₦airaland Forum

You have said nothing like a typical "wayo" Nigerian pastor.

The more you look the less you see. whichever your prophesy will be right. Nice if this is meant to taunt the stealing pastors.

Beaf:
Who told you they would be able to import and sell at any price?

I like the way you guys make your stuff up, its quite entertaining!
Wait until you get the full info of the govts proposals before making claims about stuff you and I know nothing about yet. Thank you.

We know we do not have government. We have criminals at Aso Rock who you work for.

lanre_front:
@alj_harem

((1.There is simply nothing like those
benefitting from the subsidy,its simply
business
2.There is a shortfall in demand and the
supply of petroleum product in the
country))

Well, this shortfall in demand was delibrately & systemically created by sabotaging our four refiniries.So the so called "business" you mention in your  comment was created by PDP goverment as an instrument of political patronage for thier associates and ofcourse themselves.

((If the subsidy is removed, Would the
government still not be paying huge
amount to the importers aka the benefit))

Actaully goverment would no longer be paying for it. The gameplan, my dear brother is to shift that heavy burden of corruption from the neck of GEJ's Administration to the neck of the poor masses. Simple. No need for big grammar.

You see the, the PDP GEJ's Administration still desires & wants to sustain the evil corrupt pratice of fuel importation because it so sweet for them, but because it is so heavy and it's affecting goverment viabilty, reasoned it's best to shift of its neck unto to that of the masses.

When Nigerians start paying N150 for fuel, that is what they are paying for. Instead of these "PDP annointed fuel importers" waiting to collect the money from govermnet in form of subsidy, they just collect if directly from the poor masses - you & I - in form of fuel price increase

alj_harem:
Last week, the government released a list of those benefiting from the so called fuel subsidy but you should ask yourself what is the benefit in fuel subsidy ?

Was there no demand for it before they, started importing it ?

If no, then why is the government STILL buying petroleum products from this beneficial

1.There is simply nothing like those benefitting from the subsidy,its simply business
2.There is a shortfall in demand and the supply of petroleum product in the country
3.Business men import the products to make up for the shortfalls
4.There is what we call landing cost and profit margin per litre, which the importers must make from their investment
5.The govt have failed in thier social contract with the people to provide the basic nessesity  by not allowing the refinaries to work


Now we know why are our refineries not working if the business man aka beneficials are the ones enjoying the fuel subsidy ?

If the subsidy is removed, Would the government still not be paying huge amount to the importers aka the benefit thieves.

Who is the government fooling about this so called fuel subsidy ?

Now if the importers decide to to change their prices, would the government not still buy it that that price since we have no refinery to produce our own crude oil.

Is the government not thinking that if the refineries are built and producing upto 80% of our daily consumsion of petrol that fuel subsidy would NATURALLY GO ?

Now BEAF please answer this questions apart from the ones stated above

1. What are our taxes used for ? Are they to pay Governors and Asorock food

2. Since the FG collects tax from the subsidy thieves, what have those sums of money been used for ?

3. Our money gotten from the exportation of crude oil, where has it gone

Lastly, given the fact that Our government no long do any governmental function for us, such as building new roads (not repair), free education etc, What would now be the job of the government ?

Or are we just paying out taxes for them to be paid ?

Please beaf I would appreciate if these questions can be answered without lies or propaganda. Thanks

You two are honest and sincere. No body will want to answer your questions because answering them will expose the lies they have been telling us. You see how their paid agent BEAF has been dodging all the questions so far.

In the final analysis, understand that our land is presently besieged by criminals that are in power to suck and kill me and you. They have abandoned all duties of government but want to squeeze me and u - the masses of this country - for their selfish ends. They are just in the business of making money for themselves. Go to your villages, watch out in your streets. Study and average Nigeria politician (not just those of PDP, but all). In less than two months of getting into office, he becomes an instant millionaire. Where are all these money coming from if Nigeria is so broke as they want us to believe.

Why do even our Local government councils acquire more money than even the President of America. Are we aware that the size of American economy is over a thousand times that of Nigeria. Yet our President in Aso Rock has series of presidential jets, those that passed through Aso Rock are all billionaires.

Yet they want to squeeze us.

Let stand up to them. Let say enough is enough.

It is not just about only Fuel; it is about all the stealing and criminal activities going on in our land. It is about the total irresponsibility of this criminal gangs called ruling class.

I have said it at several fora that the foundation for the rotten country we are in was laid by the so called founding fathers. None of them deserve to be honoured.

We must as youths build a new Nigeria if we care.

I cannot accept ZIk standard as an Igbo man. I can't accept Ojukwu either. Of course, I can stand the positions of Awo and Saduana both singled me out as Igbo for mis-treatment. that is the truth.

We must outgrow them; our ideas must go beyond their myopic stunt.e.

If truly we are as progressives as youths should be. If truly we are true Christians and Muslims, we must as youths, decide here and now, to be better people.

We must decide to build a Nigeria that is different that what was passed over to us.

We should all come out of our stupid ethnic enclave a embrace a new world and a better future. We should build a new Africa that can stand up to the world and clean up tears of our land.

All have sinned. All tribes in Nigeria have sinned and must repent. PERIOD.

Beaf:
I wonder if you think typing in capitals makes donkeys look smarter? If akanmu is in your head, capitals or not, it remains akanmu.
Your mind is made up, so who gives a damn what you think? Most Nigerians are more open minded people, they are much wiser than you and will wait to hear the full case, instead of waxing hysterical and making okija predictions.

MUMU SHAMELESS BEAF. WE ALL CAN TYPE IN CAPITAL LETTER TO ENSURE EVERY ONE UNDERSTANDS WHO YOU ARE. A PAID AGENT. TRAITOR

Wallie:
Why wear clothes to work? Why not just go bare the way you naturally appear?
Why go to the toilet to defecate? Wouldn't it be easier and more natural to just dig a hole in your yard?

Conformity is not always a bad thing and as humans evolved certain actions became the "civilized" or "accepted" thing to do. There’s nothing stopping anyone from going against the grain but the extent of your non-conformity will determine if people label you a mad man.

It is very good that we evolved certain action for a better life.

But it is better if we can continuously improve on what we have. It is the best if we can do this based on reason and not just by copy-carting.

How does shoes look better than sandals in our clime is my question? Who does suits make us feel better than because we are copying a supposed better culture?

How do you feel on suit in our hot weather? How do you feel being on shoes for all days at work? Do you feel better with that or can it be improved up on. I mean real and measured improvement and not emotional improvement based on what we see other people do.

All I try to say is that we should be original and understand that we can express our selves better in a freer world devoid of unnecessary standard

A-ZeD:
and what stops them from charging N500/litre? The cement "cabal" does that

Thanks God some other good fellow said it. They do not have enough with Cement, Sugar, Flour cabal. They want another fuel Cabal.

When I talk of Flour cabal, I ask some one to take a stroll to Crown  flour mill and any of the executive how the cabal destroyed the market for them

Ask any cement manufacturer importer or sugar importer and you will be shocked at what you will find out. Ask any top banker and you will see how rotten your country is.

Who does not know those that do not pay any duty on all they import into the country because they are government "pickin". This same people manipulate the market with the duty cushion that the government protected for them alone. They make sure honest and sincere business men cannot compete. Is it nor for same reason that they have refused to issue refinery licence to capable hands. Because the beneficiary are the political sponsors.

They want to keep if for the Dangote's, the femi Otedola, the Jumoh Ibrahims, and all those bankers that destroyed our economy with round trouping. See when I talk, I talk because I have facts.

As an ex Banker, I can name names of the big crooks in this country and their antics. I know how they killed our economy.

showstopa:
@Godman,
Where did you fall out from?
I doubt that it's from a woman's kini  
The white man manufactured shoes cos of snow, smh
I stand to be corrected

Tell me why do we prefer shoes over sandals as "cooperate wears?" rather than because we copied the whites?

Have been wearing a pair of very soft shoes since morning and feel like pulling them off right now. Wish I have my slippers. I admit shoes are better for walking a distance and running, but sandals are far better when sitting down at work. Why have our ladies manufactured going to work with spare slippers they wear at work

Gbawe:
Indeed. Let us note that the price per barrel of crude the annual budget is benchmarked on has been , more or less, substantially lower than what Nigeria has actually recieved for its oil druing GEJ's almost two years in charge. This indicates that a substantial amount of money should be saved away somewhere. I say "should" and "somewhere" because the profligacy and lack of transparency of the GEJ Government means no one can say what is going on with certainty . All we know is that we are getting far more for our crude than benchmarked. Now, why can GEJ, if he is a shrewd reformer and good manager of resources, not move away from the dubious "sharing" of the excess earnings between the three tier of Government "without appropriation" (as complained the Reps) so that more money can be made available for urgent capital spending?

What is simply going on is that GEJ has become President "dead on arrival" as many of us predicted. He knows the 'deals' he made with the AGIPs that means he can never touch their interest as a way to fund the spending Nigeria needs. Rather increase in fuel cost is the only idea this compromised and impotent President can come up with as his personal desperation grows. I remember warning Nairalanders that the "leaner Government not possible" announcement, plus placing NNPC in charge of our Refineries and the projection of a pathetic 1% yearly cut in reccurent expenditure all meant that GEJ has decided to 'batter' ordinary Nigerians. Let us see how things play out. GEJ says not removing subsidy will cripple Nigeria. I say increasing pump price will cripple Nigeria. Let them "remove" subsidy and we will all see what will happen.

By the time they remove the subsidy and cripple our economy, they will manufacture another lie. Have we not been in circle of lies. IBB gave us SAP and destryed our economy. Abacha increased fuel price and tried fixing our road until OBJ came to deceive is again. OBJ promised to fix our refineries when he increased fuel price more than 4 times. He gave us nothing in return expect to steal money to turn himself and his cronies to billionaires.

GEJ is just taking a cue from his masters. he has no aim for me and you.

You are right.

Can ask a similar question that once crossed my mind? Why must we wear shoes to work in niaja even when sandal or good slipons can do? Is there any health or even fashion reason to be on shoes (just like suits and ties) than just to be seen to be civil?

The white manufactured shoes because of their bad snowy weather. We wear it (even when it damages our fingers) to look "cool" because we have been made to believe to look otherwise isn't cool!

It is all about indoctrination. Societal standard which are mostly not build on reason

Katyetye:
Why Is This?

Why are Black men expected to go out of their way keep their hair super short (to the point where it doesn't curl)? I've never understood why 90 something percent of Black men wear their hair at the exact same length like clones. White men with shaved heads are in the minority, when Black men wear their at the same length as the typical White guy, it's "long" and it's an "afro" (not counting those Blacks with straight or wavy hair). I could ask why Black women are expected to straighten their hair as well but that's a song that's played all the time. So, why is this, and why are Blacks so obsessed with policing other Blacks into maintaining conformity? It's expected of Whites and other non-Blacks to find tightly curled hair to be unattractive, and most do, but why do Blacks, and even if they do, which is their right and preference, why do they care whether or not other Black people wear their hair 'naturally'? These same people then go on about how 'proud' to be Black they are even though they dislike the natural hair texture of most Black people.

You raised a serious intellectual question but there are few to appreciate the insight you wanted to bring. I hate keeping my hair low because I have noticed it has become an act that every body must conform to. I do go out at times without even combing my hair and I feel happy I am not bound by any useless standard. I am happy, I can go to work and earn a living without anybody seeking to mold me into any gentleman according to their dictate.

Was sick working in Bank because I have to wear suit even when the temperature is killing. Thanks God, I went back to my programming where we can afford to be called animals, but tolerated because we get the work done. The so called gentlemen card hardly be "gentleman" enough to understand a single line of code.

Feel free to express yourself the way you want. But be ready to pay the price, because the society have been made to act and behave in some ways without reason.

Can you dare being labelled a rebel; a non-conformist?

As for your answer: Never really saw it this way. I assumed all the old men I met at work try to hide their white and bard hairs by keeping it very low. I mean really very low. You know because of the hardship in niaja, all of us do not meet up in time and therefore will ever live in deceit of our real ages.

So in Naija, I use to believe it is because people wanted to look younger than their real age. But I have noticed that the handsome guys seems not to really care. The few that keep their hairs that I have noticed are usually handsome cool guys.

Beaf:
My brother, you are a waste to your people.

I work so that people like you can come out of poverty and brace good conscious

PROUD-IGBO:
REMOVE THE DAMNED SUBSIDY!! Ife ga eme echi, nya me taa!!! Jonathan should remove it, no shaking. We dey behind you kampe .

It's now some people know they have legs to match for their so called rights. When a certain group of people where messing up the country (that Jonathan is trying to fix) since the early 70's, nobody thought of matching for their so called rights or making the country ungovernable; When these people were making laws, promulgating decrees and skewing most policy initiatives in their favour (the injustice of which still stands today in many areas), the country didn't screech to a halt; When Abiolas' mandate was stolen and he was murdered, the country continued as if nothing happened; When Ken Saro Wiwa was murdered, fuc*k-all happened. It's now their 'gravy-train' is about to be derailed that they want to threaten mass protest under the guise of protecting the poor masses. Rubbish!!!

At the very worst, if we don't want to allow this man to work, then its' a case of 'TO YOUR TENTS OH ISREAL!!!'. Make everybody go im Papa house, make the country scatter.

Bros think before you show muscles. The man you supposed to be supporting have neither your interest as Igbo or that of Nigerians at heart. He is just like those before him: OBJ, IBB, and the rest.

I am Igbo and knows Jonathan have non of our interest at heart.

Let forget Tribes and face Nigeria issues. You just sounded so crude that I am ashamed my own brother will sound like this. How many time will they deceive us?

These are also your Igbo brothers fighting for the good of all us. Let understand the issues so that we can know who our true friends and enemies are. Let not repeat the mistakes of yester-years.

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Beaf:
IMHO, GEJ wants to get rid of the entire system that allows people to legally steal the country blind. You cannot get rid of a system of theft partially if you mean to help the people. You chop it off totally instead.

GEJ has been completely silent about the whole thing, so we cannot make any definite claims that fuel costs will skyrocket. They might or might not, we simply don't have enough to reach definite conclusions. All that can be concluded at this point, is that a few hundred "owners" of Nigeria are sucking the blood of the nation, and it is 100% legal. GEJ wants to make it illegal.

LIAR.

What about past "so called removal of subsidy"? Did they achieve anything? Can a thief stop a fellow and friendly thief?

LIAR.

I am sure you are paid for the evil work you doing to confuse people.

Tell us your price! Ole, kparawo, onyeochi

Abu-Maryam:
what is confusing me must subsidy be remove 100 percent? if there's anything good in it let have a litmus test, the federal government should remove 25% and put it in the order they are claiming to do. If it goes well with Nigerians i'm optimistic Nigerians will call the government to remove it completely. At this point in time people have no trust with leaders.

What have you say to say about the four times removal during the Obasanjo regime? Did we get any benefits? Or do you prefer we remain in a perpetual deception year in year out?

Why must we allow them to remove it at our own detriment? Have we not have enough from these people? When can the people say, it is enough?

Omo_Tier1:
Sometimes you come across like someone who never saw the four walls of an institution of learning! The reality is, the practice and process of getting oil into Nigeria at international market price is what needs to be abolished and we have not seen any committed plan from the FG at getting this practice to come to an end.

If you think by removing subsidy, the above mentioned corruption loopholes will be blocked, then you must be deluded for real! Look at what is happening with other petroluem products the FG has technically removed subsidies from, has the prices go down? Has there being continuous availability of those products? The obvious answer is NO!

With the present state of the Nigeria Economy, one would expect that "Efficiently managed" subsidies will be the way to go until such a time that self substainability is achieved, then you can think about removing subsidies.

GEJ should get down to the business of building more refinaries, getting the products 90% refined in Nigeria, thereafter think about subsidy removal!

Bros, believe me, we are in this mess not because this people are in search of solution and could not find. We are in the mess because they are liars without any iota of sincerity.

And you can never confront an insincere person with reason. They know most of what is to be done. Even BEAF here may know. The problem is that they have been groomed to believe that politics is all about manipulation and lying.

And even when leaders tries to make some progress in some area without being sincere to himself and the people, they end up destroying their own progress. That's what happened to IBB, ABACHA, OBJ. there are some areas they tried to work; but their insincerity and lies destroyed every thing. This same method has been adopted by GEJ

He knows the beneficiaries of all the corruption in the land. He has the tool to stand up to them. But he lacks the gut to do the right thing.

Primarily because it is in his nature (I tried to figure out his Psychological make up). Also because from his past he has been deeply compromised.

He will have no option than to continue to deceive both himself and the nation.

All Nigeria policians (Not just GEJ) are finished; they have all adopted the wrong philosiophy and it is the duty before our youths to force a different and right kind of philosophy on them. This we can do by force.

Not force of arm but force of will. We will achieve it by enlightening our selves and adopting a philosophy of civil disobidence. That is the way out.

When I shout Revolution; I seek not to waste a single soul. I seek not to destroy a single property. I seek to make Nigeria ungovernable by civil disobidence.

I have read and cherished a book titled "FROM Dictatorship to Democracy" by Gene Sharp

Johnpaul2k2:
you must not type boldly to display your editic low self esteem  

Low self esteem in exposing criminals: Let that be.

Beaf:
Dude, sound even more alarmingly confused than when you atarted out. I think it must be the onset of Harmattan.
Lets stick to what we have established so far, which is that you have no clue about what the oil subsidy means and how it operates; after that we can probe deeper.
Sir, tell me why you are going to be fighting (or even what you are going to be fighting) since you believe that thieves are selling our own oil back to us at inflated cost (which GEJ also believes), yet you want to fight when the instrument for stealing is removed! Damn!

You are very confused.

I have seen enough of of GEJ to know who he is. He believes nothing. He has no principle.

Is Nigeria Army, Police, SSS etc not enough tools in his hands to arrest and prosecute the criminals? How come ordinary Nigerians know the thieves while GEJ will rather have these same thieves as his sponsors (he even gave them all the national awards), than to expose them? How come he that wants to deregulate oil sector have done nothing about the PIB that is meant to give our youths jobs?

Why have you avoided all my questions? Did your GEJ not give dollar denomenated bribery at PDP ABUJA convention? Do you think one that have shown no faith on our national currency by giving bribery in dollars can protect our economy?

We need to digets GEJ's mindset to be able to trust him. But when I try to, I just see millions of reason not to. He is incapable, un-informed, un-exposed; he is without guts to stand for truth, unprincipled to tranform my nation. he is just but an oppurtunist that seek to destroy my country.

[size=20pt]Like I have said in earlier posts, I see a beast-like feature as revealed in Revelation. That is the only explanation for the Olumba Olumba, for the 500 witches invited during his swearing in and the hardship he is seeking to bring upon us.[/size]

Don't just avoid the above comments as you have done above, attend to them, because I suspect you are part of the evil agenda. And I wish yoy change your ways, because the judgement day is around the corner. No evil done to my people will be unpaid.

Beaf:
Learn to write without rambling, sir. The only line in that long diatribe that is of any use is the first one.

. . .And that first line leaves me really perplexed about your state of knowledge of the subject matter. Since you believe there is no subsidy, why are you concerned about its removal? Dude, that stark contradiction of positions proves that you have zero clue about what the subsidy is. I wish you goodluck with your "revolution," its gonna be bloody comical. Imagine a revolution led by the ignorant and confused!

You must wish me luck because it is for your good and that of all men that I fight for. I deserve luck because I stand on the right side of history.

Can't you digest my rambling and shame me. Tell me my lies. Tell me is our crude is not being stolen? Tell me if your master did not share our bribery in dollars?

Tell me the cost of drilling a liter of fuel + the refining cost: that is what Nigerians should pay for a liter of fuel. Why should some ingenious criminal to sell back our crude at international market price and call it subsidy? Is that subsidy mr. beaf?

If you have any elecment of sincerity in you should attempt these three question?

1.  is our crude being massively stolen or not? What has your master done to hasten the passage of the original PIB bill and not the fake one being paraded by her minister?

2. Is the cost of fuel not = cost of drilling and cost of refining? Why must we import? Why can't our security deal with the cabals?

3. Is it not criminally ingenious to want to sell  back our refined crude back to us at international market price and call it subsidy? Even if we foolishly accept it as subsidy? What is wrong with subsidising key component of your economy?

4. What improvenment has GEj brought to account for the massive borrowing? A simple question? Where is the money?

cashmentor:
Oh Ye of little faith! When will Nigerians ever see something great about their Own land! What are u trying 2 say dat we don't knw about in Nigeria,  It is this kind of Negetive Mindset that has made us 2 remain where we are!

Foolish big faith without good work is useless.

Of course, you don't know about Nigeria, because if you know, you would have changed it for good.

There is nothing good about our country, the way it is being run.

God gave us all the potentials, but what have we achieved with it? Criminality in all angles. Criminal 419er in government. Criminal 419er in churches, Criminal 419er in our sports

What is there to celebrate about our country and our land their?

Our roads are dead traps, Our hospitals are rubbish. Our Schools are nothing. Our industrial production is zero. Our youths have no jobs whereas our politicians keep stealing billions daily.

Our people are dying. Our average lifespan is 47 whereas in some other parts of the globe, people live till 80s.

What will I be happy for in my country?

Excerpt that God gave me enough power to stand up to the thieves and that I will do

Beaf:
^
You are jumping over your own tongue in wicked ways, bruv.

I am not asking for outpouring of emotion or directionless sentiment. Tell us objectively what you understand by fuel subsidy and how it works. The reason I am asking you is simple, I want to protect you from just running into the bush and fighting tree's to a standstill with unbounding energy.

In very concise terms, sir. What do you personally understand by fuel subsidy?

After you have told us, we will know if your words are worth it. Thanks, I am waiting.

There is no subsidy on fuel sir. because it is gotten freely in our lands. Our government should be able to refine our fuel. If they cannot, let them head to their villages. It is not a must that any body will rule us.

Nigerians must be ruled at their own terms and not at terms dictated by the cabal and the multinationals.

Are you aware sir that half of our crude is stolen? Are you aware sir that your so called messiah lacked the will to stop this, whereas we have thousand of people that are being paid billions as security agents? The police, the army, the SSS, the NIA?

Is it not true that, he that cannot secure our resources as President, should resign and head to his village? Is it also not true that your president shared out dollars in the last PDP convention? Is it not a crime for the sole protector of our currency to loose faith in it by the preference given to dollars, even as he was committing another crime (bribery)?

Do we deserve such crooks as leaders? Can we trust them with our future sir? Is Jonathan not part of PDP that increased the price of fuel over 4 times since 1999 with the promise that our refineries will be brought back to work sir? Are they all not supposed to die for the hardship imposed our on people?

Are you aware sir, that our debts amounted to 14billion dollars by 2007, increased to 21billion by 2010 and presently stand at over 32billion in just one years ? What accounted for this than irresponsibility sir?

Are you aware sir that they have increased electricity tarriffs, manufactured a bogus vehicle number plates renewal system all to further squueeze us sir?

Are you aware sir that by the time we were electing GEJ that a tin of peak milk sells for 110 naira, and is presently selling for 140naira sir? Find out the change in the price of tin of milo or even pack of sugar sir?

Are you also aware that our naira is crumbling everyday and Sanusi's monetary policy adjustments could not save us because the reckless spending of your fake messiah sir? What are the core of your master's transformation agenda so far?

Did your master mention fuel price hike, electricity tarriff increase, or even number plate extortion during his campaign Sir?

Finally, have your master been able to manage his home fronts well? have he been able to make Patience a better wife and a better woman after years as married couples?

How can we trust our lives with one that cannot even understand that Olumba Olumba Obey is mere mortal and not God? Why did your mater not tell us that he worship with Olumba before the election?

I am also yet top understand the 500 hunderd or so witches invited at your masters swearing in ceremony, because I can't help suspecting he may be part of the beast predicted in Revelation!!!

And I am very serious, believing that standing up to him and his lords is standing up to the beast. I have no doubt that I am of God while you and your master are of the opposite!!!

Will meet you at the streets or hereafter.

nsiadi:
@Godman, Be honest-Is Oceanic Bank better of now than Mrs Ibru era?
Whats the wisdom in creating bigger problem while trying to solve one?
Do you know the amount already sunk to bail Sanusi out of the mess he threw us?, above one trillion!
Whats the origin of Oceanic Banks romance with Eco Bank?, You dig & tell the world
Cecelia may not be a saint but she, surely, took Oceanic to great heights
You must realise that fiscal policy measures are not crafted by just the headship
People like Sanusi form the arrowhead, can you contest that?
So do you research properly b4 condemning others posts

To the man on the street, NO. But to one that knows banking in and out Yes.

Before the woman was exposed, the bank was supposedly flourishing but that was like sitting on a time bomb. What actually happened was that the bank was using customer's money and money borrowed from inter-bank to trade. There is no way the public will know what was happening, but the bankers and CBN will know. When a bank becomes a perpetual borrower from inter-bank means they their books is finished.

It was like a house waiting to collapse.

But the way baking works, public confidence is key. Mere revealing of the state a bank causes a run on the bank that is very difficult to manage. So Sanusi's option could be to help in hiding the stinking books so that the public will keep being fooled and patronizing the bank, or to open up the can or worms and risk the massive withdrawals.

So what happened is the people pulled out the cash from oceanic when Sanusi revealed the sickness. Sanusi had no option.

Beaf:
These are the things I wanna know too, but obviously GEJ is keeping his cards close to his chest, because while a great proportion of his enemies are moral reprobates, ready to sell their mum's in the name of politics; to compound an already bad situation, most youth never read and are terribly ignorant. In that scenario, it is best to let proof of the benefits of his action speak instead of throwing a debate open.
Its sad to say, but the average Nigerian needs a lot of schooling about what their rights and circumstances are, as well as how things mesh and who their real enemies are. Without being equipped in that way, a debate would be useless. How many can even define what is meant by "fuel subsidy?"

If removing the subsidy is the only way to get rid of a bunch of leeches who have written their evil extortionate methods into the law, then so be it.

Fuel subsidy simply is a lie manufactured by our stealing criminal leaders to confuse us into accepting that they are spending money on the fuels we use in our country; whereas the crude oil is got from our land for a minimal cost, whereas the thieves sabotaged and destroyed our refineries, whereas the thieves have at so many times added money on fuel in the name of this same fuel subsidy; whereas the criminals allow half of our crude to be stolen by their cronies and the big oil companies, whereas they refused to build more refineries or supervise the emergence of new ones by giving out license to capable and willing businessmen.

The criminals prefers to steal our crude, refine it in their refineries abroad and sell it back to us at International market price as if the oil does not come from our soils. The criminals does not want our people to have jobs by refining the oil in our land, whereas even Biafra in the midst of war refined their own oil.

The criminal cannot even ensure that our policing, our courts, our roads, our hospitals are in good working condition. The criminals want to by so doing, bring about massive inflation that will completely damage our economy and the value of our naira. These same criminals do not keep their stolen money in naira. They keep them in dollars. That was why they shared our raw dollars in the last PDP presidential election primary.

The man that called himself our president shared out 9,000dollars while his main rival shared out 7,500dollars. How can they protect our economy and our niara when do not save in naira?

The Truth is that we the masses of Nigeria are on our own and must take our destiny into our hands. We must match this criminals with equal will. We must destroy them and liberate the Nigerian people.

We must be freeeeeeeeeeeee

I am very sure of one thing; when the wind of changes blows; all you that sit on the fence will quickly jump to join. It is a human trait that is as old as Adam.

We may be billions in the world, but less than a thousand have the heart and the gut to stand for truth at whatever cost. We may be billions, that same few have the head to see tomorrow and work for it.

If not, the Adam Smiths, Eisenstein, The Aristotle, Plutos etc whould have been every where

If all of us can see tomorrow, there would have been many Awolowos in Yoruba land; Many Ziks would have emerged in our land; many Saduanas would have emerged in the North.

I am certain our Revolution is in the making. Mine is just to report history. I am not the initiator, the ruthless criminal that rule our land are responsible. I cannot stop it; the forces of nature; the natural laws must take it course.

It is only the maker of those law who can stop it. It is only the almighty that can intervene to direct the course of history

[size=20pt]We are but pencils in his hand.[/size]

Iolo:
For those clamoring revolutions, they largely don't work in a democracy especially here in Nigeria where there's too many issues. Issues that would ensure not too many people can ever come together to speak wiv a common voice.

Its a whole different case than in North Africa where they all wanted genuine elected leadership. Here in Nigeria, all our issues are as a result of corruption/negligence etc, they won't get fixed in one day.

You are right. Revolutions are difficult to come by in a society like ours. But the hardship in the land, the irresponsibility of our leaders and the stark clueless-ness of GEJ is getting the land fertile enough to start one.

Ours is to aid it. And that all Good Nigerians that really understand the mess we are in should work to bring about. Because it is only through that that our wellbeing can be guaranteed.

The Criminals ruling us have lost all sense of decency. They must be changed or we all perish.

You can talk for yourself. You can talk about the Abuja youths that you know. Me you know not. What I have done you know not. But come that day. I must have my voice and that of my likes heard.

Period.

Be a coward and hide in your comfort zone, but be proud enough to tell your children whenever they come, your stand. Tell them that you accepted the evils in the land. Tell them that you could not do anything to guarantee them a better future. Tell them that you only brought them to Nigeria to suffer, not because the country have anything good for them in store, but because you wanted to have children and probably to enjoy sex.

Tell them that you are selfish; that you are a coward. Tell them that in the midst of the injustices in the land, that you could not muster the courage to support a good course, let alone initiating one.

Tell them that you failed them and failed your God. Tell them that your are no worthy to have passed through the shores of the earth, because could not help in making the world a better place.

You failed to cultivate the earth as commanded in the Bible.

We are waiting. We are happy. GEJ will be matched.

They can bribe the labour stooges, but they will never bribe the youths.

This Revolution is long overdo.

As Christ said to Judas: What you want do, do fast.

Obviously there is no time left.

It was wrong for South African Police to do this. But we also know that the Nigerian officials must have asked for bribe as USUAL. Our country needs cleansing!!! Or we will awaits bigger mess because the center will never hold with this level of corruption and irresponsibility.

Beaf:
[size=14pt]Nigeria: Hoping to topple South Africa[/size]
Published On Sun Dec 4 2011
By Rick Westhead

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President Goodluck Jonathan wants to reform the country's power sector. (PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)
 
Africa’s largest country has more going for it than its infamous email spammers.

Massive oil deposits, for instance.

With proven reserves of 38.5 billion barrels of crude, Nigeria is the leading oil producer in Africa, with a revenue stream of about $40 billion (U.S.) a year.

As oil prices surge, Nigeria’s economy is growing and Canadian companies are anxious to capitalize.

At least 200 Canadian companies are doing business in Nigeria, a number poised to skyrocket as the country’s power sector continues evolves, says Chris Cooter, Canada’s high commissioner to Nigeria.

“Canada will go the whole hog with you,” Cooter said in a recent speech in Lagos. “There is a global awareness that something massive is unfolding in the power industry in Nigeria.”

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President Goodluck Jonathan has said reforming the power sector is his “highest priority,” and he has created a government agency to privatize six generating companies and 11 other distributors. Jonathan has pledged to triple electricity supply by 2013.

Some investors already like what they see. Nigeria’s economy is growing at around 7 per cent and Standard Bank says it will eclipse South Africa by 2015 to become Africa’s largest.

Analysts even speculate that Nigeria could become a G20 country, and the country is anxious to improve its international profile. Nigeria contributed most of the troops to the African Union’s first peacekeeping force in Sudan. It has also has sent troops to Burundi and Sierra Leone and recently had a temporary seat on the UN Security Council.

But problems remain.

Jonathan is from southern Nigeria, and is unpopular in the predominantly Muslim north, where the extremist Muslim group Boko Haram is based. Boko Haram doesn’t seem to have much problem stoking discontent.

About 70 per cent of Nigerians live on less than $2 a day and the average life expectancy is just 51 years (compared to 81 for Canada). In 2005, a U.S. intelligence report speculated Nigeria could yet become a failed state, a bigger version of Congo or Somalia.

Still, several Canadians are optimistic.

CPCS Transcom, based in Ottawa, was hired to develop a master plan for public transport in Lagos and oversaw the privatization of the city’s port, a $1.4 billion (U.S.) deal that was completed in only 14 months, said Lucien Bradet, president of the Canadian Council on Africa.

CPCS recently brought a delegation of Nigerian diplomats to visit the Toronto Transit Commission. The government plans to build a new 30-kilometre subway line in Lagos and is considering buying parts from the TTC, Bradet said.

Toronto’s Nexen Inc. is involved in the oil-and-gas sector, and Montreal’s CRC Sogema won a contract to reform Nigeria’s tax system, helping the government crack down on tax dodgers.

“Canada doesn’t really have a lot of product to sell. . . we’re more in the knowledge business and that’s very important in Africa now,” Bradet said.

“You look at Nigeria and it’s the 7th largest country in the world, one that’s had a government elected fairly and squarely for the past 10 years. There’s no sector where the opportunity isn’t right outside your door.”

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1096275--nigeria-hoping-to-topple-south-africa

[size=25pt]CHEAP PROPAGANDA FROM ANIMAL BEAF.

Your generations will pay for your evil lies[/size]

Yea we have potentials, but your clueless sponsor GEJ have proven incapable of managing it, like the former rogues before him. The rogues that manipulated my people into electing him.

If you are intelligent, advice him to hit the ground working, and stop peddling propaganda, because though propaganda brought him in, propaganda will never do the work. Even the fool will soon realize that our messiah Olumba olumba GEJ is fake. The scales are falling off people's eyes like that of Saul in the Bible.

No amount of lies can cover the truth; better get it

kalokalo:
Because Libya won't sell refined fuel  for foreign markets at N22 equivalent. That price is strictly for the benefit of their local populace. They do export refined fuel but at international market prices.

The main issue is if the abundant crude in Naija is given to local refineries at zero to fractional percentage of international market prices, there will be a big gap in funds to implement the nation's recurrent and capital expenditure? Nigeria depends on oil (at export prices) to fund about 85% of its annual budget. If say 500,000 barrels is given per day to the NNPC for local refining for free so as to make fuel very cheap:

1) the FG will need to reimburse the JV operators their share of the opportunity cost of exporting that crude since they produced it. They are not charities like NNPC.
2) How will the national budget be implemented since budgetary revenue is based on exported barrels per day times global spot price or a price benchmark fixed by the NASS?


Someone should do the math as to how much the nation will lose if say 450,000 barrels per day of crude is subsidized to local refineries so we can enjoy cheap fuel like Saudi. Remember our population is not like those of Arab countries where the cumulative cost of subsidy is relatively small. For Nigeria, it will be colossal. Are Nigerians willing to endure massive public spending cuts (e.g wage cuts, downsizing, no capex etc) or external borrowing to make up the difference? We'll keep postponing the evil day!

Silly arguments. What is the cost of producing a barrel of petroleum? So cheap. find out. How much tax does the Big Oil companies pay for our oil? Little. Find out. How much of our oil is accounted for and how much is stolen? Almost half. find out. Even Dimeji Bankole attested to that last year. Why has our refinery failed to work? Corruption. What has our government done to curtail corruption? Nothing. Who are the beneficiaries of this corruption? Government officials and their big time sponsors: the Dangote's, The Femi Otedola's, The Shell, The Chelvron etc.

Why has our government refused to confront them? Because they are pady pady. Is this the way to run a country? Never. Can we continue like this? No.

What is our government solution? To overburden the ordinary people more by: Increasing electricity tariff. Inventing a stupid and exorbitant vehicle licensing scheme and finally to increase the price of petroleum products hiding under the cover of deregulation.

Does the government truly want to deregulate? No. They will never open up the oil industry because that is why they make all their billions. Deregulation is not only about fuel importation and licencing. What about awarding oil blocks? Why do they shroud secrecy? What about Refineries? Why did they award licences to themselves and not to serious minded businessmen. You see these criminals just run the country for themselves and must be stopped. It is either we stand and do it now or we all perish.

What programme have they to create jobs? Nothing. What about basic law and order? have they got our policing to work? Can one obtain justice without big money in this country? Is our courts free? NOOOOOOO.

What does it take for the President to transform Nigeria Police? commitment. Does Jonathan want to do that? No. Is Rigim a qualified and capable man to head our police? No. Why is he there? Because he is a friend to Jonathan and can do his will. Is the best way to transform a country to put incapable hands in position because they are your pals? No. Can business succeed when there is massive corruption and lawlessness? No. can jobs be created when businesses cannot thrive? No. Can the economy change when jobs cannot be created and businesses cannot operate? No.

So on all grounds there is no chance that either Jonathan or PDP can change our lives. Any day they spend in power is a day lost by me and you.

Coming to the so called deregulation of the telecom industry and the benefits. Find out about GSM technology. It is just a new technology that came into being which make telecommunication easier and cheap. Nigeria as a country contributed nothing. We are just opportune to be a beneficiary. If deregulation can truly help the industry, our land lines should have been back but because it demands high investment and commitment. Nothing has been done in this regard. Our internet connection is useless because they are build around satelite and GSM techonologies. No land lines and fibres that can take up high bandwidth and make internet connection faster.

Our stealing criminals called government officials have found it convenient to hide under a new technology invented by the "Thinking group" on earth to claim they are working. Whereas they made 285m X 2 plus 274m dollars for licencing teh lines to MTN, Econet and Globacom respectively.

Try think about the processes Globacom went through to acquire the license and how they ended up getting a better license for less money only when they have agreed some secret deals with the powers that be.

I don't know why we refuse to think in this country.

Wake up guys, put on your thinking caps and follow this criminals. They have no plans fro us. We better confront them with the last drop of our bloods.

nsiadi:
Seems Forbes is an organ of Islam
Otherwise its difficult to understand what Sanusi did to deserve the accolade

Take a tour:
1) Sanusi refurbished Bureau de Changes of his brothers- Augean stable Soludo once sanitized
2) He is a member of our Economic team & is not ashamed that we still import fuel
3) What has become of his vested interest in hotel business, a scope outside his mandate
4) He fleeced more than one trillion Naira into sustaining banks yet nothing positive has come of it
5) He created bridge banks to cover his failures yet nobody questioned him
6) Our Naira continues to slide
7)  Many more banks are shaking
He destroyed jobs without bathing an eye lid
9) Inflation rate is still climbing
10) Ventured into islamic banking when he has failed woefully in conventional banking

Why must we reward a person with so much filth as record, is Forbes propping him up ? What next?

Wake up and stop turning facts upside down.

Sanusi can only be held guilty for destroying jobs. But I guess I can now see how red the books of the banks were then. U see How could Oceanic bank have survived with the kind of money that Ibru stole. What about Intercontinental.

Nigeria is too corrupt and there is little Sanusi can do. If you ask anyone in First Bank, ask him how clean and serious minded Sanusi is.

Inflation: Sanusi cannot do much becuase the government is spending money recklessly without any production. Sanusi can only play around with monetary policies and we know that greater percentage of Nigerians are unbanked. So there is nothing he can achieve. Same accounts for the continuous sliding of Niara. It is only the fiscal policies of the Executive that can stop this.

A lot these is also as a result of the corruption and lawlessness we are into which fell within the preview of the President. So Only Jonathan can turn around the country

Beaf:
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If fuel subsidy is what your revolution is about, then you are jobless. I would expect a revolution to be about true federalism and the hammering out of a contract between citizen and state; so that each individual knows their rights and responsibilities, just as the state would know its rights and responsibilities.
Why can't your revolution be about the passing of the PIB, the abrogation of the anti-people land use decree, the repealling of the petroleum act etc.

These days, people just wake up, talk nonsense and walk straight into the bush, because they wouldn't simply read to know the difference between left and right.

You know who you are. Unworthy to be talked to because your work is to be online and confuse people, as a senseless paid agents that you are.

My Names are Godwin Ndubuisi Aleke. I want to have your real Name if you are so sure of what you stand for.

Your mentor GEJ knows me. He knows I personally want him and his likes out of that position because they are wasting my generation. We will certainly stand up to him. We cannot be all cowards and evil like you.

We cannot be all paid agents like you.

I know GEJ have nothing to offer. I know what the solutions are. I have a book Titled "The Revolution? Fixing Nigeria begins" where I documents all  my tought on how Nigeria will work. I bet you neither your mentor nor you can have a coherent mind to be able to document a sound tought because you are simply not learned. You are uninformed, uncultured, uneducated and unintelligent. You are meant for the zoos where you can interact with fellow apes; because no sensible man will tolerate the human waste going on in this country.

Send me any address around Festac Town or Lagos Island and I will drop the book for you, if you care to become a convert.

If you have sound counter opinion document it and let see who is right.

Some of us are not on the look out for what to eat because we have a base and good conscious. We cannot be all crooks like you.

tonte23:
As Narrated By Arnon Barak (And Editor By African Herald Express)
This is the full story of the covert Biafra Air Rescue operation of 1969 – 1970 by a few heroic foreigners – mostly Jewish pilots and humanists that flew ill-maintained aircrafts by night, in bad weather and across enemy fire – and landed with supplies of food and medicines for Biafran civilians ravaged by starvation/air and sea blockade during the dark days of the Nigerian civil war. The moving details of the highly secret and dangerous Mission are being made public now in the words of a few of the surviving pilots and crew who came together to commemorate the 32nd anniversary of what was also known then as the “Red Cross Operation — Relief Action Nigeria”.

The anniversary, which was organized by the IsraelAircraft Industries (IAI, the initiators of the Mission back in 1968, will also serve as a symbolic monument to the fallen Air-Crew and others, who heroically died on their mission while saving lives in Biafra. The anniversary which took place in Israel on March 3, 2010 also gave Honourable Mentions to the hundreds of surviving volunteers, Air and Ground Crew, who jeopardized their lives, day and night during the operation. Below is the rest of the story (in the words of Arnon Barak, the narrator): Our story began at the end of the year 1968, when in one morning the phone rang. On the other side was my boss in IAI, (Israel Aircraft Industries), “come quickly to my office” he said. When I got there he told me straight away, “There is a massive genocide in Biafra. We were called up by Balair, the Swiss airline that asked IAI, to help their maintenance crew to take over the “big monster” the C-97 STRATOFREIGHTER. The Red Cross is supplying food and medicine to the besieged people in Biafra”. 

My boss continued, “I decided to assign our best maintenance crew experts to this mission, so, do you agree to join the delegation which includes Ezra Melamed, Samuel Karniely , Josef Shimony and yourself Arnon Barak ?” Without any hesitation I agreed and so my friends. One month later we arrived in Basel starting working in Balair’s huge hangar. A short time later, Uri Shani, our friend from IAI joined us. Our small group of friends from Israel – Ezra, Uri, Josef, Samuel and myself Arnon (the author of this story) – decided to erect a website, so that the history of this Mission will live on in the public square. We were the beginner technicians in the Biafra Operation. The purpose of the Biafra Operation was to save lives of more than a million people of those living in Biafra, a large territorial area in Nigeria. The people of Biafra were surrounded by tens of thousands of Nigerian soldiers armed with “smart” weapons and fighter airplanes, including MIG 15. Neither food nor medicine was supplied to these people. The Red Cross was not allowed to render assistance. At the beginning of 1968, the Red Cross decided to initiate a Secret Mission. Its goal was to supply medicine and food to the Biafra area in order to save the life of a few millions people starving in a small shrinkable territory. The Red Cross wanted to use large volume transportation aircraft for the mission. It was a huge problem to locate a runway to land and take-off in the Biafra territory. The only time those aircraft could land in the Biafra area was during the night.

Finally, they did find a road (in a place named ULI), long enough to use as a “runway” for a large airplane such the C-97g. The flights to ULI operated after sundown in total darkness, the Nigerian fighter pilots were afraid to fly during darkness. The air crews involved in this operation were very brave and some of them were shot down during the operation while others crashed in ULI close to the jungle. Balair Airline, a daughter company of Swissair, was selected by the Red Cross to conduct the air rescue operation. After a short time, they realized that their DC-6's and DC-7's were not large enough to carry the quantities of food & medicines needed for this operation. The decision was made to try operating the huge Boeing C-97g (the largest U.S.A.F. Aircraft at that time) which was operated by only two countries the U.S.A.F. And Israeli Air Force. Officially, the U.S. Government was not involved, but they did not prevent Air-Crew- U.S. citizens to take part in the Biafra Operation as volunteers. Five aircraft were purchased at the beginning from the civil aviation market– subject to the U.S. Government approval. From the maintenance point of view, the C-97 was very difficult to handle and complicated aircraft to maintain. Years of experience were needed in order to certify and authorize technicians for these aircraft. There were two reasons for these difficulties. Firstly, the C-97 piston engine was the largest ever made and caused many problems. Secondly, most of the aircraft systems were electrically and electronically driven. Also, special logistic support was needed to fly continuously.

For all of these reasons, Balair contacted Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), the only Company outside of the U.S., familiar with the C-97's, in order to train Balair’s technicians. The plan was to train a group of Balair’s maintenance personal within a month (the goal was unattainable so it failed). A group of four technicians was selected by IAI to start the operation, and we were honored to be that group.The U.S. Air National Guard contributed five C-97's for this operation, Israeli air crew transferred the aircraft to Basel, Switzerland (the First aircraft landed in February 15, 1969) and immediately we prepared them for the operation. In parallel, Hugo Marom, IAI’s chief pilot, conducted a flight test of the aircraft and checked the volunteer pilot candidates from the U.S in order to certify them for this operation. After one month of hard work in Balair facilities trying to train their technicians to perform the C-97's maintenance work, Balair came to the conclusion that it was impossible to achieve the goal of operating those aircraft with their technicians. IAI was asked to continue supporting the operation for as long as needed. The first cargo flight toAfrica, bound for Biafra, was made on March, 1969 and considered as a key flight to decide go/no go for the whole fleet of C-97's aircraft. Unfortunately, Engine failure occurred during flight and the aircraft was forced to land in the Sahara Desert at Niamey airport, in Niger Africa. A second Aircraft was flown with a spare engine to rescue the first aircraft and we were the 4 technicians onboard. It was the most horrendous time I can remember. A few of us contracted malaria and the work was done only at night due to the hot weather.

Our base station was in Cotonou airport, Dahomey (today Benin) in Africa, close to the Nigerian border. The five C-97's were operated every night to ULI in Biafra Nigeria, landing in the darkness. Several accidents occurred such as one aircraft returned without one propeller and another landed on its belly due to the pilot forgetting to lower the Landing Gear. Every night some aircraft returned with bullet holes in the body and others were shot down. From time to time we flew to Europe and returned with food and medicines. During one of those flights we made an emergency landing and it is a hair-raising story. A special relationship developed between our people and the air crew guys. We spent our leisure time discussing ideas and coming up with solutions to problems that arose. I would like to quote a few lines from a letter written by Captain K. Herzog, Balair president at the time of the Biafra operation. The letter was written for the reunion celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the Biafra operation. The reunion was held in Israel inDecember, 1989. “I would like to remember you, how the cooperation with IAI started. When the problem came up to increase the load Capacity of the Airlift in Biafra by taking over a number of C-97's from The American Air Force I realized, that Balair, as DC-6 a/b operator, Was not qualified to handle such a sophisticated airplane in West Africa. As Israel was the only country in our hemisphere flying the C-97's I was aware, that only close operation with IAI gave us the chance to realize a successful operation.

Fortunately, we had already good contacts with “Bedek” (IAI), due to the major overhand of a Balair DC-4 and due to the Maintenance assistance given our DC-3 flying for Untso. The most important question to get full technical assistance was settled and I could sign the contract to take over the first five C-97's from the U.S. National guard. To enable the start of the operation, Israeli air crew ferried the aircraft from different air ports in the U.S. to Switzerland for registration. Who of you of about 50 participants of the Israeli delegation does not remember the long ferry flights around the whole African coast (refuelling at Las Palmas) to Cotonu (Dahomey) and back for maintenance to Lod (today called Ben-Gurion Intl. A/P), avoiding strictly overflying any Arabic territory. I remember by this Opportunity that an American-Balair-crew made an emergency landing in Sidi-ifni in Spanish Morocco, where the Israeli staff members had to be hidden in the tail cone of the C-97. You started this maintenance in the Biafra Airlift with endless working Hours as C-97 experts with an unusual technical knowhow due to your Experience in the air force. You kept this a/c, which had no famous Reputation, in the air. Already after 2 months high ranking U.S. Air Force officers were aware of the extreme high monthly utilization of our Fleet. Colonel Dewey, also still a friend of mine, who supervised our activity had to confirm the flight hour figures to the chief of the National Guard force.

Due to this success, I could get the contract from “Joint Church Aid” an American group based with 5 other C-97's in Sao Tome, an island four hundred kilometers south of Dahomey (Benin). On short call we ferried you to this island, where we took over the 5 C-97's. 3 of these a/c were grounded due to lack of maintenance. Do you remember the lousy spare part shops we found in the hangar? The U.S. Air Force ferried immediately 5 spare engines and after one week the whole Fleet was in operation again. I remember one thing again as it would have happened yesterday. One of our ground mechanics a small fellow, Climbed up inside the tail to the top to repair an electrical failure of the position tail light. Of course we had no ladder to climb so high upon this island. The success of the Biafra Airlift brought a lot of congratulations to the favor of IAI and Balair. All of us can be proud of what we did for the starving people of Biafra, bringing night after night under ugly circumstances food and medical supplies (16 tons on each flight). Editor’s note: This story was brought to our attention by Philip Udegbunam, a Nigerian-Israeli, who met the surviving pilots of the Biafra Air Rescue and encouraged them to share their story

I am happy I learned of this. I have grudges against Israel and America on the way they relate with the Palestine, but today I see their good side. Today, I will forever do all that is within my power to protect every Israeli and American Soul, because people from their land gave up their lives so that my tribe will not be wiped out of the earth.

Today I see the true meaning in our one humanity.

may God continue to bless the Israelis; may God bless America.

Of course, I have always known that I owe the Tanzanians, the Ivory coast and so many others that came to our side when our Nigerian brothers tried to eliminate us from the face of the earth.

But nevertheless, I pray that my Nigeria works.