₦airaland Forum

modath:
TANoids are a special breed!! What is code of conduct bureau if its not a public forum Your hero's singular legacy is FOI, use it!!

He made a promise and he has kept his words, Yar'adua made his public declaration almost a month into his regime, 2 days and the knives and daggers are already out!!!.

PMB will do the needful, he knows we his unwavering and die hard fans expect it.

The reason Olisa Metuh has nothing negative to say is because he knows he will have his nose bruised over such a non issue.

You all are like crickets, all you can do is chirp in the DARK, it will amount to nothing!!

The article also mentioned that PMB and PYO have not moved into the villa yet, I hope that is not a cause for bellyaches for una?

You do know that Jonathan declared his assets to the CCB having done that, he reserved the right to not make a public declaration nothing illegal about that .All of you demonized him for reserving that right now you are using the same defense.The hypocrisy of people is stunning sometimes.

AceOfDiamonds:


His opinion sadly...Even the former US ambassador to Nigeria,John Campbell said the inauguration speech was detailed and full of specifics

Campbell ? Campbell that was mad that the north lost their hold on power in 2011, the guy that is rabidly pro-north and probably ejaculated as he was watching buharis swearing in ,that Campbell?

Webbet:
For me GEJ did his best during his tenure as a President. No president has ever faced the tensions this man faced in Nigeria, ye he came, he saw and he conquered. I remember various bomb blasts he escaped during his appointment as acting president and so on. His government was frustrated by his political opponents yer he still did his best. [size=18pt]The mistake he did was to forsake his people. He served Nigeria under the fear of the north and west, thereby concentrating development there. While compromising the south-south and south-east[/size]

A mistake no one else from the south south or the south east will ever make again.The lessons to be learnt from the 2015 elections are massive and they are not the lessons most pundits scream up and down about.

pazienza:
Are you by any reason saying that as long as the colonial powers deem it right, it is right to Usurp a democratically elected government using arms by a select selfish few? Whatever the colonial( Caucasian powers ) say is right is right? Is that the extent you are willing to go to defend Buhari treason?

This is a typical case of White ass licking. Nobody is caught up with Nigerian hateful tribal politics, Nigerian politics has always been hateful and tribal, ignoring it and pretending it isn't so is sheer stupidity.

Nobody assassinated Buhari character, It is true that he committed treason and was a part of the group that usurped a democratically elected president. It is true that he was an autocrat, a tyrant and military dictator. It is true that he was tribal and sectional in his allocation of projects during his stint as PTF head, cornering majority of the projects for the North while almost forgetting the SE.

It is true that he was part of the most corrupt government in Nigeria, the Abacha government, It is true that he believes Abacha was a saint and didn't steal despite myriads of evidence Proving otherwise.

He won't be exonerated simply because you believe that your Caucasian masters supported military regimes then, therefore military dictatorship was right in your narrow thoughts. Some of us still have independent thought process and our sense of what is wrong or right isn't dictated by the whims and caprices of the Caucasian super powers, this to me is what it means to be Igbo. Being capable of independent thought process.

Its also true that a thousand people died in 2000 in the sharia riots he helped to precipitate a role which he remains most unapologetic about and which the media have contrived to make Nigerians with neither depth in intellectual capacity nor memory complete not to mention the 800-1000 people that died in 2011 directly attributable to his statements about how the elections were stolen from him.
For Pa Eziaci , i have the utmost respect for him but he can not define the point of view of the youth of today using the fact that he suffered loss in the biafran civil war.He had a bullet in his arm, his family members were killed i will not in anyway reduce the magnitude of those losses but i will tell him that during the past four years, igbos ,south-southerners (i happen to be a mix of both) and anybody who looks like them,have been the casualties of an undeclared war on them because for the first time Nigeria had a man from that region in power.
Limbs have been lost but those were the lucky ones the unlucky we pulverized and fragmented by explosions or burnt beyond recognition making a decent burial all but impossible.
We too have suffered loss and have seen even worse the injustice of the nigerian state so much we have lost the hope that it will ever serve us. Do not assume to know more than us.

ezeagu:
And then they'll turn around and call others chest beaters. Guy, you said that correctly, 1967-1970, when the USSR was relevant. It's 2015, and ragtag militias are holding entire regions of a continent hostage. You couldn't even look after your black caterpillar.

they know these things but they would rather die than admit the truth
For those who do not fool themselves,Libya is twice a lesson,boko haram is a lesson,the Niger delta is a lesson Nigeria's seeming military might don't faze us.after all ,we make up part of it.

atlwireles:
Your dad will be spending his last days in Agodi prison before anyone touches the hair of Jonathan. Did you not see the preview in Nigeria? Then open your eyes wider.

They have eyes but they WILL NOT SEE .Willful ignorance (or should I say denial) of the coming storm.
I put a question to one of them this morning but he has decided to act like he did not see it.
If you ask me I would say let them continue to fool themselves.

Firefire:
Good move...

The so called governors should face their state to deliver good governance!

Bros dint be sold on initial gra gra.
aEver since the apc, hired foreign media consultants every news about them is contrived.
Don't be sold so soon.

blackpanda:
Clearly u are the foolish one. It is the job of the executive to arrest criminals!

Really?

Truckpusher:
Then you better Shattap and stop complaining when they speak their mind and wait until the shiit hit the fan.

Do have a wonderful day.

Why bother with that one and his kind ? Like I told him early on this thread , the sh1t is hitting the fan at his home base,but he'd rather live in denial and then rant about a group who have never done his people harm ignoring the existential threat.
To tackle that challenge will require that they tell themselves the truth:That they have lived , fought,sacrificed and died in service of a lie for the past fifty years.

https://www.nairaland.com/2337420/over-100-killed-benue-communities

omenka:
99% of the people getting all giddy like circus chimps on steroids chanting war songs online don't have an idea what gun powder smells like.

As for me, I have A LOT to lose. I value my life and wanna live to see my children grow up and raise their own families.

[size=14pt]I don't know what a gun powder smells like and honestly, I really don't wanna know. I don't wanna witness a war, I want peace, and wanna keep enjoying my life.[/size]

If you are so eager to fight a war, you can as well get drafted into one of the numerous terror groups around the world. I doubt they'd turn down your requests.

I don't suppose what is happening in your home state , Benue qualifies as a war but sh1t loads of people are dying and the cause of death is gunpowder related (the ak 47 , 9 millimeter variety for the most part) and it seems that like you most people from your side are loath to admit that perhaps the choices made in 1966 through 67 and well after have put you people in your current situation which you seem to try to deny even to the level of denying to yourselves.
You foam at the mouth anytime it is suggested that the south east (and now the south south) are reconsidering their continued participation in the existence of the farce called Nigeria owing to its structural imbalances.
You (or should i say your people) have a more immediate and existential problem and it is certainly not the igbos or the ijaws or anangs or urhobos or itsetkiris or ibibios any of the ethnic groups within the south south or the south east .
Nigeria as currently constituted and maintained (with the threat of war) is not working for any one except for a few groups who have cornered all advantages to themselves where possible and frustrate every civilized avenue of effecting the structural adjustments needed.

pendy79:
Seems you're just learning the word mofo for the first time.

Becks the way you keep repeating it, it is like seeing a white man for the first time in your life.

You sure your brains are still functional with all the non comprehensive line of thought your brain is spewing.

Just don't reproduce please,we need to breed out mofos idi.ots from our society so we can have a better future ok,it begins with you.

Kitsune:
Honestly why does no one recognizes the Work of Kwankwaso that much ? I just saw some ldiot posting a list of performing Governors and he actually rated Kwankwaso 60% or something. Its really just hilarious. Maybe if he always goes around commissioning every shit he does and publishing it on all media then people will start showering him with praises too, Oh wait! Never mind, at least all Northerners Know about and appreciate his work (well excluding the ldiots that still somehow worship the likes of Shekarau).

I kinda wanna go gather pictures of everything he did in Kano (and its A LOT) then i remembered someone did that here already and lets just say it immediately turned into a tribal fight because thats what Nigeria is about. You hear all kinds of shit about your Region but once someone does something right in that region it turns to shit like 'Its our money that built that blah blah, Thank us' 'Your almajiri brothers will bomb this, that blah blah'.

The reason i actually make a big deal about Kwankwaso is that he's only been there for 4 years and his budget has been around 210-235 billion.

Kwakwasow is in his second term as governor of kano you know that almost all the crap you posted up there are lies.
In the last sixteen years,he has been governor for eight years minister of defense for three years..What has he achieved?My sentiments about him are well known as I have documented on this site previously,I wouldn't bother rehashing.

pendy79:
Project read POWERED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ECOFUNDS some daft blind mofo say Akpabio is working and is the best governor.

God heal Nigeria.

And you and your state government (Governor) mofos that you both are were banned from receiving your right full allocation for the ecological fund abi?
I.diots full Nairaland nowadays.
Mofo you are a mofo your entire linage starting from you will be mofos if you take the criminal step of reproducing.
How do you like that?

grandstar:
Lagos state has at least 4 times the population of Akwa Ibom and it is highly urbanised making it more costly to run.

Look at spending per head And you know Lagos state is just managing.

"Lagos state has at least 4 times the population of Akwa Ibom and it is highly urbanised making it more costly to run.

Look at spending per head And you know Lagos state is just managing.[/quote]"Lagos state has at least 4 times the population of Akwa Ibom and it is highly urbanised making it more costly to run.

Look at spending per head And you know Lagos state is just managing.[/quote]"Lagos state has at least 4 times the population of Akwa Ibom and it is highly urbanised making it more costly to run.

Look at spending per head And you know Lagos state is just managing.[/quote]"Lagos state has at least 4 times the population of Akwa Ibom and it is highly urbanised making it more costly to run.

Look at spending per head And you know Lagos state is just managing.[/quote]Lagos state has at least 4 times the population of Akwa Ibom and it is highly urbanised making it more costly to run.

Look at spending per head And you know Lagos state is just managing.[/quote]With four times the population,a little over a third of the landmass, massive infrastructure advantage built up over a period of eighty years by the colonial and federal gorvernments all added to about five times the tax payer base, that Akwa Ibom has,I'd say that Lagos got the long end of the stick .
But you don't have to agree with me.

Flets:
Thanks for spotting the gaffes. ..... that is why I need a secretary. Are you available?

BADASS KNOCKOUT.

Young03:
They should conduct primaries 4 them


to avoid hatred and acrimony

I know it's no crime to be dull but sometimes it's offensive...........i mean did you miss the part of the news about how PRIMARIES WERE HELD/TO BE HELD TODAY ?

SMH

Beremx:
you TANoids take Buhari's humility and simplicity for foolishness. I don't know what's wrong with you people.

GMB will be your president for 4years. Deal with it!!

I never thought that I would hear you so soon use that line"you mistake -----------'s humility and simplicity for foolishness" what's more, I can swear that you yourself never thought you'd ever have to use that line not after the heap of rubbish you have uttered within the last few years.
I promise you,it's going to hurt, a lot.

superstar1:
Yeah Osundefender is pro-yoruba/apc.

It's a game, we are all watching closely. One thing I am sure of is, as usual, we always know all the moves of our opponents and we are always 10ce prepared for any eventuality.


May 29 is just around the corner. The game continues.

Actually you are calling it after me although not on Nairaland but if you think that the northerners have not games this scenario out then I have to say that you have not looked at the senario hard enough.
As we speak they have contingency plans in place to deal with retaining power regardless of the constitutional succession protocols.
Ya all need to remember that two of the major actor's in the Yaradua drama, Danbaba and Yakubu are prominent members of the incoming government.
If anything as soon as the old man starts to snow down (as he inevitably will)possibly even before the two years you predicted,his kinsmen will call him sit him down warn him to not exert himself.They will draw lessons from yaradua to make their point and will compel him to reconstitute the erstwhile kitchen cabinet which will run the government in his steed.
The veep will by this time be completely isolated.
The yaradua crew would have succeeded if yaradua had been healthy enough to stand for five minutes and then sit for an hour. not saying much or doing anything.. Error i

MayorofLagos:
...what an ignoramus!! Is Ondo a Niger Delta state? Is Chad basin a Niger Delta state?

Oil exploration in Chad had ceased due to risks of terrorism. If the cost/benefit scale of doing business in the Delta flattens out the explorers will abandon the rigs and take business elsewhere. [size=15pt]They will then sanction your oil production in the market[/size]. How will you find the resource to grow your economy in the Delta? You will regress and stagnate.

Jonathan was clueless before March 28th, and he is still clueless after.

THEY ? who are [size=20pt]THEY[/size].In any case IT WOULD BE NICE IF OUR OIL PRODUCTION IS SANCTIONED EVEN IF FOR A YEAR , IT WILL REMIND US ALL OF WHO IS IMPORTANT and we would all sit up and be forced to find non oil revenue.
BUT THEN YOU WILL KNOW JUST HOW IN(DEPENDENT) OF NIGERIA'S OIL INDUSTRY THE IGR OF LAGOS AND OGUN BY EXTENTION IS .
I don't need to draw a map to show the cascade , if you can't figure it out by yourself , then you are most probably not as smart as you believe you are.

AnambraDota:
Let's know what the Zulus have to say

MayorofLagos:
This reaction gives legitimacy to opposing grounds who see increasing terrorism and new threats from Lower Niger as a real risk against new investments.

MayorofLagos:
...what an ignoramus!! Is Ondo a Niger Delta state? Is Chad basin a Niger Delta state?
Oil exploration in Chad had ceased due to risks of terrorism. If the cost/benefit scale of doing business in the Delta flattens out the explorers will abandon the rigs and take business elsewhere. They will then sanction your oil production in the market. How will you find the resource to grow your economy in the Delta? You will regress and stagnate.
Jonathan was clueless before March 28th, and he is still clueless after.

I just dey laugh.We go see.

MayorofLagos:
This reaction gives legitimacy to opposing grounds who see increasing terrorism and new threats from Lower Niger as a real risk against new investments.

Well better no investment in nigeria as a whole but any new investment in the oil and gas industry of nigeria outside of the ND is at major and verifiable risk when the time comes to position it or use it in the ND SIMPLICITA.
THE WAYO DON DO.SAY WE NO TALK NO MEAN SAY WE BE MUGU.NO BE SAY WE NO GO SCHOOL NO BE SAY WE NO NO BOOK.

THAT REFINERY IF IT GETS BUILT IN LAGOS HAD BETTER BUY CRUDE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET OUTSIDE OF THE NIGER DELTA.EXCEPT THEY HIT CRUDE IN LAGOS THEN GOOD FOR THEM.

If the fools had left it in ondo as originally conceived we would not have said a word ,but in keeping with their sense of entitlement they sabotaged that and diverted it to lagos.
We are waiting......

madamoringo:
Fight if you want! Who will lose? 177 M Nigerians Vs 3 M Bayelsans? But not all of the 3 M are so senseless like you and your cowardly GEJ. If you fight, your people will lose out like the greedy ibos who wanted all Nigeria for themselves alone. If you destroy pipelines and massive oil spills destroy the land, the spill will not even affect lands in the SE, not to talk of crossing the Middle belt or Niger, who will die from the short and long term effects of the poison? Whose land will have all or most fish, animals and humans sick and die? Even ordinary $ 1 B required for clean up of skills of Ogoniland and ND areas, Jonadarft did not provide for 6 years, no you are threatening to spill all Nigeria's oil on yourself by blowing up the pipelines? Funny set of losers, abeg do it!

If Nigeria does have to deal with militancy again, I bet you they will not be coming into the creeks piecemeal like they did the first time and there was fighting for a long time. The government will only set up outposts in the ND for 2 - 4 weeks asking patriotic Nigerians in the ND to leave temporarily and lodge them as close as possible to the ND but outside the region [size=18pt]and then fly hundreds of missions daily to destroy every militant in carpet bombing craze until anything that moves or doesn't move is destroyed [/size]then, use the oil to rebuild the ND! Who has lost in the process??

Because black-market SA-7s (Russian) or/and Chinese clones of the SA -7 , and Stingers are no longer available abi?
There is well documented history/statistics detailing the performance of the stinger (if you choose to say performance i would say slaughter) of Russian Rotatory aircraft most notably in Afghanistan then consider that this battle will be fought within the creeks where the terrain much more favors the militants and all the remote sensing tools the aircraft(choppers it has to be low flying platforms like choppers as higher flying platforms will be useless in the ND theater) carry will be spooked by the thermal variations naturally present in the mangrove swamp.

This is a post i made earlier:
https://www.nairaland.com/2123552/war-threats-niger-delta-ex-militants/3#30314662

This is a document detailing the black market price for man-pads:
http://fas.org/programs/ssp/asmp/issueareas/manpads/black_market_prices.pdf

I know that the helos cost no less than thirty five million dollars each while a man-pad of thirty five thousand dollars will bring them down .
If for nothing else acquire about fifteen (15) of them at roughly fifty million naira fire two and the rest become what is describe in Military parlance as "AREA DENIAL WEAPONS" albeit in an aviation sense. Google is your friend go read up on the concept.

iscoli:
I am capable and strong
to what young people can do”

Una hear , e say in go finish work for bed.

Idrismusty97:
Waoh! one of those guys said Caesar of "Planet of the Apes" looks better.

Meanwhile...
www.nairaland.com/attachments/2418280_fbimg1431801245228_jpeg10add735bca027d694352b71dacd4541

Oh boy that picture kills .I ought to sue you cos you made me start laughing like a mad man.

[size=18pt]7. The State Department should revisit the establishment of a Consulate General in northern Nigeria, probably in Kano.

Nigeria has Africa's largest Muslim population, concentrated in the northern region, and has the fifth largest Muslim population in the world. The United States has very little presence, access or influence in the north. Secretary Clinton approved the opening of a consulate in the north in 2009. The effort should be revisited as quickly as possible.[/size]

This election was all about returning the North to power continuing in the path of fraudulently lopsided political structure that the British bequeathed Nigeria in favor of the north.
Its a good thing that although we have always known this they(British/Americans) are showing their hands now so that those in the south-south and south-east will drop the self denials that these people have even the slightest bit of their interest at heart.
As a state it is expected that your self interests come first but in this case we would have expected them to pursue their enlightened self interest but clearly they have continued the age old self destructive pattern of engendering in many (almost every country they can influence or interact with) political situations that benefit far too little in the short term and cause them a lot of pain in the long run.
We claim that our politicians in this country do not learn but even in these countries they clearly do not learn at least in the area of foreign policy.

THE TIME OF RECKONING IS COMING.

jaysniggs:
By Sulaimon Salau
The much-awaited Dangote oil refinery slated for Lekki area of Lagos will be operated by the Honeywell technology, sequel to the approval of Dangote group.

The proposed oil refinery situated in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos is expected to be functional by the first half of 2018, with an estimated production template of about 500,000 barrels per day.

With this capacity, the refinery is described as the largest single refinery in Africa. A statement made available to The Guardian yesterday said, "Honeywell technology has been selected to run the largest refinery in Africa.

Dangote Oil Refining Company selected UOP technology for a world-scale integrated refinery and petrochemical plant to be built in Lekki, near the capital of Lagos in southwestern Nigeria."

UOP LLC, a sister company of Honeywell technology, however stated that its process technology, catalysts and proprietary equipment would form the basis for the largest refinery in Africa, which is aimed at reducing Nigeria's dependence on imported fuels and petrochemicals.

Senior Vice-President and General Manager of UOP's Process, Technology and Equipment business, Pete Piotrowski, said: "UOP has been designing state-of-the-art refineries and petrochemical plants for more than a century, so we are well-equipped to help Nigeria develop a massive new installation to meet its domestic needs,"

According to him, "This project will enable Dangote to improve Nigeria's oil refining capabilities, reduce the country's dependence on imports, and work to revive and transform the Nigerian economy."

In addition to proessing crude oil to produce high-quality gasoline, diesel and jet fuel that meet Euro V specifications for reduced emissions, the group said the new facility would produce world-scale quantities of polypropylene, a key petrochemical used in plastics and packaging.

Honeywell however stressed that UOP technologies at this facility would include: the UOP Resid Fluid Catalytic Cracking process to produce transportation fuels from crude oil. It will also supply propylene, which will be used as a feedstock for polypropylene.

Others include: The CCR Platforming™ process to produce high-octane gasoline blending components; the Unicracking™ process to produce diesel; the Penex™ process to produce high-octane gasoline; the crude distillation unit (CDU) design, which will be provided by UOP's alliance partner, Process Consulting Services To complement the technology licensing and design services, the UOP said it was working with Dangote to provide catalysts, adsorbents and proprietary equipment for the project.

The Dangote Industries' operations director for petroleum refining, Mr. George Nicolaides, had earlier assured that the site is being cleared, the plant is at detailed engineering level with estimations that it would be completed and start operation by 2018.

He said the Dangote group got a $3.3 billion loan with 12 Nigerian and foreign lenders to build the refinery as well as a petrochemical and fertilizer complex costing a total of $9 billion.

"Supplying the local market is the primary objective. Naturally we can move product to the region. The government is being very supportive, very enthusiastic about this project. We are not looking for or wanting any particular subsidies." Nicolaides added.

allafrica.com/stories/201505140529.html

[size=18pt]All well and good.
Just one question though: The crude for the refinary and the Gas for the fertarlizer plant will come from where ?
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stanech:
I will wait for the whole dust to settle before I say what's on my mind.

I want to see the senate and speaker elect before I speak.

Why wait,say what you have to say now.Delay could be detrimental .

nwafuluozoh:
The truth is coming out gradually. Jonathan's only crime was belonging to a minority ethnic group. The North hinged on that and used its population to vote him out. It's ironic that the oil money which is the North's major attraction to Governance is from the said Jonathan's minority group.

Correction the north did not use its population,the north rigged the elections and chased away voters who remotetly looked like they might vote for Jonathan.All this after they had denied most southerners based in the north the chance to collect their voters card.

Gbawe:
I don't need the respect of an emotional cretin like you. Go and respect those you interact with in real life and stop looking for online heroes to worship and respect. I never asked you or anyone to respect me. You can continue being a sentimental child and twisting my word, perhaps because some of your kinsmen have disgraced your ethnic group to the point Yorubas now have to respond with the cold hard truth, but my point which is clear to all is that the SW voted to remove a proven misruler. Even then, this misruler still received healthy votes to show the people of the region are independent-minded and not entirely clannish or easily herded into a single corner.

It is therefore very rich of those who gave such a misruler, on course to turning Nigeria into Somalia, almost 100% of their own votes to now want to join issues vengefully with the Yorubas and be talking of "pay back" for some "betrayal" that only exists in their hateful and bigoted minds. You want to see the real bigot? look in the mirror you pathetic child. Some of you need to grow up and face the truth. Nairaland is not your 'agony aunt'. If you have emotional issues then don't come looking for solutions to them here.

Bros we get it; SE/SS petty bigots ok agreed but I need to understand how the igbos drew your ire because of comments that Shamsudeen Usman(hausa fulani north), Dansandau (hausa fulani north) and one solomon Obou (idoma north central) made about the Speakership not going to the south west.

ichidodo:
[color=#1980BC] This makes strategic sense to the northern APC hegemony.Via thieffnubu they already have south west in chains therefore the next in the agenda should be how to carry the rest of the country especially South south along...this Speakership position should go a long way appeasing some frayed nerves in the ND.... [/color]

I would rather the north holds the senate and the house hold everything.The SS/SE does not need those positions although they think they do.
Letting go of those positions will be akin to someone who has used crutches for har longer than he should , have those cruthes taken away from him and being forced by that circumstance to stand firm and realise that his use of those crutcheS outlasted his need for them.