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sayitout1:
The oil block business is so lucrative that Danjuma’s Sapetro divested of its investment in Akpo condensate for $1billion dollars. The business is second to none in Nigeria. That is why any attempt to investigate the activities in this sector will always be futile. The money is so much that they give bribes in millions of dollars. A birthday gift or child naming gift from an oil block owner to a government official could be as paltry as $2million dollars, and if the official’s father died, the condolence gift could reach mere $3 million dollars.

When they want to bribe legislators, it is in millions of dollars and any ongoing investigation ends within weeks. They are so confident that with excess money they can buy up Nigeria and they are succeeding OML 110 with high yield OBE oil fields was given Cavendish Petroleum owned by Alhaji Mai Daribe, the Borno Patriarch in 1996 by Sanni Abacha. OBE oil field has estimated over 500 million barrels of oil. In layman’s language and using average benchmark of $100 dollars per barrel, translates to $50 billion dollars worth of oil reserve. When you remove the taxes, royalties and sundry duties worth about 60% of the reserve payable over time you get about $20billion dollars worth of oil in the hands of a family.

OPL 246 was awarded to SAPETRO, a company owned by General Theophilus Danjuma, by Sanni Abacha in 1998. Akpo condensate exports about 300,000 barrels of crude daily.

NOML 112 and OML 117 were awarded to AMNI International Petroleum Development Company owned by Colonel Sanni Bello in 1999. Sanni Bello is an inlaw to Abdulsalami Abubakar, former Head of State of Nigeria.

OML 115, OLDWOK Field and EBOK field was awarded to Alhaji Mohammed Indimi from Niger State. Indimi is an inlaw to former Military President Ibrahim Babangida.
OML 215 is operated by Nor East Petroleum Limited owned by Alhaji Saleh Mohammed Gambo.
OML 108 is operated by Express Petroleum Company Limited is owned by Alhaji Aminu Dantata.

OML II3 allocated to Yinka Folawiyo Pet Ltd is owned by Alhaji W.I. folawiyo
ASUOKPU/ UMUTU marginal oil fields is operated by Seplat Petroleum. Seplat is owned by Prince Nasiru Ado Bayero, cousin to the Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi. This oil field has the capacity of 300,000 barrels of oil daily. This translates to $30million dollars daily at average benchmark of $100 dollars per barrel. Deducting all sundry taxes, royalties etc , this field can yield $12billion dollars daily for the owners .

Intel owned by Atiku, Yarádua and Ado Bayero has substantial stakes in Nigeria’s oil exploration industry both in Nigeria and Principe and Sao Tome.
AMNI owns two oil blocks OML 112 and OML 117 which it runs Afren plc and Vitol has substantial stakes in oil blocks. Afren plc is operating EBOK oil fields in OML 67. Vitol lifts 300,000 barrels of Nigerian oil daily. Rilwanu Lukman, former OPEC Chairman has stakes in all these named three companies.

OPL 245 was awarded to Malabu Oil& Gas Company by Sanni Abacha. Dan Etete, Abacha’s oil minister owns Malabu Oil. In 2000, Vice President Atiku Abubakar convinced Obasanjo to revoke OPL 245 given to Malabu Oil. Etete had earlier rejected Atiku’s demand for substantial stakes in the high yield OPL 245 and it attracted the venom of Ota Majesty who revoked the licence. However, in 2006, Obasanjo had mercy on Dan Etete and gave him back his oil block worth over $20 billion dollars.

OPL 289 and OPL 233 was awarded during Obasanjo era to Peter Odili fronts, Cleanwater Consortium, consisting of Clenwater Refinery and RivGas Petroleum and Gas Company. Odili’s brother in law, Okey Ezenwa manages the consortium as Vice Chairman.

OPL 286 is managed by Focus Energy in partnership with BG Group, a British oil concern. Andy Uba has stakes in Focus Energy and his modus operandi is such that you can never see his name in any listings yet he controls OPL and OML through proxies
OPL 291 was awarded to Starcrest Energy Nigeria Limited, owned by Emeka Offor by Obasanjo . Immediately after the award, Starcrest sold the oil block to Addax Petroleum Development Company Limited (ADDAX) Addax paid Sir Emeka Offor a farming fee of $35million dollars and still paid the signature bonus to the government. Emeka Offor still retains stake in ADDAX operations in Nigeria.
Mike Adenuga’s Conoil is the oldest indigenous oil exploration industry in Nigeria. Conoil has six oil blocks and exports above 200,000 barrels of crude daily.

The oil block national cake sharing fiesta could take twists according to the mood of the Commander-in –Chief at the particular time. In 2006, Obasanjo revoked OPL 246 which Abacha gave to Danjuma because he refused to support the tenure elongation bid of the Ota Majesty. In 2000, Obasanjo had earlier revoked OPL 241 given to Dan Etete under the advice Atiku.

However, when the Obasanjo-Atiku face off started, the Ota Majesty made a u-turn and handed back the oil block to Etete.
During the time of Late President Yarádua , a panel headed by Olusegun Ogunjana was set up to investigate the level of transparency in the award of oil blocks. The panel recommended that 25 oil blocks awarded by the Obasanjo be revoked because the manner they were obtained failed to meet the best practices in the industry. Sadiq Mahmood, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum endorsed the report to then president with all its recommendations . As a result of the report Yarádua revoked eleven oil blocks.

In April 2011 Mike Adenuga attempted to buy Shell’s OML 30 for $1.2 billion dollars. The Minister for Petroleum and Nigeria’s most powerful woman refused the sale of the OML30 to Adenuga citing national interest. This block was later sold to Heritage Oil for $800 million dollars eleven months later.

In the name of competitive bidding, which Obasanjo introduced in 2005, Officials bring companies overnight and through processes best described as secretive and voodooist they award blocks to party faithful, fronts and phoney companies. They collect gratifications running into hundreds of millions of dollars which is paid into an offshore account and the nation loses billions of dollars of revenue to private pockets.

Source: http://www.osundefender.org/?p=163576

They need to publish the names of these oil block owners. Saying the oil blocks are owned exclusively by northerners without publishing their names and tax they pay is only part of the story. We need to know who these northern oligarchs are and how they came to exclusively award the Niger Delta oil wells to themselves.

FKO81:
More structures in Unizik

Thanks for your pics.

We have to imbibe the use of lawn mowers rather than machetes for grass cutting and landscaping it makes the grass bushy and ugly. It isn't enough to plant grass for landscaping if you are unable to maintain it with the right tools.
Just as we must move away from use of hoes for farming.

lowgeorge:
Can't ibos do without calling yoruba yolobas as in seriously even in their bedrooms..on church pews on wedding altars all they can give d dirtiest region of mine dat sustains all criminalized experimentation nd sustainance of there pathetic self is by calling dat land of mine filled with gullible peoples dat God did nt create to be stingy just to be rich like d ibos is by d same ibos milking dem to call dem yolobas..Amadioha punish u Igbos . Vermins dats wat u all are.. I wish dis stupid contri can bomb to pieces for all I care

@ bolded, your fathers have joined your masters and they are already doing dat..... and we congratulate them on job well done. They should use bigger bombs and clone 1o shekaus. Why delay it using just one shekau at a time?
BTW, it's Igbo not ibo, you bloody yoloba!

LasGidiOwner:
Yes he is already kneeling and begging to be 'anointed' by the kingmakers. We shall use this picture against him when he tries to prove tough like the clown there now is proving..

[size=15pt]Bros,
Let me state categorically that I'm a bonafide Anambra person and i totally and completely find your statement repulsive and unacceptable. Without being boastful, and to keep my identity vague,i tell you that few ordinary citizens have volunteered their time, resources and energy towards the cause of good governance and development in Anambra since the regime of Col. Mike Attah till date than me!

You may not like Rochas,but insinuating the Anambra people are somehow king makers in Imo is ugly and reprehensible. In fact, it shows how empty and immature your reasoning is.
If this is another Chino's handle, Nna, you failed this one kpata-kpata.

"APGA isn't just a political party, it is an emancipation party"
In case you don't know the strategy behind APGA, Our father Ojukwu threw his weight behind having an Igbo party in order to checkmate Obasanjo's strategy of using PDP to nominate criminals to continue ruling and looting Igboland to hold us back. That is why we expect nothing but good governance from any APGA chosen governor. [/size]

[size=14pt]1. Ada ada - Flavour
2. Jukpa- J Martins & Fally Ipupa
3. Yori yori- Bracket
4. Mama Africa - Bracket
5. No one like you- P-square
6. Yakulu- Timaya
7. Plantain boy- Timaya
8. Aye- Davido
9. Limpopo- KCee
10. Beautiful Onyinye- P-Square
11. Shinamania- Sir Shina Peters
12. Natty get to jail - Raskimon
13. Genesis- Majek Fashek
14. African soldier - Sonny Okosun
15. Iyogogo - Onyeka Onwenu
16. Seunrere - Christy Essien Igbokwe
17. Moso rire - IK Dairo
18. Daddy Moh- Ollie Gee
19. Oremi pele pele - Commander Ebenezer Obey
20. Nwa Dinpka- Chief Osita Osadebe [/size]

cjrane:
[size=15pt]This issue of defacing the environment with posters must stop.

The government should enact a law making it punishable to indiscriminately paste posters on government property such as these.Anyone who breaks that law must pay a fine of between N200,000 - N500,000 naira to the government depending on how extensive their vandalism of public property.

I saw a brand new bridge in Anambra completely defaced with posters. The culture and penchant to mindlessly deface and destroy public property must be addressed by government.[/size]

Completely agree with you! I was in Aba and the entire concrete road divider along Asa road had been completely covered with all sorts of posters! The abuse of posters for church,campaign,nollywood traders, burial or even village announcement is a scourge that must be addressed. This anomaly has been tolerated and has persisted so long that our people now believe it is the proper way to make announcements or advertisements. Just as use of Okada for public transportation was tolerated so long that people didn't find it abnormal again.

The era that public property is nobody's property must end. Early this year while in Naija, I saw a group of boys burning refuse and old tires under the idemili bridge along Onitsha-Owerri express roads.At first, I thought it was an accident and the car ran off the bridge and was burning, then I saw the refuse heap of tires and other junk! I wondered why they just couldn't use any other available farmland, including open erosion gullies around the place, than under this highway bridge! Didn't they know the flames could weaken the steel and the bridge would collapse if a heavy truck passes over it? Did they know that it took more than 25 years of constant agitation,pleas,electoral promises, blackmail etc about the deplorable state of Onitsha-Owerri road for the federal government to finally award the contract? Then it took another 10 years for the contract to be completed!
Our people treat public utilities as if they can break it down, and simply find the money to build a new one immediately to replace it.

[quote author=LasGidiOwner post=/post/26824959]It does not need to work, because who ever started this will pay in full. Simple. Lest I forget stay away from this customized13 aka nwobekeyi..[/quote]You guys should go ahead and post the gutter in Anambra and IMO thread to destroy it, after all most culprits are from these two states.

But stay away from Enugu thread, we are using that thread to educate Igbo business men and stakeholders here in the USA on what is obtainable in SE Nigeria .

Unemadu and faun be warned to stay away from Anambra vs. IMO issue so that you don't attract their flak into Enugu thread.

soma042: Nice tread please keep it coming op I'm from Enugu but i wish i was born in Anambra state I love every thing about them.also I can never summit to envy about the achievement of my Big brothers. Average Anambra boy or girl always dreams Being great, they work harder than most of us here in other zones, as you can see the achievement listed above. So let us give them kudos and support them instead of attacking them always like I see some people here engaging in war of words with there fellow brothers. Please let's be our brothers keeper .

I HATE chino

@op, Great Job!

Everyone knows Anambra had nothing and showing that effort is being made to reposition the state is truly heart warming.

Anambra has earned some haters because of Chino' utterances. However, There are some notable Anambra haters here and it has nothing to do with Chino but everything to do with misguided jealousy. There is a certain taxi driver living in washington DC that pretends to be objective, but spares no effort in pouring venom on Anambra people especially in the Enugu thread. He has tried to even engage me using his fake monikers. For the sake of not derailing the thread,i typically ignore them because their low IQ reflect in every post. Anyhow, those who think they are doing their state a favour by calumny against another SE state should wake up from their silliness.

He has been forced to go collect his own 72 virgins early. In order to leave Chibok girls alone.

You guys should have waited until April fools day.

Idumose: Buhari will have my vote if he decides to present himself as presidential
candidate in 2019.

He should exercise patience until Jonathan completes in tenure in 2019.

[size=19pt]The man who said that it is the patient Dog that eats

The fattest bone may be right afterall [/size]

Me too

The reason for the lie is because we cheat the owners of the oil in their God given resource.
Let Nigeria adopt true federalism and there would be no need for all the lies.

Even Boko Haram flag is more ingenious

He should be tried and punished with long jail term minimum of 21 years for all their terrorist atrocities.

Seun deserves an award for the way he has handled tribalism on NL.

Seun makes me to have hope for Nigeria

Imagine if NL was owned by people like OMj4 and people like that.

I'm sure this tanker is owned by abooki or they have something to do with it. This explosion is very suspicious. Especially after a lorry carrying Nama from the north was caught with explosives hidden inside at ninth mile.

cjrane: [size=15pt]Hurrah!!!!!

Chino, I nokwa ebea?
Nwanne, Biko, ignore ndi-ofe that will want to engage you here in order to torpedo this thread.
I cover you in the blood of Jesus from their provocative snares and vicious distractions.

@op; what about re-titling it
"Anambra; Light of the nation"
.....because, ihe di egwu ga eme na this thread!
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Chino, nti gbam-gbam! Listen to words of ur people!

Faun: Typical. Why am I not surprised?
See the rubbish he's saying about other Igbos, and you question my decision to make sure this thread ends up in the gutter.

I didn't see where the thread said "welcome to Chino thread".
Chino obviously has a short fuse. He acts before he thinks. If I want him to attack Cross River state, all I have to do is say "my state CR is better than Anambra" and step back to let Chino hammer cross river state for me. Ndi ofe have continued to use this trick to get Chino into comically attacking other SE states for ndi ofe...... and perhaps provoke a response from another Igbo from that state.

Having said that, you are worse than Chino for trying to imitate only the negative side of one's behavior. I think Chino gives you more importance than you deserve by responding to you. Typically, when I get home everyday, my neighbors dog bark. I ignore them because I consider them animals. Just as I would ignore your types if I were Chino.

spyder880: What do you like about this road?

Sweet roads.
Totally world class !

I had a dream last nite and saw Shekau in hell being tormented by Ghaddafi and Abacha. One was angry after using Libyan weapons he still was not victorious and Abacha was mad that Shekau tried to out do him in butchery.

Collynzo22: The Nigerian military through its spokesman General Olukolade today confirmed that the man who has been acting as Shekau in boko haram's videos (Shekau2) has been killed.

General Olukolade released photos to prove that the man they killed and the boko haram leader are the same person.
[img]http://3.bp..com/-8O4Dd03mnKg/VCL8efHItRI/AAAAAAADl54/uTRLklIHXsc/s1600/SHEKAU1-e1411577009541-1024x744.jpeg[/img]
https://newsrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/shek-2.jpg
The Shekau they killed came to fight with them dressed in a brocade, while the one we see in videos is always dressed in full military outfit as shown below, could Shekau(2) be that eccentric?
https://www.theparadigmng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Abubakar-Shekau-video.jpg
As for the mark on his forehead they pointed out in the first image, most ''dedicated'' muslims have it as a result of regular prayers, how much more an extremists?
I just hope Shekau(2) does not appear in another video making jest of the military as it will be quite difficult for another man Shekau(3) to successfully mimick the current one.
We have received enough embarrassment.

The coward called Shekau has never worn military uniform for war. It is only for making videos.

In war he prefers brocade so that he can escape as usual as a civilian.
Thank God he didn't escaped this time.

I like Atiku.
I believe he is a detribalized Nigerian.
Marrying from the 3 major tribes means he has children who are technically half Yoruba,half fulani and half Igbo.

But emmmmmmh, I still prefer GEJ. Let Atiku try in 2019, I will be his major campaigner.

The dying moon of Alor called Ngige now knows he CANNOT SUBVERT THE PEOPLES WILL BY MANIPULATING THE JUDICIARY.

Let those who still believe this is the Obasanjo years when unpopular politicians were foisted on their people and the Judiciary cajoled from making bold pronouncements on the obvious rape of the people. Ngige must have learnt that the ONLY way to get into the government house is through majority of the people's votes.... and you can only get the peoples votes when you are clearly working in their interest, not conniving with those who have sworn to ruthlessly deal with them if they acquire power.

Nobody needs Ngige's congratulatory message. He lost woefully with the electorate and he has been shamefully proven to be a liar and imposter.
The peoples' Governor Willie Obiano isn't distracted by Ngige's shameless antics. he is already working day and night to help fix his state.

Let Ngige run closer to kwankwanso, El-rufai, Adamu Ciroma and other sworn haters of the glorious Igbo people. We shall out live all their wickedness and unwarranted hatred

Why didn't this shameless white man doing undercover propaganda for Boko haram tell us this all this time?

We don't need your tales m
Mr Davis. We will get there without assistance from you or the countries you represent that have been plotting the downfall of Nigeria

So delighted to know that Obiano has not been distracted by the APC rat Ngige. He is heading full steam to keep all his contract with the good people of Anambra state that put their fate in his hands.

So good to learn that another decent gentleman had taken over from Peter Obi to continue the task of rebuilding the state abandoned since.


May God bless Chief Willie Obiano!

Ngige is a sour loser, he knew from the day the elections were completed that he lost. But would rather drag it out through the judicial system to see if he could bribe a judge to subvert the people's verdict.

Well the Supreme Court has spoken, let him go and sit down. If you want to be governor by all means, then always side with the masses when they are mistreated even by your friends. He displayed his hypocrisy by siding with the high ans mighty against the poor.

If God says Nigeria won't break up, all the plans and doom predictions for Nigeria will come to naught!

All this bloud America is helping to shed in Borno and around the world, Dia ris God o!

Many western countries wish a civil war that will break up Nigeria . I had doubted those that implicated the US in the Boko Haram issue. But today it is obvious the Americans have a hand in the Nigerian insurgency. It is heartening that NA refused to trust their troops completely in this effort.

Nigeria must thread carefully with the US. The have a lot of capacity for good as well as evil. Although when it concerns Africa and het development, we see more of the evil side of white men.