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......and Shell's main business is refining? which boss? is the London office the headquarters of Shell? show me us the requirements of Shell thats states that the Country GMD must be an engineer?

laudate:
Sunmonu's boss at the London office is still an engineer. And don't forget one thing - Shell has no refineries in Nigeria.

My brother,

You dey mind dem? They are making lame arguments. The Current World Bank President comes from a Medical background. Our former minister of Agric, from Agric background is the current Head of Africa Development Bank.............

Jimoh Ibrahim is a Lawyer, Hakeem Bello-Osagie is a Lawyer, Subomi Balogun is a Lawyer..........

uwajeh:
Can't help but say, Onicha Ugbo Kwenu!!! For those who query the appointment based on the fact that he is a lawyer please be reminded that the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Madame Christine Lagarde is a lawyer and not an Economist and she has done a fantastic job at that organisation. Chief Ernest Shonekan studied law but that didn't stop him from becoming one of the icons of Nigeria's industrial sector.

Prof. Pat Utomi initially studied Mass Communications but he is one of the most brilliant economic minds in Nigeria today. Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has been in the oil and gas industry for donkey years and I am certain he has learnt the ropes during that time. You don't rise to be the Executive Vice Chairman (Africa) of the largest oil company in the world by being a dunce.

Allow the man make him drink water keep cup jo!

Yes what is the big deal about petroleum engineering aptitude? Except you can come up with a better argument, your recourse to the "gods" is just a waste of my time.

How did Mutiu run Shell? went back to school to study "pick up Petroleum Engineering aptitude"?

laudate:
Chai! I cannot believe you said this.... . Petroleum Engineering and Commercial aptitude are what you pick on your way up??!

ROFLMAO

I can understand how management expertise may be picked up, but petroleum engineering...! Ye gods! Please share how it is picked up oh!

Aromas:
Oga teacher weldon, if na Northerner d president appoint I believe say u go dey among of dos who go criticize am. Wen d clueless administration appoint virtually all his kismen into his kitchen cabinet both 4rm SE and SS. Nobody hala now. So no mata hw ur expose you're academically, such a thing must surely occur at least once. Nigeria wey don dey back tay tay b4 BUHARI finally won dis last election.

NL is open for you to go check all my historical post, if I have EVER laid argument about tribe over competence.........

laudate:
Thank you, jare! People find it difficult to understand such basic issues. I remember once while supervising logistic operations at a gas field, at the discharge point we noticed that water was leaking from the gas turbine, where gas was being fed into the unit.

My boss who was a petroleum engineer immediately called up the head of field operations and barked: "which of your wells is producing water?!!" They couldn't tell stories to him, because he knew his onions. Sharp, sharp the guys on the field had to do something to address the situation. Can you imagine if my boss had been a lawyer?

Na plenty memo dem go dey still carry up and down, dey find cause of the problem until dem tire!

Meanwhile, this same Kachikwu is against the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). Read all about it here:



Kindly note that IOCs have been against the PIB for like forever o! Kindly note that he did not even provide solutions that could make it work.

Bros,

You are using analogies that are not the same scenario with the context.
1. There is a difference between the Group Managing Director and an Asset Manager or an Operations Manager.
2. Your second argument is baseless. Kachikwu is there representing an entity and not himself, so saying he opposed the PIB, is ridiculous. Besides, he laid an argument which you failed to comment on, analyze or rebut.....

goodgate:

ITbomb: :
Is he Delta Igbo?

NO Ekiti HAUSA

Aromas:
Is better to go slow than to rush and crash again. [b]Making an Ibo man as NNPC general manager will bring positive effect to oil sector. Oh I heard is 4rm SouthSouth......... Anyway may God give him the wisdom to achieve more success.[/b]

Tots like this is one of the reasons Nigeria as a country is still backward

Bros your argument is flatly wrong
1. There is a difference between technical capacity and Leadership capacity. Having both is a big plus, but having the former alone does not qualify you for leadership of a company not to talk of NNPC
2. Petroleum Engineering and Commercial aptitude are what you pick on your way up. If you're in a good organisation and you're identified as top talent and prepared for leadership, you would have been put to a packaged rotation program that will take you round the various aspects of the Oil and Gas value chain, from technical to commercial. This will give you the basic requirements needed to lead the business. The mistake many people make is that because it's Oil and Gas, an Engineer should lead. Truth is, those with the deeper knowledge and insight will properly define the business from the value perspective and tell you that the business is about creating value from crude sales, as such engineers are just a part of the critical requirements.
3. The former MD of Shell in Nigeria, Mutiu Sunmonu, had a first class in Computer Science.......... need I say more

I believe the wisdom in bringing Ibe-Kachikwu is to have a change in paradigm, someone from the private sector to reinvigorate and re-engineer NNPC; a clear departure from the politicians and career NNPC civil servants.......

laudate:
What NNPC needs at this time is a seasoned petroleum engineer with commercial aptitude, that can think outside the box.

All other contemporaries of NNPC like PedeVesa of Venezuela, PetroBrass of Brazil, Q8 of Kuwait, Statoil of Norway, Saudi Aramco, Sinopec of China, etc, have all added value to their countries, by actively buying out oil-related assets around the globe to increase the foreign exchange earning capability of their companies/countries, increasing local refining capacity on their home turf while remaining good examples of well-run commercial enterprises.

Such an engineer should drive the establishment of modular refineries to increase refining capacity at home, while pushing for the successful rehabilitation of existing ones using local expertise, as was done recently. Such an engineer should also place premium on the exploitation and commercialisation of our gas reserves in country, to drive the Gas-To-Power Programme and other such projects.

Would a corporate lawyer be able to balance all these? I strongly doubt if Kachikwu has expertise in this area.

ITbomb:
Is he Delta Igbo?

No. He is Onicha-Ugbo-Aniocha-North-local-government-Delta-Igbo..........

satsfied?

OREMUSSANCTUS:
Jonathan inherited corruption, he tried his best to fight corruption. Let's give it to him

Give what to him? N6.4 Trillion loss

Result of his "using technology to fight corruption"

Irredeemable; I see

jpphilips:
This is what i expect, when you quote a post, you apply common sense!!
when you have a charm that grant wishes, control people etc what stops you from being rich?

jpphilips:
Ok! the charm works and you forget the wishes?

Doesn't really make sense, why do we still have poor Yorubas if the charms work?

1. Not everybody, tribe or race has the frame of reference of their value system base on money,
2. Not that I was expecting a matured critique, but scale through all the OP's posts, which one of them is about wealth?

simplisity:
An average Yoruba, is a jazz man.

Ok....your bigot-laced opinion shey!!!

1. Then don't start with the liner.... "Yoruba with Charms.........". Makes you come like a bigot.
2. Your bias should be stated clearly in this case, rather than a firm statement. If you looked at the topic, the OP was coming from a descriptive and explanatory perspective and not a debate of it's existence or otherwise
3. My biases aside as well (I don't believe in them either), but I do recognize them as part of the makeup of Yoruba history and heritage, which in this thread serves for knowledge purposes.
4. Our parents would have told us a thing or two about them, either in Alo (Yoruba folktales/Stories), directly explaining or Analogies. I remember a funny story told by Pastor Adeboye, about the Madarikan charm, in one of his sermons - about a man that went to do the Madarikan charm from an herbalist, only to return to the herbalist that he had gone to penury since the use of the charm. It was then explained to him that the charm drove away everything (both evil and good).......

fransixe:
its a simple fact that the era of such practices are gone, just trying to alert any one who might be ignorant enough to try them out! especially those ones wey dey eye one babe or the other for NL, make them no go F up

Amen.......

Amem in igbo and calabar

Noted, I actually thought that word was wrongly spelt.[quote author=midolian post=36590883][/quote]

midolian:
All these fake pastors can't [size=14pt]prophesize[/size] without mentioning aircraft..Na all of una dey see aircraft?



Oremussanctus, u don turn female?

Bros,

Wetin be "Prophesize"?

solidifi:
chowlade,
So by 1:35am as people were enjoying their sleep, you were busy typing juju names?
You better have a change of mind.

If you are not married yet, with this I don't think anybody will marry you.
better prepare to marry your juju.

stoicism:

chowlade: :
21.Ifunra (Charm to suspect) it reveals future event before it happens. Anyone can use Ifubra, Ifunra is mostly used by politicians to protect themselves from devastating occurence to come in Minute, days e.t.c
Also can be used by Prophet in prophesying
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Still thinking of some more however, you can remind me and add yours if you have any grin


Cc:Lalasticlala, Ishilove please help me do the needful. i no use afose o (with humility) grin

I beg....after looking at your pic ma, na that no 15 na im I want to use on YOU

O boy! I pity you, you wan use a charm on the original owner? O fe soda....

twosquare:
[quote author= TonySpike]:
I am most intrigued by inventions of "Kanako" and "ofe" by our forefathers. These two charms would make Harry potter and his minions jealous of African science. As a scientist, "Kanako" is a called road shortener, actually it should be called "space-time manipulator". How were our fathers able to develop these potent charms that rubbishes modern physics law of relativity? Ofe is simply a simpler form of "space-time manipulations", in those days, "ofe" was only invoked when in danger.

Now, my thoughts:
1. Could our forefathers have used Kanako to travel from one point to another while migrating?


On a softer note, there existed a form of Kanako in Igbo culture. With Kanako, you could travel from Lagos to Kano in a matter of seconds!

I like your thoughts on road shortener, but their is always a price to pay for Kanako, especially. It is often used on urgent matters, dire situation and when you are running out of time to save an important situation. When you use it, your spirit will still come back and walk that same distance in the middle of the night.[/quote].or it takes you to a dangerous and unexpected destination, on top of a tree, in the middle of wild forest or inside water and you cannot swim....

fpeter:

Chascop: :
THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE CANRNAL BUT MIGHTY THROUGH GOD TO PULLING DOWN THE STRONG HOLDS..........

IF YOU MUST QUOTE THE BIBLE, THEN AT LEAST TRY TO STUDY IT SO YOU CAN QUOTE IT CORRECTLY.

2CORINTHIANS 10:4[b] (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds[/b]

omojeesu:
Great stuff!
But let's compare these with this:

Matthew 5:43 YE HAVE HEARD THAT it hath been said, THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR, AND HATE THINE ENEMY.

Matthew 5:44 BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, BLESS THEM that curse you, DO GOOD to them that hate you, and PRAY FOR THEM which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Mat 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for HE MAKETH HIS SUN to RISE ON the EVIL and on the GOOD, and sendeth rain on the JUST and on the UNJUST.

IF YOU LOVE YOU DON'T NEED TO INFUENCE AND USE REMOTE CONTROL ON ANOTHER BY EVIL POWER NOR DO HARM, EVEN TO YOUR ENEMY.

GOD IS LOVE AND WE SHOULD LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

Jesus is LORD!

Claps! Claps!! Claps!!!

This is classic strategy to share the gospel

godson36:

ITSAWRAPP: hehehehehhe grin
What about MADARIKAN?
Somebody help with the english translation cheesy


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Madarikan --- I can only explain..... I don't know how to put it down in English...

This charm is use for protection against all bad and evil people.... If you do this charm and someone curse you, the curse will go back to that person....

Any evil thing done to you will go back to the person that is doing it....

The downside is that even if someone wishes you good, Madarikan will ward it off and return it to the sender.........

kellyvoski12b:
What is the moral of this post??

Knowledge for starters

fransixe:
Yoruba with Charms.....make una no turn here to CharmLand oh....and besides, I sorry for all of una wey the trust all these charms, they will fail you people....

......Now you killed the fun with your bigotry............

sainty2k3:

chowlade: Aluwo (charm to make someone fall after being hit)

agbefuye(lightening charm)

Olonde(charm that makes one to lose one's sense after being hit)

Gbekude (death ceasing)

Afeeri (disappearing charm)

Kanako (distance shortening charm)

Egbe (air flight charm without using jet, chopper or plane)

Amudo (bleeping charm)

Tude(loose bondage)

Ewon Sanpona(small pox handcuff)

Okigbe (cutlass proof)

Ayeta (bullet proof)

U this lady, how come u know all this things, what stuffs have u been doing

Omo, her boy friend dare not try rubbish with her at any rate

Esdb3:
Awon Iya won osoromoniga! Awon badoo

BRIGHTTAZ:
Dats my lil igbo super star

...... Ok I was waiting for dat

For someone that was booted out of the Presidential Fleet for corruption, how he made it to CDS is a big wonder.....

san316:
This is an indictment on you Mr CDS


1. You lacked equipments, what happened to the billions spent on the military for procuring arms and ammunition? Where are the equipments bought with it?

2. The soldiers were not motivated. What happened to the duty and operation allowances meant for the soldiers? You are not coas but you should have knowledge of the entire defence spending which the army is under.
For five years, no soldier got his allowances ranging from furniture and so on. How can the soldiers be motivated?

In the end, soldiers that put their lives in the line were dismissed and those that dared to complain were sentenced to death.

And mind you, it was a celebration galore in the armed forces when your sack was announced.

wachakuta:
By d time we hand u over to ICC.. ur eye go clear.

All d blood of d innocent soldiers u sent to maiduguri without weapons nd ammo will not let u rest

Alex Badeh, Jan 2015: Soldiers claiming they lack weapons are untruthful. Alex Badeh, July 2015: I headed a military that lacked equipment

1. Alex Badeh and Minimah and co are just buch of mistakes in the Leadership of our military.
2. Alex Badeh is a corrupt man from the word go, that OBJ regretted not retiring him. He should tell the world why OBJ transfered him out of the presidential fleet.
3. The reasons why military lacked weapons in GEJ's clueless regime is simply put to corruption. Blaming America as some of you are wont to do is simply self-serving.
4. Dasuki is yet to account for almost $1billion he collected to buy weapons, and what that amounted to in our weaponry. If Badeh says he headed a military that lacked weapons, pray tell how $1billion vamoosed and we had nothing to show for it? Or is the world using some space galaxies weapons?
5. I though Jonathan's and PDP's campaign slogan was that they bought more weapons than any previous government........Idiots

If you guys knew the lives that have been lost and many innocent men facing court marshal due to the greed and corruption of military Ogas, then we will pity the situation God just rescued us from with sending GEJ back to Otuoke.

Sometimes it is better not to go into argument with someone with reasoning like you, and this is one of them. I can't even imagine what value will come out of a wasted argument exercise with someone who has no iota of idea about how diplomatic engagement works, muddled up supposed purposes, distort facts and ignorant of "whys" in this cases...............

Let me give you some quotations from publications to keep it simple
"President Obama arrived Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for talks with leaders on counterterrorism efforts against al-Shabab in Somalia, and human rights abuses and looming famine in neighboring South Sudan. " http://www.democracynow.org/2015/7/27/obama_visits_ethiopia_and_kenya_land


"Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in neighbouring Cameroon on Wednesday for talks on how to combat the escalating regional threat from Boko Haram Islamists. Security was tight for the 24-hour visit, after a surge of Boko Haram violence in Cameroon including an unprecedented series of five suicide bombings in the far north."

BraniacX:
Obama visits when he wants to influence policy in other countries or to sign deals that have been months and years in making through silent and unheard of negotiations in the background by foreign ministers and ambassadors, every diplomatic avenue or venture between Nigeria and Cameroon has been explored by the previous administration even up to paying their soldiers hazard pay and paying for ammunition and Cameroon are fighting Boko Haram because it is in their best interest to do so not because we asked them to so what exactly is buhari visiting for when a phone call would have sufficed? He's touring round the world while bombs are exploding here on a daily basis so educate me with your "educated enlightment"

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/07/buhari-arrives-cameroon-to-discuss-boko-haram-fight/#sthash.z2QeqI88.dpuf

That mumbo-jumbo in the underlined up there as generic as it is, is not necessarily the reasons why presidents get off their seats.............

Some of you just spew "educated ignorance", obviously worse than that of an illiterate. OK what is the job of the foreign Secretary's office or American Ambassadors of Kenya and Ethiopia and why should Obama be visiting these countries?

BraniacX:
Diplomatic trips what is the job of a foreign minister? What is the job of an ambassador? Opposition governor my foot!!! These are governors of states bordering or in close proximity to cameroon

Seriously!! You drank far too much buhari koolaid for your own good!
Its time for you to wake up!!!