People need to truly learn the effects of oil spillage on there environment.
Devastating oil spills in the Niger delta over the past five decades will cost $1bn to rectify and take up to 30 years to clean up, according to a UN report.
The UN Environment Programme (Unep) has announced that Shell and other oil firms systematically contaminated a 1,000 sq km (386 sq mile) area of Ogoniland, in the Niger delta, with disastrous consequences for human health and wildlife.
Nigerians had "paid a high price" for the economic growth brought by the oil industry, said Unep's executive director.
A leaked summary of Unep's Ogoniland study, the first large-scale scientific study of pollution in the area, has been seen by the Guardian. It calls for a clean-up fund of $1bn (£614m) for spills in Ogoniland, and says it will take 25-30 years to restore the environment. Much of the funding for the clean-up is expected to come from the oil companies.
The three-year investigation found: • Heavy contamination of land and underground water courses, sometimes more than 40 years after oil was spilled.
• Community drinking water with dangerous concentrations of benzene and other pollutants.
• Soil contamination more than five metres deep in many areas studied.
• Most of the spill sites oil firms claimed to have cleaned still highly contaminated.
• Evidence of oil firms dumping contaminated soil in unlined pits.
• Water coated with hydrocarbons more than 1,000 times the level allowed by Nigerian drinking water standards.
maclatunji: It is a straightforward question. Militants and their supporters will celebrate destroying government infrastructure in the NigerDelta I imagine. However, away from the mindless jubilation, how do pipeline bombing, attacking and kidnapping oil workers bring about growth and development in the region?
One would think the region would be the most developed by now if it were an effective strategy going by the number of attacks that have occurred in the region since 1999.
Feel free to explain if you have answers to the questions. Don't come here to boast about blowing up things, I have already identified that as mindless, what I want to know is how it is an effective development strategy.
TonyeBarcanista: ,1. Niger Delta never dug any well but the land of some Niger Delta families was dug. The waters they fished on for their survival was polluted due to exploration activities. This has killed their predominant profession of Fishing.
2. By "law" or by the decree of one man? Who and who made the "law"? who made the Land Use. Decree? was ND Representatives involved or a certain General? Who made the Constitution? Were the people involved? If it was legal for mineral resources owners to keep 50% of their. rwenue before the. crude oil era, why make it illegal after the oil era?
3. The Niger Delta DOES NOT benefit from the peanut 13%, the elite does. Beside, we told Obj that we don't want 13% given to Governors but instead to the oil producing communities. Even the NDDC is not effective. We don't need any padipadi commission or ministry. 50% derivative, a considerable share to producing communities while we take care of spillage and degradation.
4. While I'm against carnage, I'm also against oppression.
Dude, i watched a documentary about the oil in the Niger Delta called Big Men which was very illuminating. The issue is that some of the people who sabotage the pipelines are from the community. They do it so that they can get the contract to clean up the place. The guys were asked if they knew how bad the effects of oil spillage is they said they knew but that they wanted the money. Boy when i watched this thing i was stunned
I also spoke to someone i know of who works in the oil and gas sector and she told me how the state govts frustrate them and refuse to sign off on some maintenance work on the pipelines and how they usually insist on paying bribes before they are giving a go ahead. The oil companies refuse and when there is an accident they would still be held responsible for providing compensation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_the_Niger_Delta
QuotaSystem: This is a weak and very poor analogy for several reasons;
1. The Niger Delta never dug the well, and never had & still doesn't have the capacity to do so.
2. The Niger Delta by law does not own the water in the well, Nigeria does, so there is nothing like "allowing neighbours out of goodness of the heart".
3. The Niger Delta itself benefits from the "water" from the well, even with an added derivation of extra buckets which other neighbors don't enjoy, but the parents of the house are fond of wasting and stealing it so members of its household then start dying of thirst in anger thinking it's due to the neighbors activities.
4. In trying to damage the well dug by the neighbors, the members of the household end up flooding and killing themselves.
What a tragedy brought about by unmitigated stupidity of the household and wickedness of the parents.
Wooooo, tell 'em! Don't mind Nigerians with there poor logic. It seems as if people don't understand the concept of adequate comparison. They like comparing apples with oranges.
Darteyyyy: And is jumping from one partner to another enjoyment?
and who told you those married ones have fun cos they never had it while they were young?
Abi o! see reasoning. I remember when Steph Curry (an American basketball player) was asked why he married so young he said if you have found the right one, why wait? What would i be waiting for if i met the right girl?
cindyrocks: How Afonja (Yorubas) lost the Ilorin throne - Vanguard Newspaper Date: 2000-10-22
THE rivalry between the Fulani and Afonja descendants over the throne of Ilorin is rooted in history. While the Fulani rest the case of their claim to the kingship of the ancient town on the fact that the monarch had from the time immemorial been produced by them, the Afonja descendants, who like majority of the people of the town are Yoruba, say since their ancestor founded Ilorin, their claim to the throne ought not to be disputed.
History appears in support of the former's position although the progenitor of the Fulani indigenes of Ilorin, Alimi, was actually a tenant to Afonja.
The death of Afonja and Alimi, however, saw the eldest son of the latter emerging as the first monarch of what was then known as Ilorin.
Historical sources, tracing the story to the 19th Century, said Ilorin of today was founded by Afonja, the then Aare Ona Kakanfo (Generalisimo) to Alaafin of old Oyo (Oyo Ile), who used the town as his military outpost. It was this outpost that he carried out his war expeditions for the Alaafin. In the usual nomadic wandering, Alimi arrived Ilorin and was hosted by Afonja. Soon after Alimi took Ilorin as his place of abode, a rift broke out between Alaafin and Afonja. When the disagreement reached the climax and the two had to take up arms, Afonja, out of regard for Alimi's spiritual and military prowess, sought his support. Alimi helped in mobilising an army in support of Afonja leading to victory over Alaafin. The defeat led the then Alaafin migrating from old Oyo to the site now called Oyo.
After the war, Alimi became a teacher to Afonja's children as the latter wanted his offsprings to learn the secret of power. When both died, Alimi's son, Abdulsalami, inherited his father's duty of teaching Afonja's children.
When the idea of appointing somebody to head the village came, the eldest child of Afonja wanted to have the position but met opposition from Abdulsalami who had military support from his fellow Fulani kinsmen. Abdulsalami ultimately became the ruler of what is now called Ilorin around 1831.
The issue now is that Afonja's descendants believe that their forefathers were cheated and want a redress. But the Alimi people are claiming that the Afonja people never ruled Ilorin and, as such, no precedent exists to back their position.
Penultimate week's incident was not the first time the Afonja and the Yoruba would attempt to assert their right to Ilorin kingship.
Historical sources said in 1895, the Yoruba rose against the then emir, burnt his palace and killed him. But the revolt did not result in enthronement of a Yoruba king. In 1913, when Lord Lugard administered the northern and southern Nigeria, Yoruba were said to have spearheaded a riot over tax to bring the rulership of the then emir to ridicule. In 1936, the Yoruba, according to sources, also moved to oust Emir Abdulkadir who was banished to Kaduna but got reinstated by the colonial administration.
In 1978, the George Innih administration of Kwara State raised a judicial panel of inquiry to look into the Yoruba agitation.
The Yoruba people reportedly made a case for the merging of Kwara State with the Southwest before the commission while also laying claim to the Ilorin throne. It was said they even claimed antecedent to the throne as they allegedly said Yoruba had produced four obas in Ilorin before the advent of the Fulani. But the Alimi people, in a counter position, claimed there was no known Yoruba king in the town before their forefather mounted the throne.
The report of the panel never saw the light of day while there was also no white paper from government.
A twist to the tussle was the recent petition by three of the six Yoruba chiefs (mogajis) in Ilorin to the State House of Assembly complaining that they had been classified as ungraded by government allegedly at the behest of the emir. Their non-grading, according to the chiefs, suited the emir, so that there would be no rivalry of any sort from the Yoruba to his authority. Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union (IDPU), formed to protect the interest Ilorin indigenes who are of Fulani extraction, once in its opposition to the upgrading of the chiefs, said dong so would bring them at par with Gambari. But the Afonja Descendants Union (ADU) which came on stream in 1978 to advance the cause of the Yoruba in the town and with Kasumu as its leader would hear none of that. The group is allegedly pressuring the legislature to grade the chiefs.
Another angle to the agitation is the demand for Oya State that will comprise the Yoruba speaking areas of Kwara and Kogi States. The move, it was said, is to pull the rug from under the feet of the emir and end the Fulani rulership of Ilorin.
The Yoruba people of Ilorin are not alone in the struggle. The pan-Yoruba meeting which took place in Ibadan last year demanded restructuring of Kwara State such that Ilorin would be grouped with the Southwest. Analysts interpreted this to mean that the parley did not believe that any emir had any business on Ilorin throne.
sade1994: It baffles me how people have this "I don't care" attitude towards other people's property. And here I'm talking about occupants of rented apartments.
There is this compound of eight flats beside where I live and people occupying the flats are all adults.
Guys, you can't believe that for the past two weeks their pumping machine had been pumping water continuously stopping only when the light is ceased( I'm not exaggerating) . And here we enjoy constant electricity at least 20 hours per day. They come out of their flats, see the compound filled with water and they don't care. The drainage is filled with their refuse and water and it's pretty annoying.
What kind of life is that? The thing just dey pepper me! Just because they don't own the house! As I'm typing now, water is running continuously!
Chei! This man house don suffer ooo. Why are people life this sef? Person property!
Please change your mentality if u are guilty of this kinda attitude! Coz one day one day you'll become a landlord and you'll know how it feels.
N/B.. Their gateman ran away about a month ago!
Don't they charge water bill in Naija? In other parts of the world, they charge you for water and also before you move in, you pay a deposit so that if you leave the apt in less than satisfactory conditions you don't get it back.
Bollinger: Your problem is the problem a lot of Nigerians have and face. Lack of exposure. Until you explore other societies, you will never comprehend the full extent as to how phucked up everything about Nigeria is. Nigeria cannot be on the top 1000 list not to talk of the top 100. Accra, tallin, Riga, etc, are not on the list but Lagos is. Ok. I hear una. A city that is unbelievably dirty, ugly and dilapidated. Where nothing functions. Lol. To you, it may be the best thing since fried rice, but i assure you, it is absolutely horrible to say the least. Just because a bunch of people who don't know Lagos or ever been there are saying it is a great city does not mean it is. Smh
Guy, i am stunned that they would even put Nigeria on the list. This shows the limitation of the metrics they used to evaluate this cities.
McBrooklyn: Shout out to all those ladies that deleted their future husband just because he didn't tell you how he got your number, see you at Shiloh when you're 40 years old
hahahhahaha chai! Nigerians una too get mouth. How person go talk this kind thing? Chei!
vivaciousvivi: We have seen this movie before, and we know how it would end!!! In 1980, oil prices fell due to a global oil glut. Nigeria had a fixed exchange rate and therefore could not use the pricing mechanism to modulate between demand and supply of dollars. Our reserves were quickly exhausted and then we started borrowing from the Paris and London Clubs, multilaterals and commercial creditors and soon we were trapped in debt which we could not service. We are already replaying this sequence seeking to borrow N2.2trillion or more to fund the 2016 budget; our debt service ratio is already 25 percent of federal revenue, even before we take the proposed huge loans; we have fixed our exchange rate at N197/$ and our reserves are fast declining (now at $27billion). To deal with the scarcity of dollars in the 1980s, we tried everything except devaluation-austerity and import licensing, which was plagued by corruption and cronyism-we are doing the same today. Then Head of State General Muhammadu Buhari tried countertrade (trade by barter) which also failed miserably.
Nigerians (and evidently President Buhari) learnt the wrong lessons from the 1980s episode-that Babangida “killed” the Naira!!! Former military President Babangida had his problems-a weakness of character that resulted in erosion of societal values and increased corruption; and political gerrymandering resulting in a protracted political transition and the eventual annulment of the June 12, 1993 elections. Babangida and all his military colleagues (Ironsi, Gowon, Murtala/Obasanjo, Buhari, Abacha and Abdulsalam) did one further damage to Nigeria-the subversion and destruction of institutions including federalism, constitutionalism, the universities, civil service, the professional bodies, the media etc. However in relation to the economic crisis, all of his predecessors merely kicked the problem down the road, with Babangida being the only one with the courage to confront the problem!
Source: Vanguard
Those who failed to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Octaves: the truth my friend is, if not for bad govt, we would be on the same level as UAE, Qatar, etc by now. And in my accessment, puting all the baleful effects of colonial administration aside, they ran a more effective govt. U complain about the no of universities and hospitals they built. University has to be viable b4 u build one u cant build one for people that are just embracing education. The 100 UNI's they should have built wouldnt teach them selves. There was University College then. There were standard mission and govt hospitals and schools which standard back then cant be measured up to by what we have today. Power while it didn't reach all the rural areas was adequate to the areas it reached. The federal road and rail n/w was well maintained. There was jobs for school finishers. As much as am not trying to praise collonial rule, i only wanted to point out that our govt hasn't been at it's best in running this country. But you just take umbrage at any body who tells you the truth about how the govt has bn running the country down since independence.
Thanks for hitting the nail on the head. Who knows? Nigeria could have been like Hong Kong today.
sisisioge: ...and also you for not getting the gist therein. Anyways, the advice is directed at we girls, or you wanna pitch your tent with a poor guy with a strong deck too? My thought too
Please tell me what is funny about making fun of people's plight? Do you know people are actually dying of poverty and for someone to say something so incredibly poor and awful is the extreme height of insensitivity.
Vivalavida99: Beware of jobless men with strong dick!
Single ladies, especially hardworking ones should always resist the temptation of marrying jobless men in the name of love, sex or worse still to be labelled a ''married woman''. The love of a jobless man is fake, is not real, and is conditioned by poverty.
A jobless bachelor can hardly be a ''jobful'' husband! A man who could not take care of his basic material need as a single man cannot perform magic when coupled in marriage.
Poverty has an amazing way of humiliating and humbling a man thereby making him lose the very essence of his manhood--a deflated ego that accepts everything.
Poor and jobless men are always the most attentive to your emotional and physical needs.
They often make good bedroom bully, they major very well in sex and all the spoils of it--but be wary! It’s often a well-honed skill to escape poverty under the shadow of vulnerable rich women.
When these men are rehabilitated financially from the labour of their partners they always tend to recoil back to the real man poverty has hidden all this while. Their changed economic status automatically changes their taste and social comportment.
They seek their real woman outside the confines of their matrimonial boundary. Hence cheating and infidelity crept in. Their wives become object of hate giving way to domestic violence.
So, if you want a fulfilling marital relationship steer clear of all these smooth talking, flattering and emotionally supportive randy men without any sustainable means of livelihood-----‘’Ndi-oji amu eri’’. Fine young "boys" with empty pockets.
This admonition maybe difficult to adhere to in a society where women are pressured to marry in order to enjoy societal validation. Where chronological age maybe running higher. Where the so-called ‘’men of god’’ adduce spinsterhood to phantom spiritual enemy and sins.
But in all this, we still have our individual life to live irrespective of the unjust demands of the society.
So, rather than marry a lousy, lazy and good-for-nothing-man as husband, single parenthood remains a reasonable option to realise full-fledged motherhood.
A financially comfortable woman with children is happier without cashless husband
Single motherhood has never been a sin neither is it punishable by ‘’hell fire’’.
It is simply a choice and a way of life!
M.E
Cc lalasticlala, mynd44, Seun
WOW! What an extremely shallow post to the core. I am stunned that someone would be extremely insensitive to even post this.
Has it ever occurred to you that people don't wake up one day determined to be poor it just happens? The fact that you were lucky enough to be born in a family that was well off does not mean that you were better than other people who were not. Has it ever occurred to you that a lot of people in Nigeria are "cashless" due to no fault of their own but that there country has completely failed them by failing to provide an economic environment suitable for commerce to flourish and to attract foreign capital?
The other day i read that the World Bank ranked Nigeria at 169 in the world in terms of ease of doing business https://www.nairaland.com/3429269/nigeria-ranks-169th-position-world and the heritage foundation even ranks Nigeria at 116 in terms of economic freedoms index http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking. This is why there is a lot of poverty and suffering and why it is almost impossible for people to make it out of poverty if they were not born to a well to do family no matter how incredibly hard they try. The fact that you could even call another human being "lousy, lazy and good-for-nothing-man" is just beyond appalling. May God forgive you for this post.
This is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. They need to appeal this sentence. It doesn't make sense. How is what she did any worse than what our politicians do?
People need to stop all these generalizations.. All guys have their preferences but I can assure you that most Nigerian guys don't care about the colour of the girl's skin once she has what they want..
Abeg leave OP jare. She is most likely non Nigerian or she has never lived in Nigeria before.
jennylove7575: I don't think Nigerian guys prefer light skin girls. That's a stereotypical view. If its so, there will be no single light skin girl left unmarried.
The OP must be a non-Nigerian that's for sure. She is just projecting the stereotypes from her own culture to ours thinking that we are going to identify with it.
Olivia111: There are certain things one needs in life in order to grow up emotionally healthy. Because our culture has this deep seated hatred for Black men and, at the same time, an irrational worship of Black masculinity, we, meaning Black society, raise our little boys in ways that dishonor their proper maturation process. We set the stage for them to be horrible fathers and husbands in childhood with practices and patterns that are nothing more than diseased remnants of slave teachings. Then, we give them power, autonomy, and tell them that whatever they think, do, say, and believe is law because they have a penis. Because, however, these practices are accepted as standard, and touted as healthy, we, in essence, manufacture emotionally disabled Black men.
Obviously the person who wrote this is non-Nigerian as a lot of these things don't pertain to our culture. Are you American by any chance?
TreasuredLeidy: yes, am young buh dat doesn't mean I don't know wah am saying.
do u mean to say His Parents are that jobless or idle dat even after Marriage, they will still b controlling n poke nosing into his affairs? After marriage, He would have a new responsibility and I think a Matured Married Man knows how to keep his marriage affairs from 3rd Parties.
She marrying her ex cos of money and out of desperation will complicate d whole issues n worsen things.
hahahahahhahahahaha is this a question? girl, you never see anything yet. You would be amazed how this things cause problems in marriages.
My advice should be to walk away from both of them and be single if she has serious misgivings about both of them. She shouldn't have to chose between either of them. Marriage is a lifetime thing so she should not rush into it simply because she is afraid that she is getting older or that her friends are getting married.
TreasuredLeidy: u're in love with ur present guy buh you are desperate to get married. he doesn't cheat n he respects u, good to hear. Stick with him Gurl. when he's ready, sooner or later, he would propose. I guess d drama is cos his folks control him, when u both are married, I don't think they wil control him again.
don't think of going back to ur ex cos it's obvious ur not in love with him but his Money.
#Shalom
What kind of advice is that? You must be really young but one thing you would know is that whatever flaw someone has is usually exacerbated by marriage. If you think he is being controlled by his parents now and you think things will get better after marriage then my sister you are on a long thing. That's why they say before you marry someone look for the signs. If someone has a problem with temper or cheating before marriage and you think that marrying him is going to change him, well good luck with that.
braining01: Americans got 2 Bad candidates to choose from.....................What a pity
Isn't it like Nigeria in the last elections whose own was even worse. Having to chose between a highly corrupt and ineffective presidency and an ex-millitary dictator? Talk about two horrible options. Its like chosing if you want to die by hanging or by poisoning. In more advanced countries, i highly doubt if Buhari or Jonathan could ever win a seat on the city council talk less of even mayor of a small city but in Africa this people were put in charge of entire countries.
Either way, back to the U.S. This political cycle has shown us the fallacy of having only two dominant parties in a democracy. The people need more viable options. I personally would prefer a system that allows for independent candidates (candidates with no party) to run and be successful rather than having to wait for who the Republicans or the Democrats are going to spit out every 4 years.
Politics › Re: How Do Crimes Like Blowing-Up Pipelines Develop The Niger Delta? by davidif: 2:21am On Oct 29, 2016
So nothing about marrying someone who loves you or you are compatible with?
