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[size=20pt]How many times? Fake fuc.k.in News!!!![/size]

^^Wait der nau, your eye go soon see something. no fear or run oooo! As u no fit gap urself. Dead man!

^^U have already written your Obituary, yourself today. Mark my words.

[quote author=Mr, Cork link=topic=732518.msg8895588#msg8895588 date=1312994452]is ojuku related to 2pac?  [/quote]No dat is reserved for u and relatives.

Fake News! Fake News!

BizBooks:
The moderators should do well to verify stories before putting them up anywhere especially the front page. If you click on the link to that article, this is what you get:

Wat do we expect from an ethnic group that embrace tribalism as a religion. I seriously have my reservations about dis people. Thanks to Nairaland, i did never have known their hearts.

Fake News! Fake News!

Fake News! OBJ is Dead.

^^Sorry for yourself. Don't worry after the court case MKO will return. 

^^ See dis cannibal salivating over Human being dat is living. Go dig up and eat Abiola and ur FATHER leftover.

At least OBJ and all the Yoruba and Hausa Thieves are not the only one to become billionaires from this Niger Deltans. Let some of their elite also control significant wealth as they share in the diseases of their people polluted by these oil companies.

Wen OBJ, IBB and Buhari, with all the other thieves dat have looted Naija Deltan start to return that which they stole, then Patience will return hers.

basadenet:
what if he dies? who cares. will he even make heaven? considering his atrocities. so die or no die that it is own wahala

THE ATROCITIES YOUR FATHERS COMMITTED U MEAN. U KNOW YOUR THE BASTARD SON OF YOUR FATHER AND HIS DAUGHTER. THINGS LIKE DAT SPELLS HELL FOR YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY. BASTARD

Awolowo instituted free Education in the south west but from the way dis Yoruba talk and reason, u did think the idea of education has never passed through Yoruba land.

All the Igbos dat seem to reason very well and make valid contributions all seem to be ban from dis site but imbeci.les and daft yaribas are still roaming and making daft statement and their contribution of doom.

Ojukwu is for the Igbos and the Yoruba's should fucki.n face their Abiola and Abacha homo-liaison in hell.

^^ Wat a shame that Abiola and Abacha have already consummate their homo sexu.al  intercourse in that hell. Our Ikemba is a fighter and will not die but live for at least another 10years. U probably join Abacha and Abiola, homo.

[quote author=~Bluetooth link=topic=731923.msg8894582#msg8894582 date=1312987013]I have always know that he won't come back alive. . . . .Now he can join Abacha in hell.[/quote]

Once again, may every tribalist bastard here, wishin our Ikemba death suddenly quench. Una no go old die.

May every tribalist bastard here, wishin our Ikemba death suddenly quench. Una no go old die. 

The HAUSA FULANI are truly bandits. See the way they rubbed Southern Nigeria and Niger delta with the help of their Britain tutors. I am disgusted. 

If this news is true, may god punish all of our leaders and oil companies in Nigeria. Surely, dis is rubbing Peter to pay paul. E no go better for dem!!

I need all the African haterz and lovers to give an honest reply and lets start the healing process, so we can have a common direction and purpose.

I have noticed that the Chinese as a people seem to have a common goal and vested interest in the state as a means to fulfilling the desires of the Chinese people. The Asians seems to have a vested interest in fostering strong community values and care. The whites seem to focus on race as the cornerstone of progress. They will always go the extra mile for a person so long as they are white. The Arabs seem to place their strength as a nation on Islam, as the only way to gains of life.

Wat is important to Africans and all of African descend globally. Wat do we stake our life's on and are prepared to die for as a people. Surely not hatred for one another or tribalism? 

If this news is true, may god punish all of our leaders and oil companies in Nigeria. Surely, dis is rubbing Peter to pay paul. E no go better for dem!!

The UN to monitor clean up. We have our eyes on the UN to make sure our soil ecological health is restored to its glory.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011



From Laolu Akande, New York

THE United Nations (UN) is said to be planning a close monitoring of the cleanup of Ogoni oil spill recommended by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) in its report last week.


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According to Martin Nesirky, the spokesperson to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the UN leader is being briefed about the details of the UNEP report, which called for the biggest oil spill cleanup ever recommended.

Although Nesirky did not state what the initial reaction of the secretary-general was to the report, UN sources say the matter is high up on Ban's agenda considering his global concern against pollution generally.

The UN sources added that the entire UN system especially the UNEP and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) would be deployed with specific instructions to help Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Netherlands and the oil companies involved, especially Shell to conduct an acceptable cleanup that is to last several years.

The resolve of the UN to conduct an effective follow-up according to sources is because the UNEP report itself detailed how oil companies and the Nigerian government failed to meet their own standards, and how the stipulated process of investigation, reporting and cleanup was deeply flawed in favour of the oil firms and against the victims.

For instance, while in the United States (U.S.), oil spills get immediate responses in order to avert community and media uproar, in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, where there are far more incidents of pollution, response if it comes at all can take as long as months.

Besides, sources say it would take a concerted effort to ensure that local contaminated areas in Ogoni are cleaned up in as long as five years, and the heavily-impacted mangrove areas and swamplands could even take a much longer number of years - as much as up to 30 years.

Short of an international focus and monitoring from a credible body like the UN, the cleanup may easily become a mirage, a source stated.

Equally, the report itself asked that all sources of ongoing contamination must be brought to an end before the cleanup of the creeks, sediments and mangroves can begin.

Indeed, western media outlets and non-governmental organisations have since been awash with comments on the findings of the UNEP, which has called for what is deemed as the biggest ever oil cleanup in world record.

For instance, Amnesty International while commenting on the UNEP report said "oil companies have been exploiting Nigeria's weak regulatory system for too long."

According to Audrey Gaughran of Amnesty International, the process of reporting and investigation of spills in Nigeria do not "adequately prevent environmental damage and they frequently fail to properly address the devastating impact that their bad practice has on people's lives."

Regarding follow-up measures, the UNEP report recommends establishing three new institutions in Nigeria to support a comprehensive environmental restoration.

A proposed Ogoniland Environmental Restoration Authority would oversee implementation of the study's recommendations and should be set up during a transition phase, which UNEP suggests should begin as soon as possible.

The authority's activities should be funded by an Environmental Restoration Fund for Ogoniland, to be set up with an initial capital injection of $1 billion contributed by the oil industry and the government, to cover the first five years of the clean-up.

A recommended Integrated Contaminated Soil Management Centre, to be built in Ogoniland and supported by potentially hundreds of mini-treatment centres, would treat contaminated soil and provide hundreds of job opportunities.

The report also recommends creating a Centre of Excellence in Environmental Restoration in Ogoniland to promote learning and benefit other communities impacted by oil contamination in the Niger Delta and elsewhere in the world.

Reforms of environmental government regulation, monitoring and enforcement, and improved practices by the oil industry are also recommended in the report.

The UNEP report stated already that the environmental restoration of Ogoniland oil region could prove to be the world's most wide-ranging and long-term oil clean-up ever, if contaminated drinking water, land, creeks and other ecosystems are to be brought back to full health, according to a UN report.

It could take 25 years to 30 years, with an initial investment of $1 billion just for the first five years, to clean up pollution from more than 50 years of oil operations in the Niger Delta, ranging from the "disastrous" impact on mangrove vegetation to the contamination of wells with potentially cancer-causing chemicals in a region that is home to some one million people.

The independent scientific assessment, carried out by the UNEP over a 14-month period, showed greater and deeper pollution than previously thought after an agency team examined more than 200 locations, surveyed 122 kilometres of pipeline rights of way, analyzed 4,000 soil and water samples, reviewed more than 5,000 medical records and engaged over 23,000 people at local community meetings. http://odili.net/news/source/2011/aug/9/18.html

Dis is just great news for our developing economy dat needs much investors. Great news boko haram, u really care about people.

The Punch

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Nigeria ranks 19th among countries prone to terrorist attacks - Survey

WAHEED BAKARE

Activities of the militant sect, Boko Haram, have worsened the rating of Nigeria among countries prone to terrorist attacks, WAHEED BAKARE writes


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Nigeria is the 19th 'most at risk' country from terrorist attack, a survey released on Wednesday by UK-based global analysts, Maplecroft, has shown.

With this ranking, the country is now among countries that are at "extreme risk" from terrorist attacks. Nigeria's current status, according to Maplecroft, is attributed mainly to the uprising by the militant sect, Boko Haram, in the north.

Boko Haram, which means "western education is sinful," has claimed responsibility for months of attacks in and around Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. The dreaded sect has attached police stations, churches, and outdoor bars. The most daring attack it carried out, which, many analysts believed was targeted at the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, was at the police headquarters in Abuja on June 16, 2011.

More than 250 people have been killed by Boko Haram since July 2010, according to human rights groups.

While the Boko Haram uprising was a major factor in Nigeria's ranking, the activities of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta was also a contributory factor.

MEND carried out car bombings that killed 12 people in Abuja on October 1, 2010 during Nigeria's 50th independence anniversary. Apart from the Abuja bombings, the group had also carried out a series of attacks in the South-South region.

But the report indicates that Somalia remains the 'most at risk' country from terrorist attack, followed by Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and the new nation of South Sudan. Somalia has, for some time, occupied the most prone country to terrorisms, a situation many analysts have attributed to lack of a legitimate government in the country for decades.

Apart from Nigeria, Yemen, Iran, Uganda, Libya and Egypt are also experiencing increasing threats. Maplecroft attributed the increasing threats in Yemen and Uganda to al-Qaeda-associated violence, while those in Iran were as a result of attacks by Sunni Muslim rebel group, Jundollah. As for Egypt and Libya, theirs originated from terrorist and criminal attempts to exploit the revolution rocking the Arab world.

The top four most at risk countries remain unchanged from the previous ranking carried out by Maplecroft in November 2010. However, South Sudan, the newest independent country in the world, replaced the Palestinian territories at number five. This, according to analysts, is due to the high average number of people killed per attack in the country that seceded from North Sudan last month.

Apart from the top five, Yemen is number six; Palestinian Territories, seven; Democratic Republic of Congo, eight; Central African Republic, nine; Colombia, 10; Algeria, 11; Thailand, 12; Philippines, 13; Russia, 14; Sudan, 15; Iran, 16; Burundi, 17; India, 18; Nigeria, 19; and Israel, 20.

Although Maplecroft acknowledged that the militant, al-Shabaab, suffered some losses in Mogadishu, the group continued to hold much of South and central Somalia and "launch some of the most devastating attacks in the capital," in its fight against a Western-backed interim government.

It added that South Sudan got its rating "primarily due to the intensity of terrorist attacks, with an average of 6.59 fatalities per terrorist incident, almost three times that of Somalia at 2.23.''

No fewer than seven rebel militias are fighting the new government's forces, which are trying to establish stability after separating from the north as part of the peace deal reached in 2005, ending decades of civil war with Khartoum.

Maplecroft's index rated 198 countries on the number, frequency and intensity of terrorism attacks, plus the likelihood of mass casualties occurring, while based on historical data, "it is intended as a forward-looking assessment."

The survey's reporting period of April 2010 to March 2011 partly overlaps with the June 2009 to June 2010 data used in its previous ranking. On South Sudan, it stated that in spite of its elevated risk ranking, the 211 death toll recorded from terrorist attacks was minimal compared to the top four countries.

Over the same period, Somalia suffered 1,385 deaths, Pakistan, 2,163 deaths; Iraq, 3,456 deaths; and Afghanistan, 3,423 deaths, which together account for more than 75 per cent of the world's 13,492 fatalities.

The survey observed that there was an increased risk from regional offshoots of al Qaeda, including al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, adding that a spate of revenge attacks by militants in Pakistan following the killing of al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, in May, showed that the once most wanted man's death had not reduced militancy.

On Iran, it stated that the country continued to experience a small but lethal number of mass-casualty attacks, including a twin suicide bombing in Zahedan in July 2010, which resulted in the death of at least 28 people.

One of the largest changes in rankings was Uganda, which jumped 20 places to 22, following bombings in Kampala in July 2011 that killed 79 people. The shift was attributed to al-Shabaab and was the militant group's first strikes on foreign soil. The only Western European country seen at high risk was Greece, assessed at 27, down from 24, due to violent left-wing groups. This is followed by Britain, rated at 38, up from 46, while France was at 45, barely changed from 44.

The survey period does not cover an attack in Norway by anti-Muslim zealot and mass killer, Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Oslo and Utoeya Island on July 22, 2010. After the attack, some analysts argued that terrorism monitoring had focused more on threat of violence from Muslim groups, ignoring the danger posed by far right westerners.

The survey rated Norway at a lowly 112. However, some are of the view that the singular experience of July 22 will increase the level of risk of Norway when next a similar survey is carried out.

Maplecroft's Global Risks Portfolio and services "combine rigorous research with technological innovation to offer risk screens, monitoring tools and invaluable insights into the most challenging political, economic, social and environmental risks and responsibilities facing global business today."

It defines terrorism as "the calculated and purposeful use of violence to influence the attitudes and behaviour of people and governments, and takes its raw data from the US National Counter-terrorism Centre's Worldwide Incidents Tracking System." http://odili.net/news/source/2011/aug/9/824.html

Exactly does people dat are ready complain of people not being ready. The question is why are dey in such a rush or is it just desperation.?

chamber2:
Don't mind these text book copier. The book he copied those things from may have been what madam Ngozi used in her 100 level development economics class. Give them the position now and they will start throwing owambe party

Dat is very true. Wat, i know is dat each time madam Ngozi comes into the system in Nigeria something good always happens for the Nigeria economy. ie IMF Debt forgiveness for Nigeria and Information and Technology revolution in Nigeria amongst many other things. 

They just want her position so they can loot the economy and institute cronyism. Award contracts to their family business and all the other fraudulent activities madam Ngozi wouldn't do.  We Nigerians no longer want such and are desperate for the type of progress Dr Okonjo stands for.

I guess no third term for Gov Peter Obi. lollz The question is whom is best suited to take over from Peter Obi in 2015, dat will take Anambra to the next level? Obi did well, but we need a person dat can do better.

Ngozi economics is exactly wat Nigeria needs right now. No Doubt. Dat is excellent fiscal management and monetary control, with the incentive for inward investment.