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I'm sorry he got poisoned and glad he's doing better but it irks me when they have no qualms saying a government officials "Go Abroad for medical treatment". How are the little people who can't afford to travel abroad supposed to feel?

Nobody care how they feel. They are expectred to make use of our medical facility ( about half of the drugs are fake), or try traditional healers, there are Pastor and Imam too, your choice is endless.

by the time they all finish their trial and error on you, without diagnosis , you will never be the same again.

Hope they will not sell those warships to the militants?

Even Yaradua cannot guarantee the safety of those ship, lm sure he does not know exactly what is going on in the army. In Nigeria, the people at the top does not know what the people at the bottom are doing.

when the top brass of the military are looting the treasury and prosecuting a phantom war against militant, the middle and lower officers are selling weapons to the same militant.

hmmm!

I do believe in a great powerful being that does exist, but I don't think that God has anything to do with ourlives in that manner. I think we're on our own while at the end every sinner is judged and punished individually

l perfectly agree with you

Religion is a mean of social and moral order. Countries that are able to move forward are society that are able to separate religion from the state. Religion becomes a personal matter while the governing of the state is left to elected representative who are bound by a contract with the people called the constitution. Society where religion override there life are backward and lost in the past.

Man create God, and every society design  God to look like a fellow tribe man. Amadioha looks Ibo, Sango a Yoruba , Allah looks Arab, Jehovah looks more Jewish.

On the day of judgement ( hope such a day exist), every man shall be judged according to his deed , rather than his religious belief. Religion is just an accident of birth. To judge a man according to his religious belief is like judging him according to the colour of hi skin.

[size=15pt]Nigeria's Plateau State wants $100bn (£50bn) in compensation from the UK and Europe [/size]

Nigeria's Plateau State wants $100bn (£50bn) in compensation from the UK and Europe for environmental damage caused, it says, by mining in colonial times.

The Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Agency says it has discovered radioactive materials buried under the soil.

Radioactive waste occurs in the material that remains when tin is extracted from its ore.

Many children and cattle are also reported to have fallen into disused quarries and died.

The mines were owned by British and other European companies between the early 1900s and the 1960s.

The state government has compiled a report showing the extent of the damage during that time.

It says mining companies dug around 5,000 quarries that have since filled with water.

The Jos Plateau - which the state is named after - became one of the world's major suppliers of tin.



But other metals such as lead, uranium, tantalite and zircon have also been mined.

Tin was exported to cities in the UK such as Liverpool and Manchester.

The BBC's Shehu Saulawa in Plateau State says the mining has affected farmers, fishermen and grazing grounds belonging to Fulani herdsmen.

Other people have suffered health problems from drinking water from the ponds which contains a lot of iron, the report says.

The state government is asking for representatives from the UK and other countries to visit affected areas to see the damage.

It said if there is no reparation or compensation then it would take "appropriate legal action".


source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7489551.stm

Its not the black gold that is cursed, its nigeria . the people of Niger delta deserve far better treatment.

if prayers is what Nigeria needs ,we would have been better than United state. l doubt it if there is anywhere in the world where so much prayers are said by so many unfortunate people like Nigeria.

this has nothing to do with oil or Niger delta , its a pure criminal act , which can happen anywhere in Nigeria

A good example of the army capability was displayed recently in Akure when they held a demostartion for non payment of allowance; several innocent people where mercilessly beaten up.

that is all the army is capable of; kill , murder , rape , torture unarmed innocent citizen. Like they did in Odi and Benue. they also specialise in selling weapons to militants and armed robbers.

When it comes to a fair fight , where both parties are armed, the army are as useless as a pregnant she goat in a battle front. now that Aziza has moved operation command to Port-Harcourt , we shall see how the army faired against the militants in a year time.

This is the normal way the country is run; the government official at the top will loot the treasury, official at the bottom will loot the masses.

l doubt it if there is any Nigerian living who has never given bribe or collected one.

Nothing works , nothing ever works. this country is doomed.

An hungry man is an angry man.

rubbish, hope they probe Obasanjo too.

the way Obasanjo treat Atiku shows that Vice president means nothing.

Even if the armed robbers decided to attack the police station, the policemen would run away just like the commuters.

Where all in the hand of God and the mercy of armed robbers.

digitalman
where you really in Zimbabwe?

where exactly did you visited and what was the nature of your visit?

NIGERIAN MILITARY SELLING WEAPONS TO ARMED ROBBERS?

If the Nigerian military can sell weapon to the militant, to use in killing their fellow soldiers, what stop them from selling weapons to armed robbers, if the money is right? Some of the weapons sold to the militant were used in committing serious crime: kidnapping, murder, armed robbery.

the police have been complaining that the present robbers are well armed with sophisticated weapons and their operation follows a military like precision. What stop a soldier from robbing a bank? pit against a corrupt and lightly armed Nigerian police, he has a great chance of getting away with.

Why is the investigation and trial of military officers/ others involved in selling weapons to militant conducted in secret?

Are some of our soldiers involve in bank robbery?

[size=15pt]You're not suitable, NLC tells Gambari [/size]

Written by Emma Amaize & Chris Ochayi
Friday, 04 July 2008
*He's an illiterate on N-Delta — Ijomah

THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) yesterday told Professor Ibrahim Gambari, chairman of the planned Niger Delta Summit, to step aside in view of the outrage trailing his appointment.


On his part, erudite scholar, Professor Benedict Ijomah, says Professor Gambari’s poor understanding of the Niger Delta rules him out completely from presiding over a summit on the region.

The NLC in a statement by its General-Secretary, Mr. John Odah, said the summit would be unsuccessful if the person presiding is a subject of controversy, particularly amongst the key stakeholders.

He said: “Though we believe that Professor Gambari, given his pedigree in the university system and international relations, is eminently qualified to chair such a summit, the nature of the crisis in the Niger Delta and the unprecedented protest against his appointment clearly shows that he is not suitable for the job.

source:

[size=15pt]N’Delta youths ask Jonathan to quit, reject presidential summit
By Sola Adebayo, Warri[/size]
Published: Friday, 4 Jul 2008
Niger Delta youths under the aegis of Niger Delta Youth Council, on Thursday asked the Vice-President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, to resign his position, citing poor handling of the protracted crises rocking the region as the reason for their call.

The body said the region had benefited nothing from the occupation of the exalted office by Jonathan for over one year.

The National President of NDYC, Mr. Donatus Ebisin, in an interview with our correspondent in Warri, Delta State, described the seven-point agenda of President Umaru Yar’Adua as it affected the Niger Delta as a ruse.

Ebisin said Jonathan had failed to attract development to the region despite his status as the nation’s second most powerful citizen, adding that Yar’Adua and Jonathan were merely deceiving the people of the region.

He said, “The Yar’Adua/Jonathan government is not sincere, it has just been rigmaroling in the past one year. The so-called seven-point agenda is deceptive. It is obvious that this government has no plan for the Niger Delta in particular or for the country as a whole.

“Jonathan for instance has failed his people as there is nothing on the ground in the region to show that the nation’s number two citizen is from the area.”

The Ijaw Youth Council, the umbrella body for the youth of Ijaw ethnic nationality, at a news conference in Benin, the capital of Edo State on Sunday, also asked Jonathan to quit over his alleged failure to use his position in the government to attract patronage to the region.

In a related development, the Nigeria Labour Congress said it had been following with concern the lingering controversy over the conduct of the proposed Niger Delta Summit, particularly the appointment of Prof. Ibrahim Gambari as chairman of the summit

’s steering committee, and urged the FG to reconsider its position.

Meanwhile, a civil society activist, Mr. George-Hill Anthony, on Thursday urged the Federal Government to implement previous recommendations on the Niger Delta instead of initiating a new peace summit.

Anthony told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the planned peace summit of the administration was a duplication of effort.

President Umaru Yar’Adua recently appointed a committee headed by the UN Under-Secretary-General, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, to organise a summit on how to resolve restiveness in the oil-rich region.

In the same vein, the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Luka Yusuf, has urged elders of the Niger Delta to call their children to order for peace to reign in the area.

Yusuf, who was fielding questions from newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday, said every family should be involved in the efforts to return peace to the region.


source:http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200807041625026

there is nothing professional about the Nigerian army, they are just criminals and rapist. Below is a report from the BBC documenting cases of rape within the military and police:


BBC REPORT:

Nigerian army rape 'impunity' 
The Nigerian government is failing to prosecute police and soldiers who rape women and girls with impunity, says rights group Amnesty International.
The country's police authorities acknowledge rape is a problem within the service, but say that they are working to overcome it.

An AI report alleges security forces use rape and sexual violence to torture and extract confessions from suspects.

It blames the judicial system for a 10%

rape prosecution success rate.

The report calls for drastic reforms of the judiciary and security agencies.

"The perpetrators invariably escape punishment, and women and girls who have been raped are denied any form of redress for the serious crimes against them," the report says.

Intimidation

It also documents cases of soldiers raping mothers in front of their husbands and children and detainees being sexually tortured with broken bottles.

source:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6193206.stm

Our government those not know the exact figure of oil production in Nigeria, because must of the oil are lost through bunkering.

atleast somebody is talking

l believe Niger delta people would be making fool of themselves if they attend the summit.

this new law is long overdue

l dont believe juju really ever works.

if juju really works the British would not had colonise the entire country. those were the days of the original juju men, when men dine with gods.

Generally, religion provide social order and moral guidance, if you expect any miracle, then you are living in a fools paradise.

the government, Gambari inclusive, who loot the public treasury to the tune of N240 million daily are a bigger criminals

who wants to come and live in Nigeria for 3 years before becoming a citizen, its crazy !!!!!!!!!!

You ll be lucky, if you are still normal after 3 years, provided you re alive. Armed robbers regularly target returnees, and the Nigeria factor would make lose faith in humanity.

[size=15pt]Policeman shoot protesting military pensioners in Ibadan
Written by Ola Ajayi
Tuesday, 01 July 2008 [/size]


THE problems of military pensioners who trooped the major streets in Ibadan were compounded yesterday as a man who claimed to be a policeman from Asaba, Delta State, reportedly shot one of them during protest.
The no fewer than 200 pensioners had, in the early hours of yesterday, trooped to the streets in the Dugbe area to protest non-payment of their 13 months arrears by the Federal Government.
They had blocked the roads leading to the popular commercial area hindering the free flow of vehicular and human traffic.


But about 11 a.m, a gun-totting man, who was apparently hindered by the protesting pensioners, in annoyance fired warning shots into the air to scare them.


The shots, however, did not scare the ex-militarymen who refused to remove the barricade off the road.
According to a witness, when the pensioners refused to leave the roads, the man who was in company of other five people, shot at them during which the bullets reportedly hit one of the pensioners.


After the shooting they attempted to flee the scene but the pensioners pursued them. They succeeded in getting three of them and beat them to a pulp. The melee caused the traders in the market to close their shops and run for dear lives.

source:http://www.vanguardngr.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11383&Itemid=46

[size=15pt]NIGERIA IS A COUNTRY OF YESTERDAY[/size]


Nigeria is a country of yesterday. Year after year things got worst, people always believe in the past rather than the present. their only consolation is hope and  "ego better", but things are never better, always got worst. For the past 30 years things has gone steadily downhill in all aspect of human endeavour. Road , education , morality, food supplies, electricity , water, corruption , have all deteriorated year after year unabated. Despite the fact that the revenue accruing to the governmet has  increases. The only thing that improve in Nigeria is economic indices which mean nothing to the common man on the ground.

Ask the average Nigerian he would replied that; Shagari regime is better than Babangida regime, also Babangida is better than Abacha regime, moreover Abacha is better than Obasanjo regime.  That last year is better than this year, last two years is better than this year. The past has always been better . Every year things seems to get worst, more Nigerians are pushed below the poverty line.

Increasingly, people have criticise the Obasanjo regime, l do believe in years to come, history would be kind to him. He would be remembered for introduction of gsm mobile phone and cancellation of Nigeria debt. The mobile phone industry lead to the creation of millions of jobs that was unprecedented in Nigerian history, it impacted on every single Nigerian even in abroad. On the flip side the massacre in Benue and odi, increased communal /religious riot, Lagos bomblast rackless utterances would dampen his good work. Altogether, history would forgive him.

HISTORY WOULD FORGIVE YOU IF YOU TAKE THE WRONG DECISION, BUT HISTORY WOULD NEVER FORGIVE YOU IF YOU TAKE NO DECISION AT ALL.  that is the problem with the present baba go slow regime.

there is a plan between the north and west to suck dry the Niger delta s people oil, leaving them with nothing but a devastated environment.

Waziri would not be judge by the number of people she arrest, but by the number of prosecution and amount of money recovered.

The army keep saying it not a war, but they are moving into the region with heavy military equipment, armoured tankers, war ship , missile launcher, parsonnels.

In addition, Aziza has personally take control of the Niger delta oparation and relocated to Port-Harcourt , we shall see how the Zombie are going to fair.