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bakila:
Benue is at the link between North and Southern Nigeria to the east. Those who ran from Boko Haram, Kaduna, Kano and Jos civil disturbances of any genre congregated in Makurdi a very cosmopolitan town in Nigeria to wreck havoc on Makurdi's peace.
There are other local home based miscreants that caught the cultism craze to improve their vicious criminal genes.

And Ipob criminal supply from the SE.

Izonpikin:
neither can the NA protect all the kilometers of pipelines we have...only a fool can think of that...neither can the NA forcefully ensure oil is lifted from the Niger delta..The reason for dialogue. ..ok why is the FG in dialogue na..why not use force as initially planned by buhari...The FG finally received sense unlike the many of you who were chanting a new sheriff is in town..what would the sheriff do...forcefully drill and move oil...abeg make ona receive sense ooo...let me tell you ::: the FG and the NA can't make money from oil from the Niger delta without continuous dialogue with the region for all eternity...receive sense...oya...

Problem is that u guys got used too ineffective buffonic governments. You assume that is the standard. Government can actually police infrastructures without so much deployments. When the militants are fully annihilated, any ant that attempts a whimper would be hammered with a sledge. Then you will understand what an effective government is.

aniteze:
The people who they are born in water play in water grow in water learn how to shot in water in tact all their life is all about water the (NDA BOIZ) will be just looking at our Nigeria soldiers let them come.

Buhari go for dialogue oo.

And eat and s*x inside water too abi. Na shark them be? Anyway, why them no go represent us for Olympics. We for carry gold for synchronise swimming.

All that na lie. Not all the creek rats can swim. I know them well. Na just forming.

caesaraba:
Lol. All these NL self-appointed NDA spokespersons sef.

They are not self appointed. They are NDA members or minions sent around to canvass support for the nonsense NDA stands for. Otherwise any sane mind should be hopeful and prayerful for the government waging a war against militancy to succeed.

Unfortunately I don't think PMB hears all the wailing. I believe his ear problem is not completely gone

This kain soldiers look like say them nice o. them shoot the guy come even allow somebody treat and bandage him leg....preparation to blast am later.

BlackSeptember:
I've been around and enjoying the past 16yrs. This is the worst year ive ever experience in my biz.



Lord let those 16yrs come back because I'm not a politician that lies through their teeth

You are certainly one of the few enjoying as the nation was bleeding. Unluckily for you, you were in minority. Otherwise, plenty of your type would have voted GEJ back. Sorry o. Next time, think of your fellow countrymen instead of enjoying alone.

NORTH MEETS SOUTH: IF YOU ARE DONE READING, KINDLY WAKE ME UP!

#WETINweSABI

A.A. Rano is a Kano indigene who is in the business of petroleum product retailing. He has his stations across several cities in Nigeria. He has decided to sell fuel at all his stations at N107 pl. We have crude oil in the Niger Delta, three refineries and yet there has never been a time in recent history where fuel has ever sold at normal price.

Why are our people so shrewd and materialistic?

The cost of bridging from Warri to Kano can not be the same with Warri to environs, yet fuel is cheaper up north than in the Niger delta or south east.

Watin we sabi? Who is fooling who?

We call them aboki, yet they run oil retail business. We say they are illiterates, yet they run commerce better. Ask Nestle, ask Lever Brothers, ask Dangote.

We say they know nothing, yet an average northerner is politically savvy more conscious than we are. While we kill ourselves for elective position, they calmly accept power as the gift of God.

Watin we thin say we know?

Dangote is a Kano businessman, he's building refinery in Lagos. What have we done with the crude we lay so much claim to? Instead of us to help government in alleviating our environment, we endanger it the more by vandalism. Yet armchair activist don't see through the insanity.

Wetin we sabi sef.

Check the madness in the corruption bazaar. Who tops the list of bandits, that conspire to raped Nigeria economy? The northerners will likely accept guilt for pillaging the nation, the man in the south will connive with some occultic SAN to plead innocence over a daylight robbery.

Wetin we sabi set?

What is worst than thinking you have a PhD as a southerner and yet oversee the massive degradation of our value and economy, while the northerner with a school certificate is making meaning for our life.

Wetin we sabi self?

Why must we inflict backwardness on ourselves and blame the north for it. We claim superior knowledge, laughing at the northerner for been shoe shiners, nail cutters, wood hewers, okada riders, yet they know all the nook and crannies of our towns and villages satisfied with their daily bread, while we complain at every situation.

Wetin we sabi?

They believe that God gives, bless and take or deny at His appointed, but we believe nothing happens without the hands of witches and wizards.

Wetin we sabi?

E don do, before my BP high for the plenty nonsense wey dey happen for my people.
A.A.Rano, May God bless you for showing us the way...

Efe T. Williams wrote this patriotic note.

How Aliko Dangote Defied The Lies About Refineries; Facts About His Refinery and Petrochemical Plant- Dr Nicholas Okoye
By Stockswatch -
July 3, 2016
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Alhjaji Aliko Dangote
It’s amazing while the rest of Nigeria was complaining about subsidy or no subsidy, while all Nigerian Entrepreneurs were telling us how impossible it was to build a Refinery in NIGERIA without subsidy removal. While the IOCs (EXXONMOBIL, CHEVRON, SHELL, AGIP etc) refused to invest in any downstream project for the Petroleum product value chain.
DANGOTE simply went to work. And he has defied all the lies we were told.
I am proud because I worked closely with him in TRANSCORP Plc whole I was CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER AND GROUP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR and we won the Port Harcourt and Warri Refinery privatization bids.
We paid ($750 million) even though it would need an extra $2 billion to put back to work but civil servants organized the labor unions to protest. The National Assembly launched an investigation and the rest is history. PRESIDENT Yara’dua cancelled the transaction. Gave us back our money and the Refineries have ‘NOT’ worked since then.
Well, Dangote had access to all the research we had done on how great a business refinery ownership was. And I will never forget the day we were summoned by the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY while they were investigating our purchase. DANGOTE swore that he will build his *OWN* refinery since the Nigerian legislators and civil servants did not want private owners to run Nigeria’s refineries efficiently.
In two years that statement will be a statement of fact and it will be bye-bye to inefficiencies in the downstream sector of Nigeria’s petroleum industry.
You just have to give it to this man
21 Facts About Dangote’s Refinery and Petrochemical Plant
1. Over $4 billion worth of equipment currently sits on the site.
2. The project is slated to cost $14 billion (N2.8 trillion) of which Dangote is contributing $7 billion in equity.
3. The project site is larger than Victoria Island. It is located on 2135 hectareof land in Epe, Lagos near the Lekki Free Zone
4. It is the largest industrial complex in Africa
5. Work goes on, on the site, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
6. World Record 2.72 million accident free hours recorded on site, without a single lost time to injuries
7. It is the largest single train grass roots refinery in the world with a processing capacity of 650,000 BPSD
8. Dangote Group brought in the world’s #1, #2, and #5 sand dredgers to sand fill the site. 60% of the land being swampy. So far these dredgers have reclaimed 13 million m³ out of 30 million m³
9. During construction, the project will employ over 25,000 Nigerians
10. Dangote is investing over $7 billion (N1.4 trillion) in the project
11. It is the largest single train refinery project on the planet
12. When this project comes online, Nigeria will save a minimum of $10 billion a year on imports
13. The Ammonia component of the plant will produce 2.8 million tons of Urea
14. Dangote is producing its own electricity to power the plant and by so doing is saving 75% costs. Dangote produces electricity at a rate that is significantly cheaper than the Federal Government. Dangote’s cost is $400,000/MW, while Federal Government is $2,000,000/MW
15. All the civil engineering is done by Nigerian companies
16. The plant has an export value of $6 billion per annum, meaning Dangote’s efforts will increase the amount of foreign exchange in Nigeria’s foreign reserves by at least 40% of current value on a yearly basis
17. Dangote said when this project comes on line, his friend Femi Otedola will save at least N26 per litre on millions of litres of diesel and petrol which his companies import annually. This savings will be passed on to the consumers and it will take a lot of pressure off the banks
18. Billions of Naira were paid to acquire the land and to settle the existing communities. More money was also allocated and spent to relocate the existing communities
19. This project will restore the dignity of Nigeria, a crude producing country that has for years gone abroad to meet its demand for refined products
20. Refined products to be produced at the plant include but not limited to propane, petrol, Jet Fuel, Diesel, Kerosene, Carbon Black, Polypropylene, Polyethylene
21. The United States Trade and Development Agency is supporting this project with $997 million
Very massive project to stand in the Ibeju-Lekki axis come 2019.
Dr. Nicholas Okoye is the President/ CEO, Anabel Group.

saintdennis:
Lagos -Ibadan expressway will also be tolled... ALL MAJOR interstate roads are billed to be tolled.

It won't only provide us smooth roads but better security on the roads as well as refuse collection/drainage maintenance.

Lagos -ibadan (sw) didn't make a fuss about the tolling that will be done once the road is completed but here you are moaning.

#emancipate yourself from hate

Even within Lagos. VI-Lekki is presently tolled. Even the Ibos in Lagos are not complaining. Should't we pay small change to drive a smooth road and harrowing 4 hrs on very bad roads with it's attendant risks. Some people sha.

oyb:
all this whining and apologizing for voting PMB is what makes black people disrespected all over the world

Pussieees.

once the going gets tough, we cave in like little biatches.

exactly what was expected? that PMB would wave a magic wand and our depleted foreign reserves and compromised income would right itself?

its sad that we never picked british toughness during colonization.

if brits reasoned like Nigerians, they would have caved in during the blitz. rather their resolve got stronger.

let me quote tupac

“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”

dont fall to pieces when it gets tough.

my real issue with PMB is public orientation. he expects nigerians to have sense and know what is good for us. but most of us do not. we like, the isrealites, still yearn for the comforts of slavery. that orientation, for quick fixes, quick money, no thought of the future, mental indiscipline, thats what PMB needs to address. the reorientation of the nigerian mind

i fear though, that a generation may already be lost. just look at the things you see kids posting on NL

Me too I fear o. Even a kindergarten will understand that things will get tough if daddy's income reduces by 1/2. I can swear that even toddlers will smell the air and guess things are not easy.
I do not think that those ranting here do not get it anyway. They are taking advantage of the larger uneducated and slow thinking fishlike brain masses who are just ok to chop today and allow tomorrow take care of itself. Reason they support economic saboteurs like NDAs. Their hope is to quickly enthrone another corrupt government where they or their paymaster will leaching from.

Check them carefully, they know what they are doing. Even a fool cum slow thinker will not be attempting to project GEJ as a hero. Not with the revelations of the past few weeks.

Unfortunately, the boat has sailed. In 2019, things would become more glaring. Corrupt men will not smell the presidency. Not while PMB is there. Not so soon.

maasoap:
GEJ wasn't an option, you hear me right though I know that you hate hearing it. We put him there in 2011 and he disappointed us. If he had succeeded in coming back the second time, people like you would have gone on self imposed exile by now.
What do you make of the man who was borrowing up and down amidst unprecedented revenue with all the money going into the pockets of people who were lucky to have connection with his administration? The last time I remembered, they were already borrowing to pay federal civil servants.

And left the treasury very dry. Those flat-heads actually know what they are saying. No money in the treasury, crude oil down, Avengers ensuring he doesn't even get the small money that will come, coupled with arrays of other national maladies, I thing the guy is even a magician sef.

There believe is that the economy will crumble, but gradually, we are operating without much oil flow. So, before 2019, it will become very obvious economy is largely diversified. Most of them will feel like committing suicide.

ogawisdom:
Why is it too hard to admit dt Jonathan shld ve been way better than chief zombie buhari. It's nw a case of from frying pan to fire.

Jonathan fuel 87 chief zombie 145
Dollar 216 vs 415
Rice 11k vs 20k
D list is endless

Igbos aka Ipobs are d wisest in naija d acclaimed 5% they were d only ppl D rejected cursed buhari at d polls. Bring back GEJ

GEJ should have been better? waoh!!! I think our low IQ is allowing us take this joke too far. Apart from SS (our brother) and SE (haters of anything Hausa) who else thought and presently think so. A dead PMB is still better than a wholesome failure pls pls... na make person vex.

Jonathan fuel 87 chief zombie 145-But many times we bought at 200-250 despite the subsidy regime. but converting to dollar, 87 @ 170 to a dollar is = $0.511 (51 cents) and under PMB, 145 to a dollar @ 400 = $0.36 (36 cents) without subsidy. Since petrol na foreign product, which one cheap pass? Means, when Naira gains as it will surely will do, prices will drop even below 87 Naira.

Dollar 216 vs 415-We know the origin of this. Demand for dollar outpacing forex flow. And with the help of NDA forex further reduced. It was being artificially held by past governent. And this was not sustainable anyway. Reason Why NOI cried out.
Rice 11k vs 20k- Do the maths again with dollar as the bases. It is effectively cheaper.
D list is endless

Igbos aka Ipobs are d wisest in naija d acclaimed 5% they were d only ppl D rejected cursed buhari at d polls. Bring back GEJ-No need to address this one. You are joking right? GEJ on his own cannot win a village head talk less of Nigerian president. In any case, looks like you didn't know campaign has finished. Even the election is over. If you like to be taken seriously, then say meaningful things.

wowmenow:
Why all the soldiers sacked are from south no northerner in the list

The very paragraph on starts like this: The affected officers include Major-Generals F. O. Alli, E.J. Atewe, I. N. Ijoma, L. C. Ilo, TC Ude, Letam Wiwa, SD Aliyu, M.Y Ibrahim, LC Ilo and O. Ejemai.

Read further. Maybe more Southerners, but significant Northers and North central. This should be expected.

Bede2u:
But u are d one dat didn't read d write-up. Did u see this?
"Although, the Nigerian Army said the affected officers were retired for either involvement in the 2015 general elections or arms procurement fraud, our investigations showed that officers who were not in Nigeria at the time of the elections were also sacked.
That was the case of I.B. Lawson (N/8812) and G.O. Agachi (N/9363) who were Defence Attaches at Nigeria’s missions in China and Benin Republic respectively.
According to a document seen by this newspaper, they retired for allegedly committing “serious offence”.
But they were never informed of their offences nor were they invited to face any panel of inquiry, army insiders say."

Even if you away in Mars, you can remotely contribute or even travel down in form of holiday to Nigeria at the crucial time and become an accessory. Let the guys take up their case and channel through the appropriate channel. No amount of superficial investigation can suffice for army discipline processes. We as Nigerians should continue to monitor the redress.

SharkTank:
You a perpetual liar. Some of these men weren't even serving in the country during elections. If you end the career of a commited officer just cos he comes from a certain part of Nigeria, you are brewing a catastrophe in this nation

You have completed your investigation to know their carrier was ended unjustly? I don't know how some of us believe these men are not partisan. We forget easily the role of Brigadier Imomoh in the Ekitigate saga? And people believe this is not being replicated everywhere ehm? We are not asking how can APC not controlling the government will be expecting the military to help them garner votes. How, who will give the order? I think wailers are special bred of people.

Anyway, wailing is a profession. wake up every morning and look for a thread to wail on. It probably helps their emotions.

My advise is that you go and prepare a formidable candidate against PMB for 2019. Unfortunately, he has to come from the North-which makes it harder. or better still, go for 2023. Get a SS/SE that will clearly stand out against APC. Else, trying to paint PMB in your own designed, bad colored light for those who are wiser than you is a waste of time and effort.

busaritoyin:
Please let the bombing continue. Finish all the pipelines and anything related to oil. God help you all. This will help your PDP sponsoring you as well so that the power they want to get by force, will render their tenure useless if they are able to get back the power. 4years will not be enough to clean up this mess created by the so called fools that their elders cannot control. You all are bastards if you stop the bombing. Bomb to zero as promised, if not you are all bastards.

They foolishly thought GEJ lost only because of BH. Hence, ND bombing will help PDP win. Even in Ali and the Angels, the foolishness in thinking wasn't this childish. Everybody knows they are bombing to enthrone corruption back to leadership. But we are vigilant. PMB will bring them to rubble at the end. Nigeria will progress.

Noneroone:
is that really the best thing to do for those who own the oil?

You dey mind am? when they were protecting the pipelines under GEJ, bunkering escalated and became official. They increased the size of lines connected to the truck and became a producing company. Official papers were even obtained to be able to sell the crude at a higher rate.

Don't be deceived. It was a faulty approach. Like making a criminal the DPO of a district and expect things to improve.

naijaboy756:
u and ur mallam haram sabotaged GEJ. Militants are just beginning and u dey tok receiving end. Aboki park well. It is still a mystery how the most malnourished, illiterate and impoverished tribe is ruling over Nigerians. It is a shame to my SW brothers and the ones from SE/SS. The reason is simple in my own opinion. Their quest to kill, maim and shed blood.

This una strategy has failed on arrival. While on one hand the Government is doing her best to tackle the insecurity, the grand plan is to proceed as if there is no oil. It is working gradually. By 2019, Nigeria would have pulled out significantly from over dependence on oil. Tough times don't last, tough men do.

You are even forgetting that the illiterate and impoverished tribe you referred to were really not getting much from the so called oil. The West are wise and trickish. They can see the childish and laughable approach by PDP and those of you who want to keep sucking on the nation. Cripple the nation and make Buhari ineffective and believe PDP (that is disintegrating) will take over. fa fa fa...fowl!!!
The North are back with relative more peace and security. The West are making progress. North central are geared up in multi-folds in Agriculture. Should be on full throttle in 2017. I am also doing tens of hectares in farming myself-plan to start exporting next year. We are left with only SS/SE against APC in 2019. With APC at the center and a Northern candidate on both side, you guess is as good as mine.

So let your guys keep blowing up lines and let's see how your lot get better. Unlike you, the rest of the country are not foolish. we can see through the facade. We will hang for the economy to revive. No shakings.

MadCow1:
Because he doesnt know how to hide a failed system as well as the others.. And that is not such a bad thing.

Also the last government ensured they emptied the treasury. Especially with the signed peace accord in Lagos to not prosecute if APC wins. They simply too everything away. So no money, oil at low price, and NDA will not allow it to flow.

What do you expect?

MadCow1:
Because he doesnt know how to hide a failed system as well as the others.. And that is not such a bad thing.

Also the last government ensured they emptied the treasury. Especially with the signed peace accord in Lagos to not prosecute if APC wins. They simply too everything away. So no money, oil at low price, and NDA will not aloow it to flow.

What do you expect?

Scatterscatter:
Fayose is always never on the good side....
How on earth should a party that as been tainted as "super corrupt" still go ahead to pick an ex-convict, a kirikiri alma-mater as Chairman.
Now I see why ekiti and ondo States are in the poo they are in. Clueless and useless governors.
PDP had better do the needful and powerfully shun their mumu decision

So una still dey believe say PDP dey exist. we are just watching the final remains of the party disintegration. I think young and progressive mind should go form another party and wrestle power from APC in 2023.

Ghost447:
But we still need to sell crude oil to enable us survive or you have not thought about that?

We have always assume we need to sell crude oil to survive. That is being debunked daily. If PMB continue like this for another one year, ND oil will fall into secondary matter of discussion. It will become alternative source of income. Just watch.

I see a lot of u guys are happy that production is not going on in ND. Not recognizing that continually, other places are bracing for survival apart from ND. Like cutting your nose to spite your enemy uh??

Chief-Edwin-Clark1
Chief-Edwin-Clark1


My Dear Chief E. K Clark,

It has has been just a little over one year since when you led the charge to threaten that Nigeria would burn if your godson, then President Goodluck Jonathan, loses an election for which he had spent five years working hard to lose. The threats by your esteemed self and your lackeys was that the country would be rendered ungovernable should your godson’s opponent win. I will return to the subject of these threats and their subsequent manifestations. Your godson did lose and the plan was activated for hell to break lose.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan did not lose re-election because he is a bad person; he lost the election because he was surrounded by people like you, who reduced governance to an Ijaw vendetta mission. You constituted yourself into the defacto president while the man given the mandate by Nigerians was reduced to merely a mouthpiece for you and others who suddenly think that the auspicious chance of having a president from the region producing the crude oil was a licence to trample the rest of us. Your youths have now be conditioned to see the other ethnic nationalities of this federation as having no right to be alive.

Not once in those years that you held Jonathan hostage did you think to prevail on him to overwhelm the Niger Delta with disproportionate infrastructural development. Had you so advised him and he heeded your counsel, other geo-political regions would have accused him of sectionalism but the things lacking in the area today would have been provided. Instead, your counsel to him was to service militants and warlords with slush fund to bankroll unsustainable lifestyles that you yourself were part of. Age can play tricks with memory, so in the event you have forgotten you may want to contact the finance department of the Transcorp to tell you the cost of the presidential suite in which you stayed perpetually during the Jonathan era. The bill for that alone would have uplifted a community in the creeks.

You live this odiously opulent life of locking down hotel suites when you have your palace in Asokoro, Abuja, which means your stay there is not the product of being destitute; it was a lifestyle choice that many of the militants on amnesty dole copied to perfection – it was all about collecting huge funds and go on that ego trip of feeling better entitled than other Nigerians. When you did stay in your Asokoro residence it was to plot against Nigeria under the guise of rooting for your godson.

What is painful is that you and your likes have created the Nigeria you want, where ethnic, religious and primordial sentiments and not reason guide the reasoning of our youths. This perhaps explains why it was so easy for the youths to accept weapons and explosives to carry out the threats championed by their elders who didn’t know better in 2015. On the erroneous impression that the government would be crippled by the sabotage of oil and gas infrastructure, the militants are almost about done with blowing up all vital installations and the government remains in place while people in other geo-political zones are already getting used to imported petrol and the economy, though limping, is beginning to wean itself off crude oil revenue. It is the environment and people of the Niger Delta that will thus suffer for the destruction by the militants.
The caring government of President Buhari is mindful of this and was prompt in bringing in the military to dislodge the so called militants and there has not been anything by way of support from the elders in the region. Instead of calling the militants to order and making them understand that a peaceful Niger Delta is needed for the Ijaw nation to make progress, you and the other elders have failed to show the needed leadership. The leaders of that region have at some point tried to use the militancy as bargaining tool to stop investigations and prosecutions of your members that stole in the Jonathan years. Considering that the myth that an Ijaw cannot be prosecuted for embezzling oil revenue runs deep one can easily sympathise with that kind of warped mindset, whose proponents forget that the money in the national tills include taxes paid by the rest of us, even if it is only ten percent.

Chief, if using the militants to negotiate safe passage for treasury thieves is sad, sadder still is your leading the other elders to want to get on the gravy train by riding on the criminality being committed by your youths. With the leaders of that zone, you repeatedly demanded that the military be withdrawn from the Niger Delta as a precondition for dialogue. You have now gone the whole hog to take ridiculous to a new low.
When you convened a meeting of the Elders and Leaders of Thoughts of Ijaw ethnic nationality in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria over the weekend, your script kind of reached its climax and what follows from here on would be a succession of anti-climax. Your meeting was to openly demand your cut in whatever goodies negotiation could bring to your boys. Possibly because you also know that it may be too late to rein in the psychopaths you have unleashed on the country, you are already afraid that you would soon lose these damaged goods to any military operations that could result from a failed negotiation. You were clearly quoted as saying, “That (dialogue and military operation) will not work. These children are our children and we cannot fold our hands when they are being attacked and pretend not to notice. We must be involved in what government wants to do.”
In this I advise Sir, that you and other Niger Delta Elders take a cue from the North East and their misadventure with Boko Haram. Yourself and the other Niger Delta Elders should ask Borno Elders what happened when they initially thought the boys that were once running errands for them must be protected from the consequences of waging an insurrection. The elders once wanted the military out of the North East but today they can brief their South-South counterparts better on how not to allow criminality thrive. They know how their sons later turned against them and all others. The same militants doing the bidding of the elders today will at some point turn against the Clarks of the region and others of that region.
As things stand your options are limited. Gani Adams, sectional leader of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) apparently is unable to execute the suggestion you gave him in those heated days of electioneering, even if he tries it he lacks the backing of the Yoruba nation. Save for some miscreants that are deluded enough to attack security operatives and those using separatist agenda to defraud their own people with the lies that they want to buy ammunition and bullets, the South East’s belief in unity of Nigeria grows daily with talks of restructuring being driven by intellectual input. This leaves the Niger Delta, and only the portion of that region enslaved to you, being the only region that is recalcitrant and waging war against the nation while demanding payment to stop attacks.
My dear Chief Edwin Clark, the time to contain the militants that the elders and leaders of your region armed to harm Nigeria is now. Even as the talks of negotiation go on it is important there is a military deployment in the region both as a show of strength strategy and to be on standby in case of the splinter groups that would break out to start attacking elders, leaders and people of the area once a deal is agreed with government. It may seem you have the militants under control right now but if you look closely you would have yourself noticed that you are losing grip of them. There is only one way that this will end on a good note for the innocent ones in this situation. Stop kicking against military deployment based on self-interest and greed. Allow the military to deploy to the Niger Delta since there is still time to clean up the mess that you and other elders created. Be so kind to your youths, agree to the deployment of military in the Niger Dellta.
I do hope you will forgive my seeming insolence in writing you in this manner. My culture places the burden on me to be respectful of elders at all times but the issue at hand is a dire one and someone has to break rank to allow you see the futility of keeping the military out of your creeks.

Okanga Agila

Newmanluckyman:
This doesn't call for celebration from both sides. If actually the military conducted those strikes which I will never blame them though because their level of patience and tolerance has been over stretched. But this action instead of to serve as a deterrent to the militants will ultimately emboldened and spurred them into more vicious attacks.

The way forward? Let the govt continue to engage them in dialogue at least for now and found proactive ways to counter their threat using sophisticated intelligence gathering.Military action should be the last option.Am very confident that there will be light at the end of the tunnel. #LetsGivePeaceAChance.

Dialogue, dialogue dialogue...so I can choose to be a criminal and the government should come dialogue with me. What do you think will be my position? I will simply ask to be settled or a continual giving me of free money. This will then spur more of my type and infact an endless chain of criminality like what the amnesty has caused. When in the world do you just dialogue with every criminal because he got AK47.

The only dialogue is surrender yourself to the authority. We shouldnt preach what is not sustainable please.

TippyTop:
Which Judge gave this ruling?

Yes> you guessed it, Okon Abang the world renown APC judge, posted to Abuja in January specifically for issues like these.

Anytime APC or aggrieved PDP members have a case they usually take it to Okon Abang.

Metuh ran to Abang knowing the open disgust she always display towards PDP
She ruled against Metuh (even though it was proven they were classmates)
She ruled against Ikpeazu
She ruled against Badeh
The list is endless.


[size=13pt]Buhari is not only killing the economy, the dullard is killing the judiciary too.[/size]

When a man steals your wife, the best revenge is to make sure he keeps her. PDP on their own brought in Sherrif saying he has the money war chest to rejuvenate the party. Now APC is ensuring you keep him. What then is the hullaballoo?

dreamwords:
Is it by force to tap oil from from someones land,
They said they dont want again, they want freedom to self determination, which is one of the fundamental human rights,
Everything should be based on dialogue

Their place? The sea and creek? It does not belong to anybody. If u no be anancoda how u go dey leave for creek? truth is that people from different places settle for fishing activity. You cannot be claiming land or what is beneath it, put there 100 million years ago. Just because u suddenly settled there for fishing.

Anyway leave that. If the people want to agitate or ask for self determination, it is not by criminality. They have representatives, Governors and even Chiefs and Kings. Not faceless vandals.

cckris:
Igbos thrive under corrupt atmosphere? Which planet are you just visiting from?
Travel around Nigeria, & ask non-Nigerians who they SEE sustaining the Economy of this nation.

Sustaining economy how? importing fake goods and defrauding people. Please tell me how they are supporting any economy. Why didn't they go support economy in their own state and make it an envy? Why hustle in another state?

Quakertellicus1:
GEJ was not Igbo....and if he had won in 2015...that means a Northern president in 2019...with 2027 being the earliest an Igbo could hope for top job.

If PDP wins in 2019....the same applies.

Ironically, the best hope for an early Igbo presidency is APC wining in 2019...which leaves 2023...open to Igbo land.

But then again, things change. In 2007....I thought that an Igbo man would be president in 2015. Of course.....things are not always in a straight line....

You correct. But just try modify, assuming GEJ is considered Igbo. Because that is what he said (being ur brothers with the Azikiwe and Ebele thing. No Ijaw name). The Igbos acted it. They are more vehement supporter of him than even ND.

It means Igbos have already done theirs. But if they had support PMB, they could have negotiated for 2023 at the worst. But with what had happened, after an 8 yrs Northern PDP from 2019, it will be turn of a North central. Same goes for PMB for 2019. Any which way, it is better for Igbos to negotiate in APC than wait for 16 yrs in PDP. Things change very drastically in a long time like 16yrs. There may even be no more PDP. Watch. That is the intention of the ruling government.

Sure they didn't do this permutation when they were supporting wholly and blindly in 2015. They created a strong impression of GEJ being an Igbo. I hear and believe he is from Arondizuogu. Not surprising.

mrvitalis:
Lying to oneself is a bad thing
In 2011 didn't Buhari meet igbos to support him that he would rule one term n hand over to igbos??
In 2003 am sure Buhari won alot of states in the south East but was rigged out
In 2015 we were told that APC is a northern Islamic party while PDP is a southern party... And u can't deny
this

Stop lying bro

No mind am. Some people including Igbos (maybe Igbos are more)actually hate Buhari because they survive and thrive only under corrupt atmosphere. So he remain a treat to their illicit progress.

igwegeorgiano:
President buhari ridding on GEJ's legacies. let honor be given to who is deserving of it. long live GEJ long live the fed rep of Nigeria

Thank you very much. I need a leader who will ride on and further the predecessor's legacy. Which legacy of OBJ or UMYA did GEJ latch on rode on? He could have harnessed OBJ power project. I think he simply uprooted what was already done.

Let Buhari ride on all previous legacy like 16billion dollars on power and 300billion Naira road. When they start commisioning roads, please come back and retype this again.

flyca:
Is this creature not too large for a goat to birth?

Scary though

I think say na only me see am. It is way too large. There is still plenty of question to be asked.

we can like mystery

shukuokukobambi:
Abeg bros, no be techno fault. These guys are truly and finally lost.

Hate has destroyed every thinking cell in their system. They obviously cannot be helped.

Looking at PMB appointment so far, I think he has shortchanged the North. He effectively handed over Nigeria to South. Just imagine, Minister of Works, Power and Housing + Minister of transport (including aviation, NPA railway etc) + Minister of Finance + Minister of petroleum (since PMB does nothing there anyway) + Ministry of Science and Technology + Solid and mines ministry + CBN governor from same state as petroleum. Even in the military, the chief of defense + Chief of Naval from South.

One must be in irredeemable wailer to still wail on appointments going to the North