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Go ahead and blow up all the Oil installations let's see who will suffer the most. I hope the Federal Government will seize the opportunity to get some of those Chinese contractors to set off some nuclear devices so that the genocide we have been lying about since, we'll get to see what it really is, and we'll also get to be blamed for accidentally self inflicting it.

It's you who needs a plunge to wash your brain of the residual soot on it.

A list is supposed to draw attention to the people on it not the tribes or the people off it.

If you're so interested in getting yourself in focus, why not look for a list you're on, or set up a tribal dance troupe to bring attention to your tribe.

They've come in all names and sizes: Mai Tatsine, Biafra, OPC, Bakassi, and they were hailed as indestructible, but they have always and will always be annihilated.

It just takes final decision making. The MEND we're all talking about is out there blowing up oil installations and facilities. Let's not forget that some of these oil facilities utilise some very nuclear materials. I could arrange a nuclear accident that could clean out the whole place. The whole JTF moving around in the jungle is just treating the issue with kid's gloves. So think of it. We're their children and they're just trying to scold us a little. In terms of all out "gbeghe" MEND is no match to a percent of the Biafran Military.

There are above 200 tribes in Nigeria. That leaves many tribes unmentioned on that list. So what's all this about Ibos not being mentioned? How many Igbiras, Kanuris, Urhobos or Fulanis were on the list?

Please detribalize.

Yes! Breaking News!!!

Nigeria Airways too to shut down due to inadequate supply of aviation gas. Yeee! Nigeria is truly finished. They have totally brought the aviation sector to a halt. How will Nigerians travel without Nigeria Airways? The country has finally grinded to a halt.

This is just exactly the way I feel when I hear this story about Warri Refinery. Please! The place doesn't exist. How could it now possibly be operating below capacity because of the actions of MEND?

So MEND is now the ultimate blame bag?

This is just stupid. WARRI REFINERY DOES NOT EXIST!!!

@ud4u

and you are here for your own unselfish interest? I am telling you that these so-called leaders are citizens like you and I that have pursued political offices and gotten them. If they were not selfish and greedy as ordinary citizens, there is no way they'll turn that way just by occupying in office of a civil servant. Look at Alao Akala and you will realise that from the day he was born, he wanted other people's stuff for himself. Are you going to blame Government for that? Government is not a fixed constant thing that you can lay that blame on. Government does not elect government officials, government cannot remove defaulting government officials. Those are the duties and rights of the citizens and the citizens have refused to perform those duties or exercise those rights.

The power is in your hands but you throw it right out the front seat window. You don't know where it is, you don't know where or how to find it, you refuse to know how to find it back, so you just blame the guy you hired to drive the car.

Please, the grammar is blow up, not blow off. Off to where.

There are more than one million ways Europeans can make money off your savagery. Blowing up the pipelines requires tons of explosives, possibly GPS and of course, later on, a war. Oil is not their only money maker. See the full scale war countries like Switzerland caused in Sierra Leone because of diamonds, in one of these Central African Countries, they started an all out war because of ordinary tin ore (the material for making kpangolo, insecticide cans and canning foods). They will make money from selling weapons, they'll exchange food for resources, including the very crude oil we were blowing up pipelines for, then they will also go out to exploit those resources they always knew we had and cart them away cheaply. Not forgetting that they will sell exits from the war zone for millions of dollars. A boat ride or road trip from Nigeria to Angola would cost somewhere between 500,000 to 1,000,000 dollars. So go ahead, put a smile on your master's face. Give him reason to come rape you again.

Then you will use palm oil to power that your 1960 generator abi?

I see a lot of Nigerians sit around and talk weird stuff.

Someone is trying to tell the truth and everybody pounces on them.

The Nigerian Government, is it not made up of citizens whom before they got into government have already decayed and do not know what governance is about.

Somebody is asking if we should go and drive out the INEC President. No! Be waiting for Ghanaians to come help you drive him away.

A country like Indonesia will remove their president the day they decide his tenure has become boring because they know how to do it. Do you people even know how to effect a change of government in this country? So who is to blame when you don't know how to do what to do?

Ordinary Mauritius have removed a government they felt is not acting right and the guy left because they did it the way it was meant to be done.

In a country like Japan, once the Prime Minister messes up, he will resign. We think It's because they have good leaders but that's a lie. The simple reason is that if they don't resign honourable, the people will remove them disgracefully.

The monumental ignorance of the Nigerian citizenry as to their rights and capabilities is truly overwhelming. So when a fellow abuses these rights, they want to blame Obasanjo and Yar'Adua.

Unions are the tools for the citizens to control, shape or change their democracy, and Obasanjo was the one who put together the first decent union in Nigeria when he was preparing a democracy for us in the 70's. Yet what have we achieved with these unions? Paid strikes, rubbish talk on AIT, and popularity contests for a chance to government house.

Nigerian citizens are wallowing in ignorance. Educated, but unenlightened. The man who knows SHOULD cheat the man who doesn't know in no man's land.

So leave the Nigerian government alone. It's an institution that will be there for thousands of years; It's the citizen that don't know what it is and therefore, they abuse it. They enter into it and corrupt it.

They must pay tax. They must. Now It's personal income tax, next thing it will be corporate tax. Religious organizations are among the top income earners in Nigeria. Let them pay.

Normally the monies collected by Mosques and Churches would be used for human and community welfare development which would be no different from what the taxes would be used for, but since they have tactically overlooked those responsibilities, the government should make them remit some income in order to fulfil that end.

Before even someone like OBJ would see through their gimmickry, you know say water don pass garri.

Sell refinery, dem no gree. Oya operate it, they can't fit.

This JTF wicked sef O! See the name of their oga: Sarkin Yaki. It means king of war. MEND is in for it.

And please, you people should stop frustrating God by mentioning his name in the Nigerian equation. The solution is in our own hands. Be more proactive.

I will try not to insult anybody here, but we should know that other countries are interested in the kind of money you can bring over to them. That's why they always want to check your bank balance before they assoue your visa; forget about any reason they give.

Now, if these ambassadors hear that Nigerian politicians are corrupt and are looking for where to spend their stolen wealth, they'll definitely grant it with immediate alacrity. In fact, I believe lesser known countries like Ukraine will soon be going to politicians' houses to lobby them into travelling to their own country. Welcome to the real world.

I'm from Edo state where "Comrade Governor" Adams Oshiomhole is engaging in a lot of activity but no action. Talks about increasing revenue through state taxes, dualizing Airport Road which the House has blocked, and advocating for Yar'Adua to remove all subsidy from petroleum products. The man is doing nothing but talk. Okay, he demolished shop around the Oba Market, but to destroy is easy. The roads are bad, but all he does is complain and besides, he's very busy trying to change all the Reps in the House to AC card holders.

This is the lesson us critics have to learn. While criticizing, we must try to find true solutions because tomorrow we just might become the criticized. Oshiomhole who as NLC president, advocated for petroleum products to be sold for less than N30, now as Governor and a member of President Yar'Adua's team on the Global Crisis, has called for petrol price to reach N150. All hail the "Comrade Governor". A new title which he takes very seriously.

My proposed solution to the problem of poor governance in Edo and Delta is that both states should be merged back to Bendel and the Oba of Benin made the ruler of this state.

As for Ogun state, Gbenga Daniel did well during his first tenure, but at the start of his second tenure, Federal Government auditors revealed that his businesses had lost N200,000,000 between year 2003 and 2007. That might have dampened his spirits and besides, the state assembly is just misbehaving all over the place.

Well, let's see this thread continue. I'm getting good details.

It was the terrorists that declared all out war. The government is just living up to their own part of the bargain. If I were in the Delta, militants killed army officers I'll flee from the zone immediately. Get some popcorn, happy viewing.

Ol' boy, see money for main road. N10,000 in the black market multiplied by 90 is about N1 million. Unless all nna bros don die. When men can cut the aluminum on third mainland bridge and melt naira coins for metal. Let's see how it goes sha. A police that doesn't have a database of 1% of Nigerians' data with pictures will now use the pictures from the Cctv to do what!!! I hail O! Eko o ni baje O!

Slave trade is not really the problem. It is the persistent Slavery of Africa. Whether it be called colonization, plantation slavery or even today's slaveries in the form the commonwealth and every other instrument used to control us.

Many historians declare that in most parts of Africa, the colonialist invaded in order to stop the slave trade. Well, actually, they did. But they did not come to put an end to slavery.

When Europe's grip on continental America was broken and their Agricultural colonization ended, the Europeans had to find new farms to supply their demands. Africa was the double-edged solution: abundant fertile land and in situ slaves: no transportation cost, therefore no costprice. The entire fight for the abolition of slave trade was simply to stop the Americans from depleting their new found farms of much needed labour.

So It's not really slave trade, but slavery which has continued to this very day, only changing shape and form. And the chains have become more and more invisible, yet much stronger. And in today's world, it is virtually impossible to abolish slavery. Their media is there to tell us that what they want us to do is what is good to do. We are always reminded that the wealth we have is BLACK Gold, in It's more of a curse than anything else. They can bring treaties for us to sign and completely ignore their responsibilities in those treaties while scrutinizing our conformity.

By the beginning of the 20th century, Africans had colonised all of Portugal, Spain, Southern Italy and France. But the Spanish learnt a lot and by about the 15th century, the French had led a Jihad uniting other European tribes to chase out the Africans. Today, these Europeans will not let Africa develope, lest we achieve the ways and means of breaking off from this servitude. We lacking the unity and dedication to do anything, will remain underdeveloped for another 50 years at least. Byebye to vision 2020 or vision anything prior to year 2100.

I have said it innumerable times that the problem with Nigeria is God.

It is bad enough that the belief in God makes Nigerians docile and prone to abuse, cheating, corruption, blindness, poverty, underdevelopment and backwardness, but more annoying is that this same belief in God is one of the main tools that can be used to invoke activism, violence, hatred, vigilance and uprising against their own fellow oppressed believers of this same God through other means of worship.

I personally do not believe in God, but I promise you all that by the time I get into political office, God will be my main tool to control the masses. Afterall, it is their opium, so why not give it to them.

When I succeed at providing the most basic of needs, I'll remind the masses of why I am God's true messiah, and when I fail woefully, I mind them that It's the way God hath willed things to be.

When I know I neither have the will, the zeal or even the capacity to complete and approved project, I'll say Godwilling, or to put it more Arabically, "insha Allah".

When I've goofed big time and am being probed, It's my enemies (who by the way are the enemies of God). When I've been caught redhanded, ehen, then It's the Devil. Where actor dey, boss must surely dey. So where God is always showing himself, the Devil must oneday perform. And of course this is where perfect excuse of a phrase comes in "no man is perfect". Man being created in the image of a perfect God, I wonder why God-believers just choose to be imperfect.

Anyhow, as a politician, a public office holder, a government contractor or even generally, a public figure in Nigeria, one cannot venture far careerwise without a proper understanding of what achievements, blames and mistakes to apportion to God and the Devil respectively and in what context and language to frame these God-divined statements.

Anyways, may God save Nigeria and see you all in EDHA come 2011, Godwilling.

Talking online and blabbing online abi? Anyways, I'm in front of a mobile phone and I'm telling you the truth. When a person signs up for a job, they should do the job or answer the query. For Christ sake are you people thinking like employers at all?

People don't want to be realistic just because they are in Nigeria.

Elections are more sacred than life itself. Can a doctor working in a government hospital who has been assigned to carry out a life saving operation on the president resign in the middle of the operation without any repercussion? The fact that we are in Nigeria doesn't mean we should start thinking like fish. Was this not what destroyed the elections of June 12? One person taking their personal safety more important than a general election. Devil soda that Adebayo and all those supporting this very demonic crime she has committed. When she was taking this job didn't she think of the inherent risk? The worst case scenario? Therefore Nigerian soldiers too can quit their jobs immediately they realise that their lives might soon be at risk. In fact, I think we should show our gratitude and support to policemen who would quit their jobs and throw away their uniform and guns the very instant they realise that armed robbers are around. If we can celebrate this Adebayo woman, then why not. By the way, those of you that see clearly would know that Nigerians never resign when they're supposed to and besides, the credit crunch will fail your liver. The main reason this woman is retiring is that she's been paid more than her salary, pension and benefits can ever amount to.

Now people want to blame those that are trying to take measures to ensure that their rights and privileges are not abused. Please wake up and finger the real criminal here. It's not the Minister.

See, all you Nigerian people, why do you want to remain blind. Do you not know that there are different set of rules for playing different arena(s)? You want Dora to end up like El Rufai and Ribadu abi and then you the people will abandon her when the politicians start dealing with her.

Dora is a realist. She never claimed to be a saint. When Nestle was killing Nigerian babies with expired skimmed milk, Shey they settled it in one corner. When they were clamouring for Obasanjo's 3rd term, didn't she wear PDP ankara to dance at the rallies? Now what is your problem. You can sit outside the government god criticise, but when you get in and realised how things are really run, you have to fit into the bureaucracy or else you can easily be indicted for not following due process.

I'd rather support a government official that the views of the masses because till you get into governance, you're totally ignorant of the limitation your office, the constitution and even the people put on you. Look at Adams Oshiomhole, Abike Dabiri, they criticise a lot, but when they get there, they shut up. Who no go no know.

I see nothing wrong with the statement Dora Akunyili gave. In fact it is in perfect order. If it were Barrack Obama that gave that speech now, all Nigerians will be hailing without knowing the full implication of what was said. Dora is doing her job better than I expected. I hate the fact she took the office of Nigeria's Public Relations, being that she's not a very diplomatic speaker. However, on this her Ekiti statement, I give her an A.

@wirinet

have you asked yourself why these caucasians have rejected the name gringoes given to them by south americans? Yet they want the whole world to accept the name Latin Americans or Red Indians. People that have no idea what Latin is or have no relationship to Indians. What is wrong with calling them what they really are: AMERICANS.

Why don't they accept the name Oyibo (which simply means a person from another place) there's nothing derogatory about that. See, there is no shade of brown that should be described as black and no shade of pink that should be described as white. The designation of black and white were not given by Oyibos to signify skin colour but superior and inferior, good and bad, progressive and backward. When the British colonised India and China, the colonial officers wrote many letters condemning these black people.

When the Romans colonised the rest of Europe, they met Nations such as the Barbarians and the Brutish. Are those tribes still referring to themselves by those names today? They got civilised and realised that such names would make their generations to come barbarians and brutals till the end of time. Now we have the Germans and British and today they call us blacks and we want to agree.

Why is the word nigger or negro derogatory when it translates simply into the word black person? If a person can be angry for being called a nigger, I wonder how that same person can be black and proud. I wonder how that same person can say it doesn't really matter being labelled black. When your mates in America are moving from being called Black Americans to African Americans, you Africans are happy to be called blacks.

The day you see anything being tagged black to connote goodness, that is when black people will be better. Be it magic, lie, heart, leg, sheep, mail, eye, once it becomes black, it becomes bad. Once it is tagged white, it becomes good. You do the math.

As long as you agree that they are white and you are black, they are good and you are bad. They are right and you are wrong. They are rich and you are poor. They are kings and you are pawns.

You black people are still here? Someone will tell me whether they are called white or black, it doesn't really matter, It's the mentality. When you have your first child, name her or him Unserious Idiot and see how that person's life will turn out. Why do you people think after centuries of being tagged black Americans, those of them that are intellectually sound are gradually rejecting that name and moving to African Americans.

Lord Lugard wrote a book for the British government that would scare the people into supporting the ongoing colonization policy. Am deluded abi, well, you guys are black and proud. When did Nigerians become courageous and gunloving.

For those hailing the British for abolishing slave trade, I'm very sorry for you. America was a British colony and the slaves were taken to America to produce goods for Britain to trade in Europe. Immediately the Americans fought the British and gained their independence, the British decided to find a new continental farm which became Africa and they didn't want the precious labour force to continue being stolen by the Americans as this will profit the British nothing and make their liberated colony riches than them. Thus the abolition of slave trade and the second slavery which is homebased and otherwise known as colonization. Now you want to praise them for abolishing slave trade and starting in situ slavery? Black people, you will never learn. Never. We Africans know better.

Lemme start here by saying I hate BLACK people! The fact that you guys continue to refer to yourselves with the evil name the Oyibo people gave you shows that nothing good can ever come from you. Can anything black be good? Can anything white be bad? Accepting their tag has already put you where they want. And everyday you wake up believing in your blackness (backwardness, evilness, negativity), nothing white can ever come from you.

You look at yourself in the mirror everyday and see your skin colour and you know it is not black yet you carry that tag on your head proudly. A heart that is black will not think good, a lie that is black will not produce good results and a sheep that is black will not do the family any good. How can a man that is black end up in anything good?

I love Hitler. The man made me understand the real European hatred for Africans. Hitler and most intelligent European racists hated Africans just because they researched and found out that the Africans were truly superior to them and if we competed on a level playfield, Africans will dominate them so they needed to go out of their way to malign and destroy us to ensure the survival of their future generations.

As for Lugard, I read his book in 2007. It was totally politically sponsored. The British government paid him to write the dual mandate the way he did. At a point when british citizens were beginning to question their government's right to colonise other human beings, they needed journals like the Dual Mandate to show their people that they were only trying to civilise and help a savage, misdirected race. Have you even seen pictures where British soldiers were painted with mud to look like Africans eating human flesh and sent back to English newspapers to publish? You BLACK people know nothing yet.

Have you even asked yourselves the real meaning and origin of the name British? Find out and you'll know who is a savage, a backward, or stupid race.

Abeg, just take your own dose of Tamiflu or any relevant anti-viral and leave the rest. All man for himself right now.

Well, I'll still send a mail to the Minister of Information, though I feel the more relevant ministry is that of Health.

Ehen, dem don come again. Who has started spreading these lies again? India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Somalia, Congo, Haiti, Pakistan, Chad and Niger all have better Healthcare than Nigeria? I hail O! Who are these people that just breathe out statistics from thin air?

For those of you just getting to know Obahiagbon, you've missed 9 years of political comedy. In fact, he has recently toned down his language. When he was in the Edo state house he was in his lingual prime. The most outstanding line he has ever used is "Lucky left us in a state of lahonwoho." (from the Benin word "lahon" which means please or I beg) so he was trying to imply that Lucky Igbinedion left Edo state on its knees.

Instead of thinking about unity, we're still celebrating division. Rather than asking how Delta and Edo states can re-unite to form the old Bendel, or Kano and Jigawa getting back to the old Kano state, we've decided to continue splitting.

Very soon Niger will become the most powerful state in Nigeria and probably go on to colonise one or two states in Nigeria, probably even Abuja.

Oshiomole is completely lost. He was among the Economic Team that advised the President to completely remove fuel subsidy. I'm not saying that's bad, but the man is beginning to realise that what he believed as Comrade is completely different from what obtains as Governor. If he wants to tax Edo people, well, let him carry on as long as everyone will not partake in an Exodus out of that already dead state. I'm currently in Benin, the only city in human history to degrade back to the level of a town, and right now I really don't see the people that can pay the tax or the mechanism put in place to collect it. Is it those women who refused to sent shops in Oba market that will pay the tax? Is it Bob Izua? Is it Igbinedion or Idahosa that will pay tax for their schools? Is it the Yahoo boys or Churches that will pay their tithes to the state? Let that man go and sleep jare. Edo is a redundant state. Lucky ruled for 8 years without doing a thing and he didn't die. Let Oshiomole just live out his tenure or go to the courts to reverse his victory if not, "life go hard am".

And what's with that stupid title he now goes by? Comrade Governor. That's the stupidest thing I've heard. You're either a comrade or a governor, and the man is a governor. Naija, una too like titles sha. Comrade Governor means a fellow governor. Na wah O! Anyway, that's an issue for another day. What Edo state needs right now is for the Oba to become the Executive Officer of the state. End of story!

Well, for anyone to discuss this topic, you have to understand the history of NIFOR (the Nigerian Institute For Oilpalm Research) , the British colonialists, World War 2, the German blockade of African routes and the transfer of Nigerian Oilpalm technology and hybrids by the British to Indonesia. To simply get an idea of this, imagine the amount of Crude Oil exported from Sudan to China. If the Somali pirate problem gets worse China moves It's business to Russia, don't start to blame the Sudanese.

Have you people stopped to ask yourselves the percentage of Cassava, Yams, Tomatoes and Beans we were producing back then? We were producing food and saw materials for Europe while dying of hunger. Even today, Cocoa producers still struggle with exports. Some seasons, they have to destroy their harvest by burning, rather than export them at the cheap prices European commodity traders want to pay.

We want to cry about Oilpalm and Groundnuts everytime but what about Cassava? Cassava was brought to Nigeria from Brazil, but Nigeria went into production for our own consumption and sustenance and now Nigeria is the world largest producer of Cassava. And yes! We're now even exporting it to the United Kingdom and China. Only a couple of years ago, we were importing almost all the poultry products we consume. Now we're exporting to South Africa. Look at how many people are producing Catfish.

Nigerians will engage in Agriculture if it makes sense and if it makes money. Let's stop pursuing the Colonial dream. Let's produce what we need and teach the world how to use it.

@debosky Land Reform is necessary, but I will never use my land to produce Oilpalm, Cocoa or Cotton. "I nor go chop?"

If Nigeria should go back to massive production of Oilpalm, we'll drive world prices very low and both us and Indonesia will suffer and the British will laugh. That's why the BBC is trying to cajole us back to the plantations. "Make dem sef go farm if na so dem like drink palm oil jare."

The truth is that 12 million naira is too small for a CBN Governor. But really his main cash comes from printing and reprinting the Nigerian currency: at least a couple of cents from each of those polymer notes. So y'all can understand his lifestyle. It's time for the man to go. But still, N12 million is quite decent.