benin-man:

It is doubtful if he didnt need to present his passport in Amsterdam. It is only in rare instances if you were lucky enough to get what is normally called 'an onward boarding pass' from your origin (in this case Lagos) that you are allowed to board your connecting flight without passport check.
However, this system is archaic and i dont think it exist anymore due to security concern.
Last time i heard about an onward boarding pass was over 15 yrs ago

olabowale:

You will die and islam will wax stronger, even in the eastern part of Nigeria. And when you are raised up for Judgement, you will be from those who will receive their books by the left hand! That is the group of losers. Continue to hate, to Allah is your return. So is mine.

iwaboy:

You sound to me like a shite that's doing Tuqya. If that's the case, it's unfortunate.

~Borat~:

Well what do you know?
the guy could be nigerian after all!

ANOTHER MAN ARRESTED ON DELTA FLIGHT REPORTEDLY NIGERIAN

But i'm thinking this guy is just a stu.pid loner who wanted to see his face all over television
he knew he was clean and just wanted to cause a stir

muhsin:

Glad to learn about that. But you have to be extra careful.

Lagosboy:

Buddie our religion doesnt tell us to go blow every infidel up   Otherwise 1.7 billion  muslims would have wiped out every non muslim . It is only 1 muslim killing 5 or 6 non mulsims, within a week all will be wiped out.

Guys on diff not lets leave all these sarcacism. What do you anticipate will be the fall out of this, New laws in Nigeria, Africom or what. Lets move the debate to how this will affect us as nigerians and stop heaping blames on one section of nigeria.

4 Play:

So because Sonangol, in a show of hubris, bid and won a deal to produce oil in Iraq, Nigerians should feel bad?
Sonangol is just as corrupt as NNPC. Good luck with producing oil near Mosul.

ROSSIKE:

You really don't get it do you?

ROSSIKE:

Now they can enact Africom with little resistance.  They are desperate to ''secure'' oil sources.
Now I hear Obama has sent Africom ships into the Gulf of Guinea ''in response to the attempted terrorist act by a Nigerian'', with further ship deployments expected.

ROSSIKE:

Depilot said:

You're the dumbest and most ignorant mo ron to ever set fingers on a keyboard.

Go and read about CIA activities with regard to Murtala Muhammed's assasination, as well as long term US plans to destabilise and depopulate Nigeria, before coming here to type your slave, buttt licking garbage. As shole.

muhsin:

Am really sorry to ask but are you a Shiite? I asked this because only Shiites observe this day as the day on which the Prophet's grandson was martyred. May Allah grant his soul an eternal peace, amin.

Paroh_frey:

This thread only shows that there are more fools in Nigeria than expected.

[size=48pt]With Paroh_frey leading the pack of fools  [/size]

Princek12:

Honestly I am not trying to stereotype Islam since I am not very knowledgeable with Islam. But why is it that all these terrorists who are willing and do blow up themselves are always Muslim? The Islamic governments and authorities need to take a proactive step by rooting and shutting down all these mosques and operations of Imams who teach extreme and anti-West Islam.

This is getting out of hand, for it will increase the fear of traveling and discrimination against innocent Nigerians.

Cyberfreak:

To hell with that. 9/11 was carried out by the U.S  government, not any cave-men arabs. And I strongly believe that this whole 'Nigerian with explosives' story is a huge lie.

Akeemos:

This whole thing is a hoax! They created Al-Qaeda and try remembering, all the whole countries they have invaded, how it all started.

BlueDiva:

So Liverpool now mingle with the likes of Unirea Urziceni?
I feel for you guys sha.

[center]Iraq aims to power out of war into oil big league
Sat, Dec 12 2009
By Simon Webb and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters)-Iraq [/center]

Iraq, emerging from the shadow of war, expects to boost its oil output to rival the level of top producer Saudi Arabia after awarding some of its most attractive oilfields to global oil companies this week.

By the end on Saturday of a two-day bidding round for 10 oil contracts -- the second auction since the 2003 U.S. invasion -- Iraq had received pledges from oil firms to boost its output by 4.765 million barrels per day, almost double its current output.

If all deals from a first auction in June, the second this weekend and others being negotiated are added to national production, Iraq will have a capacity of 12 million barrels per day, overtaking Russia and challenging Saudi Arabia's 12.5 million bpd, Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani said.

"This second round marked a major success for the Iraqi government and the Oil Ministry," government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters.

Some 30 international oil companies braved the threat of violence and attacks to come to Iraq, putting aside security concerns just days after car bombs killed 112 people in Baghdad.

Oil majors from the United States appeared conspicuously uninterested in the fields on offer in the second round, confounding expectations that they might end up with the lion's share of Iraq's oil sector as a result of the U.S.-led war.

Security may still be an issue. The series of car bombs on Tuesday was the third major assault on government buildings in Baghdad in four months and a bloody reminder of the fragile security as Iraq heads into a general election in March.

Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police were deployed in the streets of the capital to protect the auction and army helicopters buzzed overhead. Oil executives traveled around town in convoys of armored SUVs with armed guards.

FIERCE COMPETITION

Amid fierce competition, a group led by Russian energy giant Lukoil won a deal to develop the West Qurna Phase Two oilfield, which with 12.9 billion barrels of reserves is one of the world's largest untapped "supergiant" fields.

Supergiants are fields of 5 billion barrels or more.

On the first day of the auction on Friday, the 12.6 billion barrel supergiant Majnoon field went to a partnership of Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia's Petronas.

The Russian company's win of West Qurna is made sweeter by the fact it had lobbied unsuccessfully since the 2003 U.S. invasion to revive a Saddam Hussein-era contract for the field.

"The terrorists tried to send a message to the companies through the bombings ,  that Iraq is unstable and investment will be overshadowed by risks," Shahristani told state television on Friday night.

"But this message was not delivered and never deceived them. They came and submitted competitive offers that surprised the global oil industry."

Only two of the five fields on offer on Friday were initially awarded as oil firms steered clear of more dangerous or troublesome areas, including the supergiant East Baghdad oilfield that lies in part under Baghdad's Sadr City slum and fields in the north where violence is still rife.

The Qayara field in the north near the violent city of Mosul, which was not awarded on Friday, was won by Angolan state-oil firm Sonangol on Saturday after the company changed its mind about accepting the government's proposed $5 per barrel fee. Sonangol had wanted more than twice that.

DOOR OPEN ONLY FOR A WHILE

Sonangol on Saturday also won another northern field, Najmah, after accepting a lower fee than it wanted.

But for other fields, the companies actually asked for less than the government was willing to pay.[color=#990000]"They were astonishingly low figures. But 2009 will be remembered as the year that Iraq opened its door to the international oil companies and then shut it. It's 10 fields and that's it," said a senior oil executive.[/color]
"So it's strategic for the oil firms, either you are here or you aren't and this is the chance."

Royal Dutch Shell and Malaysia's Petronas won Majnoon with a proposed a fee of $1.39 per barrel and pledging to increase output to 1.8 million bpd, more than double what Iraq expected.

Halfaya, with 4.1 billion barrels of reserves, was some consolation. CNPC, Total and Petronas won it with a fee of $1.40 per barrel and a plateau production target of 535,000 bpd.

The Lukoil and Statoil partnership for West Qurna Phase Two proposed a fee per barrel of $1.15 and a plateau production level of 1.8 million bpd.

The smaller Gharaf field was won by Malaysia's Petronas and Japanese oil company Japex, with a fee of $1.49 per barrel and plateau output target of 230,000 bpd.

Other winners were a group led by Russia's Gazprom for a deal to develop the Badrah oilfield. The group agreed to a $5.50 per barrel fee and a production target of 170,000 bpd.

Shahristani told companies that did not manage to grab an oilfield contract not to worry -- Iraq had "scores" of other fields, including supergiants, left to offer, he said.

Abuzola:

Lmao , maga don pay, awon boiz dey vex. Hehehe.