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Odidigboigbo:
maybe building of refinery is like building market that you will just wake up and build, if is that easy why is it that FG that is benefiting from it didn't build any since more 50 years? For your information, more 30 companies has been licensed to build but till today, non of them has managed to build one. Ask Dangote that has been build one how much it has cost him so far. Please understand government, it's not a business sector.

Dangote is building a 600,000 bpd refinery at a cost of at least $7billion and it takes at most 4 years to complete such a refinery as long as funds are available.

In my comment, I said 500bpd or 50,000bpd refinery which would vary in cost from a 600,000bpd refinery.

In fact the comment below from Google proves it's cheaper:

"The capital outlay for any 100,000-barrel per day (bpd) refinery is about $1.5 billion or more, while a 24,000 bpd modular refinery is roughly $250 million".

This means that a 500bpd refinery will cost at least $6million to build while a 50,000bpd refinery will cost at least $600million to build..

Refineries are not expensive to build.

Cost of building a bungalow is cheaper than building a one story building or an estate.

Odidigboigbo:
Oga we are talking of petroleum produce not palm oil. The price of Petroleum is determined by international markets, it has nothing to do with local market. This is an international business not local business. So if Rivers state build a refinery today, bunkery will stop? You are saying as if it was only Rivers state that patronised them, you don't know the business, they refined and sell even to neighboring countries.

You're talking of Rivers State alone. Once Rivers or any state in Nigeria builds a refinery states like Bayelsa Akwa Ibom, Delta Edo ondo will be motivated to build their own and that will increase the amount legal refineries in that region which will indirectly push out illegal refineries out of business because the more the amount of legal businesses selling that product the lower the price

Odidigboigbo:
So to your mind, if state government build their own refinery, illegal bunkery will stop? Hmm, tell me something. This shows that you don't know the meaning of the business.

It's simple logic.

Illegal businesses need customers so that their business will continue to operate.

If someone or state or federal government builds a legal version of that illegal business and sells at a cheaper price than the illegal business then that illegal business will lose customers which will lead to the end of that illegal business.

Odidigboigbo:
You are not getting the facts, a state government can do little or nothing in that sector, it's wholly under the purview of the federal government. Does the state government controls the police, civil defence or navy that secure the sector? Do any of these agencies report to state government? Or you want the state government to set up security outfit that will police against illegal bunkery, while the money the sector makes goes to the FG? under whose expenses? You want the state to use his resources to fight against illegal bunkery while those that feed from it is in Abuja right? Just explain to me how you want the state to fight against it without spending it's resources and without the federal government benefiting from it?

The state government can build 500bpd refinery or 50000bpd refinery and put those people out of business.

the money the sector makes goes to the FG because the state government doesn't own or sponsor any refinery or oil and gas and other petroleum companies.

Reflect7:
UAE is one million times more corrupt than Nigeria.

They are ruled by super rich sheikhs with direct access to the treasury, which is treated as a family account.

The only thing saving UAE is their tiny population of 10 million.

The leaders can afford to loot the oil money and still provide a comfortable living for the people.

their indigenous population is 1.4 million while foreigners or migrants are the remaining 8 million and above...

so their population is 1.4 million not 10 million..

perambulator:
I dont believe them, i know my people. youve only heard 1 side of the story and Nigerians are always emotional with their stories. "They saw our passports and banned us" is a typical Nigerian reaction and why i tend not to take Nigerians seriously. Youve had close contact with someone who had covid, that's reason for exclusion. How can you say youve not had contact with your coach, how is he coaching you without contact? The British story is hearsay, we dont know the facts!!!!

national coach means representative or coach from the Nigerian Aquatics Federation not personal coach...

Its personal coach that trains them not the national coach...

If you ever went for maths competition from your school or a school that has more than 4 maths teachers its the head maths teacher that will accompany you to the competition not your normal maths teacher.

Sleekfingers:
Including to the ones in nigeria abi? I am simply talking about my country.

yes including Nigeria.

Sleekfingers:
They are stylishly saying that, they don't want nigerians in their country. Abi na by force to go to UAE?
As matter of fact, nigerians deserves worst treatments. A country so rich with natural resources , but scattered all over the world , because we have failed to do the necessary for our country. How do you expect any country to respect us. Lives here in nigeria is totally worthless....and we expect other countries to see us as humans......other countries should follow suit , stop allowing nigerians in the countries......

Wahala for who still dey use nigerian passport.

some natural resources in some countries in Africa requires the qu:een of e:ngland's or the current r:oyal leader of e:ngland approval and signature before anything can be extracted legally...

Teryfrank1r:
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Broveens42:
Nigeria was not even designed to be creative for themselves that is why the person who designed Nigeria flag used only two colors in three partitions.
Just take a look at the south African flag, it portrays development

South Africa's flag is a combination of Jamaica's flag and their coloniser's flag Holland.

Babinski:
Blacks are the most susceptible race to Sickle Cell Anemia with occurrence as high as 4% in some population.

People with sickle cell trait can be found most heavily in areas of the world that have malaria. This is because sickle cell trait can protect a person from becoming infected with malaria.

Sources:
https://www.verywellhealth.com/things-may-not-know-sickle-cell-disease-401318

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/sicklecell/features/keyfinding-trait.html

dettolgel:
The simple answer is that those along the malaria belt evolve to have AS as a way to survive malaria which is not an issue in the west.

Gmajor:
Sickle cell is more common in people of African descent

LordReed:
Because it is something that primarily affects us in subsaharan Africa.

Imjustagirl:
Because it is only prevalent in the black race

zoedew:
Largely because sickle cell disease is a Blackman challenge.

LLiKYekoba:
Because the white man does not carry the sickle gene that evolved solely in the black man in order to help him survive malaria for thousands of years in Africa.

Sickle cell is solely a black man's disease.

nathanomochi:
They rarely or don't even have sicklers out there cos they don't or rarely again come down with malaria. SS is exclusive to west Africa/mid asia

socialmediaman:
You’re right. Most people abroad are AA because there’s no malaria epidemic there. I watched a documentary where someone explained that our body cells in Africa started to sickle their shapes in order to fight and adapt more to the malaria parasites

FlipModeSquade:
Because Sickle cell Anaemia is a predominantly black man disease..

Alusiizizi:
"Survival of the fittest" you say. The sickle cell gene evolved in regions with high incidence of malaria. It evolved to offer their carrier protection from the otherwise deadly pathogen. Last I checked, malaria is still a problem in most parts of Africa.

grandstar comment below answers you all...

thebosstrevor1 comment was ignorant of the African American population in the U.S , Indians, black people who have been outside Africa for hundreds and thousands of years in the caribeans/south America/ north America/ Asia and black people who have been in Europe for 50 or more years all have SS but its silent in those places and I mentioned his comment because he talks as if there aren't black people who are indigenous to the "developed world" or black people who have been living in the "developed world" since the 1800s or before...

grandstar:
SS mostly affects Blacks. If a white person suffers from it, they most likely have Black ancestory. So, it need not be an issue for dating or marrying.

However, it is a silent problem amongst African Americans. It may not be as pronounced as it is here but many over there suffer from it.

Forget about that marriage stuff. We are increasingly living in a world tilted towards babies born to baby-mamas and papas rather through a marriage

In such a clime, genotype be damned. Fulfilling lust comes first with its unwanted pregnancies and children.

Joezinho:
Ekong's ground game is 'wack'. You don't go 'gung-ho' in a tackle, especially at that stage of the game.

The issue is why is Rohr playing Ekong when Akpoguma is playing well in Germany?

the striker dived... that was poor officiating from the refereeing officials..

the striker's studs were on Ekong's leg, it should have been a yellow card for diving for the striker or a red card for the striker stomping or stepping on Ekong's leg...

what's even worse is that the commentators were already blaming Ekong.. which shows that what the commentators say may be influencing those in the VAR department...

drDoom3:
Under normal circumstances, yes, it is a flimsy excuse.

However, remember that if he goes to this tournament, his club (which pays his salary) will lose his services. During that time, the club could purchase a player to replace him and he could lose his place in the squad entirely. His club could also lose all their games and be set for relegation due to his absence. At the end, it would be to what purpose? To sit on the bench for a coach that doesn't rate him.

Las las, it's all CAFs fault. They should not be holding AFCON at this kind of time. For me, any player that is not assured of theirs and their clubs safety shouldn't honor AFCON invitation because it will affect their long term stability and development as a player.

if CAF does not hold AFCON at that time then no West African country should be allowed to hold AFCON...

I don't know what the June - July weather is like for North African countries, Southern African countries, East African countries and I think Central-African countries may have same weather as their West African counterparts...

besides, Watford needs better defenders for them to avoid relegation..

from this comment, I doubt you're Nigerian or African..

femixville:
I believe you only read falsified history..
Awo did nothing, history was altered to divide the South especially the east from the west, to create lasting enmity so that the North will keep feeding on the south...

Dats d divide and rule technique..

Read your history well.. All what Awo did, and what Fajuyi the Western governor then did to protect ironsi.. Easterners modern babies that studied partial history will never see that.. But, instead, they inscribed false history on their mind, and that has been the wound on them..

For the South to be powerful, they must put aside all this false history the North has bn using to run them down, and forge a common front to defeat any northern forces.. Then, the rest will b history

the two major ethnic nations in the south can only have a common front by investing in their regions.. during regionalism , the common front was regionalism but the Igbos abolished it due to the fact that the western region was doing much better than their own region...

the north has not been using any "false history" to run the south down, was it the north that told K:aduna Nzeogwu to do the below ( gotten from wi:ki ):

"According to a Nigerian Police Special Branch Report, Nzeogwu executed at least 4 army and police security personnel including one of the men on his team (Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke). Nzeogwu also participated in the execution of Col. Raph Shodeinde, his superior officer at the Nigerian Military Training College and is reported to have shot indiscriminately at fleeing women and children.."..

the statement above shows pure hatred for Yorubas and a lot of "Easterners modern babies" like you called them all have this similar behavior towards Yorubas..

the South cannot be powerful because one of the two regions in the south will be more powerful than the other and right now in 2021 that's the eastern region ( SS & SE ) due to its natural and human resources..

prophetfire:
Go and sleep please. Face your hustle if you have one. Who Awolowo epp?

You don't have the answer to your own points

Awolowo built the first University in the SW, built the first TV station in the SW, built the tallest in the SW, created free education in the SW e.t.c

Awolowo helped millions of Yorubas and non-Yorubas through those infrastructures and in 2021 those infrastructures are still helping people.

Who did Ojukwu, azikiwe and ironsi help?

prophetfire:
but at a time Awolowo had the opportunity to undo the work, he decided to pursue parochial interest instead.

Stop spreading lies or believing lies that you're told...

when did Awolowo have any opportunity to undo "the work"?

freeborn02:
The secession clause thing happened long before 1966.

I know...

Lionnation:
Igbo faught Yoruba how, for what reason

read my comment above to freeborn02..

freeborn02:
They don't owe each other anything, but Azikiwe owed Nigerians an apology for being a greedy, selfish son of a bitch.

If not for his greediness, you won't be here having this conversation with me.

I didn't want to quote you... because you may be right and wrong about the secession clause...

you may be wrong because it was K:aduna Nzeogwu that started the crisis that led to the civil war and not Azikiwe but Azikiwe didn't condemn K:aduna Nzeogwu so he was complicit..

Western Nigeria was the richest region at that era and Azikiwe despite been president of Nigeria wanted to be premier of western Nigeria or at least control the wealth of Western Nigeria that's one of the reasons Ironsi abolished the Regional system of government and changed it to the Unitary system of government..

so whether there was secession clause or not... Azikiwe, K:aduna Nzeogwu, Ironsi, Ojukwu's e.t.c envy, jealousy and hatred for the Yorubas and western region would have still motivated them to attempt to control the opportunities and wealth of western regions and other regions in Nigeria...

Lionnation:
mumu, but you will be every where mentioning your night mare, why are you lots so afraid of the igbo, Igbo that have not engage in a fight against any one in the south and forcefully taken anything from them, they instead live properties for other to enjoy, what sin did the Igbo man commit on nairaland

Igbos fought the Yorubas and the entire western region in 1966 and it lasted for over 3 years until 1970..

TheLoneCitizen:
This scenario you played out is actually white supremacy.

So if I understand you: you feel the white coaches will feel too good to follow grassroot football, but the blacks will be able to?

Right?

And to add there's nothing unique about German bosses leaving Nigerians to do hard labour, or about never seeing whites doing menial jobs in Nigeria. They are a minority.

this is your problem... you're trying your best to degrade, downgrade and water-down thegoodjoe responses..

even if there was a huge population of whyte people in Nigeria, menial jobs and other services should exclusively reserved for Nigerians only...

thegoodjoe said "The Germans come with truck, see how things are going, shout and zoom off.", he meant they do not stay with the Nigerian workers and improve and correct what the Nigerian workers are doing its the Nigerian engineers that stay and correct the Nigerian workers..

thegoodjoe did not write anything about the oyibos doing hard labour or menial jobs, you're the one that added it just to downgrade his comments as if nairaland awards gifts for downgrading and degrading other NL users comments or someone pays you to degrade comments of other NL users when it doesn't fit your narative...

TheLoneCitizen:
I never said the terms white or black are racist words. In fact, if a white man calls me "negro" not "nigger" I'm taking no offense, because that's what I am. A negro.

Context is the key here.

Joe said no matter the qualification he will never accept a white coach. That is purely racist.

Let's flip the narrative for example.

If Pep Guardiola tells the media that he will never sign a BLACK player for whatever reason other than health concerns, that's purely racist.

But if Guardiola says he will never sign AFRICANS there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Why? In the first instance he focused mainly on skin colour, which is pure racism.

But in the second instance he focused only on a background or culture, which is opinionated.

So in the second case, even light-skinned Africans like Salah or Ziyech will not be considered by Guardiola.

But dark-skinned non-Africans like Rashford, Lukaku, Sala, Kante do not apply. There's no racism in that.

In the case of Joe, he said grassroot football is very important so he doesn't want white coaches. That is racism, because he focuses just on skin colour to draw his selection.

What he should have said was foreigners as that focuses on background and culture, not skin colour.

This is were I had to correct him.

If a whyte man calls a melanin person a "nigger" or "negro" that melanin person needs to be on guard because that whyte person is a potential whyte terrorist.. whyte people who use those terms are similar to muslims who refer to non-muslims as "inf:idels" and attack non-muslims without any form of provocation just seeing a non-muslim provokes them... so whyte people who use such words will start provoking when they see an African...

Unless you're intentionally beating around bush, the point TheGoodJoe is making is that the whyte person will not be as passionate in improving the players the same way a Nigerian would improve them...

TheLoneCitizen:
Look man, first of all I appreciate your professionalism. You've gone this far without using any slur or breaking any gentleman code, I applaud that.

But you see, if you find problem with yourself you need to address it.

You stated authoritatively:

"With all his CV and profile, I will take Siasia over a white man without thinking. I will take others over him. A white man will never give us the kind of Work..."

Then I told you that the use of the term 'white man' is racist, because you're discriminating based on skin colour regardless of qualification.

But then you corrected me that you meant foreigners in general not white:

"I said we should cut the white men or... foreigners because it cost more, we hardly get thorough jobs from them, and with little to show for it."

But then I showed you Eddie Newton, a foreigner who is not white, and you immediately fell in love with me. This is a man who doesn't identify as African except for his Nigerian ancestry and skin colour. He is no different from Vierra or Rashford or Ashley Cole.

You did not contest his CV nor pay as you did the whites earlier on.

This shows your bias not towards foreigners but towards whites. That my good man, is racism.

Saying: no matter the qualification I will choose a black manager over a white manager,
is different from saying
I prefer an indigenous manager over a foreign manager.

This means if a white man who was born, raised and identifies as a Nigerian comes for the Super Eagles job, you will not endorse because of his skin colour.

That's racism, man. If you don't want foreigners it's understandable, I also do not, but saying you don't want whites is a capital crime.

In English language, the term "white" is not a slur or abusive word and means something that's pure and clean while the term "black" is a slur and abusive word and means something that doesn't exist or something that's evil

So using the term "white man" is not racist... Only African Americans called themselves black before the media started trying to use on every African globally...

Most Africans will identify with their ethnicities so yes a lot of Africans will pick someone from their ethnicity first or at worse someone from their country or at worse worst a person of African descent from overseas before they pick a Whyte man..

JOemmy:
But some of our black african tribes like the fuanis are also guilty of this same thing their own is even far worse cause they leave the people they conquer more devastated than they earlier met them.

the bri:tish leave the people more devastated than they earlier met them. If not for the hardwork and peaceful nature of our ancestors in southern Nigeria, southern Nigerians will be in poverty because the bri:tish created Nigeria in a way where Northern and Southern Nigeria will engage in endless wars...

I intentionally did not mention the fu:lanis...

the N:igerian police force before it was created , was a group of rag-tag northern Nigerians ( history portrays them as H:ausas but in my opinion they were mostly f:ulanis ) formed by the bri:tish to carry out guerilla attacks on tribes that were fighting against the b:ritish by burning down villages, killing, raping e.t.c..

In summary,
the f:ulanis were trained by the br:itish to attack tribes in southern Nigeria who were fighting against the british....



In full text,
southern Nigerians were always prepared to attack the Bri:tish if the Brit:ish attacked them. And southern Nigerians of that era empowered each other. When the Brit:ish left Nigeria there was no University in Nigeria.

before the br:itish left Nigeria, the Br:itish did not build one university, our number of primary and secondary schools were very low, br:itish did not build smooth roads all over Nigeria , no housing estates, no plans for clean water for communities, majority of the private companies where owned by the br:itish and they only gave Nigerians clerical work which is what the education system they gave us is meant to produce office assistants.

All the developments you see in Nigeria today from Abuja to lagos to calabar to Akwa-ibom to oyo to Enugu e.t.c are all built by Nigerians, our parents, our grand parents e.t.c the br:itish left Nigeria to rot. Everything you had and have the privilege of enjoying in Nigeria was and is through the hardwork of parents, grand parents, and other Nigerians.

Sheriman:
Since they have free us as a black country, what has any African country achieve? Especially this Nigeria we are all living. What our Nigerian corrupt politicians is doing to us in this country is more of even worse than what colonial master did then.

Nigeria is country that's using resources meant for 10 million - 30 million people mostly in what is called south south Nigeria to cater for over 150 million people all over Nigeria... how is a country meant to grow with such system

have you also asked yourself why in 1914 when southern Nigeria was making loads of revenue the british did not build planned housing estates, schools, hospitals, sports centers e.t.c all over southern Nigeria but they decided to join it with northern Nigeria and use part of the revenue from southern Nigeria to govern and finance northern Nigeria...

planned housing estates in southern Nigeria in 1914 will have eradicated mud houses in southern Nigeria and the catastrophe of unplanned housing you see in ibadan, ogun state and other places in Nigeria..

they could also have given southern Nigeria social benefits like unemployment benefits, free education, free healthcare e.t.c.. it was Awolowo that started free education.. if the b:ritish had started it there won't be so many Nigerians without formal education in 2021 "..

some parts of Nigeria will always be dilapidated because one side of Nigeria was amalgamated with the wealthy side of Nigeria in 1914 and over 55% of that wealthy side revenue goes to the one side who were always meant to be an average country... this is the major problem people of the wealthy side of Nigeria face and most of them can't see it and admit it...

55% Revenue that should go to the upliftment and infrastructural development of the wealthy side is given with the one side, the british saw how wealthy and powerful the wealthy side will become and they put things in place to prevent the wealthy side from becoming extremely successful...

Sheriman:
That's why they were called The Great Britain!! conqueror of many island and countries in the world. Towards the advent of Industrial Revolution the Europeans countries need massive resources and cheap labour to start developing their countries. So, they thought they couldn't be the only one living on this planet. They started embarking on a different exploration voyage around the world to discovered so many island and countries, meeting the natives. Most of these journey were successfully finance by their monarchical system of government something black people will failed to do because we don't like investing on something we would not see immediate result. During this period, explorer jobs was like HOT cake job just like working in an oil company this days. Many whites were willing to take the job to travel on a very long distance on a ship for years on the Atlantic ocean looking for colonies because of the huge amount pay they will got and the total respect they will earn. They had with them so many men of different fields and profession such as doctors, mathematician, engineers, map readers and interpreter, soldiers, nurses, captains, naval officers, cooks, e.t.c. Although, during these their voyage on Atlantic ocean, hundreds of these men died before reaching the chores of Africa due to unfavorable weather condition at sea not only that some contacted disease immediately they land on African soil for the first time but does not discouraged them from discovering many nation and achieving their aims and objective to colonized Africa, shipped so many African people and it's resources for approximately more than 400 years. This European white people are just too adventurous and fully well determined to enslaved more than half of the world.
After discovering the importance and riches gaining from stealing African resources and enslaving African countries, this moved many rich whites especially from the royal families and some well to do people among them to began the slave trade business and this gave colonization of Africa more widely, recognition, popularity, support to finance more exploration of many undiscovered countries just to shipped in millions of Africa to Europe and America. The white can't do all these alone so they need some natives to help them with language interpretations for easy business transactions, deals, to sign treaties and agreement with traditional African Kings. They had taken and selected some blacks men for that job after their first successfully voyage on African soil.
This trans Atlantic Slave trade exit between 15th century to 19th century. The majority of those who were enslaved and transported in the transatlantic slave trade were people from Central and west Africa that had been sold by other West Africans to Western European slave traders while others had been captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids. Europeans gathered and imprisoned the enslaved at forts on the African coast and then brought them to the America and Europe. What also made the European slave traders to be successful in their business was that Africans Kings of the majority tribes were waging war against the minority tribes over supremacy. victims of war were sold to slavery, some corrupt and greedy African wealthy people formed alliance with the European slave traders in exchange of goodies to raid other Africans minority tribes just to sold them as slaves. Although, we still had few African Kings who fought and fought to fight the European slave traders from enslaving them but unfortunately, they were defeated due to European sophisticated military weapons even as at that time. So definitely, all of them including the King himself and his entire family be will sold to slavery. Such as we have in Nigeria King Jaja of Opobo and some Kings in Western/Eastern Africa countries.
Any African King who tried to resist against the European slave traders were forcefully removed from the throne by forming a rebellion with others African tribes who had seen favour of the whites
I hope I have done little justice to your curiosity.

Its eu:ropean terrorism and savagery you're trying your best to sugarcoat by writing all this nonsense and ignorant jargons... If you're a Nigerian then you're the perfect slave with extreme slave mentality...

JOemmy:
British ancestors are really the most adventurous and the most ambitious I wonder how a nation of less than 70m people where able to conquer and colonize half of this world.

it has nothing to do with been "the most adventurous and the most ambitious" but savagery and terrorism.... don't ever in your life call terrorism and savagery as adventure and ambition.. Just because they are m:uslims does not mean they are terrorists and savages....

you said "I wonder how a nation of less than 70m people where able to conquer and colonize half of this world."..

the answer is simple using yourself and your family as example, Do you own w:eapons? Do any of your family members own w:eapons?

If your answer is no then it means you're a peaceful person and your family is a peaceful family...

Now imagine a group of savages and terrorists that you call "adventurous and ambitious" invading your peaceful house and your peaceful family in order to steal, kill, rape and pillage you and your family and take over your lands and your wealth and tell me if you and your family members will win such a battle

drDoom3:
It is not a horror injury.

He could probably have continued, but his visibility would have been affected. That's a regular head injury we have normally when heads collide. He should be back in training tomorrow.

It's a horror injury... As long as there was swelling on his head and eyes he would have never been allowed to continue.

Any head injury is taking seriously.. so please stop mis-informing people.

In today's sports there's no such thing as a "regular head injury" the fact that you can come up with such description shows how wicked and evil and inconsiderate you are..