₦airaland Forum

Gbawe: If I have not exposed your ignorance and mischief a million times on NL then I might be obliged to toy with you further. As it is, ridiculing you has lost its appeal ,as you are only a joke these days, so I will simply let Nairalanders look issues up to note you are talking crap as usual.

Stop being a notice seeking fool and go and read up on the petroleum act and find out how vastly it differs from anything to do with solid minerals.
Come back when you are done, I certainly will not waste time with a visibility seeking, loudmouthed empty barrel who is also a jackass with leprosy of the mind.

This is what every state needs to be doing. Well done Ebonyi!

gentleoyink: @patriot2 I like the way you state your points.
We can pity the core North and help them one more time, but let them be humble enough to beg for our help.

Softly, my guy. You cannot pity and help anybody when what is required is a change in the mindset and culture of their wicked leaders.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]The gravy train don get accident o. Revenue allocation will be revisited and the injustice contained in its current computations, corrected. No amount of your denial can change that. In the meantime, stop running away from Gbawe, especially after he has cornered you. Rakunin daji, olodo [/quote]Poor you!
Keep planning your life on awuf. In fact awuf has so blinded you that you did not see the govts express statement that oil is totally unaffected and that revenue allocation will NOT be revisited.
My broda, if you have any minerals in your state, then you better get your crustry arse paddling spades for your 13%. Lol!

No minerals, no 13%.

homerac7: ^^^

what rubbish did u write up there? dont u know how to shut up ur mouth when you dont have anything sensible to say? u started off arguing rubbish and unintelligiently against people who are obviously smarter than u r, but instead of u to listen and learn correctly, you foolishly and stubbornly clung to your ignorance. in further attempt to break ur record on stupidity, u went on to label me as an ethnic bigot. Wow! u r just impossibly stuupid. must you talk about things and people u knw next to nothing about? must you talk without thinking? is it true that you r a nematode as said by beaf? (afterall u havent proven to be more intelligient). you can run a check through my 800+ posts on nairaland and i dare you (or any other person that think likewise) to pull out ONE, just ONE post to substantiate you bigotry accusation.

by the way, you are yet to recant on your idiocy at following a voodoo engineering feat, Mr Gullible.

Don't even bother replying that clown. He called you a bigot?
Lol! I think he calls everybody he disagrees with a bigot so he can hit your ethnic group (like all his "Urhobo" nonsense).

Lets just laugh him off.

jefwer: BE CAREFULL ΜΑΝΥ PEOPLE sell the ''fuelless generator'' and dont give you anything, or....the information are very general....
MOst of them are just to grab !! your money !! be carefull ..
like ''Amosco''.

You mean there's actually an ongoing fraud linked to this hoax? I guessed right!
Please provide more info, because people like Mr Erinle deserve to be in jail.

I wonder if the vociferous defenders of the heap of junk here are part of it, or they are just ignorant? Food for thought.

Gbawe: Why are you such a shameless liar and decietful creature? Is there no lenght you will not go to in your desire to satisfy your moronic "parasite" tag that can only wash with your clannish followers full of feudalistic ardour but lacking even basic intellect ?

Nairalanders, stop letting this sycophant decieve you. See the constitutional provisions to note that it is clear, without any ambiguity whatsover, the FG , 100%, controls the process involved in the extraction and use of mineral resources anywhere it is found in Nigeria. It is simple enough to find this info so you can all tell this charlatan to shut up instead of spamming the forum and confusing the uninformed to hide how his PDP paymasters are not interested in tackling constitutional reforms that will give States more autonomy and control. It is pointless shouting ,like a village fool, for everyone to "occupy their resources" while the FG will not relinquish the control that will make that happen.

The rights to ownership of minerals is held by the Federal Government and not the State government. The FG can then grant licences to organisations to explore, extract, refine and sell mineral resources. That is the official position and till that changes it is laughably ignorant for anyone to speak otherwise i.e as if States have any say at all. Issues are more about an indolent FG failing, like the "leaner government not possible" capitulation, to bravely pursue constitutional reform that can bring the autonomy that will surely aid rapid development.

Go and read up on the petroleum act and then come back when you have learnt the vast differences in govt involvement between petroleum and solid minerals.

Go and read up, bruv. Right now, I don't wish to entertain any ignorant ground crawling punk who is struggling for cheap visibility by making weak attemps to lampoon Beaf.

[quote author=ndu_chucks]This is not a sellout, it will start correcting the unjust distribution of the 13% derivation to only a handful of stated in the ND region to the detriment of other states with rightful constitutional claims to some of the funds.

These states should be paid in arrears and the oil states who have been spending the allocation due to Northern states and others, should be made to refund the money.[/quote]Dude, telling tales and twisting words will not change the facts on the ground.

The govt will pay states 13% for whatever minerals are mined in their states. No minerals, no 13%.
Finally, the govt has made it expressly clear that the 13% to the states ONLY affects the minerals they contribute to the federal purse. It does not affect oil, and no matter how many stories you tell, that will not change.

Get your arses to work for your 13%. Sense pass sense.

gbogboti: QUESTION: If the offshore or the Atlantic or better still our water environment is under attack today, how would you, me and the international bodies caption/title the attack? Will it be captioned as "NIGER DELTA WATER UNDER ATTACK" OR "NIGERIA'S TERRITORIAL WATER IS UNDER ATTACK". How will the FG draft soldiers and Navy to fight back? Will the modus operandi draft all Nigerian soldiers irrespective of where you come from or soldiers from Niger Delta only?

This is a poverty stricken analogy, sir.

If Kono state comes under attack from Sudan, would we say Kano state is under attack or Nigerias territory is under attack? Would Kano send an army or would it be the Nigerian army that would defend the place?
Going by the rest of your poor analysis, why then shouldn't the rest of the country divide the money made in Kano?

[quote author=One_Naira]It is so obvious when they pretend. Why do they do it? I would like to understand what joy they get from it? And I’m speaking to those with multiple monikers pretending to be from a group they aren’t part of. what joy do una get from it? Una can insult, degrade, and hate on us without pretending to be one of us. Speak your mind and speak it proudly, come out of the closet, don't speak it and try to hide behind a door to shield whatever retaliation impact that word has

There's another guy on this forum, running around claiming bini, edo as him heritage but on one tribal bashing thread between Igbo and Yoruba, he accidently let it spill that he was Yoruba and when I confronted him over it, bobo ran. Did it teach him a lesson? No!! I'm still seeing the same guy running around NL claiming Edo while trying to start an E-war between Bini and North. SMDH.

Maturity no dey for this forum, too much fakeness. Sometimes I wonder if some of the men on this forum are umunwanyi pretending to be men. In regards to una that fight with them repeatedly, una have the time and energy. Una no dey tire?

One saying I'll give to ND members and I'm just going to drag Igbo members into this one saying because Una (these two regions) keep falling for this same crap on this forum over and over again.

Stop fighting, stop defending, and stop giving a fu2k, hold you head and chest up high and keep sh1tting at them while advancing beyond their reach. The people that always try to keep a black man that is moving forward down, is other black man, therefore stop looking back at those trying to keep you down and continue living your life. Let them hate and the pain an almost unbearable fate until they slash their throat out of jea.lo.usy. Heed my word, ignore my word, na una own but this stamina una have, use it for something else rather than using to beat some senses into the bigots on this forum.[/quote]You have a very wise head indeed. Its funny how those who come from places where it won't seem out of place to host a full fledged cassava farm in their state capitals talking about laziness. Lol!
Every Rafiu Abdulkareem wants to claim ND so they can talk out of their arses. Its funny.

Best to let haters stew in their own hateful juices.

[quote author=o.obim]wil apologising to dem bring back development?an aboki wil always b an aboki.why not bring out d mohamed in u?gather them al nd kill AND STOP KILLING INNOCENT FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST[/quote]Why don't you leave religion out of it and talk sensibly?

Crap, sir. It simply implies that you need to get your states producing minerals to recieve the 13% derivation.
My broda, sense pass sense.

You people shouted for 13%, now you have it, just that you have to put your dusty arses to work. Lol!

[size=14pt]Youths ask IBB, Abdulsalam, Atiku, others to apologise[/size]
On March 19, 2012 · In News
2:33 am

By LUKA BINNIYAT
KADUNA — Arewa Youths Forum,AYF, yesterday, demanded an apology from all their leaders who have ruled the country at one time or the other for neglecting the region while they were in power.

This was the outcome of an emergency meeting in Kaduna, which was attended by Muslim and Christian youths as well as those in the diaspora.

A statement signed by its Chairman, Gambo Gajonju, said: “The meeting extensively discussed the various circumstances the North has found itself, and recent much noise about positions of past Nigerian leaders from the North, i.e. Generals Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalam Abubakar, Atiku Abubakar, and several others regarding the avoidable quagmire our region is shamelessly trapped into.

“We are at the bottom of every index ranging from health, education, social amenities, and several other sectors. Worst of our woes is the insecurity ravaging the North. It is against this background that we made the following position.

“That all Northern leaders who held several positions, i.e. Generals Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar, and others who have got golden opportunities of turning our region for good but did not should know and accept much of the blame.

“Northerners and the world need explanation as to what led the North to the rot it is today. It was not magic but man-made as a result of deliberate manipulation of religion, self-enrichment and pervasive corruption our leaders adopted to the detriment of the larger peoples of the North.

“Finally, all past and present leaders of Northern extraction should as a matter of morality and sincerity apologise to the North first. Because we got to the mess we are in due to their insensitivity, and approach to governance, which was contrary to the principles of our leader, Sir Ahmadu Bello.

According to the statement, “What the North, Nigeria at large need is not noise or elite gathering, and eating from woes of the region. What we need is practicable good governance on the basis of unity, justice, equity, oneness and togetherness”.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/03/youths-ask-ibb-abdulsalam-atiku-others-to-apologise/

oyb: hopefully amaechi is not as full as sheet as beafs beloved fg. remember the lies about an extra xxxxMW from shiroro in december?

abeg do , then talk

Looks like you've been smoking wee-wee this early morning. You sound drugged, bruv.

[size=14pt]Amaechi: how Rivers ‘ll achieve 24-hour power supply by December[/size]
By Our Reporter 4 hours 44 minutes ago

Rivers State Governor Rotimi Amaechi yesterday explained how his administration intends to provide uninterrupted 24-hour power supply in Port Harcourt and the entire state from December.

Amaechi spoke at the second Dissecting The Amaechi Administration Media Briefing Series at the Government House, Port Harcourt. He was represented by the Commissioner for Power, Augustine Nwokocha.

Nwokocha said N30billion has been set aside for the project.

Nwokocha said what the Rivers State Government is doing to get 24-hour power supply this year is “to generate enough capacity, have a robust transmission infrastructure that will take the power to the people, to their neighourhood and then have a very solid distribution infrastructure that will take it to their routes, and so we are addressing these three things – Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution”.

He said: “And unlike the previous system where they were all given to one person, here we have a total of 10 outfits doing different things to ensure that we deliver on time”.

Nwokocha went on: “So, what we have done differently is that we have divided this work into smaller units that are deliverable, faster and better. We have also focused on getting the quality of men that can deliver this work and deliver them well.

“We have got Saipan Nigeria Limited to build a power substation. We have Weltech doing a medium voltage substation. We have selected people in that category, people who we believe can deliver based on their track record”.

The Power Commissioner said the state is “currently pursing the transmission aspect of our power project.”

According to Nwokocha, Amaechi’s administration has formed a committee of technocrats to deliver power to Rivers people, saying a reliable vendor has been found for power distribution.

“We have identified a very veritable vendor with very reliable technology in distribution and transmission, Sunder Electrical of France and we have entered a contract with the company to supply us all the materials that are required to stabilise power supply in the city of Port Harcourt and its environs”, he said.

“We have also given out contracts to build substations that will reduce the length of our feeders that sometimes stretch as far as 40 or 50 kilometres through all manner of places. So, we are creating substations that will impact shorter span of the city with the capacity to back feed if a substation has problem, from another one. So, that we will have reliable power supply”, he said.

He also added that contracts for the acquisition of all parts and components of power substations have been awarded.

“Currently, the contract for the acquisition of the parts and components required for this exercise have been awarded. The contract for those who will do the implementation, the construction proper has been awarded, some of them in clusters of three substations, five contractors. We didn’t want to repeat the mistakes of the past where one person was doing generation, transmission and distribution. So, we have seven contractors doing the distribution substations each handling only three and then we have a contractor trying to remedy the lapses that are in the transmission backbone, and you have another contractor handling strictly generation”.

He said the model adopted by the Amaechi administration in power has delivered some results.

He also disclosed that currently the state power projects is generating 466 megawatts with an additional 150 megawatts coming from PHCH. He said this capacity will increase to over 700 megawatts by the time the Phase 2 of the State Afam power project is completed next year.

http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/40272-amaechi%3A-how-rivers-%E2%80%98ll-achieve-24-hour-power-supply-by-december.html

alj harem: Why do we have to login before we are able to read articles, I don't think that is nice at all.

Na lie.
Use some of the grass to clean your eyes.

Yet, they are demanding 13% derivation like the ND.

[quote author=Dudu_Negro]BRACED! No doubt, a new majority has emerged!! It is evident that the Nigerian Presidency is an empowerement stool, a podium, so to speak, from which a people relegated to marginal relevance can rise into majority and participate in mainstream politics. This is not your normal model of democracy, lol![/quote]The majority and minority shiit you guys like talking about does not pay the nations bills, neither does giving birth like an industrial plant generate jobs.
Get a life, you're boring.

[size=14pt]Jonathan, Others Set for South-south Economic Summit[/size]
19 Mar 2012
By Goddy Egene

President Goodluck Jonathan will declare open the second South-south Economic Summit scheduled for Asaba next month, a Presidency source confirmed last night. This also was corroborated by the Director-General of BRACED Commission, Ambassador Joe Keshi. BRACED is an acronym for Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Edo and Delta States which functions as the secretariat of the South-south states.

This second summit is coming three years after the first one, held in 2009 in Calabar, which did not seem to have made any sustainable impact on the investment potentials of the region.

The hopes raised by the idea of that summit have remained in animated suspense.

However, the theme of the impending summit slated for April 26-28th is ‘Development, Investment and Security’.

“When put together, we are saying that the South-south is ready for investment. We want to tell the world that the South-south is developing but within the context of that development is also the realisation that the South-south is potentially an investment haven. For those around the world and within the country who are looking for areas of investment, they can do so in oil and gas, agro-business among others. There is virtually nothing you cannot produce in large quantity in the South-south,” Keshi told journalists at the weekend.

He said the summit would attract presidents, offshore investors, global business leaders as well as indigenous investors and ministers, especially ministers from the South-south zone.

To demonstrate the seriousness and commitment of the commission towards delivering a world class summit, the BRACED Commission at the weekend, formally launched a new website solely dedicated to the summit.

The South-south is the economic life wire of the nation being the sole producer of the country’ crude oil. With the recent passage of a N4.8 trillion 2012 budget at a benchmark of $72 per barrel of oil, the full implementation of this budget will depend largely on the socio-political stability of the South-south which as recent as 2006 was a major flashpoint. The summit, therefore, in addition to building synergy within the region, would also seek ways of sustaining peace in the region.

According to Keshi: “We are focussing on regional integration and economic development, the type that is capable of producing jobs for the people of the zone and by extension for the larger Nigerian populace.

“There is something you must understand about labour; if any part of the country is developed, there would be substantial migration of labour towards that area as we have in Lagos today. Lagos is the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria but we need to create more commercial centres and cities in the country. The South-south has up to two or three areas that you can call commercial cities. Our strategy is to create the conditions that would help these cities realise their full potentials as commercial hubs.”

Given the way the South-south is growing, he projected that “in the next 15 to 20 years, the zone can create the number of jobs and opportunities that would help banish poverty from the region and the country at large. Very soon, people would start migrating to the South-south because of the opportunities which would be created from the socio-economic integration of the zone”.

While fielding questions from journalists shortly after the launch of the summit website, Keshi said: “Today, the South-south is very much united politically. Socially, they are contiguous. When you consider that one state sprang from another, you will understand the close ties that bind them. Initially, they were part of Eastern Nigeria; later you had Mid-Western Nigeria and later Bendel State on the one hand and Cross River and Rivers State on the other. Both of them further split to form Edo and Delta and Cross River and Akwa Ibom, while Bayelsa was carved out of the old Rivers State. If you take a tour of these states, you will discover how contiguous they really are. We are leveraging on this affinity to create an economic super power. We want to dismantle the dividing walls and allow free movement of goods, labour and services within this region. Already, the governors have decided that if you are from the South-south and you school in any university in the South-south, you pay the same school fees. These are some of the policies that would make the co-operation work.”

The director general said there were many areas of investment. He cited oil and gas, agriculture, transport as major investment opportunities.

“At their last meeting, the governors of the zone mooted the idea of an integrated power grid for the region. Four states are already working on it and the remaining two states are on the verge of buying into it. When fully implemented, the zone would have taken care of the power problem that has kept investors away for too long,” he said.

According to him, “At the BRACED Commission, we have set the stage at a meeting with the commissioners on the need for an inter-modular transport system for the region. The railway is very key. I have talked to my friends in the South-west who are doing the same on the feasibility of linking up these railway systems. For instance, linking the railway from Lagos to Calabar through the East would facilitate movement of goods from the South-west to the South-south. The three zones will now have to compel the Federal Government to make this work.”

He said the South-south governors were working to ensure that each state becomes a leader in the production of palm oil produce, cassava, rice and cocoa.

But noble as the idea is, some people have expressed concern over the commitment of the state governments to powering the idea to blossom. Many fear that too often political dynamics stall the progress on the essence of the summit. But the involvement of President Jonathan this time is likely to inject greater energy to realising the goals of the summit.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/jonathan-others-set-for-south-south-economic-summit/111758/

Has the perm sec been killed yet?
--Beaf sharpens cutlass--

[quote author=ekt_bear]Well this man actually hired the guy to watch his cattle. So it isn't nomadic cattle rearing..[/quote]I don't think cows can be reared in Oyo state all year round, its too damp. The story might not be 100% accurate, I imagine that the victim might have ordered some cows, but the number came short; otherwise, he was a victim of fraud (and very near a murder victim too).

There are just a bit too many occurrences of violent crime associated with cattle rearers. It is high time the practice was rigidly standardised.

The OP's article is alarming in its breadth of foolishness.
I pray that the core-Northern elite can dig into their vast mounds of blood money to finance the OP's amnesty.

I will keep repeating it that nomadic cattle rearing should be banned. It has become a guise for all sorts of crimes, from armed robberies to massacres to rap'e.

It is time to start shooting them if they are found with cows outside their states.

honeric01: Mr bigot the spongebob, i was using your "term" ND, if we go by your ND logic, then my state is also from the ND, but i don't believe in your shitty ND theory, so i am no ND, i am a Bini man from the Edo state in Nigeria.. gerrit?

Lol! Its not everyday we meet the sort of person that is ready to sell themselves and their families, which is what you are, going by the many different identities you have claimed on a single page like a chameleon lacking dignity.

At the time you joined this conversation, some fools were arguing that ND people are lazy. Then you slithered in and supported them, so I can only assume that wherever you come from, your people are lazy, cos mine ain't. In fact, as I pointed out, my people own most of the banks and Nigerian media; we are small, but mighty. Banks happen to be the next biggest contributor to GDP after oil.

Stop giving Edo state a bad name, even if you are the lowest creature to exist. Edo state people have a proud and distinguished history and are not known to spit on the graves of their ancestors.

Get Microsoft Robotics or check out the Arduino project.

honeric01: LOL, i am not ND you're right, there's no state called ND in Nigeria lol, it's not a state lol, i am a Bini man from Edo state but a Nigerian, nothing like a niger deltan lol so you're right!

Now take a bigotry away.. far away from sane people, you reek of bigotry!

Did you not make the following statement, or were you drunk at the time, sir?

honeric01: I am also from the ND, now shove that into your brain.. because i am from the ND does not mean. . .

Lolzzz!!! Your identity seems like toilet roll that you can use at will, different colours on different days. . . Same shiit.
Well, you might be as ambigious as a chameleon about the facts of your identity; I AM A NIGER DELTAN, while you are a hater from God knows where.

When fools make unfounded accusations about ND people, all to derail a thread; no true ND person would pop in to add their own lies. Its like a man spitting on his mother. So please all you Ahmed Yakassai's or whatever, stop claiming to be from the ND.
Thank God the trend has gone down now, during the elections the place was packed with all sorts winshes claiming to be from the ND, just to enhance their hateful methods.

Una no de shame?

honeric01: LOL, is that what you could come up with? lol lick whoose's asss? LOL, i give the truth RAW to whoever i would want it given to, from Lucky Igbinedion to Tunubu to adedibu to odili to jonathan to alam, obj, celicia ibru e.t.c. anyone who needs to be tongue-lashed, i give it to them no matter how "close" they are to where i "originated" from.

so next?

Dude, you are not an ND person just as much as ndu_chuks is counterfeit Igbo, alj haram is counterfeit Igbo (or Kanuri etc) and Jason123 is the only "Itsekiri" man to come from an Ijaw village!
Hatred and ethnic bigotry make people do things that make them look like vermin.

Be proud of who you are, bruv. Its obvious that no ND person thinks you are one. You can hate on us with your real identity, or are you ashamed of it?

omar22: The race pace of the Red Bulls is alittle worrying, & they seem to be looking after the tyres better than Mclaren, and its gonna be hot in Malaysia. you can see one area where Mclaren are alot better is that red bull seem to struggle to get tyre temp & mclaren dont.
So they should have advantage in quali but the Bulls will be all over them in the race if not ahead, i fancy a Vettel victory in Malaysia.

Thats because McLaren are blowing their rear wheels and rear suspension. It seems Red Bull have taken to working around the rules to blow their diffuser instead, but they cannot get as much air there as they could last season.

Hot races like Malaysia are going to be very interesting indeed, cos I don't see what good the additional hot air on the wheels will do for McLaren. We are likely going see cars varying wildly in performance (especially McLaren, since they employ blowing best among the teams) as they find need to switch exhaust angles depending on permutations for race day air and track temperatures.

koruji: Ciroma again - the new BH spokesman. This is how Ciroma is going to fight BH? By speaking on its behalf?

They want to use BH as their negotiating tool!!! It is obvious to thinking people that these people that told Jonathan they would make Nigerian ungovernable are the same ones using BH - not minding that it is costing 1000s of northerners lives. What do they care?

They are digging themselves a deeper hole since both BH and the FG can see through the lies.

I wonder if you feel shame sounding so much like a hypocrite? How many times has the boko haram issue been debated and how many times have you been told that it is nothing but a political tool to fight for access to "free" oil money?

Dude, the sooner bigots like yourself an those people who think like you get off the fence and stop playing to the gallery will be the sooner Nigeria can go to war if need be. It needs a united country for that.
If however, your vision of the breadth and width of the core-Northern elite menace is so stunted that you do not realise it might take a war to resolve, then its best for your kind to be quiet and watch instead while those with the heart and brains to do the business tackle it.

Todays Nigeria is no time for cowards, hypocrites, bigots and those who play to the gallery.

karl max: What happened to the ACN and CPC members of the house that some idiats claimed are saint they didnt oppose the looting. Going on in the assembly ALL politicians are the same forget the party name and logo. going

When I call them the worst hypocrites to walk the Earth many get angry. Yet you have loudmouthed mofo's like Aregbesola and the frog-like Tinubu who talk from both their mouths and arses at the same time while claiming to be "progressives."

Almost all politicians are in it to be closer to awuf oil money. Yet, instead of the generality of people who are being cheated to take sensible paths, you find them defending these fools because of ethnic affinity.

Shameful.

They're a bunch of unrepentant thieves.

LOL! They are frustrated and looking desperately for dialogue now.

hallmark77: Jonanthan is taking these Northerners for a serious ride and there will be serious consequences because those people are unforgiven...Seriously if he try to get himself sworn-in third time,Nigeria will not break up for sure but if they dont kill him he will kill them.For his second term which is running now to be peaceful he need to retract that statement that if he wish he can run again....His spokesman sucks at his work!

Do they drink acid? It is high time someone faced them squarely, or Nigeria will never ever develop.
GEJ has very rightly accused them as lacking commonsense and acting like witches and sorcerers. It is the stark truth, isn't it?

All they are angling for is oil. Their so-called boko haram negotiations failed to even get off the ground, because they were all about oil and money.
They have already started killing people. They did it to distract GEJ, but is now stabilising in power and should rightly begin to flex it no matter whose (exagerated) horse is gored.