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[size=14pt]More revelations in Abuja bombing suspect’s bail application[/size]
Rahima Essop

Henry Okah’s attorney has made startling new revelations in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court about his client’s alleged co-conspirators.

Okah is accused of orchestrating twin bomb blasts in which 12 people were killed in Nigeria’s capital Abuja last month. It is alleged he was working with two men wanted in Nigeria in connection with the attack.

Okah’s attorney Rudi Krause read out his client’s latest affidavit in court.

In it, Okah claims to know Chima Orlu, a man wanted for the Abuja bombings, but in Okah’s version, Orlu goes by another name and they quickly became friends in South Africa.

He claims to have later found out that Orlu was a spy for the Nigerian government who had been sent to watch him.

Okah said Nigerian authorities have no idea who is responsible for the terror attack and are simply using the incident as a political tool ahead of the next election.

EzeUche0:
Look you bastarrd, do not provoke me. That is a warning. I have tolerated you long enough. Do not make me get savage with you like I did before, and you ran to my Igbo brethren for help.

Chima Orlu is not real. Don't you understand. Now sharrap.

EzeUche0:
Beaf,

Do not insult my intelligence. I will not tolerate such foolishness from you. You do not have to like me, but you will respect me. Do you understand? Comprende?

EzeUche0:
Beaf,

Must we start this war again? This is an Ijaw issue. Igbo man has no stake in this fight.

JaaizTech:
Pls. clear you mind or your head and listen to yourself. What sense does all this make to youThe solution to Nigeria's problem is educating the North Ok. Lets take it bit by bit; I assume you a southerner and you live somewhere in the south-west, lets say Ogun state. Pls kindly explain how the poor level of education in the North has affected the performance of your Governor or your commissioners. Pls. explain further, how the lack of education in the North or how a northern policy has affected power in the last ten years, has affected poor roads in your community, or lack pipe-borne water etc.



So stop all this hate preaching; a lot of you preaching this division are not from the Niger-Delta, but assume that when the issue of splitting comes, Nigeria will split to North and South(including Niger Delta); so you all feel taken care of. All of us are enjoying the Niger-delta oil and not only the Northerners; The North is not the problem of any region in this country, is it the North that told Alamiesegha, Ibori, to embezzle their people's money or is it the North that told Obasanjo to rig elections in all the south-western states Is it the North that is sponsoring the robbery in the South-east. Is it the North that told your Governors not to bring developments to your states Why do we talk about the North, like one GHOST STATE.

rethink:
@Mbulela and Beaf.


Look at the double standards. Let me agree for the sake of arguement that the stereotype you and the Parasitic elites created is true, dont we as first Nigerians have it as a duty to Love our brethren. You see a typical Jobless Southerner is Just brainless as an Almajiri. We accuse the north of the same thing. We always foolishly look at the "north" through the Eyes of Oil and Education. What have we done with our education? Have we created jobs for all the people of the South? If the south was an Egalitarian society dont "we" think that "we" should be the ones employing "them" as slaves?

If they are the cause of "our problem" does it not allude to the fact that "we" are weaker? Our elites tell us that "they" are the problem they fail to tell us how. We cant continue with this stupidity. We are weakening ourselves. I dont care about this foolish politics of secession. If we most splint it must be done in Peace. Haters of Nigerian dont have a solution hence they incite. I have sworn that Anywhere and anytime I see hate I will fight it with all I have.

Eretare:
This story is not credible. In what world does Benue state share a border with Cameroon.
Some journalists are just plain dumb.

[size=14pt]Possible eruption from the Oku Volcanic Field in Cameroon[/size]

Erik Klemetti on November 6, 2010, 11:59 AM
There are a couple brief articles that an eruption has occurred near the border region of Cameroon and Nigeria - in the state of Benue, which is midway along of the eastern border of the two countries. The report claims that "vibrations on the earth overwhelmed the area" and that then there was a "a sudden eruption from six points on the mountainous terrain", which then "lava from the mountain cover[ed] wells, streams, trees and houses in the area". People in the vicinity had to flee, but one person died in the "eruption" and many buildings were damaged. Also, water supplies were contaminated by the lava - although the report says that it was "polluted by the heavy magma," which feels like a missed translation. Overall, this sounds like a basaltic lava flow or flows that came from previously unidentified vents - and the fact it was described as "six points" makes me think it could be a fissue eruption.

Figuring out exactly was is erupting is a little perplexing. First, there aren't any known active volcanoes in Nigeria near the state of Benue. Beyond the idea that the report if false or the location is wrong, we can look at a map of the known active volcanoes in neighboring Cameroon. The best suspect is the Oku Volcanic Field, which is a field of cinder cones and maars near the border with Nigeria, but in Cameroon. The field is part of a large Mt. Oku, which is a stratovolcano that is now cut by a caldera. There are no historical eruptions of the field, but it does host volcanic lakes like Lake Nyos and Monoun, both of which had catastrophic carbon dioxide releases in 1986 and 1984, respectively. These releases may have been a product of phreatic explosions that overturned the lake waters, but this has never been confirmed. If this eruption is, in fact, from the Oku Volcanic Field, it will be the first subaereal eruption there on record.

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The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the activities of the NNPC and its subsidiaries had earlier uncovered that the whereabouts of the sum of $210 million (abut N31.5 billion) paid by Shell Petroleum to the Federal Government as signature bonus for the allocation of an oil block (OPL 245) was yet to be traced.

Though the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) prayed the committee to give it time to ascertain the payment or otherwise of the money, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), which exposed the dealings, noted that the said money had been paid to government through the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) since December 2003.

As if this were not enough, the Federal Government was said to have been defrauded of N84 billion in import duty between 1999 and 2007 through the activities of the NNPC.

The corporation, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Total Upstream and 25 other firms are linked to the alleged fraud.

The House of Representatives Committee on Customs directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the fraud.

NNPC is said to account for about N45.9 billion, of the total amount, which it allegedly failed to pay into the coffers of the Nigeria Customs Service as tax on petroleum products imported into the country between 1999 and 2002.
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Dede1:
Since you have no doubts that River Niger did not singularly enter Atlantic Ocean, why Niger Delta instead of Benue-Niger Delta?

I was born and raised in the region wrongly referred as Niger Delta. There were deltas created by Benue-Niger, Imo, Urashi\Otamiri, Anambra\Oji, Qua Ibuo, Escravos and Forcados rivers. The problem with Nigerians remains the act of clouding everything with unfounded sentiments and misplaced politics.

Sometimes we must storm out of the sentimental shell and embrace common sense for a change. Niger Delta is a big misnomer. My state is included in the so-called Niger Delta but the fact remains that River Niger that met River Benue at Lokoja to form lower Niger-Benue River did create a delta by itself.

alj harem:

what are u insinuating
listen to yourself, so because that region is a delta, u ppl decided to name it that
there is nothing like nigerdelta because it is just 2 states balysa and rivers
don't u get
stop this your indivalistic view to keep your identity

this identity is too small, for it to stand on his own

Obiagu1:
Going thru this argument, one has no choice but to conclude that most of you can’t pass simple comprehension. Arguing different things all concurrently makes me wonder, what is the argument in the first place?

Beaf, you’re just arguing away with no coherence. The earlier you understand what others were saying the better for you.

Ever since River Niger and Benue flowed into the Atlantic Ocean, there has been Niger Delta or anything you might call it. But a Niger Delta that includes Cross River, Ondo etc is nothing but a farce.

Some residents in Enugu told Saturday Tribune that the people of the state are not feeling the impact of the ecological funds, pointing out that even when Ugwu-Eme community in Awgu Local Government Area was recently hit by a volcano as well as Ngwo-Uno in Udi Local Government Area of the state which experienced tornadoes, little or nothing was heard from the authorities.

alj harem:
what is nigerdelta
is it a zone
it is a geo-political zone
is just where the sub-south-south group minorities are playing games
or is it just an expression use to define minorities

Abagworo:
We do not doubt that river Niger is not the only River but why deny the existence of Niger Delta?

jason12345:
at bolded,

i feel you!!!