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What I'll like to see is a summary of oil revenue distribution from all sources/channels to all states over the last two decade or so.

DaLover: nationalmirroronline.net/new/why-we-oppose-petroleum-industry-bill-northern-senators/




Yet some people wonder why they are referred to as parasites.
Mods front page Abeg!

Raw egg is actually good for you - but 28 of it will fill the stomach with a massive amount of enzymes. Call it egg overdoze.

Law-confessor:
Gosh!! Consuming Raw Eggs is odd

Meanwhile Bayelsa is passing a $2.5 billion budget - not counting millions more through NDDC, amnesty, and the other pilfering by GEJ - all for less than 3 million people.

Yet it is in Lagos that the big achievements in governance are happening.

Eko Ile: A state with 20 million people and so much responsibilities passing $3 billion budget when they should be passing nothing less than $20 billion..

This is just sad.

Nothing like a committed dictator - it is simply a shortcut to hell that you hapless Nigerians will never learn not to lazily attempt to take.

Demand your rights, apply widely available knowledge, be honest with yourself and with your leaders and soon the light of development will shine on our nation!!!

emiye: We need a committed "dictator" at the helm of affairs as the president, someone who will offer Nigerians tough love, like a good father will treat his spoilt brat, someone who will be guided by the constitution.

(s)He must serve at most 2 terms of 4 years, instituting well thought out policies that will stimulate growth & development to the country, and more importantly instill a positive behavioural cultural change in Nigerians.

Most Nigerians don't know what they want, they want to eat their cake and have it.

At the end , the current disdain for rule of law by Nigerians transforms to fear of rule of law and finally respect for the rule of law. 8 years is good enough.

It is GEJ's fault that he has more haters now than 2010 or even 2011. He had so much goodwill from most of the nation, but the ingrate in him immediately took over once he became "powerful". He lost most of that goodwill by his own actions and played straight into the hands of those who had their own selfish agenda.

He should appease his Ori and set to the work of the people - may be Nigerians will forgive him. In any case he goes in 2015.

Sincere 9gerian: By the special grace of God, 2013 shall be a much better year for our country and for all patriotic Nigerians. Bad belle people, enemies of progress, HATERS, SEE-NO-GOOD and HEAR-NO-GOOD children of the DEVIL shall be terribly disappointed

Don't waste your time on that son-of-sam.

henrysam: If he refuses to spend it judiciously like many PDP governors would you hve killed or hanged him. Pls get a better understanding of what is being discussed here.

Certainly this article is mumbo-jumbo conspiracy talk upping Azazi involvement with ND militancy to a role in Boko Haram.
However, the same behavior displayed in this article is what you and your ilk display each and everyday here on NL, as shown by your ignor-arrog-ant statement below.

Billyonaire: Conspiracy theorists, so the spokesperson of Boko Haram is Ijaw man? The Boko Haram spokes person uses Hausa language to claim responsibility for nearly all bombings. Well, if any part of the country wants to wage war against Niger Delta, then its the end of that region. Cos we will trade oil for nuclear weapons and wipe you guys off the map of this planet. Never again will any tribe in this country wage a war against the Niger Delta. With all my heart I so swear!

Northern politicians and the so-called Biafrans do share one Xteristic.

They are both adept at adding together unintelligent stories all in a naked effort to blame their failures on others.
It goes like this - the Biafrans blame the Yoruba for anything bad that befall them, and the Northern politicians will always blame Ibos for all their issues.

This "concorted" story reminds me of how SLS blamed his attempt to smuggle Sharia banking into Nigeria on Ibos, and how Rufai blamed the same set of people for Boko Haram. Mr. Tilde now blames Azazi for Boko Haram. I guess Azazi was the one that went to Afghanistan to train with terrorists, came back and set up a camp called Afghanistan and started to shoot at the police and the army. It must have been Azazi that sent Hausa men to bomb the UN building and to bomb churches, beer parlours, and much more. Azazi must be the northern politicians that are on record as paying Boko Haram and been in constant communication with the disgusting group too!!!

I am ashamed of people that "believe this 100%" because this is the kind of thinking process they display on this forum each and everyday. Try to go to the link provided in the article and see that it doesn't work. I even indulged him to find the article labeled 340 just to be sure, and what I find is completely unrelated to Azazi:http://fridaydiscourse..com/2012/01/discourse-340-weep-not-kano-be.html The article he meant to point to is this: http://fridaydiscourse..com/2010/11/discourse-310-nigeria-cannot-trust.html.

The current article is simply the usual blame them for our issues, and a great way to excuse the inability of NSA Dasuki to do the job he so boasted he will do upon his appointment.

And Ojukwu's govt. was legitimate? They were all illegitimate but that is not the issue.

pazienza: You don't get it,gowon's govt was illegitimate,the civil war was a continuation of his coup.

You still don't get it. A non-negotiated secession is the same as a declaration of war.

pazienza: This is absolute nonsense,ojukwu never declared war,he simply declared secession,it was nigeria that brought war to biafra. Gowon's govt was illegitimate,the war was him trying to complete his coup,as he never had control of the east,prior to that.

It wasn't necessary to secede hastily to protect returnees!

pazienza: Ojukwu negotiated with the north after the first masaccre,and told igbos resident in the north to go back,but Nigeria once again failed to protect her citizens,Ojukwu simply drew a line and told igbos that if they stayed within that line,that he would protect them,and that's exactly what he did. It's better to die fighting than to be massaccred.

Is that also keeping you up at night too?

kettykin: i thought Yorubas fell from the sky (their Hypocritical Hypothesis states that )

I know one of you will use the killings in the north to justify Ojukwu's decision. The fact though is that secession was no real help for that sad situation. Let me help you with the following questions:

1 Did Ojukwu evacuate every Biafran before his secession?
2. If not, didn't the declaration even make the killings more likely?
3 If so, who did the secession help when everyone was already back home?

As for the rest of your vomit - you just go ahead and lick it back up. I would hate to be in your mental state - issuing contradictory thoughts at same time. How can Awolowo be a hero in Yorubaland and yet die without a legacy? It must be hard to be you!!!

Ikengawo: The war had already started by the time Ojukwu declared

60,000 igbos had already been killed when and while Awolowo was telling Ojukwu to wait.
I think ignorance and under-education of the situation is the reason many yoruba has such ridiculous opinions about the biafra situation.
Forget your biases, and study the situation. Ojukwu responded to pogroms against his people and declared biafra as a boarder to announce once Igbos cross that land, they're free, protected and sovereign.

Unless yoruba people are truly stupid people that are given more credit than they deserve. Even today nigerians are being killed en masse for no reason because of the north, and now in the West. Stop acting like this is an igbo-v. yoruba war. It was a common sense v. cowardice war and the yoruba chose the cowards route of dying slowing subservient because they feared dying suddenly sovereign.

Biafra wasn't an igbo nation. It was a christian nation. Every single Christian tribe in Nigeria supported Biafra in the south and were in it except the Yoruba. Allowing a land locked north to blockade christian southerners by sea because of your confusion and cowardice. The end result was what? They ruled you into the modern era and you're now less politically relevant than before.



Yoruba people made a mistake and still down have the courage to own up to it. They sided with genocide and are now surprised to be called genocidal cowards. History has judged Awolowo and this is why he has died forgotten. When Ojukwu died the heads of states across the world and the brightest minds in yoruba land came to show respects. When Awolowo died he was buried and nothing can be pointed to as a single legacy because cowards that fear death are the only people that ever really die. Everyone else is immortalized for posterity.

Keep comparing sleep and death - you should be embarrassed.

Ikengawo: The Gun lobby pays political parties that agree to increase military spending and in specific buy guns from their member companys

hos is this different than IBB making PDP use his company in construction or Dangote using the government to block competition.
Lobbys pay parties for exclusive trade rights that are anti competitive, the same as bribing for oil blocs.
They also determine who the ministers their customer parties pick for key office places

GM has had several board members in the presidents cabinet. Dont be naive, are you convinced that Nigerians are the only ones clever enough to use government for their advantage? or that they're the first? or even best at it? smh.

Silly questions. If I declare a secession today I would fully expect a war and would have started a war. Get it?

pazienza: What lesson are you talking about? And how exactly did Ojukwu start the war?

Nobody ever said Ojukwu was wrong to want to secede but you don't do that without first considering all alternatives to war and preparing adequately.

pazienza: lessons we learnt from the war: we learnt that Ojukwu was right in trying to secede from nigeria,for 42years later,Nigeria has turned to a failure,people are still being killed en masse in the north,nigerian govt can't still protect her citizens from blood thirsty northerners,people are still calling for another aburi under names like SNC, ojukwu was a man who saw tommorrow. We also learnt that Ojukwu made some crucial mistakes that made him to fail in his just and noble cause.

False analogies. Your leader made a mistake - admit it. Honor the memory of the dead by learning the lesson of haste where life and death are involved. That same leader ran away in the middle of the night - so much for courage!!!

Otherwise, if an armed robber ever attack you and kill a relative go ahead and fight back with a toothpick when in fact that armed robber had no intention of shooting you too.

The point is if u save your own life you will be in a position to properly take that assailant down when you are properly armed.

Ikengawo: Imagine the type of coward that will tell the first son of a house to take his time and not fight back when his younger siblings are being killed and his mother and father are next.

If such a thing ever happened to Yoruba people, let it be known that there's nobody in their entire ethnic stock with the courage the help or save them. Too many coward get called heros and leaders.

I can imagine what "mistakes" you will say but let's
hear it anyway.

pazienza: with the light of hindsight, the biafran war was not un-winnable,until Ojukwu made some crucial mistakes.

Believe what you will - Ojukwu didn't have to go to war at the time he did. He could have welcome home the returnees, drag out negotiations and prepare for a full scale war - don't start a war with 120 rifles, gather untrained civilians together and call them the "biggest army" in Africa - you will be sorry.

channel 190: you've said it all, how could he had sat down to see his own peoples destroyed? He just did a mistake, and the west {yoruba ofamanu} are suffering their dubious act[/color]

Stop fooling yourself. This is actually another indicator that Ojukwu was lacking in strategic thought. When a war starts all previous plans become obsolete - except what is directly under your control which should include your food sources and your arm sources. If you depend on food under your enemy's control - you already lost the war you just don't know it. If Biafra was in control of Nigerian food sources starvation would be the first and perhaps only weapon!!! This is why war is a serious matter.

pazienza: Ojukwu said he had the strongest black army, and he proved it,for he held off britain/USSR for 3yrs,it took a starvation policy,a war crime,to bring biafra to it's knee. If the war was just against aboki/Yoruba,then it wouldn't have been a war.

...but GEJ can keep insulting us!!!
GEJ has not seen anything yet.

GEJ is on to sonething here. Let's follow the logic through - more bad roads, less deaths on the roads - problem solved. That's the GEJ way. Applause for the great leader

seanet01: What Nonsense?
So More Nigerians die on good roads than bad roads?
This presido na real monkey.
Which kind of statement is this?
Thunder fire all those FRSC officials,
this one get as he be o.

This coming from the mouth of people who promote Igbo supremacy on this forum!!!

Why can't the nation of Nigeria be shamed into performance by the US? You fool yourself.

It is not the tribalism per se it is people that exploit tribal and religious differences to steal us blind - and the fools who because of their tribal supremacy views get taken by common thieves.

Dede1: Nigeria’s main problem is rooted in tribalism and religion. The only remedy to Nigeria’s misery is disintegration. It is a perceived fact that the Republic of Igbo-land will try to avoid the instances of being shamed for lacking behind Republic of Odua in terms of socio-politico-economic development, vis-à-vis. There shall be a healthy competition as well as cooperation among the nation states. In addition, there shall be a genuine fight against corruption among the nation states.

You are getting interesting by the day with your inside-out logic. Half-education is worse than none!!!

Ikengawo: He's 100% right. People use corruption as a scapegoat because they're too lazy to think when in reality it's the mentality of the people and attitude that's holding the country back. America is very corrupt. What we call bribes here as called Lobby's in the US and Lobbyists (Bribers) get offices in Washington DC and websites. They pay politicians to do what they want the politicians to do and pay the media to do their own bidding, but the country functions. Everything from inflated contracts to cronyism and ballot manipulation, is in the US openly


the difference is if you pass a law in the US people follow it and whom ever's duty it is to enforce it will enforce it.
If you build a good road in Nigeria people use it to speed. The police hired to enforce it will sleep on he job, and if someone gets in trouble for breaking a law they act like the government is oppressing them.

Most accidents in Nigeria happen on good roads. The only thing stopping Nigerians from going top speed in their cars at all times are potholes.
Nigerians need a new civic culture.

The source of the tragedy of Biafra is clear from your comments.
In reading that piece you did not see how Pa Awo demonstrated the "reality" of the situation in the West?
I guess bravery in your world is starting a war that you are sure to lose, especially when the negotiating route has not been exhausted?

You did not see how Ojukwu boasted about his "biggest" army - even as he admitted he was not ready?
Someone that started with 120 rifles was claiming to have the biggest army in Black Africa and negotiating from a position of power only a year or so later?
Did what the sage foresaw not end up happening to the "brave" Ojukwu?
As is very clear from the thinking always displayed by Biafrans on this forum, Ojukwu overrated his capabilities.

Perhaps he was an actual believer or merely a boaster it is not easy to know, but either way such approach to matters of life and death is dangerous.
As I have said before - many of you "Biafran" descendants have learnt no lessons - and you just proved it once

Imagine you either lying or taken by a blatant lie like this.
In 2011, Tanzania's power generation capacity was less than 1,000 MW and the country was experiencing serious power supply problems, like Nigeria.
If we are take your word for it, Tanzania has not only solved its power problems but now has enough excess capacity to export 4 times its 2011 power capacity.
Do your research, it doesn't take that much - Google it!!!

Nigeria may be in dire straits and GEJ may be...... dealer.
...but there is no need to become needlessly unpatriotic.

Moshood91: To all 'Breathe of Fresh Air' Apologists:
Just before you roll out drums and start jubilating in your aso-ebi over your recent achievement of generating 4,500MW of power, or is it 4,502MW, please be informed that one tiny, poverty-stricken nation, located in East Africa called TANZANIA has just announced that it is on track to start 'EXPORTING' 4,000MW of power to neighbouring East African countries by 2015. And yes it is 2015, and not 2020 or 2040! So make una continue to give praises, undue defense and national awards to mediocrity.

What's third world about striped pavements?

GeneralJ: 1) is the sign on the first pic turned the wrong way or is that just how it is

2) I Don't mean to derail the thread but the only reason both those pictures look third world is due to the the black and white striped pavement or whatever u want to call it.

You must be from Mars.
Please take your military talk away from here.

Knowledge9000: Democracy isn't the ideal for some countries....Nigeria! Trust me when I say this. Military never stole or wasted such a huge amount of money. Its sickening!

I hope you do not really mean to say you will thank a killer for helping someone especially one that is unrepentant!!!

floriana: This is abundant proof that there is no human created by God that is absolutely useless. Like the saying goes, an evil child has his day of usefulness. Kudos Omisore for finally saving a life after taking many.

Omisore and "good leader" do not belong in the same sentence. Even thieves give alms.

Nigeria is a funny country - leaders will pocket billions for your hospitals and your roads then you will declare them good leaders when they dole out a couple of millions knowing fully well they will steal yet more billions.

It is good that he is giving for sure, but a good leader maketh not.

Abdul Adam56: Dats gud.We need a good leaders not a rulers,tnx mr senator.

Nonsense.
A government that cancels national day celebrations will put up a massive new year party at the same place?

eledalo: Eagle square will be the venue of a massive party heralding the new year, and come 31st December all roads will lead to the centre of Abuja!
Expect performances by your favourite artists
Admission is free!