he said I should wait for him around the bridge side.

When. I saw him I wanted to die because he was not the one i saw in his profile picture oh,he looked like an idiot!!I endured and when we got to his so called house,can u imagine!he was squatting there with his uncle and he's a kabukabu driver!!!

I got so dissappointed in myself that day ehn because I heard Ikoyi, Car and expensive gadgets,when I was leaving self he didn't give me one Naira,I was thinking that what if I get raped or used for money rituals?eh

But why are guys liars??I'm not saying all but majority of em' do that, must you fake?its unfair sha

As girls too we have to be careful and try to work hard to make a life for ourselves. The truth is most of us are dating edited pictures...I learnt that day, Not all that glitters is gold.My friends laughed at me so hard I just deleted the mumu boy from my life not just my phone and moved on and I blocked him on palm chat.

I still cry in my 3500 till today.


People should learn from my mistake and foolish error

chey yaaaaa, The Fake Guy don yash you die you come Nairaland they complain. Lolz

uckennety:
Keep fooling/calling yourself Fool!how many ibos are land lords in your lagos and abuja?how many hotels and plaza?continue selling and we will b buying ode!!!

the ones your igbo brothers bought in Port harcourt (ikwerre land) before the biafran war how fa?

uckennety:
It's Etche not eshe!its ikwerre not ikwere!liars Etche v 4 L.G.A!2 in imo!2 in rivers!i knw ur not even From rivers!Ewu awusa!idiot!ara tell me egbema is not ibo too!lemmee tell u dt d er also in imo state!do u knw d meaning of hypocrite!and your using it!wen it best describes you!u thk ibos don't knw dt d er one!

Will you shut up ur dirty mouth you bloody greedy igbo migrant. The next thing you wil start claiming ikwerre. The next tym u will cal my tribe igbo here again thunder wil destroy ur mouth dere. Dnt let us seize ur properties in port harcourt the second tym. this tym arund we wil nt just seize it bt we shall seize nd kill all of u

It is very common to see IPOB sympathisers trying to Blackmail we south south by saying the word "South-South" only exist in Nigeria as a way of dividing eastern region.

This is a big lie. The word south south as a way of grouping regions has existed in United nations as far back as 1978. It is united Nation recognised terminology.
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In 1978, the United Nations established the Unit for South–South Cooperation to promote South–South trade and collaboration within its agencies.
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Today South South in Nigeria have two states (Edo and Delta) from Old Western Region. I have never seen OPC/Yoruba people crying to high heaven how their land/ people are being taken from them. I am yet to see or hear the yoruba's saying the creation of south south region was a tactics to divide the old western region.

Below are organisations with the word "South south " to counter Nnamdi Kanu led IPOB claim that the word "south south" only exist in Nigeria.

1. United Nations Unit for South–South Cooperation
2. UNEP South–South Cooperation Exchange Mechanism
3. Shikha Jha and Peter McCawley, South-South Economic Linkages: An Overview , ADB Economics Working Paper Series, No 270, August 2011.

Just to name a few.

Niger deltans be enlighten and don't be brainwashed by anyone.

Hi, my brother wants to do pre-degree for medicine and surgery. what time is it starting and what are the qualifications to enable one enroll on this program in Unijos.

Like in my school there is no vacancy for medicine and surgery student in pre-degree program.

while in some few schools i know, one can do pre-degree in medicine and surgery but you must score above 200 in jamb.

pls help

See KEY ACHIEVEMENTS OF ghana's NPP's EIGHT-YEARS IN OFFICE.

WATER PROJECTS;

1. Cape coast water project

2. Koforidua Water Project

3. Tamale Water Project

4. Ada/Sege Water Project

5. Winneba Water Project

6. Kwanyaku Water Project

7. Barekese system expasion

8. Weija system expansion

9. Baafikrom water expansion

ROADS AND HIGHWAYS

1. Accra-Yamorasa
(137km)

2. Accra-Aflao (81.3km)

3. Jasikan-Brewenkes(57km)

4. Manso-Asankagwa(34km)

5. Axim jn- Tarkwa(62.4km)

6. Abuakwa - Bibiani(74km)

7. Tinga-Bole (253km)

8. Pantang- Mamfe(29.4km)

9. Kpando-Worawora/Dambai- (50km)

10. Wenchi-Sampa(30km)

11. Tamale- Yendi

12. Malam interchange

13. Tetteh Quashie interchange

EDUCATION SECTOR

1. 56 model sch started nd completed 31

2. 130 classrooms for politechnics

3. 31 lecturre Theatre built at various university campuses apart other facilities

4. Medical school at ucc

5. 76 vehicles suplied to colleges of education

6. Making UMAT full flesh university

7. Telecom University

8. Introduction of
distance education

9. Upgrading Teacher and Nursing Training to Diploma awarding institutions

10. Seting up Twifo Praso Nursing School

11. 224 vehicles supplied to various second cycles institutions

12. Dunkwa on Offin Health & Nursing Training School

ENERGY SECTOR

1. Discovery of oil in Commercial Quantities

2. Kpone Thermal power plant-220MW

3. Siemens power plant- 49.5MW

4. VRA Tema Power Plant -126MW

5. Mining Reserve power plant -50MW

6. Tema Osorno Power Plant -100MW

7. The emergency Power Plant-126MW

8. Bui Hydro Power Plant -400MW

HEALTH SECTOR

1. Efutu Policlinic

2. Karaga Policlinic

3. Kpandai Policlinic

4. Tatale Policlinic

5. Buipe Policlinic

6. Janga Policlinic

7. Chereponi Policlinic

8. Secured €54million Dutch grant for upgradement of TRH(Tamale Regional Hospital) to TTH(Tamale Teaching Hospital)

SPORTS

1. Tamale stadium

2. Takoradi Stadium

3. Kumasi stadia refurbishment

4. Accra stadia refurbishment

5. construction of theodora Okoh hockey pitch

SOCIAL INTERVENTION

1. NHIS

2. Mass Cocoa Spraying

3. School Feeding

4. Capitation grant

5. Metro Mass Transit

6. MASLOC

7. Free busing for school kids

8. Provision of school uniforms/bags/exercise books

9. NYEP now Gyeeda

10. Highly subsidized fertilizers for farmers

11. Free Maternity health care

12. Mechanized Agriculture through provision of Tractors, combined harvestors, etc.

13. LEAP(Livelyhood Empowerment Against Poverty)

14. HIPC Benefits

We did all these within 8yrs with a little over $5billion loan acquired and GHC20 billion Tax Revenues as compared to $27billion loan acquired and the GHC200 billion taxes collected by the NDC within 6yrs of their Administration.

Vote for the NPP & NANA AKUFO ADDO

Vote for Positive change.

Nairalanders how do you see this compare to our nigerian politics

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DropShot:
Militants, please continue. May you never accept to stop. Amen.

Sure outcomes of your criminal acts:

1. Pollution and destruction of your already ravaged region.

2. Termination of amnesty program. It will be of no further use if it will not stop vandalization of oil facilities.

3. Major oil companies and other investors will relocate from your region and move to more peaceful region.

4. Reduction in revenue which surely affects all states of the federation but affects the oil producing states more than non-oil producing ones.

5. The military killing a lot of you guys including many innocent persons as collateral costs. In fact, many of your villages may be levelled in the process.

Pikin wey say him mama no go sleep, himself no go rest.

You forgot to add number six..

6. At the end Niger delta republic will come.

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Holly sh*t

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This is why as a Rivers man i will never be part of biafra and would advice all true Niger deltans to embrace Niger delta republic quest and preach the gospel were ever you go... Dont be deceived by the igbos on biafra. They should go on form biafra with south east states, we are capable as south south to be a republic of our own, we will gain nothing to abandon Niger delta republic for biafra, that is pure foolishness if we do so, we rejected it and can never go back to accept ofcos our dead father will weep in their grave if we do so, are we niger deltans dogs? No we are not dogs we cant vomit and go back to eat our vomit, God 4bid... pls read below copy and share:

Ojukwu's Atrocities on Old Rivers State
Rivers communities seemed to be worse off. Apart from the
killings, torture and other forms of human rights abuse, they
were deliberately evicted from their homes towns and
replace with Igbo indigenes. As a consequence, many
Rivers people from Ikwerre, Ogoni, Okirika, Eleme and
Kalabari communities were evicted to “concentration
camps” in Igbo towns like Umuahia, Owerri, Abiriba, and
Ozuitem. That was how able bodied men, women and
children were systematically starved to death and buried in
farmlands. Ongoing massacre was only confirmed by siting
of dead bodies in New Calabar and Sombriero Rivers of
Rivers State.
An Irish priest who served in Rivers State reported how
Rivers people were maltreated because of perceive
sabotage by the Biafran Igbo soldiers. At Bolo and Ogu in
Okirika, and Onne in Eleme, the villagers suffered the same
fate. After the battle at Onne, Biafran troops removed the
town inhabitants suspected to have collaborated with
federal troops and sent them to the Rainbow Town
headquarters of the Biafran 52 Brigade in Port Harcourt.
Graham-Douglas, who was also thrown into detention,
claimed to have seen about three hundred men detained in
the Rainbow Town for no just cause. He asserted that no
fewer than sixty thousand Rivers people were sent to
different concentration camps in Igbo land.
Graham Douglas narrated the ordeal Rivers people suffered
in the hands of the Igbos in a pamphlet titled “Ojukwu’s
Rebellion and World Opinion”. He claimed that the
minorities tribes had suffered more hardships and
molestations than the Igbo could claim to have suffered at
the hands of Northern Nigerians. Biafra hired Markpress as
it image laundering and propaganda press. They countered
most of the sordid account of massacres committed by
Igbo Biafran in Niger Delta lands, like those narrated by
Graham Douglas. The world was therefore blinded to the
massacres committed in Rivers State.
Some prominent Ikwerre leaders like Elechi Amadi and Obi
Wali were marked for death. History had it that Obi Wali
was hidden by his kinsmen in a human waste dump forest
at Rumueme. Elechi Amadi was made fugitive in his
homeland. Ojukwu ethnic cleansing was coded as
"COMBING". No Niger Delta ethnic group or community was
spared of Ojukwu's combing. History recorded that Biafra
act of combing led to the Massacred of defenseless
civilians at: Ogoni (Bori), Eleme; Okrika (Ogu); Kalabari
(Bakana, Buguma and Billie); Ikwerre (Rumuola, Rumueme
and Isiokpo) and other Niger Delta communities of the
present day Rivers State too numerous to mention.
The plight of the minorities had been so alarming that
several Nigerian students of Rivers State origin in London
staged a peaceful protest against the killing and
displacement of their people. In addition to a peaceful
march from Trafalgar Square to the House of Commons in
London, they also sent out petitions to the United Nations,
the Organization of African Unity (OAU), His Holiness Pope
Paul VI, Emperor Haile Selaisie, the British Prime Minister
and other relevant groups, raising alarm of massacre of
their kinsmen in their homelands, asking them to bring
pressure on the warring parties to stop the senseless killing
of innocent and defenceless people of Rivers State for a
war the seek no part of. The petition was said to be a
landmark document that established to the world that not
all Eastern Nigeria region was part of the ideology called
“Biafra”, and dashed the claims of Ojukwu that he was
supported by all ethnic group of the region. Following the
petition, the international community mounted pressure on
Ojukwu to forfeit his struggle and negotiate for peace,
which led to an asylum window for Ojukwu’s capitulation a
few months after.

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Jengbetiele:
I just have a feeling this may be useful here for some categories of students. Let me quickly share my story with you....the best sermon is one's personal experience. I left secondary school in 2004. By 2005, I got admitted to a state university in Ekiti State. After two years of studies in Ekiti state, I discovered the program I was enrolled into was not accredited. To make the story worse, nearly all lecturers in the faculty of science avidly disliked everything about the program. It was called SLT then.

Consequently, they mark down our papers. Not only that, they called us all sorts of names like NFA, unfortunate students and the likes anyone who attended the university and did that course can attest to what I am saying. My dad happened to be a staff of the University, so I told him about the poor grades, everything I heard about the program and the intensity of the lecturer's hatred for the program all to no avail. All he said was whenever students don’t want to read, they come up with different flimsy excuses so I kept mute.

After five years of my life in that school, my dad was made one of the board members of the faculty so he saw the whole results since the inception of the program. He saw so may spill over students from year 2000, and the fact that the program has not been accredited. I was in 500 level (final year) then with a lot of carry over courses.....carry over is not a big deal in that program....people had 15. It was so worse that from 300level, you can be so sure you are already a spill over student. My father saw how bad it was and he immediately invited me to his office for a meeting. He blamed himself for not listening to me when I complained 3 years earlier and he said he would want me to transfer immediately. That was how I took my transcript using his influence. I was the first person ever and possibly the last person to get a transcript from the program. I returned to 200level in another school entirely when I ought to graduate with maybe a third class or a pass.

I wasted 5years of my life in Ekiti state University and as a result, i was so sad and depressed. Merely sitting with my younger brother's age mate turned my stomach in anger. Infact when I got to the new school, my own younger brother who I happened to be ahead of by 3years became my senior. The retrogression started affecting my grades such that attending classes became a burden. Along the line, I sat myself down and reasoned deeply about how my life has been. For crying out loud, I used to be one of the best students in secondary school. I was only unfortunate to have attended the wrong program in Ekiti. Though I wasn't given any certificate despite the number of years spent but what about the life lessons I learnt?

From that day onward, I made a concrete decision to change my attitude towards my new classmates and I began to humble myself to a fault. Above all, I began to see my new school as the golden opportunity to start afresh again. My declining grades all of a sudden began to soar so high such that I had 5.0/5.0 in one of the semesters with a bit of dedication and I ended finishing top 5 out of the class

Today, I am currently in Canada on a graduate program fully funded by a Canadian university. Up till now, I am yet to spend a dime of myself in Canada because the scholarship covered everything. Guess what? I even got two scholarships from two different universities and just last week, I got another funding again. Yes just last week! What if I had committed suicide then? Would I have seen the goodness almighty God has packaged in my future today? What I am saying in essence is you can fall as much as possible but whenever you fall and refuse to rise again is when you failed. The righteous shall fall seven times.....but they shall rise again.

Conclusively, whatever the case maybe, dust up yourself and try again. Do not give up so easily because winners never quit and quitters never win. I am sure very soon you gonna look back and smile. Every successful man or woman at some point had a share of that gloomy period when you feel you are all alone and the world is about coming down on you. But I am happy to announce to you that alot of people have tread this same path and today they have become success and point of reference in the society. My brothers and sisters, it is never how far, but how well and tough time never lasts tough people do!!!!!!

Bro yu 2 much. Snd me ur contact including contry code tnks

Niger delta republic i stand.

Niger delta republic u stand.