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tomitrace:
War destroys cities:
Every Nigeria City or aspiring city should learn something from the Collapse of Warri as Oil City👇👇👇

Warri was a big industrial hub in the 70's - 90's.

Warri Refinery, NNPC, DSC, Delta Glass, Shell, Chevron, Schlumberger, Dunlop, Agip, Saipem, Halliburton were in full operation back then. Escravos & Forcados were at their peak.

The city thrived. The city was full of zeal and zestful activities. People living outside hardcore Warri called themselves Wafarians because of propinquity to Warri even though they were not Wafarians. To be a Wafarian was to belong to supposedly a unique lifestyle.

Multinational/Local Banks were present Citibank, FBN, ACB, Savannah Bank.

Business activities thrived. Warri port was a beehive of economic activities

Entertainment/Night life was at its peak, Musicians, Live bands at Palmgroove Hotel, Comedians held their sway: Fela, legendary Don Baker, Majek Fashek, Emma Grey, Oritz Wiliki, Rex Lawson were a few of many of the entertainers that made Warri ebullient. Lido, Zina, etc were comparable to their ilks anywhere.

The town was full of life and it thrived.

McDermot road was busy with Maritime activities and contractors. Kingsway Mall offered anything sold in Lagos at that time.

Joma & Mosheshe were big fish distributors across the Niger Delta.

Rubber produced locally, was used to produce plastics and tyres.

The town grew in size and became a conurbation with people coming from all over the country to settle down in Warri for economic activities.

The Airports were super busy, Escravos, Forcados & Warri Airport. The Warri Airport was even relocated to Osubi for expansion.

Warri was revelling in its glory. Warri Port was fully operational and served as an economic booster for the city. It served businesses in Warri, Benin, Asaba & Onitsha. The Port created huge employment opportunities for locals and the state.

Things started to go downhill from the late 90's. The community leaders and youth chairmen began to fight themselves over control/sharing formula for royalties that came from oil & businesses from settlers.

Itsekiri, Urhobo & Ijaw leaders & youths started fighting each other. The bloody fight started around 1999 and lasted for years till 2003/2004.

The community leaders started imposing local taxes called "Deve" on all companies, industries and local businesses, buildings & projects.

Little by little, the companies frustrated, started leaving.

This continued throughout the early 2000's till 2010. The companies kept on leaving, one after the other. The companies layed off their employees. Unemployment rose.

More companies left for PH, Lagos, Akwa Ibom. They layed off more staff. Unemployment increased still.

Today all that is left in Warri, is a shadow of its glorious past.

95% of all the big companies in Warri had either left or closed down.

Most of the young people have left Warri.

The ones left are driving Keke, doing P.O.S, Spa or Boutique, Beer parlour or doing hookup.

There's peace now, but the damage the greedy community leaders did to Warri, still lingers on and is almost irredeemable at this point.

Do not assume that your city can not be destroyed if it toes the same route Warri followed. Warri leaders did not ever believe that Warri will be this economically empty today while they were fighting then. Learn from Warri and protect our economies

Have you asked why big eeconomies like US, China,etc will never allow war in their countries?

We must learn and avoid things that will trigger war in our country no matter how strong we believe we are. Businesses and investors go where there is peace than where there is war.

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Lovely writeup! The intertribal war really caused a lot of damage then.

xpressionx:
Am sure of endorsement deals waiting for her at the end of the tunnel.

I spoke with my friend who is a sales executive in one of Nigeria's biggest consumer brands and he told me that they are considering a package for her.

BTW

I have been on nairaland since 2012,lost my first account, opened this in 2016,I have not been someone who is ethnically biased.
But this election thought me otherwise.

Just see what those who accuse other tribes of tribalism and hate are doing to Former record holder that Hilda Baci is trying to break.

They went to insult her on her page.

This is so not right.So because internet gives them access to her page, they just go there and write nonsense.

Sikechukwu81:
With this support and cheering of Nigerians to Hilda, pls i ask again how e take clear to u guys that Tinubu actually won the 2023 presidential general elections?? And no joy at any level at al...

You are very wise!

Bringbackmandat:
The fool is running away from the election tribunal, then he will use imunity to avoid attending the tribunal after swearing in.

You are very correct!

ukaface:
Lmao
I remember seeing this woman picture on one of the social media and peeps were like ‘ I’m proud to be Yoruba’
Wahala…. So she wore the gele to confuse us.
Issokay
Now the igbos have hijack her and the Yorubas have gone silent while claiming ‘ she is Nigerian’

All of Una dey Wetin? All of Una dey ment

There was another Nigerian dressed in Yoruba attire but she Itshekiri. She is different from this one.

Zikojukwu:
Funnily enough he was reading. I was in court and someone is spewing trash. Why not provide a closer picture.

Dont mind, them, they only wish he will sleep off like their Babablu. They couldn't even get the camera close.

timisquare82:
What decision can 21yrs old boy can make without the consent of his parents? Some of his mates are still writing jamb, as a leader in your country you are not even ashamed of luring a 21yrs old boy to UK for kidney donor without the consent of his parents. As for those supporting the senator, i pray and I affirm that your child will be lured and his or her kidney will be harvested at 21yrs old by someone richer
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You are very correct 👍

Christistruth02:
Who released the guys name because the UK is still protecting his identity

Imagine the boy's identify is being displayed here in Nigeria whilst the UK has been protecting him. Nigerians don't care about his safety and privacy because he is a nobody. So many Nigerians like supporting evil. I wonder how many young chaps' organs these politicians have succeeded in harvesting in the past

izibili44:
This is the law of karma. uote author=shortgun post=122947356]This is not justice but witch hunting.

How can you sentence a man that wrote to your embassy about his intention to take someone to UK for the purpose of organ donation.
The donor is not a minor.
What nonsense law do they practice in the uk

They lied that the boy was a relative and they were able to get the boy visa with their connections in Nigeria using false information.
Even though the donor isn't a minor, He is just 21 and they obviously were exploiting him.

That's a sane country. No one is above the law be you rich or poor. Justice has prevailed!

youngreezy:
Lol,e reach wen buhari wan comot,all of a sudden em promise of rescuing Chibok girls don dey come to past...if you know you know

You are very correct! Very fraudulent government.

Sucre6:
You claim she is your girlfriend yet u weren't sensitive enough, if truly she's your girlfriend u should have noticed that from the way she spoke that something was definitely up, so u calm her down and get to know what the issue was, any small thing u don vex, u could have averted her death u know, yes I want u to really blame your self, u bleeped up.

Not even talking about my girlfriend, a friend of mine called me one day and was sounding funny, the dude told me that he's done, he's leaving this night, I didn't quite understand what he meant at first but I decided to equire more, he was withholding information, I had to call people around to go check on him, they rushed and saw the guy, laying lifeless on the tiles inside his room, he took snipper already, they force two bottle of red oil down his throat and rushed him to the hospital, thank God he was saved,

Turns out dude was owing plenty lapo and online loans, we gathered money and cleared the bill even before he is discharged from the hospital, dude is happily married now and doing very well financially, thats what friends should be all about, you should be sensitive and observant, it very important

You really saved his life ! God bless you for being so sensitive to send people to check on him immediately.

abobote:
Very simple and pricised

I tell you, straight to the point. A man of great Wisdom.

Happy Workers Day my President!

bionixs:
COVENANT HIGHWAYS !

Daughter of the Prophet

Yes o!

Lol, No be the APC when we know.

Nice one! The glory of God is really radiating in the life of Don Moen. He has not aged at all. It pays to serve God.

WhereMyLoud:
I dey laff you. Guy as person done come out to do am for Obi watch as people go dey come out to do thesame for Tinubu. Obi lead - they follow.

Very true .... Obi lead- they follow

Dannyrayz:
That year i gathered canter full sack thinking i can spell something and win but to no avail

Lol @ Counter , that what we called the drink lids in those days .
Very useful for counting in arithmetics.

sameoldguy:
Did you ever win this ‘Daewoo Racer’ abi na Daewoo Espero, or you know anyone who won it? cos in my house then we had tons of A-E-W-O-O, but no “D”. Lol.

We drank 7up overdose and were picking up 7up cover everywhere we go. Lol

Good old days! We got a lot of free drinks then.

7david7:
Good morning my people, I am writing you people at this delicate hour of 12:39am because my son's condition, it's getting worse by the day.

Dandruff wants to kill this beautiful boy, I know it's weird because we all know, myself included that dandruff doesn't kill, but watching myself lose a part of my son everyday.

He's been suffering from this condition for over 6yrs now, we've gone to the hospital and after buying and using all the prescribed drugs (Nizoral shampoo, selsun blue, head and shoulders, tea tree oil, miconazole cream, ketoconazole cream, terbinafine cream, fluconazole tablet, terbinafine tablet: almost killed my son, griseofulvin etc) nothing has changed, instead it's getting worse by day.

From complaining of headaches, to weakness (my son that was filled with energy and plays all the time now barely moves, he is always one place complaining of tiredness and pain), to joint pains, to confusion.

According to him, this dandruff has ate up his scalp so much that he can now taste his bathing soap on his tongue the moment he washes his head. We are now scared of washing and applying anything on his head because he will complain of tasting whatever we put on his head in his mouth and he will start having reactions. It's almost as if the skin on his scalp no longer protects him from outside soaps and other ingredients.

The moment he washes his head, his lips and tongue will swell up and he will start having reactions. My once active and lovely boy is now a shadow of himself. He's refusing to play, always complaining of tiredness and pains.

Pls help me my people, I don't know what to do anymore. I've tried every hospital and everything, I've done all I know, and now I'm watching my son deteriorate gradually before my very eyes without having a clue what to do, pls I beg you, help him, help me.

Since you have tried the hospital and no positive change, obviously this is a spiritual case. Dandruff doesn't get this bad.
Please take him to Winners Chapel to see a pastor , with regular use of anointing oil and taking communion whatever it is will let go of him

MonkeyMods:
If you believed your wife went to a man's house and nothing happened...

You would believe Tinubu would fix Nigeria

This one got me in stitches
I wonder how a sane person can believe in Tinubu fixing Nigeria

Odin13:
E pain them.. Walahi

Premium tears ..


Why looking for dead among the living ?

Tinubu and Apc must learn to mind their business

Serious painment o, I so love the UK government response.

louken:
Clowns.
Why do they feel so threatened by this simple man, Peter Obi. The dark powers in this country have been having sleepless nights over this man.
Why??

Obviously, Obi is their nightmare
They are just making a fool of themselves and deceiving themselves. He takes people that have to hire fake bishops seriously?

LeoDeKing:
Really?

Who drove the boxer from your yansh?

Hmmm...who snapped the picture and went on to share it ?

God continually bless you father for always speaking up

Iykopee:
Can you all see why he was attacking Obidients? He was protecting an interest doesn't matter how criminally minded it is.

Exactly, it was obvious he was speaking with both sides of his mouth cause of favours he gets from Tinubu. So shameful of him.

After reading your story, I really feel so sorry for your son.
Your husband is the major problem. Why is he always stopping his son from doing what he is passionate about. There is this joy one gains by doing what he or she loves. First he stooped him from studying computer science and later he stopped him from pursing his passion for football. Is he not seeing great footballers today that are not graduates but doing great in life?
Your husband is just a joy killer for your son.
Please support your son in anyway you can.

Why will father treat his son like that.
He has greatly damaged the boy both mentally and psychologically. I hope he doesn't commit suicide.

What do you expect... More power to the Agberos na, Abi no be their Oga wan begin rule now.

seguno2:
In your Stockholm Syndrome understanding, the young lad is an orphan, or the parents don’t have any parental instincts because extreme poverty created by Ekweremadu and other politicians have killed off their parental instincts?

I wonder how we blacks are so much afflicted by Stockholm syndrome.

They keep supporting nonsense, forgetting that the boy is also someone's child. Because he is from a poor background, they see him as a nobody.
Thank God for the British Judicial System where no one is above the law.

highchief1:
their own daughter is now like a curse to them.may we never regret having kids.Even after the jail term he is crippled forever.It’s quite unfortunate.That boy is a wicked boy he won’t end well.

You are the wicked one for wishing the innocent boy evil.
A boy that was being exploited due to his poor background, he should be schooling like Ekweremadu's kids but he was offered some pounds for his kidney that will not even cover up his health maintenance for life.
Have you heard from the jugement that the involved the lady's family. They could as well have eliminated the boy and nobody will know.

DWJOBScom:
Horrible loud speakers everywhere

The last election made me respect young people , they respected themselves , provided generator where there wasn't one , provide food etc to encourage people to vote and wait for the count BUT it's the old shameless ones that provided guns and all to the evil ones to scatter everywhere.

The real revolution is coming and it will come

You have spoken well. God bless you fir standing by the truth.