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FXKing2012: All these dudes saying they dont support divorce settlement are only being selfish and wicked.

So many men insist on their wives being full housewives; so many men dont allow their wives to study further after marriage; women are forced to put their careers and studies on hold due to pregnancy or marriage; so many women help their husbands achieve emotional stability which helps the men perform well in the office, but when they separate/divorce the guy keeps everything while the woman leaves with nothing plus the responsibility of taking care of the kids. Now ask yourselves, is that fair?

SpicyMimi: @op God bless you!

dayokanu: Actually i can say its purely coincidental .

A guy finish school starts working at say 24yrs he is earning peanuts that cant even buy him jeans, Later they promote him to middle management and he gets married promotes to senior management and he buys the house in Lekki, Abuja, etc buys plenty cars

Is it the marriage that made him rich and buy houses or just that he has paid his dues at his place of work and its time to reap the fruit of 17yrs of education plus 15yrs plus of professional work?

Where i used to work in Nigeria many of our partners got married when they were already very comfortable I dont know which woman made them reach there

maybe their mother, and sisters sha

Those married men who live in face me I face you Were their wives not giving them focus, emotional support and psychology?

Bolt2011: NO to divorce settlement but
YESSSS to child-support.

pDude: Yes.

It would keep a lot of fornicators and adulterers in check

toshmann: Dude/dudess,
By the 2090 there'll be no full igbos or full fulanis is this theory is implemented. Not like Rwanda with Hutus and Tutsis but just Nigerians with "my father is part Igbo part Fulani, my great grand mother is part Yoruba etc" look at the Americans. Ask any white American where his ancestors come from. You'll hear, oh, I'm part German and part Dutch, a little bit of Irish and Portuguese and I know my maternal great-great grandmother is Native American of Cherokee tribe, I also think there's Greek somewhere in my lineage etc etc etc

A professor did a research on African Americans and their ancestry, 90% of them have white ancestors mixed with multiple african tribes.
If we start now to hammer ourselves inter-tribally, I promise you, we will be preventing serious wars for the next generations.

And by the way, as a dude, I gotta tell ya, those Hutu men that killed their Tutsi wives didn't love their wives at all, and only used the crisis as an opportunity to get rid of them

Knowledge9000: What is money about it? Go to Alhajis' houses in Abuja and in most Northern states, some of them have igbo wives, and genuinely adore and love them. You didn't know Atiku Abubakar and many others have igbo women as wives? This is not new and never has been. Alhajis know the beauty of igbo women and are not shy to have them as wives. So stop this money thing and stop hating.

Take a look at this beautiful young lady and tell me what would money mean to her? She can flaunt herself before any man and get what she wants. So, its not money my brother.

la furia: but on a serious note, whats wrong with the marriage? well wish them happy married life . life continues

DaLover: You are like a hungry baby that keeps yelling for food...you will never appreciate that mummy has to take time to prepare the meal...as far as you are concerned a magic wand should be waved and thing will start happening...
I can bet you are not a married man, have no children, have not managed a project of consequence or anything of sort...

vevcom media: i don't know why no one commented, but i thoroughly enjoyed your write-up.

very insightful +

sucess001: Hmmm....you just made me remember this awful day...


I had been called in for a meeting with our foreign clients.

By the way, i am a lawyer and had been working for a Behind and quiet lawfirm in Banana Island. we were having the meeting with three foreigners and my head of chamber. Needless to say the meeting room was really quiet and serene.

Being the special lawyer in the firm with perfect communication skills and intelligence, my boss allowed me do most of the talking. Everything went well till we finished the meeting and i was about to stand up. Still dunno wat happened till today. Apparently, my movement had pushed the media player button on my phone. The consequence was that the quietness of the meeting room was pierced with the shrill and extremely loud moans of my favourite American p.ornstar...cherokee.

To make it worse...my attempts to switch of the blo.oody blackberry was slowed by the fone choosing that particular moment to hang. the noise by this time had attracted the receptionist since the door was now partially open. Took me another 25 seconds to put off the phone. Everyone was quiet. the oyinbos just quietly left. i dont need to describe how i felt.


My former boss later quietly killed the matter buh warned me a repeat will easily cost me my job. Guess dt episode quickened my change of jobs. Since then ehn! I dare not take a fone with p.orn to work!

brainy c: i love brainy guys like u.they are nting bt parasites who never want changes,the old ways didnt work,in gej we trust.transformation all the way.

Okay, then i shall now try to respond to you cos of a single reason- to show you do not hv any clue what u are talking about (i mean not a single clue at all)... Your entire argument here startd and rests on d 'fact' that d Geregu in questn here is the very plant constructd by OBJ which you hv bn seeing near lokoja.

Fail No 1: you do not know d diff bw Geregu I and Geregu II. You do not know that d 414MW Geregu I power plant (most of who core constructn was completed by OBJ in 2006 though wasnt alignd to d national grid cos of gas pipeline and transmissn evacuatn challenges until recently- d plant has was privatisd last yr though so wud be doing well going forward) AND d 434MW Geregu II power plant (d plant whose turbins purchase contract was given to GE in Sept 2010 and whose core construction, gas pipelines and transmission evacuation facilities hv now bn completd in exactly 2yrs as was plannd).

Fail No 2: you said that GEJ has not constructd nor mainly completed any power plant as they were all 'built by OBJ' according to you, abi? So Omotosho II, Oloronsogo II, Sapele, and parts of Alaoji most of which constructn (core constructn, gas pipelines and Evacuatn facilities) hv bn done in d last 3 yrs and are now suppling power to d grid, are what then?

Guess you also ignorantly thought that d old Omotosho and Olorosongun plants (mostly built by OBJ although almost nothing was done in terms of d gas pipelines and Evacuatn facilities then) were the only plants in those 2 areas

sorry to disappoint you,i visited both plants on the 16th of Dec last year and 5th of January this year, planning another trip on the 26th of feb. wont mind if you tag along with us, we still have space for one i perfectly know the diff. between them.

Egbema, Ibom, Benin/Ihovbor and Gbarain new power plants whose main works have also bn done in d last 3 yrs are virtuali complete, and certainly at least sm of dier units wud be fired up and wheel power to d grid this year; only d Calabar plant may not come on stream in d foreseeable future cos of its peculiar gas pipelines and transmissn evacuatn problems. Fail No 3:

Demdem: This thread once again have re-iterated my long stance about that miserable document called the PIB. That document needs to be torn apart and shredded to pieces. Its not in the interest of the Nigerian people.

This govt itself gives no damn about the people. Good comments u have here Jpphilips. am also within the industry and can collaborate many of the things u stated. Those within the industry knows that the govt is just fooling around and there is a limit to which they can speak out before they would be labelled as cabals by the retardeen and his cohorts. i also dont have the time and patience to attend to issues with known fools over here the way u are doing.

please don't remind me about the PIB, its just the elitist document that bro. jo and his crew wants to use to sell Nigeria to themselves.

look at the caption in the PIB about indegenisation and ownership of oil and gas assets, i was like, who came up with this shyte.

the PIB clearly stipulates 70% ownership for Nigerian companies, lemme use examples to explain it.

there is a contract called turn around maintenance awarded by NNPC say every 5yrs, with the PIB, NNPC cannot just give it to a foreign company without an indigenous front.

now, The PIB conveniently ignored to stipulate the guidelines for companies in the oil industry to qualify for different contracts. before, there used to be categories, today a toothpick supplying company can wake up one morning and bid for oil well, yea its that simple, why do you think that Nest oil that has never seen an electric cable is bidding and winning power plants?

do you know why they made it so? so that company owners (politicians by proxy) can expand their tentacles in the oil industry and acquire more assets, abeg how does that useless law benefit the Nigerian people.

now let me give you the biggest shocker,

under welfare and benefits, there was no laid out rule for remuneration by risk for oil workers, that means that the Indigenous companies who have extended their tentacles, made more money can pay pittance to its staff, PIB did not address that.

i was expecting the PIB to come up with a living wage for indigenous oil workers in Nigeria just like the Americans do it, needless to remind you that the Americans rated the oil and gas job as the 8th riskiest job in the world as such western Europeans and North Americans earn between $450,000 to $650,000 annually (top executive positions)while the field operatives earn between $800 to $1,200 daily.

i have pushed this argument in the past and i was meant to understand that it is because of the inherent risks in the Niger delta and the Gulf of guinea, i quickly asked myself,

why did the PIB our own law couldn't give us a living wage when the Nigerian people are faced with the same risks as the others, the PIB was basically constructed to line the pockets of the people that put it together. of course the politicians will lose money if they pay their staff well.

why will a catering company like SJ Abed or what nonsense name it calls itself be paying an offshore staff a paltry 30,000naira monthly, and the staff has no law to back himself?

it is not like the indigenous companies are earning less money, as a matter of fact, the contract sum is now higher than when the foreigners were around yet the Indigenous companies refuse to pay, why?

perhaps one of these days, we will dissect the PIB further so that Nigerians will appreciate that madueke is doing a great disservice to this nation. imagine advocating DSO to address the gas challenges in Nigeria? that woman is a nut case.

taharqa: I told myself I was not going to be involved in this game of yours cos it is entirely worthless: the Nigerian people (the actual VOTERS) who are (and will) enjoy stable power would know it was GEJ's time that it occurs; your attempt to play politics with it would just remain in the internet, believed only be loonies like yourself.

But just to say that, your comment above has got to be the funniest attempt at running away from a situation of been caught in one's lies during a debate!! DSO is a 'cap in hand', 'begging' model, right? *simply hilarious*.. oh, and the discretionary powers of the Minister of Pet to grant some exceptions to total stoppage of gas flaring in the PIB is ONLY meant to 'chop' money from the majors, abi? *laughing* But chai guy, you are a clown- ever heard of technical reasons to flare gases during Exploration even in the most regulated environment?

EDIT: I forgot to tell you this: you have no clue of what you have been trying to debate; and I wouldn't WASTE my time debating you cos it is no use (see reason in 1st paragraph)

people that voted bro. jo will enjoy steady power, lol. in which life?? this one the model that is about to be released already carries a subsidy tag?? lol lol lol

i made a wager with beaf before he passed on (may his ignorant soul rest in peace) that no refinery will stand in this country from Jan last year, he called it conspiracy theory, today, i ve won with my conspiracy and the presidency fired him with my money.

let me be clear, with the model bro. jo is pursuing, no ave. Nigerian, will enjoy steady electricity, i can make that wager with you today and hope you don't get fired. only the rich will enjoy it.

talking about standard flaring, i have 534 oil and gas operating manuals that support it, enshrining into the PIB to make it a law, is a "DEAL", myopic minds like you can never see it till it becomes a problem.

the "surge" or "chocking" or "suck back" can not wait for Abuja's approval, every operator must do the needful, why make it a law? it is a standard safety procedure that protects Madueke's facility, why the bureaucracy?

0lumide: @ JP Philips:

I honestly think the FG should just build the infrastructures to have gas supplied to plants since the FG is now involved with generating which we thought they deregulated.

I think Nigerian FG is a biiig joke and a shame!!!!...

We are tried of these lies mehn! The FG isn't doing shiit to address the power problems.

0lumide: We are on same page. DSO will not work. While I explained the economical aspect of it's not working, you explained the technical aspect.

But your argument messed up when you think the FG will beg suppliers for free gas. I think they just want to ensure the companies sell some of their gas in local market or to power plant or something of that nature not for free.

I modified my post above you may chose to review yours.

the infrastructures are not owned by us but them, the ones we have claim to is by 60%.

so if you say, give me DSO, who gives you his DSO? if you mandate them to sell locally, still no wahala, but they will sell at international gas rate, you just saved them shipping cost, lol.

How do you benefit anyways

0lumide: jmaine is a PDP card carrying member lol!

Let us address issues like patriotic Nigerians not tribal warriors.

I really wish some people could be at the controlling end of Nigerian affairs.

The DSO model is not necessarily "begging" like @jp philips insinuating. It will become begging if it is not mandatory.

But since the PIB will be a law if passed, I see no reason to assume that the DSO model will result to begging. Since it will be LAW, it will become mandatory.

So that may have addressed the issue of gas supply at marketing level only not production level.

Now here is my problem with the DSO: With government deregulating the oil industry, Nigerians will be back to the subsidy era as price of gas can be fixed by marketers.

If electricity is to become constant, gas supply has to become constant too. This means the demand for gas will be high and not elastic. Not elastic in the sense that if Nigeria needs 25k megawatts to have 24hrs electricity and it requires say 4k metric tons of gas per day, (jus estimation), then the demand for gas will always be 4k metric tons per day until need for more mega watts comes. Since the demand is inelastic, and high, producers have nothing to fear jacking up prices. This is the problem!!

What the above means is that if the gas supply is expensive, it will stay so because the demand is the same. For Nigeria, petrol is tooooo freaking expensive but it will stay so until the demand drops (not likely) or a people oriented government weigh in and reduce the price to say 20 naira.

Now back to the DSO issue, as I have showed, deregulation, plus DSO, plus the natural laws of demand and supply means the DSO model will not work for Nigeria because it means Nigerians will pay wayyyy more for gas they have an abundance of. and that is hardcore exploitation...

Nigerians should really go deeper when analyzing issues of economical matters in Nigeria. DSO when coupled with international demand for gas which is high, means Nigerian govt will either have to fix the price for gas or leave Nigerians to the fate of international markets which means Nigerians again will have to pay the price other parts of the globe pays for gas which is really really really expensive for Nigerians..

Seriously, IMF is deep in Nigeria down to our economic philosophers and profs. Every bill Nigeria is passing that is economically based is opening Nigerians up for evil exploitation by multi nationals.!!!!

SOMEBODY HELP US!!!! WE NEED TO REVOLT!!

adeaugustus: I still wonder how many years it will take citizens to understand that this country is going to collapse in the nearest future. The issue here is that, the importance of petroleum fund is over-emphasize in our country.
Even if the subsidy on fuel is fully removed, local filling station will still sell at an inflated price and this is why
1. Most of those filling station you see around don't have the authentic license as a fuel distributor, so what happen here is that, somebody that has the license buys the fuel from the government at the normal price, then sells it to those station at his/her own desired price. This License guys don't have their own filling station, what they have is tankers for distribution and at the end of the day they kind of earn more than the filling stations.

2. Citizens are over-educated but they're still illiterate (Lemme put is that way, because i actually don't know the right way to describe it)..... We really don't know how to deal with local distributors simply because some people don't have issue with the fuel price as their salary can cater for that. This set of people don't care if a litre is sold for #500, and no matter what happens they would fuel their car. If wealth distribution were to be even, then tackling this issue won't be difficult.

The only way out of this mess is if and only if Government will shutdown all local filling stations and empower Major distributors (Total, Mrs, Oando, e.t.c) to buy them and operate them, this way distributors will be held responsible for any misconduct

glad someone understands what is going on, others are just whining. is it not the same corruption that the likes of iweala, sanusi and co will not address yet they delude Nigerians that the problem is subsidy, funny.

the problem started with the license system, those guys don't meet up with its criteria but they still get the license to lift why??

they don't even have stations, no storage facility nothing, that's the funniest part, what about students i see at the depot with SA requests from ministers and those IPMAN id!ots. brother the problem is even bigger than 120naira.

Govt imports products, claims subsidy on it, collect bribe to license people without any infrastructure, under their nose, those guys resell it to people with stations, finally the station owners add their own profit to cover expenses that the first person could have covered, the man on the street now pays for everybody.

is this life

look at what they are doing with kerosene, Someone will claim SA for 3 trucks a week, he doesn't discharge a drop, while govt has subsidized it at 50naira, they will sell to the refueling station owners at 80naira sometimes 90naira, the man who bought, transports and pays other sundry charges, eventually selling it 150naira at the pump.

ironically, the s!!lly man on the street begs Govt to remove the subsidy (so that he pays more) while leaving the whole corruption and racketeering in tact. Nigeria has the highest population of stup!!d people on earth.

jmaine: Refer to the PIB Draft . . . .

Section 253 ( a,b,c) (PP 130) Gas Pricing Principles
Section 270 (PP 142) Gas management model
Section 276 (PP 144) Gas flaring plan
Section 278 (a,b,c) (PP 145) Gas utilization

The article below explains the provisions above explicitly

http://businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/law/cover/42510-the-pib-gas-and-the-nigerian-electricity-supply-industry

Ensure you read it . . . . . . . .

now i had to give up completely on you, seriously you read those parts of the PIB and you think it addressed the problem i highlighted above??

let me ask you again? what did i say is the problem with the Nigerian gas model

how did the PIB fix it (give detailed approach and workable solution)

once again, you are the master of ignorance.

let me help you,

look at the business day link you supplied under the Caption, "PIB AND GAS" the first paragraph says that under the PIB the FG is pursuing a (DSO) for gas, do you know what that means?

DSO means domestic supply obligation, where the govt mandates the gas producers to bequeath some to them, was it not exactly what i referred to as "cap in hand", "begging" etc above? you seem not to even understand your own links.

what is wrong with your head? every link of yours always support my position, yet you don't want to give up, isn't that childish?? so going to gas producers to beg for gas is where the PIB solved the gas problem??

verily verily i say unto you; you have lost touch with common sense, tell me one country in the world who is a "major" oil and gas producer that operate the DSO model? just mention one, and you think your Govt is not insane?? guy, you and your PDP cohorts have a long way to go, in solving the least problem of this country.


furthermore;

the business day article you pasted that summarized the PIB on the fourth paragraph quoted the PIB that it will stop gas flaring,with a caveat that the minister for petroleum has the right to issue gas flaring permits , lol

you are so SSTTUUPPIIDD. Diezeni madueke just created choppings for herself while foooools like you think she did you a favor, tomorrow, she will go and collect billions of dollars from gas producers as flaring permit fee, flaring continues, gas is wasted, gas producers smile to the bank with high electricity tariff, the Ave. Nigerian become more suicidal and an olodo like you will nurse the temerity to argue that PIB solved your gas challenge. i laugh at your ignorance.

please i chose to discontinue this discussion because your ignorance is abysmal, i may chose to do it once more with someone sane but definitely not you,

pls do have a great ignorant day ahead of you.

jmaine: Jp Quotes



You are just an irrelevant rattler who trashes about to no where. So continuing and implementing a master plan shouldn't be commended . . . Maybe the encomiums been showered on Fashola for the Laudable BRT projects conceived by Tinubu blue print is wrong . . .

You simply do not have any tangible base to support your bile . . .

Let's cut the chase and hear from Barth Nnaji himself . . . .



http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nnaji-we-are-implementing-key-pillars-of-power-reform/117760/



I repeat to you again . . .No investor will dabble into any venture that is not profitable . . .Power generating is very expensive and the earlier we get it out of the government hands to able private hands the better . . .

Give people constant power and they will pay . . .Stop this unnecessary whines of yours . .



Your love repeating the same boring point . . . . The main problem that was bedeviling the power sector was gas supply problems precipitated by the unfavorable pricing format of the FG/PHCN . And all the FG did was to address that niggling issue to encourage sustainable and unfettered gas supply . . .Stop giving me that socialist crap,

If we must encourage private hands , then the pricing must be fair to the investors . . .Who even told you it's an outrageous demand. . .You need to shut it and stop making baseless assumption outta no where . . .



Since you love repeating the same bullshyte while ranting and whining . . .Let me once again replay Barth Nnaji words to you . . . .



Am sure you won't be too sad and frustrated to call Barth Nnaji expert views as Govt propaganda . . .



Old Man this thread is about current issues pertaining to the power sector with gas supply the focal issue . .and last i checked they are local / domestic demands . . .

Screaming doesn't equate to making sence , please stay on course . . .



I did rather listen to Barth than listen to a no body like you . .So sheath your delusional toga of intelligence . . .



Your just a screamer repeating the same issue over and over . . . .



You worshiped OBJ for today's success and the same OBJ was the main culprit in above allegations your propping

So how do we define a personality who worships a man he knows has has some weighty issue of corruption hanging on his neck

I said you were a confused lad and here you are proving it . . .



Please refer to Barth Nnaji explanations . . .Do you prefer i repost it again since all you do is repeat yourself consistently



Says an irrelevant dude . . . .

I am just responding this because you have actually quoted what i suspected you will quote in the PIB.

obviously you lack the academic prowess to argue on an issue like this, on so many occasions you conveniently ignore the issue protempore and talk like you head a dept at Yaba left.

above there where you quoted Nnaji, Nnaji admitted that he is doing a quick fix for the Govt due to shortage of funds, on my own part on the penultimate paragraph, i admonished Nnaji for the quick fixes and how they could do better by recovering NIPP funds.

you just repeated what i was complaining about. Nnaji even used the phrase, "Quick fix" which i equally emphasized and used Geregu as a case study.

young man, you are too dull to understand where jp philips is coming from, by the time you wake up to the reality of the power sector, you will honor me as a guy who is light years ahead of you in knowledge.

look again at your post in green, the basis of argument is for you to learn, you believe the gas prices are not outrageous when you need subsidy to light up your home, are you ok

the Govt told you the investors wont come if the prices remain fixed, have you asked yourself if there is a work around that imbroglio? have you even been reading what i have been writing? you sound so confused and angry because you belong to the school of thought where govt is always right, think out of the box and see that the Govt is wrong this time.

read meaning into these paragraphs and tell me the Govt is right if you have basic common sense;

by the above quote of yours, it is obvious you have not seen that this Govt is the reason we are cap in hand.
the bold part of that quote clearly emphasizes that the Govt has failed in local gas processing. this boils down to the AGG program i referred to above,

reading your posts tells me that you are just a noise maker being fed a lot of Govt propaganda, the Govt refuses to develop local gas processing through AGG's which their foreign JV partners do on daily basis under their nose, when the gas flows, your Govt goes cap in hand begging them for gas, brother, you have no shame.

this same JV partners, flare off our gas to the tune of $2.3bn annually yet you think it is commendable to pay them more for the ones they managed to harness? here is the biggest irony, sometime ago, The FG came up with the idea of charging them $10 per cf of flared gas, same FG is liable to 60% of the total sum,

in other words, you please the man that destroy your house more than the tenants you have on rent. that excludes the intense pollution and environmental degradation associated with the process.

blessedmayor: Nairalanderz, is it rite to give your partner your room spare key Or what's the appropriate time to do so?? Singles only plz.

IYA NGBALI: abeg shut up,wot do you expect him to do?shout or scream his name?what is wrong in tapping someone,s shoulder in a gathering?

nija80: well,its not about GEJ because i am not one of his fans.This is what nigerians wanted,i have my fact,most petrol station owners still buys product at the official price except some very few.but majority sells above the official dispensing price,when govt talks about full deregulation,the marketers and their sponsors took to the street,now who is fooling who.Most of them smiles to the Bank with excess profit every day,that is Nija for you,This subsidy will criple this country one day.For your info my brother,its not only in osun state is the whole country over.Onlyy NNPC Mega and some majors sells at the official price.

Denn: Train up your child....when he grows, he won't depart from the teachings