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Afaukwu, will you stop spreading disinformation

Nowhere in the article is Niger-Delta mentioned. The suspects tribe is not even revealed.

Militant is the new buzzword. Boko-Haram militants, MEND militants, kidnapping militants, and now Armed Robbery militants.

Just call everyone a militant and you have the moral jurisdiction to carry out extra-judicial measures against them.

naijaking1:
Are you the only Nigerian who never hear about the problem of Ijaw and Urhobo people in Warri.

No, you are the only Nigerian who has heard of Ijaw-Urhobo conflict. Perhaps it is a spiritual war that you witnessed in your dream.

The one we know is Ijaw-Itsekiri.

Beaf, edit your last post before your elders catch you misrepresenting history.

[quote author=Yoruba-man link=topic=306854.msg4315687#msg4315687 date=1249658301]"The speed boat came too close to the convoy and the soldiers, suspecting them to be militants, fired several shots and thus, scared them away.[/quote]hehehehe. . . . these JTF are too jumpy. . . fear of water na im dey make dem trigger happy. . . .they might as well tell us they saw a helicopter which flew too low and they thought it was a spaceship so they fired shots to ward off the aliens. . . . hehehehe. . . . big-ups to JTF for returning the people to their homeland. . .

BBC NEWS:


[center]Ancelotti says no more signings [/center]

Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti says he will not make any more new signings - and insists Deco and Ricardo Carvalho will not be sold to Inter Milan.

Former Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho wants both midfielder Deco and defender Carvalho but has been frustrated in his attempts to recruit the Portuguese duo.

Ancelotti said: "I don't want to take any more new players because the Chelsea squad is very competitive."

"I don't want to sell Carvalho and Deco. They are both important players."

Ancelotti was speaking ahead of Sunday's Community Shield clash with Premier League champions Manchester United at Wembley.

Inter Milan revealed they were hopeful of taking Chelsea pair Ricardo Carvalho and Deco to the San Siro.

Mourinho wants both 31-year-olds, who played for him in Porto's Champions League triumph against Monaco in 2004, but claimed Chelsea were making it more difficult because he was involved.

Deco fell from favour after arriving at Chelsea in an £8m move from Barcelona in the summer of 2008 - and recently admitted he hoped to be reunited with Mourinho in Italy.

And Carvalho, a success at Stamford Bridge but restricted by injury to only 18 appearances last season, revealed recently that he wanted to leave Chelsea after four years.

JeSoul:
I doubt David or Ibime will turn me in

You cant be so sure. . . Im collating your personal details right now

http://thepmnews.com/2009/06/25/no-rift-between-fashola-tinubu%E2%80%94lasg

Fhemmmy:
If this is true, that will be the best thing he ever did, at least now he has join the party that fits him - Theives Party, he will see OBJ there and his group, freaking thieves

Dont underestimate Tinubu abeg. . . if he leaves AC, it will collapse. . . we need him at AC. . . a crook he is, but toward a good end.

Krayola2:
@ Ibime do u play ball?

I would expect that anyone who follows football must have played football. . . . I retired after uni days, unlike MrCrackles who has been loaned out from Arsenal to Havering and Waterlooville. . . . some people just dont know when to quit to preserve their dignity

[quote author=na_so link=topic=302497.msg4315316#msg4315316 date=1249654759]oh , so within the Ibos people consider the circumstance before taking a decision but other "minority" tribes in the eastern region could not , ok I see why Boro is the crook and Ike nwachukwu the hero. abi?[/quote]lol. . . . I was just about to say the same thing. . .

So the best Fran Merida can do is a loan to a 2nd division team?

That boy needs to get his act together and learn to play with his right foot. You cannot play central midfield and be totally one-footed.

Source Please!

If true, it would be a shame. Fashola is the only good thing that Tinubu has given to Lagosians. If this goes haywire, then we should all lose hope in Nigeria.

jp philips:
Waterside Clowns

Yes o. . . . we have heard. . . I see your true colours like Michael Jackson.

babasoty:
ibime
do you know that some chiefs were abducted and that also some people from ogu were abducted and forced to leave withe the biafrans when they were retreating from okrika

I dont know about Ogu specifically, I can only say what happened in Ogan and Kirike. No doubt, there were atrocities on both sides. Should we close our eyes to the Nigerian atrocities and focus only on the Biafran ones? Ogan-Ama for example was shelled by both Biafran and Nigerian forces cos they didnt know who Ogan had allegiance to. . . . so who should we point fingers at?

babasoty:
ibime mbire oo miee, i am sick of all this crazy bunch who never see anything good in the aspirations and desires of a people who want true federalism, we aint saying we want to form our own country all we want is the oil that comes from our backyard to be properly managed and we too should geta fair share, and we have some loudmouths here castigating boro, the two timing ibo's always wanna tell us we betrayed them, why wont i betray a man that wants to kill me. please if boro is no hero to naijaking or wateva his stupid name is, HE IS MY HERO

Oga, I dey hear you about Boro and all that, but pls lets not sacrifice the truth on the altar of ethnic jingoism. . . . the young boys in the Biafran army made friends with the people of Kirike. . . . the people of Kirike warmed to them. . . my pops was in Kirike at the time, and he was regularly taking letters from his uncle (Ado VIII) to the Biafran commander. . . . when Nigeria invaded, there was no time for Biafran soldiers to burn anything down. . . they simply fled. . . . ask your parents, they will tell you that the Okrikans all dressed in traditional clothes at the time of the invasion so that they would not be mistaken for soldiers and shot. . .

Tayo-D,

You must suffering from amnesia. . . whats this. . .

[quote author=Tayo-D link=topic=304656.msg4313034#msg4313034 date=1249614798]The birth of our first child was a difficult one. My wife was in the hospital for about 3 days before we eventually had a C-section. Guess what our final bill was? Try $30,000. Eventually, all I paid out of pocket was less than $2,000. For the five years I have been in the Unted States, I don't think I have paid up to $30,000 to my insurance company. So what is all this story about insurance companies coming to get you?[/quote]In only 5 years, you have paid circa $30,000 in health insurance. . . . ol' boy, you better embrace Obamas plan with gratitude, you ungrateful braggat! 

babasoty:
my village okrika was burned by the retreating biafran soldiers

hmmm. . . . Chairman. . . Idanloku. . . . you done come o. . . . which part of Okrika was burned by the Biafrans? I hope you are not talking of Okrika mainland. . . . . please clarify cos this one sounds like conspiracy theory to me. . .

Abatakan:
Only someone of limited intelligence can come up with that quote,do you know of something called conflict of interest,No Biafran does not have a problem with Dangote,it`s the fact that a supposedly CEO of a public quoted company is made the chairman of the regulators,are we that myopic now that we see nothing wrong with that?Nigeria is not a country but jungle.The fact that it was even contemplated beggars belief,so how will the alleged accusation made about him go away,will the company that made the allegations have any faith in the system?Chickena.

Why waste time answering the buffoon

The lion (Dangote) is now in charge of the zoo. Goodbye to NSE.

@ all investors, withdraw your cash with immediate effect.

Man Utd fans have been chastened by their experiences at Celtic Park.

But Arsenal is no Man Utd.

Scottish teams cannot handle possession-hugging teams and Arsenal will hammer them 3-0 in Celtic Park.

It is easier for Celtic to contain Man Utd than it is to contain Arsenal.

asha 80:

Yes of course now, since PH was in the Eastern region, Okpara was a son of the soil cos the city of PH was in his region. Diete-Spiff is from Bonny, but he developed PH as a son of the soil.

jp philips:
@ IBIME

that Explains how much i have embraced the realities of life,

if it is the FG's Responsibility to prosecute your, leaders, How come Gbomo jomo has the gun?

is he now prosecuting the FG for their ineptitude on your leaders, bullshit!!

as an Adult my dear, i do not let sentiments becloud my sense of judgment, go through my post and see that the day i will join massob, ojukwu will take my first bullet.

same i expect every Nigerdeltan that has joined MEND on Ibori and Odili and every leader that has failed you

oh!

now i understand why it is justified to Kidnap Mr whitaker after all pleas from his family that he has a heart condition because you want more allocation to make Ibori richer,

all i ask is simple, if you blow a pipeline belonging to NNPC/SPDC joint venture, u kidnap odili's daughter
is this too much to ask?

This is all claptrap. I have given several reasons why Odili and them cannot be touched at this stage. The last time anyone tried to go against Odili, we saw what happened in Okrika. Odili simply purchased greater firepower. Infact someone like Odili can turn the militants who carry out operations on behalf of MEND against themselves.

[quote author=Negro_Ntns link=topic=304656.msg4314287#msg4314287 date=1249641890]While the cost is lower in UK for instance. . .how long does it take to set up appointment and see a doctor? What is the average front office wait time? How about after care and follow up? How about disability coverage?[/quote]On private insurance, you will do all these just as quick as you would in Yankee, and you dont have to pay $30,000 for it unlike our friend Taye-Diggs

On public health, you would go on a waiting list for minor surgery. For appointments for minor ailments, you would go within a couple of days. If it is an Emergency, you can see a practicioner IMMEDIATELY!

JP Phillips, your intentions are good, but unless you are suggesting that corruption is a genetic deficiency of which Niger-Deltans are more prone to, then you have no leg to stand on.

Niger-Deltans are not responsible for prosecuting corrupt leaders. FG is. We will not be denied our rights based on this nauseating excuse.

Niger-Delta did not come into existence 9 years ago when the boys picked up guns. For 30 years, we have also been on 1.5% and 3.0% derivation and Nigeria has never proved themselves more capable of running our affairs when they controlled the resources, so your argument is invalid.

Any indigene of PH would tell you that PH saw the greatest development under the stewardship of Michael Okpara, Melford Okilo, Diete-Spiff, Rufus Ada-George and Rotimi Amaechi. All these are sons of the soil. Odili is the only overwhelming disappointment. All other Governors of Rivers State did nothing for us. Governor Adeleye was sacked in the 1990's for misappropriation of funds. We have had enough of Nigeria controlling our resources, thank you very much. We will take it from here. After all, its our will to decide.

BTW, an Igbo man such as yourself with anti-ND and anti-Ojukwu sentiments. . . . are you sure you are not a rogue element? 

olabukola:
There is nothing like being tribal here. What made me discredit his story is that OBJ is an errand boy but will be informed whenever they want to stage any coup. Is their any logik in that? Come man you guys should think for once. However if the story (which i don't believe anyway) is true am ashamed to be a yoruba man.

Why should you carry your tribe on your head? Idiots like Ateke Tom and Peter Odili would never make me ashamed to be a Rivers boy.

Some people just dont have scruples irrespective of tribe. . . . meanwhile, some of those who have sacrificed the most for our democracy are Yoruba men, such as Gani, Wole, Ige etc

olabukola:
How are you sure the man is not ibo or any of the south south folks. Look anybody can answer any name and say what ever he wants.

hmmm. . . . it seems when tribalism comes into focus, people lose all common sense. . . . the man is a well known June 12 agitator who lost his freedom for his activities in the 1990's. . . .the man is a truth-sayer. . .

ahonohai:
Timisoara vs Stuttgart

Timisoara sounds like a Bayelsan football team. TimiSouala indeed, DDK must be celebrating this easy draw for the Meinschaft.

l-Rufai said Yar'Adua has failed."

"Do you believe that? I think the guy should not be taken seriously."

"So you don't think Yar'Adua has failed? University teachers are on strike, Boko Haram and his men are on rampage and Yar'Adua is enjoying the cool Brazilian breeze, and who knows what else."

"Yar'Adua does not have to be around to fight Boko and his thugs."

"But when is Yar'Adua ever around? Even when he is around, what does he get done? I see the faces of the ministers and ministers of state at the National Executive Council meeting, they never look serious enough."

"What do you mean by that?"

"They are always smiling like some folks who have won big lotteries and are eager to start spending their loot."

"Any one holding ministerial position in Nigeria today has won more than lottery, my friend. He or she has come to life and life has come to him or her."

"So a minister is a lottery winner in Nigeria?"

Yes, he is. He will get choice plots in Abuja, Lagos and everywhere else. He will have police escorts, orderlies, secretaries, drivers, personal assistants, thugs and even civil servants to carry his cell phone and his big-man bag."

"You forget the cash, the petty cash in particular. It is the tool of the ministerial office."

"I wonder if El-Rufai ever approves of petty cash accounts in his days."

"That was the days of OBJ"

"Is there any difference between OBJ and Yar'Adua? I think it is a continuum, more of the same as Obama is wont to say."

I disagree with that. There is a difference. OBJ was more pragmatic than this anti-EFCC Yar'Adua."

"You don't think he is more methodical than OBJ?"

"What method? If you mean the method of not getting anything done and doing nothing, then I can agree."

"He is getting some things done. FIFA is happy with the nation's preparation for the FIFA Junior World Cup and tickets for the tournament are now being sold."

"We are discussing important issues affecting the masses and you are talking about soccer and the jamboree Yar'Adua and his men are about to host! Do you know how many billions have been wasted for the preparation and how much of that actually went into any meaning or tangible project? Bottomless pit is a virtue rather than a vice in Nigeria."

"Man must wack."

"Man must wack and the people are hopeless and jobless!"

"The people are not hopeless; they have only resigned themselves to fate since Yar'Adua moved into Aso Rock."

"And the warlords in the Niger Delta now have their amnesty along with free monthly cash."

"You think that is a good deal?"

"It is a wonderful deal for Yar'Adua. He's given the people of the Niger Delta what they asked for and he's taken what he wanted from them."

"And what has Yar'Adua taken from the Niger Delta people?"

"He wanted to have the petroleum university moved to the North, and he's quickly and quietly carried out the move. The Petroleum Training Institute in Warri is no longer a university of petroleum. Yar'Adua has upgraded the petroleum institute in Kaduna to a university and downgraded the PTI in Warri, robbing Peter to enrich Shehu."

"Are you serious about this?"

"Those of you who say Yar'Adua is not doing anything must open your eyes very well to see the things he's cleverly elected to do, and these are done with master strokes while everyone is watching and looking but absent minded enough."

"I say it cannot be true that the PTI is no longer a university of petroleum. The Ijaw, Itshekiri and Uhrobo now have a reason to put their differences aside and wear one trouser to fight Yar'Adua. How do you establish a petroleum university in a region that has no oil and oil rigs for the students to visit?"

"They will install demonstration rigs on the campus for their students."

"How can you use demonstration oil rigs to teach oil prospecting class when the real oil rigs are there in the Niger Delta? How about soil science and analyses, how do they intend to teach that in the North where the soil is dry and dirty?"

"I know they can improvise something. It may cost a lot but in today's world there are lots of ways to improvise."

"You appear to be speaking for them."

"Who them?"

"The same people who are building a petroleum university in Kaduna."

"Did you say 'who are building'? It is a done deal, my friend and the budget is there to see to the immediate development of the project."

"No way. There is no way this will happen. Enough of this nonsense the Oligarchy is taking Nigerians through. How can the Niger Delta be denied the right to have a petroleum university? Even if Yar'Adua wants the North to have one must he close down the one already established by the Obasanjo administration in the Niger Delta?

"It is by his discretion."

"His discretion, did you say? When will he start putting his discretion to the use of the masses of this country? Tell me something, when does Yar'Adua intend to start treating Nigerians equally and fairly? His cabinet is badly skewed towards the North and his appointments are generally to put the North in charge, even at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. I think his approach is reckless and a disservice to the nation"

"Which nation? Is there a nation any where in that geographical space put together by Lord Laggard and baptised by his wife, Flora Shaw? It is the oil that is still keeping those people in Nigeria and they will beat a retreat once the oil dries up."

"But I still don't understand why he will demote the PTI even if he wants to have a petroleum university in the North. The one in the Niger Delta should have been left alone since there is nothing wrong having two petroleum universities."

"He only wishes to have one petroleum university and he prefers it to be in the North. Is there anything wrong with that?"

"But that is reckless and unacceptable."

"Unacceptable to whom?"

"Unacceptable to everyone. Even some senators have called on him to remove his minister of petroleum."

"Ha, the minister of petroleum! He has been heavily recycled and the regurgitation is making us sick. I doubt if the man was around when shame was given out to all human beings. Is it true he holds no academic doctorate and probably has no credible school certificate, the WAEC brand?"

"I don't care if the man holds a DSc. He is just not the right man for the job. There are far superior people to that man in the South and the Niger Delta, the likes of FRA Marinho and Professor CTI Odu."

"When the people from the North seize a position they tend to overkill the place with their own people, mostly poorly educated fellows."

"But this is not even their thing. There is no oil in the North and despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent to look of oil up North nothing has been found, and of course we must ignore the dumb talk of IBB's brother in-law, about the oil belonging to the North."

"No need worrying about the gratitude-fuelled rants of lowlifes who are slaves of the Northern Oligarchy."

"I am very tired of the Nigerian project."

"You are not alone. I am sick of it. It does no one any good, except the Oligarchy from the North and their sidekicks in the South. There are millions of Talakawas and the poor in the North who have nothing, absolutely nothing to their names. No education, no jobs, no food, no medical service, so shelter, no shoes, no clothes, nothing."

"They eat from the homes of the Yar'Aduas and the other rich few among them."

"But that is only on Friday afternoons. How about other meals?

"I guess one meal is enough for the poor."

"Do you know how much was voted for food in Aso Rock and the National Assembly in the 2009 budget?"

"Let's not sadden ourselves with that. Oil will run dry soon."

[quote author=Tayo-D link=topic=304656.msg4313056#msg4313056 date=1249615930]Question! Would it have made a difference if it was not $60,000 but $6,000? How about $600? $60? $6? What of $0.6? Want to put a value on his life?[/quote]The insurance companies who refuse to cover him at this stage with his pre-existing condition have already put a value on his life. . . . at this stage, his life is priceless. . . . literally!

FBS:
Meanwhile,

Chelsea reject £18m Real Madrid bid for Alex

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/chelsea/article6742165.ece

We should sell him for £25m. . . . we get defenders full ground. . .

[quote author=Tayo-D link=topic=304656.msg4313034#msg4313034 date=1249614798]The birth of our first child was a difficult one. My wife was in the hospital for about 3 days before we eventually had a C-section. Guess what our final bill was? Try $30,000. Eventually, all I paid out of pocket was less than $2,000. For the five years I have been in the Unted States, I don't think I have paid up to $30,000 to my insurance company. So what is all this story about insurance companies coming to get you?[/quote]Look at this guy celebrating mediocrity. . . . C-section cost you $2,000?. . . . hehehehe. . . . you should be in Europe where you get that shit for free. . . .

You've paid $30,000 in Insurance . . . . . hehehehe. . . . . how long you don dey Yankee?. . . . .$30,000 would cover a lifetime of Insurance in the UK. . . . if you paid $30,000, how much did your company pay in addition, lets check the true value to which the Insurance coys are ripping you off over there in Yankee. . . .

[quote author=Tudór link=topic=306653.msg4313735#msg4313735 date=1249634692]you want the govt to be worried about a pregnant drug dealer in laos who immaculately conceived?
Tomorrow she'll claim her son is the messiah.[/quote]hehehehehehe. . . .

I think the OP refers to the fact that other countries care about their citizens, but not Naija. Check out the US pilot who was shot down in Iraq in 1990. 19 years later, his government went looking for his plane and found his body. Why would anyone not want to die for a country like that? Compare and contrast with the routine execution of Nigerians in Libya and FG silence on the issue.

I remember that me and some Naija guys had some wahala in Bulgaria in 1998 on our flight to Nigeria. We were interned for 3 days cos the Balkan airlines lied that there was a war in Lagos, and we would have to stay in Bulgaria for some days. A couple of days later, I was arrested for being rude to the Police cos we were sitting outside the hotel and one madman was dancing naked in front of us whilst the Police were laughing. As soon as I was arrested, it became known to the Police that I was a UK citizen and I was released immediately. If na my green passport when I carry go, I prolly would be locked away till today. 

A known inside-trader like Dangote has been made NSE President? Made God save us in this jungle called Nigeria.

babapupa:
I see you Ignored the Lasepa links and side stepped the fact that it's your leaders responsibility to enact and enforce environmental laws.

You're picking gaping holes alright?

Yes o. . . . Fash is the man. The greatest inspiration to our generation. But EIA is sine qua non for oil operations in Rivers State:
http://www.riversstatenigeria.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=151

What do we do about the gas flaring? Yes lets stop it immediately, because some peeps fail to realise that crude-oil is pumped with gas contained, and the gas must either be captured or flared. Unfortunately, the British cowboys who set up the infrastructure in the 1950's set it up so that gas is flared, and any ban on flaring gas requires complete infrastructural overhaul which will take years, thats why they keep extending the date when the law on gas flaring comes into effect. We done hear.

I am glad you mention Fashola cos Fash is a man after my heart. . . . an irredeemable federalist who has always fought for power devolvement for local people, and no doubt, if Fashola was made President today with all the requisite powers, he would instantly implement the Federalism and Resource control that some of his lobotomised followers like yourself rail against.