₦airaland Forum

Kukutente23:
What about the clean up. ExxonMobil is still paying till today for the oil spillage that occurred in the early 90s.

The international arbitrage courts have compelled the oil companies to clean up the affected communities. If they have not done so, they should be sued again for disobedience to the court injunction.

As for paying successively for oil spillage, Shell cannot do so unless there is a new incidence of the spillage. The old ones have been settled for.

Kukutente23:
Shell actually made it clear they are not interested in downstream. So i don't see why you take their words as if it's Gospel.
Same Shell spilled oil over Ogoni and till today no one is talking about making them pay.
The refineries can work if we have serious people in govt who want it to work. That's the koko of the matter

Shell that has paid many Ogoni communities time and time again for oil spillages over the past decades are the one you are accusing here of not paying them.

Go and ask the Ogoni people leaders what happened to their oil spillage compensation money.

OBIDIENTNAIJA:
What if you end up singing the song yourself Nobody can mock GOD.
The judgement tomorrow can make Nigeria or destroy it. Be warned!!!

Please wake up from your dream.

This is Nigeria, and we all know Tinubu won fairly.

And if not, provide the numerical evidence.

DestinyNigga:
If dey do anyhow, dey go collect anyhow. We Obidents no dey smile

Yes oo.

We know you all as wailers.

A perfect finish for Arsenal. The league race is on for the gunners.

Congrat.

Rashford has start his magic again. Puts 1 in.

GanagiBitrus:
Jungle Justice.
Where are our men in black when you need them?

To come and do what? To come and rescue the bandits' wives from the hands of the villagers?

Are you planning to kill our beloved men in black? Please leave them to enjoy their lives in peace.

Emma1Oj:
Yes he was. But was adopted by his present parent's. His former name was Gbolaro Anikpolakuti.

Anipolakuti keh? Which kind name be dat?

RealEzee:
chelsea needs to sign more players

You are wicked. Pity Boehl now.

SyrusdeHansome:
They think it's all about buying every talented young player in the market. Football too big abeg.

Nothing to fear with this Chelsea squad, except fear this season. The team will get it aright soon.

Nemesis0147:
Chelsea and tinubu are after my life.

Eayah sorry o! Wetin you do dem?

Chelsea is going, going,

Well, almost gone.

1:0 down to NF.

Bad.

Chelsea needs to win this match, and every other matches henceforth, and move from their ridiculous 10th position.

Burob:
What is your business, Is your property missing?

Yes. The properties he amassed was part of the taxes I paid to the country.

When I was working with a bank, Nigerian government was collecting almost N70,000 from my salary every month.

Yes, my money is part of the one he stole to amass his properties.

Burob:
Be deceiving yourself, Which money did Abacha steal? What of Abdulsalam & Babaginda, how much was retrieved from them also?

What of Obasanjo & Yaradua ITT (International Thief Thief) how much was recovered from them, it was only a dead Sani Abacha that stole money?

Abacha did not even steal the money wasted on the House of Assembly last year.

Money been used by Nigeria to trade in the 1990’s, to beat sanctions is now tagged Abacha’s loot, or you want the Federal Government to tell the west, that the money 💰 found Chaugory, Bagudu & Co in those accounts & others are actually owned by the Federal Government of Nigeria.

So that the Oyibos will justify reason to confiscate the money?

Are you saying Abacha did not loot Nigeria treasury?

AbdulhakeemIdris:
The Quran already stated it clear on how to share properties. 1st or last born. Everybody will get equal share, same as the wives. If they should follow the Quran, they wouldn't be having this problem, a Sheikh and Muslim council should be involved to settle the dispute.

You don't even care if majority of the properties are corruption based? You own is how to divide the properties based on Quranic laws.

Does Quran supports corruption?

EwuuGambia:
It's time for Igbos to go on a killing spree of all the nearest Yaribanzas.

I will start with my tenants.

The DSS is coming for you.

You think you can hide, but there is no hiding place for the WICKED.

Go and ask Nnamdi Kanu, your kinsman, who is more smart than you.

Has Bwala ever seen the original Abuja Masterplan or the revised one for him to know its planning and structural designs?

Has he ever worked with the FCTA or served as a Director or Minister there where he would have had access to it?

He is just saying what he doesn't know about, just because it is a free world where everyone can say whatsoever pleases him, whether true or false.

aQUINandmore:
who be all these ones sef, how do you rate a country's economy, Ghana has a better gdp per capital than Nigeria, 1 ghana cedi is not of to a dollar currently, 1 Ghana cedi is about 70 naira now, even cfa has more value than naira in international market.
The naira is the poorest performing currency in the whole Africa now.

How una dey rate Ghana sef, a civil servant in Ghana cannot live in Nigeria, how would someone that's been used to good roads, orderliness, 24 hours light, water tight security, running water live Ghana and survive in Nigeria?

If you ever step your foot in Ghana you will realize you have been living in a shithole.
The only countries Nigeria can compete with in Africa are Niger and Co militarilised nations.

Then what are you still doing in Nigeria, quickly relocate to enjoy all those goodies in Ghana.

NwekeUG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNEk_9tJ75s

Yes ooo! Your performances across various career territories have proven this.

Shame to your haters and wailers.

Rapmoney:
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/08/patrick-doyle-slams-burnaboy-says-hes-undeserving-of-being-labelled-great/

MUSIC OF YORUBA ORIGIN

By Reno Omokri

For every decade of Nigeria’s existence as an independent nation, music of Yoruba origin has dominated our nation, and now it is dominating the world.

•Bobby Benson, Adeolu Akinsanya, Roy Chicago, Victor Olaiya, S. Aka, Abibu Oluwa, I.K Dairo, Haruna Ishola, Yusuf Olatunji Tunde Nightingale Tatalọ Alamu, Ayinde Bakare, Dele Ojo, Ojogẹ Daniel dominated the 60's

•Abami Ẹda Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Orlando Julius, Sẹgun Bucknor, Fatai Rolling Dollar, Dauda Epo Akara, Ayinla Ọmọwura over dominated the 70's

•King Sunny Ade, Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, Dele Abiọdun, Prince Adekunle, Salawa Abẹni, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Kollington Ayinla, Orlando Owoh Idowu Animashaun dominated the 80's

•Sir Shina Peters, Sẹgun Adewale, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshall, Adewale Ayuba, dominated the 90's.

•Paul Play Dairo shared dominance with a non Yoruba artist (Tuface Idibia) in the 2000's
•D’Banj the Koko Master shared dominance with non Yoruba artistes (PSquare) in the 2010's
•Davido, Wizkid and Burna Boy (non Yoruba, but his music is obviously influenced by the late Fela Kuti) and Asake are dominating in the here and now. And not just dominating, but selling out stadia, like the O2 Arena and Madisson Square Garden, amongst others.

Their female artistes are not left out. Tiwa Savage, Yẹmi Alade, Aṣa, Simi, Teni, Seyi Shay, dominate locally and internationally with their girl power!

How do they do it, that even where they sing wholly or partly in Yoruba, their music is able to crossover locally and internationally?

Christy Essien Igbokwe was quoted as saying she would not have made a breakthrough in the music industry without her anthem Seun rere, which was performed entirely in Yoruba.

Throughout the Black world, no other ethnic group has been able to CONSISTENTLY breakthrough in the music industry internationally while singing wholly or partially in their native tongue.

I am not saying that some others do not sing in their native tongues. What I am saying is that they have not been able to crossover internationally while singing in their native language.

Caribbean reggae artistes sing in English or patois. African American R’nB, Jazz, Soul and rap artistes sing in English. Black Brazilians crossover with Portuguese. Francophone artistes (with the exception of Manu Dibango), crossed over with French. South African artistes crossed over with English (with the exception of Brenda Fassie and Mariam Makeba).

Even the world’s top Francophone female artiste (Angelique Kidjo), did not crossover internationally, until she sang in Yoruba.

There is something about that language and the musical genres that the Yoruba have introduced that can permanently put Nigeria on the world map for good.

Instead of Biya changing military formations, he should rather detach himself from ruling over Cameron to enable the country have a breath of fresh air in governance.

Shoodboi:
I once worked as an attendant at a filling station. What this man is saying is impossible...

While there's usually fuel in the hose, that fuel is not your fuel. The mouth of the hose (the part that enters your car) has a small machine that calculates how much fuel is sold. The meter (the screen that calculates the price and liters sold) begins counting the moment fuel leaves the mouth of the hose and goes into your car. Not when fuel enters the hose.

In this case, this filling station appears to be out of fuel and are trying to pump out whatever remains in the underground tanks and hose into the keg. And you can see that they can't even fill a small keg.

With that said, I should add that filling stations can't sell air either. Instead, what they do is that they adjust their meter to reduce the amount of fuel sold. So, they can adjust the meter to sell 0.8 liters for every one liter displayed on the meter.

And this scam is never performed by the attendants because they do not have access to the configuration of the machine. Only the manager (sometimes with the instructions of the filling station owner) can do it.

The highest an attendant can do is to sell less fuel than you request, say sell 1000 naira fuel when you ask for 2000 naira, but you can quickly catch this scam by looking at the meter and ensuring the price and amount begin at 0 and reads up to whatever price or liter you ask for.

As for the readjustment done by the managers and filling station owner, the only way to catch them is to buy it in jerrycan. But once you see your fuel is not up to what you requested, confront the manager (not the attendant) and threaten to report them to DPR.

If the manager is doing it without the knowledge of the filling station owner, there's a high likelihood he'll give you some fuel to calm you down🤣🤣🤣 If he's doing it with the knowledge of the owner, he'll likely offer you a refund.

Thanks for the enlightenment.

Creativity22:
Mohammed Takuti Usman may loyalty kill you there. Is bola tinubu and inec loyal to our constitution ? Why on earth should the soldiers be loyal ? On top #50k salary ? 16 september 2023 is the deadline. If the judiciary fails to do the needful, all hell MUST break loose.

You think you can hide under a faceless forum to be proclaiming insurrection against a constituted government, believing that you are safe, forgetting that you are easily traceable. Even Trump, the president of US is facing persecution for trying that.

Unfortunately you are a nonentity, when the DSS come calling at your house to jail you, no one will be fighting for you, and you will be there a long time.

Many of you on Nairaland have forgotten that secret agents are parts of those who registered on this forum and are monitoring our conversations. Seun Osewa, the owner might even be working for them. And even if he is not working for them, when they come calling, he must submit every information about us at his disposal.

So be cautious with your utterances.

2pacarnate:
Bro oBJ started and completed,yaradua started but died,GEJ completed yaradua tenure,contested won,did 4 years,contested again and lost,buhari started and did 8 years lawfully,it is only Abiola that didn't even start after winning,that was bad though,but his right man(druggie)tinubu is fully unlawful and something is bound to happen,it will be bad that the second president to be ousted will be a Yoruba man again(tinubu)

As for suffering and smiling,it is all Nigeria,but truth is igbos do not take it,they speak up,but I can't say the same about hausas and yorubas,these two will vote anything so long it's there brother,but remember igbos voted against there hero ojukwu,do the math bro

Yorubas also voted against Obasanjo, who was a war hero, who ironically the Igbos voted for, though he was their conqueror. That's politics for you, it is grandfather's clock, it goes right and left all the time.

NzogbuNzogbu:
obidients are only making noise online

If they are really serious small shake now would give military good excuse to come in

Obidients are not in the top military hierachy, and the military officers at the top are enjoying the government perks given to them. So no shaking.

Decarbonisation:
Prof Imolumen onikuuure.

Eyin Tinubu supporters, enikuuure gbogbo!

Alfa, e wo ni tepe? E lo sinu ti ebi ba npa yin o.

iwaeda:
What are the direct implications of coup in Africa to the of Africa?
It seems coup is now the new form of government in West Africa and this morning another Central Africa country, Gabon, joined the fray.

It is needed in Francophone countries to correct governance anomalies in those countries.

That is if the military coupists are sincere, and do not turn to a worst form of scavengers, as is always the case.

If you think your own experience is the worst, when you heard of others, you now realise you have all reasons to be thankful for the smallness of your burden.

DenreleDave:
1. Diego Maradona

This one is up for debate, but making a case for Maradona being the most popular athlete of all time is not that hard. His goal scoring tally doesn’t come close to the likes of Messi, Ronaldo, and Pelé, with just 338 goals in little more than 600 games, but if we incorporate the traditional ‘eye test’, Maradona reigns supreme. His skills, dribbling prowess, and ability to alter a game in an instant is what makes him so great. His solo goal against England in the 1986 World Cup is a prime example. The four-time Argentinian Footballer of the Year, two-time Scudetto winner with Napoli, and a World Cup winner with Argentina is more added substance to the argument. Just look how adored he is in Naples and in Argentina. He is one VERY popular athlete!

Disagree with this. Pele is the GOAT in all sports, followed by Muhammad Ali, that is if poll is to be taken across the world, and not in America alone.

Nightwolf1:
This one is speaking for himself. Come to UPTH in Rivers State and see the madness going on there. Infact, don't ever dream of taking an emergency situation to UPTH because right there in your presence that patient would be gone.

Some idiots are simply making it look like the situation is anything to write about. Our public health care system is absolute rubbish.

I almost had an altercation with a medical doctor in the manner they handled my brother's case. Different doctors coming to examine his health condition and prescribe different drugs. Most times you end up purchasing the same drugs twice. There is no due diligence. It's an apocalyptic situation when student doctors are involved.

On Saturdays, lab workers don't come to work. Your test result is handled in the most unprofessional manner. On Sundays, you may realise that you don't even have more than 3 doctors on duty taking care of the entire patients in the wards. It's a sad experience.

And the OP whom I suspect is not vast and experienced in the bad situation we find ourselves in this country, is attempting to hide the truth.

Idiot.

"Idiot". Why does it have to end in insult. If his hospital experience is different from yours, is it his fault, or your governors? So why vending your anger on him instead of your corrupt and uncaring state rulers?

Learn to mend your manners, it pays, even in an anonymous forum like Nairaland.

Moyinoluwa35:
You are just lucky to access the hospital at that time, Nigeria is really facing hell in the hand of vultures masquerading as leaders but one day will be one day when the unthinkable will happen.

The "unthinkable" have been happening in Nigeria from the inception, from military coups to political party regimes, so what has changed?