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The race has begun, we are here fighting useless wars. Uber plans to start using these driveless cars, California fights Trump on planned oil exploration off their shores ,UK to mandate use of non-petrol vehicle in next few years, solar technology is improving astronomically by the day.

That's how good companies go into self destruction. Staff welfare coupled with strict discipline is paramount to success of any company.

Give them mouthwatering package, discipline them if any default. You see your company exceed targets. Who no want better thing?

Fulani militias killing from the bush, Buhari's security killing Benue people from the city. What have they done to deserve this?

This has made front page previously

Welldone, Buhari. You shall be remembered for your silence while your kinsmen are on prowl. You shall also be remembered for your fears which led to your killing of IPOB members for exercising their freedom of speech. History will remember. Voting you is a mistake Middlebelt wont forget in a hurry. This seems to be their darkest time in Nigeria's history

Where are the two ediots that spam every thread ? sarkki and leo something?

shininglite:
This is my 7th year on nairaland and i havnt seen a programmed zoombie like you ... One day Buhari would leave office and you would realise what you have done to yourslef ..

The sarki robot will then change moniker.

funlord:
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Stop crying nwokem! You are going nowhere innugo? You, I, oladipo mulkawatudeen, Muhammed sani bin Allah, Margaret agada, osaretin, mfon uduak, tersoo terva and the rest of the well meaning young citizens of this country must work together to make nigeria great!

Now come join my and my ipob lover nkechi so that we can all share some chilled palm wine and ofe nsala together while discussing how we can assist the government to behead some of this herdsmen!

You are funny. I don't mind remaining or going - depending on the benefits . Trying to encourage secessionists to think. Wether in one nation or not, we will eat nsala together

sarrki:
You broke rule 9

Bro or sister, I'm neither encouraging nor discouraging secessionists. Who am I to change their fundamental human right ? Unless you don't understand the meaning of encouragement .

sarrki:
Myndd44 hes promoting secession

I'm promoting common sense and wisdom. The write up summary is simply - develop your enclave whether within Nigeria or secessionist context. It's a very objective opinion

No matter the camp you belong - Nigerian Igbo, IPOB, etc Please and Please , register and get your PVC card. You can get it in your state of residence if it is where you will vote, else get it wherever you intend to cast your vote.

I'm more worried by IPOB. Even if you get Biafra today, you will not get international recognition immediately. See Somaliland - still uses Somalia international passport, North Cyprus - still covered by Turkey. Somaliland has their own military, more organized and thriving economy than rogue and lawless Somalia. Yet they are not yet recognized - both currency and passport. They are currently working on it and might take several more years to get it. But I'm positive they will get it one day. So I'm not discouraging secessionists, instead asking them to apply wisdom.

So what I'm saying in a nutshell is , even if we conduct referendum and declare a republic and Nigeria did not fight back seriously or even lose, it may take up to 10years or more to get recognized by countries like US or UK.

So in the meantime, please play Nigerian politics to the fullest while planning your secession. Seek for positions and change the current underdevelopment of Eastern Nigeria. That is exactly what Catalonia's secessionists did ! Took over the political sphere of their region. Yet it was still very difficult for them! Nnamdi Kanu is just on the sideline. Don't you see it will never fly ? Assuming Nk is governor of Abia state and use executive power with other eastern Governors, do you think they would be treated this way? Nay

Catalonia is more developed than the rest of Spain. If our utopia secessionists can take over the polity and at least start to "genuinely" developing the east. Presently leadership in the East is in the hands of rogues. That would be wonderful step. In any war you need strategy and alliances. Even hermit North Korea has alliances. So get your PVC and vote President etc who will not "marginalize" Igbos to the fullest. I personally believe the most marginalized people are the middle belt people. They don't belong to the north or south, just used as "tools" by northern oligarchs.

Again and again, please stop insulting people on social media. It wreaks of lack of home training. I get insulted daily. No matter the provocation, don't insult- ever.

For my normal nonchalant Igbo brethren, who feel politics don't affect them, please think twice. Things might change. Policies can affect your businesses, life etc. Even if you're not a politician, please get it. You can use it as an ID card.

North is breeding Almajiris daily for this same reason. Next fifty years, they would be majority and overrun Nigeria if it still remains one nation. We must introduce this electoral college stuff if south will remain relevant in the future. Here in the south, most of my friends are having between 2-4 children maximum. Most three. You can't say the same up north.

Please be wise.

Finally, if possible make suggestions for 2019. Both for southeast and Presidential elections. How do we focus and make south east relevant now? Please no phantom marginalization or Biafra. We need workable solutions Now. Thank you

What you said made sense. Please provide source link

Agu nwanyi

Killing innocent Christians was an effrontery to God. He barely lived one week afterwards. God is still God. Fetish things will still fail you.

You're right. However Nigerian politicians talk too much without actions.

If it wrre a developed country, Buhari would have resigned in shame . I remember one Asian country PM that resigned because of a mere ship capsize.

Since it happened during GEJ tenure, it's okay, we can live with it - APC

Let the killing continue , it's okay ,GEJ is now our role model . - APC

Where are our politicians when we need them? Truth is that we don't have equiped medical facilities or health insurance scheme

Alariwo2:
It's no news that the igbos from south eastern part of Nigeria are found in every corner of the country.

They live freely and give birth as they like in other regions without getting stigmatized. Their kids grow up among other ethnic groups and contest for leadership positions in any community they find themselves.

South East on the other hand is a "no go area" for other ethnic groups as you won't get the free hand to do whatever you like.

A yoruba or Hausa man cannot become ward councillor.

When are we going to see Nairaland topics like.. Igbo group appoints a Yoruba/ Hausa man president?
I don't think I've ever come across such.

This thread is worthless. You can only make impact on a community you live. Igbos are extremely good in adaptation. There are many Hausas in Igboland - doing well - how many of them have bought lands in Igboland or taught theirchildren Igbo language? Yorubas hardly live in Igboland unless they are company workers or bankers . And they live like foreigners hardly integrating with host communities. You see them always running back to Western Nigeria at earliest opportunity

Don't blame Igbos, integration and popularity are the only things that can make you be politically relevant anywhere. Don't blame Igbos, blame yourself. I'm sure you're definitely not writing from Igboland and you want to come and lead them People you don't even know their culture? Na wa for you

sanchezJ:
You re shook

I'm shook

Same message 41 years ago when Buhari was petroleum minister.

There are presently no agreed standard for 5G technology

Mariangeles:
are you sure? I mean the guy is living large...what does he do for a living?

Prostitution

Create enabling laws to protect your people

Mariangeles:
Bobrisky is paranoid... he probably thinks everyone close is spying on him.

Here is an idea : Maybe a blogger should pose as an illiterate from the village that can hardly speak english, apply for the job as bobrisky's gateman and then dig out juicy information like who "bae" is and all...Oya bloggers, time for investigative "journalism" o, not just being in the confines of your home and dishing out unverified gossips...

There's no bae

By the time these companies relocate to Ogun, you start shouting.

I have business plans, definitely not sighting anything conspicuous in Rivers. They are so lazy, depending on handouts from companies for survival.

Sahara reporters goofed big time. This is someone's private life. If they reported on only once, it would have passed for any other gossip.

If it was Linda Ikeji, I would have understood, its a gossip blog

Caused by a dysfunctional society.

Read the piece below : Italians may have brought the mafia-like control to Rivers State . This is pinion piece from Tony Osborg: https://www.facebook.com/tony.osborg/posts/10155488233466026

Governor Nyesom Wike is right in accusing multinational oil companies for sponsoring militancy/cultists in Rivers State.

I am going to mention names and explain how this is done inadvertently.

The major oil company operating in Omoku Area of Rivers State is Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) popularly known as AGIP. This Italian oil giant is notorious for many things, one of which is the award of pipeline surveillance contracts to the most notorious cultists/militants in its areas of operation. I suspect this is a company policy/strategy approved directly from Milan, the company headquarters in Italy to ensure continuous production of crude oil in a failed state like Nigeria.

This is how the strategy works.

Oil companies need unconventional protection of both their personnel and facilities. The federal government has consistently proved that it cannot offer such protection through its military. So what these companies do is allow militants/cultists prove their capability to control a particular oil territory by eliminating rivals and becoming 'Lord' of the area. Once your group is able to chase away other groups from a particular terrain and claim lordship, these oil companies will immediately recognize you and grant you your right of patronage; surveillance contracts!

Surveillance contract is one way they patronize you and it is worth hundreds of millions of Dollars for practically doing nothing. You do not have to do anything to get these monthly millions of Dollars.

All you need do is ensure that no rival group tampers with their pipelines or kills any personnel of the company. For as long as you can do this, you will get your millions of Dollars monthly!

In fact, these oil companies go an extra length to send truck loads of food items to militant/cultists camps during Christmas seasons! The locals can confirm this.

In Omoku area, I have seen a small boy fire bullets worth more than 250k in less than one hour and into the air for no reason. They just show up from nowhere and begin to spray bullets. The oil companies will pay in more dollars by month end after all. Oil money killing oil people. Will you not run mad if an oil company decides to you pay you half a million Dollars monthly for practically doing nothing?

The killings in Omoku area is not political. It is a supremacy battle for who controls the oil rich territory. I am from the area.

Yes. It is true that Wike and Amaechi once needed these boys for election purpose. They recruited them, armed them, paid them and used them. It is also true that Wike and Amaechi also paid them off after the election and even went further to disarm many of them (Wike did his own through a state government sponsored amnesty programme). Maybe in the future, they will need them again, but right now, those boys are not killing for Wike and Amaechi. They are killing to prove a point to their patron; the oil companies. I strongly believe this to be true even though I could be wrong.

Funny enough, the oil companies are not only guilty of this treasonable act. The federal government, yes, our own federal government also award surveillance contracts to these criminals/cultists/militants through NNPC, NDDC and the Presidency for the same purpose. That was how Tompolo was made and this APC/Buhari administration is doing the same thing to keep the crude oil flowing. NNPC can as well publish its list of contractors doing surveillance and let us see who they are.

One way the Presidency has been able to 'rent' peace in the Niger Delta is to award such surveillance contracts to the boys responsible for blowing up the pipelines. If your group is too strong for the DSS to crack, the NNPC will be sent to pacify you. The crude oil must flow by whatever means necessary. Like I said before, once you prove your worth as a deadly group, you will get recognition! That is the fastest way to become a billionaire in the Niger Delta Area.

If the federal government is serious about ending the killings in Omoku Area of Rivers state, this is what it should do.

Get the oil company operating in that area to release the list of contractors handling its unconventional surveillance contracts, the DSS should run a background check on the owners of such companies. If possible, freeze accounts like it is doing in the so called anti-corruption war.

If the plan does not back fire and the oil companies does not sabotage the process, peace will return to Omoku and other oil rich areas.

We have lost too many souls to the Omoku crisis.

The Nigerian government has failed the people of Omoku. How can a town with so much military presence be prone to mass shootings?

Something isn't right. In truth, there is no government in Nigeria and that is why cultists/militants have become the new governments in these areas and the oil companies have no choice but to recognize them. Their hands are tied.

If surveillance contracts must be awarded, it should be awarded to communities and not individuals. No man how big, can be bigger than his community.

Mind you, I am also an oil servicing contractor and I know the kind of preference these oil companies give to these militant contractors over us who offer real services. Some of these oil companies can owe you for two years for services rendered, but if you are a militant contractor, you get paid even before you begin work! The system is now that bad

If we do not restructure Nigeria, empower communities and entrench a proper system of government for everyone, criminals will continue to lead us at all tiers of government, starting from our very own communities.

May Peace return to Omoku and the rest of Nigeria and may our leaders have sense to see that all our national problems are rooted in our skewed unitary feeding bottle system of government.

#RestructureNigeria
#TrueFederalism

This is from Naij

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers has accused the international oil companies operating in the state for the increase in cult activities that has seen to the death of many residents. Premium Times reports that Wike said this in reaction to the killing of 17 people by unknown gunmen in the state on New Year Day. The report quoted the governor as saying the oil companies in the state were awarding surveillance contracts to cultists who then use the money to buy sophisticated weapons with which they terrorise the communities and their victims.


Speaking when he received Abdulrahman Danbazzau, the interior minister, at the Government House, Port Harcourt on Friday, January 5, the governor reportedly told the minister that the security agencies in the state knew the cult kingpins terrorising various communities in the state. “The security agencies have the profiles of all cult kingpins in different parts of the state and they know their locations. “There is no wisdom in the politicization of security. Insecurity can affect anybody. You can never know the next victim of insecurity,” he said. He said his government had severally requested for the deployment of special squads to tackle cultism and kidnapping in the state to no avail. “The peculiar nature of Rivers state requires peculiar intervention. Before now, I have been shouting that we need support to fight crime,” Wike claimed accusing some unnamed politicians of using the killings to play politics and make false allegations. Dakuku Peterside, the director-general of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) claimed cultism and cult-related killing in the state thrived because of the backing from powerful politicians. PAY ATTENTION: Read the news on Nigeria’s #1 new app “I have said it time and again that Governor Wike lacks the capacity and competence to guarantee the safety and security of Rivers people. “It is unfortunate that over 1,000 persons have been killed in questionable circumstances in the last two years under his watch. He should stop playing politics with the lives of Rivers people and face governance,” Peterside reportedly said. NAIJ.com earlier reported how some gunmen reportedly killed five residents of Egbeda community in Emohua local government area of the state. Police parade gang leader of Badoo Cult group in Lagos - on NAIJ.com TV Read more: https://www.naija.ng/1144511-wike-accuses-oil-companies-politicians-indirectly-funding-cult-activities-ri.html#1144511

For me , I think both Oil Companies and Wike are guilty

Yyeske:
I think it's a little too late for championing any campaign, most have been so brainwashed that any attempt to start that wouldn't work.

Lol, nothing is too late. These things are psychological manipulations. Kanu was a master in mind control. I listened to Radio Biafra, however being a sceptic, I see through every revolution what most are - experiments and mind control

inkon:
Thank you for this piece. Thank you very much. The Igbo are people with deafening potentials but not without some streaks of besetting arrogance – the downside of it. We also lack cohesion which would have catalyzed our developmental stride. I hope you can champion a campaign, starting from this very forum, that will serve as an ethical guide to our youths, and possibly, at the long run, as a developmental plan for the region.

You are welcome. We can do that

Yyeske:
Exactly and just as the OP rightly said, the Jews control today's world banking and the US Congress but you can never hear them saying anything about it unlike these uncultured things with nothing to their names aside their cheap phones

Our people need to be completely reconditioned. Yorubas clearly have a road path. They are slowly developing their states. Igbos are completely disorganized with no defined vision. Hausa/Fulanis are playing dangerous politics breeding Almajiris. They are setting themselves up for self destruction.

My anger is that we can do better if we can organize ourselves a little. One day Nigeria will split, South south may likely not follow Igbos. Yorubas will survive because they are presently building infrastructure. Igbos will start afresh if we don't start now

loveth361:
are you igbo because you dont reason like one.

You mean Igbos should reason stupidly and can act without tact ? So you must be a very silly Igbo if you don't think of how to make Aba, Onitsha etc a modern city. Lagos state governor is making policies daily while Theodore Orji raped Abia to coma. See Aba Mbakwe made a modern city in his time is now a slum.

Carry placards and be shouting phantom Biafra with Niger Delta that will deny you. We can have our country later, definitely not now . Use your ogugu isi, if you know what I mean.