₦airaland Forum

Akpan107:
Weytin come be ur own na? out of the nine Niger Deltan States. four of its governors are igbos. pls, dont kill urself on what is none of your business.

Goke7:
stop the blackmail please, the NDA ish is about the FG dropping all charges of corruption against all persons from the Niger delta region. It has nothing to do with federalism or ownership of oil blocks. Reason they are not interested in dialogue, even the FG knows this.

koboko69:
You are an hypocritical noise maker. North delayed Jonathan? Listen to ur sef, and see hw u make Jonathan loom more incompetent and clueless.
Why shy away from the pure truth, the barbarians suddenly remembered true federalism again as it is not business as usual. They shut their useless mouth up, when they were giving lump contracts to secure pipelines and the like. Imagine giving a criminal powers to purchase was ships for Nigeria. Nobody delayed Jonathan, he was just as useless as the Avengers. Give them food now, they will go underground again.

janellemonae:
Guess what. We will get fiscal federalism. It would be good for d SS cos they deserve it but guess who is going to come up wt another excuse to disrupt everything again. The Biafrans.

If u think biafrans are interested in true federalism, ur naive. They just want d whole estate (Nigeria) to themselves. This whole support of NDA and GEJ is a smokescreen. 2yrs into fiscal federalism, u will hear new complaints. Lol! History always repeats itself.

koboko69:
Wolf in sheep's clothing...

Keep in self deceit

Only u and ur gullible likes can be deceived by ur antics

Jonathan was in the best position for ur true federalism, but offcourse it was rather a business of enriching big boy militants, and giving contracts.

Now he was disgraced out, y'alll suddenly know what true Federalim is. .

Hypocrites!!!

tobex23:
Until he was defeated....
Please why is this mans name synonymous "defeat"..... No wonder he couldn't defeat corruption, and even a " dullard" like you guys term your current president(of date - 2019)...

blackpanda:
Why did u not sing true federalism during the 6yrs of jonathan's regime?? Its now u suddenly woke up from slumber to sing federalism. Keep supporting vandals and hooligans, we will all suffer the blackouts, nofuel, poverty and no jobs together! Soon u wont have light or foe to be commenting on NL, na dat time ur eye go open. Smh

QuotaSystem:
The world is watching, everyone's eyes are peeled.

I hope the militants take the bait and continue bombing to justify the severity of the Military's clampdown once it commences.

NIGER Delta Avengers, NDA, yesterday, scuttled the hope of early resolution of the current spate of bombings in the Niger Delta, as it did not only reject the window created for dialogue by the Federal Government, but also blew up another Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, crude oil pipeline in Delta State.

This came on a day indications emerged that Nigeria’s crude oil export may drop further in the days ahead, as major refineries across the globe have concluded plans to stop purchase of crude oil from Nigeria due to rising uncertainties about the country meeting up with deliveries.

The latest attack came as a bombshell to the governors of oil producing states, who met, Tuesday, in Abuja with the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, service chiefs and other functionaries on how to end pipeline attacks in the troubled region.

Government had announced a two-week ceasefire on Monday to build confidence in the militants for negotiation.

Militants blow up another Chevron pipeline in Delta

But in a tweet that blatantly negated government’s goodwill, the militant group said yesterday: “This is to inform the general public that we are not negotiating with any committee. If Federal Government is discussing with any group, they’re doing that on their own.

“At 1:00 a.m today (yesterday), the Niger Delta Avengers blew up Well RMP 20 belonging to Chevron, located 20 metres from Dibi flow station in Warri North Local Government Area.”

A source familiar with the location told Vanguard, at about 5.45 a.m., that the affected crude oil pipeline is between Opia and Dagbolo villages in Warri North

Confirming the latest attack, a security source said: “Yes, there was an attack this (yesterday) morning by militants on a Chevron facility.

“The pipeline had earlier been attacked by militants using the same modus operandi, which is with the use of dynamite.

The attack was carried out at about 1:00 a.m.” According to the Chevron staff, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the company will draft a team of technicians to the spot to assess the extent of damage.

A community source, who spoke to Vanguard shortly after a joint team of CNL, soldiers and private security outfit visited the bombed site, said if the plan of the militants had succeeded, the entire Dibi flow station, which had several crude oil and gas components, would have been set ablaze.

At last Tuesday’s meeting in Abuja, the governors allegedly made a compelling case for the Federal Government to cease military operations in the area, which was heating up the polity, and asked it to find a middle ground with the militants, among other things.

Foreign refineries to stop buying Nigeria’s crude oil

The restive situation in the region may lead to a further drop in crude oil export as major refineries across the globe have concluded plans to stop the purchase of the commodity from Nigeria due to rising uncertainties about the country meeting up with deliveries.

This is arising from the fact that a number of oil companies in Nigeria had declared force majeure of crude oil export, while a few others had been forced to suspend or cut production as a result of the bombing of oil facilities across the Niger Delta.

According to data obtained from Reuters, four of Nigeria’s oil grades, including the largest stream, Qua Iboe, have been under force majeure over the last one month.

Force majeure is a legal clause that allows companies to cancel or delay deliveries due to unforeseen circumstances. The report stated that despite the fact that ExxonMobil, which declared force majeure on Qua Iboe in May due to an accident, lifted the declaration last week, the unpredictability is too much for some buyers.

The report further stated that refineries on the United States’ east coast were beginning to turn away from Nigerian crude oil, noting that these same refineries had been on a buying spree for Nigerian crude in recent months that averaged 240,000 barrels per day (bpd) in April and May. As a result, the report said differentials to dated Brent for Qua Iboe, Bonny Light and other grades were under downward pressure, adding that there were several unsold cargoes for June loading.

Accordin to the report, the reduced demand means Nigeria is not benefiting as much as others from a rebound in Brent crude prices at current rate of over $51, which is partly driven by its own oil outages, stating that the reluctance of the refineries to buy Nigeria’s crude oil was limiting the prices Nigeria could get for its oil, even as there was less of it.

Specifically, the report stated that India’s HPCL was forced last month to cancel a vessel it chartered to carry two million barrels of West African crude due to the Qua Iboe force majeure, while India’s state-run Indian Oil Corporation Limited, a major buyer of Nigerian grades over the past year, had stated in its recent tenders that it would not take grades under force majeure, with Qua Iboe remaining off the list of the company.

Indonesia’s Pertamina, another frequent buyer, the report added, had also chosen not to buy Nigerian grades in its recent tenders, favouring Congolese Coco, Angolan Girassol and Saharan Blend from Algeria instead.

The report quoted oil traders as saying that Pertamina had shifted its preferences since the violence and uncertainty escalated, while Senior Vice President of the company, Daniel Purba, said the company was monitoring Nigeria, but noted that the situation was still currently not affecting crude purchasing.

Commenting on the development, one oil trader on the US east coast said: “When you plan your crude run months in advance and commit buying cargo, you need to be comfortable that the cargo will be there when you go to lift.” Similarly, Elizabeth Donnelley, Assistant Head of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, said: “The nature of the recently re-emerged militancy in the Niger Delta suggests it is here to stay for the foreseeable future.”

Also speaking, Olivier Jakob, Managing Director of PetroMatrix in Switzerland, said “not everybody wants to be caught up in that, so they will avoid it. The refineries will walk away from it.”

In a similar development, senior economist at Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp, Takayuki Nogami, lamented, yesterday, that the recent fall in the Japanese oil market was a result of supply disruptions in Nigeria and Canada, following the Niger Delta militant activities. Nogami, in a statement, pointed out that the Japanese economy was on the double at the first quarter and was slow on consumer spending and weak exports which it experienced lately.

According to the statement, a downturn in the US crude inventories was noticed as the company expressed concern over attacks on Nigeria’s oil industry. Stakeholders ask militants to dialogue However, Niger Delta activist, Ann Kio Briggs; Ijaw community leader and Chief Favour Izuokumor advised the militant group to embrace dialogue.

Militants should embrace dialogue , Ann Kio Briggs, who hailed the two-week ceasefire in a chat with Vanguard before Avengers discarded government’s olive branch, said: “Definitely, it is good news in the sense that in the search for some individuals, they have gone into some communities, including their return to Gbaramatu, despite claims that they had earlier pulled out.

“Therefore, if truly the Federal Government is sincere in what it has said and if the military would obey the Federal Government, because that is another thing, then, of course, it is welcome news. “If you look at the whole bulk of the Niger Delta, the people have suffered tremendously and you cannot deny the fact that there are a lot of issues on ground about the injustice that the people of the region have suffered and this injustice must be addressed. “

The only way to address them is to make sure that the injustices are corrected and to do this, the issues of fiscal federalism, ownership and the people being able to develop themselves must be addressed. “If I was the government, the discussion should not be only with the Niger Delta, but should also take this opportunity to reach out to the Middle Belt and other regions who are agitating.” Buhari has shown commitment —Izuokumor Activist and Ijaw community leader, Chief Favour Izuokumor, who also hailed the ceasefire, said it was a bold commitment by President Buhari and urged the militants to take advantage of the window to dialogue. Advising government not to politicize the talks, he stressed the need to invest in the intelligence arm of the nation’s security network to overcome current security challenges facing Nigeria, particularly the resurgence of militancy in the Niger Delta. Izuokumor, spokesperson of Ogbe-ljoh/Warri Kingdom, said: “As the Niger Delta Avengers has failed to toe the line of negotiation, the Federal Government is expected to, without delay, begin to match words with actions by calling all stakeholders and regional leaders to a roundtable to dialogue on some pertinent issues as they affect the Niger Delta people.”

Omare denies sponsoring Avengers

Meanwhile, a former Commissioner for Environment in Delta State, Chief Frank Omare, has denied online report which fingered him of sponsoring the Avengers and communal crisis between his community, Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja. In a petition to the police, the former commissioner, said: “I wish to state clearly and in unequivocal terms that I do not know any member of Niger Delta Avengers. I am also not one of the sponsors of the Niger Delta Avengers, as I have no reason to do so. “I also did not hold any meeting with members of the Niger Delta Avengers or anybody whatsoever at Ogulaha or any other community on how to attack and wipe out Aladja. “In the past seven years that I have been in the Delta State government, I have used my position to promote peace and harmonious relationship between Ogbe-Ijoh and Aladja. ‘’Former Governors James Ibori, Emmanuel Uduaghan and the present governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, can testify to this fact.”

Nasman:
Our Collective Barbarism

Its not for any joy that I have to state the gory obvious, it's to challenge a wrong rhetoric of monopolized barbarism in Nigeria. For those who don't know, let them know. And for the Northern bigots who have never crossed River Niger and the southern empty heads who haven't seen beyond River Benue but still authoritatively report what they don't know at the other end, let them know that hatred never changes fact. As Obama said "it's just not cool to not know about what you are saying". It's just boring, and irritating.

How much do you know Nigeria? Do you know more than a southern Nigerian elderly woman I met here in Kaduna recently who called all Northerners (myself inclusive) nomads that kill for their animals? Or much better than a Kaduna kid who wondered how I am a Muslim and a corps member at the same time. Certainly another stupid adult concluded that Islam is ethnic and in the North only and since most corps members serving in the North are from South, all of them can't be Muslims. Unfortunately that was uploaded to the boy's young brain. Nonsense.

Back to what we all share most- violence. And barbarism. It's a simple law of nature that humans find what they see, hear, feel, experience, or do frequently normal. The problem with law of attraction (another indispensable order) is it doesn't discriminate. As such kicking an animal, slapping an innocent kid, beating helpless wife and using any weapon on another human being will all transmit same signal in the brain i.e. Violence. And as this happens again and again, it turns normal to the society. Then it grows, into merciless beating with sticks, then cutting knife, then shooting with gun, then mass killing with bomb.

Kidnapping. Suicide bombing. Armed robbery. Cultism. Jungle justice. Lynching. Domestic violence. Rape. Do they have differences? Or are they peculiar to one region of the country?

I have even observed how some reactionists among us feel it's their duty to share a story of rape or kidnapping of it is reported from "the other" part of the country. Haha. Which difference will that make? Will sharing a story of sexual abuse by an Enugu pastor change NDLEA report of high drug abuse in Kano (among housewives)? Are we competing for evil?

Are we different from other human beings? No. The so called advanced are such because they are controlled, by law and order. We have laws too. So what happens? Our laws have limit and they select who to punish and what the punishment is depending on phenotypes. And our media, that supposed watchdog, is our greatest misfortune. All groups of humans are controlled by 2 things; conscience and law. We lack both.

Let our shared barbarism not be allocated to one part of the country, ever again. We are collectively ruthless and lawless, it's just that the trigger differs. I am still confused too if collective hunger and ignorance are somewhere in the equation. What I am very sure of is there are less educated and poorer countries that do better in respecting human dignity.

And the solution is simple; law and order. Since we fail to teach our kids to have good conscience or faith in God beyond religious lip service, let few scapegoats go to prison or made to pay huge fine. At least, children will grow learning that if you break traffic rule, you pay fine to government, and not bribe to cops.

By Nasir Faruk
The Executive admin Secretary in Arewa Youths For Change and Empowerment Association.

jpphilips:
How old are you?

OROSUNBOLB:
You're utterly a confused person and your level of stupidity is truly amazing! Just imagine the crap you put up there again as your response. So,because your Aunt marries an Ikwerre man who happens to speak Igbo better than you do,you foolishly assume every Ikwerre man wants to be addressed as Igbo?

You obviously lack mental capacity to be engaged in a decent and interesting discourse. A typical Ipod- all brawn and no brain!

OROSUNBOLB:
This your 'attache-by-force' is truly pitiable. The bolded part has given you away! The real reason for your cosmetic love for the people of south south. It's all about the oil ! This is exactly the same greed that made Mr. Ojukwu to send millions of Igbo to their untimely death.

Anyway, Mr Oyingbo, since you've told us that the Ikweres have now acknowledged their Igbo root, you must have forgotten to add that the abandon Igbo properties in PH and other parts of Rivers have now been returned to Igbo owners. Self deception is a disease indeed! It's absolutely needless to quote a number of people from Delta and Rivers states, with obvious igbo names,but who have openly denied any link with Igbo.

I think it is your fundamental right to be stupid. So why should I stop you?

changeagent:
[s]The major setbacks to Nigeria progress and development are religion and tribal differences and it has cut across every sector in Nigeria including Nairaland. I almost shed tears this evening when I was analysing the situation of this country with a colleague. A Muslim man will not condemn a Muslim leader who has failed to do what is expected of him because of the religion affiliation. A Christian will rather look for a way of justifying a fellow Christian instead of critisicm even when the fellow has done something wrong because they are brethren. It is so pathetic that at this global age this still reflects in our political system when tribalism and religion are placed above competency.

Sadly, even on Nairaland when a criminal case is been reported, the so-called Naiaralanders are quick to check names of the perpetrators to know whether to support or go against them.

Have these tribalism and religion sentiment taken us anywhere? My people from the oil producing states let us ask the leaders there what they have been doing with the 13% derivatives they get from the federation account and hold them accountable for our predicament. My brothers from the North let us quickly and publicly condemn any barbaric act. My people we need to erase the past memories of war and stop feelings of been marginalized. Is there any of our states in the east that doesn't get an appropriate allocation from the federal Government? Our so called leaders from the east should be asked what they have been doing with the allocations.

Lastly, my fellow Nairalanders, let us use this great forum to promote unity and peace in this country. Say no to any form of violence, hate speech and any thing that serves as a threat to our national progress and developments. Thanks

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lastpage:
Dolt!
Its called a LEASE!
If you are foolish not to understand the difference between an "out-right" SALE ....and a LEASE, then that is your problem.

The only reason IPADs are "forcefully attaching" themselves to the S/South is because of their GREEDINESS for the OIL in the S/South.
Remove the Oil or tell the IPADs to form their Bi@fraud on their core-Ibo states..... and you will see that they are just not too interested any more!

We still remember how they used FORCE to CONQUER the S/South, during the Bi@fraud war.
Just imagine, an IPAD treating say an Akwa-Ibomite as "an equal", in a Bi@fraud Country?
Those greedy and selfish lots dont have that kind of 'grace'.



Lastpage!

OROSUNBOLB:
What a dumb response ! Oh! I'm probably being jealous of the fact that Aliko Dangote is an Igbo man! 'day dreaming'? This doesn't make any sense to me in the context in which you used it. Anyway, you sound like a toddler who is yet to come to term with political realities of the south south. If the Ikweres of Rivers are denying their Igbo root, what will it benefit Itshekiris,Urhobo,Ijaw,Efik,Anang etc promoting Igbo course in that region?

Drop that fallacy, the people of those states you mentioned are not pro Igbo in any form and they have made it clear time without number. They aren't Biafrans!

OROSUNBOLB:
Are you serious? This is highly doubtful dear considering what we all know about each ethnic nationality in the region. Agreed, you have a common enemy in Buhari and his party,Apc now but that does not equate SE to SS. Trust me, Igbo will never be accommodated or welcome in the South south. It is a fact.

Don't forget also,there are some ethnic groups in the south south with a very strong cultural affiliation with the Yoruba. South-south situation is more complex than you may want to admit. They (south south people) won't form Biafra with Igbo, never!

bloodyBLOGGER:
wetin concern irhobo, itshekiri, ijaw, calabar and isoko with IGBO?

you have never been one. If you can blame lord lugard for lumping us all together, rejecting the union, then you should as well reject the union he created by lumping the minorities with the igbos in the old Eastern region.

bloodyBLOGGER:
When are you people going to stop attaching SE to the SS? Can you stand alone or must you cling to minorities because of oil? When has the SE fed the SW? You guys keep acting as of you are not among the majority tribes that enjoy the resources of the SS.

Ask yourself, how many drops of oil do you have in the SE? Not even up to what ondo has.

QuotaSystem:
Stunting like the Army.

For the supporters of the saboteurs, it's the more you look, the less you see. Apparently they're still waiting for cruise missiles

This is clearly the fruit of military intelligence. Carry on boys.

mrvitalis:
God forbid me to be from yoruba... . I am an mbaise man (aboh mbaise LGA)
This things really make sense with u??

Ur hate is filled with toomuch hate
U prefer for Europeans to eat the Niger Delta oil than fellow Africans....... Hmmm
U have been turned into a monster

Get a life

QuotaSystem:
Unfortunately for you, the North runs this show, and can well stand on its unexploited resources.

My stand is against the blackmail of this government by sore losers. You will fail and crawl back to irrelevance.

QuotaSystem:
Great move, they should be grilled inside out for vital intelligence. Any efforts to frustrate this government must be frustrated.

It's good to know the DSS are thinking on their toes.

omenka:
They are Middle Belt/North Central states, which still supports my position that it is wrong to blame the attacks exclusively on Fulanis.

Tagging them Fulanis is nothing but a sly way of blaming it on Buhari.

Mohammed, it was further gathered, told the police that the Fulani are so united that whatever affects an individual is their problem. “He alleged that their people in Nimbo shared Kolanut to all cattle rearers across the country. What it signifies is that there is going to be an attack and everyone should send representatives to support them

loopman:
You don'y have to be named IPOB by your parents to answer the name. You have the average IPOB mentality which is that it's only the destruction of Nigeria that can make you achieve your Biafrat objective, a cowardly and backward mentality.

Stalwert:
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Seek wisdom

DaBullIT:
This is one of the comments that makes me categorize you as the same thing

As long as it's bombs on that region, no one is innocent because of comments like this 5% is part of the problems of Nnigeria

DaBullIT:
That's a very good idea isn't it ??

Soon , those 5% will be reduced to 2.5% , Fulani Mauraders will not stop , neither will the airstrike from Nigerian Airforce


Keep it up