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Didi2d:
Embassies do check the information of visa applicants too o n social media

SOJOSEPH:
In my profession we call it social media forensics. It is now part of HR background check practice. Things are changing u know... It goes beyond hate-speech really. It could be a plus or minus...

mdokaba1:
In my case, she had my recent passport handy, so it guided her.

sean1000x:
sean1000x is a Typical low IQ afonja. Product of Awolowo free education. No wonder they are sean1000x is dragging 30th position in WAEC with Zamfara and Kebbi states.

kotv:
Your view does not equal fact. Just because you think it is a fact does not make it a fact. Before telling anyone to free themselves and see your version of truth, remove the specs in your eyes. You accuse me of having innate hate for Yoruba for speaking on act they do and I witnessed with my own eyes? Even the topic you provided to try and point the ibos as the aggression ironically, provide me right despite your intention was opposite. On that exact topic, despite the discussion was for Ibos and kiths, the Yorubas took it upon themselves to starting a commotions of insult towards Ibos which in turn turned the iboid of SS to insulting them, not even the Ibos of SE. On the topic, a man that used that avenue to insult Ibos was proved not to be from River State as he claimed. The account I remember because I've heard that account many times by Ibos during my debacle with them as prove of ijaws hate to ibos based on the account multitude of insults to ibo unprovoked on this website. That account has instigated multitude of arguments between Ibos and southern groups. On the topic it was proven he was not Ijaw. I'm not sure if he's Yoruba but the chances of that account belonging to a Yoruba than someone from another group is higher based on behaviors of yorubas when I was a higher active member. You provided evidence of what I spoke of while deeming your views as fact and the truth. The hypocrisy.

You have repeatedly accused IPOB as the agressors when we are on a topic which shows otherwise. On the topic titled ipob sit at home: live updates also showed otherwise. It was the Yoruba that started the tribal banter and the ibosreacting to their hate. On the topic titled pictures of ipob worldwide showed otherwise. It was the Yoruba and an hausa/fulani who started the tribal banter. On the topic about ipob protesting for Kanu in Spain, it was again the Yorubas that started the tribal banter. This has been the same pattern of Yorubas since I can remember. Even in topics that has nothing to do with ipob, Yorubas equally use that avenue to insult ipob and Ibos. The topic titled Lai Mohammed rattled by journalist questions on corruption is evidence of such. Your own prejudice is blinding you yet you point fingers at me. How can you type that Yorubas are defending themselves when majority of topics on ipob have shown otherwise, some of whom are recent, one of which we're typing on.

There are tribal fights everyday on this website. An act the Yorubas are not innocent of. Have the Yorubas not fought with edos and other minorites especially regarding identity on this website. When I was more active, the culture part of this website was littered with past topics where Yorubas attacked edos continuously for disagreeing with the Yorubas description of didn't cousin and the origin of oduduwa. The topic created by an akoko edo personal addressing the description that they are Yorubas, the Yorubas attacked him for addressing the fallacy that's been used more than once about his people on this website. When adebanjo was addressed in inclusion of ijaw in oduduwa republic, did the Yorubas not attack us despite no provocation. To pretend that Ibos are the only set guilty of attacking others is once more, socially deceptive just as deceptive as pretending Ibos are the only guilty one in accusing others with opposing views. Anyone that opposes Yoruba are either called ipob or ibo. I have been a victim of that act by Yorubas many times and so have others.

You accuse me of being prejudice to your perceived version of truth because of your perceived opinion of my so called innate hate to Yorubas. On this entire topic, you've displayed your intense hate for Ibos and even tried to twist my reality to your own opinion of what is the truth therefore, shouldn't you been giving yourself that advise? Your own prejudice and intense hate for Ibos as shown by your act on this topic is what's blinding you.

Why are you still mentioning me regarding this discussion. I said I'm done with it. I don't need heresay on what is the truth. I have eyes and I have a good vision. My truth is what my eyes have seen. I've seen enough to know my conclusion is factual. If mentioning yoruba's act on this website since I've been a viewer and member means innate hate for Yorubas to you then thank you. I stand by that hate without an apology

princfred:
The did. Just because you prefer to deny it dont make it so.
Here you are trying to speak for MB and Yorubas yet asking a SS guy not to speak for SS.
I never said insults will make them align but that they will ask for alliance due to more barbarism from the north but just spin it in your convoluted dung-filled brain to fit your heinous propaganda.
Igbos you said are aggressors in the face of barbaric fulani and Bokoharam. You really must be retarded and delusional. Fulani will jam you or your siblings in the bush and teach you who are aggressors.

zuchyblink:
U guys should pls use Una brain. The port is not open for everybody just for importation of petroleum products and exportation of cement by lafarge. The common man cannot import through there.

Kennydoc:
What's the volume of imports thru Onne port? It doesn't even handle up to a tenth of the imports thru Tin Can Port, and that's even the most functional port in the South South. Much of the activities that happen at Onne are crude exports. The imports there are very limited. Lagosians complain of congestion at Apapa axis, yet the NPA and the FG doesn't want to give a boost to other ports to free Lagos. Or you think that if the South East importers had their way, they still be importing thru Lagos and spend millions hauling the goods all the way to the South East?

Talking about Airports, which airlines take off and land in PH and Enugu for international flights? How many destinations outside Nigeria can you go to straight from both airports? Enugu was even Stella Oduah that upgraded it otherwise it would have remained a local airport.

Blue3k:
These guys are something else. Their browers must not come with search engines. I land in Port Harcourt when I'm traveling from Dallas. I have to connect to either Frankfurt or Paris. The sad thing is my final destination is Akwa Ibom. The state government erroneously calls that airport an international airport. I've search web and havent seen an international flight.

erico2k2:
you are an Embarrasment for people who seek to learn or earn info vis research!.
three big Airpiners land and take off from PHC internationaly daily 365 days of the year, I even arrived on a christmas day one time. I just weak at the lack of knowledge you guys potray on here, like seriously Im shocked to say the least! all you have to do is go on one of them booking sites ie lastminute.com,skyscanner.co.uk and pretend to book a flight from any EU country to PHC and see howmany flights comes up, go to PHC Airport @ 7pm daily and see for yourself. nowit Air france, KLM, and Lufhtanza currently ply that route daily from USA and thw whole of the Eu and UK
PS Una nor get airfare to go Accra una go jst come here type lubish mtcheeeew

mdokaba1:
Please guys, lets becareful with our net-life (our posts, comments and interests) especially on facebook, twitter and on IG.

You wont believe that 5 months after landing my dream job with an international non-governemntal, within a short while i got along with all my colleagues (both Nigerians and foreigners) especially the admin staff who was part of the recriutment process.

Just yesterday, we got gisting, and she opened up to me that prior to the finalization of my recriutment, she was asked by the HR in the HQ to enter my full names on various social media, to see what my personality was like on the net with key reference to my posts, comments and interests.

I dared to ask her what would have happened if they had issues with my net-life. Guess what her response was; Though you emeged as the best candidate, but we sure would have re-advertised the position because of the sensitivity of the position you were to be recriuted for as we needed only a responsible social medialite which you managed to be.

This shocked me and made me more careful with my social media life. And i vowed to share this with my beloved Nlanders especially job seekers as recriuters now watch-out for what you do on the social media.

winnah:
what is the economy benefit of having only one functional seaport in a country like Nigeria.

if calabar and onne port in rivers state could be as functional as Lagos port.

can u picture the great economy benefit that will follow.

3free2:
I know similar stories has been narrated on this forum but I want the world to hear my tale of regret and sorrow.

For nine years I've struggled to eliminate family interference from my home but unfortunately I've not been able to. My father in-law and his wife call the shot and when I resist my wife promptly takes side with them claiming that I'm being disrespectful.

From the onset I pleaded with my own family to allow us chat our own path, learn from our mistakes and grow together in love. This has backfired on me because my wife did not do same with her family.

I can't consider breakup, I don't want my kids to grow in a broken home. The problem is worse presently only God can show me the way out of this mess.

Some might say I was weak from the onset, but some women can be manipulative and cunning. I am in a cage right now, I desperately need help before the worst happens.

Kennydoc:
Can you show me any other country with a population of over 150 million that has only 2 active international airports?

Igbos travel a lot. They are the most travelled Nigerians mostly for business. Apart from business, Igbos are basically everywhere in the world. For that reason, there is a good reason for a functional airport in the South East.

You also need to understand that the functionality of the South South Sea ports is mainly because of crude exports. Most of our crude oil leaves Nigeria thru Onne and Calabar ports but over 90% of the imports arrive thru Lagos ports, despite the fact that over ⅓ of those imported products are bound for South East and South South.

You can't take away that connection between South East and South South. Once the sea ports in the South South and the international airport in PH become fully functional, most Igbos doing business in the East will prefer to use them.

Kheney89:
It's not working...Let no one decieve you. Why is Ayade asking the Fed govt to help dredge it port?

Dboy55:
12)Edo state Institute of Technology Usen
13) School of health and Technology Edo state
14)Edo state College of Agriculture

Edo State -
1). Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma
2). Benson Idahosa University, Benin City
3). Edo University, Iyamho
4). Igbinedion University Okada, Edo State
5). Samuel Adegboyega University, Ogwa Edo State
6). University of Benin, Benin City
7). Wellspring University, Benin City
8. Shaka Polytechnic, Benin City
9). Auchi Polytechnic, Benin-Okene Road, Edo State
10). College of Education - Ekiadolor, Edo state
11). Kings Polytechnic - Ubiaja, Edo State
12). Edo state Institute of Technology Usen
13). School of health and Technology Edo state
14). Edo state College of Agriculture

DabuIIIT:
with the so called universities and high number of ewedu graduates,coneheads still elected a certified nepa bill certificate dullard to rule over them.
What a beautiful irony.
Pathetic mufutaus et mumunis


lza'a

Johnnyessence:
you are wrong here, the ones in ijebu ode, ijebu remo, Ago iwoye, ota ET AL are not in the boundary please. stop your jealousing them OK. they are educated too.

skales67:
So after having the highest number of universities, they are still the highest in Skull Mining?

Each of the university should have Faculty for Ritual Science and dept of Skull Mining

Throwback:
Even Diezani was once Transport minister under Yar'Adua.

Jaideyone:
thanks for the insight bro. I didn't know the complete story before.

at the end of the day the Ibo man lost AP because he couldn't meet the financial obligations not because OBJ just stepped in and stole it away from him. thank you!!!

It would be recalled that in Sadiq Petroleum emerged the core investor in the African Petroleum, by purchasing the 30% equity shares divested by the government, sometimes back in the year 2000. Former vice president Atiku Abubakar, was accused of selling the company to his long time business associate in the person of Peter Okocha.

This accusation gained wide acceptance, because of the enormous influence Alhaji Atiku Abubakar wielded in the privatization programme of the Obasanjo administration. It was argued that Atiku Abubakar could not have presided over the sale of government properties, without giving favourable consideration to his friends and business fronts that have, in one way or the other, financed the party that brought him to power.

However, Sadiq Petroleum ran into serious problem subsequently, when it discovered that some material facts were not disclosed as the time it bidded for those shares. This misrepresentation of facts resulted into a debt of about N26 billion owed to some banks and the National Petroleum Corporation of Nigeria.

Close watchers of the industry opined that Atiku Abubakar couldn’t have sold a company that is seriously indebted to his friend. Atiku was vindicated by this development. The former DG of BPE finally exonerated Atiku, by an interview he granted in which he explained that it was not possible, for anyone to influence the sale of any company because of the manner the arrangement was structured.

Chief Peter Okocha, owner of Sadiq Petroleum protested and accused the Bureau of Public Enterprise of misleading his company by concealing vital information during the exercise. His protest got the Federal Government to constitute a tribunal of inquiry on the debt matter. At the end of the whole saga, Chief Peter Okocha was made to resign his chairmanship position and Sadiq Petroleum relinquished its shareholding in the oil marketing company. http://www.gamji.com/article6000/NEWS7257.htm

Jaideyone:
thank you!!! so the Ibo man couldn't raise money to run AP and the Yoruba man bought it from him WITHOUT the influence of Obasanjo. how Obasanjo influenced the process and stole AP from the Ibo man is what I'm waiting for that clown to come and tell us as if the Ibo man didn't get paid when he sold to otedola

Jaideyone:
lol @ media man

you like deluding yourself.

So obj just took away another man's company? who is the mysterious Ibo man that won the bid as African petroleum? otedola was chairman of African petroleum as at 2009 and the company later rebranded to forte oil under the same Femi again. so where is the Ibo man and the Obasanjo in the equation? Obasanjo left government 2007 and AP changed name to forte oil in 2009 yet you find it easy to insert one imaginary Ibo man in the equation and blame an afonja man for stealing his business

http://allafrica.com/stories/201012300582.html

up there is how African petroleum rebranded and changed to forte oil under the same Femi otedola who was the chairman since June 2007 (note that Obasanjo was not president in June 2007).
see
https://www.bloomberg.com/profiles/people/15867524-femi-otedola

you have all the hallmark of a deluded fellow with low self esteem that's why you always want to play the victim even when you lose out cos you were the under dog from the beginning

still waiting for you to tell me the story of forte oil/African petroleum, the Ibo man and Obasanjo's thieving skills

I'm waiting

Nigeria's Zenon buys African Petroleum stake

LAGOS, May 4 (Reuters) - Nigeria’s privately-held oil firm Zenon has acquired a 28.7 percent equity stake in rival African Petroleum (AP) Plc APET.LG for 17 billion naira ($133.28 million), a Zenon official said on Friday.

The shares were sold by state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC), which acquired them in a 10 billion naira debt swap in 2005.

“A deal was done yesterday after Zenon paid 17 billion naira and the shares crossed over to Zenon on the floor of the stock market today,” Zenon’s special projects consultant Femi Bakare told Reuters.

Zenon Petroleum and Gas Ltd is a big importer of refined products in Nigeria, which still relies on imports for its fuel needs despite being Africa’s top producer of crude oil. But its retail network is limited.

AP is one of the largest fuel marketers in Nigeria, but its fortunes have declined since the government sold a 30 percent stake in 2001.

Bakare said Zenon had the financial muscle and managerial capability to turn the company around.

Zenon, which also has interests in shipping, secured a $1.5 billion loan from 10 Nigerian banks in March to expand its business.

Traders said the acquisition will make Nigeria’s downstream oil business more competitive because Zenon will probably invest in hundreds of AP outlets across the country.

Nigeria’s fuel market, worth more than $2 billion annually, is dominated by a handful of multinational and local retailers including NNPC.

The government sold its 30 percent stake in AP to Sadiq Petroleum, but Sadiq decided to sell the stake to a unit of Afribank Plc AFRB.LG after accusing the privatisation agency of concealing AP debts worth 26 billion naira.

Throwback:
Onitsha does not open to the sea.

And I'm sure that whatever seaport from the coast leads into Onitsha by river, would need that river to be dredged.

Who has stopped that river from being dredged?

Let me ask you some honest questions.

How viable has Enugu international airport been since it started its international operations?

One thing I've noticed with Nigeria is that we prefer to use only one thing till it is destroyed and we move to the next new replacement.

Lagos has international airport because it was capital and remains commercial capital and it is cosmopolitan, Abuja has one because it is capital and a cosmopolitan city.

Kano has one for the North and hajj operations and it is a cosmopolitan city. PortHarcourt has one because it is the petroleum capital and also cosmopolitan.

I can understand lamentations about moving from Abia/Enugu to Lagos and vice versa. But one would think that both Airport and Seaport in PortHarcourt would be useful within its limitations to cater for those SouthEast traffic.

And if indeed there is some topographical limitations and bureaucratic limitations, why where they not addressed by a Southern federal government dominated by Ijaws and Igbos in the presidency, ministries and specific agencies that oversee these facilities?

Even till today, a SouthSouth Rotimi Amaechi is transport minister overseeing both Airports and Seaports.

How are we Yorubas to blame?

NPComplete:
Some of u are just plain dishonest. I was supporting everything u have been saying until u claimed the OP didn't start tribalism on this thread. Come on! The second comment on the thread is by the same OP. It is just a continuation of the first. Look at it again.

front4line:
It seem only Igbos are left in the quagmire of not being able to make their port functional in Nigeria.

princfred:
Igbos have never said its by force to align with them but by referendum. But in your heinously deceptive way, you will spin it to fit your horrendous hate. And yes they did complain of lack of support from SE even after years of aligning with the demons. I guess they are enjoying not being "scammed" by the barbaric north they aligned with instead.
What you call us insulting them is simple telling them how stupid their choice to align with the north was and its inevitable consequent of which they are getting the confirmation by themselves barbarically now since they were as foolish as your kind to have learnt from our words.

Johnnyessence:
list the one in Edo state. in ede alone, there are two private universities.

nanizle:
Is your fight against doctors that collect money?

Does God really need your thanks? I mean..he's supposed to be God so I don't know how saying thanks changes anything.

Hope you know that you're paying the fireman indirectly through taxes.

nanizle:
Lets assume a fireman saves your life, you won't say thank you because he's just doing his job??

Don't use that line of argument... Find another one.

Also who/what have him cancer? God? Devil?

DaBillionnaire:
Ogun state, being ranked with the highest number of Universities in Nigeria, possesses a total number of fourteen(13) accredited universities including a Federal University, two(2)State Universities and eleven(10) private universities. They include the following:

Federal University Year Founded
1.) Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta 1988

State Universities Year Founded
1.) Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye 1982
2.) Tai-Solarin University of Education, Ijebu Ode 2005

Private Universities Year Founded
1.) Babcock University, Remo 1999
2.) Bells University of Technology, Ota. 2005
3.) Chrisland University, Abeokuta 2015
4.) Covenant University, ota. 2002
5.) Crowford University, Igbesa 2005
6.) Crescent University, Abeokuta. 2005
7.) Hallmark University, Ijebu Itele. 2015
8.) Mcpherson University, Ajebo 2012
9.) Mountain Top University 2015
10.) Christopher University, Mowe 2015

https://nigereravibez..com/2017/06/states-in-nigeria-with-highest-number.html
also modified by op

Gavel:
This post as it relates to lawyers reeks of unpardonable ignorance. I have practised law for 11 years now and I haven't had the need to lie even once in a professional capacity.

nanizle:
No mention of the medical professionals that treated him. Typical Nigerian thanking only the sky daddy. He should also thank sky daddy for giving him Cancer in the first place...

trapQ:
Stupid cunts saying thrash they know absolutely nothing about. My sister has worked in 2 shipping companies one in Port Harcourt and the other in Lagos and told me about some of the restrictions they face with their port Harcourt shipments. Sometimes in those countries they don't have port Harcourt on their list of destinations meaning those shipments must come in through Lagos.

Also most large ships cannot berth in Onne port as it is obviously too shallow.

APM Terminals: Onne Port Welcomes Bigger Vessels (Nigeria) - The 4,500 TEU capacity Maersk Copenhagen called at APM Terminals’ West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) in Onne (Port Harcourt), Nigeria on December 3rd, becoming the largest vessel to visit the Eastern Nigerian port.

The port is located along the Bonny River near Port Harcourt in Rivers State, and serves major markets in East Nigeria and the Nigerian oil and gas industry. The Nigerian Port Authority was instrumental in making this a success, by widening the channel and removing some wrecks in the Bonny Channel.

The port call was a trial stop for Maersk Line’s weekly Far East-West Africa (FEW2) service, which is comprised of 22 West Africa-Maximum (Waf-Max) sized vessels that are equipped with on-board cranes and draft 12.5 meters (41 feet), are 37.4 meters (123 feet) wide, 249 meters (817 feet) long, representing the largest vessels that can currently be accommodated at West Africa’s major container ports. The weekly service links the ports of Busan, Korea; Shanghai, Ningbo, and Guangzhou, China and Tanjung Pelepas, Malaysia; with Walvis Bay, Namibia; Apapa, Onne, Nigeria; and Luanda, Angola.

“We are very pleased with the arrival of the first 4,500 TEU vessel size to the West Africa Container Terminal at Onne. We are investing USD 30 million in the terminal to serve our customers more efficiently and safely, while installing the essential port infrastructure necessary for Nigeria’s economic future,” noted APM Terminals’ Africa-Middle East Regional Head, Peder Sondergaard.

APM Terminals - The investment reflects the company’s overall West Africa port modernization plan, designed to serve the market’s demographic growth and expanding middle class. According to a UN report released this year, Nigeria’s population is expected to grow to 440 million by 2050.

WACT, which is owned and operated by APM Terminals, has a current capacity of 212,000 TEUs, and will handle some 210,000 TEUs in 2013. Volumes at Onne have tripled in the past five years. The facility is located within the Onne Oil & Gas Free Zone which was established in 1996.

In Nigeria, APM Terminals also owns and operates the country’s largest container terminal, at the Port of Apapa, investing USD 200 million in upgrades since the start of operations in 2006. APM Terminals Apapa handled 618,000 TEUs in 2012, representing West Africa’s busiest container terminal. The company is also developing a new deep-water mega-port at the Badagry Free Trade Zone, 55 km (34 miles) west of Apapa, which would be the largest port in Africa and serve Nigeria’s growing economy.

In West Africa, the APM Terminals Global Terminal Network has facilities in Monrovia, Liberia; Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Tema, Ghana; Cotonou, Benin; Douala, Cameroon; Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo and Luanda, Angola. https://www.dredgingtoday.com/2013/12/19/apm-terminals-onne-port-welcomes-bigger-vessels-nigeria/