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Language alone is not a determinant of tribal affiliations otherwise Scots, Irish and English would all belong to the same tribe. They started with distinct languages but gradually assimilated the predominant language, English. Same situation with Anioma, Ikwerre, Ukwuanni etc that deny their Igboness.

NigerDeltan:
GEJ initiated the project

Since when did initiation become execution and an achievement?

You ppl sef...

mrvitalis:
Please this money should be used for employment and revenue generating investment

Only the blind can't see Buhari performance

It's private investment. They can do whatever the eff they want.

Movic1:
Igbos & lagos So you didnt want the real owners of lagos to control/manage the affairs of their state? You used calabar to cover up,your main target is lagos. . Igbos/ lagos

It's called eating their akara and having it.

Israelis have been stuck to Lagos like flies on shit.

stalyf:
LOOL.
You sha dislike the Biafrans

I like teasing them. I love Nigerian Igbos though.

Love the flyover GEJ built. Dubai standard

GEJ our hero in Israel

SOUNDKING:
Written /compiled by: Biafra Emmanuel Obioma

THINGS ALL NIGER DELTANS SUPPOSE KNOW ABOUT BIAFRA:
BIAFRAN STRUGGLE SUPPOSE TO BE CHAMPIONED VERY WELL BY NIGER DELTANS MORE THAN THEIR IGBO COUNTERPART BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ORIGINAL BIAFRA JUST LIKE IGBOS ALSO.THESE ARE SOME OF MY REASON FOR THAT:
THE FIRST MILITARY COUP WHICH WAS TAGGED IBO COUP WAS SPEAR-HEADED BY CHUKWUMA NZEOGWU A NIGER DELTAN FROM PRESENT DELTA STATE,
THE NAME BIAFRA WHICH WAS GOTTEN FROM BIGHT OF BIAFRA WAS IN NIGER DELTA,
THE FIRST MAN TO PRAISE BIAFRA AND SHOW SUPPORT AS A MUSICIAN WAS CARDINAL REX JIM LAWSON (HAIL BIAFRA), A KALABARI MAN FROM PRESENT DAY CALABAR IN NIGER DELTA.
THE POPULAR 'EWU NEBE AKWA' SONG WHICH WAS SEEN AS MOCKERY BY HOUSA AND ALSO ONE OF THE MAIN REASON IGBOS WERE KILLED IN THE NORTH WAS ALSO SANG BY CARDINAL REX LAWSON.
JASPER ADAKA BORO WHO HELP NIGERIA SEND BACK BIAFRAN SOLDIERS IN NIGER DELTA WAS ALSO KILLED BY NIGERIA SOLDIER PROBABLY BY ADEKUNLE THE BLACK SCORPION IN WHAT HE CONSIDERED AS REVENGE TO WHAT BORO DID TO NIGERIA SOLDIERS DURING THE 12 DAYS WAR BETWEEN NIGERIA AND NIGER DELTA WHERE MANY NIGERIA SOLDIERS WAS DROWN BY ADAKA BORO'S MEN.ANOTHER REASON WHILE ADEKUNLE KILLED JASPER BORO ACCORDING TO OLUSIEGUN OBASANJO WAS TO TAKE THE HONOUR OF DDEFEATING STOBORN BIAFRAN SOLDIERS.
IN 1968 MORE THAN 700 YOUNG BOYS OF DELTA STATE WAS KILLED BY MURTALA MOHAMMED ON WHAT HE CONSIDERED AS A REVENGE TO WHAT CHUKWUMA NZEOGWU DID TO AMADU BELLO,ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA AND,SIR S.A AKINTOLA .HUNDRED OF DELTA WOMEN WERE RAPED AND TORTURED THAT SAME DAY BY MURTALA AND HIS UNCIRCUMSISED MEN.IMMAGINE THE PEOPLE THEY SUPPOSE TO PROTECT ARE NOW BEING SEEN BY THEM AS PREY BEFORE THEIR PREDATORS.
SHOULD I TALK OF IYANG BASSEY WHO FOUGHT HIS FELLOW BROTHER COLNEL ACHUZIE. DO YOU KNOW THAT AFTER THE WAR THAT IYANG BASSEY WAS DEBASED TO THE LOWEST POINT BY NIGERIA ,THEY NEVER REMEMBERED HIS HEROIC EFFORT AT ONITSHA .SHOULD I TALK OF IBIBIO ETUK WHO HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN BY HISTORY.THEY ARE MANY TO BE REMEMBER,NOT EVEN ONE OF THEM WERE HELD IN HONOUR AS THEIR BROTHERS WHO FOUGHT ON THE SIDE OF BIAFRA SUCH AS JOE ACHUZIE,CONRAD NWAWO, GENERAL PHILIP EFFIONG ,OKOKON NDEM AND REST OF THEM. TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH NIGERIA HATE NIGER DELTANS MORE THAN IGBOS. I COMPILED THIS LITTLE ARTICLE JUST TO LET YOUNG BIAFRANS ESPECIALLY THE NIGER DELTANS TO KNOW THAT BIAFRAN STRUGGLE IS NOT FOR IGBOS BUT FOR EVERY ONE IN THE OLD EASTERN REGION.BIAFRAN STRUGGLE IS AIMED AT TOTAL EMANCIPATION OF SOUTH SOUTH AND SOUTH EAST. GOD BLESS US ALL. LONG LIVE SOVEREIGN STATE OF BIAFRA.

Nobody reads all caps shit. Learn online etiquettes

truthspeaks:
Propaganda n it ain't wrking. Buhari shld apologize to d 5percenters n lure dem wit developmental projects n they ll gladly drop their guns. Wat I tink

Not all 5%ers are equal. Some offer oil and others red mud. If you are Buhari, what would you offer the red mud people?

ayukdaboss:
Where was Kanu mentioned in that post?? You trabalists are gradually turning into something else.

I see reading and comprehension are not your strong suits. Dalu o.

124mumsy:
just imajine Nigeria navy does not know the creek very well, if not they would have being able to stand firm with this thugs, the rate at which this boys are gaining ground hmn!

That's really not the point of this story.

Kanu just got dumped. It must really suck to be agitating for Biafra. You get no respect

*Reformed Egbesu Boys suspends hostilities
*Disagrees with Avengers, JNDLF on Kanu, Dasuki
*Warns Tompolo, Ateke Tom, Boyloaf to stay off negotiations  By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Ben Agande & Perez Brisibe

WARRI—THE noticeable crack in the camp of the militant groups bombing oil installations in the Niger Delta degenerated, yesterday, as one of them, Reformed Egbesu Boys of Niger Delta, unilaterally declared cessation of hostilities.

Meanwhile, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, last night, raised a seven-man provisional team, tagged Aaron Team 2, to negotiate with the Federal Government just as it charged the Niger Delta Avengers to drop its defiant posture and embrace dialogue.

This came as traditional rulers from Niger Delta, under the aegis of the South-South Monarchs Forum, have scheduled a meeting in Uyo next week to discuss ways of finding solutions to the increasing spate of destruction of oil and gas assets in the region.

The Joint Revolutionary Council, JRC, of the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Force, JNDLF, had, Friday, indicated it had accepted the window created by the Federal Government for dialogue, but the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, maintained that it was not part of the negotiations. Vanguard learned, yesterday, that government negotiators had penetrated many of the militant groups and many would likely declare cessation of hostilities during the week and embrace dialogue with government.

Many of the militants were furious that some powerful forces have hijacked the struggle to the detriment of the region and were merely using them as bargaining tool. The Reformed Egbesu Boys of Niger Delta is at loggerheads with the NDA and JNDLF over their positions.

While it is on the same page with JNDLF on cessation of hostilities, it disagreed with it on the release of leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, and former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), and other conditions.

Warns Tompolo, Ateke Tom, Boyloaf to stay off negotiations The group warned those it described as old generation of Ijaw activists, namely Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, Ateke Tom, General Boyloaf, General Africanus Ukpaparasia and others, “not to meddle in this ongoing process.”

Leaders of the group, General Tony Alagbakeriowei and Commander Ebi Abakoromor, in a statement, said: “We align ourselves with the unilateral declaration of cessation of hostilities on oil and gas assets in the Niger Delta by various militant organizations. “We are in total support of the Federal Government option of dialogue, taking into cognizance the numerous appeals from both local and international platforms.

In as much as we have considered this option, we wish to reaffirm that the Ijaws have never been a conquered people.

“The Reformed Egbesu Boys of Niger Delta wishes to state that we are not comfortable with some aspects of the demands contained in the Joint Niger Delta Liberation Forces as published in the mass media and the Avengers. Disagrees with Avengers, JNDLF on Kanu, Dasuki “The Niger Delta agitation is not about persons as portrayed in the said publication.

The Ijaw agitation has always been issues of resource control and true federalism and inequality where our farmlands have been divided into oil blocks among Nigerians to the exclusion of the Ijaws. “Therefore, the legitimate agitation of the Ijaw ethnic nationality has nothing to do with Sambo Dasuki and Nnamdi Kanu, though we sympathize with them.”

The militant group differed with the inflexible stance of the Avengers on former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo.

It stated: “The former commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Government Ekpemupolo, is one of the symbols of our struggle. “We strongly recommend that a political solution be explored by the negotiation team to resolve his issues with the Federal Government.”

Reformed Egbesu demands For peace to hold way, it tabled seven demands before government, including commencement of academic activities at the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State and restructuring of the Amnesty programme with upward review of funding to accommodate more beneficiaries.

The militant group called for the sacking of the Coordinator of the Amnesty programme and Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh (retd), saying he lacked the experience to effectively coordinate the programme.

“We, therefore, pass a vote of no confidence on him,” the group said. Other demands made by the group include increase in derivation to 50 per cent and payment of 50 per cent directly to the communities through appropriate structures; release of all persons currently in detention facilities, dropping and pardoning of persons detained and creation of Niger Delta Investment and Development Bank.

It said: “Pipeline surveillance contracts should be reserved for the current agitating youths because Nigeria cannot safeguard these facilities; and the oil majors and related agencies, such as NNPC, PTDF, NPDC and NSPIMS should create 6,000 job slots.”

True federalism “In conclusion, we wish to reaffirm the Ijaw position of true federalism within a restructured state and the Federal Government should immediately activate the necessary platform.

We warn the Federal Government to be sincere and committed to the peace process and to state that any deviation would lead to resumption of hostilities.” NDA still maintains ‘no negotiation’ stance At press time, Niger Delta Avengers had not reviewed its ‘no negotiation’ stand, but had refrained from bombing more installations.

Its last outing was on June 9 when one of its strike teams blew up a major trunk line, Obi Brass, belonging to Agip ENI in Bayelsa State. On May 12, spokesperson of the Avengers, Brig General Murdoch Agbinibo, said: “By October 2016, we will display our currency, flag, passport, our ruling council and our territory to the world.”

Not many militants and Niger Deltans share such aspiration. However, other demands of the group include implementation of report of the 2014 National Conference, 60:40 percent ownership of oil blocs in favour of oil producing communities, proper funding of amnesty programme, trial of APC members allegedly indicted for corruption, unconditional release of Kanu and take-off of Nigerian Maritime University, NMU, Okerenkoko.

Meanwhile, the Ijaw People Development Initiative, IPDI, yesterday, said the fusion of the various ethnic nationalities in the Nigeria marriage was no longer compatible, adding that except the country was restructured, it would drift into major crisis in the nearest future.”

National President of the assembly, Austin Ozobo, said: “Nigeria cannot afford to survive the myriad of problems threatening its peaceful co-existence, ranging from Boko Haram, Biafra, herdsmen and N-Delta agitation for self-determination. MEND raises 7-man team to dialogue with FG MEND, in a statement by its spokesperson, Jomo Gbomo, said: “Members of the MEND Aaron Team 2 are by no means members of MEND.

The provisional list of members of the team, who have already accepted to serve, include: Henry Odein Ajumogobia, SAN (Rivers), Bismark Rewane (Delta), Sen. Florence Ita-Giwa (Cross River), Timipa Jenkins Okponipere (Bayelsa), Ibanga Isine (Akwa Ibom), Ledum Mitee (Rivers) and Lawson Omokhodion (Edo State).

“Following useful exploratory discussions held with high ranking officials of the current administration, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has constituted ‘Aaron Team 2’ to dialogue with the Federal Government on the immediate, medium and long-term future of the Niger Delta.”

It explained that the team was made up of patriotic and selfless men and women of proven track record, integrity and character; and drawn from different parts of the Niger Delta. MEND said: “Other members of the team shall be made public in due course after due consultations with relevant stakeholders.

“Our message to the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) is simple: The Niger Delta struggle is beyond attacks on oil installations. Indeed, prior to the MEND ceasefire, the group had, among numerous daring attacks, on Thursday, June 19, 2008, successfully carried out the spectacular attack on Royal Dutch Shell’s offshore Bonga oilfield which is located at a distance of 120 kilometres (75miles) south-west of the Niger Delta.

“However, with the benevolent benefit of hindsight, the group realized that, after the initial euphoria of each successful attack, the gargantuan problems which confront our region, including environmental pollution and political corruption, increased geometrically.”

South-South monarchs meet in Uyo Meanwhile, traditional rulers from the Niger Delta, under the aegis of the South-South Monarchs Forum, are to meet in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, next week, to discuss ways of finding solutions to the increasing spate of destruction of oil and gas assets in the Niger Delta Region.

In a statement issued in Abuja, yesterday, Chairman of the forum, Dr Edmund Daukoru Mingi XII, Amanyanabo of Nembe Kingdom, explained that the decision to convene the Niger Delta Traditional Rulers Security Summit was taken after an emergency meeting of the forum in Port Harcourt, weekend.

According to him, the security summit, with the theme: “Institutionalizing an Integrative Architecture for Systemizing Domestic Security Management in the Niger Delta Region,” will hold at the Le Meridien Ibom Hotel & Golf Resort, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State from June 27-29, 2016.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/crack-in-militants-camp-widens-2/

The fear of the sophisticated ones leads to paranoia.

Time for SE to become relevant.

The Minister of Power, Work and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday, expressed shock at the destruction of public properties by Nigerians who also yearn for better service from government.

Fashola expressed his frustration while speaking on Thursday at the Buharimeter town hall meter in Abuja.

The Minister also said the Ajaokuta steel plant is embroiled in legal suits hence government can do little at the moment.



“Yes, there is no power. But it does not mean there is no capacity to produce power. In February, we were able to meet 5,000 megawatts.”

“When you have an idea how extensive the pipeline network is and how they must pass through land.”

“I don’t know any country that wants to have electricity that destroys its electricity infrastructure.”

“People have even begun to remove bolts and nuts from tracks that had been laid for rail.”

“There will be a time when we can not rely on gas solely. We think that methods, planning and coordination will take us to the society we want to live in.”

“As far as security is concerned, there is a new wave of global criminality going on. The existing security machinery put in place after the second world war takes care of conventional warfare. It’s a new global learning curve for everybody.”

http://ynaija.com/nigerians-want-electricity-also-destroy-power-infrastructure-fashola/

It's hard for Akpabio to grasp sophistication.

Young and bright minds like this gives Nigeria hope.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUY8jmW52uw





Amaka o!!!

It's smart idea to concentrate all the beef production industry in the north. They can use it as a leverage when re-negotiating the country.

Pastor Ben is Yoruba for all intents and purposes.

The hits just keep coming in this thread

Nigerian football icon Stephen Okechukwu Keshi died suddenly in the early hours of Wednesday in Benin City, Edo state, TheCable understands.


The former international football player and coach had lost his wife of 33 years, Kate, last year after a prolonged battle with cancer.

TheCable confirmed his death from a member of his family as well as one of his close associates.

“He was not ill at all, never showed any signs of illness, but we suspect he never got over the death of his wife,” a friend said.

He is survived by four children and his mother.

Keshi, the only Nigerian coach to have won the Africa Cup of Nations, achieved a rare feat in 2013 by becoming only the second person to win the trophy both as a player and a coach.
The only other person to have achieved the feat is Egypt’s Mahmoud El-Gohary.

Keshi, a product of St. Finbarr’s College, Akoka, Lagos, started his playing career at a very young age at ACB Football Club, and later played for New Nigeria Bank, Stade d’Abidjan, Africa Sports, Lokeren, Anderlecht, RC Strasbourg, and a host of other clubs.

He represented Nigeria from 1982, at age 20, till 1994, most of the time captaining the Super Eagles and scoring vital goals from his position as a central defender.

He also coached Togo and Nigeria at the World Cup, as well as Mali.

Keshi, nicknamed the “Big Boss” for his leadership skills, is the fifth member of the all-conquering 1994 team to die, following Uche Okafor, Thompson Oliha, Rashidi Yekini and Wilfred Agbonavbare.

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http://saharareporters.com/2016/06/07/former-super-eagles-coach-stephen-keshi-dead

Sebi I talk am. Corruption fighting back and now Buhari and GEJ are in London negotiating and Tompolo too is curiously out of the country.

Una see una sef?


Crazy iPod mindless supporters.

Churchill made me spit my coke. Funny but serious satire.

Buhari is being hypocritical on this one.

plaetton:
Thanks to Buhari' s much trumpeted TSA implementation.

https://www.nairaland.com/3130801/tsa-how-buhari-nuked-nigerian

We fail to acknowledge the extent to which corruption actually runs our economy.

Newmanluckyman:
So much for the change mantra. Our economy is in a recession. Buhari why?

You are seriously asking why we are in a recession?

willibounce1:
I have never seen a set of people so stupid. Your people are being kidnapped and all you can say is divide and rule to refute the news. You always want to attach yourselves forcefully with ppl won't don't give 2 phuckss about you.

By the time all your brothers are kidnapped and killed in akwa ibom, then you'll come back to your senses and stop blaming yoruba ppl for your misery.

You have sense. You must be from the South West...Lolz

Just providing a stereotypical response from Tel Aviv.

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has praised President Muhammadu Buhari for launching the clean-up of oil spill in Ogoniland and other areas in the Niger Delta region.
Mr. Wike, during the flag-off of the exercise by Mr. Buhari on Thursday in Bodo, Ogoni, said, “We commend Mr. President’s determination to close this ugly chapter in our country’s history.”
The president was represented by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
The governor said, “Although this has taken long in coming, it is never too late when it comes to environment.”
Mr. Wike’s speech, which he read from a prepared address, drew applause from Mr. Osinbajo, as well as the crowd.
“For us as a people and the victims of the most abusive form of environmental abuse, today is a watershed in our collective struggles for environmental justice from the Nigerian nation and the world community,” Mr. Wike said.
“We therefore welcome this initiative wholeheartedly. We believe that only environmental justice will restore sustainable peace and economic progress in the Niger Delta.”
The governor appealed to the people to embrace and support the federal government’s effort in cleaning up Ogoniland and other parts of the Niger Delta.

The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, who also spoke at the ceremony, seized the opportunity to tell how former president Godluck Jonathan refused to clean up Ogoniland.
“We did everything possible as a sitting government to get our brother and our leader, the former president, to implement the UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) report,” said Mr. Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers and an arch political rival of Mr. Wike and Mr. Jonathan.
“We did everything necessary, including going to church to pray. The UNEP report was not implemented.”
Mr. Amaechi said it took only an unscheduled meeting between Mr. Buhari and the Ogoni elders, at the height of the 2015 campaign, for Mr. Buhari, then as a presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, to make a promise that he was going to clean up Ogoniland if voted into power.
The former governor’s claim was confirmed by Mr. Buhari, when the president’s address was presented by Mr. Osinbajo.
“We are gathered here today, in keeping with that promise,” Mr. Amaechi said.
The crowd applauded him.
“In keeping with that promise, the economy of Ogoni will change. There is no way they would spend a billion dollar here without creating employment.”
The President, Supreme Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers, Godwin Gininwa, in similar manner like Mr. Amaechi, spoke of Mr. Jonathan’s failure to clean up Ogoniland.
Mr. Gininwa said, “I have nothing against Jonathan, he is my son, he is a very quiet boy. I love him very much. But in this case, he made a mistake. He couldn’t do what he promised Ogoni people.
“I want to advise Nigerian leaders, when they make promises, they should be able to keep it.”
President Buhari, in his address, said, “We are determined to put right the wrong of the past, where the people Ogoni were treated unfairly, and their environment unduly degraded.”
He said he had already given approval “for the constitution of the necessary frame-work that will drive a hitch-free implementation of UNEP report”.
Such framework, according to the Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed, would include setting up a governing council and a board of trustees that will handle the funds to be invested in the clean-up.


It is estimated that it would take between 25 to 30 years for the environment of Ogoniland and other parts of the Niger Delta to be fully restored.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/south-south-regional/204611-jonathan-nice-quiet-boy-failed-us-ogoni-traditional-ruler.html

Vulu:
But your muslim yoruba people like kayfra and other goons interpretes (or wants us to interprete) the kidnapping of businessmen by miscreants in the SS as "SS hating Igbos and Biafra".

Why you yorubas dey like this? Shey na oil dey cause all these madness? Una go run mad for SE and SS matter o.

Intellect20:
Yorubaa...go away!

Dodoyo

Better beg Obong to holla at the cops on your behalf.

Intellect20:
The two posters above me are yorubaa and love news like this!

I laugh at Hausa-Fulani and yoruba divide and rule tactics...as expected plant discord between Igbos and their SS neighbors, as they fight each other, Hausa-Fulani and yoruba will continue to steal your oil, just as we have been doing for over 50yrs. Any SS or Igbos that falls for this deja vu should be dealt mercilessly. They did this in Bayelsa, they realize it didn't work, now they are bringing it closer to the borders of one of the staunchest supporters of Igbos. This evil people will never let us be in peace...Igbos have been living peacefully with Ibibio, Efik, Annang and Ijaws for thousands of years without a single problem, it shall continue to be like that.

Odenson. Like your rants stops the kidnapping of your fellow jews. Lolz

Siddon dey yarn twetwe