₦airaland Forum

Ever heard of Kaita?
Its a border town with Niger Republic; it's where the NNPC recently announced that International Oil Companies have chosen to donate 21 billion Naira to build a hospital. It is also coincidentally the community where staff housing for the proposed refinery will be situated. It is 3 km to the Nigeria Niger Border.

Ever heard of Agadem?
It is an oil field in Niger Republic from which the Nigerian authorities intend to source the crude oil for the proposed refinery.

Ever head of Mashi?
It is a community near Kaita, also close to the Niger Republic. It is the location for the refinery being built by the Buhari goverment of Katsina.

If you didn't know, for the past five years, by an executive order from Abuja, Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt I and II refineries have been shut down. Not because something got spoilt, or pipelines got broken. For no justifiable reason, all the refineries were made redundant. Yet, the timeline to complete the Mashi refinery is 2021.

Remember Ibe Kachikwu, the then Minister of State for Petroleum, wrote an open letter that the acting President Yemi Osinbojo and himself were being sidelined by the late Abba Kyari in collaboration with the late Maikanti Baru as they were taking memo's directly to Buhari in his sick bed in London for approvals after officially handing over the reins of government to the VP, when they feared that he was going to die. (didn't he die?) It was approvals for the AKK gas pipeline project. To convey gas from Escravos through Ajaokuta to Abuja Kaduna and Kano. Now, the interesting part is that the project has been reviewed to take a detour through Katsina to Niger Republic Border.

Ever heard of Idi Umoru? He is Fulani from Niger Republic. In 1984, he contested against Aja Nwachukwu an Igbo from Nigeria for the position of Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity. Guess what? against pleading from Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Jomo Kenyatta, Buhari voted against his country Nigeria for the man from Niger Republic. Mind you, Buhari was the ruler of Nigeria then. Yet, he voted against the country he was ruling in favour of his kinsman.

Recently, there was an outrage at the announcement that a contract for the sum on $1.9 billion had been awarded for the construction of a Rail line from Kano, through Katsina, to the Nigerian/Niger Republic border.
Do I still need to connect the dots, or are you now able to read between the lines?

Make we take eye de look

chiefkpokp:
Hahahahahahahahahaha ur own off me o

engineerboat:
It really pained me on Bishop Esau death.


Please what happened to Him

solutionh:
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IMASTEX:
They have all ran into their shells. My people say, when a man doesn't marry more than one wife he wouldn't know he had an angle as the first wife.

ecomalchemist:
bro, the number of people wey go don die before 2023 go plenty ooooo...Hunger kills faster than corona virus

QuickStandard:
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IME1:

URGES

IME1:
Do you think this can happen in Nigeria?
Even among rich people?
Chidera just wasted food that many people need and don't have.
They watched him, they were afraid to approach him cause he might hurt them
Hurt them as in? So if he was plucking the hair from the head of someone they won't have approached him?
They should have stopped him right from the onset
But they left him, as they have been leaving him before he became this tall and ....
Chidera can kill and commit suicide
Chidera has mental issues
Chidera is not in a good environment for his upbringing
He does not understand and appreciate his privileges
He is wasting life, resources and abusing family hood and son hood
He is entitled and feels his mother and father owe him
He feels entitled to rant and destroy because he was ignored by his mum while he was talking to her.


My Nigerian born and brought up people what do you have to say when you consider where you and I are coming from?
Some us came from homes where food couldn't waste because we ate it all, and when food remained we kept it till the next time we wanted to eat.
Some kept goats, pigs, dogs and other ways where we disposed of food. Many of us gave to those without food.
Breaking lantern globe or glass or clay pitcher for fetching water from the river was almost like a sacrilege. We dare not let it slip. It's better you fall let it land on your stomach than allow that glass break.

Oh what a life! We are rich now and we still live prudently, wisely, carefully and sanely.
We don't tear up money, we don't smoke with dollars, we don't smoke anything, we don't drink only to go and pee it out, we don't buy food and leave chunks of flesh on the bones in restaurants or parties just to show that we are not hungry, we don't buy unnecessary gadgets, aso ebi or jewellery, we stay in apartments we can afford, we don't spray in parties, we maintain our cars and phones so don't need to change them every 6 months

We are the prudent generation, the wise ones, the ones with values, the ones with shame and fear, with respect and honour for our elders, the ones with money and sense, the ones who are not entitled but strive to better our lives, we have godly contentment and don't break TV screens or car windscreens when we are angry or upset.

We read comments from people on Nairaland which may be annoying but we don't make it our lives purpose to find the culprit to avenge, we move on, we forgive, we overlook, we are bigger, better, and more mature. We know and believe that we shall reap what we sow. We rever God. We see those who troll, curse, derail, peddle tribal rivalry and political hatred and pray silently for them because we know they'll reap what they sow. The ones they insult end up raising funds for them, giving them lifts or employing them.

Chidera will not always have a mother whose kitchen he can trash.
He may not always be left to be destructive.
One day he will be taken away and his words will be 'mummy, don't let them take me, mummy please!'

But then it will be late and we will be watching with popcorn and sprite