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Segeggs: dont be silly cos the north wont let you people go cos it was their groundnut money that got naija kicking b4 oil came and now you want to be greedy. They are going to blast u people, remember biafra war. You people are just too small in population to be thinking about pulling out. Or you think militants are capable?

Btw, how much is jonah paying u dat u are busy supporting him? Do u think he sees u as his brother?

Wake up! Naija is for dirty politicians, so dont kill yourself 4 nobody.

So you mean the Rubber and Palm oil exports from the southsouth was supporting Ghana and cameroon Some of you are just unbelievable. Where you get this revision of history is quite telling.

chukwudi44: Impeachment ko enthronement ni.It is easier for a camel to pass through the eyes of a needle than for an African President to ever be impeached.

The only way GEJ would ever be removed is through a coup or death.You losers better prepare yourself for a GEJ presidency till 2019

Even a coup is not possible. No matter the leader of that coup. People are just waiting, for the wrong move to be made. Then the era of millions of Nigeria refugees will finally come to be. Maybe, some of the kids here, need to spend some of their years in a refugee camp, then they will appreciate the level headedness of Jonah. Just imagine a president Amaechi, Odilli, Ibori,Attah, Akpabio, Lucky, Sylva and baba Osho. We will be singing a different tune. Because they will get the same treatment from this gangs as Jonah, but these men will react like the normal Southsouth man damming the consequences. They should thank God for Jonah.

Why all the raking and boasting about impeachment. Please start, your impeachment process. No need to rake or pounding ground. Open the National assembly and begin with the articles of impeachment. Call your New PDP and APC members to remove Jonah from office. WE are begging in name of God to remove him from office.

Even before it got off the drawing board, former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s plan to lead the peace moves in Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has collapsed.
The meeting of elders to resolve the party’s crises was slated for today in Abuja.
It was “technically” called off last night at the Presidency’s prompting, The Nation learnt.
President Goodluck Jonathan, it was said, advised the elders to shun the meeting, following intelligence reports that Obasanjo was behind the crises.
The former President could not be reached last night.
Among the elders expected at the meeting are former chairmen and notable leaders.
A pre-meeting session of some governors at the Rivers State Governor’s Lodge went on for hours last night.
It was not clear what was discussed, but the news about the Obasanjo mission may have been broken.
“All was well, until this evening when we learnt the President was opposed to Obasanjo presiding at the meeting,” a source said, adding: “He believes that Obasanjo is the architect of the crises; he shouldn’t be called to settle it and be seen as a peacemaker.”
The meeting slated for next Tuesday will hold. President Jonathan will preside.
Brickbats continued to fly yesterday amid shaky efforts to rescue the PDP.
A group loyal to President Jonathan also accused Obasanjo of being the architect of the crises. He should call his associates in the Kawu Baraje faction of the party to order, the Media Network for Transformation (MNT) said.
The group said Obasanjo could not continue to be the hand of Esau and the voice of Jacob at the same time.
In a statement in Abuja, signed by its Coordinator, Mr. Goodluck Ebelo, the MNT urged Obasanjo to either renounce his associates in the New PDP or be treated like those rated as rebels by the party.
The group said “no arbiter, who is the guiding light of the rebels can make peace”.
To the President’s camp, Obasanjo is the unseen hand pulling the string of crises in the ruling party. There is suspicion in the Presidency over his peace mission.
Some governors were meeting last night at the Rivers Governor’s Lodge in Abuja ahead of today’s meeting.
National Chairman Bamanga Tukur yesterday described members of the Kawu Baraje faction as “prodigal sons” who would be accepted back into the fold, if they retraced their steps.
But the Baraje faction told Tukur that his “time is up”.
The statement said: “We call on former President Olusegun Obasanjo to call his associates to order. Apart from being their sponsor, the rebel governors draw their inspiration from him.
“Apart from numerous clandestine meetings, former President Obasanjo started his public romance with the rebel flank when he became unavoidably absent at this year’s Democracy Day celebration in Abuja, but vigorously participated in the day’s activities in Dutse, Jigawa State. That was followed by the rebel governors’ visit to his Abeokuta home.
“Then came last Saturday, and Chief Obasanjo’s mischief literarily flew over the Eagle Square venue of the Special Convention. Unavoidably absent, again, he was to turn up the next day in church, at the Presidential Villa, made a few platitudinous remarks on the need for a peaceful resolution of the crisis and thereafter called a meeting . His meeting failed and will continue to fail.
“Obasanjo cannot continue to be hands of Esau and the voice of Jacob at the same time. No arbiter, who is the guiding light of the rebels, can make peace. Peace, in this matter, will continue to elude President Obasanjo because his activities are the very antithesis of the conditions precedent to peace.”
The group said it suspected that Obasanjo cannot resolve the crisis in the party with alleged partisan interest.
The statement added: “Unfortunately, his eight years in office provides no road map to resolving a political dispute. All that can be gleaned from the debris of his time in power are abuse of institutions of State in shutting down dissent, hounding political opponents into prison and forcing a party chairman to resign …. Little wonder that such baleful legacy dogs his attempt at making peace.
“President Obasanjo has to come out publicly to renounce his ties with the seven governors who are trying to impose their will on the remaining 29 states and the Federal Capital Territory or acknowledge them and be treated like them.”
President Jonathan is yet to speak on his political future, but MNT said he is free to run again. It said: “The governors are welcome to contest the PDP primaries, individually or present a candidate. That’s democracy. But for persons, who themselves, stood for elections for their second terms to demand that Mr. President cannot avail himself such amenity is not only rude but feudal.”
Obasanjo’s media aide Vitalis Ortese declined to comment on the statement credited to the group last night.
“I cannot speak on what a faceless group is saying”, he told our reporter on the telephone.


http://thenationonlineng.net/new/pdp-crisis-jonathan-tells-elders-to-shun-obasanjo/

anago12: oga pack well you no dey make sense. You know my problem with all y'all gej yansh lickers stop selling him with all this religious, ethnic and self pity lines. Sell him with his performance unfortunately it's like looking for water in sahara desert.

Take your chair get some kind of drink and watch this Nigerian political movie play itself out. You will learn something new.

anago12: it really suck to be you, i can see you jump from thread to thread since morning. Licking gej black yansh even the devil pr guys work details is a childplay compared to this your hustle. But let me educate you son obasanjo never lose any war except the 3rd term battle and gej is a toddler to fight the guy. Ask why the likes of tony anineh, e.k clark and asari are stylishly begging obj. Anyway gej keep making me believe the prophesy that say he is gonna be doing 7 years in the penitentiary after his tenure with the kind of fight he is picking up i would not doubt that prophesy one bit.

We shall all, find out who in Nigeria, is doing the begging. As abacha use to say in the barracks mama akamu return tomorrow for payment. Let's take our seat and watch this move play.

http://premiumtimesng.com/news/144226-jonathan-storms-reconciliation-meeting-accuses-obasanjo-behind-pdp-crisis.html


The president reportedly asked former President Olusegun Obasanjo to resolve the crisis he created.
President Goodluck Jonathan lashed out at former President Olusegun Obasanjo, accusing him of being the mastermind of the intractable crisis in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party,[/b] reliable presidency sources have said.
“Obasanjo created the problem, he should go and solve it,” Mr. Jonathan was quoted as saying at a meeting he held with leading members of the Abubakar Baraje’s faction of the party on Sunday night.
The reconciliation meeting was called a day after former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, seven state governors, and some other party top guns walked out of the party’s national convention in Abuja and then announced the formation of a parallel faction.
Sources at the meeting said after the “dissident” governors, led by Kano State Governor, Musa Kwankwaso, tabled their grievances; [b]a livid President Jonathan fumed about how opposition elements within his party were trying to blackmail him to submission.
He then suddenly rose from his seat and stormed out of the meeting saying, while going away, that he was no longer in the mood for any reconciliation talk and that Mr. Obasanjo, who created the mess in the party, should be allowed to clear it.
“We were shocked when the president walked out of the meeting in anger saying he had grown increasingly frustrated by Mr. Obasanjo’s destabilizing antics,” one of our sources said. “He pointedly accused the former president of being behind the crisis.”
Another source said as the president hurried away, the chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees ran after him pleading with him to return.
He eventually returned.
The president’s adviser on political matters, Ahmed Gulak, as well as his senior special assistant on public affairs, Doyin Okupe, did not answer or return calls to their mobile telephones when PREMIUM TIMES sought to get their comments for this story.
Mr. Obasanjo could also not be reached.
Reports of the president’s comment and behaviour at the closed-door meeting came shortly before a pro-Jonathan group, Media Network for Transformation, circulated a statement in Abuja accusing Mr. Obasanjo of destabilizing the PDP and asking him to call his associates to other.
“Apart from being their sponsor, the rebel governors draw their inspiration from him,” Goodluck Ebelo, Coordinator of the group, said in the statement. “Apart from numerous clandestine meetings, President Obasanjo started his public romance with the rebel flank when he became unavoidably absent at this year’s Democracy Day celebration in Abuja, but vigorously participated in the day’s activities in Dutse, Jigawa State. That was followed by the rebel governors’ visit to his Abeokuta home.”
Mr. Ebelo was not done. He continued, “Then came last Saturday, and Chief Obasanjo’s mischief literarily flew over the Eagle Square venue of the Special Convention. Unavoidably absent, again, he was to turn up the next day in Church, at the Presidential Villa. Made a few platitudinous remarks on the need for a peaceful resolution of the crisis and thereafter called a meeting. His meeting failed and will continue to fail.
“Chief Obasanjo cannot continue to be hands of Esau and the voice of Jacob at the same time. No arbiter, who is the guiding light of the rebels can make peace. Peace, in this matter, will continue to elude President Obasanjo because his activities are the very antithesis of the conditions precedent to peace.
“Unfortunately, his eight years in office provides no road map to resolving a political dispute. All that can be gleaned from the debris of his time in power, are abuse of institutions of State in shutting down dissent, hounding political opponents into prison and forcing a party chairman to resign at gun point. Little wonder that such baleful legacy dogs his attempt at making peace.
“President Obasanjo has to come out publicly to renounce his ties with seven governors who are trying to impose their will on the remaining twenty nine states and the Federal Capital Territory or acknowledge them and be treated like them. The governors are welcome to contest the PDP primaries, individually or present a candidate. That’s democracy. But for persons, who themselves, stood for elections for their second terms to demand that Mr. President cannot avail himself such amenity is not only rude but feudal.”
Our sources said before the president’s brief walkout at the peace meeting, the aggrieved governors had accused Mr. Jonathan of using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to hound governors and other party chiefs considered opposed to him.
Specifically, the governors, according to our sources, accused the president of having masterminded the recent investigation of Senator Bukola Saraki and conviction of a son of Governor Sule Lamido for under declaring the amount of foreign exchange he was taking abroad.
The governors also reportedly asked the president to keep his promise to run for only one term and jettison his 2015 presidential ambition.
In response, Mr. Jonathan reportedly denied being behind the investigation of anyone by the EFCC, saying most of the investigations commenced long before he came to power.
On the request that he shuts down his presidential ambition, Mr. Jonathan was quoted as saying he would not surrender his right to vote and be voted for.


JONAH FAILED TO DO, JUST ONE MORE THING, SLAP THE LIVING DAYLIGHT OUT OF THIS OLD MISERABLE MAN.

Orlando Owoh: What has GEJ got to show in the Niger Delta for the 3 years has ruled? The East-West Road is a death trap, under construction without an appreciable progress. When Amaechi said the road should be left for the SS governors to construct it, GEJ fought his through Orubebe. Now GEJ has lost his wife's foster mother on the same road. Our people say if a man passes excreta on his way to the farm, he will not only come back to meet with, but with huge flies buzzing over it.

Story, story story stroyyyyyyyyy

ssii:
I day laugh o!
Ride on, bros . Which one you be? Egbesu or Asari /ateke?
But no burst your veins
abi they want remove food from your mouth.

Mr Owoh, I leave the mouth running and chest beating to you. Just shine your eye. You might actually, learn something about Nigeria for once.

ssii: You want to prepare for war eh
You are on your own.
You want to die for Gej and Pej, while they greedily hold on to power
Or you think they are serving your interest or Ss interest
Sorry for you. How has Gej presidency helped SS
Its people like you they can manipulate with all those tribal and religious sentiments.
What of when he agreed to only run 1 term.
Or did the north not support him against Atiku
I believe in honour and integrity, if he agreed for 1 term, nobody is saying he should not contest but he should do so under another party since he is so desperate to remain in office
He should stop dividing this nation and drumming for war .

My friend, you people are the ones, that have been beating the drums of war and revolution. The president said get ready. "What of when he agreed to only run 1 term" Only a person suffering from Aboki born to rule madness will make this sentence in a country of 160M.

doublewisdom: Na wah o. Confusion 247,ichododo and Co don confuse owoh. The mumu was schooled without paying tuition.All of you who console yourselves with the fact that SS and SE are not one are shallow minded. We dey look.

This people are living in some different universe. They should walk the streets of the southsouth and take the politcal temperature. People here are mad at the president for not breaking this calabash. Look at the words of Asari today. What he is saying is nothing different, from what you hear in Warri, Benin Uyo Port, calabar. They want war, let's prepare for the war.

Orlando Owoh: I've never told you I'm Niger Delta. Read my comment again, please.

You are no more from delta, abi.....

berem: whenever Asari Dokubo makes a statement, it's obvious he is in dire need of something from the government. another sycophant on the loose!

What are you in dire need of

Orlando Owoh: What if I tell you I'm Itshekiri from Delta State?

All of you are Itshekiri, "SO WHAT" Please remind me how many votes your have in delta again. My Gov and Pastor Ayo will always lead the charge. Even, his royal highness the OLU is a great supporter. So, try another line.

Orlando Owoh: You're trying to force a marriage between SS and SE, it won't work. They have no political affinity in common. I guess you're Igbo, attachee things.

Who made you, spokesperson for the southsouth

Orlando Owoh: Your expression is poor.

Try something better. Do your worst.

Oriyomi4success: Imagine the so called president mentioning war when he knows that his own family will leave the country n allow the lives of the masses to b wasted. Let us b wise n vote him out of aso rock in 2015

Are your worried now you people have been beating the drums of war, the man said get ready.

Orlando Owoh: GEJ should respect the agreement of not contesting for a second term he reached with some governors from the north.

He will not because there was, and there is no agreement. Now do your worst.

omonnakoda: The North accounts for the greatest part of our GDP and certainly are more value than the SE. What does the SE contribute to Nigeria

Based on your Nigeria numbers

There were strong indications last night that President Goodluck Jonathan may call the bluff of the seven aggrieved governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Dr. Jonathan, who reportedly got angry at a meeting with PDP governors loyal to him on Tuesday night, asked them not to lose sleep over the party’s crisis.
It was also learnt that some forces in the Presidency are viewing with suspicion the peace moves initiated by ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo because the aggrieved governors are seen as his “die-hard” loyalists.
The peace meeting called by the ex-President is scheduled for tomorrow in Abuja.
The President is said to have rejected Obasanjo’s peace moves.
A source, who spoke with our correspondent last night, said: “The President, after going through some security reports on the crisis, got angry and told the governors, ‘we will not lose sleep. Those who ignited the fire should go and quench it’.
“It is obvious that the Presidency is already closing in on those pulling the strings to divide the PDP ahead of the 2015 poll.
“I think the Presidency may damn the consequences. The next few weeks might be for dirty politics. There is a likelihood of tit-for-tat politics.”
At the meeting were Governors Emmanuel Uduaghan (Delta); Ramalan Yero (Kaduna); Gabriel Suswam (Benue); Theodore Orji (Abia); Liyel Imoke (Cross River); Henry Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa); Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe); Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom); Idris Wada (Kogi) and Isa Yuguda (Bauchi).
Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs Ahmed Gulak and Deputy National Chairman of PDP Uche Secondus were also there.
A close aide to the president faulted Obasanjo’s intervention in the crisis.
According to the aide, “What is happening in the PDP has nothing to do with the President; it is not his headache at all and he is not losing sleep over it.”
The President believes that those who ignited the crisis should also look for ways to put it off. And from security reports, former President Olusegun Obasanjo is behind it; he cannot start a crisis and now pretend to be finding a solution to it.
“It is good that the current happenings are unfolding at this time; we now know those who are doing what, those who have been hiding their faces while creating problems – including security crises for the government. The government is studying the situation and will respond at the appropriate time.”
Obasanjo and the governors are battling to prevent President Jonathan from contesting election in 2015, the aide alleged, adding: “But the President will contest 2015 election and his achievements will speak for him.
“Those who are calling for revolution should better start preparing for it because President Jonathan will contest the election; Nigerians will decide his fate and not Obasanjo and the six or seven governors. Those calling for war should start preparing now,” he said.

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/pdp-crisis-jonathan-rejects-obasanjos-peace-mission/

THE present state of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) fleet is a cheerless commentary on the nation’s poor maintenance attitude to public utilities and it best illustrates the often-touted truth that government could be bad managers in business.

Barely six years after Lagos commuters expressed relief with the introduction of the BRT scheme, many of the bright red and blue buses have been badly altered and left to deteriorate into first-grade Molues – the rickety buses infamously referred to as a ‘moving morgue’.

The scheme became operational on March 17, 2007. Currently there are two operators – the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Cooperative and the LAGBUS. While LAGBUS buses are painted in red, the franchise of the scheme controlled by the NURTW is in blue; and both are regulated by the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA).

In the beginning, it was the best thing to have happened to the horrendous transport system in the state with add-on benefits that included competitive cost, promptness and convenience. Commuters hop into the crisp buses with tickets having no worries about gridlock, since there is a dedicated route for buses to speed on.

Other convenience package include ban on hawking, preaching and smoking on board, while standing or loitering on the aisle was discouraged by operators.

In all, 220 buses were on the road and took thousands of passengers daily. The bus shelters at the bus stops and the scheme’s garages, housing maintenance bay, fuel dump, offices and other critical facilities, were splendid.

Most people, especially passengers, who have had it rough with the Molue and Danfo buses, applauded the scheme. However, six years is a long time to preserve this cherished legacy. The allure that once made vehicle owners to ditch their cars for a pleasurable ride is lost.

Barely a month after the state government commenced the use of e-ticketing and the e-card, known as the Lagos Connect card, commuters have started faulting the government on the bad state of the machines the card would be tapped on.

A regular commuter of the scheme, Nelson Boboye, said he wanted to board a BRT bus from Barracks bus-stop to Victoria Island, but that as he was about tapping his card on the machine, the pilot rudely told him to get down and wait for another BRT vehicle that had a functioning machine.

Another incident occurred last weekend at Fadeyi bus stop, when a passenger joined a BRT bus. On entering the bus, the tap-to-pay machine wasn’t working and both the pilot and ticketer sharply told the old man to get down and await another bus with a functioning machine.

These avalanche of complaints crudely defeats the aim of introducing e-ticketing, which authorities say was to conform with the cashless policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Investigation by The Guardian on the causes of the shortcomings showed that the neglect of success factors, which mega-transport companies like Lagbus and BRT ought to take seriously, was responsible.

A group of aggrieved members of the staff, who spoke to The Guardian on condition of anonymity at the company’s premises at Ojota, pinpointed lack of maintenance of the buses and failure to look into the issue of workers welfare by the management.

The most senior of the aggrieved workers said: “How can a management that does not care about the workers think of maintaining vehicles?

“The staff are not happy to do their job. Most of them have been on the same salary level for seven years now that the company came into existence without promotion. Whereas the salaries of the managers are fabulous and kept in guarded secret, those of the drivers and others remain the same with an average driver’s take home package being N45,000 a month.

“Having been on that poor pay level for seven years with no hope for a better future, most of the workers are disillusioned and discouraged with the work.”

Another worker disclosed that the managers of the buses do not mean well for the companies in view of the way and manner they swindle their employers.

For example, he said, the two trucks that were acquired some years ago for towing buses that break down to the yard have been hired out to a private operator. And now what obtains, is that, if any of the buses breaks down, a different tow van would be hired from operators who are related to key members of management at a cost of N20,000 or N30,000. And on the average, 10 to 15 buses are towed daily.

According to them, in spite of the many buses in the fleet of the companies, there is no vehicle maintenance workshop or hanger with specially trained mechanics.

“All the idle trucks in the premises are wasting away. Huge amounts of money are charged by external auto repair companies on minor repairs that ordinarily would not have cost so much if done in-house.

“How do you expect the companies to survive on such expensive maintenance culture?” one of the workers said.

On the contaminated fuel that is ruining the buses, a worker, who pleaded anonymity, said the management of the corporations, for reasons known to them alone, contracted only one firm, to be the sole supplier of diesel for the buses.

“No matter the high price charged by that company as against the lower price prevailing in the market, the management would insist that only the appointed supplier does the supply,” he remarked.

“BRT and Lagbus ought have their fuel depot and special treatment equipment to purify diesel for use by the large number of buses in their fleets if they really mean well.”

A consultant to the firms, Mr. Peter Taiwo, who is the Managing Director, ADMAGS Environmental, said LAGBUS could save 30 per cent on running cost if it could solve the problem of contaminated fuel.

According to him, “it is not that LAGBUS is not doing enough oil and filter changes at the appropriate intervals, the issue is that a lot of these engine designs are not made for the Nigerian environment. Nigerian environment is harsh on engines and if you do not bring in additional inputs that compensate for this harshness, these engines will not run as long as they ought to.”

Chidi Anyaegbu, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Chisco Transport Limited, who fielded questions on the secret behind Chisco Transport success said:

“You cannot manage transport business successfully without having your own mechanics and workshop which is the heart of the business.”

Though Fashola has given the assurance at the Oshodi parley that: “We are trying to bring back all the buses that are not on the road because each bus that is not on the road means that one bus captain and one pilot are not at work,” the workers implored him to do more than that.



They appealed to him to create a regular communication channel between him and the workers to tell him the bitter truth about what the management is doing that is undermining efficient operation of the buses. They stressed that the management is not sincere to the workers, government and to the teeming Lagosians who use the buses.

http://ngrguardiannews.com/news-metro/131905-molues-back-on-lagos-roads-in-red-blue-colours

Thanks for the pictures, mostly my homebase Warri. Money, dey everywhere, you just have to find your level and make your share.

[quote author=Rhino.5dm]Well, I can't really say one thing now and my oga at the top will say another, the amount of daily crude oil barrels produced by Ondo state shall be made known by my oga at the top.

https://darkpebbles.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/oga-at-the-top.jpg[/quote]Good sense of humor. You people, will not kill me.

[quote author=Rhino.5dm]. . .But bros I mean collectively oooo. no single project wey reach 9 billion dollars wey I know ooooooooooo.May be you can helep me out small. [/quote]Going by your post, you are involved in the oil and gas sector. Please, can you advice this forum, the average number of crude barrels produced in Ondo.

agbameta: Thanks for letting me know you are a lair and that you are full of shittt

Read your post and see the liar. 800,000 barrels You know, that is the total suppply of shell from Nigeria. You probably don't even know.

agbameta: Ondo produces 800,000 barrels of oil per day and Dangote needs just about half of that to stay in business....

He sited his business in Ondo state for a reason


Try harder with your doomsday nonsense..

Whoa, whoa, Nigeria produces 2.4 million barrels per day. So Ondo produces 33% of Nigeria'S crude, yet collect less than Edo from the derivation fund OMO UNA TOO MUCH. Do you just pull this crap from planet pluto or what

agbameta: Abeg no dey bother me with general platitudes, na name of the investments and investors I ask for..

No need wasting time. There are no investments, no wahala.

[quote author=Rhino.5dm]Ose migwor . . .That bittered fella is from south east, you should know say I no mean south south. Haba habatically!! South South na baba na


Having worked on more than 10 billion dollars projects in south south within the last 7 years, I should know better [/quote]At least you acknowledge working on $10B projects in the southsouth. You have made my case. Thanks again.

agbameta: Who is we? Abi shell and chevron don begin investing in kidnapping and other anti social vices?


Btw, the investments abi investors no get names?

You are smart enough to know, of the $9B, invested in Nigeria last year, how much went in to oil and gas

[quote author=Rhino.5dm]Which one is the WE? I hope you don't mean the fraudulent SS + SE, cos everybody dey answer him papa name - #TheEndTimeThings[/quote]Urhobo wadoo, I speak for myself.

Aigbofa: We don't have refineries because the government is not good at running money making ventures. Eg: Nigeria Airways, Nigeria National shipping Line, Nigeria Railway Corporation, Ajaokuta Steel Mill, the list is endless. Why should they succeed in running refineries if they have never succeeded in running anything else?

Please educate the kids on this forum . The Nigeria, I grew up in as kid was filled with government companies. They all went belly up and their employees and mangers became civil service millionaires. None of the companies ever made money. Their graveyards are littered over the whole country.