₦airaland Forum

Let us not run the world hastily;

Let us not rasp at the rope of wealth (POWER) impatiently;

What should be treated with mature judgment,

Let us not treat in a fit of temper;

Whenever we arrive at a cool place,

Let us rest sufficiently well;

Let us give prolonged attention to the future,

And then let us give due regard to the consequence of things,

And that is on account of our sleeping (end/death).

When people like you talk, you just wonder if they know what the issue is or just spewing out anything that their brain can come out with. So Africans that want reparation from the West are the winners in slave trade saga according to your brain full of wisdom? Or the [b]Jews demanding reparation were Victors against the Nazis?[/[/b]quote]

Eziachi,

. . . let's see who'se brain is fried here.

Unlike Biafra which declared war against Nigeria and lost, African Americans did not fight a war with the West and neither did Jews declare war against Nazi.

Get it right!!!

20 Pounds given to Igbos were not a social security handout from Nigerians to the Igbos, the 20 Pounds comes from whatever money they seized from a bank account of every Igbo man, they will give the person 20 pound and the kept the rest. My family had over £600,000 in the Barclays bank and were given £20 and Nigerian government kept the remaining. That is what the 20 pounds is all about and not a gift as you thought. Those without money at all started life with nothing at all.

You need to study the history of war and read particularly on something called "spoils of war", as well as "reparation for cost of fighting war". When you disregard responsibility and allow your recklessness to lead your ego into an un-winnable battle, then you must understand there are consequences waiting at the end of the loss.

but. . .you had no history of wars, Biafra was your first and so I understand why you are clueless and un-elightened on these matters.

Why does every Yoruba or other tribes in Nigeria shit on their pants at the mention of Biafra?

Romeo,

I have an answer for you. Before that I have an assignment for you tonight. I need you to look at the title of this thread and consider my first response relative to the subject. Here, I will paste it for you.

Everywhere on the web Igbos are resoundingly united in the move for a successful cessation out of Nigeria and the start of a new life as Biafran citizens. If the war was a success Biafra would have penetrated Westward and take over Yorubaland. Biafra would have taken over Hausaland. There would not be a Nigeria and a Biafra, there would be a Biafra with Yorubas and Hausas as minorities and the name Nigeria would have been history.

Unfortunately for Biafra that did not happen. So what's next for Biafra beside accounts of war and agitation for cessation?

Look at that quote closely, study it, I did not say that spontaneously it came with depth and thoughtfulness and it answers your question word for word. I will give it time to simmer in your mind and then I will come back later, maybe tomorrow or next day and interprete it for you. Pay attention to the bold.

Hhahaha wind don blow open the nyash of hen!! Fricking tribal bigots giving Igbos advice    I knew you were not up to anything good earlier. Na today? Fuc-king igbo haters! You'll live to see it.
Negronuts , You did not say anything regarding the killed Yorubas in Jos recently   The Northerners are already going after you folks too

I don't think Nigeria gave Ijaw folks only 20 pounds after the war

When you look at Nigerian energy problem, the 2500MW is not sufficient, it just what we can manage to produce. We need electricity for industrial use, and that means producing electricity in large combustion or nuclear plant. Presently in the world, there is no developed nation, or developing nation that does not have nuclear plant or striving to have nuclear power plants. If Nigeria is to be ranked, among the top 20 economies, we must produce electricity to meets domestic and industrial need. For instance, UK with 60 million people consumes 80 GWe (80,000 MWe). If the living standard of an average Nigerian to be at least half of that of a British, we must be able to produce at least 40 times of what we are producing now.

My friend sharrap dia . . . . na only you get mouth?. . . . only one ship?. . . . please go and ask the British how many ships they lost in Niger Delta.

Interestingly, you only have to refuel once in about seven years

We are not marketing ourselves. We are known for war and you're known for Juju all over the globe (santerismo cubana)

I have even done the estimation of the electricty that can be obtained from them. I don't have the papers with me, but I will get them and share them with you if you are interested.

I think there is a need to write something like a policy paper on the energy outluke, for such proposal to be adopted. We need as many contributors as possible.

There are vast amount of energy resouces which if harnessed, Nigeria wont only be energy independent, but we will be industrial power house.

Well, to me I feel by leaving the title as Renewable Energy, it will narrow the scope of the discussion. I will prefer it to be an open discussion about all the energy resources (Coal, Nuclear, Oil &Gas) and harnessing them.

Before I make any comment I would like yout to change the topic to something that accommodates every aspect of energy. Something like Energy Challenge in Nigeria.

The so called renewable eneryg, are not all renewable especially when one considers the the overall energy input in the production of the equipment, energy converters and finally the harnessing condition.

Yes some energy sources are considered renewable: like wind and solar. These are by far the most reconginized renewable energy. The rest, such was biomass (including the agricultural waste, animal/human waste and domestic waste) can only be considered renewable if the rate of consumption does not outstrip the rate of replinishment. Nigeria, being in tropics and with vast population (within a tiny enclave of land), biomass utilization will not be environmentally friendly, unless the government is willing to invest in forest cultivation for energy, which is economically unsustainable.

When we look at the waste into energy, not all domestic waste can be burned, the waste have to be processed (the non-combustible component and some highly toxic chemicals that may end up producing dangerous pollutant, have to removed). The efficiency of such systems is very low. It is highly impossible to generate 50 MW from every local government. However 2 - 3 local governments can combine their waste in one place and can conviniently generate upto 100 MW. A fluidized bed combustor that can burn 50 ton/hr of biomass (high quality) can produce about 70 - 100 MW of electricity. I believe some states like Jigawa and Yobe, which are largely farming states, have a large chunk of agricultural waste can be used to produce at least 200 - 300 MW of electricity. There are large number of such combustors in europe, india and china too. I see no reason why our government will not look into that.

Infact in Nigeria, we need a complete mix of energy sources. Industrial nations cannot depend on small scale energy sources. There is no any country that is developing that doesnt have a large energy systems except Nigeria. Sometimes I used to wonder what kind of poeple are ruling Nigeria? I personally if given the responsibility of solving Nigerian energy crises will do better that those old fools.

Story story - The question for you my friend - what are you going to do about it?

I find it very annoying though, they keep harping on about
us holding them back.

Fact is, Nigeria will not aid you in self -elevation, but by and large,
the system does not actively seek to destroy you at every juncture
either, as has been claimed here.

Fine, seek to go your separate way, but don't come with claptrap, like
but for the rest of the country, Igboland would have been the Japan of
Africa.

dude,you keep on beating me to the comments i want to make

Biafran could have been the japan of africa

Mr Negro nts,get your facts right before telling blatant lies on the internet and sound like a big fool. Stop telling silly lies just to justify the evil machinations of Awolowo that failed woefully.

My family lives all over northern Nigeria.

They fled the war and their homes were occupied by the indigenes.
They like most all other Igbos in northern Nigeria got their homes back after the war.
I say most because there's a chance that some families may have all perished and none came to claim their property.