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Politics › Re: Alams,igbinedion,now Its Ibori, & Sylva?nd Has Cursed Leaders! by Beaf: 1:11am On Feb 28, 2012
When we call you people parasites, you get upset.

What do any of your phucked up states produce aside from monkeys and bushmeat roaming free in your state capitals?
Your governess beg for ND money, without which you will have nothing. I challenge onomeasike to name his state.

We feed you you ungrateful, lazy, awuf loving lepers.
May God afflict you with the diseases and deprivations suffered by the lowliest in the ND.
Sports › Re: Formula One Gee-Spot 2012 by Beaf(op): 6:23pm On Feb 27, 2012
^
I searched for that. Where did you find it at the time?

"The Renault engine gives us hope. We have three new technical people - one is our technical director, one is chief of aero and one is running the cars. They have different backgrounds coming from three different teams. There's still a problem, it's called Adrian Newey. There's only one of him."
http://en.espnf1.com/williams/motorsport/story/71428.html

Damn right.
That guy is a genius, the designer with the most wins and championships below his belt.
Politics › Re: Explosive! Deprivation & Derivation Principles: Why The North Is Poor (i) by Beaf(op): 5:20pm On Feb 27, 2012
ilugunboy:
This is insane.  . . . .!!Gawd, can't stop reading and looking at the pix.
Just understand when looking at those pics that you are seeing real gold. I keep saying the richest man in the World is not Bill Gates, but a Nigerian.
In the midst of such oppulence we find almajiri's and boko haram.
Politics › Re: Explosive! Deprivation & Derivation Principles: Why The North Is Poor (i) by Beaf(op): 4:11pm On Feb 27, 2012
To the state of origin of Boko Haram: Borno State. Enter Cavendish Petroleum, the operators of OML 110 – with good yielding OBE field. This oil block was awarded to Alhaji Mai Deribe - the Borno patriarch, who even in death will remain the richest man dead or alive in the history of Borno state- by General Sani Abacha on the 8th of July, 1996. OML 110 has a proven oil reserve in excess of 500 million barrels (More than the entire 300milliom barrels reserve of Sudan). As yet with the capacity to produce about 120,000 barrels of crude oil daily from its OBE 4 and OBE 5 wells. At current production levels, the Mai Deribes net circa N4billion monthly in crude oil sales (Using current oil price of $100pb). Cavendish Petroleum’s N4bn monthly net dwarfs the monthly statutory allocation of Borno which is about N3bn and its internally generated revenue staggers around N1billion.

See his mansion, a tourist attraction -
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Politics › Explosive! Deprivation & Derivation Principles: Why The North Is Poor (i) by Beaf(op): 4:09pm On Feb 27, 2012
[size=14pt]DEPRIVATION & DERIVATION PRINCIPLES: WHY THE NORTH IS POOR (I)[/size]
26/02/2012 06:24:00 THEWILL

[img]http://thewillnigeria.com/thumbnail.php?file=poor_658286182.jpg&size=article_medium[/img]

"According to official figures, the leading oil producing state, Rivers, received N1,053 billion between 1999 and 2008 in federal allocations. By contrast the North-eastern states of Yobe and Borno, where the Boko Haram sect was created, received N175bn and N213bn respectively. Broken down on a per capita basis, the contrast is even starker. In 2008 the 18.97m people who lived in the six states in the north-east received on average N1,156 per person.

"By contrast Rivers state was allocated N3,965 per capita, and on average the oil producing South- South region received on average N3,332 per capita. This imbalance is compounded when the cost of an amnesty programme for militants in the delta is included together with an additional 1 per cent for a special development body for the Niger Delta. To boot, the theft of oil by profiteers in the region diverts tens of millions more weekly from federal coffers." – Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.

Yes, forget these per capita figures! I agree the North is poor. Yes, I agree the poverty has bred millions of destitutes, who have become instant and easy recruits for Boko Haram. But my question is: Who impoverished the North?

A caveat: I am an unabashed capitalist who believes that every citizen has a right to do good business and make profit. I salute hard work and do not disparage honest efforts. However, uncompassionate capitalism driven by pulleys of aristocracy breeds a brutal class order worthy of condemnation.

In my last article titled – “Elrufai’s amnesia: The day Boko Haram Wore Jeans”, I categorically stated that greed and the senseless chase for power by the Fulani aristocrats and political elites of the North are responsible for the extreme poverty of the North. I still and will always stand by that. My position did not go down well with my targets; they responded with vituperations.

[b]Mallam Sanusi’s statistics was intended to mislead us by ruffling the rudder of our common sense. See, Ekiti state has a 2012 budget 0f N88 billion; Kwara state, N90 billion; Cross River state, N144 billion; Anambra state, N82 billion; Enugu state, N74 billion. Now let’s look at the 2012 budgets recently passed into law by the four major Boko Haram occupied states – Kano state has a budget of N 210 billion; Borno state, 150 billion; Gombe, N94 billion; Yobe state, 80 billion.

A simple comparative analysis shows that Ekiti state has about the same revenue as Yobe and Gombe, but only 17 students passed WAEC and NECO in Gombe state last year, while Ekiti is known for its high literacy level. Gombe state has a bigger budget that Enugu and Anambra, why hasn’t MASSOB bombed anyone. Borno state has a budget twice that of Enugu state but the poverty and unemployment level in Borno state is more than thrice that of Enugu state. Borno has a bigger budget than a Niger Delta state- Cross River, while the leaders of that state over the last decade have transformed it into the Nation’s leading tourist destination; those of Borno have transformed it into a Somalia.

Kano state gets the highest statutory allocation from the FG, because on paper Kano is the most populated state in Nigeria, yet Kano has about 1.6 million destitute Almajiris. Kano has a budget almost thrice the budget of Enugu, twice the budget of Kwara, Anambra and Ekiti, but how come almost 90% of students in Kano fail WAEC? How come the poverty level in Kano is higher than all these states put together?
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Why is the North so poor? From the figures above I have shown that Southern states with lesser budgets have shown better development performance than most North Eastern states with bigger statutory allocation and budgets.

Now, I need to tackle the sensitive question of revenue allocation that has infuriated the Mallam Lamido Sanusi and Mallam Elrufai and their likes. Niger Delta states get higher revenue allocation because they contribute virtually all the eggs in the national crate. That is expected. Albeit the 13% remains grossly inadequate, the CBN Governor has suggested that his Boko boys are resisting the disparity.

[size=14pt]I want to posit that the North-East through their aristocrats and ex-military rulers (except Gen. Mohammed Buhari) rake in more oil money (from the Niger Delta) individually than any Niger Delta state, and collectively more than twice the entire Niger Delta put together. In this disquisition, I have attempted to show that 80% of crude oil and gas produced by indigenous companies is controlled by the North-East. It is an area they have well conquered through General IBB, Abacha and Abdulsalami. However, the loots never get back home.[/size]

In this first part I will attempt to describe the very uneven nature of the distribution of the nation’s wealth among the Northern aristocratic families and their military generals who for decades looted Nigeria. They did so blatantly, and while Nigeria was weeping about oil windfall loot and others, Nigerians would wail if they know how much of the nation’s resources these folks allocated to themselves and their business fronts before they stepped aside.

Let us therefore begin.

To the state of origin of Boko Haram: Borno State. Enter Cavendish Petroleum, the operators of OML 110 – with good yielding OBE field. This oil block was awarded to Alhaji Mai Deribe - the Borno patriarch, who even in death will remain the richest man dead or alive in the history of Borno state- by General Sani Abacha on the 8th of July, 1996. OML 110 has a proven oil reserve in excess of 500 million barrels (More than the entire 300milliom barrels reserve of Sudan). As yet with the capacity to produce about 120,000 barrels of crude oil daily from its OBE 4 and OBE 5 wells. At current production levels, the Mai Deribes net circa N4billion monthly in crude oil sales (Using current oil price of $100pb). Cavendish Petroleum’s N4bn monthly net dwarfs the monthly statutory allocation of Borno which is about N3bn and its internally generated revenue staggers around N1billion.

See his mansion, a tourist attraction -
http://kyata.aminus3.com/image/2009-08-17.html

[b]I will then shift to the centre of the Fulani aristocratic hegemony in the North East – Kano. Here. Enter the Fulani Prince Nasiru Ado Bayero, Mallam (Prince) Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s cousin. He is a Key shareholder and director in Seplat/Platform petroleum operators of the Asuokpu/Umutu Marginal Field with a capacity of 300,000 barrels monthly and A 30mmfcsd gas plant capable of feeding 100MT of LPG. The Ado Bayeros, Yar’Aduas and Atiku Abubakar are Nigerian holders of Intels. It is a private port that has grounded three Federal ports in the South. Intels is discussed later.

Enter South Atlantic Petroleum Limited (SAPETRO). South Atlantic Petroleum (SAPETRO) is a Nigerian Oil Exploration and Production Company that was created in 1995 by General T. Y. Danjuma. General Sani Abacha awarded the Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 246 to SAPETRO in February 1998.

The block covers a total area of 2,590km2 (1,000 sq. miles). SAPETRO partnered with Total Upstream Nigeria Ltd (TUPNI) and Brasoil Oil Services Company Nigeria Ltd (Petrobras) to start prospecting on OPL246. Akpo, a condensate field was discovered in April 2000 with the drilling of the first exploration well (Akpo 1) on the block. Other discoveries made on OPL 246 include the Egina Main, Egina South, Preowei and Kuro (Kuro was suspended as a dry gas/minor oil discovery).

In June 2006, General TY Danjuma divested part of its contractor rights and obligations to China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for $1 billion (N160bn). Akpo exports about 230,000 barrels of condensate daily. Condensate export is not regulated by OPEC, so SAPETRO/TOTAL exports as much as possible each day. Egina exports about 75,000 barrels of oil daily.

Therefore, Akpo and Egina fields export just over 300,000 barrels of oil/condensate daily (three times what the country Ghana exports). SAPETRO (TY Danjuma) get 25% of this. Now, note I have not talked about the gas component – it’s about 2.5 trillion cubic feet. The money SAPETRO nets each month is more than the monthly statutory allocation of all the Niger states combined and also more than the oil revenue of Ghana. Do your math.

Enter AMNI (or is it AMIN?) International Petroleum Development Company. AMNI owns two oil blocks – OML 112 and OML 117. In the production sharing contract, AMNI gets 60% for owning the oil block and Total gets 40% for providing technical advice. OML 112 was awarded on the 12/02/1998 while OML 117 was awarded 06/08/1999 all by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar. Operations started on both blocks 0n 26/02/2006. The licenses are due to expire 11/02/2018 and 05/08/2019 respectively. (Now you see why the next election is important?).

The Okoro and Setu fields in OML 112 are operated by Afren Energy, a company substantially controlled by Rilwanu Lukman. The Okoro and Setu oil fields have about 50 million barrels in reserve and currently produce/exports just a little below 20,000 barrels per day. The chairman of AMNI International Petroleum and Development Company is Alhaji (Colonel) Sani Bello a Fulani from Kontagora, Niger State. Lest I forget, Alhaji Bello’s son- Abu, is married to General Abdusalami Abubakar's eldest daughter.

Enter Oriental Energy Resources Limited, a company owned by Alhaji Mohammed Indimi, a Fulani and close friend of General Ibrahim Babangida. Also worthy of note is that General IBB’s first son is married to Alhaji Mohammed Indimi’s daughter – Yakolo Indimi-Babangida, who also serves as a director in the company. Alhaji Indimi hails from Niger State.

Oriental Energy Resources Limited runs three oil blocks: OML 115, the Okwok field and the Ebok field. OML 115 and Okwo are OML PSC, while Ebok is an OML JV. All of them crown offshore oil blocks. OML 115 on its own is 228 sqKm. On OML115 Oriental Energy Resources Limited has 60 per cent while Equity Energy Resources AS, which Alhjai Aliko Dangote’s oil and gas investment vehicle has 40 per cent (Aliko Dangote is from Kano). On Okwok, Addax has 40% and on the Ebok field, Oriental Energy Resources shares with none: its 100%. AMNI produces twice as much as Cavendish Petroleum.

Enter Express Petroleum and Gas Limited floated by Alhaji Aminu Dantata, solely for the purpose of fronting for winning oil block(s) even though he and the company are in no way qualified for the award. General Abacha awarded him OML 108 on the 1st of November, 1995. CAMAC Houston, a company owned by Kase Lawal bought 2.5% of Express Petroleum’s 60% holdings. The other 40% on OML 108 is owned Sheba E&P Limited an IBB tributary company. SEPCOL operates the Ukpokiti offshore field in Shallow water Nigeria, which was acquired from ConocoPhillips in May 2004.

Enter Shebah Exploration And Production Limited (SEPCOL) . It is the operator of the Oil Mining License 108 offshore Nigeria. Head office is in Lagos, but ‘head quartered’ in Minna.

Enter Consolidated Oil. Conoil Producing Limited is an integrated upstream oil and gas company. They are the operator of six blocks in the Niger Delta as well as 25% Equity holder in the Joint Development Zone (JDZ) Block 4. Corporate Head office is in Lagos, but its ‘Headquarters’ is in Minna, Niger State.

Conoil signed a technical operator agreement with Continental Oil and Gas Limited (CONOG) to provide 100% funding and technical service agreement to operate blocks OML 59 on a 40% (Conoil) / 60% (CONOG) basis. Conoil entered into a Production Sharing Contract with the NNPC by virtue of an agreement executed on 17th October 2008.

Conoil’s has overall potential hydrocarbon resources of over 1.0 Billion Barrels of Oil and 7.0 Trillion Cubic Feet of Gas. General Ibrahim Babangida awarded the first oil block to Conoil in 1991. The company produces about 100,000 barrels per day.

Enter Rilwanu Lukman, another Fulani multimillionaire with fronted controlling holdings in Afren, the operators of AMNI oil blocks and also with very key interest in the NNPC/Vitol trading deal, Vitol is a London based oil trading company. Vitol lifts 350,000 barrels of crude oil daily from Nigeria.

Enter Intels and the Yar’Adua , Ado Bayero family and [size=14pt]Alhaji Abubakar Atiku.[/size] The Oil and Gas Free Zone and Oil Services Centres, as well as Support Bases, are operated from government-owned facilities, leased to Intels under long-term agreements. Intels runs a ‘private port’, a venture that has systematically killed the Calabar, Warri and Port Harcourt ports. There are over one hundred major companies operating at the Intel facility in Port Harcourt. The company makes more money in profit than the government of Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta states put together. I shall give details and figures in the part two of this disquisition.


Finally, for the Part I of this disquisition, I introduce you to NorthEast Petroleum. The name is as clear as the message it sends. I do not need to write so much about NorthEast Petroleum registered as NorEast. NorthEast Petroleum Nigeria Limited is the holder of OPL215 license, covering an area 0f 2,564 square kilometres in water depths between 200 to 1600 metres. NorEast is the parent company of Rayflosh Petroleum Nigeria which got the 2005 bidding round and was awarded the blocks OPLs 276 & 283 closing thereupon a Joint Venture Agreement with Centrica Resources Nigeria Limited and CCC Oil and Gas.

Not surprising, NorthEast Petroleum is owned by another Fulani businessman from the North East, Alhaji Saleh Mohammed Jambo. The license was awarded to him by General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida in 1991 and then renewed in 2004. So far $50Million has been spent on the very promising Okpoi-1 and Egere -1 exploratory well.
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In the Part II, we shall finish the discussion. We will table other North Eastern billionaires who make more money than their states of origin from Niger Delta oil blocks.

With all these oil blocks owned by ‘North- Easterners’ in the Niger Delta, it should be clear to Elrufai and Sanusi who really benefits from the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme.

Sadly, National Bureau of Statistics reports from 2010 show Niger State as the poorest state in the Federation, and the North East the poorest region.

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/front-page-news/35947-nigerias-poverty-level-rises-hits-715-sokoto-niger-top-list-of-poorest-states.

With these figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, I rest my case.

Written By Ross Alabo-George
imaginasion@gmail.com

http://thewillnigeria.com/opinion/12652-DEPRIVATION-DERIVATION-PRINCIPLES-WHY-THE-NORTH-POOR.html
Politics › Re: El'rufai Accuses President Jonathan Of Partnering With Boko Haram by Beaf: 2:59pm On Feb 27, 2012
^
My guy, like play, like play, some of those abused kids in that pic might have killed people by now. And El Rufai will blame Jonathan.
Its the same way Sanusi blamed 13% derivation to oil states as the reason for boko haram.

Nutin we no go hear. embarassed
Politics › Re: Effect Of Mallam Nasir El-Rufai's Wicked Act by Beaf: 12:46pm On Feb 27, 2012
This is a really sad story about the direct effects of corruption and wickedness in high places. It is the very same chameleon, El Rufai that is going around tweeter, desperately trying to look like a saint to the weak minded.
Politics › Re: Beaf to avoid Impeachment 13% Derivation Is Bias replace it with SST By Musiwa by Beaf: 12:41pm On Feb 27, 2012
[size=42pt]You are a parasite.[/size]
Politics › Re: Why Is Boko Haram Not Targeting Govt And Pdp Members? by Beaf: 12:10pm On Feb 27, 2012
^
I wish you would grow your own d.i.c.k and stop pretending to be me.
Since I am so great to you, can you bring your woman as a gift to thank me with? I will make her see the sun and think its the moon! grin grin grin
Politics › Re: Oil States Reject North’s Demand For More Revenue by Beaf: 11:53am On Feb 27, 2012
MAYOWAAK:
We cannot say that we exist in a Federal Republic and then some people still think that the way to address their revenue shortfall is to eye the revenues of others. [b]That is not Federalism. You only do that to a conquered people. You only do that to a vassal state. [/b]So Nigeria should decide do we really want to be a Federal Republic of Nigeria where we have viable states that pull their own weight o, r do we want to pretend by calling ourselves a Federal Republic while the reality is that there is nothing Federal about the Republic and we are really a Unitary Republic of Nigeria where states depend on one unitary commodity (oil) and abandon other resources (such as agriculture, solid minerals and manufacturing)
That is why Hilary Clinton claimed that the Niger Delta is like occupied territory, and its people kept in bondage by the rest of Nigeria.
Politics › Re: Nigeria Cannot Be A Secular Country by Beaf: 11:44am On Feb 27, 2012
@auwal87
You have misunderstood the meaning of the word, secular.
Programming › Re: Need Urgent Help With Php Mail by Beaf: 11:01am On Feb 27, 2012
webdezzi:
Point of correction.
PHP's mail classes does not send emails, it only interfaces with whatever email server software you installed on your machine (linux or windows)
could be postfix, sendmail etc. this you will need to set in you php.ini file

if you dont have these email server softwares properly configured, regardless of the language you are coding with, no email will be sent.
Since php accounts for the largest of script generated emails, and email providers like hotmail, gmail and aol have taken strict measures against these kind of emails, hence the need to properly dot your Is and cross every Ts while setting headers before sending emails from PHP.


emails are never actually sent by php or perl or python except its an smtp server written in any of these langauges.
Lol!
The way, the bolded is funny stuff indeed! What do you expect from cut and join?

Pointing out that the mail() function is a layer between your code and the SMTP server is an incredible dodge! lol!
Lbraries in other languages just happen to tell you what is happening in easily trappable errors and return values. But I guess these ones are SMTP servers, thats why they are better? shocked
PHP's cut and join nature means you are likely to see hallucinations of Beelzebub just trying to send a simple email. That has absolutely nothing to do with whether it is an SMTP server, rather it is 100% due to rotten code, hacks and zero standards.

It is a breeze to send emails with total control from other languages, because they are thoroughly tested, structured and standardised and well written. Indeed functions in most languages are structured along strong inheritance routes that strongly enforse adherence to a pre-decided and well thought out set of contracts.

The cut and nail nature of PHP shows up where errors are trappable in some functions, yet in others like mail() you need to employ voodoo. The simple reason is a lack of standards and zero testing; there is is no standard way of writing functions to go into the main library and no standard way of vetting what goes into the library. Its anything goes (fuckry or not).

Cut and join.

@Barkin Zuwo
You are hilarious! JavaScript uses the ECMA-262 standard just like Mono C# and .NET C# use C#'s ECMA and ISO standards. Why argue about stuff you don't know? grin
Politics › Re: Promotion Of Digs & Aigs Tears Police Apart by Beaf: 10:27am On Feb 27, 2012
ebealways:
i hope this will not lead to saboteurs! huh undecided
It will make little difference if they choose to sabotage.
The crap has always been in their blood, it is very doubtfull that the police HQ was bombed just after Ringims got in without insider help.
Politics › Re: El'rufai Accuses President Jonathan Of Partnering With Boko Haram by Beaf: 9:27am On Feb 27, 2012
10 million almajiri's created by core-Northern elite phuckers like El Rufai, but they wish to blame someone else like the losers that they are.
The 10 million figure is from a census taken in 2006, God knows if they are not 15 million today. Not many countries of the World have a total population that is anywhere near 10 million.

Of course, to El Rufai and the damaged fools that flock around him, GEJ created the almajiri's and phucked up the North.
What did that blister called El Rufai do about almajiri's when he was in power, can he point at a single thing or a single person he saved?

www.nairaland.com/attachments/582558_buharri_jpg32d5c75f61212cf619b42ff6ccb7459d

www.nairaland.com/attachments/582610_alj_harem_jpgdc120a495c49e98c4b70d5819c0737d9
Politics › Re: El'rufai Accuses President Jonathan Of Partnering With Boko Haram by Beaf: 9:19am On Feb 27, 2012
Poor thief called, El Rufai. He gets more desperate and stup!d everyday. 90% of his followers sound like him; a pathetic bunch of losers who lie and make threats of violence like the fools they are.

Its the born to rule syndrome.
Politics › Re: Oil States Reject North’s Demand For More Revenue by Beaf: 9:13am On Feb 27, 2012
I de laf o! The true face of Nigeria shows more clearly everyday.

How is it normal for a governor who is supposed to develop his state to begin calling louder for awuf from other states? How is it normal that the citizens of his state have not risen up to call for his head for embarrassing them so patently when they are not invalids?

What is the use of a governor who is so phucking unimaginative and bereaft of ideas as to make beggarly calls for oil money, while those from whose land it act as the slaves and donkeys for all? It boggles the mind that thousands would actually have queued up, exposed to the vagaries of the elements, uncertain about the violence thugs or govt forces could unleash at any crazed moment. . . to vote for a man whose most creative thought is an ever expanding beggars bowl.

What a country!
Politics › Re: The List Of Nigerian Looters Who Kept All Of Us In Poverty! by Beaf: 8:49am On Feb 27, 2012
[size=14pt]General Muhammadu Buhari - $2.8billion Midlands Bank London[/size]
Discovered during Senate probe by the elder Saraki (under Sagari).
Buhari felt so powerful, he refused to present himself to the Justice Oputa Panel.
Politics › Re: Southern Groups Laud North Over Snc by Beaf: 2:24pm On Feb 26, 2012
[quote author=haka_nai link=topic=879946.msg10275401#msg10275401 date=1330246920]@beaf
Honestly i feel it is fair that in the previous unconcluded resource issues.A gradual increase in resource control by the owners be encouraged.I support that without doubt.Have you notice even thought the arrangement didn't get a final nod,since then the useless northern governors have not made do with the ones given them.
My take is this forget our backwardness and forget the silly clamour for resource control.Let everyboduy have a giant control in the resources they have.It will not help us if keep feeding this governors.They shoudl work towards generating revenue or resign.Some came to power and found industires working and gradually they watched them collapse with out any concern.So please and please it will help us up north it that free oyel money is stopped or reduced so the owners are happy and then northern governors/leaders are motivated to act.
There may be a short backlash but we would be better off afterwards.Its called survival i tell you.If they realise all this they would simply invest and attach serious priority to there resources.Otherwise they would continue to wait monthly and have meetings asking for monies always.They should understand they have to survive without it period.they most initiate the programs to take us there.They must have an economic vision.If Dangote can invest 500K in the 70s and become richer than most of this states from agro products packaging only,then they shoudl be ashamed with the billions they have collected.If it means you empower people with a little off you budget.from scholarships to setting up industries and encouraging your people to embrace the idea.Yobe satte once invested in the stock markert to generate money and it worked for them at one point in time.Katsina also did some bank arrangements and project ideas thgat have saved the state monies and finishged projects at record time.etc Today am into ICT and alot of my northern friends and i can tell its about trend,intellect and skills.With little to do with capital intensive starting.The north is also moving to ICT in government.With alot to be done.If they can manage resources and build ICT,a market can be made for the teaming unemployed
from the inception of democracy we were told about gum arabic in the sahel savannah areas of the far north.to stop desertification and generating revenue.Where are they ?This is something that has tremedious dual use.How much is a hummer or luxury car?convert that to trees.They said this could rake in billions enough to manage atleast 9 states.We have granite rocks.we have soild minerals.We have agro products.why not convert g-oil to high standards,corn to finished products from industries up north.What happens everyday is farmer sell it without government getting tax, down south to industries to process and send all over the nation again and revenue is generated.We can't make noodles,we can't make tin tomatoe paste,we can't make corn flakes or oats or cereals,we can't make sausage,we can't make feeds,we can't make textiles,we can't make jewelries,We can't train the teaming graduates in to ICT,we can't make leather products of high standard for designers world wide.despite our lifestock,our shoes and textiles are mostly made from Aba. c,mon this governors are dafts period.
NO ! NO!! NO!!! The north most work and it must get rolling.[/quote]Lol! You've got loads of ideas man!
The end result we should all gun for is finished goods with added value; that will generate more income, expertise and employment benefits; thats just so right.
Even if we are farming tomatoes, let us can them; if what we have is beans, let us learn to export akara. I am damn sure there must be a way to package suya for export etc.

The plain truth is that switching off oil money today will only affect state civil servants who are not that many. The common man will not even know that money has stopped flowing from Abuja, because the average governor shares the loot amongst friends and family and puts the rest straight in the bank. Does the market woman know when the oil price has risen, does it lessen her burden of poverty? No.
Politics › Re: A National Monument To Ojukwu Should Be Built In Abuja by Beaf(op): 2:12pm On Feb 26, 2012
[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=880148.msg10276456#msg10276456 date=1330261443]Dont mind him.Will he be here canvassing for a monumental shiit if the biafaran soldiers that invaded delta had killed his father ? Beaf will you feel good about that ?[/quote]Respect yourself.
Politics › Re: Promotion Of Digs & Aigs Tears Police Apart by Beaf: 2:06pm On Feb 26, 2012
“How can an officer, who is your junior, appreciates that fact, has been taking orders from you for years and you have been the one writing and grading his performance rating in the force, suddenly jumps over you by so many steps and you are expected to salute as well as take orders from such officer. It is frustrating, annoying, shows that due process has been thrown to the winds; and that transparency is no more” an officer said.
Just bloody resign. cool
Politics › Re: Promotion Of Digs & Aigs Tears Police Apart by Beaf: 2:03pm On Feb 26, 2012
Many of the senior officers particularly, Assistant Inspectors General of Police and very senior Commissioners of Police are irked that the same DIG Parry Osayande who has all along insisted that  he is  on a  mission to cleanse  the  promotion and appointment structure of the force, and follow due process in appointment, discipline and promotion, is  the one presiding and approving a promotion that is specifically aimed at frustrating and insulting the sensibilities of officers who have devoted their lives to the Nigeria Police force.
Make dem resign na! Na power?
What about all the years that they and their boys assaulted the sensibilities of the common man with their N20 roadblocks? What about the resulting deaths from stray bullets and "accidental discharges?"

They are being frustrated out of the force because they are a bunch of blood sucking phuckers. They bera leave quietly and close the door behind themselves.
Politics › Re: A National Monument To Ojukwu Should Be Built In Abuja by Beaf(op): 1:50pm On Feb 26, 2012
Andre Uweh:
@THE O.P, Thanks for this noble idea.  Have a nice Sunday.
Thanks, bro.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=880148.msg10276171#msg10276171 date=1330257992]Where is this monument located, please post pictures if possible.  Zungeru or Nnewi would be a good location for a monument for Ojukwu, placing one in Abuja will not be in furtherance of the closure you speak of. BTW, what do I have to do with unrepentant secessionists?[/quote]I believe this is it:

[img]http://www.abujacity.com/.a/6a00d8345c5c1b69e20120a91de111970b-pi[/img]

As to what you have to do with unrepentant secessionists? You have quite a suspicious and unforgiving heart, sir.
Politics › Re: A National Monument To Ojukwu Should Be Built In Abuja by Beaf(op): 1:46pm On Feb 26, 2012
slam7000:
@beaf,

Have you got an email address or any form of contact,mobile no, i got something for ya.
You can write to admin@afrosciencecommunity.com. It will be forwarded to me.
Politics › Re: A National Monument To Ojukwu Should Be Built In Abuja by Beaf(op): 12:57pm On Feb 26, 2012
[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=880148.msg10276024#msg10276024 date=1330256124]This post must be a bait to fool Igbo people, ko? You should be calling for a monument for the dead soldiers of the civil war.olodo

You talk about closure, but that kind of closure is impossible when you have unrepentant secessionists still running loose.[/quote]There is already a monument to the unknown soldier. And there are still unrepentant seccessionists because of people like you.
Bringing closure and showing respect is the wisest thing to do.
Politics › Re: Lagos Funeral For Late Dim Odumegwu-ojukwu (pics) by Beaf: 12:30pm On Feb 26, 2012
LEXYLOV:
Please can someone tell me with the presence of Lagos state governor and many high personalities in this ceremony, and thus only the command or army day school children cadet can offer the guard of honor to a whole eze ndigbo gburugburu, what happen to NA or even NPF to parade shocked shocked shocked undecided
Avoid Engish before you kill pesin.
Nairaland General › Re: Breaking News: Today's My Birthday by Beaf: 12:06pm On Feb 26, 2012
frankmoney:
Today's ma b.day, nd[b] i felt it should make all the major headlines, HAPPY B.DAY TO ME !!![/b]
Lol! What a joker! grin grin grin
Happy birthday, bruv!
Politics › A National Monument To Ojukwu Should Be Built In Abuja by Beaf(op): 12:03pm On Feb 26, 2012
This would be a fitting way to bring closure to the events that led to the Civil War and the embers it left behind. It would go to show that Nigeria values a men who employ courage and sacrifice for the common man.

A fitting monument would be a giant statue overlooking a museum and library complex.

A lion has gone home.
May Ojukwu's soul rest in peace.

https://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2011-11/66342775.jpg

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