₦airaland Forum

This car isn't bad. Why is the owner selling? And what is your last price for the car? Will it fly for =N=1.6 mill

When can I arrange an inspection?

Gboliwe:
Another error! I am not paid, I do NOT even work with them but I am telling you again, you are in error. Forget that I work with a private organisation and you may probably feel I am enjoying the scheme because of my organisation. How about my mother who is a petty trader? How about the very many ordinary nigerians who don't have paid employment or in the formal sector.
Nobody knows it all, I should think that when you meet someone who appears to be more knowledgeable in a particular area, the smartest thing to do is drop your ignorance and move along in the direction you are being taken. No offense.

Oh, you are not paid by NHIS? And you do not work with them? My bad. Ok, correction taken. You sound as if you were paid to defend their programmes, going by the number of times you have chanted this mantra "you are in error". You keep jumping the gun in their defence, without bringing out genuine facts to contradict what other posters (including myself) have stated about the NHIS.

As for the other facts in my post, I have asked you to point out the sections where I am in error.

Did you conduct a survey of the private and most especially the public hospitals in Lagos, before you came to your conclusion that Laudate was in error ? Do you have facts and figures to disprove what I wrote here and to confirm that my experience was untrue? So why do you keep chanting "you are in error" like a primary school pupil?? I weak o!

There is no ignorance being exhibited anywhere. The fact that you work for an HMO, does not mean that the NHIS scheme is free from faults or accessible by all Nigerians, irrespective of their location, educational level or status.

Do your homework and conduct your own survey before coming here to yarn fake stories!

One poster stated that his wife was denied surgery/medical care when she was referred to a public health institution, instead of giving concrete solutions to her problem, you did nothing! Yet, you expect people to take you and the NHIS serious! LMAO!

Gboliwe:
Lol. I see you edited your "epistle" after I'd quoted you. The energy you exert trying to discredit me and NHIS would have been awesome if you channeled it into making a call to the number I offered to give you in our other thread that was lost. Book an appointment and see you enjoy this scheme as an individual and with your family.

Yes, I edited it to correct typograhical errors and to clarify my thoughts on the subject. I did not remove anything from the original post. So does the editing offend you? Kindly point out the section, you have a problem with!

Gboliwe:
Once again, you are in error! The only thing constant is change. Change this your perception and enjoy NHIS if you want to. Stop restricting yourself. Enjoy this scheme now!

Continue to cry "you are in error! ". No one is impressed! I don't blame you because you have probably been paid by NHIS to blow their trumpet. That is the problem with Nigeria.

Fancy policies and programmes are made by government agencies without any attempt to involve the community in monitoring it and providing feedback on how effective such policies or programmes, are.

And when those targeted by the programmes respond with feedback that such schemes are not working, their paid lackeys ignore it and scream "you are in error!" instead of finding ways to fine tune it and make it work properly!

Gboliwe:
Lol @ score card. Its really a struggle for me now to attend to you wholly like I did the other time, I feel like I am wasting my time since you are bent on maintaining, sustaining and nurturing the perception you have. But one thing I will say again to you is, you are in error. Your views are warped! If you want an Nhis cover for yourself as an individual, family or group it is obtainable. You want a hospital, private or public owned to cater for your health need it is still very possible, that's what nhis is about. When you want to prove me wrong, follow my instructions and meet a dead end then come back here and shut me up. Until then, I can't stop telling you you are in error.

Hello!! You are one of those that want us to believe that NHIS is succeeding when in fact, it has failed woefully!

If I want "a hospital, private or public owned to cater for your my health need it is still very possible", provided I make payment in cash!!

If I go to a hospital, private or public owned to cater for my health needs it is not possible, for me to get treatment via NHIS if I am an unemployed, poor, single individual because of the following reasons:

1). Most HMOs prefer to provide health care plans to corporate organisations and members of a group, society or community as a whole package;

2). Most hospitals (especially public owned ones) are clueless about NHIS schemes and cannot offer accurate or adequate information on where prospective and existing patients can sign up for the scheme or how they can access it.

Please do a meaningful survey among both public and private hospitals in Lagos before you come here to yarn your strange stories!!

Your last comment telling me to "follow my instructions and meet a dead end then come back here and shut me up," made me laugh! Was it not in the process of trying to get an NHIS health care plan from an HMO or get information about NHIS health care plans from both public and private hospitals in Lagos Island, that I had my encounter which I shared above?

Stop behaving like an ostrich by giving NHIS a passmark, when it is obvious they have failed woefully in their bid to reach majority of Nigerians and provide them with adequate information and access to health care plans.

AjanleKoko:
You think Ogunsanya will allow Jonathan and co to do that?
Keep dreaming

Ade Ogunsanya is a private Nigerian citizen. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Please tell me, who has more power and who holds the upper hand in this case?

Gboliwe:
@Laudate, you keep singing this same song every where and you have finally agreed it to be true. Sadly so!

I took time to trash this out with you before the great loss of data. Why are you hell bent on not changing your views, neither will you meet agree to meet someone who will give you the best of services NHIS can offer? Huh?

Bros, you did not trash out anything. I really do wish that the Nairaland crash that led to loss of data had not occurred so that I can pull up all the posts related to that topic.

There is nothing to change about my views. This is a real life experience that happened. I took time out to relate it exactly as it occurred, yet you claim "you keep singing this same song every where and you have finally agreed it to be true. Sadly so!" Have you taken time to visit the hospitals in the area that I mentioned, and you discovered the story was untrue? I weak o!

Is it wrong for me to share my experiences and the lapses I have observed in the NHIS scheme? A lot of Nigerians are dying, because they lack access to good medical care and where such medical care is available, they lack the funds to access it!!

Why should this occur if NHIS is doing its job of properly educating all Nigerian cictizens, and also monitoring the HMOs to ensure they are offering quality services to the public? Do you know how many needless deaths have occurred because the afflicted patients lacked money to pay for medical services?

In many communities, districts, and local government areas the only health care centres in those areas are public health facilities. It is really distressing when such public health facilities that should have health care insurance information at their fingertips are so clueless about the scheme! What does that portend for their patients??!! In most cases, it is the poor, the dispossessed, the unemployed, the artisans, the petty traders, the illiterate that suffer the most when such schemes don't work or when such schemes are poorly implemented.

The rich can always afford to buy the best medical care available, either in the country or outside it.

I beg, if you know the management of the NHIS scheme, tell them that their current score card is 2/100 (i.e. 2%). There are roughly 150 million Nigerians in this country, how many of them are registered on the NHIS, or how many of them have a HMO funding their medical care?

817:
I think it is important we analyse the wire transfer for the $5.7m. Before that kind of transfer is done several processes are carried out on both sides. Central Bank officials of both countries would have been notified because of the huge amount involved. If there was any illegality about it the transfer would not have gone through in the first place. So the SA Bank received the money and had no problems until the money was to be returned to Nigeria. Interesting!

Gbam! Thank you for pointing this out. I thought I was the only one that saw this bit about the wire transfer. So when the $5.7 million USD was inbound into South Africa, the S/Africans treated it as a legit transaction and kept quiet.

When it was not outbound returning to Nigeria, from where it originally came, they then decided to impound it. This was probably why the NSA and their guys decided to carry cash for the 2nd transaction in order to prevent this kind of scene from repeating itself.

It was rather clueless if you ask me. They would have been better off routing the transaction through another country, instead of South Africa.

What a lot of people do not realise is that in international financial circles, millions of dollars and foreign currencies are wired in and out of different countries each day, and this is permitted provided your documentation is complete.

Not only that, foreign currency exchange companies like Travelex, Moneycorp, Amercan Express etc actually airlift foreign currency in cash via sealed cash boxes using planes, jets etc., under heavy security throughout the world on a daily basis, as part of their international currency operations. These firms are accredited by the Central Banks of various countries and the Federal Reserve Bank of US to carry out this function.

Abeg, there is something the South Africans are not telling us....

AjanleKoko:
Are you minding him?
Adewunmi Ogunsanya owns 40% of Details Nigeria, local parent of the Multichoice companies in Nigeria.

Yes, he owns 40% of MultiChoice, but the South Africans own a greater percentage. Most of their top management staff are from South Africa, and DSTV/MultiChoice have made a fortune in this country. Let NBC just withdraw their license and stop them from broadcasting for 3 weeks, and see if their annual budget will balance out. Mtchheeew...

Eldavido1:
I don't care what excuse the SA government is using as a bases to embarrass Nigeria. We are gonna get every single of our kobo back. And I suggest we start with MTN. MTN has more subscribers in Nigeria than the entire population of SA put together. The make more money in their Nigerian operation almost doubling that of their operations else where but the provide one of the poorest network services and not having the single courtesy of listing on Nigerian stock exchange. Simple suggestion, NCC should fine MTN approximate of 10 to 15 million dollars for poor services to their consumers and the amount shld be paid to the federation account simple. We get our money back through mtn and SA keep the one the have with them and everyone is happy.

Come here and collect a royal handshake for that suggestion!

While we are at it, Nigeria should also suspend the banking license of Rand Merchant bank (RMB) as well as that of Stanbic, which is partially owned by the Standard Bank of South Africa. In fact, CBN should just slam a fine on them for late returns of financial reports or some other excuse, and ensure the fine is equal to $15 million USD.

If every country decides to flex muscle for us, it should not be South Africa.

This was the same way they woke up one morning and decided to deport Nigerians on a South African Airways flight into Johannesburg, claiming their yellow fever cards were fake. Ask me, if they know the difference between a fake yellow fever card and an original one.

Trust Ambassador Ashiru, the former foreign minister. He just issued a directive. The next incoming flight from Johannesburg to Lagos that was carrying South African passengers was promptly turned back with all the passengers as soon as it landed in MMIA.

After that, they stopped their shenanigans. Who dash monkey banana?

shizzle11:
Only a fool like you will not know that yolobas want to have lagos to themselves especially yo spite igbos.

Erm... this bit isn't quite clear. I have always thought Lagos was a Yoruba town? Am I missing something here? Is it wrong for them to lay claim to it? And how are they spiting the Igbo by having Lagos to themselves....afterall, it is located in the south-west isn't it?.

_{*scratching my head and walking away*} I don't get it, oh. Maybe someone turned Lagos to an Igbo city and forgot to inform the other tribes...

tsolz500:
Dude,no tribe needs your trust cox you guys are a bunch of confused race.

Bisalam#

SLIDEwaxie:
....... because you people are known to make decisions that even a five year's old child will laff at!

Bros, swerve abeg

This part made me laugh.......

As for the HMOs, .... na another tory be dat.

One of them told me snootily over the phone, "Sorry, we only cater to the corporate sector!" and promptly cut the line without any further word.

Another one told me, "Ah, we can't offer a health care plan for a sole individual. If you are part of a group, or a society or an organisation then we can offer you a health care plan provided everyone else in your group signs up for it." See wahala....must I join a group by force, simply because I need a health care plan?

The 3rd one said, "check the NHIS website but you cannot find current information on it and most of the offices lack functional phone numbers."

Kai! In these days of GSM and CDMA phones where SIM cards are being hawked like pure water...!

Toktee:
pls come back,if the gvt hospitals are nt satisfied with what the gvt is paying them,they should complain,or government shuld employ their own medical staffs and install them in the hospitals.

Am back. Ehen....where was I? Ah, yes. NHIS....the scheme that many doctors, nurses, hospital administrators in Lagos are so clueless about.

Let me share my own story, first. After I left the corporate sector some months back to go back to graduate school for my post-graduate course, I decided to take out a health care plan in order to cover my medical needs, as my university only had one health centre which had a tough time coping with the sheer number of staff and students that turned up on its steps daily.

Anyway, I decided to start my journey on Lagos Island. From Maroko through Falomo to Onikan before ending up in Obalende, I visited 7 private hospitals and 4 public hospitals (including 2 health centres). These were the results:

At front desk of 1st private hospital in Ikoyi:

Me: Please does your hospital accept NHIS cards for treatment of patients, and can you advise me on where I can sign up for these NHIS health care plans?

Nurse: NHIS, ke? What is that?? Wait let me ask my matron. (She turns and walks over to a senior nurse and whispers feverishly to her, then walks back), Ah, we don't take NHIS here, oh! But wait let me phone our admin.

(She picks up the phone, whispers into the receiver for a long time, then turns to face me again).

Nurse: Sorry o, admin says they don't even know where this NHIS place is located. But if you want to be treated, you have to bring your cash o. It is =N=5,000 for registration and =N=10,000 for consultation. Then, we will calculate the cost of the drugs seperately, when the doctor issues the prescription.

Me: Ah, that amount is too much. Can you find me someone who knows where the nearest NHIS office is located? NHIS is the National Health Insurance Scheme. Or can you direct me to the nearest HMO?

Nurse: I have told you, nobody knows where this your NHIS is located. As for HMO, we don't collect such things here again. These HMOs do not pay in time. They will owe you for a long time, and then they will still slash your bill on top. So we have stopped using them.

Ok, I took my leave when they could not help. I headed for the health centre located inside the Eti-Osa Local Government office. The same drama replayed itself, on an even worse scale.

Nurse: (frowning) I have never heard of this your NHIS or HMO before, oh! (Scratching her head) maybe you should wait for the Local Govt Chairman to come. Go upstairs and ask those in his office.

Again, I took my leave and headed for another private hospital.

Me: Please can you advise me on which HMO referrals you accept as well as direct me to the nearest NHIS office.

Matron: HMO, ke? Where? Those people sabi owe money, oh...abeg, if you are coming for treatment just hold your cash, otherwise we won't be able to attend to you. As for this your NHIS, maybe you should go to Alausa and check them becuase I have not come across any of their offices before. Don't you know anybody that has their phone number?

I left them in a very unhappy state of mind. The same scene was repeated at Onikan Health Centre, General Hospital Lagos and all the other hospitals I went.

Now tell me, if the front desk staff at each of these hospitals know next to nothing about NHIS scheme, how do you expect the common man on the street to get the information?

How much would it cost the NHIS office to put a desk in each health centre located within every govt hospital? They can even deploy corpers to man these desks and sign up new users.

zboyd:
How can any games begin when the Game Master doesn't know the Game Players?

The topic of discussion was "Why Can't Single People 'Just Say No' To Married People?"

Single people means women AND men.

Why are you trying to make this topic into a gender war?

Do you hate women that much?

Shu-uo!! What part of post makes you feel that I hate women? Haba!

Have you read through all the posts in this thread? Over 80% of the respondents kept bringing up the married man vs. single girl issue.

And most of the men kept ascribing the fault to the single girl instead of the married man that ignored his wife 'jejely' and went to chase the single girl. Most of them kept saying the single girl should be the one rebuffing the married man's advances, instead of them blaming the married man for leaving his home to go and chase the single girl.

The few posters who pointed out the fact that married women also have affairs with single men, quickly fizzled out when they were told that this was in the minority, as compared to the married man vs. single girl situation. So don't you think the majority carries the vote! Hehehe.....

All I did, was to distil their comments, sumarise it and lay it out on the line so that onlookers could readily review where each party was coming from.

Now, how does that make me a 'hater of women?' I weak o!

kavey10:
Still expecting your reply.

Sorry for the delayed response. Kindly contact The Washroom Laundry Shop at Suite B166,Road 2 VGC Ikota Shopping Complex, Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lekki. E-mail: dwashroom@gmail.com; tel: 08039555216

Or you can also contact EZ Wash'n'Dry located on the 2nd floor of the e-Centre, Sabo Yaba, the same building where the Ozone Cinema is located. See more pics here: http://thehuddlegroup.com/laundry/ezwash-launches-at-the-ecenter/ .

They also have another outlet at the top floor of Lush Mall, Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1 just after the Forte Oil Petrol Station, within the estate.

All these laundry outlets have washing machines and dryers that are run on LPG/cooking gas.

Hope the info helps...

In fact, the person who set up this thread should be spending his time educating the public and private hospitals on the features of NHIS.

Don't worry, I will come back to share my experience soon.

I learnt that some people prefer to recycle petty propaganda, and label it as gospel truth.

Others prefer to judge comments on the basis of ethnic affiliations... i.e. sheer tribalism!

He should revoke the collection of money at those 2 toll gates in Lekki .

Una wan kill person...? How much is our salary, that we would be dashing more than half of it to Tinubu and Fashola in the name of toll gates? Kilode?

Then he should pay better attention to healthcare. Lagos residents pay through their noses to buy drugs, conduct medical tests, surgery etc, in public hospitals, when compared with other states such as Delta, Jigawa etc.

They also need more doctors in Lagos public hospitals. The ones they have are too few, and grossly over-worked!

macof:
Education u say? is it u who has education?...an uneducated olosi like u who is looking for internet age 18th century history
Wat Yoruba history did u get From ur education by various scholars?
That oduduwa is an Arab who trekked from Mecca in the 7th century
You are a complete nuisance who doesn't want to take correction

I don't blame u as much as I blame the Nigerian kolo mentality that strives to destroy the heritage, thousands of years running
If only history was appreciated by the Nigerian society and Yorubas of this generation

Internet age history

Why are you still dwelling on internet resources? I offered to refer you to hardcover books....you refused. Instead, you chose to take refuge in insults.

Only illiterates resort to insults, when their ignorance is exposed. Oga, it is little kids like you who refuse to conduct thorough research, that end up putting Nigeria in trouble. Why were you talking about offering 'correction'? You want to correct facts, with lies? Bros, grow up!

Continue to exhibit your lack of knowledge..... hehehe!

shegerun:
Significant improvement in the Ajah axis of Lagos. Hopefully, this tempo can be sustain.

What part of Ajah, are you referring to? Is it Addo Road, Badore, Thomas Estate or Abraham Adesanya?

I don't know what part of Ajah you are referring to, because in my own part electricity supply is nothing to write home about.

In fact let me start with the whole of Lekki-Epe Expressway. In Lekki Phase 1 Estate, power supply has degenerated drastically, that the cost of buying diesel to fuel the generator leaves most of the residents with headache, every month. Power supply comes once in 3 days, and it only last for about 7-8 hours when it arrives. I have lost count of the number of times that people go to sleep in the dark, and wake up in the dark.

The story is the same in Femi Okunnu Estate, Ikate Elegushi and Stillwaters Estate. Move down to Lekki County Homes Ikota and VGC, and then you will know that the rich also cry when you hear how Eko Disco has dealt with them in terms of poor power supply.

By the time you move further down to Abijo and Lakowe, ah, you will hear tales of real suffering.

In Lakowe, electricity is supplied once in 8 days and it is like candle light. In fact, when you get to Ona Ara junction and Lakowe Lakes Golf Estate, you will realise that the masses too do not only cry...they wail in pain due to poor power supply. The few days in a month that they recieve power, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. And to make matters worse, the very low current is guaranteed to mess up your appliances. Power supply has a middle name in that area... it is called 'epilepsy', the junior brother of epileptic.

In Mayfair Estate, Eko Disco (EKEDC) slept then woke up, and decided to slam the residents with a huge bill for power supply...despite the fact that most of them had pre-paid meters, oh! Next thing, they yanked off the light and disconnected the residents for 2 whole weeks just because they contested the bill!

Who did we offend in Lekki area?? Who?? May God deliver us from Eko Disco and their accomplices who are determined to keep us in distress...

Oya, everybody queue up here!

The debate of the century. Drinks are available at =N=250 per can, while popcorn is ready to be served at =N=800 per pack. Take your seats, ladies and gentlemen.... gate fee is =N=1,500 only. Hold yah change oh, I go join una if I no get change, oh!

In the blue corner is Zboyd, 50Calibre, Shymexx and the guys are ably supported by tonychristopher. They are arguing that single women are to blame for the infidelity of married men. In fact, the men have no control over their 'down below' and rely solely on women to keep them in check, as if the word 'self-control' took a French leave, the day men were created!

In the red corner, is Banana Bender, Alutacontinua and Bukatyne ably supported by Shirley7, who believe that it is the job of a married man or married woman to protect their marriages, and since the single woman is not a party to the marital vows exchanged by the couple before the altar, she bears no blame.

Gbagaun! Let the games...begin!!

macof:
I've told u if u only accept internet as fact in Yoruba history then you don't know what qualifies as fact

The purest of yoruba history is told orally never by internet
So I leave you to ur gross ignorance

Kai! The money spent on your education was wasted! For your information, Yoruba history has been researched thoroughly and documented several times over, by various scholars - both local and foreign.

Why not just go to the library, check the history section and get good books that would enlighten your mind?

Ehm...should I recommend hardback editions dealing with Yoruba history for you? Or are you mature enough to find the books on your own?

omenka:
When you say "exposed" you make it sound as though it is criminal to own an oil block.

So now that you've "exposed" them and we've read the "list", what do we do with it

Abeg, help me ask am! This story he is peddling here, has been debunked several times over in various parts of the media.

I don't know why some people refuse to learn....chai!

Waspy:
There are iotas of truth to every lie

Na only 'iota'? What about shade, design and colour?

Why must people recycle hogwash, and try to pass it off as fact?

macof:
Well u are a novice in Yoruba history. You most certainly aren't Yoruba not to know ilorin history

keep waiting for internet age history

You have been a waste of time
Bye!

Hehehe....! Just admit it - you don't have the facts. Continue swallowing all the tales by moonlight that you were fed as a kid.

Run along, it is way past your bedtime..

There is no oil in the far north like Maiduguri & co. Only gas deposits, exist there.

AbdH:
Thank you bro. Some people are just being unreasonable.
Show us where Ifa says you must wear aso ofi and you are good to go.
Show us where the Bible says you must wear a robe and you are good to go.
They say don't bring religion to school but they do morning devotion everyday. Who is deceiving who?

Nobody is deceiving anybody. You guys are the ones deceiving yourselves. For goodness sake, if you want your girls or daughters to wear the hijab, send them to Ansaru-deen High School or Al-Hijrah College that are already well-known muslim schools.

Why send them to Baptist High School or Christ's School and expect them to be allowed to carry out their studies wearing Islamic garb?

Some people just thrive on confusion...

Tobbie9:
Believing a lie doesn't make it less of a lie bro

Thank you for pointing this out....

macof:
Have u ever been to ilorin? Have u ever found out the history in ilorin or any where else?
I have.

So unless Gambari or Saraki told you otherwise...which would be seriously debunked by Alaafin and all Yoruba
You have no case

Alimi was an Islamic preacher welcomed in as a friend but betrayed afonja...as other Yoruba muslims betrayed Oyo.
any other story is false

your Queston has nothing to do with my post as I never mentioned British.
Pls stick to the point

Sorry to disappoint you...but I have been to Ilorin, countless times. I even lived there for a while. Do you want me to tell you the area?

Gambari or Saraki does not have to tell me anything. I know the history of Ilorin.

Your story about Afonja inviting Alimi, is still a story found in the realm of fables and tales by moonlight. Go and do some actual research, so you can get the facts...

masterpower:
95% OF OIL BLOCKS IN NIGERIA IS IN THE HANDS OF NORTHERN MUSLIMS.

WHY WOULD BOKOHARAM STOP WHEN THEY HAVE ALL OIL BLOCKS IN THE NIGER-DELTA OF NIGERIA?

Big fat lie! Who told you 95% of the blocks are in the hands of Muslims? Do you read newspapers at all? This theory has been debunked several times!! Kai!

Look, read all about it here .... I hope you will be able to understand it!

Premium Times: The North Does Not Control Nigeria’s Oil Blocks, By Toyin Akinosho

Senator Ita Enang’s spirited claim at the National Assembly Wednesday to the effect that 83% of the country’s oil block is in the hands of northerners appears to be inspired from assertions contained in an old article by a newspaper commentator, Mr. Ross Alabo-George whose famous essay was titled Poverty And Deprivation: Why The North Is Poor.

In the excerpted refutation below, Toyin Akinosho, a petroleum geologist with over two decades of work at Chevron and now publisher of the well-regarded Africa Oil and Gas Report, argues angrily that such lines of thought canvassed by the likes of Senator Ita Solomon Enang and indeed Mr. Ross Alabo-George are merely hysterical, and tendentious, designed to mislead the public. Mr. Akinosho characterizes the arguments as crappy and crummy.

It is excerpted from the African Oil+Gas Report for the value it brings to the current debate about Nigeria’s oil resources and the National Question.

Alabo-George’s article plays up so well the sentiments that a good number of Nigerians, especially middle class types excluded from the spoils of the petroleum subsidy, and allied deliverables, nurse about the kind of leadership we have suffered since independence. But it has gone around so far and keeps being forwarded so rampantly, largely because it plays to the ethnic schism; the suspicions that each of us harbours, in our different silos, about “the other”.

It’s largely a response to the disingenuous claim by Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Central Bank Governor, that the Boko Haram insurgency is a response to the 13% derivation allocated to the oil producing states from the federation account. “There is clearly a direct link between the very uneven nature of distribution of resources and the rising level of violence”, Sanusi told The Financial Times of London.
Alabo-George’s piece is compelling when he contrasts what non oil-producing Southern states have been able to do with their supposedly meager allowances with what their Northern counterparts have done with their own allocations.

“Ekiti State has about the same revenue as Yobe and Gombe”, he contends, “but only 17 students passed WAEC and NECO in Gombe state last year, while Ekiti State is known for its high literacy level”. I find two beautiful quotable quotes in the article:

(1) “Borno State has a bigger budget than that of Cross River, a Niger Delta State. While the leaders of Cross River over the last decade have transformed it into the nation’s leading tourist destination, those of Borno have transformed it into a Somalia”.
(2) “Gombe State has a bigger budget than Enugu and Anambra, why has MASSOB not bombed anyone”?

But once Alabo- George ventures beyond the political economic analysis and starts to list who owns what oil and gas assets, his article is a litany of inaccuracies and lies. He gets it totally wrong. He writes about the estate of the late Mai Deribe, the Bornu State born businessman, supposedly owning a huge oil field; Rilwanu Lukman having controlling shares in Afren; Atiku Abubakar being the stupendously rich beneficiary of the profits of Intels, the logistics company; Aminu Dantata’s Express Petroleum. He ties Amni Petroleum to only Sani Bello.
So much conspiracy theory.

Oil acreage ownership in Nigeria does not have ethnic colouration. What’s more important, sustaining production from oil and gas assets, whether or not awarded by the state, is determined by how much of a businessman you are. When Jibril Aminu handed out oil prospecting blocks, in the first comprehensive effort “to encourage indigenous participation” in 1991, he gave blocks to companies owned by Folawiyo, Abiola, Adenuga, Udoji, Ibru, Igbinedion,(all Southerners) as much as he gave to enterprises set up by people like Saleh Jumbo and Mai Deribe.

Between 1991 and 1993, we suddenly had over 25 companies, that were Nigerian E&P companies and they took themselves so seriously that they set up an association they christened “Nigerian Association of Indigenous Petroleum Exploration Companies”. But what did these people do with the acreages? They were mostly clueless about how to progress things. Out of that class of awardees, only Mike Adenuga created what you could really call an E&P company. He is the only one producing oil today, from his own block.

It’s bad enough that Nigerian indigenous private acreage holders don’t produce, as a collective, up to 150,000 Barrels per day, or 7% of the national daily production, so why are we fighting ourselves? And I am less keen on how much you’re getting as rent from the asset you are holding, than the capacity you are building as manager of a Nigerian oil company who is awarded the asset, in trust for the rest of us.
I am for an ongoing, earnest debate on the National Question. But false information misleads all of us into false conclusions, which reduce the complexity of the solutions we ought to be proffering.

Read the rest of the story here: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/123588-the-north-does-not-control-nigerias-oil-blocks-by-toyin-akinosho.html

kavey10:
@laudate, I would like to get information on a particular post involving laundry business you made some months back. Can I mail you so as to discuss further?

Hi, sure what do you want to know?

Am not in the laundry business though... I have only seen washing and drying machines, that are powered by cooking gas in some of the laundry outlets in Lagos. If you like, I can post their details here so that you can visit them and inspect their machines.