₦airaland Forum

adamshafi:
what about the time christians killed muslim in plateau did we said jesus made them do dat? what about pastors doing illegal acts did we say jesus made them did that? i am a muslim i love prophet muhammad and jesus as a messenger of Almighty God.... you should never judge what muslims do by there act .. rather judge us by what is in our Quran and hadith..just the way we will judge christians based on the bible not the way they act.... alot of consipiracy is in the minds of those killing non muslims with no reason and according to our beloved prophet these muslim should be severely dealt with as there sin is like they have killed all humanity and he clearly madr mention non to kill any human....

Christians don't go out attacking.....check it they must have been attacked first..............you don't have any justification for these worthless killings

stanech:
the funny part is that no media house will report this news its like there is a deep conspiracy and plan to wipe out the middle belt christians

Am surprised media don't publish these killings

Eruditor:
On Amaechi's best day, he collected 93B in 6 months between Jan 2013 to June 2013. In that time frame Akpabio collected 135B. Amaechi employed more teachers than any state governor in Nigeria and if you have any sense you would understand that equates to recurrent expenditures unlike Akpabio's infrastructures that will never get maintained as is the custom with mediocre governors.

Amaechi might have his flaws but you cannot peat him and Akpabio on the same level with respect to management skills. Amaechi has more heads to cater to with far fewer resources than Akpabio and when you consider that in 2014, Rivers allocations from Federal government reduced by 30%, then you know what he means by the monetary challenges that lie ahead for the incoming government.

I beg leave that think Ameachi is no match for Apkabio !!

chukwudi44:
conduct 1000 e;ections in River state even with Amaechi as REC ,APC wil still lose.You don't seem to understand the level of animosity and anger against the APC that currently exists in the nider delta.BTW an election petition tribunal can only nullify or uphold the results of an election,it cannot send anyone to jail.Even if the lections are nullified,Wike would still contest and win

CORRRECT!!!!

einsteino:
The second highest earning state in the country is claiming to be broke! ameachi just openly confessed that he mismanaged rivers state treasury. i still say if shettima of katsina was an APC member we for no hear word, he is the only governor that didn't take a single loan. it is time we make it compulsory for governors to work within what their states earn, ameachi is leaving debt for his successor and still has the guts to say "he will see if he can builds schools and roads".

Please don't judge based on party lines, is this kind of utterance supposed to be from any governor on the side of reason?

Don't mind the blind man! he thinks the world start and stops by been an APC member. He is Satanic for all I care.........full of lies and propaganda talks

Ameachi the devil of Ubima, toothless lion of Ubima----tough time awaits you instead. I can see you don't mean well for Rivers state. Since you cannot have the state you would rather have it set on fire.................but rather God will vindicate wike and bring you down in disgrace. GOD pass DEVIL.

WHats all these excuses- waiting for the magic performance - stable electricity, money to the unemployed, bring down exchange rate etc...................all the loud promises

2n2k:
Before Ladol, FPSO were being constructed in Europe and Asia. Why was no noise made then?

Ladol was not set up for the FPSO in question. It is a private engineering company. It hustled for customers and the IOCs seen that it has the capacity to do the job decided to award the contracts to it. It does other jobs apart from constructing fpso.

Well if the condition is not favourable they should pack and leave. Several other companies will grab the juicy opportunity

bushdoc9919:
If it is productive you want...then you should rule out all states.

My point is....states should stop relying on sales of raw materials...and instead use their raw materials and people as the basis of mini-inudstry based economies.

Even the oil producers...because oil prices are dropping...and because the West is abandoning our oil....and because cars are now becoming electric and solar.

Nigeria must industrialize. It is our only hope. Nigeria must get off oil.Oil is a curse.

True!!

bushdoc9919:
Here , read this article....http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/friedman-pass-the-books-hold-the-oil.html?_r=0

It changed my thinking.

That is what we should be doing. I did not say that we should dash our oil to the North....or that the status quo is OK.....I mean that every Nigerian....North or South ...should get off oil.

This is not a North-South thing for me. It is about a third way....the way of industrial and innovative growth founded on science and education.

That is the only way we can guarantee true federalism.

You are also right.......but here is the Nigeria of today.

Tinubu has bribed his brain. So Buhari should allow himself to become a toy for Tinubu just like he made you...........

I don't know what you talking about I am talking about states that has the capacity to be productive, be in in terms of raw or human resources.
Those that are not viable should be merged with viable ones to reduce cost of governance. I made my point. Not ready for long talks. thanks

bushdoc9919:
Unfortunately, we SS are not allowed to control all the oil resource (except the 13% that we get....I am from an oil producer state BTW)...so, legally much of the oil is not ours.

And I am realistic to know that total resource control might not work....because everyone and his mother are dependent on oil. (That's why many of the resource control advocates are also regional advocates.....so that non oil producing southern states can get oil money too....heheh!).

Plus...resource control means what? That the host communites or the host state controls the oil? (Question for the gods!).

But i digress.

Most states in Nigeria are not viable. And by viable....most of our states...including the oil producers....are not innovative economies that are free of oil. Like Kaduna....Kaduna produces maize...which can be used for a variety of industrial products. Benue produces oranges...which could be used for food and pharma and even chemical industries. But you don't see these states doing anything about their local resources. Likewise , many of these oil producers too should develop economies free of oil dependency...because the way I see things.....soon we will be earning less and less from oil...because countries like America are on their way to energy independence. And green energy is developing in leaps and bounds.In twenty years...the developed world would not be as reliant on oil as it used to be. And where does that leave oil producers? Empty.

Most All states in Nigeria are not viable. Which is why I want you Nigerians to force your governors to make them viable. The age of oil is at an end. Time we industrialized. Oil is not going to rise above $100 per barrel soon.

I don't know what you talking about I am talking about states that has the capacity to be productive, be in in terms of raw or human resources.
Those that are not viable should be merged with viable ones to reduce cost of governance. I made my point. Not ready for long talks. thanks

bushdoc9919:
Unfortunately, we SS are not allowed to control all the oil resource (except the 13% that we get....I am from an oil producer state BTW)...so, legally much of the oil is not ours.

And I am realistic to know that total resource control might not work....because everyone and his mother are dependent on oil. (That's why many of the resource control advocates are also regional advocates.....so that non oil producing southern states can get oil money too....heheh!).

Plus...resource control means what? That the host communites or the host state controls the oil? (Question for the gods!).

But i digress.

Most states in Nigeria are not viable. And by viable....most of our states...including the oil producers....are not innovative economies that are free of oil. Like Kaduna....Kaduna produces maize...which can be used for a variety of industrial products. Benue produces oranges...which could be used for food and pharma and even chemical industries. But you don't see these states doing anything about their local resources. Likewise , many of these oil producers too should develop economies free of oil dependency...because the way I see things.....soon we will be earning less and less from oil...because countries like America are on their way to energy independence. And green energy is developing in leaps and bounds.In twenty years...the developed world would not be as reliant on oil as it used to be. And where does that leave oil producers? Empty.

Most All states in Nigeria are not viable. Which is why I want you Nigerians to force your governors to make them viable. The age of oil is at an end. Time we industrialized. Oil is not going to rise above $100 per barrel soon.

I don't know what you talking about I am talking about states that has the capacity to be productive, be in in terms of raw or human resources.
Those that are not viable should be merged with viable ones to reduce cost of governance. I made my point. Not ready for long talks. thanks

socialmediaman:
This country cannot survive on recurrent expenditure based budget, government should rather be focused on empowering startup businesses to employ people, so people have to go as long as government will dedicate funds to business startups and job creation.

You're really beginning to sound like an enemy of progress of this nation...

He should also merge states that are not viable at all with some neighbouring viable ones.........because such states are only taking from Nigeria without adding anything in return..........this will reduce cost greatly. Why keep funding a business year in and year out without getting anything in return....we should look to practicing federalism as it should...its called 'Federal Republic of Nigeria'

barcanista:
Some Agencies were established by Act of the parliament, and as such it will require parliamentary action to repeal or amend any relevant sections to achieve merger. It must however be noted that merging agencies and departments comes with attendant job loss which "may"/will be resisted by labour and the redundant civil servants as well as inhouse politicians.

Well, we are watching whether #BabaOneChance have the political will to even send such executive bill to the parliament and whether the NASS members will be able to amend the various acts.

He should also merge states that are not viable at all with some neighbouring viable ones.........because such states are only taking from Nigeria without adding anything in return..........this will reduce cost greatly. Why keep funding a business year in and year out without getting anything in return....we should look to practicing federalism as it should...its called 'Federal Republic of Nigeria'

bushdoc9919:
Merge states? Won't happen....especially as there are petitions on the ground for even more states.

Plus...what is a ''viable'' state.? If it is in terms of IGR generated.....then Lagos is the only viable state in Nigeria.(I am not a lagosian BTW).

People should force their governors and LG chairmen to work for them....because in my opinion...that is the problem with most states. Lazy governors, lazy people.

so all the SS state generating oil revenue?? what will you call them?

He should also merge states that are not viable at all with some neighbouring viable ones.........because such states are only taking from Nigeria without adding anything in return..........this will reduce cost greatly. Why keep funding a business year in and year out without getting anything in return....we should look to practicing federalism as it should...its called 'Federal Republic of Nigeria'

I dint gain anything from reading this post so I will simply........No comment.........and.......move to the next thread

theV0ice:
No. What should cause sensible agitation is what Asari dokubo did and is still doing: making billions in the name of the Niger delta struggle and using it to go create jobs in a foreign country.

Even if he had sited his investment in Lagos like LADOL, ND youths would have been employed but he obviously doesn't think so much of his kith and kin, why then do you blame a stranger for neglecting your region when you can't caution your own son?

If gej was remotely interested in breaking a vicious cycle, he would have encouraged this project to be relocated to bayelsa since 5 years ago. If he was interested in breaking the vicious cycle, he would have mandated Asari, Tompolo, Boyloaf etc to utilise the billions he's giving them to do something similar in the ND, not using executive fiat to push a private investor into debt in a bid to soften the hostile reception he deserves from his people for sleeping for 5 years on the seat of authority. Or you think its beans to replicate such a gigantic project? Who will bear the cost?

But if course he's simply the ND version of the Kaduna mafia we all accuse of selfish born to rule mentality

What Asari got is so little compared to what other people have taken from the region on in the name of playing 'Nigeria'

ilugunboy:
If you try to create more mess for the incoming administration to add to the financial quagmire the outgoing admin is leaving for Nigerians.....be ready for some rough time from the new government.

......and that will mean more rough time for the entire economy, better to think and act wisely

theV0ice:
Everything the company is fabricating isn't coming FROM the ND, rather they are coming TO the ND. The company isn't even created only for projects in the ND.....it's meant to serve the african market as the continent lacks ready availability of such a project.

Also, it's nobody's fault that Asari sees Benin republic as a better destination for the money he gets paid from the ND. If a son of the soil who claims to fight for the region doesn't think his businesses are safe in the region, why blame the non indigene of the ND who refuses to bring his investment down there?

The project is for profit, not for charity or decoration. Tell Asari, Tompolo, Ateke, Boyloaf etc to show the way by starting the investment boom with the money they're making daily from the region. If they don't love their region enough, who should?

In any case will service most companies in ND, its right thinking for it to be situated there..

I like the part that says 'Niger Deltans have been taken for granted for too long and we would no longer accept it.' ----Its True talk

lyntiffany:
I like the part omare said " henceforth any oil company that does not have their oil company in N/D would not be allowed to operate in their region" now this is what I call taking the bull by the horn.

One will simply imagine how a region is creating wealth and it is being enjoyed by the "sophisticated" and the "born to rule" mentality.
To enlighten you come to south south most of the oil companies there are being managed by the "sophisticated" whereas the youths and the owners of the oil begg's to be employed.
So much injustice perpetrated in this country called one Nigeria.

Their agitation is ok, its right thinking. I was wondering which way Nigeria when I first heard that it was to be sited in Lagos, meanwhile the oil and gas production is in SS. was wondering why a service centre will be located far away from operational base, the initial move to do it in Lagos was a politically motivated one in the first place.......which has to be changed......change should be all encompassing including using good reasoning in siting industries.......this is the best decision ever

MayorofLagos:
This reaction gives legitimacy to opposing grounds who see increasing terrorism and new threats from Lower Niger as a real risk against new investments.

Their agitation is ok, its right thinking. I was wondering which way Nigeria when I first heard that it was to be sited in Lagos, meanwhile the oil and gas production is in SS. was wondering why a service centre will be located far away from operational base, the initial move to do it in Lagos was a politically motivated one in the first place.......which has to be changed......change should be all encompassing including using good reasoning in siting industries.......this is the best decision ever

There agitation is good. I was wondering which way Nigeria when I first heard that it was to be sited in Lagos, meanwhile the oil and gas production is in SS. was wondering why a service centre will be located far away from operational base, the initial move to do it in Lagos was a politically motivated one in the first place.......which has to be changed......change should be all encompassing including using good reasoning in siting industries.......this is the best decision ever

Imokay:
From your hell hole cave you are wiser than the investors who are staking $500 million and you can dictate the location to them without staking one penny. With this clueless order watch the investors withdraw and take away the jobs to a saner country. They will do the logistics job from there and get their margin in any case, that will make you happier i guess.

The investors stand to gain a lot anyway. Let them risk to say the aint no more going with the project/contract and tens of other investor line up to pick the job, so no biggy!. Nearness is a key factor to be considered when siting industry, it was politically motivated in the first instance, its only common sense to sit industry near as much as possible to the raw material. You don't have to cause to make a point 'From your hell hole cave you' - very uncivil way to communicate

Eruditor:
Chiaka is a troll. Don't feed the troll.

Amaechi didn't contest for any position. He has governed Rivers for 8 years with tangible results to show for it.

He challenged the status quo in the then ruling party who were hell-bent on wrecking Nigeria.

His name will forever be etched in the History of Nigeria as one of the Field Marshalls of change. He is now greater than any SS governor in the History of Nigeria and he has trumped GEJ (a former President) seeing that he was strategic in his ousting.

I speak for majority of Nigerians when I say we are proud of Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Lion of Ubima!

In your own eyes abi , I beg leave me, just enjoy your weekend?

Demdem:
Liar, Those that took wike to court as regards the election fraud, are they abokiiis? or Rivers people? Amaechi didnt even contest any elective position. What makes u more Rivers than them?

Yes they are the 0.2% our of the ones doing stomach politics with him. They follow for what they think they get eat from him the rest 99.8% of
people are for Wike!!! that's why he is so confused, frustrated and fermenting false issues or ones he master-minded
come to think of it his book was lunched in Lagos and not any SS states and check those that attended......says it all I no like too much talk.

Demdem:
Am sure this statistics emanated from ur rotten anus. Rubbish

E pain you? Maggot brain!!

MightyD:
Amaechi loss to Governor-Elect Nyesom Ezenwoke Wike.........

Amaechi should stop lamenting and accept the fact that His wisdom is too small to be compared with River State Majesty Wike.

Nah God Will 000000.

99.8% SS hate Judas of Ubima- Ameachi, only 0.2% dey follow him, not just that they love him just following him all because of politics! for wetin them go chop!
Stop to think. He lunched his book in Lagos not any SS State. Also check out the list of attendees, I no one talk too much!

utuk:
fools on nairaland celebrating Ameachi after looting rivers treasury wit mono rail project
l still wonder why young men these stupid.

99.8% SS hate him! only 0.2% dey follow him, not just that they love him just following him all because of politics! for wetin them go chop!
Stop to think. He lunched his book in Lagos not any SS State. Also check out the list of attendees. I no one talk too much!

utuk:
fools on nairaland celebrating Ameachi after looting rivers treasury wit mono rail project
l still wonder why young men these stupid.

Most pple hailing him are not from SS