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I believe it is most important that Jonathan removes Gen Maina, the GOC in Jos. Or at least ensure that he is as ineffective as a wad of toilet roll.
This is the time to reposition the army, strip any suspect brigades off weapons and 100% arm up loyal troops, MEND, MASSOB, OPC and any youthful Middle Belter/Southerner that can weild a cutlass.

No state of emergency should be declared, either in states or nationally (even if Heaven falls), because thats what the criminals want.

I really pity IBB and his goons, there is no way now that he isn't going to end up in jail. The only way for him now is to quietly drink otapiapia; no man can hold a nation of 150 million to ransome.

It is time to face down the baboons that have held this country back. The reason for IBB's bad bele is that whole of PDP (North, South, East, West) seems to have crumbled like butter in his palm after the declaration, so IBB and his girlfriend Atiku have been left naked.

He did not go because, IBB and his crew are threatening to plunge the country into war and kill Southerners in the same way it happened in 1966.
The man has to remain behind to stabilise the country.

May the blood of MKO, Dele Giwa and all the innocent souls IBB has consumed make him run mad.

It is time to stand up to these people. The last remnants of the cabal must be uprooted.

Kobojunkie:
_{***rolls eyes ***}

So people from Kwara cannot be southerners?
_{***rolls eyes again ***}

Daft.

[size=14pt]Local pipes usage debuts in Nigeria’s petroleum industry [/size]
By Bassey Udo
September 20, 2010 12:34AM

Nigeria’s effort at domiciliation of the petroleum industry operations through the Nigerian content policy appears to be yielding the desired dividend, as key multinational operators have started deploying locally manufactured pipes in their fields.

American energy giant, ExxonMobil, has pioneered the use of made-in-Nigeria pipes in its operations, with plans to deploy Helical Submerged Arc Welded (HSAW) pipes fabricated by SCC Pipe Mills for its Usari-Idoho pipeline replacement project in Akwa Ibom State.

The pipes will be used for the replacement of the 24-inch oil pipeline connecting the Usari and Idoho platforms, located in the company’s shallow water oil fields in water depths of 21 metres.

The feat, which would pave the way for made-in-Nigeria pipes to be used for an oil and gas project in the country by any international or local operating company, is expected to unlock investments in pipe mills and other oil industry support facilities.

Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Ernest Nwapa, said at the weekend at a meeting with representatives of China’s major welded line pipe maker, Jiangsu Yulong Steel Pipe, led by its director of sales, M. A. Abbas, that a number of investors have already firmed up plans to establish pipe mills and related facilities in Calabar in Cross River, as well as Koko and Gbaran Ubie in Delta State.

What is delaying the Final Investment Decisions (FID) of these investors, Mr. Nwapa said, were concerns by SCC that products from its pipe mill in the country was not being patronised by the industry.

He described the use of SCC pipes by Exxon Mobil as a breakthrough in the implementation of the Nigerian Content Act and a strong signal that government, assuring that investments in the country’s oil and gas industry in support facilities, would be protected and patronised.

Nwapa urged serious investors to speed up the pace of execution of their projects by taking advantage of the Nigerian Gas Master Plan (NGMP) infrastructure project and the Calabar-AKK pipeline project being promoted by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on behalf of the Federal Government.

Minister of Petroleum Resources, Deziani Alison-Madueke, said two weeks ago, at the inauguration of the NCDMB governing council by President Goodluck Jonathan, that the steadfast implementation of the Nigerian Content Act would lead to the establishment of three to four new pipe mills and other ancillary manufacturing plants in the next four years to service the demands of the industry.

According to Mrs. Alison-Madueke, the Federal Government’s vision is to retain over $10 billion out of an average annual oil & gas industry expenditure of $20 billion in the Nigerian economy, compared to the current sum of less than $4 billion.

The Usari-Idoho pipeline replacement project is being executed by Saipem Nigeria for ExxonMobil, with extensive tests carried out on the pipes both locally and overseas to confirm that they met all required technical specifications.

With the confirmation that the pipes fabricated by SCC met all international standards, the Executive Secretary pointed out that there was no reason why other operating companies in Nigeria would not join in sourcing their pipes from the company and other proposed pipe mills across the country.

Nwapa also noted that NCDMB had insisted that any of the proposed Nigerian pipe mills with the capacity to meet the project schedule of the Calabar-AKK pipeline project or any other project in the petroleum industry would be fully utilised before any quantity could be imported.

Although the SCC pipe mill has a capacity of producing 30,000 tons at a time and an annual capacity of 100,000 tons, the only order placed in the factory since it was upgraded was three years ago, with about 6,000 tons by Exxon Mobil in 2007.

Though Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NOAC) are reportedly processing orders for supply of line pipes from the SCC mill, Mr. Nwapa charged other operators to toe the same line in order to encourage keen investors to progress their pipe mill construction.

At the meeting between NCDMB and representatives of Jiangsu Yulong Steel, it was gathered that an agreement was reached to set up a joint NCDMB/Julong project team that will work on the proposed movement of the company’s 250,000 tons longitudinal submerged arc welded pipe mill to Nigeria.

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Money/Business/5620987-146/local_pipes_usage_debuts_in_nigerias.csp

[size=14pt]Worrisome, Ominous Signs Of Disintegration[/size]

It is no longer news that former despotic military President Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida has thrown his hat into the ring in order for him to have another shot into the nation’s presidency on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The occasion was held with fanfare at Eagle Square, Abuja on Wednesday. The declaration of General Babangida (retd.) fondly called ‘IBB’ by his admirers, sent an unfavourable signal to the continued corporate existence of Nigeria as a united entity for several reasons.

The antecedents of IBB as a military president should be a source of worry to rational-thinking beings across the length and breadth of this nation even beyond. The elaborate dimension of the declaration was enough pointer to anybody who cares to know that IBB really meant business; and his declaration cannot be divorced from the agenda of the North with reference to the lingering zoning brouhaha within the PDP.

It was observed that speakers after speakers on the occasion of the IBB declaration were reiterating the fact that zoning was entrenched in the PDP constitution, citing section 2(c) as their justification. The course religiously and vigorously being advanced by those in favour of zoning has been that President Goodluck Jonathan who paired up with the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, was actually using the slot of the North which was prompted by the demise of Yar’Adua who would have used two terms of four years each. To the protagonists of mastery of zoning within and outside the PDP, since former President Olusegun Obasanjo, a South-Western, who was not popular in his geo-political zone, spent two terms of eight years, designing anything less for Yar’Adua post-humously would amount to shortchanging of the North.

The South-South geo-political zone, on the other had, has been boasting that zoning should be disregarded in the prevailing political logjam bedeviling the nation. The South-South which is the goose that lays the golden eggs of the nation has vowed that she would fight with the last drop of her blood to enthrone her kingsman as the nation’s president in 2011.

The South-South’s justification has been that President Jonathan, their kingsman, was a co-pilot with the late Yar’Adua, in flying the aeroplane of the nation, saying when Yar’Adua joined the great majority, nature had put the responsibility of flying ahead on President Jonathan, arguing that it would be an act of irresponsibility for him to have allowed the plane to crash by waiting for another pilot to take charge. The South-South zone of the nation is notorious for brewing commercial kidnappers and militants. It is worthwhile to mention that some of the notable militants from the zone had threatened that if Jonathan is not fielded by the PDP in the 2011 election as president, the whole nation would be made ungovernable which is a prelude to secession of the petrol-rich zone.

Lest I forget, during my short electronic sojourn to the IBB declaration at the Eagle Square in Abuja on Wednesday, I was all the while expecting to see one of his boys in the South-West, embattled Osun State Governor, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, occupying a conspicuous position. But, I was dead wrong because Oyinlola who is a grandmaster of deceit had travelled abroad a day to the IBB declaration in order for him to have his political credibility intact before Jonathan and Obasanjo. A source close to Osun State Government House also disclosed that the Okuku prince will also not be attending Jonathan’s declaration this weekend under the pretence that he would still be on a working visit aboard. The idea of the military governor’s trick is to play safe before two masters. Obasanjo and Jonathan who know that Oyinlola is an unrepentant ‘IBB Boy’ have been watching the activities of Oyinlola.

To this extent, an espionage team who assessed the popularity of Oyinlola in the state PDP was sent down from Wadata Plaza, Abuja, last week. The kernel of their finding was that, though Oyinlola was the leader of the party in the state, but he has a limited influence on the party. It was learnt that anytime from now, the state executive of the party may be dissolved and give way to a caretaker committee.

To say that Oyinlola is now more confused than ever is not an understatement as one finds it difficult for his reason for sounding out Alhaji Fatai Akinbade from his overseas’ hideout few days ago if he (Akinbade) could be Iyiola Omisore’s running mate; to which the former declined flatly. Sensing that Oyinlola and the current PDP executive have anointed Omisore as the party’s governorship flagbearer in the 2011 general elections, all other PDP governorship aspirants who feel cheated have now formed a common front and duly succeeded in lodging their complaint concerning the issue at stake with President Jonathan and the party’s national chairman, Chief Ezekwelize Nwodo. Any time from now, the aggrieved PDP governorship aspirants, who would appear in a uniform apparrel, would address a joint press conference, condemning Oyinlola’s anointing of Omisore.

To corroborate the fact that the PDP is in disarray in Osun State and that all is not well with the party at the centre, news of official opening of a parallel state PDP secretariat was flying around the state capital on Thursday. It was also gathered that the PDP faction had succeeded in election a parallel executive members. What further evidence do we need that the self-acclaimed most populous political party in Nigeria is on its way to total disintegration?

As it is in Osun PDP, so it is in other states of the federation and the centre being controlled by the party. John Cambell it was who cautioned sometime ago that if care is not taken, the corporate entity called Nigeria may become history; saying that Nigeria may seize to one in 2015. Though, Campbell is not a soothsayer but a believer in empirical facts, some of which are being witnessed today. The North is roaring; the South-South is talking tough while other geo-political zones are keenly watching the trend of events.

Coincidentally, Nigeria is divided into six geo-political zones, may there not be Yugoslaviation of this country so that Jonathan would not, like Mikhail Gorbachev, who became the terminal President of the Soviet Union, become the last president of Nigeria. At the apogee of disintegration of the Soviet Union, the hitherto one of the world powers was divided into six countries. May our portion never be like this. But the choice is ours.

http://www.osundefender.org/?p=10207

[size=14pt]Nigerian academics seek to elevate humble Pidgin [/size]
By Yinka Ibukun
September 20, 2010 06:01PM

It may share many of its words and basic grammar with English, but a perplexed look descends across the face of most newcomers to Nigeria the first time they are addressed in Pidgin.

"How you dey?" comes the question, or "How body?" (both meaning "how are you?"

"I dey fine" is the correct response, or, if you're in a less upbeat mood, "body dey inside cloth", meaning "I'm coping/making do with the situation," or literally "I'm still wearing clothes."

Once considered the language of the uneducated, Pidgin is one of the world's fastest evolving languages and Nigerians of every age and social class can now be found greeting each other in its clipped, concise tones.

Spoken by an estimated 50 million people, variants are also used in Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Now, for the first time, a group of academics is working to elevate the status of Nigerian Pidgin to more than just a practical means of communication in a country with several hundred indigenous languages and a huge educational divide.

Created a year ago, the Naija Languej Akademi is the first to try to harness the unbridled growth of Pidgin by putting together a reference guide which would include an alphabet, the first comprehensive dictionary, a standard guide for orthography, and an authoritative history of the language.

"It's not a contact language any more, it's an independent, fully fledged language," said Christine Ofulue, head of linguistics at the National Open University of Nigeria.

According to the Akademi's research, Nigerian Pidgin English evolved from a contact language developed in the 1400s to trade with the Portuguese then the British in the southern Niger Delta, a shipping route for the slave trade, then for palm oil, and now the hub of Africa's biggest crude oil industry.

It draws from indigenous languages such as Edo, Itsekiri and Yoruba, meaning many of the hundreds of ethnic groups in southern Nigeria can claim it as their own.

The Naija Akademi is funded by IFRA-Nigeria. IFRA-Nigeria is an institute set up with French Government funding to promote research in the social sciences and the humanities, and enhance collaborative work between scholars in France and West Africa.

Constantly evolving

Pidgin has become the language of choice for entertainment media wanting to appear all-inclusively Nigerian, in a country where national identity is tested by competing ethnic loyalties.

"Pidgin is the only language that cuts across Nigeria," said Mallam Okechime Abdul, a music producer and promoter.

"To speak the Queen's English, you have to go to school, but everybody understands Pidgin. Yoruba, Hausa, and Ibo people, they can all understand Pidgin."

Brimming with life, playful and illustrative, Nigerian Pidgin English lends itself well to creativity, evolving quickly and readily borrowing from current events.

A World Cup blunder by Nigerian player Sani Kaita briefly spawned the word "Kaitalistic" to mean catastrophic and the frequent acts of kidnapping in Nigeria has popularised the term "Colombia people" to describe the perpetrators on Nigeria's first pidgin station Wazobia 95.1 FM.

"American Presido say time don reach to comot im troop for Iraq," announced the newscaster on a recent lunchtime bulletin, after U.S. President Barack Obama announced a formal end to the U.S. military's combat mission in Iraq last month.

Nigerian Afrobeat music pioneer Fela Kuti was a major proponent of Pidgin, further popularising its use with albums like "Why Black Man Dey Suffer" and "I Go Shout Plenty".

"Good English (could) not convey the message of African music," he was quoted as saying in one of his biographies.

Despite the popularity of Pidgin, the Akademi faces an uphill struggle convincing all Nigerians, many of whom see it as a by-product of the country's falling education standards.

"Pidgin looks like a bastardization of the English language," said Reuben Abati, chairman of the editorial board for Nigeria's Guardian newspapers and a respected columnist.

"The West African elite, who see it as the language of commoners, like to dissociate themselves from Pidgin. They want their children to sound like Upper Class Britons. That attitude is wrong because it has to do with identity. As second users of the language, we must promote varieties of English."

REUTERS

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/National/5621161-146/nigerian_academics_seek_to_elevate_humble.csp

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And here comes bluetoothes partner, metaldung.

Na_so, that was a really brilliant quote. That Buhari of a man has no place in modern Nigeria, he is part of the old brigade that has wrecked this country. We need them out for good.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=516799.msg6789342#msg6789342 date=1285017916]I will take your insults as a compliment. . .it shows your level of maturity.fcking,brainless as if you can talk to me like that if we meet one on one anyways it's a faceless forum,so i will leave you to continue your fantansies.iranu ma po lori internet yio.[/quote]See this clown! Are you Tokyo from NURTW, Ibadan branch? Or are you the new leader of Boko Haram?

Listen, when you have a topic that deals with your favourite small minded subjects, you can roll as you wish. But when a topic deals with the whole of Nigeria, you should have more sense than to derail it with tiny brained, tribalistic inanities.

You need to install it, after which it will appear as a tab in the toolbox.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=516799.msg6789270#msg6789270 date=1285017201]Don't tell me you've not seen it. . .it was between me and slap1.i guess that got you haywire since your personal attack on me was coming about an hour i made that plagiarism comment.
I do not need to tell you what my opinions are concerning any issue,my post would always speak for itself.[/quote]I don't even know what fcking thread that conversation is on, so please spare me and face the facts on the ground. Stop dodging the issue.

Above all, stop derailing every thread with your brainless tribalism; you think its cunning, but its stup!d.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=516799.msg6789217#msg6789217 date=1285016638]I can now see where you are coming from. . .just because i said jonathan stolen Atiku's speech.ROTFL[/quote]I don't recall having that discussion with you about Jonathan. Are you now a magician?
You are simply attempting to dodge the issue of your stup!d degree of tribalism that so blinds, that you derail even the most important topic, but its not working.

I'm coming to the opinion that NLers should report you each time you start baiting, so you can be banned until your foolishness is cured.

Quite an interesting movie, especialy with the specific ethnic groups mentioned. Interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_of_the_Sun

chyz:
He's not Igbo that's what he means and even he is getting tired of it. what we are discussing is a serious issue so tighten up.

Thank you. I really don't understand the stup!dity that drives a grown man to strive to derail every single topic with his extremly narrow minded and childish tribalism.
There is nothing to do with Igbo's in this topic, yet professional irritants like bluetooth find a way to smuggle it in. I'm beginning to conclude that many he-goats have bigger brains than bluetooth.

Jarus:
abi o. because the man that headed PTF was Hausa, people failed to see all that.

Buhari is Fulani.

There is no problem with Hausa people at all. It is their overlords that are the problem.
The people giving Nigeria two week ultimatums before unleashing untold mayhem (because they are losing control of PDP) are not Hausa; they are Fulani. The most vociferous proponents of zoning today are not Hausa, they are Fulani. The people that have ruled Nigeria most are not Hausa, they are Fulani. The people threatening to tear the country apart today, out of a very primitive level of tribalism are not Hausa, they are Fulani.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=516799.msg6789057#msg6789057 date=1285014426]When did tribal politics start ? Is it worth the number of deaths that followed ?Childish how ? You saw ''secede'' and you still make this silly comment.wa ka jo.[/quote]Last time I checked, "secede" wasn't an Igbo word. In this article, it is directly connected to the word "North."
Don't you think you are missing something rather large and obvious? Or does the part of your DNA that controls your hyperactive primordial reflexes have the derogatory word. "ibo" written on it?

It is frankly irritating to other NLers.

E be like say IBB votes don finis!

Jarus:
beaf he second

Nah, that dudes brains are too thick to even do a simple copy properly.

Its. . .

IBB people = Foolish people

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=516799.msg6788914#msg6788914 date=1285012321]I'm talking about genuine problem not the usual ibo rantings. . .if there was any before independence,feel free to let us know.[/quote]Dude, this your "ibo this, ibo that" on every thread is becoming a scratched record. Its rather childish.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=516799.msg6788809#msg6788809 date=1285010921]bulk of nigeria food comes from the north and stop this groundnut thing if you don't know.[/quote]Is there anything stopping food from coming from Cameroon or Benin republic instead? In any event the seceding regions will only be the far North and I don't believe they grow anything of importance. The bulk of food comes from Benue, Plateau and Adamawa.

Down south, nothing stops the creation of a replacement food basket (for the whole of West Africa) in Cross River, Nsukka area etc.

jarkyy:
You guys should remeber in d past dat obasanjo is still in power if GEJ IS Elected at end of the day,cos what GEJ is expressing now is just to enabling him to get d highest votes ,let me tell u fellow Nigerias,this man will let us down cos his God father(Obj) is still in government and to tell u the fact hís great party (pDp) will not enabling good transparency and accountability in government.pls,fellow nigerians let focus on our youth today like mallam Nuhu Ribadu and his party will fight corruptiön and promote transparency and accountability, In conclusion my fellow youths today,let enable good governance good people good democracy and great nation to take place.tanks

Where, when and through what medium did you hear that Obj is still in govt? This has got to be the most ridiculously ignorant statement anyone has uttered in a long, long while!

You say, "lets focus on our youth today like mallam Nuhu Ribadu." If youth is a reason for you to make a choice, do you really know enough about the political scene? Ribadu is 51 and Jonathan is 53. So, "lets focus on our youth today like mallam Goodluck Jonathan."

Kay 17:
The shortest route to happiness is forgetfulness. That Jonsthan G is just like every bloody politican, set to deceive, fool and rip off ppl. The best things politicans can do is to talk!All the time he has being at the throne, he didn't realize that the problem, not to speak of soultion. I can't vote for this [size=14pt]tribalist monkey[/size] never! rather the Devil or IBB.
Corruption? Who has not promised to fight corruption? Even the dead have done so!

Would you be referring to your President in such terms, just because IBB is getting a much deserved political wipe out?
You might want the devil or IBB, but Nigerians want a saint or Jonathan.
The desperate behaviour of IBB people is shocking, reprehensible and to be condemned.

[size=33pt]Goodluck Nigeria![/size]

Can you guys imagine that dunce Atiku, attempting to big himself up that a PhD has copied his work? Another dream in vain!
They really say, "anything can happen in 9ja;" thank God GEJ is here to change that crap.

This topic is quite strange.

. . .For the love of oil, they won't. Every noise wen dem de make na shakara.
Aside from that, the North cannot sustain fullscale war for a week. Na almajiri dem de take buy weapons?

simplychic:
@mystical,i feel you ''talk is cheap''
@Beaf i noticed you don't always talk crap again,cos your brother is now in power,and you think he his intelligent.
This is the first time i''l hear you pass a positive comment, ''he is inteligent'' indeed.

Dis babe, you no de forget sontin sef?

Quarrels are not forever.

[quote author=kola_yusuf link=topic=515769.msg6788138#msg6788138 date=1285003621]The most colourless and uninspiring speech I have ever had to listen to. I where people like Beaf manufacture their enthusiasm from, and yes - [size=16pt]there was a teleprompter.[/size][/quote]All these Saraki people sef!
They want to decieve the unaware that they are regular posters. But we already sabi una wella.

Dude, tell us about Saraki and the 2.8billa from Societe Generale. Did he mention it in his "inspiring" declaration speech?

Saraki for president of Kwara! [size=14pt]Goodluck Nigeria![/size]

[size=14pt]Vote Saraki for presidency of Societe Generale (2.8billa theft) and Kwara state![/size]
. . .Now they want oyel too!
www.nairaland.com/attachments/180447_ROTFLMAO_gif3d0c775232c7f27cf80592785b9635b6

dappssee:
[size=14pt]If this is true, then it calls for serious concern. [/size]

It just goes to show that "zoning" is not new. Nigerians have been treated like fools for very long now by the same corrupt band of thieves who are now clamouring for a selection, instead of an election.

Here it is again, for emphasis;

He said when they overthrew the government of General Muhammadu Buhari in 1985, it was on the understanding that he, General Babangida and the late General Sani Abacha would govern the country in turn. Babangida and Abacha had their turns, leaving him as the only one left to have his turn as president of Nigeria. He was said to have expressed dismay that each time he sought to actualise his dream of becoming president, General Babangida, who had ruled the country for eight years, would also throw his hat into the ring.