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The Association of Senior Civil Servant of Nigeria had threathened to paralize all activities in NEMA offices nationwide as a result of a dispute between the union and the NEMA management.

http://punchng.com/ascsn-to-shut-down-nema-operations-nationwide/

FeloniousFelon:
Stopped reading right here...

Mohammed's Jihad was first and foremost a quest for Political gain.

It was but a genuine one!

I have no further comment on this.

FeloniousFelon:
Oil will become more expensive when it is dropped as fuel.

The reason the world is searching for an alternative to Oil is because we have hit peak oil and it is only downstream from here.

The remaining reserves will be used as an industrial raw material and that is when the big money value of crude will be realized

New reserves are being discovered every day.

It stands, oil demand will start to decline by the year 2032 due to surge in EVs.

Transportation is the most important sector affecting oil demand. Gas can used to create almost all the fuels from petroleum using the Gas to liquid (GTL)technology

FeloniousFelon:
This is what I have debunked severally here...

BH is first and foremost an Islamic Jihadist organization whose main aims is to declare the entire Nigeria an Islamic State.

The only actors and puppet masters behind Boko Haram is the Muslim oligarchy and Saudi Arabia.

This is the plian truth.

There is nothing like Religious, Political and Criminal Boko Haram - they are all one and the same as Jihad sanctions criminal activities on the Kafirs sanctioned by the Koran towards political domination of the Kafuri lands!

You need some schooling on this :

There's nothing like Jihad. It's just being used for convenience to achieved desired geopolitical goals. Call it political Jihad.

Political Jihad started in the 80s When Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey, NATO and most of the gulf nations created Al Qaeda to use as proxy against the Soviets in Afghanistan using the Talibans.

I can't write a book about this, but will make it short here :

Most of these terrorists are created to achieve a covert geopolitical goal eg Pakistan still use the Taliban as an important instrument of its foreign policy. It indirectly use them against Afghanistan and India. The Pakistani ISI handle such a project.

ISIS in Syria are being used to destabilise the Middle East.. removing unfriendly regimes. Libyan Jihadist were used to remove Gaddafi etc

Mercenaries from Chad have been used in Sudan on countless occasion. Sudan has also use mercenaries against Chad.

All the weapons shipment for covert Jihadist weaponization and training come from Eastern Europe and transported via Azerbaijan to intended destinations and terrorists world over. A Bulgarian journalist recently exposed that.

Check Silk Way airline arm shipments, please.

Read on Operation Gladio, please.
Read on Operation North Wood.
Read on a lot of these covert programs and see how the world is being shaped according to how the masters of the universe wants it.

SweetJoystick:
Oil wey go soon dey useless

I wrote on this long a go.

Oil demand will reduce but will not become useless.

Moreover, gas is the future and some oil are associated with it.

FeloniousFelon:
And who do we blame but the same useless northern elite who propped up this monster called BH?

Not necessarily!

Boko Haram issue is complex with a lot of phantom actors.

The Politics of the Chad Basin I

Overview

The Chad basin span across 7 countries: Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, CAR, Chad and Sudan. The hydrocarbon deposit in this basin is significant. Nigeria share a border with Niger, Chad and Cameroon with the Lake Chad as a common link. The area around the Lake Chad may contain as much as 2.32 billion barrels of oil and 14.65 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
...
There are border dispute issues between Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon and ambiguity over the ownership of some islands in the Chad basin being handled by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague. These issues have been there since around the 70s and some remain unresolved to date.

Situation before:
Chad is a country that has suffered a lot from civil wars. The most recent civil war ended in 2010 when numerous rebel groups attempted to depose the government of Idris Derby.
In the year 2002, the then governor of Borno state told a presidential committee on National Security that the lake Chad region was plague by an influx of armed rebels and large scale trafficking in illicit arms and children. He mentioned Sambisa game reserved as having been a hide out for Chadian rebels who are involved in an usually violent robberies and banditry reported in most part of the North east. This statement was before the crackdown of Boko haram in 2009 which brought us to the current situation.
The border dispute between Chad and Nigeria were sometimes due to the resources in the Lake chad region of the basin. Chad has been tapping from the basin for its oil production- an oil pipeline was constructed from the Southern town of Doba in Chad to Kribi, a coastal port town of Cameroon primarily for oil export and increased revenue to the government of Chad. The oil in the Lake Chad region is however more in terms of volume and Chad has allocated blocks for its exploration.
Nigeria on its side has also been exploring the Lake Chad region for oil since around the 70s, and it is believed, that a huge chunk of the reserve lies in the Nigeria part of the basin around Lake Chad.

Situation now
It is worth nothing that in 2002, the Sambisa game reserve has been a safe haven for rebels from neighboring Chad. This rebels most have probably metamorphosed to the insurgents the Nigeria state is battling in the region. This rebels are mostly mercenaries and can be used to further a goal by an interest party in a particular domain.
The questions are: who benefits from the destabilization of the Lake Chad region on the Nigeria side? Who benefits from the recent killing of the oil explorers? What the reason for such action? Cui bono? Is France using the conflict for geopolitical goals as alleged in some quarters? Was the conflict used for the Nigeria domestic politics, too? These are question that have different views depending on your political leanings, beliefs and interest

http://abbasgarba..com.ng/2017/09/the-politics-of-chad-basin.html?m=1

bluetrails7:
You are senseless

He said the Nigeria Army is ethnically biased and I countered on how brutally they treat insurrection like this in the North.

bluetrails7:
Is the South East not part of the territorial Nigeria, the Nigerian army is sowrn to protect? And by this reckless madness that stinks to the bottom of the hell, is the Nigerian army protecting the people of the South East? Is the army now polarised and engaging in a tribal onslaught/ ethnic purging of the Ndigbo people?

Make una kwantinue o, God that visited the house of Pharoah, will visit your private homes

When they are doing all the killings in the North nobody said anything. They are treating you people with kids glove I swear to God. If we will do a quarter of what your IPOB are doing, it could have been over by now.

Even if it doesn't dry up, this is surely bound to happen whether we like it or not:

Electric Vehicles and the Future of Crude Oil
Electric Vehicles and the Future of Crude Oil

I don't think there is any resource in Nigeria that can compete with the almighty Crude oil in terms of anything. Oil is an invaluable resource second to none, and an important political bargaining tool for our brothers on the other side of the divide.

Why is oil so valuable?

Transportation, petrochemicals, industrialization and a host of so many human energy needs rely on oil. Transportation(land, air and sea) alone account for more than 50% of global oil demand.
By 2020-2028, crude oil demand will reach its peak and then steadily will begin to decline. It is forecasted that by 2034, natural gas will overtake oil as the main source of energy and by 2050, the single largest globally satisfying 27% of global demand according to Energy Transition Outlook by DNV GL, an assurance and risk management provider for the oil and gas industries.

Note:
Crude Oil is used to produce a number of fossil fuels i.e petrol, kerosene, aviation fuel, diesel, lubricants and so on. These energy sources produce a chunk of CO2 when burnt, so effort to phase them out is in top gear across the developed and some developing worlds.
Why the above forecast ?
Electric Vehicles(EV) have been around since 1960s. The biggest enemy of oil will be Electric Vehicles( EVs). Electric Vehicles(EVs) are easy to maintain than the Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles( ICEVs). There is an improved battery technology to make EVs drive same kilometers as ICEVs with a little amount of charge. The biggest problem of EVs is the cost of acquiring, a difference of like about N 3, 650, 000 to an ICEVs of same model, specification and year. This problem is now being rectified, and by 2020, this cost parity will be bridge.
By 2035, half passenger vehicles sold globally will be electric thus electrifying the world further. Britain pledge to place a ban on new diesel and petrol cars by 2040! These growing electrification will mean higher demand for energy( clean) to generate electricity from clean sources such as gas and renewable energy.


Why is gas sort after?
Because burning gas produce less amount of CO2 compared to other fossil fuel sources; is a clean energy source.., before finally renewables takeover nailing the oil and gas industries even further. Renewable energy will account for 85% of global electricity production by 2050 according DNV GL forecast.

Where Nigeria Stands?
Nigeria has proven reserves of 192 trillion cubic feet of gas; 7th in the world and 1st in Africa. Potential for expansion to 600 trillion cubic feet is forecasted to be achieved, if the following blocks are further explored according to NNPC
Chad basin 40 blocks
Benue trough 41 blocks
Anambra basin 12 blocks
Sokoto basin 28 blocks
Bida 17 blocks
Dahomey 37 blocks
Niger delta 17 blocks

192 tcf according to NNPC will only last between 36- 65 years depending on the consumption rate and demand and comes from the Niger delta blocks.
For my brothers in the North, renewable energy takeover is inevitable, so it will be very nice for our governments to invest in wind and solar, because we have the land and abundant sunshine considering the forecast above of 85% by 2050. Similarly, as listed above, the natural gas reserves spread across the whole country, so the wealth spread can be balanced out to avoid one calling other parasite.

https://abbasgarba..com.ng/2017/09/electric-vehicles-and-future-of-crude.html?m=1

Nigeria rely on crude oil as an important source of FX. In the next coming decades, that situation has to change for good as alternative clean energy source are set to take over.

Read this eye opening article as to what the future holds for Nigeria and the resource that will get us out of the woods temporarily as we seek further alternative energy source.

The article is short and riddle with facts..

https://abbasgarba..com.ng/2017/09/electric-vehicles-and-future-of-crude.html?m=1

One might wonder why NEMA responded so slowly to the Benue flood disaster . It appears that there is a problem in the Agency.

NEMA DG is new and it appears he came and met challenges that a Disaster Management Agency like NEMA shouldn't be attached with.

We hope the situation to not reach to the inevitable.

http://punchng.com/benue-crisis-may-worsen-as-nema-threatens-strike/

What about those with' CV Based SL Cleared and Waiting for Scheduling Interview '? Do they still have hope?
Applied in November 2015.

PapaBrowne:
I get your point. But I think you are mistaking restructuring for separation. The idea of restructuring is to discuss a way that would ensure that every part of the nation can contribute effectively to the development of the country.

What you are missing out is that the greatest hindrance to our collective productivity is our terribly dysfunctional centralization that has been designed solely for the sharing of oil wealth.

The North can be super rich via Agriculture and mineral resources. Same with the South via industry, services etc.

Recently I visited Kaduna and Kano. And it was so striking that all the best buildings I saw in both cities were actually built in the time Of Ahmadu Bello when Nigeria had a decentralized system.
The famous groundnut pyramids happened under a decentralized system.

The North has actually been the greatest victims of this terrible centralization. I really wonder why it still would prefer to maintain the status quo.

We can create a great nation where our forefathers have failed if we simply decide to understand each other and come up with a functional system that would work for all.

It depends on your view of what actually restructuring is though I understand that it is the 'center' which is the main focus.

Truthfully, what am trying to say is simple: the African mentality of I have resources so am rich is the biggest culprit of all. Your resources can go somewhere for processing at a cheaper price and come back to you as an expensive finished good.

Now understand this: I export oil at say $10 per barrel to China. They gladly buy! The only benefit I will get is that $10. Now, the Chinese will process that oil and still send it back to you. Note these:
1. The processing of the oil require man power.
2. The company processing the oil will buy machinerie from their domestic market.
3. Other expenses to arise and the money circulate only withing the Chinese economy
4. Then they bring you back fuel to buy.

Who do you think lose? Remember, there are other countries producing and exporting same oil making the market volatile and competitive. They may also give you loan repayble on strictest terms requiring you to export more to service the debt. Remember other countries have to export more too, saturating the market and making things more difficult..

Am from Kano state. We had a governor by name Dr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso. It was during his brief tenure that I found out that the issue of the bad center is nothing but a ruse. In just 4 years, Kano was transformed. If you have visionary leader, you are blessed, and that's what all of the other states need : visionary leaders

PapaBrowne:
Your last paragraph about imperialism is exactly the point why restructuring is essential.

With restructuring, the North would begin to buy tractors to farm all that large expanse of land.
The Igbos would be manufacturing all that is manufacturable.
The West would be providing all the services the country needs.
And the South would be providing all the energy we need.

Its really that simple.

You don't understand, I buy tractor from someone, right? I need money to do that. From where will I get it? Someone with the money. Who? Under what condition? OK, what of if I improvise and continue to improve? I need the know how.

The igbo will manufacturer what ever they like. Who will buy? Definitely not those developed world, but still us up north. What of if we continue to buy their thing s and encourage them to improve? What of we collaborate and come up with a chain of production -something within same domain, so capital will not go somewhere?

If south south will just be providing the energy, then they will be the worse loosers as we will be back to where we trying to run away from.: raw materials economy

Restructuring is the new boss in town..

In 1997, the US Army War College was defining what they called: " the future of warfare" framed as the "conflict between information masters and information victims"..

For the facebook/google/twitter generation, the word 'restructuring' kept popping up like a virus on their news feed as in the psychodrama and the relentless, totally hysterical, fear inducing narrative of: if we refused to 'restructure', we are doomed to eternal condemnation. However, the reality of the situation is more prosaic as we are spoon fed to believe by the information masters of the universe( in Nigeria).

Now, lets go for a short ride:

This going to be a skeletal view of mine concerning the issue of 'restructuring'. Different people have different views, but the major thinking is, 'restructuring' is the magic wand that can solve Nigeria problems once and for all, or perhaps, reduce most of those problems. Dr Aliyu U. Tilde will write a more detailed view of his concerning 'restructuring' this or next week, and his views will abrogate mine. Will not mention names or regions or exhaust history, but will just say what I think( am no historian or a social scientist anyway)

Restructuring isn't a bad thing in the context of Nigeria situation, but is not the MOST IMPORTANT THING TO GET US OUT OF THE WOODS AT PRESENT. We have to go back to history and learn a few or more things in the context of how we even become a country in the first place, and how external factors/actors shape the world as we know it.

Before oil, each of the regions of Nigeria produced an important agricultural produce for exports to imperial British industries oversee. We often bragged,often times beating our chests, sometimes: " before oil, agriculture was the mainstay of the economy,.."northern agricultural proceed was used to explore the oil in the Niger Delta"( false and debunked),..bla bla blahhh

Then oil came, we abandoned agriculture, had the oil boom, then the civil war blah blahh..

Now, understand this: with the above mentality of ours, Nigeria can never progress. No amount of soap box of 'restructuring' can make Nigeria progress. North, Niger-delta, East, South-west or whatever, will remain in perpetual poverty for eons. Additionally, if it's the same people that will form a part of the leaders in either a restructured or a divided Nigeria, then, praised the lord! It's Nigeria 2.0 all over again.

Why did I say the above? It's a simple concept of a consumer mindset and a producer mindset. The industrialized nations who plan a world order designed to make other countries perpetually poor using many carefully crafted tools will explain better. Nigeria and a host of other African nations are victims of these scenario. The only continent of the world that has managed to escape this neoliberal agenda is Asia. Remember the Structural Adjustment Programme? The Asians have now understood this concept and are coming to Africa to entrenched it the more: double blast for a black man of Nigeria and Africa.

Finally and summarily

Donald Keburaka, a former president of African Development Bank said this: " we can learn from the [Chinese] how to organize our trade policy..to educate our children in skills and areas that pay off in just a couple of years. Human resources is the key, if it can be harnessed well and efficiently. Countries are forming unions all over the place to improve trade and transfer of know how eg G8, G20, SCO, BRICS etc, yet, some in Nigeria are calling for division.

In a worst case scenario, if Nigeria has to be restructured, then the best form of Federalism should be asymmetrical.

Abbas Hamisu
abbasgarba..com

Yankari Game Reserve in Bauchi is a place to be.

Bambela:
Being part of a country is not requirement for acquisition property. Igbos can go and still retain there property in the north. Even Kwankwaso had property in Dubai and other part of the world. His comment is insulting.

What is insulting about what Kwankwaso said?

The man is trying to say something to unite the country , but reading comprehension is blocking your ability to understand.

Reno Omokri is the bomb..


Disclaimer: Am no historian or a social scientist, so you are free to castigate me for errors.


..."According to Newburry, custom revenues from the south paying for the projects in the north”..

.."The promising youth …is about to effect an alliance with a Southern lady of means (referring to Southern Nigeria)"..


From the above, it seems like Reno Omokri has hit a final nail in the head of those saying " north money was used to develop or build the south-oil exploration inclusive.

However, not everything is true as it was simply put forward by Reno Omokri. Reno Omokri in his bid to answer the elder stateman, Professor Ango Abdullahi, ended up insulting him by calling him a liar. This is bad, Reno!


Collin Newburry didn't write a book detailing such, as said by Reno Omokri, but an article in the Journal of African History detailing financial administration of the northern Nigeria prior to and after amalgamation..


" Taxation prove very difficult for the 1st years of British rule, pole taxes were foiled by emirs..trade rejected by merchants created a substantial deficit in the budget and public work project had to be paid for by grant from the British Empire"


However, from 1914-1918, significant revenue was generated from the North with surplus recorded between expenditure and revenue.

It should be observed that 1914-1918 was during the first World War as such Newburry added:

" It was difficult at the outbreak of war to argue that custom revenue should pay for the whole of Central Services..and exonerate northern administration from their share in these cost for pure local development..


" Northern Revenue might help cover war time decline in duties from trade.."

From the above, we can deduce that northern province at that time was not entirely dependent on the custom duty from the south because, as its pointed out, the British Empire is the provider of the grant for public work. It can only be argued that the Amalgamation of northern and southern provinces was done to stop the provision of such grant by the British Empire. The taxation system in northern Nigeria was also very effective and has to be reciprocated somewhere.


In summary:

Northern Nigeria was not exclusively reliant on any province but the British empire. Railway construction was for pure economic purpose-from Kano down to the southern province is the only project that can be sighted to prove Reno Omokri assertion that south develops north. The railway line was through forced labour, and was done to transport resources to coastal colony of Lagos and the southern province. This has only helped the British and not develop northern Nigeria.


To be fair, the southern Nigeria has an advantage over the north in terms of geographical location and closer to coast line. We hope the concerned authorities in the north will get to understand that the land lock nature of the north is something that need to be looked into for solution. This is where we need to dredge the Niger River, so we can have access to sea.


The North has a land mass of 719, 000 km2 while the south has a land mass of 206, 888km2. The British will definitely find administering and conquering the north more difficult than the south in terms of expenditure. The north has the population, too, and is crying badly to be exploited

http://abbasgarba..com.ng/2017/06/reno-omokri-and-northern-nigeria.html

modsfucker:
Your enlightened siblings have an answer for you



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ1TDW-VUzU

How I wish all Nigerians will be educated and exposed; this nonsense wouldn't have been coming up.

No wonder the system make education difficult to get so that the tool of divide and rule since colonial times will still continue to be effectively implemented.

Odingo1:
Una own barbarism is too much abeg,imagine what the Boko haram is doing in the north and you are here telling us that she called you people barbaric,cant you see that your people are very barbaric,bombing market,school,killing here and there.

Another ignorant buffon.

Most of Boko Haram members are Kanuri in Maiduguri not even Hausa

Odingo1:
If that is the case Nigeria is not country,imagine a country like South Africa and somebody from Capetown cannot live in Johannesburg,then while are they living in the same country,let us tell ourselves the truth,we all humans with conscience from God.

Nigeria is a country to

1. The elites
2. Peasant who trade among themselves
3. International committee

In this era where alliance are sorted after and formed, some are asking for its dissolution out of shear ignorance and hate.

Poverty I believe is a bad thing.

Look at NATO? EU? Shanghai Cooperation Organization( SCO) and many more.

bitcoinvin:
Am from S-S but since the time of usman danfodio,the Hausas are more Babaric..
The issue of Babarisim is in every tribe but Hausa own too much..

Go and learn History first before you spew your opinion.

Hausa and the Fulani were at war with the fulani finally subjugating the Hausas through Jihad and imposing their rule..

bitcoinvin:
make una come ooooo..Afonjas has arrrived..Which bus did u take cos others are not yet here..or is your Father from Afonja Republic and ur Mother from edo and u con use JUJU power fly come.
Welcome..
Wetin u talk sef??

Am a Hausa man from Kano, so when someone lie against my state, I have to respond.

Look, in life, you have to take some certain risk if you want to make some headways.

She called Hausa people barbaric and I was offended. Imagine if Trump called black people nasty and dirty, the whole civilised world would have descended on him. Anyway, am not even comparing her to Trump; I think a Nazi will be more appropriate.

Ojiofor:
The young lady said nothing but the truth,Hausa/fulani barbarism forced me to leave Kano in mid 90s after surviving two deadly riots in which I lost a lot friends for no reason.
In the North there is always tension and panic every friday amongst Igbo living there because they can start their madness from the Mosque unprovoked,the safety of southerners living in the North depends on the type of sermon the almajiris received from their mallam every friday.It doesn't worth it to live in Hausa/Fulani land.

You are not saying the truth! No riot has ever happened as a result of a Friday sermon. I know it can as a result of happenings somewhere national or otherwise.

Anybody can make such a video and spew whatever trash he likes. As they say: video, pics, or mention names of those butchered or i don't believe.

Look, nobody is forcing anybody to live anywhere. If you don't like a place, you leave. She said " Hausa people are barbaric" . I can't also call Igbo people barbaric, if I can use the same yardstick she use to arrive at her conclusion.

Finally, she ain't even sounding intelligent but emotional.

Osibanjo went to flag off the direct distribution of 30000 metric tons of cereal to IDPs. This is to be done by direct distribution to the IDP cutting off middle men.

This is 1000 trucks of cereals representing about more than 600000 bags.

A good gesture from the presidency as it will go a long way in removing the wuru wuru in the feeding of IDPs.

This is the most disgusting balderdash I have ever read. Empty long epistle without a single concrete proof.

The man just enjoy writing his fantasies and I recommend he relocate to US Hollywood as a story writer.

Nokia 3 is what I've been waiting for.

dragonking2:
Kwankwaso is your northern people's choice not our choice. Take note

Noted!

With time, you will fall in love with him too.
I can confidently tell you he is very good choice.

Kwankwaso is our choice! The VP can finish Buhari's tenure, but 2019, is ours.

Kwankwaso/ Peter Obi will make sense to me.

It will be in the interest of Yemi Osibanjo not to contest the election of 2019 under the platform of the APC, if Buhari will not be seeking reelection. The Northern Elders Forum and some northerners are monitoring the situation as it unfold.

Is not about being power struck or anything! Is about the principles of fairness and justice.

Kwankwaso is a performer. I happen to benefit from a lot of his educational policies while he was governor. He is a man of his words. He transformed our ancient town of Kano within just four (4) years. He showed us it can be done. This he did under an enormous level of insecurity as the result of the Boko Haram attacks. We can write a 20 volume book on his achievements.

Peter Obi is great man. He transform Anambra despite being an opposition governor. He is business man of integrity and clout. He has foresight and very dedicative.

God bless Nigeria.