₦airaland Forum

InvertedHammer:
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Most IOCs are in the upstream sector (exploration, drilling). They delve into midstream (crude lifting/transportation, storage) and downstream (refining, refined products, storage and distribution) as well. Local corporations are mostly in the midstream and downstream sectors.

If you noticed, in upstream and downstream sectors we are still talking about crude oil. But in downstream, we are talking about the "derivatives".

Capital oil is in the downstream sector.
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Very well said. You are quite correct.

spaceshipz:
No tecno oil? Nkechi obi?

Techno Oil is a downstream oil company.

SammyJac:
IFEANYI UBAH'S CAPITAL OIL IS CONSPICUOUSLY MISSING FROM THE LIST.

Capital Oil plays in the downstream sector and Ifeanyi Ubah is heavily indebted to too many banks. So how would he finance this transaction? Apart from that, AMCON has now taken over his assets. Karma has stepped in to take up a seat on his front porch. Cosmas Maduka must be feeling vindicated by now.

HAH:
According to ogbonnaya Onu, there will ban on importation of petrol from december 2018, petrol must be refined locally, this importers should key into this opportunity or allow only Dangote to reap the benefit of local refining

Onu doesn't know what he is saying! Is he the petroleum minister?

FirstCounsel:
Hmm didn't realise AA Rano was this huge. Thought they were just petro products marketers.

I am still wondering what AA Rano is doing on that list. Must be the Northern connection. I know they are big in downstream haulage of petroleum products and they have a few fuel station as well as a depots, but how did they get into crude lifting??

And which company is called Arkleen? Where did they spring from?

I am amazed that the multinational oil trading firm Vitol is not even on the list. They have handled crude contracts for years!

Caseless:
Make sure you read before you comment.

@laudate , thanks for sharing that Tai solarin piece.

You are most welcome. I first came across it, almost 10 years ago, but it resonated with me on a rather deep level.

I stumbled across this one too, and would like to share it.

Life - I am the new year.

I am an unspoiled page in your book of time.

I am your next chance at the art of living.

I am your opportunity to practice what you have learned about life during the last twelve months.

All that you sought and didn't find is hidden in me,
waiting for you to search it out with more determination.

All the good that you tried for and didn't achieve,
is mine to grant when you have fewer conflicting desires.

All that you dreamed but didn't dare to do,
all that you hoped but did not will,
all the faith that you claimed but did not have --
these slumber lightly, waiting to be awakened by the touch of a strong purpose.

I am your opportunity to renew your allegiance to Him who said, "behold, I make all things new."

I am the new year.

-- Author Unknown http://www.celebrate-american-holidays.com/New-Years-Poems.html

cheruv:
Enyi, like I told you... Igala issues concern us, just as Igbo issues concern them. The only outsider here is you who's neither Igbo nor Igala
The map whether its fake or not is not my wahala....the map was made by a Yoruba and the map recognizes all Yoruboid and Edoid peoples which I don't have issues with. The only thing am saying is that the Great Igbo nation won't support the Igala being in whatever Odua ish they're forming. Its natural as an odua person to be pissed by my position but I don't give a damn.
As for your infantile pranks of inserting Igbo phrases(when you can't even speak the language) into our discussion, you look so funny doing that and I can imagine childish you're thinking that'd influence me in any way

See this one! So Igala issues are now to be dictated by the Igbo, according to you? Let me laugh very well in Greek, first!

You claim the map was made by a Yoruba person - Oya, post the url link & source so we can verify. You & your ilk are capable of faking anything, so I wouldn't put it past them to have faked this map.

If you have gone through most of the Yoruba threads on NL, those chaps have always advocated for a region that consists only of Yoruba-speaking people. They are not land-grabbers like you and your IPOB-ian ilk, from what I have seen here. In fact, they declined to add Itsekiri to their list in one of their threads, despite the linguistic similarities that exist between their languages. Now, you want the rest of us who have followed their discussions closely, to believe that they would draw a map and include non-Yoruba areas in it, when even the old Mid-Western region advocated for their people to be carved out of the Western region in the early '60s? Who are you trying to deceive, biko??

I don't know if the Odua are pissed by your position, you would have to ask them. But as a non-Odua I am certainly disgusted by the fact that you feel you can dictate the collective destiny of a whole ethnic group like the Igalas. Why not let them decide for themselves who they want to align with or what they want to be?? The Igala do not need your so-called support to align with whomever they choose! The Yoruba and Igbo should let them be!

Finally, you are the one who cannot speak Igbo, as your written Igbo is atrocious! You have not met me in real life & yet you feel I cannot speak Igbo?? Let me guess, your keyboard whispered it to you! Why on earth would I want to influence you by making a comment in Igbo? Influence you to achieve what? Honestly, you are too ridiculous for words! Just say that you need lessons in Igbo, so that I can recommend a tutor for you! Others who can read and write Igbo, have not made the same complaint you have done about any phrases I have used on NL.

masseratti:
Aunty grace is the auny you talked about?
btw thanks for the memory lane,
But Whatabout oluwalanbe lodge, sura the tailor is your man, anyone got pictures of those?

Chai!! You get sharp memory, o! Small time now, you go dey add C'ock Crow at Dawn, Mirror in the Sun, Checkmate, Mind bending etc, into the mix. I hail, sir! More respect!!

Iamlordgee:
If u nor know this sitcom..
When u call my name put some respeck on it

Grandpa, how far nah?

emmanuelpopson:
you are right bro...just an advocate of clean environment and sustainable energy to all and sundry.. I was amazed to seeing billion cubic feet of gas flared each year but nothing substantial is done... who do you blame at the long run? the government, host community or oil company??
are you an oil company worker?

Who do I blame? Everyone... from government who has failed to enforce peace in the Niger-Delta, to the host community who are unruly, cantankerous and ready to cause conflict at the slightest drop of a hat, to the militants who are enemies of progress, to the oil companies who ought to be more serious with their remediation efforts.

emmanuelpopson:
All your points are already know to exists in the first instance. what we are saying is that the environmental degradation caused by this oil companies are so devastating. if only u live near a gas plant where gas is been flared..then you will know what is really going on there..

you are aware of our country's signatory to climate change so,the earlier we stop the so called gas flaring and convert the gases into other useful areas like power generation, domestic use,liquefied gas etc...

Wake up and smell the coffee, bro'. How will gas flaring stop, if the locals do not allow those who are expected to process the gas to form LPG, CNG etc, and divert it to power, or for domestic use to do so?? When you continually kidnap their personnel and steal their equipment, how will the gas gathering projects to harness the gas being flared, end up being set up?? Will it be done by spirits or ghosts?

pressplay411:
Keeping her privates private I see... how cute.

I hope naija paparazzi aka bloggers don't unleash their minions on her.

I love her dress. Its' free-flowing folds make her look regal, attractive and elegant. Best wishes to her on her 40th. I wish more women would learn from her style. You don't have to expose your cleavage, thighs, bum and other parts that should be kept hidden, simply because you want to make a fashion statement.

emmanuelpopson:
The oil industry is abusing the human rights of hundreds of thousands of people in Nigeria's Niger Delta region. So far, the Nigerian government can't or won't hold oil companies accountable. The Demand Dignity Campaign is pressuring multinational corporations like Shell, and the government of Nigeria, to clean up the Niger Delta. As part of that work, Amnesty International USA's new Eyes on Nigeria project uses the power of satellite technology to monitor oil industry abuses in the region.
A major source of oil pollution is the practice of gas flaring -- burning off excess gas as waste. Communities affected by flaring and organizations working on oil industry pollution have raised serious concerns about the risks to human health -- about which many questions remain unanswered. The poorest communities are among the hardest hit.
The people of the Niger Delta need a real deadline for ending gas flaring -- and they need full transparency about the health risks of flaring.
Amnesty International and its partners will deliver this petition to the Nigerian government, Shell, ENI, Total, Chevron and other multinational oil companies active in the Niger Delta.

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/business-and-human-rights/oil-gas-and-mining-industries/end-gas-flaring-in-the-niger-delta

How can gas flaring stop when the people of the Niger-Delta who live in the creeks, do not want it to come to an end? Oya, go there today and offload all the equipment, resources and personnel to set up a project to capture & process the gas, that is being flared. See what would happen:

1). Indigenous communities would kidnap your staff, under the pretext that they have no right to trespass on their land, even though you legitimately bought and paid for it in full; You even have the correct documentation pertaining to the transaction.

2). Militants and their ilk would steal or destroy your equipment, under the guise of demanding one development levy or the other - (it doesn't matter how much community levies you have paid in the past);

3). The security personnel would decline to offer you protection, claiming that your area isn't under their jurisdiction, or that they lack money, men and proper ammunition to offer your staff adequate protection;

So until the natives become more friendly and are willing to work with investors to put in place projects that would stop gas flaring, nothing would happen!! Abi na who be mumu??

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mike1994reds:
Oga o, nigerian so no get job again sha, a young lady playing around just tweeted jokingly and you all treat it like it's coming from your first lady.

Which kain dirty silly joke is that? She stylishly insulted all Nigerians by stating that they lack home training, for not using Western cutlery to eat their African meals! And you call it a joke??! Are you for real or just being sarcastic?

omenka1:
Lord forgive her for she knows not what she used her fingers to type......but before you do so, she must provide answers to these few questions of mine
can a chinese eat noodles with spoon?
can French fries be eaten with a spoon?
can Americans eat burger with chopsticks?
why don't Britains eat sandwich with spoon?
can Americans eat coleslaw with chopsticks?
can Americans take coffee with bottle?
can d OP take pap with fork?
why don't d OP take her AWUF ice creams with chopsticks,pepper soup with fork n suya with spoon?
If she gat no answer to those questions then she must be a foolish fool, a tragically descended brat for insulting me .....as am moulding my eba awaiting it to be lubricated with this aromaThick egusi soup before the bolus can travel down ma alimentary canal.

I no even know say you sef see am! When God was sharing common sense, she went on a French leave!

This is a fake map, drawn by a neanderthal. What is Sapele, Uromi, Benin, Auchi, Idah etc., doing inside an Oduduwa map??

cheruv:
Now you know... Igala is our business. I know you're not igala,so I wonder your ish with my postulations We've igala in Anambra and Igbos in southern igala and you say we should not look into their affairs
Am not surprised though... Your Igbophobic nature has made it that you no longer know when to stop. Once you see its Igbo you don't look you just leap Ndo

How is Igala your business, that you now have the guts to decide their destiny for them? You are an Igbo person dictating to the Igala what their fate should be. Hehehe.... honestly your silliness knows no bounds.

You do not know who I am or what ethnic group I come from, so don't even try to pin any labels on me. And contrary to your claims, I am not Igbophobic. I am just against the lies, petty propaganda and deceit that you and your ilk continually dish out, in your bid to make other people look like villains.

Now, hear me well - I am anti-IPOB (i.e. those whose directors have instructed them to kill other ethnic tribes, because they feel violence is the only way to get their new republic); I am anti-tribalism, anti-hatred, anti-propaganda, anti-violence, anti-anything or anyone who pulls others down, or denigrates them with lies and hate-filled vitriolic rhetoric, just so they can spread their own peculiar form of venom. Get it?

For your information, I do not only pass comments about the Igbo. I pass comments on the Yoruba, Edo, Igala, Efik, Ijaw etc., threads - but one thing I do not do, is to dictate to them what direction their collective destiny should take, like you have decided to do for the Igala, using your fake map! Pùạ n’ebe à.

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MayorofLagos:
I took time to read and understand each post on this thread.

Another factor in the fundamental problem is the custom and beliefs in birthrights. The diala can buy land and attain community or clan leadership and can represent the community and marry freely....the osu is forbidden from any of these privileges of birth. When it dawned on osus that in Yorubaland they are equal to dialas and no one here forbids them anything or set no-go limits on them, plus the fact Yorubaland is a land of milk & honey....they abandoned their condemned life in Iboland sought refuge in Yoruba. Many of them rose to prosperity and far above their freeborn peers. This factor alone drained Iboland of headcount faster than anything else.

As you plan a resettlement (that guy was correct by calling it resettlement, and im going to add to it...) and "rehabilitation" of Iboland, start thinking what it means and changes needed to make every Ibo a freeborn on your homeland. You also need to define and reassess if you want to remain as member in this culturally incompatible system of governance.

Hmmn.... this is deep. It is really food for thought!

ScotsReferendum:
Good Morning Afonjas

Hope you guys are enjoying the Change

Er... why are you calling the Afonjas? Where are they? But wait, o! I thought it was an Igbo man who made this instruction, in his role as head of CBN? Or am I missing something here??

donodion:
With both hands in the air...i vote for the replacement of CBN governor, Emefiele must go!!!.

Those in support, say AYE! Those against say NAY! And the .....

Nihza:
A Nigerian lady took to her social media page on Instagram to reveal her heartbreak story.

Likening it to OAP Toke Makinwa’s heartbreak story, she narrated.

http://mojidelano.com/2017/01/my-boyfriend-of-4-years-just-got-engaged-heartbroken-lady-shares-her-toke-makinwa-esque-story/

To the lady whose boyfriend of 4 years just got engaged to someone else, (i.e. Topaz_events) my advice is simple. Go to church and do a thanksgiving. You had a lucky escape. Your bloke cheated on you long enough to plan a wedding with another girl behind your back, while lying to you and pretending to love you. What kind of relationship or marriage can be built on a foundation of deceit and lies?

God believes that you are worth more than what your -ex was dishing out, so He allowed you to discover his true colours and unmasked his escapades.

If you were faithful, honest, loving and true to him - then, don't worry. Karma will definitely take its' course. What a person sows, he shall reap. It is an unwritten law of the universe.

Take out time to talk to a trusted friend, or counsellor or priest. Unburden your soul. Pray for inner healing & strength. Unfortunately, there is no pill that can cure heartache, but Time is a great healer of the soul.

Improve yourself. Upgrade your knowledge and fashion style. Take part in wholesome activities that would refresh your soul. In a few months, the pain will fade and you will wonder what you ever saw in him.

hedonistic:
Sorry, but I don't take any of these Toke Makinwa devotees seriously.

The kind of girl who draws inspiration from this Toke of a thing and religiously reads her stupid book is exactly the kind of girl that no sensible Nigerian man should marry

There is nothing stupid about Toke's book. You obviously haven't read it. If I had a daughter, it would be a book I'd recommend for her to read.

It teaches you not to change yourself into something God has not designed you to be, in order to fit in with someone else's preconceived notions of how a perfect woman should look and act.

It helps you learn from Toke's experience, on how to read the handwriting on the wall and pull out of a toxic relationship, before it is too late, and your self-esteem is irreparably damaged.

It teaches you that you cannot change a man, no matter how much 'in love', you are with him.

Read the book, before you thrash it.

Vokians:
What is the meaning of Afonja?

Afonja was a fearless warlord who lived in the 19th Century. His traditional title was Aare Ona Kakanfo, (ask someone to translate this for you). He was a seasoned battlefield commander, a legendary warrior, a generalissimo under a traditional ruler known as the Alaafin of old Oyo, in the south-western part of Nigeria. He was marked for extermination by his traditional ruler, for declining to launch a military expedition against a neighbouring town. In order to protect himself from death, he sought to kill the ruler that was after his life, by invoking the 'Calabash verdict against the man. So that king was forced to commit suicide. http://www.ilorin.info/fullnews.php? https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/35802/02.pdf?sequence=12id=10472

However, Afonja died in the 1800s.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
nawao because of food and the way she eats you guys want to lynch her!

just like her i sometimes dont use hand, because when i do my hand will be oozing soups scent, which can be distracting.

just imagine yourself perceiving egusi soup left over from your hands in an exam hall or board meeting.

y0rmee:
Exactly. It's pitiful seeing these NL kids lynching her.

I remember how embarrassing the oozing smell of Fufu used to be whenever I returned to my class after the usual "lunch". To spoil it all, my class used to be AC filled. helping further announce that I just finished two mighty wraps of Fufu and Egusi.

Nobody taught me to start using forks till now.

These lynchers probably do not understand the perspective she speaks from.

Which kain perspective, for goodness sake??! Most people are irritated by her reference to a lack of home training on the part of those who prefer to use their hands to eat traditional food! If she had just said that it was better to use a knife & fork for African cuisine or meals, and had left it at that without inserting that insulting remark about lack of home training, her comments would not have drawn so much flak!

Even if you eat amala, fufu, ewedu, egusi, oha, ogbono etc., with your hands, wouldn't you wash your hands properly with soap and water to get rid of the smell after lunch?? The only time the smell clings to your fingers, is if your hands were not thoroughly washed and dried properly, after the meal! Rinse your fingers more than once if you have to, and clean the debris out from under your nails. The smell would disappear. Use a sanitiser too, if it is available. End of story!

jtwest:
osun state for dat matter , if na lagos we for ignore her but she should go home and ask her ancestors if they had fork wen Eba and fufu was invented. omo ale jatijati #originality.

Wicked response!!

cheruv:
What concerns you with igala?
Lemme repeat it again to your hearing.... I'd rather have Igala become an independent principality under the Ata than have it join whatever Yoruba ish you guys are preparing.
I don't mind Yoruba control in the former Midwest excluding Anioma but AlaIgala is an area I'd not tolerate that mobu ya di na njikere maka agha okpu nihi ya

You are asking what concerns me with Igala? Because you have appointed yourself their spokesman? What did you just say - "I'd rather have Igala become ....gini??!" See who is talking...!! Obviously, you believe you are the one best appointed to speak for them, ba? Only God knows who drew that map, but till now no Yoruba person on this thread has come up to say that ethnic group should be included in their south-western homeland, so why are you taking panadol for the headache of the Igala people?

Did your kinsmen hold a meeting with the Attah of Igala and his cabinet on whether they should become an independent principality or not? Isn't this something the Igala people should decide on their own or by themselves? Who gave you the authority to decide who the Igala choose to partner with? And what gives you the right to dictate if they should be an independent principality or not? Can't you just leave them out of your permutations??!

If the Igala decide to stay on their own or team up with any other ethnic group, it is none of anybody's blinking business!! Neither yours', nor mine! So face your IPOB-ian issues, biko nu!

This is just too funny for words!! You forgot to add this bit:

15. When you do something wrong, and she calls your name 3 times, and still proceeds to ask: "How many times did I call you?" It is a sign that some kind of huge punishment is about to be unleashed, so you had better look for a way to escape!

Have the signatures reached 2 million yet??

kettykin:
I initially thought ipob was a useless organized ethnic jingoistic people but I think I am wrong because by January 10 they are going to make a public disgrace of the Nigerian judiciary triumphing over them in it before the whole world that people will be wondering that such a useless judiciary still existed in the world.

The nnamdi Kanu case is now a case of common sense against a brain dead judiciary who refused to grow up or be educated.
RIP Nigerian judiciary.
The judiciary will be so humiliated that a massive sack of the top echelon might be considered.

Re-ea-ally?? Wow! Let us start counting down to January 10th. It promises to be fun!

vicenzo:
The tension between Ndiigbo and Yoruba will defuse when Nigeria disintegrates and a well demarcated border established between Igbo nation and Yoruba nation somewhere in Edo state.

Fences make for good neighbors. A permanent well defined border will do same for Ndiigbo and Yorubas.
This is the ONLY solution.

You think so? It won't work. The Biafrans would still troop into the South-West and other parts of Nigeria daily, like they have always done. So, of what use would the wall be??

cheruv:
I have a good Yoruba map here...we can also help their ministry by ceding current bayelsa state to them too though I don't support the inclusion of AlaIgala in their domain.. I'd rather that igala becomes an independent principality under the grand Duke of Ida.

Bia, remove Igala from your discussions... sharp-sharp!

omonkiti:
Your type suppose to have been banned....
What dues has the afonjas paid..
tell me, what dues..
afonjas and gworo chewers are the greatest parasite we have in Nigeria....

1)south south...... Oil

2) south east.......industrious, trade and commerce

3) southwest......agbero and chanting our Lagos

4) North.......politics, nothing more

Haba!! You are not being fair, nah. You classified South-South as contributing oil to the economy, and you could not classify the South-West as providing maritime access, ports, an industrial centre, telecoms/I.T, housing corporate headquarters of many conglomerates, providing a financial hub, arbitration centre, tertiary and specialist medical care etc. In fact, Ogun State hosts the largest number of private universities in Nigeria.

Bros, you sef, check am nah...

Even Middle-Belt sef dey contribute agriculture, solid minerals and real estate to the mix.