₦airaland Forum

veraponpo:
You will be deceiving yourself if you believe Fashola will be sacked any time soon. He is doing his job well. The vandalism and spate of sabotaging efforts from the enemies of the state is the problem.

I believe you will understand better soon.

Exactly my thoughts, you cannot blame any minister for now. Enough money has not been released to the ministries. The economic sabotage by the NDA is affecting the FG. The money from the other revenue is just about enough for Paying Salaries and Federal allocation to states. Thats why i doubt if the budget will even be 20% implemented this years.

MzMercie:
He was not appointed by Buhari but elected by his colleagues, guess u didn't read it.


Congrats sir

He was speaking Sarcastically

arewafederation:
PMB had appointed another aboki again - iPOD thugs.


















Congratulations Sir....

Thats what the IPOD thugs will say not knowing the NBA is an independent association that is not controlled by the Govt.

Congrats to the able Barrister, Monday Onyekachi Ubani for his new appointment as the second Vice- President of the NBA.

adegeye38:
Federal allocations are based on population and productivity of the state...

I think you right,the ND states get more because of the 13% derivatives.

No innocent Nigerian was hit. The attack is on the criminals who hide in the creeks. We are still carrying out the raid. We are not carrying out military attack on Ijaw.

“We are carrying out the operation against criminals. We don’t tag them. Militants are militants. We don’t want to know if they are Hausa, Igbo or Yoruba. Our war is against pipeline vandals and oil thieves.”

This statement made by the Defence headquarters spokesman confirms that those vandals/Criminals are Ijaws even though he didnt want to come out direct with the tribe. I hope the IPOB NL youths will now let us rest. Even if it were Yoruba criminals let them be wiped out. We do not condone criminals in the SW.

Speak2klein:
For as long as I can remember, the igbos have been agitating and so far it has gotten us nowhere. When the FG notices independence they will sit up. Lagos is a good example, for no reason would the FG fail to give attention to Lagos when needed because of its economic importance. If we can achieve that in the east then we become indispensable and value increases.

What i dont like hearing is Igbos developed Lagos. Are you guys the ones controlling the Lagos State Civil service and Adminstration of lagos? You come to Lagos in droves to do business to better your lives and inturn we collect taxes from you and other Nigerians to develop the state. So tell me how you guys developed lagos. The taxes from Multi-national companies is 50X more than how much igbos pay as taxes. The investment Dangote makes in Lagos is 20X the taxes igbos pay in Lagos so how did you develop lagos? If truly you guys developed lagos why cant you replicate such in the SE. Fine Lagos has always had advantages due to its proximity to the Sea, Former British Colony and Former Federal Capital and Home to many Multi- national companies that is what has made lagos what it is.

Someone once told me the reason why many igbos oppose Buhari's presidency is because many of them are into criminal and fradulaent activities. It is now i reason with what he said. Countries like South Africa can now differentiate among the tribes in Nigeria. So they know which tribe is involved in criminal activities in their country.

Clinton9000:
Niger Delta people..this Yorubaa man wants you people killed.

You are a wicked IPOB youth do Yorubas bear Anyanwu.Na igbo dey bear the name.

[quote author=Horsesmouth post=48085745][/quote]You no sabi English find interpreter if you no sabi wetin i dey talk.

I can see most of the people here dont know that we recently beat Argentina the Olympic Gold Medalist team of Athens 2004 and China another good basketball nation. Yes i know the game was made in USA and they are the best but D'tigers of Nigeria got what it takes to pull a surprise on the Dream team of USA.

codemaniacs:
25billion/mth for a state like lagos is a big lie. That's 300billion/year not even up to $1bn in a year..

Stop saying rubbish abeg..

Sorry to disappoint you the guy you quoted is right. Lagos revenue annually is abt 500billion naira and this year's budget is abt 600 billion naira.

adegeye38:
Ambode still an under achiever to me , Lagos state IGR is over 30 Billion as declared by the LSG ( combine IGR of 23 states), Lagos state also receive the highest federal allocation in the country.
i expected lots more concrete projects and not commissioning street lights.

You are right about the IGR but wrong with the Federal allocation. Lagos doesnt collect as much as the core ND states.

wowmenow:
They are using Niger delta oil money as collateral for loans to build eko Atlantic city

God dey

I feel like using Police kondo on your head, you think Lagos dont generate money for the FG through the ports and taxes. Besides this project is a Public-Private partnership with major investments from Big international companies. You think everything is ND oil money abeg swerve enter gutter.

damon222:
I pity some people like you. So you believe that one militants is killed abi. In fact, you believe that there is actually bumbardment abi and that militants are killed abi? You think the militants are just community vegilantees abi? They are just foolish people like the dunce call Buhari abi? Look at the helcopter whether is not for oil servicing companies. Cointunue to jump and jubilate. All the Avengers are killed. Foolish people.

We need to call the attention of Seun the Owner of Nairaland to Criminal and Militant Sympathizers, Oga Seun please give these guys 6 months ban.

I cant just understand these people, if you read the thread from the beginning, you will see some NLs saying they saw the military helicopters and Jet Fighters hovering over their roofs so how is that Oil company's helicopters abi when did Oil company helicopters start carrying missles? SMH. I could remember even when we started campaigning against GEJ we never sympathized with Bokoharam because we didnt like GEJ. So why support criminality because you hate the Yorubas/Buhari and APC. For those asking for pictures, please go into the creeks and take pictures so that when the Military carries out another air raid you will romance with the missles.

erico2k2:
This is exactly what Im trying to put in the head of that ingrate up here

You and the guy you quoted have serious comprehension problems. The Military fired missles into the camps of the Militants/ Vandals in the creeks which is always a bit far away from the civilian settlements. Any innocent civilian should not be seen around there having any business with them. Yes there is bound to be a few human collateral damage for the greater good of the community. Even the great America will bomb a place with hundreds of dredded terrorist and a few civilians for the greater good of all because if they dont sacrifice those innocent lives at that time many more innocent civilians will be killed.

mjbaba:
Relax, don't think u can harass anybody with Niger Delta crude. At this stage, having the refinery is more important than where the crude comes from. Even if Lagos crude is not enough for him, he can bring in vessels of crude from Angola. That's why he has a seaport. How much is crude at the moment, by the way?? Use your Niger delta crude to make tea

Dont mind that fool, must everything be abt Niger Delta this and that as if na them go first get Oil. I dont know how this topic concerns oil now. No wonder he is a Poor boy even with the Niger delta Oyel.

seunmsg:
The July 1966 coup was called a northern counter coup and nobody has ever denied that it wasn't so. Ibos need to stop denying the fact that the January 1966 coup was an ethnic cleansing coup orchestrated by them.

Your head dey there my brother, All right thinking Yorubas and other Nigerians musy join hands to counter Nairaland igbos lies.

pazienza:
The way I see it, logically speaking, the coup was an Awe coup.
These are why:

1, The Coup plotters said that the ultimate aim of the coup was to install Awo as the president.

2, Awo until January 1966 coup was the only other man in recorded Nigerian history to have attempted to overthrow a seating government, he was found guilty of treason and imprisoned for that.

3, Awo is the person who has the most rational motive to want Akintola, Saraduna and Ahmadu Bello dead. The three of them rendered him politically useless and he would have rotted in prison ala Abiola style, if the Jan Coup didn't happen. Akintola, Balewa and Bello all ended up dead in the January coup, coincidence? I don't think so.

4, Any iota of Awo's capability in staging a hostile take over had been obliterated by his failed attempt to usurp IBB, that ultimately led to his demise.

According to the Documentary i watched he was imprisoned for corruption, using State funds to fund his party the Action Group( AG) and not for treason. Why did you deliberately leave Azikiwe out of the mix of people who rendered him politically useless. It is well recorded Zik formes an alliance with the North to form the NCNC party. Guy try lie small small and to gullible folks not me.

pazienza:
Fajuiyi was marked for death by the July coup plotters. He was even more wanted than Ironsi.
He was in support of Nzeogwu and co actions, and he did all within his limits to protect them from Ironsi prosecution when the coup failed.

This lie of trying to make a martyr of Fajuiyi to avoid answering the question of why Yorubas never challenged the North for murdering a Yoruba military governor in Yorubaland will never be accepted as the truth, no matter how long Yorubas repeat this lie. Cause we know the truth, and the truth remains that Fajuiyi a Yoruba military governor was murdered in Yorubaland by Northern soldiers for his sins, which includes being in support of the Jan Coup and shading the Jan Coup plotters from prosecution when the coup failed.

Mr Oga stop spreading false lies all around. Your story was never reported anywhere. Please give us a link to your side of the story or maybe you just confusing another Yoruba name for his.

ilovetheline:
all the Igbo leaders of that time had national interests. when they make it look like some Igbo cabal sent it's generals[prove it] and base their anti Igbo statements on that, I wonder how some Yoruba races could have such thwarted logic. the Igbo fighting Yoruba section of these times are perhaps descended from like ancestors. hence I am certain that the northern aggressors along with the partnering western section will be picked out correctly[and the innocent passed over] during the great retribution. the biggest and most just ever witnessed on earth

See i term it igbo coup and yes i am Yoruba. It is you who refuse to accept logical reasoning into your brain. How is it possible for the coup plotters to accuse the then Politicians of Corruption and when they decided to flush them out they left out Micheal Okpara the then Eastern Premier.How come Azikwe decided to take his vacation at that period(Ifeajuwa was Zik's cousin). So it was only the Leaders of the North (Balewa, Bello), West (Akintola)and Mid-West (Okotie-Eboh) that were corrupt and deserved death. See if you have decided to lie to logical reasoning because of tribal affiliation then you are just a dead man alive.

ziddy:
Ironsi's handling of the January '66 coup plotters was typical Igbo man behaviour. If an Igbo man sees his felllw tribesman doing evil he will never condemn him, most especially when the victims/recipients of that evil are from other tribes, or he derives material benefit from his brother's criminal activity.

Even up till today Igbo people never fail to mobilise in support of their tribesmen in political office who are indicted for numerous heinous economic crimes.

You have spoken well like a true Nigerian. It is tradition all over the world that you execute coup plotters. We can even see that from the recent Turkey coup. Just because they were your tribesmen, you sent them down to the East to serve jail term which am sure they released them.

If he had executed them as the Law required he would probably still be alive. I keep saying it that in the order of tribalism among the major tribes, The Hausa- Fulanis come first followed closely by Igbos,thats why they keep crying placards in support of their corrupt sons and daughters finding excuses for them where there is none and blaming the Yorubas for been behind their kinsmen corruption cases.

naijafox:
While Awolowo never trusted the Igbos, the north never trusted Awolowo and theYorubas. The northern oligarchy instigated crisis in Western Nigeria in the same manner President Obasanjo used the Uba brothers to instigate crisis in Anambra State. This crisis led to the trumped up charges leading to the trial and imprisonment of Awolowo . Reports has it that he was to be poisoned in prison before the military coup altered the state of affairs.

Awolowo was released from Calabar prison by Biafran leader Odumegwu Ojukwu and there was an agreement that while Ojukwu declares Biafra in the East, Awolowo would declare Oduduwa Republic in the West. The British establishment, sensing the dangers of Awolowo declaring Oduduwa Republic in the West, convinced Gowon and the north to checkmate Awolowo’s secessionist agenda by appointing him the Vice Chairman of Federal Executive Council. This strategy worked effectively and Awolowo was deceived that after Gowon’s tenure he would be given the opportunity of ruling Nigeria. Awolowo thus had to checkmate the Biafran dream to clear any obstacle to his ruling Nigeria while the north was looking for the right opportunity to throw him into the dustbin. In frustration, Awo resigned from Gowon’s cabinet when he realized he has been politically duped.


Awolowo quashed the Biafran dream while the northern establishment killed the Oduduwa dream and betrayed Awolowo’s presidential ambition thrice. This fact was aptly captured by a prominent Yoruba leader and Nigeria’s former minister of aviation Chief Femi Fani-Kayode while replying to a boastful statement by another prominent northern leader, Alhaji Usman Farouk on how the north dominated the Yoruba people and conquered the Niger Delta. According to Fani Kayode, "... the north literally begged Awolowo not to declare Oduduwa Republic and go the way of Biafra even though that was his original intention…Fourthly it was the support that the south west gave to the north that allowed Nigeria to win the war. Fifthly it was the lie that Gowon and the northern leaders fed to Awolowo that he would be made President of the country after the war and after being effectively being made de facto Prime Minister under Gowon during the war that got Awolowo to support them’’, invariably, the Igbos and Yorubas were effectively dribbled, divided, manipulated and overpowered.
Northerners were always wise when it came to politics

I am Yoruba but i dont support people based on tribal affiliations. We have heard two different stories of how Gowon was who released Awolowo and another story of how Ojukwu released Awolowo.

If by what you have narrated here then i believe the story of Gowon released him. Why? Because how can an Eastern Governor release a Federal prisoner even if he was released by Ojukwu how was it was possible for him to go down to Lagos and he was received by Gowon. To me that was not possible. So i choose to believe Gowon released him.

Dbetpick:
One thing you must know,
Army Came to aropo and said they bomb Fatala with jet bombers right. fine, who saw these militants they said they killed, where are proof, let them show us their dead bodies, I wonder who is lying to who with this comment

""Nigeria army should not lie to the public that they killed many militants as they always do, their bombs did not even killed a common housefly, where they not aware that non of their bombs blasts on falata ground. woe to the Yoruba's and army, navy air force men government will be sending to the seen, as the sleeping Lion is waken, we are coming for them no hiding place OPC get ready it will be blood for blood, No going back. share this until all Yoruba's and Ambode sees it""

People like you are sick in the head for supporting criminality because of tribalism. I can still understand people supporting their tribe for othrr reasons. I will never support a Yoruba Criminal just because am Yoruba. If those Ijaw militants happen to kill your immediate family will you be supporting them as you are doing now? Do your own investigation first before yarning dust and refute the claim, residents of those communities be it Yoruba, igbo have said they are ijaws and you still dey argue from the comfort of your village bedroom. Everyone knows ijaws live around the riverine areas of Lagos, those who live honest lifes are fishermen and those into criminality are Oil pipeline vandals its no new thing.

The last time i commented on this Militants issue in Lagos and Ogun i was banned for saying the OPC will defeat them using charms and voodo. I dont know which rule i broke on Nairaland for me to get banned for posting a comment like that. Seun please look into the type of tribalist moderators you have. They have decided to take sides with the militants.

For those shouting Resoure control, yes fine the proper system is resource control but we cannot restructure the country for resource control immediately. Many states will become poor, we need a deadline date for that after many states must have began exploration, mining of their natural resoures and market for their resources. If not how do you expect many states to live. The govt abandoned mining of other mineral resoures thats why we finding it difficult to run a true federalism at moment its feeding bottle system from Niger delta we dey run.

True that we use ATM machines than the UK but its not a positive survey for us but a negative one. Like most people have said the UK run a cashless economy, most top shops and off- licence shops, taverns and pubs around the streets all use POS machine. People also do online banking transactions because internet is cheap and you get BT wifi zones in some parts of the city so there is really no need to spend cash unlike nigeria we still do local buka, Local pepper seller etc If you get to their ATM machines you hardly see anyone using it before you and if you must wait you probably waiting for one or two persons unlike Nigeria, all the ATM machines is full of people struggling to cash money. Even the naira value and inflation makes us to withdraw often. To live comfortably in a day in Nigeria of today you will spend nothing less than 10k everyday so why wont we withdraw money like our lives depend on it.

hucienda:
~8kbpd? That's meager but it's a giant leap in the right direction.

Wonder the processing capacity of the proposed Front Puffin FPSO.

Most FPSO has a capacity of abt 100 000bbl/day processing capacity and 800,000 bbl/day storage capacity. Besides that platform diaplayed there by the OP is not an FPSO it shd be a Jack up Rig.

modelmike7:
...... Lol! Now , this is funny!! Akika!!!

See this guy you think say i dey lie you cant match Yorubas when it comes to voodo. No be person wey Militants see them go shoot. Them no even need go face the militants before they kill them.

All these SS and SE people think OPC wont defeat Niger delta Militants because of sophisticated weapons the militants carry. OPC do not rely on guns they have charms as well. I do know the militants use charms too but no tribe can really match the Yorubas in Charm and Voodo in Nigeria except the Hausa-Fulanis. I have seen an OPC vigilante in my area walking invinsible with only shoes moving abt.
So do not discard their threat. Its better we all encourage peace.

Its not about the law, even if fully enforced these guys use diabolic means to forcefully collect people's lands.

limeta:
The case of Lagos is very fraudulent as the mining license OML113 granted to the company of late AbdulWahab Yinka Folawiyo, Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum Company LTD is no where near or close to the constitutionally recognized boundaries of Lagos state or within the contiguous continental shelf of Lagos State....The area where OML113 is located is off the boundaries of,and the contiguous continental shelf of Bayelsa and Delta state.

Sorry but let me ask you, are you okay at all? How is it fraudulent? Do you know how far Lagos to Bayelsa and Delta is? They dont even share boundaries so there is no way you will allocate Oil wells of Bayelsa or Delta to Lagos. The Delta Basin is far far from the Lagos Basin.