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kennynelcon:
With tribalism, Nigeria has no future.

The cleansing must start with the president.

True talk, my brother. Here is another perspective from an Igbo writer.

Chimamanda Adiche: Ethnicity has become, in Nigeria, more political than cultural, less about philosophy and customs and values, and more about which bank is a Yoruba or Hausa or Igbo bank, which political office is held by which ethnicity, which revered leader must be turned into a flawless saint. We cannot deny ethnicity. It matters. But our ethnic and national identities should not be spoken of as though they were mutually exclusive; I am as much Igbo as I am Nigerian. I have hope in the future of Nigeria, mostly because we have not yet made a real, conscious effort to begin creating a nation (We could start, for example, by not merely teaching Maths and English in primary schools, but also teaching idealism and citizenship.)

For some non-Igbo, confronting facts of the war is uncomfortable, even inconvenient. But we must hear one another’s stories. It is even more imperative for a subject like Biafra which, because of our different experiences, we remember differently. Biafrian minorities were distrusted by the Igbo majority, and some were unfairly attacked, blamed for being saboteurs. Nigerian minorities, particularly in the midwest, suffered at the hands of both Biafrian and Nigerian soldiers.

‘Abandoned property’ cases remain unresolved today in Port Harcourt, a city whose Igbo names were changed after the war, creating “Rumu” from “Umu.” Nigerian soldiers carried out a horrendous massacre in Asaba, murdering the males in a town which is today still alive with painful memories. Some Igbo families are still waiting, half-hoping, that a lost son, a lost daughter, will come home.

All of these stories can sit alongside one another. The Nigerian stage is big enough. Chinua Achebe has told his story. This week, he turns 82. Long may he live. http://www.premiumtimesng.com/arts-entertainment/108378-chinua-achebe-at-82-we-remember-differently-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.html

Is the 10k a one-off fee, or an annual fee??

ogb5:
2. Technically you can not supply a power plant like the one in Lagos with gas using trucks. This simply mean the professor and those formulating his policy on power generation knows nothing about power generation. The Lagos plant uses natural gas, that is another theme for methane gas. Industrially methane has 2 means of being transported, by pipelines when the point of use is less than 5,000 km and as liquefied natural gas by ships followed by re gasification when the point of use is more than 5, 000 km from the point of production.

Yes, you can. There is no natural gas pipeline to Lagos Island. So how do you think they have been getting their steady supply of gas? Gas has been transported to them, especially the one on Marina, using trucks.

ogb5:
The gas supplied by trucks is liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used for domestic cooking. No country in the world bases her power generation on LPG. Moreover Nigeria does not have the facility to produce adequate LPG to cater for domestic cooking, so using LPG for power generation is out of the question. So Osinbajo promising to supply gas to power plants with trucks is simply talking about something that is not possible.

Both LPG and CNG can be transported, via trucks. The only difference is that these trucks carrying CNG are designed differently from those carrying LPG. You also need to put in place 'mother & daughter' stations along the logistics chain, for delivery of CNG.

LPG is also delivered at a level of pressure, different from the gas carried by CNG trucks. Both types of gas have different specs and properties.

Gas Turbines powered by LPG also exist, and have been used to deploy power to small communities in countries like Turkey, USA etc. The only thing is that the LPG gas must have a higher proportion of Propane, than Butane.

In Nigeria, our LPG gas has a much higher content of butane, because it is used for cooking. Propane is more inflammable and has a higher Wolbe index or latent energy. That is why it is favoured for LPG powered generating sets and turbines. Capstone is an American company that makes 1MW LPG propane-powered micro-turbines, that are modular and scalable. LPG is also much easier to store at a specified pressure, than natural gas.

ogb5:
3. Osinbajo promised to model his modular power plants after the Lagos power plant. Simply put, the Lagos power plant is among the most expensive gas fired power plant in the world. The Ikeja modular power plant has an installed capacity of 10 megawatts and was built at a cost of 3.2 billion Naira. That was equivalent to about 2 billion usd per gigawatt of electricity. Globally the benchmark cost for gas fired power plants is 1 billion usd per gigawatt of electricity, the Ikeja plant cost twice the global benchmark for such plants. By planning to go with the Lagos model, Osinbajo is telling us the will deliver power at twice the global benchmark cost, and at a cost far higher than the current government is delivering power projects. Several gas fired power plants delivered by the current government in the last 4 yrs were delivered at less than 1 . 3 billion usd per gigawatt.

So Osinbajo has no clue about power generation, he is simply spooling out impossible promises to confuse the electorates. Worse part is that he is a pastor that is supposed to stand by the truth, how will he face God at the end of the day after telling blatant lies on the campaign trail.

http://www.punchng.com/news/apc-will-slash-tariffs-on-imported-cars-osinbajo/

True. The Lagos IPP power plants are too expensive, compared with similar ones set up in other parts of the world.

Now that Buhari is probing everybody and everything, such costs incurred in setting up these IPPs should be probed.

kokosheen:
thanks.. made my work easier

we currently don't produce CNGs though..

We do. There are about 5 companies that do so already. Am not sure if there are more. they include NIPCO, Green Fuels and Luxxor gas in Lagos.

zendy:
And all of this is to defend the "British business organisation" called Nigeria which was setup by Lugard

Yes, o! Why is it paining you??!

GoldenBoi111:
These Niger-Deltans have understood that they can't make any political achievement in Nigeria without the cooperation of other tribes, and wisely began to issue their supports and cooperation to the Buhari led government while the misguided Igbos are still enslaving themselves with baseless sentiments.

Believe it or not, political appointments are catalysed by intelligent lobbying and not unnecessary hatred. No smart politician will appoint his haters to sensitive positions. I will never blame Buhari if he fails to appoint any Igbo to key positions. I am proud of Niger-Deltans and they are already reaping the fruits of their wisdom. Igbos should have a rethink [truncated by WhatsApp]

Solomon Dalong wrote: "Hypocrisy is when you lump diverse regions and peoples as NW, NE, and NC together as 'north' but when it comes to the south, you try to differentiate between SS, SE, and SW. So in this argument, Kachuwku, the NNPC boss is not an Igbo, but a Kilba man appointed as SFG is Hausa-Fulani. This is being clever by half."

Well said!! Pre-ea-ach it brother, preach!! You deserve two plates of 'isi-ewu' and some chilled drinks to go with it. Abeg, someone should serve this guy with the best dishes in the house. All the drinks are on me!!

LastProphet:
Ibo culture kills logic but it sounds fine to them - ONLY THEM. I dont think any tribe will be this stupid, at least by now you would just decide to attempt to shame critics by changing your attitude but not Ibos. See the people looking for a country? Pathetic!

When logic is killed, it is a license for intolerance and deception to breed, and finally run amok. You can see what is happening on NL, now. Sad.

ArodewilliamsT:
Here we don't do self-pity, we march verbal violence with greater intellectual violence. Your pity will be much desired in Illorin. yorubaland is the only land without a clearcut majority muslim population but with an Islamic Emirate. The laughing stock of sub-saharan Africa.

ArodewilliamsT:
since you have dashed out illorin to your fulani masters like a slave that you are, since you have made a pledge not to lift a finger to reclaim your land due to your cowardice in the hope that you'll live forever. Weep no more slaves, your land is GONE FOREVER, be ready to answer your children when they ask you why there is an Emirate in your land, when you are not Islamic state of Odua. It's our bragging right over slaves like you. I will taunt you, my children will taunt your children, for your forefather's cowardice and foolery.

Go and die!

Na wah, o! So the Fulani man has finally recruited you as a foot soldier in his internet army??! When did you accept the job of acting as a megaphone for the Fulani people, who have been so intolerant of the Igbo, up North??

Did you guys increase the price?? It was cheaper than this amount before, nah!

How much per plot?

Where is it located so I can arrange an inspection? Hope it is in Lagos??

zendy:
I don't expect Nigeria to suspend any cause they may have but I do expect a standing and binding agreement on the disengagement of the Igbos as Biafra. We still live in a civilised world. As for insults and burning of the Nigerian flag. This is the outward expression of the rejection of Nigeria by the Igbos and I might also add that it is their constitutional right of free speech and expression. Neither verbal insults or flag burning is a crime and if people don't like it, they should join the agitation for Biafra.

Standing and binding agreement, kwa?? With whom and from where, biko?? On whose terms, conditions and timeline??

So after your people have burnt the Nigerian flag and expressed their rejection of Nigeria, using highly uncomplimentary, insulting terms, they still expect to sit at a negotiating table with authorities of the same country whose flag they have burnt, whose people they have denigrated using inflammatory speeches, and create a 'standing and binding agreement'?? I laugh.... in Greek!

All your actions and language, are the kind that give rise to hostilities and war. Not to a standing agreement.

zendy:
We Igbos are currently building that awareness and support. We are definitely considering how the Jews reclaimed their homeland. Igbos are unpopular and disliked in Nigeria? Tell me something new. Igbos have the benefit of hindsight and the history of how they have been massacred in 1945, 1952,1966 etc to know the sentiments of others towards us. Not that it matters because we are confident that this "British scam" created by the British con artist Lugard, which some of you refer to as "Nigeria" is about to come to an inglorious end

Yes, you Igbo are currently building support .... where, biko nu? In Mars?? You are definitely not building that support among non-Igbo Nigerians, within Nigeria or outside it. You are just alienating them, with your insults, vitriol and hate. The word 'mutual respect,' does not exist in your dictionary. Last time I checked, the Jews did not attract support for their cause, using venom and hatred.

You are also attracting disdain for your cause, with the way the Igbo play the blame game, at every turn. You guys should do yourselves a favour. Renounce your Nigerian citizenships. Burn your passports, and become stateless. Maybe the international community you are relying upon to make a case for your cause, will come to your rescue , quicker. Who knows?!

The sentiments that others have towards you was borne out of your attitude towards them. To the rest of us, Nigeria is our home no matter how much you denigrate it. Whatever name you call Lugard does not change the fact that he (and I guess, Flora Shaw by extension) gave our nation the name 'Nigeria,'and till today, it still remains our homeland.

All the uncouth language in the world emanating from your brethren, will not change the fact that God has a purpose for every nation, including Nigeria. May His mercies continue to flourish upon our land forever more.

after1:
He is one jobless animal making noise everywhere, and spamming the board with same trash over and over. You even have the time to engage that dunce, slowpoke re-posting same nonsense everywhere. Pathetic.

Yeah, Xtrorse is a truly sad case. I remember how you gave him a thorough tongue-lashing on another thread a few days back. A lot of people ended up feeling sorry for him. He has probably forgotten to take his meds again...

after1:
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You have been barking everywhere like a castrated dog, your pathetic life is so useless that you have never make any meaningful contribution here other than make noise everywhere...
...... Bastard flat head.

Oh, so you noticed that Xtrorse has been barking too??! Wow, his condition has really gotten out of hand. Did you see the evidence of paranoia and mental instability reeking from his post too? He keeps re-posting the same words repetitively. Classic evidence of obsessive-compulsive disorder....

xtrorse:
Provide the facts and figures of your assertions and new propaganda right now to buttress your silliness in the public domain...

laudate, the hypocrite and the first-class delusional degree holder a.k.a frustrated disciple of hate and propaganda, you definitely need to see you medic for Cerebral palsy confirmation asap. So that you can commence treatment in earnest, as you're already losing your memory and mind on Igbo issues. The treatment will go along way in caging and restricting your restlessness to the confines of the hospital ward.
Be warned, a stitch in time saves nine!

Since you lack any formidable idea, you're banking on stealing Igbo wealth and properties. Let me warn you and your cohorts: Your 'oju-kokoro' will only lead you to your Waterloo faster than you ever imagined.

FYI, my 'koboko' is still handy and I'm ever ready to whip the silliness and bitterness out of you...

For the umpteenth time, Igbos won't give up their freedom for gold or silver. But for our assets and wealth outside Igbo land that you and your cohorts so much crave for, you can never possess them. Sorry to disappoint you!
If you doubt it, venture into the streets of Lagos and test your stupidity.

Haba! You are pretending again?? You cannot see the facts and figures under your very eyes??

Ok, here are the facts: You always foam at the mouth whenever you respond to my post and your post reeks with hate-filled comments. This is a sure sign of obsession and paranoia. You have nothing of value to add to any new post. No rational thought flows from your mind.
No new progressive ideas comes from your keyboard.

Here is a 2nd fact: You keep cutting and pasting the same comments repetitively. This is a clear evidence of an obsessive-compulsive disorder that has afflicted you for ages.

And a 3rd fact: Your capacity for self-hate is legendary. You call yourself derogatory names like delusional, hypocrite etc, and use words like 'cerebral palsy' to describe the condition that affects your psychomotor functions. That explains why you are always restless and attacking people with vitriolic comments. All these facts buttress your silliness in the public domain...
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Xtrorse, the hypocrite and the first-class delusional degree holder a.k.a frustrated disciple of hate and propaganda, you definitely need to see you medic for Cerebral palsy confirmation asap. So that you can commence treatment in earnest, as you're already losing your memory and mind on Igbo Nigerian issues. The treatment will go along way in caging and restricting your restlessness to the confines of the hospital ward. Be warned, a stitch in time saves nine!

Since you lack any formidable idea, you're banking on stealing Igbo Nigerian wealth and properties. Let me warn you and your cohorts: Your 'oju-kokoro' will only lead you to your Waterloo faster than you ever imagined.

FYI, my 'koboko' is still handy and I'm ever ready to whip the silliness and bitterness out of you...

For the umpteenth time, Igbos Nigerians won't give up their freedom for gold or silver. But for our assets and wealth outside Igbo land that you and your cohorts so much crave for, you can never possess them. Sorry to disappoint you!
If you doubt it, venture into the streets of Lagos and test your stupidity.

Great work.

xtrorse:
laudate, the hypocrite and the first-class delusional degree holder a.k.a frustrated disciple of hate and propaganda, you definitely need to see you medic for Cerebral palsy confirmation asap. So that you can commence treatment in earnest, as you're already losing your memory and mind on Igbo issues. The treatment will go along way in caging and restricting your restlessness to the confines of the hospital ward.
Be warned, a stitch in time saves nine!

Since you lack any formidable idea, you're banking on stealing Igbo wealth and properties. Let me warn you and your cohorts: Your 'oju-kokoro' will only lead you to your Waterloo faster than you ever imagined.

FYI, my 'koboko' is still handy and I'm ever ready to whip the silliness and bitterness out of you...

For the umpteenth time, Igbos won't give up their freedom for gold or silver. But for our assets and wealth outside Igbo land that you and your cohorts so much crave for, you can never take them. Sorry to disappoint you!
If you doubt it, venture into the streets of Lagos and test your stupidity.

Ah, let me see.... the doctors could not find a cure for the neuroses, psychosis, delusion, paranoia, cerebral palsy, dementia, lies and mental instability afflicting you?? You have my deepest sympathies.

As for that 'koboko' you are holding, have you forgotten it was used to thrash you silly on the streets of Lagos, when your madness pushed you into the market place??!

Sorry o! Oya, ask your people to take you to church for deliverance now that medical science has failed to cure you. Pray that it works so that your life can return to normal, you tormented soul!

xtrorse:
laudate, the hypocrite and the first-class delusional degree holder a.k.a frustrated disciple of hate and propaganda, you definitely need to see you medic for Cerebral palsy confirmation asap. So that you can commence treatment in earnest, as you're already losing your memory and mind on Igbo issues. The treatment will go along way in caging and restricting your restlessness to the confines the hospital ward.
Be warned, a stitch in time saves nine!

Since you lack any formidable idea, you're banking on stealing Igbo wealth and properties. Let me warn you and your cohorts: Your 'oju-kokoro' will only lead you to your Waterloo faster than you ever imagined.

For the umpteenth time, Igbos won't give up their freedom for gold or silver. But for our assets and wealth outside Igbo land that you and your cohorts so much crave for, you can never take them. Sorry to disappoint you!
If you doubt it, venture into the streets of Lagos and test your stupidity.

Wow! You have finally confessed that you are suffering from cerebral palsy. No wonder, you can't think straight!! If you add that to the neuroses that has messed up your mind, then it explains why you are always foaming at the mouth anytime you visit this thread. It also explains why you advocated for a visit to the medics, because you obviously are a constant visitor to the psych ward, due to the restlessness and sickness that has afflicted your soul. Pity.

Like I said earlier, continue cutting and pasting the same remarks, over and over on this thread. You have nothing of value to add to this discourse and nothing new to say, because you are stuck in the same mud hole of hate. The repetitive behaviour you are exhibiting here, confirms that you are truly suffering from neurosis and dementia. May those mental disorders continue to thrive in you!

emmalezy:
Nigeria’s first IVF baby, Hannatu Kupchi has gotten admission into a Hungarian university to study medicine. Hannatu, who was born at Nisa Premier Hospital in Abuja on February 11 1998, says she wants to pursue a degree in medicine so she can also help married couple have their own children.

Hannatu's parents waited 13 years for a child before going the IVF route.

"God has a big hand in this. God was behind me. I want God to use me get more children. I am hoping that through me God will make people see the value of having children. I will specialize in genealogy and obstetrics. I barely made it beyond the cut off mark. God helped me. I am going to try my best and make everyone proud. I am studying medicine because I want to be a doctor. I want to study it because I want God to use me to help families who suffered what my parents went through,” she said

source
http://www.reportnaija.com/2015/08/photos-nigeria-first-ivf-baby-gets.html

cc lalasticlala

No. She was not the first IVF baby born in Nigeria. One had been born a few years earlier through the combined efforts of Prof. Osato Giwa-Osagie and Prof. Ashiru in LUTH, Lagos.

1st Test Tube Baby in Black Africa is now 26 years old.

On March 17, 1989 history was made at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital when the first test tube Baby in Black Africa (comprising of West, East and Central Africa), conceived through the delicate In-Vitro Fertilisation and Embryo Transfer (IVF-ET) method was born.

The bouncing baby boy named, Olushina, Eghosa, Oluwaremilekun, is nature’s gift to the family of Mr & Mrs Pius Oni and the crowning glory of five years of painstaking research endeavours of Professors Osato Giwa-Osagie, an Obstetrician and Gynecologist and Oladapo Ashiru, an Endocrinologist, both of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH Idiaraba, Surulere, Lagos

The lad then, thus, became the First TestTube Baby in East, West and Central Africa. Read more at: www.ivfhistorynigeria..com
http://ivfnigeria..com/

Wow! How far is it from Babcock?? I know 2 Phd students that need accommodation close to the uni.

When exactly is your project going to be completed? Will it be sold or leased out?

xtrorse:
laudate, the hypocrite and the first-class delusional degree holder a.k.a frustrated disciple of hate and propaganda, you're already losing your senses and restless on Igbo matter and so shall it continue till you meet your Waterloo unless you repent.

Since you lack any formidable idea, you're banking on stealing Igbo wealth and properties. Let me warn you and your cohorts: Your oju-kokoro will only lead you to your Waterloo faster than you ever imagined.

For the umpteenth time, Igbos won't give up their freedom for gold or silver. But for our assets and wealth outside Igbo land that you and your cohorts so much crave for, you can never take them. Sorry to disappoint you!
If you doubt it, venture into the streets of Lagos and test your stupidity.

You have cut and paste the same remarks, over 5 times on this thread. Congratulations. Like any psychologist would tell you, repetitive behaviour such as the one you are exhibiting here, is the first sign of neurosis. May the mental disorder remain in you!

Has ballistic tests been conducted on the bullet-proof jacket??!

xtrorse:
How far about claiming and stealing Igbo wealth and properties? Have you come up with a strategy to realise this your project, so that you don't end up in a journey of no return? That will be too disastrous to you and your fellow disgruntled and greedy hypocrites!

Look at this one??! You are paranoia personified. Nobody on the Nigerian side, has mentioned stealing Igbo wealth and property...yet you have started hyperventilating and foaming at the mouth. Eeyah! This matter don pain you enter bone.

Protection of properties is not done by word of mouth, across the internet. So you can issue all the fake silly threats you like, while sitting faceless, behind your keyboard.

When the chips are down, and Biafra is declared, you will need more than those empty threats dished out from your laptop, to protect the remaining investments and properties the Igbo have left behind.

Maybe, it is ghosts that would be keeping watch over such properties, after Biafra happens and your people relocate to the South-East.

2sex:
You think the likes of Don Jazzy or basketmouth would forfeit all they have worked for all their life to follow your deluded Biafra?
Where werre you when they were selling snacks in the case of Don Jazzy? You fool! Go and make something meaningful with your life. Abeg.

Interesting analogy!!

xtrorse:
laudate, the hypocrite and the first-class delusional degree holder aka frustrated descendant of a fallen demon, why do you bother so much on the some other people's affairs? It's better you channel your negative energies towards your people. Stop drinking overdose panadol for another's simple headache!

You're already losing your senses and restless on Igbo matter and so shall it continue till you meet your Waterloo unless you repent. 

I know you lack ideas on how to continue championing your cause and so you are only banking on Igbo wealth and properties. You must be a greedy lot...oju nla, oju kokoro!

For the umpteenth time, Igbos won't give up their freedom for gold or silver. But for our assets and wealth outside Igbo land that you and your cohorts so much crave for, you can never take them. Sorry to disappoint you!
If you doubt it, venture into the streets of Lagos and test your stupidity.

xtrorse:
Here comes the Greatest Clown and Fraudster of the Century, starring in the epic and hilarious movie titled "laudate - The Hypocrite & First-Class Delusional Degree Holder".

What a pity. You keep describing yourself as 'delusional'. Now you have labelled yourself as the 'frustrated descendant of a fallen demon.' And you have also added fraudster as well as hypocrite to your titles.

That description fits you perfectly, because you have exhibited nothing but signs of demonic activity, ever since you entered this thread. I really feel sorry for your people, for putting up with a deluded character like you. The things that are troubling your soul, are many. Go for deliverance in a church, so that you can be set free from all these evil influences that have twisted your mind.

Continue with the cut and paste. Continue repeating yourself like a demented case. You are indirectly giving the whole world a reason why you need to be committed to an asylum.

What a pity....