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Always smoke certified weed

TonyeBarcanista


Again PDP is a house divided by greed and personal interest

bwahahahahaha


No BVN walahi



Hilarious

He has 3Billion ? no wonder some goats are forming gangs


I don't trust this source though

lolest

Benjom:
He's about to be silenced like others in their cage.

You make it sound like a conspiracy , Last i checked every prosecution has been with glaring evidence and publicly available

Dasuki, Olisa Metuah , and several others

Some people just sit down and write nonsense

the only ones who need to manage their stupidity is PDP and their lies



Nigerians have more trust in Buhari as of this moment

Abeg, Bash away !!! Amaechi keep on going on , na beef

bWAHAHAHAH , Come home ? Him no fit


Koro my boy , remember how you led armed thugs to Adeleke's house in Ede and how you and DSS invaded Osun state to rig elections ?

Thus far , it's only the arms funds that's being probed , the diversion of said funds to campaign is glaring


Koro , Interpol don dey find you

Lusola15:
Come home and be a hero

I hope Buhari does not settle out of court

This blackmail has gone too far

From Egbere News ? bwahahahah

tushgirl:
Pls talk sense into my head,insult me,i want to forget about him totally.

You say you fine you no show us photo , how we go take know say you fine ?




Oya recieve sense in Jesus name

Sai Buhari ooooooooooooooooooooooo






Wailers , This news dey FP now , why una no talk ?

which work we fit do for house

He's lucky facebook came to his rescue , these days someone you know has a mutual friend you don't know


What if someone gay had found that post shared it with other people with same sexual orientation

they trick him and destroy his arse or kill him ??


Just like nairaland's disclaimer, people should know they bear responsibility for what they post on internet

Damsonkc:
A child may hate an abusive father but that does not mean he hates all fathers. Saying you hate gays is very stupid and myopic of you. If you had one bad experience with a gay man, it still doesn't justify generalizing and saying you hate gays. You use a computer that was invented by a gay man, you use an iPhone whose CEO is a gay man. You adore celebrities you do not know are gay. Look at people for what they are and not what they do in their bedrooms. You can go hang yourself if you wanna keep up with the mindless hate.

WARRI, Nigeria — Every attack on an oil pipeline leaves Felix Timileami feeling as if he’s on top of the world. The 39-year-old, who belongs to a recently formed — and as of yet unnamed — militant group, has taken part in raids on a number of oil facilities in the Niger Delta. Last month, they hit one operated by Royal Dutch Shell.

“It’s the only means to vent our anger and to draw the world’s attention,” says Timileami, who hails from the Delta city of Warri.



For years, the government paid militants in the Niger Delta not to blow up oil pipelines. Now it's cutting them loose -- and they're taking up arms…

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/14/trouble-is-brewing-in-nigerias-oil-country/



For six decades, the people of this swampy southern region have been the sore losers in Nigeria’s scandalous game of crony capitalism. Oil worth billions of dollars is pumped directly through communities here, but residents see almost none of it. For most of the 2000s, an insurgency fueled by bitter resentment claimed thousands of lives and, at its height, cut Nigeria’s oil production in half. Now, after a brief respite, it is beginning to re-emerge.


Seven years after an amnesty agreement persuaded most militants to put down their weapons in exchange for monthly stipends — and in some cases, contracts to guard the same pipelines they used to bomb — the Niger Delta, a region of more than 20 million people, is suddenly sliding back into chaos. This month, a militant group calling itself the Niger Delta Avengers has already claimed three separate attacks on oil installations and promised to cut the country’s oil output to zero. The Ijaw Youth Council, an influential grassroots organization that has its roots in the armed struggle of the 2000s and advocates for local control of natural resources, said last week that the security situation is “rapidly deteriorating and getting out of control.”

At issue is President Muhammadu Buhari’s perceived abandonment of the region. Already viewed suspiciously in the Delta because he is a Muslim from the north, Buhari has courted trouble by slashing funds for the amnesty program and revoking some of the security contracts. When he abruptly called off his first planned presidential visit to the region last week, people saw it as proof that he does not care about Christians in the south of the country.

“The body language of the president does not favor us at all,” Eric Omare, a spokesperson for the Ijaw Youth Council, told Foreign Policy. “But we in the Niger Delta have oil and gas pipelines in our backyards. So when we are angry, we can attack the pipelines and that will force the federal government to pay attention because we are affecting the national economy.”

The Niger Delta produces 90 percent of the country’s commercial crude and accounts for roughly 70 percent of government revenue. The total dollar amounts are staggering. According to OPEC, Nigeria made $77 billion from oil exports in 2014 — and that was a low year. The U.S. Department of Energy says Nigeria’s oil export earnings hit $99 billion in 2011. (The figures were $94 billion and $84 billion for 2012 and 2013, respectively.)

In the communities of the Niger Delta, there is a feeling that these mind-boggling profits belong to the people here. Oil money, people feel, is a birthright. They say God blessed them with oil and they deserve to reap its wealthOil money, people feel, is a birthright. They say God blessed them with oil and they deserve to reap its wealth.

Instead, they have borne the costs of environmental degradation while the benefits have largely passed them by. Much of the wealth, which is supposed to flow back to the states from the federal government, is simply siphoned off. A recent federal government audit showed that the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) failed to pay $16 billion in revenue that it owed to the state treasury in 2014 alone. (NNPC officials disputed that figure, claiming it was closer to $1 billion.) The revelation came after then-Central Bank Gov. Lamido Sanusi accused the NNPC of failing to pay $20 billion to the federal government between January 2012 and July 2013. (Sanusi was immediately suspended after making the accusation and eventually forced out of his job.)

The discovery of oil in 1956 forever changed the face of the Niger Delta. Located in the southernmost part of Nigeria, it is the largest mangrove swamp in Africa and the third largest in the world. Its dense forest and complex labyrinth of creeks and waterways breathes life into over 339 plant species and more than 100 species of birds and fish. Tall palm trees with thick branches stretch upward before bending to touch the water below. The natural wonder stretches for miles and miles, but today it’s only a fragment of what it once was.

A burgeoning population coupled with rapid urbanization has swallowed much of the mangrove, which is being reclaimed to create more habitable land. Meanwhile, multinational oil companies have dredged the swamp to build pipelines, disturbing the delicate saltwater and freshwater balance, eroding banks, and depriving the roots of plants and trees of vital nutrients. Oil spills have clogged the soil and contaminated just about every community in the Delta, contributing to myriad health problems, including cancer.

The list of environmental mishaps reads like a criminal record. Royal Dutch Shell, one of many multinational oil companies pumping crude from the troubled region, has admitted to 1,693 oil spills since 2007. (Advocacy groups like Amnesty International claim the figure is much higher.) In just one of those spills, in 2008, 100,000 barrels seeped into the Ogoni Land region of the Delta. Thousands of hectares of mangroves were damaged, and 69,000 people were affected. Four months later, Shell was responsible for another spill that further devastated Ogoni Land.

For the Niger Delta communities that rely on farming and fishing, the environmental damage has been catastrophic. All told, the United Nations says it could take 25 to 30 years and at least $1 billion to clean up pollution from more than 50 years of oil operations here. But the government has done little to help the region bounce back.

Countless studies reveal that access to water, electricity, health facilities, jobs, and education remain limited. A 2006 report from the United Nations Development Programme highlights “administrative neglect, crumbling social infrastructure and services, high unemployment, social deprivation, abject poverty, filth and squalor, and endemic conflict.” The report goes on to call the Delta one of the world’s starkest examples of the “resource curse.”

This is why Timileami and his fellow militants are destroying pipelines again. The son of a retired soldier and a petty trader, Timileami participated in the last insurgency here in the mid-2000s. “We wanted to make Nigeria fall to its knees,” he says.

Hundreds of young people in the Niger Delta shared the same ambition. For a decade ending in 2009, they attacked oil infrastructure and kidnapped oil company workers for ransom. Nigeria’s crude oil output dropped by nearly 50 percent and the militants, collectively known as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), brought the nation’s economy to a virtual standstill. It was during this period that the Ijaw Youth Council was founded as a civilian counterpart to MEND, documenting local grievances and advocating for greater autonomy. All told, thousands of people were agitating for change in the Niger Delta, some through nonviolent protest, some through militancy, and some by aiding militants.

Teenage girls cooked for MEND fighters, cleaned their guns, and served as lookouts. Whole communities took part in the struggle against the Nigerian government, which ended only after the Ijaw Youth Council helped broker an amnesty agreement that covered some 30,000 Niger Deltans. These former militants and their family members began collecting monthly stipends of 65,000 naira — then, roughly $400 — from the government. Some received scholarships for foreign study or vocational training. Others landed lucrative contracts to secure oil installations or target illegal refineries, some reportedly worth as much as $100 million.

Suddenly, it paid to be a former militant, and warlords became superstars in the Niger Delta. One of them, still known by the name he used during his MEND days, Pastor Reuben, lives in a palatial mansion in Rivers State with gold-plated furniture. Another, Ateke Tom, bought two lions that he keeps in a house “far away” because he’s “afraid of them,” he says.

But the high life is winding down for the former militants. A frugal disciplinarian, Buhari slashed the budget for the amnesty program by about 70 percent and yanked some of the security contracts. He has also scrapped a plan to build a new university in the Niger Delta. As a result, resentment is building in the region. Some people say Buhari is retaliating against communities that voted overwhelmingly for his opponent in the 2015 election.

Timileami is one of those people. He voted for former President Goodluck Jonathan, a native son of the Delta, and sees Buhari’s presidency as a threat to his livelihood. Before the election, he was dismantling illegal refineries as part of a contract offered through the amnesty program. But then his monthly government stipend became irregular; he soon went back to the way of the gun. He says he will continue hitting pipelines until Buhari “comes to his senses.”

The recent wave of attacks has contributed to a gradual reduction in oil output — from 2.2 million barrels per day at the beginning of the year to between 1.5 million and 1.6 million per day — that has cost Nigeria its claim as Africa’s largest oil producer. (It has fallen behind Angola.) A major port has been closed because of the violence, along with two refineries.

Buhari has responded by announcing a deployment of troops to the Delta. In a May 29 address marking the end of his first year in office, he finally offered to “engage” leaders in the region and pledged to restructure the amnesty program. But he also implied that his military would continue to use force against those targeting oil installations. “If the militants and vandals are testing our resolve, they are much mistaken,” he said. “We shall apprehend the perpetrators and their sponsors and bring them to justice.”



http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/14/trouble-is-brewing-in-nigerias-oil-country/


Lalasticlala

Stop orubebeing this topic

FBI only releases names of suspected terrorists or wanted criminals

This post needs to be removed

Mynd44, Seun, lalasticlala

Half of lagos is not for sale


Especially to drug mules and 5% people

Htwoow

In terry g's voice


Fayose pay us our money

I'm waiting for someone to say it's IPOB protesters

That guy na assassin

hehehehehehe

Mugabe Mugabe


Thorn in every white man's flesh

wey your efidence , fakebook picture or wetin ? if na dem you think say na NL dem go come dey waste time ?

NigerDeltan:
The guy on blue is omenka, the other tall black beauty with black handbag is tohpahz

Eleyi gidigan , abi him ma self chop yam ??

APC is so clueless : the party recovered 3.3 trillion from our smart yam eaters in less than a year,
This clueless Party has jailed about 5 - 10 stubborn and very powerful and insanely rich yam eaters and nothing happened

My brother IgboDelta , you are sitting on a long thing


As for Ayo He should have been arrested a long time ago , Walahi i swear to Allah , but when the decision was made, some sensible people advised Buhari not to arrest CAN President because some erdyots will claim Buhari is targeting Christians

Now that Buhari has dealt with a Muslim leader first, Arresting AYo , the Swagalicious pastor will not bring so much noise

and that's common sense in reality , not the ones on twitter



DanBoroBanka

Let me talk my own before space finish




Chinese Supermaket in Abuja is a private property , even if 1000 people bought the land , built the mall , those people are the owners and the landlords as such the mall being a private property , it's the discretion of the land owner / landlord if he sees you as a threat

I know what the chinese did is not right considering they are the foreigners in our land

But i can tell you , It's a private property , you can't just wander in

Also this is one side of the story , What does the supervisor have to say , or the maiguard , maybe he dressed shabbily and they thought he's boko haram

or maybe they are doing something secretive that they don't want Nigerans to know about . It's left to the Authorities to find out

but as for me , if i have a gun and you use agidi to jump my fence , my brother , i will shoot you first and ask questions later , Nigeria don pass make person no dey observe as he dey go


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queenoflafia:
They are on my street in war college. Maybe its because they were robbed not long ago.
I wonder what you are doing there.did you see any signboard there ?
The place is just like a normal residence.only for them them

Queen you nor get follower , make i follow you go your house ??

Seun, mydn44 , these scammers no dey finish ?[quote author=beetbeef post=46569420][/quote]

Oya take it

Bobo don break it

It cost me 5mins and 9mb to get it

Oya don stop , shack the bitters don stop ......

carboblanko:
.....and this is the bitter truth.

Now that the breeze has blown the fowl's yansh, i think it's time to tell them what they told us

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May fate rule every wailer's life the way PDP ruled Nigeria for 16 years
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[size=1pt]I dey expect insult but as you dey insult me , remember na you papa and your mama i go send you to and i go report you ban you join
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Koleman:
I hope una understand Wetin una mean by youths , because in PDP's dictionary " A Youth is Young, Strong, Agile and Enthusiastic Male Homo Sapiens of 75yrs and above "

bwahahahahahahahahaha

TonyeBarcanista:
PDP is not in crises

PDP crisis update: Sheriff gains control of party's national secretariat. 13 June 2016, 15:53. The embattled former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic


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PDP Crisis: Youth threaten takeover of party within 7 days
Premium Times‎ - 2 hours ago

[size=19pt]That's a whole lot of crisis [/size] lol

If your brain no carry SK , no dey take am

Point to any nairalander or youth leader that you recognize there with proof and i'll personally quit nairaland for good


On the other hand , i have a list of wailers and set of people who were dumb enough to believe that FBI released the list of those who stole money from Nigeria and their banks and balance , in 1 hour the topic got to 11 pages , hundreds of them ....


So far PDP has been the party raising hell and struggling to survive , APC doesn't need to recruit people to launder it's image