₦airaland Forum

uduak2016:
I'm not encouraging anybody to sobatage oil facilities. Ibibio people don't sabotage oil facilities and have no history of doing such; part of the reason could be we get lion share of the oil wealth than other producing states; though I will prefer absolute resource control. Now If Ijaws want to do this to have their voice heard and demand met, so be it...is their oil. They gave conditions to stop...is your president willing to meet their conditions? The fact that they gave conditions tells be these are genuine militants with a well founded course.

Decibel:
Do you have empirical evidence to support your claim?

uduak2016:
Why are you yorrubas losing sleep over this issue? Is your oil? It's our oil so let do what's best for us!

khalhokage:
I thought they said GEJ didn't buy any weapons.

BiafranAmerican:
Niger Delta Avengers is composed of all ethnic nationalities within the Niger Delta region who feel obligated to bring to fore the question of Nigeria's sincerity to all ethnic group in the geographical expression (if I might use Awolowo's word).

All of a sudden, you and other people are very interested in advocacy because oil is involved. But you have not gotten involved in Fulani killings every forthnight, but when actually no life is lost in the NDA agitation, everyone is so interested, cos no one really cares about the lives of the Niger Delta people except for their crude oil.

Very shameful.

BiafranAmerican:
If you have problems with the Ijaws, why not find alternative resolution instead of labeling NDA as mostly ijaw.

NDA on their website indicate their composition, so stop your nonsense tribalism.

A militant group with the moniker "The Niger Delta Avengers" has been blowing up oil and gas production facilities in the Niger-Delta. The group, in February, claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Forcados 48-Inch Export Terminal in Delta State. It has also claimed responsibility for last week’s attacks on the Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL’s facilities. As if it was not enough, a crude line feeding two of Nigeria’s four refineries and two gas lines that feed the power grids in Lagos and the capital Abuja were also bombed this week.

The make up of the Niger Delta Avengers is unclear but going by the history of the various militant groups in Nigeria (MEND, NDPVF, NDF, Egbesu Boys, etc....), and the pseudonym that the spokeman goes by- Col. Mudoch Agbinibo, this appears to be another Ijaw run militant group.

Bayelsa carved out of Rivers State in 1996, is dominantly an Ijaw State. It has received huge sums of allocations as an oil producing entity. It is among the top ten states that get the highest allocations in Nigeria. For example, below is data released by the then Minister of Finance Dr. Okonjo-Iweala in 2013:

What is very disturbing is that most of the Niger Delta violence are concentrated in states with Ijaw-related tribes. Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers, states that get a lion share of the FG allocation, are the states that dominate when the brand of militancy that involves sabotage is recorded.

Akwa-Ibom made up of mostly Ibibio related dialects, produce the largest volume of hydrocarbon amongst all Nigerian states but we do not see or hear about militant groups dominantly made up of the Ibibios. Ditto for other oil non-Ijaw oil producing communities of Rivers, Delta, Cross-Rivers, Edo and Imo States.

All of these communities have suffered varying degrees of neglect by previous governments, oil spill and environmental degradation (Ogoni, Ibeno, etc) just like the Ijaw dominated areas. However, the non-Ijaw communities typically resort to civil protests and advocacy rather than militancy to air their disenchantments.

A more militant approach by the Ijaws has not improved their lots better than the non-Ijaws. In my view, Akwa-Ibom, Cross-Rivers and some part of Rivers have recorded more infrastructural developments than Bayelsa, Delta and Ijaw-Rivers. because of relative peace that fosters some development. Militancy is obviously not the most beneficial way to address Niger Delta issues.

Going by the fact that an Ijaw son has ruled Nigeria for at least 5 years, have had numerous state governors as the case may be makes a case that the Ijaws need to look inward and question the true source of the issues leading to their agitations. In those years of Ijaw leadership, no environmental cleanup exercises were carried out, no real economy boosting infrastructural project was carried out and neither was the NDDC repositioned to improve the lot of the oil-producing region.

obailala:
We are talking of the GDP 'growth rate' here, not the GDP. GEJ inherited a GDP growth rate of between 6-7% but as at handover, it had crashed to 2.3%.
www.nairaland.com/attachments/3644660_nigeriagdpgrowthannualforecast_png7bcd23fc337e90b7d2f7cee256a15425


Regarding the GDP, the value was only rebased (calculated) in 2013/2014 and found to be as high as over $500bn; that doesnt mean it actually leaped to that value overnight. The size of the GDP grew because of the telecommunications industry which was introduced as far back as 2001. That no record of the actual GDP size of Nigeria existed until 2013/2014, that does not mean the over $500bn was made in 2013/2014.

EmeritusMbaM:
Dirty kids throwing insult everywhere without any meaningful contribution to the thread. You wish your country evil and still complain, only God knows how some ediotic mo.ron here sleep at night. Gosh

GenBuhari:
I agree with most of what you have said.
But allowing marketers to set their fuel prices would encourage them to create artificial scarcity.

Strict enforcement of fixed prices is the way to go.

asuustrike2009:
Oil marketers would suck us dry if they are given the opportunity to sell at their prices

rozayx5:
when i say you know nothing about Nigeria, you still keep making noise here.
Do you know that Nigeria's refineries are outdated?
Do you know voting new funds to fix them are a waste of time?
the Government is facing significant shortage of income why is your President blowing scarce resources junketing?
have you read what the Tanzanian President and that of Rwanda are doing without a kobo from oil and what real change sounds like?

your paid to give excuses for this govt and in your mind you think you sound smart when your actually a village champion paid to sing praises to a blind leader

I am sorry to bust your bubble but I do not consider you to be at the level of someone I can hold an engaging debate with. It will be an unnecessary waste of my time. You should know that by now from our past histories. Remember when you claimed that Buhari cannot afford to chatter a private jet for half a days trip? You lost me since then.

Anticorruption:
As usual you will call anyone who does not worship your olodo god a wailer,
they are bombing pipelines and you are building more pipelines without addressing the issue that causes it.
as for your Minister he has set so many dates for the end of fuel scarcity that he cant be taken serious anymore. its only under this govt that i have been hearing the number of tankers sent to each state daily.
the same minister told us he needs 500m$ to fix refineries after they had already told us body language fixed them.

this same govt till date has not told sensible Nigerians what they achieved in China. But your just a paid poster who will come online to claim intellectual for your zombie fans.

and next time when you mention years of misrule add your demi god to the list

989900B:
Imagine, between all those lots and DSP too -- not one refinery!!!

Anticorruption:
the op and his lot are those set of people who carry their useless propaganda pix all over the net to make this dead govt seem like its working, a govt that is so confused that they dont even know what they are doing. and he expects someone to come here and debate with him, debate about what?
a failed Government or an illiterate President who is learning on the job, thats if he is learning at all

SeverusSnape:
Keep lying to yourself and zombies who care to read.

I don't expect anything other thing from you, Government of "we will".

Babalegba:
My governor Amosun is doing well.He has not looted all the treasury like your own leaders did.In Ogun state we can all see the projects consuming the money.You should always strive to emulate the good and not copy the thieves. Your leaders are too greedy,that's where your problem is coming from.1000 trillion dollars cannot satisfy a greedy man

caleb404:
What have your own leaders done with the money from illegal mining? What have they done with the money from agriculture.

You want to be the devil but want us to be Angels, right? Keep consoling yourself.

We have excess crude account...where is excess tomato account? Where is excess mineral account? Make we dey watch.

"Igbe nor dey dance juju wen dem nor go throwaway powder".

SeverusSnape:
How has the petroleum ministry fared under the present minister??... Why are there still queues all over the country till now??

caleb404:
In as much as Niger Delta do not feel the impact of their oil wealth, the pipelines will be destroyed.

If una like make una carry the whole military men come... Asking Obasanjo some quick questions will benefit Buhari a lot.