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ossagy: You don run of ideas

By the here the new picture of looplat just took him this picture in his silly and senseless yorubaland

Odunnu: If Reno tweeted that, he was mislead by the ever lying, cheap attention seeking Sahara Reporters.

Nigeria president says floods won't cause hunger

ABUJA | Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:16pm BST

(Reuters) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan sought to allay fears on Friday that the nation's worst floods in at least five decades would trigger a food crisis because of damage to crops.

Jonathan, who this month toured some parts of Africa's most populous nation that have been submerged by floods he has described as a 'national disaster', spoke to journalists and other visitors to the presidential villa.

"People should not be afraid that there will be hunger in the land ... We have enough grains in our reserves," he said, when asked about the impact of the floods on food production.

"Some selfish people are already hoarding grains ... but they are doing that to their disadvantage," he said.

At least 140 people have been killed, hundreds of thousands displaced and tens of thousands of hectares of farmland have been submerged since the start of July, emergency officials say, after several major rivers burst their banks.

Flooding in the oil rich Niger Delta, where Africa's third longest river flows into the Atlantic ocean, has disrupted oil production to the tune of around 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) -- more than a fifth of Nigeria's output -- according to the Department of Petroleum Resources.

French oil firm Total says it stopped oil and gas production on its onshore OML 58 block due to floods, declaring force majeure on supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Nigeria, which gets heavy tropical rains from May to September, often suffers seasonal flash floods. But the sheer scale of the devastation this year has shocked people. Local TV stations have beamed images of towns and cities under water.

A cocoa industry body said last month that cocoa output would fall far short of a 300,000 tonne target for last season because of excessive rains.

(Reporting by Felix Onuah; Writing by Tim Cocks)

Dede1: @ Okija_juju

Page 53 of the thread pertaining to Eze Ndigbo NL nomination process holds a portentous speech that reflects a thoughtful manifestation of Okija-juju’s articulate mind Ndigbo needed on NL. Please Mazi Okiju-juju, I plead with you to let this year’s process go. My people say “Echi dime”. Also my people say “Owu ericha akpafa ngaji maka mgbe uzo afo ga abia ugwo”. I have witness your doggedness and act of bravery in the trenches of NL. It is said that character is built in a life time but reputation is built in a minute.

Again, NL may look like a joke to some people but I urge them to google some of the goofy stuffs about Nigeria or Nigeria\Biafra civil and relax for a surprise. There is a need for Igbo sons and daughters such as you on NL to rebut and debunk the disingenuously designed fallacies and outright falsehoods to denigrate the character of Ndigbo by most Nigerians of none Igbo extraction. Not every son or daughter of Igbo can recognize the extraordinary human qualities God had seated on you. By the same token, not every person of Igbo extraction could discover the personality dent on Ikemba of Nnewi as you did. However, the life of human is constantly tested by unforeseen forces of push and pull. Udo Diri Gi, Nwannem.

Imanuelle: I, Chief Ima, nke mbu, of ahiazu mbaise hereby vote for

OKIJA_JUJU - FOR EZE

And ogugua - for eze nwanyi

Nigeria arrests 15 Russian sailors carrying arms

(Reuters) - Nigerian authorities seized a ship and arrested its 15 Russian crew members on suspicion of arms smuggling, after they found several guns and about 8,500 rounds of ammunition on the boat, the Navy said on Tuesday.

The vessel was intercepted over the weekend in Lagos, one of Africa's busiest ports, Navy spokesman Commodore Aliyu Kabiru said by telephone. It belonged to the Moran Security Group, based in Moscow, and was flying a Dutch flag, he added.

There was no immediate comment from Moran.

"The vessel was carrying 8,598 ammunitions and different rifles. Investigations are still ongoing," he said. He gave no further details.

A Navy source, who could not be named, said 22 Benelli MR1 rifles and several other automatic weapons were found.

Arms smuggling is a flourishing enterprise in Nigeria, which is battling an Islamist insurgency in the north, organised armed robbery and kidnapping gangs in the south and oil thieves and pirates in the southeast.

The country is also sometimes used as a conduit for shipping arms into other parts of West Africa or the world.

In 2010, a consignment of rocket launchers, grenades and other explosive from Iran was seized at Lagos, causing a diplomatic incident between the two countries, and later between Iran and Senegal, which accused Iranian security forces of using the route to supply weapons to its Casamance rebels.

(Reporting by Tife Owolabi; Writing by Tim Cocks)

Balkans, Singapore top buyers of stolen Nigerian oil - expert

By Tim Cocks
LAGOS | Mon Oct 22, 2012 7:01pm BST

(Reuters) - The main buyers of the 180,000 barrels of oil that thieves steal from Nigeria each day are organised criminal networks in the Balkans and refiners in Singapore, according to a former presidential advisor who launched a campaign against the practice on Monday.

Dele Cole, a politician from the oil-rich Niger Delta, at the heart of Nigeria's two million barrel a day (bpd) industry, told Reuters that 90 percent of oil snatched was sold on world markets, based on estimates from oil firms and the ministry.

Just 10 percent was refined locally by gangs operating in the creeks and swamps of the delta, he said.

Oil companies say so called 'bunkering' -- tapping into oil pipelines to steal the crude -- and other forms of oil theft are on the rise in Nigeria, despite an amnesty that was meant to end a conflict there in 2009 over the distribution of oil wealth.

Yet while local gangs hacking into pipelines to steal small quantities for local refining are the most visible sign, it is industrial scale oil theft involving collusion by politicians, the military, Western banks and global organised crime that is the real drain on Nigeria's resources, he said.

"International theft is diverting huge quantities ... and the sophistication of the exercise -- from breaching the pipeline, to having barges, to knowing when ships are at the port, to being paid -- is major," he said.

Cole, who has passionately argued for a global solution to the problem in the past, opened a campaign on Monday to raise awareness and try to nudge the government into action.

"It's been a problem for a long time, but when it was 50,000 barrels, people thought was tolerable. Now we're at a totally different level," he said.

Nigeria relies on oil for more than 95 percent of government revenues. The figure of 180,000 bpd stolen comes from the upper end of an estimate by Shell, the biggest operator in the country, which frequently complains about the practice.

"Some estimates go as high as 25 percent of oil revenue. The oil companies are going to realise they're working for these bunkerers and the government that its losing revenues to them."

Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in May that the government lost a fifth of its oil revenues to theft in April.

Cole said much of the oil sold had been traced to criminal networks in the Balkans, especially Ukraine, Serbia, and Bulgaria, better known for things like cigarette smuggling or trafficking sex workers.

"On the evidence we have, the Balkan mafia organisations are well represented in Nigeria ... You can't chase these guys easily. They're as slippery as the proverbial eel."

Singapore, the world's top refiner, was also taking a large chunk. He urged Nigeria to confront Singaporean authorities.

The 2009 amnesty sharply reduced militancy in the Niger Delta, a network of creeks and wetlands where the Niger river tips into the Atlantic, but bunkering has worsened since then.

Part of what facilitates it, Cole said, is that neither the state oil firm, nor the government nor the oil companies were publishing transparent figures about how much oil they produced, making it much harder to detect missing cargoes.

He called for better metering, accounting of ships coming to and from major oil ports, questioning crews of ships suspected to be involved and cracking down on collusion by the military.

"We want to make bunkering a lot less attractive," he said.

(Editing by David Cowell)

ifyalways: mba, kama my first "trial marriage" wu with Nwa Mba4 a na-akpo Toshman. The second wukwa Onye Mba4 ozo a kporo Pres-elect.

Okwa gi munyere oku n'ulo Bala suya?

Vote for Odumchi.

ifyalways: that's my candidate!!!
Odumchi, the quiet lion. PointB, take note, he's accepted his nomination. I'm starting campaign morrow. Hehe.

The powers that be don't wanna address the questions I raised on this okija issue? Ok! Nakwa e-checki nu.

Asha, Pro01,nri priest,Achi, Anti virus, High Chief, blackpikin and other fine sons of the soil, hope you guys are copying what's going on here?SMH @ ufodu ife n'eme ebe a.

Dede1: Chaa! Chaa!! Chaa!!! Umu Igbo Kwenu! Riienu!! Muonu!!! Zuonu!!!!


The nomination process for Eze Ndigbo NL has truly humbled me. I
salute every Igbo son and daughter who thought it is worthwhile to
nominate DEDE1 for such audacious position. My profound greetings also go to
individuals who are not Igbo but envisaged it was wise to mention DEDE1 in
such a prestigious light as Eze Ndigbo NL nomination process even though it
came with the usual insults known in NL.

By the same token, I salute the Igbo sons and daughters who believed
DEDE1 would better serve them in the trenches of NL than to occupy the
venerable position of Eze Ndigbo NL. This endeavor shall remain
incomplete if I did not congratulate Onlytruth for his stewardship.
Onlytruth, you shall live long. Also, PointB and the electoral committee members
have shown us there is true Igbo blood running in their veins. I salute all
of you through the divinity of our forebearers.

I had special thanks for one ballabriggs who has uncanny ability and
mischievous tendency to impress his\her naughty niches. There is no
doubt this fellow knew few things about Igbo land but sometimes chose to be silly.
Nonetheless, I made this fellow a banter project with hope he\she will
turn the corners. Again, balllabriggs, I salute you for the act or
feign of truism or pungent in the nomination exercise.

Internet is one of the gracious discoveries of mankind. It provides us
the shade or tent to remain anonymous while unloading salvos of insults
at intended targets on a slightest provocation. In addition, it grants
the opportunity to rebut constant bombardment of the news media with
fallacious garbage with aim to secure de facto trend by certain
eggheads. The tenement Internet provides to praise singers can not be overlooked either.

With measured humility and magnanimity, I plead with no remorse to be
allowed to withdraw the nomination of DEDE1 from the current
electioneering process of Eze Ndigbo NL. Udo Diri Unu!!!

ROSSIKE: Who said car purchases were the ''only'' indicator of economic boom? Rising consumer purchases ARE a sign of a growing economy and Nigeria's annual household expenditure is rising at the rate of 9% per annum.

''Household consumption is growing at more than 9% a year in countries like Nigeria and Ghana, faster than the BRIC average. [BRIC=Brazil, Russia. India, China]''

http://qz.com/13567/more-work-more-spend-actis-bets-africas-rising-middle-class-needs-malls-and-offices/



It must have, else they could not be such a rapid increase in consumer spending across the nation.




Erm.. yes actually:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/nigeria/gdp-growth-annual




Absolutely!

Nigeria

GDP per capita (current US$) 2009 1123.0
GDP per capita (current US$) 2005 796.8
GDP per capita (current US$) 2000 371.6

http://data.un.org/CountryProfile.aspx?crName=NIGERIA




Generally speaking, YES:

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/nigeria_statistics.html

OH, AND PLEASE DO STUDY THE LINKS IF IT'S NOT TOO MUCH TROUBLE.

ROSSIKE: Oh, and oil accounts for less than 14% of Nigeria's GDP, so attributing the economic boom to 'oil prices' is another sad demonstration of your economic illiteracy.

ROSSIKE: You're a complete dunce. And please leave 'blacks' out of this because you're not fit to kneel in the same room as a black man, you worthless orangutan.

If you had a working brain which you don't, you'd realise that rising consumer purchases, of which car purchases are an integral aspect, are one of the MAJOR indicators of economic upswing in any country.