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Wormy, you mistakenly said Everton instead of Bolton.


Everybody knows I hate JM. . . . .  . . . . . no amount of ranting from Ako can change that.

hehehehehe. . . . . Ako, don't get ya knickers in a twist. . . . .I knew my post would propel you into overdrive. . . .

God bless Ribadu. Don't worry, he once said that they offered him a job in the UN. I am sure they will offere him another job again.

Finally, somebody hits out at "Mr I blame everybody but myself". These are the same allegations I have levelled at Mourinho for a long time.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/2008/08/06/chelsea-boss-luiz-felipe-scolari-hits-out-at-jose-mourinho-115875-20685949/


Luiz Felipe Scolari has attacked Jose Mourinho for losing his grip at Chelsea - claiming he blamed the players whenever the pressure got too fierce.

A string of Premier League and European stars failed to live up to their billing under Mourinho at Stamford Bridge, despite excelling for their previous clubs.

Scolari believes that's because Mourinho blamed THEM and not himself when Chelsea failed to deliver on his boasts that they would win so much silverware.

He said: "Mourinho says 'I will win 10 championships'. I don't say I will win 10. I say I will try.

"I am from the south of Brazil. We are different. We say 'we try to win all the competitions' but in my culture I never say 'I will win this, this or that'. Never. I will try."

"Maybe Mourinho says 'I win' and afterwards if he does not win it causes problems. Because the manager is not playing.

"It's the players and if they make a mistake then you have to say 'it is the players who are bad'.

"I will never do that. Never. You are the man who must take the responsibility. Mourinho is Mourinho. He has a different culture to me.

"The club don't say to me that they want to be number one in the world.

"The board say to me 'try to improve on where we are now. We need to win more competitions'. I say 'Sure I will try - and so will the players'. But we need to respect the other clubs."

Scolari is the second manager in days to blast the Special One after former Blues boss Claudio Ranieri claimed Mourinho put his ego before his Chelsea team.

Shaun Wright-Phillips, Salomon Kalou, Arjen Robben and Andriy Shevchenko were among those who struggled to reproduce the form they showed at their previous clubs and were publicly roasted by Mourinho.

In criticising his men after Chelsea lost to Liverpool in January 2007, the Portuguese coach said: "There are players who adapt to difficult moments, to the fight and to the effort we need from everybody.

"Some other personalities are weaker, they are not so strong."

But Scolari has an appreciation of his colleagues many people feel Mourinho never had.

He added: "I like Arsene Wenger.

He is not English, but I have known him for 10 years.

"And I like Martin O'Neill. I saw some games and his procedure is very good, the way he works with the team. And I think the players like him.

"I have also heard players talking many good words about Harry Redknapp from Portsmouth. I hear he's a good man who works well but I don't know him."

Scolari revealed he first spoke to Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich while Mourinho was still in charge.

He added: "I met Roman two or three years ago. Our first contact was not about Chelsea. It was about football and he asked me about players in South America.

"When we met to talk about coming to Chelsea, we met only one time. All he wanted to know was how I play, what system, if I thought Chelsea had a good team or not, who I wanted to buy and whether it would be possible to get them.

"He does not tell me who to play. We only discuss little things and he says: 'How are you, how are the players?' But he never phones, never."

HOW BLUES' FORMER BOSS PLAYED THE BLAMEGAME
AFTER 2-2 DRAW WITH FULHAM
"Chelsea cannot defend. Maybe we are not as good as we think maybe the players are not such good players. What can you do with Paulo (Ferreira), with Geremi? Nothing." He also said: "Shevchenko, Wright-Phillips and Kalou are not performing"

AFTER LOSING 2-0 AT LIVERPOOL
Mourinho shook hands with every member of his beaten side except Shevchenko before saying: "There are players who adapt to difficult moments to the fight. Others are weaker, are not so strong. That is why I try to be surrounded by the strong."

AFTER 1-1 DRAW WITH ROSENBORG
Mourinho appeared to aim criticism at Kalou and Shevchenko again, saying: "We needed 20 chances to score one goal, so to score two goals we need 40 chances and three goals we need 60 chances. I cannot score goals myself."

AFTER 1-O WIN OVER LIVERPOOL
After Joe Cole scored the only goal, Mourinho said: "When Cole scored the game finished for him. After that I need 11 players for defensive organisation and I had just 10. His game had two faces - a beautiful one and one that I didn't like."

lol. Gangsta.

tpia:
come oh- that article I read from your other post, I don't agree with all the stuff there sha. The Yoruba/Egyptian material doesnt quite jell.As in , doesnt look too authentic. This Kumoni tribe is based on what evidence?

Well, the Kumoni tribe did not take over the Agbeloomo but assimiliated themselves into their culture. Also the Kumoni had been in Nupe for several hundred years before they joined the Agbeloomo. Therefore, most cultural history with the ancient Egyptians would have been lost. On top of that the Efa (Edo) people conquered the Yoruba 500 years after Oduduwa, therefore current Yoruba culture is more closely associated with Bini culture than anything else.

He is not doing too bad.

Akolawole:
@Ibi

I don't really doubt the story but you are making JM more popular in Nairaland.

Why can't you see anything wrong in which Tinkerman said?

I wasn't trying to denigrate Jose, rather the Tinkerman. . . . . . just trying to share the joke.

Watch out for my girl, Lolo Jones in the 110m hurdles.

https://img55.imageshack.us/img55/7928/lolojonestg5.th.jpg

Yeah. . . . . very funny @ Ako & Dr Kit. . . . . nama shobiri. . . .

Don't worry, you will see this story in your Times or Guardian tomorrow or next tomorrow. I will highlight it for you. Yahoo only posted the story at 9.48pm. Soccerfanbase only posted the story at 7.11pm. Goal.com had the story in the morning. Gazzetta Italia were the only ones to beat Goal.com to the story (cos the story happened in Italy). Once again, we see the advantage Goal.com has when it comes to having foreign journalists getting stories out quickly.


http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/05082008/58/serie-angry-mourinho-blasts-old-ranieri.html

http://english.gazzetta.it/Football/Primo_Piano/2008/08/04/mourinho_0408.shtml

http://soccerfanbase.com/blog/seria-news/mourinho-blasts-ranieri/

http://jp.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=804593

Oduduwa is from the Kumoni tribe who originate in Egypt.

Sky Blue:
What is even more amusing is when you actually consider this: if the problem is people not wanting oil taken from land around them then how come the Ogoni people were able to achieve such in peace and without all this havoc and suceeded in kicking shell out of their land?

hmmmmm. . . . . . do not talk about what you do not know. A lot of Ogoni were killed by Nigerian soldiers, villagers were raided and a lot of blood was shed. The Government also pitted Ogoni against Okrika and Ogoni against Andoni in serious ethnic conflict. Even though Saro-Wiwa tried to fight by peaceful means, the Nigerian Government used military force against the people - so stop talking nonsense. 


Shell began pressurising the government to act, and military repression escalated in May 1994. On May 21, soldiers and mobile policemen appeared in most Ogoni villages, flown in on helicopters lent to them by an obliging Royal Dutch Shell.

The occupying forces, led by Major Paul Okuntimo of Rivers State Internal Security, claimed to be "searching for those directly responsible for the killings of the four Ogonis." However, witnesses say that they engaged in terror operations against the general Ogoni population. Amnesty International characterized the policy as deliberate terrorism. By mid-June, 30 villages had been completely destroyed, 600 people had been detained, and at least 40 had been killed. An eventual total of around 100,000 internal refugees and an estimated 2,000 civilian deaths was recorded.


100,000 refugees - that is 1 in 5 Ogonis. If you exclude Tai-Eleme who were not involved in the struggle, then 1 in every 4 Ogonis was made a refugee.

Yeah - very peaceful solution.

Don't worry, MEND will send them a suitable reply.

[center]Northern governors and the politics of oil[/center]
[center]By Reuben Abati [/center]



THE big news of the week in my estimation is the declaration by the chairman of the Forum of Northern Governors, the Chief Servant of Niger State, Dr Mua'zu Babangida Aliyu at a programme tagged First Northern Agricultural Summit on Monday, July 28, to the effect that Northern Governors have resolved to turn their back on oil revenue and develop the agricultural resources of the North. Dr Aliyu was speaking on behalf of the 19 Governors of the Northern states of Nigeria, and at the same forum, his views were further echoed by the Adamawa state Governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako. Dr Aliyu declared: "The future of the north lies in our hands. We should today begin to shape our destiny. As a Nigerian of Northern extraction, I feel very unhappy when somebody describes me as a parasite because of oil, when I know that I have the capacity to solve my problems and probably do even better through agriculture and education." And so the North wants to go back to agriculture, with the hope that the financial sector of the economy will provide necessary support.

The politics of this declaration is important: the Northern Governors are responding directly to widespread insinuations in the Southern part of the country that the North is rather parasitic, contributing little to the commonwealth and yet getting more than a lion share of the national cake. Over the years, this distrust of the North has been expressed ever so loudly by Southern leaders and interest groups; thus turning geography into one of the more delicate sub-texts of Nigerian politics. Issues of contention include the population of the north, the political delineation of the North, resource allocation, the relatively low contribution of the North to national GDP, and the unusually large presence of the north in positions of power and authority. At the centre of this is the politics of oil, the allocation of federal revenue accruing mainly from the sale of crude oil.

The ThisDay newspaper in reporting the Northern Governors quoted them as saying: "North can survive without oil". The Champion gave the story an even more provocative edge in its headline: "To hell with your oil: North tells South". This is perhaps the most radical response coming from the north so far on the question of oil and its control since 1958. Before now, the Northern intelligentsia had tried to argue that the crude oil in the Niger Delta belongs to all Nigerians and not to the owners of the land from which it is extracted. The late Dr Bala Usman on many occasions even pushed a curious argument based on geology to wit: the oil deposits in the Delta flowed, over the years from the Northern parts of the country, and so the real owners of the oil in the Delta are the people of the North. A second notable response was the attempt by the then North-dominated Federal Military Government to find oil by all means in the North. So much money was spent on a search for oil in the Chad Basin, until the explorers got tired of searching. And now in 2008, the Northern Governors, for the first time have declared that "the Niger Delta can go to hell" with its oil and that without oil, the North can and will survive.

One of the earliest reactions to this came from the Arewa Consultative Forum, the social and political forum for Northern leaders, with the ACF saying that Northerners are indeed "lazy and parasites who rely on other regions for survival. There is no reason to run away from the truth." But in s strange balancing act in the same statement, the ACF blames the Niger Delta for the economic woes of the North because according to it, people of the Niger Delta raided the Middle Belt for slaves during the slave trade era. All of these seemingly entangled issues can be taken apart.

The intervention of the ACF is at best a form of damage control, for if prompt effect were to be given to the wishes of the Northern Governors, the development process in the north which is essentially dependent on oil revenue will grind to a complete and final halt. But Dr Aliyu and his colleagues could not have been calling for a sudden stoppage of the sweet and free funds coming for the Federation Account. Their statement was clearly politically inspired and aspirational in terms of their development projections for the North. But talk is cheap. However, it is not only the North that is dependent on oil, it is not only the Northern states that are parasitic, nor is it only the people of the north that have become lazy. The curse of oil affects every part of Nigeria and all the people. Nigeria's national productivity index is one of the lowest in the developing world.

The black gold is at the root of most of the ills in the Nigerian society: the laziness of the leadership elite, the bowl in hand, beggarly conduct of the states and the imposition of unitarist modes on the governance process in spite of the federalist principles in the Constitution. It is the entire country that is lazy and parasitic therefore: and it is one of the reasons why the people and the militants of the Niger Delta have had to continue to remind the rest of the country to become productive and make a contribution to the national pool instead of stealing Niger Delta resources in a greedy and unfair manner which leaves nearly nothing for the real owners of the resources. This wake up call had been long in coming but it is now more strident with the insistence of the people of the Delta on federalism, the militancy in the creeks and calls for resource control.

It is perhaps not difficult to see why the North is specially targeted and labelled an unproductive part of the Nigerian Union. The ACF accuses the people of the Niger Delta of raiding the Middle Belt for slaves during the slave trade era. The slave trade ended over 200 years ago. Where is the connection with the development crisis in the North? The ACF's statement in this regard is meaningless, and this is unfortunate coming from the same ACF that is humble enough to admit that the South is saving the North. The problem with the North is its elite. Nearly every politician who becomes a big man in the North wears a big babaringa and refuses to work. More than any other group in Nigeria, the northern elite have had more access to state resources and more control over the same resources, but this has not been used to bring development to the people.

The same oil resources that Southerners claim Northern leaders have taken have largely been used to oppress the poor in the North and sustain feudalism. In this regard, the average Northerner is just as aggrieved as the average Southerner, for in the end, the patterns of dispossession imposed on this society by successive governments at all levels have produced uniform grief. The underdevelopment of the North has nothing to do with the slave trade; it has a lot to do with the attitude and lifestyle of the Northern man of power. Northern Governors trace the de-industrialisation crisis in the North to "international conspiracy against the North", If there is any conspiracy at all, it is internal and it is the conspiracy of the northern elite against their own people.

One example: Governor Danjuma Goje of Gombe state has approved for himself and his predecessor in office a sum of N200 million as "executive pension". The North, like the South, is in need of new leaders, not rent-collectors. If Northern Governors want development, they must begin with changes at the level of attitude and lifestyle. Nothing in Northern agriculture as proposed can sustain their present lifestyle. Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako, the Adamawa Governor, was right when he lamented as follows: "No nation has ever enjoyed lasting peace and stability or could ever survive when only a few of its citizens wallow in wealth and affluence at par with the rich of other nations, while the rest of its citizens are entrapped in poverty,  the simple truth is that the above reality obtains more in the North than other parts of the country".

Northern Governors have been holding meetings since 1961, and at every meeting, they talk about the same issues - agriculture, education and development. But nearly 50 years later, there are more poor people in the north than other parts of Nigeria. The streets are full of distracted kids, with bowls in hand begging for alms during school hours. When UNICEF reports that more than ten million Nigerian children of school age are out of school, they can be found mostly in the North.

Northern Governors want to focus on agriculture, but to use agriculture as a launch pad for growth and development, the states must invest first in education. Who will work on the farms that the North will set up? In a few years, the growing population of almajiris on Northern streets will be old enough to be mobilised for riots not for any productive activity. It is a shame that many years after independence, the North continues to enjoy an affirmative action privilege in education and politics, which easily annoys Southerners who feel that they face much stiffer competition in seeking and gaining access to opportunities. Who will manage the agricultural renaissance of the North? This same set of fertilizer-stealing, rent-collecting elite? And where is their blue-print?

North-South relations in Nigeria are often constructed in form of rivalry and competition, and this is discernible in the tone of the statements by the Northern Governors and also the ACF. But it is an unhealthy competition that promotes further divisions. Rather than dismiss the Niger Delta and its oil, the Northern Governors should show humility and gratitude. If they are serious, they should be more interested in raising constitutional questions and seeking reviews which would free the North and other parts of Nigeria from the tag of "parasitism", and which in the long run will ensure a return to federalism under which every state in Nigeria will be required to become productive. Under that new arrangement, the Niger Delta people will be glad to go to "hell" as advised.

lol . . . . . . 2 former Chelsea managers crying over spilt milk.


[center]Mourinho To Ranieri: You Are Old And Fruitless[/center]

Inter coach, Jose Mourinho, has responded to Claudio Ranieri’s rant by blasting the former Chelsea Tinkerman with a number of insults.

Ranieri had mentioned Mourinho during his sour grapes press conference after Juventus lost 3-0 to Hamburg.   

“I am not like Mourinho, I don’t have to win things to be sure of myself,” moaned Ranieri.   

This has prompted a reaction from the ‘Special One’ who just couldn’t help himself from taking aim, and gunning the Old Lady coach down with some heavy words.   

“I am in Italy to work hard rather than take part in a war of words,” Mourinho told Inter Channel.   

“I want to do well with Inter and do the best possible for us and to forget about the work of others.   

“Ranieri? I guess he’s right with what he said I am very demanding of myself and I have to win to be sure of things.   

“This is why I have won so many trophies in my career. Ranieri on the other hand has the mentality of someone who doesn’t need to win. He is almost 70 years old.   


LMFAO


“He has won a Supercup and another small trophy and he is too old to change his mentality.   

“He’s old and he hasn’t won anything.”   

The coach also spoke about Zlatan Ibrahimovic and he believes the Sweden star is better than Kaka and Lionel Messi.   

“Seeing Ibrahimovic in training makes me understand how Special he is,” said the coach.   

“Messi? Kaka? Ronaldinho? Ibrahimovic is the special one.”   

Mourinho’s words are likely to cause some controversy.   

The coach claimed he was not prepared to have a verbal fight with the rest only to eat his words and add petrol to the fire.   

Salvatore Landolina

Londoner, Onyinye, mechonu there. Stop falling for the Aboki's tricks of divide and conquer.

Forget this Usman Dan Fodio guy. As far as this issue is concerned, the whole South are with each other, that is why they are trying to pit us against each other. It cannot work anymore.


Ohanaeze Ndigbo have come out to support the Ijaws:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-157332.0.html


Gani Fawehini has also come out to support the Ijaws:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-156854.0.html



The only people irrelevant to Naija are the Fulanis - and they better accept that.

Save it for your lecturer.

They tried to turn our Southern brothers against us by labelling us 'militants' but it seems as if the rest of Nigeria is rallying around us.

[center]

Ohanaeze faults the North[/center]
Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation in the South-east geo-political zone, has taken a swipe at Northern political leaders, accusing them of waging a media war on the agitation for development the development Niger Delta.

Ohanaeze described the exchange of words between the two regions as a deliberate attempt to demonise leaders of the Niger Delta region who had been agitating for a better deal in Nigeria.

Deputy Chairman of Ohanaeze in Abuja, Comrade Austin  Ifedinezi, who spoke at a symposium held in honour  of  the late  Niger Delta freedom  fighter, Isaac Boro,  condemned in very strong terms, what he described as "series of campaigns against  collective efforts of the nation to find  durable solution to the socio-economic problems of the Niger Delta region."

Ifedinezi berated the Arewa Consultative Forum, former governors, serving senators and some respected political and opinion leaders of the North  who allegedly  mounted the recent campaign against the Niger Delta people, inisting that such unguarded utterances were capable of further fuelling the Niger Delta crisis to the detriment of the entire country.

The organisation warned  the Federal Government  to resist  the temptation  of   adopting the  military option in solving  problems of the zone, but to instead,  adopt a holistic approach that should include convening a  Sovereign National Conference to discuss  issues  of marginalisation  and underdevelopment  facing different groups in the country.

"Such attitude is very unfortunate and unacceptable and it would be impossible to build a stable and progressive nation in a situation where one section continues to insist that it will remain masters while another section is made to bear the brunt of the so- called national development.

"It is difficult to find any justification for these insensitive vituperations from the North. It is really sad that these sentiments are being expressed at a time when all hands in the country should be on deck to ensure that the people of Niger Delta get a better deal, as a way of wiping out the over half  a century of marginalisation of  other parts of the country to the benefit of  the North," he said.

[center]Africans in UK, others urge global support for Niger Delta[/center]

From Tunde Oyedoyin (London), Kelvin Ebiri (Port Harcourt) and Odita Sunday (Lagos)


MOBILISATION of support in Nigeria and abroad for the Niger Delta people's quest for a greater share of the region's resources and its development gathered pace in the United Kingdom (UK) at the weekend as pan-Africanists there and from other countries rallied via a public lecture behind the cause.

However, in Nigeria, Niger Dock Plc, a company accused of aiding militants by a House of Representatives committee refuted the charge, just as gunmen kidnapped two foreigners believed to be French national at Onne, Eleme Local Council of Rivers State.

The Pan-Africanists within who gathered in Brixton, described the Nigerian Delta people as "our brothers and sisters," during a lecture with the theme: "Nigeria, oil, democracy and the ruling class."

Besides, the agitation of the Niger Deltans was also redefined as a battle between the masses and the ruling elite. Expectedly, Shell was again fingered as a culprit. The oil major was accused of "exchanging arms for oil, rather than oil for development."

Annkio Opurum Briggs of the Ijaw Republican Assembly described the buyers of Nigerian crude as the "real criminals," and not the militants. "They militants are freedom fighters," the guest speaker argued, saying they were asking for "development."

"We're fighting a class war, it's a battle for justice, not against resources," according to Roland Ekperi, President of Ijaw Peoples Association(IPA) of Great Britain and Ireland.

Omowale Rupert of the Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum (UK), painted the picture of a global elite which has local collaborators, with a mandate of keeping the poor perpetually poor. "Nigerian elites are buffering the United States," he stated.

Kofi Ali Abdul-Yekin of Action Group of Africa blamed the African Union (AU) for not prevailing on the Nigerian ruling class to address the need of the oil-rich region, while Affiong L. Affiong of Moyo wa Taifa (Pan-African Women's Solidarity Network), is already considering the possibility of a "peoples summit that will include the British public." She too believes that the crisis is more than an ethnic thing, "It's a class war," between the oppressive ruling class and the ordinary people, she stressed.

Speaking with The Guardian later, she maintained her stance: "The issue of the Niger Delta is a Pan-African issue, because its a question of the exploitation of the resources, so, we don't see it as an ethnic issue. Its more than that. Irrespective of where we come from, as Africans in the diaspora, we are involved in that struggle and we're solidly behind our sisters and brothers in the Niger Delta, to fight the ruling class that continues to exploit our resources, irrespective of whether it is the domestic Nigerian or international elite."

Reminded that Vice President Jonathan Goodluck was from Niger Delta, her response was: "That means nothing. That he's vice president, merely means he's part of the ruling elite. He will rule on their behalf and not on behalf of his people."

Ekperi also told The Guardian: "We're winning the argument, it's a Pan-African issue, because it centres around justice and equity and once we're able to address that, I think we can only become our brothers' keepers." There's a "unity of purpose here, and that's the way the struggle should go."

Aselle Abigo of Nigerian Women for Democracy Support spoke in a similar vain, saying: "It shows that we're all working towards a common goal, though differently. What is going on in Niger Delta is unacceptable and I think the whole world now knows. What the Nigerian government should do is to try give the people of Niger Delta justice and equity."

Briggs, meanwhile, had, during her address, noted that the "Niger Delta peace is crucial for world peace;" hence she wants "British mothers to join in the struggle, she disclosed that there was only one road in her community in the past 56 years.

"I was born in this country-UK- and when I was four years old, my father took me back home in 1952. There was only one good road in my community then and even till now, that is the only road we have," she emphasised.

In disagreeing with Rupert, who contended that the oil wealth should be used to cater for Africans in other countries, Briggs said. "In my community, there's nothing like ante natal-care for pregnant women. When a woman needs to see a doctor, she first needs to travel for about three hours by boat to reach where she'll take another two-hour travel by road."

In view of this, she called for "immediate justice before talks of peaceful negotiation."

Fighting "for the ownership of our resources doesn't make us criminals," she added.

Sorry, did I say Oloibiri? I meant to say Obiobi near Obrikom.

A bit excessive from MEND. . . . . . still, I guess they are starting to play Nigeria's game. . . . everybody in Nigeria is starting to see through this 'militant' tag that they use to label us. . . . . . .anyway, this is a threat that will never be carried out. . . . like a poster said: MEND should not cut off its head just because it has headache. . . . .  Any attack on mainland Nigeria will turn popular opinion against them. . . . and recently, more and more Nigerians have started to look favourably upon MEND, especially as they have the Northern Leaders all shaken up, talking abut their 'non-parasitic' nature. . . . . . this is the first time such allegations have been acknowledged openly by the North. . . . . . . and Southern Nigeria have never seen the North so rattled as they have now.

Wirinet and Orikinla are definitely making sense. All these people talking about splitting Nigeria. At best, we can split with the Fulanis for matters of religious importance. Niger Delta people never asked to leave Nigeria. They just want true federalism. Each state produces its own wealth, pays taxes to the Federal Government and the Federal Government handles matters of national interest and security. It is a simple case of rewriting the constitution.

The only drawback is that the military could take over the country and illegally change the constitution as has happened so many times. Hence, I suggest we cut off the Hausas cos they are most likely to do so cos they will never accept a constitution based on fiscal federalism.

To quote NaijaKing:

naijaking1:
You can fight for revenue sharing formula all you want, but no formula guarantees justice for all. The best formula is no formula at all. Nigeria revenue should be from bottom up , not from top down. Untill we have a system where one group can have 1 million LGAs if they want, but the catch is that: Every person pays tax to the LGA, the LGA pays to the state, and the states pay to maintain the federal government. A pyramid is more stable when the base is grounded than when the apex is grounded.

To be honest, Texazzpete is correct. Nigeria can run the militants into the ground in 3 months if required - but other people may take their place. Also Nigerias oil installations are not to the the required Health and Safety standard and a war could produce results of catastrophic proportions. I once went to a place called Oloibiri in Ahoada, Rivers State. Really, that place is a health hazard. An Italian Engineer told me that if you put a match to that place, the blast will be heard all over the South-South and consume almost the whole of Ahoada. He said that even in PH, all the windows will break and the place will shake. Therefore, I don't think it is advisable for any war to be started in Niger Delta.

This is the way to go forward:

naijaking1:
You can fight for revenue sharing formula all you want, but no formula guarantees justice for all. The best formula is no formula at all. Nigeria revenue should be from bottom up , not from top down. Untill we have a system where one group can have 1 million LGAs if they want, but the catch is that: Every person pays tax to the LGA, the LGA pays to the state, and the states pay to maintain the federal government. A pyramid is more stable when the base is grounded than when the apex is grounded.

Did Chelsea play today?

Abagworo:
It is worthy of note that the largest oil producing L.G.A. Is Ogba,Egbema,Ndoni in Rivers State.Oyigbo in Rivers is also in the top list.These L.G.A.s are obvious Igbo ceded to Rivers during Obasanjo's regime of the 70s.Most importantly why can't Nigeria stop their depence on crude oil?[color=#006600][/color]

Yeah, you may be right, although they have always been a part of Rivers State, the people of Ogba-Egbema and Ndoni are pseudo-Ibo's.

@ Nateevs:

This story completely missed us:

Schalke signed Jefferson Farfan for £8.3m.

lol

Dis guy is serious.

You have degree in Engineering and you don't know that Bonga oilfield is closer to Bayelsa than Ondo? Is it all these straight lines that you are drawing that is confusing you? You need to get a refund on your tuition fee.

[quote author=Nigeria1;; link=topic=156733.msg2604598#msg2604598 date=1217804181]If I am correct from the map above it is ondo state, It produces 200,000 barrel per day. i use to think it was in delta and delta have been collecting money from it. but when I use may satellite picture thing. I discovery it fall into ondo state.


So I put oil field ondo state should be getting paid for at around 1 million barrel a day. But you know nigeria. they claim it is in delta state and balyase state, nearly all of the oilfield delta and balyase offshore fall falls in ondo state.[/quote]zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. . . . . . serious question. . . . . are you autistic?


[quote author=Nigeria1;; link=topic=156733.msg2604598#msg2604598 date=1217804181]Where did you get that from. No way. 80% is offshore , 20 % is onshore.[/quote]And again:

Nigeria has total production capacity (total potential production capacity if all oil currently shut-in came back online) of three million barrels per day (bbl/d) including two million bbl/d onshore and one million bbl/d offshore.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/Nigeria/Oil.html


If you don't get it, 2million/3million is 66.7%

nobilia:
@Nigeria1

You are definitely high on something.

Is the 200 Nautical Miles South, North west or east of the coast?
What if the South South wants to break away, where will their 200 nautical miles be? in Kaduna?
What about the south east, their 200 nautical miles will be in Malabo or where?
Nevertheless, I like the way you reason but do not make it a habit.

The 200 Nautical miles rule is not used in the sense you described it, read more about it.

Don't mind the idiot. I was the one who told him about this 200 nautical miles stuff because the UN says coastal areas can claim economic rights up to 200m. The fool started drawing straight lines Southward from Ondo State claiming that Bonga oil field belongs to Ondo State. He must be autistic. Oga Nigeria1, it is 200 miles in a circular radius, not a straight line. Up until tonight, he never heard of this 200 mile rule.  

DagoDago, abeg stop talking nonsense.