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The name Saro wiwa alone speaks volume to any Nigerian that has a brain and know his or her rights.

Saro Wiwa day of death was the exact day Nigeria was cursed because his death was purely not justified.

Saro wiwa fought for what he believed in which is equality among Nigerian. He wanted good lifes for Ogoni Indigenes and even to the point of his death, he still stood for what he believed in.

Till that very last breathe, he believed in his idealogy and fought for it.

Those are the sort of people I want to form a country with, A people that love justice and ready to fight for it.

God bless the Ogoni people. Whether they secede or not, They have experienced too much injustice in the hands of Shell.

manchy7531: Ogonis are in fools paradise. What happened in 1967? The ghost of 1967 will haunt u people forever. U had ur chance n u refused to take it because of ur self hatred. Those that u loved in 1967 will subjugate u for a thousand years

If ogoni will ever be free BIAFRA will be free first, if they value freedom why did they fight against BIAFRA? Who are they running away from?

Shut up, Ogoni people and their leaders would forever be respected even if Nigeria split today and they go their own way, Ogoni would be celebrated by everyone that has brain because of the power Saro Wiwa had

Now, they You call Ogoni people names because they decided not to join Biafra ? You must be sick

Like Ojukwu was going to allow Ogoni oil rich region to secede from Biafra.

Godsave9ja: I pity you people who condemn GEJ, am 100% sure that you people fuel Boko Haram. Anybody who is against GEJ is BOKO HARAM
the bane of these problem is that GEJ is not from South WEST Or North

Dumb dumb dumb dumb

What does GEJ performance got to do with the north or south-west ?

Stu.pid mumu, the south-west fought for his presidency ? It is a known fact

GEJ would not be the president of Nigeria if he did not win votes in the North. Fact !

Truly we have mo.rons in this country

A lot of mo.rons in Nigeria, chai !!!! A country of retar.ds

Imagine people give GEJ the credit for facebook, 35 % women in government, expose oil cabals and all other mo.ronic statements.

How I wish, some Nigerians can upgrade their brains just as a PC does.

farolee: i will rather go for human resource capital rather than natural resources.Japan has bearly no natural resources yet they are among the world largest economy.Oil is like a curse to nigeria ,we should develop our human resources.

Thank you and my God bless you.

CHESSBOARD: Ewu It was Awo and Yorubas that deceived the SS from joining Biafra because of oil. They took all our oil money to develop Lagos I was I was old enough then , my ppl would have been biafra now.

our oil our oil

Your Oil or SS oil ?

How did he convince the SS ? Any documented facts ?

You invaded mid-west, yet Awolowo did not convince the mid-west so how is he to convince the eastern region ?

My brother don't be another Parasite in the SS appendix and form your own country.

greateros: All the geopolitical zones in Nigeria seems to be willing to implement resources control. My question is - what is holding Nigeria back from implementing this highly talked about resource control??

My brother, SE governors have not spoken on resource control.

They remain the only region left

noiseless: Congratulations Yorubas, now i don't see any reason the resource control campaigne or true federalism should be sabotaged by the Yorubas any more. Whether it is heavy oil or light oil, you are still better off than nothing but only if the bright mind in your land can see it. ONCE AGAIN TRUE FEDERALISM IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD.

you must have selective reading.

Have the "Yorubas" not been calling for resource control since Awolowo time ?

Abeg go read your history

collinsfbi: na by force? a dream that can never comes true, quote me.


Gbammm over and out

Why can't it come true ?

Words like this does not unite Nigeria, In fact times I don't blame the Igbos for disliking Nigeria at times.

If a strong Igbo leader like Gov of Imo comes out, he surly has my vote.

The future of Nigeria lies with us not some pot belly man. Fact

If we use sentiment to vote, it really should go to the SE but please please I would want to urge my Igbo brothers and Sisters to look around them wherever they are in the country and see the state in which Nigeria is.

I want you all to know that the power to make Nigeria better for all of us lies in your hands as well. These people don't care about the typical Igbo man on the street apart from their immediate family and themselves.

2015 is upto the Igbos People NOT THE POT BELLY LEADERS to decide what they want.

She is absolutely right. Ride one Dame,

@ Edicolove and other PDP goons please and Please comprehend my post before commenting, if you do not understand ask questions

1. I am not a GEJ hater so stop this illusion of making me an anti-GEJ man. I have praised him a couple of times on this forum.

2. Yes I am an anti-corrupt government Man. I have condemned almost all government offical and I never (I watch what I type) Never !!! condemn GEJ alone or try to belittle his government so stop this annoying pathetic mentality.

3. Every single government in the history of Nigeria an indeed the world has been constructively criticised one way or the other. Stop crying over GEJ each time some criticise him. Either you also constructively criticise the critic or move on. All this silly words like "hater" this etc make you all either look silly or paid.

4. It is only in Nigeria some people would never see anything wrong with her government even though the country is as bad a third world country. More like they prefer it the way it is.

Funkymallam: How do u knw his identity in an anonymous forum?

Ur quesr of always instigating tribal wars on nairaland btw igbos n yorubas knows no bound.

funkymallam don't make me angry

so you did not see the comment the person quoted as tribalistic rather than it is mine ? Abeg leave me

Abokina bibiyi be fair

edicolove: anishe: This GEJ govt. is the worst thing that has happened to Nigeria! does he has a thinking head at all?

Why are you so hateful! Did you not read that the statement is from the Ogun state government? Is he not one of your western governors? Is GEJ now the governor of Ogun state? Why can't you direct your questions to Ogun state since they are the ones celebrating the move instead of coming here to display your hate. You know too much bad belle can lead to disease? Nonsense coconut head!

Gerrout jor, see this man

Where have I said GEJ government is the worst ? You must be blind or misread things

GEJ is certainly not the worst and certainly not the best so shut up

Maybe you need to digest my post before commenting

blink182: What a daft thought pattern you have.

Thank you !!! Naijaking would defend anything PDP or I..o

[size=18pt]Kilo de !!!! Na only you wey get this world, 186 Million on watches. Chai !!!! We have wicked people in Nigeria [/size]

Beaf: I find it hilarious that I was given a ban for posting pics of the discrimination against the Ilaje's.

Can the mods hide places like Bariga? Lol!
It is as ridiculous as banning someone for posting pictorial proofs of apartheid in South Africa:

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dude you we banned because of your bigotry. Simple facts !!!

FP please

https://www.nairaland.com/932489/fg-secretly-indulges-discretionary-oil

Eko Ile: Ok make una no vex o.

Nice village development sha.


lmao

Nice eko ile,

naijaking1: Discretly handing out our oil fields is one of the most outrageous crimes against the Nigerian people.

I wonder who handed out the oil field. hmmmmmm

By Clara Nwachukwu
The Federal Government has again, secretly indulged in the discretionary award of oil blocks in Nigeria, a development that contravenes global practice of open bidding and a negation of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, EITI, of which Nigeria is signatory.

Without following due process, government recently awarded the Otakikpo field in Oil Mining Lease, OML 11, and the Ubima Creek field in OML 17 to Green Energy, and All Grace Energy; respectively.

The circumstances and reasons for these discretionary awards, which were approved by President Goodluck Jonathan, are not too clear; a development industry watchers criticised as being unfair to other indigenous companies.

The two companies are relatively unknown, as there is no information regarding their capacities and or abilities to handle the fields.

Also, nothing is known of how much government realised from these discretionary awards, as in the 2006 bid round, government earned about $292 million in signature bonuses from the auction of 18 oil blocks, and $266 million in the 2007 rounds.

Discretionary awards was the norm in the days of the military regime, where all and sundry with any kind of political connection, including service chiefs, relations, friends and allies of the ruling class, and even hairdressers got oil blocks, which they simply traded offshore for huge profits since they had no competence whatsoever to operate an oil block.

The incidence of oil block award for political patronage was reduced upon the return of democracy, with the holding of three oil licensing rounds during former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime in 2005, 2006, and 2007, which were executed under equally controversial competitive bid processes.

Constitutional powers

However, defending the legality of the awards, the Director, Department of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Osten Olorunsola, told journalists in Houston Texas, USA, on the sidelines of the just-concluded Offshore Technology Conference, OTC, that there was nothing illegal about the awards.

He said, “Those were discretionary awards by Mr President, and he has the constitutional powers to do that. If you look at the reasons for every discretionary award has been made, there were strong reasons.”

Petroleum Act

Part of the Petroleum Act “Marginal field means such field as the President may, from time to time, identify as a marginal field.”

But he could not cite any of the good reasons except to recall that discretionary awards had been done in the past for specific reasons.

“If you look at Oldwok and Ebok, why were they discretionarily awarded? Because the companies that owned those blocks when Nigeria did boundary readjustment with Equatorial Guinea, those blocks went to Equatorial Guinea. So, it made sense for the President of the day to say, No, it is not fair and had to do something about it and that is what happened. Same thing happened with Agip in the Oyo block,” the DPR boss offered.

New bid round

Nigeria has for a while been planning to hold another bid round after the 2007 licensing rounds for marginal field production, which offers indigenous operators the opportunities to acquire licences for oil production.

But Olorunsola had spoken of “ensuring fairness” and promised that “Going forward, things would be properly planned, which is what we are going to do right now, everything will be openly tendered, openly bided, and openly awarded.”

He also hinted that government might not enforce the use-it-or-lose-it practice, which stipulates timeline within which a license holder can hang onto the block or lose it after a period of time, saying, this “is a global benchmark that we are adopting, but there are no really hostile timelines for the blocks.”

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/05/fg-secretly-indulges-in-discretionary-oil-block-awards/

Onlytruth: It is not forklift you cave man! It is called mobile CRANE, and it is used in ports to offload containers.
Na wa for this type of illiteracy and "bushmanism".

no kill me o !!!!!!!!!!!!

i don die !!!!!! [size=4pt]even me make same mistake [/size]

Beaf: If Ogun state people can build 5 refineries, how is that any of your business?

Anambra has already shown the way with Orient refinery, the same with Rivers (even though the one there is micro), therefore Ogun MUST be encouraged.
Its like 1 + 1.

What do you mean "What is my business ?" Is Ogun no longer a Nigerian state ?

You still have no answered my question. What is the justification of 5 refinery in one state

Are looking at viability or just build for building sake ?

edoyad: Nice, I love to see this kind of progress. Now Lets see how the port managers will build patronage

You can say that again. Things like this makes my heart glad. Next is an international airport to serve Anambra

Beaf you have not answered the question

was the 5 refinery proposed for federalism or proposed because Nigerians

If it is the latter, what is the justification of 5 refinery in one state or one zone of the country ?

^^^^^^

Beaf you are not a serious person

First of all, what is the justification of 5 refinery in one state I ask ?

Eko Ile: lol @ forklift and warehouse.

I guess it's big enough to offload yam and cassava to store inside warehouse.

SMH....

Forklift is used for lifting the cargos

Warehouse is used for temporary storage.

Haba Eko ile, e baje gan sir

shymmex: It's annoying when people have a discourse about the history of Lagos, and exclude the Ijebu merchants, and the Egbas - and focus on the Aworis in Eko only... The Ijebus and the Egbas made Lagos of old what it was.. We brought life to Eko; we were the ones who made Lagos Island; we own the biggest festival in Lagos(Eyo); returnee slaves(mostly of Egba and Ijebu stock) brought fanti carnival to Lagos; and the Lagos elites (millionaires and billionaires) of the past were of the Egba and Ijebu stock. The Shitta Beys, Da Rochas, Bode Thomas etc. are not Aworis... Even right now, the most important parts of Lagos are not Awori land...

Talking about Lagos, and not including us - is like a slap to our face... We made Lagos what it was, and what it is today.. We're tired of people calling Lagos, Awori Land - Lagos belongs to the Ijebus, Egbas, Aworis, Eguns, and partially Tapas (Tapas are neglible though)... If the Aworis want to claim Lagos to themselves, good luck to them - they should let us join our kins, to create Ijebu state. And the Egbas can join the present day Ogun state....

That's just my two cents..

Dude we Aworis-Egun make up a vast majority in Lagos. Moreover does it matter which one is Ijebu or egba ? No Awori-Ogu man would tell you he is Awori, his first answer would be I am Yoruba, stop this Ijebu this Egba that.

Let the deluded people contiune with their stu.pidity. We are one Lagosian and One Nigeria.

Nice, I pray God spare our lifes to see it.

samnix1: Some people are just so unbelieveable ... the oil wey dey Niger delta wetin una do wif am, she na yoruba or na hausa approve the building or the refineries, no b una mumu kinsman approve am ? ...rubbish

The iddeeiot is not ND but Igbo

Later if Westerners protest, these iddeiots would call us names

What is the sense in building 5 refineries in one state ?

Already couple with the already existing ones it would be 9 refinery in Nigeria

Lets think here, A country like Nigeria having more than 5 refinery is a total waste

1. Build 1 refinery in Ogun/Ondo axis

2. Build 3 refinery in the Niger-delta

3. Build 1 in Anambra given the oil discovery in the state

4. repair the kaduna refinery

That is all we need in the oil sector couple with some transparency.

Trust me, Nigerians don't need to suffer.

Aigbofa: You a whole Lagosian from the ruling family? Don't worry, next week when you become the crown prince of the Benin Kingdom, you will feel better.

My brother, don't be like that. Aigbofa this does not occur in Lagos. It is only on NL people argue and counter argue.

I think the argument should be dropped.