₦airaland Forum

Gbawe:
Aondoakaa blatantly disrespected the office of the Vice President on several occasions. Our AGF did everything in his powers to deny Jonathan of his rightful mandate !!! I am no fan of Jonathan but I think that our new acting President , especially as we know it is unlikely Yardy is coming back , must start his new role by dismissing those who overtly plotted against him. A failure to sack open enemies , like Aondoakaa, will signify cowardice the undecided and uncowered hawks will feel they can capitalise on. Jonathan has inherited this position out of outright 'goodluck' ( ). He must consolidate his power , as president, decisively and ruthlessly, or be drowned by those who swore not to allow him to be President - even for one minute !!!

Timehin:
Most nigerians will celebrate aandoaka sack anyday and likewise any disloyal member of his cabinet that may derail his efforts to move this nation forward but i hope our new president will not fail us!

obailala:
I totally agree with u that our federal structure is wrong and that 1% of the population enjoys 99% of the nations wealth. I also agree with u that 99% of the corruption we have today in Nigeria is due to the easy oil money but where I disagree is in your assumption that with the disappearance of oil money, our nation would be a better place.
Those parasites u talk about would be more desperate and as long as they (parasites) remain on top, I fear that the status quo will still remain. I do not agree with your ideology that the ND should totally forfeit the oil wealth and remain poor.
With proper strategies, the percentage of the people enjoying the oil wealth could be increased.
Oh off course, it did affect me and a lot of people around me.
This your statement further proves my earlier assumption that u do not stay or work in the ND. A chain reaction of the reduced production affected most small mushroom companies as their contracts where terminated. Average oil company staff, contractors, subcontractors, co-sub contractors (who are mainly ND indegenes) etc were the major victims of terminated jobs, downsizing, contract suspensions etc

All I am saying is that it wouldnt make any sense to take away the meal tickets of the few innocent NDeltans that are surviving on the "crumbs" simply because u want to deprive the North from stealing the wealth. Rather, more pragmatic steps should be taken to ensure that the wealth gets to the rightful owners.

frudokafor:
application forms are out in case you wish to join, i mean militancy

OPCman:
Several ethnic group is not the problem. The problem is rivalry envy, jealousy and bad belle. We pretend to like each other- because of oil money- when in actual fact we don't. If the oil dries out tomorrow the North will quit Nigeria in speed of light. Midbelters will tell you they are not Hausa-Fulani. Or tell me do Ibos like the Yorubas if not because of Lagos?
Yoruba is not nationalistic in nature and culture (except those in NPN and now PDP) the reason other tribes see them as too tribalistic. However, this shouldn't has caused problem if the naughty person political jobbers with inferiority complex had allowed each ethnic group to manage its own affairs.

And on principal ethnic group, people can take it or leave- Yoruba is the PRINCIPAL ethnic group in Nigeria. The Yoruba of Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Kwara, Kogi, Lagos, Ekiti, Osun, [size=14pt]plus the Yoruba in Delta and Edo[/size]; and the fact that over 60% of Nigerians speak Yoruba make us the principal ethnic group but other tribe don't like us out of jealousy. If Yoruba is given chance and opportunity to rule the country, we would transform it like the English single handededly transformed Great Britain (UK). BUT WOULD THEY ALLOW US? I DON'T THINK SO.

I did not refer to all who supported militants rather, i referred to those who support the militants "BLINDLY." Personally, I support the militants in their Violent struggle cos i know that the typical Nigerian listens only to the language of force but my problem with them lies in the strategy they have deployed. They are misdirecting their aggression and causing more harm.

As for my earlier statement with regards to 90% citizens of Warri, PH and other ND cities living off the oil companies, I still stand my ground. The Oil companies are responsible for the economies of these cities. I doubt if u reside in the ND else u wouldn't argue with me on this one.

"The first three days of the operation,  I operated in the night. Nobody knew where I  was coming from. What I will just do is  that I will just take some detachment of  soldiers, they will just stay at four  corners of the town. They have automatic (rifles)  that sold death. If you hear the sound  you will freeze. And then I will equally now  choose about 200 soldiers and give them  grenade explosives, very hard ones.

"So we shall surround the town at  night. The machine gun with 500 rounds will  open up. When four or five like that  open up and then we are throwing grenades   and they are making eekpuwai  (onomatopoeia for loud, shattering noise), what do  you think people are going to do? And   we have already put roadblock on the main  road, we don't want anybody to start  running (we decided) we shall drive all these  people into the bush with nothing except the pants and wrappers they are using  that night" (sic). In two months,  Okutimo and his boys had overrun Ogoniland,  village by village. But in spite of the  pounding of fear into the people, despoiling of their  women and other acts of brigandage  against the Ogoni, the struggle against  government and the oil companies only  grew wider and wilder. It was therefore a  roundly frustrated Gen. Abacha who set  up and executed leaders of the Ogoni  minority rights movement, among them  the popular writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa, 10  November 1995.

Before that, it was Umuechem that came  closest to the Odi experience. Three  policemen sent to keep the peace in the  Rivers State town in 1990, were abducted  by rioting youths protesting  environmental pollution and neglect of their town by  Shell Petroleum Development Company.  When they would not give up the  policemen, a detachment of policemen  were sent to take care of the situation.  They rolled in with an armoured tank  and sophisticated combat weapons. By the  time they were through, an official  inquiry revealed, 25 persons had been killed,  650 buildings reduced to rubbles and  175 bicycles had become a mangled heap of  twisted and charred metal. Of course,  inestimable stock of crops and livestock  went up as burnt offerings to the gods  of war. The Federal and state governments  owned up to the mindless destruction  and approved compensation of N10 million  and N2 million respectively to the  people of Umuechem.

sjeezy8:
What they want is what the whole south of Nigeria wants federalism. But blowing shiot up isnt going to change the constitution and when we do have federalism Oil companies will probably be reluctant to base their companies in the ND.
(NNPC is going private)

Not to mention some of the militants playing both sides and are not genuine to those in ND. As some militants are actually being paid to blow up pipelines in order to increase the price of Oil by dereasing the quantity of Oil.

O yea beaf is a gay

if you refer to my little story, i referred to the FG as "Landlords" and i also highlighted the molestation of the ND people with soldiers whenever they tried to complain peacefully. I also know the story of Saro Wiwa very very well.

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Are you aware that over 90% of the citizens of Warri, PH and other ND cities feed directly or indirectly from the crumbs that fall from the tables of these oil companies?

Sources at the meeting disclosed that two ministers from the South-West and two other members of Yar’Adua’s kitchen cabinet were in attendance. Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aondookaa, was absent at the meeting.

Pifa:
I was beginning to praise the Vice President until I read the reason the two ministers gave for their tardiness. If the newspaper reported correctly that the ministers were informed minutes before the meeting, then I'd have to disagree that it showed Mr. Jonathan's discipline. I thought it was insensitive and disrespectful to give a minister just ten minutes to arrive at an unscheduled meeting that was not a state emergency.

I would imagine that ministers have daily itineraries and are not just sitting on their rear waiting to be called at the VP’s behest. Even the CEO of my company would have his secretary schedule a meeting with me based on my availability. If he always had to summon me 10 minutes before an unscheduled meeting, then he had to realize that I would be either late or I would keep interrupting important projects to attend to him.

SEFAGO:
terrorists are never sure of what they are fighting for. It could be 70 year old virgins, it could be paradise or it could be just a way of getting out of the miserable experience called life.

Same for the MEND folks

SEFAGO:
Men these terrorists have to be hunted down. They are going to destroy [size=14pt]industry [/size]in Nigeria